Chapter 254: Wan Xiang
The day of the festival was a rare day of good weather, with a beautiful wind and clear skies, neither the spring rain of the previous days nor the scorching summer of the rest of the month.
Zhou Mingshan changed into a newly made summer dress this time, and the tender shirt was only embroidered with the outline of flowers and leaves, which looked light and delicate, not complicated at all, and looked like a fairy dancing among flowers from a distance.
Sure enough, she was clever, although she had already seen it when the lady in charge of Qianqiao Fang brought it to try it on, but she couldn't help but praise it again at this time.
Dui Xiang smiled and said: "The girl is naturally beautiful, even if she wears burlap clothes, she is also beautiful! If she is so ugly that she can't see people by nature, even if she wears beautiful clothes, I am afraid that she will have to say "ugly people are more strange"!"
Zhou Mingshan glared at her, but the corners of her mouth couldn't help but curl.
Qibaole had to explain Duxiang Dao: "Girl, Sister Duxiang wants to follow you to Wanxiang Temple!"
Dui Xiang is the big girl in the house, Zhou Mingshan asked her to stay this time, and by the way, she helped Ning Yan prepare needlework.
In a few days, it will be the birthday of Yi Concubine Jia Xinyi, she is going to give gifts, and the pile of incense is already the best needlework in her house except for the smoke.
Zhou Mingshan turned his head and glanced at the pile of incense.
Although the young girl tried her best to hide it, her eyes were still beating with joy.
looks much more stable, but in the end she is just a teenage girl.
Her heart softened, and she admitted, "I will definitely take you with me next time I go out!"
Duixiang's eyes lit up and he nodded vigorously.
Zhou Mingshan smiled and went to the main room.
Yuan Wenxin had already cleaned up and was crooked on the couch talking to Yuan.
He wore a royal blue dark moire robe, and the collar and cuffs were inlaid with silver silk moire piping, and the whole person looked refreshing and extravagant.
Seeing that Zhou Mingshan kept looking at him, Yuan Wenxin shook the folding fan in his hand and bared his teeth, "Do you think Uncle Xin is particularly handsome today?"
Zhou Mingshan nodded subconsciously, "Yes, Uncle Xin looks really good in this outfit!"
"Sure enough, there is a vision!" Yuan Wenxin closed the folding fan with a "swish", and was about to knock it on the top of Zhou Mingshan's head.
"Uncle Xin......"
"Second Brother ......"
Seeing that Yuan's and Zhou Mingshan's mother and daughter cast disapproving glances together, Yuan Wenxin had no choice but to retract his hand and retract his hand.
"There are more than twenty people, don't say be more steady!"
Yuan glared at him, and began to instruct Zhou Mingshan again, "There are many people outside, Fu'er should be careful, don't leave people around you...... Tell your uncle Xin something......"
Seeing that Yuan's nagging was getting more and more, Zhou Mingshan hurriedly glanced at Yuan Wenxin.
Yuan Wenxin immediately spoke, "Sister, you see it's not early, shouldn't we set off?"
Yuan looked at the sky and said a few more words before letting them go out.
The uncle and nephew went down the steps of the main room, and they sighed in unison, and then looked at each other and smiled.
Out of the second gate, the horseback rider, the car has to take the car, and go to Wanxiang Temple together.
The closer you get to Wanxiang Temple, the more crowded the road becomes, and the frame is crowded several times and it is difficult to walk in place.
Zhou Mingshan asked her mother-in-law to remind those who were rushing outside to be slow rather than crash into people on the road.
Walking slowly all the way, when Yuan Wenxin took Zhou Mingshan to Wanxiang Temple, the festival had already ended.
Zhou Mingshan didn't care, they weren't here to participate in the festival.
Wanxiang Temple was originally just a little-known small temple on the outskirts of Beijing, and the incense was also very ordinary.
I don't know which generation of the host had a whim, bought more than a dozen acres of wasteland behind Wanxiang Temple, this host will operate, he took his disciples to open up these lands, and then planted periwinkles.
I don't know if the terrain here is good or the host will manipulate it, but in a year, these more than ten acres of periwinkle will grow vigorously, bloom extraordinarily dazzling, look like smoke and haze from afar, and it is beautiful and good-looking.
In this way, Wanxiang Temple has attracted a lot of visitors, the incense has gradually improved, and then after many years of operation, the sea of flowers has also expanded to hundreds or even thousands of acres, spread to the entire back mountain, the types of flowers have also increased a lot, worthy of the name of the four seasons are always open, ten thousand incense floating, and the first dozen acres of Hongxia have not moved.
This is also the origin of the name of Wanxiang Mountain and Wanxiang Temple, as for the name of the original mountain and temple, no one cares.
I heard that there was a sour and rotten old Confucian in the previous dynasty, and on the grounds that the name of the temple was too vulgar and moral, he wrote to the temple secretary to ask for rectification, but later it also became a topic of conversation after dinner......
While walking up the stone steps, a few people listened to Yuan Wenxin talk about these old classics.
Zhou Mingshan had heard of it before, but a few girls were not, especially Qibao, who was young and lively, and was most interested in these strange things, and kept asking questions.
"I think the name Wanxiang is very good, do those who read too many books, and then feel that the good ones are not good? Isn't that my mother talking nonsense with her eyes open......
"Poof......
Yuan Wenxin couldn't help laughing out loud when she was amused by her last sentence, squeezed her eyes at Zhou Mingshan, and teased Qibao, "Yes, little girl, you are very right, it's hard for you to see it so thoroughly at a young age, much better than those who have lived for decades, those people just read too many books and open their eyes to talk nonsense, hahaha......"
Zhou Mingshan glared at him, Yuan Wenxin reined in, pretended to straighten his collar, and continued to walk forward, but it was not difficult to guess his expression at this time from his shoulders that shook from time to time.
Uncle Xin doesn't like to read very much, but his father Zhou Ze is the most popular, although Zhou Ze is his brother-in-law.
There are two main causes.
One is the old incident of Aunt Luo more than ten years ago, although the culprit is Aunt Luo, but Zhou Ze's attitude at that time made Yuan Wenxin always linger, thinking that he was indecisive as a man and did not keep his promises. Because Zhou Ze promised when he was in front of Yuan Lao Hanlin that he would never let the Yuan family suffer the slightest grievance.
The second thing is Zhou Ze's choice after the move. At that time, Zhou Ze had been promoted before he became married to the Yuan family, but after becoming a pro-family, until he was admitted to Tanhua for more than ten years, Zhou Ze has been nesting at home, pen, ink, paper, inkstone, human relations, social entertainment, concubines, aunts, etc., these throwing fees, just relying on the monthly silver given by the public middle school is far from enough, most of them have to rely on Yuan's subsidies. And Zhou Ze is neither out of office, nor seeking other inputs, and has been enjoying Yuan's dowry with peace of mind, which makes Yuan Wenxin quite complaining. Although as a housewife, it is appropriate to preside over housework and raise children, but a man is so despised by people.
Zhou Mingshan knows so clearly, of course, not because of the Yuan family, with Yuan's character, he will never tell his daughter about his mother's brother's dissatisfaction with her husband, but thanks to the "no matter the size" and similar personality between her and Yuan Wenxin's nephew.
Of course, these are all things that she slowly recalled after she was reborn, and summarized from Uncle Xin's words and behaviors.
In her previous life, she was a fool at all, and she thought that Uncle Xin simply didn't like to read because he didn't like to study.
Yuan Wenxin was so happy at this time, of course, because he felt that Qibao's words just spoke to his heart, but he forgot that the old and young masters of the Yuan family, except for himself, were all scholars.