Thin Mei·Love Fragrance Quilt

Chapter 187

Her nose was red, she rubbed her eyes again, then pushed away the room, looked around and said, "Everything here is ready-made, although it is a bit rough, it is clean and tidy, and it is no problem to use it for ten or eight years. .”

Zhuo Rui asked suspiciously: "Concubine Shu, are you sure... no one lives here?"

The house was indeed clean and tidy, and even the vegetables in those beds were well grown, and there were not a few weeds to be seen.

But when Qianmei told him, she also pondered: "Well, Uncle Qi has a cleanliness habit. When he hid here that day, he asked someone to clean the inside and outside carefully. But...that was in early autumn, right?"

Before the words fell, someone outside sang leisurely: "When the concubine Ming left, shed tears and sprinkled flowers on the branches; when the strong wind rose at dusk, whoever's house fell.

When the two rushed out to have a look, it was the Daoist Heng who they had seen in the Zhuangyuan Tower in early autumn, because he said that Qian Mei's life would not last long, which angered Tang Tianxiao. Chopped.

He was walking along the field with a fortune-telling bamboo box on his back, singing leisurely along the way; when he raised his eyes and saw them, he was not surprised, put down the bamboo box and walked over, smiling: "But the girl who came here, Why did you come to the old Taoist's house?"

Ke Qianmei looked at him fixedly, and suddenly said: "I know you."

Heng Yi smiled and said, "What? Do you remember?"

Ke Qianmei said: "You came to our house when I was seven or eight years old. You helped my father, mother and sister to look at the pictures, but you didn't say a word. Later, I brought it out, and you picked it up I said, fortunately it is a boy, otherwise I would not have escaped the doom of a confidante."

Zhuo Rui was stunned, and wondered: "Boy?"

It was almost noon, and the sun was just right.

But Qianmei was too hot to leave, so she took off Zhuo Rui's coat and returned it to him, looked at her simple but still beautiful female attire, and said: "When I was young, my parents raised me as a boy... Later, Jinzhou was slaughtered, I was seriously injured, and I met the Taoist priest in Beihe, and the Taoist priest helped me heal, while lamenting that it turned out to be a girl doll, no wonder there was such a catastrophe!"

Heng nodded and said, "That's right, that's right, you really remembered everything! No wonder you resented that Great Zhou Emperor and turned his good world into a mess."

Ke Qianmei asked, "Did I do something wrong?"

Heng Yi sighed: "What is wrong? What is right? You still can't see through it after all! From love comes sorrow, from love comes fear; if you are away from the one you love, there is no worry and no fear..."

"If you are separated from your beloved, you will have no worries and no fears..."

But Qian Mei followed his words one by one, and gradually lost her mind, "Quietness and inaction, detached from the outside world, can we not be shocked by sorrow and joy, and forget both life and death? The deeper you use love, the more bitter it is. Sure enough... it is better to have no love." No hatred, no sorrow, no joy..."

Zhuo Rui is a vulgar person and doesn't understand these things, but he still remembers that Tang Tianxiao hated this old man that day, saying that his conversation was the easiest to change his temperament, etc., and hurriedly interrupted: "Concubine Shu, you have been running around for so long, don't you want to rest for a while? ?”

But Qianmei was already extremely exhausted, and she has survived all this time with her will to find out her living world again. Hearing that her legs and feet were weak, she sat on a chair, but said: "I must rest. It's just that I'm so hungry. incredible."

But Zhuo Rui said to Heng: "Master Dao, we are exhausted from a long distance, can we stay here for a day? When Concubine Shu recovers tomorrow, I will take her to another place."

Heng Yi was displeased, squinting at him and said: "If you want to go elsewhere, please go ahead! This girl is the daughter of my old friend, I want to stay and live for three to fifty years anyway."

Zhuo Rui was stunned.But Qianmei burst out laughing, "Three or fifty years...that's a good relationship. But do you really have a deep friendship with my family? I seem to have only met you two or three times."

Heng Yi didn't answer, but took out a few packages from the bamboo box like a magic trick, in addition to rice and flour, there were also warm steamed stuffed buns, sweet cakes, duck in sauce and so on.

What was finally pulled out was a jar of unopened Nurhong.

He sighed: "Ruidu City is about to be turned upside down inside and outside the city. As an old man, I can't go to the city to earn a few pennies. I can only buy some food in a distant town and come back. I will learn how to hide in this mountain like a tortoise. Then In a few days, I'm afraid even those rural towns will be lost!"

But Qianmei was already very hungry, so she didn't care to listen to his ramblings, she took a vegetable bun and ate it first, only took two bites, and her face was flushed from choking.

These days she will be raised in the palace, due to her poor health, she always eats liquid food such as gruel or soup, and there are cakes, most of which are also very soft.

Knowing this, Zhuo Rui rushed to the mountain stream next to the wooden house and drew a bowl of water.But Qian Mei didn't care about raw or cooked, hot or cold, she just drank the water and ate to her stomach, then went to sleep in the room.

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From then on, Ke Qianmei and Zhuo Rui lived in the wooden hut.

Because the main room in the middle is for the statue of the old gentleman, the other two rooms are flat and flattering, Zhuo Rui looked at the old man and didn't seem to like him, so he quietly made a bed in the westernmost kitchen After a few days, I went to the mountains to cut wood to build a wooden shop, and hunted some wild animals and carried them to the nearby market to sell. I bought a bag of rice, two quilts and a few feet of coarse cloth. When he came back, he didn't need Hengyi's help, but he was able to live a peaceful and stable life with Ke Qianmei in a decent manner.

But Qianmei has never learned to cook or be a female celebrity since she was a child. Now that she sees the days of peace and tranquility, it turns out that those people or things that have formed sores in her heart are far away, and she can't touch them for a while. It's hard work, but I feel much happier than in the palace, and I won't pick on the charred and blackened rice or the salty or bland dishes cooked by those two big men.

But they didn't bring a change of clothes when they escaped, and there was no ready-made clothes shop in the small market, but Qian Mei took a set of Heng Yi Taoist robes to change and wash, but it was as big as a lantern on her body, which was very inconvenient; Looking at Zhuo Rui again, he also didn’t have to change his clothes. In winter, after washing his clothes, he would wrap his shirtless arms in animal skins or coarse cloths and go hunting in the mountains. He didn’t come back until evening, and he didn’t care whether the clothes were dry or not, so he put them on. body.

Although she was getting lazier every day, it was hard for Zhuo Rui to figure out how to cut clothes by herself, so she bravely picked up the scissors and cut them according to the style of his original clothes. After three or four days, she really managed to figure out a A cotton padded coat made of coarse cloth, although the stitching is poor and the front and back are different in length, it can be worn after all, and it is said that it is still very warm.

Ke Qianmei was so encouraged that she also made two robes for herself, both of which were Taoist robes.

Zhuo Rui was very surprised and asked: "Concubine Shu, could it be that the color of the clothes I brought back is too plain? Or, I will go to a bigger town and buy some beautiful clothes."

However, Heng Yi said: "The larger towns have been fighting for a long time, either the people who believe in the king, or the emperor's people. Do you want to be recognized by others so that Qian Mei can be taken back? Do you want her Being imprisoned by Emperor Da Zhou again, do you still want her to become a pawn of King Xin again and give it to some dude in Beihe as his wife? I see that it looks good dressed like this, why don't you just follow my old Taoist priest and become a little Taoist priest? !"

But Qianmei sighed and said, "I want to become a monk. But greed, ignorance and anger, I can't seem to get rid of anything. I'm only worried that the dusty thoughts will not be broken, and I will make it difficult for the Taoist priest in the future."

Heng Yi said gently: "Who can get rid of greed, ignorance, anger, and anger all at once? I will teach you the entry rules of Taoism, learn to be pure and clear, detached from things, and gradually and completely cut off the ties of the world, or you can use the door of Taoism Breaking the fate of fate."

"Luck number?"

Ke Qianmei recalled the test papers that day, and said with a wry smile, "Turn the candles and make them flutter, but the fragrant dream has no roots. The tea leaves are all empty branches, and the flowers are cut to pieces. The Taoist priest explained at that time that I should be in the [-]th year. Under the sword. Could it be that I really can't survive? It's the twelfth lunar month now, and I will be eighteen in a few days. Is it really about to die?"

But Qian Mei doesn't like reading, but she has a special liking for Huang Lao's art. Last time, she wanted to break up with Tang Tianxiao, so she devoted herself to copying family scriptures to calm her mind; I will also be troubled by the blood of the family in the dream and Tang Tianxiao's smile, like a thousand arrows in my heart, and I can't sit and sleep. Thanks to living with such a Taoist priest, I found him to talk about Zen and read scriptures , Often the mood will calm down a lot.

Zhuo Rui knew this truth, but he never expected that Ke Qianmei would really want to become a monk, and hurriedly said: "Concubine Shu, these illusory things must not be believed. We are only here to live in seclusion, and others If we can't be found, we won't provoke others, it's like a paradise, where does the disaster of swords come from?"

But Qianmei said lazily: "Brother Zhuo, can you stop calling me Concubine Shu? Every time I hear you call me that, I feel that this small place like a paradise is not safe. His Concubine Shu He died a long time ago, and I broke up with him a long time ago, you deserve to be so loyal, come here to remind me every now and then, won't it make me unhappy?"

She was silent for a moment, and then said: "Or, you are willing to rescue me from the palace, not because you really sympathize with me or because you are really good to me, but because you think he wants me to live? Are you just following orders?"

"No... not..."

Zhuo Rui choked on her words, blushed, then faltered and couldn't speak anymore.

But Heng Yi said: "I know what your unbreakable mortal thought is. But you'd better break it, otherwise your life will be over..."

But Qianmei tightened the lapel of her belly, and said sullenly, "Why don't I want to break it? It didn't come at the right time!"

Heng Yi smiled, "How about, let me try, can you break it for you?"

But Qianmei's eye circles turned red, and she remained silent for a long time.

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At night, Zhuo Rui saw that Heng was chanting scriptures in his room, so he went to look for Ke Qianmei, but he couldn't call her name for a while.

"Shu... um, Qian... Qian... Qian..."

In the room, there is a lamp lit by animal fat made by Zhuo Rui himself, the light is a bit dim, but Qian Mei is sitting at the square table by the window, her face is gloomy, hearing him call her so, but she also laughed out loud .

"Qianmei, or Qian'er."

She said heartily, "Before I became Princess Kezhu, I was the second young lady of the Zhang family, and my nickname was Qian'er."

"Qian... Qian'er."

Zhuo Rui called her, sat beside her, and unconsciously held her hand on the table.

She pulled her hand lightly, but didn't pull it away, and let him hold it, and asked with a smile: "Brother Zhuo, what's the matter?"

Zhuo Rui's palm is wide and thick, and when it wraps her hand, she feels warm and at ease.

She was already regretting talking to him during the day that she shouldn't have sarcasm in her words.

He had lost enough because of her, and it was miserable enough.

Looking at her daoist gown with extremely poor shape and stitches, Zhuo Rui hesitated for a moment and said, "Qian'er, I don't want you to become a monk."

"why?"

"I protected you and escaped so hard. I hope that you will live a happier life, not that you will spend your whole life in yellow paper and green light."

"Happy?" Ke Qianmei sighed melancholy, "Happy means to be calm and not think about anything. If you want to forget about the idea of ​​licking your heart and lungs, maybe the best way is to become a monk?"

Zhuo Rui said: "If you want to calm down, you can practice at home. What are you doing with the name of a monk?"

"Comfort me, and remind myself from time to time that I am already a monk, so I should let go of the thoughts I should let go!"

Ke Qianmei sighed, "Actually, why don't I understand that although Master Heng has some abilities, he is not an authentic Taoist disciple at all. How many Taoist disciples have you seen like him who don't follow Taoism and don't avoid meat and fish? Are you old? It's madness, there are no taboos! The emperor's concubine dares to offend, and the fetus in shape dares to beat, as long as he dares to kill and set fire!"

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