"Chen Wan, can you tell me your dream word for word?"
Yingbao: "Just tell me one."
Seeing Chen Wan's resistance, he added: "If it is reasonable, I will pay you fifty taels of silver as a reward."
Fifty taels is not a small amount. Even if Chen Zhao and Chen Wan had run the food stall for a long time, they could not save so much money.
Chen Zhao's eyes lit up and he winked at his elder sister desperately.
Yingbao is a well-known rich woman in the village. Although no one knows how much money she has, everyone knows that she is very rich. Even the matchmaker does not dare to introduce her to someone else.
If she says fifty taels, she will definitely give fifty taels.
Chen Wan looked back at her cowering mother-in-law, hesitated for a long time, and then nodded: "Come with me."
She really needed money.
I had to come here because I was short of money.
If possible, I would like to stay single for the rest of my life and live with my younger brothers and sisters until I grow old.
Unexpectedly, Yingbao was willing to pay fifty taels to buy her dream.
Chen Wan thought about it and finally agreed.
She said it was a dream, so what if I told her that strange memory
Yingbao followed Chen Wan to a secluded place and looked at her quietly.
Chen Wan felt uneasy when she looked at her, so she asked, "Why do you want to know my dream?"
"Because you said I was your sister." Yingbao said expressionlessly.
Chen Wan lowered her head.
Yingbao: "Now can you tell me why you said I was your sister?"
Chen Wan frowned, not knowing what to say.
Yingbao: "Tell me what you dreamed about from beginning to end. Don't worry, I won't tell anyone."
Seeing that Chen Wan was still hesitating, he added, "If you tell me more details, I will add another ten taels. With these sixty taels of silver, you can marry in style without having to bear the stigma of running away. You can also take your brothers and sisters to the county town, buy a small house there, and do some small business to make a living."
There are also houses worth dozens of taels in the county town, but they are remote and a bit shabby. They can still be lived in after being cleaned up.
"I'll tell you." Chen Wan finally made up her mind and said, "My dream is absurd, I hope you don't take it seriously."
Yingbao is all ears.
Chen Wan thought about it and spoke slowly.
"I often have the same dream. I dream that you are my third sister, named Yaya. When you grow up, your full name is Chen Ying. When you were six years old, your father passed the imperial examination and became a scholar, and our family went to the county town. Later, your father passed the imperial examination and became a county magistrate. Later, you...you became a great doctor when you grew up, and you saved Xiao Chengjun's father. Later, you married Xiao Chengjun..."
Yingbao listened expressionlessly. When she saw Chen Wan stop, she motioned for her to continue: "Go on."
"When you were twenty-one, you suddenly died. Xiao Chengjun, the regent, had your coffin sent back to your hometown, and ordered our whole family to return home with you."
Chen Wan's lips trembled slightly: "······The big ship carrying the coffin encountered a storm in the river·····"
Taking advantage of the storm, the angry father and mother pushed the coffin into the river.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the coffin fell into the water, a wave hit and overturned the entire boat.
She and her younger brother and sister survived the disaster and were rescued by fishermen, but her father and mother did not.
Yingbao asked: "What happened next?"
Chen Wan: "Then I woke up." She didn't want to tell Yingbao about those things, because in the dream, she and her brothers and sisters all hated her. They hated why she died suddenly, which not only implicated the family, but also killed her parents.
Yingbao smiled and said, "You are not telling the truth. I just want to hear real dreams, not these made-up ones."
Chen Wan was stunned: "You, how could you..." She did omit a lot, but how could Yingbao know that
"You didn't tell me why I have a birthmark on my wrist, omitted who I learned medical skills from, and concealed the Queen Mother's name."
These are all key.
Because Chen Wan’s dream was exactly the same as the plot in the book.
Chen Wan was stunned.
She also didn't know why the third sister in her dream knew medical skills.
Because the third sister already knew medical skills when she was brought back by her mother.
Yingbao narrowed her eyes and looked at Chen Wan: "It's just a dream. I'm just curious. I don't mean anything else. You can tell the truth."
Chen Wan gritted her teeth and said, "In my dream, you were raised by a Taoist priest since you were a child. There is a Taoist temple in Beishan called Jiuyang Temple. You grew up in the temple and were found by your mother when you were five years old. The marks on your wrist were left when you were nine years old. I don't know what happened. I didn't see them in my dream. As for the queen mother, she is my aunt's daughter, Chen Tiantian."
Yingbao smiled: "Very good. Let me ask one last question. In your dream, how old was Chen Tiantian?"
Chen Wan shook her head blankly: "I'm not sure. Later, my brothers and sisters and I lived in the countryside and had no news from the court."
"Okay." Yingbao patted Chen Wan's shoulder and took out six ingots of silver from her bag: "Here! Sixty taels, not a penny less. If you have an interesting dream next time, tell me and I will buy it with money."
Chen Wan took the silver, a little incredulous.
Yingbao actually paid money to listen to her talk about her dreams.
Isn't she afraid that I'm lying to her
After returning from Chen Wan's place, Ying Bao ran straight to Chun Niang and asked, "Mother, is there a Taoist temple in Beishan?"
Chunniang looked at her daughter in confusion: "Taoist temple? I haven't heard of it. Why don't you ask your grandfather, or ask your Grandpa Chen."
After all, the Chen family has lived here for generations.
Yingbao nodded, and ran to ask Patriarch Chen: "Grandpa Chen, was there a Taoist temple in Beishan before?"
Patriarch Chen stroked his beard and thought for a while, then said, "There was indeed a Taoist temple in Beishan, but it was burned down by a fire a long time ago."
Yingbao's eyes lit up: "What's the name of that Taoist temple?"
"It seems to be called Jiuyang Temple. I heard about it from my grandfather when I was a child. He said that the Taoist master of Jiuyang Temple in Beishan is very effective. If the elderly or children in the family have a headache or fever, they just need to go there and burn some incense. Alas, few people know about that Taoist temple now."
"Jiuyang Temple?" Yingbao frowned even more tightly.
There really is a Jiuyang Temple.
"Grandpa clan leader, do you know where the Taoist temple is?" Yingbao asked.
Chief Chen shook his head: "I don't know. But there is a Nine Sun Bee in the North Mountain, I wonder if it is there."
"Where is the Nine Sun Bee?" Ying Bao continued to ask.
"Jiuyang Peak? That's very far away. It's several miles away from Beishan." In fact, Patriarch Chen had never been there either, because the place was too remote. In the deep mountains and forests, it was said that there were wild beasts roaming there.
After coming out of the clan leader's house, Yingbao stood in the orchard for a long time.
It would be fine if she had memories of her past life, but Chen Wan also had them.
The key point is that her memory is exactly the story in the storybook in her mind.
Yingbao held her forehead with her hand.
What is going on
In order to understand the connection between Chen Wan’s memory and the story in his mind, he must go to Jiuyang Peak to take a look.
After thinking it over, Yingbao walked home.
On the way, he suddenly met a pair of messengers with red silk tied around their waists, riding their horses galloping towards him.
"Congratulations to Mr. Jiang Yuanbao for placing ninth in the provincial examination!"
The two messengers sang loudly since they entered the village, and occasionally struck the gong in their hands: "Congratulations to Mr. Jiang Yuanbao for getting the ninth place in the provincial examination!"
Yingbao was stunned and ran home quickly.