In the early morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, Su Qianran finally saw Xia Cheng. After driving for seven or eight hours, Su Tianran's whole body was stiff.

"I'm sorry, I still want you to come over on New Year's Day. Xia Cheng handed over a cigarette.

Su Qian waved his hand: "I'll sleep first." The two of them walked together into the hotel. Xia Cheng had already gotten the room card, and Su Tianran didn't have much luggage, and the two of them didn't alarm anyone.

So early the next morning, Xia Gardenia was very surprised to see Su Tianran, who was sleeping in the bed next door. And Su Tianran was also extremely surprised when he saw Xia Gardenia. The last time I saw Xia Gardenia, Xia Gardenia was not so serious.

Sixteen-year-old Xia Gardenia is a lovely girl, but she has not entered the school since she was ten years old.

Xia Gardenia has a living hemorrhoid on her body. This mole Xia Gardenia was born with it, although I was curious that this mole would run around, but it didn't affect my life, and the hospital didn't check out the reason, so the Xia family couldn't do anything.

But when she was ten years old, the mole became bigger, and Xia Gardenia would never eat again, she would not be thirsty if she did not drink water, she would drink alcohol instead, she would not be hungry and thirsty if she did not eat, and she would eat ash instead.

It's not ordinary ash, it's incense ash. The Xia family only began to panic at this time, thinking that their daughter was contaminated with something. And the black mole on Xia Gardenia's body slowly became larger.

Su Tanran saw Xia Gardenia a few years ago, and the little girl was still as beautiful as a flower at that time. Today, when I looked at it, the mole had spread to my cheeks. According to the Xia family, the hemorrhoid had never reached the dew part, let alone the face, and this year's situation made them feel like the end of the world.

At the beginning of this year, the cold of the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve was changed. The sun is out, and the spring blossoms feel like it's coming, which is a good start. The three of them went out to eat the famous local snacks, which was considered to have breakfast. Oh no, Xia Gardenia didn't eat it.

When I went back to the hotel, I opened the window, and Xia Cheng locked the door. Xia Gardenia sat on the bed, pulled her hair up, began to undress, and □□.

Xia Cheng glanced at Su Qianran, and his face was worried.

Su Tianran sat on the edge of the bed and looked at Xia Gardenia without a trace of □□. The sixteen-year-old girl is not bad-looking, the Xia family background is not bad, and the girl is raised with white skin and tender skin. The chest has begun to develop, bulging, even under the air conditioning, the skin has a layer of goosebumps, and the small grapes on the chest are also erect.

After a minute of silence, Xia Gardenia lay down, spread her thighs, her breathing rose and fell, and nervously waited for Su to speak.

There was a black mark from her inner thighs to her navel to her chest to her neck to her face. It looked like a large birthmark, but the three people present knew it was the mole.

Some people say that moles are actually a type of melanin, while others say that moles can cause cancer. This is on the side of science, but, as the old saying goes, moles can change people's fate, so some celebrities will remove some moles on their faces and put some moles on them. For example, a certain female star, who is obviously plain and unremarkable, but because of the mole on her face, she adds style, and she is much smoother than some female artists with long legs and beautiful appearance.

"How's it going?" Xia Cheng asked Su Ranran, worriedly.

Xia Gardenia sat up and pulled the quilt to wrap herself, and her bangs walked out of the rubber band to block her eyes.

"It's fine. Su stood up and patted Xia Cheng's shoulder comfortingly: "The melanin has just spread." ”

So, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Su was beaten by Xia Cheng. QAQ: I'm just trying to liven things up.

At about eleven o'clock in the afternoon, Xia Cheng took Fu Shui to help his sister wipe her body, and the three of them went downstairs to retreat from the room and went to the local temple to bow down. Some people will look at Xia Gardenia with strange eyes, and Xia Gardenia has learned to turn a blind eye, and she is distressed in Xia Cheng's eyes, and she can't wait to rush up and beat up the person with strange eyes.

Coming out of the temple, the three of them drove to Anshui Village. There is a small temple in Anshui Village. When the Xia family was about to demolish Anshui Village to repair the factory, they met a nail household, and Mrs. Xia went to supervise the work with her child, but was forced by the angry villagers to go up the mountain and hide in the temple. At that time, the temple was a deserted temple. There were no monks for a long time, and there was no incense.

Mrs. Xia's fetus moved, and in the end, the village woman relented and helped Mrs. Xia deliver Xia Gardenia in the temple. Because there is a gardenia at the entrance of the temple, Mrs. Xia smells the gardenia whenever she feels uncomfortable and feels that she has strength again, so her daughter named it Gardenia.

Later, Anshui Village was naturally retained, and the factory building was changed to a place not far from the village, which became an important place for the residents of Anshui Village to choose a job. The Xia family also paid for the rebuilding of the temple and helped the temple restore the incense.

It can be said that Xia Gardenia has a close relationship with Anshui Village, and has a deep relationship with Anshui Temple.

Every year on the first day of the new year, the summer gardenia will go to the Anshui Temple to offer incense. This year, Xia Gardenia's mole began to spread in the Chinese New Year's Eve, but she insisted on incense, so after eating lunch in the Chinese New Year's Eve, Xia Cheng set off with her sister.

Since Su Tianran knew Xia Gardenia's life experience, he wanted to come and see this Anshui Temple, whether to give birth in the temple or to give birth to a child in a deserted temple, no matter how you think about it, it is easy to get into trouble.

Generally speaking, it is best for a woman not to go to the incense to worship the Buddha during the menstrual period, so as not to collide with the gods, and Mrs. Xia also gave birth to a child. My Buddha is merciful and forgiving, but are the gods really living in the abandoned temple? To put it irreverently, it is not for nothing that the dove occupies the magpie's nest. Aren't the white snakes and green snakes in their version living in deserted temples before? There is also the king of Che Chi who caught monks to repair temples for the three national teachers in the Journey to the West, aren't the three national teachers enjoying the incense in the world also monsters?

When they arrived at Anshui Village, in previous years they were going to go to the villagers' houses to sit, but this year, the situation of Xia Gardenia was not good, and the three of them quietly went up the back mountain to Anshui Temple.

In front of the Anshui Temple, firecrackers were set off and red paved all over the ground. The gardenia is still bright green, and you can imagine how beautiful it is when it blooms. Spring Festival couplets are pasted on the renovated gate of Anshui Temple, and the glazed tiles look joyful in the sunset.

There is already a strong smell of incense in the air, and it seems that there are many people who have come to incense these days. Xia Gardenia took a deep breath, showed a happy expression, and took the lead in stepping through the temple gate.

Xia Cheng glanced at his sister and then said to Su Tianran: "You know the rules in the temple, right? Don't step on the threshold, don't talk nonsense......"

Xia Cheng was still saying that Su Tianran had already followed Xia Gardenia into the temple.

Because the temple was repaired at the expense of the Xia family, and they often donated money, the monks in the temple were very grateful to the Xia family, especially Xia Gardenia would come over every year, so the monks had already treated them as relatives.

Looking at the black marks on Xia Gardenia's face, the monks were startled. Xia Gardenia couldn't face the monks like she did in the face of strangers' strange eyes, and turned her head a little sadly.

Su Tianran smiled slightly: "Let's put on the incense first." ”

The monks no longer mentioned this topic, enthusiastically took incense and candles to the three people, and the three of them knelt down in front of the gods and Buddhas of all sizes in turn, and then had a simple fasting meal. The monks didn't ask Xia Gardenia's face again, nor did they look at her with strange eyes, and Xia Gardenia breathed a sigh of relief.

Xia Gardenia will still use some for fasting, and she doesn't eat much, Xia Cheng and Su Tianran knew that she didn't eat, so they didn't persuade her, and the monks thought that she had a bad appetite, so they didn't persuade her.

It was already late after eating, the monks were watching TV, Xia Cheng boiled water to bathe his sister, and Su Tianran watched Xia Cheng add firewood to the stove by the side.

"Wait a minute, you sleep with me, and leave early tomorrow morning. lest the villagers see the gardenia......"

Su Tianran didn't listen to Xia Cheng's chatter much, in fact, he was a little hungry. "Can you bake sweet potatoes? I saw sweet potatoes before. ”

Xia Cheng: "When you go back, you can write a few more talismans......!!! you ate two bowls of rice just now!"

Su winked innocently at Xia Cheng.

Xia Cheng patted his forehead and went to get the sweet potato helplessly, letting Su Tianran watch the fire here.

Not to mention, it's warm to sit by the stove.

Su poured firewood into the stove, and suddenly saw a monk at the door with his head bowed, only revealing his smooth chin, and holding a large porcelain bowl in his hand.

Just appeared silently, the number of lights in the kitchen was not large, and Su was startled by the monk.

Xia Cheng happened to come back with a sweet potato, and when he saw that the monk was not surprised, he said gently: "Huijue, are you hungry?"

The monk nodded.

Xia Cheng took the bowl in Huijue's hand and filled her with a big bowl of rice, sandwiched some vegetables, and finally poured hot water into it to warm it. After soaking in hot water a few times, Xia Cheng handed the bowl to Hui Jue: "Also, it's a good thing that you have to come to the kitchen again if you are still hungry, and you have the strength and appetite to eat." ”

Hui Jue nodded, gave a salute, and then left with the bowl, only to find that Hui Jue was lame when he walked. But before Huijue appeared quietly.

"Who is she, why haven't you seen her before?" Su stood up.

Xia Cheng sat down directly and stuffed the sweet potato into the stove. "Oh, Huijue is a monk in the temple. Haven't you heard from us before?"

"Say what?"

“…… Gardenia asked, and I asked again. The host said that Huijue had a cold, so he didn't come out to meet the guests. When I was eating before, didn't the host bring food to Huijue?" Xia Cheng rolled his eyes.

Su Qianran remembered that the host had indeed picked up the dishes and left before. "Oh, I look at her legs...... She just showed up without saying a word, and scared me to death. ”

"Huijue ......" Xia Cheng sighed: "Huijue was an orphan when he was a child, born dumb, and his legs were too. Her hearing aids were bought for her by Gardenia from abroad. ”

Su Tianran stopped asking and asked Xia Gardenia: "What about your sister, let's drink some rune water later." ”

"Gardenia went shopping. Xia Cheng didn't raise his head.

"The black cat is blind, and you don't have to worry. ”

"There's nothing to worry about, she won't get lost in this temple with her eyes closed. Xia Cheng got up and looked at the steaming water in the pot: "Forget it." You go find Gardenia, you can take a bath. ”

Originally, the Xia family planned to install tap water pipes and water heaters, but there were two wells in the temple, and the monks refused. Except for the TV and electric lights, the Anshui Temple has maintained a very good original ecology, and there is no natural gas.

Su walked around and didn't see Xia Gardenia. simply stood at the door of the Daxiong Treasure Hall and shouted: "Xia Gardenia." ”

Suddenly, there was a gust of wind, and Su tightened her clothes. He opened his mouth again: "Xia-"

I couldn't breathe anymore, but I couldn't shout the word gardenia in my mouth. Su Tianran simply shut up, lowered his eyelids, folded his hands, and formed a law seal, which was usually easy to complete a complete set of law seals, but at this time, it was a lot more jerky, and even the soles of his feet were cold.

Su Tanran gritted his teeth and gave up the seal of the law, turned around and entered the Daxiong Treasure Hall. All the lights in the temple have a low wattage, and the Buddha with kind eyes during the day feels strange under the lights and candles.

Su Tianran took the wooden fish and knelt under the Buddha, looking at the extra shadow next to him, and he didn't want to delve into whether someone was standing behind him or the angle of the light made people have a few shadows, or something else. With a Buddhist bead in one hand and a wooden fish in the other, Su opened his mouth sincerely to recite the scriptures.

The Diamond Sutra, which is usually memorized backwards, is also jerky and difficult to exit at this time. "If I hear it, the Buddha is defending the country for a while......"

"It should be like this, and it should be like this, and it should be surrendered to its heart......" and suddenly it became smooth as he read it. Su Tianran was not in a hurry, and finished reading this paragraph: "Only, Shizun, I want to hear it." After reading this paragraph, Su Qianran turned around to look at Xia Cheng with a confused face.

"Where's your sister?"

"Already went to take a shower. Xia Cheng replied honestly, then shook his head, and frowned at Su Tianran: "No, let you come to find Gardenia, what's the matter with you running to chant the scriptures?

Su Tianran bowed to the Buddha, and then got up and walked out of the main hall: "There are three thousand worlds in the six paths, and all the avenues lead to Rome, what's so strange about me chanting scriptures?"

"So what you mean by the way of the road?" Xia Cheng looked disgusted. "If you do this again, I won't give you money. ”

"Don't, Kim thighs. Su Tianran and Xia Cheng laughed and went back to the kitchen, and saw a figure in front of them enter the kitchen.

Xia Cheng took a few steps to enter, and Su Tingran listened to Xia Cheng's anxious words before he entered: "Just put it away, I'll wash the dishes." I baked a sweet potato, you take another one to eat, eat something hot, and go to the hospital tomorrow if it's not good. ”

Su Tianran followed in, and when he saw that it was indeed Huijue. Su Tianran didn't speak, just watched Xia Cheng shave the sweet potatoes and hand them to Hui Jue and asked her to be careful about scalding.

Hui Jue gave a salute, took the withered leaves and left with sweet potatoes, and saw Su Tanran standing at the door and gave Su Tanran a salute. Su Tianran hurriedly turned sideways and was not accepted: "The master is polite." Huijue nodded and left.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, in some places, the Xingfa is not bathing or washing hair, and the water for washing your face and feet must be kept and poured out on the second day of the Lunar New Year. So there was no one bathing in the entire temple except Xia Gardenia.

Xia Cheng boiled the washing water, Su Tianran and a few monks brought their own towels to wash their faces and feet, and it was time to go to sleep.

Xia Gardenia took off her clothes and waited for them on the bed, and Xia Cheng carefully wiped the talisman water with Xia Gardenia. "I said Su Liang, why is it useless this time, did you draw a few strokes? Or is the expiration date over?"

Su Tianran ignored him, took the bowl and poured the wine, took a talisman and recited a few words, and threw it into the bowl, and the bowl suddenly caught fire, and the talisman quickly burned to ashes.

Xia Cheng closed his mouth when he saw this scene, but his frowns couldn't calm down. In the past, the runic water given by Su Liang could always control the range of the mole for a certain period of time, and even make the mole smaller, but today it was useless.

Xia Cheng is sad. A Taoist priest once said that the range of this mole is uncontrollable, and when it spreads all over the body, the gardenia is finished.

Su Tianran helped Xia Gardenia up and fed her water. Fu water is wine, Xia Gardenia drank it quickly, and even a little unfinished. put down the bowl and looked at Xia Cheng with bright eyes, but the words were said to Su Tianran: "Brother Liang, I'm hungry." ”

Xia Cheng immediately looked at Su Tianran pitifully. Xia Gardenia feeds on incense ashes, Su Tilt is forbidden, and Xia Gardenia can't starve to death anyway. But did the people of the Xia family secretly take incense ash to Xia Gardenia to eat, and Su Tingran knew with his toes that there must be.

still remembers that Su Tianran found Xia Gardenia's physique when he found that Xia Gardenia stole the incense ashes in the temple's incense tripod. At that time, Su Tianran and Xia Cheng had known each other for three years. If he had known that Xia Gardenia was in this situation earlier, he might have been able to come up with other methods, not to suppress them with runic water repeatedly.

"Bear with me, I'll talk about it when I go out tomorrow. Thinking that Su Tanran couldn't call Xia Tianzi's name before, and remembering the shadow that was obviously not his own when he chanted the scriptures, Su Tanran shook his head.

Xia Cheng lowered his head a little unbearably.

Xia Gardenia didn't care, stretched out her tongue and licked her lips, like a greedy child, but she was not cute at all but full of weirdness.

"Recite the sutra a few times tonight before going to sleep, be sincere, and don't have distracting thoughts. After thinking about it, Su Qian commanded: "Xia Cheng, you too." ”

"But didn't you say don't you want to recite the scriptures casually?" Xia Cheng was a little puzzled, Su Tianran had told him that reciting the scriptures casually was easy to attract something.

"yes. Su smiled smugly: "But, I asked you to read it, can it be called casual?"

The Xia family brothers and sisters rolled their eyes neatly.

"Alright, Gardenia, you go to sleep. Su Tianran was about to pull Xia Cheng out when he saw a sweet potato on the table. Gardenia and don't eat, this sweet potato......

Xia Cheng touched his nose: "It's probably Huijue who put it in." Saying that, he went out with sweet potatoes: "I'll send it to Huijue." ”

Su Tianran grabbed Xia Cheng: "Give me food, Huijue may rest in the evening." ”

Xia Cheng looked helpless: "Are you a pig?"

Su Tianran took the sweet potato and smiled slightly: "Good night gardenia, see you tomorrow morning." ”

Gardenia smiled and waved at the two. Su pulled Xia Cheng out of the door.

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After Xia Cheng finished reciting the scriptures, Su Tianran had already fallen asleep. Xia Cheng, who felt stiff, stood up and stretched his body, pushed open the window and found that there were still a few stars in the sky, and he was in a good mood. It's not easy to see the stars in winter.

Closing the window, Xia Cheng turned around but was startled. Su Tianran was sitting on the bed looking at him with bright eyes, where was the slightest sleepiness.

"What are you doing? Surprise me—, what are you doing?!" Xia Cheng was a little stunned, and Su Tianran suddenly took a knife and came out.

"Here you go, cut a bowl of blood. Su handed over the knife. Then he drew a knife, took out a clean bowl, cut his fingers and drew a formation on the ground of the bowl.

"Why do you want blood? In the middle of the night—eh, you can't use your hands when your hands are broken?" Xia Cheng rolled up his sleeves before remembering why he had to be so obedient.

"I'm not Gardenia's own brother, my blood is useful!" Su urged Xia Cheng: "It's almost three o'clock." ”

Xia Cheng took out his phone and looked at it, it was only half past eleven, okay? What does it mean that it was almost three o'clock. I wanted to complain, but I saw that Su Tianran had already gotten up and drew talismans on the doors and windows with his bleeding fingers. "By the way, when you cut your blood, you should also recite the scriptures, and it is best to stop the blood after menstruation. ”

Xia Cheng rolled his eyes, but he thought that Su Tianran had just said gardenia, and he thought it was related to his sister, so he was not ambiguous, and honestly cut his wrist, watched the blood drip in the bowl, closed his eyes, and recited the scriptures devoutly.

Su Tanran finished drawing talismans on the doors and windows and drew talismans on the ground, and when he finished all this, Su Tanran was already sweating profusely. Seeing Xia Cheng's serious appearance, Su Tianran didn't bother him, and took out a bag of Want Want Snow Cakes from his backpack and ate them. (Yes, this is called not disturbing, it is Xuebi's own ringing, and it is none of his business.) ）

However, Xia Cheng was really unaffected, and he was pious and had no sense of the outside world. Before Su Tianran found out about his sister, he had to recite the scriptures several times a day, and he was also very familiar with various Buddhist classics Xia Cheng, and later Su Tianran told him that he could not recite the scriptures by anyone.

After eating the snow cake, Su Tianran saw several shadows appear on the window. The lights are in the room, and according to physics those shadows are faint. But according to physics, there can be no shadow when there is no light outside, no matter what is outside. Unless they've been taped to the window.

After Xia Cheng finished reading the last sentence, he opened his eyes, collected his wrist, and looked at the bowl full of blood and felt a little dizzy. Su Tianran threw away his pocket, stepped forward to help him, and pinched his hand that was finally scabbed to draw a mark on Xia Cheng's wound. When I looked up, there was still some dark shadow on the window.

"The next time something like this happens, tell me in advance, I'll prepare gauze. Looking at his still bleeding hands, Xia Cheng felt very distressed.

Su Tianran grinned, ignored Xia Cheng's complaints, and happily raised the bowl and kissed the bowl wall: "Baby, this is your menstrual blood." 166 Reading Network