Chapter 35: Du Huichun

However, how can there be flying light on the bodhisattva's body?

Chen Tongsheng braved the rain to go out to see the sign hanging at the door, but found that the place where the plaque should have been hung was bare, and there was no number in the temple, and he didn't know which way of the Buddha was enshrined.

She took a longer stick from the fire as a torch, and looked around, the temple was quite small, and there was really only one strange bodhisattva in it.

Song Chuanbai asked, "What do you mean by asking Galahia just now?" ”

Chen Tongsheng was stunned, what did she mean, she couldn't say what she meant. These four words appeared suddenly, as if she had heard and seen Galahia.

"No, it's nothing," Chen Tongsheng shook his head: "A kind of legend, just a legendary god." ”

"Oh?" Song Chuanbai seemed to be interested: "What legend, why have I never heard of it?" ”

What's the analogy with this? Chen Tongsheng couldn't speak clearly, and his head was muddy, then he shook his head and said, "I don't remember." ”

She vaguely remembered that Galahia should have two Dharma protectors, but there were none in the temple, so what was the intention of these people to build this bodhisattva?

Are they going to worship the common native bodhisattvas, or the abrupt, eccentric gods in Chen Tongsheng's memory?

Chen Tongsheng was puzzled, and suddenly there was a dog barking outside. Fan Rui immediately got up and said, "Master, be careful. ”

A man in a long robe walked in cautiously, saluted them, and said politely: "I'm really sorry to disturb you late at night, but the rain is too strong outside, and there is no other way to go, can you share a small temple for the night?" ”

Song Chuanbai didn't answer and asked: "Why are you still staying here late at night?" ”

The man lowered his head and smiled bitterly, and said, "I went to the countryside to visit relatives, but I didn't expect to encounter a crowd riot on the way back, and I didn't want to cause trouble, so I took a detour to make a long detour until it was so late." ”

Song Chuanbai looked at Chen Tongsheng and saw that she had no objection, so he nodded and invited the other party to come in to avoid the rain.

The man leashed the dog to the door. He prepared an umbrella and went on the road, but it was still not easy to use, and he was drenched all over. Sit by the fire and shiver over the fire.

Chen Tongsheng sat down and asked, "Are you a local?" ”

The man nodded and introduced himself: "In Xia Du Huichun, he is indeed a local. ”

"Then you know," Chen Tongsheng pointed behind his back: "That's, whose likeness?" ”

Du Huichun wanted to speak and stopped, straightened his back, glanced at Chen Tongsheng, and said hesitantly: "It's better for the girl not to point directly, it's disrespectful to the gods." This turned out to be a temple donated by the Guo family in the city, specially hired someone to take care of it, the original incense was okay, and then the Guo family declined, everyone said that it was strange to worship the Bodhisattva, and gradually they didn't come. ”

This is still a bit contradictory at first glance, it turns out that no one thinks the Bodhisattva is strange when the incense is in full bloom?

Chen Tongsheng and Song Chuanbai glanced at each other, and then she asked, "What happened to the Guo family?" ”

"This ......" Du Huichun paused, looking reluctant to talk about his family's idle affairs, and wanted to ask them what they wanted to know about this, but the night was long, and it was windy and rainy, so if he didn't talk, there was really nothing else to do. So he sighed and said: "The Guo family is a business family, and the original family is called Guo Fu'an." After the business started, he donated a temple outside the city and came to worship during the New Year's holidays. The old father of the family used to run a business with him, but his health was not good, and he stopped working at home not long after. But for some reason, one day at home, I suddenly went crazy, made trouble for two days, and died of exhaustion. Then came his pregnant wife, who was pregnant for ten months, gave birth to a deformed and dead baby, and then fell to her death in the canal behind her yard. In just one year, Guo Fuan's unprovoked family was ruined, and he couldn't stand it anymore even when he sent three people, so he ran to the temple and beat him, and then disappeared. I heard that his father and mother both came to this temple before they died. ”

Chen Tongsheng said: "So, he blames this on the Bodhisattva? ”

Du Huichun nodded.

Song Chuanbai just looked at the fire, and said casually: "This bodhisattva has great skills." Listening to what this brother said, it seems that Guo Fuan also relied on it to make a fortune, and he blamed it for the ruin of his family. ”

"Who's to say it isn't?" Du Huichun's two hands stretched out to roast the fire, and they were two hands with long and thin knuckles, quite scholarly: "Guo Fuan used to have a little girl, but he was not welcomed, Guo Fuan made a little money, and he drove people out." ”

"I don't know if it's her fate or luck."

"So, what about that little lady?" Chen Tongsheng said: "Are you still alive, alive?" ”

Chen Tongsheng's stammering made Du Huichun look at her specially: "I don't know, who paid attention to the Guo family's affairs at that time?" It turned out to be just a short farce among parents. ”

This was the end of the topic, and the four of them gathered around the fire, whimpering.

The story added a touch of eerie atmosphere to the already dilapidated and gloomy temple, and Chen Tongsheng stared at the Bodhisattva's face until a cold air slowly rushed up his back.

Song Chuanbai suddenly spoke: "Where does Brother Du live in the city and what does he do for a living?" ”

Chen Tongsheng shuddered and came back to his senses. Du Huichun smiled embarrassedly: "It's just a matter of teaching children to read a few lines of poetry in a small private school, it's not productive." What about you? ”

I saw Song Chuanbai answer very seriously: "Ran away from home with my little sister." ”

Du Huichun was stunned for a moment, only to see Song Chuanbai come with a lie, he said: "My name is Song Lin, and my little sister and I are both from Kyoto, and our family is also in business. Businessmen seek profits, and in order to please the big boss in the Chamber of Commerce, my father forced me to marry the daughter of the big boss. Brother Du, do you know that the woman looks like a tiger, pulls out the mountains, shouts that I will not marry, and brings my family to gamble on my door, and also stops my car, so that I dare not go to the fireworks alley to have fun. Song Chuanbai looked indignant, and said the same: "Brother Du, look at me, think about that ten-year-old tiger-like daughter who is ten years older than me, do you think I can marry?" ”

"It turns out that the legend of Kyoto women is fierce, but it turns out to be true." Du Huichun was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but show sympathetic eyes: "It's better not to marry." ”

"That's what I said." Song Chuanbai clapped his hands: "My father trained me all day and night for this matter, and also deducted my pocket money." You say, in a place like Kyoto, there is a money hole where one step at a time, and I still have so many brothers, can there be a place where you don't need money? I was laughed at by others, and I couldn't get angry, so I took the private money and ran away. ”

Song Chuanbai said and pointed at Chen Tongsheng: "This is a stupid child, usually the most clingy to me, running after me, and saying nothing can be chased back." So I took her with me. ”

Du Huichun sighed, and Song Chuanbai continued: "You see that I don't look like my little sister, don't you?" She was also born to a little lady, she was not welcomed, and she was scolded at home, otherwise why would she follow me and not want to go home? ”

Chen Tongsheng: "? ”

Is it okay not to do this? It seems that your interest is really to pretend to be a gentleman.

Du Huichun couldn't help but look at her when he heard this, his eyes were much gentler, and his attitude towards Song Chuanbai was also more friendly, and he asked, "So where does Brother Song plan to go next?" ”

"Where?" Song Chuanbai waved his hand: "I didn't think about it, I'll go back when it's almost time, can my father really want me?" However, let's wait until you've had enough, what's there to do in this city? ”

Du Huichun said: "Yes." ”

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"You're so good, so interested, Wait." On the second day, when he returned to the city, Chen Tongsheng, who had changed into clean clothes, stood on the bridge and said.

Song Chuanbai was full of interest with a drawing, he also changed the robe embroidered with spring branches, but he was wearing a low-key dress that day, and said, "Don't you think it's very interesting?" ”

He returned to the inn early in the morning, and after freshening up himself, he went out without even bringing Fan Rui, and took back a hand-drawn drawing for half a day, announcing today's itinerary while reading:

Go to the Black Street.

Chen Tongsheng couldn't help but be very strange when he heard that this seemed to be in Puyang City, and he didn't mean to leave for Licheng. She walked around the inn and found that there were many fewer people in Song Chuanbai's belt, and almost all the horses in the stable had been taken away. She went to the shopkeeper to ask, and the shopkeeper said that she had left yesterday.

Yesterday, after Song Chuanbai took Chen Tongsheng out, his men and horses set off. Looking at Song Chuanbai's reaction, he was still very clear.

Song Chuanbai: What are you going to do?

Did he know yesterday that there would be a civil riot, so he let his men go first?

Black Street is the "fun place" that Du Huichun said last night, he said, there is no other new thing in Puyang City, Black Street is definitely unique, a good place to linger.

Song Chuanbai also specially asked Du Huichun to explain the way to go, and swore that he would not miss such a good place.

Song Chuanbai handed her the drawings, put his arm on the bridge to watch the river flow, and asked Fan Rui: "Have you figured out the reason for the riot last night?" ”

"Yes," Fan Rui replied, "all homeless and landless people, believing in a sect called Gagin." Last night, it was the instigation of the people in the teaching that made such a fuss. The people of Puyang are very disgusted with this sect, but they are helpless. ”

"What's the trouble?"

Fan Rui took a breath and felt ridiculous: "If you want money, you want the government to allocate rice and noodles and clothes." Speaking of which...... Most of the believers in Gakinri are related to the people in the city, but they have left home to believe in this religion, and it is not enough to send troops to fight them. They snatched up the work of clearing the wasteland the year before last, and now they are also farming and doing things in the suburbs. As long as they don't provoke them, the Gajin Sect is very honest, and the people in Puyang City have nothing to do with them, so they will turn a blind eye and close an eye. He paused, and added an extremely important piece of information: "All the people in the Gakin Sect eat Flying Light. ”

Chen Tongsheng turned his head abruptly and said, "All? ”

Bailai people, eat all this?

"Yes, that's what the city people told me." Fan Rui said: "So they don't want to provoke, this person who has eaten Feiguang looks normal, and it is also a commodity that ordinary people can't afford to offend, who knows what they are doing in a hurry?" ”

Song Chuanbai really laughed angrily: "Puyang's parents are really dead?" ”