Chapter 189: Mang Hongchen, where to find the bell man
Just like the reunion of old friends, several refugees pulled the white girl to sit beside them, touched their knees around the fire, shh
Bai Bait can also clearly feel that under her encouragement and care, everyone's tight hearts are gradually relieved, everyone's hearts seem to be tightly tied to a rope, and everyone's fate is closely linked from then on.
She inadvertently swept her gaze to the entrance of the cave, only to see Zhang Jingchun sitting alone on the stone, supporting his head with his hands, staring blankly at the sky outside the cave, a little distracted.
She excused herself to get out, slowly withdrew from the warm current of refugee enthusiasm, walked to Zhang Jingchun's side unhurriedly, and said softly: "Thank you." ”
Zhang Jingchun pulled back his drifting thoughts, looked back at her, and for the first time he found that it was a pair of shining eyes. He pretended to smile and said lightly: "Thank you for what I did?" If you don't hold a grudge against me, I'll be content. ”
"Hate you? Why should I hold a grudge against you? It's not your fault, you're just a mess guy. And the people who really did the bad things are gone, everything has subsided. ”
Bai Bait sat down opposite him on his knees, and sighed softly, his face full of indifference.
Zhang Jingchun lowered his head silently, pinched the things in his hand, was silent for a long time, raised his head and looked casually outside the cave, as if his lips said, "It's my fault." ”
Outside the cave, the mountain wind was howling, like a tiger wailing at midnight, and Bai Bait suddenly noticed something hidden under his sleeve, and she couldn't help but ask curiously, "What are you holding in your hand?" ”
I saw a crystal clear sign unfolded at his fingertips, and I heard him say lightly: "Floating Life Order." ”
Attracted by the novelty, she couldn't help but reach for it, touching every delicate texture on it, and her eyes couldn't help but glow a little with it.
"Floating Order? Zhang, Jing, Chun. Great disciple of Xuande. She read it word by word, only to realize that it was a block of transfer tokens. The long eyelashes were raised, and she couldn't help but exclaim: "It turns out that your name is really Zhang Jingchun!" ”
"I'm not afraid of your jokes when I say it, I only found out today." Zhang Jingchun smiled, but his eyes were extraordinarily calm.
Sensing a hint of gloom in his eyes when he said this, Bai Bait could clearly feel that Zhang Jingchun, who came out of the crowd, seemed to have become different from before.
She solemnly handed the Floating Order back into his palm and said to him, "Say it! I'd like to hear from you about the story behind the Floating Order! ”
"Story?" He couldn't help but laugh, as if laughing at himself. "Listen to the first half of my unlucky life?"
He shook his head secretly and sighed at the floating order.
"I'd love to. I'd love to be a listener tonight, depending on whether you'd like to say it or not! White Bait insisted.
Although she has known Zhang Jingchun for less than two days, and when she met him for the first time, her impression of him was very poor, and she was even almost innocent by him, but she felt that there must be many untold stories in him, and it is not difficult to see that there is always a hot heart hidden under the disgusting skin of the world.
Seeing Zhang Jingchun pursing the corners of her lips, looking like she wanted to say goodbye, she couldn't help but wonder, why did this person change when he said he would? During the day, flies buzzed around her, and all attempts to shut him up did not work, and when he really wanted to say something, it was difficult for the daughter to pry his mouth open.
She lost her patience anymore, unceremoniously put her hand against his arm, and muffled, "Hey! You and I don't know each other if we don't fight, and now we are standing on the united front, so we can be regarded as half friends, in front of friends, if you have anything to say, I don't laugh at you. ”
He was afraid of her ridicule, he just didn't know how to speak, although he complained about his rotten life almost every day, how unfortunate he was, but when he was about to speak, he found that he couldn't say a word.
He never seemed to have spoken to anyone, and it seemed that no one had ever taken the initiative to ask, let alone anyone who was called a friend and cared about him as much as she did.
"The story is so long, where do I start?" He said.
Bai Bait's gaze fell on the floating order again, and pointed at it: "Let's start with your master!" ”5599
"My master ......" he paused, mentioning his dead master, his neck was a little spasmodic for a while, and he said slowly: "The master picked me up from the bottom of the mountain when I was young, and my life has been associated with the Buddha since then. ”
"From birth, I was ugly, and unfortunately, I was hunched over and lame from a young age, which made me completely different. I can't pick up the water steadily, two heavy buckets to the halfway up the mountain, sprinkle half, leave half, and so on up the mountain, the bucket has bottomed out, others laugh at me, Zhang hunchback, the abbot let you carry water for cooking, why did you run to the bottom of the mountain to water the flowers and grass? ”
He smiled faintly and quipped: "Don't say it, this year, the flowers and plants on the mountain road are indeed very lush!" ”
"In short, because I was born with a disability, I couldn't do anything well, so I was ridiculed and despised by my classmates, and soon, I became a joke in the whole temple. Not only my classmates laughed at me, but even those old monks laughed at me, as well as those pilgrims. This smile is more than 30 years! ”
"Why don't you resist? If someone bullies you, will you let him bully you? Bai Bait asked, puzzled.
"If revolt is useful, who chooses silence? At first I did resist, I even went to my master again and again, oh no, no one knew at that time that he was my master, he was the abbot, the abbot who was high up and everyone admired, I didn't go to the abbot next time, hoping that he would make the decision for me, but he only punished the perpetrators, including me, and copied the scriptures over and over again. I hate copying scriptures the most, and the abbot's approach obviously has no effect, and the bullies are still bullying. Since I didn't want to be punished again for copying the scriptures with them, I chose not to tell the abbot. ”
"I began to silently accept everyone's ridicule, huh! Before I knew it, I seemed to be living like I was in their eyes, and one day, even I felt ridiculous! So, I became more and more profligate myself! I don't care about their ridicule, I, how comfortable and how to live! Later, I had more contact with the pilgrims coming down the mountain, and every time I heard them talk about those interesting things down the mountain, I was very interested, and my heart was very excited, and slowly, I longed for the life under the mountain more and more. In order to go down the mountain to see, there was a period of time when I behaved very well in front of the abbot, so that I took the opportunity to go down the mountain with the abbot to see the life under the mountain, and since then, I have completely fallen in love with mortal dust, and from then on, I never want to be a monk again, I am determined to be a mortal! ”
"Ever since I had set my ambition in my heart, I began to make a mistake with all my might, in order to get the abbot to drive me down the mountain. Over the years, I have made a lot of mistakes in the rules of the temple, large and small, and successfully attracted the complaints of the whole temple, but the abbot has only punished me again and again, and in front of the abbot, my strategy has failed again and again. Until a month ago, I had a complete falling out with the abbot and insisted on going down the mountain, and to my surprise, this time, he agreed, but only if he returned from the mountain and took off his monk's robe for me before I was officially allowed to go down the mountain. ”
"I thought I was finally going to get my wish, but unexpectedly, the abbot passed away on the way back. The Floating Life Order was discovered by several old monks in the process of sorting out the relics of the abbot during his lifetime. For a time, I became the only disciple of the abbot during his lifetime, and in this way, I was absurdly promoted to the position of abbot. ”
When Zhang Jingchun said these words, the whole person was stunned and fell into a long silence.
After listening to him, Bai Bait felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, perhaps, compared to Zhang Jingchun, everything he has suffered since he was a child is not worth mentioning at all. For him, it's more sympathy! In the end, it is creation that makes people!
"Do you blame your master?" She pondered for a long time and asked calmly.
"Resentment! How not to complain? For more than 30 years, I have been complaining about him every day! I complain that he shouldn't have picked me up the mountain, even if I was left at the bottom of the mountain and taken away by the wolf, it was better than being trapped on the mountain as a monk for the rest of my life! I also complained that he left suddenly, and his promise to let me go down the mountain has not been fulfilled, so why leave me alone! I even hate him! Zhang Jingchun said indignantly, his neck was flushed, and the whole person was a little out of shape.
White Bait didn't interrupt him, just listened to him speak out of control, and then asked, "And now?" ”
"Now ......" Zhang Jingchun pinched the floating order in his hand, and was speechless.
"If you can't speak, you're both hated and grateful, right?" White Bait asked.
"I don't know." He spoke weakly, like lips, and for some reason, Bai Bait's questions made his mind mess up for a while.
He held his head, leaned back without any burden, leaned against the stone wall, and slowly closed his eyes, he felt so tired, really tired......
Bai Bait looked at Zhang Jingchun in front of her, an unspeakable sadness couldn't help but arise in her heart, obviously, Zhang Jingchun at this time and Zhang Jingchun as people saw it, such a he, may not be uncommon, but only in the dead of night, he alone knows.
Because, a person who is used to being crazy in front of others can't escape the loneliness that comes from the heart of the afterlife, and he can't avoid meeting the real self.
"Perhaps, your master, has already counted his life?"
Hearing this, his heart was shocked, and he couldn't help but open his eyes to look at her, and found that Bai Bai's face was full of solemnity at this time, and he couldn't read it anymore. "What did you say?"
"Perhaps, your master had long expected that Qin Huai would suffer such a catastrophe, if you really came down the mountain a month ago, when the werewolves slaughtered the city, do you think you still have a life? Ordinary people are still in a catastrophe, and how do you know that the world is sinister when you first enter the mortal world, and how can you ask to be spared in the chaos of war? ”
She spoke in an extraordinarily heavy tone, and every word seemed to be soaked in tears. However, for him, the words that came out slowly were more like an ancient pipa suddenly playing on a rainy night, and every cold string kept plucking his deep heart!
"How is this possible! If he really expected that Qin Huai would suffer such a catastrophe, then he would not be able to leave easily! Did he ignore the huge Jinming Temple? Thousands of people up and down this mountain, is he not guarding it? How could he be so selfish! ”