Chapter XVIII
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"Yao, Yaozu! You, what are you? ”
"Teacher, senior brother. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info me, I'll go to the woods, in. Rub, rub..."
"Uh... So, then you go quickly... By the way, Xiang Feng for me... Forget it, forget it! There you go! Go ahead! When you finish wiping the lamp, you can sweep the ground down by the way... Come back early! ”
Senior Brother Yaozu finally gave up, and asked Yaozu to pay homage to the inscription tablet erected by Master Feng Wat on his behalf when he went to the stele forest in the back mountain to wipe the everlasting lamp of the inscription tablet dedicated to the scriptures. But he was really frightened by the apparition of Master Feng Wat last night. I didn't sleep well all night, and I always recalled over and over again that Yaozu had met Master Feng Wat's apparition.
Inevitably, after he came back, he kept chanting the Buddha's name in his heart, begging Master Feng Wat to forgive him for what he had done. And repeatedly promised that from now on, it will no longer be difficult to bully this new junior brother. But he still had a very strange dream in a trance where he hadn't slept well all night.
In the dream, there was a man who couldn't see clearly, it should be the size of an old man, and he was always standing not far from him. No matter how much he tried to get close, he just couldn't get close to the man. Until he woke up tossing and turning, he touched his wet forehead, but he didn't know when... Sweating all over!
Today, he didn't dare to shout at this new junior brother as he did before. But there is a lot less work for him. The Buddha statue was also wiped by himself, but he left the stele forest in the back mountain that he didn't dare to go to again, and let Yaozu clean it...
"That, that teacher, senior brother. I..."
"Go ahead! Go ahead! ”
Senior Brother Yaozu didn't want to say more. After handing over the noon meal to Yaozu, he sent it away. Then I also went to the mountain Buddha hall and wiped the Buddha statues in the Buddha hall.
Yaozu walked alone in the stele forest on the back mountain, on the pitted stone brick ground. But it's a little absent-minded. From time to time, he wandered in front of various stone tablets in the stele forest, but he did not use the cloth in his hand to wipe the everlasting lamp of the enshrined scripture tablet.
Looking at the tall and towering scripture monument in front of him, Yaozu couldn't help but secretly feel in his heart... I don't know if I'll be able to see her again. But as she said, as soon as the senior brother heard what she said, he didn't bother with himself anymore. The senior brother also seems to have changed as a person, and he no longer has a good face for himself like before. And I also made myself a delicious hot meal last night.
Today, the senior brother asked him to be busy, in addition to cleaning the ground in the stele forest, there is only the lamp in the stele forest now. And these lights were wiped clean by her and herself as early as yesterday, as long as they were looked at one by one and simply wiped off. But will she come to this forest again?
Yaozu was thinking about the gains and losses in his heart, but he couldn't help but think back to the person who gave him a delicious snack yesterday, and then helped him wipe the ever-bright lamp in the stele forest. Although he also wiped a lot, the most wiped was the person who helped him wipe the lamp together. If it weren't for the person who helped wipe the lamp, I am afraid that even if I wiped it late at night, I might not be able to finish wiping it.
After strolling through the east of the stele forest, he looked around for a while, but finally gave up looking for the figure of the man. So I got busy with what I had to do today. Although the sun was a little hot at noon, it was still very cool in the stele forest where Yaozu was located.
After a busy morning, Yaozu, who sat alone on the stone steps, ate the meal in the iron bowl with his bare hands. The fasting meal prepared for him by the senior brother today is no longer the leftovers of the past. It's the same as what the senior brother eats, and it's all the fasting that he just made today. Some pickled vegetables, and half a bowl of cooled rice, also made him eat with relish.
"What are you eating?"
"Huh?!"
Just as Yaozu was still bowing his head and pulling the grains and pickles in the iron bowl with his bare hands, the familiar voice came from beside him. Looking up at Yaozu, who was in the direction from which the words came, he saw that the person from yesterday had come to his side at some point. couldn't help but make him happy, and immediately stopped eating in his hand. He hurriedly stood up and looked at the man who was smiling at him.
I saw that the middle-aged woman yesterday was still wearing yesterday's old clothes, as if she appeared next to Yaozu silently. Although the woman's face was much paler than yesterday, she was tired today. The bun was also a little messy, as if it hadn't had time to comb it yet.
"How did you eat this meal? Why did you still eat it on your face? ”
The middle-aged woman smiled and said to Yao Zu, who saw her and stood up. As he spoke, he subconsciously stretched out his hand and wiped off a few grains of rice that were stuck on the corners of Yaozu's lips. But Ling Yaozu was a little embarrassed and said: "I, myself, will, wipe..."
"Give!"
"This, this is?"
"Take it, chicken!"
"I, I..."
"What are you? Let you take it, and you will take it! ”
"I..."
"Take it!"
As the middle-aged woman spoke, she took out an egg hidden in her other hand and handed it to Yaozu. Although Yaozu didn't want to take it, he couldn't resist the kindness of the middle-aged woman, and finally reluctantly took the egg from the middle-aged woman.
"Will you eat it?"
"Hmm!"
Yaozu replied to the middle-aged woman's words, and he recognized the eggs. I still remember that a few months ago, when I ate eggs for the first time, it was the third uncle who had long since passed away, and the egg skin was peeled for him.
Sitting back on the stone steps, Yaozu put the iron bowl in his hand on the stone steps beside him, and then peeled the egg skin with some difficulty. Looking at Yaozu's clumsy appearance, I knew that Yaozu was a middle-aged woman peeling eggs for the first time. But with a smile again, he took the egg that had just been peeled and had a little skin from Yaozu's hand and said, "How can you peel the egg skin like this?" I don't even know how to knock it! ”
"Bang Bang!"
After the middle-aged woman took the egg, she bumped it on the stone steps. With a few subtle cracking sounds, the skin of the egg was also shattered into a spider web, so she carefully peeled off the shell one by one.
"Give! Eat! ”
After peeling the eggs, the middle-aged woman handed the eggs again to Yaozu, who was silently watching.
"Thanks, thanks..."
Yaozu, who took the white egg, thanked the middle-aged woman with some embarrassment. Under the expectant gaze of the middle-aged woman, she ate the egg that the middle-aged woman had peeled.
"Gollum~"
A hungry cry came from the middle-aged woman who was watching him after Yaozu ate the egg. Yaozu, who couldn't help but eat the eggs, looked at the middle-aged woman whose face was slightly red due to hunger and hunger.
"You, didn't you, didn't you eat? That, then you, you eat me, I here, this meal! I, myself, eat by myself, I can't eat, I can't. ”
As he spoke, Yaozu picked up the iron bowl containing the fasting meal and handed it to the middle-aged woman sitting beside him. He can often experience the taste of hunger. Although he has long been accustomed to being hungry, he also regards not having enough food as a home-cooked meal. But after all, the taste of hunger is not pleasant, and he also knows it very clearly.
Seeing the middle-aged woman who gave her eggs to eat, her stomach growled. You must be hungry to be like this. He has already given his fasting meal to the middle-aged woman to eat.
"No, nothing! You eat! I didn't feel hungry when I came, so I didn't eat. I'll cook and eat it myself when I get back. You light fast, you better eat it yourself! I'll go back and make it myself, and it's much better than your meal." ~”
The middle-aged woman didn't pick up Yaozu and handed her the bowl of rice. Instead, he smiled and refused to Yaozu, but he couldn't help but feel happy in his heart because Yaozu gave up his fast food to himself.
"Is the chicken delicious?"
"Good, delicious!"
"Hehe, I'll give it to you later."
"No, no..."
"That's it!"
“....”
Before Yaozu could say anything more about refusal, the middle-aged woman interrupted Yaozu's words. It is decided that if there are chickens in the future, they will be brought to him to eat. There was a lot of helplessness in his heart, but he couldn't help but feel that his empty heart was full of a lot because of the appearance of the person in front of him.
Although he wanted to say no just now, he actually wanted to see her a few more times, and he didn't care if he was a chicken or not... Although the chicken is really delicious...
"How? What I told you to say to my senior brother yesterday, did you tell your senior brother? ”
The middle-aged woman smiled and said to Yaozu.
When Yaozu heard the middle-aged woman ask about what she said about her senior brother yesterday, she couldn't stop nodding her head and said, "Hmm! I, I, I put, put you, you let, let me say, that, those words... All, all told, sue senior brother! Teacher, senior brother, he, he really, really didn't, didn't say, said anything. Also, still last night, night, night... Give, give me, I, make, make a meal, very, delicious, fast! Just, even today, today's fast, also, all, all today, just made today! ”
The middle-aged woman listened to Yaozu's stuttering words with some effort. Then he smiled at Yaozu, who was quite thin, and said, "That's good!" That's it! As long as he doesn't make it difficult for you, that's fine..."The middle-aged woman spoke, but gradually fell silent. On his tired face, he couldn't help but flash a look of embarrassment, and looked at Yaozu who was eating food in the iron bowl. In the end, the middle-aged woman still mustered up her courage and whispered to Yaozu: "You, can you call, call me... Auntie, aunt? ....”
Yaozu, who was eating food in the iron bowl, after listening to the middle-aged woman's words. But he looked at the middle-aged woman with an expectant look on her face with some puzzlement. He didn't know why the middle-aged woman called her aunt by himself, and he didn't know what aunt was called.
"Okay?"