Chapter 13: The Escape Route
Coming back with a food box, Cai Qing and Mingyue set up their meals on the kang table near the window, covered with blue and white dishes. Looking at the dishes on the kang table, Cai Qing couldn't help but complain: "Miss, you see, since the grounding order was issued, this food has become worse and worse, originally today's menu was crystal elbow, you see what it has been replaced, and this Wensi tofu soup, how can there be a shadow of tofu? Those people in the big kitchen really deceived us." ”
Mingyue was busy pulling Cai Qing, and said in a low voice: "Miss is not in a good mood, don't keep nagging and annoying her." ”
Gu Zhirong heard the sound, threw down the medicine book in his hand, leaned over to take a look, and said, "Sure enough, it's a few points worse than yesterday's." ”
Cai Qing's courage strengthened a little: "I'll go to the big kitchen to reason with them." After that, he was about to go out with his skirt, looking like he was going to ask the master of the big kitchen for questioning.
Mingyue was startled, and while grabbing Cai Qing, she said to Gu Zhirong: "Miss, you don't know that Cai Qing is an acute child, why do you still encourage her to go to the big kitchen? What can you do if something happens, you know that there is a fire in the limelight now, how many people in the house are waiting to fall into the well, give us a good look......
Gu Zhirong smiled and said, "Don't beg them, how about I make one for you?"
Mingyue said angrily: "Miss is laughing again, she will make us happy, you are not a monkey, how can this thing be said to change and become here?" turned around and pressed Cai Qing to the chair and persuaded, "Okay, don't make any more trouble, Miss has no opinion, just keep your mouth tight." ”
Gu Zhirong smiled, didn't say any more, turned around and walked out of the east room, and went to the study. After a while, she turned around and folded back, with an extra note in her hand, handed it to Mingyue, and said, "This meal, let's settle it first, and tomorrow, I promise to let everyone eat the fragrant and slippery crystal elbow." ”
Mingyue was stunned, Cai Qing winked at Mingyue, and then looked at Gu Zhirong expectantly: "Miss, can you add another braised lion head from Drunken Xianglou?"
"Yes. Gu Zhirong was very sure, and turned to look at Mingyue, "Mingyue, what do you want to eat, and also, green water and jade cicada, what about you?"
She looked around the room: "I almost forgot, Snow Goose took the futon to the pulp washing room, and she came back and asked her again." ”
A room full of surprise.
Mingyue was the first to react, and said to Lu Shui and the others with a smile: "Lu Shui, I remember that you love to eat crispy duck the most, and you almost ate all of them when you went back to the palace." As for the jade cicada, I remember your favorite food is the spicy chicken nuggets. As for the snow goose, it seems to be a crispy lotus root with sauce, yes, this is it. Am I right?"
The green water and the jade cicada were speechless, and only nodded blindly.
Gu Zhirong wrote them down one by one, turned around and went to the study again. Mingyue followed, also entered the study, looked at Gu Zhirong who was writing again, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Miss, isn't this okay?"
Gu Zhirong finished writing and drying it, then he looked up at Mingyue, and raised his eyebrows slightly: "Why not?"
Over the years, for these people who know the roots, Gu Zhirong has tried his best to cultivate them as his confidants, sharing weal and woe. However, this is not enough, she must be able to protect them, and must not let them feel cold to her.
Mingyue wrinkled her brows and said: "The slave knows that the young lady is in a difficult situation, and the young lady just said something like a monkey and a spell, and the young lady used it to make us happy, right? ”
In fact, this is also the reason, even being a young lady doesn't think the food is unpalatable, and how can a slave and maid be disqualified?
Gu Zhirong raised the paper in his hand and said, "I'm not joking, I mean it." ”
"Miss!" Mingyue said hurriedly, "When is it, Miss is still focusing on this! Besides, now this Liuyun Courtyard is guarded to death by the people sent by the eldest lady, even if this news can be delivered, how can those foods be sent in?"
Gu Zhirong folded the paper in his hand, folded it into a paper strip, walked in front of Mingyue, handed the note to Mingyue, and said with a slight smile: "Mingyue, you don't have to worry about this." This note, when Zhang Dafu's family comes to collect the leftovers, you can just give this to her, tell her, send it to Hangji Temple, and hand it over to a small novice called Jingkong. As for how the food was delivered, I wrote it all down on a slip of paper, and I will understand it when I look at it. ”
Jingkong is a lay disciple of Xuanji Temple, since he was a child, he was frail and sickly, and later met a monk who traveled to the Buddha, saying that he had a relationship with the Buddha and must return to Buddhism before reaching the age of 15 in order to keep a lifetime of peace. Jingkong's parents are rich and rich, but they are both people who believe in Buddhism, and for the life of the only son, they sent him to the Xuanji Temple to become a monk, and it has been eleven years now.
Maybe it's because she is also a layman's child, this Jingkong, who is two years younger than Gu Zhirong, is very close to her, and when Gu Zhirong was in Xuanji Temple, she stuck to her like a little tail all day long, and she was older than him in name and reality, treating him as a younger brother and instructing him to do this and that. And this clear space is also obedient, and has never caused the young master to lose his temper.
Even Mingyue sighed secretly in private, if it weren't for the fact that her own young lady was two years older than the clear space, according to her clear space such a good family background and such a good temperament, she would be very good to her own young lady, if her own young lady could marry him, she would definitely not suffer.
"Mingyue?"
Gu Zhirong's voice pulled back Mingyue's thoughts, and she hurriedly responded: "Miss, please rest assured, the slave will hand over the note to Zhang Dafu's family later, but it's just ......"
Mingyue looked at Gu Zhirong puzzled: "Miss let the net air buy so many things, how can I send them in?"
Of course, Mingyue guessed that Gu Zhirong was going to use the secret channel to transmit information to transport food in, but the problem was that with so much food, it was difficult to guarantee that it would not sink to the bottom of the river.
"Sheepskin rafts. Gu Zhirong's lips opened lightly and said four words.
Mingyue was shocked, raised her head suddenly, and looked at Gu Zhirong.
Gu Zhirong seemed to have expected Mingyue to have this reaction, and he was not surprised at all, and continued: "As early as the early summer of last year, I secretly measured it, tied a stone and threw it into the river channel under the corridor, and measured the water depth of about five meters, the river channel is relatively spacious, there is absolutely no problem with tying a small sheepskin raft into the river, the water speed is 48 miles per hour on weekdays, except for the river water swelling in case of heavy rain. From the entrance to our Yanagiyun-in, there is no turning along the way, which means that the river is in a straight line, and there will be no collision accidents, and if it goes well, you can reach Yanagi-in in a quarter of an hour. ”
Gu Zhirong raised his eyes to look at Mingyue and smiled slightly: "Don't worry, if we receive it tomorrow, it will definitely be intact." ”
Listening to Gu Zhirong's words, Mingyue's heart was shocked. She looked at her young lady in a daze, and said for a while: "Miss, you have been measuring since the early summer of last year, that is to say, last year, you planned to use this passage to help Miss Seven escape from the house?"
Gu Zhirong looked at Mingyue, sighed slowly, and nodded very seriously: "I won't hide it from you, yes, it's true." ”