It turns out that the beggars in the surrounding circle are all specially raised, and they are released to beg during the day, and at night they are afraid that they have to hand over all the begging things to this person called "Dad", so that they can have a place to stay.

"What's next for the girl?" The little third son asked.

This was really asked about Xinyue, she just felt a little tired, and she really didn't think about what she would do if she found it out?

Just as he was thinking about it, Xinyue heard the sound of horses' hooves, and looked back, it was Jiang Yang, and he was followed by two sedan chairs, the sedan chair in front was darker in color, if I guessed correctly, it should be Mrs. Zhuang sitting inside, and the sedan chair in the back was light color, it should be Jiang Zanshangshu's wife, these two sedan chairs were carried by four people, and Jiang Yang's side, followed by a child riding a half-grown pony, should be his son Jiang Feng.

Jiang Yang saw the new moon and coughed a little unnaturally, the new moon stepped aside, and the two of them just nodded and did not speak.

Mrs. Zhuang's sedan chair had passed, but Chen's maid who was following behind recognized the new moon and told Chen, so slowly, Chen's sedan chair stopped in front of her.

Crescent moon curts-on "Madame is well"

Chen opened the curtain and greeted Xinyue with a smile, "I haven't seen you for a long time, Xu Hounu." ”

"It's been a few days, ma'am, are you okay?"

"Thank you very much, it's okay. Why didn't the girl sit in a sedan chair and walk up like this, the weather was still so cold, didn't her feet hurt? Chen asked with concern.

Xinyue shook her head, "The little girl is thickly dressed, and she is holding a hand warmer in her hand, so she doesn't feel cold, Madame, let's go first, I'm afraid I won't be able to occupy a good position for a while." ”

"In that case, then you take your time, and I will definitely take a good position for you." Chen couldn't tell the sedan chair man in front of him to wait for him, so he said a few words and hurriedly said goodbye to Xinyue.

After seeing Chen leave, Xinyue continued to move forward, thinking about what had just happened.

"Girl, let's not inform Fu Yin, Fu Yin will definitely handle this matter well." Seeing that Xinyue was in a daze, Feng'er said to Xinyue.

Xinyue thought for a while and shook her head, "This place, not only leaning on Jinling, but also going forward, is Jiangning Mansion, this place, as well as the Shangqing Palace of the National Teacher, is a place that is not easy to manage, and it is not easy to manage, so I think that the Mansion Yin of Jinling may not know about the things here, but he just doesn't want to take care of it." ”

"What then?" Fei'er also felt pitiful for those beggars and wanted Crescent Moon to meddle in this matter.

After Xinyue pondered, she said to Feng'er, "I remember that every few days in Shangqing Palace, there will be a place for soup kitchen, as long as Yu He is in Shangqing Palace, he will always be there, Yu He must know, let me ask him."

"But the national teacher must be very busy today, I don't know if I have time to see us." Fei'er said thoughtfully.

Xinyue smiled, "I'm afraid he's not waiting for me, let's go." ”

"Yes"

It was certain that the new moon and his party had been left behind, and they couldn't help but speed up their pace.

Shangqing Palace, built with the first emperor two years, the great sage established the country, on the belief in Taoism, especially the first emperor, is even more fascinated, and the same is true of His Majesty today, so, the incense of the Shangqing Palace, has been more than 30 years of enduring.

Xinyue stood in front of the palace gate, every time she came, she felt that this place was magnificent and elegant, and since Yu He took care of it himself, it was naturally with his temper. Xinyue remembered in her dream that after Rong Ying ascended the throne, she put ...

"Girl, you're here," Taibo bowed to the new moon.

Xinyue smiled "Taibo, are you waiting for me?" ”

"It's the master who wants to see the girl before the sermon."

Xinyue nodded, "I also happen to have something to say, and I want to talk to the national teacher." ”

Saying that, the new moon followed Taibo, from the door on one side, took a shortcut and went to the apse where Yu He was.

Entering the apse, Yu He had already changed into a formal robe, with a feather robe on his shoulders and a lotus crown on his head, which was very grand, his gray hair was also meticulously combed, and his complexion was ruddy, thinking that he was ready.

He got up from the futon, picked up a tuft of incense ash that had fallen on the ground, held it in his palm, and said to the crescent moon with a smile, "It's coming." ”

"I've seen the national teacher" Crescent Moon salute, and also smiled back.

"Take a sip of tea and rest your feet." The two of them came to the backroom together, and Taibo also served tea and put it at Xinyue's hand.

The new moon was tired, and he didn't postpone it, sat on a chair, and took a sip of tea, "The snow hasn't fallen yet, and the national teacher already has this year's frosted tea here." ”

Yu He listened, smiled and said to Taibo, "How, I just said that she can't taste what kind of tea this tea is." ”

"Girl, as soon as you arrive at the Tieguanyin you like, this tea leaves from that tree, facing there, you all say that the head is the Tao, how come you get to this tea you don't like, your tongue is blunt. The ten times of the small scriptures have been copied. Taibo was very annoyed, took the tea tray, and went out angrily.

"You bet?" Crescent Moon asked a little stunned.

"yes, just bet if you guess what this tea is."

After hearing this, Xinyue took another sip, only to taste a trace of strangeness, "This is not old tea, the tea fragrance is also the aroma of frost tea, but it will be a little astringent, isn't it because when Taibo cooks tea, there are too many tea leaves?" ”

"This is old tea, but when it was fried at the beginning, it was drier than ordinary tea, and this year's time, slowly revived, but it took on a new flavor, and then tasted it." Yu He also took a sip of tea and explained.

Xinyue took another sip, I don't know if it was what I thought in my heart, and sure enough, I felt that in the astringency, it was the rotten gas of the old tea.

"This tea is tasted here, how about it, you are also careless, and you have a new look?" Yu He specially prepared tea to raise this question.

"Don't you know, national teacher? The Queen Mother must have told you that she wants me to marry her nephew Jiang Yang. Crescent Moon put down her cup, her thirst was quenched, and she was about to run to the toilet after a little more drink.

Yu He smiled, "If you are worried about this, I can tell you the truth, with that person, this thing is very difficult to achieve." ”

"That person? Who is it? "Xinyue really doesn't know what kind of dumb riddle this Yu He is playing.

Yu He knew that Xinyue pretended to be stupid enough to deceive herself, so he broke the point, "I haven't missed a single thing since I lived in this Shangqing Palace." The position of queen hangs over your head at this time, and you still hide it from me? ”

"National teacher, you are so powerful, can you take this hat off for me?" The new moon waved her hand, trying to grab what was hanging over her head from the mouth of the national teacher.

"Can't," Yu He laughed, "isn't that good?" ”

"No, here you go," said Crescent Moon as she lowered her hand, revealing the jade bracelet on her wrist.

"This dowry has been accepted, so it's not appropriate if you don't get married." After Yu He looked at it, he said seriously.

"This is a gift from Princess Jin, a woman to give her husband's second wife a dowry? National teacher, I think you should be wrong. As she spoke, Crescent Moon moved the bracelet on her wrist and raised her voice.

"yes, you don't know who I'm talking about, and you're still playing stupid for me." Yu He ignored the angry crescent moon, and said to himself, "You guys, it's not a good relationship, you may find a soul and a soul, so that your soul is complete, but your life still has to be your own choice, what kind of ending will it be, you must choose yourself." ”

"Okay, well, I'll make my own choice. Don't play me any dumb riddles here. National teacher, do you know that at the foot of the cage mountain, some beggars are gathered here, and some people make a living with the money these beggars beg. Crescent remembered why she was here.

Yu He nodded, "I've found out, what, you have to take care of this?" ”

"What about you, what will you do?"

"Do you know that when I rescued those beggars, I only made them no longer exploited, they have no skills, and second, they are still young, and they will inevitably come out to beg again. It was so cold that if they lost their shelter, they would have to freeze to death. But these beggars, who follow those who are in the lead, at least have a place to live, at least they will not starve to death and freeze to death. Yu He rolled up his sleeves.

After hearing this, Xinyue hurriedly asked, "Didn't you take in Taibo, your Shangqing Palace is so big, you took them in, and it's good to sweep the courtyard for you." ”

"Xinyue, today I am in the Qing Palace, and I can accept all the twenty or thirty beggars under the mountain, but in this heaven and earth, how many beggars have lost their parents and wandered on the street, do you think that everyone is the same as you, even if there is no father and no mother, there is a queen mother as a grandmother and the emperor as an uncle. Everyone, everyone has everyone's life, and you also interfere with you and other people's lives, but what about the end? Rong Zhao is still dead. Yu He leaned back in his chair and looked at the crescent moon with pity.

Crescent Moon frowned, "But if you can settle one of the brothers who are begging with me today, if you don't rescue them, you will starve to death." ”

"You didn't give them a meatloaf and they might survive the winter."

"But life is so long, and there are countless winters."

"That's you, you can't take care of it."

"I'm going to care, at least, not to let the brothers die here, or next winter."

"Innocent, that's the case, Taibo" Yu He raised his voice, and Taibo came in from outside the door, "Master"

"Call your second senior brother, go to the bottom of the mountain and interrogate those beggars one by one, if anyone controls them, save them, send the people who do evil things to Fu Yin, tell Fu Yin, leave the houses of the evil people, and let these beggars have a place to stay for the time being."

"Yes," he said, and Taibo went out to do it.

After a while, a young man came in, stopped and said to Yu He, "Master, it's almost time. ”

"Xinyue, this is my third apprentice Taiqing." Yu He and Crescent Moon introduced.

Xinyue glanced at this handsome and handsome young man, and nodded, "Taiqing Dao Chang'an is good." ”

"Miss Xu doesn't have to be polite, Taiqing will retire." With that, Taiqing also withdrew.

"This Taiqing Palace, Taiqing will be in charge of it in the future?" The crescent moon remembers the same in dreams.

"Isn't it Taibo?" Yu He frowned and asked in surprise.

"How is it possible, it's Taiqing" Xinyue remembered that she was not mistaken, Taibo went down the mountain and traveled all over the world shortly after Yu He's death.

"I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it." Yu He didn't expect it, and then his face returned to normal, "It seems that this is the first thing I miscalculated." ”

"How?"

"Taiqing has a love calamity in his life, and a move will make him have evil thoughts in his heart, so I don't mean to pass on the throne to him."

"You Taoist priests can still marry wives?" This is something that New Moon did not expect.

"No, haven't I never married in my life?" Speaking of these, Yu He, who has always been good-tempered, was a little impatient.

"Anyway, this Taiqing Palace has declined since you, who is it, is it that important?" Xinyue said it directly, but compared to these Yu Cranes, it was also calculated.

"Then Taibo is..."Yu He didn't finish speaking, but shook his head, "Let him go, let's go, it's almost time, your position is still the same, you can go." ”

Xinyue shook her head, "Someone has already taken a place for me, don't take care of me deliberately, I'll just go by myself." With that, Crescent Moon got up and took her leave.

Walking out of the apse, Taiqing Zhen stood at the door, waiting for Yu He.

When Xinyue saw him, she thought of Yu He's words again, and thought to herself, such a good-looking little Taoist priest, if it is in the wild legends, he is the favorite man of foxes and other spirits, and when he sees his dumb appearance, he doesn't look like a person who will go on an evil path.

"The girl doesn't know the way?" Taiqing saw the crescent moon wandering from the three doors, and said a word.

"I'm tired of the Taoist, show the little girl a way." Xinyue frowned, she hadn't been to Taiqing Palace a few times, so she naturally didn't know where these three gates were going.

"Come on with the little girl." As he spoke, Taiqing personally led the way for the new moon.

"Thank you, Dao Chief," Taiqing was in front, leading the way for the new moon. His steps were unhurried, always keeping a distance of about two meters from the new moon, and the two of them walked towards the main hall.

The pine trees on both sides of the road are thicker than the waist of the crescent moon, but from these trees, there are also some plum blossoms, all of which have bloomed at this time, and the crescent moon looks closely, it is a snow reflection that is rarely planted in Beijing, and when I see this plum blossom called "snow ying", the new moon really thinks of Rong Ying.

"Wait a minute," said the new moon, and said to Feng'er, "Go and pick one." ”

"Yes" said, Feng'er went to pick it in person, and after Feng'er left, Xinyue suddenly remembered and asked Taiqing, "I don't know, I don't know these "snow reflections", can you pick them?" ”

"The master didn't explain, the girl likes it, it's good to fold one and watch it" Taiqing smiled, seeing that Xinyue lowered her head, not only shy but also frozen, pink cheeks, feeling that there was a breeze blowing in her heart.

"Then thank you." Saying that, Feng'er also folded a plum blossom over, there are a lot of red plums on it, but seven or eight times out of ten are still flower bones, and the new moon can't help but praise "Not bad." ”

"Miss Xie praised, but this plum blossom should be inserted into the bottle quickly, otherwise it will die." Feng'er said to Xinyue in a little anxious.

Xinyue also frowned when she heard this, why didn't she think of it.

Taiqing saw that she was in a hurry, and said to Xinyue, "The girl can give this plum blossom to the small one, and the small one will be inserted in a bottle first, and when the girl leaves, she will return it to the girl." ”

"Really? Won't it be too much trouble? The crescent moon looked at the very beautiful plum blossom branch in her hand, and it would be a pity if it died.

"Why, the girl goes out through this door, and she will go to the main hall, and the little one will put this flower branch in it."

"Then thank you." Saying that, Xinyue handed over the plum branch in his hand, and when he realized that this was a bit overstepping, Taiqing had already reached out and took the plum branch from his hand, both of them were a little embarrassed, and Taiqing had already turned away.

Xinyue looked at Taiqing, who was walking faster and faster, frowned, and said to Feng'er, "This little path is in such a hurry, there must be something urgent." ”

"Yes, the Shangqing Palace will definitely be very busy today, blame the girl, and let the family guide you, Shaozhen doesn't know, will the national teacher Yu He punish him?" Feng'er said straightly.

"I see that you girl, you are really bold, and you blamed the master, Fei'er grabbed her, see if I don't tear her mouth." Xinyue smiled and reached out to tear Feng'er's mouth herself.

"Wrong, the slave is wrong, please spare the slave and the maid, spare the slave and the maid." Before Fei'er caught her, she ran here, and Xinyue was also interested, and chased her, but after running a few steps, she seemed to guess some talc under her feet, and took two steps back, and fell into a generous embrace.

Rong Ying felt a sinking in her arms, and then tightened her arms, stabilizing the new moon that had lost her center of gravity.

As soon as the new moon felt that this was a man's arms, she immediately bounced away as if she was burned, "You, you let go of me." ”

"It's not like I took the initiative to catch you." Although Rong Ying is a pity, this place is very close to the main hall, and pulling and pulling is not good for the reputation of the new moon.

Xinyue stabilized herself, and said, "Thank you Lord Jin, it's not too early, and the little girl will retire." ”

"It's still early, Yu He swallowed it slowly." Rong Ying naturally didn't want the new moon to go.

"I..." Xinyue looked up and saw a red plum falling on Rong Ying's shoulder, thinking that he should have just come from the red plum forest just now.

Rong Ying followed Xinyue's gaze, looked at her shoulder, reached out to take the plum blossom on her shoulder, and wanted to throw it away at will, but was stopped by Xinyue, "Hey, don't lose it." ”

"What's wrong?" Rong Ying stopped the car in time and spread his palm, and the little red plum was lying in his palm.

"It's you," Crescent Moon pointed to the plum blossom road.

"Me? When was this king a plum blossom? "Xinyue usually doesn't talk to Rong Ying, but when she says it, Rong Ying is always confused.

"This flower is called "Snow Ying", and it is reflected on the snow like blood beads, and your name is Rong Ying, so this is you. "Xinyue stretched out his hand" Don't throw it away, give it to the little girl. ”

Rong Ying was a little stunned, so she turned her palm and landed the flower in the palm of Xinyue's hand.

The crescent moon took it with both hands, held it in the palm of her hand, and wrapped it in a handkerchief, and then detained, "The little girl retired." ”

This time Rong Ying did not stay, but looked at the back of the crescent moon, from big to small, and finally disappeared, he felt that his heart, first a pain, and then it was endless warmth, he looked at his rough palm, and remembered the small slap of the new moon, together, not as big as the shadow under his hand, on the jade-like palm, holding a bright red plum blossom, she said, that is herself.

As soon as I thought of the new moon holding "myself" in my arms like this, I didn't know what to do for a while, but I felt that my mouth was dry and my face was hot, and I was a little shy.

Yu He stood under a cypress tree, took in the performance of the three people from Taiqing to Rong Ying and Xinyue just now, frowned, and then said to himself, "So, I didn't make a mistake." Something that can be placed in the palm of your hand is never a beautiful thing that can stay for a long time. ”

The crescent moon put the veil in her arms, and then forgot about it, at this time she had already walked to the main hall, at this time the main hall of Nuoda, already full of people, the female dependents on the right, and the male guests across a curtain, the male guests are not nothing, but it is not as spectacular as the number of female dependents on the right, the new moon lowered her head, and walked to the right.

didn't take a few steps, he almost bumped into Jiang Yang again, Jiang Yang immediately took a step back, he had practiced martial arts for many years, and he still had such a reaction.

Xinyue secretly scolded herself for what's wrong, reckless, and immediately admitted her mistake to Jiang Yang, "It's Xinyue disrespectful who collided with Uncle Shi." ”

"Didn't you run into it? No problem. Jiang Yang saw that Xinyue was still bowing her head, and the hat strap on her head was gone, and the curtain fell, revealing only her pale chin.

"Yes, Uncle Xie Shi is magnanimous."

"I don't need to mention it again, I haven't asked you yet, when did the Queen Mother say that she would release your brother?" Jiang Yang asked curiously.

"Uncle Xie Shi cares, the queen mother's meaning is around the fifteenth day of the first month, and then my brother's family lives in seclusion for a year to see the after-effects."

After Jiang Yang heard this, he nodded, "That's the case, then it's fine." It's almost time, so go and take your seats. ”

"Yes, the little girl is leaving." As he spoke, Xinyue detained herself and staggered past Jiang Yang.

This scene happened to be seen by Rong Ying, who was following behind Xinyue and coming in, remembering that he was talking to himself in the back just now, and now he was talking to Jiang Yang here, Rong Ying's eyes darkened.

"See King Jin" Jiang Yang was the first to see Rong Ying, but he felt that there seemed to be fire in his eyes, and after bowing, he thought that he had seen it wrong.

"Uncle" Rong Ying restrained his emotions very quickly, and this will have returned to normal.

"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be." Jiang Yang was flattered, how could he be the uncle of the prince in the future.

"Uncle don't be polite, you are the nephew of the emperor's grandmother, this uncle, you deserve it" Rong Ying did not smile, but those who knew him also knew that he was not very sociable.

"The minister is afraid, does Your Highness have a seat?" Jiang Yang glanced at the fairly spacious men's seats, and there were a few empty seats in the middle of the front, which should have been specially reserved by Yu He for Rong Ying.

"Yes, uncle, I heard the queen mother say that good things are coming for my uncle?" Rong Ying would never have inquired about these things in the past, but when it came to Xinyue, he couldn't help but ask.

"Your Highness, this matter has not been clarified, and the minister has not moved this heart, please Your Highness, don't say it again." Jiang Yang said seriously.

Rong Ying nodded after hearing this, "Yes, don't mention it, don't mention it." ”

"It's almost time, Your Highness take a seat." With that, Jiang Yang and Rong Ying returned to their respective positions together.

As soon as the new moon arrived at the woman's side, Chen saw her, "New moon, here." ”

Xinyue heard Chen call herself, so she walked up and walked over there, and between Chen sat Old Madam Zhuang on the left side, and there was an empty seat next to the old lady.

"I have seen Mrs. Zhuang." ”

Mrs. Zhuang smiled and said, "Here, sit down, good boy, warm and warm." ”

"Yes," she said, and the new moon took off her hat and cloak and sat down beside Mrs. Zhuang.

"Crescent Moon, but it's frozen, why is this face so red?" Chan said.