Lianhu District, Sajinqiao Halal West Temple.

12:30 p.m.

The Halal West Temple of Sajinqiao is located at the intersection of Sajinqiao, in a prosperous area.

It is said that the current Halal West Temple has been a combination of traditional Chinese architecture and Arabic style, and there is a pair of ancient stone piers in the Loumen Cave and the Halal Middle Temple.

According to the Netease Bayreuth blog, the location of the Sajinqiao Mosque was originally the Buddhist "Haihui Nunnery", with three old halls, which was changed to a Muslim national primary school in the 32nd year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, and later because of the sectarian dispute in the 15th year of the Republic of China, the parishioners who broke away from the Sajinqiao North Temple raised a huge amount of money to buy this place and rebuild it into a mosque. At that time, Ma Hongkui, who was the commander of the Seventh Division of the First National Army, arrived in Shaanxi, and then proposed the four-character plaque of "Halal West Temple" and was established.

Usually there is an imam in charge of the mosque, and the imam in charge of this mosque is the imam of Adan, that is, the imam of Sun Zheng mentioned in the letter of Granny Yanyu.

Imam (pronounced hōng, 同門, Persian: آخوند, Akhund, Akhoond, or Akhwand), also translated as Aheng, Akhun. In the Persian-speaking region is an honorific title for Is-Ran teachers. In China, it is used to refer to Islamic religious professionals.

Chinese imams are generally divided into two types: "opening imam and loose class imam", and the opening imam refers to the Muslim, also known as the principal imam, who is in charge of the teaching affairs of the mosque. A casual imam is a man who only has the title of an imam and is not hired as a full-time imam. After several years of education and training in Is-Lan, the imam has been serving as a missionary and promoting Is-Lan.

Imam Sun Zheng has always been revered by everyone as Imam Adan, and Adan is the name of Imam Sun Zheng.

The so-called scripture name is the religious name of the Chinese Mu-slin. Also known as the Christian name. Because it is mostly named after the sages of the past mentioned in the Qur'an and other classical scriptures, it is also called the name of the scripture.

Naming is one of the Islamic rituals, and there is a hadith in the al-Thirmishiz that says that after the birth of a baby, the father should "slaughter the sheep, name it, and shave the hair of the child" on the seventh day.

Is-Ran law stipulates that the care and education of a child begins with the choice of a name, and therefore stipulates that after the birth of a child, the father is required to fulfill five obligations:

1. On the seventh day, the sheep is slaughtered, and a beautiful name is chosen for the baby to wish him a good life; 2. Circumcision of boys; 3. Love and care for children, and pay attention to their healthy growth; 4. Educate and discipline them frequently, so that they can adhere to the canons, etiquette and public morality; 5. When you become an adult, you will choose a spouse for you. Therefore, Muslin around the world attaches great importance to this etiquette.

After the introduction of Islam to China, it has become a long-standing historical tradition and custom for Chinese Muslims to ask imams or respected elders to name their babies.

Since Yanyu is also a Muslim, she also has a very nice scripture name - Jamila, which means beautiful.

And her mother-in-law Tong Shuying's name is Imani, which represents faith, which is why her mother-in-law taught Yanyu to have her own firm beliefs and be a good girl with a more beautiful heart.

When Yanyu took a taxi from the Grand Hyatt Hotel to the Qiaozikou of West Street, considering that the Damai Street was too congested, he got out of the car and decided to walk to the Sajinqiao Halal West Temple to ask Imam Adan in person what the marriage contract in her mother-in-law's letter was.

It's just that Yanyu knows that Imam Adan is highly respected and usually busy, so Yanyu is worried that he may not be able to see Imam Adan when he goes to the temple, so he can only try his luck with the idea of trying it out.

Fortunately, as soon as she came to the gate of the Halal West Temple, she saw Imam Adan coming out of the temple, and after a slight hesitation, she still mustered up the courage to walk quickly to Imam Adan.

"Imam Adam, hello, please forgive me for taking the liberty of disturbing you, I am the granddaughter of Tong Shuying, the old boy in Xiaoxue Lane, my name is Yanyu, I don't know if I can take up a little time for you, because I have a very important thing I want to ask you for, and my mother-in-law said that no one can help me except you."

As soon as Yanyu came to the imam of Adan, he said apologetically.

"Old Tong Tong Shuying? Tong Shuying...... Yes...... I remember. It turns out that you are Jamila, the granddaughter of Imani. I met you four years ago when your mother-in-law passed away. It's you, right? ”

Amam Adam stopped, frowned and recalled, for a moment, suddenly as if he remembered something, and hurriedly asked.

"That's right, that's me. Imam Adam, I have come to you today because my mother-in-law asked me to do so in a letter she left to me when she was dying four years ago. It's just that I just opened the envelope today. Because my mother-in-law mentioned you in her letter, I guess you are the only one who can help me. In addition, what happened to me was too sudden, and there was an accident, and I was forced to come to you out of desperation. Well, this is the letter that my mother-in-law left me, and you may understand it after reading it. ”

Yanyu saw that Imam Adan still remembered her mother-in-law, and replied with a burst of surprise in her heart, and took out the letter from her bag as she spoke, and handed it to Imam Adan.

"This ...... Since it was left to you by her on her deathbed four years ago, why did you only open it today? And your mother-in-law actually mentioned me in her letter four years ago, so I guess there is something that I need to help you after she dies. However, I have the impression that your mother-in-law has hardly any contact with anyone, and it seems that you have never seen any other relatives or friends with her. Second, your mother-in-law has never talked to me privately about anything. If she really had something to entrust me, it would have been reasonable for her to come to me four years ago before she wrote this letter. So are you really sure it's me in the letter? If it wasn't me, and I read this letter rashly, wouldn't it be inappropriate? After all, this letter may involve privacy that is inconvenient for outsiders to know? Think about the contents of the letter again, and if you still believe that it is me, then I will read it for you. ”

After Amam Adan took the letter, he did not open it immediately, but asked with a puzzled expression.

He kindly reminded Yanyu again, obviously because of Yanyu's thoughts, he didn't want to let himself read the letter that he shouldn't read.

After all, this letter was written by an old man he was not familiar with before he died, and it was left to the only granddaughter in this world, and it was inevitable that there was privacy in it that was inconvenient for outsiders to know, so he had always been cautious in doing things, so he naturally thought about Yanyu, and did not rashly open the envelope to see the contents inside, so as not to regret it afterwards.

"I ......"

After listening to Imam Adam's words, Yanyu also felt that it made sense, and after saying the word "I", he didn't know what to say, and he couldn't help but stare at the envelope in Imam's hand and fell into contemplation.

She felt that the Imam of Adan in front of her seemed to be unfamiliar with her mother-in-law at all, and even listened to the imam of Adhan, whose mother-in-law had never talked to him about anything.

This is counterintuitive.

If my mother-in-law had written this letter twenty-two years ago when she was just born, and the letter mentioned Imam Adan, it would have been clear that she would have had a friendship with Imam Adan for decades.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for her mother-in-law to say in the letter that after the imam of Adan saw the marriage contract, she would naturally tell her what to do next.

Yanyu felt that if there had been no special agreement in advance, why would her mother-in-law be so sure that Imam Adan knew what to do next?

Another thing that is very strange is that listening to what Imam Adan just meant, he thought that this letter was written by her mother-in-law on her deathbed four years ago. It seems that he has no idea that this letter was actually written twenty-two years ago.

From this point of view, it is definitely impossible for this Imam Adan to know about the marriage contract, so isn't it in vain to show him the letter?

Thinking of this, Yanyu also felt even more bottomless in her heart, she didn't know whether to let Imam Adan read the contents of the letter next.

When he saw Yanyu falling into deep thought with some inexplicability, Imam Adan did not urge her, but waited patiently in place, obviously without Yanyu's confirmation, he would not rashly open the letter in his hand.

After about two or three minutes, after a series of ideological struggles, Yanyu tentatively asked: "Imam Adam, were you the imam of this Halal Western Mosque twenty-two years ago, that is, when I was just born?" In addition to meeting my mother-in-law, she also helped me name seven days after I was born? ”

"Twenty-two years ago? How is this possible? At that time, I had been lecturing and studying in a mosque in another place, and it was not until I returned to Xi'an 15 years ago that I became an imam in this mosque. I've never met your mother-in-law before, let alone named you. It seems that you must have recognized the wrong person, but fortunately I didn't open your letter rashly. ”

Imam Adan shook his head and replied in the utmost affirmative.

After finishing speaking, he also returned the envelope in his hand to Yanyu with a happy face, obviously feeling that his prudence just now was indeed a wise move.

"I see. But......" Yanyu said suddenly realized, and when she took the envelope that Imam Adan returned to her, she continued to ask without giving up, "Imam Adan, please allow me to ask you one last question, if you still don't know, then I'm afraid I really recognized the wrong person." I promise I will never bother you again. All right? ”

"Hehe, still don't give up? Well, son, just ask, I know everything. ”

Imam Adam smiled and replied generously.

"That's right, Imam Adam, I wonder if you've ever heard of the Jiaotong University diploma and a marriage contract? Or how did you propose a divorce to a person named Jun Buyu? ”

After carefully recalling the contents of the envelope, Yanyu asked in a tone without much hope.

When Yanyu plucked up the courage to ask this last question, she was also quite nervous and embarrassed, after all, she was still a girl who had never talked about a boyfriend, and it really took a lot of courage to say the word divorce from her mouth.

"What? Jiaotong University? Don't meet you! Divorce? Could it be that this is what your mother-in-law mentioned in her letter? If that's the case, then you're not looking for the wrong person. Because I do know a little bit about it. It's just that this matter is a long story, and I still have something to go out for, so it's inconvenient to go into detail, and I still need to go to another place to meet someone to confirm in the past two days before I can reply to you. Why don't you go home first. Three days later, at 12 o'clock in the afternoon, we will meet at the gate of Lianhu Park. We'll talk about that in more detail when the time comes. ”

Imam Adan listened to Yanyu's question and replied in shock.

And after Yanyu listened to Imam Adam's words, his originally hopeless expression became excited again.

It's just that what Yanyu didn't know was that at this moment, not far from her and Imam Adan, there was a middle-aged man who was even more excited than her.

And this middle-aged man who looks extremely noble is none other than Jun Wuregret, who came here unintentionally with a cloud before......