Surprise! I emptied the emperor's private treasury before exile

It has been drizzling since we entered Huainan.

Everyone had gotten used to it, and with the help of local people like Mo Yan, Chu Ci and his companions avoided a lot of detours.

However, today's rain became heavier and the road became muddier, finally to the point where the carriage could no longer move forward.

Everyone had to get off the car and pull or push it to move forward.

In this way, we walked hard for about half an hour, and finally saw a temple on the hilltop not far from the road.

"Let's go to the temple to take shelter..." Qian Chuanzi shouted loudly, but under the sound of rain, people could only hear him vaguely. Fortunately, everyone had reached a tacit understanding along the way (no one wanted to die). At least no one was left behind.

Arriving in front of the temple, Chu Ci and others found that the temple was small and slightly old. Looking up, in the misty fog, they could vaguely see the three big characters "Xiangji Temple".

The temple gate was open, so Chu Ci and his team simply pulled in two donkey carts carrying important supplies.

Then, they began to look at the temple carefully. Looking around, they saw two large halls, one on the main side and one on the side. The incense burners were full of incense ash, which showed that the temple was very popular. The two halls were also very clean, and they must have been cleaned regularly.

But despite the loud noise, no monk came out. The scene from A Chinese Ghost Story appeared in Chu Ci's mind unconsciously.

"Could this be a haunted temple?" Chu Ci got goose bumps all over her body. She hugged her arms involuntarily and asked tremblingly.

Everyone knew that Chu Ci's habit of daydreaming had come back again.

Qian Chuanzi was about to explain when Mo Yan said softly, "This temple was actually built by the nearby mountain people to deal with emergencies like today."

In addition, they would secretly exchange some daily necessities with the people in the city, such as salt, medicine, etc. Of course, he would not be stupid enough to say it out loud, and Chu Ci and the others just pretended not to know.

After understanding the reason why no one was in the temple, Chu Ci and his party came to the backyard on their own. The backyard was not big, with only five rooms and a kitchen.

As for how to allocate rooms, everyone unconsciously turned their eyes to the Fifth Prince.

The fifth prince looked up at the sky and finally said, "I will live with the Fan family. You can make the rest yourselves."

Finally, the escorting officers chose the room closest to the edge, and the Fan family took up two rooms, one for men and one for women. The Chu family took up one room, and the Liu family took up one room. In fact, there was also one room for men and one room for women.

There were two places to shelter from the wind and rain, and everyone quickly changed their wet clothes. The south was very humid, and clothes would easily stink, so Chu Ci and his friends could only bring down the small charcoal stove they had been carrying.

After changing clothes, I went to the kitchen, where there were only a few earthenware jars and some coarse grains, nothing else.

Fortunately, we cooked in the wild, so we might lack other things, but we definitely had enough tools for cooking. So we took out three more charcoal stoves from our luggage.

First, he boiled a pot of thick ginger soup to drive away the cold for everyone. The Fifth Prince had suffered a great change and his body must be weak. Chu Ci didn't want to be a wise man after the event, so he secretly replaced the water for boiling the ginger soup with the space spiritual spring.

Chu Ci had just changed the water when Qian Xue shouted, "Sister-in-law, come and see, is this star anise?"

Chu Ci looked at the branch in Qianxue's hand and said, "It is indeed star anise, but the weather is not good. Otherwise, we can collect some seeds, plant them this winter, and then use special methods to graft them. In three to four years, we can achieve star anise freedom. It can even benefit future generations."

"It's so magical. Let's go look for it after the rain stops." Qianxue and Qianyan heard this and thought, how could they miss such a good thing, so they raised their hands and said.

However, Chu Ci refused without even thinking: "No, the forest after the rain is very dangerous. We can't lose the big picture because of the small one. It will be the same next time."

Qianxue wanted to persuade them again, but Qianyan held her back. If she were the sister-in-law, she would not allow them to take risks.

Chu Ci thought that the matter was over, but he never expected that the two little girls were very brave. The next morning, before the fog in the forest had completely dissipated, they quietly set out with Caiwei, Laibao, Laixing and Laizhao.

When Chu Ci and Fan Jingrui learned about this, Mo Yan had already delivered the message. You know, the miasma in the forest in the south in the morning is as strong as poisonous gas.

The two were extremely anxious, but they did not dare to act rashly. Otherwise, it would not be a search for someone, but a commotion. "When did they leave?"

"It was around the hour of Mao, and the rain outside had just stopped. I was leading everyone to prepare for training, and Miss Qianxue and Miss Qianyan came over at that time. They didn't let us tell anyone, but after thinking it over, I still felt that I shouldn't hide this matter." Mo Yan recounted the whole story.

It was the Mao hour, and now it was the Chen hour. We had walked for about an hour. It was impossible to catch up with them. "Which direction are they going? Take your men there and wait."

"Yes, sir." Mo Yan noticed the urgency of Chu Ci and Fan Jingrui and did not dare to be negligent. After responding, he hurried away with the two of them.

Until the sun was at its highest point in the sky, the scorching sun was blazing the earth, heat was rising from the ground, it was like being in a huge steamer, but not a single person came back.

Chu Ci and Fan Jingrui could no longer wait and were about to go out to look for them when Qianxue and Qianyan finally walked in dejectedly. "Brother, sister-in-law, we know we were wrong."

"It doesn't matter if you haven't found the things. As long as you can return safely, don't be so reckless in the future, okay?" Chu Ci felt distressed to see the two little girls so depressed, and hurriedly comforted them in a soft voice.

The two dared not speak, and quietly glanced at their elder brother, whose face was as gloomy as if ink could drip out. As expected, Fan Jingrui said, "My wife, you spoil them too much."

After saying that, without waiting for Chu Ci to react, he frowned and scolded Qianxue and Qianyan: "You keep saying that you know you are wrong, but where exactly are you wrong?"

"We shouldn't have gone looking for star anise without everyone's permission." Qianxue and Qianyan lowered their heads, their voices as low as mosquitoes, and their hands unconsciously twisted together.

Chu Ci knew at a glance that he had protected them too well, so much so that they had confused the forests in the south with those in the north and had forgotten all his previous instructions.

It seems that today's lesson is inevitable. Chu Ci sighed secretly in her heart. The little girls can only pray for good luck. Then she turned around and left silently, thinking that Fan Jingrui wanted to teach his sister a lesson, and as a sister-in-law, it would be better for her not to participate.

Seeing this, Qianxue and Qianyan immediately made bitter faces and lamented in their hearts: We are really finished now.