The Biography of Concubine Xi of Yongzheng

Chapter 201 Kuding
Yan Hua was originally full of anger, she didn't eat anything on an empty stomach early in the morning, and she was tricked by him into drinking such a big mouthful of bitter tea, how could she not be angry?
The bitterness is like after you have worked hard for a day, a table of delicacies is placed in front of you. When you are about to feast on it, someone suddenly tells you that the table of delicacies is made of stone and you cannot eat them.There is a saying that a dumb person eats Coptis chinensis—it is hard to tell, Yanhua has never eaten huanglian, but she feels that the tea she drank just now is no less bitter than huanglian.

But when she heard Yinzhen say such a sentence, the anger in her heart dissipated without a trace.

He said that she wanted to find someone to taste the bitterness with him, a pun, was it to taste the bitterness of the tea with him, or did he want someone to be by his side when something difficult happened?

Yanhua's heart suddenly softened into a mess, and she was no longer angry. She opened her cloak and was about to sit on the stone bench next to her and drink this bitter tea with him.

"Wait." Seeing that she was about to sit down, Yin Zhen hurriedly stopped her.Yan Hua glanced at him in bewilderment, but saw him give a sign to Wei Chang'an next to him.Wei Changan understood, and immediately asked someone to bring a futon mat and put it on the stone bench, and then let Yanhua sit down.

Yanhua's heart warmed up, and the little pear dimple at the corner of her mouth immediately turned up.She smiled sweetly, sat on the futon cushion, picked up the cup of tea that she had just placed on the stone table, and took another sip.Her nose and eyes were wrinkled again immediately, the tea was too bitter.

"This is Kuding tea, which can quench thirst and improve eyesight. You sip it in small sips, and you will have a sweet aftertaste." Seeing her expression, Yinzhen laughed twice, then looked down at the tea on the stone table. game of chess.

It was only then that Yanhua realized that the stone table was a chessboard.Just now she only noticed that Yinzhen and the Zen master were talking, but she didn't see that both of them were pinching chess pieces in their hands.I saw that the game of chess on the stone table had already been played, and the red commander in front of Yinzhen was completely besieged by Heizi. There was a chariot in front of him, a cannon jumping on the left, and the horse on the right not only stuffed Heizi's elephant eye, but also Block the road to the right of Shuai...

This is a deadly chess game, no matter how Hong Zi struggles, it is doomed to die.

Yanhua looked up at Yinzhen in surprise, in her heart, he is almost omnipotent, she never thought that Yinzhen would lose to that Zen master in chess.But even if he lost, he lost so calmly.

Yanhua swallowed the certain amount of Kudingcha in her mouth, her mouth was full of bitter smell, she tried to taste it patiently.It didn't know how long it took before she recovered from the bitterness and noticed a faint fragrance swirling in her nose.

She hadn't sat down for a while when her stomach started growling disobediently.At first, she just yelled, but in order to avoid embarrassment, her stomach made a series of noises, as if she was protesting.

Yinzhen's thoughts were interrupted, he turned his head to look at Yanhua, there was a touch of tenderness in his clear eyes: "Hungry?"

Yanhua lowered her head in embarrassment, full of guilt: "I'm sorry to disturb you, I'll go elsewhere..."

She said that she was about to get up and leave, but Yinzhen grabbed her hand: "Wait, I will bring the buns later."

Yan Hua's eyes immediately lit up when she heard this.Not to mention steamed stuffed buns right now, even a bowl of gruel would make her happy.

Sure enough, not long after, a guard came with a bowl of buns.It's just that the buns on this plate are made small, and they are not off-white like ordinary buns, but have a slightly pink luster.

Yanhua suspiciously picked up a piece, put it under her nose and sniffed it, revealing a faint fragrance.After smelling this, she became even hungrier, so she quickly took a bite, which was stuffed with mushrooms, which was very delicious.Her eyes lit up immediately, and she chewed carefully in great surprise.Mushrooms are already delicious, and the mushrooms in the mountains are even more tender. Yanhua only thinks that she has never eaten more delicious buns than this one.So she quickly ate the bun in her hand, and when she reached for the second one, she realized that Yinzhen had been watching her eat, and had no intention of eating together.

"Aren't you hungry? Don't you want to eat?" She withdrew her hand awkwardly, and looked at Yinzhen with concern.

Yinzhen pursed his lips and shook his head: "I won't eat it, I'll eat it tomorrow after praying for blessings. You don't have to eat too much, it's better to be more devout."

There are a total of six small buns in this plate, all of them are pink, because the red juice of purple amaranth is mixed with the noodles of the buns, so they appear this color.The people in the temple only ate steamed buns on weekdays, and rarely bothered to eat steamed buns. This time, it was because of Yinzhen's status that he took the trouble to make such a plate of steamed buns.

Seeing her outstretched hand and withdrawing it embarrassingly, Yinzhen slightly curled the corner of his mouth and smiled: "Eat another one, don't waste it."

Embarrassed, Yanhua was about to refute him, but suddenly felt that her stomach should not be wronged, so she silently reached out to grab another bun and brought it back.This time she ate much slower than before, because the buns left on the plate no longer belonged to her, so she cherished the little buns in her hand that were only half the size of a palm.

"You still want to eat, why don't you fight for it?" Yinzhen suddenly gave her a strange look.

Yan Hua froze for a moment, the last bit of steamed stuffed bun that had just been put into her mouth landed between her white teeth before she had time to bite.She chewed quickly, taking advantage of this time to go through what he asked in her mind.

He asked the Zen master before, if it is not his own, but if he wants it, should he fight for it?Now he asked her again, she still wanted to eat the steamed stuffed bun even though it was in front of her eyes, why didn't she ask him to order some more... So, the doubt in his heart was the same as before, and he just wanted to ask someone else?

Thoughts were spinning, Yanhua turned over all the ink in her stomach, but she couldn't think of words that could compare with Zen Master's words.

After chewing the buns in her mouth, she decided not to think so complicated, so she replied truthfully: "I'll just fill my stomach, and leave the rest of the buns for them to eat." After all, she was very happy. The good man raised his head to look at Huaying and Wei Changan, with a charitable and generous appearance.

Yinzhen raised his eyebrows: "If you don't eat, you will starve to death, why don't you fight for it?"

Yan Hua was stunned, and the corner of her mouth twitched.She picked up Yinzhen's cup, poured a cup of Kuding tea, and drank it to quench her thirst.After drinking it, she realized that the tea was bitter. She immediately frowned tightly, and stared at the quilt with bitterness and hatred, her eyes almost burst into flames.

She suffered so much that her voice became hoarse: "Of course I want to eat, why should I starve myself to death?"

Her brows were frowned, and her mouth was slightly opened, hoping to spit out the bitter taste in her mouth.She was making up Yinzhen's bad words in her heart again, she really didn't understand why he was always so unpredictable, and she couldn't figure out why there was something in his words.Even if he eats buns properly, he will make things difficult for him. Can he still live a good life?
Yin Zhen glanced at her with satisfaction, the expression on his face was very happy.He asked Huaying to re-brew a pot of Longjing tea, and poured a cup for Yanhua himself: "I'm fasting today, I shouldn't drink this kind of tea with too strong taste. It's just that Buddhists also have a saying about penance, so it's okay to eat more. Will not offend the Buddha."

Yanhua secretly rolled his eyes at him: I have suffered a lot, you are just laughing at me.Who can't say big words, if you have the ability, you can drink two glasses of it and try it?snort!
However, after all, she only dared to make up a few words in her heart, and did not dare to speak them out.

Yinzhen seemed to be suddenly enlightened, and the doubts in his heart were finally resolved.He also no longer looked at the game of chess on the stone table, it was a deadly game, why bother to make unnecessary struggles.

He stood up and spread his palm towards Yanhua. Seeing this, Yanhua grasped his big palm suspiciously. It was warm and slightly rough: "Where are you going?"

Yinzhen showed a knowing smile: "Look at Hongfeng."

They went up to the turret in the northeast corner, and as far as the eye could see, large swaths of red leaves were swaying slightly in the mountain wind, swaying one by one, like Lingling water waves in the sun, surging one after another moving.Every time you take a breath, you can smell the calming incense in the temple. The exhaustion from climbing the mountain yesterday gradually became silent in the distance.

Yanhua held Yinzhen's hand tightly, with a moment of hesitation in her heart.How could she be able to get him to treat her differently?When she first entered the mansion, she thought that with her humble status, a good death would be the best.She never thought that Yinzhen would treat her so affectionately.She is not greedy, as long as she always has a place in Yinzhen's heart, that's enough.

At this moment, she suddenly wanted to hug this man tightly, but she was in the land of Buddhism, and she didn't want to be abrupt.But the passion in her heart needs to be released, so she stretched out her other hand and hugged Yinzhen's arm tightly...

They stayed in Xiangshan Temple for two nights, and when they left on the third day, Yinzhen accidentally caught a small porcelain doll in her hand, and asked casually, "Where did this come from?"

Yanhua followed his gaze and saw that he was staring at the little porcelain doll in her hand, subconsciously grabbed the porcelain doll and carried it behind her back, faltering and saying: "The little master in the temple gave it to me. "

Yinzhen took a deep look at her, didn't say anything, just held her hand and walked down the mountain together.

Yanhua secretly stuffed the little porcelain doll into the hands of Huaying behind her, signaling her to hide it.

The two went down the mountain on foot, and as soon as they reached the foot of the mountain, they saw a familiar figure——Thirteen!It turned out that after Xiao Qi gave birth to a daughter, she always believed in her heart that it was the Guanyin Guanyin from Linyin Temple who gave her a beautiful daughter so soon, and she kept clamoring to come here to fulfill her wish!Shisan couldn't hold back her, knowing that Yinzhen was going back today, he brought Xiao Qi over early in the morning to fulfill his wish, and reckoned that he could go back with Yinzhen.

When Yinzhen saw him, he suddenly nodded.Thirteen was stunned for a while, with surprise in his eyes.

He quickly took two steps forward and pulled Yinzhen aside: "Fourth brother figured it out?" Seeing that Yinzhen nodded affirmatively again, he quickly smiled and said, "That's good, I don't have to worry about second brother all day long .”

But his face immediately darkened again, and he gave Yinzhen a sad look: "Fourth brother, I don't know because you haven't been here for the past two days, I heard that the matter of donating officials secretly arranged by the second brother may be exposed ..."

(End of this chapter)