Chapter 009: Seven Emotions and Six Desires
Zhenjing cried and said, "You are crying while sleeping, and I woke you up when I saw that something was wrong." Xiaoyi, I'm sorry, I only found this, you will just take a bite, you will be cured if you are sick. With that, he held up an earthy yellow nest head.
Thinking of what happened just now, Zhenjing was angry.
On weekdays, although she is often bullied by her senior sisters, she doesn't take it to heart, and feels that it is appropriate for the older Daogu to "discipline" the younger Daogu. But today, she realized that the senior sisters she usually respects are all so bitter, sinister and vicious, and they have no compassion for a monk.
Zhenjing ran to the mourning hall just now, but found that Zhenwei, Zhenping, Zhengong, and Zhenming were taking away the melons and fruits in the mourning hall, and there was nothing left. She hurriedly went over to stop it, saying that it was a sacrifice sent by Miss He's family and should be left for Miss He to eat. Zhen Wei and the others sneered before they heard it, the sacrifice is for the dead to eat, and it is easy for Miss He to eat if she wants to, and then lie back in the coffin, and the sacrifice will be returned to her immediately! Zhenjing argued a few more words, and Zhenwei and the others immediately scolded angrily, they were so faceless, they burned paper money for two days for the surnamed He, and now they are pretending to be filial sons and grandsons! In the Taoist temple, you are considered to be the oldest, and you dare to run in front of your senior sister to live in the world?
Zhenjing thought of her eldest sister Zhenzhu, so she ran to her room for help. But Zhenzhu was not in the room, and the rough old woman in her courtyard said that Zhenzhu had been sent down the mountain by the master to buy fish and meat for the new guests, and that she would not be back until noon tomorrow.
Later, Zhenjing secretly went to the kitchen to find food, but the hour of dinner had already passed, and when she opened all the lids and rummaged through, she only found a cold nest head in the cage drawer. So, Zhenjing grabbed the head of the nest, ran back to the east chamber while crying, and as soon as she entered the door, she saw He Angelica holding the quilt, frowning and closing her eyes, tears flowing, and she quickly woke her up when she felt that something was wrong.
He Angelica struggled to sit up, took the head of the nest, divided it into two, and said, "Come, let's eat together." Seeing Zhenjing shrinking back, He Angelica raised his hand to grab her, insisted on putting half of the nest head in her hand, and said softly: "In the future, if there is mine, you will have yours, eat quickly." β
The two silently swallowed the dry and hard wowo head, Zhen Jing tried He Angelica's forehead again, and said anxiously: "The burn hasn't gone down a little, it's still very hot!" β
He Angelica frowned and thought for a while, and asked, "Do you have embroidery needles?" Be fine. β
Zhen Jing nodded stunnedly: "This black light is blind, do you still want to embroider?" It must be a mess of the brain. Why don't I go to the master again and beg her to invite a Lang Zhong ......"
He Angelica interrupted her and continued: "Listen, bring me the thinnest embroidery needle." Go to the north corner of the backyard, count the fourth brick from the left, push it open and you'll see a flask, bring it to me. Okay, silly girl, don't be in a daze, do you hear clearly? The fourth brick from the left under the corner of the north wall, to go quietly, so that no one can see it. β
Then, He Angelica suddenly laughed, laughing wildly and openly, his eyes were like well water in the moonlight, so bright that it was suffocating, "There are so many benefactors, and now I haven't seen any of them, how can I be willing to die." β
Zhenjing went out with a stomach full of doubts, and when he left, he turned back one step at a time, and wondered whether He Angelica was still conscious. Do you listen to her instructions and go find some embroidery needles and wine jugs, or do you go to ask the master to invite a man?
After hesitating, his mind flashed the action of He Angelica stepping forward and blocking him when the master was about to hit him......
"In the future, if there is mine, you will have yours, eat it quickly."
"If someone asks where the blood on your shoes came from, you say it's an injury to my hand, and that's why it dripped on your shoes."
"Although I am grateful for you running for me, you must remember not to run in the cold wind and cold rain like this in the future." These words of He Angelica echoed in his ears.
Although the time spent with this girl who is one year younger than himself is short, the inexplicable familiarity with each other makes people feel very down-to-earth, as if He Angelica has a reassuring power in his body, as if the two of them have known each other in their previous lives. Thinking of this, Zhenjing no longer had the slightest doubt, and ran straight to the place in the backyard where the wine was "supposedly" stored.
He Angelica closed his eyes and recuperated while thinking about how to get out of the current predicament.
In her previous life, she was also abandoned in the East Chamber after she came back from the dead, suffering from hunger and cold, poverty and illness, and was humiliated by a group of Taoist aunts. At that time, when she was young, she didn't understand why those women who had become monks always had a natural hatred for themselves, as if they could get psychological pleasure by torturing themselves.
It's ridiculous that I was so ignorant and fearless at that time that I was stupid to want to be friends with them. A look and a word, a little bit of kindness, she all regarded it as a life-saving straw thrown by the other party, thinking that sooner or later they would be moved by their own adversity.
I remember that the illness dragged on for more than half a month, until the Luo family sent a letter asking her to cultivate herself in the Taoist temple, and gave her fifty taels of silver for tuition. Taishan and Taichen put themselves together, positioning themselves as a "criminal" with "bad virtues". However, he finally paid the "soup and medicine fee", so He Angelica took the medicine. However, those medicines were not used correctly, and they came too late, leaving her with a lifelong illness. After that, she was weak and cold, and it was not suitable to get pregnant, and it was easy to have a daughter at the age of twenty-eight......
Now, He Angelica is once again facing the original predicament, and with the technique of "golden needles and acupoints", it is no longer a problem to completely cure his cold disease.
It's just that as early as when she played against Zhu Quanzhi's teacher and Dao Shengbai Yangbai, she knew that if she took one step at a time in the game of chess in life, she could only be a mediocre third-rate character; If you take one step and think ten steps, you may be able to fight for a lap on the business path; If you think that after eighty steps, you can be in a high position when you enter, and you can come out with your whole body when you retreat; If you think of two hundred moves, you can do whatever you want, and use other chess players as your own pawns.
Now, in order to plan for the future, she has to force herself to face up to the problem in front of her - how to return to the Luo family.
Luo's house, where lived people she hated even when she thought about it, those cow ghosts. The snake god is the scar of her soul, like a bone appendage, haunting her to death. Luo Chuangu, Sun Meiniang, Zhao Qi, Luo Baiqiong...... One by one, in the name of family affection, they squeezed every penny of their own use value, kicked it away fiercely after using it, and secretly reached a dirty deal with Zhou Jinglan, betraying themselves completely, even their weak and bullying mother.
For that little bit of illusory warmth, He Angelica blindfolded herself at that time, not listening or looking, even if she had already known their true faces in her heart.
That's right, Zhu Quan's ruthlessness and resoluteness was a steel knife that pierced her chest, making her feel painful. And the betrayal and betrayal of the Luo family was a fire that burned through her soul, leaving her incomplete. It's not so much love that hurts her, it's family affection that hurts her.
Now, when she thinks of those old acquaintances, who are spending their days in Yangzhou City, she hates it so much that she wants to rush over now and drag them to hell together!
He Angelica's eyes stirred up a monstrous flame, since God gave her this second chance, she would never deceive herself again and take revenge as her relatives! What those people owe her and her mother, she will take back bit by bit. In this life-and-death chess game, no one can escape.
Thinking of the blank memory when she was ten years old, and the abnormal attitude of the Luo family towards her resurrection, He Angelica was sure that something must have happened to the Luo family before her coffin was carried to the Shui Shang Temple. Or it can be said that the man who killed her once when she was ten years old now lives in Luo's house.
And now, because of his weak heart, the person who hurt her will definitely do everything possible to prevent him from returning to Luo's house because of his weak heart. Even if she tells others that she doesn't remember what happened, even if she really has amnesia, the person who hurt her will be worried, and she may remember the murderer's face when she goes back, and he will definitely keep her out of the Luo family.
So, now in order to return to the Luo family, she needs to play against that unknown opponent from afar. However, she is no longer the little girl like the frightened bird back then, who will kill the deer, and it seems that the day!
"Xiaoyi, you're a god operator, right? I actually found the flask you said! Zhenjing popped in from outside the door, screaming again and again, "Look, it's full of wine!" Here, and the needle you want! Are you going to do anything, Yat Tai Sin? β
He Angelica took the wine jug and the embroidery needle and smiled. The gods themselves can't do it, seven emotions and six desires, and they can't be cut off to this day. However, with this acupuncture method of bringing the dead back to life, calling yourself a "medical fairy" can probably be affordable. Although these three embroidery needles are rougher, the temporary "golden needle punching hole" can also be used for one top......
"Really quiet," He Angelica sat cross-legged at the head of the bed and said, "Go to the gate of the courtyard and keep guard, don't let anyone get close to here." β
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Just after noon, the sun put away its light, and as if afraid of the cold, it hid in the thick clouds like cotton wicks.
A Taoist aunt with long hair hanging down to the ground stood in the corner with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes.
"Four hot plates: stewed lion's head, braised silver carp head, coconut crab fillet roll, squirrel sea bass; Eight cold dishes: fragrant hemp jellyfish head, drunken herring, crystal meat ......" Taishan squinted his eyes, slowly studied the menu prescribed by Zuixian Lou, and pointed to the right way, "In the four dim sum, don't want eight treasure glutinous rice and pumpkin shrimp cakes, plus a crab roe bun and Subang dim sum, those old men and brothers, I haven't eaten any good things, don't you come to Yangzhou to eat in an authentic Yangzhou......"
"Yes." True pearls should.
"I didn't expect them to be big officials...... Tsk, what are we doing running to a place where we birds don't? Fortunately, Zhenxi saw their official dishes when he packed his luggage, otherwise he would only make some ordinary dishes, I don't know if they would be blamed......" Taishan frowned, "Mountain mushroom soup?" You go to the kitchen and explain that the mountain mushrooms can be washed carefully, and there can't be half a grain of sand, so let's add five more people to the kitchen, and don......'t make any mistakes."
"Yes." Write down the pearls one by one.
Taishan nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, the ten menus will be finalized, and I told the hired Liu Laojiu to do it in turns, don't repeat it in ten days." From today onwards, lunch will be served on a large table of three taels of silver, and breakfast and dinner will be a total of one or two silver. Remember, no matter how long they plan to stay, the food can't be lower than this level, and we will post the insufficient money ourselves. β
"Yes, I'll go and order," Zhenzhu looked up, "There is one more thing, I heard Huai ask that yesterday's Xianggong surnamed Duan inquired about Miss He again, and was prevaricated by a few of them. β
Taishan showed a disgusted look and snorted coldly: "It's a disaster to not let people live in peace if they are dead or alive, no wonder the Luo family kicked her out." She seemed to have completely forgotten that it was she herself who told the visitor the interesting story of the "fraudulent corpse" yesterday, which attracted Duan Xiaolou's attention, and this matter was not to blame He Angelica's head.
Zhenzhu paused, and then spoke: "When I came back in the morning, I happened to meet Zhenjing, so I asked about Miss He's condition. Zhenjing said that although Miss He is a little weak now, she is not sick or painful, and she is no different from ordinary people. Originally, you meant to press this matter first, see if she was really talented, and then make a calculation. Now it seems that this child is really blessed, and it is not appropriate to hide it from the Luo family......"
Taishan stretched his face and didn't speak.
Zhenzhu glanced at her, and continued to say: "Although the money in the dojo can't be earned, but the Luo family added thirty taels of sesame oil money before, and we don't lose money, and the whole year's food in the temple is enough." Besides, after reporting the good news to the Luo family, they read that the Taoist temple took care of Miss He for a few days, and they may not add some sesame oil......"
"Hmph, are you looking at me too?" Taishan sneered, "Don't you hear the private discussions of the women who sent the spirits clearly?" The second wife of the Luo family's East Mansion was extremely disgusted with that girl. If you go to report that she is alive again, even the car sedan money will be posted upside down! In fact, I didn't pay much attention to the twenty or thirty taels of sesame oil money, but now Brother Tai is anxious to wait for the silver to do that......
Zhenzhu lowered her eyes and said silently, and secretly said in her heart, in order to find an errand for her son, she actually put the abacus on the funeral expenses of other people's daughters, such a drill camp and viciousness, it is really chilling.
Walking from the Taoist temple to the southwest, there is a small village called Twenty Lipu next to the Zhuangzi halfway up the mountainside, where more than a dozen families live, most of whom are long-term workers in this Zhuangzi. And Taishan's brother Ma Ping'an lives in Twenty Miles, doing a job in the back kitchen for Zhuangzi, and occasionally sees Taishan by sending oil and eggs.
Ma Ping'an has a righteous son named Ma Tai, Taishan once introduced to the people in the Taoist temple that it was her nephew, but Zhenzhu once overheard that Ma Taishan shouted "mother". Originally, it was not uncommon for outsiders to have a son before they became monks, but what really made people concerned was that Ma Tai was less than twenty years old this year, and Taishan had become a monk in Shuishangguan twenty-five years ago......
"That's it, I'm too lazy to get along with a little girl." Taishan remembered that the distinguished guests still wanted to see He Angelica, and if He Angelica said something in front of them, it would be a big shame. Remembering the "chicken soup" he told He Angelica yesterday, Taishan shouted out the window: "Lao Huang! β
An old woman who was washing clothes in the courtyard responded, Taishan thought about it, and said, "You go and tell the kitchen, the chicken soup made for the distinguished guests at noon, and if you have more, you can also send a bowl to the East Chamber." Huang Po agreed and went out.
"Master is bad! Bad things are wrong with Master! A seventeen or eighteen-year-old Daoist aunt rushed in from outside the door in a panic, running so that her top bun spread out, and she looked embarrassed on her face.
Taishan scolded angrily: "You are reincarnated to die! What nonsense, stupid! That Dao Gu was in a hurry for a while, but she didn't expect to inadvertently say a curse master's words, and seeing that Taishan was angry, she was so frightened that she didn't dare to step forward by the door.
Zhenzhu frowned and asked, "Huaiwen, aren't you serving guests in the West Chamber?" What's going on there? β
When Taishan heard this, his eyes immediately widened, and he didn't care about the previous gaffe, and hurriedly asked: "Tell me quickly, what's going on!" Are they not satisfied with the meal? β
Huai Wen tears washed the rouge on his face, and choked up: "Originally, everything was fine...... But the one in black...... HeβHe suddenly pulled out a knife...... It was inserted in the middle of the dining table...... Scared everyone away, woo-ah-ah......"
"What are you crying about, whose mourning is it!" Taishan was furious, "What the hell is going on, you tell me clearly, why did those people draw their swords?" What did they say? But no matter how much he asked, the frightened Huai Wen couldn't even say a complete sentence, and he was too anxious to pat his thigh.
"Master, don't worry, since we have offended those guests, let's go over and make amends in person," Zhenzhu explained, "And judging by their behavior yesterday, they don't look like they are quite unreasonable people, maybe it's just a misunderstanding." β
Zhenzhu's voice was unhurried, which calmed Tae-sun's originally flustered heart a lot. Taishan nodded: "Reasonable, this is an empty door, forgive them and they will not deliberately come here to find fault, go!" As he spoke, he walked a few steps with his feet raised, and then stopped and instructed Zhenzhu, "You go and see the girl in the east chamber, and then take the opportunity to knock her, if you see those guests, don't say something that makes everyone shameless." β