Chapter 18 Hu Zhuang

Early in the morning on the third day of April, Jiang Yishi was still sleeping when the courtyard door knocked, it was Jiang Xun, the old lady asked Jiang Xun to send Jiang Yishi to the manor.

Jiang Yishi was happy, having a sweet and pestering younger brother, it’s so good.

Today’s breakfast was eaten earlier than usual, the siblings just finished eating, Jiang third wife with Jiang Yirou over.

Mrs. Jiang sent Jiang Yishi twenty taels of silver, Jiang Yirou sent a piece of satin, also sent two pieces of Luo Pa on behalf of Jiang Yishan.

Jiang Yishi didn’t expect Jiang Yishan to send herself something, smiled and said, “Thank you Third Aunt and Fourth Sister, thank Fifth Sister on my behalf.”

Mrs. Jiang San said, “Pay attention to safety in the countryside, take more people with you when you go out. When you encounter something, report your third uncle’s name, your third uncle’s military camp is there, you can always bluff some people …….”

Jiang Yishi promised one by one.

It’s still early, the old lady did not get up, yesterday said to go directly.

Jiang Yishi master and servant four a carriage, Jiang Xun with a boy Wang Fu a carriage, the other two mule carts loaded things.

The car ran for more than two hours, arriving at the beginning of lunchtime Huzhuang.

In his past life and in his present life, it was the first time for Jiang Yishi to come here.

Get off the car, in front of a two courtyards, pink walls and tiles, hidden in a green trees and bamboos.

Not far away is a village, surrounded by a large area of fields, between which the paths are long and wide. Past the fields on the east side are the rolling verdant mountains – Qingluo Mountain.

Standing here, you can faintly hear the crowing of chickens and barking of dogs and the laughter of children from the village. You can also faintly see the flying eaves and horns in the woods under the Green Snail Mountain, which should be the Zhaoming Nunnery.

Wu Dabo with his two sons, Wu You Gui and Wu You Fu, were already kneeling in front of Jiang Yishi and Jiang Xun.

“Nuns have met the second girl, have met the second master.”

Jiang Yishi hadn’t seen Wu Dabo and Wu Youfu many times, and had seen Wu Yougui a bit more often. Wu You Gui was only a little more than half a year older than Jiang Yishi, and when he was a child, Sister Wu would occasionally keep him in the mansion for a few days.

Seeing Wu’s simple smile, Jiang Yishi felt close to him. In her previous life, it seems that Wu Dabo also died after she left the house, I don’t know how or when he died. Or Jiang Xun said when he went to visit her in the nunnery.

In her previous life, when she was unlucky, her lackeys were also unlucky.

Jiang Yishi smiled and said, “Eldest Uncle Wu, Brother Youfu, Brother Yougui, get up.”

Jiang Xun also rewarded each of them with a purse containing silver ingots, “Serve my sister well in the future.”

Wu Dabo laughed nervously, “I should.” He looked at Jiang Yishi and Jiang Xun twice, and said with red eyes, “The second girl grows more and more like the second lady, the second master also grows more and more like the second master.”

Jiang Xun touched his face and laughed, “Yes, they all say so. They also said that my sister is the most handsome young lady and I am the most handsome descendant.”

Jiang Yishi laughed and said “thick skin”, pulling him into the courtyard.

The manor is quite large, in addition to the inverted seat, there are also east and west compartments. Wu Dabo’s family lived in the west wing, the kitchen, woodshed, and storehouse were in the backseat. The second into the master live, they did not come are locked. There are five upper rooms, east and west compartments of three rooms each.

Although the house is simple, but cleaned up spotlessly.

Tidying up the house and cooking is done by the tenant farmer’s daughter-in-law He Da Auntie mother and daughter, they are one of the most skillful peasant women in the village, He Da Auntie’s daughter He Er Niang is also Wu You Fu’s fiancée, who will get married next year.

Jiang Yishi lived in the east room of the upper room. Shui Xiang and Shui Ling hurriedly spread the master’s bedding and hung the gauze net.

Jiang Xun toured around the yard and outside the house, nodding his head in satisfaction.

After eating the midday meal, Jiang Xun was going back to the capital.

“Sister, I’ll rush here on the ninth night of the first day and will stay at the manor for a night.”

“Good, I’ll prepare brined large intestine for my brother again.” Jiang Yishi agreed painfully and added, “I’m going to copy the sutra for father and mother for a month first, you lend me that pendant father left behind to wear for a while.”

Jiang Xun took a pendant from his neck, a red rope with a dark yellow tiger head the size of an adult’s thumb hanging from it.

This small pendant had been passed down from Jiang Chen’s great-grandfather, who had leapt directly over his son, grandson, and great-great-grandson, to his second-great-grandson, Jiang Chen, who had worn it all the time. Before he died, he took it down and asked Meng Zhimo to bring it back to the capital to Jiang Xun. I heard that Uncle Jiang was very unhappy to learn that such a thing Jiang Chen passed on to Jiang Xun before he died. But this thing passed through Meng Ruimo’s hands, and he was not good at forcing it over.

Jiang Xun said, “When Meng Shimo gave this pendant to me, he said that father asked me to keep it safe and also protect my sister. But I was incompetent and let my sister come here.”

Jiang Yishi took the pendant and said, “Coming to the manor isn’t a bad thing, younger brother is doing a good job.”

Looking at the carriage that was fading away, Jiang Yishi touched that little tiger head through her clothes. In his previous life, before his brother died, he asked someone to bring the pendant to her, because of this pendant, Old Divine Doctor Shen sincerely taught him. In this life, one still had to make up a set of words with this thing.

Jiang Xun’s words made Wu Bo listen to one ear. His eyes reddened, the second master is really a good person, when he died, he actually felt most relieved about the girl.

Jiang Yishi walked faithfully in the courtyard. The inner courtyard was quite large, but with only two trees, it seemed empty and monotonous.

Wu Bo smiled embarrassedly, “Nun didn’t think that the girl would come to live here for a long time, it’s too simple.”

Jiang Yishi laughed, “Go to town and buy more flower seeds, and buy two more begonia saplings and plantain saplings, I like to be surrounded by flowers. Oh, buy more moonflower seeds, cheap and easy to take care of.” He also asked, “How far are we from Lin Feng Town?”

Wu Bo laughed, “Not far, only six miles, and it takes more than two minutes by foot to get there.”

After returning to the house, Jiang Yishi finished purifying her hands and carefully copied the sutra.

Her heart was incomparably devout, she copied very slowly, and her words were written very neatly.

To be able to be reborn, to be able to fix her mistakes, not one in a million, but she was lucky enough to come across it.

How rare.

The next morning, Jiang Yishi brought Sister Wu, Shui Ling, and Wu You Gui to Zhaoming Nunnery to burn incense.

Jiang Yishi and Sister Wu urged Shui Ling more than once not to get into trouble, not to talk too much, and not to fight. If she didn’t listen, she would not be needed and would be sent back to the kitchen to burn the fire.

Shui Ling was so scared that she swore and cursed that she would obey.

Wu Bo also asked Jiang Yishi to go by mule cart, Jiang Yishi wanted to walk by herself to see the surrounding scenery.

She was not a young lady in a boudoir.

She wore half-used clothes, bucket hat pressed low, can see that she is from a wealthy background, but also can not imagine that it is a girl in the family of the uncle’s house.

Sister Wu and Shui Ling walked on either side of her, followed by Wu You Gui a few steps behind.

The path was rugged, the ears of wheat were fragrant on both sides, and the farmers in the farmland straightened up to look at them. Some of them recognized Wu You Gui, and even greeted him with a loud voice, “Little Steward Wu.”

Wu You Gui also smiled back with a big voice and said hello.

After a quarter of an hour or so, they arrived at Zhaoming Nunnery.

Zhaoming Nunnery is very large, before the previous dynasty, an empress was relegated to the common people after the monk here, after the son became emperor, the expansion of this place into this. Many officials and eunuchs in the capital family of women often come here to burn incense, seeking children seeking marriage especially more, I heard that twenty years ago the Empress Dowager also came to pray for blessings. Inside the incense is very strong, the scenery is quiet.