086 On the Water Side (Part II)
Two miles up the mountain, because it is very close to the Zhuma Temple, the beasts have not been near the mountain for many years.
Ji Mo, who was waiting for the welcome Panasonic, was very patient, so she just whistled to indicate that she was safe and asked them to wait for half a pillar of incense.
She didn't send a direct code to meet them.
She was soaked all over, and even if Ji Mo and Kuding were her henchmen, she would never be too careless.
She needs to change her outfit.
She looked up under a large tree, and there was a small tree house in the leafy tree. As the "Lou Da" said, even if she is not a Shengbo woman, she also has her own secret residence outside the temple.
It's just that this tree house is not a place for her to have a lover, and it was built by Ji Chenhu for her when she was a temple slave.
At that time, she was hiding her nine-year-old child Ji Chenhu, who often came to see her.
For most of the month, only three or four broken leaves fell in the small treehouse with the doors and windows closed.
The moonlight shone obliquely, and in addition to the rolled up straw mat and thin cloth quilt in the room, there was also a small wardrobe woven by insects and rattan in the corner.
She opened the box, took out the dry clothes and hooded capes that had been put in according to the seasons, and refilled the quiver with ten iron arrows.
She changed into clean socks and cloth shoes, and cleaned up the neatness. Then he climbed down the tree to meet Ji Mo and Kuding.
"Big lady, the Chen family is writing a letter on the boat."
She wore a dark green mountain embroidered Song silk cloak and covered her face with a hood. She was escorted by Ji Mo and the six Kudings and hurried towards the Zhuma Temple.
Hear here. She couldn't help but pause, looked at Ji Mo in surprise, and asked rhetorically:
"Whose letter?"
On the Chen family's boat. There is a small boat arranged by her through the Quanzhou stack.
Of course, he won't be a Tang Fang Fangding, but he is a young man in the Chen family's shipyard. For the sake of the remuneration that he could only earn in twenty years, he would hand over her second letter to Chen Wenchang at the right time.
But these days, this guy has never found a chance on the Lou Yun boat.
So she didn't expect that the Chen family would take the initiative to send a letter.
"Big lady, it was Gongzi Wenchang who wrote the letter himself."
After Ji Mo received the letter from the garrison pavilion, he was anxious to give it to her. At this point he took out the pigeon letter from his bosom. There was some embarrassment on his face, but he also looked a little happy for her.
This made her a little strange.
She unscrewed the lid of the letterbox. She hadn't taken out the paper roll yet. A hand-woven flower rope fell directly out of the letterbox.
Ji Mo was prepared, stretched out his hand and took it in mid-air, and presented it to her with a smile,
She took a closer look. I couldn't help but be a little surprised.
It was a thin colored wrist rope no more than three or four inches long.
Dark purple knots are dotted into a bunch of lychee fruits, sandwiched between three white lychee flowers. This obviously could not have been made up and worn by a man. But at the bottom of the lychee flower string is a smaller rectangular embroidered bag.
In the embroidered bag with purple waves on a white background, I don't know what is stuffed.
But she carefully found that there seemed to be two words embroidered on both sides of the embroidered bag:
Looking vaguely, it seems that one side is "Mazu", and the other side is "Wenchang".
This is a common amulet for going to sea in Quanzhou Port.
What did Chen Wenchang give her this thing for?
In the midst of his doubts, a Kuding grinned and opened the fluorite powder lighting bag for her to take a closer look.
Only when she lifted the string of flowers could she see the fine characters on both sides of the embroidered bag. Ji Mo has a calm temperament. Smile didn't make a sound. The six young Kudin around him were not so intimate, and they all winked at each other.
Although she didn't understand what this rope flower meant at all, she was now surrounded by these hairy boys to watch a good show. She couldn't help but have a fever on her face.
She could only pretend to be calm and smiled:
"Looks like an old rope flower?"
As long as you look closely, you can see that some of the color of this wristband flower rope has faded.
With that, she quickly pulled out the scroll of paper, but the contents of the letter surprised her.
Chen Wenchang wrote three things in the letter.
One thing. It was when he went to Goryeo that he went to a private school. I want to meet Ji Chenlong. But because Ji Chenlong left the capital for his study tour, he didn't meet him.
But he has read Ji Chenlong's article.
Chen Wenchang felt ashamed that Ji Chenlong, when writing about the strategy of Tuntian on the northern border of Goryeo, compared the farming experience in the mountainous areas of southern Fujian, the mountainous areas of Ryukyu Island, and the vicinity of Tangfang. Ji Jiaerlang's understanding of Wuyi Mountain in Fujian is more detailed than that of Chen Wenchang.
So he had nothing to teach Ji Chenlong.
The second thing, he just said. Among his academy peers, there are indeed people who have opened up wasteland on Ryukyu Island. If Tang Fang needs it, he can introduce it. The Quannan Academy was originally opened near Fanfang, and he bought a small courtyard in Fanfang three years ago as a private house for living and resting. Usually there is only one nurse to help him take care of it, and there is no one else.
In the end, he wanted to open a Mengtong Academy in Fanfang, so after he got married, he planned to buy the two courtyards next door.
When she saw the end, she couldn't help but feel a little happy.
The rumors that Chen Wenchang raised an outer room in Fanfang, of course, she will not forget it.
His explanation made her want to believe it.
"Big lady."
Ji Mo didn't rejoice for her.
Since the Siming Wang family repented of her marriage, although the people around her didn't dare to say anything to make her sad. But it is inevitable that she is always anxious about her family affairs.
However, Chen Wenchang's rumors spread unclear.
Now, although he was in a hurry to go to Zhuma Temple, he still glared at the six snickering Kudings and told them to stand farther away.
He whispered, saying:
"Big lady, why worry too much about the affairs of Erlang and Sanlang?"
He had something in his heart that he couldn't say.
He didn't understand why the female owner had to support the Han Sam government in Lin'an City. offended the envoy. 、
However, even if San Lang wins the position of the owner today, as long as the Grange is in the hands of Ji's Warehouse, Erlang may not be able to make a comeback three years later. The two younger brothers grew up. It's time for her to think about herself, too.
Judging from the letter, Chen Wenchang seems to be a humble and reliable person.
"I understand."
Of course, she would not be so light on the Chen family, but she also knew his good intentions. Nodding,
"Last time, I wrote to his parents, brothers, and sisters-in-law. He should also know that I will inevitably hear in the workshop that his mother and sister-in-law do not get along very well. ”
She sighed.
Although she could not say the reason why she had worked hard for nearly a decade and supported the so-called Northern Expedition plan of the Korean government. But in front of Ji Mo, she did not hide her hidden worries about this family business,
“…… After all, Wang Shiqiang is also willing to share the house with me. I'm actually afraid of entering their Chen family's mansion. Not used to their days. ”
Because she had to get along with her two younger brothers, she didn't think that life in the mansion would go on.
But Chen Wenchang talked about the small private house in Fanfang in the letter. He also mentioned that after starting a family, he would buy a courtyard next door to run a Mongolian school. Maybe when he enters Tangfang to ask for marriage, she can also discuss with him:
If he doesn't dislike this family business, it is of course a good thing that he wants to open a academy in Fanfang, Quanzhou after marriage. However, the affairs of opening a college are inevitably complicated, and there are too many internal affairs. Will he take advantage of this? Living in Fanfang with a wife?
She wasn't going to embarrass him.
Give her a few years, let her live in Fanfang, arrange all the things in Tangfang, and let her settle down those people who are unwilling to stay in Fusang. After that, she was able to live in seclusion without making his mother uncomfortable.
Of course, she would move back to the Chen family mansion with him.
But she had to be ready. lest there be nowhere to run.
Moving back to the Great Song Dynasty due to the civil strife in Fusang does not mean that she has lived enough and is not afraid of death.
And for her future days, if he still wants to continue to open the academy. For example, in addition to enlightenment, he also opened a scholar hall like Quannan Academy and Siming Academy. She was more supportive.
As far as she knew, at least the mountain chief of Siming Academy. He took his wife and children and lived in the academy with his whole family.
His wife is a woman from a scholarly family, and she is responsible for taking care of the housekeeping in the academy.
Running a college is not an easy task, and the clothing, food, housing, and transportation of one or two hundred students must be carefully arranged. If you don't have to pretend to be a boudoir daughter at home every day to please the old lady. Of course, this day can be more comfortable.
She didn't marry to find fault with herself.
Ji Mo knew that she had her own opinions, and seeing that she was also willing to meet and discuss with Chen Wenchang, he also knew:
She still has a good impression of this Chen Wenchang.
She said no more, put away the rope and the letter, and went to the Zhuma Temple surrounded by the Kudings.
Of course, Ji Mo wouldn't ask her about the old flower rope. And the old flower rope she tied casually in her sleeve, of course she knew what it came from.
She'd already heard from the guys at the Stack. The lychee flower rope in the Mazu Niangniang Temple in Quanzhou Port sells very well.
Lychee flowers bloom all over the city, and the small peace embroidered bag reveals the sandalwood fragrance she is most familiar with. She knew that it was filled with incense burner ash in front of the statue of Mazu. I heard that I usually go to sea before going to sea. The boatmen and the trainees of Quanzhou City must buy one with a blessing.
The reason why it looks old is that Chen Wenchang used it at sea for half a year.
Whether it is Chen Hong, Wang Shiqiang, or Lou Yun, they go to sea for national and family affairs. But Chen Wenchang went to sea this time just to enter Tangfang to ask for relatives.
-- To meet her face to face.
At this time, she suddenly remembered the big building in the moonlit woods.
If the envoys on the Song ship were really under the protection of their generals, they sneaked ashore. The boatman she ordered should also deliver his letter to Chen Wenchang, right?
On that letter, she only wrote a few words of greeting for the hard journey, and then waited for him to enter the workshop to propose.
As for the Quanzhou shipwright and the like, after all, it was deliberately written to the envoy Lou Yun.
Between her and Chen Wenchang, the simpler the better......
It's a pity that Master Kong Ming can't see him anymore.
Thinking of this, she put the accidental encounter in the moonlight forest behind her, and she put the rogue boy "Lou Da"
Throw aside.
"Zen Master Kongming, is he really dead......
The mountain road curves, and the east gate is close at hand.
She spoke suddenly.
Ji Mo was stunned for a moment, not knowing why she suspected this matter again, but as soon as he saw her expression, he also knew.
She still hoped that the news of the old Song monk's death was just a miscommunication.
“…… Be. Big lady. ”
She was silent, then nodded her head and stopped conjecturing.
The Zhuma Temple with wide eaves and wide hall was built in the late Tang Dynasty.
Because of the passage of time, the temple has been expanding, and the most remote temple is the courtyard that has only been renovated in the last ten years.
Walking on the stone path leading to the temple, you can see it from the outside.
The courtyard wall of the temple is a wooden wall sandwiched between the wooden walls, and the wooden houses connected to each other in the courtyard can be seen on the low wall.
In front of the house are connected porches.
"Big lady, Ji Hong also sent a message to say: They have surrounded three Song people in the East Water Gate. But Xu San and Xu Wu, who were under San Lang, also went to Dongshuimen and insisted that they arrest people in person. There has been a stalemate between the two sides. It has not yet been captured. ”
When Ji Mo saw this defenseless temple slave liao, he remembered the three Loufu generals in Tang Fang who did not escape.
Ji Chenhu was obviously unwilling to let Ji Hong catch the Song people's spies.
Ji Mo knew that such a situation was enough to satisfy her.
On the contrary, it was Li Molan who made him a little worried,
"Except for the twelfth garrison pavilion, the other pavilions have been left with people to strengthen the garrison. Miss Li still only has the same manpower. There are her and Ji Dalei, and ......"
He hesitated slightly, and when she stopped and blinked, he could only answer with a wry smile,
"Wan Gensheng of Pavilion No. 1, he didn't follow me to Pavilion No. 12."
“……”
Ji Qingchen was jealous of the competition between men and women in this kind of workshop, and he could only laugh helplessly.
When Ji Mo saw her look, he knew that she was too lazy to care about these things.
He stepped forward with confidence and pushed open the courtyard door of the temple slave liao. (To be continued)
ps: Bow and thank Tingting for the gift reward