Zhu Yan had no intention of sitting in the Wushi Teahouse for a long time, and happened to hear Xingye say that Yuan Yaohua used to have a place that he would go to every time, which was the Liuhua Temple in the West Mountain outside Tongcheng City, so he planned to visit it, and then return to the tulou to rest at dusk.

Yongwu also responded to a trip to Liuhua Temple under the strong influence of Twenty-four, and Xingye's pretty face suddenly stretched so long.

"Xingye, let's go, is this going to be compared with the horse pulling the cart?" Zhu Yan pursed her lips and chuckled, she didn't have any beautiful feelings for Yongwu, what did Xingye and Twenty-four want to fight for?

Xingye was stunned for a moment, and when she came to her senses, Zhu Yan was making fun of her face, and she flattened her mouth, "Why did Miss turn her elbow out?" ”

Zhu Yan's face darkened, and he didn't think so, then he hooked his lips and smiled faintly, "The girl's face is easy to wrinkle, I don't want to see a little girl like you grow into a little old woman." As soon as the words fell, Zhu Yan walked out of the "elegant" private room quickly, and threw down the apricot leaves to settle the bill.

Xingye and Twenty-four were stunned by her words, only Yongwu followed indifferently, walked beside her half an arm's length, and chuckled lowly, "Ah Yan, do you know the way to Liuhua Temple?" ”

Zhu Yan paused, she naturally didn't recognize it, but it seemed a little embarrassing to admit it directly, she glanced up at Yongwu slyly, and lightly threw down a sentence, her feet were faster, "Just ask for directions." ”

Yong Wu was secretly funny, deliberately followed behind her, and saw that she really stopped a girl selling flowers on the street to ask for directions, and she was really asked.

Zhu Yan knew that Yongwu was behind him, and if he really went wrong, he would definitely correct it. There is no need to worry about getting lost in the mountains, so the walk is very safe and the pace is very fast. In less than half an hour, the two of them entered the mountain road and threw Xingye and Twenty-four Unknown off a few streets.

"Ah Yan, slow down." Never saw that the feet had changed from smooth bluestone bricks to abrupt stones and red soil, and he couldn't let her mess around like this anymore, so he hurriedly stepped forward to stop her, "The mountain road is slippery." Wait for the two of them first, and then it's not too late to go. ”

Zhu Yan stopped a little reluctantly, but the mountain road was already narrow. There was no way to stop him, so he could only smile at him, covering the shredded sunlight between the shadows of the leaves above his head with one hand, while looking up at the mountain road in front of him.

The mountain road in front of you is rugged and twisting. It was only about a hundred paces away and was blocked by heavy green trees. The foot is the unique red soil in the southwest area, because of the rainy summer, there is a slight resurgence, a little sticky on the step, there are a lot of fine gravel mixed with it, if you are not careful, it will make people slip under your feet, never stop her is indeed not unfounded, not to mention that although the sole of the embroidered shoes can be called "Baina". Naturally thinner than rubber soles, she walked on this mountain trail at her speed. Even if you don't slip, I'm afraid you'll be worn off.

Since he couldn't walk, Zhu Yan had no choice but to continue to look at the surrounding scenery, and his eyes were dripping and observing the plants around the mountain road, hoping to find some herbs unique to the south.

I never saw her looking for herbs wholeheartedly, completely forgetting her own savings, and she was angry and funny, but unfortunately she didn't know anything about herbs, and she really didn't know how to talk, so she could only chase her with her eyes and stand aside in a trance.

Because she is officially going out today, she put on some light makeup, a layer of natural halo under the thin fat powder, no lipstick on her moist lips, no thin eyebrows, and the sideburns that were blown by the mountain wind grinded on her white greasy forehead, and there was an orange-yellow daylily in her hair, and the delicate orange made her beautiful face more and more radiant.

Zhu Yan was still searching for any vegetation around him with burning eyes, and he didn't notice that Yongwu was looking at him in distraction.

After a while, her eyes rolled, as if she was thinking about something, and her eyes fell on a tall tree beside the road, and a smile suddenly bloomed on her face, and she walked quickly into the grass without thinking.

Yong Wu felt that her smile was brighter than the sun, and he was stunned for a moment, and saw that she had rubbed into the grass that was half a man high, and hurriedly pulled her back.

"What's wrong?" Zhu Yan looked back in amazement and glanced at him with some dissatisfaction.

"Miss, I'm catching up with you!" Xingye panted and caught up, seeing that Yong Wu was dragging Zhu Yan with one hand, her little face that was originally full of smiles sank slightly, although she was born in the south and grew up in the south country, and she didn't care about the love between men and women, but Bian Feng specially told her that this lovely young lady would be their young lady's younger brother and sister in the future, how could she be snatched by others?!

Although on the way to the same place, Twenty-four bitterly told her that his son-in-law was so easy to be interested in Zhu Yan, if he didn't marry again, maybe he wouldn't plan to marry a wife in this life, which was really miserable, so he begged Xingye to give this girl to his son-in-law.

Although Xingye heard tears rolling in his eyes, he expressed twelve points of sympathy for his difficulties, but he was not fooled at all, whenever he talked about Zhu Yan, he played Tai Chi perfunctory, and Twenty-four didn't even get the slightest benefit from his mouth, and he learned the ability to kick and beat, and he really had nothing to do with this cunning girl.

How did Zhu Yan know about the private confrontation between the two of them, seeing that Xingye pulled her face again, she looked at her with a smile, "Why didn't you see it for a long time, and you forgot what I just said?" ”

Xingye was clever, squeezed forward and grabbed Zhu Yan's arm and hugged it, and a smile was even brighter than Zhu Yan's on her little face, "I haven't forgotten it, Miss is just good, and she knows to wait for me at the mountain pass!" ”

"Ahem, what awaits you is never." Zhu Yan didn't like to be in vain, so he hurriedly explained the situation.

Xingye saw that she still had to help Yongwu speak, so she stuck to her side and shook her arms directly, while softly saying coquettishly, "I don't care, I don't care!" ”

"Poof, you are clearly the same age as me, why aren't you as sensible as Bai Apple's girl?" Zhu Yan tapped on the corner of her forehead, "I look so quiet on weekdays, but today I am like a crazy demon, how many needles will I give you to treat it?" ”

Twenty-four's face darkened when she heard this, and she dared to love this girl who came to find them.

Xingye heard Zhu Yan mention those needles, trembling and hurriedly jumped away, she saw Zhu Yan fiddling with those slender and long needles a few days ago, each one was longer than a finger, and the red thread wrapped around the end of the needle was still trembling and trembling, which was really far from the embroidery needle, and she had goosebumps on her body.

However, knowing that Zhu Yan was just talking and playing, she quickly lowered her face again, "Miss, who is Bai Apple?" ”

“…… A little girl who accompanied me when I was in Jiangnan. Zhu Yan pursed her lips, Bai Apple is no longer a maid who sold herself into slavery, and she doesn't want to talk about her like this, if Bai Apple has someone she likes in the future, she will treat her as her sister and marry her beautifully.

A clear bell came from the layers of tree shadows, calling Zhu Yan's distant thoughts back, turning his head to look at the direction from which the bell came, squinting his eyes, "Is that the Liuhua Temple?" ”

“…… Does Miss Zhu know who is offered in this Liuhua Temple? Twenty-four asked a little hesitantly, and when he saw that Yongwu frowned and glanced at him, he asked with more and more regret.

"Huh?" Zhu Yan's mind returned to the tree just now, and he didn't care about his somewhat strange expression, and asked absentmindedly, "For whom?" ”

"Concubine Xiangxian." Since Twenty-four had just mentioned it, she could only continue to answer her head-on, thinking about how to be blamed by her own son-in-law for a while.

Zhu Yan was obviously a little shocked, but his gaze quickly faded again, he just raised his head and carefully observed the tree, and smiled lightly, "'Flowing water and falling flowers go in spring', it's no wonder that the name of the mountain temple is so charming and poignant, it turns out that it is a thin life." ”

Xingye is a local, and naturally knows that Concubine Xiang is offered in Liuhua Temple, but I don't know why they show these strange looks, seeing that Zhu Yan is very concerned about that tree, he is very curious, "Miss, is there anything special about this tree?" Why do you keep staring at it and not being willing to look away? ”

"It's really special, what's its name?" Zhu Yan smiled lightly, the tree in front of him was about two or three people as tall, the bark was brown, there were many shallow cracks, the oblong leaves glowed with a faint waxy brilliance, and just in time for the flower, the long inflorescence was covered with pale yellow pubescence, and the small trumpet-like flowers were crowded on the branches, slightly purple and red, and the aromatic smell was sent with the breeze from time to time, all of which were similar to a legendary tree species.

Xingye was slightly stunned by her question, looked around the tree, and saw that everyone around was the same, and shook his head, "I haven't seen it before, maybe it has grown up these years, I don't know where the bird brought the seeds, so that a tree grows here, but it's a pity that it's only one plant, lonely and pitiful." ”

"This is the Madder Tree." As a killer, Twenty-four is very exposed to all kinds of poisons on weekdays, so he hurriedly seized the opportunity to attract Zhu Yan's attention to himself.

“…… Madder...... Flower? Zhu Yan snapped, nodded and chuckled, "It's interesting." ”

With her previous love for botany and medicine, she naturally knew that the tree in front of her was the famous cinchona tree, and its extract quinine was a legendary medicine in the history of medicine, but she clearly remembered that this medicine was not gradually introduced to China until the Ming and Qing dynasties, and this tree was not native to China...... It seems that the world I live in now is indeed very different from the past.

As for why Twenty-four called this tree "madder", she can understand, because the cinchona tree was originally from the Rubiaceae family, although she is also very curious about how a herbaceous plant like madder can contain an arbor, but botanists think so, so let them say so, there is no much argument, and now this tree can have such an alias as "madder", which may indicate the correctness of the subfamily.

"Miss knows this tree too?" Twenty-four had already noticed that she had a very strong interest in pharmaceuticals, so she hurriedly did what she liked, and made persistent efforts to attract all of Zhu Yan's attention. (To be continued......)