39. Soul Leaving Soul Qingqing Zijin
Jiangzhou is Mu Chenhui's hometown, but since the death of the old man of the Mu family, the Mu family has rarely come back except for the Qingming Festival to worship the ancestors, and in the past two years, even the ancestor Mu Jing'an has also let Mu Chenhui come back. Therefore, Rao Anran was arranged in Jiangzhou, that is, to avoid people's eyes and ears, Mu Chenhui's heart was also steady.
Jiangzhou is more than 1,000 miles away from the capital, and the secular scenery is very different from Beijing.
Rao Anran was already greatly injured by the things at home, and now she has traveled thousands of miles, and she is not in the mood to see any scenery at all.
When the car drove to the city gate of Jiangzhou, he suddenly heard the sound of gongs and drums in the city, and the passers-by avoided it, and the coachman hurriedly drove the horse aside. Curiously, Luping lifted the curtain and took a look, only to see many people carrying a statue of a god from the city.
"It turned out to make way for the immortals." Lu Ping said to Rao Anran with a smile.
Rao Anran glanced at her lazily, lacking interest, leaning on the carriage and closing his eyes. But Luping likes to be lively, so she has been watching people slowly coming by the window carrying the statue. The piercing sound of gongs and drums made Rao Anran quite uneasy, and she opened her eyes with some displeasure, just in time to see the idol coming towards her from a distance. She couldn't help sneering in her heart, if it was useful to pray to God and worship Buddha, she would not have fallen to this step.
After the idol was gone, the coachman drove his horse into the city.
Mu Chenhui sent someone to take care of it in advance, so as soon as Rao Anran's carriage arrived at the Mu family's old house, the housekeeper's mother-in-law hurriedly greeted her, "The girl has worked hard all the way, and the old body has already prepared a meal, first use the meal and then bathe and change clothes." β
Rao Anran nodded and chuckled: "Thank you, Mother Wu." As he spoke, he took off the bracelet on his hand and handed it to Wu's mother, "I may live here for a long time in the future, and I hope my mother will take care of it more." β
When he came, Mu Chenhui mentioned Mother Wu to Rao Anran, she was Mu Chenhui's nurse, she was careful and enthusiastic, and he was relieved to ask her to take care of Rao Anran.
"Girl, this can't be ......," Wu's mother hurriedly excused herself.
"There is nothing that cannot be done, you are Chenhui's nurse, and it is right to honor you, but I am weak, and I have to bother you to take care of it on weekdays."
When Wu's mother saw that the little girl could speak, she didn't shirk it, and led the person into the house with a smile.
The Mu family was born in the army, the old man has made military exploits in Biansai, Mu Jing'an is the martial champion of Jianping Jiazike, Mu Chenhui is the son of his father's business, and now he is a martial arts general of the fifth grade, and the Mu family is quite famous in Jiangzhou.
Because there are no people from the Mu family living in the old house, except for a few envoys in the family, there are only Wu's mother and her wife. Mother Wu vacated a well-lit and secluded courtyard and came out, and Rao Anran also moved in. Mother Wu knew Rao Anran's identity, so she took care of it very carefully, and this place was far away from the capital, Rao Anran didn't see things and thought about people, and her body improved.
When he has nothing to do, Rao Anran likes to watch and write in the courtyard, and when the weather is cold, he moves the desk to the house. Luping likes to go out shopping with Wu's mother, and brings a lot of gadgets to Rao Anran to have fun.
On this day, Luping came back from grocery shopping and saw Rao Anran reading, so she quietly walked over and snatched the book.
Rao Anran was taken aback, and scolded with a smile: "You dead girl, return the book to me." β
"Lying like this all day long, I can't let the body that the ghost has raised will be broken again." Luping smiled, "Look, what did I bring you?" β
Rao Anran raised his eyes and glanced at the bamboo dragonfly in Lu Ping's hand, got up and snatched his book, and said with disdain: "Children only play this." β
"I went to the City God Temple to ask for it, saying that it can ward off evil spirits and dispel disasters." Luping sat beside her, looking expectant.
Rao Anran glanced at her, still unmoved, "Chenghuang is in charge of the affairs of the dead, when did he do Zhong Kui's work?" It's just that the people in charge of the temple cheated you out of your money. β
Luping: "......"
People who live too clearly have no fun.
"Oh, you're just looking for fun, what's the matter?" Luping snatched her book again, "It won't hurt you, let's go out and play for a while." As she spoke, whether she wanted to or not, she hurriedly put her shoes on.
Rao Anran couldn't resist the persuasion, so he also put on shoes and played with her in the courtyard.
"Didn't the girl make any effort? This dragonfly is not as tall as me. Luping looked at her with disgust.
Rao Anran snorted, picked up the bamboo dragonfly by herself, rubbed it backhand in her hand, and it almost fell on the eaves, she looked at Luping with a smug face, "This girl is amazing, right?" β
Luping smiled and snorted, "Look at me." As he spoke, he rubbed the bamboo dragonfly in his hand and flew high.
The master and servant compare with each other, whoever loses will eat a sour plum, Luping is naturally afraid of eating sour, Rao Anran will not let her, and she will play more and more energetically, seeing that her bamboo dragonfly is taller than Luping, she is happy, and a gust of wind blows, blowing things into another courtyard.
The two of them looked at each other, but they had to pick it up.
The old house of the Mu family is very large, and Rao Anran's favorite thing is the garden, as for who lives in the courtyard across the wall from her, she didn't ask. She went over with Luping and saw that the courtyard door was locked, and when she was about to go back, the lock fell off by itself, which scared the two of them enough.
Lu Ping had the courage to look at it, and only breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that the lock was only rusty, and then looked at Rao Anran and said, "It's okay." β
Pushing open the courtyard door, it is not as imagined that the valley is full of sunflowers, but it is clean and tidy, and the lock is probably hanging, and there is no real lock, just a coincidence.
Luping picked up a bamboo dragonfly at the foot of the wall and was about to go back. But seeing Rao Anran looking at the room in a daze, Lu Ping raised her eyes and saw the plaque under the eaves with the four big characters "Qingqing Zijin" written on it.
"What are you looking at, girl?" Luping asked.
Rao Anran glanced back at her, then looked at the words on the plaque and said with a smile: "The Mu family is a military general, but this courtyard is called Qingqing Zijin, which is really strange." β
"What's so strange?"
"Zijin is the clothing of the scholars of the Zhou Dynasty, and later Emperor Wu of Wei used 'Qingqing Zijin, leisurely my heart' to represent his thirst for talent. A martial arts family would use such an elegant name, don't you say strange? β
"Emperor Wei Wu can also write poetry, what's so strange about this?" Luping said disapprerovingly.
Hearing this, Rao Anran also felt reasonable, so he didn't care about it.
At dinner, Wu's mother heard that Rao Anran was a little tired from playing, so she hurriedly filled chicken soup for her to make up for it, she took it with a smile, remembered today's courtyard, and asked, "Who used to live in the courtyard next to my yard?" β
Hearing this, Mother Wu's hand froze, and she asked carefully, "The girl went in today?" β
"The bamboo dragonflies that Luping bought flew over, and we went in to pick up the bamboo dragonflies." Seeing Mother Wu's expression flickering, she frowned and asked, "Can't you go in there?" β
Mother Wu sighed, "It's not impossible, it's just that there were dead people in that courtyard before, so everyone didn't go in except for cleaning." β
Hearing this, Rao Anran breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Who doesn't die?" What is there to be afraid of? β
Mother Wu smiled and said too, "Speaking of the owner of that yard, it's really worth talking about." β
"What's the story?" Luping asked excitedly when she heard this.
Seeing that both of her wanted to hear it, Mother Wu said slowly: "The owner of that courtyard is called Mu Jingcheng, who is the younger brother of the general, and he is different from the general, he is naturally weak. The old lady felt sorry for her son, so she didn't let the second master dance with a knife and a gun, he also liked poetry and books, and he was accompanied by poetry and books all day long, and the words that the girl saw in that courtyard came from the hands of this second master.
The second master studied hard, and when he was fifteen years old, he was admitted to Xiucai, and at the age of eighteen, he was promoted to a person. The old lady was also happy, saying that in the future, in the court, the Mu family would be both civil and military. However, in the year of the examination, the second master's fiancΓ©e, Miss Bai, died of illness, and the second master became sad and became ill, and since then he has fallen ill.
My body collapsed, and I couldn't read a book. The old lady didn't force him, thinking that when he got better, he would tell him a family affair again, so that he could forget the white girl, but the second master was a seed of infatuation, no matter which girl the old lady told him, he felt inferior to the white girl, so the old lady was also angry, so he didn't care about him. Who knows, in the second year, on the day of the white girl's death, when the second master wrote a mourning poem for her, she was so sad that she vomited blood and fainted, and never woke up. β
Rao Anran listened to this story, and her heart was quite uneasy, and when Luping brought the medicine later, she looked at the courtyard over there.
"Don't think about it, people have been dead for decades." Luping said disapprerovingly.
Rao Anran glanced at Lu Ping in a blink of an eye, took the medicine and said with a smile: "I thought that all the amorous people were women, but I didn't expect that there would be such a man in this world." β
"Maybe the Mu family has the seeds of infatuation."
Hearing this, Rao Anran couldn't help laughing, knowing that she was talking about Mu Chenhui. She raised her head and drank the medicine, frowning, "Chenhui did what he could." β
"The little general hasn't married yet, and many things can't help himself, don't think about it." Luping took her hand and persuaded softly.
"I know." She smiled and nodded, "I'll wait for him no matter how long it takes." β
Luping nodded with satisfaction and went out with the medicine bowl. She got up to close the window, and when she saw the catalpa tree in Mu Jingcheng's yard sticking out to this side, she couldn't help but think, what was Mu Jingcheng thinking when he saw this tree blooming? Did he pick up flowers to wear on strings and give them to his fiancΓ©e.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help laughing again, how could he, a big man, think of something that a little girl likes. She closed the window, but felt that other men might not, but Mu Jingcheng might be.
When Luping came back, she saw her reading under the lamp again, and couldn't help but reproach: "Don't want your eyes anymore? As he spoke, he pulled the book away.
Rao Anran wanted to say something, but she didn't say anything, in fact, she didn't have the heart to look at it, but her mind was full of Mu Jingcheng, wanting to know more about him.
"You say, do you still have his things in the house?" She couldn't help but ask Luping, who was making the bed.
"When a person dies, his family will burn all his things to him, leaving one or two as a souvenir." Luping said disapprerovingly.
Hearing this, Rao Anran couldn't help sighing, and heard Lu Ping say again: "But people have been dead for more than ten or twenty years, even if they leave anything as a memorial, they don't know where to put it, you, don't waste your thoughts." β
Rao Anran: "......"
Are you the roundworm in my stomach?
"I don't know what kind of fairy that white girl is, who can make him so infatuated." Rao Anran said with emotion.
Luping glanced back at her and said with a smile: "I'm thinking and thinking about it again!" If the little general knew, he might be jealous. β
Speaking of Mu Chenhui, Rao Anran finally regained some sanity, and said with a smile: "That's his uncle, who has been dead for more than ten or twenty years, what kind of jealousy do you eat?" β
"Oh, you know it's his uncle? Or have you been dead for ten or twenty years? Luping looked at her meaningfully and smiled.
Rao Anran again: "......"
When did this girl learn to talk about people around the bush?