Luan and Phoenix Tribulation: A Concubine Becomes a Phoenix

Chapter 513 Finally Found Him

Su Lianru has left the Princess Mansion for several days and has not returned.He Zizhang also had no idea where she had gone.He was busy with the affairs of the court, so he didn't have a chance to be free, so he only asked some people in the government to look for him, but they couldn't find his whereabouts.

In He Zizhang's heart, now that he has finally come to an end and has become a success, Su Lianru is useless to him.Even if it disappeared, it might not cause the slightest disturbance in his heart.

Ten miles away from Beijing, the green hills spread to the sky.After leaving Bianliang, walking a hundred miles to the east, before connecting to the next town, Su Lianru's carriage stopped at the foot of the mountain. She got off the carriage and looked up at the towering mountain in front of her.

The mountain road is rugged, and this place is remote and difficult to find. Over the years, Su Lianru has never found such a place.Looking at the dense woods, she was a little dazed for a while, and she also felt a little bit closer to the nostalgia and more timid affection.

The road up the mountain is very steep and it is generally difficult to go up.There is an isolated Taoist temple in the mountain. I don’t know why. In recent years, the incense in the Taoist temple has become more prosperous. The people in the nearby towns like to go up the mountain to worship the gods and pray. It is said that it is very effective.Over time, more people came, and they all complained that the mountain road was difficult, so the common people contributed money and efforts to repair the mountain road leading to the Taoist temple.

All the way up, the stairs are made of stone slabs. Although they are not neat and luxurious, they also have a sense of isolation.The steps spread in the woods, some are higher and some are lower, and the order is different. The dense moisture in the forest has smoked the stone slabs deeply, and tenacious moss has grown over the years in the joints between the stones.

Su Lianru specially picked a day that is not suitable for worshiping gods, so there are very few people going up the mountain at this time.Holding her skirt, she stepped on the stone steps and walked up step by step.

There are occasional birds chirping in the forest, flying from one tree to another; both sides of the road are covered with orchid grass, which is very quiet.When meeting three or two people who came down the mountain sparsely, they couldn't help but look at Su Lianru more, thinking that it was a rich lady who came to worship God again to ask for marriage.

So someone stopped and said to her kindly: "Girl, you come to pray to God? Come back tomorrow, the gods are resting today, if you ask for marriage, I guess Yuelao is sleeping and can't hear you. You still Come back tomorrow."

Su Lianru paused, panting slightly, and asked, "Then why did you come up the mountain?"

The man replied: "The Taoist temple is closed today, let's deliver some grains and vegetables to the Taoist temple. Only at this time, we will not be crowded when we come up." After finishing speaking, he walked past Su Lianru and hurried down the mountain.

She looked up at the seemingly endless stone road under her feet, took a breath, and then continued to walk up.

The sky became brighter as we got higher up, with faint rays of sunlight trying to break through the clouds and shine into the woods.Su Lianru wiped the perspiration from her forehead, and when she raised her eyes to look again, she finally saw a corner of a blue tile eaves emerging from the dense forest.She gained supreme courage in her heart, but just when she was about to lift her feet to trot forward, she suddenly found that she was a little bit unable to move forward at the same time.

In front of the Taoist temple, two pear trees were planted, and at this season, the leaves were falling.When Su Lianru stepped on the last step, she saw two little Taoist boys in front of the door, holding brooms in their hands, sweeping the fallen leaves in front of the door meticulously.

In the middle of this small front yard, there is a three-legged copper tripod. The incense in the tripod is really extremely strong, and the incense ash almost fills up the tripod.There are no pilgrims today, and the big incense that the pilgrims put into the tripod yesterday has not been burned yet.When the wind blew, the incense ash fell into the tripod.

Su Lianru looked up at the Taoist temple in the mountain in front of her.

At this time, the two Taoist boys found her, turned their heads and said softly, "Is the benefactor coming to offer incense today? But the Taoist temple is closed today, the benefactor will come back tomorrow."

Su Lianru said: "I'm not here to offer incense, I'm here to find someone. Is there a person named Lan Le here?"

The two children looked at each other in blank dismay.Su Lianru said anxiously: "Isn't there? She is about this tall, looks good, and most importantly plays the piano very well. I know he is in your Taoist temple."

Daotong replied: "Benefactor, there are no guests in our Taoist temple, and there is no one named Lan Le. There are only three people in the Taoist temple. Besides us, only the master is left."

At this time, a young man under the eaves, dressed in a gray-white Taoist robe and with a bun on his head, neatly, also holding a broom in his hand, was slowly picking up the withered yellow ginkgo leaves in the inner courtyard. Sweep to make a pile.

Footsteps sounded behind him, but he didn't turn his head, leaving a faint back view, as if he was in this secular world, but he didn't belong to this secular world.He said plainly, "Have you finished sweeping all the fallen leaves in the front yard? Just now, Uncle Li at the foot of the mountain sent something..." He didn't see Dao Tong's answer, so he turned around slowly while talking.

But just when the eyes lighted up and the woman standing in the corridor was clearly seen, the voice stopped abruptly.

Su Lianru's eyes were red, seeing him was like a dream.The ginkgo leaves outside the eaves are falling sparsely, the wind makes the leaves rustle, and the corners of Su Lianru's skirt are brushed faintly.

That's right, the person in front of me is indeed Lan Le.He looked like a Taoist priest, with a dusty aura all over his body.His hands are no longer stroking the qin, but holding a broom, and what he sings in his mouth is no longer tunes, but is concerned about fireworks.

After so many years, he never expected that they would meet again.

Su Lianru could hardly hold back tears from her eyes, she pursed her lips, now she is no longer the young girl she was back then, she tried her best to hold back the choking that was about to break through her throat, and said: "I didn't expect you to be here."

She was a little incoherent: "At the beginning, I was looking for you everywhere...I searched all the Taoist temples in the capital, big and small, but couldn't find you...I thought I would never be able to find you in my life..."

Su Lianru's eyes were sad, filled with pain that penetrated her heart.When she was young, relying on the favor of her father, queen and concubine, she could do whatever she wanted, bullied many people around her age, and did many stupid things with serious consequences. It is probably her retribution now.

She loves someone, but she can't find it after all kinds of hardships.The one who gets along with her day and night is another man that she hates deeply. The years have polished cruelty marks on her body, leaving her brows with an unignorable melancholy.

Su Lianru was talking alone, and Lan Le stood there, listening to her quietly.She wept again with joy, and said, "Unexpectedly, I finally found you..."

(End of this chapter)