Chapter Ninety-Six: First Encounter with Rain and Smoke
In the first two southern tours, Ruo Ying was serving the palace maid with great vigour, and one time he experienced life and death, and this southern tour was Kangxi's last southern tour, and he was afraid that he would not have the opportunity to come to Jiangnan in the future, so Ruo Fei cherished this opportunity very much.
Seeing that Ruo Ying's smiling face gradually increased, and her complexion became better and better, Kangxi said in his heart, it was right to bring her out, so he was a lot more relaxed about Ruo Ying, as long as there were people around him, he could go out for a walk in private.
The cuckoo never left his body, and Bagen also went from the dark to the light, only when the thirteenth elder brother followed Ruo Eagle, he became a secret guard again, as for whether there were still people following in the place he didn't see, Ruo Fei couldn't say.
On this day, the thirteenth elder brother seemed to be quite leisurely, and he actually had a whole day to accompany Ruoyu, so happy that Ruoying changed his clothes at the moment, and left Du Juan and Bagen in Xingyuan for a day off, and then jumped up and down with the thirteenth elder brother to the street.
"Catch the thief! Catch the thief! A shout not far away interrupted the thirteenth elder brother's thoughts, and he pulled the bamboo basket to his side, worried that the bamboo basket would be injured.
"Enhyuk, there are thieves, let's help others." Ruo Ying pulled the sleeve of the thirteenth elder brother and said.
Enhe is the nickname of the thirteenth elder brother, when he came out for the first time, Ruo Ying asked the thirteenth elder brother how he wanted to call him, and he should give him a fake name, and the thirteenth elder brother asked her to call herself like this. This nickname was given by Concubine Min to the thirteenth elder brother, which means peace in Mongolian. Back then, Concubine Min was far away from her grassland hometown, alone in the palace, and she was used to seeing the sky and the earth, no matter how big the Forbidden City was, I was afraid that it wouldn't be able to hold her heart, right? Ruo Ying has no way to verify how Concubine Min was in the mood at the beginning, and she can only see from the name of the thirteenth elder brother that she doesn't seem to want her son to be involved in this palace battle, she just wants this child who should belong to the vast grassland to grow up safely. If she could, she might have preferred that her Eunhyuk could gallop freely across the grassland, racing horses with eagles and singing with nightingales. It's a pity that he has an amazing Amma.
"We'll see." The thirteenth elder brother was not as active as Ruo Yu.
"This is on the street of your house." The bamboo hoop squeezed at the thirteenth elder brother.
Before the thirteenth elder brother's brows were frowned, they were smoothed out by Ruo Ying, and Ruo Ying said: "How old are you, obviously everyone is envious of your youth, what do you do to learn from your fourth brother's half-old man, shaking his head and frowning?" Beware of wrinkles! β
The thirteenth elder brother laughed loudly and said: "What you say, I will definitely leave it as it is, learn it word for word and listen to the fourth brother, let him ponder, how did he, a 'half-old man', win the heart of a pretty girl?" β
Seeing that he couldn't tease others, he was teased, and Ruo stomped his feet and said: "Who knows how I see with these eyes, I should have looked at you handsomely, right?" β
As he spoke, a figure stumbled towards him.
"Eunhyuk!" The thirteenth elder brother was still silent, but he saw the man running by. Ruoyu wanted to say something, but saw that the person who ran by fell to the ground after only a few steps, and the sachet that she was holding in her hand also fell far away, but she didn't see any movement from Thirteen.
The bamboo basket could be seen from a close distance, and the person who came looked like a teenager of twelve or thirteen years old, and looked at the clothes, although there were many patches, the clothes were neat and clean. The young man's face was full of panic, thinking that he was not a habitual thief on the street, but he was afraid that he had suffered a hardship and came out behind his family's back, but this was the first time he lost his hand. Zhu Zhen's heart softened, and he said to the young man: "Before the owner is chased, let's go, a good man's ambition is higher than the sky, don't do such things again." β
The young man was stunned when he heard this, and the bamboo basket took out a few ingots of silver from his purse, and said softly: "Since someone in the family has washed this clothes so cleanly, how can you do anything that hurts the hearts of your family?" You are also a good boy, there must be difficulties, although these are not many, it is better to respond to emergencies, if it is not enough, you can go to Yuelai Teahouse to find me, just say to the shopkeeper to find Sister Er, I can help you think. β
The young man listened to the bamboo basket in a daze, looked at the silver stuffed in his hand, and said with tears in his eyes: "Sister, sister's great kindness, the dog must be remembered." After saying that, he squeezed into the crowd and disappeared.
"Don't run!" The lost owner chased after him, and the thirteenth elder brother stopped the lost owner at the right time, and said: "Brother Tai, don't worry, since the thing has not been lost, for the sake of just a child, don't worry about it." β
The eagle squatted down to pick up the sachet that had fallen to the ground, and when he lifted it, a silver cleat slipped out of the pouch's open mouth. If the eagle's hand touches the silver cleat, he is stunned.
"Yu'er?" Seeing that Ruoyu had not moved for a long time, the thirteenth elder brother came over and called.
If the eagle came to his senses, grabbed the cleath, and hurriedly asked the person who was chasing him, "Where did you get this cleatic?" β
The visitor snatched the lock plate and the sachet, carefully put the lock piece into the sachet, and said, "What do you have to do with it?" β
"Please tell me, it's important to me." The fragments of that day's dream flashed in Ruoyu's mind, and she saw it at once, but she couldn't catch it at once.
"Thisβthis is my sister's belongings." Seeing the urgency of the bamboo basket, the other party hesitated but said it.
"Yu'er, what's wrong?" The thirteenth elder brother rarely saw Ruo Yu with such a look, and said worriedly.
"I'll get back to you." Ruo Ying explained to the thirteenth elder brother, and then asked, "This eldest brother, can you lead me to meet your sister-in-law?" β
The other party saw that Ruo Ying and the Thirteenth Elder Brother were dressed extraordinarily and their faces did not look like villains, so he said: "My sister is waiting at the front of the bridge at the moment, come with me." β
When the three of them came to the bridge, there was indeed a woman in blue standing at the head of the bridge, with her back to the direction where the three of them came.
"Rain and smoke!" The man who had brought the two men shouted at the woman.
I saw that the woman heard the shouting and turned around, but the thirteenth elder brother didn't feel anything, if the eagle was stunned for a moment, like! Although it is not said to be carved out of a mold, the face plate of this Yuyan girl is the same as the ordinary melon seed face of the bamboo basket Eniang, revealing the beauty of a Jiangnan woman, and there are five or six points similar between the eyebrows and eyes. I saw the woman come with a soft step, and I was stunned when I saw two strangers coming with my brother.
"Rain and smoke, your sachet." The person who came handed the sachet to the rain smoke.
Yuyan took it and put it away carefully, then moved his gaze to Ruo Ying and the Thirteenth Elder Brother, and said, "Who are these two?" β
"This girl just saw your cleats, and for some reason I wanted to see you, so I brought them." The man explained.
"Miss Yuyan, call me Yu'er at home, I wonder if I can talk to you alone?" Ruo Ying asked.
The woman who called "Yuyan" hesitated, but finally nodded. The two walked to the middle of the bridge, leaving the thirteenth elder brother and the man waiting at the head of the bridge.
"Rain Smoke Girl, where did you get that silver cleat?" Ruo Ying said carefully.
Yuyan took out the lock plate from the sachet and said, "This lock piece has been on my body since I can remember." β
"So, didn't your father tell you anything about it?" It stands to reason that this cleats should be specially made, and they shouldn't.
The other party smiled slightly and said, "It's a good life to take with you." β
Ruoyu was a little disappointed, but still unwilling to say: "Then Miss Yuyan has relatives in the capital?" β
"Don't hide it from Miss Yu'er, my family has lived here for generations, making porcelain zuΓ² for a living, and has never had any noble relatives in the capital." Yuyan speaks slowly and logically, but it is really like smoke and drizzle in the south of the Yangtze River.
If the eagle didn't know if the rain and smoke girl really didn't know, or deliberately concealed it, but he also knew that he couldn't ask anything at the moment, so it was better to ask someone else to inquire, so he said goodbye to the bridge with the rain and smoke, and said goodbye to the man under the bridge.
On the way back to Xingyuan, Ruoyu remembered the previous incident, and went to the Yuelai Teahouse with the thirteenth elder brother to ask for advice, and then returned to Xingyuan with the thirteenth elder brother. It was only when she came to Jiangnan this time that she realized that she had passed through several times on her first two southern tours, and even went into the Yuelai Teahouse once, which was actually an industry under the name of Sibeile.
The thirteenth elder brother knew about the bamboo basket, Ruo Ying hurriedly told the thirteenth elder brother about it, entrusted the investigation to the thirteenth elder brother and went back to the house.
When the cuckoo saw that the bamboo basket was sluggish, he did not dare to talk much, and at night, he only served the bamboo basket to lie down and went to sleep outside. Seeing that the cuckoo had left, Zhu Zhen sat up from the bed and habitually touched his neck, only to remember that his silver lock plate had already been given to the seventeenth elder brother. But how could she not remember the lock plate that she had never left her day and day? ββShiny silver cleat, the front is a beaded unicorn, the dark green beads glow with cold light, the back is the name of the bamboo basket, and there is a Zen saying: "Green and verdant bamboo, all are the Dharma body." And the lock plate she had seen in the market before was clearly the same texture and size, even the unicorn was the same, but the jewel was bright yellow, but on the back, she didn't have time to take a look. Is this just a coincidence?
After thinking about it, I finally couldn't solve it, and I fell asleep in a mess.