19. Chance encounters
"Sister, can't you rest a little longer?" Jiang Yanhua's legs were sore. She thinks she is short, and she always likes to wear high-soled shoes when she goes out, although the shoes have a hard bottom and will not break the soles of her feet when she walks, but she suffers when she encounters these rugged mountain roads. Now I don't want to get up when I sit down, and I think that I will have to walk a little way back to the temple for a while, but I feel that my feet hurt.
"We'll go back when we get water, and when you enter the temple, you can rest and ask Daylily to pinch your feet." Taohua said, walked over and pulled Lu Ying, and said this again. Lu Ying was still full of energy at this time, and pouted when she heard this: "I still want to cook tea here......
"Then next time Mrs. Tan will definitely not allow you to go out by yourself, do you believe it or not?" Momoka threatens her.
Lu Ying grimaced at her: "Letter!" You're much more in charge than my mother. He laughed first.
The mountains were quiet, and Lu Ying's laughter spread like silver bells along the wind. The young man in the azure robe in the grass house leaned out, shook the fan in his hand, and said with a smile: "This situation and this scene can be included in the painting." "
The spring water is clear, the grass is lush, but several girls are dressed in peach, apricot and powder blue clothes, floating in snow-white light veil, although they can't see their faces, the lively and graceful state is enough to enter the painting.
The boiling water boy muttered in a low voice: "Childe, it's not good to stare at others." "
"It's just you." The young man didn't care, "This is not in the capital." Moreover, they all wore hats. And you, flying arrows, a couple of girls, what are you doing touching the hilt of the sword? "
"I love his soft sword." The boy teased, "The flying arrow has the sword, but the baby can't do it." It's a pity that I haven't taken it out along the way, so I guess it's an itchy hand. "
The girls by the spring had finished taking the water and walked towards the temple together. The young man smiled and said, "Okay, everyone is gone, you don't have to be so grassy." Wuxi has always been peaceful, this Huishan Temple incense is prosperous, how can any bandits come here. "
The water on the fire has boiled, and the crab-eye-like blisters have turned over one by one. The boy hurriedly lifted the pot and poured water into the cup, and suddenly a smell of tea wafted up. The young man took a deep breath, took a sip of the cup, and sighed, "It's really good water." Tea cooking is already wonderful, and brewing is even more mellow. It's not in vain. "
"Childe, you can drink less." The boy hurriedly reminded, "If you drink too much, it will be like the time of Shizhen Building, and the small ones will not be beaten when they go back." "
The young man knocked on his head casually: "I dare to complain." Shizhenlou was a gang up to irrigate me, and I didn't notice it for a while. And my mother is not well, how can I drink more. This time it's just to explore first, if this Huiquan wine is really so good, it will be better to taste it when my mother is safe. "
The boy breathed a sigh of relief: "It's still the son who has filial piety." But didn't the invited Langzhong say that the county lord would not be allowed to drink for the time being? "
The young man said indifferently: "It's just that the water and soil are not adapted, and Lang Zhong also said that there is no big deal." Naturally, you can't drink alcohol when you take medicine, but can't you use it when you're ready? "
A few people talked and laughed, drank a pot of tea, and then left the grass house and returned to the temple.
Huishan Temple had thousands of monks' houses in the peak of incense in the Tang and Song dynasties, and most of them were destroyed due to war when the dynasty was founded. Because several generations of emperors did not love Buddhism, although the local squires in Wuxi had donated money to repair, they did not dare to make it too grand, and now the entire temple is only two-thirds of the size of the past, but it is also quite considerable.
The boy walked all the way down the main hall. He didn't believe in these Buddhas and Bodhisattvas very much, but today he said that he came to worship because his mother was unwell, and he had to worship them in every hall. A string of bodhisattvas bowed down, and the tea they had just drunk had all turned into sweat, and they felt thirsty again: "Go to the back meditation room and sit down, and then cook a pot of tea." It's the middle of July, why is it still so hot. "
The boy hurriedly said: "The south side is different from our capital, and the son is dressed a little thicker today." "
The young man fanned his fan, a little impatient: "My mother let me wear them, for fear that the wind would be strong on the mountain-otherwise who would wear so much." "
There is a Zen courtyard for pilgrims to rest at the back of Huishan Temple, in order to accept more pilgrims, most of the courtyards are very small, only a thin layer of mud bamboo wall in the middle, and the laughter on both sides can be heard. There is a novice who is waiting for guests in the temple, and nothing happens in the daytime. Only some of the monasteries for pilgrims to spend the night on the hill were built with sturdy brick walls and oak gates to ensure safety.
When the boy entered the courtyard, he couldn't help but sigh: "It's so small." But it's also elegant. "The bamboo wall is golden, and there is a dwarf plum planted on the side of the wall, and the branches are curved and oblique, and it must be considerable when you want to bloom. Under the plum tree, there is a small stone table and three stone benches, all of which are weeping lotus platform feet, and a section of the Diamond Sutra is carved on the table.
"People say that the Jiangnan garden is exquisite, and such a small Zen courtyard still has such thoughts, which is really exquisite." The young man casually touched the surface of the stone bench that had been polished smooth, and suddenly sniffled, "What incense?" "
The boy also sniffed it: "It seems to be tea, but how can it still smell of flowers?" Oh Childe, it must be flower tea! "
"Flower tea?" The boy raised his eyebrows, "What flower tea?" "
"I heard people say in the post house that in recent years, a kind of flower tea has emerged in the south of the Yangtze River, which is to take the flower buds and tea together and cellar it, and the fragrance of the flowers penetrates into the tea, and it is brewed with the fragrance of flowers."
"And those who drink tea like this?" The young man became a little interested, "Didn't that mix the fragrance of the tea?" "
The boy sniffed the aroma in the air and said hesitantly, "It smells good...... It was as if tea was being cooked in the yard next door. "
The young man immediately walked to the edge of the bamboo wall, and without saying a word, he lifted a stone bench and followed, placing the stone bench under the wall. The boy turned to smile at him and climbed up the stone bench. The boy was short, and he was so anxious that he pulled the arrow. The arrow held him silently for a long time before he brought another stone bench and let him kick it up.
The boy hurriedly climbed up to take a look, only to see that there was a huge begonia planted in the courtyard next door, and although the trunk of the tree was in this courtyard, half of it was divided into a dense shade to the next Zen courtyard. A stone table and three stone benches were also placed under the tree, but at this moment there were three young girls sitting around the table, drinking tea. That's where the fragrance they smelled came from.
The boy blinked his eyes and whispered, "Childe, this seems to be the girls who went to fetch it just now...... Fang Cai was wearing a hat, but the color of the clothes was right.
"Shhhh "
The boy just nodded in agreement, suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly pulled his master's clothes: "Childe, don't look at it, this is not etiquette!" "Pick up the wall and look at other girls, if you are caught, won't you become a disciple?
This wall is just a layer of yellow mud mixed with straw sandwiched between the bamboo pieces nailed together, not made of stone bricks, barely able to support the weight of a person, but it can't help shaking. It's good that the boy doesn't pull it, but when the two of them move, the bamboo pieces suddenly creaked, which sounded particularly clear in the quiet Zen courtyard.
The people who cook tea in the courtyard next door are, of course, the three of Taohua. I don't know if it was infected by the solemn and quiet atmosphere in the temple, even Lu Ying spoke in a low voice, so this crunch was clearly heard by Tao Huaqing in his ears, and he immediately raised his head: "What sound!" "
The boy flew down and squatted down, leaving only the boy who had not yet reacted to stand there with his mouth half open, and when he saw several girls with angry faces, he suddenly woke up and shook his hand desperately: "Don't get me wrong, the little one, the little one doesn't want to peep......"
He said, looking down in vain at his master. The boy made a threatening gesture at him and whispered, "Ask them what kind of tea they drink!" "
The little boy was about to cry, and under the pressure of the mountain, he trembled and said: "It's not a small intentional faux pas, it's really a strange smell of tea, I don't know where it came from, so, so ......"
Fortunately, he was born with a tender face, and although he was fifteen years old, he still looked about the same as eleven or twelve. In the eyes of Taohua and the others, they felt that he was just a half-grown child, and the expression on his face softened a little. When the child saw that there was a door, he hurriedly bowed to the wall and apologized again and again.
Most of his face was exposed on the bamboo wall, so Taohua and the others couldn't see his movements at all, they only saw his head retracted for a while and stretched out for a while, Lu Ying was the first to laugh without holding back a sneer, and Jiang Yanhua also couldn't help but smile and lowered his head. Taohua also felt funny, and said with a straight face: "This is the tortoiseshell tea we brought, and it is the new tea produced by Huiyi Tea Store in the city this year." As far as I know, Huiyi Tea Shop also gave tea to the Buddha in the temple, if you want to taste it, you might as well ask the monks for some. "
After Huiyi has to give a few catties to the major temples after the new flower tea, it is said to be for the Buddha, but it is actually for the monks. If you know what kind of tea the monks in the temple use for the Buddha, some people will naturally seek it out, or buy it for themselves to drink, or buy it and give it to the temple.
This is the idea of the shopkeeper Liang, after the pearl orchid tea was sent to the temples in the past few years, the sales increased greatly, and although the amount of tortoiseshell tea this year is not much, it is still a few catties to the temple.
When Tong'er got the news, he hurriedly thanked him, and then jumped off the stone bench and said with a bitter face: "I was almost killed by my son......
The young man smiled: "It's not because you were born young." If your son-in-law is seen, he won't be able to tell the difference. When the time comes, the matter will be big, and you will not be blamed in front of your mother? Okay, okay, go to the temple monk to ask for some of this tortoiseshell tea, and if you eat well, you can buy some for your mother when you go back to the city. By the way, what kind of tea did the girl say just now? "
This makes sense, and Tong'er had to admit that he was unlucky, and said with a straight face: "It's Huiyi Tea Shop." I heard that this flower tea was born from this tea shop. "After that, I went out to ask the monk for tea.
Taohua and the others didn't see that the young man was also on the wall before, and even Tong'er only showed most of his face, so he didn't recognize it as a group of people cooking tea in the grass house, but they were local pilgrims in Huishan, and they didn't know that there was a new flower tea, so after doing the publicity, they left it behind.
Cooking tea is just a small episode, Lu Ying's real goal is vegetarian food and Huiquan wine at noon.
The reputation of vegetarian food in Huishan Temple is not obvious, mainly because there is no gimmick of making fish and meat taste with such vegetarian dishes, but it is also clean and exquisite. The fungus and mushrooms collected by the monks from the mountains, the homemade tofu gluten, the self-grown green vegetables and radish, the fresh bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest in the back mountain, and even the oil used are the vegetable oil squeezed from the tea seeds picked from Huishan, the vegetable color is light, but there is natural deliciousness. A few pickled side dishes are seasoned with vinegar and Sichuan peppercorns, which are particularly refreshing, and they are paired with a glass of mellow Huiquan wine, which really complements each other.
Lu Ying took a chopstick and chewed the bamboo shoots, took another sip of wine, let out a long breath, shook his head and said, "Good wine, good wine!" As he spoke, he looked at the two bottles on the table.
The wine bottles in Huishan Temple are indeed larger than ordinary wine bottles, but they will only come after donating sesame oil money. If you don't donate money for sesame oil and don't eat in the temple, you won't have this wine. In this way, this wine is said to be a gift, but it is actually more expensive than the wine sold in ordinary stores, and it has a good reputation of being out of the ordinary.
Even Taohua had to sigh secretly, monks are good at doing business. Seeing that Lu Ying drank another glass, she was not allowed to drink any more, and asked the maids to take out the wine jug, divide the remaining wine into two parts, and take it back to drink.
This is allowed in the temple, and it is called blessing, but in fact, it is to let more people taste this wine, so that they can come to the temple several times.
Lu Ying watched as the wine was put into the wine jug, and then was put away selflessly by the light scarlet iron face, shook the wine bottle with a bitter face, poured the remaining bits into the cup, and sighed: "I only drank three glasses......"
"Three cups is a lot." Taohua said ruthlessly, "Isn't there still a pot to bring back?" Be content, you two sisters, and we will only get a pot. "
Lu Ying retorted: "If you take it back and only give it to Uncle Jiang to drink, I will bring this pot back, and the family will be divided." "There are only a few people in the Jiang family, and how many people are in the Tan family.
"Then you've drunk the most of three glasses." Taohua touched her face, already slightly warm, "It's enough." If you go back with a red face, see if Mrs. Tan scolds you. I had a sweet plum soup with hangover, and I got into the carriage and drank a few sips after a while. "
Lu Ying also felt a little light. Don't look at her love to drink, in fact, the amount of alcohol is really average, so when she heard the words, she nodded and got up, stretched her waist and sighed: "I have been idle for half a day, and I want to go back again." "
Taohua almost burst out laughing: "It's as if you're too busy in the Tan family." "
Qingfei came over to help Lu Ying, and said with a smile: "Miss Jiang doesn't know, this time the cousin girl came over, and our wife really didn't let her be idle." Every day, she is either a needlewoman or a housekeeper with his wife. "
"Okay, okay, now it's a trap." Taohua patted Lu Ying's shoulder and said with a smile, "That is, Mrs. Tan loves you, shouldn't you learn all of this." "
Lu Ying is already fourteen years old, according to the rules of this dynasty, most girls at this age have already begun to see each other's relatives, and they will almost get married in a year or two after Jilu. The housekeeper takes care of the accounts, and I don't know how to be a daughter at home, but I can use it as a daughter-in-law. The wives of the Lu family are afraid that no one will think of letting Lu Ying learn this, that is, Mrs. Tan, think so well for her nephew and daughter.
Lu Ying sighed and said, "I know that my aunt loves me. If my aunts and uncles were so happy now, what would they do? "
Scarlet smiled: "That's right." The girl doesn't need to think about so much, she has a wife. "She is Mrs. Tan's personal maid, so she naturally knows many things that others don't know. Mrs. Lu had long been worried about her daughter's family affairs, and she also communicated with Mrs. Tan in private, planning to marry Lu Ying to the Tan family.
If you talk about the family of Lu and Tan, it is the Lu family that is the top. The Tan family has only produced a few people, and the highest is to achieve Bapin County. However, Lu Ying is an orphan girl, and she doesn't even have a brother, so her worth is greatly discounted, and it makes sense to really marry into the Tan family. What's more, the two families are close to each other, and outsiders are beyond reproach.
Lu Ying didn't know that her mother and aunt had this plan, but she was open-minded by nature, and after listening to Qingfei's words, she put aside the unhappy things, and walked around the temple with Taohua and Yanhua again, and then took the carriage back with satisfaction.
After they left, the three people in the next courtyard also left for the mountain. They rode horses, much faster than the carriage, and when they arrived at the gate of Wuxi, they had already caught up with the carriage.
"Childe, isn't that the carriage of those girls?" The boy had sharp eyes and recognized it at a glance from the carriage and horses at the city gate.
"Hmm-" The young man glanced at him casually, "The second room of the Jiang family? Interesting. At the beginning, it was almost connected to the whole family, but now it is quite moist. "Just now they were in the temple, and they had already learned from Xiao Shami's mouth that it was the daughter of the Jiang family who came from the courtyard next to them - when Taohua asked Mint to go to the meditation room to rest, she used the name of the Jiang family.
"Little remember, there is a ...... in the palace whose surname is Jiang"
"What a mother, just a Jieyu." The young man casually lowered his head, just looking at the wine gourd hanging from the saddle, "It's just that a group of people flattered me because I was pregnant." Whatever, the tea is good, let's go, go to Huiyi Tea Store and have a look. "