Chapter 54: Incense in Lingyun Temple (2)
The Ministry of Rites arranged for everyone in Nanning to stay at the State Guesthouse. The predecessor of the State Guesthouse was Honglu Temple, and later Ling Botao thought that the name of Honglu Temple was not good, so he changed it to a State Guesthouse and renovated it.
Since the last banquet, Zhong Lixuan has been recuperating in the hall under the condition of illness, and has not seen outsiders.
There are batches of rewards sent into the palace in the palace, which is intended to appease everyone in Nanning, after all, the thieves in the palace have not been caught yet, and they cannot give Nanning an explanation.
Zhong Liyun was really frightened this time, and his spirit was a little sluggish, he only felt dizzy, and there was a faint pain in the back of his neck. But what made her most unhappy was that Wen Ziran didn't come to see her once.
The maidservant pushed open the door and saw Zhong Liyun sitting in front of the dresser, looking at herself in the mirror in a daze.
"Princess, have some lunch." The servant was ordinary-looking, not very inconspicuous, but there was a small mole at the corner of her mouth, which moved up and down slightly as she spoke, but it did not look ugly.
Zhong Liyun ignored it, his eyes fixed on his face in the mirror, and slowly stretched out his hand and placed it on his cheek.
"Although it is not as good-looking as himself, it is also a beautiful face," Zhong Lixuan's voice was slightly confused, "Why is he not rare to take a look?" ”
The maidservant paused and walked in with the basket.
She closed the door, took the food out of the basket, put it on the table one by one, and said to Zhong Liyun with concern, "Princess, you haven't eaten well in the past few days, and it's useless to have breakfast today, so hurry up and eat some." ”
Zhong Lixuan didn't seem to hear it, still touching her face, her fingers gently outlining her own outline, her lips were a little white and chapped, and her complexion was also a little sickly.
The maidservant sighed slightly, poured a cup of hot tea and put it in Zhongli's hand, "Let's drink some water." ”
Zhong Lixuan put down his hand, slowly picked up the teacup, and took a sip.
After drinking a few sips of hot tea, Zhong Lixuan's face became a little bloody, and she asked the maidservant, "Where is Gongzi Wen these days?" ”
The servant girl shook her head and replied, "The slave doesn't know. ”
Seeing that Zhong Liyun was very disappointed, the maidservant wanted to say something, but she couldn't help it.
Although Lingshan Temple is located in the southern suburbs of Jinling, it can also be called a century-old ancient temple, which was built when the Lu family of Huaqing Dynasty was in power in Dongyun.
At that time, the queen of the Huaqing Lu family loved the fasting of Lingshan Temple, often came to Lingshan Temple to eat fasting, Lingshan Temple then prospered the incense to worship, the believers came here in an endless stream to make incense and make wishes, Lingshan Temple also specially built a more convenient mountain road for carriage travel.
Later, the Huaqing Lu clan was raided and exterminated, and Dongyun changed the sky and the earth, and changed the scene. Now that the Ling family is on the throne and has its own royal temple, Lingshan Temple is slowly declining, and only some official wives and ordinary people who live closer to the southern suburbs will often come.
Today, a female family member of the household department Shangshu Lin Mansion came to make incense and make vows, and the temple presided over it very much, and arranged everyone to eat in an elegant and clean small dining hall, accompanied by two little monks throughout the whole process.
Mrs. Lin also wanted to arrange a separate room for Ruan Tingge to eat, but Ruan Tingge refused, "Mrs. Lin doesn't have to be polite, I just sit with Yunxi." ”
Seeing that Mrs. Lin wanted to say something, Ruan Tingge said with a smile, "It's good for Mrs. Lin to treat me as a junior today, and you don't need to pay too much attention to etiquette." I came here with good intentions, but if I disturbed you plainly, I would be very disturbed. ”
Seeing that Ruan Tingge said this, Mrs. Lin no longer insisted, and asked Lin Yunxi to sit down with Ruan Tingge.
The meal was soon brought by a few small monks, and everyone had a few small plates of vegetables and rice in front of them, and they were eaten separately.
The rice of Lingshan Temple is really commendable, the style and color look very good, there are dishes such as longan shrimp, clear soup radish swallow, vegetarian eight treasures, mushroom tofu, dry roasted winter bamboo shoots and so on.
Although longan shrimp has the word "shrimp", it is an authentic vegetarian dish, the raw materials are mushrooms, longan, red cherries, carrots and green beans, cut the mushrooms into shrimp shapes, and green green beans and diced carrots to stir-fry, and finally use longan and cherry around the edge, the color is bright, and the colorful ones are very good-looking.
Several other dishes are also light and delicious, and the style is exquisite.
Sun Qingqing has always paid close attention to Ruan Tingge, and at this time she was sitting not far from Ruan Tingge, eating her meal absent-mindedly.
Seeing Ruan Tingge and Lin Yunxi talking and laughing softly there, she still couldn't help but speak, "Lord Yun'an, I think you and Miss Fifth are very good, I don't know when you met?" ”
"What does this have to do with you?" Lin Yunxi didn't wait for Ruan Tingge to answer, so he raised his eyebrows and replied to Sun Qingqing impatiently.
Sun Qingqing's eyes immediately turned red, and she said with some grievances on her face, "I'm just curious to ask, why is Fifth Miss so unkind to me." ”
Lin Yunxi hurriedly glanced at his mother and second aunt who were eating at the other table, and found that they hadn't paid attention to this, so he breathed a sigh of relief and hummed in a low voice, "Pretending to be here again." ”
Sun Qingqing bit her lip, looked at Ruan Qingge with tearful eyes, and said in a soft voice, "I just said a word to the county lord, and the fifth lady was eager to interject and block me here, which is too unreasonable." ”
With a hint of nervousness in his eyes, Lin Yunxi glanced at Ruan Tingge, and then pretended not to care and said, "Tingge is my friend, don't think about provoking the relationship between the two of us." ”
Ruan Tingge pulled Lin Yunxi's clothes under the table, looked at her with a look of disapproval in his eyes, turned his head to Sun Qingqing and said, "Miss Sun, Yunxi has always been so straightforward, what you think of and say anything, you must also understand, it shouldn't be too strange." ”
Ruan Qingge's words were a little unreasonable, Sun Qingqing was choked by her words, and after a while said softly, "Although the county lord and Miss Fifth haven't known each other for a long time, they know Miss Five's character very well. ”
"We call it late to see each other," Lin Yunxi saw Ruan Tingge talking for himself, raised his chin happily, and said to Sun Qingqing, "How can a person like you understand." ”
Seeing Lin Yunxi showing off like a child, Ruan Tingge smiled a little and said, "You be quieter and continue to eat." ”
Sun Qingqing stopped speaking at this time, and looked at the two of them with some inexplicable looks in her eyes.
Ruan Qingge took a mouthful of mushrooms and put them in his mouth, his eyes inadvertently glanced at the lotus hosta on Lin Yunxi's bun, and he felt a little uneasy for no reason.
After the meal, Mrs. Lin and Mrs. Lin took Sun Qingqing and several girls in the house to incense, and Lin Yunxi was pardoned and accompanied Ruan Chenge to walk around the temple.
There are many ginkgo trees planted in the temple, and there are few tourists, and it is quiet.
Ruan Tingge and Lin Yunxi walked in the temple, followed by Lingyu and Ming'er.
I occasionally saw a few young monks in the temple, and after seeing these female guests, I hurriedly saluted and avoided them. The two of them were not suitable for walking in the temple halls, and they seemed to be a little disrespectful to the Buddha for no reason, so they walked to the spacious courtyard of the back mountain.
With the autumn breeze blowing, the golden ginkgo biloba leaves have fallen and spread on the bluestone slab. The two of them walked in the antique temples and temples, but they had a different taste.