Chapter 152: Travel
The carriage drove out of Ronn Street and headed straight out of town.
Although he didn't know where he was going, Lu Qingrong was still a lot happier when he was able to walk out of the Hou Mansion and come to the outside of the city with a wider field of vision.
Seeing that she couldn't sit still, and lifted the curtain of the carriage from time to time to look out, Jiang Xuan's mood also improved.
Come out of the Fuhua Gate on the west side of the capital and go all the way to the west.
Lu Qingrong has always felt that the scenery along the road is somewhat familiar.
About half an hour later, the gate of Guangyin Temple gradually appeared in the distance.
It turned out that he had arrived here, Lu Qingrong said secretly in his heart, and lowered his head and adjusted his clothes to get out of the car.
But he didn't want the carriage to keep its original speed and pass by the gate of Guangyin Temple, and didn't make any stops.
Lu Qingrong turned his head to look at Jiang Xuan, with a puzzled expression.
"What? You think I'm going to bring you to the temple? Jiang Xuan asked with a smile.
Lu Qingrong really thought so just now, so he didn't say anything at this time, but still looked at him with some curiosity.
Seeing this, Jiang Xuan didn't think much about it and continued: "Since my mother died, I haven't been to any temples. The last time I went to Guangyin Temple with you, it was the only time. ”
When Lu Qingrong heard this, he was slightly stunned.
She suddenly remembered the scene when she first met Jiang Xuan.
At that time, not long after she came to the Great Qi Dynasty, she followed Yin Pingru to Qingtan Temple outside Jinan City to make incense, where she happened to meet Mrs. Jiang and Jiang Xuan.
"Mother...... Do you also believe in Buddhism? Lu Qingrong saw that although Jiang Xuan's smile gradually faded when he mentioned Mrs. Jiang, his face was also calm, so he asked.
"I don't believe it too much." Jiang Xuan thought for a while, "When I was a child, my mother often said to me, 'It's better to ask for Buddha than to ask for yourself', but then my father fell ill, and the things in the house became less and less steady, so she gradually had some meaning that she would rather believe it, so every time she passed by a temple, she always had to go in and worship to rest assured." The same is true of the time I met you outside Jinan back then. ”
I see.
Lu Qingrong pondered in his heart, at that time, Mrs. Wu was still the equal wife of Marquis Jingyuan, and there was such a small wife in the mansion, and Mrs. Jiang's position as the main wife must be uncomfortable.
The more we are confronted with an unacceptable reality, the more we want to seek protection from the gods.
Lu Qingrong suddenly thought that Yin Pingru has always believed in Buddhism, and I don't know if it is related to the bumpy experience at the beginning.
"My mother is a Buddhist." Lu Qingrong said, "No matter what happens at home, I always want to listen to the opinions of the monks, but it has been a little better in the past few years, but if you encounter a major event, you still can't forget this stubble." ”
"Oh?" Jiang Xuan was a little surprised, but Lu Qingrong didn't have the slightest preference for this.
Jiang Xuan saw that her tone of speech at this time was very relaxed, and finally she no longer had the politeness and restraint of these days, the corners of her mouth subconsciously curled, and suddenly asked, "When you encounter a major event, will you ask the monk?" Have you ever calculated the fact that we got married? ”
"Absolutely." Lu Qingrong didn't think about it and said directly: "At that time, you had already retrieved the eight characters and went to the ancestral temple for divination, but my mother was still not sure, and she also found a senior monk to calculate." ”
"What was the result?" Jiang Xuan looked curious.
"Of course the result is good, otherwise it wouldn't be ......"
Lu Qingrong suddenly stopped in the middle of speaking, because she found that Jiang Xuan was looking at her with a smile at this time, and there seemed to be an indescribable love in her eyes, which made her blush when she saw it.
The carriage became extremely quiet, which made Lu Qingrong a little at a loss.
I don't know when she started to be alone with Jiang Xuan in such a small and confined environment, which made it more and more difficult for her to deal with.
Fortunately, at this moment, the carriage slowly stopped.
A small girl's voice came from outside: "Lord Shizi, it's here!" ”
Lu Qingrong breathed a sigh of relief and walked out of the carriage after Jiang Xuan.
As soon as he lifted the curtain, Lu Qingrong was stunned by the scenery in front of him.
The carriage was now stopped at the foot of a mountain, and when I looked up, it was all red, and at first glance it looked like a burning flame.
When she looked closely, she realized that it was the red leaves all over the mountain, shining in the sunlight, and the autumn wind was blowing the branches and leaves all over the mountain.
Lu Qingrong had seen such scenery in a scenic spot in his previous life, but it was accompanied by bustling tourists and crowds of people occupying the mountain road.
It was definitely the first time she had seen such a quiet mountain full of red leaves in front of her, and it was inevitable that she would lose her mind.
Seeing this, Jiang Xuan couldn't help but chuckle and raised his hand to shake it in front of her, so that she could come to her senses.
Lu Qingrong watched Jiang Xuan's hand in front of her motionless, only hesitated for a moment, and then helped his hand to get out of the car.
"Are we going up the mountain?" Lu Qingrong let go of Jiang Xuan's hand and looked up at the top of the mountain, as if he was recalculating the possibility of climbing up.
Now her body has never done such a strenuous exercise.
As soon as Jiang Xuan saw her appearance, he knew what she was worried about.
"There are thousands of feet at the highest point of Fengqi Mountain, although it is not a high mountain, but it is not too short." Jiang Xuan said with a smile.
"Maple Mountain?" Lu Qingrong felt that this name was a little familiar, and he couldn't remember where he had heard it for a while.
Jiang Xuan looked back at her with a smile, and he didn't mean to remind her at all.
At this time, the Guangyin Temple that had just passed by flashed in his mind, and Lu Qingrong remembered that it was the last time in the backyard of Guangyin Temple, and Song Shixiang had mentioned this place to her.
"Is there such a place?" Lu Qingrong couldn't help but sigh, "I thought it was that person's nonsense!" ”
"That's not an exaggeration." Jiang Xuan's tone had a hint of sarcasm in it, "At that time, the leaves here were far from changing color!" Didn't I wait until now to bring you over......" Speaking of the back, he smiled at Lu Qingrong.
Lu Qingrong didn't expect that he just mentioned it casually at that time, Jiang Xuan actually remembered it, but at this moment, it made her feel a little embarrassed, and after returning him with a shallow smile, she looked down at what she was wearing.
Before going out, Jiang Xuan instructed her to dress lightly, so she changed into a light green embroidered lily pattern placket and a goose-yellow skirt, which looked refreshing and neat, and it should not be a problem to climb this mountain that doesn't look too high.
"Then let's go up and have a look." Lu Qingrong made up his mind.
She also wanted to experience the feeling of being surrounded by red leaves up close at home, so she and Jiang Xuan walked up the stairs together.
A few retinues dressed as small servants followed them from a distance.
At first, Lu Qingrong walked very briskly.
And the higher they went, the denser the trees on both sides of the stone steps became, and the sunlight shone through the gaps in the branches and leaves on the road they were on, and the mottled shadows of the trees under their feet showed a different kind of warmth.
Lu Qingrong couldn't help but take a deep breath, feeling that the air around him was exceptionally sweet.
"Shouldn't all autumn leaves be maple leaves?" Lu Qingrong looked left and right, and found that along the way, there were no palm-shaped maple leaves on the trees on both sides, but all round orange-yellow to almost red leaves.
"Most of the mountains are coxagulus, only on the top of the mountain there is a small maple forest, and the name of 'maple mountain' here is also derived from this." Jiang Xuan explained to her, "If you want to see the real maple leaves, you have to climb to the top of the mountain!" When the time comes, you can see the whole picture of the capital from afar, which is a scenery that you can't imagine. ”
Lu Qingrong disagreed, looking back behind her, she had already completed a short and half of the distance, and she was still very confident that she could reach the top.
But she didn't want to be a little overwhelmed before she was halfway up the mountain.
His heart beat suddenly, his legs became weaker, and his steps became heavier.
And he had been in a state of walking side by side with Jiang Xuan, but it was becoming more and more difficult to maintain it at the moment.
When he walked to a small platform halfway up the mountain, Lu Qingrong finally couldn't help but stop and rest, because whether he continued to climb up or go down the mountain to turn back, he needed enough physical fitness.
Since Lu Qingrong came to the Great Qi Dynasty, she has adapted to life here very quickly, and she has almost never missed anything in her previous life in the modern era, but at this moment, how much she wishes there was a ropeway here......
Jiang Xuan looked at her with a tangled expression, her face was flushed, and her chest was still rising and falling violently, knowing that she was really tired enough.
"Still going up?" Jiang Xuan asked.
"Of course!" Lu Qingrong was still confident, she only remembered that this height was completely within her ability, but she ignored that this slightly weak body was already different from her previous life.
"Or I'll let them go down the mountain and carry a bamboo chair up, so you don't have to walk so hard." Jiang Xuan looked at the entourage in the distance behind him and asked Lu Qingrong's opinion.
"No!" Lu Qingrong refused directly without thinking about it.
She had always felt that it was very dangerous to sit on a bamboo chair and be carried up the mountain, and in this way, she would lose her sense of feeling.
Jiang Xuan saw that the expression on her red little face was extremely firm, and he no longer insisted.
After resting for about a stick of incense on the platform halfway up the mountain, Lu Qingrong finally recovered his body and continued to follow Jiang Xuan to the top of the mountain. It's just a matter of climbing a mountain, although the front is halfway in one go, but as long as you rest at the beginning, you will become more and more tired in the back, and you will rest more and more often.
By the time Lu Qingrong was supported by Jiang Xuan to climb to the top of Fengqi Mountain, it had already taken more than twice as much time as just now.
But when she walked into the maple forest with red leaves on the top of the mountain, the tiredness on her body suddenly disappeared by half.
She also finally saw with her own eyes what it was like to see "frost leaves red in February".
At this time, everywhere her eyes touched, there were palm-shaped five-lobed maple leaves, which danced like countless butterflies around her under the blowing of the gentle autumn wind.
It's just that when the autumn wind blew, Lu Qingrong, who had just been sweating profusely from climbing the mountain all the way, was instantly hit by this coldness and couldn't help but shiver.
In the next moment, there was a sudden warmth in her back, and she clearly felt that she had fallen into a warm embrace. R1152