Seeing Cen Chi coming out, Xiao Qiang hurriedly walked down from the tree quickly, and the little novice 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 calmed down, 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, and said thoughtfully: "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 seems to have only been told to himself as a private matter. Xiao Qiang felt some of the gentleman's trust in her because of this, as if the distance between the two had narrowed 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 she can easily understand the matters she has talked about in the past few days, so she can be sure that it is shallow, right? And when it's time to really talk to the heart. He still prefers to come to this small temple and confide his thoughts on a monk who has nothing to do with the earth, rather than with her.

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

Although she tried her best not to show this depression on her face, she really couldn't say what was in her heart at the moment. 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 round-and-forth feelings in the heart of a girl who had already developed 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, it gave off a smell that I didn't understand, and it seemed to make people feel happy, but when he wanted to think about what it was like, he suddenly 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 who have discussed this issue when you are not present, but even they don't seem to know. ”

Cen Chi suppressed the strange feelings 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, but they are just a small faction that can be ignored, and no one may know about it." Now that I have left the division, it is not good to cause trouble to the division, so I have never mentioned the division to others. ”

After talking around, such an answer still couldn'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 master, 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 severe the sudden death of Cen Chi, a fellow disciple, hit him severely.

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 and getting along with him in the past few days, she found that she could not bear to watch his sadness, because her love 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 person of the same generation and the same 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.