Mrs. Guo thought about it, told the maid to follow, and really took someone to see the eldest princess first.

The little nun who led the way was called Huixin, seven or eight years old, which was the age to change her teeth, and she smiled at Xu Qirong and the two sisters, revealing a mouthful of sparse teeth.

Xu Qirong saw that Huixin turned his head from time to time to look at the pearl bead flower on Xu Qijin's head, and couldn't help but tease: "Little Master, let my sister give you a pearl flower later, thank you for showing us the way, okay?" ”

Huixin listened, nodded vigorously, and then sighed, and touched his bare head in annoyance: "But the poor nun has no hair!" ”

Everyone was amused, and Shui'er interjected: "If you stay for a year, your hair will grow." ”

Huixin shook her head when she heard this, and said seriously: "How can a nun keep her hair, if she keeps her hair, what is the difference between a poor nun and a donor!" ”

This made everyone cover their mouths and laugh.

Hui Xin looked at the bead flower on Xu Qijin's head, looking distressed and ruthless, and finally rejected Xu Qirong: "Amitabha, the little nun can't ask for bead flowers." ”

The meditation room is next door to the main hall, and the laughing room has arrived. While Xu Qijin went to change clothes, Xu Qirong hurriedly talked to the little nun.

"Do you have a release pond in your nunnery?" Xu Qirong asked. She remembered that in her previous life, the county lord of Jiaren said that when she was a child, she put a fish in the release pond of Miaocui'an, and the fish was given to her by officials along the coast to play, and the flowers were very beautiful. But who knew that not long after the fish was put in the release pond, all the living creatures in the release pond were bitten to death by the fish. Since then, only the strange fish with a beautiful and ferocious appearance is left in the release pond of Miaocui'an.

Also because of the ferocity of the fish, the county lord of Jiaren wanted to take him back to the eldest princess's mansion several times, but the eldest princess refused. Therefore, every time the county lord of Jiaren came to Miaocuian, the first thing he did was to see the strange fish.

Xu Qirong mentioned the release pool, and the little nun Huixin looked frightened: "Of course there is a release pool, but the master said that you can't go to the release pool, there are man-eating monsters in it!" ”

Xu Qirong raised his eyebrows: "The monks don't speak, this is the pure land of Buddhism, how can there be a man-eating monster in the release pool!" ”

Huixin frowned: "There really is, only senior sisters and uncles can go over there." ”

Xu Qirong said: "Since there are man-eating monsters, why do your senior sisters and uncles dare to go over there?" ”

The little nun Hui Xin said seriously: "Because monsters only eat children!" ”

Obviously, the host of Miaocuian was afraid that the child would be bitten by a strange fish if he fell into the release pond and was bitten by a strange fish, so he made up such a lie about a man-eating monster.

Xu Qirong rolled his eyes, pointed at Qiu Nong and said to Hui Xin: "Is she an adult or a child?" ”

The little nun glanced at Qiu Nong, then rubbed to Qiu Nong's side, compared her height with herself, and then nodded affirmatively: "It's an adult." ”

"Then let her take us to the release pool to see the monsters, okay? I've never seen a monster before! ”

When the little nun heard this, she subconsciously said, "The poor nun hasn't seen it either!" Obviously, Xu Qirong's mention aroused her curiosity, and she wanted to agree to Xu Qirong, but she was a little afraid of the monster that ate children.

At this moment, Xu Qijin came out after changing his clothes, and saw the two children with a tangled face, and the other smiling like a Maitreya Buddha, looking at each other, and couldn't help but be a little funny: "If you look at it again, it will become a cross-eyed!" ”

Xu Qirong's eyes rolled, and he simply said to Xu Qijin: "Sister, I asked Qiu Nong to bring some vegetarian snacks when I went out, and the little master will take us to the release pond now, shall we feed the fish in the release pond?" This is also merit. ”

Huixin was startled, stretched out her hand and pointed at Xu Qirong, a little aggrieved: "I...... I...... When did the poor nun agree to take you to the release pool? ”

Xu Qirong's mouth was deflated, and he was more aggrieved than Huixin: "Didn't the little master acquiesce?" If the monks don't speak, will the little master regret it? ”

"I ...... I...... Poor ...... Poor Ni ...... "Huixin was blocked by Xu Qirong's two questions, and she couldn't speak.

Xu Qijin saw his sister bullying a little nun like this, and he couldn't cry or laugh: "Okay, we have to go to my uncle and grandmother quickly, and it doesn't matter if we go to the release pool later!" ”

Xu Qirong sighed and stomped his feet: "I didn't bring much vegetarian snacks, I told my uncle and grandmother, what should everyone do!" Besides, my uncle and grandmother will definitely detain us if they are at home with the eldest princess, and if we don't go now, we won't have a chance to go. ”

As he spoke, he also glanced at the little nun.

Huixin heard the sentence "If you don't go now, you won't have a chance to go", she bit her lip and thought about it, and finally made up her mind: "Since the little donor wants to go to see the release pool, the poor nun will take you there." ”

Xu Qijin was a little worried: "Beware of my uncle and grandmother looking for us everywhere later." ”

As soon as Huixin was relieved, she became enthusiastic, and when she heard Xu Qijin say this, she hurriedly said: "The release pool is not very far, and it won't delay too much time if you take a look at it and then rush to the eldest princess." ”

Xu Qijin stared at his sister with a blank look, and saw that the little nun swore that she would not delay too much time, and finally nodded.

The little nun was not afraid of man-eating monsters, and took the lead in leading everyone in the direction of the release pool.

Qiu Nong pulled Xu Qirong and whispered, "What if there is really a monster that eats children?" ”

Xu Qirong blinked his glasses, pulled Qiu Nong's sleeve with his hand and shook it straight, looked up at a little face with pink makeup, and said in a glutinous voice: "Sister Qiu Nong, you will protect me, right?" ”

Qiu Nong was asked by Xu Qirong like this, and felt that his heart was about to melt, and he didn't have time to think at all, so he nodded immediately, and almost patted his chest to promise. After nodding his head, he felt a little melancholy, and the burden on his shoulders seemed to be too heavy!

The release pond is indeed not far away, and after passing through a few garden gates, I heard Huixin say: "It's just ahead, just a few steps away." Because of nervousness and chicken jelly, the little nun forgot to pay attention to her missing teeth, and every word broke the wind.

Xu Qirong looked in the direction pointed by the little nun, and sure enough, he saw a person sitting on the stone fence of the release pool, and the red figure was like a fire. Deliberately sighed: "Someone came before us!" ”

Huixin also saw the person sitting on the stone railing, and next to the person stood a girl in goose yellow clothes, and the two were talking about something. Sweeping the surroundings again, there was no maid guarding it.

I couldn't help but wonder: "What about the monster that eats children?" ”

Xu Qijin hadn't heard Huixin tell Xu Qirong about man-eating monsters before, so he was very surprised: "What kind of monster that eats children?" Little Master, do you have tigers in the nunnery? ”

The little nun hurriedly shook her head: "Let's go over and have a look." ”

Xu Qirong actually sweated in his heart. In her previous life, Jiaren was her handkerchief, and he was too good for her. General Yang died on the battlefield, that year Luotan came to attack, Yang Jingcheng, the only son of General Yang, took command, Emperor Chen Qian remembered Yang Men loyalty, and married the eleven-year-old Jiaren County Lord to Yang Mansion before Yang Jingcheng set out on the expedition.

In the second year of Yang Jingcheng's expedition, the county lord of Jiaren eloped with a monk vigorously. At that time, the county lord of Jiaren was already Xu Qirong's best handkerchief. Jiaren met a white and pure monk in Miaocui'an, and he liked to die and live. As a handkerchief, Xu Qirong was obliged to help the two elope, and since then, Xu Qirong's reputation among the aristocratic women in Kyoto has not been very good.

General Yang Xiao is an iron-blooded real man, he is young and ignorant in the county lord of Jiaren, and he does not care about the elopement between the county lord of Jiaren and the monk, and persuades the Yang family to still accept the county lord of Jiaren. It's a pity that the county lord of Jiaren is like being poured ecstasy soup, so he has to follow the monk.

Later, Emperor Chen Qian was furious, cut the monk with a thousand knives, took the Yang family's letter of resignation, an edict, and sent Jiaren to Goryeo and his relatives.

For this whole thing, Xu Qirong really didn't know who to blame, but he couldn't stop being weak as soon as he met the Yang family.

At this moment, the county lord of Jiaren is only ten years old, and he has not yet been assigned to Yang Jingcheng by Emperor Chen Qian, nor has he known a monk who abducted her and eloped. The face was still full of the innocence of a little girl.

But now that I think about it, a twelve-year-old married county lord was abducted and eloped by a monk, and the monk still met the county lord in the nunnery, and the whole thing revealed a strange feeling no matter how you look at it.

Xu Qirong was thinking about it here, and the little nun Huixin had already recited Amitabha Buddha to the red Jiaren County Lord: "Donor, can you see the monster that eats children here?" ”

When the girl in a goose-yellow spring shirt next to the county lord of Jiaren heard this, she covered her mouth and said: "Little Master, don't be alarmist, this is not a deep mountain and old forest, where did you come from a monster that eats children!" Then he said to Xu Qijin and Xu Qirong, who were following behind Huixin, "Don't listen to her nonsense!" ”

Hui was anxious: "Master said that there are monsters that eat children, then there must be monsters that eat children." The monks don't talk about it. ”

The county lord of Jiaren snorted, pointed to the release pool, and said, "Is this what the little master said?" ”

Attracted everyone to look into the release pool, heh! This brightly colored strange fish is the size of a baby, and when you open your mouth, you can see the sharp fangs in its mouth! No wonder the eldest princess didn't allow the county lord of Jiaren to take it back! It's no wonder that the steward in the nunnery wants to deceive the little nun that there is a man-eating monster here!

Xu Qijin couldn't help but say: "I'm afraid this fish came from the sea!" ”

When the county lord of Jiaren heard this, he sighed and asked, "How do you know?" Have you seen it before? ”

Xu Qijin said with a smile: "I was sick a few days ago, and I was bored lying in bed all day, so I took out a copy of "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" to read. There are a lot of strange fish written in it, such as a squid with wings that are shaped like cows, have snake tails, live on the hillside, and have wings; bighead carp with pig hair and a pig-like voice; It looks like a magpie, has ten wings, its scales are all on the tips of its feathers, and its calling sound is like that of a magpie's tenelfish. It must be hung on a tree first, beaten vigorously, and eaten only after the white sap in its body has dried up. I had never seen a fish in this release pond that looked strange and I had never seen it, so I guessed that it might have come from the deep sea. ”

The county lord of Jiaren listened with relish, and the goose-yellow girl looked at Xu Qijin with admiration, and blurted out a sentence: "In the future, you can come to study with me, and bring your book "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" with you." ”

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