430 Twelve years, a trip to the Eastern Capital
"Second brother, where are we going?" Chen Yi raised his sallow little face with great difficulty, looking at the brother in front of him who was a head taller than him.
The second brother gently touched his head: "Jiang Liu, don't be afraid." Second brother won't let you go hungry. When he said this, his stomach gurgled in anger, and he was ashamed to find a crack in the ground to get into.
The two of them were originally the sons of Xiucai surnamed Chen, but because their parents suddenly suffered a catastrophe, they were exiled in the market.
The mother was humiliated by the traitor, ashamed, and in a fit of anger, she actually put Chen Yi, who was not yet a full moon at the time, into a wooden basin, wanting her younger brother to float down the river.
The second brother, who knew this, glared at his mother in disbelief, and ran wildly along the direction of the river like crazy, and finally let him find his younger brother who was crying loudly in a wooden basin by a shoal: "Yi'er, no, the second brother will call you Jiangliu in the future." ”
He must always remember his younger brother who was almost separated from him today, and if he doesn't work hard, then the tragedy that happened to his younger brother will not be far away.
He picked up his brother weakly and walked back, he was only a child, his feet were worn out, but he gritted his teeth and did not dare to stop. His mother, his younger brother, are all relatives he can't afford to lose.
"Mother!" the woman lay down in a bloodstain under the clear moonlight. In the end, she couldn't stand the pointing and self-blame of others, and chose to die.
However, such a mother is selfish. Did she forget that she still had two children waiting to be fed?
They also had an older brother, but unfortunately, he had already gone with his father in the previous events in the family.
Now there are really only two brothers in the whole family.
After that, the brothers traveled all the way and somehow came to Luoyang, the eastern capital. No one wants to take in two children without relatives and no reason, and they can't support themselves. They can only brush dishes for others in a restaurant, so as to earn a meager income, which is only enough to make ends meet.
The restaurant didn't know who it offended, and it went out of business, and they didn't even have the only place to stay. At this time, it was almost dusk, but the two could only wander "aimlessly" on the street.
Chen Yi was so hungry that his legs and stomach were a little weak, but he knew that the second brother had been working hard, just to make him feel as good as possible. For the sake of my brother, no matter how hungry I am, I can't show it. He followed the second brother meekly like a kitten, and never said anything more.
"Okay, you crazy wine and meat monk, you don't want to eat meat, and you dare to talk to Lao Tzu here endlessly, why don't you hurry up and start with your things!" A rough voice sounded on the street where the figures were gradually thinning, very harsh and ugly.
"Second brother......" Chen Yi grabbed his brother's sleeve, in his impression, he only had the second brother. Once I was in a trance for a while, and I shouted out a brother in my mouth, and I actually made the second brother so angry that he didn't talk to him all day.
Since then, he has been very careful about his brother's title "second brother".
The second brother patted the back of his hand gently: "Don't be afraid, let's go over and see what's going on." So, he took Chen Yi's little hand and walked in the direction of the shop.
This is a meat shop, and it is the butcher who is naked and rude in front of him who is screaming and scolding just now.
It seems that the person who had an argument with him was the monk in front of him in an khaki robe.
"Donor, the poor monk just wants to come to you to make a difference, why do you speak ill of each other?" The monk clasped his hands together, but he didn't seem to have any malicious intent.
Chen Yi gently pulled his brother's sleeve: "Second brother, let's go." He doesn't think that other people's quarrels have anything to do with them, Datang is so big, quarrels are not a common thing.
Like the Chen Yi brothers, there are really a lot of people who stop to watch the excitement, and the streets that are obviously sparse suddenly have an illusion of being lively.
The butcher already felt a little embarrassed to quarrel with a monk in public, and the crowd that sprung up like mushrooms after a rain at some point made him even more at a loss.
He brandished a kitchen knife with a thick smell of flesh, and he was even more ruthless, transforming the object into everyone: "Look, look, look at what." If you want to buy meat, buy it, and if you don't buy it, you can open it!"
"Why is this man like this!" the voices of reprimand continued to come from the crowd, and gradually became boring, and then dispersed.
"And you, go quickly, don't get in my way. "This butcher is a well-known miser in the neighborhood, and when many people go to him to buy meat, he will think that he will be short of two pounds.
It's no wonder that the business can be good, the worse it is, the more he doesn't think about what he did wrong, and he picks the door more and more, which can only be a vicious circle.
"This monk is too, why did you find him to turn into a fate. A rich lady with a beautiful appearance attached her ear to the side of the maid beside her, "Go!"
The maid immediately blessed herself and said lightly: "Yes." ”
The corners of the skirt fluttered in the wind, and the maid threw a silver nude into the bowl of the monk Huayuan: "This is given by my young lady, and she also asked me to tell you, it's getting dark, you go back quickly." ”
The monk thanked him, watched the figures of the two of them drift away, and walked towards the two Chen Yi brothers unhurriedly: "Are you hungry?"
Chen Yi subconsciously blinked his eyes as bright as a galaxy and nodded: "Hmm." ”
The second brother is older, and he has to protect his younger brother at all times, so he is a little more vigilant, and while gently shaking his head towards Chen Yi, he whispered: "Don't." ”
Chen Yi pursed his mouth, he has always been most willing to listen to his brother's words.
The monk touched the second brother's cheek through the wide sleeved robe: "Don't worry, this is for you." ”
The silver nude in the bowl was still so shiny in the afterglow of the sunset, and in the face of such a temptation, the second brother turned his head away: "This silver is your thing, you can take it yourself." "They have absolutely no reason to take other people's things.
The monk smiled helplessly, spread out Chen Yi's palm, and stuffed the silver nude into his hand: "The monks of the Pure Land Temple, although they also need to transform their fate, they want to see all sentient beings get out of the sea of suffering. ”
After speaking, the earthy yellow figure gradually blended into the orange-red sunset, and only the heavy silver nude in his hand proved the incredible scene just now: "Second brother, look." ”
The second brother took the silver nude, hesitated for a moment, and then gritted his teeth, "Let's go, the second brother will take you to eat." ”
Is there really such a good person in the world? I would rather give up what I have worked so hard to give to others, even if this so-called other person is just a stranger who meets in the water.
"Second brother, what should we do in the future?" Seeing that the sky was gradually darkening, Chen Yi could no longer calm down in his heart.
Food, with money, is not a big trouble, but the problem of accommodation is imminent.
The second brother clenched his fists and looked at Chen Yi lovingly: "There is a place to go, but in the future, it will be bitter for you." ”