Better to live forever [Rebirth]

The first day of the twelfth lunar month.

It snowed last night, and it didn't stop until it was dawn. The snow melted outside, and it was a bit colder than yesterday.Lou Anning booed, and several people squeezed on the frame of Changxinhou. After Ning Heng became an adult, the frame of Changxinhou's mansion could be upgraded to a more spacious four-wheel drive. It is still used all the time. The double-drive carriage was empty when I was a teenager, but now there are six slender young men of almost the same stature, so close to each other that their knees almost touch their knees.

But this didn't affect their mood at all. According to Lou Anning's words, the weather is so cold, it's only warm when they are crowded together.

The carriage stopped at the foot of Huguo Temple, and the rest of the road had to be walked.

Lou Anning has been busy working in the Ministry of Industry for the past year, and has been so lazy in martial arts for a hundred years. Seeing the spire of the Heroic Pagoda of the Huguo Temple from a distance feels a bit overwhelming.His elder brother is a little better than him, but only a little bit. Apart from the affairs of the Ministry of Industry and the ancestral property of his grandfather's family, he has to work hard, so he doesn't really have much leisure time.On the other hand, Jia Jiaming, whom they were most unfavorable to, was sweating, but had plenty of spare energy.

Lou Anning asked if he went to train hard behind their backs, and was laughed at by several people.

Several people rested in the pavilion before heading up the mountain.

The Empress Dowager is still recuperating in the temple, so Ning Heng naturally wants to see her here, and Aunt Zhang Gong Qiyu comes out to greet her, apologetically explaining that the Empress Dowager is listening to the Dharma, and it will take more than an hour to finish.Ning Heng didn't wait too long, and they planned to go to the top of the peak to get the Zhuangyuan Spring and then come to visit, and asked Aunt Qiyu to convey it on her behalf.Aunt Qiyu's face changed slightly, but she still responded with a smile.

Several people who didn't know it all noticed Ning Heng's slightly indifferent attitude towards the Queen Mother, but they didn't bother to ask. It wasn't until some distance away from the Huguo Temple that there was no one there, Lou Ankang thought it over: "I don't know how the Queen Mother is. It's been almost a year since her old man has been practicing in the Huguo Temple?"

Ning Heng said: "The Empress Dowager is already in good health, but she only devotes herself to the Buddha, and has not asked about the affairs of the world for a long time."

Several people heard the words, Qin Xi scratched his head and said: "Then the empress dowager has returned to the palace for the New Year's Eve?"

"Perhaps, it's not easy for us juniors to guess what our ancestors thought."

Ning Heng's words were understated, but several people could hear the deep meaning in his words, this matter should not be inquired casually, the less you know, the better, so they also kept silent.Turning to talk about the scenery, Lou Anning said: "Although I don't know if the Zhuangyuan Spring is as powerful as the rumors say, but the plum scenery along the way is worth the trip. The higher you go, the plum blossoms are more blooming than the ones down the mountain. Better."

"The fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold. It is colder here than at the bottom of the mountain, and the snow is thicker. The plum blossoms naturally bloom better."

Lou Ankang replied.

Qin Xi said: "I haven't seen the painting that Changsheng made back then. Changsheng, whenever you are painting, give me a copy, and hang it in my room when the time comes, so that my grandmother won't always talk about my room. It's full of heavy stones."

Zhu Dingbei said with a smile: "I'm unfamiliar with my craft, when I have time to draw with you, even if I dislike it, I have to hang it in the most conspicuous place."

"sure."

While joking, I reached the peak without knowing it.The sun is high, and the sunlight is strong on the snow-covered mountain top, and the greenery is scarce. When looking down the mountain, the scenery is very spacious and pleasant.

Lou Anning took a deep breath and sighed, "Although it's a bit cold, it's very fresh and clear. I heard that last time a student who was rushing for an exam also went up the mountain to the Zhuangyuan Spring, but he just stood on the top of the mountain for a while, and suddenly His face was purple and he fell to the ground, but he didn't scare his companions out of any good."

Zhu Dingbei had encountered a similar situation before, and he said to Lou Aning who dismissed him, "The breathing air on the top of the mountain is a little thinner, and it is common for the weak to not be able to bear it."

"Haha, you don't know about Changsheng. It would be better if there is no such thing as the number one scholar here. The scholar is only half a step away from the spring. It is always rumored that he has no chance to be the number one scholar. I heard that he can't stand it. Going to Hualou to get drunk, I got very close to Liu Xiucai." Lou Anning said, thinking of something, she looked at Jia Jiaming and said, "If you feel uncomfortable on Eleventh, you can open your mouth. It doesn't matter whether the test is good or bad, don't force yourself."

Jia Jiaming accepted his kindness with a smile.

The Zhuangyuan Spring is very rare, it is frozen for thousands of miles nearby, only one place breaks out of it, and the clear spring water flows out, it tastes sweet, which is really rare.

Ning Heng said that he wanted to take it and use it, which was more than Jia Jiaming took. They stayed on the top of the mountain for a long time, overlooking the mountains and Luojing City in the distance, talking about the sky and the earth. The man was full of pride, until the sun was shining fiercely, and the reflection was too much before he set foot on the return journey.

After lunch, Jia Jiaming went to listen to Zen and order plums, but Ning Heng did not go with the Queen Mother because of an appointment.

In the twelfth lunar month, there is an endless stream of believers coming and going to Huguo Temple, but you can hear needles falling quietly in the wing rooms in the backyard of the temple.The sound of the wooden fish beating one after another fell on the heart of the person, making people feel clear and depressed at the same time.

The empress dowager knelt on the futon and chanted scriptures with only the table and silk clothes. Ning Heng sat quietly and listened for a long time, but in the end the empress dowager couldn't match his patience. Get up after worshiping.

"Heng pays homage to the Empress Dowager."

Ning Heng performed a perfect etiquette, and after waiting for a while, he didn't see the Queen Mother shouting, so he straightened up by himself.

"Why are you here today?"

The Empress Dowager stared into his eyes, Buddhism Qingxiu did not erase the worldliness in her eyes, on the contrary, she came with a bit of reluctance.

"I came with my friend, so I came to see you."

"Come and see me? What's so good about my old lady. Don't you know the life I'm living right now? Now I have nothing, and it's all thanks to you!"

"The empress dowager is serious."

Seeing that he was not moved at all, Queen Mother Ning tightly closed her lips, enduring the boiling anger in her heart.Even though she still has the honor of a queen mother of a country, she now understands that a queen mother who is not valued by the Ning family is nothing.She regretted the impulsiveness at that time, but she didn't realize that she had done something wrong.If Ning Heng died instead, what she did was the best arrangement for the Ning family.It's a pity that they don't understand her, and they all think that she is just because of their own selfishness.

After a while, she finally said, "I have nothing else to ask for now, I just want to know, where did you take him?"

"He? Who is the Empress Dowager referring to?"

"You know who I'm asking!"

She was very annoyed, but Ning Heng smiled instead, "The empress dowager is really affectionate and loyal, and she will never forget the old love. Not enough, the eminent monk Huiqing has traveled abroad and has not returned. Even if I am the head of the Ning family, I have no right to interfere with his freedom. What do you say?" Woolen cloth?"

"You! Impossible. If you were the hindrance, how could he..." As she spoke, the Queen Mother seemed to have thought of a possibility that would frighten her. She suddenly opened her eyes wide and said in a hurry: "No, I will Don't believe it, Aijia doesn't believe it."

If the eminent monk Huiqing would rather travel far than return to his roots because of her stay here, then how embarrassing she would be.

Ning Heng looked at her strangely, he didn't understand that the empress dowager, who had seen so many ghostly methods in the harem, and who was once the best among them, would be so naive.

Aunt Qiyu, who heard the Queen Mother's questioning and crying outside the house, finally couldn't wait anymore. She came in and saw the Queen Mother looking at Ning Heng angrily, and her heart trembled.She lowered her body and said: "Patriarch, the empress dowager did not intend to come in and ponder, please don't be offended."

Ning Heng responded, and Aunt Qiyu hurried forward to appease the Queen Mother and held her in her arms.

Before leaving, Ning Heng said: "The empress dowager is not in a good mood, so please ask the master to teach me a lesson or two. Since the fate of the world is disturbing, it will be good to cut it off."

Aunt Qiyu was startled, and replied respectfully: "I will follow the instructions of the Patriarch."

The queen mother whose hands and feet were pinned by her pressing the Ya point could only watch Ning Heng step out of the door, and when she turned around, she was cut off from her sight.

After returning from the Huguo Temple, the next day to celebrate Jia Jiaming's new residence, several people had a lot of fun calling friends.

Apart from Zhu Dingbei and the others who came here with gifts, Liu Feifei and Gao Jingning, who were negotiating the age of their marriage, did not avoid suspicion and brought a few close friends.Liu Feifei gave her cousin a pair of embroidered items that were not given away to foreigners, while Gao Jingning and the others sent some paintings and some porcelain ornaments to express their congratulations.

Su Donghai also came with Liu Zhang, a romantic scholar, and he did not shy away from the fact that the two had a close relationship, and the two even played a song together.But because this place was once the residence of a generation of literati and Confucians Chen Ge, the two dared not bring the melodious music of the land of flowers and willows here, and it was rare to play a piece of elegant music.

In the morning of the next day, the servants who sent the maid picked out a dozen or so servants, and established the rules. Jia Jiaming and Shui Sheng, who stayed in Chen's house to assist in general affairs, went to Zhenbeihou's mansion together.

Before the food and wine were on the table, the old lady couldn't wait to inquire about the arrangements at his house, from the ancestral hall dedicated to Mr. Chen Ge down to the winter clothes of the newly arrived young lady. It was convenient and he couldn't wait to order someone to quickly make up for the Chen's mansion that was sent to him. The momentum wished that the entire Hou's mansion would be emptied to him.

The old lady was afraid that he would not eat well, so she cooked a few dishes herself and asked the kitchen to add a few more dishes to fill the table.Her old man persuaded him to eat more from time to time, Zhu Dingbei watched from the sidelines and pretended to eat with a smile: "Grandmother, you are serving vegetables and soup, and I don't know who is your biological grandson." .”

"Why is Eleven Lang not my grandson?" The old lady said angrily, "Eleven, don't listen to him talk. You grew up under my nose. We Zhu brothers don't talk about blood relationship. One set, if the feelings are true, then you are a real brother. You are the brother of Changsheng, and my old lady has the audacity to treat you as my grandson, as long as you don't dislike it..."

"You mustn't say that, I know no matter what, I won't have any trouble with you."

Jia Jiaming held back his sore nose and said hastily.

The old lady looked at him with pity, not pity, but genuine distress.This is a good boy, but God gave him more tests and made his life more difficult.

"Grandpa Changsheng and your master are brothers who are close friends. According to his affection, you should teach me how to be an aunt."

Jia Jiaming hurriedly put down his chopsticks, got up and saluted, and called, "Auntie."

The old lady immediately smiled and took his hand to express her love. Seeing him blushing, she turned away and said: "You are still young and your family is not yet established. If there is anything you don't understand about the general affairs of the mansion, just ask someone to come and find you." Old lady, it is not easy to start a family business, Changsheng and you are brothers and should help each other, and my aunt is afraid that you will alienate us."

Jia Jiaming repeatedly said no, and several assurances made the old man feel relieved.