Chapter 14: Jingyu Temple
Lin Xiaoxian got up early in the morning, she felt that this matter was a bit serious, and it was necessary to report it to her mother.
Listening to Lin Xiaoxian recount the ins and outs of the whole thing, Shen Qiuman didn't speak, it turned out that the boy who was in the hospital that night was Ling Zixuan, and she didn't want Lin Xiaoxian to participate in the Ling family's internal fighting from the bottom of her heart.
"Mom, do you have any opinions?" Lin Xiaoxian kept looking at Shen Qiuman.
"If I say, don't meddle in the affairs of the Ling family, will you stand by and watch?" Shen Qiuman brought a bowl of porridge to Lin Xiaoxian.
"Mom, I ......" Lin Xiaoxian couldn't say it, she couldn't ignore Ling Zixuan's situation, if the information in the exercise book was true, then she was Ling Zixuan's only hope now, Ling Zixuan's prostration appeared in front of her from time to time that night, if she was given a choice, she would rather see Ling Zixuan's flying and domineering appearance.
"I don't want to disappoint Ling Zixuan, do you?" Shen Qiuman took off his apron, sat on the chair, and looked at his daughter distressedly.
"Yes, I don't want to." Lin Xiaoxian didn't want to hide his true thoughts.
"You have fulfilled his current wishes, for him, maybe you have a special meaning, and then, he will have more hopes, can you fulfill them one by one?"
"This time it's to help his brother." Lin Xiaoxian understood what her mother meant.
"The Ling family, it's even more complicated than the Su family, and my mother is worried about you." The Ling family is a business family, and the old man Ling, who is now in charge, has been crisscrossing the shopping mall for decades, and has a deep relationship with the new and old dignitaries of the government, and Ling Haoran and Jiang Muqing are both shrewd and capable people, this incident shows that the old man Ling and Ling Haoran are pretending to be deaf and dumb, what can Lin Xiaoxian do even if he finds the old lady Ling.
"Mom, I just want to pass on a word, as for how things will develop, it's not something I can control, I just don't want to live up to Ling Zixuan's request." Although Lin Xiaoxian didn't understand the messy relationships inside, she felt that as long as she tried her best, it was enough.
"Let her go." Lin Feiyang came out of the room for a while, listening to the conversation between their mother and daughter.
"Feiyang, I'm a little worried, those people have too many scheming, and Lin Xiaoxian can't handle it." Shen Qiuman was really scared, in the years of the Su family, there was a day when he didn't think about it before doing things.
"In this life, sometimes it is the word advance and retreat, retreat is for self-preservation, advance is to live up to this life, Xiaoxian does not want to live up to the trust of others, but also to fulfill her own feelings, if she pretends that nothing happened today, I think this moment of cowardice will become a pain that she does not want to touch in the future." As a special forces instructor, Lin Feiyang, who has carried out many dangerous missions, is a person who has really experienced war, and it takes courage to choose to fight, and if he chooses to retreat, it may be even more difficult to forget this fear.
"Maybe, you're right." Shen Qiuman sighed, if she could listen to her own voice and not work hard to accommodate others, perhaps, her life would be a different scene.
"Thank you, Instructor Lin! I promise to stay sober, flexible, see the wind and steer, and never fail Instructor Lin's years of cultivation! Lin Xiaoxian gave Lin Feiyang a standard salute.
"I know you're smart." Lin Feiyang laughed, he knew Lin Xiaoxian's efforts to anoint his feet.
"Then, Dad, do me a little favor." Lin Xiaoxian sneered.
"What?"
"Give Mr. Huang a call, and say I'm sick."
"That's not good, even if you ask for leave, you have to take personal leave." Shen Qiuman frowned, this kid didn't blink his eyes when he lied now.
"Personal leave is not good, she will get to the bottom of it, she can't stand it, sick leave will be fine, she can't take the patient to school." Lin Xiaoxian looked indifferent and moved towards the bun.
"You don't seem to be too scared of your homeroom teacher lately." As soon as Teacher Huang was mentioned before, Lin Xiaoxian immediately became nervous.
"You don't know, our Teacher Huang is no longer a god that everyone looks up to, but a person, a woman." Lin Xiaoxian smiled thiefly.
"What do you mean?" Lin Feiyang heard a little taste.
"If I share it with you, you can't say it, and I can promise to say it."
"I promise not to say that secrecy is the basic responsibility of military personnel."
"Dad, Zhou Heyang, just your little comrade-in-arms, I said that one morning I was under the cover with Teacher Huang, and I was blocked by his daughter Yingying, just like ......that" Lin Xiaoxian blinked, you know the implication.
"Really?" Lin Feiyang's surprised expression made Lin Xiaoxian very satisfied.
"Practice has proved that whether they are from the military or not, men are the same, and they can't walk when they see women." Lin Xiaoxian finished the identification and was ready to find someone to go.
"Today's children dare to speak more than we do." Shen Qiuman was completely helpless.
Lin Xiaoxian followed the instructions of the online map and found the Jingyu Nunnery, which is a well-known nunnery, located at the foot of the Bird Mountain in the east of the city.
Today is not the weekend, there are not many good men and women who come to burn incense and make wishes, Lin Xiaoxian walked around the main hall, and finally found a woman who was cleaning.
"Hello." Lin Xiaoxian stepped forward.
"What's the matter with the little girl?" The woman's age is about forty and her face is very peaceful.
"I'm looking for an old lady Ling." Lin Xiaoxian didn't know what Ling Zixuan's grandmother was called.
"Old Lady Ling? We don't seem to have a surname Ling. The middle-aged woman thought for a moment.
"I actually don't know what her surname is, but I know that she is the grandmother of the famous Ling family in the city, and she should be about seventy by now." When she was a child, Lin Xiaoxian saw Mrs. Ling, who was very majestic and very impressed.
"Is it the Lost Hair Practice? Still the same as me. ”
"I don't know."
"Then, could it be Aunt Mo, today the nun in the nunnery went to a village to give a lecture, and Aunt Mo also followed." He said he would not be able to come back until late in the evening.
"So, can you get in touch?"
"None of them have phones."
Lin Xiaoxian is a little stupid, isn't it, what age is it, you should bring a phone when you go out to preach, if you can't find anyone for anything, the monk, it's really fate.
"My name is Jingxin, if you want to wait here, I'll cook you something at noon." Looking at this girl quietly, I like it so much, my child is so old.
"Thank you, Aunt Xin, I can call you that, and I'll clean up with you." Lin Xiaoxian put down the bag.
Jing Xin did not refuse, and gave her a broom.
"It's so beautiful here, I've never heard so many birds chirping before." Birds kept flying overhead, and Lin Xiaoxian entered another world in a trance.
"The reason why this place is called Bird Mountain is that there are a lot of small birds here, and there is a wetland on the other side of the mountain, which is especially suitable for birds to breed and live."
"Aunt Xin, how long have you been here?"
"It's been several years." Jing Xin stopped cleaning and looked down at the fallen leaves on the ground.
"It's also good here, without the distractions of the world." Lin Xiaoxian saw Jingxin's loneliness and wanted to comfort her.
"I wish there was the distractions of the world, I had amnesia, I couldn't remember my family, I couldn't remember the past." Jing Xin sighed helplessly and began to clean again.
"I'm sorry, Aunt Xin, I made you sad." Lin Xiaoxian felt as if she had mentioned the sadness of meditation.
"It's just that I'm glad to see you, my child may be as old as you."
"Do you remember your child?"
"I don't remember, it feels like he should be so big, I just remember that he had a red mole on his right palm, which is my only hope for survival." Jing Xin looked up and smiled, every time she felt that life was hopeless, she thought about the red mole.
"Then how did you get here, didn't you ask the government for help?" The poor people of this world deserve to be saved.
"I don't know why I went to a county seat in S City, there was an earthquake in the middle of the night, my head was smashed and buried in the rubble, I was rescued, and later I learned that I was the only one who survived in that building, and no one could prove my identity, for a while, I was in despair, and then I heard that I came here, and I lived here for seven or eight years." The girl in front of her seemed to have a kind of magic, and she suddenly had a ** to confide in.
"What about your family, no one came looking for you?"
"Maybe I found it, but I couldn't find it, there were too many dead, and I was unrecognizable at the time, even if the doctor who treated me saw the photo that came to me, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to recognize it." Jing Xin turned around and went to the side room to bring a basin of water and sprinkled it on the cleaned floor.
"Aunt Xin, I'm sorry, I don't know how to comfort you." Lin Xiaoxian's heart was also very sad.
"I'd be grateful to hear me talk about the past, and if you can meet someone with a red mole on the palm of your hand, help me keep an eye on it."
"Got it, I will, or I'll take a picture of you and post it on the Internet, maybe your family can find you."
"I don't want that, maybe they're doing well now, I don't want to change anything because of me." As long as there is fate, maybe we can still get together in this life.
Lin Xiaoxian has also experienced family changes, and sometimes sighs at the injustice of life, at this time, she suddenly feels how lucky God can let her stay with her mother, and her aunt has no memory, only remembering the mole in the palm of the child's hand, and only hoping that her child will live a stable life, thinking that only the mother's love for her child is selfless in this world.
Jingxin cooked for Lin Xiaoxian, and the two finally got together in the evening, the door opened, and many monks came in from outside the door, and Lin Xiaoxian followed Jingxin and hurriedly ran out.
"Master Qingyin, is Aunt Mo back?" Knowing that Lin Xiaoxian was in a hurry, he hurriedly stopped the team leader's teacher.
"Qingruo is behind, she is a little old, and she said that she should go slowly." Qingyin looked at the strange Lin Xiaoxian behind Jing Xin.
"This is a child from the city, named Lin Xiaoxian." Jing Xin brought Lin Xiaoxian to Qingyin.
"Hello Mrs. Shi, what you said is not the old lady of the Ling family in the city." Lin Xiaoxian felt that it was more important to find out her identity first.
"Yes, you're here about her family business?" Except for Qingyin, very few people in the nunnery knew the true identity of Old Lady Ling.
"There is indeed an emergency."
As she spoke, an old lady with a dignified face walked in the door, and although she was dressed plainly, she could hardly hide her wealth.
"Qingruo, a girl is looking for you, you can go into the room and talk."
"Follow me." Old Lady Ling looked Lin Xiaoxian up and down and took her to her room.
"Speak slowly." Old lady Ling cherishes words like gold, and Lin Xiaoxian knows whose genes Ling Zixuan has inherited this time.
Lin Xiaoxian narrated the incident to Mrs. Ling 1510, and brought the exercise book to her to take a look.
From beginning to end, Mrs. Ling didn't say a word, since her daughter voted for Jiang, she moved here, she didn't want to go back to the Ling family and didn't dare to go back, she was afraid to remember that it was because her daughter had found a short sight, and she was even more afraid to see Ling Zixuan's hateful eyes, that was her favorite little grandson, for four years, she was hiding here, and she could only see Ling Zixuan, who had grown tall and handsome, from the photos brought by the housekeeper.
"Grandma Ling, that's the matter, will you go back to the city with me?"
"I will no longer meddle in the affairs of the Ling family." The Ling family is the same as the world, and the old lady Ling doesn't want to set foot in it anymore, she just wants to live in this Jingyu Nunnery.
"What about your grandson, don't you care?" It's over, Lin Xiaoxian secretly screamed that it was not good, this old lady probably didn't ask Hongchen anymore.
"Can I manage them for the rest of their lives, let it be." Old Lady Ling closed her eyes, "I'm tired, you can go." ”
Lin Xiaoxian has fought with Ling Zixuan for several rounds, and she already knows a lot about his type, it seems that even if she wears out her mouth, it is useless, this old lady Ling is profound, and she will not change her original intention for a few words from her, a little girl.
"Got it, I'm just passing the word, it's getting dark, I'm leaving." Lin Xiaoxian got up and picked up her bag, looked at the old lady Ling who closed her eyes and recuperated, and said softly: "On the night of Ling Zixuan's brother's suicide, Ling Zixuan was very scared, and his whole body trembled for a long time. After saying that, he walked out gently.
Lin Xiaoxian said goodbye to Jingxin, and hurriedly ran out of the gate to save people from the bus, don't abandon a flower girl.
The old lady Ling in the room slowly opened her eyes, flipped out the photo album, and carefully stroked Ling Zixuan, who looked lonely in the photo, the girl's words just now were still in her ears for a long time, and for a long time, she turned out the mobile phone that she hadn't used for several years......