Tang riddles

When Shen Sui first saw the wheel axle of the carriage, she judged that there was no way to repair the carriage, at least with the tools and materials she had now, there was no way.The entire log as the main shaft splits from the middle, the wheels wobble from side to side, and are on the verge of falling. If a person sits in it, the center of the two wheels will be completely broken within a short distance, and the carriage will hit the ground hard. It's dangerous.

"Why did the axle crack like this?" Shen Sui frowned and asked the driver.

The coachman was also very distressed, scratching his head, and the gray turban was scratched by him:

"I don't know. I drove the car to the corner over there, and suddenly felt the car shake violently, and then the car went straight to the side of the field road. I hurriedly reined in the horse, got out of the car and saw the axle. It's broken." The coachman said with a strong Jiangling local accent.

At the corner, Shen Sui stood up and turned to look not far away.They were driving normally on the official road just now, just in front of where their carriage stopped now, and connected to a ridge road. The official road faces southeast, and the ridge road runs southwest, which happens to be perpendicular to the official road.This carriage happened to be crooked at the intersection of two roads.Due to the broken axle, the whole carriage was leaning to the right/leaning, so that the horse pulling the cart in front was also carried off by the weight.

Shen Sui walked to the opening and carefully observed the surroundings. Except for the loess, field ridges, and trees beside the road, there was only a small slope between the two sides of the road and the weeds beside the road. This small slope was formed by rammed earth. The layer of soil has accumulated year after year, so it has risen, but at most two or three inches high, which is not enough to crack the axle of the carriage.And there are no big rocks that are big enough to break the axle in the surrounding area.

The carriage was broken so strangely, Shen Sui's delicate brows became more and more tightly locked.

"Would someone take a look at your compartment?"

"Look, sir." The coachman didn't mind, anyway, there was nothing in the carriage, and the two girls took their luggage out of the carriage, and now they carried it on their backs.

Shen Sui lightly jumped into the carriage, the coachman's heart trembled when he saw it, he was afraid that Shen Sui would trample the carriage down.But Shen Sui seemed to have no weight, the car trembled a few times, and then stopped moving.

Shen Sui got into the carriage, which was empty, but it was a simple and ordinary low-grade carriage for soliciting passengers.Shen Sui touched the four walls of the carriage, and then began to observe the bottom of the carriage.When doing these things, her feet were always on the edge of the carriage and never moved. It seemed that she was keeping the carriage balanced and avoiding force on the central break, but in fact there were other purposes.

There is nothing special about the bottom of the carriage. It is made of several wooden boards, and below is the bracket used to support the carriage.There was a layer of dust accumulated on the wooden boards, which was inevitably brought up by getting on and off the car.Shen Sui carefully looked at the dust on the bottom of the carriage, and found signs that the dust had been deliberately rubbed.Although I have tried my best to make the traces of rubbing dust caused by the soles of the shoes pushing on the floor when getting off the car, there is still a trace of deliberation, because the range of motion is too large.

Shen Sui didn't change his expression, got out of the carriage, and said to the driver:

"It's not close to the city, so it's no problem for you to go back."

The coachman shook his head and said with a naive smile: "It's okay, I left the cart here, and after untying the horse, I can run back and call for someone to come. You are a kind man, please help those two girls, they hired my carriage, I can't help it." Send people somewhere."

"You won't refund the fare." Shen Sui joked with a smile.

The coachman blushed and said, "I want to come back, but those two girls refused to take it. They insisted that they took my car and broke the carriage, and the fare should be paid as compensation. Alas, sir, what do you think?" Tell me, what is this called..."

Shen Sui smiled, but didn't answer these words.She walked a few steps in front of the woman in black, stood still, cupped her hands, and said:

"May I ask what the names of the two ladies are?"

"My surname is Doro. This is my maid. You can call her A'an."

Doro?This is by no means the surname of a Central Plains person.But the woman in black spoke without any accent, it was authentic official language.

Shen Sui raised his eyebrows, and said again:

"The handlebar kindly begged someone to give you a ride, I wonder if the two ladies would be willing?"

"Thanks to the kindness of Mr. Lang and the handlebar, Ah'an and I really went out to meet noble people. May the Lord bless you." After finishing speaking, the woman in black made a strange salute.She put the thumb, index finger and middle finger of her right hand together, tapped the center of her eyebrows, and then used the center of her eyebrows as a starting point to draw a vertical stroke from top to bottom, all the way to her abdomen.Then draw from the right shoulder to the left shoulder, draw a horizontal line, and finally put your palms together and make fists with fingers crossed, bow your head slightly, and bow.

Shen Sui's brows furrowed, his eyes widened, and he stood there looking at her for a long while, countless complex and unspeakable emotions flashed in his eyes, including weirdness, fear, uneasiness, excitement, seeking and even faint anger.

In the end everything returned to calm.

"Nestorian?" She asked three words.

"Yes sir, we are Nestorians." The woman in black replied.

Shen Sui took a deep breath and said:

"It's really rare in Jiangnan..." She paused and asked, "If you're not a local, why do you go to visit the grave?"

"Traveling, sweeping, and worship are my ways of practice. I travel all over the country, and I do this every time I pass by."

"Preach?" Shen Sui's words suddenly became very concise.

"It's missionary, that's right. I preach the Lord's benevolence and greatness in places where people gather. People in the Central Plains are very simple and kind. They are willing to believe in my Lord. I will sing for them in the way of offering sacrifices and sweeping graves." , so that their ancestors can enter heaven and return to the embrace of the Lord." The woman in black replied indifferently.

Shen Sui stood silently on the spot for a while, seemed to be thinking about something, and seemed to be enduring something, at last she said coldly:

"I'm sorry, this nun, and your maid. I have always been reluctant to contact religious people due to personal reasons. Sorry, I can't give you a ride. I'm afraid it's not far from your grave-sweeping site. Since it's a long way to go north and south , I’m not afraid to walk this distance if I think about it. There are a few farmhouses not far away, and I don’t have to worry about board and lodging, so I’m sorry to say goodbye.” After finishing speaking, he bowed casually, turned around and left.

Because the black clothed woman covered her face, she couldn't see her appearance clearly, and naturally she couldn't see the expression on her face, she just stood there dumbly, without any reaction to what Shen Sui said just now.And the extremely ordinary-looking maid beside her showed a timid face, refused to speak, and even took a small step back, with her head shrunk, looking a little pitiful.

"Oh, sir! What's going on here?" The coachman heard Shen Sui's words, he was surprised and wanted to ask.

But he failed to catch up with Shen Sui, Shen Sui had strode back to his carriage, but he was stopped by Hutuo.Hu Tuo's expression was very serious, because he had just seen Da Lang walking towards him, his complexion was extremely pale, and his emotions seemed to be on the verge of breaking out.He knew that the situation was not good, so he made a decisive decision to leave these three people aside and leave here immediately.He gave the coachman a hard look, and the coachman froze in place in shock, not daring to say a word.

Shen Sui had already jumped on his horse, urged the horse to lead the team forward, Hutuo caught up with him a few steps, got on his horse quickly, and chased after him.Soon, they left the coachman and the two women behind.

Not too far away, Shen Sui and his party heard the coachman cursing behind him in a rough voice:

"What bullshit! My brain is broken! Rich people are amazing!"

Shen Sui's complexion was very serious, with faint coldness burning in his eyes, he remained silent.Hu Tuo was silent like a cicada, and his back was inexplicably wet with sweat.Qianhe and Wuya who were driving the carriage behind didn't know what happened, they were curious but didn't dare to ask, they just looked at the back of Shen Sui riding on the horse, and felt that this man was really an out-and-out weirdo.I thought she was approachable, treated the common people especially, and had an extremely pleasant face, but I didn't expect her to be so ruthless and merciless.

Sitting in the carriage, Zhang Ruohan's face was slightly condensed, and there was a light of thought in his eyes.After a while, she opened the curtain of the car, looked at Shen Sui's lean and straight back riding on the horse, felt a pain in her heart, and really wanted to hug her right away.After thinking about it, she said to Wu Ya in front:

"Wu Ya, call Da Lang over for me."

Wu Ya responded.Then he called forward:

"Shen Dalang! My third wife is here to invite you."

Shen Sui glanced back at her, then turned his horse's head and ran back to the right side of Zhang Ruohan's carriage.

"Lotus maid?" Shen Sui called her softly.

Zhang Ruohan hung up the curtains of the car, stared at her for a while through the window, Shen Sui was puzzled, and then said:

"Stretch out your hand."

Shen Sui was confused, and passed his left hand over.Zhang Ruohan put something wrapped in a small lotus leaf in her hand, and said:

"Eat."

Shen Sui peeled off the lotus leaf, and saw a piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake lying in his palm.She couldn't laugh or cry immediately.

Seeing that she didn't eat for a long time, Zhang Ruohan just smiled wryly, and said: "You eat or not, and if you don't eat, give it back to me. I brought out a small plate, but it's not much."

"Eat!" Shen Sui immediately covered his head and stuffed the osmanthus cake into his mouth.

As a result, she was choked without accident.

Zhang Ruohan seemed to have expected it, handed out the teapot, and said:

"It's not hot, drink it quickly."

Shen Sui hurriedly took the teapot, poured a big mouthful of clear tea into his mouth, and finally swallowed the cake.Seeing her reckless appearance, Zhang Ruohan couldn't help laughing.

Shen Sui handed back the teapot embarrassingly, Zhang Ruohan took the teapot, but Shen Sui grabbed his hand.Zhang Ruohan didn't break free and let her hold her.The teapot was switched to the other hand, and she put it down gently.She leaned sideways on the carriage, found a more comfortable position, and held Shen Sui's hand back.

The two didn't speak for a while.

Shen Sui rode on a tall horse, which was higher than the window of the carriage. If she wanted to grab Zhang Ruohan's hand, she had to bend down and lower her body, which was actually not very comfortable.However, she didn't seem to care about it at all. With superb skills, she controlled the rein with one hand, so that the horse kept a motionless distance parallel to the carriage.

In fact, Shen Sui really wanted to ride with Zhang Ruohan, but after all, they are not "husband and wife", unmarried "men" and women ride together, and it would be bad for their reputation to spread the word.Neither she nor Zhang Ruohan are people who cherish feathers, or care about what others think of them.However, spreading the scandal between the two of them now will have a very bad impact. What she is most worried about is that before she has a showdown with Li Jinyue in person, the matter between her and Zhang Ruohan will be spread to Li Jinyue's ears by others in advance. It will bring unnecessary trouble to her future plans.

However, if the news spreads that the hand in hand goes hand in hand, the effect will be the same, Shen Sui thought with a wry smile.

Just now Zhang Ruohan gave her a piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake. This was an act that only the two of them, or only the three of them, understood the meaning of.Osmanthus cake is Shen Sui's favorite cake, especially when she was a child, she liked to eat it very much, every time she saw osmanthus cake, she was so hungry that she couldn't move her legs.Whenever she was unhappy, her father and mother would use sweet-scented osmanthus cakes to coax her. Later, Zhang Ruohan and Li Jinyue learned this. Every time they bullied themselves, they would use sweet-scented osmanthus cakes to make peace afterwards. I forgave them very unsatisfactorily every time.

Shen Sui was actually very depressed, who made her the youngest of the three. When she was young, she was not as good as Zhang Ruohan in Wen and Li Jinyue in Wu, and she was always bullied by them.Especially Zhang Ruohan, Zhang Ruohan was a little goblin full of tricky ideas when he was young, and he could always play tricks on Shen Sui easily.Sometimes even playing together with Li Jinyue and Shen Sui, she didn't really care about Li Jinyue's status as the daughter of the princess.Li Jinyue still pays attention to her princess status most of the time, and treats Shen Sui with generosity and kindness. She is a real elder sister image, while Zhang Ruohan is the exact opposite of her.

"When you were young, it was so much fun, hehe..." Zhang Ruohan chuckled while lying on the window, and the volume of the voice just reached Shen Sui's ears.Of course, Qianhe and Wuya who were driving in front could also hear it, but they were all selectively deaf.

Shen Sui just laughed and didn't answer.Zhang Ruohan's chuckle, like a feather, brushed against his heart.

"Small, with a round face, a pair of big smart eyes, and always likes to wear red clothes, like a burning fire." She looked up at Shen Sui's handsome profile, and a layer of fascination fainted in her clear eyes , and the tone gradually became lazy:

"Stupid, always likes to run after me, and you go wherever I go. Everything you do is rushed, and every time you think about it, you have to do it every time, so that you have caused so many disasters that everyone in Chang'an City is afraid of you. flaming Phenix."

Recalling the past, Shen Sui laughed out loud, with a hearty laugh and a bright smile, bathed in the morning light, so dazzling that Zhang Ruohan was dazzled.

"It was so cute then, but now..." She stopped.

"What's the matter now?" Shen Sui turned his head and looked down at her, the moment their eyes met, they both felt their hearts thump, as if they had been hit by something, and they forgot to say anything.

But why is it so exciting now...

Zhang Ruohan couldn't say this, she suddenly felt a little shy, broke away from Shen Sui's hand, and shrank into the carriage, her heart beat a little faster, her mouth was a little dry, she picked up the teapot, and only then remembered that Shen Sui had just drank from the spout, Can't help but the cheeks are burning up, holding the teapot, I don't know whether to continue pouring tea or put it down.

She had pretended to be ashamed and angry in front of Shen Sui, and finally tasted the sweetness of shame for the first time.This is unprecedented, because in her heart, Shen Sui has always been that little girl worthy of love, but in the blink of an eye, she has grown so big and changed so drastically.She is now on a par with herself, not the little girl who always follows behind.When she realized the change in the status of the two, she suddenly tasted a burst of radiant heartbeat, which was a brand new love sprouted on the basis of her long-term relationship, full of vitality, all the time It tugged at her heartstrings.

Zhang Ruohan unconsciously picked the spout of the teapot with her fingers, and gently bit her crystal lower lip with her white teeth.

The author has something to say: Continue to fall in love in the next chapter, I will love you to death.

In addition, the Nestorianism mentioned in this chapter is actually a branch of Christianity.Nestorianism, Eastern Assyrian Church, many names.Introduced to China in the Tang Dynasty, it advocated "two natures and two natures" (Christ has two natures and two natures), and "Daqin Temple" was built in Yiningfang, Chang'an.Great Qin is actually the Eastern Roman Empire. Nestorius first founded a sect in Constantinople, Eastern Rome, and was later expelled as a heretic. He fled to Persia for protection and established a church.