7. Overnight stay

Miss Huang left a sentence to donate merit and left, Tan Miao was still a little unable to come back to his senses, and when they had been gone for a long time, his empty stomach protested, and he remembered the two steamed buns that were still lying by the well. But he went out to look for the handkerchief and didn't see the handkerchief wrapped in the steamed buns, and he didn't know where the steamed buns fell.

He searched for a long time to no avail, sighed, and went back to his room hungry to copy the scriptures.

After saying the words of Kinkakuji, Miss Huang opened the burden she was holding, generously handed a steamed bun to Xiaohe, and tore off a piece of steamed bun and fed it into her mouth.

Xiaohe didn't want to eat after chewing two bites, so he threw it away in disgust: "Bah, it's dry and hard, it's choking to death!" ”

"No, I think it's delicious." Miss Huang squinted and smiled while eating, as if she was holding some kind of delicacies from the mountains and seas in her mouth, Xiaohe thought that what she ate was different from herself, so she leaned over and took a look, it was still a countryman's coarse steamed bun!

Miss Huang ate with relish, and in a blink of an eye, she saw Xiaohe throw away the steamed buns, and her mouth was displeased: "If you don't eat it, give it to me, what do you do if you throw it away, go home and punish you for being hungry." ”

Xiaohe smacked his tongue: "Girl, are you okay?" In the past, you had to be picky about a hair in the bird's nest, and your mouth was not ordinary, but now you actually think this thing is delicious? ”

Miss Huang glanced at her and didn't explain. Eating depends on the mood, and when she thinks that the hateful little monk is hungry, she has a great appetite, and it is no problem to eat a cow.

"Girl," Xiaohe suddenly remembered, and asked, "Is it true that you said that you want to repair Kinkakuji Temple?" ”

Miss Huang nodded of course, and Xiaohe was anxious: "Where did you get so much silver?" I've heard people say that if you make a wish in front of the Bodhisattva, you will have to come true, otherwise you will be thundered by the sky! ”

"Can't you repair it without money?" After eating the steamed buns, Miss Huang patted her chest before swallowing, tilted her head and smiled brightly, "Go back and ask Ah Piao to come over to make up the hole." ”

As soon as the sun was setting over the mountain, leaving the inn with a touch of afterglow, Miss Huang was about to board the carriage, but saw someone coming from a distance beating horses, followed by two servants carrying the cargo box on their shoulders.

"Miss Huang! Miss Huang! ”

It was Li Chengyuan who came, he was in a hurry to leave, but in fact he went back to the house to raise money. dug up all the treasures of the family from the backyard, and even took away the dowry of the county magistrate's wife at the bottom of the box, plus all the silver tickets, and finally scraped together 40,000 taels, so he hurriedly took these things and hurried to the inn.

Miss Huang's eyes lit up when she saw him, and her expression of joy was suppressed again, Li Chengyuan only said in her eyes that she was hindered by everyone's beautiful reserve, and it was not good to be too close to her in public. He stepped forward from his horse, "Can you take a step to talk to Miss?" ”

Miss Huang gave Master Lu and Xiaohe a look, and then led Li Chengyuan back to the inn and stood in the corner. Li Chengyuan grabbed her hand and said excitedly: "Miss, I brought the silver, and I will go to Beijing with you!" ”

A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for development, he doesn't want to lose it no matter what. There was no other way but to try my best.

Miss Huang pretended to cough twice, took the opportunity to pull out her hand to take the handkerchief, covered her mouth and whispered: "The son's kindness is understood by the slave family, but now I don't know what the situation in the capital is, and the prime minister's side is not necessarily very sure." The slave family himself is still a wisp of duckweed in the world, and the future is uncertain if he goes with the flow, how can he be embarrassed to drag his son into the water, what if it spoils your future? ”

Li Chengyuan felt more and more that she was gentle and considerate, and hurriedly confessed: "No, no, my future is you, Miss." Miss is good, I'm good, if I see Miss suffering, then I'm more uncomfortable than death, what is the future, where is more important than you! He raised his hand and pointed to the big box carried by the officials, and said in a low voice, "If Miss doesn't dislike it, I am willing to help Lord Huang, there are a total of 40,000 taels here, and I will take Miss and I to Beijing together to rescue Ling Zun." I just want the young lady to be pitiful after the deed is done, and if she marries me, I will die without regrets! ”

Miss Huang seemed to be moved by his true feelings, and her eyes were shining, and she wanted to cry. She bit her lip, looked down, and nodded sheepishly. Li Chengyuan was overjoyed, and hurriedly asked people to carry the box into the carriage, planning to go to Beijing overnight immediately.

Li Chengyuan was thinking about that obscene matter in his mind, and he was gearing up, when Miss Huang pulled his sleeve, motioned him over, and then handed the large amount of money back to him. Like a little daughter, she shyly grabbed his cuffs and shook them, and said: "Since the slave family and the son have already made a mandarin alliance, I won't treat you as an outsider, except for handing over the money to the son, I don't worry about the people next to me." You take this Jiaozi, and when you redeem the silver, you will find a safe place to hide it, and then come to the slave family along the road, and we will enter Beijing together to have a response. It's good to be able to save your father, but if you can't save it, the Huang family is afraid that they will be defeated. The slave family has also thought about it, if there is really that day, the slave family will not return to Yongzhou, and the people of the province will beat me for a bad idea, and the slave family will follow you in the future, and the husband and wife will follow, okay? ”

Her unique soft and glutinous accent sounded very tactful, and her words were so ingenious, Li Chengyuan had no reason not to agree, but he thought about it for a while and said: "Wanli's shopkeeper will come over tomorrow, and then we will go together after redeeming the money, it is difficult to walk at night, and I don't worry about the young lady going on the road alone." "And with so much belongings, it's even more uneasy.

Miss Huang said with a smile: "The slave family can trust the son, the son is a sincere person, and the slave family believes that you will not lie to me." Today has been delayed, and if you don't hurry up again, I am afraid that I will miss the day to meet the Prime Minister. In this way, tomorrow the son will finish his work and ride a fast horse to find me, we will meet in the neighboring county, and the slave family is waiting for you in the post house, you must come. ”

She reversed the situation in three or two sentences, dispelling Li Chengyuan's only remaining suspicions, although she took 40,000 taels from him, she gave him 100,000 taels, and there were 60,000 taels more! She wasn't worried that he would abscond with the money, so what else was he worried about? Li Chengyuan was flickered by her, and his brain was hot, and after thinking about it again, he felt that this matter was reliable, so he readily agreed.

"Done! Then it's decided, I'll meet you tomorrow. ”

The two little lovers who pierced the window paper said goodbye again and again, and the scene of you and me being reluctant to give up on the little lotus cheeks made the little lotus cheeks sour, and finally boarded the carriage, and Li Chengyuan sent a long way back home.

The city gate is in front of you, and in the carriage are Miss Huang and Xiaohe, and Master Lu temporarily acts as a coachman. Xiaohe stuck out her tongue and gasped: "My aunt! Finally sent the color embryo away, and after a little more rubbing, I saw that he could stick it directly to the girl. ”

Miss Huang changed into cloth clothes, and her hair bun was also dismantled and combed into two braids, and she was dressed as a village girl. She kicked the dress she was wearing in disgust: "It's disgusting, I'll throw it later." ”

Master Lu smiled outside: "Let's go find Ah Piao now, the girls sit down, drive!" He took the reins, and instead of driving out of town, he turned around and went in the opposite direction.

At night, Kinkakuji Temple is dark and rumbling everywhere, and only a faint light remains in the main hall.

Tan Miaofan looked at the young man leaning against the gate of the temple, standing crookedly, with a grass in his mouth, at first glance he was the master of Jiao'er Lang, and then looked at the wooden barrels and bricks around him, the materials were sufficient and the tools were complete, as if he was really a mason who came to repair the house.

During the day, Tan Miaofan thought that the delicate lady was just talking, who knew that the mason would come after noon, and told him that he was hired by Miss Huang to repair the temple, although the young craftsman did not look very serious, but when people came, Miao Fan did not refuse, and helped him move the bricks and tiles in a few times, and then ...... There is no then. The mason said that he would wait for someone to come before starting work, and Miao Fan thought that it might be the master who worked together, so he went with him, who expected to wait until now.

The monk has a fixed rule for what to do at any time of the day, and Miao Fan should go to zazen now, but the mason is here and he can't go away alone, so he stepped forward and tentatively said: "Donor, the night is already deep, or you will ...... again tomorrow."

Before he could finish speaking, the sound of the wheels of the carriage running over the mud drifted from the front, and then the outline of a carriage was revealed in the night, and the mason spat out the straw pole in his mouth with a "poof", and greeted it with joy: "You are here!" ”

Miao Fan watched the carriage drive to the temple and stopped, and then saw the man who drove the carriage and the mason carrying out a heavy large box from the carriage, and finally two girls got out of the carriage, one girl with meat like rice balls, and the other girl......

"Little monk, we meet again." Miss Huang greeted him with a smile, her eyebrows fluttering, "Are you happy to see me?" ”

Of course, Miao Fan couldn't answer whether she was happy or not, but stood there like a log, looked at her for a long time, and then opened his mouth and said, "It's late at night, please forgive the temple for not treating female guests." "He blocked the way through the door.

Xiaohe was angry when he saw it: "Why, why did they all go in and let us in?" You deliberately bullied us, didn't you! ”

Miao Fan's face still had no other expression: "The rules of the temple, please forgive the two donors." ”

"What a rule-breaking! If you don't let us in, where will we stay? Do you want to kill us in this wilderness......"

"Okay, I'll tell him." Miss Huang pulled the soaring Xiaohe, smiled and groaned, and deliberately coquettish, "Little Master, you are so ruthless, you blocked two young women who are like flowers and jade from the door in the middle of the night, you see that there is no one outside, what if a wolf comes to take us away?" ”

Miao Fan made a straight face: "There are no wild wolves within a radius of ten miles." ”

"Even if there are no wild wolves, what if there are perverted wolves?" The more Miss Huang spoke, the more she leaned towards him, and simply stretched out a hand to put it on his shoulder, and slowly pressed her slender jade fingers, "The slave family is most afraid of perverts, can you bear to see the slave family being eaten?" Well? ”

She teased him not once or twice, Tan Miaofan was not surprised by this woman's frivolous behavior, but she was still a little nervous. He shifted his body: "The donor can sleep in the carriage." ”

"But people don't want to sleep in carriages." Miss Huang would not let him escape, he retreated from her, simply hugged his arm, pouted and coquettishly, "The carriage is small and hard, how can you sleep, it must not be as comfortable as the meditation room." Little Master, you can't just care about your own enjoyment and treat us good men and women harshly. ”

Good men believe in women? She was too embarrassed to say it.

"This ......" Miao Sanskrit is poor in words, and I don't know what to do. At this time, Ah Piao shouted in the hall, "What are you two still doing?" Come and help! ”

"Huh! Here it comes! Miss Huang simply pushed Miao Fan, pushed him against the door, stood on tiptoe and whispered in his ear, "I'll stay for one night, you can make it convenient, little monk." ”

She and Xiaohe ran into the main hall in the blink of an eye, leaving Miao Fan leaning against the temple gate and still a little stunned. Miss Huang looked back and saw him standing stupidly, and laughed: "Idiot! ”

Although the little monk was stupid, but he was really tall, just now whispering, she barely reached his ears with her feet, she saw his smooth neck, reddish earlobes, and smelled the faint scent of sandalwood on his body.