sinking into sand

Yu Sha waited in the inn until the lights came on, but Guan Lan didn't come back either.

As early as Xun Er, when the rain stopped in the afternoon, I was in a hurry to go to the street to find out the news.Wearing a bamboo hat, she asked the people around her.

Guan Lan was taken to the Jinzhan Pavilion this time, causing a lot of noise. In just one day, many rumors spread.

The most common theory is that the Jinzhan Pavilion heard that there was a beauty in Pingchunfang, and they were eager to pull it to appreciate it.

This is still the normal version. Others say that Yu Wangling is happy, and Yu Shaomiao is married. The imagination is rich, the content is indescribable, and so on.

There are other sadomasochistic versions, saying that Guan Lan is Yu Shaomiao's lover raised in Pingchunfang.After Yu Shaomiao died, he left the Jinzhan Pavilion's tens of millions of gold property to the golden widow, so Jinzhan Pavilion rushed to find someone.Xun Er likes this version better. Although it is far from the truth, she also likes it.

She spent the whole afternoon outside, listening to a lot of stories, but she still couldn't hear any useful news, so she had to go back angrily.

Yu Sha was staying in the inn. He was still confident that he would be back soon.But the more time was delayed, the later it became, so late that he also began to feel uneasy.

When Xun Er returned to the inn without finding anything, he looked at her, and then felt that he might have made a wrong move.

But it was already too late.

"I'll go out for a while." Yu Sha stood up and told Xun Er, "Take care of the shop."

Xun Er originally didn't want him to go out, but right now there is nothing he can do.She doesn't know martial arts, if she really breaks into Jinzhan Pavilion again, only Yu Sha will go.

"Brother, you have to be careful." She said worriedly, "Come back quickly when you find your sister-in-law."

Yu Sha almost sprained his feet when he heard her words, looked at her incredulously, and held back for a long time.Still didn't hold back anything, and went out the door with a strange expression on his face.

What kind of sister-in-law is not sister-in-law? This girl really doesn't know what kind of nonsense she heard again, and she doesn't know where she is going.

Yu Sha was walking on the street, the rain stopped for a while, but the ground was still wet.

He walked across the corner, intending to leave Pingchunfang in front of the market, but unexpectedly met a person.

Hua Cuibi was standing on the corner of the street, talking to a group of beggars.Beside him is an oiled paper umbrella painted with peonies.

She still looks like yesterday, but she has changed into a brocade robe, embroidered with butterflies and flowers.It's obviously a pattern only for women, but he still looks good in a man's clothes.The umbrella he was carrying was also not plain, it was painted with strong peonies, big and big flowers, with water marks running down the umbrella ribs, which only made it look miserable.

Just like Hua Chuibi.

This person is considered a figure in Pingchunfang, as can be seen from the commotion caused by that remote brothel yesterday.

He was listed as a teenager.At that time, men's style was not yet flourishing, unlike the past few years that have been opened everywhere, even traditional brothels have to fill two young men to show the current fashion.The men at that time were really not nice.

He happened to be in such a mess by Pingchunfang.

When the little beggars saw someone coming, they looked back one after another.Yu Sha recognized the little one he had seen yesterday.Before saying anything, those children seemed to have made an appointment, and quickly ran away through the surrounding alleyways.

Only Hua Chuibi was left alone.

When he saw Yu Sha coming, he seemed to stop here on purpose to wait for him.She put away the peony umbrella beside her and turned to look at him.

In fact, Yu Sha and Hua Chuibi had friendship before, but that was all when they were too young.Over the years, Yu Sha has been running back and forth between Jinzhan Pavilion and Pingchunfang, changing identities again and again, all the past has long been sunk in the quagmire.No one can bring it up again.

But when he saw Hua Chuibi again, he still felt shocked and sad.

The world has been in chaos for so many years, even if it is changed to today, and Yu Sha is asked to say who is the most pitiful person in the world, Yu Sha's statement will not change.

The most pitiful thing in the world is the orphan who lost his parents.

Once you lose your protection at an early age, you are no longer a person.Maybe it's a livestock, maybe it's an object, or maybe it's just a dust stone on the side of the road, it's not a person anyway.

He used to be like this, and so was Hua Chuibi.

Hua Chuibi looked over, her eyes were different from those in the backyard of the brothel yesterday.He looked at Yu Sha with inquiry in his eyes.

"I see you are very familiar." He opened his mouth first, "I felt it in that courtyard before, I just thought it was coming and going in Pingchunfang, so I recognized it."

He tilted his head slightly, showing a different kind of doubt. He looked cute, but Yu Sha felt cold in his heart.

"But I heard from the children yesterday that you gave Xiao Liu a coin directly." The corners of Hua Chuibi's mouth curled up, forming a smile with those petal-like lips, but there was no smile in his eyes. "Such generosity is not what an innkeeper should have. Nor is it the attitude that a person in Pingchunfang should have."

He stopped laughing, his expression became stern.

"Who are you, and where did I meet you. Can you explain to me?"

Yu Sha remained silent. He actually fled to Pingchunfang, so he was prepared to meet these people again.

Unlike Yaoniang Xuner, the type of person represented by Hua Chuibi is an old acquaintance he really doesn't want to see again.

After a while, he said, "More than ten years ago, the first T-shaped room in the dark alley. I slept on the rightmost bunk under the corridor."

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"Do you want to hear about Shaomiao?"

In the Jinzhan Pavilion, in the small building in the middle of the lake, Yu Wangling is making tea for Guan Lan.

It's a bit condescending for him to do this kind of thing as a pavilion master.But Guan Lan accepted it calmly.After he finished pouring it, he picked it up and drank it. I don't know if he tasted it or not, but his posture is also pretty.

Yu Wangling looked at him with a smile, not surprised to see from Guan Lan's eyes that he was interested in this matter.

Only then did he open his mouth calmly: "The tea you just drank is called Beauty Lips. It got its name because the shape of the leaves resembles the lips of a beauty. If it doesn’t come out in the right shape, it won’t taste good either. That’s why one or two tea leaves are worth one or two gold.”

Guan Lan didn't know why this person wanted to talk about Yu Shaomiao, but he talked about the tea leaves first, and asked in confusion, "So?"

Yu Wangling smiled: "Back then, Shaomiao wandered around from Zhulin Temple to dark alleys, and her worth was worth a sip of tea."

That was also 13 years ago.

Thirteen years ago, two major events occurred in the world. One was the Jian'an Rebellion. Di Kou from outside Quhuo Pass invaded the Central Plains.

The second thing is that there was a scandal in the Imperial Temple of the Dingzhou court.

It's actually not a big deal, it's just that the monks in a temple couldn't stand the loneliness of the rules and raised a child molestor in the backyard.

This is not uncommon. The world is in chaos. Naturally, many people who want to seek comfort in the troubled times find various ways to protect themselves, and becoming a monk is one of them.

Although you have to observe some rules, at least you saved your life.

In troubled times, people still have a three-point awe of temples and other places.It may be the fear of ghosts and gods, or it may be that the temples are lonely. There is really no oil and water, so it is better to sweep a village.

However, not all of these people who become monks only for the sake of ease have pure six senses.He can pretend for a while, but after a long time, he can't restrain his original temper.

Among them, it is not a trivial matter for someone to break the precept and open meat occasionally, and it happens from time to time to rob travelers in temples in the dark, even if people are killed.Not to mention the other precepts on self-cultivation and self-cultivation, they are really full of scriptures and should be heard as farts.

But among these precepts, the most tormenting is the need of three inches below the navel.

What kind of heroes can these people who can become a monk in troubled times seek comfort?Those who violated the female pilgrims who came to offer incense were considered ordinary erotic stories.The worst and nastiest things are the more insidious ones, the sordid business of hunting down orphans who have lost their parents.

In fact, this kind of thing happened before, but it was all quietly, as if I still had to save my face, and I didn't dare to say it.However, when the Jian'an Rebellion occurred, refugees everywhere and orphans everywhere, the direction of this matter changed.

Child prostitution in the monk's temple once became a business, and people are really strange, the more troubled times are like this, the more unrestrained they are.

Those nobles who couldn't stand up their backs to face the rogues and soldiers turmoil dispelled all the family hatred and national hatred with nowhere to go to the weaker people.

Maybe it's the lonely women who are wandering outside, or maybe it's the children who have no care.

The latter might be more suitable, the bad nature of men in the world, after many years of touting young girls, don't they just like tender ones?

These days, girls can marry as wives at the age of fourteen or five.It's okay to be smaller.

Is this disgusting or not, disgusting.

But is there a way, no.

In the beginning, they were just some little-known small temples, wild temples.Later, the fire burned more and more intensely, and finally burned to the so-called Huangsi.

It's no wonder that whoever says that those high-ranking officials don't like this funny thing.

But these official temples and emperor temples are different from other places, that is, in these temples, there are some dragons, horses and phoenixes living in a serious manner.

So as soon as the fire came over, it finally caught fire.

"There was a big fire in Zhulin Temple that year, so far there are still different opinions." Yu Wangling said, "I only know that it was because a noble person was mistakenly mixed into that dirty work, but I don't know who it is."

Yu Wangling spoke cleverly, leaving some space for Guan Lan to pick up.

But Guan Lan was like a rock, he just said one sentence after he finished speaking.

"I don't want to hear about those things."

Yu Wangling laughed immediately.

He asked, "What does the young master want to know?"

"I know that he disappeared in Zhulin Temple in the end, and after many years, I heard that the Lijiang Yu family found him back."

Guan Lan said: "I want to know what happened between and after this."

He looked at Yu Wangling with an unmistakable firmness in his eyes: "I also want to know why he died."

This look, so sincere, so sincere.Guan Lan came with a feeling of loneliness and full of sincerity.

If it is at this moment, Yu Sha is standing in front of him.Maybe no matter how dark and difficult those past events are, they will tell them all.

But in front of him is Yu Wangling,

Yu Wangling smiled.

He opened his mouth.

"Then let's start with how Shaomiao was found by Jinzhan Pavilion."