Chapter 16 Yecheng (V)
It turns out that Yin Ruotang has been borrowing wine to dispel his sorrows in the past few days, but that wine can't dispel his sorrows at all, but instead adds to his sorrows. Even when he was drunk, Yuan Xi still appeared in his dreams.
Yin Ruotang thought that he would put Yuan Xi down and forget about him, but after trying for the past few days he realized that he simply couldn't do it.
Yin Ruotang did not know why he had come here by magic, and what could he do here? Both families were court officials, and for the sake of his family, it was even more unlikely that Yin Ruotang would do anything to take Yuan Xi far away. Even if he was willing to do so, he was not completely sure that Yuan Xi would be willing.
He didn't know why he came here, he just wanted to see her. Perhaps he wanted to use the strength of his drink to voice the unspoken regrets, or perhaps he wanted to still see her before Yuan Xi entered the palace.
"Miss!" Ying Yun and Ying He called out lowly, apparently also seeing Duke Yin's untimely appearance.
"This way! I don't want to see him!" Yuan Xi said and turned the corner.
Yin Ruotang held the wine pot in her hand and stumbled along the way without raising her eyes, and before he saw her, she and the two maidservants, had already turned aside in a flash.
The whole Ronghua Temple is located in the north and faces south, and once you enter the temple, there is the Three Gates Hall, three gates standing side by side, one big and two small, symbolizing the door of emptiness, the door of non-phase and the door of non-doing, respectively. Behind the three gates is a long corridor, and behind the corridor is a lotus pond. After the lotus pond is the Hall of the Heavenly King, from the three gates through the corridor and the lotus pond can look straight into the Hall of the Heavenly King's giant Maitreya Bodhisattva.
On the west side of the Heavenly King Hall is the Drum Tower and on the east side is the Bell Tower. Behind the Hall of Heavenly Kings is the Da Xiong Bao Dian, which is the core building of the whole temple and the place where all the nuns concentrate on their practice in the morning and evening.
Behind the Da Xiong Bao Dian was the Nian Bao Hall, the place where the temple did morning and evening classes and preached sutras before. And the squatters that Yuan Xi lived in were on the east side of the entire temple, so in order to avoid Yin Ruotang, they had to go west.
And the west squatters corresponding to the east squatters are bhikkhunis and incense dwellers, Yuan Xi several people unknowingly walked to the west squatters this side of the west squatters, west squatters at the end of the place against the north there is a temple is quite different, this is a rather gorgeous building, not like ordinary bhikkhunis living place.
Seeing that the door was unlocked, Yuan Xi assumed that this was where his aunt lived and carried Ying Yun and Ying He directly inside.
Inside the scenery is quite good, a few plum blossoms in full bloom, covered with snow, adding a little more mood. Plum tree under a few bamboo chairs, and a stone table, stone table with a pottery vase, bottle also inserted a branch of plum blossoms, this scene is not cozy, not like a bhikkhuni living place.
Yuan Xi was about to look more closely when a woman's voice interrupted her searching gaze.
"Who is the visitor?" A clear voice came out from the courtyard.
Yuan Xi followed the sound and saw a woman with two maids walking out of the temple. This woman is wearing dark purple dress, embroidered with peonies in love with the gold silk group pattern, wearing a red gold and jade amethyst glazed crown, left and right each inserted a pair of filigree luanfeng gold shakes, dressed in rich and noble very just now, this is the words are from the mouth of this woman out.
Yuan Xi was shocked in her heart and thought to herself, could this be the forbidden place that her aunt had mentioned? But having arrived, one cannot just turn around and leave, so Yuan Xi replied, "I am the niece of the presiding officer of this temple, and I have no intention of intruding here."
"Oh! No wonder you're not dressed as a nun!" The woman in Chinese clothes smiled gently.
Seeing that she was so dressed up, and that the door to the temple was wide open here, not like the forbidden place that her aunt had spoken of, Yuan Xi also boldly asked, "Dare I ask who my sister is?"
"Daring! Our master's identity is also something you can know!" A maidservant-like person next to that dressy woman suddenly reprimanded.
Yuan Xi was admonished a little bit unable to get down, an identity only, what is rare, but others both do not want to say, also do not have to force to ask, not to mention that she is just polite to ask, the woman's identity is admittedly not much interest.
Before Yuan Xi could open her mouth, the woman smiled gently and said, "No harm done!" And continued to speak to Yuan Xi, "You came here to visit your aunt?"
Yuan Xi replied, "I don't live in the temple all for the sake of visiting my aunt, but mainly to participate in this year's selection."
"Election?" The woman in fancy dress muttered in a low voice, then as if she suddenly reacted, she suddenly asked in a sharp voice, "Are you saying that His Majesty is going to select showgirls this year?"
This universally known thing this woman didn't know, her expression was really a bit strange. Seeing her out-of-place expression, Yuan Xi only nodded without saying anything.
"Ah! How did that happen! How could this happen!" The woman in fancy dress suddenly went crazy, shouting and screaming.
Seeing the woman in fancy dress like this, the attendant maid said, "Our master has an old illness, please go back, girl!" Then she helped the woman in Chinese dress to walk towards the house in a hurry.
"One and all bewitching demonic spirits of the Lord, how can I let you leave just like that!" The woman in Chinese clothes said as she folded back and picked up the porcelain vase on the stone table and smashed it on Yuan Xi's forehead.
It wasn't until blood oozed from his forehead that Yuan Xi reacted to the shocking turn of events.
"Ah! Miss! You're bleeding!" Ying He said in horror.
"How can this be good!" Ying Yun was also at a loss for ideas.
"Quickly help your lady back! Our master is suffering from an old illness, and we don't know what will happen if we stay here any longer!"
Ying Yun Ying He understood the meaning of that servant girl's words, her master should be extremely sick, then also immediately helped Yuan Xi out. Before reaching the door, the sound of porcelain breaking and the woman's scream came from the house.
Yecheng was located in the north, and the climate was colder. However, the blood oozing from his forehead trickled down his cheeks, and had solidified slightly before he could walk back to the squatters.
"Miss, this time must find a doctor to see, such a big mouth left a scar can not be good?" Ying Yun said painfully.
"That woman can be really strange, just now was fine, how to say crazy crazy? Not to mention her own madness, she also smashed people indiscriminately, if she can't participate in the draft due to her injury, how can it be good?" Ying He said.
Yuan Xi did not say anything, just let Ying Yun Ying He two people help themselves to the squatters walked quickly. Yuan Xi vaguely guessed that is the aunt mother in the mouth of the forbidden land, but this forbidden land is actually living in such a bit of clothing expensive woman is she really did not expect.
In fact, it is not that the door of the forbidden place is not blocked, but today happens to be the day when the woman takes medicine, in the past, at this moment there will be people who will go to deliver the medicine, so open the door is to wait for the soup, who knows that they are waiting for Yuan Xi.
When Yuan Xi returned to the squatters, Yin Ruotang searched in vain and went back long ago, and Ying Yun asked Ying He to hire a bone-setter. The injury is a small injury, apply some jade cream will not leave a scar, but after the last Yuan Festival will be selected showgirls, Yuan Xi's injuries these days will not heal.