Out of Jiming Temple, I was not in a hurry to worship the mountain, watching that the sun had sunk in the distance and the sky was getting dark, Tie Lingshuang took Xiaoya and slowly walked in Jinling City.

The two walked along Yumin Fang, looking at Xiao Ya as if they were quite happy, bouncing all the way, Tie Lingshuang was also quite sighed, could it be that what the little monk said was true?

It's really strange, the appearance of the fourteen or fifteen-year-old has not changed for a few years, the pulse is chaotic and unorthodox, and it has long been buried in the soil on a normal person, but she didn't notice it at all, and the bone bird didn't react at all, and even she didn't seem to know.

Shaking his head, Tie Lingshuang swept the iron gun in his hand, slapped a pervert who was drunk and ran out, and saw Xiao Ya holding two bamboo butterflies and running to his side.

Puffed up her little mouth and blew it gently, watching the two rather delicate butterfly wings flapping gently, as if dancing in her hands, Tie Lingshuang patted her head,

"Do you want to go back to sleep, or do you want to accompany me to visit the Confucius Temple?"

The two of them, one in the bucket and the other in the corner of the table, both slept all day, naturally full of energy, Xiaoya's eyes lit up, nodded, and naturally wanted to accompany Tie Lingshuang to go shopping together.

To study, you still need to worship the master, and don't forget to read the Spring and Autumn Period.

The ancients studied and needed to worship Confucius first, Jinling started from the Eastern Jin Dynasty, built Taixue on the bank of the Qinhuai River, and on the bank of Taixue, set up the Confucian Temple, and worshiped Confucius and the twelve sages.

There is a Confucian Temple, there is a Taixue Palace, plus a Jiangnan Gongyuan next door, each Keenkao gathers elegant students from all over the world, and the coquettish atmosphere is strong.

Those clans all wanted to get a touch of the sages, and the merchants and gentry were naturally not left behind, so they bought land around the Temple of Literature to build houses, and surrounded the Temple of Literature Palace and the Tribute Academy.

Piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, jade antiques, flowers, birds, fish and insects, plus a street outside the Qinhuai River, the green, fat, red and thin, full of sleeves. The gathering of literature and commerce, wrapped in gold, is the long street of Wuli Fuzi, the land of gold dust in the six dynasties.

Looking at the stall in front of her, Xiao Ya was carrying two hairpins, one jasper like a snake and the other red like a phoenix, frowning and distressed, I don't know how to buy it.

"Chased to the Confucius Temple twice and lost a trace. ”

Tie Lingshuang secretly pondered in his heart what the Pufa monk said, at that time he was not a mortal place, it was difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood, but at present, there was only this trace of it.

The task given to him by Zhong Lijiu, the commander of the left, was obviously to warn himself not to care about the affairs of the jade people, and just chase after the jade slaves. Tie Lingshuang's eyes flashed, she sneered, raised her hand and threw a piece of silver to the shopkeeper, ending Xiao Ya's struggle and distress, and the two of them couldn't buy it soon.

It was already dark, and the shops on both sides of the street had already lit lanterns and hung them at the doors, and the houses were also lit with bright candles.

Looking at the fine flowers and stones flashing under the light, it seemed to blink, and the picture scroll hanging in the house also had an extra layer of ancient atmosphere, Tie Lingshuang was very interested, walked to the front of the door, and looked up, "Treasure Zhai", the pillars on both sides of the door were engraved with a couplet

Mountains, rivers, lakes and seas return to Tibet

Flowers, birds, fish and insects are here

Bullshit, mountains, rivers, lakes and seas are big, how can you do the first couplet, being pressed down by flowers, birds, fish and insects, Tie Lingshuang carried the iron gun, patted Xiao Ya, who wanted to go next door to choose a bracelet, and went to the door first.

Directly opposite the big wall, there is a painting hanging in the hall, it is really not worthy of the mountains, rivers, lakes and seas, the mountains are deep mountains, the grass and trees are lonely, the water is a stream, a figure sits beside the stream, it seems to be participating in Zen and enlightenment.

Although the pen is delicate, the artistic conception should be plagiarized from the five generations of landscape master Juran monk's "Autumn Mountain Asking Dao", but the mountain stone is quite hard, the grass and trees are too decaying, the figure seems to be sleeping, there is no Buddhist Taoist spirit and charm, and I don't know whose clumsy handwriting it is.

Looking on the left, the eyes are full of depth, there is a pot of flowers and plants on the ground, neatly placed, Meilan bamboo chrysanthemum is naturally indispensable, but compared with the landscape bonsai in the middle, it is much worse.

It's a pity that the green plants can't withstand too much fireworks, the light on the left is slightly dim, and you can faintly see some kitkat shapes, there are flying dragons and phoenixes, there are like running lin, and some seem to be humanoids, nothing more than chanting poems and admiring the moon, talented and beautiful.

I didn't go over to look closely, I looked up, there were small cages hanging on the bonsai, covered with curtains, and a small sound came out, when it was a parrot starling or something like a bird, a few immature dog barks faintly came, it seems that there are still puppies in the backyard.

This is just an ordinary shop, mainly pitted, Tie Lingshuang's interest was greatly reduced, and he was about to turn around and go out, his eyes swept to the right, and he was stunned.

The candle on the left is brighter, on the sandalwood shelf against the wall, pen, ink, paper, inkstone, jade and antiques, full of dignified places, Tie Lingshuang disregards the rest at all, and walks to the middle row, there are two stones placed in a grid, one red and one black, the red is the blood lotus with two big red petals, and the black is a dragon with teeth and claws.

I just met these two monsters last night, and I happened to meet them when I went shopping today? Tie Lingshuang clenched the iron gun slightly, and was on guard in code, glanced inside and outside the shop, and stared at the two stone sculptures.

The carving is excellent, and the thief Zhongli Jiu has a fight, but although the color of this stone carving is barely acceptable, but the stone material is inferior, when it is the rain flower stone all over the place on Jubao Mountain, a penny can buy a bunch.

The most suspicious thing is that these two stone carvings, the knife edge is quite new, there is no trace of play, when they are newly carved recently, Tie Lingshuang's eyes narrowed, and he looked at Xiaoya beside him who was sleeping in a daze at a piece of jasper carved lady, as if she was watching herself sleeping, shook her head, and was about to let her go next door first, when footsteps came from behind her.

"Your eyesight is really good, these two stone carving knife work, not the master can not carve, our Ming Dynasty, there are not a few people with this kind of skill. ”

Looking sideways, the person who came was about forty years old, dressed as a scribe, dressed in elegant white clothes, carrying a folding fan in his hand, but it was a pity, a merchant's face, two treacherous beards, this half-businessman and half-literate, looked awkward, Tie Lingshuang didn't talk nonsense, reached out and picked up the dragon stone carving,

"Do you know who carved this stone?"

The shopkeeper swept the brocade guard waist card hanging on Tie Lingshuang's waist and this weapon, and the thought of making money was gone, so he quickly shook his head,

"Distinguished guest, these two pieces were collected by the small shop yesterday evening, a black-clothed scholar took these two stones, saying that they were picked up in Jubao Mountain, although the material is slightly inferior, but the knife work is excellent, so I accepted it for ten taels of silver, if you want it, objectively if you want"

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Tie Lingshuang raising his hand, and a fifty-tael silver ticket was thrown over, Tie Lingshuang looked at the shopkeeper who was browning with joy, glanced up and down a few times, and asked,

"Who is that person, what does it look like, can you draw it?"

Grinning and stuffing the silver ticket into his sleeve, the shopkeeper frowned his sparse eyebrows, thought for a long time, shook his head, and whispered,

"I only remember that I was very thin, I came here after dark, I kept coughing, and my face was covered with a black scarf, so I didn't look closely, I took these two stone sculptures and sent them away. Oh yes, there seems to be a scar on his right hand covering his mouth, slender. ”

Squinted at the shopkeeper, saw that he didn't look like a fake, nodded, the slender silver sword flashed in his mind last night, and there was also a slender scar on the back of the hand holding the long sword, which seemed to be caused by a sword wound.

"Did you ask the man where he picked up these two stone carvings in Jubao Mountain?"

The shopkeeper narrowed his eyes of the God of Wealth, glanced up and down at Tie Lingshuang, hesitated slightly, saw that her face was cold, and the iron gun in his hand shook, the shopkeeper hurriedly withdrew his treasure hunting thoughts, and whispered

I asked about this, and he didn't hide it, saying that it was next to the spring in the deserted temple on Jubao Mountain. ”

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the war was raging, the high temple on the Jubao Mountain was destroyed, and it was abandoned so far, it is said that there are two springs in it, gushing out of the spring water in the mountain, it is very sweet.

Nodding, while rubbing the stone carving in his hand, his thoughts flew around, yesterday at dusk, it was when he met the law and got a clue of holding a jade person, and then on the side of the Confucius Temple, these two jade carvings appeared, and the double lotus, the one-horned dragon, Tie Lingshuang's eyes flashed with coldness, and the corners of his mouth curled.

After a long time, retracting her mind, Tie Lingshuang pointed to the spring sleeping jade carving of the lady that Xiao Ya was still staring at, and asked the shopkeeper,

"What's the price?"

"Five hundred taels. ”

"The cold water is mixed with jade, the water splashes are chaotic, there are countless on the Yangtze River, are you sure that it is five hundred taels?"

"Well, hehe, the adults turned out to be connoisseurs, and since this small shop is given to adults for free, adults are invited to come and visit often. ”

With a dry cough, he met a connoisseur, and the shopkeeper's sky-high asking price directly became worthless, wrapped the seven-inch-long stone sculpture of a lady's spring sleep, handed it to Tie Lingshuang, and watched her walk out of the store with the little girl, the shopkeeper's mouth grinned,

"Fifty taels of silver, three stones, today is a small sheet, hehe. ”

It is the stubborn stone in the mountain that is thin under the knife, and the gold hidden in the treasure pavilion is not exchanged.

Stepping out of the store, Tie Lingshuang raised his eyes and saw the opposite, a small storefront, closed the door, quite dilapidated under the light, hanging a small plaque, with the book "Flowers, Birds, Insects and Fish".

"The old immortal on the other side, fishing for three days and drying nets for two days, will close sooner or later. ”

The sound of schadenfreude came from behind him, and sure enough, the companion was an enemy, Tie Lingshuang shook his head slightly, afraid that Xiao Ya would follow the treacherous businessman behind him, so he took her to the next door and picked up the bracelet.

The two walked around for a long time, until they couldn't fit their hands anymore, and Tie Lingshuang took Xiao Ya, who was out of breath, and walked towards the rock sugar alley on Sanshan Street.

The two entered the rock sugar alley, and walked all the way to the end, Xiaoya put a bunch of things on the ground, took out the key and was about to open the door.

"Wow, whoa"

There were two dog barks behind him, one large and one small, the big one was quite familiar, Tie Lingshuang turned to look at the courtyard opposite, the room was lit up, the door in the middle was ajar, and a big yellow dog rushed out of it.

It was the rhubarb that was coming to the old yellow dog demon, frowning slightly, seeing that rhubarb grinning at himself in the yard, shouting loudly, and then a little yellow milk dog, less than a foot, also rushed out of the house, whining at himself.

"What's wrong? What's wrong? Rhubarb and Little Yellow. ”

Liu Yishui carried the wine jug, turned out of the door, and saw Tie Lingshuang with cold eyes outside the wall by the light, and was immediately overjoyed, walked forward, opened the courtyard door, looked at Tie Lingshuang who was carrying a large bag and a small bag, and smiled.

"It turned out to be Lord Tie, and you live on the other side?"

Xiao Ya raised her head slightly, looked at the white-haired and alcohol-smelling man opposite, wrinkled her nose, turned around and avoided to open the door. Tie Lingshuang scared away the big yellow dog and the little yellow dog who were about to come up with a look, looked at the sign hanging on Liu Yishui's wine bottle, and asked lightly,

"You're in the North Town?"

Liu Yishui nodded, swept left and right, and asked in a low voice,

"Where's Xiaobao, didn't come back with you?"

Sneered, Tie Lingshuang looked Liu Yishui, whose eyes were full of red light, up and down, and was about to speak, when he saw Qi Chen's mother listening to the door frame, and shook her head, this is the whole family has come to Jinling, I don't know the blessings and misfortunes, so I can only say coldly,

"He's on official business, he shouldn't be able to get out of the body these days, you better ask a maid to come back and take care of the eldest lady." ”

After that, he ignored him, and saw Xiao Ya open the door, Tie Lingshuang snorted at the big yellow dog, and the big yellow dog quickly lowered his head, bit a big bag by the way, and got into the door.

Bang closed the door and shut the drunkard Dabao and the little yellow dog out.

Liu Yishui sighed, bent down to pick up the frightened little yellow dog, and returned to the yard, Qi Chenniang listened to her brother's footsteps, and asked softly,

"Dabao, I just heard you talking to someone else, your voice is very similar to the girl from Hangzhou Mansion to our house, is it beautiful?"

Hehe smiled, Liu Yishui looked sideways at the opposite side, the lights came on, leaned over to his sister, and lowered his voice,

"Sister, it's that girl, don't mention how beautiful she is, but unfortunately, she definitely can't be your daughter-in-law, don't think about it. Oops!"

Before he finished a sentence, there was a sudden pain in his ear, he was screwed from childhood to adulthood, Liu Yishui naturally didn't dare to struggle to break free, and the voice in his ears sounded,

"Why isn't Xiaobao worthy of this girl? If you don't tell the truth, I'll sleep in the yard today!"

Raised from childhood to adulthood, knowing the temperament of his sister, and never knowing that he was stingy, Liu Yishui tilted his head, took his sister inside, closed the door, hissed and breathed, and said softly,

"Sister, Lord Tie Xuan's daughter, isn't she beautiful, Xiao Baolai Jinling, is following her to catch demons, and it is estimated that she will not be able to come back in the past few days. ”

The upper hand on the ear was released, Liu Yishui looked up at his sister who was suddenly stunned, raised his hand and slapped himself, and said anxiously,

"Sister, don't be sad anymore, it's all my fault, I swore to Xiaobao never to say it, sister?"

Qi Liu turned his head to Liu Yishui, unable to see, but his heart was clear, he smiled slightly, reached out and touched the little yellow dog, tears in his eyes,

"From generation to generation. ”