Chapter 52: Snatching the Ice Toad
The three of Ling Ruoyi's master and servant finally arrived before the evening of the next day after a bumpy ride in the carriage.
The main hall is dedicated to my Buddha Shakyamuni, Ling Ruoyi took the maid to worship the gods, just walked out of the door of the main hall, and met the abbot.
"Xiahou Shizhu?" Ran was surprised. Hearing this, Ling Ruoxuan turned around and saluted, "Does the abbot know the ancestral mother?" ”
"Oh, it's the old man who is abrupt. Female donor, did you just say that Xiahou was your first mother? ”
"Yes, Ancestor Xiahou Aoxue."
"Dare to ask, can the female benefactor be surnamed Ling?"
"Yes, little girl Ling Ruoyi. I don't know how the abbot knew. ”
"Can the female benefactor go to the meditation room with the old man to talk, there are many people here and there is inconvenience." After speaking, he walked towards the backyard.
The abbot's meditation room is very simple, and the only attraction is a piano.
"Master Ling, are you really the daughter of Lord Xiahou?" Xiao Ran took a sip of tea and said lightly.
"Yes, Abbot."
"Hey...... it's really impermanent. Xiahou Shi practiced medicine to save people, more than ten years ago there were many villagers in Qiyun Temple who had plague, at that time the corpses were everywhere, the plague was rampant, and the people were not able to make a living. The imperial doctors sent by the emperor are also dead, and all the people who know the way of medicine have fled, only she is not afraid of being infected, and she has been sleeping all day long, and the surrounding villagers have survived, in order to commemorate her, the villagers spontaneously offered her the immortal tablet in the temple, and the incense is flourishing so far. The donor can go and see it later
"Really? It turned out that my mother had been treated for the plague when she was young. Ling Ruoyi said with tears in her eyes.
"yes. Lao Wei heard that some villagers in the west of the city were infected with corpse poison before, and the person who rescued him was also surnamed Ling, so he was also given by the emperor as the first divine doctor in the world. I wonder if the girl and the woman surnamed Ling can get acquainted? ”
"Abbot, it was my young lady who rescued those villagers." Drunken Winter was busy.
"Oh? It seems that Master Ling has inherited the mantle of his late mother. The old man also knew that Ling Shi opened a medical hall to give medicine and help the poor. I don't know why you came to Qiyun Temple. ”
"Abbot, since you asked, then I will also say it directly. The night before yesterday, someone attacked the Zhenguo Mansion at night, poisoned and injured my uncle Xiahou Aoxiang, although the detoxification pill can temporarily control the toxins in his body, but if you want to eradicate it, you need the ice toad to heal, I know that there is a thousand years of cold ice cave in the mountain behind Qiyun Temple, and there must be ice toads in the cave, so I want to borrow the ice toad, after detoxifying my uncle, the ice toad will be returned. ”
"Oh? Xiahou Guogong was poisoned? Does Master Ling know what kind of poison it is? ”
"It's the turtle and the poison, the person who poisoned it controls the amount very well, and seems to know that I have an antidote to all poisons, so my uncle was fine when he ate the antidote pill, but he fell unconscious after a night."
"Master Ling doesn't need to worry, this Ice Toad Old Man has it in his hands." With that, he got up and walked to the bookshelf, gently turning the vase on the shelf, and a dark grid appeared on the wall. I saw that the abbot took out a rosewood box, walked over with a smile and said, "Master Ling, let's see if it's this." ”
Ling Ruoyi opened the wooden box, and the ice toad inside was snow-white, and it was still cold from time to time. "Thank you, abbot, after detoxifying my uncle, Ruoyi will personally send it back." Ling Ruoyi saluted.
"Master Ling is exempt, since Lord Ling has benevolence, this ice toad will be given to Lord Ling, and it may be useful in the future, Master Ling, please collect it properly."
"Thank you Abbot, Ruo Yi sees that you still have a piano in your meditation room, and the abbot is also a person who likes music."
"Haha, when I was young, I liked to meet friends with the piano very much, but the years have passed, and some of my former friends have passed away."
"Well, yes, it's hard to find a soulmate."
"Master Ling, is he also a person who loves the qin?"
"Yes." Ling Ruoyi replied softly.
Boom, a muffled thunder outside, shattering the silence inside.
"It seems that there will be a heavy thunderstorm, Master Ling might as well stay in the meditation room of this temple for one night, and then set off tomorrow."
"There's an abbot of Lao." Ling Ruoyi saluted.
"No, you're welcome. The temple is remote, and it is inevitable to be irritable on a rainy night, so the donor can take the old man's piano to dismiss it. The abbot said with a smile.
"Then thank you Abbot, Mengchun, hold the abbot's piano well. Abbot, Ruo Yi will not disturb the abbot to practice meditation. Ling Ruohui saluted again and walked out of the meditation room with Mengchun and drunken winter.
The thunderstorm outside was still falling, and in the meditation room of the temple, there were also many pilgrims who stayed overnight, and Zuidong returned to the meditation room with rice porridge from the kitchen.
"Miss, this is a temple, there are only some rice porridge and pickles, you have been wronged."
"What's wronged, the temple is heavy, how can you have big fish and meat, it's very good to eat porridge at night."
"Yes, Drunken Winter, don't you know the temperament of our young lady, our young lady is the most informal."
"Well, you can also sit down and eat together, this is away from home, not at home."
"Miss, you should eat first, the slave will prepare sandalwood for you, and drive away this tide."
After the meal, the sound of the rain outside gradually stopped, and when I walked out of the door, the rain washed the temple, and the air was mixed with a faint sandalwood fragrance, which made people smell very comfortable.
"Mengchun, take the piano out, I want to stroke the piano."
"Yes, miss. The slave and the maid will go. After a while, Mengchun walked out with the piano in his arms, put the piano on the stone table in the pavilion, Ling Ruoxuan lifted the hem of her skirt lightly, sat down gently on the stone board, took a deep breath, her phoenix eyes closed slightly, and her jade fingers were gently raised, and the sound of the piano sometimes slid out of his fingers like a trickling stream, and sometimes it was like a rushing wave surging from the piano board.
In the abbot's meditation room, Que Feiyang was drinking tea and talking about Buddhist scriptures with the abbot, and the sound of the piano floated into every room and everyone's ears.
Que Feiyang couldn't help but close his eyes and listen to the melodious sound of the piano, "Abbot, I don't want to have such a woman with excellent piano skills among the female pilgrims staying in the temple today. ”
"Well, yes, the piano is indeed exquisite." He sipped the tea in his hand and smiled lightly.
"It's a wonderful song. Ben Gongzi is very curious about the person who plays the piano. ”
"Childe is known as the double master of the piano and flute, and the piano skills will naturally not be bad, since Childe is curious about the person who plays the piano, why not go and see the person who plays the piano?"
When Que Feiyang heard this, he was stunned at first, and then said slowly: "What the abbot said, then I will leave first." ”
Following the sound of the piano, Que Feiyang came to the courtyard of the meditation room, and in the pavilion not far away, a woman sat in a moon-white gauze dress, simple and elegant. The woman in the pavilion didn't seem to notice the other people in the courtyard, and Que Feiyang didn't mean to interrupt the sound of the qin.
Ling Ruoxuan heard someone singing together, stopped and turned to look at Que Feiyang, who was playing the flute, and said with a light smile: "This son is polite." ”
"In Xia Que Feiyang, I just heard the girl's wonderful piano sound in the abbot's room, and I was fascinated for a while, so I came to the courtyard and disturbed the girl's Yaxing, it was Que who was abrupt." Que Fei raised his jaw and said.
"The son has won the award, and the little girl is clumsy in piano skills, just idle and entertaining herself." Ling Ruoyi said lightly.
"The girl is too humble." Que Feiyang walked forward slowly, and only then did he see clearly the woman in front of him, she was so otherworldly, he had seen a lot of beautiful women, but it was the first time he had encountered such a distracted woman.
The next morning, the weather cleared. Ling Ruoxuan said goodbye to the abbot, took Bing Toad and the two maidservants, and drove the carriage back to the Zhenguo Mansion. When we reached the middle of the mountain, a big tree fell in the middle of the road, "Miss, there is a tree in front of me in the middle of the road, and the carriage can't pass, what should I do?" Drunken Dong turned back to Ling Ruoyi in the carriage and said.
When Ling Ruoyi heard this, she lifted the black lacquered bamboo curtain and said, "Can you take a detour?" ”
"Miss, no, this is the only way down the mountain."
"The carriage is gone, we hike down the mountain, and when we get to the bottom of the mountain, we see if there is a carriage or something." Mengchun quickly jumped out of the car, hurriedly turned around and helped Ling Ruoxuan jump out of the carriage, and just as he walked away, several black-clothed men were killed in the woods and surrounded the three of his master and servant.
"Leave the ice toad behind, uncle, I can let you go."
"Don't think about it." Ling Ruoxuan said coldly. After that, he took out a few silver needles from his sleeve and went straight to the front door of those black-clothed people, and the three black-clothed people opposite fell to the ground in response, and the black-clothed man led by him said coldly: "Good skills, I really have some skills, tsk, I am really a great beauty who has captivated the country and the city, no wonder the Lord doesn't let you hurt." ”
"Hmph, your master is a shrunken turtle, a waste hiding in the shell of the turtle as a whole. will only do some despicable and shameless deeds, the ice toad is in my hands, and I have the ability to let him take it. Ling Ruoyi scolded indignantly.
"Hmph, your mouth is quite powerful, quickly bring me the ice toad, spare you from death."
"Hmph, I'm in the ice toad, I'm dead in the ice toad." Ling Ruoyi said sharply.
"Hahaha, what a Ling Ruoyi, her momentum is definitely not negligent to men, I really underestimate you."
"Don't talk nonsense, let's do it." After Ling Ruohui finished speaking, he took out seven or eight silver needles from his sleeve again, threw them with both hands at the same time, and killed two more people, and the rest of the black-clothed people also swung their swords and stabbed them, Mengchun and Zuidong also didn't know martial arts, so they could only protect Ling Ruoxuan behind him, and resisted the branches on the ground.
The leader of the man in black seemed to be impatient, and stabbed with his sword, just when Ling Ruoyi thought that he was about to die, a crescent white figure appeared in front of him, and the sword flew out like a silver snake, blocking the cold sword of the man in black.
"Is that you?" Ling Ruoxuan looked at the person who came and said with a surprised face.
"Be careful." Que Feiyang pulled Ling Ruoxuan into his arms and said softly.
"Ruofeng, Shuqin, you protect the other two girls. I'll take this girl away first. ”
"Yes, Childe." The two men also fought with the rest of the men in black one after another, and Que Feiyang whistled, and a snow-white horse seemed to hear the call of the master, and quickly galloped over, and did not forget to nehish when he came to the master. Que Feiyang helped Ling Ruoyi onto the horse, jumped up himself, and as soon as his legs clamped the horse's belly, the horse ran out in a puff of smoke.
"Girl, where are you going?"
"Please take me to the Zhenguo Mansion."
"Okay, sit tight." Que Feiyang rode his horse and whipped, and the two rode together, galloping all the way to the door of the Zhenguo Mansion.
At this time, the man in black was kneeling on the ground and whispered to a man with a mask: "Please forgive me, my subordinates are incompetent, let Ling Ruoyi run away." ”
only heard a snap, and the four treasures of the study on the table were thrown to the ground by the man, and said coldly: "Waste, even a woman can't deal with it." ”
"Back to the Lord, his subordinates were about to succeed, but halfway through the killing, Ling Ruoyi was rescued by that person."
"The deity will not punish you when it is time to employ people, so get out."
After all the men in black had retreated, the man took off his mask, pressed the mechanism on the bookshelf next to him, and dodged into the secret room......