CHAPTER XIII

"Girl, why are you alone here, and don't go with everyone to pray for blessings?" Yun Xiang happened to come out of the kitchen in the backyard after cleaning up.

Han Leng turned around, and when he saw that it was Yun Xiang, he called out with Gu Nanjun: "Hello Aunt Xiang, my body is a little unhappy, so I want to come out to breathe." ”

Yun Xiang looked at Han Leng carefully, and was puzzled: "Aren't you a girl who is good with my Nanjun?" As he spoke, he smiled at the corner of his mouth and took a few steps closer.

"Forget it, Nanjun and I were originally classmates who had been together for three years." Han Leng simply didn't explain anything, he felt that anyone with a discerning eye could see what he thought about Gu Nanjun, if he let people know that Gu Nanjun didn't like him, he was afraid that he would lose face.

Yun Xiang was happy to hear this, and looked at Han Leng's heart even more pity: "Hello classmates, you have been in love for a long time, free love is popular now, Nan Junken brought you home, he must like you in his heart." The summer breeze blew the hair next to Yun Xiang's temples, and Han Leng also saw that her delicate skin was covered with a layer of shallow fluff, which was very cold.

"I was about to go to find Yunxiang you, but when I saw that Han Leng was not around, I couldn't rest assured, I came to look for it, who would have thought that you would come together." Tang Wanqiu was wearing a Western-style French bellflower skirt, with Chinese-style buckles embellished on the collar and placket, and the simple plaid pattern looked refreshing and gentle, "Quick, Yunxiang, take me and Han Leng around." ”

But seeing Yun Xiang's eyebrows and smiles, a trace of sadness added to her face: "Wanqiu, haven't Qing'er and Yu'er still been found?" She said very lightly, I'm afraid Tang Wanqiu couldn't stand it in her heart.

Sure enough, Tang Wanqiu's nose was sour, her face began to flush, and her skin and flesh wrinkled: "No, I only came to see me when it was sunny, and it was Yu'er who accompanied me on rainy days." Strings of tears could not stop falling.

Han Leng was shocked when he saw it, and hurriedly went to support Tang Wanqiu: "Erniang, Erniang, what's wrong?" ”

"It's okay, it's okay, let's go around with Aunt Yunxiang." Tang Wanqiu felt a little out of shape, and tried her best to restrain the sadness in her heart.

Han Leng didn't dare to ask more questions after hearing this, so he could only accompany him silently on the side.

The backyard of Yunxiang Temple is empty, the ground is covered with neat gray stone slabs, and what catches your eye is a white partition wall, on which four giant dragons are painted with ink pens, the two dragons on the left and right open their teeth and claws, hugging themselves into a group, and the middle two are surrounded by a blazing warm sun, stretching their bodies, as if they are marching between heaven and earth. In the center of the backyard, a lacquered bronze incense burner is covered with a golden dragon pattern, and between the wisps and lingering cigarette smoke, it is ready to soar.

Not far away, the water of the mountain spring was thrown down from the layers of rocks, and the turbulent water accumulated to form a small clear pool, and clusters of white water were bursting above the surface of the pool, so that the whispering echoed in the mountains.

"Yunxiang, do you know, sometimes, I also want to follow you into this Yunxiang Temple and be a vegetarian mountain village woman in Tsing Yi." At this time, Tang Wanqiu had calmed down, and seemed to have been washed away by the peace around her.

"You're not like that." Yun Xiang smiled, and hooked the hair scattered next to her cheeks behind her ears with her hand, she wanted Tang Wanqiu to sit down and rest, so she led the two to the front yard of the meditation room where she lived.

The black tiles are stacked, a red pillar stands under the eaves, a few pots of dried flowers and plants are placed on both sides of the Xuanmen at will, stretching out your head to look, only to see the plaque painted dark blue with the word "Tanxuan" written on it. Entering the courtyard, stepping on the gray mud floor, a group of tables and chairs made of stone are placed in the corner of the wall, and a craggy strange stone is placed on the stone table, and a stone the size of a newborn baby is taken out of the middle of the strange stone, and then filled with the loess on the mountain, on the loess, there are all kinds of tiny trees, grass and stones.

"Aunt Xiang, this microscopic scene is really interesting." When Han Leng saw it, his heart moved, and he approached and carefully admired it.

Yun Xiang listened and smiled lightly: "The Buddha said, one flower is one world, one leaf is one Bodhi, you Aunt Xiang and I just picked up some small things and put them together." ”

"That's also very clever." Han Leng turned his head with a smile on his face.

Yun Xiang also gave Han Leng a look back: "You're tired of walking, sit down, I'll go to the room to make you a cup of herbal tea, the mountain spring water is brewed, it's very sweet." ”

"Go ahead, we'll wait for you here." Tang Wanqiu had already sat down on the stone bench, holding her left hand with her right hand, leaning against the stone table, and at this time, the light purple lily-of-the-valley flower-shaped fringed hairpin she was wearing on her head happened to hang on the sharp corners of the full snail bun.

The camellia water is really sweet, stained with the grace of all things, the fragrance of heaven and earth, the more you taste, the more you want to catch it for a moment to give a dripping pleasure.

"Aunt Xiang drinks such good tea, people are naturally more beautiful than ordinary people." Han Leng put down the green glazed tea bowl that he had drunk clean in his hand and said eloquently.

Yun Xiang was overjoyed when she heard this: "This girl is really good at talking." Is the girl's name Han Leng? Han is the Han of Han Yu, the head of the eight families of the Tang and Song dynasties? The cold should be the bone-chilling cold in the ice and snow in winter. ”

"Well, that's exactly what Aunt Xiang said." Han Leng nodded.

"I'm not cold when I look at Miss Han." Yun Xiang quipped.

Han Leng spoke: "That must be Aunt Xiang who was confused by the scorching sun." ”

"This girl is still born with sharp teeth and sharp mouths." Yun Xiangyan said from the bottom of his heart.

"If you have a sharp mouth so that you won't be bullied by others." Tang Wanqiu liked Han Leng more and more in her heart, she couldn't get used to seeing women arrogant and arrogant, and she couldn't stand the pitiful appearance of women.

"I want to accompany Aunt Xiang to relieve my boredom, and now it seems that Aunt Xiang doesn't need me Nanjun." Gu Nanjun was dressed in a blue-gray linen robe, with pale skin faintly revealing between the buttons of his cardigan, and stood at the arch and choked a few times.

Everyone smelled the voice and looked at Gu Nanjun, and opened his mouth to Yun Xiang, who was facing Gu Nanjun: "I want it, I want it, Aunt Xiang has been looking forward to our little Nanjun for a long time, sit down quickly, and talk to Aunt Xiang, what are your plans for the future when you come back from studying in Shanghai?" ”

"Nanjun majored in Western medicine in college, so on the day I got home, my father sent me to work at Yuxi Pharmacy." Gu Nanjun sat down on the stone bench opposite Yun Xiang, his loose straight-leg trousers loosely wrinkled into circles of clothes.

"Why doesn't Nanjun accompany your second aunt in Yudong, you have been out of the house all these years, but your second aunt thinks that you think very well, every time you come to my Yunxiang Temple to pray for blessings, she always talks to me about her concern for you." Yun Xiang was puzzled, and talked to Gu Nanjun about Tang Wanqiu's longing suffering, wanting to use this to keep Gu Nanjun in Yudong to do things.

Gu Nanjun frowned, looked at Yunxiang, looked at Tang Wanqiu, his heart was a little moved, and suddenly remembered Lin Elegy's gentle and moving face and the promise he made to Lin Elegy, his face turned red, and then he spoke: "Nanjun likes the girl of the Yuxi Lin family, and Nanjun wants to stay in Yuxi for her." ”

Yun Xiang was shocked when she heard that the girl Gu Nanjun liked was not the Han Leng in front of her but another woman far away in Yuxi, and then remembered the conversation with Han Leng when she was in the side hall at the beginning, and her heart was a little clearer, it was nothing more than that Han Leng in front of her liked Nanjun, but Nanjun liked other women, and she didn't know what to say for a while, so she paused before saying: "I see, it's a good thing that Nanjun has a girl he likes in his heart, I don't know whose girl is so blessed?" If it happens, Aunt Xiang hopes that Nanjun will bring this girl to show me. ”

Nanjun smiled at the corner of his mouth and looked at Yunxiang: "What Nanjun likes is the eldest lady Lin Elegy of the Yu Xilin Family Winery, if she is willing to become my Gu Nanjun's wife one day, I will definitely bring her to Yunxiang Temple to Aunt Xiang to see." ”

"How old is the young lady of the Lin family?" Yun Xiang asked with concern.

"I should be seventeen years old this year, the year of the elephant dance, I was still a student, and now I am in the second grade of the girls' middle school." When Gu Nanjun remembered Lin Elegy, his heart was full of sweetness.

"Oh, the young lady of a big family is knowledgeable, if she becomes Nanjun's wife in the future, she will also have something to say to Nanjun, I don't know what the girl of the Lin family looks like? The appearance of our Nanjun will not be bad. Yun Xiang asked with interest.

Gu Nanjun smiled: "Well, she has a good appearance, her skin is fair, her facial features are beautiful, she is a beautiful little beauty, her voice is also good, and she is so sweet and greasy." ”

Yun Xiang listened to it and was very satisfied: "I heard what Nanjun said called Aunt Xiang, I want to see this lovely girl soon." ”

Yun Xiang was moved, but she didn't take into account that Han Leng beside her was already embarrassed to the point of embarrassment, listening to the person she liked in her heart talking about the good of another girl, Han Leng pinched her heart fiercely, and a flame of jealousy burst out and spread.

Yun Xiang then asked, "Then when does Nanjun plan to leave for Yuxi?" ”

Tang Wanqiu, who was on the side, saw that Han Leng couldn't stand it a little, and deliberately coughed a few times to interrupt the conversation between Yun Xiang and Gu Nanjun.

Yun Xiang only noticed it when she heard Tang Wanqiu's cough, but at this time, the words had already been spoken, and she couldn't take them back, so she could only tilt her head slightly and look at Han Leng on the side apologetically.

Gu Nanjun on the other side did not have any scruples, and still said what he wanted to say: "Nanjun plans to go to Yuxi in three days." ”

"Erniang, Han Leng drank too much tea, I want to go to make it easier." Han Leng on the side finally couldn't sit still, and casually found a reason to go out and hide.

Yun Xiang and Gu Nanjun finally stopped talking and looked at Han Leng, Tang Wanqiu, who had not spoken, asked Han Leng, "Does Han Leng know where the thatched house is?" ”

"I know, Erniang, Han Leng saw it when he was wandering around the courtyard in front of the side hall." Han Leng replied.

"Okay, okay, then good, you go, we're still here." Tang Wanqiu looked at Han Leng with some distress.

Han Leng ran out of the courtyard and ran to the gate of Yunxiang Temple according to his memories when he came, leaning against the courtyard wall of the temple and watching the trees below the mountain undulating, the dazzling sunlight flowing on the leaves flickering.