Ji Qing came to Puzhao Nunnery, and the nuns in the temple had already cleaned the courtyard and were chanting scriptures, and the host came out to greet him: "Young Master Yang, didn't you play on the mountain today?" Why did it come so early? ”

"Shi too early, I met two girls on the road today, it seems that they came out of the temple to incense, they are a pair of master and servant, I thought I was the earliest, but I didn't expect that there would be one earlier than me."

"Is Yang Gongzi talking about a girl with a little disabled legs and feet, but a very beautiful appearance."

"Exactly, is this girl a frequent visitor to our temple? I've never seen them before. ”

The host smiled slightly, obviously lowered his voice, and said in a low voice: "Young Master Yang, this girl with some inconvenient legs and feet is surnamed Wan, and she is a Dong'er, so she can't be regarded as our pilgrim. There were some changes in her family a few years ago, it seems that her parents were out of harmony, her mother came to our temple to become a monk, this girl came to her mother early in the morning on the first day of the new year and the fifteenth day of each month to send clothes, shoes and hats, meals and other items, and also left some incense money in the temple, but she never saw her burn worship on incense and worship Buddha, Lao Ni heard that her father was a devout cultivator, and she probably did not know with her father's belief in Zhuang Lao. Little boy, did you talk to her on the road? ”

"No, no, she couldn't go down the mountain and fell, I helped her, but she wasn't very happy, as if I annoyed her somewhere."

"Hey, son, it may be that the little girl fell down, and you saw the ugliness, so I was annoyed."

"In this way, it really happened that I did something wrong, and I shouldn't have stared at others all the time. Mrs. Shi, which Mrs. is the mother of the girl Wan? Can you show me that? ”

"Yang Gongzi, I lead you, you can take a sneak look, this master is also obedient, never follow us down the mountain to turn fate, burn incense and pray for people and so on, she writes well, copies a good scripture, every time someone pays her to copy a pair of scriptures, she does not hold the silver taels she gets, and she subsidizes the nuns in the temple.

The presiding master led Yang Jiqing to the door of the meditation room, pointed to the middle-aged nun who was closing her eyes and chanting scriptures under the wall of the meditation landlord and whispered: "This master is the mother of the ten thousand girls that the little boy saw, and the Dharma name is Anxiu. ”

Yang Jiqing took a closer look at the appearance of the middle-aged nun, and it was really similar to Miss Wan, and her figure was also long and well-proportioned, although she was middle-aged, she had no sense of being fat and bloated, her facial features were beautiful and dignified, her face was white, her eyes were closed, and only her lips were moving.

The teacher was too afraid of disturbing the nuns to meditate, so he urged Ji Qing to take a look and leave.

Yang Jiqing saw strange people today, heard strange things, and had no intention of enjoying the scenery in spring, and after coming out of Puzhao Nunnery, he hurriedly went down the mountain with Yang Chen and went home.

When I returned home, I met my mother Yang's mother, and I didn't say a word about Wan Dong'er, but I only told my mother that I knew that there was such a nun in my family temple, with children, a family and a business, and a wealthy family.

As soon as he finished speaking, his sister-in-law Ma Shi, who was sitting on the side, echoed: "Mother, I also heard this master in the nunnery talk about it, her family was originally from Shili Street in the south of the city, and the husband and wife quarreled in the first few years, because it was not clear what was going on, and the lady left home in a fit of anger, and everyone thought that in a few days the lady would be fine if she was angry, and she would go back to live with her husband. Fortunately, this lady is a young lady from a rich family, and she is still an only daughter, and she has a generous dowry when she gets married, and she has a lot of money in her hand, so she makes incense money, eats and lives in the temple and takes care of herself, recites scriptures and meditates every day, and the ancient Buddha is also quiet and content. I still can't forget her when I eat and use good food every month at home, and I often send people to deliver it. ”

Mother Yang thought for a while and asked, "Then has this master ever come to our house?" ”

"No, Mrs. Zeng said that she never went down the mountain, when I went to the temple, Mrs. Zeng pointed out to me, she was a woman with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, but she was withdrawn and talked little, and everything was none of her business, and she hung high."

Mother Yang said: "It's a good thing to talk less, the old nuns in the temple are monks on the surface, but they are trivial in private, and they are more vulgar than those of us who are not monks." ”

Hearing that her mother had a good evaluation of Wan Dong'er's mother, Yang Jiqing was inexplicably happy.

Mother Yang saw Yang Jiqing's happy look, a little disgusted, sank her face, and reprimanded: "Early in the morning, I said how to find no one, it turned out to be out for a stroll, next year is the big exam, don't hurry up and study hard, your brother has already followed your father out to exercise and do things when you are so old, but now you are still like a naughty boy, you have nothing to do all day long, you only know how to hang around, you can have half of your brother's achievements in this life, and I can also have a face to see him when I reunite with your father Huangquan, what are you still doing here." , hurry back to eat something and study hard. ”

In front of a room of maids and servants, Ji Qing was reprimanded, but she was not annoyed, and respectfully and with a spring breeze on her face, she gave her mother and sister-in-law a bow.

Ma comforted Yang's mother: "Mother doesn't have to be angry, the fourth brother is still young, and he is too playful, and when Feng Yimei passes the door, becomes a parent, and becomes an adult, can he settle down, study hard, gain fame, and glorify his ancestors." ”

Mother Yang sighed: "This Guangzong Yao ancestor thing Boqing has already done, at a young age he became the right servant of the Ministry of Industry, the ancestors know underground, and it is time to laugh at Jiuquan, Zhongqing Shuqing died young, only these two of their four brothers remain, I thought that my brother was shrewd and strong, and my brother would not be worse than any worse, who knew that the difference between the two brothers would be so big." Bo Qing is dedicated to his work, Ji Qing is good, he wants to be a painter, he doesn't write much all day long, and he paints a lot. ”

"Mother, don't be too greedy, my father was the official of the Ministry of Industry, but now that my father is gone, Boqing has achieved his current official position with his own ability, if he still makes Ji Qing as prosperous as his brother, I am afraid that the blessings of the children and grandchildren of the Yang family will be exhausted in our generation. Besides, although the fourth brother has no intentions, he is very kind, didn't my mother hear about it a few days ago, the nephew of the cabinet university scholar Gao led a group of sons and brothers to buy other people's ancestral antiques and failed, and it became a robbery, and as a result, there was a human life, and a group of officials almost wanted to impeach the tall man's black gauze hat, and then I don't know how much silver was paid to the bitter master, so I suppressed this matter, and the big families who came and went with our family, there were many children, and Boqing did ridiculous things with them when he was young. The fourth brother never got involved with them, which is also commendable. ”

Yang's mother is still worried: "This child is a bad person, he can't tell the priorities, you also know that when he was ten years old, he followed the master and Boqing to participate in the worship of the river god before the construction of the Yellow River waterway, he saw the butcher kill the sheep and slaughter the sheep, and actually cried bitterly, protecting the goat from the slaughterer, the lord's servant took a lot of effort to pull him away from the river, causing the master to come back and lose his temper at me, saying that my adopted son is indecisive and the woman is kind, I said that Ji Qing was raised by me, is Boqing raised by others, The old man was silent. ”

Ma just wanted to say that a dragon gave birth to nine sons, and the nine sons had different words to comfort the old lady, and the housekeeper's mother-in-law came to report that the Yang family's aunt and grandmother sent someone to send some gifts, and they were busy arranging for people to pick up things, so they didn't mention the matter of the sons.