Physical reactions don't fool anyone.

Rain pattered on the window sills, dripping down to the ground, and a cold wind blew in through the windows, carrying a bone-chilling chill.

The floor was a bit cold, Xu You saw his head hanging slightly, his hair covering the side of his face, coupled with the darkness of the room, could not see his expression for a moment, so he spoke cautiously, "Master, the floor is cold, let me help you to the bed?"

Seeing that he nodded slightly, Xu You put his left hand on his shoulder, and held his waist with both hands, using all his strength, he was able to help him up staggeringly.

Smell art look thin, I did not expect him to be quite heavy, good position in the bed is not far, stumbling for a while, Xu You finally sent him to the bed, the back of the layer of thin sweat.

He looked at her, his lacquered eyes heavy with mixed emotions.

Xu You tucked him in, helped him lower the curtain, and took two steps back before saying, "I hope that Master will not take it to heart that I have offended you today, and I will certainly pay more attention in the future."

Wen Ji is not over the effect of the drug, can not speak, Xu You then said to himself: "I will take it as the master's default."

Lingling Ye is still lying on the ground, Xu You unlocked her acupoints, as soon as she woke up and saw Xu You, her face turned red and white, shy and angry.

Xu You : "I'm the one who messed up Miss Ye's good deed, but I have no intention of apologizing, after all, I won't let the person go."

"Whether Ms. Ye wants to play fair or take shortcuts with her tactics," Xu You said, "I'm all for it."

Lingling Ye opened her mouth, her eyes reddened, and asked, "Where is the Master?"

"Bed rest."

Lingling Ye turned his sight around, looked in the direction of the bed, and kneeled on the ground and kowtowed, "Master I am sorry, spare me, I will never dare again, I am also a moment of ghostly obsession, and I was forced by Changxing Wei to do this."

She said, her voice choking, tears streaming down in bunches, pearly so pitiful.

The room was so quiet that the only sounds were Lingling Ye talking and crying, and Xu You watching without saying anything.

Lingling Ye said later sobbing, "Master I really know it is wrong, do not drive me away in the future ....." She did not think that things would fail, she only thought that she had skin to skin with Wen Ji, and in the future, the relationship must be a step closer, so he could not afford to blame her.

"I sincerely repent, I just want to serve at the master's left and right, as a slave or a servant girl can do, master, I am truly pleasing you, please be sure not to drive me away ......" She knew in her heart that if she lost this time, she would not have another chance in the future, maybe she would never see Wen Ji again, when she thought about it like this, she was cold and scared.

Xu You heard this and was a bit puzzled: "Miss Ye has harmed someone, apologizing is appropriate, but on what grounds do you demand that the person who has been harmed must forgive you, must make concessions for you, and must accept what you think and what you have done?"

"It is your business to please him, and because you please him, he should treat you kindly?"

"In the end, it was your selfishness that did him in; he blamed you as he should, and it was kind-hearted not to."

There are always a lot of things like this. It is obvious that those who are victimized have the most power to defend themselves, while those who are victimized are forced by some kind of pressure to cry movingly and speak pitifully, and in turn, they become the weaker ones, and being sympathized with and understood by others, they can then stand on the high ground and ask the victimized to do whatever they want.

On what grounds?

If today's event comes to fruition, will Lingling Ye keep the secret? If so, she would not have designed to do such a thing, of course she would not, "accidentally" reveal it, so as to explicitly or implicitly blackmail Wen Ji to marry her.

What else would people say but that Lingling Ye had been indiscreet? They would say that Weng Jutsu had been a master of the art, but that he had been a sex maniac, and that such a thing in the revered Sunwonji Temple would somehow cast a shadow over this place where the Buddha's light shone.

Lingling Ye was finally not a one-woman show, and for every word she spoke, Xu You retorted.

By the end of the day her face was a shade of green and white, it was ugly, she gritted her teeth and got up and left.

The door banged twice, and Xu You and Wen Ji were the only two people left in the room, which was quiet and scented with the fragrance of bamboo and sandalwood.

Xu You lowered his voice, "Master, rest well, I will return first."

She exited the room and closed the door.

The sky was still overcast, and the rain was wispy and thin as silver needles, blown and slanted by the wind.

Xu You walked out of the return to the court, picked up the umbrella thrown on the ground before, the umbrella surface stained a lot of sludge, she simply do not support it, the body has long been wet most of the wet and damp and cold.

In fact, she and Lingling Ye is not very different, just now she also want to ...... But Wen Ji seems to be not unwilling, before Lingling Ye, he is the eyes cold, and even give a person a kind of his consciousness beyond the outside, cold-eyed look at the feeling of everything.

And then it was to Xu You, she could sense that he was in love, even if it was just a little bit, the physical reaction was not to be fooled, he was a little sensitive to her touch.

If it came to pass, she would not hold him hostage with it, as Lingling Ye usually did, but she would regret it, and the Buddhist holy land, she had done him a disservice.

And his broken arm ...... What the hell is going on.

"Master You, take your time." Zhi Ran at the entrance of the temple said.

Xu You came back to her senses and forced a smile, " Zhi Ran , has Miss Ye left Sunwonji Temple?" It wasn't that she was thinking of humanity in the worst way, it was that she wanted to make sure that Wen Ji was alright, right now Wen Ji couldn't move yet, if Lingling Ye was hiding in any corner and took advantage of the opportunity to go again, it wouldn't be good.

Zhi Ran said, "The Ye Shi Shi master party has left." It just looks like the emotional state is not very good, but as a monk, one cannot talk too much about focusing on the rights and wrongs of others, otherwise it affects the heart cultivation.

Xu You nodded his head, but he was still uneasy and said, "Master Wen Ji is not feeling well today, can you ask a monk to help you to guard the door of Gui Li Yuan?"

"Good." Zhi Ran didn't ask too many questions and agreed.

"Thank you." Xu You then turned around and descended the mountain.

--

"Madam, why are you drenched like this?" Xiang He took her umbrella and ordered his subordinates to prepare hot water.

"It's alright," Xu You said, "It was raining heavily earlier, so I got drenched like this."

The two of them walked through the long corridor and returned to Xu You's bedroom, Xu You received a handkerchief from Xiang He and wiped his face, "How is it going with what I gave you to do?"

Xiang He pointed to the wooden table, "As per Madam's order, I bought all the middle and lower grade fabrics from all the cloth stores."

The wide wooden table was filled with all kinds of colorful fabrics, so it seemed that Xiang He had made several trips.

Xu You said, "Hard work."

Xiang He was embarrassed, "What words are you saying, ma'am, these are all what slave girls should do."

Xu You went to take a bath and change his clothes, then sat down at the table and examined the fabrics.

She thought about it, this body still have to live in this world for decades, just eat the old capital can not be enough, those money she can still last at most twelve or thirteen years, if the money is not enough, can not just spend not into.

Xu You in Jianan City shopping a few rounds, found that most of the taverns and teahouses, the pressure of competition, while the cloth store is less, but the demand is quite a lot, she intends to open a store, buy and sell fabric, the first step to understand the peer group, to find the source of supply, and then disk a store down.

Xiang He : "Madam, it's time to eat."

Xu You had been looking at the fabrics since she came back in the evening, and the food was still warm. Xiang He saw that Madam was concentrating, so he stood by and did not dare to disturb her, but seeing that it was almost time to go to bed, she had no choice but to speak out to remind her.

Xu You nodded, still not getting up.

After another two quarters of an hour, Xu You looked up and rubbed his sore neck, "Which family are these five fabrics from?"

After looking at these fabrics, Xu You found that the watershed of these fabrics is particularly obvious, the simple style of poor quality is extremely cheap, the pattern more good quality and particularly expensive, clearly see the former is for the poor family, the latter is for Miss Gongzi.

There are very few fabrics of a style that can be of a slightly better quality, and very few directly aimed at the average family, but there are plenty of people who are neither rich nor poor.

Out of more than fifty kinds of fabrics, Xu You only chose five.

Before Xu You instructed Xiang He to mark which store he bought them from, Xiang He can't read, but thanks to her good memory, she marked the fabric's provenance with messy shapes, and after a careful look, she said, "Back to madam, these three kinds of fabrics are from the North Gate Xu Family Shop, and these two kinds of fabrics are from the South Street Shih Shih Shop."

"Good," Xu You made up his mind to go to these two houses tomorrow to take a look, "these fabrics you pick a few to go back and make clothes to wear."

Xiang He was delighted and smiled happily, "Thank you, ma'am."

The next day Xu You had breakfast, then first went to the north gate Xu family store, store is very large, a variety of solid color patterned fabrics are hanging on the wooden pole, there are folded into a piece on the wooden table.

In the store, there was a shopkeeper, two second boys, and two odd jobs, and four or five girls choosing fabrics.

Xiao Er greeted her and smiled professionally and enthusiastically, "Miss, what material do you want?"

"I'll take a look for myself first." Though she said this, the junior kept following beside her and introduced her enthusiastically, "This material is newly imported, it's comfortable to wear on the body."

"Look at this again, girl, this pattern has been a favorite lately, and pretty and young girls like you have bought many miles of it."

"Take a look at this one, it's durable and will last for three years!"

Xu You : Any time, the guide lady is with you.

She just nodded as she listened and then looked at her own, and after looking around and making sure it was the right store, she walked over to the counter and looked at the slightly white bearded shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper is also a professional, once the guests came over, they put down the abacus in their hands and put on a friendly and gentle smile, "Miss, what kind of material do you want?"

"I see that you have nice fabrics here, so I wanted to ask you," Xu You weighed the money bag in his hand and pushed it over, "Where do you get your fabrics here?"

The shopkeeper's face instantly pulled down, "Leave if you don't buy, don't delay our business here."

As expected, Xu You collected the silver and left for the Shi Shi store on South Street.

This store is not big, only half the size of the Xu family store, but the customers are more than twice as many as they are, there are two shopkeepers, a man and a woman who are husband and wife, and they have recruited five girls to wait for the customers.

The previous store was owned by the merchant Xu's family, which had opened several stores, equivalent to the current chain stores, but the Shi Shi store was the couple's own store, so it was more humane and a little better to talk to.

Xu You made clear the purpose of their visit, the couple's faces did not change, the man first asked: "Where do you want to drive?"

Xu You: "On the East Lane side." The main reason is that it is close to her home, the customer flow is not bad, and I have looked at three stores, and then I will compare them carefully before deciding which one I want.

Far away, does not affect their business, the man will no longer say anything, the woman took Xu You's bag of money, as long as half of the money, the rest of the money pushed Xu You: "We two couples have opened this cloth store has been five years, the business is good, to support a family of young and old, the good thing is that my husband is capable of surviving the initial difficult times, you are a widow is not so easy, we take some money, just mean a little. The key is that you have to think clearly, it is not easy to do business and there are risks."

Seeing Xu You nod, the woman continued, "We get our fabrics from the Linghuai Town Ren-Style Fabric House behind Xinan Mountain outside of the city, so you'd better check it out first, and sign a deed with them if you decide, after that, you just need to send someone to deliver the silver, and they'll have the fabrics sent to you."

"Thank you guys." Xu You put away the money bag, smiled gratefully, and said goodbye to them as they left.

Xu You went back and looked at the three transferred stores in East Lane, and after comparing them, he took one of them.

Back home, taking stock of the money left, Xu You had a heartache: "Or I'd better become a nun, with food and lodging included."

Xiang He: "......" Calm down, ma'am.

After the last autumn rain, it's already winter, and I don't know when it will snow. Xu You is thinking that he should go to the cloth shop as soon as possible, and then order some goods, and find someone to refurbish the store, and hire some people and so on, so that if he is quick, he can open the store before the new year, and then he can not only draw good luck, but he can also sell a wave of money first.

There are a lot of people who don't buy fabric all year round who come to buy fabric more or less for the new year to make new clothes, so Chinese New Year sales are necessary.

Xu You made up his mind, so he instructed Xiang He: "You go now to find someone to hire a carriage, and tomorrow I will leave for Linghuai Town."

"Yes," Xiang He hesitated, then added, "it's a long way to Linghuai Town, and you have to pass through Xinan Mountain, which I've heard isn't very peaceful these days. I've heard that Xinan Mountain has not been very peaceful lately."

"It's fine, go ahead." Earlier, Xu You heard the owner of the Shi Shi store say that they had recently imported another large batch of goods from Linghuai Town, and were also planning to sell a large wave of goods before the Spring Festival so that they could celebrate the New Year, and since the goods that they had just arrived a few days ago were fine, then they had heard that it wasn't peaceful by and large, but only heard about it.

Unknown things are the most fearful, this and that are also afraid, it is difficult to do anything, after all, there are risks in doing business, so we do not do it?

It seems that there are a few days can not go to find wen ji, mainly Xu You last time to him non-divided into that way, she is not good for a while coy face to come up, but also first let him calm down.

Not everyone who is stripped naked and seen in their mutilations has a heart of gold.

Masters don't work either, Xu You thought.

--

Early morning birdsong is crisp and clear, and the majestic, thick sound of bells ringing from the monastery echoes longingly through the mountains.

Wen Ji had the scriptures in front of him, he turned the Buddha beads in his hand, his face was cold, his eyes were flat, his eyes settled on the volume of scriptures, as if he was concentrating, but in reality, he couldn't help but be out of his mind.

It's the third day and she hasn't shown up yet.

The usual rambling and lighthearted voice was gone, and the bright, smiling face I could see in the afterglow was gone, and that sense of presence, if any, became empty.

A nameless fire stirred in his heart, and that desireless heart was stirring for no reason.

What was wrong with her, was she embarrassed to be flirty with him, or was she so disgusted by his broken arm that she found his face to look at and his arm embarrassing?

Wen Ji couldn't pinpoint it for a moment, and in turn, it became even more uncomfortable and uncomfortable.

"Smell Art." A calm voice rang out.

Wen Ji retrieved his thoughts and lowered his head slightly, "Yes."

"Diving into Buddhism is all about the tranquility of the mind, and your mind is unsettled now," said Master Xuanjing, "Today's sermon will end here first, so you can go back."

With his eyes slightly downcast, Wen Ji got up and left the zen room.

The monks outside were all at a loss for a moment as to whether or not to go up and greet Wen Ji, after all, the person who usually looked cold was now even more widowed and cold.

"Master Winking."

"Uh-huh." Wen Ji nodded in response and turned to leave, returning not to the Returning Court, but to the mountain.

"What is the Master doing going?"

The other monk whispered, "Don't mind so much, sweep the floor first."

Wen Ji didn't know what he wanted to do, and while his thoughts were in turmoil, he had already arrived in front of Xu You's house.

She brought him to see it before, but he didn't go in, here is a small mansion with three entrances and three exits, black tiles and green bricks, the mottled walls have some cracks, it looks a little old.

Should we go in?

Wen Ji pondered for a moment, raised his hand and knocked on the door, not long after, the door opened, the granny who watched the door recognized him, so she respectfully said, "Master, what's the matter?"

"Where is your wife?"

Granny: "Madam, she left for Linghuai Town a few days ago, and now counting the hours, she may be arriving at Xinan Mountain soon."

Wen Ji asked again, "What was the purpose of her visit to Linghuai Town?"

"Madam wanted to open a cloth store, so she went to Linghuai Town to get fabrics."

"Excuse me." Without realizing it, Winking Art was slightly relieved, not because he was embarrassed by her non-participation in him, or because of his broken arm, but simply because she had something to do.

Clouds slightly rain cleared up, as if this moment of cloudy rain dispersed, wen jutsu mind slightly cleared up.

Just after leaving the East Lane, a man came to stop him, "Master, please help me tell my fortune."

Out of Sunwonji Temple, Wen Ji does not tell fortunes, this is the rule, but the rule is made by him, at this time the mood is a little better, he does not mind divining this fortune.

Wen Ji just took out the three gold copper coins, but on second thought, I haven't read Xu You's fortune yet, and I don't know if there are any risks when she goes out.

In a flash, Wen Shu first gave Xu You a divination.

Having just arrived at the results, Wen Ji's face changed.

"Borrowed, sorry." He immediately took out his money pouch and stuffed it into the horseman on the side of the road, took a horse and rolled over to ride away quickly.

Looking at the rising dust, the man who asked for divination only reacted after a long time and shouted urgently, "Master, can this divination be owed, next time give me divination ah?"

Answering him was the disappearing back.