Chapter 81: Gentleness
I don't seek happiness for myself, but I hope that all living beings will be free from suffering.
This is a sentence that the Buddha often says to himself, and now the question he wants to ask Lemuel is very ordinary and ordinary.
At this time, the Buddha regarded himself as an ordinary person, an ordinary and ordinary person in the vast human world.
What do ordinary people struggle for all their lives? Why are they confused?
The air gradually became cold, and the biting cold wind blew up one after another, and the falling snowflakes fell to the ground, like the end of a movement.
The Buddha shook off the snow on his body, he raised his head, looked at Lemuel in the sky, settled his mood for a moment, and then asked softly.
"What is gentleness in this world?"
This question made Lemuel's body tremble, he didn't expect that the Buddha would ask such a question, like a sharp blade stabbing into his heart.
It reminded him of when he was younger...... When even the first pair of wings have not grown.
That was hundreds of years ago......
He was the most stupid of all the angels, and his peers such as Uriel and Raguil had given birth to wings, and when they were about to give birth to four wings, he had not yet given birth to a single wing.
The gentlest people in this world have experienced the most painful life, nothing more.
He was ridiculed by angels of his age, and his heart was bitter. So he wanted to go to the lower human world to see how these people who didn't even have any power lived.
So he came to the human world, and Lemuel, who had no wings, looked no different from ordinary people.
The two countries are at war, there are countless refugees.
He was one of the countless displaced people who died of illness and starvation on the way to escape.
A little girl in a red dress, smiling like a flower, fell on her sister's back, and fled with the exiled people.
To Lemuel's astonishment, the little girl had no legs......
Perhaps she was born with a chronic illness, and God gave her an unfortunate beginning.
"Sister, how long are we going to escape?"
The little girl was gently lying on her sister's back, she was so light, so light that it made her sister feel distressed.
"Soon, as long as we escape to Handan, we will be safe!"
Her sister comforted her and smiled, but she knew that it would take three days to go on like this on the road to Handan, but the food on their bodies was not enough for three days.
"Uh-huh......", the little girl smiled, and lay her little head on her sister's back in a haggard manner, looking sideways at it.
She saw Lemuel and smiled at him, who smiled back.
The little girl then worried, "Sister, why has that brother over there always been alone?
Her sister glanced at Lemuel for a moment, and in her impression that this man did not seem to have brought any food, and in the few days he had been on the run, he seemed to have not eaten a single bite of dry food.
Looking at the young sister's question, he replied softly, "Hmm...... This brother should be very pitiful, maybe he has suffered a great misfortune......"
"Then ......," the little girl said timidly, "Sister, shall we share a little dry food with him, I think he seems to have not eaten for a long time......
This...... My sister hesitated, these dry foods, they were completely insufficient, where could they be distributed to others.
Seeing her sister's hesitation, the little girl said seriously: "Sister, if it weren't for the fact that there was a big brother who gave our family two taels of silver, maybe we wouldn't have the money to see a doctor, maybe Hongyu would have died of illness......"
"Okay, since Hong Fei said so, then let's thank that big brother. My sister, who was not very old, nodded in agreement.
They and their parents were scattered by the crowd when they were in exile, and the two little girls depended on each other, lonely, and the red girl was sick since childhood, and her body was weak and weak, if it weren't for the help of the eldest brother, maybe the two little girls would have starved to death.
So the two of them leaned over, "Big brother, you haven't eaten for a long time, or you should eat a cake." ”
The little girl took out a small piece of glutinous cake from the package, which she had gnawed on, leaving a small tooth mark.
Seeing the tooth mark above, the little girl was a little ashamed, and hurriedly said, "Big brother, I'll get you another piece, I've gnawed on this." ”
Lemuel knew that the dry food on the two girls was no longer enough, and he looked at it quietly, he had come to experience how these weak people survived.
But he didn't know why he saw a child who couldn't even take care of himself, but was willing to give life-saving dry food to someone who had nothing to do with it.
He couldn't figure it out.
Seeing that he didn't answer, the little girl was anxious, "Big brother, are you hungry and fainting...... You'll have both of them......"
This......
Lemuel never thought that the little girl would be so kind, he hurriedly said: "No, no, one piece is enough......"
As he spoke, he reached out to the little girl and took the piece of cake that she had gnawed.
Under the embarrassed and non-stop gaze of the red concubine, she took a bite lightly......
There is no taste......
The dryness and rough texture of the cake made Lemuel, who was accustomed to eating food in the angel world, extremely uncomfortable, but when he looked at the little girl's hopeful gaze, he felt a warm heart and swallowed it all.
The next moment, he felt that this was the best thing in the world, far more than those delicacies, because there was a hint of kindness and gentleness in this cake.
"Big brother, he's eaten!" the little girl laughed happily, as if she was the one receiving the relief.
Her sister was also worried, but she still smiled at the simple little girl Hongyu.
Dry food is completely insufficient......
The rest of the journey was extremely difficult......
On the third day, on the mountain, a few kilometers away from Handan, looking at the city that was about to arrive, the little girl's sister fell to the ground in a haggard state......
In order to leave more dry food for Hongyu, she only ate one bite a day, and at this moment, she finally couldn't hold on.
Hongfei was frightened, she turned out of her sister's back, supported the ground with her hands, dragged her body to look at her sleeping sister, tears welled up.
She felt that her sister's heartbeat had stopped, and the smile she had always bloomed had dimmed at the moment, and tears could not stop flowing.
"Sister!"
She hugged her sister's head and cried, "Isn't there anything in this world that my sister is nostalgic for?
"Sister, didn't you say that you want to be the most beautiful embroiderer in the Red Sleeve Workshop? Haven't you found Ruyi Langjun yet? Didn't you say that you want to plant a lot of beautiful flowers? Sister......
"Sister...... I'm so reluctant...... I can't bear you......"
"Why live...... It's so painful......"
Lemuel's heart suddenly became a cramp, he had never felt like this, why did it hurt so much?
Why don't you have any power?
I want to help them!
He began to regret why he was so clumsy, his fingertips digging deep into his flesh, trembling with rage.
He suddenly felt a tingling pain in his back, and a pair of ...... Two pairs of wings stretch out from their backs.
He actually became a four-winged angel at this moment, he felt the surging power, and he walked towards the red woman.
The blue-purple wings carried divine power, and Lemuel said sadly: "I'm sorry ......"
Seeing that Lemuel suddenly stopped crying, she laughed, and at this moment, like a summer flower, amazed time.
"Big brother...... Are you a god?"
"No...... I'm not. ”
"Then big brother, can you save my sister?"
“...... No, I can't bring her back to life, but I can heal your leg. ”
A burst of divine power rushed to Hong Yu's mutilated legs, and the door that had been closed in her life was opened at this moment.
Lemuel knew that he had to leave, that he had committed a great taboo in the angelic realm, and that he needed to go back and be punished.
"Goodbye...... Kind and gentle little girl ......"
Between the flapping of the wings, it disappeared into the sky under the reluctant gaze of the red woman.
It is said that Handan Red Sleeve Workshop has produced the most beautiful embroidery girl in several years, outside her attic, flowers are ten miles, and the fragrance is overflowing.
Countless talented men and heroines flocked to the city, and suitors lined up from the south of the city to the north of the city.
But she refused all of them without exception.
There are many matchmakers who say kiss and come to the door to ask, what kind of are you looking for?
The woman was dressed in red makeup, beautiful as a fairy, and all the flowers around her were eclipsed, and she stared at the sky in amazement.
"Somehow, I think all the men in this world are missing wings. ”