After the new rain in the empty mountains, autumn comes late.

It rained all day and it stopped until the evening. While it was not completely dark, people who had been trapped in the temple for a day came out for a walk; they were walking on the gravel road where the masters went up the mountain to chop firewood in the temple, and met Yan Xiang, who followed the master to come out to hug firewood, "The Fourth Uncle."

"Six Girls!" Only then did Master Yan Si remember that Yan Xiang was sent to Zhetan Temple to kneel down.

"Uncle Fourth, why are you here?" Yan Xiang also understood that Si Ye couldn't have come to pick her up.

"Returning to Beijing from Longcheng, passing by here." Master Yan Si said simply.

When Yan Xiang heard this, she had not yet remembered anything. It was not until she saw the woman following Tang Li that she remembered that the Longcheng earthquake, Tang Li was rushed downstream by a landslide lake and was rescued by a farmer. When she returned to Beijing, she brought the daughter of her savior back to the past of the capital.

Yan Xiang didn't know much about how this farm girl was going on later. She was married far away at that time. When she came back, it was ten years later, and things had changed.

"Yan Xiang has seen His Royal Highness the Grandpa, I wish you goodbye, your Royal Highness, you will be blessed." Yan Xiang bowed his knees and said, as for Fu Zhixing, she turned a blind eye. She did not want to greet this man who was in love with Yan Huo.

Fu Zhixing didn't care whether Yan Xiang would pay him any respect. He walked directly past Yan Xiang without even giving her the corner of his eyes.

Tang Lixu helped: "Miss Yan doesn't have to be too polite, please get up."

Yan Xiang stood up and smiled at the woman beside him, "Hello, girl." Seeing Tang Li here, Yan Xiang realized that this would be a rare opportunity for her, a good opportunity to leave here and climb Tang Li, and this farm girl is someone who can use it.

"Hello, my name is Wu Yu Niang, you can call me Yu Niang." Wu Yu Niang was flattered. Along the way, when he saw the female relatives from the officials' houses, he looked at her with contempt. It was rare to meet someone so friendly.

"My name is Yan Xiang." Yan Xiang smiled.

"Are you a nun?" Although Wu Yuniang saw that she had hair, she was wearing the nun's gray straight robe, so she asked directly.

"I am not a nun. I came to the temple to keep filial piety and kneel down for my deceased mother." Yan Xiang said with a sad expression.

Wu Yuniang held her hand and said with emotion: "You are so filial!"

"This is all right." Yan Xiang held back and didn't pull out his hand, and sighed pretendingly, "I want to raise my son but my parents are not here. I can do this for my mother now."

"My mother is no longer here, I have never seen my mother." Wu Yu's eyes were slightly red. Three days after she was born, her mother died of fever after giving birth. It was her father who raised her.

"The motherless child is pitiful." Yan Xiang also pretended to be sad.

Wu Yuniang ignored her father's dissuasion and was snatched by her two sisters-in-law, thinking about living a wealthy life, but as she got farther away from home, she became more and more panicked. For her, the appearance of Yan Xiang was a life-saving straw. The two had their own wishes, and Yan Xiang's deliberate cater and flattery, and the two fell in love with each other, and the more they talked, the more they became more and more speculative, and they almost got into the incense and worshipped each other.

Although Master Yan Si knew the real reason why Yan Xiang came to Zhetan Temple, his family's shame should not be made public. What's more, this involves the reputation of the Yan family's daughter. He could only remind Tang Li tactfully, "My niece is a clever niece. Miss Wu is simple-minded and does not know the situation in the capital. If you believe it, it would be not good."

"Uncle Yan, don't underestimate others. Wu Yuniang is not the kind of farm girl without scheming." Tang Li privately called Yan Siye as his uncle. Although he was grateful to Wu Yuniang for saving him, he was disgusted with Wu Yuniang's favor and insisted on going to Beijing with him, and wanted to be his woman. Tang Li didn't want to be said to be ungrateful. She endured her inner unhappiness and took Wu Yuniang into Beijing, but she never touched her.

Wu Yuniang dared to follow them alone into Beijing, which shows that she was not a simple person. She and Yan Xiang might have deceived anyone, so Yan Siye didn't care much. The rain kept falling, and the road collapsed even more severely. He was afraid that other places would collapse. He could only stay in the Red Ray Temple with peace of mind.

The low terrain in the city was filled with waist-deep rain, and the streets sheltered from the rain were filled with beggars. The Chu Palace took the lead in releasing food to rescue disasters, setting up porridge spots at four points east, south, west, and north of the city. At noon, there were two steamed buns with porridge and rice, and at night, there were a bowl of porridge and a steamed bun.

Yu Fangfei praised the righteous act of the Chu Prince's Mansion in front of Mrs. Yan, and said: "Grandma, I also want to do my best to set up two porridge points to give the victims a porridge."

It is always good to do good deeds, and Mrs. Yan did not stop him, "Fangfei, how much money do you plan to give out?"

"Grandma, I'm going to take out a thousand taels of silver. Do you think it's enough?" Yu Fangfei is not in charge of the family and does not know the price of food, rice, oil and salt.

One thousand taels is definitely not enough, but Mrs. Yan decided to give her a cushion, so there was no need to say this. Just as she was about to say it, Yan Huo asked first: "Cousin Yu, do you know what the price of rice is recently?" Yu Fangfei wanted a good reputation and paid for it herself, so that she would not let Mrs. Yan supplement this person who was traitor.

"Xiaoxiao, your cousin Yu is doing good deeds, don't be so petty." Mrs. Yan didn't understand why Yan Huo started to target Yu Fangfei.

"Grandmother, it's good to do good deeds. You just need to do good deeds within your ability. The big head should wear the hat. The King of Chu Mansion is giving porridge, and Cousin Yu also gives porridge. Is Cousin Yu trying to steal the limelight from the King of Chu Mansion? Last time I returned the gift of the Prince of Chu, Cousin Yu was afraid that I would offend people, so he said to me. Why is Cousin Yu not afraid of offending the King of Chu Mansion now?" Yan Huo seemed to be smiling.

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"Twelve sister, how can these two things be confused? I am not doing this to steal the limelight from the Chu Palace, I am doing good deeds. I believe that the Chu Prince and the Chu Prince are not the kind of people who are not distinguished from right and wrong, and are unclear about black and white." Yu Fangfei defended anxiously, but did not see that Mrs. Yan's eyes had changed.

Yan Huo smiled but said nothing. She said everything she should say. I believe my grandmother would not give the money to supplement it. Yu Fangfei wanted to donate porridge, so she used the 1,000 taels of silver she took out. As for how long it could be donated, I don’t know who made it so that not only rice and noodles have increased, but also firewood has also increased.

"If you want to give the porridge, just give it." Mrs. Yan said lightly.

"Thank you, grandmother." Yu Fangfei said happily.

Mrs. Yan waved her hand, "I'm tired and want to take a break, so I'll be gone."

Yu Fangfei wanted to talk about how to serve porridge in detail, but what else she said, so she had to go out first. She didn't expect that after being disturbed by Yan Hu, Mrs. Yan not only did not pay for the money, but also did not help with the staff. She was a lady in the inner house. No matter how good she had or how much money she had, she couldn't do anything.

But Yu Fangfei is not Yan Xiang. When she moved her mind, she thought of Wu Chengxian, "Watch the moon, go find Wu Chengxian and ask him to help find someone. Let this be done and tell him that this is a good opportunity to become famous. As long as he does it, Taifu Yan can look up to him. If he wants to marry Yan Xiang, it will be much easier."

With two silver notes of 500 taels in his denomination, Guanyue went out to find Wu Chengxian. Yu Fangfei told Mrs. Yan that she wanted to go to the Shuishi Temple and begged the Buddha to let the dark clouds go away. After the rain, the sky clears. Don't fall again.

When Yan Huo heard that she was going to Xishi'an again, he looked up at her, but didn't say anything, and wanted to catch her handle, of course he didn't say anything. He didn't say anything, and that wasn't a warning to the snake. Yan Huo asked Yu Fangfei seriously, "Cousin Yu, is this cloth cloud and rain also under the control of the Buddha?"

"The Buddha's Dharma is boundless, and I think it can make the dark clouds spread." Before Yu Fangfei asked Guanyue to go to Wu Chengxian, she went to the Chu Palace to pass on a message, asking Tang Wei to go to Xishi'an to see her and discuss important matters. Therefore, she was imperative to go to Xishi'an to do this trip.

"It's raining outside, and it's inconvenient to go out. Let's go when it clears up." Mrs. Yan frowned. This man has grown up and has a lot of things. He is so wild and wants to run out all day long.

Yu Fangfei showed a hint of urgency on her face. She had made an appointment with someone, how could she not go? Yan Huo kept paying attention to her. Seeing this, he knew that Yu Fangfei would gain something if she went out today. He smiled and said, "Grandma, it was because it rained, so he wanted to ask for Buddha. When the rain was clear, what else would he ask for?"

Yu Fangfei looked at Yan Huo in surprise. She didn't expect Yan Huo to speak for her. Yan Huo noticed her eyes, afraid of arousing her suspicion, and said carelessly: "The rain keeps falling, and there are many places in the city, and the people are displaced. It looks so pitiful. I also hope that the sky will be clear soon after the rain, Amitabha, and the Bodhisattva bless you. If I weren't afraid of getting sick after getting wet, I would have wanted to go to the temple and ask the Buddha. This rain really can't fall again. It's almost the autumn harvest. The farmers have worked hard for a year and cannot rot in the fields."

"Oh, Xiaoxiao still knows about autumn harvest!" Mrs. Yan smiled.

"Auntie, you underestimate people too much. I have a reading. The books all say, "Spring and summer weeding, autumn harvest and winter weeding, and the four are kept in time." Yan Huo shook his head and said authentically.

Mrs. Yan was amused by her little smug appearance, and reached out to light her forehead, "It seems that this book is not in vain."

"I'm a talented girl." Yan Huo boasted again.

Yan Zi and Yan Jing, the two who supported him, immediately said: "The Twelve Sisters are talented women."

Seeing that the topic was distracted, Yu Fangfei quickly called out: "Grandma, aunt."

Mrs. Yan turned her eyes to look at her with a cold look, "If you want to go, go."

With the permission of Mrs. Yan, Yu Fangfei happily went back to the yard to dress up. The previous few times she went to Xishi'an, she was taking care of the nuns. This was the first time she had met Tang Hua. They hadn't seen each other for some days. She missed him so much that she had to dress up and see him.

Yan Huo followed out of Chunhuiyuan and sent someone to Xishi'an first. On the way back to Yinianyuan, he saw Yu Fangfei hurriedly passing by the corridor. She was wearing a big red wide-sleeved peony dress, holding a flying fairy bun, and a golden golden step-shaking shaking her head. Look, she looks like she is going to worship Buddha, and she is clearly going to meet her lover.

Yan Huo thought about it, turned around and went to Chunhuitang again, "Grandma."

Mrs. Yan was reading Buddhist scriptures and saw her granddaughter coming back, "Xiaoxiao, do you have something to tell your grandmother?"

Yan Huo said that he had just seen Yu Fangfei dressing up, and admitted it barely, "When she said she wanted to go to Xishi'an, I felt something was wrong, so when my grandmother disagreed, I would talk to her. I suspected that she... had an affair with a man." Yan Huo was not sure if it was Tang Shu, so he did not say Tang Shu's name.

"Xiaoxiao, you can't say this nonsense." Mrs. Yan hurriedly said that a woman's reputation is greater than that, destroying a person's reputation is equivalent to harming a person's life.

Yan Huo hugged her arm and said, "Grandma, I don't want to wrong her, so I have asked someone to go to Xishi'an to follow her."

"You girl, you are really brave. Is this a matter of joining you, a young girl who is not married?" Mrs. Yan asked with a stern face.

"I'm here to tell you this." Yan Huo shrank his neck and said quietly.

Mrs. Yan snorted heavily and said sternly: "You go back to your yard for An Sheng. You are not allowed to care about this matter too much, just pretend that you don't know."

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Yu Fangfei sat in a carriage with a spring breeze on her face and went to the temple. She pretended to burn incense in front of the Buddha and asked the middle-aged nun next to her, "Does there be an elegant and quiet meditation room?" As she spoke, she handed the middle-aged nun a purse.

The middle-aged nun pinched her purse and said with a smile: "Yes, donor, please follow the poor nun."

A woman kneeling in front of the Buddha next to her looked up at them. When the middle-aged nun led Yu Fangfei to the meditation room, she got up neatly, evasively, followed not far or near. She watched Yu Fangfei enter the meditation room, watch the middle-aged nun leave, and watch the middle-aged nun send tea in.

The woman hid in the corner and stared at the meditation room. About a quarter of an hour later, the woman saw Tang Wu, looked around and entered the meditation room. She covered her mouth in shock, and Miss Cousin and the Prince of Chu had a secret meeting in Xishi'an!

The woman didn't dare to approach and listen to the conversation between the two. She tiptoed and walked back to Yan's mansion. She originally planned to meet Yan Huo at Yinian Courtyard, but Xiangyuan also called her to Chunhui Courtyard.

"I wish you goodbye to the old lady, and you will be blessed." The woman knelt down and kowtowed.

"What did Miss Twelve ask you to do?" Mrs. Yan asked directly.

The woman replied, "Reply to the old lady, Miss Twelve, I didn't let me do anything."

Mrs. Yan was stunned. She was very satisfied with the woman's loyalty, but in this matter, the woman's loyalty was wrong. "Miss Twelve is young. Do you think that matter should be involved in it?"

The woman bit the corner of her lower lip, "Old lady, Miss Twelve asked me to stare at Miss Cousin in Xishi'an."

"Who did Miss Cousin meet?" asked Mrs. Yan, and in her heart, she still didn't want Yu Fangfei to do such a detrimental thing.

"The person who met Miss Cousin was the prince of the King of Chu." The woman lowered her head and did not dare to look at the face of Mrs. Yan.

"Who? Who are you talking about?" Mrs. Yan couldn't believe it and confirmed again.

"Old lady, the man who met Miss Cousin is the prince of the King of Chu." The woman repeated.
Chapter completed!