Chapter 6: I Never Turned My Back on Her
She scooped up a spoonful of porridge with a spoon, this porridge is really good, it seems that his cooking skills are very good, if his wife is not angry and runs away from home, the mouth of this life must be good.
"Did you find her?"
He looked at her silently, silent.
She swallowed the porridge in the spoon, looked at his depressed appearance, and couldn't help sighing, looking at it like this, she must not have found it, his wife ran away many years ago, and now he has white hair like frost on his head, and his face is like an old tree's roots, when was it all those years ago?
She comforted him in a tactful tone: "It's been nearly fifty years since you rented the field of the nunnery, and your wife has never come back to look for you?" Do you also have a son? But for so many years, you have been working alone, what about your son? Why doesn't he come to serve your old age? ”
He held the porridge bowl, the silver-white white porridge shook slightly, like a mirror, he saw his son who was sleeping sweetly in the cradle, after a while, this kid seemed to have grown up again, the outline of his facial features became clearer, he was in a trance, and his son looked really like her when he slept.
The child turned around, kicked the small quilt that covered him, stretched his waist, smacked his lips, and fell asleep again, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
The porridge bowl shook, the image faded, and he looked at her softly: "Son, wait at home for my mother to come back." ”
She sighed, and felt a little awkward in her heart, this stranger said that he had been looking for his wife, but he was like an old tree that had taken root for decades, and he had never moved his nest in the field outside the nunnery, so how could he have gone outside to find his wife?
And this is really a son, it stands to reason that the age should not be young, why just stay at home for many years - waiting for the mother to go back? Why is he so relieved that his mother will walk back by himself?
What if his mother has already died in the chaos? Taking 10,000 steps back, her mother was lucky to have survived in the troubled times, and she was already an old woman who was dying, maybe she was already old
She lowered her eyes to look at the ancient flowing water patterns on the wooden table, folded her hands, and recited: "Amitabha." ”
He frowned at the incense marks on the top of her head, decades later, this mark was still so clear, so dazzling.
"Master, you have been worshipping the Buddha for many years, and you are a wise man with wisdom roots, can you tell me, how long will I have to wait for my wife to eliminate the resentment in her heart and come back to reunite with me?"
She gave birth to a stunning, such earthly love-hate entanglement, she doesn't understand.
His eyes were blazing, and he looked at the master in front of him who had cultivated all his life, looking forward to her solution.
"She's just resenting your betrayal?"
The foreigner sat up straight, his expression was very, very solemn, and he said word by word: "I have never turned my back on her from the moment I became attached to her, I can no longer see other women in my eyes, and I can't tolerate other women in my heart, only she is the woman I want to love with my heart in this life." ”
She blushed a little and her heart was beating, knowing that these words were his oath to his wife, but when she listened, her heart moved.
Sin sin, sin and sin, I have buried most of my body in the loess, and I have this delusion in my heart, the Buddha is wise, forgive the disciple for this moment of loss
She sat up straight, her brow solemn.
"In that case, why doesn't she believe you? If the two minds are always one, even if there is a floating cloud, it will only be obscure for a few days, how can it be born? ”
"She has too many entanglements in her heart, thinking that if she gives up herself, these entanglements will dissipate, but I don't want our son to want to."
"Since she is willing to give up, it means that she has no concern for the donor in her heart, doesn't it?"
"She gave up because she had a misunderstanding, if she knew the truth of the matter, no matter whether the mountain collapsed and the ground cracked, the sea withered and the rocks rotten, she would never give up, even if she was angry with me for a while, she would definitely be concerned about the child."
"But she doesn't know that no matter what the background is, you made her give birth to such a misunderstanding, she is willing to give up her husband and children, she must have been thinking about the donor for a long, long time, don't you say?"
A faint moisture rose in the eyes of the stranger, her delicate touch swayed in the mist, he stared at her faint smile hidden in nothingness with some obsession, when will I be able to embrace you again, let your cloud-like green silk slide through my fingers, Yong'er is already babbling, do you know? He misses his mother, and as soon as he cries, he has to hug the dress you wore when you hugged him that day to breastfeed, so that he would be quiet.
He smiled darkly and whispered, "If she had been willing to wait that day, even if it was for half an hour, I would have arrived, and she would have understood as soon as she saw me, but she didn't wait." ”
Sorrow and sorrow alternated across his wrinkles, and he opened his hand, which was a broken jasper bracelet in half, jade round and blue.
"Before she left, she broke the bracelet and I tried to put her back together, but it was always unsuccessful, and I later found out that the moment the bracelet broke, a small piece of scrap was embedded in her hand."
She looked at the two halves of the jade bracelet in a daze, although she had lived in the nunnery for a long time and had never seen much of the world, she could see the quiet light flowing on the jasper bracelet, and she also knew that the bracelet was expensive.
"This is a token of your commitment? What did the donor do to make her smash such a precious bracelet? ”
He closed the bracelet together, a small piece was missing in the circle, and he looked at the small hole, one day this bracelet can be restored to the same as before, you and I can hold the front edge of the hand, but what day is this?
"Well, I was negligent for a while, and was blackmailed by a woman with bad intentions to marry, and she happened to return at that time, and when she heard the sermon, she was disheartened, and she didn't ask about it, so she left me again."
Her heart beat violently, her hand touched the cane, and she glared at him, "Then you really married that woman?" ”
He looked back at her, he had already seen her old face for so many years, and at this moment, there was an unconscious anxiety floating on her Buddha-like face.
He put the bracelet in his arms, leaned over to her, and whispered: "Don't worry, I didn't marry that woman, I just played a play in front of others, and I had already killed that woman with a sword." ”
She was so frightened that she looked at him in amazement, and said in a trembling voice: "Amitabha, Amitabha, donor, have you ever committed the precept of killing?" Sin, sin. ”
He shrugged his shoulders and buried his head in the porridge.