The Fugitive White Moonlight of a Powerful Minister

  Chapter 51

The flood in the teahouse didn't hurt anyone, but a dozen or so people were injured, and it was a new year's day, and there were so many people in the teahouse that day, it became a big or small but not small. ACCIDENT.

   On the 30th day of the new year, Wen Lan rushed back to eat the New Year's Eve dinner after going to Jingzhao Mansion. On the early morning of the first day of the new year, he didn't have time to receive the guests at home, so he hurried to Jingzhao Mansion again.

Wen Lan was not around, there was always a young master to entertain guests at home, so Wen Ning didn't ask Wen Qi to send her to the Temple of Mercy, knowing that going to the temple to pray for blessings was not for enjoyment, and bringing too many people would cause trouble for others, so she only brought Ling Lan alone.

  Early in the morning of the first day of the new year, she simply packed up her luggage and got into the carriage with Linglan.

Dayin has many believers in Buddhism. During the holidays, many aristocrats from aristocratic families live in the temple for a few days and practice for a few days. Many people are even proud of it. "No Controversy", "good" Buddhist disciples can earn a lot of good reputation.

  So even though it was the first day of the Lunar New Year, there were quite a few people in Ci En Temple, and it was even much more lively than usual.

   It is common for people to come to the temple to pray for blessings. Linglan stepped forward to explain her purpose, and a little novice led them to the side room specially prepared for pilgrims in the backyard.

  The front yard is full of incense, but the backyard is still clean. The wing room is not big, but it is neat and clean. The little novice saw many female pilgrims who came to clean up. As usual, he said some precautions in the temple, gave a salute and then left.

  Ci’en Temple is the largest Buddhist temple in the capital, with countless pilgrims every year, and even many foreign tourists come here to offer a stick of incense.

  The first incense that the ancestors of the Chu family laid down in the country was also in the Temple of Mercy. In the eyes of many people, it is a royal temple open to the common people.

  Wen Ning has been here many times in the past. Due to the large number of pilgrims, the hall of Ci'en Temple can be said to be resplendent and resplendent, and several Bodhisattvas are even made of pure gold.

  This is the first time she has come to the backyard. Unexpectedly, the backyard of Ci'en Temple for pilgrims to live in is so exquisite, and it is even more elegant than the courtyard of her Wen family.

  When she came along the way, she probably glanced at it twice, about two wing rooms and one courtyard. Linglan put down her luggage and ran to the next room to take a look, and said excitedly when she came back: "Girl, the next door is empty. This place is really wonderful, clean and ethereal, like a paradise. Did you see it just now? Go out here Not far away is the edge of the cliff, maybe we can watch the sunrise and the sunset, no wonder there are so many noble families and noble girls who like to come here to clean up!"

  Wen Ning also likes this place. When she heard that the next room was empty, an idea came to her mind.

   "Linglan, I remember we brought paper and pen and ink?" She sat down at the tea table, "Hurry up and take them out, I'll write a letter."

  This place is clean and comfortable, and it's in the suburbs of Beijing, not far from her and Wen Qi's wine shop. Wouldn't it be wonderful if Duan Rushuang could be called here?

  Wen Ning quickly wrote a letter, asking Linglan to find a little novice how to deliver the letter down the mountain.

This time her reputation has been damaged, Wen Tingchun will not consider proposing a kiss for her for the time being, but Wen Lan is going to start proposing a kiss at the beginning of the new year. It is better to avoid her who is gossiped, and she will have to live here for a couple of days months.

  It would be great if Duan Rushuang could come and stay for a month or two.

   It's just that she didn't expect that before the letter was delivered, an unexpected visitor came to the next room in the afternoon.

  Zhao Xizhi brought at least five followers, two nuns, a maid, and two servants. I don't know if there are still people out to help her find the way.

Wen Ningyuan continued to embroider the landscape painting in the yard. The winter sun was warm and the sun was shining comfortably. When she looked up, she saw Zhao Xizhi in a delicate suit with a mighty entourage. When she saw her, she was stunned and then raised her hand provocatively. Chin up.

  This scene is so familiar, for a moment, Wen Ning almost thought she had returned to her previous life.

  As a resentful girl who has been chasing Pei You for two or three years, how could Zhao Xizhi let her go, a canary that Pei You kept in captivity in the backyard?

When we met for the first time, Zhao Xizhi was the same, her whole body was as delicate as a beautiful doll, with a group of people behind her, and when she saw her, she raised her chin proudly: "Oh, this is the widow of General Ke Sishen. ?”

  At that time, she had only been a widow for three months, and hadn't recovered from the emotion of losing her husband. Her eyes were red when she heard this sentence.

  But now, she is not the bully Wen Ning she was back then.

  Almost subconsciously, Wen Ning put the landscape map she had embroidered most of herself behind her back, and stood up.

   But she also immediately realized that today is different from the past. Now she is not in Pei You's backyard, but Zhao Xizhi... Shen Jin rescued her at the palace banquet last time, so will she still fall in love with Pei You in this life? Or, her provocative expression at this moment is actually because of Shen Jin? After all, she had a marriage contract with Shen Jin.

   Before she could figure it out, Zhao Xizhi had already opened her mouth, and she was still the same as in her previous life, not polite: "You are Wen Ning?"

  Linglan happened to come out of the room with embroidery thread, and when she saw so many people, she hurried over. She only thought that Zhao Xizhi was familiar, but she didn't know her, so she saluted and said: "Wen Mansion of Honghe Temple, I don't know which mansion it is from, the servant girl is here to greet you."

   "It's really Wen Ning." Zhao Xizhi ignored Linglan directly, and stared at Wen Ning with disdain, "A shameless, shameless girl, dare to come to this holy place? I'm not afraid of staining the eyes of the Bodhisattva!"

   "You..." Linglan didn't expect that this girl looked upright and beautiful, but when she opened her mouth, she turned out to be foul-smelling. She blushed and wanted to argue, but was held back by Wen Ning.

She has lived two lifetimes, she doesn't want to engage in these useless verbal disputes, she just said indifferently: "Miss Zhao thinks her eyes are dirty, go home quickly, if you share the same yard with me, you will have to tire Miss Zhao." reputation."

   Now it's not easy to change Zhao Xizhi.

  She went back from the teahouse that day, no matter how she thought it was wrong, since Prince Pei went to her appointment, he was willing to go into the water to save her before, so he must be interested in her! Why did you ask her to leave after asking some inexplicable fabric? And describe it as annoyed.

  After the teahouse ran out of water, I heard it from the servants. It turns out that the crux of the problem lies in that scene!

  If it wasn't for that scene, she might be waiting for the prince to come to propose marriage now, so why come to this cold mountain?

   Blame this brazen Wen's A Ning!

   "Do you think I want to? It's bad luck to see you in this place of cultivation!" Zhao Xizhi stared at Wen Ning and snorted coldly, "Let's go! Let's change the yard!"

   Just as Wen Ning wanted.

  In such a clean place, she doesn't want to live next door to Zhao Xizhi, she has to save that wing for Duan Rushuang.

  Unexpectedly, Zhao Xizhi stopped halfway, and suddenly stopped: "If you want to go, you are going to go. I am the daughter of a dignified minister. Why do you want to vacate the yard for you, the daughter of a fourth-rank official?"

   "Xiaotao, this is the room, go and bring all of Miss Ben's luggage in!"

  Wen Ning: "..."

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   Linglan was about to be **** off by Zhao Xizhi.

  As Wen Ning expected, Zhao Xizhi brought more than five followers, and in the evening, two servants came in from outside. A girl came to Qingxiu and brought seven attendants. There are many people who come to the temple for a short stay at this time of year. Naturally, she will not be given so many rooms. So the two nuns have another room, and Xiaotao is probably the companion room, and the other Four boys...

  In such a cold day, he actually spent the night directly outside the door.

  The wing room here is small, and there are two servants, but they rested directly at the door of Wen Ning's room.

  That's all, the originally small but elegant courtyard was completely occupied by Zhao Xizhi. She pretended to show off on purpose, there were tea sets and Guqin outside, and two extra tables were specially added, arranged as a chess table and a book case, and it was almost proclaimed to the world that this girl is proficient in all "qin, chess, calligraphy and painting".

  Wen Ning didn’t start until she was ten years old, and she didn’t learn any of these things that require children’s skills. The only thing she can do is the beautiful small characters and the monk’s pretty good embroidery.

  Of course, Wen Ning didn’t tell Linglan, it’s because she could only do these two things to pass the time in Pei You’s backyard in her previous life, and her kung fu is naturally better than others.

"Girl, there's no room for this embroidery frame." Linglan had never seen such a big family who treated the servants so harshly, nor had she seen such a lady who put her savagery on the surface, she said angrily, "I don't see her getting up early to chant scriptures and worship Buddha. What do you think she is doing here? Is it just for a good reputation?"

  If you can’t bask in the sun outside, you can embroider inside the house. There is a stove in the house, which is fine. Wen Ning doesn't mind this, it's just...

  Zhao Xizhi was here, and it was really noisy.

  The whole yard was filled, and I didn't see her doing anything else, so I just played the piano all day long.

  The key is the piano skill...

  Although Wen Ning doesn't know how to play the piano, she can always tell whether it's good or bad. Compared with the little concubine in Pei You's backyard, her piano skills are far behind. I'm used to listening to first-rate, but listening to her second-rate and third-rate, it's like sawing wood, it's unbearable to listen to.

  And from time to time, there will be some commotion over there, so that Wen Ning will know how beautiful and precious Zhao Xizhi is. For example, for lunch today, she insisted that the servants bring it to her room. After a while, the food was cold, but after a while, wouldn't you go to the kitchen to heat it up?

   Then there is the sound of the boy's confession.

  Wen Ning endured it for two days, but she was a little impatient, and called Linglan over: "Linglan, do you want to drive her away?"

   Linglan stared wide-eyed: "Girl, do you have a solution?"

certainly.

  Zhao Xizhi is a bit stupid, but a bit bad-minded. The biggest shortcoming is that his father is too high-ranking. It took Pei You a long time to get him out of power, and he no longer has to see Zhao Xizhi.

  As far as she is concerned, she is a pretty girl after all.

  Wen Ning asked Linglan to find a bigger cloth bag, and took her to the forest behind the mountain.

  Ling Lan was still curious, what to do in the forest to drive Zhao Xizhi away? When Wen Ning made a move, she was really startled.

  Her girl actually...caught...a snake!

  Linglan screamed in fright on the spot.

   "It's not poisonous, don't be afraid." Wen Ning threw the snake into the bag like carrying an ordinary rope.

  Wen Ning was already eleven years old when Linglan entered the mansion. She had studied with her husband for a year. She never imagined that her girl had such abilities...

  But she had actually heard a little about Wen Ning's stubbornness in the past, and followed behind tremblingly, asking, "Girl, did the eldest son and the second son teach you this?"

   "No." At that time, they were too late to play with themselves, so how could they have the patience to teach her, "Yes..."

   Fifteen-year-old Wang You taught her.

  Wen Ning paused.

  But from the bottom of her heart, she separated the Wang You at that time from the later Pei You, so she just paused and said, "It was taught by a brother who used to play together."

  Wen Ning hit another one.

  Linglan wished she could hide herself, and she still didn't forget to say: "Then he is really powerful."

   "Yes, he can catch snakes with his bare hands, he can catch hares, and he can also distinguish which of the fungi in the forest are poisonous and which are not." This is the first time Wen Ning mentioned him in front of others.

  At that time, she also thought that he was really powerful, but later she found out that he grew up in Lingnan. For him, these were all simple things.

   "Where is that son now? Why don't you see the girl dating him?" Linglan was actually trying to distract herself.

  Wen Ning was silent for a moment, and said, "Leave Beijing."

  Finally, they caught seven snakes and threw them into Zhao Xizhi's room while her party was eating vegetarian food.

  So that night, Zhao Xizhi's high-pitched screams kept coming, and at the end she was heard crying: "What the **** is this place! I can't stand it anymore! I want to go home! Let's go back home!"

  Mixed with the voice of the servant girl persuading her: "Girl, madam said that you have to live for seven days to show your sincerity..."

   "Then change the room! Change the room! There is another one!"

   Half an hour later, Zhao Xizhi disappeared completely, including people and things.

  Wen Ning and Linglan hugged the quilt and sat on the bed laughing.

   On the second day, Wen Ning followed the masters to finish the morning class, and burned incense devoutly. Finally, she was able to carry her embroidery frame to the yard again, and bask in the sun to do her embroidery work.

  Recalling the scene last night, Linglan still couldn't help laughing: "Girl, thanks to the master's reining in early, otherwise, no one can control your little wild horse!"

  Wen Ning sat in front of the embroidery frame, slowly raised her head: "You are getting more and more courageous, dare to bury me, you are not afraid... hiss..."

   Learned a few cold voices of snakes.

  The two thought of Zhao Xizhi again, looked at each other and laughed.

  On the third day of the Lunar New Year, all the dignitaries that should be seen by the Duke's Mansion are pretty much the same. Early in the morning, Pei You came out of the palace, and went to the Temple of Mercy as the eldest princess ordered.

  He used to go out lightly, this time he didn't even bring Wang Qinsheng with him, only Gu Fei. The two of them took a carriage and arrived at the foot of the mountain in half an hour.

  Someone from the Duke’s Mansion had come to arrange it earlier, and as soon as Pei You went up the mountain, a little novice would lead the way. Although it is a noble mansion, Buddhism emphasizes that all things are empty, and all those who come to purify and cultivate are treated equally. The little novice said apologetically: "This year, there are especially many pilgrims on the mountain, and there are not many rooms to choose from. Donors come with poor monks."

  The back mountain twists and turns, and there is no hole in the sky. As soon as I arrived in front of a courtyard, I heard the faint laughter like a bell.

   When entering the door, Pei You raised his eyes and saw the embroidery frame in the small courtyard.

  The girl in front of the embroidery stand was wearing a light green brocade robe, with a fur coat over it. The snow-white fox fur on the collar made her fair complexion and her cheeks rosy.

  Holding the needle in one hand, she casually dropped the other hand on the embroidery frame, twisting her body slightly, smiling happily at the person beside her.

  The courtyard is elegant and the breeze blows.

  Sunlight sprinkled on her body from top to bottom, falling into her eyes, rippling like water waves.

  (end of this chapter)