Chapter 53: Pray for Blessings and Incense
The beginning of summer is followed by the late spring.
Seeing that the weather was a little hot, Ah Li gave Lu Guanlan ice fruits every day to relieve the heat.
It is rare to have peace in the house for two days, and Lu Guanlan paints and boils tea every day.
It's just that in this calm and tranquility, there is always a strange atmosphere.
Even Xiao Ju felt that Fuzhong Ansheng had been too much recently, and asked Ah Li if there was anything big going on.
Ah Li couldn't help but be disgusted: "You girl, I wish there would always be some moths in the house, so that you can watch the excitement?" โ
Xiao Ju pouted and said, "It's too peaceful." โ
Lu Guanlan was describing the vines in the courtyard and smiled when he heard the words.
She also felt that she was too peaceful, so she didn't relax her guard in the past two days, but still asked Ah Li to pay attention to the situation in a few courtyards.
Song Yuemei wouldn't let her go like this, so she had to prepare a return gift.
Sure enough, within three days, there was movement on the side of Nixuan Pavilion.
Without Mama Zhang's report, Lu Guanlan was a little uncomfortable.
When he received the report from Chunxiang, Lu Guanlan smiled slightly: "Since my father has agreed, how can I not go?" โ
Chunxiang bowed: "The slave is going back," she said, remembering something again, and said, "I hope the eldest lady will be more careful on the road." โ
After Chunxiang left, Ah Li greeted her, as if she was a little displeased, "What does Chunxiang mean by this?" โ
The smile on Lu Guanlan's lips did not decrease, "This is to remind me to be careful." โ
"Careful?" Ah Li was puzzled, "This is just to accompany Aunt Song to the temple to put incense on the pillars, how careful can you use it?" โ
"You don't understand," Lu Guanlan smiled.
Song Yuemei suddenly proposed to pray for blessings, there was no cat in it, she definitely didn't believe it.
"But isn't Haruka her person?" This is where Ah Li is extremely puzzled.
Chunxiang is a person who has been with Song Yuemei for a long time, although she didn't bring it from her mother's family, but after serving for many years, how could she help Lu Guanlan, could it be a plan? But I didn't see any contact between Miss and Chunxiang in private, which made Ah Li puzzled.
Lu Guanlan knew what Ah Li was thinking, and said with a smile: "Good birds choose trees to perch." But anyone who knows right from wrong, and after a long time with a person like Song Yuemei, it is inevitable that he will not get tired or even disgusted. Song Yuemei's selfish temperament can not keep people's hearts. โ
Speaking of which, this person said that she learned it from Cheng Ye in her previous life.
In his previous life, Cheng Ye was too good at winning people's hearts, so that in the future, everyone praised him for being the only one who was worthy of the great responsibility, and only he could be a good virtuous monarch.
After that, he did a good job.
But he was so happy with his achievements, eager for quick success, and extremely conceited.
In the battle of Yuemian Mountain, if it weren't for Chengye's insistence on going his own way and rushing to pursue the victory, he would not have fallen into the trap of the enemy, thus losing hundreds of thousands of troops.
Narino wants to make merits, so he never cares about the life or death of others, and never listens to persuasion.
Speaking of which, it is really suitable for a person like him to be Song Yuemei's son-in-law.
Ah Li followed Lu Guanlan all the way, experienced so many things, and felt more and more that her young lady was extremely powerful, thinking that the young lady was good at calculations, and she didn't worry anymore when she heard what the young lady was right.
Early the next morning, Lu Guanlan still got up early.
Yesterday, Chunxiang came to Bing, saying that Song Yuemei has been restless recently, and wants to worship the Buddha and incense, so she called a few young ladies to go together, so as to pray for the blessing of the family.
What kind of restless way Song Yuemei is, Lu Guanlan doesn't know.
But when I thought of incense, I asked Chunxiang, which temple is this going to?
Chunxiang said: "Yun'an Temple." โ
Lu Guanlan was stunned.
Yun'an Temple. This temple is like my mother's name, and my mother used to go to it when she was alive.
However, there are indeed a lot of temples that my mother went to, why did Song Yuemei choose this Yun'an Temple? Want to reminisce about the past?
After cleaning up, Lu Guanlan didn't say anything more, and just followed Chunxiang out of the yard.
When he arrived at the gate and saw three carriages parked, Lu Guanlan asked Chunxiang, "I don't know, which sister am I riding with?" โ
Before Haruka could speak.
I heard Lu Lianqing's voice behind me: "Who can have a car with the eldest sister?" The eldest sister is very expensive now, how dare we sisters climb high. โ
Lu Lianqing has always loved to please Song Yuemei in every possible way, and she only went to incense when she knew that Song Yuemei was restless, which started earlier than anyone else.
didn't even wait for his biological mother and sister, so he walked out of the courtyard by himself, just to wait here earlier, so that Song Yuemei could see her sincerity.
Lu Guanlan felt ridiculous, but he still couldn't hold back his laughter, and said, "Since that's the case, let's go with the fourth sister who is extremely expensive." โ
Lu Lianqing refused, snorted coldly, and her eyes glared at the sky.
Lu Guanlan was not annoyed, just wondering how Song Yuemei would do it today.
Just thinking about it, Song Yuemei came out with Lu Jingzhu.
They were followed by Zhou Susu and Lu Lianhua.
Seeing that Lu Guanlan was already waiting here, an imperceptible smile flashed in Song Yuemei's eyes.
only said: "With you, but I also want to pray for the blessing of the family." Lately, for some reason, I've always been feeling uneasy, like ยทยทยทยทยทยท There is something unclean in this house, no, I asked the master, let the young ladies follow, so that I can go to bad luck. โ
The corners of Lu Guanlan's mouth hooked up a touch of mockery.
When Lu Lianqing's straw bag came out of Lu Lianqing's straw bag, I am afraid that he could hear who he was satirizing.
Song Yuemei's mouth can "do trouble" in this house, isn't she talking about her deceased mother.
Whether it is the living or the dead who can be troubled, don't you know by heart.
Just as everyone got into the carriage, Lu Jingzhu suddenly stretched out his hand, grabbed Lu Lianqing and said, "I haven't finished talking about the tricks that my sister asked for advice yesterday, let's talk about it on the road." โ
Lu Lianqing was willing to go with Lu Jingzhu, and she was about to get into the car with Lu Jingzhu with a smile.
Lu Lianhua wanted to share a car with Lu Guanlan, but was also stopped by Lu Jingzhu, "Didn't the third sister ask me how to do Huazhu yesterday?" Let's talk about it on the way, too. โ
Lu Guanlan looked at Lu Jingzhu like this, and only felt that it was too deliberate.
Even if Lu Jingzhu doesn't pull Lu Lianqing, Lu Lianqing will definitely not be with her.
But Lu Jingzhu pulled like this, but it seemed to isolate her.
She is not stupid, she is so deliberate, she will definitely be suspicious, so it is logical to choose one of Lu Lianqing and Lu Lianhua to go together.
Lu Lianhua didn't have anything to do with her, if she thought carefully and guessed what would happen on the road, she would definitely not take Lu Lianhua with her, and only Lu Lianqing would be left.
Lu Guanlan sighed in his heart.
Anyway, since it is cannon fodder sent up, this cannon fodder will be sacrificed to the sky.
Thinking about it, Lu Guanlan opened his mouth and said: "Third sister, I also know some needlework and embroidery, why don't I teach you?" โ
Lu Jingzhu saw that Lu Guanlan was fooled, so he quietly glanced at Lu Lianqing.
Lu Lianqing understood, although she was still reluctant on her face, she said to Lu Guanlan: "Whatever the eldest sister says, who calls you the eldest sister." โ
As he spoke, he got into the carriage first with a very unconvinced look.
Lu Guanlan couldn't help but smile.
Lo and behold, this is a clumsy acting.
The road to Yun'an Temple is not far, but you have to climb over a mountain.
Exiting the city gate from the south market entrance is a mountain road.
The mountain road is not long but it is craggy, and there are often beggars blocking the way to and from the pilgrims, so that others may show kindness and give alms.
Strangely, Lu Guanlan didn't see a beggar on the road today.
Turning his head to look at Lu Lianqing, he looked disappreliant, brushing his hair quite idly, more like he was waiting for something.
Lu Guanlan lowered the curtain and suddenly asked, "Third sister, I've always been curious, why do you hate me so much?" โ
Lu Lianqing was stunned for a moment, she didn't expect Lu Guanlan to ask like this, she stared at Lu Guanlan with a pair of eyes, and didn't know how to answer for a while.
Lu Guanlan smiled at the corner of his mouth, and there was a bright smile at the corner of his eyebrow, "When have I ever treated the third sister badly?" Or when did I offend the third sister? โ
Lu Lianqing was dumbfounded by the question.
Speaking of which, Lu Guanlan has indeed never treated her badly, and he has never embarrassed himself.
But why do you always want to go against Lu Guanlan three times and twice? Why do you hate Lu Guanlan so much?
Lu Lianqing thought about it like this, and it took a while before she figured it out.
Because Lu Guanlan is not worthy! Yes, she doesn't deserve it!
Why was she born a concubine, she was born more noble than them.
Even now that she has been disfigured, there is a handsome person like the second prince who is as handsome as a fairy to help her speak.
She felt unfair, so she hated Lu Guanlan.
Without waiting for Lu Lianqing to answer, Lu Guanlan suddenly sighed, frowned, covered his stomach and said, "My stomach hurts a little," he said, called the coachman, asked the coachman to stop on the side, and only said that he wanted to rest for a while.
In the past, Lu Lianqing refused to delay with her.
But today is different, Lu Lianqing uncharacteristically didn't say a word.
Lu Guanlan guessed that Song Yuemei should have greeted her a long time ago and asked Lu Lianqing to drag her behind, so Lu Lianqing didn't care about this delay for a while.
Although she didn't know what Song Yuemei wanted to do, since she knew the direction they were going, she pushed the boat down the river and sent cannon fodder to explore the way for her.
Thinking about it, she said she wanted to breathe, so she got out of the carriage.
Ah Li saw Lu Guanlan coming down, and hurriedly helped Lu Guanlan to a tree on the side of the road to enjoy the shade.
"This Yun'an Temple, let's be here before," Lu Guanlan suddenly asked.
Ah Li thought for a moment, nodded, and handed over the kettle.
Lu Guanlan shook his head and looked back and forth, "When I came here, I only felt that there were a lot of beggars on the road, but none of them were gone today." โ
Thinking about it, Lu Guanlan seemed to think of something, and asked Ah Li: "Let's go all the way, have you passed through any forks?" โ
Today, because the ladies are together, the maid can't get into the carriage to accompany her, and only slowly follows behind the carriage, so how this road comes, Ah Li knows best.
Ah Li thought for a while, nodded lightly, and said, "There is a fork in the road." The slave maid also asked Li'er at the time why she took this road today. Li'er said that it was Aunt Song who ordered her to take the path faster. โ
Lu Guanlan suddenly smiled, "Song Yuemei ordered? Why didn't you command me? โ
That Lu Lianqing's personal maid Li'er, estimated that she only explained it when she went out, thinking that when she asked, she replied like this.
But I didn't think that this statement really made people feel false.
Lu Guanlan stood up suddenly, pulled Ah Li and slowly retreated behind the tree, and walked a few steps into the forest behind him.
The two of them were hidden in the woods, but they could just see the carriage, and then they stopped.
Seeing that Miss was suddenly cautious, Ah Li asked softly, "Miss is aware of something wrong?" โ
Lu Guanlan didn't make a sound, just made a silent gesture and motioned for Ah Li to wait quietly.
At this moment, more than a dozen men who looked like beggars suddenly rushed out of the road and rushed towards the carriage.
Ah Li covered her mouth in surprise and looked at Lu Guanlan beside her with wide eyes.
Lu Guanlan hooked the corners of his mouth and murmured: "It's here." โ