090 Blessings and misfortunes depend on each other
The tragic things in Dong Shifei's family made Madame Butterfly also feel the impermanence of the world, and she hated Yang Guang's atrocities even more, Dong Shifei continued to speak: "I fainted at that time, and when I woke up, I was thousands of miles away in Wudang Mountain. ”
Madame Butterfly nodded, guessing in her heart that they must have met a chivalrous man who had seen injustice and reached out to help, so that Dong Shifei was not killed.
Dong Shifei smiled bitterly: "After living on Wudang Mountain for two months, I was able to get up, and the first thing I did at that time was to ask my younger brothers and sisters if they were still alive." Unfortunately, the master told me that I was the only one left in the family. ”
"Is your father too?" Madame Butterfly knew that the result must be like that, but she couldn't help but ask.
Dong Shifei nodded and said: "I was seriously injured and in a coma that day, and it happened that the masters of Wudang Mountain passed by here, and saw that the officers and soldiers actually did something to the defenseless people, or three children, so they came up to save us and took us back to Wudang." It's just that after the housekeeper blocked a knife for me, he told the masters about the family halfway, so the master called someone to go to Daxing again to inquire about my father's situation. ”
"Hey, Yang Guang, this brute, in order to get my sister and my family's property, he first sent someone to my house to find my father to propose marriage, my father said that our three brothers and sisters were not at home, Yang Guang was annoyed and ashamed, and said that my father colluded with bandits to attack Daxing City, and directly arrested and imprisoned, and then asked the officers and soldiers to arrest our brothers and sisters."
"And then?" Madame Butterfly also sweated for his father, but listening to this meaning, his father would not be killed for the time being.
Dong Shifei shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Who would have thought that the emperor of a dignified country would use three indiscriminate means to order his subordinates to go to my house to find my mother, saying that he could save my father by spending money." Poor my mother, how did she know that this was Yang Guang's trick to sell her property to save my father. In the end, the wealth was scattered, and it was useless. Yang Guang saw that my family had no money to loot, and was ready to kill my father. Fortunately, the samurai Tsukasama said a lot of good things from it, and this saved my father. ”
"It's okay, it's okay, as long as it's alive!" Madame Butterfly also let out a long breath and patted her chest.
Dong Shifei sneered, drank another cup of tea and said, "After my father came out, he was dumbfounded when he arrived at the house. The mansion is already someone else's, my mother and an old servant are squatting in the corner of my mansion with two burdens on their backs, they, they have nowhere to stay! Dong Shifei's tears came out of his eyes, and the man didn't flick when he had tears.
"Well, your parents ......" Mrs. wanted to say how they lived after that, but she shut up again after thinking about it, and really didn't know how to ask, so she had to stop talking.
Dong Shifei wiped away his tears with his sleeves, and the corners of his mouth curled: "Madame doesn't have to care, it's me who is too sad." Later, my father took my mother and the old servant to his hometown, but on the way my mother became seriously ill and left, and the old servant was also weak for many years, so he left without going to his hometown. ”
"Only my father is left, alone, and then the master said that there is no news of my father, and I don't know, and I don't know that he is no longer alive!" Dong Shifei has always had a longing in his heart to see his father again, but he also knows that it has been many years, and his father may have turned into a piece of loess.
"The world is unpredictable, Jiren has his own natural appearance, Brother Dong must not be too sad, maybe you will find your father soon!" Madame Butterfly didn't know what to say to comfort him.
"Madam, I know that you are afraid that I will be uncomfortable, and I also know that time has passed for so long, and my father is probably long gone, thank you Madame." Dong Shifei still knows very well that he has said so much, and for people who don't know people at all, listening like this is already commendable.
Madame Butterfly smiled and patted Dong Shifei's shoulder and said, "Okay, okay, don't think about the past, we have a lot of people here, we can help you find your father, tell me about the future, what did you do here?" ”
Dong Shifei adjusted his emotions and continued: "After I was rescued by Master Wudang on the mountain, I lived on the mountain. Because I was homeless, my master asked me to follow those brothers and sisters on the mountain, who were supposed to teach me martial arts, and I also wanted to learn smart martial arts to avenge my family. It's a pity that I'm not a martial arts material, so I can't learn it at all. Later, I had to copy scriptures and tell stories to my brothers and sisters, and stayed in the mountains for five years. ”
Seeing that Madame Butterfly had been listening carefully, Dong Shifei smiled and said: "Maybe it's really God playing tricks on people, when my father let us go, he gave me a letter, and after I was rescued from Wudang Mountain, I didn't go to see it." One day five years later, I packed up my things and saw the letter, and when I opened it and read it, I realized that my father had a friend in his hometown, who was the Taoist chief of the Taoist temple in his hometown, and in the letter, my father also entrusted me to the Taoist chief and asked him to nurture me as an adult. ”
"Pity the hearts of parents all over the world!" Madame Butterfly was impressed.
"Yes, at that time, I thought that I had been on Wudang Mountain for so many years, and the brothers who came down the mountain never heard from my father, could I have returned to my hometown! I quit my master and wanted to go back to my hometown. The master gave me a coil, and also sent a senior brother with strong martial arts skills to follow me back to my hometown. ”
"At that time, I was anxious and looked forward to returning to my hometown and seeing my father as soon as possible. When I arrived at my hometown, I found the Taoist temple, and when I saw the Taoist chief, I realized that my father had really gone back, but in terms of time, it happened to be the year we were struck, that is, my father did not die halfway through the road at that time. ”
"He told the Taoist chief about the affairs at home, and then asked the Taoist chief that after I returned to my hometown, I must take more care of it, so he left a box and asked the Taoist chief to hand it over to me, and then turned around and left, I don't know where I went."
Madame Butterfly said a little strangely, "Could it be that your father still has friends elsewhere, or does he have any important matters to deal with?" Why didn't I see you when I returned home, and I didn't stay, etc.! ”
"Yes, I haven't been able to figure it out, but when I finally learned that my father was still alive, I was more or less relieved. The Taoist asked me why I didn't come back until five years later, and I told me about Wudang, and the Taoist handed me the box and told me that it was left to me by my father. ”
"I opened the box in front of the Taoist chief", as he said, Dong Shifei reached out and took out the bronze man from his arms and put it on the table, "The box is this bronze man and a letter." ”
Madame's eyes fell on the bronze man, took a closer look, and said in surprise: "This should be the bronze man of Shaolin Temple, how can it be in your father's hands?" ”
"That's right, that's what the Taoist said. I didn't know each other at the time, but my father's letter gave me the answer. My father said that when he was a child, he once met a monk from Shaolin Temple, who was injured because he got lost in the mountains and fell into a bear trap, but was rescued by him. Later, when they left, they gave him this thing, telling him that if there was any crisis in the future, he could take this bronze man to Shaolin Temple to find him, no matter what help, he would help. ”
"I see!" Madame Butterfly just understood.
Dong Shifei continued: "The Taoist also read the letter left by his father, so he told me that now he will take the bronze man to the Shaolin Temple to find the monk, maybe his father asked him to go to the Shaolin Temple intentionally." ”
I thought so, so I set off again and took the bronze man to the Shaolin Temple. When I arrived at the Shaolin Temple and took out the bronze man, someone took me and the senior brother to meet the abbot. After the abbot asked about the origin, and after reading my father's letter and the bronze man, he gave me an account to the head of the Dharma Academy. ”
"It seems that the monk your father saved is not ordinary!" Madame Butterfly was a little curious.
Dong Shifei said: "It's true, it turns out that the person my father saved back then is the head of the Dharma Academy of Shaolin Temple, and after I went, the head of the house let me stay in Shaolin Temple, after listening to what happened to my family, I told me that there was no father to treat him back then, and he now has no legs." He also said that in the future, he would let me follow him and practice martial arts well. ”
"I had to tell him that I couldn't learn it without Huigen, who practiced martial arts. At that time, I was really embarrassed to run the hospital, and after thinking about it for several days, I was told that I could teach a life-saving martial art, which was simple and easy to learn, but it required hard work. ”
As he spoke, Dong Shifei shook his two fingers and said, "No, I also learned this finger Zen, and I still cut corners." ”
Madame Butterfly was amused by his witticism, and said with a smile: "Yes, this is one of the seventy-two Shaolin stunts, and ordinary people have no chance to learn it!" ”
"Yes, after nearly a year of being brought in the Shaolin Temple, just as the Turks invaded the south, the Shaolin abbot summoned his disciples to organize a group of people to go north to fight the Turks. At that time, I also wanted to go, but I was left behind by the head of the courtyard, and I was worried that I would be disobedient, so I wrote a letter to my senior brother, asking him to take me back to Wudang again. ”
"What happened next was also unexpected. Originally, the letter from the head of the academy to my master, which meant to tell him to watch me, not to tell me to go, how do I know that the master saw the Turkic invasion of the south, and the Shaolin Temple organized people to go north to fight, so he also organized his disciples to go north together, so I was fortunate to go to Yanmen Pass with me, and then I saw the lady's feminine demeanor there. ”
"Oh, I see! So what are you here for? Mrs. has some sympathy for Dong Shifei's experience, and some emotion, life is like a play, and what will happen in the next moment is unpredictable.
Dong Shifei said with a smile: "Actually, I came to Pengcheng this time because the master and his old man wanted to come here to see Zhang Tianshi's birthday, how do you know that the master received an important letter on the way and left in advance, isn't this the only one left here?" ”
"I see!" Madame Butterfly let down her last vigilance.