Datang beauty walk

In the summer afternoon, the red sun scorched the earth, seeming to urge all things that are growing luxuriantly to grow faster and mature earlier.

Although the trees are shady and the flowers are bright, this does not make people feel the vitality of life in the same way—the scorching sun makes people feel hot in their hearts.At this time, many people cannot bear the hot weather and cannot afford to get sick.

However, this is just a change in the weather. A sudden incident, like a bolt from the blue, broke people's peaceful life.The original life is no longer going on. No one knows what will happen on the road in the future. People are just tired of coping with the things in front of them.

The troubles in life are one after another endlessly, but what can be done?Natural disasters, man-made disasters, and diseases have been the source of human suffering since ancient times. Who can escape their suffering?

Although people living in this world cannot avoid natural disasters all the time, if they can get rid of those man-made evils, probably, people will suffer much less pain.

The weather is sweltering, as the old saying goes, the coolness comes naturally when the mind is calm. For those who cannot calm down, this kind of weather will make them even hotter.

Outside the gate of Xia Mansion, Xia Mingde jumped off his horse and hurriedly walked towards the door, wiping the sweat from his head with his sleeve while walking.

Xia Mingde hurried to the backyard room, where Pu Yu was learning how to do needlework with her mother Mrs. Xia.Seeing Xia Mingde walking in with a panicked expression, Mrs. Xia and Pu Yu stood up together.

"master!"

"father!"

Mrs. Xia and Pu Yu shouted.

"Pack up your things, let's leave Chang'an! Where's Pu Shan? Are you at home?" Xia Mingde said to them in a hurry as soon as he entered the room.

"Pu Shan is at home. What's the matter, master? What happened? Why did you leave Chang'an so suddenly?"

Mrs. Xia asked in surprise.

"A major event happened in the palace! When His Royal Highness the Crown Prince entered the palace this morning, he was shot and killed by King Shimin of Qin. The palace blocked the news. I only found out about it when I saw someone who had escaped from the palace on the way to the Prince's Mansion. Yes! We must get out of here as soon as possible!"

"Master, you joined the army at the prince's mansion, and the prince was killed, will we...?" Mrs. Xia asked nervously.

Xia Mingde rubbed his hands, walked back and forth in the room for two steps and urged:

"Hurry up, let's go now!"

"Master, where are we going to escape?" Mrs. Xia was also sweating.

"Going to Yangzhou, you should prepare first, and ask someone to tell Pu Shan to pack everything you need to bring into the box. I have already asked Xia An to deal with the sale of the mansion. When you are all packed, we will leave immediately!"

As Xia Mingde said, he took off his official uniform, changed into casual clothes, and went out in a hurry.

Puyu's family was in a state of restlessness and panic. They only loaded some valuable and portable things into the carriage.Those big items that cannot be moved can only be left with great reluctance, either pawned or retained.

Before leaving, Pu Yu and Bi'er stood in the mansion courtyard, looking at every plant, every tree, every brick and every tile with reluctance.They looked up again and looked at the blue sky above their heads.Mrs. Xia said sadly:

"This is the family handed down from our ancestors! We are sorry for our ancestors!"

Xia Mingde also looked back at the house he had worked so hard to manage, and sighed helplessly.

The family got into a carriage and took a few servants and maids who had not dispersed, escaped from Yanxing Gate in Chang'an, and embarked on the journey to Yangzhou.

The housekeeper, Xia An, quickly found a buyer. With Xia Mingde's consent, he sold the mansion to a man surnamed Zhu at a low price. The reason why it was so easy was because the news of the mutiny in the palace had not yet spread widely.According to Xia Mingde's order, Xia An sold the house before catching up with Master Xia and the others.

When Puyu's family left Chang'an and arrived in Yangzhou, her uncle had already found a house for them.They settled down in Yangzhou, but their life did not calm down.Xia Mingde heard from the outside that many of the people who followed the prince were arrested and thrown into prison.This news made the members of the Xia family uneasy day and night.

But not long after, I found out that Li Shimin, the king of Qin, had ascended the throne and became emperor, and the court had issued an order not to pursue the people in the prince's mansion, and those who had worked with the prince had been pardoned.

Although the court has a new order not to pursue the old officials who are addicted to the prince, but below, there are still some people who go to the government to continuously expose those who have been with the prince in order to receive rewards for greed, and the government will still punish them.This caused Xia Mingde and his whole family to live every day in fear.

Before Xia Mingde led his family out of Chang'an, he asked the housekeeper Xia An to run errands to contact him, and sold his ancestral house to an adult named Zhu in Chang'an City.

After Mr. Zhu took over the summer house, he carried out a comprehensive reconstruction of the mansion - tearing down the old walls, rebuilding high walls, and building five pavilions with nine frames; digging out flowers and trees, digging ponds to divert water, and building water pavilions and pavilions .

The old peach tree that once bloomed in the courtyard has declined year by year since that time. It only bloomed for five or six years and died a year ago.

And that little peach tree, under Bi'er's diligent watering, has grown year after year, with luxuriant branches and luxuriant essence, which is different from other trees.It gradually gathers spiritual energy, and it can understand human nature, which is miraculous!

However, Puyu, Bi'er, and members of the Xia family did not know about this supernatural power.

It looks at Puyu and Bi'er every day, grows beside its tree, witnesses their little things, their joys, sorrows and joys, and grows and grows with them.

Today, although it can transform into a human form, but after all, its skill is insufficient, and it cannot escape this disaster independently.

The roots of the old peach tree were dug out, and the young peach tree was also dug out of the ground.When the small peach tree was dug up, a carpenter was working in front. Seeing the beautiful shape of the small peach tree, he thought:

"Wouldn't it be a pity if this tree trunk was used as firewood? I have a craft, so why not use it to make hundreds of shuttles, at least I can get dozens of taels of silver."

Thinking of this, the carpenter went to the steward, drew a few tens of pennies, bought the trunk of the young tree, and took it home.

Since then, after returning home from work every day, the carpenter has dealt with the trunk.He cut off the twigs and leaves, carefully planed, polished and painted carefully. With his skilled craftsmanship, he made more than 70 small shuttles, and made a cabinet with the remaining materials.

Then he took the shuttle and the cupboard to the street and sold them to a silk shop for [-] Wen. The shopkeeper made a net profit of [-] Wen after selling them.

In the first few days after the small peach tree was dug up, its primordial spirit was still able to support it, and it wandered around the tree day and night.Later, its fallen trunk was moved away.On the seventh day after it was dug out, the primordial spirit gradually weakened because it had nothing to attach to.

☆、Peach Spirit