When she saw that he had finally returned to normal, she said:

"It stands to reason that I am not your wife now, let alone engaged to you, so I don't need to explain anything to you at all, but you have doubts in your heart, and it will not benefit me at all in the future, so I will make it clear to you."

She went on to recall.

"I was too stupid that day, and others wouldn't let me see it, so I wanted to see it, and when I went out and saw that there was no one in the village, I felt even more strange, so I walked along the stream in the village for a while, and in the middle of the night I arrived at the edge of the forest, and saw-"

Her voice paused slightly, of course she would not describe in detail, what she saw in the clear moonlight that night, but she said secretly:

"What the monk you met at Putuo Temple is not wrong."

His face sank, but he didn't get angry anymore after all, of course he understood that seeing it was not the same as participating, and he was not qualified to question it now.

"I was so frightened that I fled back to the village immediately, and the next day at dawn I didn't tell the monk official, so I fled back to the temple, Master Kong Ming thought I was wronged, so he told me not to collect food for a few hard-earned money, let me follow his personal disciples to copy Buddhist scriptures, and usually go to the donor's dormitory to wait for the female benefactor who lives in the house."

Speaking of this, she thought about it, and said: "You also know that I was a temple slave in the Buddhist temple, originally to wait for the Fusang official ladies and ladies who came to live and worship the Buddha, they believed in Buddhism too much, and often stayed for ten days and half a month without going home——"

"I know you're making money on them—"

He didn't want to hear these things he already knew, he was a businessman, and he knew that she needed a lot of money to smuggle food, and she had told him before, and the first money she earned after she brought her two younger brothers to this place was to memorize the collection of poems treasured by Master Kong Ming.

She memorized it, then wrote and transcribed it silently, disguised it as a collection of ancient poems from the Great Song Dynasty, and sold it to these Fuso aristocratic women in the temple who were proficient in Chinese characters and Chinese poetry as their identity symbols.

At that time, the Hanshu from the Song Kingdom could be sold for five taels of gold ailment.

"Although I make money selling books, I can't memorize much, and I do business in the temple so that Master Kong Ming knows, and he also says that I am too greedy, and the six roots are not pure-"

Of course, what she memorized was not Kong Ming's poetry collection, but all the ancient poems and ancient texts she learned from elementary school to junior high school, and occasionally she could steal air copy Kong Ming's own collection of books, and his collection of books was only twenty-nine, all of which were carried when he escaped from Wutai Mountain, and it was forbidden by the Song State to sell foreign books, so even his personal disciples could not touch it.

She occasionally glanced at it, and only knew that those books should be the complete works of Su Dongpo and Wang Anshi, including a large number of original texts that they presented to the official family when they were officials, and they all involved the official system, geography, food, and military use of the Great Song Dynasty, so they could not be sold abroad according to the Great Song Dynasty maritime ban regulations.

"I'm short of money, so I still followed the monk to collect food—"

She didn't hide her background in front of him, just like he didn't hide that he was forced by his mother at home as a concubine.

"During the day, the village is normal, when I was in the village, as long as it was after nightfall, I would never dare to go out, and then because the monks and officials disliked the hard money for collecting grain, and their parents in the village also wanted to pay less taxes and earn more grain, I happened to know Huang Qige, and knew that he was a boatman, and he could bring some goods on the sea boat for free according to his habits, so I started a smuggling business with them——"

She said this carefully, explained the cause and effect, and then she talked about the main topic of Wang Shiqiang's question.

"I am smuggling grain, and I am not a monk to collect taxes, of course, I have to collect grain in advance to ensure the source of food, but I have never been to the village on the festival day after I did smuggling."

Speaking of this, she looked at him and said:

"After the opening of the workshop, I stopped smuggling, and I got to know you, do you remember that I used to go to the mountains on the first day of February and the first day of July?"

He listened, was silent for a long time, and slowly finally sat down in the corridor.

However, she also knew in her heart at this time that he suddenly ruined his marriage three years ago, which was of course one of the reasons, although she heard him talk about family affairs, Miss Shu in the maritime merchants, there were also remarried after losing her husband after marriage, so the etiquette of the Great Song Dynasty was not too strict, but such a sacrifice day collective fornication, she is a modern soul completely unacceptable.

She originally thought that the Fuso people were like birds-beasts.

“…… At that time, I thought that Zhuma Temple was a lewd-temple ......"

He muttered to himself,

"Even if you don't participate, Fusang believes in Theravada Buddhism, there are no wild monks and women outside the temple, and there are many female nuns living together and having children; In order to keep their official qualities, although the monks and officials in the temple will not touch the female sex, they buy young boys from merchants to be servants and temple slaves, and I have heard some of them...... You get along day and night, and many of their young monks are also proficient in Sinology, so they can be moved by you and give you the business of selling temple grain......"

She listened quietly, knowing that he was not here to get back together at the moment, but just to explain the mood of ruining the marriage at that time, speaking of this, he closed his eyes slightly, took a deep breath, and finally calmed his face, he raised his eyes to look at her, and smiled bitterly silently,

"What's more, the women in Tangfang are not like the Great Song Dynasty, no matter whether the family is poor or rich, everyone comes out to work, your favorite Miss Xu Qi, how rich is the family now? Since she is engaged to your brother, she still goes out fishing from time to time, and she can't help but stop associating with foreign men......"

"So you think I'm going to do the same in the future?"

She looked back lightly and saw the remorse in his eyes, so she didn't explain that Xu Qiniang's growth environment Xu Shuqing was completely different from others, this girl was silent when she was a child, I don't know if she was deaf or autistic, so that she didn't know how to discipline her without medical knowledge, she just looked forward to her going out every day, talking and laughing with the ladies and brothers in the neighborhood every day;

She didn't even explain that the Tangfang woman came out to work, in her opinion, this is the same as leaving home in junior high school in her previous life and working to support her brother in college.

Unalterable principle.

Although she understood her parents' patriarchy in the future, she couldn't change the fact that when she left her hometown in her previous life, she simply and boldly wanted to see the outside world, wanted to leave the dilapidated mountain school, and no longer envied her brother who was studying in the county high school, she believed her mother's words so much:

"You are brothers and sisters, brothers and sisters don't help each other, who will help you?"

The sea breeze blew through the middle of the small courtyard, blowing away the memories.

"Because you've always been worried about me—"

She raised her eyes, looked at Wang Gongqiang, and smiled casually like her: "So you empathize with each other in advance, and when you see Miss Lou entering incense in Putuo Temple, you will change your habit of never entering the temple before, and live in that temple for twenty-two days in the name of enlightenment, hoping to see her again?"

The excuse that he unconsciously wanted to hide in front of her was revealed, his already ugly face froze, raised his eyes slightly, stared at her for a long time with dark eyes, and said astringently:

"You know?"

She didn't answer, just looked at him, but he had nothing to say.

Compared with Xu Qiniang, who goes out fishing with her neighbors and sisters every day, it is really rude for a family like him, who already has a verbal marriage contract, to hide in the temple and wait to meet the woman in the boudoir again.

If he still cares, he disobeyed his parents' orders and insisted on marrying her, a maiden woman, and it was rude to make a verbal marriage contract.

However, she didn't expect an answer from him, and still said:

"There are people coming and going in the Buddhist temple, and there are few things that no one will know, just like you sent Zuo Ping and another manager back that year, and secretly went to the Zhuma Temple to inquire about my past twice, I am also easy to inquire about Miss Lou's preferences."

She also sighed,

"I must at least know that I am inferior to her except for Mendi."

She smiled slightly, but she didn't look at him, just looked at the jade Guanyin who had been consecrated in Putuo Temple on the corridor, and recalled the rumors of the eldest daughter of the Lou family in Mingzhou City, although her mother died early, but she was virtuous and good, and she was married to a merchant like Wang Shiqiang, and it was also in Mingzhou City that the Lou family's steproom treated her stepdaughter poorly.

"It is indeed a virtuous beauty who can make people fall in love at first sight."

Perhaps, it was precisely because of love at first sight for Miss Lou that he didn't care if Lou Yun and he had the same opinion on state affairs, or when he met Knowles Luanpei three years ago, Lou Yun had just arrived in Quanzhou City as an official, and he was just a distant relative of Knowles, so he didn't hesitate at all.

Hearing her indifferent smile, he was silent.

He didn't explain again, he happened to see Miss Lou who went to Putuo Temple to make incense, obviously she was the one who was going to propose, but she couldn't help but follow her to the temple to inquire about her.

After he knew that Miss Lou would come to repay his vows within a month, he was stunned for some reason, and he didn't go home, and Ji Qingchen also left it behind, so he rented the courtyard in the temple for a month, until he saw her for the second time, until he found out that Miss Lou Luanpei was also interested in him......

He barely remembered whether he first heard the rumors of the prostitution in the mountains, or the second time he saw Miss Lou in the temple, she refused to be outside the Buddha's fast, but left a poem for him to propose, and then he had the heart to ruin the marriage and marry again......

"Wang Gangshou, although I don't know what Lou Yun is like, but although there have been continuous pirates in Fujian in the past few years, the merchants are still willing to dock in Quanzhou Port to trade, so that the city can pay taxes in full every year into Lin'an, it can't be said that it is not the credit of this adult......

She didn't need to tell him all the news that she had been treacherously married after she got the news of his treacherous marriage, and she had been silently planning for the past three years, as if she had gently stroked away the past affairs, she looked at Wang Shiqiang and said with a smile:

"Since Wang Gangshou is inevitably a little selfish, why blame Lou Yun for being selfish?"

He shook his head as she spoke.

"You are far away in Tangfang, and you don't know the inside story, Lou Yun is not credible."

He sat on the porch, staring at Ji Qingchen's eyebrows, since she met him at the age of fourteen, her appearance was already fresh and beautiful, and he was only twenty years old when he was only twenty years old, and he had been carefully accompanying her, waiting until she grew to the natural beauty of seventeen years old, and waited until she was now twenty years old and quiet and beautiful.

In addition to the family, her appearance and talent are not lost to his wife Knowles.

"Am I born to be unkind? I've known you for four years, and I didn't hesitate to break with my parents for you, and the new house I got married in the outside has been bought, will I have no love overnight? Am I just a shallow-eyed person who has never seen a woman, and who has to be a lewd woman? ”

When he said this, he remembered the portrait of Lou Yun hanging in the cabin, and his heart was even more sure of the suspicions that had arisen when he got married three years ago, and he couldn't help but stand up, "Qingniang, do you know that the Fusang monk I met in Putuo Temple was not an accident at all.

"What?"

She couldn't help but feel a little strange when she heard this, but she still shook her head, "Wang Gangshou doesn't need to say this to me anymore, since the matter has come to this, what difference does it make to how this happened?" ”

Wang Shiqiang's words, she neither believed nor needed to believe it.