Chapter 71: Scholars, Men, and Strange Lands
In the afternoon, the winter sun overhead is warm, projecting down, bright, reflecting the entire long street is also glowing with a faint golden halo, which is very beautiful.
Zhao Xing and Qin Shuang got out of the carriage and walked a little longer, a little thirsty, so they sat at a noodle stall and asked for two bowls of coarse tea, and rested for a while.
At this moment, a man walked in the distance, staggering and panting.
This is a picturesque young man, about fifteen or sixteen years old, with a gentle demeanor, wearing a bamboo and green Hanfu, and he is also a scholar. It's just that he looks like he's come from a long journey, and his face is tired.
He sat down, put a dozen copper coins on the table, asked the shopkeeper for a bowl of tea, and then let out a long sigh, tore off a piece of his clothes, and squatted down to wrap the soles of his feet.
Zhao Xing glanced over, but saw that a pair of snow-white silk shoes had been torn, and a small half of his slightly bloodstained feet jumped out of them.
Seeing that he doesn't look like an ordinary down-and-out scholar, even if he goes out to play, it is impossible not to have silver taels, why is he like a wolf.
Zhao Xing was thinking about it, and the young man seemed to see Zhao Xing's thoughts, and smiled at her, "In front of the contemptible faux pas, let this brother see a smile." ”
Zhao Xing saw that he looked stupid and very funny, so he asked casually, "It's okay, when people don't fall by chance, little brother doesn't have to think about it." It's just that the little brother looks like he has a solid family, why ......"
"Alas, brother Tai doesn't know something, I don't know something......"
Zhao Xing's words seemed to arouse the scholar to confide in him, he sighed, and then spit out bitter water.
He said that he was surrounded and chased for three days and three nights, because the pair of soft satin silk shoes under his feet had been worn by the thorns and sand stones along the way, and his feet were bleeding, dull and swollen.
Zhao Xing and Qin Shuang asked in unison, "Who is chasing you?" ”
The young man sighed again, and he was profound, "Zi said that only women and villains are difficult to raise, but who knows that this female ghost is also difficult to raise......"
Zhao Xing and Qin Shuang trembled, glanced at each other, hurriedly looked at him, and asked in surprise, "Female ghost?" ”
The boy shook his head and sighed, then repeatedly.
It turned out that he was a native of Xiayang, with a good family background, and he lived a life of wealth and leisure, and his family had set a family affair for him since he was a child, and the marriage date of the two was approaching. The woman is a Chengji person, and her father is Liu Zhenting, a master of calligraphy and painting, and this Liu Qianniang is also a talented woman with the same name as Zhuo Wenjun in Chengji County.
"That's good, you talented women look like Qin Se and Ming, why do you want to ......" Zhao Xing couldn't help but be even more confused.
"It's hard to put into words, it's hard to put into words." The young man shook his head and groaned, looked at Zhao Xing, and his stomach gurgled. He blushed instantly.
Zhao Xing couldn't help but smile and asked the store to give him a bowl of noodles. At first, he refused to eat it, and he grinded a lot of truths, but later he was besieged by Zhao Xing, "It's better to be respectful than to obey." ”
I only listened to him while eating, it turned out that the matter later changed, and when the marriage date was approaching, the woman suddenly contracted a vicious disease, and in order not to drag him down, she wanted to cancel the marriage contract. Since he didn't want to do such a fortunate thing, he refused to live or die, saying that since the two of them had a marriage contract, then in this life and this life, whether they were alive or dead, good or bad, they could all be abandoned.
The woman's family was moved, and seeing that he was resolute, Liu Zhenting, the father of Liu Qianniang, said that he and Qianniang would be given a three-year period, and if Qianniang was still ill after three years, the two parties would marry each other, and he would do his best to be moral.
Later, although the Liu family refused, he didn't know what disease Liu Qianniang suffered, but with the Liu family's family background in Chengji, it was like this, it must be a terminal illness, he went through guò more than a year to investigate, only to know that Chang'an has a god in Lanruo Temple, the people in the temple have superb medical skills, and they are very powerful, so they come thousands of miles.
"Lanruo Temple?"
Zhao Xing was shocked. Qin Shuang also shook slightly.
"Did you find it?" Zhao Xing asked.
"Well, of course." He paused, and then said with annoyance, "It's just that the female ghost is really difficult, and first asked me some grotesque nonsense, such as where is this?" Who is the emperor this year? I thought that she was a ghost, so I treated her respectfully, but begged her to go back with me to heal Qianniang, but she insisted that I go down the mountain to collect the rouge on the lips of twenty women, and then I was willing to go back with me, and I was willing to go back with me, and I just received two, and I was chased and fled, and the silver on my body was ......."
Qin Shuang also heard that something was wrong, and said, "How do you know that she is from Lanruo Temple?" ”
Scholar: "She said it herself, and many people in Chang'an have begged her to treat her illness, it is said that it is very powerful, and all the water that has been lit by her can cure all diseases, and even tetanus can be cured in a few days." ”
"Ahem." When Zhao Xing heard this, she already knew it in her heart, so she coughed lightly and asked with a smile, "That female ghost is different from the women you usually see, and her words and deeds are very out-of-the-box?" ”
"Exactly!" The scholar had a full expression on his face.
Zhao Xing's eyelashes moved slightly, and she laughed at him, "Little brother, what you met was not a female ghost, but a ...... Naughty ghost. ”
And he said, "Where did you meet her?" ”
Scholar: "Don't touch the mountain." ”
"What?" Zhao Xing was startled, and hurriedly looked at Qin Shuang, Qin Shuang's expression did not move, thinking that it should be the same as her, and his heart suddenly cooled half: If you don't touch the mountain, it will be broken, it seems that this Lanruo Temple is impossible to find.
I was thinking about it, but I suddenly felt a chill behind my back.
"Are you going to Lanruo Temple?"
The person who questioned him was a man wearing an ink-colored hat sitting behind Zhao Xing, who was wearing a dark blue robe that covered his face.
Only from the gap in the hat can I see that pair of eyes, which are unusually bright. A sharp color flashed in his eyes, and he lowered his head and ate noodles carelessly.
Zhao Xing looked at him: "Do you know Lanruo Temple?" ”
He didn't raise his eyes: "Yes." ”
Zhao Xing and the three of them were shocked, and the scholar asked urgently, "What do you mean, if you don't touch the mountain, the female ghost is really not from Lanruo Temple?" ”
The man did not answer, but the meaning was clear.
Zhao Xing: "Then may I ask Your Excellency, where is Lanruo Temple?" ”
Man: "He's not anywhere in the world." ”
Zhao Xing was anxious and cross-examined: "Isn't there no zài at all?" ”
Man: "You can say that, too. ”
Zhao Xing gritted her teeth for a while, and secretly scolded your uncle, what kind of Tai Chi did you give Lao Tzu! The scholar next to her was calmer than her, and asked, "Why?" ”
The man picked a noodle stick, slowly swallowed it, chewed it, swallowed it, and replied word by word: "Because it shouldn't be stored zài." ”
Three of them: "......"
Zhao Xing had no choice but to get straight to the point and asked respectfully, "Then I don't know, can Your Excellency take us to this place?" ”
"No, you can't."
Xiao Qian's face was injured: "Why?" ”
Man: "Because I'm not happy." ”
Qin Shuang's face sank, and he wanted to pass, but suddenly stopped.
Zhao Xing fainted to death, but he also saw Qin Shuang's hesitation, and he was afraid in his heart, so he only raised his eyebrows and glared at him, and cursed secretly: You kid deliberately played tricks, didn't you, why did you have nothing to answer if you didn't want to take us there? Shall we go to Lanruo Temple to care about your?
stared at his ink-colored hat viciously: It's okay to wear a hat, it must be too ugly......
The man, who seemed to see through what she was thinking, swept his eyes to Zhao Xing, Zhao Xing's hair immediately stood up, and he was thinking about whether to pull out his legs and run away.
But he heard his voice say, "Okay, I'll take you there." ”
“……”
The three of them were flattered, Zhao Xing: "Why are you willing now?" ”
The man was light: "Because I'm happy." ”
At this time, the afterglow of the winter sun has completely faded, the thick clouds overlap, the twilight is gradually coming, and the cold wind is blowing.
The man walked fast, and no matter how fast the three of them strode forward, he always kept a step ahead of them.
Zhao Xing, Qin Shuang, and scholars followed him faster and faster, walking faster and faster, and they had paid attention to the scenery around them before, but then they couldn't take care of the surroundings, and they only remembered that they were led by him through countless bustling and noisy streets and alleys in a trance......
"Here we are."
He stopped.
A large mansion appeared in front of the three of them, and the mansion stood majestically and looked like it had been some years old.
The man said that when he entered the gate, he kept walking, and when he reached the end, he could see the owner of Lanruo Temple.
Xu was windy at night, and Zhao Xing was blown by the wind that came from nowhere, and couldn't help but shudder.
She looked ahead, and a long, long blue stone path stretched up until she saw the depths of the stone path, and the stone path was covered with heavy white snow, and at the end of the snow stood a door, delicately carved and gorgeous.
A few people walked forward.
There is a pair of delicate white jade knockers on the door.
The scholar knocked on the door, and the dark red wooden door made a dull, deep sound, but no one answered.
Zhao Xing was stunned for a moment, turned around and wanted to ask the man, but the man was gone.
She was suddenly a little scared, could that person be the daughter Gu who could change her shape?
The scholar also said: "Could that person lie to us?" ”
As soon as he finished speaking, the door opened, but there was still no one.