Xianglan didn't know that Lin Jinlou had turned over Jinling in order to find her, she was pushing open the window of the meditation room, rolling the curtain onto the small silver hook and looking out, only to see the sunset mountains far away, the jackdaw tired of returning to the nest, the clear stream in the stone, a gust of cold wind blowing, clear and refreshing, she took a deep breath, and slowly spit out, as if the manic depression in the past days were all spit out, and then turned back to the bookcase, lifted the brush, and slightly dotted a few colors of flowing clouds on the painting, and the "Sunset Mountain Village Map" instantly came to life. Xianglan was satisfied, inscribed on the year, month and day, and took a small stone seal, dipped it in the ink, covered it in the lower right corner, wiped her hands with a small towel on the table, turned her head to look out the window, such a quiet and tranquil day is what she wants, there has never been a house in the house of human affection, intrigue, and no disobedience to please and dignity trampling, she feels as if she is dreaming.

On that day, she stumbled out of the temple, begging the little monk to report to the guards, seeing that everyone had entered the temple, she breathed a sigh of relief, and rested for a while, only to hear the sound of killing, and saw that there were black-clothed people who escaped from the temple in a hurry, so she stood up with the trunk of the tree, and said secretly: "Lin Jinlou's personal soldiers are all extraordinary, so they can finally rescue the wife and the four girls." After a while, he thought about it again, "Lin Jinlou has saved me twice, and now I have saved his mother and sister, so these two will be offset." I'm afraid that he won't let me go, and he will imprison me back to the Lin family...... Why don't I just leave tonight? ”

I couldn't stop thinking about it, and thought: "There is a small temple called Lotus Nunnery near here, I also came a few years ago, my uncle Dingsu Shitai is the abbot there, she watched me grow up, and she loved me very much, so it is better for me to look for her first, and then make plans." ”

At that moment, by the hazy moonlight, carefully went down the mountain, fortunately, she often came to this mountain to play in her childhood, so she was familiar with the way, walked two teas, and finally saw the small temple. At this time, the bhikshunis in the temple were doing their morning lessons, and Master Dingsu couldn't help but be shocked when she saw Xianglan, and hurriedly let her into the room. Xianglan told her what happened in the past two years to Master Dingsu, and she couldn't help but be very sympathetic, sighed again and again, and couldn't help but put her palms together and chant Buddha. Then he asked, "What are your plans now?" ”

As soon as Xianglan heard this, she knelt on the ground busily, and said with tears in her eyes: "Now that I have reached this point, I am still cheeky and begging my uncle to save me, the Lin family I don't want to go back anymore, I begged my uncle to hide me first, I tried my best to go to Yangzhou to find the master, if my father and mother look for me, ask the uncle to quietly tell my family, and I can't repay my uncle's great kindness." He kowtowed again and again.

Master Dingsu was too busy to help her up, and said, "It's not difficult to hide you, but you go to Yangzhou alone...... Alas, if you are a beautiful girl on the road alone, you may encounter something, and if you let the crutches again, or if something happens, it will be even more dangerous. After thinking about it for a while, he said: "It's better to be like this, there is a wealthy squire surnamed Yu nearby, who is the most charitable and has a good character, and it just so happens that his daughter is going to marry in Yangzhou, and I entrusted him with a trust, saying that you are the niece of my lay family, and you are going to Yangzhou to join relatives, you pretend to be a maid, and go with you." ”

Xianglan couldn't help but be overjoyed, and immediately settled in the Lotus Nunnery, and the soldiers of the Houlin family also came to search a few times, but she avoided them, and after two days, she disguised herself, hurriedly got on the boat, and went all the way down to Yangzhou along the cold Grand Canal. When she arrived in Yangzhou, Xianglan took out the silver to thank the family, she planned to escape that day, and stuffed some silver jewelry in the monk's robe when she made a monk's robe, and secretly left some silver when she left the lotus nunnery and put it on the side of the pillow of Dingsu Shitai, and now there is still a lot left in her hand. The Yu family refused to accept it, hired a big car, ordered someone to follow, and escorted Xianglan to the Xiansheng Nunnery where Mrs. Dingyi lived.

Master Dingyi was not surprised to see Xianglan, so he only left her behind and ordered her to clean a Zen room on the second floor by herself. Every day, Xianglan follows the nuns in the nunnery with a morning bell and dusk drums, recites sutras and practices, carries water during the day, goes to the vegetable field to plant vegetables, helps the fire in the kitchen, and paints in the house in her spare time. Zen Su, who served Mrs. Dingyi, said with Xianglan and said, "Senior sister, I haven't seen you for a long time, and you seem to be a different person." Although you were steady before, you had a pungent and colorful nature, and you also loved to talk and laugh, but now you are much duller, but you are also much more sensible. ”

Xianglan was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "One year older is one year old, how can you always be like a child, naughty everywhere to make the master and sisters angry." When Zen Su left, Xianglan sat in the room and looked out the window in a daze. In the past two years, the Shen family has been in trouble compared to that year, she died of her husband on the way to distribution, and she died of illness herself, which made her feel even more bitter and desperate. No matter how difficult it was back then, she always felt that someone accompanied her to live and die together, gritted her teeth and survived, and she could always earn a way to survive, with a faint fire in her heart, she could defend the last bit of dignity and hope with a strong and courageous attitude, and died of illness after walking on the road of distribution for less than half a year, and the arrogance of that body had not been completely trampled under her feet.

But in this life, she was first forced to be a slave and a maid, bullied, and then it was easy to see a glimmer of light, but she was abandoned by Song Ke, and then in order to save her father, she became Lin Jinlou's concubine, and everyone was humane to her, but she knew the difficulty of serving Lin Jinlou, the danger of her situation in the Lin Mansion, and the unspeakable pain in her heart. With a sigh at this step, Shengsheng rounded her and flattened her, slapped her face on the ground and let others trample on it, grinding the edges and corners of her body to almost disappear, only a bone was still in her heart, and she told her that she had never really bowed her head when she dreamed back at midnight. Now that she looks back, even though she stumbled and bleed all the way with her head down, it also made her sink her heart with a little arrogance and arrogance, and since then she knows more about life, and she is more tolerant than in the past.

The monks and nuns in the nunnery also like pandan, at first saw that she was born beautiful, not like ordinary people, I don't know why I want to live in this temple, so I have a heart of alienation, and then I see her kind, see everyone smiles and greets, and is willing to endure hardships, any work is willing to do, in the winter holding the clothes in the yard to wash, both hands are frozen red and do not care, against the cold wind to pick up the water back again and again, wear out the shoulders and do not say a word, everything is done in an orderly manner. As time went by, everyone also loved to get close to her, and some people were curious to ask her where she came from, Xianglan said that she was originally a disciple of Master Dingyi, but later she worked as a maid for a few years in a big family, and now she has redeemed herself and returned to serve the master.

Later, Xianglan received a letter from Mrs. Dingsu, saying that her father and mother still didn't know that she had lost it, and the Lin family seemed to have concealed it, and Mrs. Dingsu didn't say much. In the letter, he also said that the Lin family gave a very rich thing when he was young, so shocked that Chen Wanquan's eyes were about to pop out, and he said that he wanted to enter the mansion to thank him, but he was stopped by the auspicious person who gave the gift. After Chen Wanquan was surprised, he was proud, and when he met people, he bragged about how decent he was, how many things the Lin family gave him, and how beautiful his daughter was in the Lin family, which caused everyone to come over and compete for each other, and even Han Yaozu, the county magistrate who had beaten Chen Wanquan's buttocks, came to the door on purpose, and his son Han Guangye spent a lot of money to buy a few paintings of Xianglan, and praised the paintings in the sky and on the ground, which made Chen Wanquan's bones two points lighter.

Xianglan knew that her parents had nothing to do, so she was relieved and lived a clean life every day. Although she had some silver on her, she also thought that she could not sit and eat empty, and planned to make some money, so that she could take her parents to Yangzhou in the future, so she took the calligraphy and paintings to a stationery and antique shop near the temple to sell them.

Three months passed in a flash. On this day, Xianglan carefully carried the two scrolls into the shop, and only quietly entered through the back door of the shop. The shopkeeper was already acquainted with her, so he asked her to rest in the private room where he entertained the guests, and then went to the front to fetch the silver. As soon as Xianglan sat down, two people came in, one was wearing a green gold armor, an agarwood-colored satin skirt, a bewitching figure, green and cloudy sideburns, with the color of spring dawn on her face, rouge and fat, wearing gold and silver, with six golden stirrup rings on her ten fingers. The other gave birth to a handsome little white face, with a pair of peach blossom eyes flying on his face, tall and tall, wearing a blue satin robe, holding a folding fan in his hand, and a frivolous and amorous body, like a rich and noble brother.

Xianglan was taken aback when she saw the woman, it turned out that this gorgeous woman was none other than Chunyan, who was expelled from the mansion by Lin Jinlou! His eyes slipped to the side, and he saw the man's oily head and powdered face, and he looked at his eyes. Xianglan hurriedly put Guanyin on her head, stood up with her head down, and left. It happened that the guy came over to serve tea and fruits, and when he saw Xianglan hurriedly going out of the house, he smiled and said to the two: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't know that there were people in this house, you two please use tea." As he spoke, he laid the tea on a small table.

Chunyan snorted, sat on the chair, brought the tea and took a sip, but it was too hot, she couldn't help frowning, put down the tea bowl, and complained in her mouth: "I'm thirsty and tired, my throat is hoarse, and I can't get into my mouth if I want to eat a cup of tea." As he spoke, he took a piece of puff pastry from the plate. She didn't recognize Xianglan just now, she entered the Lin family early, Xianglan grew up in the temple since she was a child, the two rarely met, and when Xianglan entered the mansion, she was sold by the Lin family not long after.

The little white face also sat down, but his eyes chased Xianglan's figure, until the figure was gone, and he was still stretching his neck, Chunyan raised his eyes and saw it, and couldn't help but feel angry, threw the snack on his face, and said sourly: "Look at what, look at what?" It's time to blind that pair of tricks in your face! ”

The little white face was startled, and when he saw Chunyan's willow eyebrows upside down, he smiled and said: "You are still vinegared, you are a recruit man who sees the end of the sky, I can't look at others twice?" Seeing that Chunyan was about to stare and scold again, she said, "Okay, grandma, am I wrong?" You always hate hot tea, I'll ask the guy to change it to a warm one. With that, he took his tea and walked out.

It is said that the things in this world are not coincidental and not written, and it turns out that the little white face is Qian Wenze, who escaped from Lin Jinlou's hands by luck that day. On that day, he knew that he had provoked the king of Hades, and he escaped from Jinling as if he had been chased by a dog, and he went all the way to Yangzhou with twists and turns. Zhao Yuechan's incident was originally an ugly matter, and Lin Jinlou threw off the plaster and didn't bother to pay attention to it, which gave Qian Wenze a way to live. He hid for a while at first, but then he hid and saw that no one had arrested him, so he became bold.

Qian Wenze was used to messing around in the market, so he changed his name and surname and returned to his old business in Yangzhou City. When he has silver, he will inevitably eat, drink, prostitute and gamble, he is also used to enjoying it, he has had a head and tail with Zhao Yuechan and other stunning colors, and he looks down on those who are idle, and when he arrives at Yicui Pavilion, he spends a lot of money to order the popular Yan'er girl to come out and sing music, and after a while, Chunyan comes with the piano. Chunyan saw Qian Wenze and other pretty gentlemen, and her heart was also happy, the two eyebrows were eyebrows, and it became a good thing that night, Qian Wenze asked Chunyan about her life experience on the pillow seat, and Chunyan said that she was the maid of Jinling, and she was sold to the hook column after annoying her master, as for which one in Jinling, Chunyan refused to say.

Qian Wenze compares privately, more beautiful and famous than Chunyan, he can't afford it, and he can't look down on the inferior, in this class of fans, Chunyan is just a top child, so he always goes to Yicui Pavilion, and when he is rich, he will pack Chunyan for a month or two, and vow to save money to redeem Chunyan in the future. After two years like this, Chunyan thought she had hope, and since then she has been dead, and the two are like husband and wife in private.

Today, Qian Wenze and others invited a few sons of squires to eat and drink in one place, so they carried Chunyan out to sing music to help the fun, and when she came back, Chunyan said that the painting that was originally hung in her house made the guests eat too much and the wine was torn, and she wanted to buy another one, she came to pick it up in person, and went to this store. The guy saw that Chunyan was carried in a small sedan chair covered with silk cloth, and Qian Wenze was dressed decently, thinking that it was a rich family, so he naturally didn't dare to slack off, so he introduced a private room, not wanting to run into Xianglan.

Qian Wenze walked outside with a tea bowl, and saw the shopkeeper stuffing a small money bag into Xianglan's hand, Xianglan thanked her, turned to leave, but because she was wearing a Guanyin pocket on her head, she couldn't see her face clearly. Qian Wenze hurriedly stepped forward and asked the shopkeeper, "Who is the girl who just left?" I just picked up a handkerchief, maybe she dropped it. After speaking, he took out a handkerchief embroidered with peach blossoms from his sleeve.

The shopkeeper looked at it and smiled: "This is definitely not hers, she is the sister-in-law who leads the cultivation in the Xiansheng Nunnery, only uses coarse cloth, will not use such delicate things, she is wearing plain clothes, and the hairpin on her head is still wooden." ”

Qian Wenze put away the handkerchief and said, "Be a sister-in-law? Tsk, it's a pity that it's not in vain, it's so standard. What is she doing here? ”

The shopkeeper said: "There are a few paintings painted by the master in her spare time, and I asked her to sell them in this shop. As he spoke, he picked up a painting on the counter and slowly unfolded it. RS