Chapter 6

Zhang Huolang looked at Jiang Li in a daze.

He knew these two little girls from several years ago. It was said that the young lady of a rich family made a mistake and was sent to this nunnery. Just looking at their clothes, it's hard to believe that they come from a rich family. The servant girl is even more lively, but the young lady is prone to get angry. Zhang Shilang hurried away every time he sold out. It's the first time he saw Jiang Li talking to him so kindly.

With such a talk, Wen wenrou's appearance really looks like a lady of a large family, just a young lady of the first auxiliary family, which is too exaggerated.

Although there are doubts, Zhang Shilang still has to rush to the other end. He thought Jiang Li was joking and would not really use all his money to buy cakes. After all, the life of the master and servant here can be seen by people with a clear eye that they are not well-off. It doesn't matter that ordinary rich people buy cakes with 40 strings of copper coins, but it's not reasonable for two children who can't wear warm clothes.

"You buy so many cakes that they will break if you can't finish eating them." Zhang Huolang couldn't help but remind him.

"It doesn't matter," said Jiang Li, "I'm finished."

At this point, Zhang Shilang said nothing more. The copper plate was the copper plate of others' house. Jiang Li bought almost half of the cakes in his burden. He could go down the mountain early and go home. It was too late to be happy. What to worry about?

Although tong'er was puzzled by Jiang Li's words, she probably never disobeyed Jiang Li's orders, so she had to suppress her anxiety. When she returned with a large drawer of cakes, she made the passing nun in gray look at her from time to time. Tong'er held the cakes tighter for fear that they would grab them.

When she returned to the damp room, tong'er put the basket drawer containing cakes on the table and closed the door. Finally, she couldn't help asking, "why did the girl buy so much... This?"

Jiang Li didn't look at her. She pushed open the window. The window was facing the continuous hills of Qingcheng Mountain. The beautiful peaks fluctuated. The snow in winter had long melted. The peach blossoms all over the mountains dyed the peaks that were killed in weekdays with a layer of pink glow, like a gentle beauty.

"Look." She pointed to tong'er in the distance.

Tong'er approached and saw that on a peach tree in the distance, there was a palm sized curly tailed monkey squatting, holding a fruit and gnawing happily.

"It's a monkey." Tong'er didn't understand, "what can monkeys see?"

There are many monkeys on Qingcheng Mountain, and they are naughty on weekdays. Monkeys here get along well with people, especially at the end of Helin temple. As pilgrims come and go in an endless stream on weekdays, sometimes when I see these monkeys crouching in the tree and playing, I will throw some peanut candy and so on. In winter, when food is scarce, monkeys beg for food from pilgrims more frequently. In spring and summer, monkeys do not lack food, so they do not disturb pilgrims and play separately.

However, for example, on the side of nunnery, monkeys are rare because they are originally deserted - places where food is not available are always not interesting to attract.

"Go and get some cakes." Jiang Li Dao.

Tong'er took some walnut cakes as he said.

Jiang Li broke the walnut cake into small pieces and waved it to the monkey in the tree from a distance. Maybe the cake of Zhang shanglang's house was really sweet. The aroma of walnuts soon attracted the little monkey with curly tail. He rushed to the window several times and stared at the walnut cake in Jiang Li's hand with vigilance, eager to try and dared not come forward.

Jiang Li stretched out his hand again. Finally, the monkey couldn't resist the temptation of walnut cake. He reached out his paw and touched a piece of walnut cake. He turned around and ran away. He ran behind the stone on one side and finished eating the cake with his back to Jiang Li. He turned his head to look at Jiang Li. He saw Jiang Li still standing in front of the window smiling and holding some broken cakes in his hand. He became more and more daring and turned back to find Jiang Li to eat.

One came and two went. After the monkey touched the food in Jiang Li's hand, Jiang Li patted his hand at the brave curly tailed monkey, indicating that he had no more. The monkey reluctantly looked at Jiang Li's palm for a while before leaving with his tail cocked.

Tong'er, who had been witnessing all the process, asked, "does the girl want to feed the monkey? Why feed it with cakes? It's better to use wild fruits picked in the mountains. This cake is valuable and not cost-effective."

Don't say it's the personal servant girl of the first auxiliary family miss, whether it's Jiang Li or Xue Fangfei. The personal servant girl around when she was a girl in Tongxiang will never be a pity for a few cakes. If someone else sees this scene, I don't know how sorry it is. Jiang Li reached out and touched tong'er's head, laughing, "but monkeys like delicious food better than wild fruits."

Tong'er wanted to say something, so she saw Jiang Li turn around and walk to the table to sit down. There was only one stool in the room, which was made of wood tong'er picked up from the outside. The legs of the stool were unstable. Jiang Li said, "tong'er, from tomorrow on, you can take these cakes and feed them to the monkeys."

Tong'er stared: "girl, why is this? The maid doesn't understand."

People don't have enough to eat, but also care about monkeys? What is the reason?

"I want these monkeys to do something for me," Jiang Li smiled. "These cakes can be regarded as road money."

"But..."

"It's just a few cakes," Jiang Li interrupted. "When you go back, let the small kitchen make them for you every day. Don't care about these."

Tong'er was silent. Speaking of returning to Beijing, Jiang Li was afraid that she was more sad than her. Tong'er dared not say anything that made Jiang Li sad.

"These cakes," Jiang Li reached out and knocked on the basket drawer. The aroma of cakes filled the room everywhere. The master and servant could only eat porridge and pickles every day. The aroma had long been hooked, and people were hungry. Jiang Li suppressed her hunger and said, "divide these cakes into 15 parts and feed them to the monkeys every day until the 19th. On the 19th day, there is no need to feed them."

Tong'er didn't understand, but she still answered, "save it, slave."

"It's half an hour's way from Helin temple here," said Jiang Li. "I can't go out of the gate of the temple every day, so I have to go. You go out every day at Hai'an, and then take these cakes and feed them to the monkeys in the forest behind Helin Temple at zi'an, until the 19th. In the evening of the 19th, you don't have to go."

I don't know if nun Jing'an has been inspired by others. Jiang Li can't leave the gate of the nunnery. She can only be in the nunnery every day, and her every move is seen by others. And tong'er can walk around. Because she has to go to the mountains to chop firewood in the daytime, tong'er has stayed on the mountain for six years. The road of Qingcheng Mountain is very familiar, but she won't get lost.

And Qingcheng Mountain often has house ladies to offer incense. In order to ensure safety, there are no bandits in the mountain, which is very safe. Otherwise, Jiang Li will also worry if tong'er goes out at night.

After hearing Jiang Li's orders, tong'er suddenly asked, "is the girl doing this for her return to Beijing?"

Jiang Li looked at her and smiled, "are you afraid?"

Tong'er smelled the words, not only not afraid, but changed a look of eager to try. The little girl was very brave, and somehow she was willing to do it. She rubbed her hands and said, "no fear! I've wanted to do this for a long time!"

"Very good." Jiang Li nodded, "let's start tonight."

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