Bright Spring

"What do you mean?" Monk Yao asked.

Yao Ji said: "In the Spring and Autumn Period, there were hundreds of kingdoms, and Ming Dynasty had only one kingdom. Even if Ming Dynasty had Fan Li, he could be compared with the prince? Besides, I have committed myself to him."

Monk Yao thought about it for a while and stopped talking. He stood up and said, "My sister must find a way and try her best to gain King Gaoyang's trust. You can't stay here for long, I'm leaving first."

"How about..." Yao Ji suddenly said.

Her brother turned his head to look at her at the door, Yao Ji said: "Why don't you tell my uncle that I don't want to be a spy anymore. As long as my uncle agrees, I will swear: I will die for what happened to my uncle before." Won't say it."

Monk Yao sneered, and pointed to his forehead, "Sister, think again."

...Yao Ji was dazed in the mansion for a while, then went out to the Jiming Temple.

As soon as he entered the temple, all the nuns ran in nervously, and after a while, the abbot came out with a group of old nuns.The host looked at Yao Ji, clasped his hands together and said, "Amitabha! Yao Ji, you were also a Buddhist. My Buddha is merciful, so don't be too hostile."

Yao Ji said, "I want to stay in the temple for two days."

"Yes, yes!" The host actually bent over her.

So Yao Ji went straight to the Nunnery, accompanied by the abbot himself, and told the people around him: "Who lives in Yao Ji's previous room? Tell her to vacate immediately."

"Yes, host." Someone replied.

The host came up and said to Yao Ji: "Buddhists don't care about power, and don't care about worldly affairs. But this temple is located in the inner city of the capital, at the foot of the emperor, how can it defy the royal family's wishes?"

Yao Ji said: "I said some harsh words on the day the city was broken. But after so long, I don't want to care too much."

Perhaps it was because she felt a little tired at this moment that she said this.If you really want to take revenge on everyone who treated her badly, that would be too much.

"It's all Empress Ma's intention, not the poor nun's intention." A nun said, she beat Yao Ji and made Yao Ji clean the toilet, now she hastily said.

Yao Ji glanced at her, but said nothing.

The host said again: "Amitabha!"

Yao Ji entered the nunnery, and as soon as she got to the hut where she lived, she heard a loud noise outside.The torrential rain finally came down, the rain splashed and splashed, and even the place near the door in the house was soon full of water.

She looked at the rain curtain outside the door, and all the halls and ancient pagodas became hazy.The noisy sound of rain made people feel peaceful. Perhaps the heavy rain covered up the hut, giving them a feeling of being forgotten.

In an instant, Yao Ji suddenly thought, if she escaped from the world like this, the Qingdeng Ancient Buddha would not be too bad.But this idea was just a spark, because she knew very well that the temple outside the secular world was just another river and lake.

Just like now, is it because she has been a nun that she can live here?

Chapter 179 Reunion in the Rain

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The rain in summer is always so fast, and it can't be prepared for when it comes suddenly.

Until the next day, the heavy rain did not stop.This was Zhu Gaoxu's second visit to Jiming Temple. He had just entered the temple when he heard two people talking about how to deal with the newly arrived nuns, so Zhu Gaoxu angrily grabbed the two nuns and came to the nunnery.

"The poor nun dare not lie, the person who spoke was indeed not Yao Ji..." A nun was defending.

At this moment, a door opened, and Yao Ji stood at the door, holding an oil-paper umbrella in her hand, and she stood there, staring at Zhu Gaoxu who seemed to be drowned for a long time with her bright eyes.

Standing in the heavy rain, Zhu Gaoxu straightened his waist and looked at her through the rain curtain. He let out a long breath.Yao Ji's big eyes seemed to be filled with mixed feelings, she let out a "chi" laugh, and quickly covered her red lips with her hand.

She gently placed the umbrella at the door, and walked out into the heavy rain step by step. The light hair on her head was immediately soaked by the rain, and the clothes were quickly soaked and stuck to her plump body.

When Yao Ji walked in front of her, Zhu Gaoxu saw the rainwater flowing down her jade-white and clean neck and onto the plump skin around her neckline.

Her emotions seemed to be complicated, but her demeanor was gentle and calm. She obviously walked into the heavy rain and drenched with Zhu Gaoxu, but she didn't feel the slightest impulsiveness.

"As soon as I knew about that, I looked for you everywhere. I visited this temple yesterday." Zhu Gaoxu said, "I searched for many places but failed to find it. After thinking about it, I came to Jiming Temple again, and I found it. .”

Yao Ji raised her head to look at his face, and finally said: "I know the princess is not wrong, if not for that eunuch pretending to be powerful, I wouldn't be angry."

Zhu Gaoxu nodded and said: "The princess is still young, don't blame her too much. It would be more appropriate if she told you first, after all, it is your cat."

Yao Ji couldn't help showing surprise when she heard this, and looked at Zhu Gaoxu's face with great interest.

After a while, she asked softly, "That's the princess of the county, the prince really thinks I'm so heavy?"

"In this world, there is a distinction between high and low status, and it's still on the surface, but people's self-esteem shouldn't be different." Zhu Gaoxu mused, "Come back with me?"

"Yes." Yao Ji nodded slightly.

So Zhu Gaoxu picked up the drenched Yao Ji by the waist and strode out of the temple in full view.He said again: "I'll buy a cat and a parrot in a while, let's forget about it, how about it?"

Yao Ji nodded again.

... Zhu Gaoxu returned to the palace, changed into dry clothes, asked Wang Gui to drive a felt cart, and went out to buy birds and cats himself.

When he arrived at Flower and Bird Street, he first chose a little yellow cat and then a parrot.I finally found a shop with parrots, but there was only one parrot.The color of its coat certainly cannot be compared with the one that General Song Sheng brought back from the Western Regions.

The shopkeeper said: "This parrot is a bit stupid, it doesn't know how to learn human language, it's better than cheap, as long as you have five treasures."

While listening, Zhu Gaoxu teased the parrot: "Stupid bird, stupid bird..."

He couldn't find any other parrots for a while, after hearing what the shopkeeper said, he took out the five-guan treasure note and bought it for a cage.

Unexpectedly, just as he was about to take it away, a cry came from the cage: "Stupid bird, stupid bird!"

Zhu Gaoxu immediately turned his head and looked at the innkeeper, the innkeeper said: "The guest officer only chanted one word, no matter how stupid it is, it can learn it."

Leaving Flower and Bird Street, Zhu Gaoxu asked Wang Gui to drive the felt cart to Jilongshan, and was not in a hurry to return home.

He cared about Yao Ji, but he didn't trust her too much!

Zhu Gaoxu first went to Jiming Temple, found an old nun, and asked Yao Ji when he came to Jiming Temple.The old nun answered truthfully that Yao Ji came yesterday afternoon or late at night.

I asked two people in a row and got the same answer.At this moment, Zhu Gaoxu had to think about a detail: Yao Ji ran away from home yesterday morning, and arrived at Jiming Temple almost late in the evening. It took so long, where did she go?

He left Jiming Temple with an umbrella, and when he passed Xiangzhu Street down the mountain, Zhu Gaoxu asked Wang Gui to drive to Xiangzhu Street.He first asked about the shop opened in that temple, but Yao Ji had never been there.

Then Zhu Gaoxu thought for a while, and then went to the mansion where he lived in the capital last year, the place arranged by Monk Qingyuan.

The courtyard door was locked, and there was no answer after knocking on the door a few times, so Zhu Gaoxu told Wang Gui to wait in the car, and climbed over the wall to enter by himself.The door inside was locked, and Zhu Gaoxu didn't have a key, and he couldn't unlock it.He walked around to the small door of the kitchen room, pushed it lightly, and then pushed hard on the latch with his palm, and the wooden wedge inside broke with a "click".

Zhu Gaoxu walked into the kitchen, gently picked up the short logs on the ground, picked up a piece of wood from the firewood pile, picked up the hatchet and whittled it into a wooden wedge, and inserted it on the door latch again.

He walked in slowly, looked down at the ground, and as soon as he reached the dining room, he found footprints on the ground.This mansion is usually unoccupied, and there is dust everywhere, as long as someone walks by on the ground, it will be stained with dust.

Taking advantage of the light coming in from the window, Zhu Gaoxu squatted down and observed carefully.The footprints hadn't been left for too long, maybe just the last few days, and they weren't the footprints of a single person.

Zhu Gaoxu stretched out his hand, pinched a small footprint, and put it on the sole of his own foot for comparison.After careful observation, he thought it was a woman's shoe print.The women of the gentry and landlord families in the Ming Dynasty could bind their feet, but it would not deform their bones, which looked normal; and those who needed women's labor at home would not bind their feet.So Zhu Gaoxu had to observe a bit before he could tell whether it was a child's or a woman's shoe print.

The size of another footprint was obviously left by a man.