Picturesque Rivers and Mountains in the Red Chamber

Chapter 22 1.22 Not many can catch up with our grandma
Volume One

1.22 Not many can catch up with our grandma
Time has entered mid-February, and the lush spring has slowly covered the entire land without reservation. Even in the rolling Western Mountains, the greenery has brought a breath of life to the mountain forests that have been desolate for a winter. Tiexuan Temple is located In the mountains is the Ningrong Erfu Family Temple. Its rather exquisite architectural style becomes more prominent against the backdrop of spring. However, in the guest rooms in the backyard, the "spring" seems a bit too exposed.

"Huh—" He breathed a long sigh of relief, Zhou Yang hugged the enchanting woman in his arms tightly, and saw Li Wan lying on his body weakly, "Gong Cai, don't you come out too often these days? Your mansion Is there no problem? If I remember correctly, it is generally difficult for the ladies of our noble families to have the opportunity to go out, but during this period."

"Don't worry, my young master, have you forgotten the amulet that grandma asked me to bring you before entering the examination room a few days ago?" Seeing that Li Wan was too lazy to answer, Su Yun next to him couldn't help laughing, " That book was obtained from the Iron Kan Temple, and grandma prepared two of them.

A few days ago, Uncle Xiaolan was not feeling well, and he finally recovered completely. Grandma asked her ancestors to fast and worship Buddha in the family temple for three days. She also specially gave up a monk's robe for each of the monks in the temple, and made another promise. I hand-copied twenty copies of the "Diamond Sutra", which solved the problem. I expected to have a good rest, but I didn't want to, but I made you fail. If I had known better, I wouldn't have told you about grandma's coming. "

"I'm sorry for you." Zhou Yang hugged Li Wan tightly, and couldn't help but kiss her for a long time, "Let's not talk about the situation here, Lan'er's side."

"You didn't call me Lan'er." Li Wan hit him angrily and turned over to lie on the side. "This time you were hit by Wu Xiucai, and you were completely freed from the white body. I can't congratulate you on that day, but I still want to Show your face, what's more, what this damn hooves said is right. I originally wanted to fulfill my wish for Lan'er, but unfortunately, you have violated it here, and you have polluted this pure place of Buddhism. If there is any punishment from the Bodhisattva, I only wish to fall. Don’t find Lan’er in this miserable person like me.”

"Don't worry, if those bald donkeys are really useful, I'm afraid they should have rained down thunder and chopped the nunnery opposite to the ground." Zhou Yang said angrily, "As for going to hell after death, it's a pity that I If you don't believe in Buddhism, even if you die, you should be under the jurisdiction of my Chinese gods, and it's not the turn of those bald donkeys—oh!"

"Amitabha, don't blame the Bodhisattva!" Li Wan muttered cautiously, and then said seriously to Zhou Yang, "Please be careful what you say. You need to know that there are gods three feet above your head. You should be in awe on weekdays and never talk nonsense. ——What's wrong with Shuiyue An? Master Jingxu is also an eminent monk in the capital. On weekdays, she first enters the backyard of various houses in the capital. I've seen her several times, why do you say that?"

"That place is better than the publicly listed buildings, even worse than half-closed doors." Zhou Yang said angrily, and by the way told the situation of Shuiyue Temple he encountered for the first time, "It's the city. The buildings listed here dare not play like this, and I was able to make a sudden intensive training this time, thanks to the supplement of most of the old wild ginseng that came out of it, otherwise I really wouldn’t dare to carry the training so hard.”

"How is that possible!" Master Li Wan and his servants were all dumbfounded. They were completely deceived by such words as "Uncovered Dharma Meeting", "Forcibly Pulled", "Sage's Time" and so on. "Master Jingxu often served for the ancestors and I have seen my wife lecture and teach the Dharma more than once on a daily basis, how could she..."

"Uh-huh." Zhou Yang didn't care at all. The popularity of the Internet in modern society and the collapse of various personal settings have long made the majority of sand sculpture netizens immune to lightning strikes. "Also, Tiekuan Temple is the family temple of your Jia family, right? It's hard to say. What on earth is going on? The reason why I went to Shuiyue Nunnery last time was because of the guidance from the temple gatekeeper monk. I don’t believe that he really didn’t know. Don’t forget that Shuiyue Nunnery is a nunnery. How can I introduce men to a nunnery? Guest?"

"Since you have been hit by Wu Xiucai this time, I think you are ready to continue to move up." I don't know how long it took, but Li Wan was completely speechless. Finally, he spoke, but abruptly changed the subject, "I heard Qingwen said, after you won this time, Shilipu people helped celebrate a lot, and even the whole village took action to rebuild your tavern? Do you still need some money? "

"No need, what they want is not money." Zhou Yang also wisely did not mention the Shuiyue Nunnery issue again, "I am a junior student of Wu Xiucai. According to the court rules, in addition to a little lumi per month, I also have twenty The land for study is tax-free. You know I have no land at all. I promised the landowner the quota of twenty acres. I don’t care about the specific arrangements. From now on, I only need to give me half of the court’s tax every year. .

Then there are the people around me. I will definitely become an official in the future. A general will naturally have his own soldiers. It’s a bit early to find them now, but it’s not impossible to get two to take with me first. The specific arrangements haven’t been decided yet. I’ll wait for the tavern. We won’t talk about it until it’s completely built. Anyway, there are only two more people around, and at most they can take care of the food.

Also, the scholar allowed five people in a household to be exempted from hard labor. In addition to myself and two soldiers, there were two left. These were also given to Shilipu. I don’t care how they arrange it; in this world, With the clan as the foundation, I naturally don’t have a single family, so I just take care of this village and treat it as my own clan. "

"None of these concubines can help me. I can only wish you a bright future." Li Wan nodded lightly, "But now that your tavern has been demolished, can you find a place to live? If it's inconvenient, the old house You know, you're welcome, not to mention that sister Qingwen has been here these days, she is quite capable." "Master, these few times I have been there, I have seen that the courtyard is almost the same every day, and that girl is almost destroying the courtyard. It's been tidied up again. If it weren't for the lack of money, I doubt she would have renovated the entire old house." Su Yun said with a smile, "Grandma hasn't been able to get over these days. If she had, I'm afraid she would be shocked. .”

"Don't worry, I won't be polite." Zhou Yang smiled, spread out his arms and hugged the master and servant tightly, "I owe you too much. I've long since had too many lice, so I don't have to worry about too many tents. , I am just staying with you forever, and when I have a future, I will not treat you badly."

"What do I care about with this burnt paper?" Li Wan sighed softly, his mood completely inconsistent with his actual age of just over 20 years old, "I just hope that you can give Lan'er some help when you are free in the future. I’m afraid the government won’t be able to take care of him anymore.”

"Burned paper?" Zhou Yang couldn't help but laugh. In modern times, he had been playing cosplay and knew the original work of "Red Mansions" very well. This sentence was often used by female relatives to laugh at themselves, but it was just Li Wan today. "You are only in your twenties, why are you so pessimistic?

I came back from overseas and know a lot about the West. There are many girls there who stay in their 20s or even 30s and never marry for the sake of their careers. Not to mention that according to medical point of view, they are actually considered normal. As an adult, where are you?Regardless of these things, you are now in the season when flowers are in full bloom, and it is still early for them to wither! "

"How can a woman do this? Isn't it against women's ethics?" This was Li Wan's first reaction.

"Master, slave, is grandma really as good as you say?" Suyun's statement was obviously much more normal.

"Isn't it possible that my attitude towards you last night wasn't enough?" Zhou Yang teased with a smile, and exchanged a few small fists, "You just don't have confidence in yourself, and it's not like you haven't seen the family members of other families. As the saying goes, ' If you're not afraid of seeing them, you're afraid of comparing them. How do you know what they look like?"

"Back to the young master, since... disappeared, grandma has stopped going out to socialize for some time." Li Wan had a bitter expression but said nothing. Suyun no longer had so many worries, "When the servant went out with grandma, the family members of each family Indeed, I have seen quite a few, but there are really few who can catch up with our grandma."

"Why are you talking about these useless nonsense? I'm not pregnant." Li Wan's eyes were already red, but he still interrupted the two of them with a forced smile, and once again changed the subject abruptly, "Since Lang Jun is already Scholars should pay attention to their future and prepare for the martial arts examination in August.

In addition to the content of the scholar examination, this provincial examination actually added two more contents. One is mounted archery. The requirements are to shoot arrows with a half-stone mounted bow, sit on the horse and shoot nine arrows three times, and shoot 35 steps at the archery target. The results are the same as the requirements for infantry archery. , the third grade is qualified, the fifth grade is excellent, but this provincial examination is different from the scholar examination, it is difficult to pass if you don't achieve excellence.

The other is to draw a hard bow, which is mainly to prevent scholars from cheating in the examination and then pretending to be qualified. The provincial examination will be held in the provincial capital, so there is no need for such trouble in the capital. Shuntian Prefecture has its own arrangements, but the hard bow is directly monitored by the Ministry of War. Carrying is divided into twelve strength, ten strength and eight strength. One strength is ten kilograms. There are also strong bows with more than fifteen strength. With Lang Jun's strength, this is not difficult. "

"It's true that there is no trouble with a hard bow, but riding and shooting is a bit troublesome!" Zhou Yang gently hugged Li Wan's master and servant, and his tone was not very confident, "The main problem is that I still don't know where to start!"

"Half a stone riding a bow, I will prepare it for you. Please forgive me for my incompetence in the rest." Li Wan also smiled bitterly, "I can only hope that your husband will be careful!"

(End of this chapter)