By Jia Xiuzhen

When Mrs. Xing fell into a deep sleep, one of the serving maids gave the other a wink, and the two of them retreated quietly.That one said: "Why didn't you let me talk just now, it's obviously the one I said at the beginning!" The other said indifferently: "Say what you do to show that you can? My wife has this temperament, whoever you trust, you can sell it!" What's so good about it? You, you'd better live in peace, and try to show yourself elsewhere, then it won't be a good thing."

The one said unhappily: "What do you mean by that? I didn't do anything wrong. Why did you say nothing? If it wasn't because your grandma was a companion, who would listen to you?!" The girl with indifferent brows sighed and said: "Others will think about it, but you will say it! I only told you that as your own person. In our house, the less obvious Only those who come by themselves can live a good life. Think about the people around your wife, Liuyun, Fentao, Jixiang, Meixiang... Where are they now? You want to go by yourself." After saying that, he still had a faint expression , Gu Zi went, and she didn't go to the house to serve, but only gently cleaned and wiped the outer room.

Besides, Jia Lian had had enough messing around with the inside, and Jia Amnesty had another rare treasure to appreciate with his close friends, so he asked the boys to throw Jia Lian out, and Jia Lian just took the opportunity to escape.After coming and going, I have to make a scene in front of Mrs. Xing.As soon as he arrived at the outer room, he was stopped by a girl and said, "Second Master, please stay, the wife just rested now."

Jia Lian squinted with drunken eyes, sneered, and looked at the girl who was speaking. She was just in her prime, and her figure was slim, but her face was too ordinary, so she snorted coldly and said in a loud voice, "Greetings to my wife, the master still has something to offer." I have an errand to tell you, so I can't stay long, so please let me know." The girl said calmly, "I don't dare to call you the second master, please." Then Jia Lian went out in a crooked step.

Ping'er was leading Sister Feng's order to go back to the house to pick up things and give them away. Seeing Jia Lian coming back drunk from a distance, she knew the master's temper. If she saw herself in the house, she might not get well. It made Sister Feng unhappy. It was really a loss to my wife and a soldier.With a flash in my mind, I said to Feng'er: "Send it to the girls once, and then go back to grandma, and I will send the rest." Feng'er agreed and went, and Ping'er also led people out. Let's go, leaving only two little girls who have just left their heads to watch the door.

She quickly went to the other end with a few steps. Jia Lian returned to the courtyard at this end, but seeing it was deserted, she found someone to ask, "Where did your grandma go?" He hurriedly replied: "Grandma and his wife are entertaining a few wives today, I'm afraid they won't be back until after dinner, sister Ping'er, sister Feng'er and the others have all taken errands out, and when they're done, they have to wait on grandma."

Jia Lian said angrily: "If you serve grandma and grandma, you don't have to serve me?" The little girl said: "Go to Hu Tian's house and see. If Hu Tian's wife is here, you can say that the second grandma asked her to do something." Then she took out a jade pendant with lotus blossoms and stems from her purse, and said: "You Give her this and she'll know."

The little girl took her order and went to Hu Tian's house in the back street. It happened that Hu Tian's wife was at home, so the little girl said: "Hu Tian's family, my grandma told you to do something." Putting it into her hand, the daughter-in-law looked down and understood immediately, then took two pieces of pastries from the table and handed them to the little girl, "Wait a minute, I'll go with you after I change my clothes." After talking about changing the inside and outside of the house, he followed the little girl to the yard.

In addition, Ping'er asked people to take the things and sent them to Aunt Xue, Mrs. Wang and so on. He didn't take anyone with him, so he went to Li Wan's yard alone.After entering the courtyard gate, there was no sound of people around, except for a few birds chirping occasionally on the branches among the trees.Mrs. Wang took Sister Feng out to socialize this day, but Li Wan didn't have anything to do. Looking at the movement, could it be that she is taking a rest?Then he lightened his steps.

Just as he was walking in, a little girl came out. When she saw Ping'er, she hurriedly saluted and said, "Miss Ping is here. Grandma is taking a rest." Ping'er then asked, "How many is Suyun Biyue?" He smiled and said, "Sister Suyun and Biyue are behind." After saying that, he led the way forward, took Ping'er through the veranda and turned to the back of the house, and from a distance, Suyun and Biyue were half curled up. Bamboo curtains are peeling lotus pods under the porch.

The back was cleaned up by Li Wan in the early years, but a place the size of a room was covered with velvet grass, surrounded by small pines, cypresses and green willows grown in ceramic pots and porcelain altars, and some jasmines, gardenias and jade-colored jasmines. A few more flower stands were set up, and the hanging threads swayed along some green vines, adding to the leisurely interest.Look at the two of Suyun and Biyue again, one is wearing a snow-green gauze shirt, with an ivory-colored embroidered pleated skirt underneath, and the other is covered with a pink and white gauze gown with a bamboo green bijia, and a moonwhite lotus leaf skirt underneath. Dun, surrounded by a low table, on that table was a green bamboo ingot basket piled with fresh lotus pods.The backside is shaded and ventilated, which is a good place to escape the summer heat.

Seeing that it was Ping'er coming, the two of them stood up and laughed, "Why are you free to come here now? I'm afraid there is something urgent." Ping'er also approached and said with a smile: "Grandma just got some new foreign things, let us I sent them to various places, so I specially picked them up so that I can visit your place." Biyue smiled and said, "Then you are here, it's a hot day, and it happens to be cool here." Then she turned her head to look at that person The little girl who led Ping'er in said: "Miao'er, here is a herbal tea fruit."

The little girl responded crisply, came back after a while, and took out a mother-of-pearl and lacquered star anise food box, and took out a plate of fruits, a plate of pastries, and a pot of tea from the inside, and took out three pairs of carved cups with ears from the bottom layer The dish was placed in front of the three of them, and they poured tea one by one.Ping'er praised: "What a nimble girl!" Miao'er raised her face and smiled, and retreated with the empty food box.Suyun then said: "This girl praises a lot of people, but it's not our credit. She was born in several generations of the family in this mansion. The rules are poor, so she can teach them well." Ping'er shook his head and said, "That's not the case. Said, several generations of slaves have forgotten how slaves look like, this family is out of order."

Biyue didn't want Miao'er to be missed, so she quickly changed the subject and said, "You are lucky, this fresh lotus pod was just picked today, try it quickly." Ping'er wondered: "There are also some in our yard." Lotus pond, why is this so strange." Biyue laughed and said, "You'll know after peeling it yourself, it's from grandma's farm, this green lotus pod, there's a strange thing, it disappears after a night If the stock is fresh, it won't taste good. This village has picked dew early in the morning, and it has this taste when it is delivered early." Ping'er laughed and said, "You talk about the same thing. Yes, I'm going to try it."

After talking, I took one and peeled it myself, ate it, broke out the lotus seeds, scratched a hole with my nails, removed the green skin, and carefully tore off the white clothes inside. Now the seeds are tender, and the lotus heart is bright yellow. It's not bitter, so I simply put it in my mouth, after chewing it was really sweet, and praised: "Your place is good, even peeling a lotus seed is better than the other place." Suyun smiled and asked her to say : "Taste this tea again."

Ping'er took a sip and praised: "It's so refreshing!" Biyue then said: "It's made from lotus stamens and lotus stamens mixed with green tea. Grandma said it's called Xiexia tea." Prepare the fragrant fenugreek drink and the mung bean soup for cooling off the summer heat, but you are so particular about it, you figured out such things." Suyun laughed and said, "The house doesn't send them everywhere, so I have to go to the waiter to ask for them. Why don't you make them yourself for lunch? some."

After hearing this, Ping'er secretly kept it in her heart, and asked again: "Why don't you wait inside when Grandma is resting? Run back here to hide in peace, it can be seen that Grandma really hurts you." Biyue said: "Our grandma We don’t need anyone to wait on us when we are resting, we are at the back of this house, we will naturally hear the noise when grandma wakes up.”

While talking, several people moved closer, Ping'er took a closer look at the two of them, the jewelry they wore was more plain than the others, but everything was exquisite - Suyun's pair of pearl earrings, the pearls on them were also the size of fingertips, between the movements Yingying brilliance, it looks good against her complexion; Biyue's pair of earrings are thin gold threads with two drops of emeralds hanging down, the dark green reflects the red gold, matching her plain clothes, she looks a little smart - Xindao Grandma really loved these two very much.

Suddenly, he smelled a delicate fragrance on the tip of his nose, and said with a smile, "What kind of fragrance do you bring? Why does it smell so good? All the fragrance powder in the house has passed through our hands, but we have never seen this smell before." Suyun also Sniffing and sniffing, he said suspiciously: "We usually make a meal for my brother, and we never bring incense with us because we are afraid of getting a bad smell. What kind of smell do you smell?"

Ping'er said: "It's like a flower fragrance, and it's lighter and refreshing than the flower fragrance, and it seems to have a slight fruity smell. Oh, I can't tell, my eyes are distracted, maybe it's my nose Are you distracted too?" Biyue suddenly said: "Oh, yes, it's the smell of lemon soap. I smelled good, so I used it to wash clothes..." Before she finished speaking, Ping'er and Suyun leaned close to smell her neck, breathed out and threw herself into her neck, couldn't help giggling when touched by the itch, and pushed the two of them again, laughing for a while.

Because Mrs. Wang and Sister Feng had to entertain outsiders that day, Li Wan only waited on Jia Mu and went back to her yard after dinner. Go, the surroundings are quiet, and then I got up and went to the Pearl Realm.Although she knew in her heart that there was no rush to do things in practice, she had the Tao to "be at the place where there is action and inaction", if she just blindly "progressed bravely and diligently", she was in a state of mind, and she used too much force, and it was not where the Tao lies.

Having said that, the word "Jing" in the Taiyi Wushang Sutra and the Taichu Jue is always so immobile. Compared with the previous time when the spirit was drawn into the body, the mind was cultivated, and the spiritual consciousness was honed, there was always a stagnant panic.Human affairs are like this, the most difficult thing is often not when there is "doing something", and doing nothing is the soft knife to kill the mind.

She also had a thought in her heart, she took the cloud boat, sat cross-legged and thought about things, she didn't know where the wind came from, the cloud boat fluttered to a place - but saw a small island floating in the sky, the island There are no flowers and trees, just a small house standing among gray and white sandstones, just like a lone piece of brown sugar sponge cake in a rough gray glazed pottery dish - it is very different from the flourishing vegetation and fragrant flowers and falling fruits here and there.

Because I stopped the cloud boat, I went to the small island.When I got closer, I saw the words "Qianjingju" written on it, and it was marked with the Daqian Pavilion. It seemed that just like the Linfeng Pavilion, it was all Daqian Pavilion's business.One of the words "Jing" moved Li Wan's heart. She has never been a greedy person. Although she entered the Fuchen Bazaar and had many beautiful residences in Daqian Pavilion, she just walked around picking flowers and fruits. Stay here, that is, rest in the Linfeng Pavilion. Today, seeing the word "Jing", I decided to find out.

He still called Ah Tu out before walking inside.The ground was gray and white, made up of scattered stones and gravel. There was a winding path in the middle, covered with layers of hardwood. As he walked and looked, Li Wan gradually discovered that the sand and gravel seemed to imply many formations, and wanted to explore it carefully. , but it's not that I can understand it with my little knowledge, I only vaguely feel that this small island is covered with millions of formations.With a shudder in his heart, he walked along the wooden path more carefully, for fear of accidentally touching some sky and earth nets, and thought again, this kind of "preparation for battle" might be a great place to hide treasures.But what about the "Thousand Realm Residence"?

Walking to the front of the house, the two dark wooden doors opened slowly, and there was no attendant puppet answering the door. Li Wan waited for a while, and then walked in slowly, facing a row of silk ribbons hanging from the top, just to spell A pair of yin and yang fish move automatically without wind, as if they are swimming leisurely.There is a case on each side, and there are strange beasts on top, which look like life.Bypassing the silk ribbon is the main room.

When looking from the outside of the island, I don’t know exactly how many houses there are. When I look inside, I can see that the houses are surrounded by more than half an arc. Glass, with a window drawer of colorless gauze.From the outside of the island, you can only see the outside side, and now you can see a small garden surrounded by white and brown sand and stones, and there are a few extremely small pools, and the formations arranged in it are even more impressive than that. It's much more complicated outside.

Looking at the inside of the house, it’s more than half a curved shape. It’s hard to say how many rooms there are. Half of the rooms from the beginning are connected in one place. There are tables and chairs, and they are placed in three clusters along the glazed windows. These low couches are made of dark ocher hardwood one color and one foot thick, without even a cushion and chair burden on them, and matched with the finely carved bluestone on the floor, which can only be summed up in four words: "natural cold and hard".After passing through the floor-to-ceiling door of the cave, there is only half of the room left, a small study, a bedroom and a clean room.

Maybe this cultivation world is different from the human world. The clean room here is always connected to a room of about the same size. There are many cabinets, cabinets and shelves. Judging from the shape, it should be a place to store clothes.It's just that outside, even the girls and grandmas in Jia's mansion don't have such a separate room to store clothes and jewelry. They only use so much on weekdays, and store the rest in the warehouse. How can such a layout be used? .

But she didn't understand that the accessories in the world of cultivation are not just for looks, they are all life-threatening equipment and weapons, from head to toe, they must be in line with physical properties, and they must be matched with their own and the skills of the enemy. Naturally, it cannot be accommodated in a jewelry box.

Looking closely at the clean room again, it is somewhat interesting. There is a square pond made of bluestone, with clear water flowing in it. On the other side, there is a huge lotus leaf on the ground, and a lotus branch that is as long as a person protrudes upwards. A lotus pod hangs down from the top, and there are two other lotus branches, one high and the other low, one facing upwards and the other standing like a human face, both of which are blue and white.The petals of the lotus flower facing upward are stacked to form a basin, and the inside is also full of clear water.

Li Wan approached and played with it carefully, the appearance of the bathing place was too ingenious.Looking at the bedroom, it can't be compared with Xiaozhu, and it's much smaller than Linfeng Pavilion.There is only a big wooden bed, looking at the material, it is the same as the stool and couch outside, with four bedposts standing, but no curtains, quilts and pillows.There is a window, shaped like a full moon, facing the small garden in the inner courtyard. There is a round table under the bed, beside the table is an extremely large armchair and two thick wooden round stools.I thought to myself: If you read on a moonlit night here, it would be interesting.

After looking around, he went back to the main hall where he had just entered, picked a chair to sit in, and remembered that this "prepared for battle" was supposed to be a treasure trove, but now it looks like a very simple place, what's the point? treasure.Just as he was about to leave, he saw a very thick and huge book on the big table in the middle of the hall, which seemed to have a faint brilliance.

When I got closer, I saw the words "Dianjingpu" written on the book, and when I turned it over, it was full of "solitary peak lying in the snow", "surging waves alone", and "dark night dust". , each of which is matched with a small picture, and when the picture is touched by the spiritual consciousness, it will transform into a scene in the air. Each name is also marked with some price, such as "every time the ten spirit stones are opened, the five spirit stones will be opened." Stone every turn" and so on.

Only then did Li Wan suddenly realize that "Qianjingju" is such a place.I hurriedly flipped through the book and looked back, thinking that before I came in just now, the scorching heat outside was unbearable, so I chose a place where "the sun is slanting in deep autumn" and played a formula according to the book.I only felt a flash in front of my eyes, and when I looked again, it was no longer the same as before.

The clear and bare landscape outside suddenly changed into the appearance of sunset and dusk. The orange-red and warm-yellow afterglow sprinkled from the glass windows. The verdant green pines in the courtyard set off the golden leaves of a few ginkgo leaves. Flame, occasionally falling a few pieces, reflecting the sunset, the pieces are golden and red.There are also plants and trees that have never been seen before, orange, gold, vermilion, red, ochre, and blue, countless, and the red is not all the same color, or the red leaves are inlaid with gold, or vermilion dyed orange, or crimson old yellow, and so on. , and so on.It's like a scoop of thick color splashed on the mountains and forests, reflecting the afterglow of the sunset, full of autumn.

Li Wan couldn't help pushing open the window, and the evening wind was blowing in a cool breeze, with the smell of dry grass and yellow flowers in it, hair and cannon sleeves dancing with the wind, and suddenly said the phrase "there is a dark fragrance and the sleeves are full".Can't help but sit down slowly, only to feel that the lower part of the body is soft, and when I look again, the wooden couch is covered with extremely thick and soft cushions, the dark brown and gold patterns are on the tea white background, and the floor is also covered with brown Fengdeng pattern felt. blanket.What’s even more wonderful——I don’t know when there was an old root tea tray on the short plane in front of me. A cup of tea smoke curled up, and I took a sip in my hand. The honey-colored tea soup is thick, smooth and sweet, with a fragrance like cinnamon, adding to the autumn atmosphere.Looking around again, the curtains are complete, and the tangerine and turmeric are fine and thin, all of which are autumn choices.The same autumn clothes are in the bedroom, but the dressing room is still empty.