Little Cardamom - Chapter 63

Xu Shimingtan’s theoretical knowledge is in place, and Xu Shiqinghe’s understanding is good. The two of them tossed around like this, but nothing went wrong.

After a while, Yun Yi came over.

Yun Yi is a serious Jin Yunwei, killing people is like cutting cabbage, so riding a horse is naturally a no-brainer. Ming Tan was very self-aware and vacated the post of master, and let Yun Yi Haosheng teach Jiao Qinghe.

Seeing that Qinghe was really interested in riding horses, Ming Tan secretly told Jiang Xu to keep the horse and give it to her.

After lunch, no matter how reluctant they were, they had to continue on their way. Fortunately, Ming Heng would return to Beijing to report on his duties in one year, so saying goodbye would not be too sentimental.

Before leaving, Ming Heng sent another box of things to Ming Tan: “These are the gadgets my brother collected for you in the past six months, and I originally planned to bring them back to Shangjing next month, since I’m here, I’ll take them with me to relieve my boredom on the way. “

“Thank you brother.”

Ming Tan bent his lips, took the brocade box, opened it and looked at it.

Inside there are delicate and complicated Luban locks, nine chains made of jade, painted Mohele, and dazzling gemstone hairpins, all of which are new styles that are hard to see in Beijing.

Just as he was about to close it after reading it, Ming Tan suddenly caught a glimpse of an easily overlooked black color in the corner. Curious, she stretched out her hand and picked it up, and took out the piece of black jade buried in the corner.

This piece of black jade is very similar to the one I saw in the pocket of Jiang Xu’s clothes this morning, but the shape is different. This piece is oval, more like a pebble.

“Brother, what is this?” She put it in the sun and took a photo, but it didn’t see through.

Mingheng explained: “Oh, this is a kind of jade produced exclusively in a small country called ‘Wuheng’ in the Western Regions. It is called ‘Wuheng Jade’. This jade, but the output is very small, I got this piece by chance, seeing the rare black jade, thinking that you might be able to use it for jewelry, so I put it in it.”

Ming Tan heard the words and nodded clearly.

Mingheng thought of something, and said again: “But this jade, I had someone give you a piece of it before, don’t you remember?”

Ming Tan: “…?”

Have it? Ming Tan was puzzled for a moment, but soon relieved.

She has countless gemstone hairpins, and she only opened and looked at the top-quality Dongzhu hairpin that Uncle Fu borrowed the name of the Golden Pavilion to give her, but she has never worn it.

Since the elder brother said so, then maybe there is. In this way, when I saw the jade of my husband this morning, I felt quite familiar, and it made sense.

Ming Tan didn’t think much about it, and after getting in the car, he took out this piece of Wuheng jade and dangled it in front of Jiang Xu’s eyes, looking at it and talking: “Husband, this piece of jade and yours seem to be the same thing, what is it called ‘Wuhengyu’? Heng Yu’?

“My brother said that he gave me a piece of jade before. No wonder I saw your piece of jade very familiar today. But I don’t know what my brother is thinking. This black jade is actually used as jewelry for me. Whose girl?” What kind of black jade can be used for jewelry, my brother doesn’t know much about girls…”

While talking, Ming Tan suddenly paused.

Jiang Xu also looked at her quietly.

Wait, she remembered, a few years ago, she seemed to have really received such a piece of black jade, and felt it was fresh now, she really used this black jade to make jewelry, and it was Jiang Xu who made it. The long strip of jade plaque in the secret pocket is hung on the top of the waist, just as an embellishment.

The ban on walking should be because he thought it was unlucky after returning home from a trip to Hanyan Temple three years ago, so he locked it together with the rest of his clothes and jewelry in a cage, and never took it out for use.

Speaking of Hanyan Temple, Ming Tan couldn’t help thinking of some old things.

Hanyan Temple was in Shangjing in the early years, and the incense was also very strong. But three years ago, the fire burned it down completely one night. Since then, people in Beijing have kept this temple secret, and no one mentioned it again.

Ming Tan remembered that the fire that burned down the Hanyan Temple was burning during the Outing Festival that year.

At that time, she was in the year of cardamom, and she went to Hanyan Temple to look for spring and enjoy flowers together with the ladies in Beijing during the outing festival.

The location of Hanyan Temple is quite remote, and it is quite famous for its success in seeking children, and then somehow, it became known that it is also very effective in seeking marriage.

Boys and girls are just getting to know Mu Ai for the first time, and they are a little ignorant about marriage, so they don’t hesitate to go out of the city to visit Hanyan Temple.

At that time, Ming Tan and Liang Zixuan were engaged, they had never seen anything in the world, so they were quite satisfied with this marriage.

When she went to Hanyan Temple, she stopped by to worship, praying for a smooth marriage, but after praying and asking for a lottery, it was a murderous lottery, which made her very angry.

Because of this lottery, she was in a bad mood, and she sat around with a group of ladies in the back hill of the temple to enjoy flowers and grasses, but she couldn’t lift her spirits up much.

I also don’t remember which lady was about to fly a kite at that time, the wind blew the kite high and far away, the lady chased forward, her eyes were not paying attention, her feet were not paying attention, and she stepped on her light-colored skirt. Several footprints.

Ming Tan suffered an indiscriminate disaster, and his already bad mood became more and more depressed.

It’s just that it’s impossible for her to lose face because of being stepped on and dirty her clothes, so she can only sulk in her heart. And when the girl was waiting for her to change clothes in the wing room, someone happened to bump into her annoyed moment.

Halfway through the change of clothes, the monk knocked on the door, saying that an assassin had entered the temple, and wanted her to open the door to check.

She was so angry at the time! The investigators have found her here, so do you want her reputation for talking nonsense?

She grabbed the etiquette and talked to the outside, one, two, three, four, without taking a breath.

The monks outside the temple looked at each other. It was not easy to publicize the investigation. After thinking about it for a while, they still didn’t force their way in. They went to investigate other places first.

It’s just that when she changed her clothes and left, she suddenly saw sporadic blood stains on the corner of the screen. She was so panicked that her mind went blank for a moment, her whole body was stiff, and she almost couldn’t walk. Fortunately, she managed to calm down in the end, and walked out of the wing as if nothing had happened.

That outing was really not going well, Ming Tan was angry and afraid, and felt that Hanyan Temple was full of bad luck. After returning home, she fell asleep in a very bad mood. Who would want to wake up and hear that the Hanyan Temple was on fire last night, and the entire temple was burned down.

The government office in central Beijing said to the outside world that during the Qingming Festival, many people burned incense and paper, which caused a mountain fire, and Hanyan Temple unfortunately suffered disaster.

But this incident is full of weirdness, it is said to be a mountain fire, and I have never heard of any mountain burning bald, but only a Zen temple was burned, and only a small part of the temple people were killed or injured, and the rest have been transferred to other places. Zen temple.

Although Ming Tan was young at the time, he also felt that something was wrong, and he was even a little afraid that he let the assassin go, which caused Hanyan Temple to suffer such a catastrophe.

But later, she vaguely learned from Mrs. Pei that Hanyan Temple’s disaster was not accidental, but that the higher-ups deliberately cleaned it up—some monks in Hanyan Temple seemed to be involved in some shady business.

Pei didn’t say much about the details, perhaps because she was afraid of dirtying her ears. But in that year, there were several wives in Beijing who either hanged themselves or died of illness, and those wives all had their wishes fulfilled in Hanyan Temple.

All these connections, coupled with the very occasional dark rumors in the market, Ming Tan faintly made a bold guess: there may be licentious and fake monks in the Hanyan Temple, and the so-called success in begging for a child is nothing more than threatening each other to ask for love. That’s all.

Later, she also paid attention to the families where the wife passed away, and without exception, the children born there died one after another due to various reasons. Only one family said that their child was weak and would be sent to his hometown in the south of the Yangtze River to recuperate, but there has been no news so far. This obviously confirmed her guess even more.

Ming Tan fell into memory and was silent for a while, Jiang Xu suddenly asked: “What are you thinking?”

Ming Tan came back to his senses, subconsciously shook his head: “It’s nothing… By the way, sir, you said earlier that that piece of Wuheng jade saved your life?” She was still more interested in this matter.

Jiang Xu said “Yes”: “Three years ago, when Yuzhou was regained, there was a difficult battle. After escaping from the battlefield, he was hunted down again. The heart guard was broken, and it blocked the poisoned arrow for the king once.”

Ming Tan was stunned, and immediately remembered what his brother said about this jade being extremely hard. But her husband had experienced such a dangerous thing, she was afraid and said: “In this way, that jade really saved my husband’s life, fortunately my husband is fine.”

Jiang Xu was silent, he only said one sentence lightly, but it was hard to explain in thousands of words.

Before regaining Yuzhou, Daxian was peaceful and prosperous on the surface, but in fact, internal and external troubles had reached their peak.

The Empress Dowager Su stared at Emperor Chengkang several times, and even used the lewd and fake monks of Hanyan Temple to control the family members of several important officials in the court, threatening each other step by step, and confusing their heirs, in order to let them use for themselves and steal important information.

Jiang Xu sneaked into the temple to investigate, and because he underestimated the enemy, he was wounded and hid in the wing room. Unfortunately, it was the wing room where Ming Tan changed clothes.

At that time, he was hiding behind the screen, and Ming Tan was changing clothes on the other side of the screen.

She put the changed coat on top of the screen, and also casually put on her pearl-shiny forbidden steps. For some reason, a small black jade tablet suddenly fell from the top of the forbidden step, the sound was crisp and clear to the ears.

At that moment, Jiang Xu moved to kill.

But the little **** the opposite side didn’t care about the dropped things, she just muttered angrily about how inaccurate the lottery in this temple was, how expensive her clothes were, and someone came to check on the assassin later, she seemed very angry and said clearly Tiao turned back, and abruptly pushed him away from the wing.

Jiang Xu couldn’t help looking at the gap between the screens. The little **** the other side seemed to be only thirteen or fourteen years old, with a delicate face and a little childishness.

She used etiquette to block people, and later deliberately dawdled and changed clothes, buying him an extremely critical moment. At this moment, he healed and recovered to 50% of his internal strength, and left Hanyan Temple smoothly.

Burn temples and arrest people at night, and the dark tide is raging during the day. Many things have not been said on the surface from the beginning to the end, but the world has been turned upside down overnight.

The case of Hanyan Temple can be said to be the key to the empress dowager’s lineage being silent all those years ago, so things went too far, and several important ministers who were originally in the middle expressed their position angrily, which is incompatible with the empress dowager’s lineage.

His little princess accidentally helped him once in Hanyan Temple, and the black jade tablet that he took away saved his life in the Battle of Yuzhou not long after.

The recovery of Yuzhou was the most difficult and dangerous battle he encountered in his life. The front line was in trouble, the court was greedy for pay, and the Daxian army retreated steadily, causing tens of thousands of casualties.

He was seriously wounded, and when he was using his body as bait to lure the enemy to chase him down in the forest, he suddenly fired several arrows, one of which went straight to his heart. The jade tablet turned out to be the indestructible Wu Hengyu, which blocked the poisoned arrow for him.

The matter of fate is always wonderful, some people have known each other for several years but no more than nodding acquaintances. And some people are destined to meet once in a lifetime.