Chapter 57: The Moss Path

The bluestone path outside Zichen Temple was covered with moss, which turned a stone path into a goose-yellow carpet.

There were no human footprints on the moss, so the carpet was so clean that Tie Xinyuan stepped on the soft moss and almost fell several times.

Occasionally, he plucked from the branches some sachets or purses that had been soaked in rain and had become obsolete by the wind and sun. The goose-yellow moss also occasionally has some blackened hairpins or tarnished jade ornaments.

I don't know how long these things stayed here.

Tie Xinyuan put away these sachets, hairpins, and jade ornaments, and put them on the hem of his robe.

When they returned to the bottom of the waterfall, Brother Qiao and the others were already tired from playing, and they were sleeping on the hot sand, and the waterhole that had just been extremely clean was now full of clothes, and the water that they had lost in the bet was squatting on the edge of the waterhole and scrubbing their clothes.

Tie Xinyuan fell those things next to Brother Qiao with a bang, startling him.

After taking a closer look at the things on the ground, he picked up a rusty silver hairpin and pouted: "There is nothing valuable, you went to rob the tomb?" ”

Tie Xinyuan took advantage of the situation to lie down beside Brother Qiao and said: "Almost, these things are the graves of people's hearts. ”

Brother Qiao opened a sachet, took out a yellowed note from the middle and read: "Wind and rain without worries, ask your heart, and worship the Chinese New Year with a petal of heart incense...... In the first year of Baoyuan, this was ten years ago? For whom? ”

"The purple moon is in the sky, when you remember the old things, the Chen room is empty, the lights are withered, and the Bodhisattva of great compassion is at ease......

What are you writing about? Buddhist scriptures are not like Buddhist scriptures, and poetry is not like poetry......"

Tie Xinyuan said impatiently: "The first word at the beginning of every other sentence is connected to "Zichenguan monk." Save me! "If you are told to read more, you can't see such simple things."

Brother Qiao threw away the note in his hand and said: "You can see that it is also in vain, a letter of great luck is written so obscurely, it is hell to be able to send it out." ”

Tie Xinyuan shook his head and said, "The person who wrote this letter, God knows how many times he worshipped God for this letter. How many pillars of incense have been put on, and now they have been thrown away by you, don't you think you have created evil. ”

Brother Qiao was taken aback, turned over and took off quickly to chase the note fluttering in the wind......

The words engraved on the silver hairpin have been blurred, and after Tie Xinyuan inserted the hairpin into the sand and rubbed it back and forth a few times, the luster of the silver reappeared, and the already blurry lettering on it almost disappeared.

Brother Qiao panted and ran back with the note, and angrily stuffed the note to Tie Xinyuan. A beautiful fish jumped into the pool.

said that this matter had nothing to do with him.

In fact, Tie Xinyuan felt that this matter had nothing to do with him, but he was curious to pick things up for a while, and it had something to do with him.

Wanting to send these people's letters to their relatives who God knows where they are, Tie Xinyuan felt that this was an impossible task at all.

Perhaps the women who were locked up in the Taoist temple did not expect these letters to reach their families, but just wanted to give themselves hope.

People live in the world, and they are always deceiving, when the environment they are in is not able to deceive people. It's a truth that you start to deceive yourself.

In the evening, the princess ran out. Tell Tie Xinyuan that Wang Rouhua is chanting with the eldest princess and is not going to come out today.

After saying this, she ran to the edge of the waterhole as fast as she could, and looked at the small fish in it with wide eyes.

The water in the pool is too clear, so there are no big fish. One hundred and ten finger-length transparent small fish almost made Zhao Wanle turn the sky upside down, shouting and screaming to catch all of them with a fishing net and put them in the jade jar to look at every day.

The princess spoke, and the palace maids and grandmothers who followed her were also very happy. It's rare to have such an event, so naturally I won't let it go easily.

There were no fishing nets, and the women, under the command of the princess, made a small fishing net out of sari and began to fish with shouting.

Tie Xinyuan only glanced at it, and then continued to look through the desperate words of hope written by those lonely and helpless women.

These should be the most urgent hopes, but at the same time the most faint hopes.

Tie Xinyuan called the process of reading these letters a supplementary process, and he didn't have such an experience himself, so it was good to look at other people's.

The process of the princess's fishing is not worth careful observation, and fools know that it is absolutely futile.

Unless they can lift every stone and go to find the little fish one by one, there is basically no hope of catching them.

"This is the hairpin in the palace, how can you have so many?" Zhao Wan came to Tie Xinyuan's side after finding nothing, to see what he was doing.

Tie Xinyuan pushed aside a large number of things around him and said, "Pick it up, just on the road over there, your royal family is indeed rich, and all the good things are thrown outside."

By the way, my house is on the edge of the Imperial City, why didn't I pick up these things? ”

Zhao Wan looked back at Zichenguan not far away in confusion, and then at Tie Xinyuan, and then quickly shrank back and said: "Mama said that these things are not good, they should not be put away, they should be put in their place, and they will be slowly dissolved by heaven and earth, and they will be safe and auspicious in the end." ”

Tie Xinyuan was originally slandering the royal family's extermination of humanity in his heart, but now when he heard Zhao Wan say this, he asked strangely: "It's all monks, and they are angry." ”

Zhao Wan's eyes widened and said: "There are a lot of weirdos in it, some like to eat candles, some like to swallow incense, some like to chant all day long and don't move anything, and some have sat under the eaves for seven or eight years, everyone."

My aunt and I lived in an outer house, and I didn't dare to live inside, but my grandmother said that the people who lived in it could not live long, and I was not allowed to go in, and said that it was very scary inside at night. ”

Mama Zhang, who was following Zhao Wan at any time, also saw the thing in Tie Xinyuan's hand and hurriedly said, "Tie Gongzi, hurry up and throw this thing back to its place, you can't move." ”

Tie Xinyuan didn't ask the reason, Mama Zhang's eyes were about to be slanted behind his ears, so he naturally didn't want to ask anything.

Take the princess's Makuri, take off your shoes and walk into the shallow water, first cover a stone with Makuli, press Muli into the water to wrap the whole stone, and finally hold the stone and drag Muli out of the water, after throwing away the stone, there are four small fish on the Makuli that is gradually drying up.

When the princess saw that Tie Xinyuan had helped her catch a small fish, she screamed happily, and then went to the palace maid to get a jade jar filled with water to raise fish.

Mama Zhang saw that the princess was far away, so she sat opposite Tie Xinyuan and said: "Tie Gongzi is kind-hearted, he is an honest person, seeing the weak woman suffering, do you help with righteousness, the old man first thanked the sisters who couldn't go home." “

Tie Xinyuan looked at Mama Zhang, who was giving ceremony, and said, "I can't help them, it's just out of curiosity......"

Mama Zhang said: "This is already very good, a group of lonely souls and wild ghosts can be favored by the son, which is already a great blessing for them." ”

Tie Xinyuan frowned and said, "As far as I know, I don't have a white-headed palace maid in the Great Song Dynasty, why is this the situation here?" ”

Mama Zhang said sarcastically: "Every year, three hundred palace maids enter the palace, and hundreds of palace maids leave the palace every year.

There are always some people who can't leave the palace for various reasons, and they can't stay in the palace, so they have to come here. ”

Listening to Mama Zhang's gloating tone, Tie Xinyuan didn't want to ask.

God knows what happened to those women, Mama Zhang and Tie Xinyuan are very familiar, they can be called old people who watched him grow up, sometimes Mama Zhang and Wang Rouhua talk, and they talk for most of the day, and it is not an exaggeration to be regarded as an elder.

She won't pretend to be anything in front of Tie Xinyuan, her mother has already decided that Mama Zhang will be the upbringing mother of Tie Xinyuan's son, and she will soon become a family.

"Throwing these things back and giving those women a false hope is tantamount to killing them, and you still need to pay for the sins you have done."

Mama Zhang saw that the princess was coming over excitedly with a small jade jar, so she told him and got up to help the princess so that she would not fall.

Seeing that it was already dark and the birds threw themselves into the forest, they ignored the princess's objections and went back to the Taoist temple.

Brother Qiao, they have already set up the tent, the bonfire is burning very strongly, I don't know what to eat, the fragrance is very attractive.

Tie Xinyuan looked at the pile of things around him, sighed and wrapped the hem of his robe again, ready to throw it back.

A lot of the troubles in the world are self-inflicted, and if you don't have curiosity, you won't be in such a bad mood.

Just like Mama Zhang said, bad mood can be contagious, and Tie Xinyuan doesn't want to infect the bad mood to Brother Qiao and them again.

Therefore, he slowly came to the outside of Zichen Temple, and carefully threw the things he picked up as much as possible in the position where he was staying according to his memory.

In the end, Tie Xinyuan had a pearl hairpin left in his hand, this hairpin was still very new, and the luster on the pearl had not faded, exuding a radiant luster.

Tie Xinyuan remembered that this hairpin was picked up in a clump of green bamboo, so he stepped on the dead branch and prepared to put the hairpin back in its place.

As soon as his feet were loosened, he heard a click, and a dead bamboo was broken by him, and in this silent evening, the sound came far away.

"Anyone?" A soft woman's cry came from the other side of the wall.

Tie Xinyuan didn't answer, leaned over and put the hairpin back in place, patted the dirt on his hand and prepared to go back.

"Anyone?" The voice grew sharper.

Tie Xinyuan still didn't pay attention, stepped on the dry bamboo and walked on the moss path, planning to leave quickly, once Brother Qiao made something delicious, as long as he was not there, there would be nothing left at all.

"The gentleman outside the wall, if you lie on this small hole, you can see the body of the concubine......"

The sound inside the wall became sweet and glutinous, and every word was like a candy cube, which made people sweet from the mouth to the bottom of the heart.

There was a sound of a cry on the wall, and small clods of earth fell, and in a few moments a small hole appeared in the wall, and a sweet laugh came from the small hole.

Tie Xinyuan frowned, irritably picked up a broken branch, inserted it tightly into the small hole, and invited stones to nail the branch into the wall, grabbed it with his hand and shook it a few times, and saw that the branch was stable, so he clapped his hands and left the moss path. (To be continued.) )

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