How much he heard.
The next morning, Xu You wakes up and realizes that he is still curled up in a caterpillar shape, so it's no wonder that he feels constrained by something while he sleeps.
She let out a huff and slowly sat up, her eyes swept around, no sign of Wink, and then checked her trust level, which was still 60.
"......"
Was it possible that the emotion in his eyes last night was an illusion on her part? Which part of the process had gone wrong.
Xu You pondered, then changed her clothes and washed up, and when she was almost done, she said to Xiang He, "Go and call the master to have breakfast."
Xiang He hesitated, "Back to you ma'am, the Master is gone."
"Gone," Xu You asked, "when?" She didn't abscond overnight, did she? Is she that scary?
"I left this morning, and the Master left a message saying that the fever had subsided and that he would return to Sunwonji Temple without any serious injury."
Xu You: Okay, just like the Tang Monk who went into the Pan-Silk Cave by mistake, I'll show you in a minute.
Now that the Xinan Mountain section of the road is not safe, her plans to buy fabric have to be put on hold.
After Xu You had his breakfast, he went out with his four guards and was surprised to see Donghong Sun in front of him.
For the past two days Donghong Sun had been guarding Xu You's house, and as soon as he saw her, he would come up to haunt her, and wherever she went, he would follow her.
To solve this kind of person is useless, bring a few strong men around, come once to beat once, the best to beat him until he appeared the distance produces beauty, give up the psychological shadow of the far away.
Xu You simply ignores him and heads straight to Sunwonji Temple, where he finds that Wen Jiu is not there. He asks Monk Zhi Ran and realizes that Wen Jiu was summoned to the meditation room by Master Xuan Jing early in the morning because he hadn't listened to any lectures on the Buddha for a few days, and Master Xuan Jing had given him some extra work to make up for the winter vacation.
Xu You smiled, do not want to follow to listen to the lecture, then sat on the bamboo chair under the eaves, leisurely look at a thin white snow.
Until noon, Xu You guessed that Master Xuan Jing would at least let Wen Ji go to eat, but the result came to the meditation room to look for people, empty, and then asked the nearby monks, only to learn that Wen Ji went down the mountain.
Xu You :Hey, he's been running around all day, not to hide from me, right, or he wants to go down the mountain to look for me, not realizing that I've already arrived at Gu Li Yuan?
Thinking about it, Xu You also went down the mountain, all the way back to the mansion did not see WENJI, but to see the nose and face swollen Donghong Sun, shivering in the cold wind as if sifting chaff.
"Will you come back with me or not," Donghong Sun exclaimed, "I will not care about your private meetings and affairs with other men as long as you come back with me and live a good life."
A tainted woman, he does not really want, but think of the silver in her hand, and the money from the sale of this mansion, he can buy how many acres of land, in the village another two houses new house, had to tolerate again and again, here more entanglement.
Xu You had no choice but to follow him, and Donghong Sun felt generous enough to accept such a widow.
There were more pedestrians on the street at this time, and many people stopped to watch the fun, especially some of the neighbors who liked to chew the cud.
"I've said that Widow You is unclean and privately indiscreet, so isn't this a stab in the back?"
"This man has been hanging around her house for a few days, it seems like he's involved with Xu You."
"No wonder they say she won't marry a city family, they thought she was so noble, but it turns out she has someone in the countryside."
Xu You expression remains unchanged, not affected by these words in the slightest, ancient times is like this, always valued the chastity of women's reputation higher than their lives, with words to force them to self-pity and self-pity, or even suicide.
There were many widows like her, and it was difficult enough to make a living, but they also had to be hurt by the sharp edge of words, and Widow Shi in the north of the city was forced to jump into the lake.
Let's not talk about what she did or didn't do, and even if she did, it wasn't these people's turn to point it out.
Looking at Donghong Sun's smug expression, it's obvious that he's trying to force her to do something in public.
Against this kind of person, it is useless to reason, you can only use the same method to return the favor, so she said in a loud voice: "Aigoo rare, my several good sisters in the countryside are all married to you, what are you still looking for me."
"Not to mention me, even my sisters can't look at you, saying that you have a hidden disease that prevents you from having intercourse, and they are still looking forward to separating from you and marrying someone else."
"It was only that they complained to me twice, and I knew about it, and to come and marry me in order to keep me from telling, are you capable of that?"
The crowd saw a widow provocatively and disdainfully sizing up the man, and instantly shifted their attention as if they had found something newer and more interesting.
"Looked strong, but turned out to be strong on the outside."
"So that's what he's like, and anyone who marries him is really out of luck for life."
Donghong Sun's face flushed red with rage at the almost actualized look of disdain and contempt, and his throat smoked with anger: "You're bullshitting me, where did I marry someone?"
Now that not having a wife in his twenties is a sign of incompetence, it's better to admit that he doesn't have a wife than to be told that he can't, but how can he prove that he can do it in full view of everyone?
Simply ate the dummy, punched out and smothered by cotton instead.
"Aiyaa, you admit it or you don't," Xu You furled his cloak and walked into the mansion without looking back, "If you want to marry me, why don't you wait until you solve your hidden disease?"
Anyway, their village was far away from Jianan City, and not many people in the city knew him, so how would they know if he was married or not, or if he had any hidden illnesses, as long as they had something to talk about at the end of the meal.
"You!" Donghong Sun couldn't say anything for a long time, seeing that Xu You had left, leaving him alone here to be pointed out, seldom having experienced such a thing, he blushed so red that he was black, so he had to suppress his fire and embarrassment and turn around and walk away.
At this time, Wen Ji came to the end of the south alley, saw a faded and whitened lucky character pasted on the wooden door, raised his hand and knocked on the door.
"Who is it?" The old crone's pale voice came from inside, "Coming, wait a moment."
After a while, the wooden door creaked open, out of a hunched back, hair white, wrinkled granny, she touched the door frame, carefully stepped out of the threshold, lax vision eyes, indicating that she has eye disease.
"Granny," Wenjiao helped her, "I'm Wenjiao."
"Ahhh, Master is here, I haven't even prepared anything to entertain you yet," Lan smiled, the deep and shallow wrinkles on her face unfolding, "Thanks to Master helping me find my grandson, I was able to leave the village and settle here with my grandson."
Five years ago, she was still in Shunping Village, living alone in a hut, inconvenienced and lonely, until Master Winking came along and brought her to Jianan City to be with her grandchildren, for which she can't thank her enough.
In the early years, when her son and daughter-in-law were in distress and her grandson was in exile, she thought that there would be no more reunion, but she did not expect that, like a dream, she would have a support for the rest of her life.
At that time, she asked Winku why he came to her door to help her, she thought it was because of karma or virtue or something like that, but at that time, Winku said, "No good deed goes unpunished, I'll repay your kindness of charity on behalf of one person."
But she never remembered giving charity to anyone.
"Master, come in and sit down first." Lan greeted him.
Wen Ji helped her into the door, covering the door in passing, and after sitting down and sweeping his eyes, he asked, "Where is your grandson?"
Lan laughed, "He's gone to the street to buy food, when he comes back later, I'll ask him to treat Master more."
"That's not necessary, I came here to ask for something."
Lan: "If you say so, Master, I will do my best."
Wen Ji lowered his eyes, looking at the lines on the wooden table, and said in a light tone, "Can you come to Sunwonji Temple tomorrow."
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With no progress on opening the cloth store or on the trust value, Xu You had a rare bout of insomnia, falling asleep in a daze in the latter part of the night, and waking up close to midday, she took her lunch before slowly making her way to the Sunwonji Temple.
Along the way did not meet Donghong Sun, I think he was humiliated a bit, then do not want to come back, after all, that mess, a lot of people know him, the more macho man, the more do not want to be told that can not be, especially that aspect of the can not be.
It was good, she fell easy.
Came to Sunwonji Temple, Xu You did not rush to go to the return to the Court, first to the temple to donate money to burn incense, she did not seriously worship these Buddhas before, not much faith in these, this time in the trust value of the nail, she could not help but kneel on the ground to worship, pious wishing, "Wish to have a break, 61 also line ah, the Bodhisattva manifestation of the spirit, please please please."
At that very moment, an old woman inserted three sticks of incense and knelt next to Xu You, chanting, "May the Bodhisattva bless my grandson with a lifetime of peace and happiness."
The voice was very familiar, it seemed like I had heard it somewhere before. Xu You's movements were stuttering, and when she looked sideways, she realized that she was the blind woman who had left her food all those years ago.
How did the granny, who seldom leaves the courtyard, come to Jianan City and appear inside the Sunwonji Temple, and how did she get to the mountain?
Xu You looked back and saw a man in his early twenties waiting outside the temple gate, presumably her grandson brought her up here.
Seeing an acquaintance, Xu You couldn't help but feel a little excited, remembering the hot meals in those difficult times. Now that she had the ability, she naturally wanted to thank her mother-in-law, and seeing that she was about to get up, and her legs were not favorable, Xu You got up first to help her, "Granny, slow down."
Lan slowly stood up and smiled kindly at Xu You, "Many thanks, Miss."
"Are you in a hurry to go down the mountain?" Xu You said, "The place of Buddhism is all about eye contact, I see that granny looks familiar and would like to talk to her more, Sunwonji Temple I come here often, I am quite familiar with this place, I can introduce it to granny."
"Well, it's been a long time since anyone else has had to chatter with this old woman of mine," Lan said to her grandson, "Ajin, you find a place to rest first, and I'll talk to the girl."
Xu You took Lan on a slow walk halfway through the temple, telling her about some of the Buddha's statues and scriptures. In fact, Xu You only knew a little bit about it, and when she first tried to talk to Wen Ji, she endured the drowsiness to ask questions, and then she knew a little bit about it.
It was cold outside and the temperature was low. Seeing that the old man's legs were not good and his hands were cold, Xu You asked a monk who was close to him for a Zen room to bring his mother-in-law to rest her feet.
"Where does my mother-in-law live in Jianan City today?" When she has time in the future, she intends to go there often to nag the old man.
Lan: "The house on the far right at the end of South Lane."
Xu You is a little curious: "How does a mother-in-law reunite with her grandchildren?"
"It was Master Wenjiao who came to Shunping Village and found me, saying that he would help me search for my grandson," Lan smiled, "I am so grateful to the Master."
Xu You : "Do you know why the Master helped you to find someone?"
Seeing the mother-in-law shook her head, Xu You understood that she did not know that Winking was Yier Li, even if it was not Winking that changed so much that the mother-in-law could not see people even if she was blind.
Xu You breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't help inquiring about Yier Li, "Granny, do you still remember Yier Li?"
Shunping Village is so small that people can talk for a long time about things that are small or medium-sized, and basically everyone knows each other, so even if my mother-in-law seldom goes out, she still hears about a lot of things.
Lan was curious, "Girl, how did you know about Yier Li?"
"To tell you the truth, I'm actually from Shunping Village, so I thought my mother-in-law looked familiar," Xu You said. "At that time, I felt sorry for Yier Li, but I didn't dare to help him, so now I feel guilty and want to know how he's doing. Now I feel guilty and want to know how he is doing. "
Lan patted her hand soothingly and sighed deeply, "I don't know what kind of sins I've created."
Xu You's mind tightened, "How so?"
" Yier Li that thing was a big deal at the time, and it didn't stop for a long time," Lan said slowly, "I heard that he was possessed by evil at night and jumped into the lake holding a dead cat, and he went completely crazy after being rescued."
Xu You subconsciously clenched his hands, fingertips cold, palms sweaty, and held his breath as he whispered, "And then what?"
"He killed three people in a row, when villagers found Siyun Wang's cold body and one side of his broken arm in a fruit grove, and the village rallied to catch Yier Li, who escaped in the night."
A few short sentences made Xu You's breath freeze.
When she didn't hear a sound for a long time, Lan: "Girl?"
Xu You came back to his senses, restrained his emotions, and reluctantly said, "I'm sorry granny, let's leave it like this for now, I'm a bit unwell, so I'll take a step first, and how about going to your house to have a chat on another day?"
"Well then, go ahead girl, I'm sure my grandson has waited long enough, so I'll head down the mountain as well."
"Good, good ......"
Xu You's speech was incoherent, his mind was a mess, and he only felt chilled to the bone.
It's just a cat. She didn't expect Yier Li to be so determined.
Seeing him become a revered guru, I thought he would have had a good time all these years, but I didn't realize ......
Xu You pushed open the wooden door of the Zen room and saw Wen Ji at a glance, he clenched his teeth, his jaw was slightly closed, his dark eyes were like thick ink that could not be melted, with a mixture of emotions in them, and he forced himself to look at her tightly.
Xu You's eyes widened and he instantly froze in place, his blood freezing from head to toe.
Smell Art is here, how much did you hear?
Published at: 05/22/2024 02:00