Wang Shiqiang looked at her and was silent for a long time, as if he didn't know where to start, so that he could explain the past when he suddenly ruined his marriage and marriage, let alone understand his relationship with the Lou family.

Huang Qilang was so anxious that she jumped her legs, and when she was about to frown and prepare to give an eviction order, he took a deep breath, took out a small brocade box printed with Falun from his sleeve, and put it on the bride price silk.

"Before leaving home this time, I told my parents that I was going to marry Qingniang, and this jade Buddha was brought by my mother and transferred to Qingniang......

She didn't look at the brocade box that was supposed to contain a jade Buddha.

Although she had mentioned this jade Buddha to him three years ago, it was to persuade him to support and agree to their family affairs, and he deliberately carved it with the superb mutton fat jade purchased by his private savings.

He didn't care about her coldness, raised his hand and took another letter from his sleeve, and continued, saying:

"If the young lady doesn't believe it, there is also a handwritten letter from my mother - the first two times I came, the young lady asked me to go back and ask my parents to come and propose, I have always remembered it."

She knew that Wang Shiqiang was a concubine, and the mother in his mouth was not his biological mother as a concubine, but his mother-in-law.

She saw that he was entangled in family affairs, and answered the question, if it weren't for Huang Qilang's vigorous eyes to persuade her to be patient, she would have thrown this letter in his face a long time ago, where would she be willing to answer the letter?

He was not in a hurry, staring at her pale face, but her eyes were more magnificent, and sighed,

"I heard that in the letter written by the Chen family to you, although it did not say that the head of the Eight Outlines of Fujian, and even the Quanzhou government also supported this family business, it proposed that you should be naturalized after you got married, and promised to provide 300 naturalization places for the people of Tangfang in Fanfang, Quanzhou - without Lou Yun operating in Quanzhou Mansion, it would be impossible for the Chen family to agree to this."

She didn't say anything, calmed her temperament, looked at him lightly, and just said:

"I also know the ability of your Wang Gangshou, and I know that there are several villages outside your Mingzhou City that have fled from Western Xia and Jin to the south of the northern reformers, and you are also entrusting that Mingzhou General Judgment Qin Lord, preparing to set aside a vacant land for repairing houses and opening fields to build villages, and there are five hundred places for naturalization-"

"Exactly! Big sister, didn't Brother Wang Xian promise you that he could let you take the people back to the Great Song Dynasty? ”

Huang Qilang saw that Wang Shiqiang couldn't talk about the key point for a long time, so he could only go into battle in person to play a round for them.

"Those Han craftsmen in your workshop were all smuggled from Jin Country to Tangfang by me, I know, other people have stayed in Tangfang for a long time, they still want to go back after all-"

She turned her smile, looked at Huang Qilang, and said with a smile: "Although I promised them to send them back to the Great Song Dynasty when the time comes, there are not only five hundred of them. ”

Wang Shiqiang slowly accepted the letter and replied to his sleeves, he listened on the side, and also understood that she had promised to marry back to the Great Song Dynasty, saying that she would bring hundreds of craftsmen from hundreds of households and thousands of people as dowries, in fact, it was also the meaning of taking these Han craftsmen who escaped from the north to Mingzhou City.

At that time, in order to marry her, he also agreed.

Liangzhejiang Road has always been a southern borderland, and there are not many foreigners who have moved to settle down, and everything has government regulations to follow.

You can move 500 people first, and then successively arrange for her government offices in Mingzhou City, Taizhou and other places, and live in a scattered manner, so as not to be suspicious of the government, so that the people who want to return to the Great Song Dynasty can be taken over one after another, and let them live in Fanfang with those northern reformers, as well as foreigners who moved to Middle-earth from Silla, Baekje, Fuso, and even Nanyang in successive dynasties.

After a long time, they can buy land and marry locals, and they can move out of Fanfang, at least so that their descendants can become locals.

"I know Wang Gangshou's hospitality, but as the owner of the workshop, I can naturally do these things for them, but if Wang Gangshou wants to mention the Northern Expedition in the future, I can't accompany him."

When he saw her face, he knew that if he didn't make it clear this time, from then on, the industry he had managed for seven years would be ruined by Wang Shiliang's loser, and the Siming Wang family would be driven out of Tangfang.

“…… It's just a thin thing, which makes the young lady laugh. ”

He made up his mind in his heart, bent down and opened the small brocade box embroidered with Falun, and still placed it in the middle of the silk of the bride price at his feet.

"It's an old thing, and it can still be used by young ladies to play."

The mutton fat jade Buddha in the box is like water, at least a hundred times the nine-bar dowry, and what is even more rare is that the jade is old, and the Buddha statue is a famous carving craft, even Huang Qilang couldn't help but gasp, and didn't know that he brought this treasure with him.

"Brother Wang Xian, this is ......"

The jade Buddha statue is a female statue of Guanyin carved from superb mutton fat jade.

She moistened her face, held a willow bottle, stepped barefoot on the three-layer twelve-petal lotus platform with a shaved posture, a Ruiguang carving wheel behind her head, a raindrop red bead on her forehead, and a Buddha robe all over her body.

In the sunlight and satin light, she seemed to float into the world from the Qibao Tower, looking down on the world.

"This is what I mentioned to you back then, the fat jade."

She didn't know what he wanted to say, so she looked at the jade Buddha statue in silence.

With the experience of hand-turning department stores in Tangfang in this life, she can easily see that the mutton fat jade statue is carved with the Putuo Guanyin, which was most believed by the people of the Great Song Dynasty after entering the Song Dynasty, and it is also the Bodhisattva who protects the sea believed by the Siming Wang clan of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and maritime merchants.

She knew that Wang Shiqiang used the three boats of river rice to exchange this piece of jade from the merchants of the Western Regions, which was carved by a skilled craftsman, and after asking the holy monk to open the light in the Putuo Temple in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, he first presented it to his mother-in-law.

As for why this jade did not follow what he said before, according to the discussion between him and Changfangtang's uncle, Lord Wang, his mother-in-law first received the jade Guanyin, and then transferred it to Aunt Changfangtang through the hands of Lord Wang's second granddaughter-in-law, and then presented it to the palace to congratulate the Queen Mother on her birthday, but instead floated across the ocean and put it in front of her

- She didn't care.

In Da Song, thousands of miles away, every day, there must be something she doesn't know.

And three years ago, when their man and daughter were unmarried, he once held her hand, walked on the beach where the moonlight was sprinkled and the waves were dark, and pointed out the mountains and rivers of the Great Song Dynasty thousands of miles away, and told about his ambitions......

Now, does this still have anything to do with her?

She just didn't want to put her two younger brothers and the whole fang, just for the position of the queen mother's nephew, Prime Minister Han, for the future of Wang Shiqiang, to the Northern Expedition that was not recorded in the history books of the junior high school.

Even if she once pinned her hopes on Wang Shiqiang and the main battle faction he supported, knowing that the Southern Song Dynasty would perish, she still wanted to fight with all her might-the Northern Expedition could be regarded as a preemptive strike after all.

Until now, she hasn't changed.

What has changed is Wang Shiqiang.

It's just that maybe he's always been like this, and she just misunderstood.

"I told you before, in order to let Uncle Changfangtang support our marriage, I carved this jade into a Guanyin statue and sent it to the palace as a birthday gift for the queen mother, and the remaining jade material is also of excellent quality, so I will make a pair of dragon and phoenix jade bracelets, as the next time I come back from the Great Song Dynasty, I will propose to you the wedding order officiate——"

In the courtyard, he whispered faintly with memories on his face, and finally talked about the old things.

The people on the side of the courtyard wall didn't need Huang Qilang's signal, they all had already withdrawn from the door, and Xiao Ruiniang in the house also quietly slipped into the backyard, with the sound of footsteps, she looked up and saw Huang Qilang who also slipped into the backyard, and glanced at him, she suddenly grimaced at him, causing him to grin.

"When I went back three years ago, I decided to go to Putuo Temple to book a date, just wait for the jade Buddha and the bracelet to be ready, and then put it in the temple to open the light, and ask a few monks to recite a scripture."

He stood in front of the porch, picked up the jade Buddha from the pile of silk, and placed it on the porch beside her.

She stood still, glanced at the jade Guanyin, and knew that the queen mother in the court also believed in Guanyin, and of course it could add a layer of joy to the queen mother, and the bracelet was just a stain.

Besides, the pair of dragon and phoenix bracelets had been smashed by her in this small courtyard when he came to ask for a concubine two times before.

The jade slag is long gone.

As for the Naputuo Temple, it is a famous peninsula Buddhist temple near Mingzhou, there are not only the great Song Dynasty monks in the temple, but also the monks from the East China Sea and Nanyang countries who go to this temple to place orders and travel to the party.

"I have never lived in the old house for long, and the newly bought wedding house after returning that year was also being renovated, so I stayed in the temple for a few more days, and then met a traveling monk from Fusang in the temple."

As he spoke, he had sat down on the porch casually as he had done three years ago, leaning on the square wooden pillars, staring at the Jade Guanyin,

"I heard him talk about Zhuma Temple."

She was slightly stunned, and finally heard something that made her wonder, and asked rhetorically:

"Zhuma Temple? The Zhuma Temple behind the Tang Fang? ”

From the age of ten, she worked as a Zhuma Temple for three years.

He nodded, his eyes half-closed, as if he were a little tired, and recalled:

"The monk traveled all over the ancient temples in Fuso, and then went to Goryeo, and then went to the Great Song Dynasty, and took the boat of our Siming Wang's family, I was also idle at that time, and I heard him say a few things about what he had seen and heard in the three places, and he was indeed well-informed, so he also mentioned that I had been doing business in the East China Sea since I was fourteen years old, although I had not been to Heian Capital, but I had also heard of one or two Fuso Buddhist temples along the coast of Kyushu and Shikoku, so I also talked about it......"

Of course, she knew that although their Siming Wang family believed in protecting the sea Guanyin, after all, he was a person who entered the Wang family's family science at the age of six to study, and he still preferred to believe in the admonition of "Zi Bu is silent and strange and chaotic".

He never entered the monastery unless he had to.

It was already unusual to live in the Puyuan Temple, so I met a wandering monk.

“…… It was my shallow knowledge, that year I heard the monk say that there is a Zhuma Temple on the edge of Kyushu Island, although it was established by the missionary monks of China in the late Tang Dynasty, and now it is a thousand-year-old temple, but it is still difficult to preach in the Yazhu Mountain. ”

His voice was obscure and dark, as if it came from the unknown depths of antiquity, and even she, who was accustomed to smoking Buddha incense in the house, couldn't help but listen.

"I couldn't help but be surprised, so I asked why, but he refused to say more, because you had been in that temple for three years, and I naturally became curious, so I asked again and again, and invited him to eat a high-quality vegetarian meal in the temple for a few days, until I mentioned that my wife, who had not passed through the door, had lived in that temple and worshiped the Buddha, and he opened his mouth......"

He finally rolled his eyes and landed his gaze on hers.

She couldn't help but feel the inquiry and question in his eyes, since he got married in the Great Song Dynasty three years ago, every time he went back to Tangfang, every time he saw her, she could find such questions in his eyes.

She didn't understand why.

"I listened to the monk and learned that there are hundreds of Fusang villages in the Baili Mountains of Yazhu Mountain, although their land is the property of Zhuma Temple, and there are monks and officials who go to collect grain every year, but because they are located in the deep mountains, they are not connected to the outside world, even Buddhism cannot be taught, so there is a custom in these villages that has been inherited for many years......

As he spoke, he couldn't see the answer on her face, so he turned his head and saw the green and low mountains of Yazhu Mountain in the distance behind the house.

The bronze bell of the Buddha seal in Zhuma Temple is still flashing in the setting sun.

"I only then learned that every year during the Spring and Autumn Festival of Fuso, Fuso men and women within a radius of 100 miles from Yazhu Mountain will gather together, and in the three days and three nights of the festival day, regardless of blood and distance, regardless of the usual ethics, they will mate and ......mate in the darkness of the woods."

Hearing this, her heart skipped a beat, and even she heard the loud porphy tom herself.

Wang Shiqiang obviously felt it too, he suddenly stood up from the porch, his eyes fierce, staring at her.

"Weak-hearted?"

He had never stepped into the courtyard again, and with the strength he had trained over many years of sailing, he grabbed her right shoulder and dragged her to the front with such force that he almost crushed her shoulder.

"You say—"

His voice seemed to come out between his teeth.

"Say what!?"

She quickly came back to her senses, regained her composure, and frowned as she could not break free, and looked back in pain, his not handsome but handsome but elegant countenance had been distorted by the anger that had been hidden for a long time.

He stared at her, but fortunately he was not so confused that he roared loudly, and knew that he had to lower his voice, and asked word by word in her ear:

"You say, are you—"

"What are you!?"

She sank her face, where was she willing to pull with him like this - seeing that he couldn't make sense, she unceremoniously followed the technique that the third Ji Chenhu had taught her before, her left hand was in the shape of a hand knife, and with a strong knife, it cut heavily on the soft tendon of his wrist, and she also lowered her voice.

"Don't you know how to talk well?"

The look on his face twitched, obviously it was already extremely painful, but he still refused to let go, but worked harder, after all, he was not a weak scholar, so that she was just a woman's strength trained by digging the river and opening a workshop many years ago, and there was no way to show it at all.

Over the years since the opening of the workshop, she has only followed the residents, obeying the arrangement of the third brother Ji Chenhu during the off-season of business every year, and practicing every day.

"Didn't you hear the monk say that it was Fusang in the deep mountains? They are uncivilized barbarians! I'm not! ”

She was angry in her heart, but she could only explain it to him. The tone is also a little unstable.

"You're not?"

He gritted his teeth and stared at her, carefully watching her expression change, refusing to let go of the slightest abnormality,

"You're not in a hurry, what's the matter? The monk said that the sacrifice day is the spring and autumn sacrifices, isn't it the day of planting in spring and harvesting grain in late autumn? Do you think I don't know that the monks of Zhuma Temple go to the villages to collect grain every year in the autumn festival? Do you think I don't know that the money you used to build the workshop in the first place was obtained by you smuggling grain? Did you bribe the monks and officials in the Zhuma Temple to collect grain from these Fusang mountain people at a low price? ”

He finally couldn't control it anymore and scolded angrily:

"Young lady! Green Lady! You say, haven't you ever told me the truth? It's a shame that I've been devoted to you all those years—"

She was also upset, but when she heard his voice getting higher, she immediately knew that it was not good, where was she willing to let him be angry and alarm the people in the backyard and outside the courtyard, she first stabilized her mind, and replied categorically, saying:

"Why did Wang Gangshou say this, since I asked you to know you, I have not deceived you in this matter."

After that, taking advantage of his momentary ease, she immediately slashed at his right wrist with a hand knife, and when he was in pain, she reached out without hesitation, grabbed the numb tendon on her right little arm through her sleeve, and twisted her two fingers hard.

He finally snorted, ignoring the anger in his heart, pushed her away, and took a step back.

"Don't Wang Gangshou know that he is the son of everyone? Such a faux pas will be laughed at in Tang Fang. ”

She rubbed her shoulders angrily.

She was tired like a dog in her previous life, and she never fell in love once, she met Wang Shiqiang at the age of fourteen in this life, and fell in love at the age of sixteen, and she knew that his temperament was hard, and she sometimes had no one else around, and a person said a few words to the young monk from the temple or the young Song Shang in Dongfang, so that he knew, and he would be angry and quarrel.

There's no way she's messing around behind his back.

As for before the age of fourteen, in the Zhuma Temple......

"Do you want to say that you didn't go to collect grain on the day of the sacrifice?"

Hearing her categorical denial just now, he finally calmed down for half a minute, with a cold face, rubbing his arms and asking rhetorically.

She looked directly at him and replied:

"I did participate in such a festival—"

When his face was about to change, she said directly and clearly,

"Collecting grain is a good errand, when I was ten years old, because I could write Chinese characters and settle accounts, I followed the monk officials to start collecting grain and keeping accounts, and the monks who went to collect grain were not outsiders, most of them were also the children of the village chief, sent to the temple to be a temple slave, and then there were smart people who learned to recite Chinese characters and Buddhist scriptures, and they could be monks. Because Master Kongming asked them to take care of me, they told me to stay in the house and not come out before I went-"

She spoke very fast, and the words were clear, Wang Shiqiang listened to her talk about the things in the Zhuma Temple in an orderly manner, and then remembered that year when he heard about it, he was angry and immediately sent his henchmen to cross the sea to Fusang, they bypassed Tangfang and entered the Ma Temple to inquire about the content of the report, and what she said was not much different, but the monk and her went to the village together, they couldn't find out.

What they repay is that the monks and temple slaves who collect grain have been bored in the temple for a long time, and they will take the opportunity to participate in the festival.

Although he was already angry at that time, three years later, now that I think about it, he really lost his sense of proportion at that time.

He should have come back and asked her in person.

The anger in his eyes faded.

"I'm asking if you've ever been to the festival, so tell me clearly."

After all, he is a person who is very deep in the city, and he has long been accustomed to thinking calmly about everything, and the anger just now is because when he was with her, he was only twenty years old, because he was busy with family affairs and had no one to admire, and she was just the first love when he was a teenager and it was unforgettable.

After the most angry moment, his temper softened, and he arched his hand in apology, and took another step back, standing in front of the porch, his eyes still looking at her.