"Remember, don't look in the mirror until the hour!"

In the unhurried sound of the wooden fish, Luo Fu seemed to hear the old monk next to him say that. She raised her head, glanced at the Bodhisattva reverently, folded her hands, and knelt softly. got up, walked to the old monk's side, and asked, "What did the old master just say?" ”

The old monk opened his eyes and stopped the wooden fish in his hand: "The old man didn't say anything, but he heard what the donor said to the Bodhisattva." If the donor is so pious, the Bodhisattva will surely bless the donor's wishes. ”

Luo Fu blushed slightly, and ordered the maid beside him to add some incense money to the oil lamp, and then turned around and walked out of the hall. In the bustling crowd, the sound of the old monk chanting sutras lingered in Luo Shi's ears. Vaguely, she seemed to hear someone saying to herself: "Remember, don't look in the mirror before the hour!" ”

Luo Shi turned around, but saw that the Bodhisattva in the main hall had a straight face with her kind eyebrows and kind eyes, and her face changed accordingly.

"Miss, what's wrong with you?"

Maiden Rui'er asked softly, and her gaze moved to the Bodhisattva with Luo Shi.

"Rui'er, do you see any changes in that bodhisattva?"

"What can a bodhisattva change?"

"But how can I see that this Bodhisattva's face is not quite right, Fang is still kind, and at this time he looks much more serious, and it seems that someone is talking in my ear just now, have you heard?"

Although this bodhisattva is kind and kind-eyed, he is also a righteous god, and when he looks at it from different angles, he will naturally have different expressions. The young lady bowed down reverently, looking at the Bodhisattva from the bottom up, and the Bodhisattva was naturally kind and kind. Now, the young lady is standing at the door of this hall, and she will naturally feel that the treasure is solemn. As for the sound of talking, Rui'er never stopped in her ears. Miss is afraid that she has also listened to what others say in her ears, and if she feels noisy, let's find a quiet place. ”

Rui'er said, took Luo Fu's arm, and walked down the steps. Luo Shi lifted his right foot lightly, and suddenly felt a slight numbness coming from his knee, and hurriedly bent down and rubbed it with his hand.

"What's wrong with Miss?"

Ruier asked with her head down, but there was a hint of impatience in her eyebrows.

"It's nothing, I'm afraid I've been kneeling for a long time, and I didn't pay attention when I got up, but now that I come back to my senses, I only feel that these knees are a little numb." Luo Fu tried to move his legs, put his hand on Rui'er's arm, and slowly took two steps forward: "Rub it twice, it's much better." By the way, where did my brother and sister-in-law go? ”

"The eldest lady is bent on seeking a son, and when she arrives at this Yong'an Temple, she only goes to one place. As for the eldest young master, he should be at the presiding abbot at this time. Miss is the first time to come back, I don't know. This presiding abbot and our eldest young master can be regarded as a year-old friend, the eldest young master has not come back, and he always has to go to the presiding abbot to sit there. ”

"If you don't say it, I forgot, you were originally from my brother's yard." Luo Fu said, and took two more tentative steps forward, feeling the numbness in his knees decrease slightly, and then he straightened up and swept around. I saw that the Buddha hall was lined up, and the incense was around, and this temple seemed to be more lively than the outside.

said unintentionally, the listener was intentional, and the words that Luo Fu said just now made Rui'er a little unhappy in her heart.

"Rui'er is a maid, and it's normal for Miss not to remember where Rui'er came from. Besides, Rui'er didn't enter the mansion when she was young, and there is naturally no comparison with those maids in the mansion. ”

"This, I heard the nurse mention it, saying that Rui'er was rescued by your brother. When my brother saw that you were injured and frightened, he took you back to the house to recuperate. Originally, I planned to send you home when you recovered. You know, Rui'er, you don't have a family. My brother privately discussed with his mother and wanted to keep you in the house, but you refused to live in the house for nothing, and begged my brother to accept your deed of sale. Speaking of which, Rui'er, you're really an unusual girl. ”

Rui'er's face instantly became unsightly, but she quickly disguised it again.

"Although Rui'er is from a poor background, she also knows that you can't eat in vain. Moreover, the poor also have the dignity of the poor. Rui'er was rescued by the young master, which is already a blessing in misfortune, how can she be cheeky and have no name to eat and live in the mansion for nothing. The eldest young master pities Rui'er, he won't mind, the old lady is also a kind-hearted person, and he is not picky about Rui'er, but in the eyes of others, it is inevitable that people will talk about him. If this is the case, it will smear the eldest young master and the Luo family, so that Rui'er will still have the face to stay in this world, and what face will she have to face the eldest young master who once saved Rui'er. ”

"Rui'er, you're good at everything, but you think too much. In fact, my father, sister-in-law, brother and sister-in-law, including me, didn't think about it that way. Our house has taken in many people in distress in the past, but none of them are as stubborn as you. My father and mother often say that in life, who has not encountered difficulties. Stretching out a hand at a critical time is also accumulating virtue for yourself. ”

When Luo Fu said this, his cheeks also flushed: "If my husband was not young and in trouble, and was taken in by my father and mother, how could I achieve the fate I have with him today. So, Riel, you don't have to worry about the past. ”

About the future uncle of the Luo family, Ruier has also heard of it. It was late at night about three or four years ago, when the old man of the Luo family, that is, Luo Fu's father, went out to meet friends, and when he returned home, it was already late at night. Because of the heavy rain, the horse's vision was not clear, so that he couldn't dodge and hit a pedestrian. That pedestrian is the fiancé of Luo Fu now.

At that time, the rain was heavy and the sky was very dark, so Master Luo could only take people back to the mansion and ask again after they woke up. Who knows, that person turned out to be a fallen talent. His parents had died, and he had come to Yunjiaji with a letter from his parents to look for his relatives, but when he arrived at the place marked on the letter, he learned that his relatives had already moved away. The silver he carried with him had already been used up, and in order to satisfy his stomach, he had to pawn books, and before he was bumped into by Master Luo, he had not eaten a mouthful of food or drunk a sip of clean water for three days.

Master Luo saw that the man's eyebrows were delicate, and his speech and demeanor were indeed like those who had read a book, and he bumped into the other party first, so he already felt a loss in his heart, so he kept him, while recuperating from his injuries, and preparing for the autumn exam. It should also be Luo Fu's good luck, that scholar was admitted to the champion in one fell swoop.

It is said that the champion originally wanted to recognize Master Luo as his father, but who knew that Master Luo had other thoughts and wanted to marry his daughter Luo Fuxu, who was not yet fourteen years old at the time. The champion prince was not easy to refuse, so he should leave this family affair and make an appointment three years later, that is, after Luo Fu reached the age of sixteen, he would come to marry.

In the meantime, because the official business was delayed for a year, it was not until Luo Fu turned seventeen that the champion of the year, and now the Sipin compound in the court, sent a dowry to Luofu.

For Luo Fu's good luck, not only the maid Ruier was a little jealous, but even the boudoir ladies of the same age on the Yun family were also jealous. After all, it's not anyone's dad who can pick up a champion and go home casually, and it's not that a girl from any family can marry a fourth-grade member of the court when she marries in a daze, and this four-grade compound is still a young and promising handsome man.

Luo Fu knew that she was very lucky, and she was also very grateful to God for choosing such a good husband for her, so the words she said to Rui'er were all sincere, and they were only literal, and she didn't think about it. Listening to Ruier's ears, it has an extra meaning. Rui'er gritted her teeth with hatred in secret, and said in her heart: "If you weren't born in the Luo family, how could you say these cool things here." ”

Ruier also has her own mind.

She was born in a poor family, which is true, but it is not fatherless and motherless, but the younger brother who has favored her since she was a child, and treats her own daughter as a rough maid, and often beats or scolds. In order to raise money for his younger brother and go to the best school, his father and mother did not hesitate to give her to an old bachelor in the village, just because the old bachelor had a strange tree growing in his house, and if he sold it, he could get hundreds of taels of silver. The old bachelor promised her father and mother that if she was willing to marry, half of the money from the sale of the tree would be given to her family.

She knows that she is not a beautiful lady, nor is she a small jasper, she is just a rough girl in an ordinary person's family, and her appearance is ordinary, and it is difficult to find a young man who meets her heart in this life. But her fate is thin, which does not mean that she will accept her fate. She Rui'er, even if she can't marry those handsome young men, at least she can't marry such an old country bachelor with one leg stuck into the coffin. So, she fled.

On the way to escape, she met Luo Fu's brother, Luo Ping, the eldest young master of the Luo family. Rui'er had never seen such a clean and good-looking man, nor had she heard such a beautiful voice, she looked at Luo Ping's good-looking eyebrows, listened to his words of concern, and her heart fell so uncontrollably.

So, when Luo Ping asked her if she still had relatives at home. She said she didn't even think about it. On the one hand, it was because she was afraid, she was afraid that she had finally escaped from that house and was sent back by the clean and elegant man in front of her, and on the other hand, she also had some hopes, hoping that she could stay by this man's side, even if it was just to be a rough maid.

Luo Ping did not question her words. Seeing that she was injured and couldn't walk, he picked her up on horseback, took her all the way back to Luofu, and told the housekeeper to find a doctor for her and arrange for a maid to take care of her. When her injuries healed and learned that she had nowhere to go, Luo Ping actually begged his wife for her, hoping that the Luo family could keep her.

At that time, she forgot her identity, her origin, and dreamed grandly. She mistakenly thought that Luo Ping liked her, so he did so many things for her. She knew that Luo Ping was the eldest young master of the Luo family, and she also knew that he had already married, but his wife had been in the house for many years, but she had never given birth, so she found an opportunity to show Luo Ping that she had nothing to do with the Luo family, and she was so nameless and worthless, even if Mrs. was willing to take it in, she was not willing to stay in the house like this. She asked the housekeeper to help her write a deed of sale, and voluntarily sold it to Luo Ping to be his personal maid.

Rui'er thought that Luo Ping would refuse, just like when she insisted on refusing to let Luo Ping help her find a doctor and find a maid to serve, she gently refused, and then said to her: "Rui'er, I will bring you back, not to let you be a maid, but to let you be my concubine." Riel, I like you, would you like to have a baby for me? ”

She would, and of course she would. She is not a big lady, she is not a delicate boudoir daughter, she is stout and easy to raise. Mo said that it was a fat boy with two, that is, three or four, and she Ruier could also be born.

But what she didn't expect was that the eldest young master actually took her deed of sale and really regarded her as a maid.

But even then, she still had some hopes, thinking that it was just the eldest young master's attempt to cover up other people's tongues, she waited and looked forward to it with hope, but what she was waiting for was the news that the eldest young master and the eldest lady were becoming more and more affectionate, and what she was looking forward to was the order of the eldest young master to transfer her to Luo Fu in order not to make the eldest lady angry.

Transfer!

It was only at that time that Rui'er realized that she was not only a maid of the Luo family, but also an item in Luo Ping's eyes that could be given away at will. But she doesn't hate Luo Ping, she only hates those people around Luo Ping, such as the eldest lady who can't give birth but has to dominate Luo Ping, so that the Luo family is the last lady, such as the second lady Luo Fu, who seems to be innocent but always has something to say, such as the pair of old ladies who seem to be kind but are quite calculating.

Ruier has been waiting for an opportunity, waiting for an opportunity to make the Luo family sad and make herself happy. The hard work paid off, and this opportunity finally made her wait.

(Education 123 Literature Network)