"If only you understood." Lou Yiyi smiled and nodded. "Go ahead, there's a better future waiting for you out there."

"Uh-huh." Su Yi stood up and respectfully saluted Lou Yiyi. "Thank you, Master, for your enlightenment."

Lou Yiyi smiled and watched Su Yi leave.

"Xiaomei is right, in fact, it is not only about the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, but also about family, friendship, and love, which are applicable to all of us." Lou Jinjue looked at Lou Yiyi and said with a smile.

"Agreed." Chu Fei also nodded. "Feelings can only last if they come and go, and people must be self-confident and self-reliant in order to live themselves."

"I know this very well." Lin Qianyi smiled bitterly. "It's really tiring to give alone."

"At least, now you're out of that circle." Xia Jiangwan held Lin Qianyi's hand and comforted softly.

Lin Qianyi smiled and nodded. "Now that I have friends, I have grown insight, I understand the truth, and I have a lot of lightness in my heart, although I occasionally recall the past, I will still be a little sad, but I believe that one day I can face everything in the past, and then smile."

"There will be such a day, just leave it to time." Lou Yiyi silently added a cup of tea to Lin Qianyi.

Leng Yan looked at Lou Yiyi, and he suddenly thought of what Lou Yiyi said to himself in the maple forest that day, as if he had an understanding.

"That's what you call the power of time."

The cold voice was a little thorough, except for Lou Yiyi, everyone here had read the manuscripts recorded by the palace people, so they naturally understood what Leng Yan was referring to, and for a while there was a feeling of being detached from the world and looking at life beyond all cause and effect.

Lou Yiyi was stunned, understood, looked at Leng Yan with a smile, and said lightly: "Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, who can say for sure, everything is in the silent answer, it can only be understood but not spoken." ”

I don't know where the wind came from, alarmed the wind chimes outside the door, jingling into the hearts of several people, with the sentence of "Amitabha" of Wufang, several people looked at each other and smiled silently.

Maybe in another ten years, twenty years, today's scene will be engraved in everyone's mind, when recalling, the corners of the mouth will unconsciously have a smile, that is the beginning of their awakening in life, not early, but not too late, fortunately, at that time, everyone was there.

After a moment of silence, the little monk outside the door walked in with a woman.

The woman looked very haggard, with bruises and purple scars on her face, a trace of blood on the corners of her mouth, and a little timidity in her walk, and a hint of imperceptible desperation in her eyes, as if she was a prey that had been cornered, ready to jump up and die with the enemy.

"You may be seated." Lou Yiyi was afraid of disturbing the woman, so she softly motioned for the woman to sit down first, and poured her a cup of tea casually.

Despite this, the woman was still startled by Lou Yiyi, who suddenly spoke out, at this moment she was like a frightened bird, and the slightest movement would be frightened.

"Don't be afraid, it's safe here." Lou Yiyi soothed, turned his head and glanced at Wu Fang, Wu Fang understood, took out a small wooden fish from behind him, and knocked it slowly and rhythmically. This is set up in advance to soothe the overly nervous emotions of the guests.

There was silence in the hut for a moment, and no one spoke, only the gentle tapping of the wooden fish.

Finally, when the woman's mood calmed down a little, Lou Yiyi made another move and motioned for the woman to drink some tea and relax first.

The woman trembled and picked up the teacup in front of her, and Lou Yiyi noticed that not only the woman's face, but also her wrists were covered with bruises.

It may be that her hands trembled so badly that the woman didn't hold it steady, so that the cup in her hand fell to the ground, as if she remembered something, she immediately screamed, curled up on the ground in fear, and kept repeating in her mouth: "I didn't mean to." ”

Seeing this, Lou Yiyi motioned to Xia Jiangwan and Lin Qianyi to help the woman up. He whispered to the woman, "Don't be afraid, we know you didn't mean it, you see, it's safe here, and no one can hurt you." ”

Xu was indeed appeased, or the expected pain did not come, the woman gradually quieted down, and let Lin Qianyi and Xia Jiangwan sit up straight.

In order to give the woman enough security, Xia Jiangwan and Lin Qianyi glanced at each other and sat on both sides of the woman.

"Don't be afraid, we're here to protect you." Xia Jiangwan said gently.

Lin Qianyi kept brushing the woman's back to calm her mood.

"If you have any difficulties, you can tell us, and we will definitely help if we can help." Lou Yiyi poured a new cup of tea for the woman, and Lin Qianyi took the cup and fed it to the woman's mouth gently, trying not to touch her wounds.

After drinking a cup of tea, the woman could basically calm down, she looked at Xia Jiangwan and Lin Qianyi beside her gratefully, looked at Lou Yiyi again, and said slowly: "My real name is Wu Pingzhi, my husband's surname is Chen, and my name is Chen Youyu." Everyone calls me Ping Niang, an ordinary resident of this mountain. I married into the Chen family five years ago, and my life was not bad, but I was a little poor, but I was able to get enough food and clothing. Two years ago. Chen Youyu went out to work, accidentally broke a leg, fell disabled, and the construction site lost fifty taels of silver, so we didn't say anything. However, since then, Chen Youyu seems to have changed as a person, he knows how to drink every day, and when he gets drunk, he starts beating me, and when he wakes up, he kneels in front of me and apologizes to me, saying that it is the last time, but every time he gets drunk, he is beaten again. ”

Lou Yiyi listened quietly, did not interject, and saw that Ping Niang's lips were still a little chapped, so she poured her another cup of tea.

Ping Niang took the tea, looked at Lou Yiyi gratefully and continued: "Chen Youyu originally just beat me when he was drunk, but I don't know when he learned to gamble, he drank when he won the bet, beat me when he was drunk, and beat me when he was in a bad mood when he lost the bet." I had to go out to set up a stall to make money every day, and I would be beaten up when I went back at night. ”

"Didn't you resist?" Lin Qianyi on the side asked.

"Why not, I resisted. However, Chen Youyu's strength was too great, and I couldn't resist. Ping Niang cried.

"Then you will reconcile with him, and if he does not agree, he will divorce him." Xia Jiangwan said angrily.

"No, you can't." Ping Niang subconsciously refused. "If the married daughter spills out the water, if I get married, my mother's family will not take me in, they can't stand the neighbors' fingers. Besides, what will happen to my daughter after the reconciliation and separation, who will take care of her, she is only four years old. ”

"And what are you going to do?" Lou Yiyi said loudly, in this dynasty, although the restraint on women has been much better, it is far from the modern level.

"I don't know." A trace of panic flashed in Ping Niang's eyes, and she subconsciously shrank her hand into her sleeve. "I don't see any hope for life anymore."

"No, you know, and it's already decided." Leng Yan on the side suddenly spoke. "Is there a bag of smearing hidden in the pocket of your sleeve, tonight, you are trying to poison Chen Youyu."

"No, it's not—" Ping Niang denied it weakly.

"You should have just been beaten by him today, and some of the wounds on your body and face are new." Leng Yan calmly analyzed. "You can't stand this life anymore and decide to give yourself a relief, so you go to the street and buy a packet of poison. This is the first time you have killed someone, you are afraid, in order to give yourself courage, you came to the Bodhi Temple, confessed your sins to the Buddha in advance, hoping to be forgiven, but overheard that there is a master in the Bodhi Temple today to guide people, in fact, you also know that others can't help you with this kind of thing, but, with a fluke mentality, you still followed the little monk here, thinking, if the master can't help you, you can kill people with peace of mind, right? ”

"No, I-" As he spoke, Xu was poking his heart, and the hand that was shrunk in his sleeve fell out.

Looking at the poison on the ground, Leng Yan's eyes were cold. "This poison is enough for three people, you not only want to die with Chen Youyu, but also want to die with your daughter."

"I really have no choice, Chen Youyu really drove me to a dead end," Ping Niang shouted in despair. "My daughter is my life, she is my only hope for life, Chen Youyu owes a lot of gambling debts, and he wants to sell his daughter into the Qinglou. Originally, I just wanted to die with Chen Youyu, but I thought that after I died, my daughter would have no one to take care of her, and she would starve to death, so I thought that our family would all die, and in this way, my daughter and I would be relieved. ”

"But your daughter is only four years old." Chu Fei was a little angry. "She still has a great life, have you asked her if she is willing to die."

"Then what else can I do, the life we live now, it's better to live than to die, it's a hundred." Ping Niang picked up the poison that had fallen on the ground, and pressed me tightly in my chest.

"Let's leave." Lou Yiyi looked at Ping Niang. "Are you not even afraid of death, are you still afraid of other people's gossip? Isn't it good to start a new life for the sake of my daughter and for myself? ”

Xu is Lou Yiyi's gaze was too calm, and Ping Niang, who was almost collapsed, slowly calmed down, and looked at Lou Yiyi in a daze, with some confusion in her eyes.

"As long as you have the determination to reconcile, we will help you." Lou Yiyi continued. "We can help you find a new place, you can still set up a stall to make a living, your daughter, we will also find a way to help you take it out and follow you."

"May I?" Ping Niang looked at Lou Yiyi and everyone present uncertainly, with a hint of expectation and yearning between her words.

"As long as you want." Lou Yiyi affirmed.