- Seeing Cen Chi coming out, Xiao Qiang hurriedly walked down from the tree quickly, and Xiao Shami, who was on the side, said softly when he saw this, and then picked up and left.

Cen Chi watched the back of the little novice walk away, then turned his face to look at Xiao Qiang, and said warmly, "What is the matter with Miss Xiao Qiang looking for me?" ”

Xiao Qiang moved her lips, but she wanted to say something. She first glanced sideways at the meditation room that Cen Chi walked out of just now, and then suddenly took Cen Chi's hand and walked towards a small courtyard next door for some reason.

Cen Chi was slightly surprised when he saw this, but he didn't say anything, just obeyed her will and followed her. If there is a person on the side who knows the identity of the two of them at this time, he will definitely feel that Cen Chi's passivity is reflected in the initiative of his maid, which seems a little funny.

Stepping through the moon gate between the courtyard walls, what greeted the eyes of the two was a vegetable field. At this time, when the late spring and early summer meet, the vegetables in the field are not yet at their most prosperous, but they are also at the top of their vitality.

Although the diet of the small temple is light, and even the greens planted are mostly raised with water, and the vegetables are more slender than the greens raised by vegetable farmers who specialize in selling vegetables for a living in the suburbs of Kyoto, but the touch of green is fresh and refreshing, full of energy, which makes people feel a sense of vitality that is in the nature of heaven and earth, but is easily overlooked.

Standing in this vegetable garden, Xiao Qiang froze, and then she looked at Cen Chi, who was looking at her quietly at the moment, as if she was still waiting for her to answer the question he had just asked. After pondering, he said, "Mr. Cen, you and that ...... What is Master Creek Heart talking about? ”

What to say? It's a bit complicated to answer. After listening to Xiao Qiang's words, Cen Chi said to himself a little casually in his heart.

After a moment of silence, he chose to answer the meaningless question that the girl in front of him was asking with the excuse that had hardly changed.

"I'm talking about Zen with Master Xixin." After Cen Chi finished saying this, after a pause, he added: "I also need someone who can talk to my heart." And just talking, nothing else. ”

Xiao Qiang knew why Cen Chi needed to talk, and thinking of the reason for this, her mood became a little complicated.

The death of this gentleman's fellow brother is a private matter. It seems that he only told himself. Xiao Qiang felt some of the gentleman's trust in her because of this. It seems that the distance between the two has been shortened a lot. This is something that makes Xiao Qiang feel happy, but at the same time timid, because he is confused about his future and his future.

In the days when he was recuperating in the past few days, although he also had time to chat with himself, he only said some very shallow things. She didn't know what was deep in his heart. But the matter of talking about these days. She could easily understand. So you're sure it's shallow, right? And when it's time to really talk to the heart. He still prefers to come to this small temple. Confide in a monk who has nothing to do with the earth, not with her.

Thinking of this, Xiao Qiang's heart couldn't help but darken.

Although she tried not to show this depression on her face as much as possible. But at this moment, she really can't say what's in her heart. I couldn't say enough to ask Cen Chi why he couldn't tell her some of the depressions he needed to resolve.

Xiao Qiangdi's silence attracted Cen Chi's attention, but he couldn't delicately understand the complex and back-and-forth feelings in the heart of a girl who already had feelings for him after feeling his loneliness.

But in fact, from another aspect, Xiao Qiang didn't know that this was not Cen Chi's loneliness to her. And Cen Chi didn't think about deliberately being alone from Xiaoqiang on a private level, so he wouldn't experience her mood from this aspect.

So. After Cen Chi saw Xiao Qiang bowing his head and not saying a word for a long time, he only considered a problem in a way that favored his own perspective, and he said gently: "Actually, talking about Zen is not a big deal. It's all nonsense. ”

Xiao Qiang suddenly heard him describe the Zen room in her heart that was quite profound, she couldn't help but burst out laughing, and Cen Chi also bent the corners of her lips with ease when she saw this.

Xiao Qiang saw Cen Chi's smiling appearance, and she didn't know what she suddenly thought. The smile on his face was slightly stiff, and he still maintained the crescent-like eyes, revealing a hint of reproach. said: "If it's nonsense, why do you have to talk about it for so long? ”

Cen Chi was slightly stunned and said: "It's not all nonsense, this ......"

Realizing that his words were beginning to move in a contradictory direction, Cen Chi became vague.

When Xiao Qiang heard this, she looked puzzled, but soon she pursed her lips and said a little arrogantly: "Xiao Qiang is a girl from the Prime Minister's Mansion, and she has never studied, so she doesn't know these ...... All I know is that you're just getting seriously ill, so you have to be careful. The third prince asked me to accompany you here, which is what I mean. I saw it all just now, the monk entertained you, and he was reluctant to give even a chair. ”

Xiao Qiang's words matched with her expression when she spoke, which brought back the feeling of crying and laughing in Cen Chi's heart that she hadn't felt for a long time. He shook his head slightly, and originally wanted to tell her the rules of Buddhism and Zen, but when the words came to his mouth, he let him swallow it back, because Cen Chi didn't want to make Xiao Qiangfei thin herself because of these obscure theories.

After pondering for a while, Cen Chi explained in a simple harmony: "I had this habit when I was studying art in the master's sect, and the monks don't have the habit of sitting on chairs, so don't they just get together." ”

After a slight pause, a thought suddenly popped up in his heart, and he said: "Talking about Zen is very boring most of the time, so I don't sit in a comfortable chair to avoid being lost by sleepy insects." ”

Xiao Qiang couldn't help but laugh out loud again.

Looking at the girl standing in front of him with a heartfelt smile on her face, and a hint of stupidity in her eyes that she wanted to hold back but couldn't hold back, Cen Chi suddenly felt that a corner of his heart was softly touched. The touch was different from the past, it was not painful, it was not bitter, but it gave off a taste of incomprehension, which seemed to make people feel happy, but when he wanted to think about it. What it was like, but suddenly I couldn't find it.

This feeling transitioned too briefly in his heart, and it didn't seem to leave any traces, but Cen Chi unconsciously felt a trace of loss after it passed.

Xiao Qiang saw Cen Chi's amazement after smiling, she gradually smiled, and suddenly a curiosity suddenly appeared in her heart, and then asked: "Sir, Xiao Qiang has always been very confused, where did you come from?" In fact, there are many gentlemen in the house when you are not present. This issue was discussed. But it seems that even they don't know. ”

Cen Chi suppressed the strange emotions in his heart, and in the face of Xiao Qiang's question, he replied in a serious but vague tone: "The family teacher likes to live in seclusion and purity, and the disciples in the master are also thin. Just a small faction that can be ignored. No one may know what to say. Now that I've left the school, I've left the school. It's not good to bring trouble to the master again, so I have never mentioned the master to others. ”

After a round of words, such an answer still can't give Xiao Qiang an answer. But she couldn't think of anything else about his answer, but sighed slightly in her heart. Her curiosity about Cen Chi's teacher was even deeper, but at the same time, she added a little more awe, and she was afraid to ask again.

And because of the topic of the teacher, he suddenly thought that Cen Chi had just lost a senior brother, and with the words 'disciple thin' in his words just now, Xiao Qiang suddenly understood more deeply than a few days ago how serious the sudden death of Cen Chi's fellow disciple hit him.

As soon as she thought of this, Xiao Qiang was a little afraid to look at Cen Chi's face at this time. After taking care of him during these few days of illness, she found that she could not bear to watch his grief, because her emotions would be happy and sad.

However, she also had some inner contradictions, and she couldn't help but glance at him secretly when she had lowered her head. Unfortunately, it was Cen Chi, who was also looking slightly down, and Cen Chi, who had fallen on a cluster of green leaves in the vegetable patch, also happened to raise his eyebrows and look over. Cen Chi's eyes were calm, but Xiao Qiang subconsciously dodged his gaze.

Cen Chi's attention followed Xiao Qiang's evasive gaze, and at the same time he asked softly, "What's wrong?" ”

Xiao Qiang's hand hanging down by her side naturally moved, pulled up the corner of her sleeve and twisted it, and said with a narrow face: "No, it's nothing, I just accidentally mentioned it again...... Uh...... "Realizing that she seemed to be sketching out a thing that was intended to fade at this time became clearer and clearer, Xiao Qiang became more and more embarrassed, and finally closed her mouth with difficulty, choosing not to say anything.

But Cen Chi is a person with a sharp mind, not to mention that the death of his senior brother happened a few days ago, just the words in Xiao Qiang's words were enough for him to rekindle some of the sadness in his heart after a conversation with the senior brother.

Moreover, because the only remaining one of the same generation and family in this world is in this small temple, this makes Cen Chi's sadness mixed with a sense of guilt and disappointment even deeper.

However, at this time, he was not the one who had just returned from the burning mansion a few days ago, and although the sadness in his heart was there, he could already hide it a lot.

Pulling the corners of his lips and smiling at Xiao Qiang, Cen Chi said softly, "It's okay", and then he squatted down, his eyes closer to the clusters of green leaves in the vegetable furrow, which made his mood deeper.

His gaze fell randomly between the green vegetables, and Cen Chi quickly noticed that there was a weed growing very close to the green leafy vegetables, and he naturally reached out and pulled it out.

Xiao Qiang also squatted down, she glanced at Cen Chi's side face with lowered eyes, and wanted to say something, but she couldn't find the words she thought was appropriate.

Accompanied Cen Chi to squat in the vegetable furrow in silence for a while, Xiao Qiang was about to follow his example to find grass between the vegetable plants and pull it out, but saw that Cen Chi, who had already pulled out three or five grasses, patted the little soil on his fingers, stopped his movements and looked at this side, and said gently: "Little Qiang girl, let's use vegetarian food in this temple for lunch!" The greenery in this garden looks at the color and moistens the eyes, and I don't know if it will be very refreshing when made into a dish. ”

This turn came a little suddenly, and after Xiao Qiang was slightly stunned, she suddenly smiled and said, "Hey, sir, you have only looked at them for a few times, and you want to eat them so soon, will it be a little like that...... What's going on? ”

"Cruel."

It's like doing a fill-in-the-blank question, Xiao Qiang just finished the question, Cen Chi quickly filled in the blank space with two empty words, but this move made the person who made the question react half a beat slower, and when he came back to his senses, he couldn't help but feel surprised in his heart.

Xiao Qiang originally wanted to follow Cen Chi's example of making jokes at the right time to liven up the atmosphere, but unfortunately this time she rarely mustered up the courage to do it, but it was not successful.

Looking at Xiao Qiang's muffled voice for a long time, Cen Chi suddenly sighed softly, and said: "Words, it is really a very strange ability that people have. ”

Xiao Qiang couldn't tell the meaning of Cen Chi's words, whether he was blaming her or something else, and the confusion in her eyes was even heavier.

Cen Chi didn't say anything more about this, just stood up and looked to the side. At this moment, a young monk slowly walked in at the gate of the garden. The gate of the vegetable garden was not far from Cen Chi, and the young monk stepped on the cloth shoes and stepped on the sand and gravel all the way, but only made a slight sound, until he was about to enter the garden gate and was about to walk to his side, Cen Chi did not realize it.

Xiao Qiang's reaction was slower than Cen Chi's, or if it weren't for Cen Chi's upset and sideways looks. She didn't even notice it. Therefore, in her audio-visual senses, it was like an extra monk in a small vegetable garden out of thin air, and she felt very abrupt. Although she knew that this small temple was originally the place where these monks were in charge, when she saw the unfamiliar face of the monk, she still felt a little uncomfortable, and subconsciously took a step away from Cen Chi.

Fortunately, the monk just glanced at her, and then his eyes focused on Cen Chi. As if it was a habit to recite the Buddha's verse with his palms together before he spoke, the young monk said to Cen Chi calmly: "Master Ceng, the two donors who came here with you asked the little monk to ask, I wonder when you will go back?" ”

The two men he was talking about. It was when Cen Chi left the Prime Minister's Mansion to come to the small temple, and Shi Sangongzi arranged two guards for him. Because these two people are carrying advantageous weapons around them, they should not enter the Buddhist hall. Therefore, they just sent Cen late to the gate of the temple, and they stopped to wait.

Thinking that the two guards didn't expect Cen to enter the temple late, they would have to stay for a day, and the two of them, who thought that waiting was the norm of their usual life, would also feel a little empty and unbearable.

There is no wonderful scenery outside the temple, only large areas of green bamboo and a few trees. From time to time, there would be the sound of chanting in the courtyard of the small temple, which sounded to them just repeating a string of musical notes. And with their internal strength cultivation and the task they came here today, they had to spend some energy listening. Staying in such an environment for a day really makes these two laymen who are used to spinning in the world of flowers and flowers impatient.

If you are impetuous, the tranquility of the atmosphere may elevate this impetuousness.

Cen Chi saluted the monk, and then smiled and said, "Don't dare to work, I'll explain to the servant later." (To be continued......)