Chapter 5

More than ten days passed in a row.

Jiang Li quickly adapted to the poor life on the mountain. Although she had endless work every day, she couldn't eat enough, slept in a wet place, and was often bullied, Jiang Li also quickly adapted.

Maybe she was too quiet and obedient these days, and nun Jing'an of nunnery came to see her for the first time.

Abbess Jing'an is a young woman in her twenties. It is said that she was once the wife of a rich family, and her husband died. Later, she cut her hair in the mountains and became a nun.

A few days ago, Jiang Li quarreled about returning to Yanjing because of the marriage of Prince Hou of Ningyuan, and almost touched abbess Jing'an.

Abbess Jing'an came over, glanced at Jiang Li, said some polite words of concern, and left without giving anything away.

Tong'er crossed her waist and spit on the back of Nun Jing'an who left, saying, "bah, stingy old woman!"

Jiang Li laughed a little and said, "she is much younger than the old woman."

In fact, abbess Jing'an is only in her twenties. Although she is wearing gray clothes, she can't hide her slim figure, and her appearance is even more beautiful. That is, she treats their master and servant with a more condescending attitude, and her expression is colder, but they are just like servants.

"What's the use of being young?" Tong'er curled his lips, "I've been a nun here, and I can only live with the ancient Buddha for a lifetime. Can I eat meat and wear flower clothes?"

"I don't know whether to eat meat or not, but it must be better than you and me. Whether to wear flower clothes or not, her clothes must be thicker than you and me." Jiang Li Dao.

"Damn!" Tonger is angry.

"Not only that," Jiang Li continued to explain to her, "although she didn't wear jewelry, she used the powder of Xingchun square in Yanjing City, the silver box ointment of tea house, and the osmanthus flower head oil of xiangxiuzhai."

Tong'er opened her mouth and said for a long time, "this is... Too fancy! No," she responded again, staring at Jiang Li with bright eyes, "how did the girl know?"

Jiang Li pointed to her nose: "I smell it."

"The maid knew that it was the girl who smelled it. The maid wanted to ask, how did the girl know that it was the powder of Xingchun square, the silver box ointment of the tea house, and the osmanthus flower head oil of xiangxiuzhai?"

Jiang Li thought, of course she knew. When she first married Shen Yurong and came to Yanjing, the Shen family despised her as a girl from a small county in Tongxiang. Several sisters in law and Shen Yurong's mother looked down on her. Afraid of losing face to Shen Yurong, she worked hard to learn the popular clothes and jewelry of Lady Yanjing, and corrected her local accent a little bit.

She has always been quick to learn things. Xue Huaiyuan once said that if she hadn't been a daughter, she couldn't have earned fame and honor for the Xue family with Xue Zhao.

Miss Jiang Er, who hasn't been down the mountain for seven years, won't know these creams, but she can accurately distinguish them.

Jiang Li said, "I can smell it naturally."

Tong'er thought for a while, but naturally came up with a reason, and said, "the girl must know that these things were used daily by the girl when she was in the yuan family. How can there be unfamiliar truth?" as she said, she became sad, "speaking of which, the girl has left the yuan family for so long..."

"Tong'er, do you want to go back to Yanjing?" Jiang Li interrupted her.

Tong'er stared, shook his head immediately, and said firmly, "no! Tong'er just wants to follow the girl. Tong'er will go wherever the girl goes!"

Jiang Li smiled, "it doesn't matter, we'll be back soon."

What else did tong'er have to say? Suddenly, I heard a loud cry outside. It was a man's laughing voice, which seemed to be some kind of minor. Tong'er cocked up his ears and listened, jumped up suddenly, laughed and jumped again, "girl, it's Mr. Zhang coming! Mr. Zhang has come to send East and west this year!"

Jiang Li then looked out of the window and said with a smile, "then find all the copper money and let's buy cakes."

"All?" Tong'er looked back in surprise.

"All."

When tong'er scraped all the copper plates from the house, wrapped them in a blue cloth and held them in her arms, they walked outside the temple with Jiang Li.

The mountain here is too high, and the Helin Temple next to it is full of incense. People who come here are either rich or expensive. They generally disdain to buy things in the hands of salesmen, so most salesmen are unwilling to do business in the mountain. Zhanghuolang also lives at the foot of Qingcheng Mountain, so he doesn't come up on weekdays. Peach blossoms bloom on Qingcheng Mountain from May to June every year. Not only are they rich families, but ordinary people are also willing to come to Qingcheng Mountain to enjoy the flowers. There are many people, so the salesmen choose this day to sell small gadgets selling Rouge powder heads on the mountain.

Tong'er became familiar with this salesman, so she made an appointment to come here to buy things on the 10th day of May every year. Nunnery is not as lively as Helin temple. For Jiang Li and tong'er, it is the only luxury to buy some snacks from the salesmen at this time of year.

Sure enough, there was a middle-aged man wearing a hat at the gate of the temple, wearing short brown linen clothes and linen pants, a white ribbon at the waist, black cloth shoes, and a pair of clothes of a shopper.

Jiang Li looked a little trance.

Before she married Shen Yurong to Yanjing, when she was a little girl, Xue Huaiyuan was just transferred to Tongxiang, a remote place. At that time, Tongxiang had nothing, and the shops in the whole county could count it with both hands.

Xue Zhao and she lived in such an environment at a young age. The only fun is that the peddlers who go door to door every month come here. In the hands of the peddlers, they can buy novel clay figurines, beautiful ribbons, sweet maltose, and rough brushes for practicing calligraphy.

Although it was hard, life was happy. Later, Tongxiang became better and better under Xue Huaiyuan's management. Later, Xue Zhao also began to prepare for the martial arts examination. Later, she married to Yanjing, and later... No later.

Jiang Li lowered her eyes.

Zhang Shilang also got familiar with them and told tong'er that she was tall again. Tong'er was very happy when she heard the speech. Turn around and ask Jiang Li, "girl, do you want those cakes?"

Jiang Li just looked at Zhang shanglang. She smiled at Zhang shanglang, which made Zhang shanglang stunned and inexplicably felt a little uncomfortable.

Jiang Li took the cloth bag in tong'er's hand and untied it. There were strings of copper coins neatly in it. These copper coins were all made up by Jiang Li and tong'er with insoles in the past six months, plus those from the first few years, which were saved by abbess Jing'an on their backs, a total of 40 strings.

"Uncle Zhang," said Jiang Li with a smile, "all these copper coins can be replaced by fruit cakes. Anything will do."

Tong'er stared: "girl!"

Although she had all her belongings, tong'er didn't really think that Jiang Li would spend all the copper money. People in nunneries often deducted their firewood and rice, and sometimes left money to exchange quilts for food with children in the mountains. Buying snacks and cakes can't be saved for many days, and they will all break after a short time. How can this make it?

"What?" Jiang Li was still smiling, and she said, "the young lady of the Shoufu family can't spend a few copper coins on cakes? What kind of daughter is that?"

Tong'er couldn't say anything.

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Big pear: be willful without money [smile]