Chapter 20: Doubts in the ancestral hall

The snow outside the building danced back to the wind, and the wine in the building complained heartily. On the second floor, Li Yuanfang and Su Man ate the shabu-shabu for a full hour. The house slaves of the two downstairs are waiting for the flowers.

Although the masters let them send some food in the neighborhood before eating, it was still snowing on this cold day, and there was still a place nearby where they could drink hot food to pad their hunger.

They were reluctant to eat the food in Xianglou that day, even if it was an ordinary staple food on the first floor, it would cost them a day's moonsilver. But this is just the idea of the two house slaves of the Li Mansion, and the two of them from the Su Mansion are sitting at the entrance of the lobby on the first floor, sharing a bowl of dumplings and feeding their hunger first, with pink bubbles all over their bodies.

"It's so expensive to sell in this building, are these dumplings still wrapped in dragon meat, and those two fools are still so happy to eat." The little guy in the Li Mansion, who was nibbling on the dry food he brought with him in the carriage, couldn't help but sigh softly, but this cold day is naturally the soup and water to warm the stomach! And the two of them were full of water, and they stuffed them with dog food in the winter, and the cold dog food was slapped on their faces.

The exchange of heartfelt complaints was not timed, and the night was heavy when they got on the bus. The two finally hugged each other downstairs and said goodbye, "See you tomorrow", just like in the past.

You know my secrets, and I know your secrets. Holding each other's most secret things without being disgusted by each other may be true friends.

There is no need to say much about many things between smart people, in fact, Li Yuanfang seems to be easy-going and friendly, but she and Lu Ziming are the same and have no real friends. The little girl has always kept her heart firmly closed, and even at this moment, she has never shown it in front of Su Man.

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that Su Man had changed at this time, Li Yuanfang would have eliminated the original owner Su Man from the category of friends after the quarrel over Pei Yu's matter that day. Moreover, if it wasn't for Song Ci, Li Yuanfang would have broken off contact with Su Man a long time ago.

At this moment, only Song Ci among the three of them was honest to everyone, she was like a spring in a mountain, without impurities, clear to the bottom. In fact, the original owner Su Man is also a simple-minded person, and the two are actually very similar, and they are very comfortable to get along with.

But because they are too bright and too naΓ―ve, many times they don't know the boundaries of each other, they don't understand the privacy space of others, and they are stupid and helpless. Some things can't be known to the other person, and some emotions can only be digested by themselves.

At this moment, although Su Man is in the fog, she knows how to measure, she and Li Yuanfang cherish each other, they both have secrets that cannot be said, and they both know each other's boundaries, which makes the relationship between the two go one step further.

In another part of Tianxiang Building, Bai Qirui was holding a wine glass and leaning against the railing to look outside, and happened to catch a glimpse of the two people downstairs who seemed to be muttering to themselves, "Today, why didn't these two little fat men bring the other one together?" ”

Hearing this, Pei Yu, who was at the same table, followed his gaze and also looked at the two people downstairs, and the woman under the purple-red cloak over there still had the big round face that harmless to humans and animals. Without the help of others, she got into the carriage neatly, and her sturdy figure seemed to be completely unrestricted by her chubby appearance.

Then, Pei Yu watched the other party's carriage disappear at the end of the street, and suddenly felt as if something had disappeared with it.

The woman who had been following him all the time, constantly brushing the sense of existence in front of his eyes, was now ignoring him, and a strange sense of loss surrounded her.

A cold wind blew, slightly chilling, and he drank the wine in his glass, and a warm current spread from his stomach to his whole body. That guy was just a stepping stone for himself, and Pei Yu's eyes regained his spirit.

It's just that the emotional changes in his eyes did not escape the eyes of Bai Qirui on the side, and the corners of his mouth showed a subtle sarcastic smile.

The chubby cousin's desire to capture did some work. It's just that her prey is just an underfed hungry wolf, but he's interested in seeing who can come out on top of the two hypocritical ones.

Back at the General's Mansion, Su Man asked the steward, Su Cheng hadn't returned yet, but when the other party left, he told him that he would definitely come to attend the celebration of their White Deer Academy to cheer up his daughter.

Thinking back to the various things in this world, Su Man's face couldn't help but show a trace of loss that was not easy to detect. She asked Princess Jinxiu's attitude again, after all, she had decided not to come back for dinner temporarily, and this was the first time she had not had dinner in the mansion since coming here.

Steward Zhang seemed to see through Su Man's worries, but said casually, "Madame didn't blame Miss, and she didn't say anything, Miss don't worry"

It's just that Su Man didn't breathe a sigh of relief happily as usual, but muttered with a lost face, "I don't blame, or I don't care."

Hearing this, the steward Zhang on the other end was stunned, and he choked for a while, and he looked at Su Man, who was slightly lost, and felt if he had said something wrong.

Su Man also noticed that Steward Zhang was unnatural, and she immediately showed a relieved smile and said, "Thank you, Uncle Zhang, if A-Niang didn't say anything, then I'll go back to the house first."

Then he took Tang Yuan and went back to the direction of his Lanting Garden as usual.

Looking at the disappeared backs of the two people, Steward Zhang over there touched his white beard and sighed lightly, the little doll has grown up, and many things are not easy to fool. Ay! This general's mansion really feels like home.

Just out of the lobby of the front hall, turned around and walked into the corridor of the inner courtyard, looking at the snowy scenery of the courtyard, Su Man said to Tang Yuan, "Tang Yuan, you go back to Lanting Garden to wash up first, I want to take a walk in the courtyard alone." ”

"Don't you need me to accompany you?"

"Don't, you ......" Su Man approached Tang Yuan, then pinched his nose and said, "Stinky"

"Miss ......" Tang Yuan stomped her feet, although she had changed her clothes, she had never bathed like Su Man, and there was still some smell of herbs on her body, but the smell was not stinky.

has been following Su Man for so long, and Tang Yuan can be regarded as knowing her routine. As long as the other party wants to calm down and doesn't want to be accompanied, they can always find all kinds of reasons to break you apart. Although she was worried about the other party, she could also sense Su Man's sense of depression now, the other party just wanted to be quiet alone, and this was the General's Mansion, so she could naturally rest assured.

"The slave will go back and light the charcoal fire in the house for you."

"Hmm"

Then, Su Man traveled all the way east along the corridor, empty, walking, and letting his brain relax after a day. Li Yuanfang's matter, the detoxification matter, and the comet's inference. Too many things to digest, too many things to plan.

Unconsciously, Su Man walked to the vicinity of Princess Jinxiu's main courtyard, Yunhai Garden. Her Lan Pavilion was almost across a general's mansion from here. I really don't know what the mother's intention is to arrange this?

There are too many irrationalities here, and these unreasonable settings are just to promote the plot, or are they ...... Su Man couldn't tell what kind of world this was now.

"Madame is going to the small ancestral hall again?"

"Isn't it!"

"On the first day of the new year, my wife will go to the small ancestral hall to read the scriptures all night! I heard that he is praying for the blessing of the house, the general kills too much, and someone always has to chant the scriptures to surpass those souls under the sword?"

"But today...... So cold day"

"What about the cold, I heard that the general won a great victory in the front line back then, but the lady in the house fell into the water and almost drowned, and the lady was frightened and recited the scriptures in the small ancestral hall for three days! Since then, I will spend the whole night in the small ancestral hall at the beginning of every month."

"When did this happen? I've never heard of it. ”

"That was many years ago, I also heard a sister in the past, like one day when Miss was five years old, when Mrs. was playing with Miss, she didn't pay attention to let Miss fall into the water, and Miss drowned in the lotus pond in front of her......

The girl pointed in the direction of the lotus pond in the front yard as if she had seen it with her own eyes. This kind of specious rumors are coming from the mouths of these maids.

"What are you doing?" A very stern female voice suddenly sounded, and a powerful old woman came out of Yunhai Garden, and that person was the Gu Mama who was in charge of Princess Jinxiu's side.

"I haven't grown up in other skills, but I have learned to chew the root of my tongue behind the master's back, don't you want to do it in the general's mansion, if you don't want to do it, then I will immediately go to tell Madame, please Madame sell you all"

"Don't, Mama Gu, we were wrong, please don't tell Madame, we won't dare in the future, don't dare" Several maids fell to their knees, begging Mama Gu, crying loudly, crying really.

After half a cup of tea, Mama Gu spoke leisurely

"If I ever hear your nonsense again, you won't have to stay in the General's Palace. Why are you still stunned, go back to work! ”

"Thank you, thank you, thank you"

Afterwards, several people wiped their tears and began to sweep the snow with brooms. Su Man hid in the dark and listened to the chat of the maids just now.

Although I can't believe all the gossip of these maids, there are some things that are not subjectively imagined to be really happening:

When the original owner was five years old, he fell into the water and almost drowned.

Princess Splendid recited the scriptures in the small ancestral hall for three days.

And the original owner had his own independent yard when he was five years old.

There must be a little-known secret here, what happened when the original owner was five years old, Su Man was a little curious. She turned her head to look at the small ancestral hall on the edge of Yunhai Garden, which was lit up, but there was no one to guard it or serve it.

Su Man walked quietly over and stopped at a window in the corner of the small ancestral hall. She was under the window, listening to the splendid princess reciting very reverently:

"Great compassion for all sentient beings, great joy and great charity, good and bright to self-discipline, and all people to the heart to convert to life.

Nan Wu took refuge in all the Buddhas of the Ten Directions and the Void Realm

Nan Wu took refuge in the Ten Directions, exhausted all the Dharma in the Void Realm

Nan Wu took refuge in the Ten Directions, exhausted all the sages and saints in the Void Realm, and ......" (confessional scriptures)

After listening to a stick of incense, the splendid princess in it did not look like she was going to stop, but Su Man was about to fall asleep when she heard it, and she didn't know what scripture the mother was reading.

She wanted to learn from the people in the costume films, and she had a little saliva on her fingers to dig a hole in the window to see the scene inside the house.

MMP, which screenwriter's crooked plot is this, and what window paper can be pierced with just a light poke with your finger? Where is it?

Although this looks like a thin and transparent window paper, this is clearly transparent oil paper that has been soaked in oil for a long time!

That paper that can almost be used to make an umbrella surface, how do you let me break it with my fingers! My fingernails have been torn off, and this window may not be broken.

Su Man pursed her mouth a little frustrated, and then she squatted down and groped in the snow for a while, and finally found a relatively sharp pebble. She picked it up and slowly opened a tiny slit in the window.

The wind doesn't blow in from here, but she can vaguely see what is inside. Hazy, I saw a splendid princess dressed in white plain clothes and hairpins without any decoration, kneeling in front of the Buddhist shrine reverently, turning a string of Buddhist beads in her hand with one hand, knocking on the wooden fish with the other, and reciting those Buddhist scriptures that Su Man did not understand at all.

"Hiss~~"

Su Man gasped, fortunately, he knew that the person kneeling inside was Princess Jinxiu, and it was only the time at this moment.

If it had been any later, she might have exclaimed in amazement. Although Su Man doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, this scene is too similar to the picture of a female ghost in a horror movie!

Princess Splendid was dressed in white, and her waist-length hair was so loose. And Her Royal Highness the Princess, how can your skin look two points whiter than before you take off your makeup, and your bloodless face with the dark blue and dark circles under your eyes really looks like a female ghost who lacks yang energy! Still a ghost!

Su Man didn't look at it, this splendid princess didn't seem to be praying for Buddha here, but as if she was repenting and thinking here.

Just thinking about it, something seemed to flash through Su Man's mind, this ......

Su Man then walked back to his Lanting Garden along the original road, but saw a familiar figure when he was halfway there.

In the snow, the man was in a clearing not far from the Lanting Garden, as if he was looking in the direction of her Lanting Garden.

"Eleven?"

Startled by the voice coming from behind him, Su Bei didn't expect that Su Man would come from the direction of Yunhaiyuan at this moment. For a moment, he felt like he had one of his secrets discovered, and he was the last person he wanted to know.

After a moment, he adjusted his mood, pushed the wheelchair, turned to look at Su Man, and bowed slightly, "Miss, why are you here?" ”

"Oh, I just ate a little too much with Yuan Fang, why don't you take a walk and eat less" Su Man's lie naturally came easily.

"Why are you here?"

"I saw that the snow was good, so I came out to move, and before I knew it, I was here." Su Bei also showed a just right smile.

"It just so happens that I have something I want to ask you," Su Man stepped forward unceremoniously, "Why don't I push you to walk around the yard again?" ”

"Okay" Su Bei nodded, but out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Su Man's hand pushing the cart for him, his fingertips were slightly red, many wounds on his knuckles, and two broken nails were all flesh. I think this wound is only today.

Ten fingers connected to the heart, presumably it should have been very painful at that time, Su Bei's eyes were obscure.

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