"really?"
Duan Tingxuan swallowed, and there was a bit of nervousness in his voice. Su Nuannuan gave him a strange look, and whispered: "Do I have to lie to you? What's the matter? Is there something I don't know about it? Uh! Could it be that they made the fairy descend themselves? Do you want to play tricks like Han Gaozu's killing of the white snake in order to buy people's hearts?"
"I don't expect them to be able to deal with such a big scene. But there is one thing you must not know." Duan Tingxuan lowered his voice even more when he said this, and then said word by word: "I still remember that white stone Is it? The place where I picked it up was opposite the mountain where the gods descended."
"Baishi?" Su Nuannuan was puzzled, but immediately remembered that it was said that it was a clue left by Long Pingzhang before his death, but she, Duan Tingxuan and Su Donglou didn't get it out. Did Duan Tingxuan have an idea today? Thinking of this, she also became excited, and quickly whispered: "What? You found out the secret of Baishi? Could it be related to today's immortal descending?"
"I just have an idea, but I don't know if it's right." Duan Tingxuan rubbed his chin, thought for a while, and then said softly: "In the distance, there is a slanting stone path in the cold mountain, and there are people in the depths of the white clouds. Stop and sit in the maple forest at night, and the frost leaves are red in the sky. February flower."
At this moment, Su Nuannuan also understood, her eyes flashed, and she murmured: "Yes, could it be that the key is not this poem, but the second sentence of this poem, there is someone in the depths of the white clouds? The god descended Are there any key figures living in the mountains?"
"You also immediately thought of this?" Duan Tingxuan's face became more excited, and he put the chopped scallions on the plate. Seeing that Su Nuannuan picked up a few more eggs for him to stir, he stirred the eggs while He approached his wife and whispered: "I could see clearly at that place. Most of the mountains on the opposite side are full of maple trees. It's ridiculous that I claim to be smart. I didn't pay attention to such a huge clue. I ignored it. I know that Pingzhang is not good at this way, and every time he sets the answer to the riddle, it must be the simplest and easy to understand. I still have to think about the complicated place. Now it seems that his Baishi is clearly telling Me, stop and sit in Fenglin, there is a family in the depths of the white clouds. If our guess is correct, the hermit in the mountains must be very important. I suspect that Pingzhang's death is probably because he discovered this hermit people."
"It makes sense." Su Nuannuan was also excited: after coming to Jiangnan, it was too late to open the situation. Even the husband and wife are now in danger. Now, suddenly, the clue was in front of him. Why not surprise them? It's like a person who has walked into a dead end, suddenly turns a corner, and suddenly sees the light in front of him, this is the only way out of doubt. There is another village where the willows are dark and the flowers are bright.
In a good mood, Su Nuannuan showed off her cooking skills in this small and narrow kitchen. Using sufficient ingredients, four cold dishes and eight hot dishes were prepared.
It was already noon when it was done. It happened that Luqi came over to pass the meal, and saw that the cooking table was full of people, she couldn't help but straighten her eyes, and murmured: "Didn't the master just ask you to prepare three or five dishes? Why did you do so much? Thanks to Mrs. Wang You can also use it, this place is different from the big kitchen in our house."
Su Nuannuan hurriedly said a few words modestly, why are the couple still thinking about these dishes now? Seeing that piece of green onion mountain was slowly left behind and finally disappeared, the two were really anxious.
It's just that no matter how anxious you are, there's nothing you can do. You can't think of an excuse to jump off the boat right now. That's just arousing suspicion. Therefore, the couple had to hold back and think of a way to get Su Donglou to send someone to investigate after they came back.
The journey was smooth and smooth, and we arrived in Jinling two days later.
The king of Xiangyang also has a palace in Jinling, and its extravagance simply amazes Duan Tingxuan and Su Nuannuan. Even the young master said: If you don't go to the south of the Yangtze River, you don't know the majesty of the king of Xiangyang. From this point of view, His Majesty the Emperor certainly didn't know. If he knew that this younger brother had a better life than him, Su Nuannuan estimated that the King of Xiangyang would have been called back to Beijing to be an idle prince according to the temperament of that family.
Duan Tingxuan and Su Nuannuan didn't have to worry about other errands except serving Lu Fengyu's food, so they were not as busy as other servants. The sun is shining, which is a rare good cloudy weather. So the husband and wife discussed going out for a stroll, anyway, come back before noon, just don't delay dinner.
The prosperity of Jinling can also be ranked in the top three in the Great Yin Dynasty. Along the way, there were a lot of pedestrians, shoulder to shoulder, the two lost interest after only strolling for a while, they just felt that there were too many people, because they were about to go back, they heard a noise coming from the front.
Su Nuannuan is a nosy person. When she heard the noise, she started to gossip. She dragged her husband and squeezed into the crowd. She saw an old woman lying on the ground with two carriages parked beside her. The two sides were blaming each other. , They all said that the other party bumped into someone, and it had nothing to do with him.
Su Nuannuan only saw that her heart was burning, and she stepped forward to help the old woman who was lying on the ground humming, raised her head and shouted at the two people who accused each other: "Shut up. Since you can't clarify the responsibility, then They all lose money." These two guys didn't care about the mother-in-law who was knocked down on the ground, but they were eager to clear their responsibilities. Su Nuannuan arbitrarily decided that this was a case of "no good bird", so they each hit 30 big boards That's right.
Those two people were taken aback by Su Nuannuan, and when they saw a nosy person, they were angry and asked Su Nuannuan who belonged to the old woman. But she sneered and said: "I am not someone from this mother-in-law. I just draw my sword to help when the road is injustice. You two are arguing endlessly, but you ignore my mother-in-law. When your argument comes to an end, my mother-in-law still doesn't know what to do, so I Don't wait for you to come up with the result, just pay the compensation. After paying the money, the two of you will argue about who hit the person, and after arguing for the result, let the person who hit the person pay the money to the person who didn't hit the person. "She has already seen the old woman's trouser legs are bright red, maybe it was cut by a sharp stone when she fell to the ground? It's okay if it's just a little flesh injury, the most feared thing is a broken bone.
Seeing that Su Nuannuan acted neatly and with an old-fashioned heart, the bystanders praised Su Nuannuan one after another. They only said that this method is very good, otherwise they would go to the government and let the old man judge. The two carriages were unwilling to cause trouble, and they saw the public Surging, if this entanglement continued, he might be beaten. The wise saying that a good man does not suffer in front of him resounded in his heart, so he had no choice but to give Su Nuannuan angrily while taking out five taels of silver to the old woman. Then got into the carriage and left.
Su Nuannuan saw that they took out the money so happily, and knew that they didn't even know who hit the old woman. Yin put the silver into the old woman's pocket, then helped her up, asked a few words, saw the old woman just shook her head and nodded, and then realized that she was dumb, so even though she was very anxious just now, she couldn't say a word for herself talk. If it weren't for Su Nuannuan's meddling temperament, I would probably have to admit that I was unlucky today.
There was no medical clinic nearby, so Duan Tingxuan walked two streets with the old woman on his back before finding a medical clinic. Fortunately, it was only a skin trauma and no fractures. Although the old woman couldn't speak, she kept saluting and gesticulating to thank the two. Seeing that it was inconvenient for her to walk, Su Nuannuan asked her where her home was not far from here, so she enthusiastically developed and upgraded, and decided to be a good person to the end, and then send the old man home.
Sure enough, within two quarters of an hour, I arrived at the old woman's house. It was a deep and narrow alley, and the courtyard at the end was the old woman's house. With red tiles and white walls, it looked like a well-to-do family. A few clumps of peonies were planted outside the wooden door, and they were blooming vigorously at this time, and it was pleasing to watch.
After knocking on the door knocker a few times, someone came out to open the door in an instant. It was a beautiful young woman in her thirties. She was shocked when she saw that the old woman was injured. After listening to Su Nuannuan's story, the young woman told the couple The two were very grateful, and they decided to invite them in for a cup of tea. Su Nuannuan didn't want to go in, but through the open wooden door, she suddenly saw a few green seedlings in the corner of the yard, which looked like pepper seedlings, and her heart suddenly became hot.
Duan Tingxuan followed his wife's instructions and was refusing there. He just said: "You don't have to thank me. If you encounter a rough road, you should help. We have to go back and do things in a hurry..." As soon as he said this, Su Nuannuan smiled Said: "It's okay, no matter how anxious you are, there is still time for a cup of tea."
The young master was choked there all of a sudden, looking at his lover puzzled, wondering what the hell Nuannuan was doing, it was clear that she wanted to "flick the clothes to hide the merit and fame", didn't she
The young woman was also taken aback, and immediately invited the two of them to come in with a smile on her face. Seeing that the young master also followed in embarrassingly, she couldn't help covering her lips and snickering, and then looking at Su Nuannuan, her eyes were full of kindred spirits. It means that, so the young master knew: the life of the male master of this family is probably sad.
After entering the room and drinking a cup of tea, Duan Tingxuan and Su Nuannuan found out about their family's situation after listening to the young woman's euphemism: it turned out that the old woman was the young woman's mother-in-law, because the young woman's husband went to sea with those cargo ships all year round, so a year For seven or eight months, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law depended on each other for life. Although the mother-in-law is dumb, she is very diligent in her hands and feet. Besides helping her daughter-in-law with housework, she also likes to go shopping occasionally. Today, her daughter-in-law got up early and was busy with weaving, so she didn't even eat a few bites for lunch. The daughter-in-law worked hard for several days to catch up with this batch of work, so she decided to go to the market to buy some meat and eggs to reward her capable daughter-in-law, but unexpectedly something like this happened.
Su Nuannuan warned a few words, and heard from the young woman that she would take this as a lesson, and she would not let her mother-in-law go out alone in the future, so she stopped talking and pretended to turn her eyes out of the window inadvertently, looking at the lush greenery in the courtyard, suddenly Pointing to the corner of the east wall, he said with great interest, "There are a few seedlings there. I don't think I've seen them before. I don't know what they are. Can you take me to see them?"