Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Cat Meows
"What's this expression?"
As soon as Xia Shijie left, Hongchen came back and saw that the family was big and small, and the men and women all looked at her with special pity and gentle eyes, and she even felt that even Ping An had become so well-behaved.
"I have long known that I am not the daughter of the Jiang family, so there must be biological parents, but after so many years, there is no contact with each other, and it doesn't matter who they are now."
Hongchen slowly poured himself a cup of tea, "I think it's good that they are the Xia family, if their family is poor, or if they have other troubles, I can't stand by anyway, after all, they gave me my life, if there is another case, what kind of traitor are they, wouldn't I be very wronged?" So now that their identities have been confirmed, I can really breathe a sigh of relief, it seems that they don't lack my daughter, and I don't lack a pair of parents, and they are safe with each other, which is no better. ”
Luo Niang: "......"
If this is said elsewhere, it will definitely be accused of deviant, and now people value the family, if there is no family protection, it is rootless duckweed, and it is impossible to stand in the world, like Hongchen, it is too rare.
In her previous life, Hongchen also had the same idea as most people, thinking that the family was very important, and hoped to be recognized by everyone in the Xia family, but after living for a long time, she understood in her heart that there are no absolutes in the world, and common sense will always fail due to various accidents.
Until now, she can't understand what Xia Chan has done to make her status as stable as Mount Tai in the Xia family, and those relatives even do not hesitate to suppress themselves for this, as well as the approval of Lord Zhao of Qintianjian, what is going on!
Hongchen himself knows very well. Her life is no problem at all, although she only knew a little bit about the gossip of Liuyao at that time, but Mr. Guigu calculated it for her, only saying that she had a bad fate, and there was nothing else, don't look at the big name surnamed Zhao, compare with Mr. Guigu...... There is no comparison.
Since she didn't take it to heart, Luo Niang and Ah Yan's girls were much more at ease.
Within a few days, the Liu family sent her a letter.
Chang Sui has found their old man.
Hongchen smiled when he saw it, it seems that Liu Wu is doing well in the Xia family now. So fast. I'm afraid that it can only be done by flying pigeons.
As far as she knows, the flying pigeons domesticated by the Xia family are not ordinary, they are the kind that can go thousands of miles away and send messages directly to the battlefield. A good pigeon that will never get lost. However, domestication is extremely difficult. When she was in the Xia family, thirty pairs of children were domesticated one year, and even the patriarch was shocked. Everyone was stuffed with a lot of bounty.
Liu Wu can let the Xia family use flying pigeons, or for personal matters, at least he has to enjoy the treatment of an elder.
The old man knew that Hongchen had saved his grandson, and he sent her a letter.
Hongchen couldn't help but laugh at a glance, she still knew Liu Wu better, the one who had always been protective of his shortcomings, and he knew how to repay his kindness, but he was not a person who was used to speaking more, and he was very clumsy, this letter was gorgeous, full of gratitude, earnest, and very sincere, which of his disciples should help.
In addition to gratitude, the letter also asked Hongchen to help surpass the general they met.
This is nothing, it's a good thing, Hongchen directly asked the three great monks of Puji Temple, anyway, that guy is a familiar hand, he has recently become famous in Qi County, and has done several grand ceremonies, and also held a popular lecture, which has a large number of listeners and is famous.
Of course, the Liu family has no opinions, although the elder of his family believes in Hongchen very much, but the three angry monks go to that station, that momentum, that feeling, definitely like a superior person than Hongchen.
The three hats meant it, and after receiving three hundred taels, it was still silver, not gold, and he agreed to come down.
"The money must not be collected, otherwise it will be of no benefit to the donor, but it should not be overcharged, otherwise I will not be kind to the Hongchen girl."
That's true...... Do not understand.
After a long period of gratitude, Hongchen was completely speechless.
Turning his head, he said, "Turn around and divide your half." ”
“…… Count the sesame oil money I donated. ”
She doesn't lack this bit of silver now, she just wants those good men and women who pursue the great monk to see what kind of virtue the real master of the three hatreds is!
Leave the matter to the great monk, even if this matter is over, Hongchen doesn't care, she is purely helping this time, in order to repay the favor.
Sending off this group of uninvited guests, Hongchen went to the academy.
Today, Mr. Wu's family, who teaches riding and archery, gave birth to a child, and he left early, only letting the students lead the horses out and run away by themselves.
As soon as the gentleman left, a group of students turned their heads to look at Hongchen, including most of the men in front, all of them had a look of resentment, Hongchen smiled, and honestly stepped aside: "I don't ride, you come." ”
The students then turned back to lead the horses.
There are a few students who have just come to study abroad recently and have been introduced to the academy are a little puzzled, such a beautiful girl, it is said that someone should have gone up to offer courtesy, why did she not even let people ride horses?
Fang Xiaoying, a freshman over there, hadn't played yet, and there were already two senior brothers who went over to help her brush the horse, install the saddle, and bring her a kettle and hand her a horse whip, which was called a courteous and thoughtful.
Look carefully, Fang Xiaoying is not as beautiful as anyone except that she is a little older than Hongchen, how can she be treated so differently!
The other students rolled their eyes.
How can such a beautiful girl not be attentive? Hongchen is no longer the yellow-skinned appearance at the beginning, after such a long period of careful recuperation, the demeanor of Yanguan Yong'an City has recovered a little bit back then, and his appearance and temperament are first-class, but all the poor babies who try to be attentive will be abused by others who have opened a plug-in riding skill.
His horse doesn't follow him.,Specially go to flatter the little beauty.,Other people's mounts don't let themselves touch at all.,If you want to get close, you have to break through the blockade.,Not to mention.,As soon as that beauty classmate comes on the field.,Including Mr. Mounted Archery.,Everyone has to spend several times more strength than usual to control the mount.,That's not bad.。
The fourth time I took a riding and archery lesson, Mr. said that the one that could be used as a big killing weapon and thrown directly into the battlefield of Beiyan to ensure that all the most powerful cavalry in Beiyan would stop!
It's a pity that she only has one person, if there are dozens of them, it would not be a pipe dream for Beiyan to fall to the Great Zhou early in the morning.
More than a dozen young students galloped on horseback. Staring at the big sun, Hongchen sat in the shade drinking herbal tea and eating snacks, and the occasional teaching and learning was not strange, half a month ago they tried to let Hongchen also participate in riding and archery training, and now they have almost given up.
She was idle, the Liu family's long-term follower, and Guo Lao's wandering over, Guo Lao was very leisurely, with a little curiosity in his eyes, but the long-term follower looked inexplicable.
Hongchen was stunned: "What's wrong?" Isn't your family doing things today? Three are angry about your family's money? ”
Long with a sigh. Hurriedly shook his head: "Miss, don't look at jokes!" ”
How could the great monks of Puji Temple blackmail?
"It's the Master of Three Anger who said. The one who wants to overdo has been in the place of the most yin for too long, and he is a little troublesome, and he wants Miss Hongchen to take a hand. ”
He is also a little bit of a drum in his heart, and the three hated masters are doing things. The gossip mirror he was resting on the table suddenly fell. His own face is not very good-looking. After stopping to drink a cup of tea, he asked him to come to Miss Hongchen, how do you see that something is wrong!
It is a matter of the safety of his young master. There is no room for him to be careless.
Hongchen was stunned, and before he could speak, the Yujue space actually flashed, but this time the task was very strange, and the two buttons of acceptance and rejection were blank except for lighting up, and there was no explanation.
She shook her hand and accepted it.
Hongchen: "......" is really cheap!
The main reason is that she has more and more dealings with the Yujue space, and she communicates with people in it a lot, and she knows that the so-called realistic tasks are all based on her own needs, and it will appear if you want to do it, and there is no specific punishment for failure, just the loss of the reward you deserve for success.
In that case, she was naturally much more relaxed.
Then let's go, she hasn't done this kind of thing, but it's definitely not difficult to do, with Guo Lao here, Hongchen said a word to a few classmates, and left the school gate without asking for advice.
Xiao Mo was waiting at the door.
"I'm with you." Pushing the car door and helping Hongchen up, Xiao Mo sat in the driver's seat and smiled.
Hongchen was a little surprised, blinked, and didn't say much, anyway, it was a little more stable to let Xiao Mo catch the car.
A group of people Hao Hao Tang Tang killed Cangqing Mountain.
It's not too far from her teahouse, so you don't have to go back to the academy when you're done, and it's good to go home directly.
The huge Dharma platform is built in a dense jungle, which may look very simple at first glance, but after looking at it twice, I don't know if it is a problem of the construction angle, and it looks particularly imposing.
The three monks stood on it, their robes were golden, and under the sunlight, they were almost the same as the Buddha in the temple.
"Whew!"
Hongchen rolled his eyes, and without waiting for her to say hello, the three angers fluttered down, Shi Shiran bowed, and said seriously: "It can't be done, you take over." ”
Seeing Hongchen's face incredible, he smiled bitterly, "I am used to giving him all my souls with a sword, and all my souls will be scattered." In fact, he hadn't seen a few ghosts, and most of the time he was asked to exorcise evil spirits and hunt ghosts, and it was just to fool people.
Of course, I've seen it a few times, it's just some induction, and those things are an ethereal induction for him, and he can't communicate, so he doesn't take those seriously, just disperse them, and destroy them.
"I'm not familiar with this matter, anyway, I've used all the methods, recited the scriptures, done the rituals, and I'm so tired that I'm sweating profusely, and it's useless at all."
Hongchen frowned, glanced over, a very empty and pale shadow stood in the sun, still holding a knife in her hand, since she was reborn, she has also seen ghosts a few times, but most of them are not really afraid of the sun, and they are used to hiding in the shadows, but this one seems to be trying very hard to get into the sun.
The next moment, he suddenly glanced back, Hongchen was suddenly taken aback, and then found that he was not looking at himself, as if he was looking at ...... Xiao Mo.
Turning his head, Xiao Mo stood there expressionlessly, but there were faint tears in his eyes, but the phantom face became very hideous, opening his mouth and roaring, it was almost a hissing sound, and the knife in his hand was also wielding desperately, but what he wanted to express, others couldn't understand at all.
Hongchen frowned, glanced at the three angry monks, the three anger's whole body tensed, he couldn't see the specifics, but he could feel the gusts of yin wind.
The descendants of the Liu family over there were confused, but they still felt very bad: "Master, Hongchen girl, but what happened?" ”
Hongchen shook his head and reached out tentatively to touch the black mist around him. It was so cold that she shivered, and suddenly retracted her hand: "...... Didn't you old man say what cause and effect he had with the white bones? ”
The group looked at each other, no one spoke, it seemed that Liu Wu refused to speak, Hongchen had no choice, so he had to drag Sanyan to the Dharma platform: "I tried to communicate with him, but it really didn't work, I could only let his soul fly away." ”
It is a great sin to let a soul wander away. Ordinary people who are not psychic will not feel the problem when they are alive. He was liquidated when he died, but like Sanyan and Hongchen, when he really did it, he immediately felt like something was covered with something. It's terrible.
Thankfully, this one doesn't seem to have much room to salvage.
Sanyan nodded solemnly.
Hongchen tried to use the usual method of communicating with spiritual objects. Let the aura surge, rushing towards the shadow, and the brain suddenly went into a trance. It felt like I was in a cold hell, and my whole body was stiff.
"Why, why?"
The rough, trembling voice instantly echoed in her mind, she used to communicate with spiritual objects, she felt warm and comfortable, and her whole body was comfortable, but this time she couldn't help but want to run away several times, or reluctantly appeased with spiritual power, she used to appease the little jasmine who was prickly, and she could make the other party very obedient at once, this time after working hard for a long time, the cold was a little smaller.
In the blink of an eye, a picture appeared in Hongchen's mind, the general in black armor was covered in blood, sitting in a study, and if you looked closely, it was the study of the Liu family, Liu Wu circled back and forth around the open space, with an ugly expression on his face.
The general's expression was gentle with a hint of sadness: "You just need to tell me where I am, I'll go by myself, even if I miss, it won't affect you." ”
Liu Wu was silent for a long time, gritted his teeth, and said sharply: "Don't think nonsense, you go, go as far as possible, you ...... On the Heavenly Wolf Mountain, the old prince Lin was captured and self-defeated...... Qilang escaped from the battle and has been executed, this is what the saint said, what is the use of you now taking Yu Shuai's handwritten letter to prove that Qilang once went to ask for reinforcements? They can say that the handwritten book is a forgery, or they can say that Shichiro was scared halfway and took the handwritten book and fled! ”
"Do you want to say that the first emperor Tuogu's minister was at fault, or that His Majesty made a mistake? Now that the Lin family can survive for the sake of the merits of the ancestors, His Majesty will not touch the old and weak women and children of that family, but if you make trouble again, maybe everyone's lives will be involved. ”
"They won't be afraid, and I'm not afraid." The black armor general listened to it and turned a deaf ear, always gentle and calm, "The Lin family's reputation cannot be destroyed, we will only die standing up, not living on our knees." ”
Liu Wu was stunned, and finally sighed: "That's it, I'll go with you." ”
The black-armored general bowed silently, and his face showed a bit of joy.
Seeing this, the picture suddenly shook - the dark hole, Liu Wu actually stabbed it over, looking at the general's neck, it may be the end, hesitate, the knife man is not dead, and he is struggling.
The bright red blood seemed to be sprayed on Hongchen's face all at once, and the bloody breath was in her nose, and she also suddenly came back to her senses, looking at the black shadow in disbelief.
On the contrary, the black shadow seemed to be less angry, the black qi on his body gradually weakened, the white mist was hazy, and it became lighter and lighter, and he knelt respectfully at Hongchen and kowtowed twice.
Hongchen was taken aback!
The three great monks were also taken aback: "Huh? ”
A warm wind blew, the sun sprinkled, the heat steamed, the descendants of the Liu family raised their hands to cover the sun, touched their arms again, and were shocked: "It's so warm!" He looked at Hongchen incredulously, and then at Master Sanra.
This morning, he followed Master Sanyi up the mountain, even at noon, when it was the hottest, it was also cold here, he even put on a big hat, he was still shivering, the sun was high, it was as if the sun couldn't shine down, but just now, the weather instantly changed from bad winter to hot summer.
"Miss Hongchen, Master? But solved? ”
It's a little too fast, at that time, the master was dancing swords on the stage, chanting scriptures, and dancing for a long time, it looked like a crazy demon, and there was no change on the mountain, at this time, I only saw Miss Hongchen staring at a place for a while, and the sun was shining immediately, and even he, a layman, felt absolutely different.
Sanyan coughed and nodded solemnly: "I have done the Dharma for so long just now, the matter has been resolved a long time ago, Miss Hongchen and I sent that one away just now, donors don't need to be nervous." ”
Chang Sui suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.
Leave it all going on, just fix the problem.
Turning around, the serious-looking monk grabbed Hongchen's sleeve and asked in a low voice, "What's the situation?" You didn't overtake him, why did he leave on his own? ”
You ask me. Who goes, I ask? She was also very confused, Hongchen rolled her eyes, and said with a smile: "Guess! ”
The three hatreds were choked all of a sudden, and the layman didn't care, he was an insider, just now the evil spirit was so strong, according to the popular formulation, there was really a ghost, it was a ghost for many years, and the Tao was profound. This little girl was standing there. I didn't use charms, I didn't use magic weapons, I didn't even set up a shelf, I didn't build a magic platform. Why does the ghost say that the excess is excessive? At that moment, the momentum of fighting to the end!
Don't care how incredible the great monk is. Hongchen turned his head and left. "Are you leaving?"
"How can you not wrap it up?" Sanyan rolled his eyes, "Do you understand the rules!" ”
Hongchen blinked, and looked at the three angers and went to fool the Liu family again. told all kinds of things seriously, and he got in the car and left with Xiao Mo.
She still didn't ask Xiao Mo anything, it was fate for these people to get together from all over the world, Luo Niang and they didn't want to talk about the past, she didn't force it, and Xiao Mo was the same.
July is over, and the heat is getting stronger.
The people who are looking for seclusion on the green mountains are gradually increasing, the mountains are shady, there is living water, and the trees are dense, it is really a good place to escape the heat in summer.
As soon as there were many people, the mountains became less clean, and the surrounding villagers came one after another, some carrying burdens and buying some snacks made at home, even if they set up a stall to sell tea, it was five or six times more expensive than selling it at the bottom of the mountain.
Some people miss the time, can't go down the mountain at night, they inevitably have to sleep in the open, Hongchen simply let people build some simple sheds on the side of the road, not to mention anything else, it's okay to block the wind and rain, and then light the lamp, but also give a little guidance to people who walk at night.
It is very dangerous to walk at night in the mountains, not only wild beasts and the like, other creatures may also run out to move, in case you encounter something dirty, it is not a joke, it is better to put up a shed to block it, most of the evil spirits in the wild do not dare to enter the houses built by humans, you build a house on the land, you are the inhabitants of this side, you can get the protection of a side of the land, at least not the evil spirit of the climate, absolutely intrusion.
Fortunately, it has not rained in the past few days. There are more people, and the business of the teahouse has become very good, and even Hongchen has to work overtime to make those wild teas when he comes back from the academy.
This kind of thing, Xiao Mo and they can only help at most, or they can get some cheap and ordinary tea, real fried tea, and make tea cakes, all of which are made by Hongchen and a few girls, and the tea they make will have an indescribable fragrance, most ordinary people can't taste it, good tongue, love tea, but can feel the difference.
Sometimes Hongchen also feels very hypocritical, when she was poor in Jiangjiazhuang, she sold it in the tea shed outside, a big pot of tea for five cents, she drank it very well, not much worse than the good tea that was later priced than gold, but after a long time, the tongue was raised, and people were also used to hypocrisy, eating fish only eating the back, tasting a duck tongue, and the duck also had to be served by someone, now that I think about it, it seems that such a meal is not sweet.
While thinking about some old things, Hongchen picked out the tea leaves selectively, and the kitten came over and said, "Miss, there are a few guests who want to stay overnight." ”
This kind of thing happens from time to time, Hongchen responded to the sentence and let the kitten watch to do it, there are many girls in the family, although later raised more than ten hunting dogs, in the end there are few people, afraid of being unsafe, the general situation is not familiar with the guests do not live, but really let the kind of road into the mountain is not familiar, miss the accommodation, and look at the very safe guests, it is not that it can not be accommodating.
To open a store and do business, you must always understand people's feelings.
After cleaning up the tea, Hongchen went back to the house and lay on the bed, rolled up a quilt, and slept in a daze.
"Meow!" "Meow, meow, meow!"
In the middle of the night, when she was sleeping sweetly, there was a sudden burst of cat meows in her ears, the sound was not the kind of baby crying, nor was it scary, but it couldn't stop at all, and it kept drilling into her ears.
Hongchen had no choice but to open his eyes, light the light, and see a white shadow flashing on the window, a big white cat with a tail together, and a big white cat with an arm's length running away in a blink of an eye, before turning his head to look at her.
The eyes were green, shining in the night, very quiet, and very creepy, it looked at Hongchen and ran forward a few more steps, and when it was finished, it stopped and turned back, as if it was greeting her.
Hongchen thought about it, put on his clothes and went out, followed the cat all the way to the front yard, as soon as he entered the yard, he heard the sound of whining, Ping An and a black, densely haired big wolf dog squatted side by side on the rockery, vigilantly erected his eyes, staring at the cat, but a little hesitant, and did not pounce, Hongchen touched the loyal big wolf dog, let it lick the back of his hand. (To be continued......)