The daily life of young girls in ancient times

Chapter 83

Baozhu followed the little nun to the halfway up the mountain, the little nun was panting a bit, Baozhu had good physical strength, her face didn't change much after going up, the little nun looked at her enviously, this little girl was not only beautiful, but also had a better body than her , Walking for so long without panting.

Baozhu knew that this little nun was called Yuan Meng, and she was a child picked up by the teacher in the nunnery. There were several little girls picked up like this in the nunnery, the oldest was thirteen or fourteen years old, and the youngest was only four or five years old. There are many nuns in Shitai Yuankong.Yuan Meng told her all the way in twittering.

After entering the nunnery, Yuan Meng came to her residence with the orb. It was a small separate courtyard, with a main room, a side room, a utility room and a small kitchen.

Yuan Meng went in with Baozhu and said with a smile, "Baozhu, you will live here from now on, and I will live in the courtyard next to yours, and your yard has been cleaned up. If you need anything, just tell me, Mrs. I am reciting scriptures now, I am afraid I will not see you until the afternoon."

Baozhu nodded, and Yuanmeng explained a few more words before going out.

Baozhu entered the room, the room was very simple, only a bed, a table, a large vertical cabinet and a few small stools.The room was very clean and tidy, and Baozhu cleaned up the things she brought.

Baozhu didn't know how long she would stay in Pudu nunnery this time, but there must be everything in the nunnery, so she brought a few sets of plain clothes and some daily necessities.

The things were packed quickly, Baozhu sat on the bed in a daze, and couldn't believe that she was already in the nunnery.

At noon, Yuan Meng came to ask her to have lunch. It was all vegetarian soup. Baozhu had only made it at home before, and Mrs. Cen made a lot of soup for her, and now she won't find it tasteless.

Yuan Meng told her secretly that some of their younger nuns would sometimes be greedy for meat, and would secretly go to the back mountain to buy game or something roasted to eat.

Baozhu was very surprised, and asked Yuan Meng if she was not afraid of being known by the teacher?
Only then did Yuan Meng tell Baozhu that the girls they picked up would go down the mountain to marry when they grew up, and the teacher also knew that they were stealing meat, so she wouldn't say anything.

Baozhu probably knew a little bit about these girls who were probably discarded by poor families and adopted by a nunnery. They were not considered monks, and they would still marry when they grew up.

Baozhu, a few other little nuns, also knew each other. They were all around her age, so it was easy to chat together.

A little nun named Yuan An couldn't help touching Baozhu's face, and said enviously, "Baozhu is so beautiful. I have been in the nunnery for almost ten years, and I have never seen a girl more beautiful than Baozhu." gone."

Yuan Meng also nodded, "That's right, I was dumbfounded when I went down the mountain to pick up the orb."

Baozhu has heard this kind of words too much, and she doesn't feel much in her heart, but she is a little bit. In her previous life, her health was not very good, her hair was thin and yellow, and her skin was only average. Although her facial features have not changed much, compared with now, it is really true. She's an ugly girl.

Several nuns talked about the teacher, and the young nuns obviously respected and respected the teacher. When she heard that the teacher was very good at medicine, Baozhu's heart was moved.

Master Yuankong met Baozhu in the afternoon. Master Yuankong was a very serious person, unsmiling, and only said a few words to Baozhu, and told her to follow her every morning to recite and copy scriptures, and in the afternoon to follow the other little ones. The nuns were studying, and after talking, they asked Baozhu what else she wanted to learn.

Baozhu knelt down with a thud, "Baozhu still wants to learn medical skills from the teacher, so I ask the teacher to help me."

Yuan Kong was not surprised, he just said in a low voice, "Since this is the case, you can spare an hour to come to me in the afternoon, and I will teach you."

Baozhu thanked her happily, and changed her name from master to master.

In the early morning of the next day, Baozhu had breakfast with the little girls, and then went to see the teacher, read scriptures with her, and copied scriptures.It was Baozhu's first time to recite and copy scriptures, and the speed was naturally very slow. In the afternoon, she hadn't finished copying a volume of scriptures, so the teacher asked her to have dinner.

Rest for half an hour at noon, and then go to see Mrs. Yuankong, who will teach her medical skills for an hour a day. After finishing, Baozhu will continue to copy the scriptures.

It was the same in the following days. One month later, her speed of reciting scriptures and copying scriptures was much faster, and she could finish them all in the morning. In the afternoon, she learned medical skills with Master Yuan Kong. I don’t know if she has some talent in this area. Baozhu felt that these were a little easier than the usual homework she did.

Although Bao Zhu was not the smartest, she worked very hard, even after returning from her teacher's room in the afternoon, she would continue to read medical books.

On weekdays, several little nuns would come to play with her, but Yuan Meng couldn't help nagging her, saying why she worked so hard every day.

Occasionally, Baozhu would go to the back mountain with a few little nuns to play, and even secretly ate roast chicken with the little girls twice this month.When going back to the teacher's wife, the teacher only gave her a faint look, feeling that Baozhu was a little bit seen through.

In a blink of an eye, it was March when the peach blossoms were in full bloom. There was a large peach orchard on the mountain behind the temple. At this time, the peach blossoms were in full bloom, and Baozhu would sometimes go to the peach orchard with a few nuns to play.

By the time the peach orchard's fruits began to ripen, Baozhu's medical skills had already improved a little.

In the past few months, people from the fourth room of Rong's family have visited her, and Cen also brought her good news. Rong Lang and Sheng Ming Chuan Chunwei won the first and second places respectively, and finally they were handpicked by the emperor in the palace examination. Became the champion and second place.

The big stone in Baozhu's heart fell to the ground. At the beginning, the fourth brother and the eldest brother were haggard because of her lethargy. She was afraid that the two of them would delay their spring. Fortunately, they were both in high school.

Cen told Baozhu that both of them had entered the Hanlin Academy, and she was afraid that they would not have time to come and see her in the future.

As she spoke, Cen couldn't help crying. Although her daughter was still the same daughter with a rosy complexion, she just felt distressed.

The teacher asked Baozhu to keep the fourth room of Rong's family to have lunch in her small courtyard. Cen held Baozhu and said a lot, then hesitated before saying, "Baozhu, what did Master Yuankong say to you?" When can I go down the mountain?"

"Not yet." Baozhu felt that apart from missing her family a little bit in the nunnery, the rest of the time was very comfortable. The nuns and teachers in the nunnery were very nice, even though the master was very cold to her, she also felt it. When she came out, the master took great care of her.Besides, Baozhu's medical skills have only been learned superficially, and she doesn't want to leave either.

Cen didn't ask any more questions, and after having dinner with Baozhu, the members of the fourth room of Rong's family left.

Time flies like an arrow, time flies, and it is three years later in a blink of an eye.

In the season of sweet-scented osmanthus, in a clean and tidy courtyard, a girl about fourteen or fifteen years old is holding a wooden basin with several clothes in it.The girl's facial features are very agile, and the hair exposed under the monk's hat is also black and shiny, even if she is wearing a blue-gray robe, she can't hide her exquisite figure.The only pity is that the girl's skin is a little yellow, which makes people can't help but sigh.

The girl went out of the courtyard, walked for a quarter of an hour, came to a small courtyard, went in and took off a few clothes hanging under the eaves and put them in the wooden basin. A somewhat cold voice came, "Baozhu, come in."

This girl is exactly Rong Baozhu, the fourth wife of the Rong family who cultivated her body and mind in Pudu nunnery.

Baozhu responded, put the wooden basin on the wooden shelf outside, pushed the door open, and there was a faint fragrance of incense coming from inside. There was a futon in the middle of the room, and a nun in a blue-gray robe was kneeling on it. , it was Master Yuankong.

Master Yuankong got up from the futon when he heard the noise in the room, and when he saw the girl walking in, his face softened a little, and then his face became cold again when he saw her yellow skin, "Why did you use herbs to soften your skin? Is it yellow?"

"Master." Bao Zhu stepped forward with a smile, holding Master Yuankong's arm with both hands, "I got infected when I tried the herbal medicine myself yesterday, and I plan to go to the mountains to find herbal medicine and wash my skin clean." of."

Yuan Kong was a little helpless. She looked down upon this child when she first came, thinking that a girl from a wealthy family who came out to cultivate her self-cultivation would suffer from the cold days in the nunnery.Later, I gradually fell in love with her after seeing how hard she worked, and this child really worked very hard. He just spent more than three years learning his own medical skills, and even made some detoxification pills and wound ointments compared to hers. The effect is even better.

Yuan Kong couldn't help but sighed from the bottom of his heart, "Okay, hurry up and find herbs and come back and wash the things on your body. I have something to tell you after washing."

Baozhu's bright smile dimmed a bit, as if she knew what the master was going to say to her, she nodded and backed out.

He took the wooden basin on the wooden frame and went to the creek in the back mountain to wash clothes. Yuan Meng and Yuan An were also there, and there was also Yuan Qing who had been at odds with Baozhu.

Yuan Qing entered the nun's nunnery after Baozhu. I don't know her life experience. I only know that it was picked up by another master Yuanmiao in the nunnery. When she picked it up, she didn't remember much. I went to the nunnery, but I have never liked Baozhu.

Seeing Baozhu's yellow skin, Yuan Qing couldn't help snorting, Baozhu didn't want to talk to her today, she knew that the master might tell her about going down the mountain later.

After several people washed their clothes, Baozhu went back to hang them to dry, and then went to the back mountain to find herbs and boil them in water to wash off all the yellowed medicinal juices on her body.

After finishing the work, it was already noon, and Baozhu went to Mrs. Yuankong's room.

Yuankong was waiting for her in the room, let Baozhu sit down, and said, "Now you have almost learned medical skills, and I have nothing to teach you. In the past three years or so, your life and soul have become much more stable, and there will be no big problems. Come on, you're almost fifteen now, I've sent someone to deliver a letter to the Rong family, and I'm afraid I'll be here to pick you up in the next two days."

Baozhu clutched her clothes tightly, feeling like crying.

Yuankong also felt a little uncomfortable. After all, he was a monk. He was less serious than Baozhu, and said coldly, "Okay, you don't have to come over these two days. When the Rong family comes, you can just go back with them."

"Yes, master." Baozhu choked up, forcing back tears.He got up and came to Yuan Kong, knelt down, and kowtowed three times to Yuan Kong.

(End of this chapter)