Chapter 1765: Chapter 1762: Guo Niannian

“Thank you, Madam.” The young lady gently curtsied, “My father is Guo Ziyi, Minister of the Ministry of Rites. I wonder where Madam resides. No matter what, you have helped me. I do hope to have a chance to thank you.”

Madam Wang didn’t respond and instinctively looked at Ye Muyu. Since arriving in the capital, Ye Muyu had gradually adapted to life here, becoming more cautious than she was back home.

Coupled with the incident involving the Imperial Merchant Gao Family and the Chu family having an assassin, both events had heightened Madam Wang’s awareness of the dangers in the capital.

Since then, whenever making important decisions, she subconsciously sought Ye Muyu’s opinion.

After Ye Muyu nodded to her, she picked up the conversation, “Miss Guo, my husband is Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue of Chu. You needn’t worry too much. This is just a trivial matter. We have other things to attend to, so we’ll take our leave.”

Guo Niannian looked at her in shock, somewhat surprised by her identity.

Hurriedly, she, along with her maidservants, bowed and did not dare to insist further. As they left, she couldn’t help but steal several glances.

“Young Miss, we should hurry in. Miss Ye and the others must be getting impatient.” The young maid urged.

Guo Niannian nodded absentmindedly, was pulled along by the young maid, quickly ascending the side path up the mountain, soon disappearing from sight.

Meanwhile.

Ye Muyu and her group entered the mountain temple and first went to the main hall to offer incense.

Madam Wang wanted to have a divination done for Chu Fu and Chu Qingxiang, so she went to find the master first.

Madam Xie and Ye Muyu together donated for incense offerings and entered the Buddha Hall to listen to Buddhist scriptures.

The children couldn’t sit still, so Ye Muyu instructed Chu Ziluo to take them for a stroll, also assigning Liuye to accompany them.

Ye Muyu listened quietly to the sermon, while Madam Xie, who also engaged in Buddhist practices back home, sat quietly beside her, listening for the whole morning.

Seeing that the hour was getting late, they rose to the guest room in the rear temple, prepared earlier for them, to rest and also enjoy the renowned temple vegetarian meal.

“I wonder where those children have gone.” Ye Muyu sighed with a hint of helplessness.

She sat cross-legged with Madam Xie in the room, savoring tea and having some pastries to nibble on.

A young maid was arranged to call them back.

However, the children were not brought back; instead, trouble erupted outside, where other incense guests were staying in the courtyard.

Ye Muyu did not receive special treatment, only staying in a very ordinary guest room, so when the courtyard became rowdy, the noise inside the room could not be concealed.

“What’s going on?” Ye Muyu put down her teacup and instructed Su Mei to investigate.

Su Mei nodded and got up to leave.

When Su Mei returned, she had roughly gathered the situation. Someone had gone missing, and among the girls here, none had illustrious family backgrounds. The highest-ranking was from a fourth-rank official’s family.

The missing young lady was indeed the daughter of a fifth-grade official, Guo Ziyi of the Ministry of Rites – Guo Niannian.

Ye Muyu was somewhat surprised, “Such coincidence?”

The one missing turned out to be the young lady they happened to encounter this time. “Is there any news, has the temple sent people to search?”

“They have sent twenty or so monks to search, but the temple is vast, and there are some compounds kept for more distinguished incense guests. Plus the rear mountain, it will probably take a while without much progress.” Su Mei explained.

“What a commotion…” Ye Muyu rubbed her forehead.

Madam Xie sighed softly, “At the time, I saw that young lady was taking the side path alongside her own maid. I wonder if anything has happened to them.”

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