As the afternoon sun shone across the mountainside, more and more pilgrims were coming and going to the temple with red walls and black tiles. The peddler carrying the load put the yellow talisman on his chest, took his daughter's woman to look around, or bought incense candles and put it in the maid's basket. In front of the stall, the attentive guy packed up the copper coins and watched the other party leave. The girl following the woman turned around and looked at the silly guy covering her face and chuckled.

There was noisy between the burning incense. From afar, two women came up from below. The guy in front of the stall was reluctant to look back, but he looked at the woman in white who passed by in front of him. He always felt familiar. He looked at the two of them walking into the temple in confusion and suddenly remembered why they looked familiar. He moved away and ran to the temple gate with fear. There were no two women inside.

Sweeping the eyes around, finally landing on the central divine platform. When I saw the clay sculpture clearly, the next moment, I knelt down in front of the pilgrims coming in and out.

It caused a lot of people around to whisper.

"This guy isn't the one who 'please invite you to incense' at the door? He knelt down and did something."

"Oh, did this young man see Hong Lian Shen?"

"It's possible. I'll be here for many years, so I can't say I'm getting the fairy spirit."

"If you really show your power... I have to say goodbye to me quickly and try to get my daughter out of marriage quickly. There is not enough food at home."

"Then you might as well find a good matchmaker and praise your daughter. There will always be fools who are fools."

"Yes... Then do you know where this kind of matchmaker is there?"

“Haha…it’s at home.”

.....

There was a lot of discussion outside the temple, and inside the temple that ordinary people could not see was a different look.

The green lamp is isolated, with pastries on the altar and the cooked meat is fragrant. Nie Honglian took a few casually and put them on a table and chair next to it.

"Yuerou, sit here. There is nothing good in the temple. They are all worshipped by pilgrims nearby. You can try it."

Min Yuerou put the bag and the sword on the corner of the table. When she saw the plates of tributes placed on the table, she grinned unnaturally and smiled.

Who would have thought that one day I would be invited to tribute from the temple?

Over there, Hong Lian sat down. Seeing her expression, she could probably guess. She smiled softly at the corner of her mouth, took a piece of fruit and put it in front of Yue Rou.

"No one blames you, the master of this temple is right in front of you."

Min Yuerou was stunned for a moment. She had heard Lu Liangsheng talk about some things in Qixia Mountain before, and then she remembered that Hong Lian, who was worshipped in the temple, was the one in front of her. The other party was the Huadan who died tragically in Fushui County. It was Lu Liangsheng who had made great efforts to achieve this day.

Looking at the woman opposite her like a white lotus, she turned her eyes away.

"He is so nice to you."

"He is very good to everyone." Nie Honglian knew what she was thinking, turned around on the stool and looked at the divine platform behind her: "I said it's nice that a famous actress, but after all, she was just an actor. She was only sixteen when she died that year..."

Thinking of the past few years, Hong Lian couldn't help but smile on her face.

"...... Then, I met the young master and stayed by his side all the time. Gradually, I liked to look at him more and more, watching him riding on the old donkey and flipping books, and to watch him splashing his pen and ink under the lights, and to be full of energy when he was awarded the exam."

In the temple, the green lamp tower was heard, and the gentle words were heard. Min Yuerou sat aside and listened quietly, immersed in the story of Hong Lian, and also learned a lot about Lu Liangsheng's past.

Because of his kindness, Lujia Village was robbed by bandits. He broke into the mountain village alone and rescued Hong Lian. He also knew that in the ruined mountain temple, he met two foxes sucking scholar Yuanyang at night. When he knew that Hegu County, he fought with the evil Taoist priests and almost sacrificed his cultivation to save an irrelevant person. He knew that Heliangzhou had a severe drought and did not hesitate to his life to rain on thousands of people...

Min Yuerou listened very seriously. The woman in front of her had many experiences with Lu Liangsheng, which belonged to them. The more she listened, the more she felt more and more lost.

The story told also stopped. Hong Lian looked at her without a proud look on her face: "I said this, not to show off on purpose, but to ask you for something."

"I know, I'm going to leave today, too."

"No, I like you to marry the young master."

The woman wearing a sword suddenly raised her face and was stunned when she looked at Nie Honglian who was blinking at her, thinking that she had heard it wrong.

On the opposite side, Hong Lian repeated: "I hope the young master can marry you."

Speaking of this, Hong Lian got up from the stool, stepped lightly with her embroidered shoes, walked to the light, illuminating her cheeks, and said softly: "I have never had a physical body. This incense has been rebuilt in human body. I don't know when the year or day has passed. Although the young master didn't say it, the two elders may not have complained...I..."

Hong Lian turned around, looked at Min Yuerou, and bowed from a distance: "Please stay here, Miss Min."

"Get up, get up quickly."

Min Yuerou was suddenly bowed and got up from the stool in a hurry and ran over to support her: "Even if I want to stay, Lu Liangsheng doesn't have me in his heart."

"The young master's heart is not a stubborn one, it's just about men and women's affairs, something..."

Hong Lian leaned over with her arm and said softly, "...it's busy and a little dull." Min Yuerou looked at the flames on the wick, smiled on her face and burst into tears.

"real?"

"real."

The two women helped each other back to the sides of the table, and when they were interesting, they gathered together and whispered in a low voice, pursing their lips and chuckled, but the pilgrims outside could not hear or see.

Soon, a scholar wearing a blue shirt and white robe came up from the bottom of the mountain. Seeing so many around here, some even knelt on the ground and prayed with incense. He frowned slightly and bowed to an old man beside him.

"Brother, what's going on here?"

The old man was from Fushui County outside and didn't know Lu Liangsheng very much. He looked at the polite scholar in front of him, stroked a twig of white beards on his chin, laughed twice, raised his sleeves, and pointed his fingers to the temple:

"I have just come here, and I heard that the Red Li Shen in this temple has appeared. Haha... nonsense, how can clay sculptures appear? It's just for someone to comfort me. I really shouldn't have come here."

The old man waved his sleeves and took them behind him, looked at the pilgrims, shook his head, and walked to the temple to see the scenery.

The scholar standing outside the crowd did not care about an old man. He crossed the crowd's shoulders and looked into the inner temple. The statue of Hong Lian on the divine platform was still the same, no difference.

He also used magic to come here to follow Min Yuerou's breath, but he disappeared here. As for the appearance of the pilgrims, it is not difficult to guess that Hong Lian showed herself and brought Min Yuerou, who had left, and then he was seen.

Soon, the crowd of people kneeling and worshiping incense gradually left. The scholar waited until the last person left, looked at the sky, crossed the threshold and entered. The temple was empty, and the burning incense candles were still radiant blue smoke.

Lu Liangsheng looked at the clay sculpture on the divine platform and pinched the magic trick. With his wide sleeves, he swept out a breeze. The candle burning in the cauldron swayed. As the light disappeared, Hong Lian was there. Min Yuerou spoke in his ears and turned toward the temple gate. The two girls were sitting next to the table and chair on one side. Hong Lian pursed her lips and smiled slightly. The latter lowered her head embarrassed when she saw the scholar.

He lowered his voice and said to Hong Lian next to him: "Let me go out first, don't worry, you won't leave."

On the side, Nie Honglian might have something to talk to Lu Liangsheng, nodded, let go of the barrier, and the breeze blew into the temple door. Min Yuerou grabbed the sword and bag on the table without waiting for the scholar to come, and hummed in her nose, but her face was blushing and ran out quickly.

Lu Liangsheng looked at the woman carrying a sword and carrying a bag and ran out, and jumped from time to time. He looked at Hong Lian, who brought the tea with him in surprise, and sat next to him.

"What did you say to her?"

"The little secret between women." Hong Lian raised her fingers and said with a smile between her lips. She rolled up her long sleeves and floated to the young master. She put her slender fingers off his shoulders and gently kneaded them.
Chapter completed!