There is a mountain outside Suiping County, Runing Prefecture, Henan, where maple trees are planted all over, and there is a family temple of the Gu family on the mountain.

The temple is in dilapidation, and the gate on the mountain gate is broken.

In a room in the middle of the room, facing south and back, the golden body of the Buddha is enshrined, revealing the primary color of a large piece of wood, and the offerings are even less pitiful.

This mountain belongs to the Gu family, and others are usually not allowed to go up the mountain privately, so although the old and young in the temple are small, they are safe and tight, and they have never lost anything.

The Gu family is a big family, and it is known as Gu Bancheng in Suiping County.

Not only does this mountain belong to the Gu family, but the thousands of hectares of fertile land at the foot of the mountain belong to the Gu family.

The Gu family is prosperous, and the poems and books are heirlooms, and there have been several people in the court and the central government so far.

There are as many as four arches in the clan.

The young man walked to the water tank in the temple, looked at the reflection in the tank, and sighed inexplicably.

He is twelve years old.

It's been almost eleven years since I came here......

This temple is called Fenglin Temple.

Although it is a temple, the people in the temple are not like monks, more like an ordinary family, if it is not for the sound of the bell every day, no one will regard these two broken courtyards as temples. Vegetables are planted in the open space in front of the temple, and fat pigs, chickens and ducks are raised behind the temple. Every year, people come up to the mountains to collect pigs, and the money from the sale buys some rice and noodles.

In the words of the old monk, only when you have a stomach can you have the heart to respect the Buddha. If you don't even have something to eat, even the Buddha will be annoyed.

Although it was a temple, the old monk rarely taught him to recite scriptures, and every day he taught him the four books and five classics.

What about reading these books? Could it be that his 'biological parents' could allow him to take the imperial examination? If you really like him, you won't throw him away when he's one year old. It was Yoshijing who found him when he went down the mountain and carried him into Fenglin Temple.

Otherwise, he would have died just after wearing it.

Since then, he has made his home in Fenglin Temple......

Thinking of this, he sighed again, and then took the gourd scoop and scooped the water into the wooden basin one by one.

Then he struggled to move to his own meditation room.

When he reappeared after half a cup of tea, he had already changed into a clean monk's robe, and his hair was dripping with water.

In the yard, the little girl was squatting by the wooden basin and playing with water, and there was a bamboo board floating in the water, with a triangular flag planted on it, which was staggered by her.

Seeing the boy come out, the little girl beckoned happily, pointed to the 'boat' in the basin and grinned, "Brother, brother, look at the big boat with sleeves......"

The boy just laughed, but his heart was extremely sour.

Since the age of three, I have been reading with the old monks in the temple! From the unwillingness at the beginning to helplessness, to acceptance and habitation.

It took three years.

Except for the lack of clean hair, any of his actions are not much different from that of a monk. Every morning and evening, I have to go into the old monk's meditation room to listen to the lectures, and then start a day's work.

In his previous life, he lived for more than forty years, and he was almost the year to know the destiny of heaven. Although he has not been clothed and fed all his life, his family is also well-off, where can he endure such suffering?

But after living like this for several years, the insomnia that had not been cured for a long time in his previous life was cured without medicine.

After a long time, he also got used to this kind of life.

The old monk's name is Mingkong, and he is over 100 years old and has a long life.

After he was carried up the mountain by Yijing, the old monk gave him a legal name, called Qingjing, and a few years later he learned that his common name was Gu Mengping. I don't know if it's because of the Dharma name or if the mountain is not moved at all, so he has only seen five or six people so far.

In addition to him and the old monk, there is still a novice and a girl in the temple.

The novice is mute, and the Dharma name is righteous and pure.

The girl is Yingsleeve, and she is only four years old this year.

Thinking of Ying Sleeve, he sighed again inexplicably.

I still have a surname and a name, but this poor child was picked up by the old monk Mingkong somewhere. When I picked it up, I was in swaddling clothes, and a little face was crying purple. Gu Mengping had a daughter in his previous life, and he couldn't bear to cry like this, so he took it from the old monk.

It's strange to say, when she got into Gu Mengping's arms, the girl stopped crying.

Since then, Ying Sleeve has never left Gu Mengping's side.

Gu Mengping only raised another daughter in this life.

He raised his head and looked out of the mountain gate, where the rugged and winding stone path stretched step by step towards the foot of the mountain, as if there was no end.

This dynasty is the Ming Dynasty!

However, this Ming Dynasty has no resemblance to the Ming Dynasty in history.

China's history took a big turn after the Southern Song Dynasty......

After the Song Dynasty crossed to the south, he was in Lin'an Lidu.

In Guangxi, there was a grandson surnamed Sun, who gave birth to a son named Sun Zhen during his tenure, Sun Zhen was 17 years old and then recruited troops and horses, and at the age of 23, he gathered tens of thousands of soldiers and horses. With these tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, Sun Zhen was like a bamboo, destroyed the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty within fifteen years, and then crossed the Yangtze River from south to north and beat the Jin people back to the grassland.

Then the father passed from son to son, and son to grandson.

Later, it was rumored that the great-grandson abolished Emperor Hui when he was in trouble, and Emperor Hui ascended the throne at the age of sixteen, and soon after ascending the throne, he was dissatisfied with a prince because of torture and murder, and was pulled down from the dragon chair by his own uncle. After his uncle ascended the throne, he was revered as an ancestor. Cheng Zu is located in his son Emperor Jianwu, and this year is the twelfth year of Jianwu.

Up to now, the dynasty has been passed down for five generations.

When Chengzu raised the army, Gu Xi, a child of the Gu family, followed Chengzu as a personal guard. Later, Chengzu won the world and was rewarded for his meritorious deeds. The ancestor of the Gu family felt that his merit was not high, so he only needed gold and silver, but he was appreciated by the ancestor and felt that he was not greedy for merit. So he was specially given a seventh-grade cloud knight lieutenant with a bounty of one hundred taels.

Gu Xi took the money and returned to his hometown of Suiping County, Runing Prefecture, and married several powerful sons and daughters, and their children and grandchildren grew up to be officials in the court. After a long time, this branch has become the inner sect of the Gu family from the outside in. In the past, the big sects gradually lost their right to speak because their children did not have much interest.

Gu Xi gave birth to two sons, and after the family was separated, one lived in Suiping East and the other lived in Suiping West, which was divided into east and west. Most of the people in Dongfu are officials in the capital, and they don't come back once in a few years. Most of the people in Xifu stayed in Suiping or studied or farmed, and few of them had a good life.

When others mention the Gu family, most of them are actually talking about Dongfu.

Gu Mengping belongs to the big house in Xifu.

Listening to the word Meng in his name, Gu Mengping knew that he must be the eldest son.

Sure enough, a few years ago, the old patriarch Gu Rongchang often came up to the mountain to ask the old monk for peace, and he once talked about Gu Mengping's family. When Gu Mengping went in to pour tea, he faintly heard a few words.

When the old patriarch talked about Gu Mengping's father, Gu Weisheng, he was always angry.

mentioned Gu Mengping's mother, Xie Shi, either shaking his head or sighing.

The old monk was afraid that Gu Mengping would be sad, so he drove him out without waiting for him to hear a few words.

But Gu Mengping knew that he was not unintentionally left at the bottom of the mountain by his family as he thought, but was discarded by others.

As for the reason for the discard, he still does not know.

Since then, he has extinguished this admiration and devoted himself to becoming a little monk.

He sighed softly, turned around, and walked towards the old monk's meditation room.

The old monk sat cross-legged on the futon, and did not raise his eyebrows when he saw him come in.

Gu Mengping knew that the old monk was old and impatient to speak, so he sat down on the futon in front of him.

The old monk knocked on the "Glory and Withering" spread out on the small table in front of him.

"There is no truth without falsehood. The truth is not taboo, the fake is not the truth, and it is difficult to distinguish it. Hypocrisy is not enough to cause self-inflicted disaster, and there is really no jealousy and evil. Those who follow it are not excessive. Those who go against it are really sinful. Seek to be jealous and straight, and the curve is to be gained. Refusing to be jealous of Mingye, it is ...... to be graceful"

Hearing Gu Mengping finish reciting in a childish voice, the old monk's closed eyes opened slightly.

At this time, there was a sound of laughter outside the meditation room, which was Yingsleeve talking to Yijing who was standing beside him.

"Yijing, Yijing, you get on my boat, and I will take you down the mountain to play...... It's fun under the mountain, and my brother secretly gave me a piece of candy just now, sweet...... Don't tell the Master...... The master said that if you eat too much sugar, you will lose your teeth......"

Yoshijing didn't speak, just smiled and stroked her head.

The old monk coughed, and then pointed to the "Rong Ku Jian" on the small table, "Volume 9 ......"

"Lowering the heart of the ninth volume, to govern people with wisdom, and to carry the poor with wisdom. Fu people are heartbroken, and their ambitions have not changed......" Gu Mengping's face was slightly red, but he still recited fluently.

The old monk listened, a smile hung on the corner of his mouth, and his frosty eyebrows stretched.

When Gu Mengping finished reciting, he saw that the old monk's face showed a little stunned, as if he was recalling something.

After a while, the old monk said, "I think when I was young, my mother used to make pastries for me to eat, and although the pastries made by my mother were good, they were not as varied as those sold on the street...... There is a Liu Ji pastry shop in Ruyang County...... I haven't been to ...... in decades."

Gu Mengping had never seen such an old monk, and he didn't dare to say anything for a long time.

"Go ahead!" The old monk waved his hand, his face tired.

When Gu Mengping went out, the old monk seemed to use all his strength and collapsed on the pillow behind him.

"Old man......" The old monk's voice was faint, but his expression was a little abrupt.

Outside the meditation room, the sun shines on the Fenglin Temple.

When Ying Sleeve saw Gu Mengping coming out, he immediately abandoned Yijing and ran towards him.

"Brother, let's go see the two pigs raised in the backyard, okay? And those chickens, which laid another egg after my brother left...... They are disobedient, they always fight, and they can't catch up a few times...... That big rooster always bullied me, and he chased me to the front yard just now......" Ying Sleeve said and puffed out his cheeks, pouted his small mouth, and stretched out his little hand in front of Gu Mengping to let him see the scar that he had just been pecked by the rooster, looking extremely aggrieved.

"Okay, let's go! Let's go educate the big go! If you dare to bully my family, you will drive it out of the temple tomorrow! Gu Mengping bent down and hugged his sleeves.

Yingsleeve turned from worry to joy, burst out laughing, and hugged Gu Mengping's neck tightly.

In the meditation room, the old monk smiled so much that his eyebrows trembled.

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