Zhuangzi in the southern suburbs of Shangguan Mansion was recorded under the name of the old lady, and was built on the opposite side of Qingfeng Mountain, thirty miles away from Shangjing, adjacent to the Yuanshui River.

The weeping willows on the bank of the river stretch for five or six miles, and the front of the Zhuangzi is a green field, and there are peach and pear trees planted outside the door.

The layout of the village is not as square and regular as in Beijing, and the courtyards are surrounded by fences, and some mountain stones and huā trees are dotted during the period. The whole Zhuangzi can be said to be a gatehouse, with a corridor and a cloud, and there is a feeling of being in it into the peach huā source.

As soon as Qing Dai arrived here, she walked from Zhuangzi to Zhuangzi, and went around in a big circle for almost an hour before returning to the house, "Yinhong, this place is well repaired, it is a good place." The two of you will really enjoy it. I came to this Zhuangzi and was reluctant to leave. ”

The son of the district steward married by Yinhong is now a deputy steward in this Zhuangzi, because the steward in Zhuangzi is old and reluctant to move, and almost all the affairs in the village are handled by Yinhong's mouth, Yinhong is from the inner courtyard, and he is smart and knowledgeable much better than ordinary people, and he has helped her husband in Zhuangzi.

The husband and wife sang fù Sui, and they did a good job, and last year they used the surplus money to renovate the Zhuangzi inside and out. Yinhong has a lot of things to do on weekdays, but today is because Qingdai and the old lady are here, and she doesn't worry about the girl in the village, so she comes to serve herself.

Seeing Qing Dai coming back, Yinhong greeted her with a smile and handed the twisted face towel to Qing Dai, "The girl is back, the house is all cleaned up, come and wipe your face first, and the slave will prepare water for you to bathe later." ”

"You've just got a body, don't get busy." Qing Dai took the handkerchief and wiped her face.

"The slave's body is not so soft, she has lived here for a long time, and she works like the daughter-in-law of the Zhuang family, and her body is stronger than before. Now three months later, the tires are all secure.

You finally came out for a trip, how can the slaves and maids watch from the sidelines, I watched them just now, and it was not in the way at all! ”

Yinhong looked at Qingdai's sweaty hair and said with a smile: "When you used all these times, didn't you go around Zhuangzi?" You and the old lady will stay here for a few days, don't be in a hurry, this is all over the day. I'm going to feel bored in a few days. ”

Qing Dai is in a good mood. smiled and returned the handkerchief to Yinhong, "Such a large place can be finished in a while and a half, I heard Xiaoni say that there is a village a mile away, and there is a water and moon view in the rivers and mountains, but there are many places to go!" I want to go shopping when I go back, you just find a girl who knows the way and has neat feet to follow. ”

Yinhong nodded and said with a smile: "The sun is big in the past two days, I'm afraid that you will be sunbathed, rest for two days, and then let someone accompany you." ”

Qingdai and Yinhong talked for a while, and then went to bathe. Climbing out of the bathtub, Qingdai only felt that her body was weak, and it seemed that the hour was not in vain. After hastily eating some food, she went to sleep.

When Qingdai fell asleep, Yinhong pulled Tao Huā to go outside to talk.

"Originally, when the girl was asked to go out for a walk, she was either afraid of the sun or tired, but now it is rare, and she has walked these ways back." Yinhong lowered her voice and asked, "The girl and the old lady suddenly decided to come to Zhuangzi a few days ago, is there something wrong in the house?" ”

remembered the matter of Wang Tao and Qingbi. Momo Huā sighed. Fortunately, Yinhong is her own person, and she is not in the house, so Tao Huā didn't hide it from her, and roughly told Yinhong about it.

Yinhong listened, looked back at the middle of her eyes, and couldn't help sighing, "I said, why is the girl so active today, it turns out that she is uncomfortable, and whoever encounters such a bad thing will not feel good in her heart." ”

"The girl is hiding to relax." Tao Huā said to Yinhong, "She just wants to walk around, play and sleep when she is tired, so she doesn't have the heart to think about those things, I just hope that the girl will get better after a while, don't always keep this matter in her heart." ”

The two maids muttered and discussed until midnight, and Yinhong left.

In the next seven or eight days, under Yinhong's arrangement, Qingdai turned around the land around Zhuangzi, and even walked twice in the mountains on the other side of the river. Then, she returned to her old life of reading, writing, painting and being a female celebrity in the house, and every two or three days she went to the river with a fishing rod to find a shade to fish, and cultivate her self.

Qingdai's life in Zhuangzi was very comfortable, and her mood was much calmer.

In the blink of an eye, it began to rain in the mountains, and it rained intermittently for half a month, and it stopped at the end of the month. When the weather improved, Qingdai changed into cotton clothes, put on a hat, and went to the river to fish with a fishing basket and a fishing rod on her back.

Momohuā dozed off under a willow tree not far away. Qing Dai lay on the slope of the meadow, biting a willow branch in her mouth, her eyes drifting to the green mountains in the distance, and her mind was completely oblivious to the fishing rod she had set up by the river.

I don't know how long it took, but the sound of horses' hooves came from the road not far away, and Momo Huā woke up from her sleep.

She rubbed her eyes and glanced in the direction of Dao Dao Melon, not to mention that there were more than ten rides, "On such a hot day, who ran to this Qingfeng Mountain to play?" ”

Qing Dai retracted her gaze and glanced at the group of people who had attracted the dust on the road, "Maybe the people are on the Zhuangzi in the east." ”

The banks of the Yuanshui River are fields, and there are no longer a few people who buy land here in the capital to repair Zhuangzi, and the current Zhuangzi of Shangguan Mansion is the old lady who was afraid of marrying.

"Girl, it's been more than half an hour, why haven't you caught any of them?" Momohuā got up and walked to the river, looked at the still empty fishing basket, and then lifted the fishing rod and looked at it, "My girl, this bait has been bitten away, do you come here to feed the fish or fish?" ”

Qing Dai then remembered that she was still fishing, and laughed twice, "Hehe, I was distracted just now, I didn't pay attention." ”

Momohuā shook her head angrily, "Your mind is not on this fish!" I don't know who swore when they left, that they would let us have a grilled fish in the evening. ”

Qing Dai scratched her head embarrassedly, "Don't worry, don't worry, there's still a whole day, fish, you can't run." ”

The two of them laughed as two of the men and horses galloped in their direction.

"Dare to ask the two little brothers, how to go to the Water Moon Temple?"

Qing Dai and Tao Huā are both dressed in the usual clothes of country men, and they are wearing hats, if you don't look carefully at their faces, you will really think that the two are villagers in this neighborhood.

Qing Dai glanced at the two people who came on horseback, and then looked back, and the remaining dozen or so riders were standing far away on the side of the road, as if they were waiting for these two to ask for directions. The group was dressed in a sè dress, like a servant, each wearing a hood, with no face visible, and the leader seemed to be a man wearing an indigo sè shirt, who was guarded by the group of people on the side of the road.

"Brother Tao, help me hang up the bait." Momo Huā was about to speak, but if Qing Dai inadvertently raised her hand to stop her, Momo Huā would go to work by herself.

Qing Dai felt that the whereabouts of this group of people were secretive, there was only one Taoist temple in Qingfeng Mountain, and most of the nearby villagers went to ask God for divination when they were not working, and their reputation was not obvious, and few outsiders ran there. But this group of people is dressed like they came out of the village at all, and they are talking about authentic official dialect, and they are still asking about the Water Moon View that only the locals know.

She glanced at the two of them silently, turned her face to the two of them with a hat, and pointed ahead, "Five miles south from here, there is a stone bridge that leads to Qingfeng Mountain. In a cautious and cautious manner, Qing Dai did not let Tao Huā speak. Because as soon as Momo Huā opened her mouth, Zhun Bao would let people know that she was a woman. She didn't want these people to see that their master and servant were women, and since she was young, her voice was a bit like a boy.

"It's for you, thank you!" The man who asked for directions took out a silver barley from his belt and threw it to Qing Dai, turned around and hit the horse back to the team, and talked back to the man in the blue shirt in the middle.

Qing Dai caught the silver, pretended to put it in her mouth and bit it, then grinned stupidly, nodded and thanked the person who rewarded her: "So much silver, Uncle Xie reward, Uncle Xie!" ”

The group of people only thought that Qingdai was a country child who had never seen the world, and they stayed for a long time when they saw Yinzi before they remembered to thank her, and couldn't help but smile. The man in the middle didn't know what to say, Qing Dai didn't understand it at all, she just didn't think it was official, the group of people immediately stopped laughing, and followed the blue-shirted man to beat the horse and left.

Tao Huā put the bait, looking at the look of her own girl's thanks, only when she was playful, although she was a little unruly, but not in the house, as long as the girl in the countryside was happy, she would be happy, so she smiled and quipped: "Girl, where do you still look like a lady, let the old lady know, you will be scolded!" ”

Qing Dai pursed her lips, looked at the silver barley in her hand, and said in her heart, these people are generous, and one or two silver barley will reward a passerby.

"Let's go, keep fishing!" Qing Dai put the silver barley into the purse in her arms, anyway, people gave it for nothing, we didn't show the way, and it was also the income of labor.

Within two quarters of an hour when the two sat down, another sound of horses' hooves came, still stopping not far from the master and servant of Qing Dai, Qing Dai looked back at the person who was riding a horse not far from them, and muttered: "Why are so many people coming here?" ”

Tao Huā glanced at Qing Dai, "Girl, take a look, the nearest Shangyuan Village is in the east, and there is Qingfeng Mountain." This neighborhood is the boundary of our Zhuangzi, except for tenants, not many people pass by on weekdays. It's just the two of us here, and there's no one else to ask for directions. ”

"People come and go, and our little fish are scared away. I can't catch this fish today. Tao huā, let's discuss, let's stop eating fish today, how about making silver red snooze meat? ”

"The slave and maid see that you just can't catch it, so you deliberately shirk it, right?"

"You dead girl, you have meat to eat, you still have so many words" Qingdai didn't finish speaking, when she saw someone beating a horse coming.!.