Chapter 96 Searching for plums
In the following days, rumors about the haunted mansion of Prince Ping became more and more outrageous. It was even rumored that someone was fascinated by ghosts in the middle of the night and almost committed suicide by jumping into the well. Fortunately, he was discovered by the guard and escaped. However, the guard was sick. The Taoist priest who was in charge of the guard and exorcising evil spirits said that he was killed because he blocked the evil ghosts and took revenge.
I don’t know if I heard too much of this kind of rumors, but Shen Caishu always felt that she couldn’t sleep well at night, and seemed to vaguely hear the woman’s cry. She didn’t know whether the bone in the Pingwang Mansion was a man or a woman. In short, she was panicked. In order to seek peace of mind, on the first day of the first day of the lunar month, she followed her third aunt and several cousins to burn incense in the temple.
It happened that Meng Yanran, who was engaged to King Ji, also went to the temple to burn incense that day. King Ji and King Ping went to the most famous Grand Prime Minister's Mansion, the city's wife, usually went to this temple when she went outside the city to burn incense. On the way, the two met the second prince, King Huo, Yang Fanghou. Since King Huo guarded the tomb for the Queen Mother for three years, he looked much more peaceful and seemed to be fascinated by Buddhism. Every day on the first and fifteenth day of the day, he would go to the Grand Prime Minister's Mansion to drink tea and treat scriptures with the monks there. Since the three of them met, they went the same place, so they naturally went together.
When they arrived at the Grand Prime Minister's Mansion, King Ji saw that the Meng family's carriage was on the side. After Meng Yanran got off the car, he followed him into the temple gate happily. Meng Yanran was born beautiful and informed Dali that he looked down on King Ji who liked to play. The two met in the past few times, but King Ji has always become more and more courageous. Meng Yanran is cold to him, so he wants to get close to her more and more.
King Huo stayed there and waited for the Shen family's carriage with King Ping, and took the opportunity to praise the Shen family's cousin how kind and kind-hearted they are. King Ping responded shyly, which made King Huo feel a bit boring. When the carriage of the Shen family arrived, a few girls below were Shen Caishu. Although King Huo kept telling King Ping about the benefits of his cousin, he had only met this cousin in a few years ago, and he didn't know how she was now. Now seeing her eyes and eyebrows are picturesque, she looked a little thin because she hadn't slept well these days, and looked pitiful under the red cloak with white fur. She looked at King Ping with a little cold look. When she saw King Huo beside him, her eyes moved slightly and smiled, which made King Huo a little lost.
After seeing the ceremony, King Ping accompanied the Shen family in. King Huo made an appointment with a monk to give lectures, but it was not convenient to stay for a long time. After a few words, he left. Mrs. Shen wanted to give the young young man who was in a marriage to get along alone, and soon urged them to go elsewhere to appreciate the plum blossoms. In the winter, several old plum trees in Daxiangguo Temple have not yet bloomed and there is nothing to see. In addition, it is cloudy and the cold wind is gusts, so no one comes to Meilin.
The two stood alone for a while and couldn't talk much. Wang Ping had met Shen Caishu several times before. After all, they were people who had been in a marriage contract, and there was nothing they could say to each other. The two had nothing to talk about. After the haunted news of the royal family, Shen Caishu asked about this. After all, it was the place to live in the future, and she always had to have snacks.
King Ping said timidly at that time: "This mansion is given by the emperor, and I will always live in the future. Fortunately, the place that was in trouble was not the main courtyard, but the next one. We can avoid it in the future."
I don’t know if I’m afraid she is worried, but King Ping also said, “Don’t worry, the monks and Taoists have been there. They all say that although they are evil spirits, they cannot hurt the royal relatives.”
Shen Caishu couldn't feel at ease after hearing this, but after all, she hadn't really gotten married yet, so she couldn't say anything. Besides, she had to dress up as virtuous and respectful as she couldn't lose her temper with Ping Wang, but she felt that Ping Wang was really useless as rumor.
After standing for a while, the little eunuch Wang He, who walked outside Meilin, came to King Ji. He confirmed that it was King Ping in front of him. He asked loudly, regardless of the others around him, "Seventh Prince, our grandfather is going to go back. Do you want to go with him?"
"Together." King Ping responded quickly and glanced at Shen Caishu, "Does Jiu Niang go back or continue to appreciate the plum blossoms?"
Shen Caishu ranked ninth in her generation, and outsiders usually call her Shen Jiuniang.
"Appreciate the plum blossoms." She said in a depressing voice, but thought, there was no plum blossom to appreciate, only a gust of cold wind.
But King Ping nodded honestly and echoed: "Then you give me a reward slowly, I'll go back first."
Shen Caishu responded reluctantly, her face obviously not very good, but King Ping did not notice and hurriedly left. When he left without a trace, Shen Caishu couldn't help but stamp her feet with resentment, not even a wink, and she still hoped that he would be nice to her in the future? Thinking about the fact that she followed her parents to work in another place before, no local men and women were holding her up, so she had never encountered such an uninteresting person.
The more I thought about it, the more aggrieved she felt. She was pouting her mouth and wiping tears at Meizhi, and then someone heard someone say, "Xiao Caier? OK, why are you crying?"
"I didn't cry." Shen Caishu said. When she turned around, she saw that it was King Huo, and her face was red with shame. She wondered why King Huo still remembered her nickname?
"But the seventh brother bullies you?" King Huo asked pretending to be angry, Xu helped her. Seeing that she didn't avoid it, he lowered his head and stared at her red earlobe.
"No." Shen Caishu said softly.
"Ping Wang is a little boring, but he has no bad intentions."
"Of course not every prince is like His Highness..." she whispered.
King Huo could understand, and raised his lips slightly and pinched her face, "Xiao Caier has been a sweet-mouthed since she was a child."
"Your Highness, stop calling this name. I am no longer a child." Shen Caishu covered his face that was pinched red by him and said coquettishly.
King Huo's eyes darkened and he sighed: "Yes, they are all big girls."
The two of them talked in Meilin for a long time before they separated. Even if King Huo's guards stopped the pilgrim who wanted to enter Meilin, it was difficult to prevent this scene from being seen by those interested. That night, Xiao Lin, the little eunuch beside King Ping, reported the matter to him.
"...Because King Huo is here, the youngest son of Wang Shizhong's family did not enter."
"I understand, go down." Ping Wang said lightly, playing with a simple loop made of red copper coins in his hand. When Xiao Lin left the house, he glanced at the loop in his hand, showed a slight smile and slowly clamped the loop in his hand.
Although someone mentioned that King Huo and Shen Caishu were talking privately, Mei Lin was in public and in the Buddhist temple, so there was no unpleasant words. However, Shen Caishu fell ill shortly after returning. It is said that she had a cold, but the outside world was more inclined to be possessed by evil spirits. There was no way, and all the craftsmen who went to the Pingwang Mansion fell ill one by one, and many people said they had run into female ghosts.
"Why is it getting more and more evil when it spreads outside?" As the first person to be told that there is a ghost in the Ping Palace, King Ji was confused about the haunted legend of the Ping Palace, which is becoming more and more intense. It is obvious that the bones they raised were found to be a man, but why are they starting to make a female ghost now? How can he force the murderer to come out? No, he has to make another legend of the male ghost doing evil.
"The rumors about Chang'an City have been coming one after another, and there has never been absent. Fortunately, Miss Shen is still young. Even if you have been passed on for a few years, it will be too late to build the palace. But I have not repaired it for the past few years. I am afraid I will disturb the Sixth Brother Mansion." King Ping said with a nice voice.
"It's okay, I'll leave you a yard. Your palace is too old. I'll just think that many yards will be demolished and rebuilt."
"The Ministry of Internal Affairs is afraid that it won't be able to give so much money."
"Then let's demolish the house first and then build it slowly. I heard from the Taoist priest that if the house is really haunted, it's best to demolish the house and dry it for a few years before building it again, otherwise the evil spirit will not leave..."
"The sixth brother said this again, so I dare not stay in my house in the future." King Ping frowned helplessly.
"Are you afraid?" King Ji asked with a smile on his face.
King Ping froze and just refused to answer.
King Ji laughed and didn't force him, saying, "Don't worry, it's true, it's all made up by me."
"But the rumors about the female ghost..."
"The world loves to add fuel to the fire. Don't worry, there is absolutely no ghost. If there is, you can live in my house for the rest of your life."
King Ping smiled gratefully, as if he was relieved.
Not long after, it was rumored that there was another vicious male ghost in the ghost in Prince Ping's Mansion. The previous female ghost was his subordinate who was captured by him, and he had a vague idea of being the domineering among ghosts.
When Zhuhua heard this rumor, she couldn't help but laugh. Her imagination was too big. Qin San also sent someone to Pingwang Mansion to repair it. There was no such evil nature as it was spread outside. However, it was spread outside so much that it aroused her curiosity. After handling the affairs of the mansion, she took Dabao and Erbao to explore, and told them to keep it secret.
This kind of activity was originally indispensable to Xiaohua, but Xiaohua has grown old and has never left her plants. Now she can only stay alone in front of the Zhuhua room to bask in the sun, and she doesn't have much energy to accompany her around. She knows that birth, old age, sickness and death are also part of the birth of a dog, and she is ready to part with it. As long as she makes presets in advance, many things will be much easier to accept. Just like her marriage, she actually knew that the relationship between the two could not be sustained, but she still wanted to support it and tried to have a child to save the marriage.
She didn't love her husband much, she just couldn't give up on a peaceful and stable marriage relationship. I have to say that her husband was very following her and took the initiative to take the initiative to take care of housework. She was a good man. If there was no cheating, the two could get together. She was busy with work and felt a little guilty towards him, and she wanted to make up for something. However, even if she cheated, she was not so difficult for her to accept. During her work, she also had a warm taste for several successful partners, which was just ambiguous. She was still traditional and hoped to keep the family stable.
She couldn't accept that it was probably because he was calculating her assets. If the two divorced peacefully, she would have scored half of him, but he had crossed the line. He could only give what she was willing to give, and he could not move the rest without her permission. As for that best friend, this was also a friendship that was like a useless person.
They have known each other since elementary school. Their families are very similar. They both lost their father very early. The difference is that her best friend missed her father very much, and her mother later remarried, and her stepfather was very strict with her. Cheng Zhu felt a little pitiful to her, and the two became good friends without realizing it. Until the third year of junior high school, a classmate told her that her best friend was actually saying bad things about her behind her back.
She did not break off her relationship with her because her best friend suffered grievances at home and could only talk to her. Cheng Zhu was not Bai Lianhua, she had a sense of superiority in her best friend's complaints. Yes, she did not have a good father, but her mother was very good. She did not remarry, and did not put her and her younger brother in a frustrated family environment again. Out of this sense of superiority, she also lent a lot of money to this best friend, but she did not ask for the money back later.
To be honest, she actually made a profit by taking away a best friend whom she was reluctant to break with in a useless marriage. She didn't seem to hate them, especially when she was divorced, she also had anger that was supposed to vent her anger, and she had no reason to hate them. But whenever she thought of these two people, the depression in her heart would still haunt her, as if she was telling her that she had emotional flaws.
She is indeed flawed, and she knows it herself. No matter how harmonious she gets with others outside, almost no one has ever seen her get angry, but when she returns to her home, she will vent her anger on the people she is close to. After getting married, the one who gets angry the most is her husband, her poor husband. When she thinks of this, she feels a little sympathetic to him. She realizes her own problems in her previous life, but she cannot change it. Now? She doesn't think she can change it. She may look for a indifferent marriage relationship like she did in her previous life, and then they will live their lives with respect.
There is nothing wrong with this. As long as she imagines it in advance, she will be mentally prepared to accept such a life.
The adventure to the Pingwang Mansion was not successful because there were people guarding the door in front of the mansion, so the three of them could not enter. After walking around the Pingwang Mansion with hands, the three of them were tired back to the carriage. Although nothing happened, the palms of the three of them were sweating. When they were looking for the entrance to the Pingwang Mansion, the three of them also found several other older children. They were excitedly looking at Zhuhua and the others with Zhiran, and they should have come to explore the same way.
"It would be great if Xiaohua came here. Maybe it could know where there was a ghost." Dabao said a little regretfully. He heard people in the mansion say that dogs can see things that others cannot see. Xiaohua often yelled at places where no one was there at night, and probably saw something.
"That's right, just bring Xiaohua."
"Think about it, what if Xiaohua suddenly shouted at the royal palace halfway through, what should we do? How scary."
The two nodded in a daze, and were glad that they hadn't really encountered anything.
"Little Flower is old. I will ask someone next year and have a new dog at home."
"Aunt Cheng asked?" Dabao asked with some concern. Erbao nodded in agreement and looked at Zhuhua uneasyly.
"Why don't you let the little flowers grow?"
"Xiao Hei didn't let him take care of him."
Xiao Hei was the hunting dog that Jinhua asked Qin San to help her find. Sun thought the hunting dog was too fierce and she didn't let her raise it. Jinhua secretly kept it in Qin San's family. Sun just thought it was unaware. Dabao and the other two went to see Xiao Hei with Zhuhua.
"Xiao Hei is too fierce. If I raise it again, I will still have to raise a little flower dog. It's not too fierce. It would be bad if I bite people."
The three of them continued to discuss what kind of dogs to raise in the carriage, but they didn't know that when King Ping rode his horse by the side of the carriage, he glanced at the Cheng brand on the carriage and couldn't help but stop. He continued to go to the palace until the carriage left. He sent people to inquire around the palace Monday, and he realized that there were many bold children around him.
"Prince, do you want a slave to send someone to drive them away?" Xiao Lin asked.
"No need, they are all children." Ping Wang said calmly.
Although she didn't find any ghosts around the palace, Zhuhua still got sick after returning home. Only then did she remember that the palace was a place where the imperial energy was prosperous, and she would be hit if she went there. She didn't dare to tell Sun that she was often sick anyway. But during those days of illness, Xiaohua always roared at the door at night, scaring Dabao Erbao and Yinhua that when it was dark, they would stay in the house and refuse to go out.
Anyway, it was cold, so it was normal not to go out. But Dabao Erbao got the news from somewhere. Knowing that gold and silver could block ghosts, she moved all her gold and silver on the bead flower bed, which made her laugh and cry. However, seeing that she was surrounded by gold and silver jewelry, it felt quite good. Zhuhua slept well and got sick the next day. Dabao Erbao said it was their credit. When Zhuhua returned the gold and silver, they refused to accept it. She coaxed her for a long time and promised that she would borrow it next time she was sick. Then the two of them took it back and hid it.
That being said, Zhuhua thought she would not borrow any more, and she might not get sick frequently, because she was about to be twelve years old. Didn’t the monk in white say that he would not get sick at the age of twelve? For this, she was happy no matter how busy she was at the end of the year.
Early in the first morning of the first lunar month, she changed into new clothes and watched the plum blossoms that were about to bloom in the garden with joy. She could finally get rid of her sick image and live a healthy life.
"Miss, why do you get up so early?" Qiu Chu stood behind Zhuhua and yawned. Last night, a group of unduly-official servants were watching each other and they kept making trouble until dawn before going to bed. As a result, after lying down for a while, he heard that Zhuhua was awake, so she had to come and serve.
"If you are sleepy, go back and sleep for a while. I won't get lost in my own yard. What are you afraid of?"
"Even if the lady doesn't ask me to get up and serve me, can I really lie on the bed with shame? No matter how bad I am, I won't be so dissatisfied."
"Okay, go to the kitchen for a walk. Maybe there is still some fun, so don't rush to come and serve."
"Yes, that servant went to help the master inquire." Qiu Chu replied, knowing that Zhuhua didn't like being with people around her, so she went to the kitchen.
You should know that the kitchen is close to the corner door, and the news is the most informative. If something happens outside, the kitchen is always the first to know. In the past New Year's Eve, there were always several wealthy families in Beijing who would make trouble, such as illegitimate children coming to the door, such as drunkenness and silly accidents, and those who play with firecrackers and firecrackers. Qiuchu likes to join in the fun, and the popular haunted incident in Pingwang Mansion in Chang'an City has not yet passed, so she also wants to hear if there is any new news. She didn't go there for herself, so who made her lady love to listen.
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