Da Li Temple - Chapter 3.1

Chapter 3.1
Doubts

Official Li chased after Su Moyi.
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Lin Wanqing looked at his running away figure, feeling that the scarlet official uniform and the belt around his waist strangled him like two fat sausages. She suddenly felt like vomiting from nausea and turned her head to avert it, but she bumped into Liang Weiping’s helpless look.
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“I know what you’re going to say,” She lowered her head to smooth her breath and casually shook her hand, “But I don’t want to hear it now.”
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Liang Weiping showed his helplessness, fished out another candy from his sleeve, and handed it to Lin Wanqing, “It’s time for lunch. I’ll buy you a drink.”
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The rain outside the corridor still does not tend to stop. Liang Weiping brought two umbrellas, and they went out of the Capital Government Office and came to a high-grade restaurant in the prosperous western market.
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Today was not a public holiday, so this high-class restaurant was not very busy. Because Liang Weiping had once helped the restaurant owner solve a food poisoning lawsuit under Lin Wanqing’s guidance, his face had become a passport here. No matter when he came, they always prepared a private room and good wine.
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Lin Wanqing had followed him a few times before. The two stored their umbrellas and followed the servant boy to the private room on the second floor.
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Lin Wanqing remained absent-minded and distracted. She filled a cup of tea, then pushed open the mahogany carved window, leaning on the side of the window to watch the rain.

Liang Weiping comforted him: “You, ah, good at everything, except for your donkey temper. It is not that you do not understand Official Li! Today, in front of Lord Su, you publicly disgrace him. It is already light for him to terminate your post. If I were to say, it would be his style to punish you today.”
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Lin Wanqing fixed her eyes on the rain outside the window, slowly sipped her tea, and said nothing.
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Da Li Temple, a place she had always dreamed. She thought that through this case, Da Li Temple would recognize her. But unexpectedly, there was such a mess in the middle. Now, this is good. She couldn’t go to the Da Li Temple and got suspended by the Capital Government Office, not even a chance to get close. Together with her irritated mind, anxiety tainted her silent breathing.
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Lin Wanqing’s hand holding the cup tightened and mindlessly asked, “Does Brother Liang know Lord Su, the Chief of the Da Li Temple?”
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Liang Weiping cocked his head. His hand holding the teacup gave a beat and asked in return, “In Sheng City, from the royal family to the nobles to the beggars and punks, which one doesn’t know Lord Su?”
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“I mean ……” Lin Wanqing reflected for a while and chose the most euphemistic word, “Background.”
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“This ……” Liang Weiping subconsciously paused, frowning, “I only heard that he is the Emperor’s nephew. His parents died when he was young. It was the Empress Dowager who personally raised him. Don’t you look at him just as heir! His position in this dynasty is not lighter than those so-called princes.”
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“Oh?” The tea in the cup shook, and Lin Wanqing became interested and hurriedly asked, “Then this Lord Su’s birth mother, which princess is it?”
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Liang Weiping wrinkled his eyebrows and tsked, “Is this something that I, a seventh-rank official, need to know? I came to Sheng City two years earlier than you, and every day, I can’t even finish writing the case file. Such prominent people’s family matters. How can I have the heart and strength to ask about it?”
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“Oh ……” Lin Wanqing’s tone darkened, and her wish to make a petty trick failed.
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The heavens have no eyes. The people’s lives, deaths, honor, and disgrace were matchless to the thoughts of the kings, lords, and generals. She thought of her ten years of hard work. To go to the Da Li Temple, she gave up the enviable post of the secretary of the provincial school, willing to go to the Capital to be a ninth-grade bookkeeper. She hoped for a long time for such an opportunity, but —
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Lin Wanqing became stifled when she thought about it. The more she stifled, the more angry she became.
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So, when ‘Su Moyi dog official’ five words came through the air, Liang Weiping’s hands on the cup shook due to fear. The hot tea spilled out, wetting his wide sleeves.
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“You!” He reacted strangely fast. Before Lin Wanqing broke her mouth and cursed out a second sentence, he had already jumped one step ahead of her, locking her throat with one hand and covering her mouth with the other, blocking all of her later words into her throat swiftly.
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“You want to die?!”

Lin Wanqing glared at him indignantly, whimpering and breaking protests coming out of her mouth.
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“Insulting a court official in the street, do you know what crime that would be? Forget about your usual private scolding of that scum Official Li. You dare to be so disrespectful to Lord Su. I think you are ……”
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Liang Weiping struggled and pushed Lin Wanqing away, unbelievably looking at the rows of teeth marks on his hands. He looked at the outraged little white man staring at him with a pair of peach-blossom eyes and said, “You bit me? How dare you bite me? Do you still consider me your sworn brother?”
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Lin Wanqing did not show weakness, circling the table to avoid Liang Weiping’s attack, and said back, “Then I dare to ask Brother Liang, when we first became sworn brothers, didn’t you say that you would not be afraid of the power and nobility and that you would take redress the injustice for the people? What? Official Li, a scum with no background, dared to bully you. You also fear Su Moyi, a royal relative. Where is your backbone as a scholar? Where is your initial intention to devote yourself to fairness?!”
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“You ……” The question left Liang Weiping speechless. He could only chase Lin Wanqing around the table.
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The two men’s footsteps mixed with shrieks and questioning, momentarily drowning out the silence in the private room until an unhurried knock came.
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“Who is it?!” Both of them asked angrily in unison. The knocking stopped at the right time, and the person at the door fell silent.
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The two men were surprised and stopped their pursuit. Only then did a calm voice come from outside the door, not too fast or slow.
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“The Chief of the Da Li Temple, Lord Su, invites the two of you to go to the adjacent private room to talk.”
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Lin Wanqing: “……”
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Liang Weiping: “……”
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As the saying goes, when a person is unlucky, they can’t even drink cold water without cramming their teeth.
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Lin Wanqing thought deeply. For example, at this moment, she wouldn’t have thought in any way that Lord Su, a nobleman, would have such an interest. After leaving the Capital Government Office, he came straight to this restaurant.

What she couldn’t understand was that the restaurant was so empty. There were so many private rooms, yet Su Moyi asked for the adjoining to hers. Although the walls had ears, she was only cursed a few sentences, yet surprisingly, the other room could still hear her. It seemed that the structure of this restaurant was not too —