After Cen Chi waited for Xiao Qiang to approach his side, the two walked out of the small courtyard next to each other, and Cen Chi, who had been silent for a moment, finally spoke again: "Okay, you just take a walk in the temple first, and when I finish speaking, we will go back." He said it, smiling slightly regretfully.

He didn't expect Xiao Qiang to shake his head when he heard this, and then said with a smile: "I'd better stay in the living room obediently." As you said earlier, I'm going to lose myself if I'm not careful, but now that I think about it, it's possible! ”

As she said this, she turned her head to look at the scenery around her.

After looking around the courtyard she had just entered, she continued: "I used to hear only one or two senior aunts in the Prime Minister's Mansion who had accompanied my wife here to talk about it, saying that this temple does not occupy a large area. Now that I have the opportunity to see it with my own eyes, I realize that although it is not big, the construction inside is so complicated. ”

Cen Chi nodded, and said slowly: "It's not big, and it's really complicated, but the size of the building area is not necessarily exactly the same as its complexity......" At this point, he suddenly stopped by himself.

After a slight pause, the meaning and context of his words had changed slightly: "This temple is located in the city, and it is not yet an official national temple, so the area is naturally restricted. But it contains Buddhist halls, meditation rooms, dining halls, and so on. These need to be built in a limited area of land, so after the construction is completed, many courtyards are scattered and intertwined, and the exquisite combination is to make full use of the location. ”

"No wonder." Xiao Qiang breathed a sigh of relief, and then she looked at Cen Chi, and suddenly smiled again: "It seems that what complicated things are explained by Mr., Xiao Qiang can understand it!" ”

Cen Chi was slightly stunned, then smiled and didn't say anything more. He walked out of the unknown courtyard adjacent to the courtyard of the meditation room in the heart of the stream with Xiao Qiang, and walked towards the meeting room built into the small temple.

……

In the back house of Ye Mansion, in a relatively narrow room, Ye Zhengming was squatting on the ground, holding a stone pestle with smooth ends in his hand, and smashing some sun-dried medicinal herbs in the medicine bowl in an even rhythm. There are two wooden shelves filled with various bottles and cans in the room, and the room is dimly lit, and the faint smell of medicinal herbs floats in the air.

At the open door, the light that shone obliquely in suddenly changed brightly and darkly.

Wu Shu, who had been standing outside the door, was finally willing to move his steps closer. But he still didn't come into the house. Just standing by the door, leaning against the door frame, blocking out half of the sunlight that came in from outside the door. He looked at Ye Zhengming, who was hanging his head and pounding medicine. After hesitating for a moment, he said, "Do you really want me to slap you?" ”

Ye Zhengming heard this, and he was holding the stone pestle to pound the medicine for a moment, he raised his head to look at Wu Shu, who was facing the sunlight outside the house at this time, so the outline of his face was even more blurred, and said with a normal look: "Of course." ”

Wu Shu shook his head and said, "No." If she hurts you again, no one will be able to heal her. ”

Ye Zhengming replied to him without hesitation: "I don't understand the pain, how can I apply the medicine accurately?" ”

Wu Shu shook his head again and said slowly: "No, if you are injured by my internal force, you will definitely make the people in the Imperial Medical Bureau suspicious." I've done too many things to break the rules of the group in recent days. Don't want to get in trouble anymore. ”

Ye Zhengming chuckled: "When you violated the law of the group, you didn't think about it so much, but now you are looking ahead." I can't help but wonder if you're worried about the rules or something else. ”

At this point, he turned to the words with a confused look in his eyes: "As for the Taiyi Bureau, I still have a few days off and I don't need to go. I guess though. When my vacation is over, maybe I still won't have to go there. All the officials in Beijing are self-examining. You've probably heard some of it, and I'm going to have a lot of trouble about me now, and the Emperor must have ordered me to get out of there now. ”

Wu Shu shook his head for the third time, but this time he didn't say anything more. He shook his head in denial, not knowing what it was, maybe it wasn't just a denial.

Ye Zhengming looked at Wu Shu's attitude of shaking his head, he sighed a little helplessly, and said slowly: "Mo Ye's kid...... The children of our Ye family, there are not many......"

Wu Shu had a thought in his heart, and he said softly: "I understand what you mean, but you are the only relative of those two children now, and I can't do it." ”

"If you can't do it, then I'll go find someone else!" Ye Zhengming put down the stone pestle in his hand, walked out of the house slowly with the stone bowl, and said: "When I came back from the imperial medical bureau a few days ago, the emperor also arranged for three masters to come back with me, the three of them, there must always be one of them who will listen to me. ”

Wu Shu was stunned and said, "They are here to protect you." ”

"Didn't you slap Ye'er with the intention of protecting her?" Ye Zhengming glanced sideways at Wu Shu, who was following behind him.

Wu Shu vaguely understood what he really wanted to express in this sentence, and he sighed and said, "Then let me come!" ”

Ye Zhengming stopped when he heard this, he turned around and looked at Wu Shu, with a hint of relief in his eyes, nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go and find Nuo'er to help, and you go to the wing room to breathe first and make full preparations." ”

Wu Shu nodded slightly in silence, took the stone bowl handed by Ye Zhengming, and walked towards the wing where Mo Ye was.

Ye Zhengming came to his study.

When he ordered someone to open the lock on the door of the house and push open the door of the study, before he could step in, a 'small hill' made of books came into view.

Seeing this scene, Ye Zhengming's eyebrow bones gradually protruded, and the servant who was just in charge of unlocking the lock beside him saw this scene in the house, and seemed to be able to predict what was about to happen in advance, so he quietly and quickly retreated.

Just staring at the little book mountain, Ye Zhengming knew what was going on in the house, and he was suddenly a little angry. However, he soon thought of one more thing, and could only force the anger down.

Although he could endure it without getting angry, his face was not much better at the moment. I saw that he walked to the desk with an unusually calm face, picked up a book on the table casually, and smashed it into the pile of books mercilessly.

The book smashed on the mountain of books with a muffled "bang", and then the "mountain" shook violently.

The books slipped down layer by layer, and in the sound of pages turning and rubbing, Ye Nuonuo howled in pain.

Ye Nuonuo covered his nose, which happened to be hit and hurt by the book thrown out by Ye Zhengming, and suddenly stood up from the mountain of books, with an obvious look of annoyance on his face.

However, when she noticed that the man standing opposite her was her father, her sleepy eyes suddenly opened in shock, and the irritability on her face that had been disturbed by her light sleep disappeared as if it had evaporated.

Ye Nono lowered his head, hunched his shoulders and arms like a frightened rabbit, and called in a low voice, "Father." ”

"Hmm......" Ye Zhengming closed his lips, but a long deep groan came from his nose, followed by a silence.

Just when the atmosphere in the study was quiet and a little stiff, he suddenly said, "Did you sleep well just now?" ”

Yeno was stunned.

She didn't say a word, but just looked at her father in this state of form as if someone had been immobilized, as if she had been immobilized, to express her incomprehension of what he was saying.

She originally thought that when her father was confining her, not only did she not think about it seriously, but also used all her father's books to plug her ears, and she also fell asleep soundly in this messy book, and after being found out by her father, she would inevitably have to eat a bad meal again.

But I didn't expect my father to suddenly say such a sentence?

What does he mean by that? Are you talking the other way, or are you really asking yourself if you're sleeping well?

But then again, because of the news of her father in Kyoto these days, she felt that every moment of her time in the girls' school, her whole body was pierced by the gazes of her classmates who sat in front and behind, left and right. After returning to the residence of the female school, the attention of the other three classmates in the same room in the residence made her more and more avoidable, and she could not sleep well.

So she finally chose to escape over the wall. Anyway, it's not the first time for her to climb over the wall, and the courtyard wall of the women's school is no longer difficult for her to climb.

And since she went out over the wall in the early hours of yesterday morning, because this time she didn't have an appointment with any partner, so she was lonely and wandered the street with nothing to do, but she had to raise her spirit to be vigilant against the people walking by the street and the patrol sergeants, so long enough, she was really tired.

So, although Ye Nuonuo was apprehensive, he still replied truthfully: "Of course, it is better to lie on the bed and sleep comfortably, but the first time I slept in the stack of books, it was quite relieving." ”

In fact, she still wanted to be amazed by the effect of scholarly hypnosis, but when she peeked at Ye Zhengming's face, she decisively suppressed this thought in her heart with some weakness.

Regarding his daughter's honest and honest reply, and at the same time cautiously replied to the ground, Ye Zhengming snorted with a smile, but still did not get angry, but quickly said: "When you sleep well, come with your father and help me do something." ”

After saying this, he turned around and walked towards the study with his hands behind his back, leaving no time for his daughter to talk more and ask more.

Ye Nuonuo was slightly stunned, she hesitated in her heart, and quickly tidied up the clothes that were crumpled by the books when she was squeezed into the pile of books to sleep, and straightened the hair that was twisted into a bun that was smashed by the books, and at the same time sorted out her own thoughts, and then jumped and seemed to follow her father with ease.

……

After Cen Chi took Xiaoqiang to the living room to settle down, he sat down with her and rested for a while. After drinking three cups of tea, he left the living room and turned back to the meditation room in Xixin.

But before he entered the small courtyard where the Xixin Meditation Room was located, when he just walked to the adjacent unknown courtyard, a plain figure suddenly appeared at the gate of the courtyard.