Chapter 24: The Sachet
Bai Yi shook the ebony horse tooth qin folding fan and walked in front, and said loudly to Jian Ping, who was accompanying him behind: "I heard that there is a stone horse forest in Baima Temple, you can find a monk and ask how to go." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info”
Jian Ping answered, and came back after a while and replied: "Go back to your master, go all the way to the east is Shi Malin." ”
"Hmm."
Bai Yi kept fanning the fan, the fan was whirring, and he still couldn't fan the sandalwood fragrance of the temple. It's not a famous temple, how the incense is very luxuriant, it's really smoked to death!
It is said that sandalwood can calm people's hearts, but the most unbearable thing for him is the sandalwood fragrance, and he is upset and irritable when he smells this smell, so he does not like to come to the temple. If it weren't for his second brother-in-law's fact that he couldn't come today, and he was afraid that the second sister would have an accident on the way to incense, he wouldn't have come to Baima Temple anyway.
Bai Yi was irritable and had wind under his feet, walking faster and faster, knowing that his own prince had committed an old problem, Jian Ping trotted up with a wry smile on his face, while desperately reducing the movement of his feet and breathing, and tried his best to be a transparent person.
In conscience, Bai Yi is a good master, he will not beat and scold his subordinates at will, and his rewards are generous, but there is a terrible problem, that is, he will be irritable when he smells a smell he doesn't like, and his nose is very smart. If anyone doesn't have eyes to provoke him at this time, then just wait to be tossed hard. And among all the unpleasant flavors, sandalwood is at the top of the list.
Knowing the news that Bai Yi was going to accompany the lord of Yaqing to the temple to burn incense, none of those guards wanted to follow, and after discussing fruitlessly, they shook the dice to decide who would accompany them, and the person who lost in the end was Jian Ping.
Maybe because it was in the easternmost part of the temple, and there was no Buddha hall nearby, the smell of incense in the stone horse forest was not so strong, Bai Yi's tightly locked brows finally loosened a little, and he returned to his usual appearance of a handsome son, watching it unhurriedly and gracefully.
Bai Yi has read countless treasures since he was a child, and in his eyes, the carving of the horses carved by Shi Malin can only be regarded as medium, except for the different shapes, large numbers and the same size as real horses.
His interest suddenly decreased, just walking around the middle of the stone horse forest, and seeing a galloping horse, his eyes lit up.
The horse has a strong physique, strong limbs, the soles of the hind feet are firmly rooted in the ground, the forefeet are more and more volleyed, the hair on the body stretches back with the run, and the hairs are faintly shining in the sun, as if soaked in sweat, and the eyes are blazing, which is particularly compelling. In a trance, there was the scent of grass, as if you were really in the grass.
"What a good horse!" Bai Yi couldn't help but admire, "Jian Ping, what do you think of the old general's mount?" ”
The corners of Jian Ping's mouth twitched, and he said speechlessly: "How can this stone horse compare with a real horse?" ”
Bai Yi laughed: "Don't look at this horse is just carved from stone, the person who carvers this must be superb, you look at this pair of horse eyes, I'm afraid that most of the horses in the world are not as beautiful as it." Then he put away the folding fan, tapped his left hand with the fan, and wondered, "This horse and the other stone horses are obviously not made by the same person, I wonder whose work it will be?" Jian Ping, you look around to see if you have left your name. ”
Jian Ping searched around and didn't find any signatures or seals left, but found a sachet. He picked it up and replied: "If you go back to your master, there will be no other traces immediately, and your subordinates will pick up a sachet on the ground." With that, he presented the sachet.
Bai Yi smelled a cool fragrance, no wonder there seemed to be a grass fragrance just now, it turned out to be the fragrance emitted by this sachet. He opened the ebony horse tooth piano folding fan with a "swish" and took the sachet with the fan.
The dark blue silk sachet is embroidered with a lotus flower, and the embroiderers generally have an ordinary color, which can be bought at any stall on the street. The fragrance is very unique, cool and refreshing, with the aroma of oranges and borneol, and a hint of the smell that is nothing to say.
Bai Yi picked up the sachet with his hand and put it under his nose and asked, strange, why does it seem that there is still the fragrance of peach blossoms.
What a special incense recipe!
Bai Yi muttered, "I don't know who left this sachet behind?" ”
Jian Ping saw that he was interested in this sachet, so he said, "Do you want your subordinates to go to the monk and ask the monk whose sachet it is?" ”
Bai Yi shook his head: "People come and go in the temple, so I asked the monk and I don't know who lost it." We came to offer incense with such fanfare, but we were afraid that the pilgrims had almost gone, and even if we knew who had lost it, we couldn't find anyone. What's more, it's just an ordinary sachet, so why bother. As he spoke, he was about to throw the sachet back to the ground, but his hand stretched out and turned around and took the sachet back, "The smell in the temple is too strong, and the smell of this sachet can make people feel comfortable, could it be that it is specially for me?" After speaking, he smiled and continued to wander around.
Jian Ping lowered his head and twitched the corners of his eyes, the prince of their family was also arrogant!
After the lord of Yaqing finished offering incense, Bai Yi sent her back to Xu Mansion first, and met Xu Yanzhen, the second brother-in-law who came to pick her up, halfway through, and hurriedly gossiped a few words, and couldn't wait to rush back to the palace.
At the second door, Bai Yi threw the folding fan in his hand back, and didn't care whether Jian Ping could catch it or not, and said loudly: "The fan will be given to you, go wash the horse, and see you again, if you let me smell the incense, I will watch it myself." ”
Jian Ping responded happily, and went back eager to rub a layer of skin.
Back in the courtyard, Bai Yi went straight to the clean room, saw the hot water and a change of clothes that had been prepared, nodded and smiled: "I still admire my heart." ”
Xi Pei covered his mouth and smiled: "I deserve this credit." When the master came out of the Baima Temple, Jian Ping sent someone to the house to inform him. ”
"Then my fan is right." Bai Yi quickly took off his clothes and hung them on the screen, "Remember to wash this dress a few more times." ”
The fan he was holding when he went out disappeared when he came back, and he knew that it must have been given to Jian Ping. Clothes can be washed off if they are dyed, but fans can't be washed if they are dyed. She knew too well about her family's master's problems, so she only smiled: "I know, there is no smell when I wear it again." ”
"Well, you go down."
"I'm outside, just shout if you have any orders." Xi Pei put her clothes on her hands and closed the door.
Not to mention the royal relatives and families, but if there is a family with a few money, no one wants to be served when bathing. But Bai Yi has been thrown into the barracks to live since he was a child, and he did all these things by himself.
After scrubbing it vigorously, his skin was flushed with red marks, and Bai Yi felt that there was no sandalwood fragrance on his body. He got dressed and went out with his hair scattered, and when he saw Xi Pei reading a note, he asked, "What are you looking at?" ”
"Huh? This is taken out of the sachet that the master carried, isn't it the signature that the master asked for in the temple? Xi Pei picked up the sachet and looked left and right, "Is this the sachet that the master bought on the road?" ”
Bai Yi understood and explained: "This is a sachet picked up in the temple, I thought there were only fragrant cakes in it, and I didn't want to have a signature, so take it to me to see." ”
He took the note and read it out loud: "Dig the ground with a hoe and ask for the spring, and try to get it first." Unintentionally, I met a confidant, and I met hand in hand to go to the sky. ”
Xi Pei clapped his hands and said, "According to this, what that person asked for should be fulfilled." ”
Bai Yi stuffed the note back into her hand and sneered: "If it is successful, it will be effective, and if it is not successful, it will not be hard enough." Whatever you want should be fought for yourself, and only those ignorant women will ask God to worship Buddha. ”
Xi Pei hurriedly said: "My ancestor, these words can't be said nonsense. Didn't the lord scold the county lord into it? Then he bowed with his palms together, and recited in his mouth, "Children's words are unscrupulous, and the Buddha is not to blame."
Bai Yi remembered his second sister, who was originally a person who read poetry and books and did not believe in gods and Buddhas, but she had become sick because she had no children for many years, and she also began to believe in this.
Xi Pei asked: "What about this sachet?" ”
Bai Yi pondered for a while, and said: "Put the signature back, you put away the sachet, maybe you can return it to the owner if you have a fate." You have people take the fragrant cakes to each incense shop and ask, and if there is the same, buy some back. ”
He should do what he tells him to do.
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