Du Ruo heard Mrs. Wang and Cai's talk about the two daughters of the Su family that day, it is said that Su Qun'er fell in love with Song Ju'an's appearance and had plans to marry her daughter to him, and I don't know if she was talking about the eldest daughter Su Qingniang or the second daughter Su Huiniang.

Qing Niang is hardworking and capable, and she looks neat and neat. When people are not yet high on the stove, they cook with stones under their feet. My father and mother were busy working in the field, she helped pull her younger siblings, chopping wood and carrying water, never lazy in her work, and she was also enthusiastic, and greeted everyone with a smile. When it comes to her, everyone will praise her from the bottom of their hearts, teaching their daughters to take her as an example.

I heard that her fiancé is a good family with a solid family, and it is also a blessing for her to cultivate.

The second daughter, Huiniang, is a beauty from ten miles and eight villages, and she is also skillful. With a delicate goose egg face, curved eyebrows and eyes, pure eyes, delicate facial features, hands like softness, skin like white jade, it is the small jasper in the south of the Yangtze River, the spring flowers that bloom on the branches in early spring, and the water lilies that dew in the morning.

Before Qing Niang got married, someone had already come to the door of the Su family to ask to marry Hui Niang, Su Qun'er felt that it was too early, and wanted her daughter to stay at home with them for two more years, and her daughter was not worried about getting married, so she refused one by one.

After Du Ruo got into the carriage, Su Huiniang just looked at her calmly, and didn't mean to talk to her for a few words.

Also, the serious people in the village don't like to take the initiative to provoke the Du family, and they don't cause a commotion.

Du Ruo glanced at Su Huiniang twice, and was about to take the initiative to talk, but she heard the butcher Han Liang ask her, "What is my sister-in-law going to do in the city?" ”

"Go into the city and do something." She replied that if she couldn't hide the matter of entering the city, forget it, but Cai scolded her, and she reasoned with Song Ju'an.

"Why didn't Brother Song go with you?" Su Mingyang was puzzled, the way into the city was not close, and a woman from the Du family was really bold.

He took the opportunity to glance at Du Rulan and found that her expression was very calm, with a white and pure face, smiling eyes, neat hair, and two strands hanging down to her ears, adding two points of charm, if she was not as unbearable as others said, she would be compatible with Brother Song.

On the day Du Shi went to the house, he saw that she was by no means a foolish person, and there was a discrepancy with the impression of Du Shi, and those embroidery samples also surprised him.

Du Ruo smiled, "An Lang is teaching in the village, and he is busy, so I can do it alone." She said in her heart, isn't Su Mingyang also studying in the academy? How do you go out at will?

Han Liang said again: "It just so happened that I also entered the city, there was a companion on the way, and when we got near Qingyang Temple, we got off the carriage and walked, if my sister-in-law bought something, I could still help you hold it when I came back." ”

Su Mingyang was surprised: "It turns out that Brother Han also went to the city!" He didn't ask carefully when Han Liang came up, he told Han Liang that he was going to Qingyang Temple, and Han Liang said that he was going to stop by.

Han Liang leaned on the carriage, clasped his hands on his chest, smiled and nodded, this smile made the centipede-like scar on his face even more twisted and terrifying.

Seeing that he was enthusiastic about helping, Du Ruo hurriedly thanked: "Then it's troublesome Brother Han!" ”

The carriage drove through an uneven road, and the carriage shook a few times, and Du Ruo's hand grabbed it hard.

Su Mingyang lifted the curtain and said to the coachman: "Seventh brother! Don't take the road to the west, let's go around the foot of Sanqing Mountain and hit the east, go farther, the foot of the west is not peaceful! There have been a lot of accidents in that willow forest recently! ”

"Got it! Drive! Seventh Brother responded.

The coachman's name is surnamed Wang, the seventh, people call him the seventh brother, he is a widower, he has been blind in one eye since he was a child, and he is short. As I got older, I worked hard to save some money and bought a carriage. In addition to those who are busy in the fields, those in the nearby villages who want to go far away will be asked to send him, and then pay him later.

Through the gap in the curtain, Du Ruo stared at his arched back, watched him raise his horsewhip high, and sighed in his heart: No matter how humble and lowly, there will always be a way to live.

Su Mingyang chatted with Han Liang about what happened near Sanqing Mountain, not far from Qingyang Temple.

"That gang of robbers is very rampant, killing people one by one without blinking, all of them are outlaws! The people in the government can't control it at all! It's useless to report to the officer! When the yamen heard that it was the bandits of Sanqing Mountain, they couldn't wait to drive people out! More is better than less, Wuxian Ling hid in the county government and sat back and relax, the people were in dire straits, and they lost their lives accidentally! Su Mingyang said with indignation on his face, fanning his sleeves in an attempt to fan away some of his anger.

However, he was just a scholar and could not do anything.

If one day...... Alas! Who knows what day it will be? Who knows how many more people will be harmed!

There was a gang of robbers running rampant near Sanqing Mountain, and Du Ruo had also heard about it.

Every once in a while, the gang of robbers would come out to do evil, mainly near Sanqing Mountain, killing people and stealing goods, and capturing women.

Han Liang was still leaning on the carriage in that calm posture, motionless, listening to Su Mingyang's words, his eyes were a little cold.

"It is said that the women in several surrounding villages are missing, the women in the Chenghuang Temple are raped ~ killed, and many adulterous ~ adulterous things are all done by the gang of robbers, and the monks in the temple are to blame! It's a heinous crime! The more Su Mingyang spoke, the more excited he became. Although he is of good character, after all, he is young and vigorous, moody and angry, and less steady.

Du Ruo was stunned.

When Su Huiniang heard these words, her expression was faintly worried, and she asked him, "Mingyang, it should be okay for us to go east, right?" ”

Su Mingyang saw that he was scared of his second sister, and hurriedly said: "It's okay, it's okay here, don't worry about the sister-in-law of the Song family!" He glanced at Du Ruo again.

Du Ruo nodded hurriedly.

Thinking of the tragic death of the woman in the City God Temple, she was unhappy in her heart, "What happened in the City God Temple, that time I bumped into An Lang and Brother Han, Brother Han went to report to the official, it has been some time, haven't you caught anyone yet?" ”

Su Mingyang snorted coldly, "Relying on the group of wine bags and rice bags in the county government, even if it takes a while, you still can't catch it!" ”

"However, one after another, the people are angry, and the Wuxian Order can't stand it, so he has already brought people to investigate the case!" Su Mingyang added.

Du Ruo sighed in his heart.

"Why didn't anyone go to Futai Yamen to sue Wuxian Ling for dereliction of duty and did nothing?" Han Liang asked.

Su Mingyang was still angry, but when he heard his words, he suddenly let out a wry smile and said to him: "The former county order, the former county order is better than the Wu county order, if a person wants to kill you at first, and then says that he will not kill you, only break your legs, and then change his mind and punch you a few times, maybe you will have to kneel down and thank Dade!" The current Wuxian order is the person who only punches you a few times, if he leaves, what if there is another official who is corrupt and perverts the law and treats human life as a mustard? Besides, the Wuxian Order is just inaction, and it does not harm the people! ”

Du Ruo felt sorry in his heart.

Han Liang also showed a look of surprise, but he didn't speak again.

"It's not far ahead of Qingyang Temple!" Seventh brother is humane to the people in the carriage.

"Got it!" Su Mingyang responded, got rid of those boring thoughts, and said with a smile: "A year ago, the top allocated funds to approve the repair and expansion of Qingyang Temple, and now the construction has been stopped, just waiting to be improved, and it will not be long before the temple will be more lively than now!" ”

"I heard that the temple just changed its host a year ago, and I heard the name of Master Jingyuan a long time ago, but it's a pity that he couldn't meet him when he was alive." Han Liang said.

Su Mingyang seemed to remember the past, and said with a smile on his forehead: "When Master Jingyuan was alive, I always went to the temple to play, and when I saw him, I greeted him, in fact, Master Jingyuan was alive, Brother Han, you may not be able to see him, many people who went to visit specially, the master always avoided it, and it was Master Jingyuan's disciple Zhenfeng Monk who took over the presiding position, I used to go to the temple with my mother, but I haven't seen him a few times." ”

"It's a pity that I haven't met Master Jingyuan." Han Liang said.

Su Mingyang nodded, as if agreeing, "Qingyang Temple is looking for painters to re-shape and paint for the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in each hall, and after two or three months, the temple will be corrected and glow with new light. ”

Du Ruo's calm eyes flashed with a gleam.

She pretended to be careless and said: "Such an important matter, I thought that if you want a painter, how can the skill of a painter be compared?" ”

Su Mingyang laughed: "The project is too big, and the walls of the temple have to be made murals, statues, paintings, etc., and the painter has to be paid very high, how can the temple afford it, and it takes too long." ”

Du Ruo nodded, and there was a plan in his heart.

After a while.

Su Mingyang lifted the curtain and reminded Brother Qi: "Stop at the intersection in front and let Brother Han and the sister-in-law of the Song family get out of the car." ”

Du Ruo hurriedly said: "Brother Su, I won't go down, I plan to go to Qingyang Temple first." ”

Su Mingyang smiled: "Okay." ”

Han Liang finally sat up straight from the carriage and said to Su Mingyang: "I heard what Brother Su just said about Qingyang Temple, I also want to observe and observe, so I won't get off the car!" ”

Su Mingyang stroked his palms and laughed, said 'good' twice in a row, and told Seventh Brother not to stop, and went straight to Qingyang Temple.

The road around Qingyang Temple is wide and flat, and the carriage will arrive in a short time, and the pilgrims at the gate of the temple are really endless.

Han Liang and Su Mingyang jumped out of the car first, Su Mingyang reached out and helped Su Huiniang out of the carriage, Du Ruo squatted on the wheel, Su Mingyang looked at her, and didn't know whether to help her.

Just as he was hesitating, Du Ruo jumped out of the carriage.

After entering the temple, Du Ruo said to Su Mingyang: "You don't have to worry about me, just do your own business, I will wander around this temple casually, maybe I will walk from here to the city in a while." ”

Su Mingyang and Su Huiniang nodded.

Han Liang stood aside, glanced around and said to her, "Let's stop by, sister-in-law, let's go shopping for a while, and then we'll go to the city after reading." ”

Du Ruoxin said that this person was a little too enthusiastic and became a hindrance, but the people were kind, and she couldn't blame it.

"Brother Han is in a hurry to leave?" She asked.

"It's a long day, don't be in a hurry!" He said cheerfully.

Du Ruo was a little helpless in his heart, so he had to nod.

She just came to try her luck and see if she could find some work in the temple to earn some money.

The two separated, and Du Ruo walked straight towards the Daxiong Treasure Hall in the middle.

Several monks clasped their hands and lined up in the direction of the west bell tower, Du Ruo hurriedly ran over and stopped the last monk to inquire: "I heard that the temple is looking for a painter, I want to ask your manager about specific matters." ”

The monk glanced at her and hesitantly pointed in a direction for her.

Du Ruo walked in the direction he pointed, bypassed the main hall, and walked to the door of the Buddha hall next to it, a monk stood on one side, twisting Buddha beads in his hand, and when she approached, the monk turned to look at him.

Ordinary monks are either kind and kind-hearted, honest and honest, or happy and smiling, but when Du Ruo looks at him, he feels that his gaze is a little intimidating and sharp, as if he can see through people.

Du Ruo pretended to be calm and bowed to him.

"This master, does the temple still need a painter?" She asked.

The monk glanced at her and shook his head, "No need. ”

Du Ruo was surprised in her heart, Su Mingyang said that the temple was looking for a painter, and the monk she asked pointed to this side, which was required by default, why did he say no?

"Do you want women or don't you want men and women?" She asked relentlessly.

At this time, a monk walked up the steps behind her and said with a smile: "Senior Brother Zhenluo, three or four painters are not enough, so naturally we still have to find someone." After speaking, he glanced at Du Ruo head-on, his face was kind, the corners of his lips smiled, and he bent down to salute her.

Du Ruo hurriedly returned the salute and asked excitedly: "Even if you still need people, I don't know if the little woman is feasible?" I think my drawing skills are okay. ”

"Naturally, you can, but you need the female donor to show off her painting skills first."

The monk called Zhenluo instantly had a cold face, looked at the monk who was talking to Du Ruo, and scolded him: "Zhenguang! Hugh wants to come nonsense! ”

"The host ordered him to hurry up and hurry up, and the senior brother was so unconcerned about the things that the host ordered, I don't know who is coming here? Please come with me, this benefactor! ”

Du Ruo glanced at Zhen Luo cautiously, the realm of Buddhism, is this monk a little more angry? Or look down on women?

She hurriedly followed the monk named Zhenguang.