083. Accidents always come unexpectedly
Su Wenqin said: "I actually want to ask my aunt for a favor, can I ask my mother to go to Baihua Temple tomorrow to offer incense?" β
The flower matchmaker looked at him for a moment, and then said with an ambiguous face: "I said how the girls were willing to refuse the marriage with the eldest prince, it turned out that the eldest prince had a plan on his side." β
"My aunt smiled, if I can explain my mother, I will trouble my aunt to propose marriage for me." Su Wenqin sincerely entrusted.
The flower matchmaker asked the other party which girl it was, and what was the basis for meeting tomorrow, and frowned after asking: "It turned out to be the daughter of the golden dart head, I have seen it, she is a good girl, but she is far from your mother's requirements." β
"This is to bother the aunt's three-inch incorruptible tongue, everyone knows that the aunt is one of the best matchmakers in the Sifang City, but I can't talk about the matchmaker without you, I can count on you for this matter."
Su Wenqin handed over a piece of broken silver and said that she was invited to tea, and the flower matchmaker was so happy that she couldn't close her mouth, saying that she would definitely try her best to say yes tomorrow.
After sending off the flower matchmaker, Su Wenqin sent people to send letters to Su Xi and Jin Ruyi respectively.
The next day, Su Xi took a carriage and went to the Jin family to pick up the newly dressed Jin Ruyi and drove to Baihua Temple. Jin Ruyi's face was as usual, but when she looked closely, she found that her hands hidden under her sleeves were trembling.
Su Xiyi grabbed her hand and said with a smile: "Sister Jin, don't worry, although my mother is a little anxious, she is very good at talking, you can rest assured." β
Su Xi said some interesting things about her eldest brother's childhood, and the two had a good laugh, and Jin Ruyi really relaxed.
The White Birch Temple is on the hill on the west side of Luming Mountain, the mountain is not high, and there are two sheep intestine trails in front of the mountain and the back mountain for people to walk.
Such a small temple is naturally not at the peak of incense, but in view of the good vegetarian food in the temple, the scenery on the mountain is good, and it is close to it, the wives and ladies of Sifang City still like to come.
The carriage could not be carried up, and if you did not want to walk, you could only take a sedan chair, and at the foot of the mountain there were many double sedan chairs to be hired.
When Jin Ruyi came with her mother before, she walked all the way, enjoying the scenery while walking, but she didn't plan to walk today, she was afraid that she would walk with sweat and disgust.
So the two hired two small sedan chairs and swayed up the mountain, and Jin Ruyi only brought a maid named Jingdong, and walked behind with Xianglan and Lu Nian.
Lu Nian was specially transferred by Lu Youzhen, he felt that the outside of the city was not as safe as the city after all, and he could rest assured that there was a guard, and the worst thing was that Lu Nian could still run errands, right?
The two went up the mountain, and they didn't see Pei's under the agreed banyan tree, so they went into the hall and put incense on the pillar.
"Yo, isn't this Mrs. Zhang? I heard that your daughter-in-law just gave birth to a pair of big fat boys, how can you have time to come to incense? β
"I'm not here to make a wish, my daughter-in-law has not moved at all for almost two years since I entered the door, and it didn't work to take medicine, and then I worshiped Guanyin Niangniang in the temple, and only a month later I went to the clinic to see a happy pulse, and I gave birth to a pair of twins, and I looked handsome."
"So smart?"
"That's not it, two little guys, if it weren't for the sake of repaying the wish, I wouldn't want to let go of my precious grandson."
"Then when the child is full moon, I will go and see."
"Come, come, come, must come. Needless to say, I thanked the Bodhisattva and had to go home to take care of my grandson. β
The conversation between the two women came into Su Xi's ears, she rolled her eyes, and said to Jin Ruyi: "Sister Jin, I have some discomfort in my stomach and want to go for convenience, you go to the tree first and wait." β
"Are you alright? I'll go with you. Jin Ruyi was a little worried.
"No, no," Su Xi hurriedly waved his hand, "Just have Xianglan with you, you go and wait first, it's not good if you miss it." β
Jin Ruyi nodded, and took Ding Dong to the banyan tree, and Lu Nian was also driven outside to wait. Su Xi saw them go away, and ran to the side hall with Xianglan, where the worship was Guanyin.
Jin Ruyi came to the banyan tree, there are stalls to tell fortunes, and there are also people who sell peace charms, and the business is actually not bad.
She didn't care about this, she only paid attention to whether there were people around her who were suspected of Mrs. Su, Su Xi and Xianglan were not there, and Lu Nian had never seen Pei's family, so Jin Ruyi could only guess.
Whenever she meets a lady who is almost dressed decently, Jin Ruyi lowers her eyebrows and lowers her hands, pretending to be a gentle and shy lady.
Ding Dong on the side is an orphan taken in by Jin Ruyi, who has practiced martial arts with Jin Ruyi since he was a child, and usually wears pants that are easy to walk, and today is the first time to wear a skirt, but she is awkward to death, and she scolds Su Wenqin in her heart.
The two pretended to be for a long time, but they didn't see the real Mrs. Su coming.
Pei's actually didn't go out late, but when she passed by Sanqi Hutong, she suddenly wanted to ask Su Xi to accompany her, so she turned in, but Uncle Hu, who was guarding the door, said that she went out early in the morning, and Lu Youzhen was not there.
Pei Shi also wondered why the little couple was not at home early in the morning, but she didn't think much about it, and walked outside the alley, but bumped into Su Youyin, the second master of Su.
The second master's first reaction when he saw his sister-in-law was to turn around and leave, but Pei Shi stopped him: "Second brother, what are you doing?" β
The second master turned around, smiled awkwardly, and said: "It turned out to be a sister-in-law, I took the path and left if there was an urgent matter in the shop, I remembered that I left something at home, and I was going to go back to get it, I didn't see my sister-in-law, sister-in-law, don't mind, I'm not hiding from you." β
Pei Shi felt strange when she saw it, and she asked suspiciously: "I see that the second brother's face is not very good, but what is uncomfortable?" Call a doctor to take a look. β
"No, no, no," the second master hurriedly shook his head, and said: "Maybe it's a little rushed, it's okay for a while, it's okay for a while, sister-in-law don't have to worry." - Sister-in-law, is this coming to see Xi'er? β
"Ao, I almost forgot," Pei Shi patted his head, "I made an appointment to go to the temple to offer incense, and when I passed by, I wanted to ask Xi'er to accompany me, but who knew that she was going out, I had to go quickly, don't ask people to wait." β
"Eh, then sister-in-law should hurry up, I'm going to be busy too." After the second master finished speaking, he ran forward without looking back.
"Aren't you going back to get something?" Pei Shi muttered in a low voice, this second child's behavior is becoming more and more strange. After muttering a few words, Pei Shi returned to the mouth of the alley and hurried to the White Birch Temple in a carriage.
It was only a moment late, and the flower matchmaker at the foot of the mountain was in a hurry, and when she saw Pei's family, she affectionately pulled her hand into the sedan chair.
There is a stone staircase in front of the temple, and the palanquin bearers usually only send people to the stone steps. Pei got out of the sedan chair and walked up with the flower matchmaker, looking under the banyan tree as he walked.
She asked the matchmaker, "Which girl did you call me to see today?" β
The banyan tree grew in front of the temple, and only some canopies could be seen under the stone steps, but Pei Shi was already impatient and couldn't help but ask.
The flower matchmaker smiled, she didn't talk about this girl's family background, but only how good this girl's appearance was, which made Pei Shi look forward to it more and more.
After walking the stone steps, Pei could finally see the figure under the tree, and she stopped to watch, her eyes wandering over the young girls.
She saw a girl dressed in green with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, slightly hooked lips and shallow dimples, and the maid next to her didn't know what to say, so she tapped her jade fingers, and a pair of slender Ruifeng eyes seemed to be ashamed and angry.
When Pei was about to ask the flower matchmaker if it was this girl she wanted to meet, the flower matchmaker just said: "Wait a minute, old sister, there is a familiar lady over there, I'll go say hello and come, sister go and sit under the tree for a while." β
After saying that, she walked away, Pei had to go down the tree by herself, and she made up her mind to talk to the girl whether she wanted to talk to her or not.
But suddenly, the girl in green looked condensed, picked up the maid in front of her with one hand, lifted her skirt with the other, and strode towards Pei's family.
The change was caught off guard, Pei Shi looked at the little girl who was rushing in shock, and said Okay, what about the little fairy? How did you become a chivalrous man?
The girl in green walked in front of Pei's side, and reached out to borrow her shoulder, turned over and jumped two feet away, and stopped in front of a woman who was tumbling down the steps.
The girl in green was Jin Ruyi, she saw someone kicking down the steps and rolling down, and rushed over without thinking, she stabilized the woman's body, and briefly checked it, and saw that the person was only a few abrasions and no major problems.
There was a round of applause around, all praising Jin Ruyi as a heroine among women, Jin Ruyi was a little embarrassed, and hurriedly hugged her fists and said that it was "a gesture of effort, not enough to worry about".
The ladylike style that has been pretending to be for a long time is gone, and she is a female chivalrous warrior.
Hearing the movement in the temple, two little novices came to send the woman to the meditation room to rest, and Jin Ruyi came to Pei's to apologize: "The situation is urgent, so I offended Mrs., Ruyi is here to apologize to Mrs., please don't blame Mrs." β
"Well, it's okay," Pei Shi replied before he could come back to his senses, and it was all instinct.
"Missβ"
Ding Dong stood in front of the stone steps and shouted, Jin Ruyi suddenly remembered the purpose of coming over today, and said in his heart: It's over, Mrs. Su must not come at this time.
However, fate is so wonderful, it doesn't come when you prepare carefully, and it comes quietly when you are a little deflated.
When Su Xi heard that there was a chivalrous girl in front of the temple, she knew that it was Jin Ruyi nine times out of ten, she hurried over to take a look, but saw that her mother was also there, which is called no coincidence and no book.
This scene made Su Xi unbearable to look at it directly.
Jin Ruyi didn't know why, and as soon as she saw Su Xi, she walked to her side, and said worriedly: "Xi'er, help me take a look, your mother is not there." β
Su Xi wanted to cry without tears, she probably had no shame to see her eldest brother again. Su Xi bit his lip, his face was bitter, his eyes turned from Jin Ruyi's body to Pei's family, and Jin Ruyi suddenly had a bad premonition.
"Mother-" Su Xi shouted.
Jin Ruyi trembled, and she wanted to faint immediately, but she had always been in good health, even if she felt cold all over her body and her mind was swollen, she still couldn't faint.
"Xi'er? How did you end up here? Pei asked.
"I'm here to worship the Bodhisattva, and I heard that the goddess of mercy here is very effective." Su Xi said casually, anyway, she did go to ask for a son just now, and it wasn't a deception, right!
Pei Shi frowned and said, "You are still young, why are you in such a hurry?" Lu Youzhen agreed to wait for another two years to have a child. β
"I'll line up in front of the Bodhisattva first, so that when I want to be born, the Bodhisattva will think of me for the first time." Su Xi continued to talk nonsense, since she couldn't see each other, she couldn't let Pei know that the person she wanted to look at was Jin Ruyi.
"What kind of stupid thing is this," Pei Shi endured it for a long time, but still asked Jin Ruyi, "This girl is really good, is she your friend Xi'er?" β
Su Xi nodded, took her mother's hand and said, "Yes, her name is Jin Ruyi, and she is my new friend, isn't it amazing?" β
Jin Ruyi was about to say something, so as to save some images, but the matchmaker who heard it back said with a smile: "Old sister, Miss Jin, it turns out that you have all met, it is my wife who has derelicted her duties." β
When the three Pei heard this, their faces turned black.