Lin Jinrong said goodbye to Zhiping and Zhiqing in silence, put on the purple veil, and led the women back to Zhuangzi with Litchi and Guiyuan, who were obviously having a conflict.
As soon as she entered the door, she saw Miao Ya, whom she had sent to look for Lin Shiquan earlier, "slipping" out of the shadows beside the door. While winking at her, she said: "Girl, we have a guest. Young master Lu Jiabiao will bring you."
The little book boy was traveling around the mountains and rivers. Unexpectedly, the bridge collapsed and fell into the river. My brother happened to catch peach blossom fish and saved them. At this moment, my wife was talking to the young master Ciao, and asked you to come over when you come back.
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Seeing Miao Ya's relaxed and smiling face, Lin Jinrong knew that Lu Yan had not told the truth about the matter. However, he did not go to Tao's place immediately. Instead, he went back to the house and looked at the withered and sprouting plant outside the window.
The wintersweet tree is in a daze.
"If you don't want to go there, girl, why don't you wash your feet and take a nap? I'll go tell my wife that you're tired and have dinner before going over?" Lizhi didn't know what happened to Lin Jinrong outside today, but he saw her wet face covered with mud.
From the shoes and the gloomy expression, I could guess that things were not going to be good. Later, when I saw her sending Miao Ya to find Lin Shiquan, I guessed a little more - most of the time Lu Yan's master and servant fell into the water because of her. Seeing this now
Lin Jinrong looked like this, so he subconsciously guessed that she didn't dare to go there.
"Yeah." Lin Jinrong really didn't want to go over and see Lu Yan's face at the moment. She needed to calm down. In addition, after struggling for a long time, climbing up and down, she was indeed very tired, and her head was pressed against the pillow.
After a while he fell asleep.
The overcast sky, the dry and white ground, the withered yellow reeds, the Jiangshen Temple standing silently in the cold wind, and the victims running around crying in all directions.
The dazzling snow was full of blood, and it was bloody red.
Lychee was shouting desperately: "Run, run..."
She ran away desperately, her feet hurt so much, and her chest felt like a fire was burning, causing her internal organs and throat to throb...
"Hiss..." Lin Jinrong sat up in pain and looked around in confusion.
The sun's shadow is setting to the west, and the greenery outside the window is full. Under the window, there is a white rattan couch covered with an azure semi-old swastika with endless brocade mats. In the corner, a celadon engraved flower scroll pattern incense burner is exhaling the fragrance of flowers. On the table
The peach blossoms in the shrug beauty's vase are brilliant, and everything tells her that she is in her own room.
She breathed a sigh of relief, subconsciously hugged the quilt, staring at the plum pattern on the quilt in a daze. She had been busy with things in Zhuangzi recently, and rarely thought of the past, but this dream just now was so...
Real, not even the slightest distortion that often occurs in dreams.
She tried her best not to go back to that scene, but it always appeared in front of her eyes.
The few days she waited for Lu Mian were the coldest days in her memory. Every day, there were always victims waiting for the boat, regardless of Jiang Shen Miao's wishes, and took down all the things in Jiang Shen Temple that could make a fire to keep out the cold.
.Tear off the clothes and curtains worn by the statue of Jiang God and cover it with cushions. Remove the wooden doors, windows, and altar tables, and light a fire in the main hall. They cook soup and boiled pancakes with medicine on the fire, and there are everywhere.
The strange smell, the cries of children, the high and low hums of the elderly, the angry scoldings of men, and the low complaints of women.
She and Lizhi were lucky and didn't have to squeeze in with those people. When they weren't going out, they hid in Jiang Shen Shen's hidden utility room. Miao Zhu and his adopted daughter locked the door and piled a few piles of hay outside.
The world is completely isolated from the two of them. Although there is no heating brazier and the quilt on the small bed is very thin, the master and servant are close to each other, but they are not cold, and there is no need to worry about anyone coming to intrude.
Although their food was not good, they were full and she was really satisfied.
It's just that she was always worried. She saw countless people coming and going with their families, but she couldn't see a familiar face, so she couldn't ask about her family and Lu Mian. Until that morning, their eyes
They were all sore when they finally saw a familiar face. It was a descendant of a branch of the Lu family named Lu Ji.
Although Lu Ji was a descendant of a side branch and his family was poor, he often went to the Lu family before. Until Lu Lun died, the Lu family was closed to visitors for a long time, so he disappeared. Although she and Lu Ji were not close
We have only met each other a few times, but in such a precarious moment when everyone is in danger, when I see a familiar face and a relative, my heart is always a little happier and a little more cordial than usual.
She was pleasantly surprised and asked Lizhi to invite Lu Ji over for questioning.
When Lu Ji saw their master and servant, he was obviously surprised: "Why is the second sister-in-law here?"
She asked him hopefully for news about her family and Lu Mian. Lu Ji told her simply that he only knew that the Lin family had also suffered a disaster, but he had not seen the Lin family. When he mentioned Lu Mian, he looked at her for a long time.
Silent for a long time, he sighed and said: "Second sister-in-law, the situation is very critical. The bandit soldiers are about to kill you. You'd better not wait any longer. Why don't you come with me first and slowly join up with your second brother. Although I don't
Although I am not very talented, I can at least take care of you two weak women."
She was always stupid and couldn't understand the meaning of the words. She just shook her head: "No, I promised to wait for your second brother. What if he can't find me?"
"Second sister-in-law..." Lu Ji sighed, shook his head, hesitated to speak, his face full of sympathy.
She subconsciously felt scared, her heart tightened, and she said in a trembling voice: "What's wrong?"
Lu Ji sighed: "It's okay, it's okay. You just have to leave with me first. If you avoid this disaster, I will help you find your second brother. You will keep the green hills and don't have to worry about having no firewood. The bandits will be scary when they come."
The more he didn't say anything, the more scared she became, thinking that something unexpected had happened to Lu Mian, and she begged him to tell him.
"I really don't have the heart to tell you... But what the second brother did is really unethical. I saw it with my own eyes. He took his third uncle and third aunt on a donkey cart to go another way. I'm afraid he has passed by now.
The river is gone."
This news was like a thunderbolt from the blue. It shocked her mind. She didn't believe it. He had obviously given her most of his money and valuable jade pendants, entrusted Miao Zhu with a lot of money to take care of her, and asked Miao Zhu to help find a boatman.
Yes, how could he just abandon her and leave? Could it be that the money and the jade pendant were left for her to live in? Is finding a boat a pretense? He actually wanted her to believe that he would definitely come back?
After that, she only saw Lu Ji's lips moving constantly, as if he was comforting her, and also seemed to be persuading her and Li Zhi to follow him. Li Zhi pulled her and shook her vigorously, calling her name loudly, and she managed to gather her energy.
, holding on to the last bit of hope, asked Lu Ji: "Besides you, who else saw it?"
Lu Ji smiled bitterly: "Second sister-in-law, I didn't dare to tell you earlier because I was afraid that you wouldn't believe it. Look, I really don't believe it anymore. But why should I lie to you? Let me ask you, does my second brother wear a sky blue suit?
He was wearing a silver squirrel's robe, black leather boots on his feet, and a blue knotted scarf on his head?" Then he casually grabbed his companion and said, "Let me ask you, did we see Brother Lu accompanying the two of us the day before yesterday?
An old man went to the south in a donkey cart?"
Although she didn't know his companion, the man's expression was extremely certain: "Yes, we saw it with our own eyes. He even called him, but he pretended not to hear."
Lychee said with a trembling voice: "Did you see it wrong?"
"Did you see it wrong?" Lu Ji sneered: "We are relatives, not enemies. Why should I lie to you? It's up to you whether you want to follow us or not. I think we are all clansmen, and you are two weaklings.
It’s for a woman’s sake that I’m willing to meddle in this business, otherwise I’ve eaten too much, right?”
His companion hurriedly stepped forward to smooth things over: "Why are you angry? Madam-in-law, you might as well think about it carefully. The bandit soldiers are really coming soon. If you don't leave, it will be too late. You two single women, my wife is young and beautiful, if not
I'm afraid it's not safe to be guarded by people. There are no boats here anymore. We have horses. We can go to the county house ahead to take a boat..."
She rejected them. She wanted to wait.
Lu Ji tried to persuade him twice more, but he couldn't persuade him and left alone.
She leaned on Li Zhi's shoulder and couldn't cry. Li Zhi comforted her and said that maybe she had seen it wrong or that Lu Ji had lied to her. But she thought, how could she have seen it wrong? Lu Mian was indeed wearing that kind of clothes.
, besides, she and Lu Ji had no grievances, she couldn't think of any reason why Lu Ji would lie to her, or what reason he had for lying to her.
She and Lizhi waited until dusk, until the snow fell all over the ground, until there were fewer and fewer people, and finally Lu Mian was not there. What was waiting was bandits, and what was waiting was death.
That's it! Lin Jinrong rubbed his forehead tiredly, got out of bed, and prohibited himself from thinking any more.
When Guiyuan heard the commotion, she walked in with a smile and said with a smile: "Girl, my wife has asked people to come over twice to ask, did you sleep well?"
Lin Jinrong said dullly: "What do you ask?"
Guiyuan never stopped laughing: "Why don't you go over? Are you feeling unwell? Do you want to ask Mr. Shui to hold your pulse?"
"I'm fine." Lin Jinrong couldn't help but shudder when he thought of the unpalatable, numbing, sour and bitter medicine that Mr. Shui had prescribed to him because of his irregular menstruation earlier. No wonder Lin San was
The master would complain that the medicine was unpalatable, and indeed it was. It was really hard for Mr. Tao to take it for years without frowning.
"Young Master Cousin has caught a cold, and Mr. Shui has prescribed a prescription. They will stay in our village for two days. My wife asked Young Master Cousin about Mr. Zhu. From what I heard, she seemed to want our seventh young master to follow Mr. Zhu.
It’s like reading.”
This girl knew exactly what Tao and Lu Yan were talking about. She had been haunting Tao's yard while she was asleep, visiting Lu Yan. Lin Jinrong frowned in displeasure.
Frowning: "That will happen several years later. The seventh young master is still so young, but he has just started to learn. Mr. Zhu will not accept it."
She had already thought about this when she heard the Tiehuai family mention Zhu Meng'e, but considering that Lin Shenzhi was too young, it would be better to follow Mr. Lin, and becoming a disciple would only happen after the age of ten, so she didn't mention it.
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