Chapter 4 Seeing Friends in the Temple
When Yan Wan woke up from her dream, she was greeted by a plain curtain, with only the simplest texture and crude sewing techniques, which looked extraordinarily simple.
She hugged the quilt and slowed down for a while before she remembered that she was in the Ganlu Temple at this time.
That day, Cheng Huan came to the door to ask for resignation, and after Yan Juan asked Yunong to return the token he said to him, he planned to go out to Ganlu Temple.
Who knew that he said that he was going out, and he was hugged by his younger brother.
Yan Chongjing, who was full of his sister's great grievances, wanted to wait for his sister to return to the yard and then settle accounts with Cheng Huan.
It's just that my sister didn't give him this opportunity, but acted like a nobody, and thought about going to Ganlu Temple.
Yan Chongjing couldn't complain about others, but he didn't worry about his sister going out alone, so he only glared at Cheng Huan a few times, turned his head and begged his sister to go out with him.
Now, they have been staying at Ganlu Monastery for several days.
After Yan Wan washed, she used the porridge and side dishes in the temple, pinched the Buddha beads in her hand, and walked towards the side hall as usual.
There are many Buddhas enshrined in the main hall of Ganlu Temple, but the side hall where Yan Juan went is different, not only the location is remote, but even the Buddha statues enshrined on the altar are also the kind that most people have never heard of.
Most people don't even know that there is a side hall here, let alone come here.
The weeds on both sides of the path in the temple have turned yellow, and the embroidered shoes have stepped on the bluestone slab, and even the chill can be felt, which also makes Yan Juan more and more sober.
When she reached the door of the side hall, she saw a young man in black kneeling in front of the statue.
Just looking at the back, the young man in black didn't look big, and even because of the emptiness of the hall, he looked even thinner.
If the two maids beside Yan Juan were also there, she would definitely have persuaded her to turn back and stop going to the side hall.
As if he heard the footsteps outside the door, the young man who was kneeling and worshipping the Buddha statue had already stood up, turned around, and looked straight out of the door.
The moment the two looked at each other, Yan Juan breathed a sigh of relief.
Although she had already guessed the identity of the teenager, she still breathed a sigh of relief in her heart before confirming it.
"Sure enough, apart from you and me, there will be no one else here." Yan Wan's words were familiar, "I saw the letter you left for me before, didn't you say that your father was going to send you to the capital?" I thought I wouldn't see you again! ”
The young man's name is Xie Chen, and he is a person who can make Yan Juan feel sympathy.
Speaking of the relationship between the two, it has to be traced back to many years ago, when Yan Juan and Xie Chen were still young.
Yan Juan is the daughter of the family, and the jewel in the eyes of the elders should be living her good life steadily. But in fact, when she was six years old, disasters came one after another. Before the pain caused by the former has dissipated, the calamity that follows has already followed.
At the most dangerous time, even when she was dying, the good doctor invited by Master Yan and others for her was helpless, and she didn't even dare to prescribe a prescription.
When manpower is out of reach, Master Yan and they can only pin their hopes on the gods, praying that God can give their cherished children a chance of life.
The vitality in their eyes fell on the great monk of Ganlu Temple.
The lay name of the great monk is no longer available, and those who know him call him Pudu, Pudu of all sentient beings.
His scripture interpretation is the most easy to understand, and the vegetarian dishes are not bad, and on the fifteenth day of the new year, he will also hold a free clinic at the foot of the mountain to send medicine to the poor people outside to cure the disease. Occasionally, some wealthy families with incurable diseases will work tirelessly to seek treatment, which shows that his medical skills are also good.
At least Master Yan and the others have lived in Jinguan City for decades, and they have never heard of the great monk treating bad people.
When Yan Juan was sent to Ganlu Temple, she was already ill and delirious, and she was about to die.
However, the great monk already had another patient at that time, and he also stepped into Huangquan Road with one foot, and that person was only two or three years older than Yan Juan.
The Yan family couldn't do anything to make the great monk give up the other person, so they sent Yan Juan over, and the great monk worked hard to take care of two seriously ill people at the same time.
And that other person is Xie Chen.
Yan Juan was in pain at the beginning, and all she saw was the kind face of the great monk, and there was only Xie Chen.
Between life and death, knowing that there are people around her who are facing the same threat of death as her, and they are also being taken care of by the great monk, to a certain extent, it can also be regarded as living and dying together, so Yan Juan and Xie Chen have more friendship than others.
Later, I found that the past experiences of the two also overlapped slightly, and looking at each other was like looking at another self in the world, and the relationship became deeper and deeper.
Back to the present.
Xie Chen smiled, but because he didn't usually smile much, the expression on his face looked a little stiff.
"There's nothing bad to say, although the capital is my home, the people there may not welcome me over." He remembered the people who targeted him for no reason in the genealogy, and raised his eyebrows, "They want to see me laugh, but I have always been unmoved, so I beat them all up......"
The ones who scolded the most are probably still lying in bed now!
Seeing that Yan Wan was curious, he simply talked about what happened after he entered Beijing.
Maybe he was unconsciously blocking someone's way, and someone made trouble for him on the first day of entering the clan study.
At the beginning, he thought that more things were better than less, and he didn't treat those small things as big things, but the other party became more and more excessive.
"I don't know where they found out, but they ran to me one by one and asked me how I could still live in harmony with my stepmother when my mother died."
Xie Chen didn't tell Yan Juan what those people said, but just listening to his understatement like this, Yan Juan was already angry.
Xie Chen was seriously ill and almost died in Huangquan, and his mother also died at that time.
At that time, Mrs. Xie took Xie Chen back to her hometown to visit relatives, but she encountered robbers on the way, and Xie Fu's family fought desperately, so that Mrs. Xie and Xie Chen had a chance to escape. However, Mrs. Xie was powerless, and Xie Chen was even younger, and she didn't run much before she was caught up by robbers on horseback.
After Xie Chen was knocked unconscious by Mrs. Xie, he hid in the thorns on the side of the road.
When I woke up again, there was no living mouth around.
Mrs. Xie, who was protecting him, was left on the side of the road, covered in blood, and she couldn't see the softness of the past.
In the cold winter season, there are not many people on the road, but there are many wild animals in the forest that lack food. The hungry beasts, with their skins and bones, sniffed blood one by one and ran down the road.
If it weren't for Master Xie waiting for his wife and children to return home for a long time, he specially ordered the family to come and pick up people, then Xie Chen would not only not be able to protect his mother's body, but even he would die in the mouth of the beast. Later, although he was rescued, he was also scratched by the beast and had wounds on his body, which were deep to the bones, otherwise he would not have been sent to Ganlu Temple to ask for the treatment of the great monk.
Obviously, he has borne the lives of his relatives, and he has to be extremely cautious in his words and deeds for the rest of his life, but there are still people who maliciously touch this wound and treat other people's pain as a joke, how can people not be angry!
Yan Juan looked at Xie Chen: "Those people are clearly to blame for themselves, and they deserve to be taught a lesson, but now they have driven you back, the elders of your Xie family are inevitably a little indistinguishable from wrong!" ”