Chapter 20: Seeking Help to the King
Hu Xianxian picked up his mother and said, "Cheng Daochang has been released from prison, and the jailers don't know where he went. We went to Zenfukuji Temple and asked, maybe the Buddha treasure had been found. I didn't know that I went to Zenfukuji Temple and didn't find anyone, and I didn't find the Buddha treasure. We looked around and found the gates and had to come back when they were about to close. “
As she spoke, she glanced at the bolt, who understood what she meant, and smiled at everyone, saying, "Miss Hu has arrived home safely, and I should go back too." It's been a long day, and it's time for my horse to rest. Miss Hu, are you still looking for someone tomorrow? “
Hu Xianxian said: "I won't look for it." You come to pick me up the morning after tomorrow, and I'll help Steward Zhou find what they want to buy. “
While getting into the car and driving the horse, the bolt promised: "Okay, I'll come the day after tomorrow, and I can get West Street to inquire about scarce and in-demand things." “
After he left, everyone gathered around Hu Xianxian to talk. The third uncle said: "You have done your best for Cheng Daochang's affairs for a day, so don't worry about those things in the future." You have to meet any kind of person to open an inn, and you don't have to worry too much about it won't happen. “
Aunt Hu took her hand and said, "You said that you should help Steward Zhou and ask them about the scarce things that they can't buy, and we who open an inn have to deal with the people in charge of the families of the officials and nobles." When they do their jobs, they will always take care of the business. Don't do all that bells and whistles in the future, who knows who will be brought in? “
"Mother, I listen to you. It's been too busy these days to sleep well, so I'll go to bed first. Sanhua, please help me take care of my mother. “
After she finished speaking, she went upstairs, and didn't even answer the second fat asking her if she had dinner.
The third uncle pulled her upstairs and asked her Sanhua, "Don't ask, where can she eat?" Let her sleep for a while, her mind must be a mess. “
Hu Xianxian was lying on a low couch, since Aunt Hu suffered from eye disease, she moved up from the backyard to sleep next to her mother's bed in order to take care of her mother. Aunt Hu had a shallow sleep, and she couldn't sleep well after she was sick, and Hu Xianxian didn't dare to turn over when she slept, for fear of arguing with her mother. But it was not yet time at this moment, and it was still early for Aunt Hu to come up and go to bed, so Hu Xianxian tossed and turned over in bed, as if she wanted to take this opportunity to turn over and turn over. She was panicked, her nose was sore and her heart was sad, but she couldn't cry.
She rolled over and sat up, muttering, "God, what have I done?" Can't I even get a good night's sleep? With that, she lay down again. She had to fall asleep, even if she fell into a nightmare, and she had to come up with a solution only when she woke up.
Hu Xianxian thought about his life in a daze, it seemed that all the disasters were caused by himself, and even Cheng Haofeng took the initiative to stay in Hongbin Building. When I went to Gaojia Village, I also took the initiative to go.
Hu Xianxian fell asleep unconsciously, fell into a nightmare and shouted in his dream: "Yourself? It's all my own fault......" she thought to herself, "My own fault, I will make up for it myself, even if I use my life to make up for it!" “
"Immortal, immortal...... What did you say? What's wrong with you......" Aunt Hu got out of bed in thin clothes and groped around.
Hu Xianxian was woken up by her mother, and hurriedly helped her mother to bed, "Mother, lie down quickly, don't get caught in the cold at night in autumn." “
Aunt Hu sat on the edge of the bed, "I'm fine, what's wrong with you?" When Sanhua helped me upstairs, you were still sleeping peacefully, and you were yelling in your dreams for only half an hour. “
"Mother, you've only been up for half an hour? When is this? I'm fine, it's just a nightmare. “
"The end of the time, the beginning of the time. It's okay if you're okay, go to bed quickly, it's still early in the morning. “
"Mother, you can sleep in peace. I'm tired and feeling a little hungry, so I'll get some food. “
Aunt Hu helped herself lie down by her, instructed her to say a few words, and fell asleep.
Hu Xianxian went downstairs lightly to the lobby, she took out the glutinous rice flour cake from the counter and ate it, and put down the candlestick to rummage through the pen and paper while eating. She felt that she had to sort out her 20 years of experience in order to come up with a way out of the situation, and she had to write down those turning points of fate first.
At the end of the writing, she smiled bitterly, because although she was unlucky in the past, it was not she who was really hurt, and this time she herself could no longer hide. If she couldn't give Ye Guanying a satisfactory explanation, she didn't know what kind of situation she would face, she couldn't help but shudder when she thought of the corpse dragged out of the dungeon.
Hu Xianxian also wrote down how he could deal with it, and listed six points. The first one, reporting to the official, remembering the experience of the last time she reported to the official, she crossed out this one.
Second, find someone to help, there are not many people who can help her, and she is afraid that she will affect others again, so she will cross out this article.
Third, believe in Cheng Haofeng, fast and bathe, and beg him to take him into the Taoist sect to practice, and he should help himself get out of trouble after completing the things he said about the six junior disciples. She hesitated for a long time, the ink on the tip of the pen was dripping on the paper, she looked at the mass of ink, she had a sense of trust in Cheng Haofeng from the bottom of her heart, but she didn't dare to believe him anymore.
Hu Xianxian had to think about it first and see if there was any other way.
Fourth, seduce Ye Guanying and join Panlong Village. She felt that Ye Guanying was very easy to get close to, as long as Hongbin Building was really turned into a den of Panlong Village, she might be able to mix up the four masters. She laughed self-deprecatingly, but crossed it out anyway. If you can't revive Hongbin Building, you're sorry for the ancestors of the Hu family, and you can't discredit the Hu family anymore.
Fifth, let the mother and the third uncle escape with Steward Zhou, and when they arrived in Taixing City, those people would not dare to do anything to them. With the friendship between the third uncle and Steward Zhou, it is not difficult to do this. The two fat are just buddies, and the people of Panlong Village shouldn't be too embarrassed for them. Hu Xianxian was about to think that this method was feasible, but he thought that he was being watched closely and could not escape, and he had a mother with three long and two short, even if he lived, life would be worse than death.
After she finished eating the flour cake, wiped the foam on the corner of her mouth, and said in her heart: It's the sixth!
The sixth article she wrote was: Deceive Steward Zhou's trust, deceive Ye Guanying's trust, and go to Taixing City!
She was excited in her heart: I can't beat it, I can't escape, I can only deceive, fortunately, I have been used to seeing merchants from the south to the north since I was a child. After thinking about how to do it, she carefully studied the details, and after spending most of the night thinking about it, she finally lay down on the table at dawn and slept soundly.
When the third uncle woke her up, everyone in the lobby laughed at her, and she was laughed inexplicably.
Du Wanzhi, who was drinking porridge, pursed her lips and smiled: "Sister Hu, did you read poetry and books all night?" It's all written on it. “
Hu Xianxian suddenly understood that he fell asleep on the paper where the ink had not dried, and the handwriting on the paper was very blurry, but fortunately, the handwriting was blurred, so that others could not see it. She went to the kitchen to scoop water to wash her face, and after breakfast with everyone, she beckoned Du Wanzhi upstairs to say that she had something to say to her.
Entering Du Wanzhi's room, Hu Xianxian closed the door and bowed to her, "Sister Wanzhi, my sister has something to ask for, don't shirk it." “
"Sister doesn't need to salute, I haven't repaid your great kindness yet, how can I stand you to salute me again?" Du Wanzhi straightened her body, "If my sister has something to say, please speak directly." “
"Did my sister ever say that an immortal instructed you to take refuge in Hongbin Building in a dream?"
"Yes, why did my sister ask about this?"
"My sister also dreamed of an immortal last night", Hu Xianxian said while paying attention to Du Wanzhi's expression, and seeing her curious and attentive listening, she continued: "He said that I have to help King Shenjun find the kind of magical medicinal materials he wants, and my Hongbin Building can prosper." “
"This is a truth that can be understood without the guidance of immortals, and if King Shenjun is satisfied, he will naturally be able to spread a good reputation. Just ......"
Du Wanzhi looked at Hu Xianxian suspiciously, "I've heard Steward Zhou say that those medicinal materials are extremely difficult to find in the past few days, and one of them is called 'Absolute Insect Bell Grass', many people have never heard of it, and there is nowhere to buy it." Did my sister want me to help find it? “
Hu Xianxian breathed a long sigh of relief, and said quite confidently: "I know where it is, the immortal pointed out." I'm worried that Steward Zhou won't believe it, after all, no one has ever seen that kind of grass. Sister Wanzhi, I want to ask you to help me tell me the specific image of the immortal in front of Steward Zhou, I can't remember. If you go with me and talk about it, you will gain more trust. “
Du Wanzhi nodded and said, "This is not difficult, I can even remember the hairpin of the immortals and what the robe looks like." When will my sister go to Steward Zhou, remember to call me. “
Hu Xianxian walked around the street after coming out of Du Wanzhi's room, she knew that there were a few people from Gaojia Village following her, but she pretended not to see it.
The next day, Bolt came to pick her up, and she asked Bolt to drive around West Street and Xiping Street several times, and those who were watching her covered up the fire and walked out directly with a swagger.
On the third day, after another day of strolling around those jewelry stores on West Street and Xiping Street, Hu Xianxian walked up to a man.
She was smiling and walked calmly, and when she approached the man, it was like seeing an old friend who had been reunited after a long absence. That person was the one who carried a big knife to stop the carriage that day, although he was the first to stop the carriage, but he didn't do anything too much to Hu Xianxian later, because Hu Xianxian had a slightly better impression of him.
When this big man saw Hu Xianxian taking the initiative to approach him, his eyes were a little stupid, and he thought that he had often met in the past few days, and Hu Xianxian had been in love with him for a long time.
"This heroic brother, I have done everything that Ye San has explained. But things can't be handed over directly to the village, I have to send things to Taixing City, where I can deliver them and exchange them for cash. Brother Haohan, can you help me bring a message to Ye San's family? My Hongbin Building is here, my mother is also here, I changed it into cash and handed it over to the village to save the owner to bother to find a buyer, I won't run around, let me go to Taixing City? “
Saliva seeped from the corners of the man's mouth, "Good, good, good...... OK, OK. The three masters only said that we would follow you, and they didn't say that you were not allowed to go out of the city, we would follow you to Taixing City. “
Hu Xianxian got this and asked this person's name Gao Youshan, so he asked the bolt to drive back to Hongbin Building quickly.
When he entered the house, he went to pull Du Wanzhi to find Steward Zhou, and said what he had said earlier that he had found the Worm Bell Grass under the guidance of the immortals.
Steward Zhou didn't believe it at first, but when he saw that Du Wanzhi behaved elegantly and did not look like a person who lied and cheated money, he believed it a little when he heard her say the image of the immortal vividly.
And Hu Xianxian said that this thing had been targeted by the bandits of Panlong Village, and he did not dare to hand it over to Steward Zhou here, and he would definitely meet King Shenjun and present it again. Steward Zhou remembered that he had indeed seen a few unknown people wandering around Hongbin Building in the past few days, and he felt that this matter was true. He immediately asked Bian to hire a few bodyguards, and Hu Xianxian took a bolted car and held a brocade box, and under their escort, he left Lingzhou City and went to Taixing, the capital city.
Needless to say, after a day and a night of travel, Hu Xianxian arrived at the gate of the county palace. Steward Zhou pulled Hu Xianxian, who was watching in front of the main gate, hurriedly entered through the side door, and after several exchanges, they finally had to send a message to the small tea hall in the garden to see the prince.
Hu Xianxian was worried in her heart, she didn't know what kind of person this King Shenjun was, whether she could say that she could move him to save Pan Zongqiang, she just bowed her head and walked forward, and she had no time to appreciate the luxurious layout of the palace.
When they arrived at a garden, the guide asked Steward Zhou to go to see the prince first, and asked Hu Xianxian to wait in a small pavilion next to the garden. There were only two little maids standing aside in the small pavilion, and Hu Xianxian soothed his mood a little, and he didn't have the restraint of seeing many slaves coming and going before, so he watched the surrounding scenery.
This small garden is made of black and blue bricks with a female wall that encloses the garden in a circle. There is a small plum blossom-shaped hole leaking above the female wall, and from the small hole, you can see that the flower branches outside the wall are clustered, and it should be a garden outside. The garden is separated by a curved female wall with two small moon-shaped arches under the wall. Hu Xianxian's eyes looked along one of the arches to the other side, and there was also a small pavilion over there, and Steward Zhou could be seen standing bent over, probably talking to the prince in the small pavilion.
But the position where the prince was sitting was just covered by the wall, Hu Xianxian couldn't see the appearance of the prince, Hu Xianxian turned back in disappointment to look at the flowers and trees in the garden.
Several maple trees in the garden are dyed with frost and soaked in dandew, red like spring flowers; A purple red, golden, pink and orange chrysanthemum is blooming brightly; Under the flowers, the wheat winter grass on the side of the stone steps is bearing small blue fruits, which is very cute. Hu Xianxian felt that this small pavilion should be specially designed to enjoy the autumn scenery here, so he went to look at the plaque on the lintel of the pavilion, and it really said "Qiuyang Pavilion".
Just when Hu Xianxian looked up at the plaque, the prince came to the outside of the pavilion, "This is Qiuyang Pavilion, and that is Xiayin Pavilion, Miss Hu still thinks it's interesting?" “
Hu Xianxian hurriedly knelt down, "The folk girl Hu Xianxian greets the prince, and wishes the prince a thousand years old." The folk girl took the liberty to ask to see her, and hoped that the prince would forgive the sin of disturbing the folk girl. “
"Miss Hu, please get up quickly. You can find the insect-destructed bell grass according to the guidance of the immortals, which means that you are a person with deep fortune, and you are fortunate to see that you are the king, so why bother? Saying this, the prince actually wanted to help her personally.
She hurriedly got up by herself, the more polite this prince was, the more it showed the preciousness of the absolute insect bell grass, and the greater Hu Xianxian's sin of lying, she didn't dare to accept the prince's respect.
Seeing that she had been holding the brocade box, King Shenjun took her to the study, and waited for the left and right people to wait before saying, "Miss Hu, can you hand over the spiritual objects to this king?" “
Hu Xianxian gritted her teeth and handed over the brocade box, and she saw his appearance clearly when King Shenjun stretched out his hand to take the box.
He was about fifteen or sixteen years old, and he was born like a fairy boy with a jade carving. Hu Xianxian prayed in his heart: God, I didn't mean to deliberately deceive such a fairy-like young prince, God must not blame me for deceiving him. I'm here to save people, I'm here to save people......