Side story: You're old

Zhou Yanqing took advantage of Zhou Nuo's summer vacation and took his two children to Baita Temple to escape the summer and stay for a while.

In the past two years, Zhou Yanqing has become a frequent visitor here, most of the little monks in the temple know him, and he has donated a lot of money to the temple.

As a result, the temple has also expanded a lot, and the incense has become more prosperous.

This place is full of outstanding people, it is good to raise people, Cheng Xunxun is now raised white and tender, and the face looks younger and younger, and there is a trend of reverse growth.

Every time Zhou Yanqing came to live for a while, his mood changed, and the whole person became more and more calm and self-controlled. For example, if a business loses tens of millions, he won't even frown.

It may be that I have experienced a lot, and I look at money and power very lightly, as long as it is enough.

It's still the same sentence, you can make more money when you don't have money, and you really have nothing when you don't have people.

Maybe it's Zhou Yanqing's piety, or maybe Jingxu really has the ability, Cheng Xun's situation is getting better and better, and occasionally there will be sober times, recognize people, and have a normal understanding of the things around him.

The first time Zhou Yanqing heard Cheng Xunxuan take the initiative to call his name was early one morning before January.

Living in the temple, he will automatically wake up at six o'clock in the morning every day, and Zhou Yanqing wakes up earlier, when he lives here, the first incense in the temple every day is on Zhou Yanqing.

That day, he washed up briefly, came back from the incense, stood in the courtyard to breathe in the fresh air, and when the time came, he woke up the child.

Cheng Xunxun's wing room is next door to him, Cheng Xunxun doesn't sleep regularly, sometimes she wakes up very early, sometimes she sleeps until the sun rises at noon, and she is still sleeping.

However, this morning, she opened her eyes and her mind was clearer than ever. The mood is also unusually calm, she gets up and washes briefly, there is a mirror in the room, she sits in front of the mirror, looking at herself in the mirror, as if she hasn't seen her for a long time, she raised her lips and smiled slightly at the mirror, and then picked up the comb on the table to comb her hair, and then took the headstring and tied her hair up.

When she was with Jingxu, she often wore her hair loose and combed neatly, and she didn't care about these things herself. She hadn't cared about that in a long time.

Later, she slowly stopped resisting Zhou Yanqing, and when he stayed by her side, he would help her comb her hair, and help her tie her braids, neatly, and take care of her like a daughter.

Cheng Xunxi cleaned up, opened the door, and the first rays of sunlight in the morning broke through the mist and sprinkled on her body.

The first thing that caught my eye was Zhou Yanqing's back, he was dressed casually, he didn't know what he was looking at with his head down, and he was so focused that he didn't hear the movement behind him.

Cheng Xunxun crossed the threshold, stood in front of the door, and called softly, "Zhou Yanqing." ”

It had been a long time since he had heard her call his name so clearly from her mouth, and Zhou Yanqing was slightly stunned when he heard it. It felt so unreal, like a dream.

He slowly turned his head, and met her clear eyes.

"What do you call me?"

"Zhou Yanqing. She called again.

He paused for a few seconds, then smiled, turned around, and stood facing her.

The two looked at each other for a long time, Zhou Yanqing opened his arms, and the two walked forward almost at the same time. When he approached, Cheng Xunxun stretched out his hand, smiled lightly, took a step ahead of him, hugged his waist, and pressed his cheek to his chest.

Zhou Yanqing raised her hands and paused for a while, then smiled lightly, hugged her body, lightly clasped one hand on the back of her head, kissed her hair gently, and raised her lips silently.

Cheng Xunxun said: "Long time no see, are you okay?"

"Not so good. ”

……

There are two more children in the temple, which is a little more lively than usual.

is still young, not so good at playing, all day long either following Zhou Nuo's ass, or babbling behind Cheng Xunxun's ass.

Zhou Nuo is more stable and sensible than children of the same age, he brought a lot of books when he came, Zhou Yanqing didn't have so much time to sit in the room with him to read, he would take the books to find Jingxu.

When he was in his spare time, he taught him to practice calligraphy, and the two fell in love. But it was too fateful, Zhou Yanqing couldn't help but talk to Jingxu behind her back, and Jingxu praised Zhou Nuo for two sentences.

Zhou Yanqing didn't like it in his heart, but because this was the land of Buddhism, it was not easy to talk nonsense, so he thought about it and said, "Nuo Nuo has a little girlfriend, did he tell you?"

When Jingxu heard this, he glanced at him sideways, Zhou Yanqing had something to say, looking at his eyes, Jingxu understood, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, not everyone is destined for the Buddha." I don't guide, I don't force. ”

Zhou Yanqing raised his eyebrows, and when he was about to say something, there was a sudden whisper outside, and he almost didn't have to guess to know that it was Cheng Xunxi, so he immediately got up and rushed out.

I only saw Cheng Xunxun lying on the ground on all fours, with leaves hanging on his head, Zhou Nuo standing on the side, and Zhou Yu almost climbed on top of her. Judging by the way she looked, this person must have fallen from a tree, and she was lying on the ground screaming, crying out in pain.

Zhou Nuo took her hand and tugged it twice, it was completely useless.

"Dad!" Seeing Zhou Yanqing, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he walked over quickly, and briefly explained what had happened. It turned out that she found a bird's nest in the tree and wanted to go up to see the birds, but she didn't have the ability to climb the tree, and she had fallen several times before that, but this time it was particularly successful, and she climbed the first branch, and she stood on it and jumped for a while, and then fell down again.

This time it was a big fall.

Zhou Yanqing immediately went over, first hugged Zhou Yu who climbed on top of her, then bent over and hugged her horizontally, wrinkled his brows, looked at her twice, and said, "Does it hurt?"

Obviously, his face looked like he was meant to teach people, but he only asked with concern.

Cheng Xunxun looked at him and smiled, and stretched out his hand, "Here you go." ”

This is what she saw when she climbed up the tree, and she jumped up sharply just to pick this, but she fell down before she could stand firmly, and her hands were all scratched.

This is a cyan fruit, which bears on the tree, I don't know what it is, and it can't be eaten or used after all, but Cheng Xunxun's appearance is like a treasure, handed to him.

Zhou Yanqing sent her back to the wing, went to Jingxu to get the medicine box, then squatted in front of her, carefully wiped her wounds, blew gently, raised her eyes to look at her, and said, "Where does it hurt, you must tell me, do you know?"

"My ass hurts, you give me a snort. She turned sideways and pouted her buttocks, this look was very similar to Zhou Yu, hippie smiling, but not afraid of pain.

But I don't know why, Zhou Yanqing felt as if she was playing tricks on him, and no matter how she looked at her smile, she felt cunning.

When Zhou Yanqing was stunned, Cheng Xunxuan ran out. He was still calling Xiao Yuyu in his mouth.

Cheng Xunxun actually likes Zhou Yu a lot, thinking that when she was pregnant with Zhou Yu, her belly was getting bigger and bigger day by day, so she told Jingxu if she could take the ball off her body, she wanted to play. Her situation can only be delivered by caesarean section, and after the child is born, she silently has her flat lower abdomen, and she has been begging for her ball.

This discussion is more than half a year, and she always thinks about her 'ball'.

Jingxu really took a leather ball to her, and she was silent, but she didn't play, she only squatted in front of the leather ball for a long time, staring, and didn't know what she was looking at.

Once, Jingxu went to ask her. She made a silent gesture and whispered, "There's something here, I'm waiting for him to come out." ”

Then he turned his head to look at the pure void and said mysteriously, "I tell you, when he is on me, I can feel the things in it moving. ”

Later, Zhou Yanqing brought Zhou Yu, who was almost a year old, over at that time, Cheng Xunxi was still a little timid, but Zhou Yu lay on the ground, laughing and slowly crawling in front of her, raising her little hands high and grabbing her clothes.

Cheng Xunxuan tore it away and dodged to the side, he continued to crawl over, laughing more and more happily, as if he felt that she was playing with himself.

Repeated several times, Zhou Yu grabbed her finger by mistake, and her little chubby hand gently pinched her little finger, and when she laughed, her saliva remained.

At that moment, Cheng Xunxun no longer dodged, and also giggled.

……

Now Cheng Xun, the first person to rely on is Jingxu, and the second is Zhou Yanqing.

At first, Zhou Yanqing didn't mind, but since Cheng Xunchun was sober once, he began to mind a little in his heart. This time, he was going to bring people back. After discussing with Jingxu, he has no opinion, after all, Zhou Yanqing is now able to take care of Xunxu, and Cheng Xunxu's situation is basically stable, as long as she is willing, Jingxu will not have any objections.

Therefore, Cheng Xunxun, who has to be coaxed first, agrees to go with him, but according to Cheng Xunxun's dependence on pure emptiness, it is not easy to coax her to go, but Zhou Yanqing is confident.

In the days that followed, Zhou Yanqing followed her every day, and he accompanied her in everything she did. I don't get used to playing alone in the middle of the year, and there are many people around me, so I am naturally not used to it at first, and Zhou Yanqing can't keep up with her brain hole many times, but she prefers to chat with Zhou Yu.

The two seem to have a common language, Balabala can talk for a long time, sometimes Zhou Yanqing can't understand what Zhou Yu is saying, but Cheng Xunxuan looks clear, and his expression seems to be saying I understand you.

No wonder Cheng Xunxun is getting closer and closer to Zhou Yu.

Although Cheng Xunxun did not reject him, he ignored him to some extent, but he was different about pure emptiness, and he was always very obedient. After a month, there was no progress, let alone let her follow him, Cheng Xunxun didn't listen to him at all, he asked her to go east. She went west.

When I can't figure it out, as soon as Jingxu comes forward, there is nothing. Zhou Yanqing was unconvinced, but his body was very honest and began to imitate pure emptiness.

The first step of imitation is to secretly take a piece of pure clothing, although it doesn't fit well, but it can be stuffed in.

On this day, there was an additional person in the temple who was dressed in monk's clothes, but was not bald.

He looked around the temple, only to find that Cheng Xunxun took Zhou Nuo and Zhou Yu to worship the Buddha on incense, and the three of them stood in a row, from tall to short. She looked very sober, and instructed the two children to kneel on the futon, follow her example, and bow down reverently.

Zhou Nuo did a good job, but Zhou Yu shrunk into a ball, lying on the ground, glancing at them sideways from time to time, his immature little face, showing a serious expression, quite cute.

Zhou Yanqing raised Zhou Yu for nothing, and the whole person looked like a meatball, but it was also cute. He stood at the door for a while, walked in, walked to Cheng Xunxun's side, and knelt down.

Cheng Xunxun noticed the movement, squinted and saw the light gray coarse cloth, and couldn't help but glance sideways when Zhou Yanqing's face met her eyes. She was frightened.

"You, are you going to become a monk?" she asked.

Zhou Yanqing raised her eyebrows, glanced at her sideways, showed a pious appearance, looked up at the Bodhisattva, did not speak, and after bowing twice, she stood up and adjusted the robe on her body. He believed in Buddhism, so it was not good to lie in front of the Buddha.

Cheng Xunxun glanced him up and down and said, "This dress is pure." ”

When Zhou Yanqing heard this, she narrowed her eyes, looked at her deeply, and said, "You know very well. This monk's clothes are the same, you can tell the difference, good skills. ”

"Oh. Cheng Xunxun pretended to be too casual and said to the children around him: "Be serious, worship the Bodhisattva without distractions." ”

Zhou Yanqing looked at her, not annoyed or anxious, turned around and walked out of the hall, waiting outside.

The little monk in the temple walked by and saw him, frequently looked sideways, and then hurriedly walked away.

Cheng Xunxun rubbed in the hall for a long time, and didn't go out until he couldn't go any longer. Then he walked in front of Zhou Yanqing casually, bouncing around.

Zhou Yanqing followed them not far away, slipped away for a long time, Zhou Yanqing said: "Zhou Nuo, take your younger brother to find Jingxu, take care of your younger brother, do you know?"

Cheng Xunxun held Xiao Nuo's hand and didn't let go, Xiao Nuo struggled twice, looked up at Cheng Xunxun, looked back at Zhou Yanqing, and then gently pulled Cheng Xunxun's hand, stood on tiptoe, and whispered: "Mom, don't be afraid, Dad can't fight you." ”

As he spoke, he broke Cheng Xunxun's fingers and walked away with Zhou Yu.

Cheng Xunxun turned his back to him, and the surroundings were very quiet. So she could almost hear his footsteps approaching slowly, her eyes rolled, she jumped up suddenly, raised her hands, and spun around in place, pretending to be crazy and stupid.

She is good and bad now, Zhou Yanqing can't figure out this law, he can't help frowning.

"Fly, fly, fly. Cheng Xunxun waved his arms and didn't look at him, just wanted to 'fly' past him.

At the moment when she just wiped her body, Zhou Yanqing raised her hand and grabbed her wrist, directly dragged her back, pressed her against the wall, and leaned over. Cheng Xunxun immediately reflexively reached out to his chest, a trace of panic flashed in his eyes, and soon changed his mood, lowered his head and pressed his head against his chest, wah-wow.

Zhou Yanqing put her hands against the wall, locked her in front of her, smiled lowly, and said, "In the pure place of Buddhism, if you shout like this, you will make a noise to the Buddha." ”

Cheng Xunxun naturally won't listen, she is a crazy person now, how can she listen to people!

Zhou Yanqing lowered her head to her ear and said with a smile: "Don't pretend, I can see it." Cheng Xunxun, how many times have you tricked me? ”

Cheng Xunxun finally couldn't scream anymore, his head was still on his chest, and he had no intention of raising his head. How many times she had played him, she thought about it, and she couldn't count.

But every time she looked at his helpless appearance, she found it funny.

"Weak?" he whispered in her ear, the warm breath tickling her ear.

Cheng Xunxun pushed him hard twice, and whispered: "You also know that this is a pure place for Buddhism, let go of it for me, and let people see it." ”

She struggled, Zhou Yanqing smiled and held her hands, put her hands behind her back, hugged her, and said, "It won't let go, it will never let go again." ”

Cheng Xunxun wanted to drill down, how could she escape Zhou Yanqing's eyes with a little bit of caution.

Cheng Xunxun raised his head and met his gaze, there was a strong emotion in his eyes that could not be concealed, he slowly lowered his head, and when the lips of the two were about to touch, he suddenly heard a deliberately suppressed hey sound, Cheng Xunxun avoided it, and when he turned his head, he saw Zhou Nuo not far away who was anxiously calling Zhou Yu who was walking towards them step by step.

Zhou Nuo stopped his movements when he felt two gazes, and secretly raised his eyes to look at them. He laughed twice, suddenly became serious, and said, "Oh, Master Jingxu said that he would teach me how to write, but it's too late." Daddy, look at your brother, bye-bye. ”

After saying that, he ran away with a smoke.

Zhou Yu walked halfway, stopped, glanced back, showed a blank look, and looked back at Zhou Yanqing and Cheng Xunxun, as if he was struggling for a while, but he still walked towards them step by step.

"Mom and Dad hug. He walked to their side, reached out and grabbed the corner of Cheng Xunxun's clothes, and looked up at them.

Cheng Xunxun bent over and hugged him, pinched his fat cheeks, and said with a smile: "It's so cute." ”

"Come home with me, okay?" he said softly, touching her head.

Cheng Xunxun looked at Zhou Yu, was silent for a moment, turned his head to look at him, and said, "If you don't dislike me for being sick and embarrassing your face, just take me back." ”

"Okay, we'll go back when school is about to start. ”

"Okay. ”

Zhou Yanqing stretched out his hand and hugged the two of them in his arms, and after a few seconds, he heard a clattering sound. Immediately afterwards, Cheng Xunxun felt that his thigh was hugged.

You don't have to bow your head to know who is coming, it's Zhou Nuo.

……

A month later, Cheng Xunxuan followed Zhou Yanqing back to Luancheng, she still had a strong sense of resistance to this city, Zhou Yanqing did not take her to Ruijing, nor did she take her to Oak Bay, but led her to a manor, not far from the city, the surrounding environment is not bad.

This is the project that Zhou Yanqing started to start when Cheng Xunchun left the year, and the entire design, every grass and tree, every brick and tile, was personally selected and designed.

The car drove into the manor and drove for about five minutes before stopping in front of the house, where Xu Ma and Mi Lai were standing at the gate of the house.

The car stopped, Cheng Xunshun got out of the car, and Xu's mother stepped forward, with tears in her eyes, and said, "Welcome home." ”

Cheng Xunxun smiled and stepped forward and hugged her.

Subsequently, Xu Ma and Mi Lai accompanied her to the entire manor, where the facilities are very perfect, even a small cinema hall, coffee bar, tea room, and greenhouse flower room and so on. The area is huge.

Cheng Xunxun didn't talk much, just listened to Xu's mother babbling about some things about Zhou Yanqing in the past two years.

It took about a year to build this place, at that time, Zhou Yanqing was busy like a spinning top, and he had to take care of the two children, both as a father and as a mother, and he had to do it himself, and he had to take time to see Cheng Xunxun, so he was naturally busy and couldn't stop.

Others want to help, but they can't help anything.

Mother Xu said: "Okay now, you are finally back, as long as you come back, Mr. Zhou will be able to live happily in the future." ”

She smiled faintly and said, "It's a pity that I'm sick." ”

Cheng Xunxun found that in this house, there were photos of her and Zhou Yanqing hanging in several places, which were wedding photos they took together that year.

There are also some photos of Xiaonuo and Xiaoyu growing up, and there is a large photo wall in the house, which requires a lot of thought to do, and it can be seen that Zhou Yanqing spent a lot of thought when building and decorating this home.

This time, Zhou Yanqing cooked in person, the family sat together to eat, Cheng Xunchun ate ready-made, she didn't need to do anything, and the rice bowl and chopsticks were handed directly to her.

Cheng Xunxun kept looking at him until he got the two children right, and Zhou Yanqing said, "Let's eat." ”

She laughed and quipped, "You're like a mom." ”

"You said I'd be happier like Dad. He picked up the dishes. Placed it in her bowl.

"Thank you. ”

"It's not hard, it's all what I'm supposed to do. It's just like I have three children, and one is naughty. ”

Cheng Xunxun chuckled, stretched out his hand and raised the dishes and chopsticks to him, and said, "Then you feed me, I'm naughty, I must be fed by others, and I will not eat." ”

Zhou Nuo lowered his head and ate seriously, Zhou Yu was still young, he had the same example, he glanced at Cheng Xunxun, and also picked up his small rice bowl, and said to Zhou Yanqing in a milky voice: "I want to feed it too." ”

Zhou Nuo was very interested, and immediately took Zhou Yu's rice bowl and said, "Brother feed you." ”

Zhou Yanqing looked at her for a while, put down the dishes and chopsticks in her hand, changed the position, sat beside her, changed the spoon to feed her, and then picked up vegetables for her.

Xu Ma and Mi Lai hid in the distance and peeked, Xu Ma couldn't help crying, Mi Lai said: "Auntie, why are you crying, isn't this something to be happy about?"

"My heart rejoices, and I rejoice for them. They were so bitter, and I was so happy that I finally waited for this day. ”

Mi Lai nodded and handed over the tissue.

At night, Zhou Yanqing bathed Zhou Yu, Cheng Xunxun watched from the sidelines, this time she is like a fart, she will stand by and watch what he does.

He was about to say something when she suddenly stepped forward and walked behind him, putting a hand on his shoulder. Zhou Yanqing wanted to turn her head, but she immediately said, "Wait a minute, don't move yet." ”

As soon as she said that, he didn't move, Cheng Xunxuan tossed his hair, and then he felt a pain in his scalp. Cheng Xunxun stood up straight, pinching a strand of hair between her fingers, and she said, "A white hair." Zhou Yanqing, you are old, and you have gray hair. ”

Zhou Yanqing glanced back at her and said, "Being old has nothing to do with white hair, how do you explain that you have less white hair?"

"So you mean to say that you are less white-headed?"

Zhou Yanqing smiled silently, turned his attention back to Zhou Yu, and said, "You can see if there is anything else." ”

"Oh. ”

She looked down and ran her hand through his hair, finding several more, which symbolized not old age, but hard work.

After a moment, she reached out and wrapped her arms around his neck, resting her chin on his shoulder, and said, "It's too much, I'm so tired, I don't want to pull it out." ”

Zhou Yanqing glanced at her with her afterglow, and only smiled softly.