Chapter Ninety-Six: Hidden Worries
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Not long after Zhu Daolin returned to the hut, his junior brother Yuhu secretly ran back, and when he saw his senior brother, he reported loudly: "The third prince and the little marquis came together, and the third prince also brought his family members to worship together, and Xu everyone also took Liu Yatou and Mei Yatou to follow behind, and sent several large carriages of congratulatory gifts. ”
"Right now, my master and uncle are accompanying them, burning incense and worshipping on the second-floor platform."
"Did they hear of my return?" Zhu Daolin is most concerned about this group of people.
Yuhu took a few big sips of cold tea on the low table, wiped his mouth and nodded embarrassedly: "I wanted to avoid coming, but the third prince was a ghost, and he grabbed me and didn't let go, so I had to tell him quietly, you came back this morning." ”
Zhu Daolin smiled: "Go and call them over quietly, just leave the outside affairs to the master and uncle, it is estimated that in another hour, the ceremony will be over." ”
Yuhu promised to leave quickly.
Zhu Daolin began to tidy up the hut, lit a charcoal fire, and then took the saucer, tea tray, tea set and copper kettle to the front stream to clean it, loaded a pot of water and put it on the small charcoal stove with a roaring charcoal fire, and called out two cardboard boxes from the King Kong circle, opened the small cardboard boxes, took out two cans of exquisitely carved special Anxi Tieguanyin and the complete set of tea utensils inside, and returned to the low table and began to fiddle slowly.
When the water was about to boil, the sound of dense footsteps in the distance reached Zhu Daolin's ears, and before he could look at the door, Mulan who was lying obediently in the corner of the door after eating was already standing in the middle of the door, her two front legs propped up on the threshold without roaring or screaming, and staring vigilantly at the group of Ying Sangongzi from far and near.
Mulan's tall and sturdy body was stronger than a wild wolf, so frightened that Ying Sangongzi and the others screamed, stopped twenty steps away and shouted wildly, and never dared to take a step forward.
Zhu Daolin laughed and was overjoyed, walked to the door and whispered to Mulan to say a few words, Mulan rubbed Zhu Daolin's leg with her head, obediently returned to the foot of the wall behind the door and lay down again, and the third prince and the little marquis Zhang Deyi, and the young master of the Yan family, Yan Yihe, dared to walk forward cautiously.
The wife and concubine of the big shopkeeper and Xu Fu, Liu Ruyi, and Mei Yatou were shocked, and Zhu Daolin, who was waiting with a smile in front of the hut, didn't dare to go over.
"Come on, don't be afraid, my dog won't bite without orders." Zhu Daolin laughed loudly.
The little marquis was the first to come in with courage: "I want to see again, whether it is a dog or a wolf, how can it be so huge!" ”
Ying Da Shopkeeper and Yan Yihe came up successively, Zhu Daolin took the initiative to give a salute to the embarrassed Yan Yihe, and without waiting for Yan Yihe to return the salute, he held his hand and led Yan Yihe into the hut cordially:
"Brother, you're welcome, if you come back twice, you will be as carefree as Third Brother Ying...... Deyi, don't keep looking at the dog, it won't pay attention to you, don't mess with it, this guy can bite off the calf's leg in one bite, haha! ”
Zhang Deyi left Mulan who ignored him, turned his head and said to the door: "Third brother Ying, what are you polite, beckoning your sisters-in-law to come in!" ”
The ladies dared to come in under Zhu Daolin's repeated assurances, Xu Fu and the two girls came to Zhu Daolin's side, saw the warmth in Zhu Daolin's eyes, smelled the familiar breath that he thought about day and night, where do you remember the horror of the big dog? After Ying Ying sat down, the gaze cast on Zhu Daolin's face could no longer be taken away.
The copper kettle was bubbling up, Zhu Dao Linhuan Shi Yili began to make tea, and after a fluent and skillful treatment, the refreshing fragrance of tea filled the entire cabin.
The two ladies of the big shopkeeper also lost the restraint of a lady, staring at the green tea that Zhu Daolin poured into a small cup, shouting that it was too fragrant and too beautiful.
Ying Da shopkeeper smelled the fragrance of tea, took a sip of dry, put down the cup and sighed loudly: "I thought that the fragrant tea served by several Taoist masters on the high platform was already a rare and excellent tea, but now I know that compared with the tea just drunk, it is simply not worth mentioning!" ”
Zhu Daolin gestured slightly to Zhang Deyi and Yan Yihe, and continued to renew the tea for everyone: "In fact, the tea leaves on the high platform are also the best Tieguanyin tea, which is only slightly inferior to the special Tieguanyin we drink now, and I think the reason why it is not good enough is that the distinguished guests come too often and too often, and there is no time to slowly concoct it like I am now, so the true taste in the tea cannot be well reflected." ”
"Uncle, how much tea is there?"
The concubine of the big shopkeeper Ying is already very familiar with Zhu Daolin, and she is not polite at all.
Everyone laughed, and Zhu Daolin said with a smile: "I specially brought two kinds of good tea for the two sisters-in-law, including the special Tieguanyin that I drink now, and everyone here has a ...... However, I don't know where to put the tea in the pile now, and I will have to wait for a few days to be busy. ”
The shopkeeper Ying and Zhang Deyi glanced at each other happily, knowing that Zhu Daolin must have brought back a large number of exquisite goods needed by the big shop, otherwise he wouldn't even remember where to put such a valuable tea.
The smart Xu Fu lightly changed his words to today's grand ceremony: "Dao Lin, why didn't there be any news about such a grand ceremony of worshiping the heavens and praying for blessings and honoring the three Qings today?" Could it really be that the three clearings are coming? ”
Everyone looked at Zhu Daolin, Zhu Daolin shook his head and said that he didn't know: "As soon as I came back, I saw the three statues, and I thought it was carved by a skilled craftsman from wood found by the master. ”
The whole hall suddenly exclaimed.
Ying Da's treasurer's beloved wife may be used to managing money, so she opened her mouth and asked her husband how many catties of copper do you need to use for such a huge statue of the father-in-law?
The shopkeeper smiled embarrassedly, opened his mouth and pulled the topic aside: "How many catties of copper are worth it, didn't you see that there are people crowded everywhere under the black pressure today?" Not to mention, 100,000 people came to the ceremony! ”
"If we don't get off at the fork and walk over, we won't be able to get close at all, the incense and green smoke are like clouds and surging straight up, even the Shogunate Mountain can't be seen clearly, if it weren't for the big sun today, I can't see the main hall of the Ziyang Temple on the mountainside."
"Yes! This is a grand ceremony held without warning, if the city and outside the city knew the news in advance, there would be two or three hundred thousand people pouring in today, to say the least, it is amazing! It's incredible that the little brother is so big and sees such a spectacle for the first time! Zhang Deyi was also emotional.
The concubine of the big shopkeeper said: "Don't think that there are many people today, look at it, within three days, the news of Sanqing's arrival in Ziyangguan will spread all over the north and south of the river, and I don't know how many people will come to worship and pray for blessings with their families." ”
Zhu Daolin's face did not change, but he was secretly worried in his heart.
He never dreamed that he would make such a sensational scene before, and he thought that it would be almost enough to bewitch the 20,000 homeless people outside the Ziyang Temple, who would have expected it to cause such a huge impact.
It's a pity that it's too late to stop even now!