As the sun sets, the sky is filled with red clouds and a thin mist fills the world. The Linhuai Marquis Mansion also seems hazy in the sunset mist.
In the backyard of the Linhuai Marquis's mansion, the chubby little maid was dozing off with her chubby face. She would scare herself awake every three or five times. When she saw the young lady sitting at the table by the window, still copying Buddhist scriptures seriously and devoutly, she would feel at ease and startle herself again in the cycle of dozing off and waking up.
Baozi, the little maid, was really very sleepy.
Last night, the annoying Duke Wei's mansion next door set off firecrackers all night long, which scared everyone's heart out. It was so noisy that few people in the Marquis Linhuai's mansion could fall asleep, and the young lady didn't sleep all night. In the morning, the sound of firecrackers finally stopped, and the masters, young ladies, and servants in the mansion also took time to make up for last night's sleep during the day.
However, the young lady did not make up for her sleep after getting up in the morning. Apart from sending a 100-year-old Changbai Mountain ginseng to her son-in-law, she sat at the table and copied Buddhist scriptures devoutly, saying that she wanted to pray for the master and three brothers who were away. Since the young lady did not sleep, the little maid Baozi naturally could not sleep either, as she had to serve, so Baozi's little head was nodding with sleepiness.
The afterglow of setting sun shines on the window. The mist outside the window and the smoke of burning incense inside the window add a bit of hazy beauty to the beauty in front of the window. She is wearing a slim-fitting floor-length dress embroidered with plum blossoms in red silk thread, a green satin ribbon around her waist, and her black hair is combed into a bun with delicate lily pendants on the bun. She is elegant and charming, and charming and elegant.
The beautiful girl held a hairpin-shaped brush in her slender hands, her big watery eyes focused on the brush, and copied the Buddhist scriptures meticulously on the snow-white rice paper, very pious and serious.
The Sutra of the Great Compassionate and Merciful Avalokitesvara’s Wishes Come True: Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, the heart of Prajnaparamita is free, Shariputra, all dharmas are formless, the heart has something to ask for…
The Buddhist scriptures flowed out gracefully from Li Shu's pen. Lines of small calligraphy with flowers on them were like a pool of refreshing spring water from a high mountain, slowly flowing down from the foothills covered with snow lotuses, making people feel comfortable reading them.
In addition to the Buddhist scripture in his hand, there is also a thick stack of rice paper on the table, which is full of Buddhist scriptures. The words on it are all "The Sutra of Great Compassion and Great Mercy, Avalokitesvara's Wishes Come True". Every word is neatly drawn, and every sentence is neatly arranged. Every piece of paper is pleasing to the eye.
It can be seen how serious and pious Yu Ren'er was when she copied the Buddhist scriptures that day.
The beautiful girl was copying the Buddhist scriptures devoutly and seriously, her tender red lips slightly opened, and she seemed to be saying something silently. Judging from the shape of her mouth, she seemed to be reciting the scriptures silently and praying for a wish, but every time she made a wish, the last three words seemed to be "stinky toad"...
This was a habit of the ancients. In ancient times, people often copied Buddhist scriptures to pray for blessings, especially girls. They prayed for their parents, for their husbands, for... This was also influenced by Buddhism. There is a passage in the Diamond Sutra: "If there is anyone who hears this sutra and has unshakable faith, his blessings will be greater than that. What's more, writing it down, upholding it, reciting it, and explaining it to others!" In their view, copying and reciting Buddhist scriptures are blessings, which can accumulate blessings and pray. The more pious, the more effective it will be.
The girl was pious and every word touched her heart.
"Miss, Miss."
While the girl was copying seriously, there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps in the yard, accompanied by a little girl's drawn-out voice and the sound of a door suddenly opening.
The sudden sound made the girl who was writing devoutly smudge a word. The girl looked at the smudged words and couldn't help but frowned, looking coldly at the person at the door with her watery eyes.
The chubby little maid who was nodding and dozing off was also awakened by the sudden sound. Her chubby face looked as if she was frightened. She covered her rapidly beating heart with her hand and looked towards the door.
"Miss. Miss, my son-in-law is back from the exam..."
The little maid who came in was so frightened by the cold look in her mistress' eyes that she trembled all over. She almost swallowed the rest of her words back into her stomach.
However, it seemed like an illusion, the little girl trembled as she finished speaking, and she felt that her mistress's cold eyes seemed to melt all of a sudden, as if the coldness just now was just an illusion caused by her running too fast and panting.
"What, the son-in-law is back~~" The little maidservant was so excited when she heard that that all her sleepiness disappeared.
"Forget it this time, but if you are so reckless next time, you'd better be careful." Li Shu put down the brush in her hand, glanced at the girl who came in, and said lightly.
"Thank you, Miss. I won't dare to do it again." The little girl at the door wiped the cold sweat from her head and nodded repeatedly.
"Miss~~Miss~~Let's go and see our brother-in-law. I wonder how he did in the exam." The chubby little maid couldn't sit still after hearing the news that Zhu Ping'an had returned from the exam.
"Why are you in such a hurry? He can't run away..." Li Shu's beautiful eyes moved, she pouted her lips, and slowly stood up, adjusted her slender hands, and took light steps to carefully place the copied Buddhist scriptures on top of the bookshelf. Her movements were as graceful as a fairy who was not of this world, and the corner of her mouth couldn't help but curl up into a sweet smile.
The chubby little maid stuck out her tongue and blushed when she heard this.
Li Shu put away the Buddhist scriptures, washed and changed her clothes, then led the little maid Baozi, two other maids and two old maids out of the courtyard and walked towards the front yard.
The Linhuai Marquis's mansion was decorated with lanterns and flowers. Linhuai Marquis also rushed back to the mansion in the afternoon to arrange a banquet to welcome Zhu Pingan who had returned from the palace examination. When he returned to the mansion, Linhuai Marquis happened to see the naughty child playing with the little girl, digging the soil with his butt sticking up. When the naughty child turned his head and saw his father with a dark face, he was almost scared to the point of peeing his pants on the spot. Fortunately, Linhuai Marquis was only yelled at for arranging a banquet, but even so, the naughty child was scared.
Zhu Ping'an returned to Linhuai Marquis' Mansion in the evening. On the way, he chatted with Wang Shizhen and Zhang Siwei for a long time. Zhang Siwei was relatively calm, but Wang Shizhen was very excited. He kept talking about how the Emperor Jiajing was regaining his power and had the aura of a wise ruler. He said that he couldn't help but put forward ten suggestions for governing the country on the test paper. Wang Shizhen was probably still very scholarly. Zhang Siwei and Wang Shizhen's families were still staying in the capital. If they were not afraid that their families would be waiting anxiously, the two would have dragged Zhu Ping'an to chat all night.
The Linhuai Marquis's Mansion was decorated with lights and a sumptuous dinner was prepared to welcome him. Such hospitality made Zhu Ping'an a little uncomfortable after he entered the mansion.
No one cared about my ten years of hard study, but I became famous overnight. The ancients were not deceiving me. (To be continued.)