Chapter X
Shen Ruyu still remembered Wen Ming.
Well, that's a ...... A teenager who can make an impression.
When I met him back then, Shen Ruyu had just turned fifteen, and Wen Ming had just turned twelve, and the young man who had not even grown up had delicate facial features, and at that age, he had a kind of androgynous beauty.
I don't know if it's because everyone in his family believes in Taoism very much, since he was born, he often stayed with the elders in the family and stayed in the Taoist temple.
It's just that because he always can't eat enough in the Taoist temple, Wen Ming hates the Taoist temple very much, and every time he lives in the Taoist temple, his temper will become extremely bad.
Maybe it's because you can't eat enough in the Taoist temple? He can obviously be regarded as growing up in a Taoist temple with a pure heart and few desires, but he is not contaminated with that kind of indifferent and unworldly mentality at all, but is more likely to be obsessed than ordinary people, stubborn and paranoid, and even a little unscrupulous.
But twelve-year-old Wen Ming, in Shen Ruyu's impression, was a rather silent and shy introverted child at the beginning.
At that time, in the suspicious list submitted by Song Jin's intelligence network, after heavy screening, Wen Ming was the first person judged by Shen Ruyu to need close observation.
The identity of the traverser, especially the soul piercing, is difficult for ordinary people to see, and only the same traverser can determine the identity of the other party from various details.
Therefore, Shen Ruyu lied about experiencing life and left the Shen Mansion, hid her identity and went to the Taoist temple where Wen Ming was staying, and lived in another room.
This is a Taoist temple where most of the female crowns practice, called Fengchi Temple, it pays attention to the birth of Qing cultivation, and is quite famous among the female dependents in the capital, but Wang Zijun didn't even look at it at the beginning, and put it into the Changchun Temple not far away.
Changchun Guan is much smaller than Fengchi Guan, and there are no famous Taoists, and even a few Taoist female crowns may not even know what cultivation is, and they are busy in the red dust every day, saying that they pay attention to entering the WTO, that is just a nice statement for the sake of Wang Zijun's face.
In fact, it is a very poor small Taoist temple, working hard for a livelihood every day, although his own conditions are not good, but as long as there is spare strength, he will help those poor people, and will also adopt abandoned orphans.
When Wang Zijun followed his mother to worship in the Fengchi Temple, he walked and walked alone with nothing to do, and walked to the Changchun Temple, and suddenly felt that he had found the meaning of his life, and he decided not to look back in an instant to become a female champion of the Changchun Temple.
Wang Zijun has been so personality since he was a child - on the other hand, it is a little unreliable, but because of this, Shen Ruyu is a good friend with her, because you can never guess what interesting things she will do next.
Shen Ruyu was persuaded by him at that time, and he also moved the idea of entering the view, but Shen Nanfeng was startled when he learned about it, strictly forbidden, and hurriedly dragged Cui Wenjun over, and forced her to dispel this idea, which made Wang Zijun quite regretful.
Just because she is so close, Shen Ruyu is afraid that she will be discovered by Wang Zijun, if she finds out that she and Cui Wenjun's fiancΓ© are "experiencing life" in the same Taoist temple, that day's wild mind doesn't know what kind of thoughts will turn around.
It's just that she wanted to observe Wen Ming quietly, but she didn't know if the words "I have something wrong" appeared on this face, or what was going on, obviously she just occasionally met and smiled at him on the road, Wen Ming was stunned for the first time, and the second time, she didn't do anything, so he turned a blind face expressionlessly.
β¦β¦ Hey, hey, you're rude!
Shen Ruyu was stunned for a moment, and felt that there was no need to worry about children, so she smiled again and turned to leave.
It's just that since then, she seems to have been targeted by Wen Ming, and when she has classes in the morning and evening, when she gets together with the female champions to drink tea, play chess, play the piano, and paint, she can often see his small figure, and he doesn't speak, just sits there silently and watches.
Shen Ruyu felt bad at the time - could it be that this guy is a very powerful traverser, and the anti-reconnaissance detected that she was a traverser?!
But after all, she is famous, whether it is tea art, chess art, piano art, or painting skills, they are all trained little by little from a young age - if talented people can determine that it is the traverser who opened the golden finger, then a circle of maverick ancient friends around Shen Ruyu will basically be shot.
What she suspects are those who are young and precocious, and who are quite unreasonable - Wen Ming was known as a talented man at the age of six, and when he was ten years old, he was even called "little as jade", what does "small as jade" mean? That is, he is like a traverser!
Therefore, Shen Ruyu is very frank, but it does not mean that she is relieved to let him continue to observe unscrupulously, after enduring it for several days, Shen Ruyu finally couldn't bear to fight back, after another encounter, Wen Ming continued to turn a blind eye, but Shen Ruyu directly blocked in front of him.
ββ¦β¦ Are you always looking at me? The girl looked at him with some confusion, as if she simply wanted to know the answer.
Wen Ming seemed to be startled by her single knife, he froze in place, stared at her with wide eyes, and argued with some panic: "What? I...... How can I have! β
"But every time I look at you, you're looking at me." Shen Ruyu said suspiciously.
"So, then why are you looking at me?"
ββ¦β¦ Because I feel like someone is watching me. β
"You must be mistaken." He tried to keep a small face and made a very strict judgment.
"Is that so?" Shen Ruyu couldn't help laughing, "Then, did I do something wrong?" Why do you always look like you can't see me every time I greet you? β
"Huh...... You, did you say hello to me? Wen Ming stumbled and said, "You always smile at this and that every day, how do I know that you are smiling at me?" β
β¦β¦ He has a point! Shen Ruyu was speechless for a while.
"Then I'll ...... When I greet you, I call you by your name, right? It's just that Shen Ruyu is Shen Ruyu after all, she just thought about it a little, and then made a decision happily, "It's just that although we are now in the Qing cultivation period, as Taoist friends, we shouldn't be bound by the rules of Hongchen, but after all, we are not real female crown Taoists, I don't want to call you by your name at will, so it's better to ......"
Shen Ruyu looked around, and his eyes suddenly fell on a red mole on his earlobe, the red felt quite festive, Shen Ruyu groaned for a while, and said slowly: "I'll call you...... Is Xiaohong okay? β
Wen Ming: "...... You're just a little red!! β
It's just that Wen Ming's protest couldn't stop Shen Ruyu's self-talk at all, since every time he met, Shen Ruyu smiled and shouted "Xiaohong", Wen Ming began to be silent anymore, and he began to participate in the activities of the women's champions, whether it was Go, calligraphy, painting, playing the piano, riding and archery, they all tried to crush Shen Ruyu with his "little Ruyu" strength.
It's just that...... After all, he is just "small as jade".
Every time Shen Ruyu compared Go, calligraphy, painting, piano, and archery with him, he couldn't lift his head, and she comforted him with kind words......
As a result, the little boy on the opposite side suddenly had red eyes.
Later, Shen Ruyu learned that he lived with his grandparents in the countryside when he was a child, and one day, suddenly a wandering old Taoist who didn't know where he came from said that he was the fate of the Heavenly Evil Lone Star, and no one believed it at first, but soon after, his grandparents both died of illness, and soon after being taken by his parents, it was so coincidental that his father's physical condition began to weaken day by day, and his mother began to frequently take him into the Taoist temple to pray. It's just that the monks in the Taoist temple, whether they look at his face and palm prints, or calculate the eight characters, are sure that he is not the fate of the Heavenly Evil Lone Star, otherwise the birthday eight characters sent by him and Cui Wenjun when they were engaged would not be able to pass guΓ² at all.
It's just that although his parents don't dislike him, they are still quite jealous and very estranged, and even the subordinates in the family avoid him.
In order to please his parents, Wen Mingcai worked extremely hard to learn piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, hoping that he could be more valuable.
"My mother hasn't smiled since my father got sick, and no one seems to smile at me since."
"So, when you smile at me, I don't know how to react for a moment."
When Wen Ming told her these things, they were already very familiar, and the more familiar they were, the more Shen Ruyu concluded that he was not a traverser, and the more relaxed her mood became, and she always smiled brightly at him.
It was the Shangyuan Festival, they were assigned to go down the mountain to help build the altar that the Taoist temple needed to sacrifice at night, and then the two of them wore a loose Taoist robe, and slowly walked along the flow of people to the lantern festival, as the night deepened, the flow of people became more and more crowded, Shen Ruyu naturally grabbed his sleeve, and said with a smile, "Xiaohong, you are such a small one, but be careful not to get separated, if I can't find you, I will die in a hurry." β
"You're Xiaohong...... but Wen Ming seemed to be complaining and muttering dissatisfied, but he obediently grabbed the hem of her clothes, "...... I'm not going to get separated. I'll always follow you. β
In the vast sea of people, under the reflection of the lanterns in the sky, the teenagers and girls who were holding each other were wearing exactly the same cyan robes, and they inadvertently separated each other from the outside world in a trance.
And finally, after Shen Ruyu confirmed that Wen Ming was not a traverser, she no longer planned to continue to stay in the Taoist temple - if she stayed any longer, Li Cong in the palace was afraid that she would send guards to seal the mountain.
only learned that she was leaving, that day Wen Ming dragged her into the grove behind the Taoist temple, and told her with a blush on his face that he liked her.
Shen Ruyu was stunned for a moment. "How do you ......"
She was a little helpless and gently clenched her hand into a fist, and subconsciously pressed it to her lips, "...... Will you like me? β
They have only been together for three months, and although they were very happy to play in the later stage, Shen Ruyu only regarded him as a friend and a younger brother.
She frowned and thought about it, then put down her hand with relief, "You are still young, you can't tell what likes are, you just feel happy with me, and you feel like me." β
She tried to enlighten him, "It's not like that......
But Wen Ming didn't pay attention to her soft voice, he stared at her tightly, and then suddenly stood on tiptoe, about to kiss her, but after all, it was the first time he had done this kind of thing, and the accuracy needed to be improved, almost with bump as an adjective, pressing on the corner of her lips.
But it was enough for Shen Ruyu to be startled and suddenly lose her voice.
"Stop making a fuss." Her tone instantly turned cold, "...... You're young, I'll act as if nothing ever happened. β
If it weren't for the death of Wen Ming's father later, he would have been wearing filial piety for three years, and he would have married Cui Wenjun a long time ago, but now that he is out of the filial piety period, the first thing is to dissolve the marriage contract and become a Taoist monk?
Over the years, his stubborn and willful character seems to have not changed at all.
Shen Ruyu thought back to the note she received last night, and was a little undecided for a while.
- Do you want to meet him?
Early the next morning, Cui Wenjun left, since the other party decided to withdraw from the marriage, she had no reason to be stubborn.
After she left, Ruyu finally had time to bring the clay figurines she bought yesterday to Ruzhuo.
When Shen Ruyu came to Ruzhuo's courtyard, she happened to see that slender figure fiddling with the black and golden Yaohui with an interesting look, but she was obviously very fond of it, looking intently at the black and red petals, but between her eyebrows was full of forbearance and restraint, and her expression was also faint.
If the current emperor is not a man, but a female emperor, judging from Shen Ruyu's experience of having close contact with several members of the royal family, Ruzhuo's every move can be called a model of court etiquette and worthy of the position of queen and queen.
Shen Ruyu was about to walk towards her with a clay figure, but was suddenly startled by the thought that suddenly came to her.
The position of the queen?
Queen?
Queen?!
Wait, speaking of which, the first recovery from a serious illness is also a great time to be worn suddenly!
No, could it be that she was outside on the day and night, but there was a fire in the backyard!?