The continuous rainstorm has been falling for ten days and ten nights, and the water level of the Yuyan River under Yuyan Mountain has overflowed the Yuweiping where Xiaohuawu is located today, and the momentum is approaching the Ci'en Temple on the Yubei Ridge.

The Temple of Mercy and Grace has recreated the grand scene of ten days ago, not only are all the large and small pilgrims full of people, but the temples are basically full of floors. If it weren't for the monks' hard work, I am afraid that the Mahavira Treasure Hall dedicated to the three Buddhas would also be occupied.

However, the merit box of the Temple of Mercy and Grace was stuffed with gold and silver tickets and exchanged several times a day, not counting the incense silver and sesame oil silver that were directly handed over to the monks. For this reason, the first Huitong master of Zhike Academy is both happy and sad - if you continue to squeeze like this, you will not be able to live in the verandah.

This situation is not only in Ci'en Temple, but almost all the monasteries and Taoist temples above the mountainside of Yuyan Mountain are full of people - except for the small and narrow pure glazed hermitage and the Sanqing Temple where the king of Yuyan County stayed.

For lunch on this day, it was again a small pickle with white rice thick porridge, and two vegetarian buns. This kind of food has been eaten for five days, but the guests who are used to being pampered do not dare to complain. Yuyan Mansion was completely soaked in the water, and I didn't know if I could find food to eat. Nowadays, you have to go down the mountain to buy food by boat to Uogawa Mansion, and the price of food in Uokawa Mansion rises three times a day, and it is good to have white rice porridge to eat in the temple.

The guests comforted themselves and insisted that as long as they held on for a few days, everything would be easy to do after the rain stopped. Venerable Su Hui's assertion made it clear that this rainstorm would only fall for more than half a month.

Qiu Tang wore a coat and a hat, especially not enough, and also played a beauty moon worship oil paper umbrella, braved the heavy rain into the corner gate of Ci'en Temple for pilgrims to enter and exit. She took a lot of effort to carry a gold-painted five-layer food box, and only after rushing into a shelter from the rain did she relax her frowning brows and gasp heavily.

Looking at the three-edged stone path in front of him, which was washed by the rain and was about to glow, Qiu Tang sighed, only hated his stinky hands, and lost to Qiu Rong again. She was full of complaints, but she didn't dare to rest for too long, so she only twisted the wet skirt and rushed into the rain again.

After a short time, Qiu Tang arrived at his destination, which was a relatively remote set of three small rooms in the pilgrim's dormitory, which was small and dark compared to the last place they had stayed. But this set of wing rooms was reluctantly moved out of the temple after seeing the face of the three girls of the Zongzheng family, and it was only for the daughters of the Wu family who were also famous in Yuyan Mansion to live.

Qiu Tang was greeted by a big girl ring who was about the same age as her, with a round face and a slightly plump face, bright apricot eyes, a willow waist, and a color of five or six points. As soon as she saw Qiu Tang arrive, this girl was overjoyed, and hurriedly bent her knee to Qiu Tang and then held her arm, and said, "Good sister, you can come, come to the room to bake the fire." Her eyes were already aimed at the food box in Qiu Tang's hand, and she became more and more happy.

Qiu Tang also simply stuffed the handle of the food box into the girl's hand, and said with a smile: "Please also ask Sister Baojuan to give the old aunt and wife, the slave maid will go to dry this dress first, and then go to kowtow to her old man to say goodbye." There are a few more flavors in the dishes here, and the slave maid is struggling to mention it, so it is too late, and I will go to the old aunt and wife to confess later. ”

Baojuan tightly grasped the handle of the food box, but the food box was really heavy, and her body staggered slightly, and she suddenly smiled from ear to ear - there are many dishes, and she may have a big girl ring.

Hurriedly stuffed a bulging purse into Qiu Tang, Bao Juan smiled affectionately and said: "Our old lady has already spoken, Sister Qiu Tang doesn't have to worry about asking for peace, it's better to hurry up and roast the fire." There is no need to say anything about the accusation, it rains so hard, my sister and Sister Qiu Rong come three times a day, we can't help it! ”

Qiu Tang quickly pinched the purse in his hand and smiled even more happily. The old lady in her mouth - the old lady Wu Ren is the sister-in-law of the old lady Ren, the Wu family is a big landlord and a big merchant in Yuyan Mansion, the old lady Wu Ren has a wide hand, this time the purse is only afraid of two five taels of silver, this is ten taels. If it weren't for that, she and Qiu Rong wouldn't want to make a few trips a day.

But no matter how big the hand is, it is difficult to buy a satisfying meal nowadays. The ladies of the Wu family were accustomed to eating delicious food, and on the second day of refuge in Ci'en Temple, they could not bear the sudden drop in the grade of vegetarian food in the temple, and they only suffered from having money and nowhere to go, and they did not dare to take money to buy special treatment unscrupulously.

Later, one day, the old lady Ren of the Zongzheng family sent her first confidant, Cui, to ask the old lady Wu Ren to say goodbye, and when she asked about the diet, the old lady Wu Ren couldn't help but complain a few words that were not elaborate and inappropriate. At noon on the day when Mama Cui went back, Mrs. Ren sent Qiu Tang to bring a meal to Mrs. Wu Ren.

The same vegetarian dishes such as vegetarian fish and vegetarian chicken are exceptionally delicious when the old lady Ren delivers. The old lady Wu Ren had a poisonous eye, and immediately distinguished that these vegetarian dishes were the craftsmanship of Master Fu Huiyong, the most famous vegetarian master of Ci'en Temple in the past.

The old lady Wu Ren accepted these dishes with a smile, and then without saying a word, Ling Qiutang gave the old lady Ren a silver ticket of five hundred taels, but she didn't ask anything. Every day after that, Mrs. Ren would send someone to bring exquisite and delicious meals according to three meals, and occasionally fruit snacks.

After a few days, the eldest girl in front of Mrs. Wu Ren's Huan Baojuan finally came out of Qiu Tang's mouth. It turned out that thanks to the blessing of the three girls of Zongzheng who had won the favor of Venerable Su Hui, the people of the Zongzheng family all stayed in the Qingjing Liuli Nunnery. For this reason, the sisters-in-law of the Qingjing Liuli Nunnery all avoided living in the nearby nunnery.

And the abbot of Ci'en Temple, Zhiqing, has also been entrusted by Venerable Su Hui, so he takes more care of the Zongzheng family. Anyway, now the big guys in Ci'en Temple eat big pot rice, and they are all high-ranking officials and nobles in Yuyan Mansion, and it is really difficult to distinguish the severity in terms of treatment, so they are all stewed with a spoonful. In order to prevent someone from finding fault with the shelf, Abbot Zhiqing simply sent Master Huiyong and the little monk who played the hand to the Qingjing Liuli Nunnery to cook for the people of the Zongzheng family.

The old lady of Wu Ren was envious and sighed, no matter how rich she was, she couldn't buy the Buddha's fate. Today, Baojuan opened the food box, put all kinds of dishes on the table one by one, and suddenly exclaimed in surprise, and brought out a plate of good things.

This is a small plate of ghee snails, only to see that the lines on the snails are really like snails, or pink and pure white two strands of red and white together to form a red and white spiral pattern, it is actually one of the eight famous spots of the country of heaven "double snails".

The old lady of Wu Ren was surprised and delighted, and she chanted the Buddha again and again, and if she wanted to eat this special dim sum of Master Huiyong on weekdays, it also depended on the luck of the Buddha. She was not busy eating, so she ordered Baojuan to put it away first and called Qiu Tang up for questioning.

Qiu Tang asked the old lady of Wu Ren to say goodbye, and said with a smile: "Today is the day of the ten years of Qing cultivation of the three girls in our family, and Master Huiyong personally cooked a table of good dishes after hearing about it. After another pause, he said, "In the past, Master Huiyong was only willing to cook one or two dishes a day. "But the three girls are all the master's specialties.

After hearing this, the old lady of Wu Ren immediately ordered Baojuan to open the treasure box she brought, and personally picked out a pair of gold-inlaid jade four-butterfly pearl step shakes and a set of lotus-patterned ivory combs of a total size of six pieces.

The ivory comb is just that, and the step shake is not pure gold, but it adopts the knotting process from Qin and Wei and other countries. It is said that the slightest wind blowing off the petals of the branches can make the four butterflies on the swaying gently vibrate, like real butterflies.

The old lady Wu Ren also ordered Baojuan to take out a rosewood letter packed with Baodian pearls in a golden basket, open the cover, take the purple velvet cushion to the bottom, and then put the step shake and comb one by one. As for this rosewood letter, its value is several times that of the step shake and the comb, and it is also suitable as a dowry in the future.

Baojuan took a leather bag made of mink again, wrapped the rosewood letter tightly, and then carefully held it to Qiu Tang, and said jokingly: "Sister Qiu Tang, this is our old lady's half a year's meal silver, but you must not drop it!" ”

That's more than a thousand taels of silver, Qiu Tang was shocked, but his face refused to show timidity, he took the thing with a smile, and said with a smile: "Although the old aunt and wife can rest assured, if you fall it, the slave will take your head to compensate!" ”

The old lady of Wu Ren laughed, scolded the ghost twice, and asked Baojuan to reward double the high-grade seal, and sent Qiu Tang back quickly. Baojuan personally sent Qiu Tang out, and when he came back, he saw that the old lady of Wu Ren was already tasting the "double snails" under the service of the little girl, so he smiled and said: "I usually want to eat this dim sum of Master Huiyong, but I am afraid that two thousand taels of silver will not work." Now the old lady has a mouthful. ”

The old lady of the Wu Ren clan ordered several ladies and girls to be invited to dine with her, and then smiled at Baojuan: "Look at it, my good sister is in big trouble." ”

Baojuan looked at it, and there was a little disdain and a little smugness in the smile of the old lady Wu Ren, but she didn't dare to ask more. She knows a little about the old things of these good sisters, and now Mrs. Ren has slapped Mrs. Wu Ren's face with the majesty of her granddaughter, and Mrs. Wu Ren is waiting to see the excitement.

Is it lively? At least now Mrs. Ren is not lively here, not only is it not lively, but the atmosphere is quite weird because she has added a strange relative.

Qingjing Liuli Nunnery was originally the place where the presiding Huiyi master lived, and now the old lady Ren is housed, and the belongings she brought have changed this quiet room into a big appearance, and the former monk's intention of leaving the world is gone, replaced by the rich and earthly enjoyment of the red world.

There was a marble-faced nanmu round table on the small bright room, and the old lady took her granddaughters to sit and eat, and the two daughters-in-law served behind her, and the girls were their own big maids - but it was the Xu family who followed Zong Zhengke. As for the aunts, they naturally ate their own in their own rooms, and they didn't even have a chance to sell well in front of the old lady.

Mrs. Ren's daughter-in-law is Mrs. Ping-oh no, now I have to change my name to Mrs. Ping, and the eldest lady in the third room of the Zongzheng family is the Xiao family who has already gone. According to this theory, Zong Zhengfa's wife, the original Second Mrs. Liu, should be renamed Mrs. Liu San.

The title that had been called for several years suddenly had to be changed, and several times someone called it wrong, intentionally or unintentionally, and the people on and off the table couldn't help but peek at Zong Zhengke's face. But I saw that the third girl of Zongzheng who had just returned to the house was elegant, and she was eating very calmly, as if she hadn't heard the gaffes of those people.

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