Chapter 81: The City God's Temple

Yuxi returned to the room, she sat in front of the bookcase and pondered for a long time, thinking back to what she had just said to Brother Frog, thinking that maybe I can't forget Riche, before leaving Ruiqi said that he would marry me when he came back, he made a promise, although I don't know if it can be fulfilled, but I have always remembered it.

Yuxi was thinking like this, stretched out her hand and spread out a piece of rice paper, picked up a wolf hair and dipped it in ink, and carefully depicted the Richie in her memory on the rice paper.

Yuxi carefully depicts Riich's appearance one stroke at a time, although it is only a white drawing, but Yuxi's pen is also very expressive.

After about a stick of incense, Yuxi drew a clear and expressive appearance of Ruiqi's eyebrows and facial features in his memory, although it was not a full-body portrait, just a bust sketched by Yuxi from memory, but it was also painted very vividly.

Riche's classic sunny smiling face is depicted very vividly, and even Yuxi didn't expect to finish Riich's portrait in one go, although she still feels that there is something that is not depicted enough, but her painting skills are only like that.

Yuxi flattened the paper and left it to dry, hoping to let the ink dry quickly.

She put the brush on the pen stand, looked at the picture scroll Riich, and couldn't help but smile slightly, if only Riich appeared in front of him immediately, so that he could see the scroll with his own eyes, and evaluate whether it looked like it or not.

Yuxi suddenly thought of the rice paper that she had found that Ruiqi secretly wrote her name on was the two words Yuxi, and she quietly folded it and put it in the corner of the bookcase. Maybe it was Riich who suddenly remembered the name she had written down from time to time.

Now he is also whimsical, and painted a portrait of Riich on a whim.

But Yu Xi thought about it: "This portrait can't be seen by others, if others know about it and show it to my father, it will be troublesome, and I may be scolded by my father." What's more, I'm still a big girl, if I let others know, maybe they will scold me for being a nymphomaniac, and then I'll be embarrassed. ”

Yuxi muttered quietly, and hurriedly rolled up the scroll with almost dry ink, found a ribbon and tied it in an inconspicuous painting tube at the foot of the bookcase.

Yuxi thought about it like this, this painting is just put here, probably no one will notice, who will care about what I painted, what I painted will probably never be noticed.

After Murong Xiu saw off Huyan Ruilin's mother and son, he returned to the boudoir.

She pondered the confession that Ruilin had just made, and she knew that Ruilin was saying those words with 100% sincerity, but she also knew that without a good reason, it was impossible for her father to change his mind and marry her to Ruilin.

Especially in such a special period, it is unreasonable for them to categorically break off the marriage contract. But Ruilin's repeated affectionate confessions, she will not be a deaf ear, you must know that she also favors Ruilin.

But what to do next, Murong Xiu doesn't have a good plan in her heart, unless there is a good evidence to prove that Huyan Ruiqi has someone else in her heart, she can use this to dispel her father's thoughts.

But where do you find the evidence? This is not something that can be supported by a simple sentence or two.

Murong Xiu couldn't help but think of Yu Xi. She knows that Riich likes Yuxi, and Yuxi also likes Riich.

If it weren't for the rules and precepts of big families, the two of them would have been a pair of little mandarin ducks and me.

Murong Xiu suddenly had an idea, why don't I start from Yuxi and find evidence that can prove that they are in love?

Murong Xiu's face showed a smug smile, she had an idea at the moment, it was impossible to convince Yuxi to help her, because Yuxi was a girl who followed the rules, she didn't dare to offend her father easily, and she wouldn't risk the world to break through the routine to help her fulfill this wish, it seems that I can only do it quietly.

But where to start, Murong Xiu planned to observe the situation carefully and think of a way.

The next day, Yuxi had breakfast, cleaned up a little, changed into plain clothes and planned to go out. She tied up her hair slightly, put on a little light makeup, and looked left and right in the mirror, feeling that she was the way she was now, and she shouldn't attract attention when she went out.

Then Yuxi called her nurse to accompany her to the City God Temple to burn incense.

When she went out, Yuxi asked the nurse to take a basket, quietly put a little incense and candles and other things, and covered it with a piece of homespun cloth and prepared to go out.

In order not to attract the attention of their families, they sneaked out the back door.

Yuxi and the nurse went all the way to the City God Temple on the edge of the village.

From a distance, there are not too many pilgrims who come to burn incense and make wishes today, and there are still some unburned incense candles in the incense burner in front of the land statue in wisps of green smoke.

This temple is relatively tall, the roof is covered with glazed tiles, and the beams and pillars are carved inside, and the scale is about the same size as an ordinary temple, which is very magnificent.

The father-in-law and mother-in-law of the land who sat on the shrine looked kind, with kind eyebrows and kind eyes, and the appearance of sympathy for the common people.

Because they came relatively early, there were no pilgrims in the temple, and the people who had burned incense left early.

Yuxi and the nurse entered the temple, and she hurriedly knelt on a futon in front of the shrine, clasped her hands together and prayed silently.

The nurse knelt beside her, took out the incense candle from the bamboo basket, and lit the lantern in front of the shrine and carefully inserted it into the incense burner.

Then the nurse handed a few lit incense sticks to Yuxi.

Yuxi took the incense face and bowed to the land statue a few times, and whispered silently: "May the land father-in-law and the land grandmother bless the safe return of Ruiqi's father and son." ”

Then Yuxi reverently inserted the incense into the incense burner, and the green smoke from several incense sticks rose in a curling curl.

The nurse knelt beside her, and saw two horn-shaped "holy grails" used for fortune-telling in front of the futon, and she couldn't help blurting out: "Yuxi, look, there is a holy grail for fortune-telling." ”

Yuxi looked down and saw that there were two horn-shaped "holy grails" on the ground that had been touched by the fortune teller and had been shiny and blackened.

There are two "holy grails" for this kind of fortune-telling, which are divided into chalices, yang cups and yin cups according to the shape thrown by the soothsayers. The fortune teller can throw three times in a row to find the meaning of the signature according to the corresponding hexagram.

Yuxi's heart was touched, is it now to occupy a hexagram, but if it is not good, what should I do?

Yuxi was a little hesitant, not deciding whether to occupy it or not, she looked down at the "Holy Grail" placed on the ground, where it was hesitating.