Chapter 49: I need the Commander to hug me before I can get up
While Wen Xingluo and Xie Guanlan were talking, the two people in front were also whispering.
Little Princess Chen Lezhi was impatient: "Mother is just too bored. My brother is in a difficult situation. I just want to stay in the mansion to help him. Who wants to get married?!"
Chen Yushi said seriously, "Rather than helping me, I hope my sister can find a good husband and live a worry-free life."
"Even if I were to marry him..." Chen Lezhi glanced at Xie Guanlan with disdain, "I don't want to marry this guy! He looks gentle and humble, but he's actually a murderer and robber in private! I heard that he once suppressed bandits and slaughtered nine thousand bandits in the southwestern mountain strongholds, leaving no one alive, not even the innocent hostages... He's a scoundrel, a beast in human clothing!"
Xie Guanlan's official career did not rely on the Zhenbei Palace at all.
He was decisive and ruthless, and climbed to the position of commander-in-chief of the army by walking through mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
Chen Yushi laughed and said lovingly, "If you don't like him, then don't marry him."
"I heard he's not interested in women and hates delicate girls the most. I'm going to disgust him to death later, hehe!"
Wen Xingluo has excellent hearing.
Listening to their conversation, I couldn't help but smile when I thought that Xie Guanlan had also been rejected.
Several people climbed up to the Cuiwei Pavilion on the high ground, and a mountain breeze blew from Ciyu Temple.
Chen Lezhi began her performance, delicately pinching her orchid fingers: "Oh, oh! I'm so fragile, I'm going to be blown away by the wind!"
As she spoke, she fell into Xie Guanlan's arms.
Xie Guanlan put his hands behind his back and didn't touch her.
"Princess!"
Instead, Wen Xingluo cried out in worry, wanting to hug Chen Lezhi before she fell.
Unexpectedly, the mountain wind lifted up the corner of her skirt, and she accidentally stepped on it, stumbled and fell down the stairs.
Chen Yushi was closest to her, and with quick eyes and hands, he quickly grabbed her by the waist and hugged her: "Miss Wen!"
A hero saves a beauty.
Xie Guanlan raised his eyebrows.
Wen Xingluo regained his footing, bowed to Chen Yushi, and said gratefully, "If it weren't for the prince's rescue, I would have probably fallen down the stairs and been seriously injured. Xingluo thanks the prince very much."
Chen Yushi helped her up and said gently, "Miss Wen, there's no need to be so polite."
The mountain breeze blew up Wen Xingluo's turquoise clothes and brushed across Chen Yushi's handsome and fair face, as if with a bit of tenderness.
In Cuiwei Pavilion, the young man and the young girl, wearing water-white jade and wind-blown clothes, stand together, a perfect match and pleasing to the eye.
Xie Guanlan looked at the two of them, and an inexplicable smile slowly appeared on his beautiful face.
Chen Lezhi was still lying on the ground, but no one was paying attention. Suddenly, she had an idea and reached out to Xie Guanlan charmingly, saying delicately, "I've fallen down too. I need Commander Xie to hold me up before I can get up~~"
Xie Guanlan lowered his eyes and looked at her.
The smile on his face had not faded yet, so Chen Lezhi saw that the man was smiling dangerously, and his white teeth were creepy.
He said gently, "Princess, are you sure you want me to hold you?"
Chen Lezhi: “…”
She suspected that Xie Guanlan would pick her up and throw her off the cliff.
It would be better to kill her directly than to go on a blind date with such an evil ghost!
She retracted her little hands, moved like a mushroom to squat behind the porch column, and said in a weak voice: "You can't see me..."
Xie Guanlan grabbed Wen Xingluo's shoulders from behind and pulled her into his arms.
He stared at Chen Yushi with a smile, "The wind is strong here, and my sister is frail and can't stay for long. I will accompany my sister to the Guanyin Temple to fulfill her vow. I will go first."
Wen Xingluo didn't want to leave.
She likes the Chen sisters and wants to cultivate feelings with them.
She said honestly, "I've never prayed for anything in the Guanyin Temple, so how can I fulfill my vow?"
"You have."
Xie Guanlan grabbed her wrist and left Cuiwei Pavilion without saying a word.
…
"Let me go!"
Only after dragging Wen Xingluo to the Guanyin Temple did Xie Guanlan let go of his hand.
She rubbed her red wrist, mustered up the courage to look up at him, and questioned, "Sir, are you going to interfere with my normal friendships?!"
Xie Guanlan reached out and adjusted the golden peony hairpin in her hair. His gesture seemed doting, but his tone was harsh: "Young Master? Ningning, have you forgotten that I am your eldest brother? What's wrong with an elder brother controlling a younger sister?"
Wen Xingluo gritted his teeth.
Xie Guanlan just didn't want her to get close to Chen Yushi.
He was afraid that she would get married and run away.
She had only enjoyed a life of luxury for a few days, but this fellow wanted to tie her to the ship of the Zhenbei Palace for the rest of her life and force her to share his hardships.
There are such stingy men in the world!
Remembering the purpose of his visit to Ciyun Temple, Wen Xingluo swallowed his anger and said, "I'm going to pay my respects at the Guanyin Hall. Please wait for me here, my lord."
She stepped into the Guanyin Hall, quietly called the young monk Mi who was guarding the hall, whispered a few words in his ear, and stuffed a silver ingot into his hand.
The young monk, who was only six or seven years old, nodded smartly: "Donor, I'll remember it!"
Wen Xingluo stepped out of the Guanyin Hall and said to Xie Guanlan, "I heard that the Bodhisattva in Ciyun Temple is very effective. Don't you want to go in and pay your respects?"
Xie Guanlan leaned against the porch pillar with his arms folded, watching the pilgrims place incense sticks into the incense burner: "I don't believe in gods or Buddhas."
Suddenly, the young monk Mi in the Guanyin Hall clapped his hands, stepped out of the hall, and ran down the steps in front of the hall, humming in a childish voice: "The calamus is green, the dragon boats are sailing, and the clouds are gathering! On the seventh day of the seventh month, the rain is pouring, and on the Double Ninth Festival, it's time to rebuild the houses!"
There is a lot of incense outside the Guanyin Temple.
In an instant the young monk ran among the pilgrims and disappeared.
Wen Xingluo curled the corners of his lips slightly and said, "This little monk is really interesting. I've never heard of this nursery rhyme before."
Seeing Xie Guanlan remain silent, Wen Xingluo casually brought it up again, "'Green calamus, dragon boats sail' should be referring to the Dragon Boat Festival. Could this nursery rhyme mean it will rain on that day? 'Lin Lao' in poetry and prose refers to heavy rain, so it seems there will be heavy rain on July 7th. But what does 'Double Ninth Festival, the houses will be rebuilt again' mean? Does it mean that this heavy rain will destroy the houses and they will not be repaired until Double Ninth Festival? Isn't that... a flood? Could it be that Shu County will be flooded?!"
The word "flood" is like a bolt from the blue.
Xie Guanlan's eyes were cold: "Don't talk nonsense."
Wen Xingluo said innocently: "Brother, I was just repeating this nursery rhyme."
Xie Guanlan is suspicious by nature.
So she made up a nursery rhyme and used the little monk Mi to plant the seeds of doubt in Xie Guanlan's heart.
Maybe after returning, Xie Guanlan will ask the powerful Si Tianjian to check the weather.
The Sitianjian can predict future weather based on climate and clouds. Some powerful people can even predict whether it will be sunny, rainy, cold or warm in the long run.
If they had calculated that there would be continuous heavy rain in Shu County, Xie Guanlan could have made arrangements in advance to reduce casualties among the people.
Wen Xingluo looked at the kind-looking Guanyin in the Buddhist temple.
To warn of disasters, perhaps this is one of the meanings of her rebirth.
She happily went to visit other Buddhist temples.
But Xie Guanlan didn't leave.
He glanced at the direction where Xiao Sengmi disappeared and whispered to Fushan: "Catch him, I will interrogate him tonight."
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