Chapter 55
Mai Xiang had a conversation with the five blessings and eight blessings, and returned to her room. As soon as she entered the door, she was eagerly dragged onto the kang by Mrs. Yu.

"Big girl, tell grandma, whose family is the young master, and how much money did the kite say?"

"Grandma, my cousin and Erya were there at the time. They didn't talk about money at all. Also, he was just a kite buyer. I didn't know whose family he belonged to. I can't inquire about such things at will."

"Then how about this, you can try to sell a few pairs of wall shoes with Qiaohong tomorrow, she looks like a big girl, how can she hang around in front of men?" Seeing that Mai Xiang was not happy, Yu raised another one. Require.

"Mommy, I'm going to the mountain with my fifth uncle tomorrow. For someone as old as my cousin, she just needs to find those ladies and ladies by herself. I don't know them, so just speak softly."

"What can you, a little girl, go to the mountains to do? To pick up mushrooms?"

"Pick up mushrooms? Oh, yes, pick up mushrooms." Mai Xiang doesn't know mushrooms at all, so she can't even think of going to the mountains to pick up mushrooms and sell them.

"Then take Qiaohong with you, and go back early." Seeing that Mai Xiang always bought some big bones, Yu felt that adding some mushrooms to stew would definitely taste better.

"Grandma, I'm going with Fifth Uncle and the others." Mai Xiang was a little annoyed by the brown candy.

"The ones I'm not afraid of are all my relatives." Shi Yu didn't think much about it.

Mai Xiang looked at Qiaohong and asked, "Can my cousin pick mushrooms?"

"Don't go, the mushrooms in the outer mountains have been picked up long ago, it's too dangerous for you children to go to the deep mountains." Ye Dafu said from the next door.

"Understood, Dad, I'm just helping my fifth uncle and eighth uncle. They go to chop firewood, and they are in the outer mountain."

After Mai Xiang finished speaking, without waiting for Yu Shi to speak, she took a few pieces of Mai Di's diapers and her and Mai Huang's underwear, and called Mai Huang to go to the river to wash clothes together.

"Tomorrow, I will go to the mountain with Uncle Wu to find something to sell for money. You take Erya to herd the geese and cut some grass and come back. Don't go to the Temple of the Reclining Buddha, stay at home to look after the house. Also, Remember, don't tell outsiders about family affairs." Mai Xiang told Mai Huang a few words.

Since Mrs. Yu came, Mai Xiang was worried that she would rummage through the things in the kang, so she locked all the money on the window sill into a box, but there were still a lot of broken silver in the hole in the kang behind the box.

Early the next morning, Mai Xiang lived at Jiufeng's side, so she heard the movement of the Five Blessings and the Eight Blessings next door, and she also got up.

Wu Fu pushed a two-wheeled scooter without an ox cart, let Mai Xiang sit on it, and walked towards the mountain. Mai Xiang noticed that this time he went into the mountain not to the Reclining Buddha Temple, but to the A fork in the road.

"Uncle Wu, why don't we go to the Temple of the Reclining Buddha?" Mai Xiang asked casually.

"That's the garden of the emperor's house, who dares to cut it?" Bafu stood beside Mai Xiang pushing the cart, and patted Mai Xiang on the head.

"Uncle Wu, everyone says you are dexterous, what would you do?" Mai Xiang changed the subject.

"Your father knows what I know, and it was your father who taught me." When Ba Fu thought of Ye Dafu who was still lying on the kang, his mood became depressed.

When Mai Xiang heard this, besides weaving straw sandals and flower baskets, she probably couldn't make anything new. It seemed that she had to use her own brains.

After walking for more than half an hour, Wu Fu asked Ba Fu and Mai Xiang to look at the car and cut some small bushes near the car. He took a big hatchet and a rope to go up the mountain by himself.

Mai Xiang managed to get along with Wufu. When she got to the mountain, Mai Xiang discovered that the vegetation in Xiangshan was relatively dense. She wanted to see what could be sold for money. After wandering around for a long time, she couldn't find any orchids. Instead, I saw a small shrub with leaves that resemble rhododendrons, but it hasn't bloomed yet, and the fragrance of wheat is not very sure.

I asked Wufu, and Wufu said it was Rhododendron.

"Uncle Wu, let's dig a few and go back to raise them, shall we?" Mai Xiang is not sure that she can support them, but she wants to try, anyway, Ye Dafu is there, and Ye Dafu should be very familiar with the plants in the mountains.

"But there is no hoe." Wu Fu couldn't bear to dismiss Mai Xiang's intentions. He was only here to chop firewood, so how could he use a hoe?
"By the way, there is a small temple halfway up the mountain over the top of the mountain. I'll borrow a hoe." Wu Fu suddenly remembered.

"Then I'll go, I won't delay you chopping firewood."

After all, Wu Fu was still worried, and followed Mai Xiang up the mountain, saying that he was asking for a bowl of water by the way.

Wu Fu took Mai Xiang into the back door of the temple and entered the kitchen. It seemed that he had been here more than once before, and he was familiar with the young monk in the kitchen, so he asked for a steamed bun for Mai Xiang.

While Mai Xiang was drinking water, a young monk suddenly ran over and said, "The abbot said, he prepared a table of vegetarian meals for Junior Brother Kong's family, and they are going down the mountain."

"Can your family still visit the mountain?" Mai Xiang asked curiously.

"Junior Brother Kong was ordained ordained as a monk only yesterday. His family tried to persuade him for a day, but they still couldn't persuade him."

"Oh, then his parents and family must be very sad." When Mai Xiang heard that he was a junior, she took it for granted that he was still young.

"Junior brother Liao Kong is over 50 years old, and he has lived here for three years. The abbot finally agreed to let him become a monk." The little monk replied without expression.

Mai Xiang didn't want to ask any more questions after seeing him. After drinking the water, he came out with Wu Fu, and saw Cao Xueqin and Tang Cun talking with a man in his 50s in gray monk clothes standing in front of the side hall.

Cao Xueqin was taken aback when she saw Mai Xiang, walked over and asked, "Why are you here?"

"My fifth uncle and I came here to chop firewood and come in to beg for saliva."

Mai Xiang looked at the man's five-point similarity to Tangcun, and thought of Tangcun's sad face yesterday, and immediately thought of a person, Cao Fu, it seems that there is a legend that Cao Fu became a monk later, not only Cao Fu , even Cao Xueqin seems to have been a monk for a while.

Seeing Mai Xiang looking at Cao Fu, Cao Xueqin introduced: "This is my uncle, he wants to practice here." After speaking, he said to Cao Fu, "This girl is my neighbor and has helped Huilan a lot."

"Hello, Uncle, ah no, hello, Grandpa." Mai Xiang said the wrong thing when she was in a daze.

Cao Fu listened with a smile, and said: "It doesn't matter what kind of uncle or grandpa is a monk, I can see that you are a kind and good boy, and you will have good luck in the future."

Mai Xiang couldn't see much sorrow from Cao Fu's face, but was more relieved. Probably three years of practice had already worn away the resentment and ambition in his heart, so he chose such a way despite the dissuasion of his family. Life outside.

Mai Xiang has read some reports on red studies, and some people think that the prototype of Jia Baoyu in the book should be Cao Fu rather than Cao Xueqin, or that the author of "A Dream of Red Mansions" is Cao Fu, that is, Zhiyanzhai.

Because Cao Xueqin was only twelve or thirteen years old when the Cao family was raided in the sixth year of Yongzheng, it was impossible to have a deep impression of the life of flowers and brocade, fire cooking oil, and rich clothes and fine food, so the detailed descriptions in the book cannot come from Cao Xueqin.

"You've been staring at my uncle, what are you thinking?" Seeing that Mai Xiang was still staring at Cao Fu in a daze, Cao Xueqin felt a little weird, remembering Liu Huilan once said that Mai Xiang seemed to be very interested in his family affairs, she couldn't help but He glanced at Mai Xiang warily.

"I'm thinking that master has become a monk, is it good or bad?" Mai Xiang's words fit her age and identity.

"Oh, then what do you say is good and bad?" Cao Fu asked with a smile.

Mai Xiang looked at Tang Village and said, "For this uncle, it must be bad, but for the master, it should be good."

"Wrong, it's good for me, it's good for him." Cao Fu looked up at the high sky.

Mai Xiang thought of the "Good song" in the book, it's good, it's good, the paper is full of disillusionment, could it really come from Cao Fu's hand?

(End of this chapter)

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