"..."
a month later...
Ignore it this month, and the next month, people will come back from Yunling.
Ming Shao: "..."
The skill of her girl's nonsense is really growing day by day.
Sweet honey was smeared on his mouth, and there were so many ghosts in his heart.
It's just that even a maid like her can hear the careful thoughts hidden in her words, how could the master not hear it
But Fourth Master Jiang didn't say anything, and looked at Jiang Rao for a while with a half-smile.
I don't know if he understood Jiang Rao's words and gave her room to hide, but in the end he just sighed three times, "That's all that's all" and waved his hands before turning and leaving.
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The heavy white rain connected the sky and the earth together. He raised his feet and walked down the steps, walked into the bottom of the black umbrella supported by the servants in the corridor, turned his head slightly, put his hands behind his back, and said dotingly, "It's up to you meaning."
…
After the rain, the sky cleared up, and the sky in the afternoon was as clean as a brand new mirror.
Jiang Rao's yard received two things.
The same is the golden mynah she gave to Concubine Yun.
That mynah went to Shuxiang Palace and got the name "Little Fugui". Unfortunately, he didn't get along well with Pomegranate. The cat and the bird hated each other and wanted to kill each other to become the boss. In just a few days After tossing Shuxiang Palace full of fallen bird feathers and cat fur, Concubine Yun Gui brought back this little Fugui who dared to be fierce in front of natural enemies and "a bird never bows its head under the eaves".
Without Xiaofugui, Shiliu's status as a pet is not threatened, and she has settled down again, becoming the lazy cat in Shuxiang Palace who only loves to catch mice and not to tease birds.
Xiao Fugui liked Jiang Rao very much, and after returning to Jiang Rao's side, he became obedient, and looked like a good bird.
It's a safe place for everyone.
Another thing Jiang Rao received in the yard was a flower note from Hu Tang, inviting her to see flowers near the Sanqing Temple tomorrow.
The next day, outside the Sanqing Temple, by the lotus pond.
In the lotus pond at the end of August, the lotus has reached the end of its flowering period. There are no leaves but no flowers in the pond.
Hu Tang is hyperactive by nature, and he was not the type to calm down and enjoy the flowers, so he asked Jiang Rao to come out for the reason of viewing the flowers, but he just wanted to spend more time with Jiang Rao. She had no friends in Jinling, and after her sister went north, she didn't even have anyone to talk to.
Hu Tang was very concerned about his new friends. When he first arrived at the lotus pond, he looked at the lotus leaves with his face in his hands, and he was more serious than worshiping a Bodhisattva.
It's a pity that she only pretended to be a lady for half an hour before revealing her secrets. Not long after, she was lying on the side of the railing as if she had been beaten, her back limp.
She remembered that other girls invited their close friends out to chat. But all she has in her stomach is the moves of dancing knives and guns, and she is afraid that if she talks about these boring things with Jiang Rao, next time she will stop taking her flowers and not going out with her, and she will say nothing if she wants to talk , Weary and unable to cheer up.
From the moment Jiang Rao got off the carriage, she saw that Hu Tang was wearing a well-groomed light pink dress, with eyebrows drawn and makeup, and her hair tied like a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl should be, not like a girl. She just got things done so casually before, but she felt that she was very abnormal today.
She saw her hands and feet bound now, tugging at her sleeves, and tugging at the front of her skirt. She was a little puzzled, and tried to ask her, "Is your dress a little unfit, do you want to change it..."
"Change!" Hu Tang seemed like a fish that had been out of the shore for a long time and finally got back into the water. He rushed back to the carriage and changed back to her nondescript outfit, only to feel that the whole person seemed to be alive again.
Jiang Rao looked at her radiant complexion, and thought it was right. She looked curiously at the shiny little bell on her wrist, "Why do you always have a bell on your wrist?"
"This bell is tied to my hand by my mother. If I dare to take it off, she will punish me with family law. Once the bell rings, she will know where I am."
Hu Tang fiddled with the bell on the bracelet twice, and it jingled. She was a little sad, and sighed, "I won't pretend to be a lady in front of you from now on. I really can't be a lady."
"Then don't look at flowers." Considering Hu Tang's temper, he probably doesn't like to look at flowers, Jiang Rao asked her, "Where do you usually like to go?"
"Martial arts field."
Jiang Rao was stunned for a while.
Seeing Jiang Rao's dazed face, Hu Tang couldn't help but want to pinch her.
She thought about her first acquaintance's sense of propriety and said with a smile, "Don't worry, I won't take you to that kind of place where there are many stinky men. I really can't go in to see flowers. I heard that you can ask for lottery in Sanqing Temple. Shall we donate some incense and just sign the document?"
Jiang Rao nodded.
The Sanqing Temple was built on the Qingyun Peak in the north of the city. There are eminent monks of high virtue and prestige in the temple as presiders, and the incense burns continuously throughout the year.
The monk who was sweeping the fallen leaves in front of the steps saw Jiang Rao and Hu Tang approaching, and bowed politely, "I have seen the two benefactors."
After the monk walked away, Hu Tang asked Jiang Rao, "Why do I think that monk just now seems to recognize you?"
Jiang Rao thought for a while, then slowly said: "My family returned to Jinling at the beginning of the year. After returning, I will come to donate incense every other month. The monk may have recognized me."
Hu Tang pursed her lips, a little frustrated, "So you come here more often than me."
Originally, she was thinking that Jiang Rao had just returned to Jinling for less than a year, and hadn't spent the New Year in Jinling. The Sanqing Temple was the busiest time when the New Year was approaching, and she probably hadn't been to Sanqing Temple yet. She just wanted to take her for a stroll and get acquainted with her.
Who would have thought that she had already been here
Then she would be a bit redundant.
Hu Tang was not very happy, Jiang Rao noticed her loss, her eyes moved slightly, and she smiled, "But I am busy with the shop, so I don't have time to come here by myself, I just ask the maid to donate incense."
She took Hu Tang's arm and begged softly, "This is my first time here, can you show me around?"
How could Hu Tang resist such a gentle and gentle little beauty acting like a baby to her, not to mention that what Jiang Rao said hit her heart, how could she not agree, she nodded hurriedly, the frustration just now disappeared, and she pulled excitedly Jiang Rao went to the merit box to donate incense.
Jiang Rao didn't believe in gods and Buddhas that much before, but after so many dreams, it's different.
She didn't know who was protecting her in the dark, no matter which temple or Taoist temple she went to, she had to donate some incense money to feel at ease.
When kneeling on the futon, I begged my parents to be healthy, and I begged my younger brother to grow up safely.
After asking for these two things before, she stopped being greedy and asking too much, but today she became greedy.
She put her hands together and kowtowed to the Bodhisattva again.
—I hope that the next month will be sunny and clear, without wind or rain. I hope the plank road is easy to repair, and His Royal Highness the Ninth Prince is safe and sound.
Walking out of the temple where the Bodhisattva is enshrined, outside, the blue sky after a rain is bright and blue.
Changfeng thousands of miles, send bless to you.
Jiang Rao was in a good mood, with a smile on her lips. Hu Tang followed her, looked sideways at her smiling face, and muttered, "I really envy Mr. Pei."
"Lord Pei?"
"Yes, aren't you going to marry him in the future?"
The smile on Jiang Rao's face sank immediately, and she asked seriously, "Who said that?"
Hu Tang widened his eyes in surprise, "The whole Jinling is saying that, you... don't you know?"
Jiang Rao frowned, "No one ever said that in front of me."
After being told by Hu Tang in this way, she thought about how she always met Pei Songyu in the mansion in recent days, and her heart was agitated, and she felt more and more bad.
It was all set by her father.
After returning home, she took a careful look around, saw Pei Songyu's carriage outside the alley, and rubbed her forehead with a headache.
She could guess what her father was thinking. He didn't want to force her, but also wanted her to marry someone he thought was suitable, so after he took a fancy to Pei Songyu, he deliberately created opportunities for the two of them to get along.
But she only regarded Pei Songyu as an ordinary distant cousin.
Jiang Rao raised her foot and walked west after entering the mansion.
She deliberately walked the way she didn't usually take, trying to avoid Pei Songyu.
But even if he hid on purpose, he still met him at the corner of a corridor.
Jiang Rao glanced at the man in front of her who was taller than her by a head, but lowered his head, looking a little annoyed.
Why didn't you hide
She glanced at Ming Shao behind her.
Ming Shao was waiting to see her girl greet Mr. Pei with a smile on her lips, but when Jiang Rao glanced at her, she immediately put away her smile and grabbed the hem of her clothes with her fingers.
Jiang Rao's eyes fell on the small movements of embarrassment.
Jiang Rao instantly understood why she ran into Pei Songyu even though she took a different route.
She gave Ming Shao a "go back and clean you up" look.
Then he looked at Pei Songyu, "Master Pei."
This address is no more intimate than "cousin", revealing a sense of alienation and politeness. The gentle smile on Pei Songyu's face became lighter, the corners of his lips were slightly straightened, and he shook his head slightly, "Cousin."
Jiang Rao pretended not to understand the hint in his words, she said softly: "I have something to say to Mr. Pei, can I ask Mr. Pei to go to the gazebo over there?"
She originally wanted to hide, but she bumped into each other, and she couldn't dodge.
After all, you can hide for a while, but you can't hide for a lifetime.
Along the way, Pei Songyu walked beside Jiang Rao, as if he was using his tall figure to shield the little girl next to him from the scorching afternoon sun.
Jiang Rao walked a few steps faster, stepped out of his protection, and entered the gazebo.
After Pei Songyu was seated, she said straight to the point, "Recently there are some rumors in Beijing that you and I will make a pair. I wonder if Mr. Pei has heard of it?"
Pei Songyu looked up at her with deep eyes, neither nodded nor shook his head.
When he first met her, he thought that he would not like this kind of girl who was raised by a rich family and grew up pampered.
Too squeamish.
He lowered his eyes, "I call you cousin, and you call me Mr. Pei, it's too extravagant."
After being clearly pointed out by him, Jiang Rao followed the good advice and changed his address, "Cousin."
But her frank and clear gaze remained unchanged, "I have no intentions for my cousin, these rumors are detrimental to the reputation of both of you and me, we can't let them go any longer."
After she finished speaking, she felt as if a huge rock had been unloaded in her heart.
She was afraid that Pei Songyu would take the rumors seriously.
She appreciates this cousin, but it's not that she likes it. She can't let him misunderstand her, what if it delays her good marriage with him
Speaking of this, even if Pei Songyu felt that she was thinking too much on her own, she felt at ease.
Jiang Rao achieved his goal and left here.
She spoke too directly, Pei Songyu's hand under the table was slightly tensed, and shadows fell in his eyes.
After a while, he looked up at the direction Jiang Rao left.
He smiled wryly.
"What if I want to?"
…
Ming Shao followed behind Jiang Rao, lowered her head sullenly, "Girl, have you ever thought about it, Mr. Pei may... have interest in you?"
"But I have no intention."
After hearing Ming Shao's words, Jiang Rao frowned, "If he wanted to, I should have said it earlier."
Ming Shao: "..."
A girl like Mr. Pei can't be tempted. Girl's heart is not really made of stone, is it
Ming Shao felt a little disappointed, the girl and Mr. Pei stood together, the picture was really beautiful, it would be a pity if the marriage could not be completed.
Fearing that Jiang Rao was just late in enlightening her mind, she didn't think about it for the time being, Ming Shao said, "Girl, you should talk later, in case you regret it when Master Pei makes an engagement with someone else..."
Jiang Rao didn't care, "If he is engaged, I will definitely give him a good gift. After all, it's my cousin marrying his sister-in-law, so I can't embarrass him and lose my pomp."
Ming Shao still wanted to persuade her, but Jiang Rao was tired and didn't want to mention this matter anymore, so she stopped.
She pretended to be cold and looked at Ming Shao ferociously, "I haven't settled with you yet, you should send someone a message and tell me where the account is settled."
Ming Shao immediately shrank her head like a quail, and lowered her head.
Jiang Rao didn't really want to punish her, she knew that Ming Shao was always doing it for her own good, but saying "for your own good" often made people feel breathless, whether it was good or bad, obviously She has the final say, like a fish drinking water, everyone has their own priorities and concerns
She pretended to scare her a bit, but when she saw Ming Shao bowed her head, she turned around and continued walking.
In her hand, she was holding the signature that she had just asked for from the temple - "The front edge is not broken and the fate is predestined, and the fate is natural."
Hu Tang also asked for a signature at that time, and signed a letter: "Cicadas guard the laurel in the cold, and the vines grow in the autumn water."
Jiang Rao saw that Hu Tang's signatures seemed to be bad, so she simply didn't ask anyone to find out whether their signatures were good or bad.
…
In a blink of an eye, seven days had passed since the day the officials who supervised Yunling left for work.
The backyard of the grain shop.
Hu Tang sat beside Jiang Rao with his legs crossed, looking at her fingers fiddling with the beads of the abacus, with an envious expression on his face, "If I can also settle accounts like yours, I will definitely be able to get rid of the one in the house." The stern and stern teacher has resigned, and she is too fierce."
Jiang Rao smiled lightly.
Her smile was much weaker than usual, and she didn't even show the dimples on her cheeks, almost as if she wasn't smiling. Hu Tang could see the difference in her expression, "Niannian, are you a little unhappy? ah?"
Jiang Rao stopped holding the abacus hand for a moment, then muttered to finish the accounts at hand, put the abacus aside, looked up at Hu Tang, "Is there any?"
She blinked slowly, her eyes were a little dry, and rubbed her eyes.
"You look like you haven't slept well."
Jiang Rao put down her hands rubbing her eyes, and said "uh", "some of them didn't sleep well."
She didn't continue to dream in the past few nights, but she wanted to know what happened to Yunling, so she deliberately let herself fall asleep. Who knew that she slept a lot during the day, so she couldn't fall asleep at night, so she got up and talked with her under the moonlight Little Fugui and big eyes meet small eyes.
"What's bothering you so much?"
Hu Tang took her hand, "Could it be that I said something wrong last time and misunderstood the matter between you and your cousin, and you are still angry with me?"
Jiang Rao shook his head, "No."
What should she say.
Ever since Rongting went to Yunling, her heart has always been empty.
After autumn came, her two grain stores had new goods, and she had to clear the accounts, and she had to find a way to clear the backlog of goods in the other two stores. just have to go...
She has gradually integrated into Jinling's circle, obviously there are many things to do, but since she can't see Rong Ting, she can't be like before, she knows his big and small things, she feels like there is something wrong Do the same, feel uneasy.
"I want to know what the plank road over there at Yunling looks like."
Jiang Rao said softly.
But before the plank road over there was repaired, it was not easy to send letters there.
She looked sad, Hu Tang raised his eyebrows, and asked straightforwardly, "Since you want to know, why don't you go directly?"
Jiang Rao: "Huh?"