lotus carp

I am a girl.

A girl who disguised herself as a man all day long, wearing a high crown and waving a folding fan.

I lived in Guangyang Temple outside Gusu City, and was brought up by the abbot Master Mifeng.I heard from the master that I was put in a basket and placed on the stone steps in front of Guangyang Temple. He took pity on me and brought me back, named me Jingli, and raised me up to now.

As for my suit of men's gowns, there are two important reasons: firstly, the temple is full of monks, and it is inconvenient to go down the mountain to buy women's gowns; Talent is the narrow mind of Virtue”, Master Mifeng allowed me to disguise myself as a man and study in a private school in the city every day, and the skirt is really useless.

This day, my husband has something to do, and the private school left after only an hour. I carried the cloth bag containing the books and walked up the mountain. I wanted to get back to Guangyang Temple before the sun was hot at noon, but I found that there was a small stone on the bluestone steps in front of me. Small sachet.

Thinking which pilgrim should have left behind, I stepped forward to pick up the sachet, ready to take it back to the temple to find the owner.The sachet is blue after rain, with a small jade tassel hanging from the bottom, a light pink lotus flower is embroidered on the front of the sachet, and a small red fish is on the back.When you smell it closely, you can smell a strange fragrance, elegant as a dark night, and as beautiful as a burning peony. It smells so good.

I was holding the sachet all the way back to Guangyang Temple, planning to put it in the Red Line Pavilion next to the Marriage Tree.The Marriage Tree is a very famous tree in Guangyang Temple. It is said that the women in the boudoir hang the red thread on the treetop of the Marriage Tree, and they will be able to find a good husband, which is very effective.It is also true that there is always an endless stream of women who come to pick up the red thread in the Red Thread Pavilion. There are young monks who take turns guarding the Red Thread Pavilion throughout the day. If something is found in the temple, it will be handed over to the Red Thread Pavilion for safekeeping, waiting for the owner to claim it. .

When I arrived at the Red Line Pavilion, the young monk Jingshui was on duty.When he saw me stepping in, he relaxed his tense expression. He got up and moved out slowly while clutching his stomach. return!"

I looked at the twisted back of Jing Shui and laughed, put the sachet I picked up into the drawer, and fell asleep on the table.

I don't know how long it took before I heard a sound like knocking on the door. The sound was clear and rhythmic. It seemed that a pair of hands as white as fine porcelain appeared in front of my eyes, knocking on the carved huanghuali wood table. .

As if... not as if... When I just woke up, I looked away from those hands, straightened up, and looked at the woman standing in front of the table and knocking on the table to wake me up.Subconsciously, I took one from the red thread holder behind my back and handed it to her.

She smiled, her eyebrows and eyes bright like a splashed ink landscape: "I'm not here to ask for a red thread."

Seeing her smile, I felt a little nervous for no reason: "Then... what did the benefactor come to ask for?"

"Let me ask, has anyone picked up my sachet, it's azure satin after rain, with a pink lotus flower embroidered on the front and a red koi on the back." Supporting my hair crown, "Look at you, the hair crown is all crooked."

My heart skipped a beat for this overly familiar gesture and words, but I didn't reject it.

I fished out the sachet I picked up on the road from the drawer and handed it over: "This is it?"

"Yes!" She took it, without hiding the surprise in her eyes, "I thought I couldn't find it!"

I couldn't help teasing: "Seeing how nervous you are, this sachet... Could it be a gift from your lover?"

"That's not it." She seemed to be in a good mood after finding the sachet, and she winked at me mischievously, "I want to give this to my lover."

Before I could react to the inexplicable loss in my heart, she put on a feigned angry face: "I said Ah Li...you really don't remember me?"

I looked at her face again, and the ladylike posture of the jingling ring gradually overlapped with the face of the cute little boy Yuxue.I opened my mouth wide: "You are... Zhuo Lian?"

Speaking of the story of me and Zhuo Lian's "little son", it's another matter.That day when I was leaving school from a private school and walking on the road, I saw a girl dressed as a young man surrounded by a group of gangsters. The gangsters must have seen through the girl's clumsy disguise as a man, and they had some malicious intentions.Coincidentally, I know the leader of that group of gangsters, he is the youngest son of the housekeeper of our private school.I immediately ran back to the private school to complain to the housekeeper, and finally took the girl away while the housekeeper was aggressively arresting her.That girl is Zhuo Lian.

After saving her, I sent her home.She said that her boudoir name is Liu Zhuolian, and she is the only concubine in Liu's mansion. This time she sneaked out to play, but she got separated from the maid and didn't know the way back.She admired me very much for saving her, and I was lively and lovely. We talked happily along the way, and we arrived at Liu's Mansion, which is not far away.

The Liu family is known far and wide as the richest businessman, a family of spices, the ancestors made spices and accumulated a wealth of wealth, and in Master Liu's generation, the Liu family has been involved in all walks of life, rich in the world, even the current emperor is afraid three points.Thinking carefully about Zhuo Lian's identity and background, she felt that if there were rumors, it would be terrifying to her.I said to her: "My name is Jingli, quiet Jing, Liyu's Li, a child adopted by Master Mifeng, the abbot of Guangyang Temple outside the city. If Master Liu has any questions about what happened today, you can send someone to look for her. I."

I lowered my voice and said to her: "I'm a woman, I'm going to rescue you today, if it hurts your boudoir's reputation, you can ask me to clarify. Or, if you want to go out or come to Guangyang Temple in the future, You can also come to me."

Standing in front of the gate of Liu Mansion, she listened carefully to every word I said, her eyes crooked and her smile turned into the moon: "Yeah, I'll come to you, Ah Li."

My heart suddenly jumped.

I recovered from my thoughts, looked at Zhuo Lian in front of me, and couldn't help but a big smile appeared on the corner of my mouth. "Then you... are you here to see me today?"

"Yes, I came here specially to find you, Ah Li."

Jingshui came back, I took Zhuo Lian and left Hongxian Pavilion, wandered around Guangyang Temple, chatting, or watching each other giggling under the shade of the trees, the sun set in the blink of an eye.

Inexplicably satisfied.

And the sachet embroidered with carp and lotus finally stayed on my waist.