After eating, Xu Lan followed Xu Xuan to the study and taught Xu Tang two words, and now Xu Tang also follows the literacy, Xu Lan will teach her when she is free. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Xu Lan took the book and read it there, but she was thinking about things in her heart.

Xu Xuan saw that she didn't turn a page for a long time, knowing that she was distracted again.

He shook his hand in front of her.

"What do you think?"

Xu Lan came back to her senses and smiled.

"I met Ang Lee on the verandah today, and I thought of Mama Li in the shop, after all, they are mother and son, so I let Ang Lee have time to go to the shop to meet his mother." Xu Landao.

"Well, let's just take advantage of my time in private school, anyway, he has nothing to do when I go to school." Xu Xuan thought for a moment.

Xu Lan looked at the book again, as if she mentioned it casually.

Two days later, Xu Lan was empty and called Li's mother to come over and talk.

"Mother Li, I remember that you have a son who is studying, is he still reading?" Xu Lan looked a little restrained, and Mama Li, who was half-sitting in a chair, asked.

"He reads a few words, but he just knows a few words." Mother Li said carefully.

"And what is he doing at home now?"

"Follow the old man of the family to the field, last year the family took Li An's money to buy an acre of land, and this year in the spring of the year to plant grain."

It should be the few taels of silver that Ang Lee sold himself.

"Do you have any plans?"

When Mama Li heard Xu Lan ask this, she didn't know what she meant, and looked up at her.

"I planted food this year, but fortunately, the young master and Mrs. let me work in the shop, and I have another income, so I won't starve to death. The eldest son wanted to find a job, but it was difficult to find it now, so he only did odd jobs. The eldest son is already fifteen years old, and he should find a daughter-in-law in two years, hey, we, we don't know now. Mama Li sighed.

"In this way, I have one thing here, I want to choose two people to be apprentices, learn to make a group fan, every year I subsidize another five taels of silver per person, after learning it, if I open a workshop, then be a master, the salary is set separately, if I don't open it then, he will be considered to learn the craft. If your second son decides to take the imperial examination, I can help arrange for him to study in a private school. After Xu Lan finished speaking, she looked at Mama Li.

After hearing this, Mama Li looked at Xu Lan with some excitement, and didn't know how to answer for a while, so she had to kneel down and kowtow after a while.

Xu Lan hurriedly grabbed her and said, "Mother Li, don't be in a hurry to thank you, you go home today and talk to your son first, but I have to say some things to them face-to-face, and they have to agree." ”

"Also, this matter is to be kept secret for the time being, this is only my personal decision for now. You know? Xu Lan added.

Mama Li nodded, wiped the corners of her eyes, and walked out like no one.

At lunchtime, Xu Lan asked Steward Zhao how the matter was with Yahuan, and Zhao Guan replied: "The day before yesterday, I asked that Mrs. Chen to bring someone to the house to pick it, but the mother-in-law on the stove was not very satisfied." Today, I said that I would bring someone over to see it, but I don't know if it's decided yet. Steward Zhao told her again: "The abbot of the hospital came back, I heard that he broke his foot, and he raised it there for more than a month before coming back." ”

Xu Lan listened, went to the pharmacy to get some ointment, brought some vegetarian snacks, and after eating, she rode to Qinghua Temple with Shunzi.

Xu Lan didn't know why, she was a little anxious to see Senior Brother Bingde. In fact, the two of them didn't talk much, but Xu Lan felt that it was very comfortable to stay on his side, and he seemed to understand what others couldn't understand.

Xu Lan didn't know how fast he was riding the horse, and Junzi frowned as he followed behind, he had never seen Xu Lan so eager. In his heart, Xu Lan is not in a hurry to do things, and she makes the same arrangements. Is it because of the abbot's support for him?

Xu Lan got off the horse, handed the rope to Junzi, and ran to the side hall with the things.

When she arrived at the entrance of the side hall, two people guarded her and stopped her.

"I, I'm looking for the abbot and Senior Brother Bingde," Xu Lan hurriedly said.

"I'm sorry, but Master has closed the door. Visitors will not be accommodated. "Two bowed to a Buddha.

Xu Lan stayed at the door, she couldn't think of a way for a while, she couldn't shout at the door.

"Otherwise, you go in and help me tell you, just say that Xu Song is visiting, if not, I'll leave." Xu Lan discussed.

The two of them shook their heads directly and saluted again.

Xu Lan suddenly thought of the wooden sign that she had been carrying with her in her purse and hanging on her body.

The two monks looked at the wooden pai and then at her, and one of them went in to pass the ceremony.

After a while, he came out again and asked her to come over.

Xu Lan thought that the wooden sign was quite effective.

The monk led her to the reception room.

I saw Senior Brother Bingde waiting for her in the reception room, still the same, wearing a gray monk's robe, but he felt that the edges and corners on his face were a little clearer, and he stood there looking at her warmly and smiling.

Holding a wooden card in his hand, he watched her come in and said, "Give you this wooden card, and you use it like this?" ”

Xu Lan grinned: "It's good to come in, otherwise how will you and Master know that I'm here." “

"When I heard that you were back, I hurried over and didn't even let you in, which is so sad." Xu Lan was sad.

"Master's foot is broken, and it hurts his muscles and bones, but he can't heal after a month, maybe because of his age. When he came back, he had already told the abbot that he had closed the door and disappeared, concentrating on sorting out the Buddha's scriptures. Bingde explained.

Xu Lan listened, wouldn't she not be able to see him?

"Can I still meet him? I brought a little plaster and some vegetarian snacks. Xu Lan said.

"You can't just hold the wooden sign." Bingde joked. "Leave it to me, and I'll hand it over for you."

Xu Lan took back the wooden card and carefully put it back in her purse, and gave the things to Senior Brother Bingde, who asked him to wait.

After a pillar of incense, Senior Brother Bingde returned.

"Master said thank you for your kindness, he accepted the things, and the person disappeared, saying that he was very happy to have such a fate with you, so that you don't have to worry about him. Each has its own cause and fate, just like rain, it will blend on the ground, and then go to the southeast and northwest again. ”

Xu Lan's eyes were red when she heard this, if it was someone she liked, shouldn't she fight for more together? Listening to the abbot's words, how could it make people so sad, the more Xu Lan thought about it, the more sad she became, and then thought that wouldn't it be that Senior Brother Bingde couldn't see it? So what am I on this plane? Was it a brief time for me to be with my current family?

Xu Lan finally couldn't hold back and cried loudly.

Bingde looked at Xu Lan's appearance, panicked for a while, didn't know what to do, and felt that he didn't say the wrong thing, and the abbot's intention was just to tell her not to care, not to worry?

Xu Lan cried in darkness, and hugged Senior Brother Bingde's arm before she felt that she had found a fulcrum.

It was the first time Bingde met such an inexplicable child, and he didn't know how to comfort him, so he simply made him cry.

Xu Lan cried so much that the depression in her heart almost dissipated before she stopped. Hiccuped and asked with red eyes, "Then senior brother, can I still see you in the future?" ”

Bingde smiled and said, "Master is in retreat, not me. I just didn't want to send the visitors, so I had people stand guard at the door. ”

When Xu Lan heard this, she even hiccuped: "It means that I can come to you?" ”

Bingde nodded.

Xu Lan let go of her arm and said, "It's pretty much the same." ”

Bingde couldn't laugh or cry when he heard it.

"Then why were you crying just now?"

"Don't you think what the abbot said just now is too sad?"

"No, the abbot just told you not to worry about it, and to let it go."

"I know, that's why it's sad, you think that when we are born, we will have relatives, even if we don't have relatives, we will have friends, and we know you. Or someone who has helped him, someone who has moved him, someone who makes him happy, someone who makes him sad, or someone who cares about him. But if we let go of this, what is the meaning of human life? ”

"If there is a gathering, there will be dispersion, and when gathering, it is natural to grasp it, but when it is dispersed, it will be released."

"Senior brother, what you said naturally makes sense, but I'm uncomfortable" Xu Lan looked at Bingde pitifully.

Bingde sighed.