Putting on ordinary coarse cloth clothes and simple braids, Chu Zhuyu tiptoed towards the back door of the mansion at noon, when the general's mansion was at least walking around.
She carefully approached the latch of the back door with her hands, and was about to push the door out when suddenly a familiar voice exploded behind her—
"what are you doing?"
Chu Zhuyu's scalp went numb for a while, and when she looked back, it was the guy who came to sleep in her room every night.
"Aren't you a bodyguard? Why are you here?" She asked rhetorically, staring at him.
Xiao Zhizhi just put his hands around his chest and stared at Chu Zhuyu.
After being watched for a long time, she couldn't help blinking in guilt. The longer she stayed here, the more likely she was to be discovered, and she wouldn't be able to slip even if she wanted to. Thinking of this, she coughed twice and broke the silence: "I'll tell you, but you have to swear not to tell anyone else."
"Okay." He nodded in agreement.
Chu Zhuyu came close to Xiao Zhizhi's ear and said in a low voice, "I plan to sneak out."
Her breath wrapped around the tip of his nose, and the hot air she exhaled when she spoke hit his earlobe, creating a strange numbness, "Where are you going?"
"Go to the Guanyin Temple." She whispered, and after seeing the puzzled expression on his face, she quickly explained: "Today is the birthday of Guanyin Bodhisattva, I... uh, I'm a believer anyway, so naturally I want to worship the Bodhisattva. of."
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After she finished speaking, she glared at Xiao Zhizhi with the expression "You must not report".
Xiao Zhizhi pondered for a moment and then said, "Okay, but..."
"But what?"
"I want to go too."
what, isn't it? !
Until the two of them were walking on the street, Chu Zhuyu was still muttering, why is the job of guards easy now? Can you slip away easily? Thinking that she slipped out this time, she would still work hard to finish all the day's work in the morning, and then give some gagging fees to the other maids, so that she could barely manage.
On the bustling streets of Luoyang, Chu Zhuyu took a deep breath. She had been in the General's Mansion for quite a few days. When she left home, she only told her father that she was going out to buy some tea. Two blocks away from here is her teahouse. If it weren't for the fact that there was such a big living person standing beside her, she would really like to go back to the teahouse.
"What are you thinking about?" Xiao Zhizhi asked while looking at Chu Zhuyu's dazed expression. Just now, there was a touch of sadness on her face, and he didn't like seeing her like that. He likes to see her smile, not like just now, as if she is not in his grasp and will leave at any time.
"It's nothing." She shook her head, and took him to rent a carriage and rushed to the Guanyin Temple.
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This Guanyin Temple is already flourishing with incense at this moment, and it is crowded with people. Chu Zhuyu pulled Xiao Zhizhi and drilled hard into the crowd. It was time for a cup of tea, but before she approached the main entrance of the temple, Chu Zhuyu was already sweating profusely.
"It's really tiring, I didn't expect so many people." She wiped her brow sweating profusely, but was surprised to find that he was beside him, his face was not blushing, he was not breathing, and there was not a single drop of sweat on his forehead, "Why aren't you sweating? ?"
"Is that weird?" he asked rhetorically.
This... Maybe it's because everyone's physique is different. Chu Zhuyu took another look at the crowded temple entrance and couldn't help sighing, "There are so many people, I don't know when they will be able to squeeze in."
"You really want to go in?" He bent down slightly to look at her.
"Of course, I came here to worship Guanyin, how can I worship if I don't go in?" Especially today, on the birthday of Guanyin, it is said that worshiping Guanyin to have a child will be particularly effective. Thinking of this, Chu Zhuyu's round pink cheeks couldn't help but turn red.
"It's actually very easy to get in," he murmured.
"Simple?"
"Yes, it's like this." Xiao Zhizhi said, he straightened up, moved slightly, and then shuttled through the crowd.
Chu Zhuyu blinked, and her mouth gradually opened wider. The black figure was like a gust of wind, and wherever he passed, those people stopped moving, as if they were immobilized.
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No, not as if! It's just been pinned down.
Then, she saw him standing at the gate of the temple, and smiled at her: "Now, it's easier to enter the temple."
This is not an easy problem at all, but... Chu Zhuyu looked at the crowd of people whose acupoints had been tapped, and suddenly felt that she knew too little about Jueqing, "Quickly put these people out. The acupuncture points are unlocked!" She rushed forward.
"Do you really want to solve it?"
"Of course. If you don't understand it, there will be a big commotion!" Thinking of hundreds of people who had been acupointed and stood at the entrance of the temple, if the government knew about it, it would be fine!
"So what?" He said indifferently.
"Anyway, you got rid of everyone's acupuncture points right away." She puffed out her cheeks angrily.
"Are you angry?" He stared at her expression, puzzled.
Chu Zhuyu nodded vigorously.
"I did what you thought, why are you angry?" She wanted to enter the temple quickly, so he tapped all the people around her so that she wouldn't have to crowd with other people, but why, her face But he didn't have the happy expression he wanted
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"Martial arts are not used to do this!" Chu Zhuyu intends to "educate" the other party to prevent him from doing more outrageous things in the future, "Your martial arts may be good, but you can't use martial arts just for your own convenience. , and hurt others." Although... uh, he seemed to do it for her convenience.
Xiao Zhizhi lowered his head slightly, looking at Chu Zhuyu's serious expression. No one has ever said such a thing to him. Maybe in their eyes, he is terrible, someone who can decide the life and death of others with a wave of his hand, so in front of him, most people are timid.
There are very few people in the world who are not afraid of him.
Unexpectedly, she was one of them. Jewels, his jewels and jewels...
"I like that you talk to me like that," he said abruptly.
"Huh?" Chu Zhuyu was stunned, her spittle flew for a long time, he didn't start to reflect on repentance, but such a sentence flew from the sky.
"You're not afraid of me, that's fine." His fingertips slid lightly across her cheek.
And she was stunned, just because the temperature of his fingertips made her feel hot, which made her face red.
Although Xiao Zhizhi did not delay for a long time, he solved the acupoints of those people, but the commotion was inevitable, so Chu Zhuyu could only drag Xiao Zhizhi and slipped into the temple as soon as possible.
Fortunately, many people in the temple did not know what happened outside the temple just now, so the two of them squeezed safely in front of the Guanyin statue.
The lacquered Guanyin statue stood quietly on the platform a few feet square. No matter how noisy the surroundings were, Guanyin still maintained his (her) quiet appearance. The words kind, dignified, and elegant can all be used in Guanyin, and the slightly raised corners of his mouth reveal a smile that frees the world from suffering.
Chu Zhuyu let go of the hand that had been holding Xiao Zhizhi, knelt down in front of the Avalokitesvara statue reverently, and murmured: "Believe in the girl Zhuyu, I beg the merciful and compassionate Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva to give me a child, and I will take care of myself. It is the mother's responsibility to teach the child well..." The child, a child, has a child with her surname, then the teahouse can be saved, and the father can enjoy his old age.
After praying for a long time, he took out another piece of silver to add incense to the temple, and Chu Zhuyu reluctantly walked out of the Guanyin Temple with Xiao Zhizhi.
After leaving the Guanyin Temple, Chu Zhuyu was thinking about how to have a baby quickly, while Xiao Zhizhi looked gloomy and uncertain.
He looked at the side where she had been contemplating, and suddenly asked, "You came to the temple to ask for a child?"
"Ah?!" Chu Zhuyu was startled, and only felt that his mind was blank. After a while, he said, "You overheard what I said to the Bodhisattva?"
"no."
"Then how did you know?"
"I have studied martial arts." In other words, his hearing is much sharper than that of ordinary people.
Chu Zhuyu bit her lip angrily, "Then you hear it, but you are not allowed to tell others." After all, she is still an unmarried woman. But think about it carefully, if she is really pregnant with the child of a strange man, I am afraid she will not be able to marry in her life.
About marriage, about husband, she is not without fantasies. Every time she heard stories about love being told by the storytellers in the teahouse, she would listen to it with great interest. But... can she really marry
Uncle and cousin came to the house to make trouble, so she had to find a man to join the Chu family, but when she couldn't find a candidate, she thought of such a solution.
How many people can afford to have children out of wedlock? Maybe, when she is really pregnant with the child, she can tell the people around her that the father of the child was met when she went out to have tea. Killed, she can only escape back to Luoyang with the child in her belly. This statement should be accepted by most people. After all, there are internal and external troubles in the imperial court, there are invasions from some grassland tribes outside, and there are bandits and bandits inside.
Chu Zhuyu's contemplation made Xiao Zhizhi's complexion darker, "What are you thinking? Say it!"
The commanding tone made her frown, "I don't need to tell you what I'm thinking."
"Are you thinking of the child's father?" He lowered his body, almost wrapping her in his arms. He didn't like her expression of concentrating on things just now, as if it was a space he couldn't touch. He wants what she wants, and all he wants is him!
When did this desire start? he does not know. But he knew that he couldn't restrain this desire, and he didn't want to restrain himself.
Chu Zhuyu guiltily avoided the sight of the other party. To a certain extent, what she thought just now was indeed related to the child's father.
"I don't allow it!" The breath on the tip of his nose suddenly thickened.
"Hey, why don't you allow it?" She just wanted to get out of his arms, but after seeing a figure not far away, she quickly shrank in his arms obediently.
Walking slowly from the front, it was Chu Zhuyu's cousin Chu Mucai and his friends.
Only Chu Mu looked towards the direction where Chu Zhuyu was standing, with suspicion in his eyes.
"Brother Chu, what's wrong?" a friend asked.
"I seem to have seen my cousin." Chu Mucai said, just now, he saw the woman in front of him huddled in the arms of this tall man, with an impressive face like Chu Zhuyu.
"Your cousin, didn't she say she went to Yanzhou for tea."
"That's what I said, but..." Chu Mucai still decided to find out, so he walked towards Chu Zhuyu, intending to take a look at the woman's face.
Chu Zhuyu lowered her head, and when she heard that the footsteps were getting closer, she only complained in her heart.
If the cousin found out that not only did she not go to the tea, but she was also a maid in the General's Mansion, I'm afraid it would not be so easy.
"Absolutely... absolutely clear." She called out to Xiao Zhizhi softly.
"Uh?"
"You hold me, in short, don't let that person see my face." Her hands were wrapped around his waist, her head was buried in his chest, and her cheeks were only pressed against his black shirt.
His heart skipped a beat, and he only felt that the fragrance emanating from her body made him a little sullen.
The height of Xiao Zhizhi's bracelet was only as high as his chin. The tip of his nose lightly rubbed against the hair on top of her head, smelling her special scent.
Chu Zhuyu's face flushed red. But this time, she couldn't care about it.
"This young lady, in Luoyang Chu Mucai, the young lady looks a bit like an old friend, I wonder if I can let the next one take a look?" Chu Mucai's voice sounded.
Chu Zhuyu shook her head buried in Xiao Zhizhi's arms a few times, but it made Chu Mucai even more suspicious, "This lady, please..."
"Go away." A faint voice came out of Xiao Zhizhi's mouth, and only then did Chu Mu notice the man who had been hugging his suspect.
This look made his eyes widen. This kind of eyebrows, this temperament, as long as he has no dazzling eyes, only one person will have it!
The saliva in the throat suddenly increased sharply, and Chu Mu stared at Xiao Zhizhi for a long time, before sweating profusely, he planned to speak: "Xiao..."
"Go away. Don't make me say it again." Xiao Zhizhi said displeased.
"Yes, yes, yes, Xiaguan will leave immediately." Chu Mucai only hated that he didn't have long legs. The general, who has never been attracted to women, is now holding a woman. This is obviously a secret, but he accidentally bumped into it. If this general Xiao is not happy, his head will fall at any time.
In this compartment, Chu Mu ran very fast, while in the other compartment, Chu Zhuyu was still secretly doubtful, thinking that her cousin was bullying the soft and afraid of the hard, and as long as others spoke fiercely, they would flee in despair.
She didn't know what this Chu Mucai was really afraid of.