NOVEL NEXT Chapter 1166
Chapter 1166: Purple Bamboo Forest
Chapter 1166 Purple Bamboo Forest
Entering the twelfth lunar month, Jiang Erye led people to visit the counties in Jifu, and the Jiang family was busy preparing for the New Year. On the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month, various academies in Kang’an have a holiday. Yazheng took his eldest daughter Jiang Muyan to Qianjin Academy to arrange the trivial matters of the holiday, and issued red seals for the end of the year to the stewards and gentlemen of the academy. Jiang Liu took Jiang Mujin and Yuan Xiayue out to inspect City store.
They entered the accounting room behind Huaxiangrong Rouge’s shop in Dongshi City, and before the steward started reporting the matter, Jiang Bai hurried in. Seeing that his expression was wrong, Jiang Liu motioned for Guan Xingxing to step back before asking, “What happened?”
Jiang Bai glanced at Yuan Xiayue and said in a low voice, “Sixth girl, Uncle Xia sent someone to report. Zhou Rui took General Yuan and the young master of the Zheng family to Baozhu Temple in Qinglongfang.”
Jiang Liu frowned and turned to ask Yuan Xiayue, “Sister Er Yue, did Brother Dajie tell you that we are going to Baozhu Temple today?”
“No, he was still in the mansion when I went out in the morning. Sixth sister, there is an ambush in Baozhu Temple? I’ll kill my brother on horseback and save my brother!” . The dress on her body is Kang An’s fashionable style this year. It is beautiful, but the sleeves are too wide, making it inconvenient to fight and ride horses.
Jiang Mujin quickly grabbed Yuan Xiayue’s sleeve, “Sister Eryue, listen to Sixth Sister first.”
Jiang Liu looked serious and immediately said, “Sister Er Yue, I’ll tell you the details later. You immediately send someone to Baozhu Temple and invite Brother Dajie to Dongshi, and say…we have a match. A good shop, ask him to come and help Zhang Zhangyan.”
“Okay.” Yuan Xiayue didn’t ask why, and immediately dispatched her two maids to follow Jiang’s housekeeper through the alley and quickly rushed to Baozhu Temple.
After the maid Wu left, Jiang Liucai asked, “Sister Er Yue, how could Brother Dajie recognize Zhou Rui?”
Yuan Xiayue explained, “My cousin’s family lives in Fuchun Lane, Dayefang, and Zhou Rui’s family also lives in that lane. Zhou Rui and my cousin Zheng Shaoquan have been playing since we were young. After we arrived in Kang’an, Zhou Rui came to my cousin’s uncle. I’ve been here a few times, and I know it, Zhou Rui doesn’t look like he has a heart, sister Liu’er, tell me what’s going on in Baozhu Temple?”
Jiang Mujin also asked nervously, “Yes, Sixth Sister, tell me what’s wrong with Zhou Rui, what he wants to do in Baozhu Temple, will it be dangerous for Big Jie to follow him?”
After entering the twelfth lunar month, the temples in Kang’an City hold various lively Buddhist temples, and there is an endless stream of pilgrims.
Zheng Shaoquan, who was riding on a horse, introduced Baozhu Temple to Yuan Chunjie, “In Kang’an City, there are a total of 109 temples, although Baozhu Temple is not comparable to the top three such as Jingyu Temple, Dayunjing Temple and Ximing Temple. It is a temple, but it can also be ranked in the top 20 miles. Baozhu Temple has been built for more than 300 years, and the purple bamboo forest in the temple is very famous. When I was a child, Rui Ge and I secretly chopped bamboo in Baozhu Temple and was caught, almost My dad beat his ass, does Brother Rui still remember this?”
He couldn’t hear Zhou Rui’s response, Zheng Shaoquan turned his head and saw Zhou Rui lowered his head, so he poked his arm with a horse whip, “Brother Rui, what are you thinking?”
“Ah, ah! I didn’t think of anything…” Zhou Rui shuddered, straightened his back immediately, and pretended to be okay.
Yuan Chunjie also saw that Zhou Rui was very wrong today, and said, “Brother Rui just go to work if you have something to do, and my cousin and I will just walk around.”
Zheng Shaoquan nodded, “Yes, Brother Rui, I will walk around Qinglongfang with my eyes closed and I won’t knock my head. You don’t need to follow me. If you have something to do, just go and make an appointment with Baozhu Temple another day.”
It can’t be done another day. They have been planning for a long time for today.
Zhou Rui didn’t dare to look into Yuan Chunjie and Zheng Shaoquan’s eyes, he just smiled stiffly, “When I went out in the morning, my mother kept nagging for a while, and I was a little angry, nothing else. The temple is not far away, let’s go inside and pick a good Zizhu. Zizhu’s flute is softer and rounder than white bamboo.”
Brother Rui is twenty-one years old, and the marriage has not yet been settled. Aunt Zhou is so anxious that her hair is almost white. The 18-year-old Zheng Shaoquan shares the same illness with him and does not want to mention these troubles, so he deliberately laughed loudly, “Brother Rui, where did you hear this? Forget the flute, we are old and rude, and we can’t play the flute even if we do it. Come on.”
“Then pick two bamboo sticks to take advantage of.” Yuan Chunjie clenched the horse’s reins and couldn’t help sighing.
After the dead girl entered Beijing in February, she heard about the heroic performance of the sixth sister of the Jiang family who was holding a mace, so she insisted on getting a mace to hang around the horse’s neck. For this, Yuan Chunjie scolded her several times. Just taking advantage of today’s opportunity to pick a purple bamboo of the right thickness and make two bamboo sticks, one for each of Er Yue and the sixth sister of the Jiang family, this dead girl should not be jumping on her feet to ask for a mace…
“Zizhu is very good at making sticks.” Zhou Rui quickly rolled his eyes on Yuan Chunjie’s face, and said with a smile on his face, “Let’s go to the mountain behind Baozhu Temple, where there are few people and the bamboo grows well.”
The three of them chatted and laughed and hugged outside the temple. Liu Xi, who had been waiting in the carriage outside the temple gate for a long time, immediately asked his wife to help him out of the carriage, and Tingting walked towards the temple gate.
Zhou Rui recognized the sweetheart wearing a hood and a pink cloud brocade cloak at a glance, and his eyes couldn’t help chasing her back.
Zheng Shaoquan put his arms around Zhou Rui’s neck and whispered in his ear, “Who is this girl in front?”
Zhou Rui blushed and immediately said, “I don’t know!”
“We grew up wearing a pair of pants, you can’t fool me!” Zheng Shaoquan lowered his voice and said excitedly, “Don’t you come to Baozhu Temple for this girl? What are you doing? I can talk about the ugly, and I don’t have two good horses to keep the door. My brothers don’t do it!”
Looking at the woman in front of him who was walking like a boneless woman, Yuan Chunjie frowned and secretly said that even if he gave me ten good horses, I would not do it. I do nothing but steal bamboo!
Following the crowd, the three of them walked into Baozhu Temple and soon disappeared from Liu Xi.
The young man in his teens and early twenties is the age when Dapeng spreads his wings and hates the sky. Zheng Shaoquan pulled up his cousin and went straight to the back mountain of Baozhu Temple, “Go, while the bald donkeys in Renduo Temple are too busy, let’s go to the back mountain to pick bamboos!”
Zheng Shaoquan pulled Yuan Chunjie in front, and Zhou Rui followed closely, looking around. When passing through the second major hall, Zhou Rui finally found Liu Xi in the crowd.
Supported by the old woman, Liu Xi, who was waiting outside the main hall, lifted a corner of the tulle hat on his head and looked at Zhou Rui. Her face was pale, her lips were slightly red, and her eyes were full of water.
Zhou Rui could not wait to take out his heart and hold it in front of her when he saw her like this. He clenched his fists and nodded slightly, turned around and resolutely followed Zheng Shaoquan and Yuan Chunjie.
In order to help the lonely sister Xier out of the sea of misery, today’s affairs can only be successful, not failure!
“Quick, run!” When he reached the back mountain, Zheng Shaoquan watched around and saw that there were no monks guarding him. He lifted his robes and jumped up, then jumped into the purple bamboo forest surrounded by bamboo fences, and quickly ran up the mountain.
(end of this chapter)