There was a knock on the door outside the courtyard.
"Come, come." Yuan Xianger trotted all the way through the sycamore tree in the courtyard, opened the courtyard door and stuck out her head.
I saw a mighty team of people outside the door. There were many followers of the colorful glazed incense chariot. The owner of the chariot wore a round-neck brocade gown and a light gauze hat. He was obviously a child of a wealthy family. But he put down his body, let the servant wait behind him, and knocked on the door in person.
"Excuse me, is Mr. Nature at home?" The guest saluted with his hands crossed and spoke respectfully. He looks very young, and his appearance is also Zhou Zheng, but there is a large bruise on the left eye socket, as if someone had punched his fist fiercely, which is a bit funny.
Another person came all the way to ask Master for help.
Yuan Xianger: "My husband has gone away, and he hasn't come back for many years."
"Sir isn't at home? Oh, how could it be good?" The guest rubbed his hands back and forth, and asked again, "Do you know when your husband will be back?"
Yuan Xianger shook her head.
It has been seven years since Master suddenly disappeared that year. Yuan Xianger has grown from a pea-like baby to a girl of sixteen or seventeen, and she has never seen Master again. Although it has been so long, there are still people who do not know the situation from time to time, and they come over from far away to seek the help of the master. Unfortunately, they are also destined to return only disappointed.
Yuan Xianger was seeing off the guests behind closed doors, when she saw Shi Niang returning from the market side by side with the aunt of the Chen family who was diagonally opposite the door. He hurriedly opened the door to welcome the wife into the house.
"Today, I saw chicks for sale at the market. They were very cute, so I bought two more." Yunniang lifted up the corner of the cloth that covered the basket, revealing two balls of yellow fur that swayed slightly, "Keep them in the In the yard, okay?"
When the master just left, the goblins living in the courtyard disappeared at the same time, and the sudden silence made people very uncomfortable. Perhaps the mistress also felt the silence, so she kept a lot of cats and dogs, chickens and ducks in the yard, and finally made the empty courtyard chatter and livelier again.
Aunt Chen saw Yuan Xianger come out to open the door, and came over to hold Xianger's hand affectionately and looked up and down. This little apprentice of Mr. Yu's family looked very ordinary when he was a child, and then he probably got immortal in his house. , is getting more and more beautiful every year, and he is also cheerful in his life. Even if he sees it, he likes it very much. It is no wonder that the boss of the family, Tie Niu, is thinking about it all day long.
So she patted Yuan Xiang'er's hand and said warmly, "Oh, what a fragrance, my aunt was just telling your wife that such a good girl can't be cheapened by any stinky boy who doesn't know the details in the future. Find a good family nearby, and it will be cheaper for you to take care of your wife in the future."
Yuan Xiang'er gave her a generous smile, and took her sister's hand into the door.
The guest who was about to leave saw Yunniang, looked at her suspiciously for a moment, and stepped back with a few strides, "Is this Lady Yun? The villain is Zhou Sheng, does the lady still remember the villain? Fifteen years ago , Mr. and Mrs. passed through Dongting Lake all the way, and once saved the life of a villain."
Yun Niang looked at him and thought about it for a long time, then suddenly remembered, covered her mouth with her sleeves and said in surprise, "So it was you. Back then, you were just a child under ten years old.
Zhou Sheng greeted him again and again, "The lady is the same as before, I never thought that the lady still remembers the villain. At that time, I was fortunate to have my husband's moral detachment and saved the villain's life. The villain has always been thinking about the kindness of Mr. Forget it. I found the benefactor's immortal site with all kinds of troubles, and I came to pay a special visit."
Yun Niang then let people into the yard, and did not enter the house, but only took a seat on the stone table under the plane tree.
That Zhou Sheng was very restrained in front of Yun Niang.
The two talked about the past, and Yuan Xianger listened to it, knowing that this man named Zhou Sheng had suffered a serious illness when he was young. His parents had sought famous doctors, but the medicine stone was ineffective, and he was about to prepare for a funeral. Thanks to Mr. Nature and his wife, who passed by here when they traveled around, they came to the rescue and survived the disaster.
Fifteen years later, the ten-year-old child at that time had already started a family and married a wife. The ancestor of the Zhou family used to be an official, and he left behind a shadow, and his family was well-off. The days were going well. It's a pity that a few months ago, his wife Lin suddenly got hypochondriac for some reason. She spoke vulgarly and swears wildly. She claimed that she was not a woman, but a general stationed at the border. Knocked him out of the bedroom.
Over the past few months, the Zhou family has asked God to ask, and the tossing has made the family jump around. Not only did it not work, but it made the Lin family even more irritable. Now there is nothing to do, Zhou Sheng can only tie his wife to the room with iron ropes, and dare not enter the body when he is idle, and his life is really miserable.
"This is really... an anecdote, but unfortunately I don't know anything about it, and I can't help you." Yunniang comforted him and said, "This world is big, there are many capable people, and there are many people who are far better than my husband. You are here. No matter how many parties are searched, there must be a solution.”
Yuan Xiang'er added a sentence from the side: "If it really can't be solved, you ask her what her last name is and where she lives. If it's correct, just let her go on her own, why should she be tied up at home."
Zhou Sheng sighed: "I asked, but he didn't want to say it clearly, saying that he was ashamed of seeing relatives and friends as a woman. Besides, Zhuojing is a lady who was hired and married in the next three media six, a serious husband and wife, if they can easily let go Did she leave?"
He looked at Yuan Xiang'er quietly, and saw that this girl had a blue cloud on her temples, a crescent moon on her eyebrows, and an unusual look. She knew that she was not an ordinary person. I can't help but secretly regret that I heard that this is the only disciple of Mr. Natural, but unfortunately it is a young female disciple. If it is a man, how can I invite him, as long as one or two of the true biography of Mr. a hope.
Zhou Sheng left in disappointment, leaving behind an ordinary-looking red lacquered wooden box as Xie Yi.
Yuan Xianger pushed open the box, and saw a few small squares inside, neatly arranged with gold bars, silver ingots, pearls and jade jewelry.
Yun Niang glanced at it, but she didn't take it seriously. She was happy to build a new chicken coop for the chicks she brought back. It seems that a box of gold and silver jewelry is not as important as two fluffy yellow chicks in her hand. , and only casually asked Yuan Xianger to put it in the warehouse.
There is a small room in the house that serves as a warehouse, and it is filled with boxes of similar sizes, all of which were sent by Xie Yi from those who had come to get Master's help. Yu Yao piled them together at random, never sorting them, resulting in a mess that didn't even have a place for a pin.
Yuan Xiang'er put the small box in, looking at the thin copper lock on the door of the warehouse, which was not very useful.
When the husband was there, the house looked ordinary, but there were various monsters and monsters stationed in the open and secret, which made him feel very safe.
Now that the master is not at home, there is such a room of gold and silver in the house. Two or three little thieves come casually. Losing money is a trivial matter.
Yuan Xianger touched her chin and wondered if she should also try to contract a few apostles after practicing Taoism for many years. You don't have to steal fat, a big monster like Xiqu. As long as an ordinary little demon with a little mana can take care of the home and nursing home when he is out.
After Master left, Mistress was not as troubled and unhappy as Yuan Xianger thought. She swept away the tranquility of the past, and instead lived a very down-to-earth life. Enjoy every little thing.
Ever since she recovered, she has been giving Yuan Xianger half an hour of lessons every day within her ability as before. The content of the course started from the initial literacy and hyphenation, and gradually involved all aspects such as Danqing melody, flower art, tea ceremony and so on.
In the early years, Yuan Xiang'er often took Yun Niang's hand and asked where Master went and when he would come back.
Yun Niang would always crouch down and pat her head: "I don't know where he went or when he will come back, but I believe he will come back one day. All we can do is live our lives. Well, live happily every day, and when your master comes back, you will feel happy when you see it."
So Yuan Xianger began to silently practice the techniques taught to her by her master, help her mistress to do some household chores, and wait for her master to come back together. She secretly had an idea in her heart that if the master encountered some difficulties, he would be able to really help him if he learned something by himself.
Compared with the mysterious Taoism of the master, the mistress is just an ordinary person. She can neither see those monsters and monsters who hide their bodies, nor can she practice strange arts. But after being with each other for so many years, in Yuan Xiang'er's heart, she is an existence that she respects and admires just like her master.
It is not the same as those women living in the neighborhood. In this society where the popularity of culture is not high, although the wife is a woman, she is not only familiar with the history and poetry, but also proficient in various rituals and arts. Inadvertently revealing her temperament, Yuan Xianger often doubts in her heart that her mistress must be a lady from a prestigious family. Maybe she and her master have a frightening dream in the garden and the past of Hong Fuye running away, so she lives in this small town incognito. on the child.
She had just locked the door of the warehouse here, when she heard the sound of inquiries coming from the courtyard door outside.
"Is Mr. Nature at home?"
The mistress outside promised to open the door.
It has been many years since Master left home, and people from the nearby ten miles and eight townships have long stopped coming to the door. Only occasionally people from far away who don't know what's going on come here.
Why are so many people here today
Yuan Xiang'er felt strange in her heart, patted the dust on the front of her clothes, walked out without haste, stretched her head and glanced in the direction of the courtyard gate.
At that glance, her heart suddenly tightened, and cold hairs stood on her back.
There was a woman standing outside the open courtyard door. She applied Zhufen, swept Emei, had gold flowers on her temples, and a jade ring tied around her waist. She was a beautifully dressed beauty. But such a beauty was standing brightly outside the gate, Yun Niang seemed not to see it, she stuck her head out and looked around,
"Strange, I heard someone knocking on the door," she said suspiciously.
The woman squinted her phoenix eyes, tilted her head and looked at Yun Niang who was unaware.
Yuan Xianger ran across the yard, grabbed Yunniang's arm, pushed her behind her, and slammed the door shut.
"What's wrong with Xiang'er?" Yun Niang asked strangely, "I seemed to hear a knock on the door just now, and the strange thing is that it's gone again."
Yuan Xianger stared at the closed door, and quietly clamped a yellow talisman between her fingers.
The woman outside the door was still asking, "Is Mr. Nature at home? Is Mr. Nature at home?"
After a while, when no one opened the door, the sound finally slowly disappeared.
Yuan Xianger covered her pounding heart and breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, she didn't dare to come in yet.
Although the master has been away for many years, the yard always has the master's breath, and most of the monsters usually never come near this yard.
I don't know if the master has been away for a long time, and the breath has faded, and now the monsters dare to knock directly at the door.
She really should find herself an apostle, Yuan Xianger thought to herself.