"The real person is leaving the palace. Is it because the drinks in the palace are not as good as expected?" she asked casually.
"You don't know, how can the wine in the palace compare to the fragrance outside." Ming Juezi seemed to be thinking about it, "This wine is made with personal flavor. Some are as light as water, and some are... It will be sweet and mellow."
He smiled and took out something from his arms: "I'm afraid I won't be able to repay the girl's wine money. This thing should be regarded as a thank you gift and a favor to you."
Mingjuezi thrust the kit into her hand.
Liu Ruyan opened the kit and was stunned.
She looked at the man's retreating figure, and the prompt sounded again: "The plot character Ming Juezi, with a loyalty value of 60, has been assigned to our camp."
Liu Ruyan murmured to herself: "Mingjuezi... is actually the guardian of Suanni."
——Suanni, shaped like a lion, likes to smoke and likes to sit. It is often carved on the incense burner and swallows smoke and spits out mist.
When Liu Ruyan returned to the house, she found that Shen Yanchu was also there. The tips of his hair were wet, and he had obviously changed some clothes.
He walked forward directly: "Seeing that you are not here, I went to the bathroom to wash up first."
Liu Ruyan moved a stool and sat on it: "I was delayed by something on the way, so I came back late."
After that, she took out her kit.
Shen Yan took a first look: "Xuan Kun Seal...where did it come from?"
"Mingjuezi exchanged it with me." Liu Ruyan roughly told the whole story, "I didn't expect that Mingjuezi would be the Queen of the Eight Sages and the guardian of Suanni."
She originally came here to get the "Suan Ni" from the master of the Jiangnan Kingdom, but she unintentionally got the "Suanni" first.
At present, she has four jade seals: Suan Ni, Chaofeng, Biuan, and Prisoner Niu.
The Wangfeng Tower contains the three jade seals of Yaizi, Pixiu, and the Emperor's Seal.
There are still two missing pieces.
Liu Ruyan raised the jade seal to her head, and with the help of candlelight, she could see the words on the bottom of the seal.
Like Xiaozhuan.
"Begging for people." She read aloud, "What do you mean?"
Shen Yanchu said: "I remember that the ancestor of the Shen family, Shen Pi, wrote in a handbook that using He's jade to make nine seals can decipher the map of Kyushu."
"Can you unlock the ancient map?"
"That's right."
"No wonder Wangfeng Tower is determined to win the Xuankun Seal." She suddenly asked, "By the way, how is the situation at Jinling Temple?"
He shook his head and said, "It's too late today. The temple is closed. However, Jinling Temple does not refuse pilgrims and all the palace officials can come and go freely. It doesn't matter if we go back tomorrow morning."
"That's right." Liu Ruyan put away the jade seal.
"There is someone outside the door." Suddenly, Shen Yanchu's eyes sharpened.
I just heard the sound of footsteps coming from the yard.
Liu Ruyan opened the door, and Wan Jinqiu walked in slowly.
"Wan Zhangyi." She stepped forward and said politely, "Wan Zhangyi, do you have anything to do with me?"
"I saw a wound on the back of the girl's hand during the day. This bottle of frostbite medicine must be useful." She said softly, taking out a bottle of exquisite porcelain medicine, "There is also this hand warmer, which can be used after filling it with hot water. "
Liu Ruyan took them one by one: "Wan Zhangyi is so polite."
"That's right." She said with a slight smile, "The winter in Jinling is wet and cold. Without these things to keep out the cold, the girl would probably suffer."
Liu Ruyan thanked her again and again, with warmth flowing in her heart, she took something out of her arms and said, "I went to the library in the afternoon, and I will return this bookplate in its original form."
Wan Jinqiu put away the sign and said, "It's getting late today, so let's go into the house and rest."
Liu Ruyan nodded and escorted her out of the small courtyard.
"Girl, there is no need to send you off anymore." Wan Jinqiu said goodbye.
Back at the house, Shen Yanchu took the frostbite medicine, poured it out and applied it on her: "I didn't expect that Zhang Yi would be very good to you."
Liu Ruyan came closer and looked at him: "Look at you, why are you so sad?"
"No." He turned away and refused to admit it.
"Actually, Miss Wan saved my life." She said eloquently, "She was the daughter of Sima back then, but for some reason she appeared in Jinling Palace..."
"She didn't tell you why?"
Liu Ruyan shook her head.
A few moments.
Shen Yanchu put down the medicine: "It's late at night, go to sleep."
He walked into the back room, hung up the bed curtains on both sides, slowly took off his shirt, and fell asleep.
Liu Ruyan's eyes widened and she watched helplessly as he lay down on his own, covered with her duck feather quilt.
"Devil, you're staying in the next room." She stood at the head of the bed.
Shen Yan raised her eyelashes slightly, looked at her, and said reluctantly: "The window over there is broken, and the wind is leaking, and it froze me for several days."
She didn't believe it.
Not to mention the fine clothing and food, the Jinling Palace should not have holes in its windows.
Liu Ruyan personally ran to the next door to identify it.
As a result, as soon as I entered the house, I saw that the window lattice was in disrepair and was crumbling in the cold wind.
She shivered and had to go back to the house.
After extinguishing the candle, Liu Ruyan lay on the side of the bed and stared at the bed curtain above her head.
She thought about the past with many emotions.
Ever since she confessed her love that night on the snowy night and pierced this layer of window paper, she went against her original intention and became bound in her heart.
She originally thought that she would be lonely all her life, watching the dawn wind and the waning moon alone, but she never thought that she would meet someone walking side by side with her.
"Yan Chu—" She turned around and came closer, her hands climbing to his waist.
Shen Yan didn't expect it at first. The moment she hugged him, his heartbeat seemed to skip a beat.
Immediately afterwards, it gradually revived, and there was a beating in the chest.
Liu Ruyan buried her head in his arms and murmured: "I heard from a bunch of gangsters that if you hug your wife to sleep at night, you can conceive an heir."
"I didn't believe it at the time. I thought these people were making up nonsense. They just laughed and said that they had to do a lot of things while sleeping."
"I just asked, what kind of cloud and rain?"
Shen Yan was in trouble for the first time: "Don't ask others about this kind of thing in the future."
She raised her head: "Is it possible that you know?"
The mental skills learned by the devil are no different from those of the enlightened monks, but he is more ignorant than her in matters of love.
Shen Yanchu was completely silent.
He practiced secret skills in Wulu Mountain, and he had to avoid drinking and sex.
In the sect, drinking and sex are strictly prohibited.
Once, he encountered a disciple secretly hiding an album, and he handed it over at that time. Afterwards, he burned it with a brazier, and the album happened to be spread out in front of him, revealing the forbidden pictures inside.
At that time, he felt dirty.
Many years have passed, but now, his memory is still fresh.
What is Yunyu?
He thought of the one step, two steps, three or four steps depicted in the painting.
"I'll tell you later." He was vague.
"Hey, it's better not to say anything." Liu Ruyan was angry and scratched it with her fingers.
Shen Yanchu had no choice but to grab her hand and put it on his chest.
Then, there was a strong and tight feeling in the palm of her hand, and she realized that he usually wore tight clothes when sleeping outdoors, but he was not as thin as he is now.
As thin as nothing.
"Devil."
"Um?"
"You're getting thicker-skinned."
"..."
Have a good night's sleep.
In the early morning, Liu Ruyan and Shen Yanchu stood outside the Jinling Temple. The temple is surrounded by mountains and rivers and is a place for pure spiritual practice.
The two of them walked into the temple and entered the Buddhist hall.
Shen Yanchu took some sticks of incense and lit them.
Liu Ruyan did not believe in ghosts and gods and did not worship religion. She rarely worshiped Buddha in her life, so she followed his instructions, raised the incense between her eyebrows, looked at the Buddha statue with her eyes, bowed, and placed the incense in the incense burner.
"Those who see the Buddha must be sincere." Shen Yanchu whispered, "Cultivating the Buddha is also cultivating the mind. Understand everything in this world and not be trapped by greed, anger, and ignorance."
"It seems that you also know a lot about practicing Buddhism," she said.
"In addition to believing in witchcraft, Buddhism is prevalent in Dali. From the emperor to the poor, everyone worships in Buddhist halls, and the children of aristocratic families also practice both Confucianism and Buddhism."