cloud temple phoenix hairpin

Chapter 52

Chapter 47

Xie Yilin came out with a sachet, excitedly got on his horse and chased after him, and got off a bridge, he could already see the carriages and horses on the Xiezui Bridge in front of him, he was about to urge his horse to catch up, when a man rushed out from the side alley, straight Came over.Because the horse was getting off the bridge, it was going very fast, and it couldn't dodge in time, and it bumped into a place, and the man fell to the ground and only shouted, "I killed someone."Immediately another person came out from the side, grabbed him and made him lose money, and he would not let him go.

These two are rascals from the neighborhood, they have fought a little bit, and they often extort money like this.Xie Yilin was young and vigorous, seeing the two playing rogues, he was furious, he was not willing to admit defeat, he just wanted to teach him a lesson, so the three of them entangled in one place, surrounded by many people, pointing and watching.

In order to wait for his cousin to catch up, Xie Zuiqiao specially ordered the coachman to drive slowly.After waiting for a long time and still not seeing him catching up, he was a little worried. He looked back and saw some people surrounded by the bridge just behind him. It seemed that something had happened, so he ordered the carriage to stop and told his followers to watch over. Waiting in place, he drove over by himself.Getting closer, I saw that it was Xie Yilin who was wrestling with two men.

With one against two, Xie Yilin gradually became overwhelmed, annoyed, and unwilling to reveal his identity like this, feeling ashamed.While he was struggling, he suddenly felt a person coming from the side, inserted in, and blocked the fists of those two people with a few strokes, he took a closer look and saw that it was his cousin coming, he was overjoyed, he turned around and shouted: "Don Brother, these two people obviously bumped into each other on purpose, so I want to pay for it!"

The two rascals first saw Xie Yilin's rich clothes, they didn't know his identity, they only thought he was the son of an ordinary rich family, and they bullied him when he was young, so they went forward to blackmail him and entangled him.Seeing that he had gained the upper hand, he suddenly saw that the opponent had more people coming over, and his skills were amazing.I just punched out, and the wrist was pinched by him, as if it was pinched by iron pliers, and it still hurts a little bit, knowing that it would not take advantage, the two of them exchanged glances, turned around and ran away.

Xie Yilin saw that the scoundrel separated from the crowd and ran away, but disappeared in a blink of an eye, and cursed a few words bitterly.Xie Zuiqiao frowned and said, "Let's go. My sisters are still waiting."

Xie Yilin sighed that he was unlucky, so he had no choice but to follow, touched his arms, suddenly his face changed, and he looked around.Xie Zuiqiao saw the scuffle at his feet earlier, dropped a sachet, picked it up, handed it over and said, "Is this what you're looking for?"

Xie Yilin hurriedly snatched it away and put it into his bosom, he laughed and said: "Let's go, don't make the younger sisters wait impatiently."

Xie Zuiqiao glanced at him and didn't ask any further questions. The two mounted their horses and returned, escorting Xie Mingrou and Xie Jingzhu home.Xie Ruchun and Mrs. Xie were setting up wine in the courtyard to enjoy the moon with their friends. The two went to meet and quit together. Xie Yilin said haha ​​to his cousin and couldn't wait to go back to his room. Suddenly Xie Zuiqiao stopped him and said: "Then Where did things come from?"

Xie Yilin was startled, and suddenly thought of what he was asking.His heart skipped a beat, he hesitated, and just about to talk about him, Xie Zuiqiao asked again: "Where did that thing come from?" This time his voice became more serious.

Xie Yilin looked up and saw his cousin looking at him with sharp eyes.Knowing that he couldn't hide it, he had no choice but to say in a low voice: "Just now... I asked the boy in the temple to steal it for me..."

"But the girl from the Ruan family?"

"Yes……"

Xie Yilin replied in a low voice.

When Xie Zuiqiao picked up the sachet just now, he smelled a faint scent of mint mixed with laurel leaves, and when he pinched it, it was full again, as if stuffed. He remembered that his cousin was peeping first, and then peeing again. Where did the sac come from, I already guessed it in my heart.Those who can cause him to bother so much are probably related to the eldest daughter of the Ruan family.It was inconvenient just now, so I didn't ask, now there were only two of them left, so I opened my mouth to ask, and after hearing that he admitted it, I couldn't help it, so I knocked a chestnut on him, and reprimanded: "All day long! Thinking about these crooked ways! It seems that uncle's reprimand is not enough, and you will be taught a lesson next time! Think about it, if someone else steals Mingrou's sachet like this, what will you think?"

Because of his father's sternness and lack of intimacy, Xie Yilin respected Xie Zuiqiao like an elder in his heart. Seeing him at this moment, his expression was unprecedentedly stern, not like the usual cousin who protected him everywhere. He was stunned for a moment. I was also a little ashamed, thought for a while, and then argued in a low voice: "Cousin, didn't I ask you to ask sister Jingzhu what she likes last time, but I didn't find out anything, so I came up with this method. They girls know I stuffed a veil embroidered with my own wishes along with the spices in the sachet. I just wanted to get her veil here to see what she was thinking, maybe I could prepare a gift according to her wishes. "

Xie Zuiqiao was startled, and suddenly said: "Bring it."

Seeing his serious expression, Xie Yilin knew that he couldn't hide it anymore, so he took out the sachet from the skirt and handed it over, but he was a little unwilling, salivating and said: "Cousin, just let me take a look at her face. Put the veil on until the end..." Before he finished speaking, seeing him frowning and looking over, he knew that there was no hope, so he shut his mouth embarrassingly.Seeing that he took the sachet and turned away, he didn't dare to ask him what to do with it.Seeing that his painstaking planning for many days had come to nothing in the end, he felt extremely melancholy, sighed a long time, and went back to his room dejectedly.

Borrowing the moonlight, Xie Zuiqiao rode his horse to his yoga garden in one breath, only felt that the moonlight was like water, and the surroundings were peaceful, but the small sachet in his arms was like the wings of a butterfly. Flutteringly teased every inch of his senses.The horse's hooves stepped across the bluestone slab bridge, making a dull and melodious sound, just like his heartbeat at the moment.

He entered the Yu Garden, went straight to his own room, told Yuzan and others to retreat, and finally took out the sachet and put it on a pile of plain rafts on the table.Under the jumping lights, on the white raft, his eyes fell on the sachet.

Bat-shaped pine green and persimmon red satin, with a circle of flowers embroidered with cloud pendulums around the bottom, and a string of agarwood whiskers underneath.

He finally stretched out his hand towards the sachet, but when he was about to touch it, he stopped again, hesitating in his heart.

Don't touch anything, just take it back to the Queen Mother's temple, this is what an honest gentleman does.only……

In the end, he finally did something that was not much nobler than his cousin.

He opened the sachet tightly sealed with silk thread, and pulled out a neatly folded Ropa from the spices that smelled of mint and bay leaves.Unfold, but the size of his palm.

When he was doing this, his heart was beating harder than he did after taking a break from sword practice every morning, and he was so nervous that he even felt that someone was watching him from behind.

"The first flower is good, don't teach Wanye to hate Xiao Xiao. On the second full moon, don't teach Xiao Lang to be beautiful. The most important thing is to have a good family, so that this life and this night will always be safe."

On the autumn-scented silk handkerchief, black embroidery threads were used to embroider these lines of elegant small script.

Xie Zuiqiao glanced over these few lines over and over again, and repeated them several times in his mind, as if she had frowned when she embroidered the silk handkerchief, and was lost in thought for a moment.

The flowers are full and the moon is full, and the family is happy.

Don't teach Xiao Lang to be negative.

She...does she already have Xiao Lang in her heart?Could he be her Xiao Lang?

This sudden thought startled him.My heart, which had just calmed down, suddenly started beating again.It was different from just now, just now it was because of the uneasiness in my heart, but this time, it was because of the rush of blood in my chest.

With a sound of "clang", Xie Zuiqiao inserted the knife back into the halberd, his sweat-drenched clothes pressed against his back, and the boiling heat that gushed out just now gradually dissipated after he slashed hard.He raised his head to look at the bright moon in his eyes, feeling extremely happy in his chest.

Seeing him staying up late at night, Yuzan and the other two little girls were a little surprised when they suddenly got up and went to practice the knife again, so they hurriedly prepared water and waited.Seeing him coming back covered in sweat, he hurriedly greeted him and said, "The water is ready." Seeing him nod his head and go in.Knowing his habits, he hesitated for a while, but finally dared not enter, just stopped outside and waited.

Xie Zuiqiao lay on his back on the couch, closed his eyes and wanted to sleep, suddenly opened them again, took out the sachet under the pillow, stared at it for a while by the moonlight outside the window, then finally stuffed it back, and gradually closed his eyes .

By the fish and algae pond, he saw the half-grown girl in a blue shirt leaning over to watch the fish, heard his footsteps approaching, turned his head and looked over, the golden begonia on the top of his head was colorful, silently approaching her cloud-like temple hair ...The scene changed suddenly, and he was under the pear tree in the Pine Fragrance Garden again. She had become a slim girl, with black eyebrows far away, and green temples with spring smoke. She was panicked by his sudden appearance, her cheeks were like Dye Yunxia...

She walked towards him suddenly, smiled at him, soft hands gently touched his face, his heart beat...

He opened his eyes suddenly, stretched out his hand to clamp a slender wrist, and that hand was gently climbing up his chest.A woman uttered a slightly painful voice.

"Young master...it's me..."

He paused and let go of his hand.Standing up and lighting the lamp, she saw Yuzan kneeling in front of his couch with her sideburns half down, her skirts loose, her cherry lips slightly raised, looking up at him, her brows furrowed slightly as if in pain.

"My lord, it's me..." Yuhan supported her wrist which was in pain as if it had been broken just now, with tears in her eyes.

"My lord... Yuhan wants to serve you..."

Yuhan looked at him carefully, whispered in a trembling voice, and moved slightly closer to him.

"Yuhan, how old are you?"

"eighteen."

Xie Zuiqiao stared at her for a moment, then suddenly smiled at her, his smile was as warm as a pine stream in the mountains, but there was a trace of strangeness in his eyes that made her feel scared.

"After you go back, who do you fancy in the mansion, just tell me."

Yuzan's face turned pale suddenly, and she leaned over and begged, "My lord, I know I was wrong. I won't dare anymore. Please don't send me out, my lord. In the future, after my lord marries his wife, Yuhan is willing to serve you and his wife again."

Xie Zuiqiao shook his head and said softly to her: "Yuhan, you used to be my mother's caring person, and now you have served me by my side for many years. I don't treat you like a slave, so naturally I won't give you away at will. .In the future... Even if I marry my wife, my wife will not ask you to serve me. You are beautiful and your age is just right. I want to marry you off in a good way. return."

Yuzan burst into tears, feeling miserable in her heart.

He had mentioned to her many times in the past that if she found someone he liked, he would marry her off gracefully.They were all pushed past by her using herself to serve him under the order of the late wife.

She knows his temperament.He never speaks harshly to others, even if the other party is the most humble servant.But when he says no, it means that he is really saying no, which cannot be questioned.

She had been quietly by his side for so many years.If he hadn't gone out to practice knives tonight, if she went into his room to spread out the bed and accidentally saw the sachet under his pillow, she would never have tempted him so rashly.

Now she regrets it.This kind of rashness turned out to prove that my dream for many years was nothing but a dream.

Which girl would that delicate sachet belong to?That's why you let him cherish it by his pillow like a treasure?

She didn't speak anymore, just kowtowed to her master and left with sobs.

Naturally, Mingyu didn't know the twists and turns of her Mid-Autumn Festival sachet, and thought that the next day, it was turned into cigarettes in the big cauldron of the Queen Mother Temple along with the sachets of all the girls.The Mid-Autumn Festival passed, and in a blink of an eye it was August [-], her birthday.

(End of this chapter)