Chapter 10 Temple Fair
Back to the small house, the red silk recalled Shen's words again. After thinking about it carefully, I didn't feel any deep meaning, so I was relieved.
As soon as Yuexia entered the house and met Qiaoyue, Qiaoyue talked about today's matter with Tong Yuexia happily. The first thing was that Nie Mei's unkempt face seemed to be crazy, and she also talked about the two precious jewelry Shen gave to red silk. While talking, the girl did not forget to add oil and vinegar, but she didn't talk about the hairpin ring in the sky. There was nothing underground, which made Yuexia novel. She quickly asked Qiaoyue to take it out and see it. Qiaoyue gently opened the sandalwood box in her arms, and there was a hurry to exclaim.
Red silk can't help but smile, "It's just a few pieces of jewelry. Why are you so surprised?"
Qiaoyue put away the box and put it under the dresser. She turned around and laughed and said that Yuexia had never seen the world. Although she felt that these two things were precious, she had stayed in the royal palace over the years, and she had never seen anything precious.
The two smiled softly and listened to Yuexia, whose face had turned red, pouted and said, "How can I not have seen it if I have stayed in my wife's room for more than two months? It's not because it's beautiful, but that I heard Mother Su Hong say that these two items were brought by my wife from my mother's house, and I was usually reluctant to bring them. Just take it out once in a while."
As soon as these words came out, the red silk began to surprise the red silk. The mother actually gave her favorite thing to herself, but when she looked back, she also said that she would have given it to her when she got married. Now, no, what does it mean to give herself something like this now? The red silk began to recall what her mother said to herself today, 'Now It's the time when the flowers are good, and I don't know how to dress up. These two were originally intended to be given when you get married, but you see that there is no suitable bun. Tomorrow is the temple fair. You also know that Yanguo is happy to learn Buddhism and Taoism. Today, Emperor Mo estimates Buddhism very much. Tomorrow's Lantern Festival will order the whole people to see the meeting. At that time, it will not be just us. The wife of the Wang family, together with the prince and the concubine, are also going to participate.
The Lantern Festival, Emperor Gao, the Wang family, the prince, is the prince.
My heart trembled. It turned out that my mother meant so that she would dress up well tomorrow. When the prince and Emperor Ma came, they would stand out and let Emperor Ma pay more attention to him. Is it safer for even the title of crown princess?
one by one, one by one
The red silk sat in front of the mirror and let Qiao Yue and Yue Xia play with their hair. Qiao Yue said in surprise to the red silk in the mirror, "Miss, you see, the hairpin given by my wife is so beautiful. It's really beautiful to change the new clothes sent by Mother Su a few days ago."
The red silk eyebrows are locked. In such a swaggering dress, she really did it according to her mother's, and she didn't go back to the past. She didn't want to be the target of public criticism. Before Qiaoyue could talk about it, she reached out and took down the phoenix hairpin on her head and only said, "It's too cumbersome. It's enough to bring two."
Yuexia took the pincer and showed a pity. "Miss is just afraid of trouble." After complaining, he still carefully put away the phoenix.
Qiaoyue picked up the horn comb, gently sorted out the bun that had just been accidentally messed up by the red silk. Looking at the expression of the red silk, she was a little clear and didn't say anything. Probably, the young lady doesn't want to be paid too much attention.
As ordered by the red silk, it was taken out of the cabinet. A water-blue gauze skirt, a gauze embroidery at the belt, and a blue fog emerald bamboo coat. After carefully sorting it out, Qiaoyue held the red silk to sit on the sedan chair outside the door.
After waiting on the sedan chair for a long time, the waiter shouted the sedan chair. The sedan chair Shen sat on was in the front, followed by Nie Qiang and himself, and finally Nie Mei. The red silk leaned against the wall and talked to Qiaoyue for a while.
Qiaoyue was full of excitement. While asking whether there was a lion dance performance for the red silk, and whether she could set off fireworks after the ceremony of the Buddha, she was thinking carefully about what she wanted to play later.
Red silk knocked on her head and said with a smile, "You have a lot of tricks. Today is different from the past. It's not just us."
Qiao Yue opened her eyes wide and said in surprise, "Yes, the prince and today's emperor will also go together. Oh, how can I forget it?"
Red silk felt a little stuffy sitting in the sedan chair, so it asked Qiaoyue to open the curtain slightly. Yu Guang caught a glimpse of the crowd on the street. Most of the adults were dressed in jubilant red, and the children also put on red crotch pants and laughed. The street stall owners also posted portraits of Buddha on the stalls, and the vendors sold them out. Don't forget to worship the portrait. This temple fair is more lively than the New Year. The people of Yan have been advocating Buddhism for more than a hundred years. In the past, I have heard that ordinary people use fresh vegetables and meat every day to worship Buddha on the desk. Today, it is fruitless at first sight.
"Miss, look how cute those children are." Qiaoyue pointed out of the window and said, but turned her head and saw the red silk looking at herself with a smile. Her face turned red and she shyly said, "Miss, I haven't seen the child for a long time, so..."
The red silk leaned against the cushion, staring at Qiaoyue without saying anything.
Qiao Yue was stared at Mao and said angrily, "Miss, don't look at the maidservant. The maidservant is not good-looking."
Turning his head and no longer looked at her, he said quietly outside the window, "Qiaoyue, you are also old enough to get married."
Qiaoyue's face became more and more red. She lowered her head and said, "I... maidservant, it's just past twenty-nine, and it's still early."
"Eighteen years old." He nodded, pulled down the curtain of the sedan chair, and then said, "You are almost the mother of two children in ordinary people."
Qiaoyue bit her lip and said, "Miss, how can you make fun of the girl's age at will?"
Qiaoyue is her favorite girl. Although Yuexia is also a close-hearted person, she is not as good as Qiaoyue after all. However, she is a little hesitant. Her mother blindly wants her to let her marry the prince. Although her father didn't say it clearly, she knows in her heart that compared with his power, a daughter is nothing. Although the prince is good, she is right. The prince still has no feelings for men and women. She doesn't like to force herself to do what she doesn't like, and remembers the scene in her dream. After she married Tang Ziran, the prince married Nie Qiang. Her father still stood on the side of the prince. Later, she stole her father's military seal for Tang Ziran. After that, Tang Ziran waved an army and rebelled, and so on. Wait, the prince, the red silk eyes were stunned. No, the later prince was not the current fourth prince Tang Yu, but the second prince Tang Ruomu. However, why did he become Tang Ruomu? Two words suddenly popped up in his mind, the temple fair, yes, it was the temple fair.
Red silk suddenly figured out everything, figured out why he married Tang Ziran instead of Tang Yu later, and how his father agreed, and figured out why Tang Yu but Tang Ruomu succeeded to the throne two years later. Someone said to himself that if he hadn't taken that step at the beginning, he would have been the queen above ten thousand people. It turned out that it was all because of the temple fair. After clarifying everything, there was no sense of relaxation in her heart. Instead, it became heavier and heavier. Since the nightmare, she hasn't had such a clear heartache for a long time. It's not that she doesn't know what she has experienced, but wants to forget and let the dream slowly fade out of her memory. She doesn't want to Remember the deep hatred, the pain of the heart, but want to live a good life. However, today, what will happen at the temple fair can be stopped by her. If she doesn't do it, how can she feel at ease?
She clearly remembered that when Tang Yu was assassinated by a man in black, she happened to see this scene. When the assassin in black took off the face towel covering her face, what appeared in front of her was a familiar face that could no longer be familiar. At that time, she was just surprised and panicked and was stunned. He turned his head and slowly waited for Tang Yu to die in pain. He listened to his painful moan and walked away indifferently.
Thinking of her ruthless face in the dream, she was not afraid. After she woke up, she blindly thought that she was a victim and hated Tang Ziran, Nie Mei and other people's things they had done to her, but she never thought that the real heinous person was herself.
"Miss, miss, what's wrong with you? Why are you so white?" Qiao Yue pulled out the silk head from the cuff, wiped off the cold sweat on the red silk face, and reminded, "Miss, it's already Guangfu Temple. Madam, they are all waiting."
Red silk was in a trance, but she was still in a trance. She was called by Qiaoyue before she recovered. She took Qiaoyue's head and wiped the fine sweat on her face randomly, and then said, "Go down."
Guangfu Temple was built when he was the fourth monarch of the Yan Kingdom. It has a history of more than 100 years. Up to now, the eleventh Yan Emperor Ma has been renovated several times. The year before last, Emperor Mo ordered people to expand Guangfu Temple again because he dreamed that the previous emperor warned him that he must flourish Buddhism.
Now the place where they stand with red silk is after expansion. The temple is divided into north and south. The south side is specially built for Wangsun nobles, and the north side is the place where ordinary people burn incense and worship Buddha.
Master Guangliang, the abbot, led the red silk to the west courtyard specially reserved for the lady in the temple. The west courtyard is roughly divided into five places. The red silk has been seen one by one. The small garden in the courtyard is one, and the guest rooms in the yard are one, one is dedicated to Buddha, and the other is dedicated to Master Guanyin.
Shen led Nie Qiang and Nie Mei into a room together, and the red silk continued to enjoy the view with Master Guangliang. Of course, with her current mood, she could not be interested in the view. She just wanted to know the pattern and entrances and exits of the temple, in order to find out that she accidentally broke into the dream and saw Tang Yu killed. Where is the bad yard, so that I can stop him earlier and not let him die like this again.
Master Guangliang walked around the north courtyard and the east courtyard with red silk, and finally stopped at the door of the south courtyard. He turned back to the red silk and said, "Miss, this yard can't enter."
Is it the yard that Emperor Ma wants to live in? So, is it here? The layout of the West Courtyard has seen from the beginning, which is not in line with the dream. The North Courtyard is a tower with the flat residences of monks. The East Courtyard is the host and some so-called Taoist monks. There is nothing else except that the decoration is better than the North Courtyard, and I remember the dream. There is a waterhouse in the middle yard, and there is a small lake. The lake is full of light blue flowers. Is it really the southern courtyard?