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Chapter 51

Chapter 46

It is an old custom in Jiangzhou for girls to hang sachets under the old osmanthus tree in the courtyard of the back hall of the Queen Mother Temple to worship the moon on Mid-Autumn Festival, so the Ruan family is no exception. Jiang ordered people to prepare the carriage and accompanying people early on. , to escort her daughter there.After the family banquet was over, the moon was already on the top of the willow tree, so Ming Yu, Ming Pei and his cousin Ming Fang rode in a carriage, Chun Yuan rode in a carriage with Zhou's mother and other maids, and Liu Xiangyang took four or five of them. Guard the courtyard and go out to the Queen Mother Temple.

The Queen Mother Temple is on the north bank of the Hongqiao on the Honghe River. A few years ago, Zhengde's dragon boats stopped here to watch Buddha lanterns and fireworks.Tonight, a golden moon hangs high above the night dome on the top of the bridge. Looking from a distance, the lights on both sides of the bridge are brilliant, the traffic of horses and horses is endless, and you can hear the noise and laughter faintly.

Worshiping the moon in this mother temple is not only an old custom, but also a rare opportunity for those rich girls to come out to play in a fair manner. Ming Pei and Ming Fang kept laughing and talking along the way.Although Ming Yu was not as excited as the two of them, but she had painstakingly planned for this flood for more than a year, and now that it has passed safely, she is naturally in a good mood.They also specially made a sachet for this moon worship, filled it with spices and laurel leaves, and embroidered a small piece of ropa according to the custom and stuffed it inside to pray for blessings.

There are countless fortune-tellers in Jiangzhou City, and after much deliberation, it was not for nothing that she fell in love with this Hu Banxian.She knew this man not because he was a good matchmaker for others, but because in her previous life, when she was 15 years old a year before she got married, there was a well-known Buddhist lawsuit in Jiangzhou City.The victim was none other than Hu Banxian and a nun's aunt.That was three years ago, one day Hu Banxian happened to meet a sister-in-law who came out of a nun's nunnery near the ruined temple where she lived for alms.Although that aunt is several years older than Hu Banxian, but Hu Banxian still relies on this aunt for help secretly, so naturally he doesn't care about it.One was down and out, and the other was still thinking about it, and gradually they got together in one place, became a pair of wild mandarin ducks, and secretly communicated for several years.I don't want to think that this year, this aunt accidentally got a dark knot in the fetus, and her belly gradually grew. She was discovered by the teacher in the nunnery. After questioning, she found out about Hu Banxian. , Hu Banxian was twisted to the magistrate's office, Hu Banxian was put in prison, and the aunt also committed suicide in shame and anger.

What happened to Hu Banxian in the previous life, Ming Yu naturally didn't know.In this life, she only knew that Hu Banxian had secretly fallen in love with that aunt at that time.It was because of his secret that she chose him, intending to use his mouth to speak for herself.It's just that if you want people to believe Hu Banxian, you have to find a way, first of all, let him become "hard-spoken".A year ago, when the murder case of the Qia Li family came out, it immediately occurred to him that this was an opportunity for Hu Banxian to make a name for himself.

The reason why Ming Yu knew the truth about the murder in Li Dahu's family was actually just borrowing the convenience of the memory of the previous life.In the previous life, Xie Ruchun actually did not solve the case at that time, until the second year, because the wife of the Li family had a rift with the housekeeper, the wife was afraid that she would fall into the hands of the housekeeper, and wanted to murder him, but the housekeeper escaped. Only then did he bite the general out and made a fuss with Xie Ruchun. After some interrogation, the truth came to light.At that time, Ming Yu heard Jiang's mention of the murder case at home, and lamented that people in the world can't live without torture, and never forgot it. Now that she thought of it, the midnight letter in the ruined temple happened.The messenger was none other than Liu Xiangyang.

In the four years since she was ten years old, she is still keeping this secret of her own, and even Chunyuan doesn't know about it.Chunyuan only knew that this girl in her family was more thoughtful than others, and sometimes she was unpredictable in her actions.But she knows that she is good to herself, that's enough, and she will repay with a hundredfold kindness and loyalty.As for Liu Xiangyang, although he looks clumsy, he has grown older in the past two years and has become more stable in his work.Chunyuan gave him the last two letters, and after he received them, he returned them in a proper manner, probably because of his clumsiness, he didn't ask why, let alone mention it to others.

"Girl, it's here."

The carriage stopped slowly, and Ming Yu heard Chun Yuan's voice outside.He opened the window curtain and took a look, and saw dozens of steps away from the gate of the Queen Mother Temple, people sent by the government had long been guarding in a circle, only letting women in.The carriages like hers were also stopped, and they all stopped one by one in an open space surrounded by the side.Looking from the gate, the Queen Mother Temple is brightly lit, and the women are coming in and out, which is very lively.

Xie's carriage also arrived in front of the Queen Mother Temple.Zhang Butou, who was guarding, saw it from a distance, hurriedly greeted him, and led him to a space that had been vacated in advance.Knowing that the girl and the girl from the Ruan family are on good terms, she said with a smile: "The girls came neither early nor late, just in time. The carriage from Rongyin Hall just arrived, and there are only two of them on the side. The girl from the Ruan family is stepping backwards with the girl."

Xie Mingrou grew up in the past two years, was beaten by Mrs. Xie, and behaved a little more politely. He was helping a girl to get off the carriage. Hearing this, he turned his head and looked over, and saw that the crab green felt cloth carriage was indeed Ruan At home, I raised my eyes and looked forward again, just in time to see the backs of Mingyu and a group of people at the gate of the Queen Mother Temple dozens of steps away, and said happily to Xie Jingzhu: "Sister Ruan and the others are right there." Hurry up, we'll go find them right away." The two of them hurried up after speaking, and the maids and women behind them also hurriedly followed closely.

Xie Zuiqiao's heart moved, he raised his eyes and looked at the gate of the Queen Mother Temple with two rows of lanterns slanted, and saw a figure in a turquoise shirt at the first glance, and before he had time to take a second look, that figure had already disappeared. In and out of the flow of people.After a moment of ecstasy, he turned around and suddenly saw Xie Yilin beside him still staring blankly at the gate with a reluctant expression on his face, so he reached out and patted his shoulder, and said with a smile: "It will take some time for my sisters to come out. The color is so good, there is nothing left and right, how about going to the painting boat and sitting on the bridge to have a drink or two?"

Xie Yilin seemed to have regained his senses, and with an oh sound, he suddenly turned his head and said with a smile: "Cousin, I'll just wait here. Go for a walk by yourself."

Seeing what he said, Xie Zuiqiao didn't force himself, so he nodded and walked towards Hongqiao by himself.Climbing up the steps and standing on the vault, at a glance, you can see the water of the Honghe River for seven or eight miles sparkling under the bright moon and lights, winding away like a long dragon.Three years passed by like this, and the back figure that he had just glimpsed appeared in front of his eyes again. He suddenly thought that he would return to Beijing in a short time, and he didn't know when he would have the opportunity to return to the place where many of his youthful memories resided. The land of Jiangnan...

Xie Zuiqiao went to a restaurant beside the bridge to have a few drinks alone, guessing that it was almost time, so he went back.When they arrived at the place where they parked just now, the two younger sisters hadn't come out yet, and Xie Yilin was nowhere to be seen. There were only a few attendants who followed behind the carriage.After asking, Dao didn't even know where the young master had gone.After waiting for a while, he suddenly remembered that some frivolous teenagers went around the back wall to spy on many girls in the old year. Afraid that Xie Yilin would do the same, he hurried to the outside of the back hall of the Queen Mother Temple.As soon as he got there, he saw a figure stepping on the shoulders of a servant and lying on the wall, it was his cousin.Frowning slightly, he came closer and coughed heavily.

Xie Yilin has been planning for tonight for many days.Just now, when Xie Zuiqiao left, he was alone, so he broke through Zhang Butou's encirclement.Catcher Zhang didn't dare to stop him, he turned a blind eye and let him in.At this moment, he was lying on the top of the wall, borrowing the branches and leaves of an old tree beside the wall to cover up and look in, and finally saw Ming Yu who was with his sister.He opened his eyes wide and looked at her, and saw that she was full of smiles, and her face became more and more attractive under the moonlight. He jumped up and almost fell off the wall. Looking back, he saw his cousin coming over.Under the silvery moonlight, he was standing with his hands behind his back at this moment, frowning and looking at him, he hurriedly climbed down, stepped forward with a guilty conscience and smiled apologetically, "Cousin, why did you get here?"

Xie Zuiqiao guessed that he must have been spying on the eldest lady of the Ruan family just now, resisted the urge to hit him on the head hard, frowned and said: "Your father sent someone to set up a fence around the intersection outside, just to prevent such things Thing. You are lucky, the first one to break the ban. If it gets out and people know that the son of the family is so ignorant, how can your father convince the public?"

Xie Yilin saw that he was peeping, and was caught by his cousin, and he mentioned his father again. With a bitter face, he said: "I know. Don't dare again. I beg my cousin to take care of me this time." Don't let my father know. If he knows, he will scold me again!"

Seeing that he admitted his mistake, Xie Zuiqiao said: "It's good that you know! If you do something like this in the future, if your father doesn't beat you, I will be the first to spare you! Let's go! The younger sisters will come out later. "

Although Xie Yilin was still reluctant to let go, he didn't dare to stay any longer and hurriedly followed.Xie Zuiqiao waited on the spot with him.After a while, I saw many girls with happy faces coming out of the gate of the Temple of the Queen Mother, and it seemed that they had already started to disperse inside.After a while, another group of brightly dressed girls came out, among them were my two younger sisters and the Ruan sisters.In the crowd, although there were many girls, Xie Zuiqiao still caught the girl in the green shirt at a glance, but his eyes seemed to be taken away, and he couldn't move away for a while.

Mingyu was stopped by Xie Mingrou and Xie Jingzhu who were catching up at the gate before, the two groups naturally got together, and met Su Qingnan Leng Youyun and others while talking and laughing, and they went together to the old osmanthus tree in the courtyard of the back hall Next to it, the inside is already full of people, cigarettes are curling up, and there are many colorful sachets hanging on the osmanthus branches.The old Miaozhu inside took his disciples to stand under the tree, and used a fork to hang the sachets on the branches one by one for the girls.Seeing a group of girls from rich and noble families in Jiangzhou coming over, she didn't dare to neglect, and personally hung the sachet handed over on the highest branch. After worshiping the moon and praying, I played around for a while, seeing that it was almost time, I walked out of the gate together, chatting and laughing with Xie Mingrou, who was walking beside me, to the parking place.Suddenly someone from the opposite side yelled loudly: "Sister, you have come out! I have been waiting for so long!"

Ming Yu looked up and saw that it was Xie Yilin from the Xie family who was yelling at Xie Mingrou beside her.Knowing Xie Yilin's carefree personality, and because the two parents are close to each other, they are usually called brothers and sisters, so they didn't avoid suspicion so much and continued to move forward.After taking two more steps, I was suddenly taken aback.

A few steps later on one side, Xie Zuiqiao was there, looking at him at the moment.There was a bright light behind him, and his eyes seemed to be shining slightly like the light.

For some reason at this moment, the scene in the Pine Fragrance Garden on Xiling Mountain in Mengcheng popped up again in Ming Yu's mind. She was suddenly a little embarrassed, and her steps slowed down slightly, and she fell behind others.

Although Xie Yilin just called his sister, he was actually just trying to attract Mingyu's attention.A pair of eyes has been watching Mingyu, when she got a little closer, he hurriedly stepped forward to grab the front, called "Sister Shi", but didn't know what to say next, so he just looked at her and laughed non-stop .

Ming Yu also knew Xie Yilin's youthful thoughts towards him, and he only regarded him as a child in his heart.Seeing him like this at the moment, it was a bit funny, nodded to him, and answered "Brother Shi" with a smile, then looked at Xie Zuiqiao who was standing behind him, suppressed the awkwardness in his heart, and smiled at him I saw a gift.

When Xie Zuiqiao saw Ming Yu standing so close to him a few steps away, under the light, his snow-skinned green temples, full of laughter, and a downcast expression, he suddenly felt short of breath, and even his heart beat faster unconsciously A few points.After watching her say goodbye to her younger sisters, getting into the carriage with the two younger sisters beside her, and disappearing from his sight, she finally breathed out, and suddenly felt that the palm of her hand that was holding the whip was also wet. A layer of sweat.

Xie Mingrou and Xie Jingzhu also got into the carriage, and the group was about to go back to the south gate. Xie Yilin seemed to remember something, and suddenly leaned into Xie Zuiqiao's ear and whispered: "Cousin, I suddenly have a urgency to urinate, you go back first, I'll come back later." Just catch up."

Xie Zuiqiao saw that his brows were tightly frowned, and he looked uncomfortable, so he couldn't help laughing, patted him on the shoulder and said: "Go, go back quickly."

Xie Yilin let out a hasty hey, threw the reins to a boy, and hurried to a place where there were few people.

Xie Zuiqiao looked at the back of his cousin who was leaving in a hurry, shook his head, and ordered the coachman to start the whip.

"Have you got it?"

Xie Yilin turned to a side door in the alley next to the Temple of the Queen Mother, and there was already a servant from the temple waiting there.Seeing him coming, he hastily handed it over, and said in a low voice, "According to Young Master's instructions, I'm sure it's right. This is the sachet of Miss Ruan's family."

Xie Yilin took it with a smile on his face and put it in his arms, stuffed the boy with the reward, then turned around and left in a hurry.

(End of this chapter)