Chapter 90: Revisiting the Old Place
The carriage swayed with the bumps, and the people sitting inside also swayed from side to side.
Liu Piaopiao changed into emerald green clothes, lowered her head, and called her, and she would look at you shyly with a smile.
To be honest, I'm very embarrassed about this girl, Zhuo Ran was originally a man, and I pretended to be a man, she was a girl who faced two men all day long, how could she be comfortable.
Although there were three people in the car and a driver outside, there was nothing to say about such a combination.
It was nearly noon and we were in a remote village.
Liu Piaopiao took out the baked cakes prepared before getting into the car, and I wanted to buy a few meat buns at that time, but she said that the meat buns smelled fishy when they were cold. Well, I didn't want to eat steamed buns that didn't taste good, so I had to choose the pancakes.
Everyone ate a cold and hard baked cake to fill their stomachs, drank some spring water by a mountain spring, and hurried away non-stop.
The time of the afternoon is not fast, but it is not slow, but it is fast because it gets dark early in this season, and it is slow because I woke up and slept three times in the carriage before I arrived at this place.
"There seems to be a house there, should we go and see, if it's an inn, just stay for one night." Zhuo Ran pointed to the halfway up the mountain outside the car window and said.
"In this kind of place, even if there is an inn, it is a black shop. However, with me here, there is no need to be afraid. "After that, I'll call the parking man.
When I got out of the car, I looked at the only building halfway up the mountain, and I felt very familiar.
"Where is this?" I asked them.
The coachman said: "This is the jurisdiction of Kaifeng Mansion. ”
I haven't been to Kaifeng, but what I see in front of me is really familiar, it is a memory from hundreds of years ago. To confirm this, I ran towards the bottom of the mountain.
"Xiao Li, wait for me." Behind him came the sound of Zhuo Ran's words and footsteps.
I climbed halfway up the hill in one go, and finally reached the front of the building.
I didn't have time to take a breath, and I looked at the plaque on the door for the first time, and the three words "Mingjing Temple" came into view.
"By the way, this is it." I said to myself.
"You've been here?" Zhuo Ran's voice came from behind him.
The temple gate was not closed, and I walked in, and the scenery was still the same as I remembered, but there were traces of renovation in many places.
This temple, which has endured hundreds of years of wind and rain, has not been abandoned until now, and it can be regarded as a creation, but it looks more desolate than before.
The ground was covered with moss, and it was clear that very few people walked around it. Although there is a smell of incense in the temple, it is not as strong as before.
"The two donors, it's getting late, do you want to go down the mountain or stay in the temple?" A young monk came out of the main hall and saw Zhuo Ran and I clasped our hands together and bowed.
I also folded my hands and bowed back, and said, "I'll stay here tonight, and trouble the little master to clean up the four meditation rooms." ”
"Okay, the little monk will arrange it immediately." The little monk finished speaking and left.
"Do you remember this place?" I asked Zhuo Ran if it was here that his previous life, General Lu, met me.
"I've never been here, why do you think I've been?" Zhuo Ran's tone was full of doubt.
I looked at him, I don't remember, otherwise it would be like the strange Taoist priest in the morning said, not an ordinary person. If...... What is really extraordinary about him, and what will he refer to?
An extraordinary life or an extraordinary soul in its own right? If it is a soul, then who is he?
"Do you think you've seen me in this place?" Zhuo Ran asked again.
More than 300 years ago, I came here because I was separated from Qiao Wenqing.
Two hundred years later, I met Qiao Wenqing's reincarnation in this place, General Lu.
Three hundred years later, I and the new life that had saved me in my previous two lives are back here.
It seems that everything has something to do with this temple, including Chifan, who also met after General Lu was martyred.
Fate?
"Xiao Li, what's wrong with you?" Zhuo Ran grabbed my shoulder and shook it lightly twice, pulling me back from that incomprehensible thought.
"Nothing, I've been here before." I said lightly.
"Hmm!" Zhuo Ran nodded.
"Two sons."
Behind him came the sound of willow fluttering.
"We'll spend the night here tonight, huh, where's the coachman?" After seeing Liu Piaopiao, who was carrying my and Zhuo Ran's packages, I found that the coachman did not come up.
"He said he was sleeping in the car tonight." Liu Piaopiao replied as she walked in.
Zhuo Ran took the two burdens on her body, and just as a little monk came to welcome us into our respective resting places.
Before dinner, a total of 11 monks in the whole temple did their homework in the main hall, and I donated 200 taels of sesame oil money, which is regarded as a reward for the protection of this temple for me 300 years ago.
Before the meal, when there was only a little dim light left on the day, I walked around the temple alone.
I saw a statue of the old monk who helped me out of the siege on the day I entered the temple in a meditation room, and this statue was carved after the old monk passed away, as if he was the original founder of this temple.
This is a very kind-hearted monk, when he was alive, he was a skilled healer, and many poor people came to see him here, and they didn't take a penny.
At that time, it was also the peak period of incense in this temple.
From the wooden cabinet next to me, I took three sticks of incense, lit them on the oil lamp on the offering table, and then bowed down and bowed three times, and said, "Master, I am back again, thank you for helping me out of the siege and keeping me in the temple, so that I have such a safe place." ”
Respectfully inserting the three sticks of incense into the incense burner on the offering table, I exited the meditation room and saw Zhuo Ran at the door, who seemed to be standing there for a long time.
"This is the meditation room of the abbot of the temple, and this temple is 500 years old. Are you sure you're not mistaken? ”
Zhuo Ran's words startled me, I shouldn't have said anything about time when I was in it just now, right?
"How do you know?" I asked him.
"That stele seems to be engraved with the temple motto of this temple." Zhuo Ran pointed to a stone tablet behind him and said.
There was a stone monument there, but I never looked at it because I couldn't see it that high at that time.
"They're probably done with their evening class, let's go." I don't want Zhuo Ran to continue to delve into it, and being forced to lie is also a painful thing, although I have said a lot of panic, but it is all for his good.
"Maybe I'm wrong. Why, have you spent a lot of time in this temple? Zhuo Ran said.
"You don't need to know about me." I say.
"I've never heard you mention your family, you think about me everywhere and help me so much, and I don't know anything about you. I want to help you when you need it, but I don't have much power, and you never ask me for anything. Zhuo Ran said.
I didn't speak, I couldn't speak.
I accidentally glanced at one of the doors next to me, and realized that it seemed to be the room I used to live in.
The door was unlocked, so I pushed it open and walked inside. Light up the fire fold that you carry with you, and secretly conjure a candle to light it.
"Why do you carry candles?" Zhuo Ran asked curiously.
"Any questions?"
As I spoke, I involuntarily turned around the room, and on one side of the wall, I saw a picture of a fox.
Is this me? I thought to myself, I don't know who drew it.
"How do I feel like I've been here?"
Zhuo Ran said suddenly.