Chapter 202 Return to Yujing
After Qi Xuansu finished speaking this famous saying from Chapter 56 of the Five Thousand Words of the Supreme Taoist Ancestor, he was taken away from Shuzhong Prefecture by Ji Jiaozhen.
As for Qi Xuansu's knowledge, it cannot be said that he did not recognize the "master" because the Wanxiang Taoist Palace did not teach these things from literati and poets, which does not mean that he would not recite the five thousand words of the Taishang Taoist Ancestor. This is the fundamental classic of the Taoist sect and must be memorized. Qi Xuansu could recite this book as early as a very young age. Just like a child in a private school memorizing the Four Books and Five Classics, he dared not say that he could recite it like a stream. At least he would never forget it in his life.
In the next few days, Qi Xuansu and Ji Jiaozhen wandered around Shuzhou for a few days, and then returned to Qingcheng for a few days.
Qi Xuansu left Wanxiang Dao Palace on September 16th. Half a month passed in a flash. On the first day of October, Qi Xuansu spent the last 100 peace money to buy a boat ticket, took a flying boat from Tiancang Mountain, and embarked on his return journey to Yujing.
There were no twists and turns along the way, Qi Xuansu arrived in Yujing on the second day of the 10th month.
Qi Xuansu did not go to see Zhang Yuelu immediately, nor did he go to Ziwei Hall as soon as possible, but went to Duzhi Hall first.
Strictly speaking, he did not go to the main hall of Duzhitang, but to the Guangyingsi under Duzhitang. This place is not in Xuandu, but in Xuanyuanfang in the eight fangs of Yujing, the outer city. Strictly speaking, this is a huge silver trough.
In a nutshell, this is the place to pay.
Among the nine halls, except for Tiangang Hall who issued regular silver by itself because it involved many spiritual officials, the other halls had to go to Duzhi Hall to collect regular silver.
Qi Xuansu went to the upper palace of Wanxiang Dao Palace to study for three months. In these three months, he was able to receive regular silver as usual. Moreover, these three months were calculated based on the fourth-rank priest of the Taoist priest and the head of Ziwei Hall, which means 300 peaceful money per month, totaling 900 peaceful money.
Qi Xuansu arrived at Guangyingsi, presented the certificate, walked through several procedures, and received nine large tickets.
Qi Xuansu was originally thinking about looking for a mansion in Shangbafang or Zhongbafang, but unfortunately, Datou was taken away by Qi Niang, and he was going to be transferred to the imperial capital, which was considered a waste.
Speaking of these nine hundred peaceful money, of course, it is not a small amount, but for a fourth-rank priest, it is not much. After his status is high, he is unavoidable to socialize.
Logically speaking, when Qi Xuansu visited Pei Xiaolou, Xu Xiaoying, Ji Jiaozhen and others, he should bring some gifts. These people are all real-life, so naturally they can't buy a few fruits like ordinary people visiting relatives and friends. At least they have to make some elegant things, such as pens, inks, papers, and inkstones. If they have children and get married, they have to give them good luck, jade pendants and other auspicious things. Where are these things cheaper? A little better ones cost hundreds of peaceful money.
Even Bai Taiping money cannot withstand several favors.
Qi Xuansu was so angry that he came to the door with nothing this time, which was very ugly in terms of love. Fortunately, except for Xu Xiaoying, Pei Xiaolou and Ji Jiaozhen both met Qi Xuansu before he became famous, and knew his background and did not care about it. He could not do this later. After all, the Taoist priest level and the silver in the open are both openly, so it is impossible to stay poor all the time. No wonder Zhang Yuelu has always been embarrassed, and human relationships are indeed a big burden.
As for Yao Pei, she doesn't live on this kind of thing. She is the kind of core member who can directly mobilize family property and never botheres with personal expenses.
After Qi Xuansu received the Taiping Money, he slowed down and walked out of Guangyingsi slowly.
Most of the top families in the Taoist sect live in Taishangfang. You can even see the scene of Zhang and Li family living next to each other in Taishangfang. This is hard to imagine in other places.
Because the predecessor of the Daxuan royal family was the North Dojo, there were many people who worshipped the Tao in the royal family and royal family, and many people also settled in Yujing. These people did not live in Taishangfang, and most of them lived in Xuanyuanfang. Because they were all royal relatives and were very rich, there were many special shops in Xuanyuanfang.
When Qi Xuansu was planning to leave Xuanyuanfang, she passed by a shop and found that it was selling various women's supplies, and her steps seemed to be stuck with something.
After hesitating for a moment, Qi Xuansu walked into the store.
The store was very deserted, with no customers, and only a female shopkeeper settled the accounts behind the counter.
This is the so-called special store. The reason why it is said to be special is that the products here are different from those in Taiqing City.
Since the Five Dynasties, the Taoist sect has been committed to eliminating the differences between people, making the Taoist sect the same. In the Taoist sect, especially in formal occasions, the difference between men and women is not very big, with the same hairpin and the same crane cloak, and the only difference is probably cloud shoes, the man has square toe and round toe shoes.
In private casual clothes, they are divided into men and women, but they are mainly plain and plain. Zhang Yuelu and others have long been used to wearing more convenient men's clothing from time to time. Yao Pei has always dressed up men's clothing on weekdays, which is incompatible with the secular world. In other words, Taoist sects do not want to force men and women to distinguish men and women, but vigorously promote universal clothing that is both possible.
The royal family members who came from the imperial capital were naturally not used to this style, so many of them were specially designed for
A special store for women came into being.
The female shopkeeper who was settled the score raised his head and saw that although Qi Xuansu did not look like a clan, he was dressed as a fourth-rank priest, and did not neglect. He asked with a smile: "What do you want to buy, this wizard?"
Qi Xuansu's eyes swept across the shelves and pondered: "Do you have any recommendations for the shopkeeper?"
The female shopkeeper smiled slightly: "Did the mage buy it for the Taoist couple?"
Qi Xuansu hesitated for a moment, then nodded.
The female shopkeeper said: "Yujing is so good, but the girl's crown's heads are too light. Recently, a new batch of jewelry was introduced in the store, which are the most popular styles in the imperial court today."
Qi Xuansu thought about it and found that Zhang Yuelu didn’t have much jewelry. She seemed to have only seen her use a hairpin, and sometimes she didn’t even use a hairpin, just a hairband. ??
The female shopkeeper observed his words and expressions and knew that the Taoist sect master had mostly had seven or six orifices about these women's things - he didn't know anything, so he immediately began to introduce them one by one.
Only then did Qi Xuansu realize that women's jewelry was so diverse. In addition to common hairpins and bracelets, there were hairpins, hairpins, stairs, flat squares, combs, Huasheng, forehead, flower ornaments, eagles, jade rings, collars, necklaces, brooches, finger guards, arm bracelets, forbidden steps, rings, etc., as well as various necklaces, rings, etc. that came from the West, each with different uses.
This is just a big classification. If you subdivided it according to the style, style, and material, you can divide it into hundreds of types without duplicates.
Qi Xuansu heard it a little loudly, and temporarily interrupted the female shopkeeper who was talking nonsense and asked about the price again.
Each one is expensive.
Qi Xuansu's tongue was stunning, touched the nine hundred flat money in his arms, and finally chose the smallest and relatively cheap flower ornaments, which were probably the size of a fingernail, made of gold foil, decorated with jade, and carved into the shape of plum blossoms. The carving was very fine, and the various patterns were clearly visible and lifelike. They could be attached to the center of the eyebrows. This was the plum blossom makeup that was popular in the Daqi period.
There are three flower ornaments in total, the colors are red, green and yellow. They are considered a set. They are packed in an exquisite wooden box and cost Qi Xuansu two hundred Taiping money.
Qi Xuansu pretended to pay without shortage of money. With the female shopkeeper's attentive smile, she left the shop and headed straight to Tiangang Hall in Xuandu.
Zhang Yuelu has finished her rest and has been in Yaoguang recently.
Qi Xuansu was familiar with Tiangang Hall. When he arrived at the gate, the spiritual official guarding the gate recognized him, but did not stop him and let him go directly.
Just a few steps, Qi Xuansu faced him
I met my old acquaintance Sun Yongfeng.
"Tianyuan. Congratulations." Sun Yongfeng congratulated him from a distance, "I am afraid I will have to use it when I come back from the palace to study."
Now, the Gangtang already knew that Qi Xuansu was not only not dead but also became a blessing in disguise, so he was not surprised to see Qi Xuansu.
Qi Xuansu and Sun Yongfeng greeted each other, after a few greetings, they asked, "Can Qingxiao be in Yaoguangsi?"
"The deputy hall master is signing the house." Sun Yongfeng smiled knowingly, "Go quickly Tianyuan, let's talk next time."
Qi Xuansu said goodbye to Sun Yongfeng and headed to Yaoguangsi.
Along the way, I met a few acquaintances, and it seemed that everyone knew Qi Xuansu’s purpose, and they all smiled and were entertaining.
Even though Qi Xuansu is not thin-skinned, she is a little uncomfortable.
When he arrived outside Zhang Yuelu's signing door, Qi Xuansu stopped suddenly, carefully tidied up his clothes, and then reached out to knock on the door.
A familiar voice came from inside: "Enter."
Qi Xuansu took a deep breath and pushed the door and walked into it.
The outside is still the same, Mu Jing and Baby Tian are not there, the door inside is open, Qi Xuansu poked out half of his body and looked inside, and saw Zhang Yuelu at her desk writing quickly, and she had no time to take care of her.
Zhang Yuelu is still the same, after all, the two have only been separated for three and a half months.
After a while, Zhang Yuelu noticed something was wrong, raised her head and just faced Qi Xuansu's eyes that had been halfway through her body.
Qi Xuansu coughed lightly and walked into the inner room, leaving a table separated from Zhang Yuelu.
Zhang Yuelu put down her pen and asked, "Why did you come back?"
Qi Xuansu said: "First I went to the Chongyang Palace of Wanshou, visited the two real people Pei and Xu, and then went to Shuzhou, visited Zhenren Ji, and removed Zhao Fu'an's arm."
Zhang Yuelu was stunned for a moment, then remembered who Zhao Fu'an was, and asked with a smile: "Why don't you ask me to go with you?"
Qi Xuansu thought for a while and replied: "Why do you use slaughtering a cattle knife to kill a chicken?"
After saying that, Qi Xuansu took out the "flower ornaments" he just bought, placed it on the table, and pushed it in front of Zhang Yuelu.
He felt a little embarrassed for the first time: "On the way back, I happened to see it. I thought it was pretty good, so I bought it."
Zhang Yuelu opened the box and blinked.
Qi Xuansu asked softly: "Do you like it?"
Zhang Yuelu smiled slightly: "Since it was given to you, then there is no reason I don't like it."
Chapter completed!