In the chamber of the inner courtyard of the Protectorate, Mrs. Xu was wearing an orange and yellow gold peony jacket, and was sitting on the couch intently looking at the gift book to be prepared for relatives everywhere this year. Xu was tired, and Dangui, who was waiting on the side, hurriedly handed a pillow for her to lean on, and her body was crooked to reveal a horse-faced skirt with a bright yellow bamboo chrysanthemum pattern in the skirt, and the skirt was embroidered with the gold pattern of the swastika Fushou, reflecting a dazzling light in the sun.

Dangui looked at the light yellow tangled peony on Mrs. Yun's shoulder, and was pondering the stitching of this peony, Aunt Ling and Aunt Jiang came in hand in hand.

Mrs. Xu couldn't help but be slightly stunned and thought, "How did these two people get together?"

Aunt Jiang is only in her early twenties, her appearance is gorgeous, she wears a pink flower-sprinkled gown, and her face is as bright as a peach and plum, seeing Mrs. Xu glanced at her, she immediately sighed with a sad face: "My sister is so busy here, she shouldn't have come to disturb, but my mother has been seriously ill these days, and I don't know what to do, so I can't say that I have to go to my sister to ask for an idea." ”

If you ask Mrs. Xu's most hated aunt, Aunt Jiang ranks first, then no one can rank second. Aunt Jiang is just the daughter of a small official, she already has apricot eyes and peach cheeks, but she has a beautiful mole at the center of her eyebrows.

Mrs. Xu smiled: "If it is according to the old calendar, I should send two taels of silver." But you're different from others, so I'll ask someone to take the sign and ask a doctor to take a look. ”

When Aunt Jiang heard that she only got two taels of silver, her face was a little unpleasant.

Aunt Ling hurriedly smiled and said, "Madam, why don't I accompany Aunt Jiang to Baiyun Nunnery to pray for Lao An's blessings." By the way, I asked for a few peace charms for a few brothers. ”

Mrs. Xu frowned: "This is also a method. It's getting late at this time, you from Sun Fu's family will accompany them tomorrow morning, and then donate twenty taels of sesame oil money in the name of our house to pray for the old lady's blessing. ”

Aunt Jiang listened and lowered her head to hide her angry face. Aunt Ling on the side saw it, so she pulled her and thanked Mrs. Xu, and both of them withdrew.

Mrs. Xu watched the two of them walk away, and then turned her head to look at her companion Sun Fu's family: "Why is this Aunt Ling running out when she sees the sky?"

Sun Fujia said with a smile: "It's funny to say, I don't know who told the fourth girl about her home, and I ran back to see it." As a result, I didn't know what was going on in the old temple that day, and the mountain gate was closed early. As for the people inside, they can't get out. People from outside can't get in. ”

"I only heard Sun Fu talk about it yesterday, it turned out that a daughter of the Xia family accompanied her parents to the Yuelao Temple to ask her brother for marriage, and I don't know where a crazy monk came. said that the girl was the reincarnation of the Hundred Flowers Fairy in the sky, and asked the talented girl to follow him to practice. ”

Mrs. Xu was stunned when she heard this: "This Jing Zhaoyin is becoming more and more useless. The Xia family, that's the one..."Mrs. Xu frowned slightly, and said lightly on her forehead.

Sun Fujia nodded and explained, "It's the girl who saved our son earlier. As he spoke, he smiled at Mrs. Xu with a different meaning, and then continued: "One of their sons is a general guarding the Hanyu Pass. One is that the grade is too low. One is that it has only been in Beijing for a long time. So you haven't seen them, ma'am. ”

Mrs. Xu said: "Even people who have no knowledge and no background will probably not believe such nonsense." ”

Sun Fujia slapped his thigh and said with a smile: "Isn't that what Mrs. said?" The Xia family was born as a military general, and there were a few guards around him, I never thought that the monk also had some Taoism, and the two sides fought in the Yuelao Temple. ”

In the afternoon. Zhao Huanhuan inquired about the affairs of the Xia family and said to Mrs. Xu in detail: "It is a small family, and the sixth master in the family has become a general of the fourth grade." Now guarding the Hanyu Pass. The people next to him are all small county officials who are not in the stream, and there is an elder brother who is still in the side business. ”

Zhao Huanhuan saw that her wife was fascinated by what she heard, and she said more and more in detail: "There is also a brother who is a winemaker, and a small craftsman in the countryside. The youngest girl, I heard that she was spoiled, and her health was not very good. Mr. Sun's wife has seen her a few times, and she looks very dignified, with the bearing of a housewife, but that figure doesn't look like a good child. Back then, it was this girl who made the world by mistake. ”

"The wife who was in charge of the house was very generous, and earlier there were quite a few people who wanted to marry, and it is said that her father loved her so much that he was reluctant to marry her. Zhao Huanhuan sighed: "You see, this is how a small family is concerned, so he loves his daughter so lightly." ”

Mrs. Xu sneered: "Originally, she was a young girl, if her parents are gone, I am afraid that this girl will have a bleak evening." Zhao Huanhuan nodded and agreed: "It's still Mrs. who has a long-term view." ”

Xiaoyu sat in front of her mother's dresser, looking curiously at the woman in front of her, but she was about forty years old, quite thin, and wore a soap-colored dress. Xiaoyu thought to herself: "She herself is such an inconspicuous appearance, can she really dress up people?"

Mrs. Xia pondered for a while, and then ordered: "Xuanqi, you have changed her dignified and magnificent appearance, to be more delicate, and comb her hair into a flying fairy bun." ”

Xuan Yu answered "yes", but he was not in a hurry to make a move, he took the teacup and looked at Xiaoyu first, Xiaoyu thought: "She used to be a girl by my mother's side, and I can't lose my mother's face." Although she was uneasy in her heart, her face was still calm and unimpressed.

Xuanyu looked at it for a while, then rubbed his hands, took out a small box, and took Xiaoyu's chin to work on Xiaoyu's face. Xiaoyu couldn't help but praise: "At this time, it was cold, so she took a car from outside the city, but she was afraid that her fingers would be cold, so she held a tea cup to warm her hands, but I thought it was wrong." ”

Ying Xue put her hands on the side and watched intently.

Baiyun Nunnery is located in the west of the capital, said to be a nunnery but there is no half of the nun, but there are many monks and Taoist monks together to cultivate. In the past few days, the red men and green women in front of the door, people come and go very lively, the two carriages of the Xia family stopped at the main gate of Baiyun Nunnery one after the other, Mrs. Xia, Xia Xiucai and Starling came out of the first carriage, Wen Niang jumped out of the second carriage and neatly opened the curtain, and a middle-aged woman in soap helped Xiaoyu to follow slowly behind.

As soon as the Xia family walked into the main hall, the little monk who knocked on the chime jumped up. The Taoist priest on the side frowned at first, but then stood up in surprise. There were also a few pilgrims beside him who asked about things, and when they saw him like this, they couldn't help but follow his gaze.

I saw a beautiful girl standing in front of the main hall, combing a flying fairy bun, a southern pearl silver hairpin, no more flowers on her head, jewelry, and a big red feather satin placket cloak on her body, and the edge of the cloak also rolled a snow-white fox skin, lining a white and tender little face beautifully.

This girl is Xiaoyu, she half-hung her head and followed behind her mother wearing a dark blue gown, Xia Xiucai and Starling next to her were wearing dark blue robes with snow-white collars, and the tattooed girl behind her was wearing a black beard dress, and this group of people was even more dazzling with a red light rain.

The people in the main hall and courtyard couldn't help but stop when they saw such an momentum, and they all whispered guessing where this was sacred.

The group entered the main hall, Xuan Yu hurriedly turned around and helped Xiaoyu remove the cloak on his body, Aunt Ling and Aunt Jiang couldn't help but take a breath of cold air when they saw the clothes on the girl from a distance, and they were amazed.

It turned out that the jacket skirt on Xiaoyu's body was layered on top of each other, and I don't know how much light yarn it was made of, but the color of this phoenix tail skirt gradually changed from pure white to a faint blue smoke color from top to bottom, and the jacket on the body didn't know whether it was embroidered or dyed with a few bamboo leaves. When the autumn wind blew, the blue willow leaves on the tulle floated up and down, as if the willow leaves were shuttling among the clouds.

Xiaoyu didn't seem to know that she had attracted everyone's peeping, and slowly walked a few steps towards the statue enshrined in the temple, Aunt Ling and Aunt Jiang boasted that they were well-informed, and they couldn't help but be so surprised that they were about to suffocate. Everyone saw that the layers of skirts rolled slightly with the footsteps, as if some god in the sky was walking among the clouds.

Xiaoyu worshipped the statues one by one, and then slowly turned around as if he was going to go out. When everyone not far away saw it, they all involuntarily dispersed to both sides, staring at her blankly. Wen Niang quickly stepped forward and put the red cloak on her.

Xiaoyu followed her mother's instructions, stood straight at the door of the main hall, looked up slightly at the sky outside, and everyone saw that her eyebrows were like green daisy, her lips were like Danzhu, and her eyes were better like black gems.

The movement of the cloak is more like flowing water, light and soothing, and everyone who has seen it thinks that this woman is not as beautiful as all in the world.

At this moment, an old monk walked out of the inner courtyard, dressed in an orange robe embroidered with golden swastikas, shining in the sun. It's just that he seems to be in a hurry, and the tripping buckle on his side has not yet been fastened, and a little monk runs a few steps and bends down to help him tie it. The girl and her mother were about to leave, but when they saw the old monk, they stopped.

Xiaoyu endured the cold wind of October, held her head high and made a graceful appearance, and whispered softly to the master of the ten certificates, clasping her hands together: "Master, there is a brazier in the inner room, right? ”

Everyone was quite far away, and they saw that the fairy-like woman and the abbot exchanged a few words, and the old monk looked sincere and afraid. I don't know what the two of them said, the old abbot also folded his hands and returned the salute, and said with full of anger: "Please also ask the layman to sit in the inner room, the old man has a few unknown, and I hope to teach one or two." ”

When everyone saw that the monk was so courteous to a young girl, they were all stunned and amazed. When the little girl who was decorated with Aunt Ling from afar saw this, she couldn't care about Aunt Ling, and ran to the teahouse where Xue Shizi frequented. (To be continued......)