As he walked, Yin Ping suddenly began to feel sorry for Ye Feng.

No matter how tired he is now, Master has given him enough dry food. But, what about Ye Feng? At the beginning, when Ye Feng left, he remembered clearly that the master only gave a small amount of dry food, which was enough to eat for two days at most.

Moreover, along the way, he has always had Xue Nerd as his companion, and the two of them can also talk and cooperate in picking up firewood, and when this one is tired, he will change to another.

Lonely Ye Feng, how did he spend time alone in the forest?

In this way, walking and walking, on the evening of the third day, just when Yin Ping felt that he was about to lose his support, suddenly, the light in the forest did not get darker and darker as before, but made the two of them have an illusion.

It was a feeling of sudden enlightenment and renewed sight.

So, they glanced at each other, and the two insisted on moving forward. After walking for about ten minutes, the end of the forest suddenly appeared in front of the two of them, Xue Dan was a little stunned, and Yin Ping was ecstatic.

In the past three days, the two of them have eaten dry food, and when they are thirsty, they drink water from the bamboo tube. At first, deep in the woods, they could find small streams, pools of water, and even springs.

The springs that flow through the springs dressed in stones and tree roots have the feeling of "clear spring stones flowing upstream".

However, for the whole day today, they did not find a water source. The water in the bamboo tube had been drunk, and although there was still dry food, Yin Ping felt that he was not willing to eat dry food again in his life.

It turned out that the gruel in the Nameless Temple was also delicious. For a moment, he suddenly missed the porridge with little water in the temple.

Now, the forest has been completed, which means that you can soon walk to a populated place. Yin Ping couldn't stop being excited.

Unlike Yin Ping's excitement, Xue Dan's heart was confused and panicked. In the past ten years, if he Xue Dan has learned anything, it is to live in the temple. Recite sutras, meditate, and follow the rules and precepts.

And no matter how dangerous this forest is, it is only physical torture.

However, now, outside this forest is a thousand feet of red dust, does he really want to step into it? Once inside, what kind of face should he live?

With these questions that bordered on fear, Xue Dan's face showed a vivid expression for the first time.

Right now, it's getting late, and no matter how Yin Ping wants to see the outside world, the two finally decide to stay at the edge of the woods and wait until dawn before setting off.

This night, Yin Ping slept well, and he even dreamed that he had found his biological parents. They welcomed his return, and from then on, he lived happily ever after.

Xue Dan, on the other hand, had almost never slept all night, and he was worried about his future life.

This forest is like the wall of the Nameless Temple, once you step out, you really don't know what awaits you.

For a moment, how he wished the woods were big enough that they would never get out. For a moment, he regretted that he hadn't agreed to Yinping's request the day before yesterday and went back to the temple again.

Perhaps, seeing that they had returned, Master accepted them?

The sky is still bright as scheduled, and it will not be advanced because of Yin Ping's expectations, nor will it be postponed because of Xue Dan's worries.

One foot deep and one foot shallow, the two of them went down the mountain like this. Gradually, villages came into view.

After the two entered the village, Yin Ping only felt that he couldn't see enough of it, it turned out that the world in the master's mouth was so beautiful, there were many people, and it was lively. Sometimes, Yin Ping even takes the initiative to communicate with people.

Although the questions asked were childish and ridiculous, the villagers didn't care about him when they saw that he was young and a monk. Xue Dan still looked so cautious in his words and deeds, and never took the initiative to speak.

Along the way, when I encountered a populated place, even if everyone was not rich, but when I saw a down-and-out little monk like Xue Dan and Yin Ping, they were also overflowing with kindness and love, and they always gave food.

If you have a good family, you will take the initiative to give some silver.

In terms of money, Yin Ping and Xue Dan are surprisingly similar, and they are not greedy, and they don't accept money. But in terms of food, it is different, all Xue Dan asks for is a bowl of porridge and a bowl of water, and Yin Ping, when he encounters someone who has the dish, he does not refuse, and at the end he has to say "I want to return the vulgar".

Yin Ping, who drank hot water and ate hot dishes and hot rice, only felt that everything in this world was so in line with his heart, and when he found his father, he wanted to live this kind of life every day.

Xue Dan was different, he felt that everything in this world was so noisy, and at this moment, he once again regretted that he didn't agree to his request when Yin Ping proposed to return to the temple.

In this way, half a month later, the two came to a big fork in the road.

This fork in the road leads to Qingshan County, where Ye Feng is located, to the east, and to the west, it leads to Qingshui Town, which was affected by the disaster some time ago. There, is where Xue Laohan and his wife live.

Although they now live in Jumbo Zhai, there is still his second brother's family there.

This time, before Yin Ping spoke, Xue Dan made a decision in advance: "Let's go this way." Xue Dan chose to go west.

When he left the temple, he listened to Yin Ping's words and walked in the opposite direction to the west. Now, it seems wrong.

Since you are in the red dust and you can't help yourself, let your heart walk towards the west.

Yin Ping has no opinion on this.

In the past half a month, he and Xue Dan's hair has grown long, although it is still too short compared to the hair that can be tied up by normal people, but it doesn't look like a standard monk in the end.

Xue Dan felt more and more embarrassed, but Yin Ping felt more and more comfortable. Like Ye Feng, who had just entered the WTO, he didn't want to look different from others.

If, if the wise monk could see everything in front of him, I don't know if he would be proud of his "masterpiece".

Xue Dan is dedicated to the Buddha in his heart, even if he is in the red dust, he even has to go to the west. However, the result was that he took Ye Feng's token and went to the town where Ye Feng's biological parents lived before the earthquake.

In this way, the two walked in a westward direction.

During the day, the two of them walked along the avenue. When he was tired, he stopped to rest, and when he was thirsty, he took a bowl and went to the river to draw water. When you're hungry, find someone nearby. This kind of trip continued until another half a month later, when Qingshui Town appeared in front of their eyes.

Here, the magic of fate is revealed again, and Xue Dan meets the relatives he has wanted to meet in his heart for more than ten years.

However, the town is deserted and lacks much more than the bustling villages you encounter along the way. It just so happened that the path they chose became more and more deserted, and in the end, they hardly saw anyone.

What is even more strange is that from a distance you can see the collapsed houses, which are in ruins and decay. In some abandoned houses, trees are even more than a meter high.

As for weeds, there are even more of them.

Yin Ping looked at all this with some strange wonder, wondering why this was the way it was. And in Xue Dan's heart, there was a feeling of pity that he had never felt before.

This is Qingshui Town after the earthquake, Qingshui Town, which has been hit by the plague, a place abandoned by many people. I have to say that they were lucky and came at the right time, after all, the plague has passed.

Although deserted, at least there is no danger of being infected with the plague.

If they had come a month earlier, they would have thought that they had gone to hell on earth. At that time, people who lived here and did not have time to move out were not allowed to go out, and it was better to say that it was providential, and to put it more practically, it was to wait for death.

After seeing too many ruins and ruins, Xue Dan and Yin Ping felt a little tired, so they decided to find a place to rest for a while.

After choosing for a long time, I finally found that a ruin was still clean, so I put my burden on the ground and began to rest.

However, not long after they sat down, they were about to pick up the bamboo tube to drink water, when suddenly, a cry came into their ears. The movements of the two of them paused, and they glanced at each other, and they both saw surprise in each other's eyes.

This place is so remote, and the ruins along the way are all ruins, not like a place where people haunt.

Therefore, both of them thought that they had heard something wrong.

Just as the two of them were about to continue drinking water, the cry rang out again. Although the voice was intermittent, distant and thin, the two of them heard it.

Because I listened subconsciously again.

They were both sure that it was indeed a cry, a voice they hadn't heard since they could remember.

Xue Dan froze, this cry was really a little miserable, whimpering, which made him feel the feeling called "pity" again.

Yin Ping was a little curious, after all, in all these years in the temple, he had never heard a cry. It turns out that the cry is like this?

Ignoring the exertion, he stood up and walked towards the cry. Seeing that Yin Ping was gone, Xue Dan immediately got up and followed. The two of them crossed a section of the wall, stepped on some dry grass, and followed the prestige, only then did they see an old woman with gray hair, dressed in a coarse cloth with a few patches on her body, and kowtowing to the south with paper money ingots.

"What kind of etiquette is this?" Yin Ping thought.

Xue Dan suddenly thought of the "birth, old age, sickness and death" he learned before, could it be that this old woman is worshipping someone who has passed away? However, how can mortal flesh and blood die? Since it's not a round of death, then what is it?

The old woman, who was preoccupied with worship and crying, had no idea that she had become a sight in the eyes of others. Just as the two of them were looking into the eyes, suddenly, I saw the old woman's head tilted, her body weakened, and she fell down.

Unlike Xue Dan's stunned, Yin Ping rushed over without thinking about it.

He sat down first, and then lifted the old woman up and let her lean into his bosom. Yin Ping found that she was so thin, as thin as a piece of paper, as if a gust of wind could blow her away.

At this moment, her lips were white and her eyes were closed, which made Yin Ping nervous. It was the first time he had seen someone faint, and he didn't know what to do except continue to hold her.

Xue Dan, who had been stunned beside her, came to her senses, and hurriedly took out the little water left in her bamboo tube, and slowly poured it out to moisten her lips.

I don't know if it was God's mercy or the old woman was just too sad and just needed to rest, although Xue Dan and Yin Ping didn't take any first aid measures, she still woke up leisurely under the moisture of the water.

When the old woman woke up, she found that there were two more young monks with delicate eyebrows beside her. At this moment, a person was standing, looking at her with concern. The other let himself lean on, although the other party was also so weak.

Thinking that someone fed him water to drink when he was in a daze, he subconsciously understood that it was these two children who looked like monks who saved him.

Immediately moved, he thanked: "Thank you two little masters for saving the old body." Looking at the sky, it's almost time for lunch, if the two little masters don't dislike it, please follow the old man home, and it's not too late to eat a fast meal. ”

Xue Dan and Yin Ping, who received the invitation, were immediately stunned, this was the first time in their lives that they were invited by strangers, and they didn't know what to do.

Seeing that the two of them did not answer, the old woman only thought that the other party was embarrassed, and said weakly: "I am already a person who has half a body in the ground, so you two don't have to avoid something." Besides, my current physical condition is indeed not able to walk that far, so you should send me home and send the Buddha to the West. ”

Maybe it was "eating the fast and then leaving" that moved Yin Ping, because he was indeed a little hungry. Even if they don't follow the old woman in front of them home, they will still be married.

Perhaps it was the old woman's sentence "send the Buddha to the West" that completely moved Xue Dan, although the monks should not be contaminated with dust, but doing good deeds cannot be shirked.

The two glanced at each other, and then they helped the old woman left and right, and walked all the way through her narrative.

Along the way, although the old woman babbled to herself, she didn't ask the two questions, which saved a lot of trouble. If you ask questions such as "where do you come from?" and "where are you going?" it is really difficult to answer.

The Nameless Temple is really not humane to the world, and the road is not easy to walk, thinking that even if they say it, others will not know, and they will even suspect that they are lying.

Although the old woman's words were a little illogical, through her intermittent narration, Yin Ping and Xue Dan still understood something.

It turned out that the old woman in front of her was surnamed Ai, and her husband's surname was Xue Mingxueyi, so people who were familiar with her called her Aunt Ai. The couple has two children, the eldest daughter Xue Qinger married in the next village a few years ago, because the economic conditions are not good, from time to time to go home to play the autumn breeze.

The second daughter Xue Ping'er married into Wujia Village, and her husband's family has good economic conditions, but she has a lot of things to do at home and doesn't come back often. Now, the old couple lives with their youngest son Xue Dacheng.

Speaking of which, this Xue Dacheng's luck is also quite bad, because the family is not rich, and the people in this town are all rich and noble, and his family affairs were not settled until last year, and the marriage alone has spent all the savings of the Xue family over the years.

Who knows, the original wedding date was set on the days of the earthquake. After the earthquake, Xue Dacheng originally wanted to go to his future father-in-law's house to see if there was anything he could do to help, and wanted to make a good impression, but he didn't know that his father-in-law's house was all in ruins, and the family didn't know where to go.

Later, a plague broke out in the town, and the government blocked all the exits from the town, preventing the townspeople from going out. During that time, the whole family was very tormented, but fortunately, no one in the family fell ill and escaped.

It's just that if he wants to find someone again, it will be even more difficult. After all, even the government doesn't know who the dead are.

After all, it is not excluded to go out and wander.

This Xue Xueyi also has a younger brother named Xue Xueming, who marries his wife Zhu.

Two years after the couple got married, they had a son. Originally, they had a very happy life, but one day, Zhu and Xue Xueming were just unloading the flour on the ox cart at home, and in just a few minutes, the child disappeared mysteriously, and the couple searched all the nearby villages and towns and disappeared, so they had no choice but to go to the government to file the case.

Since then, the couple has either sat at home every day and waited, or went out to look for it, and did not give birth. The originally solid family background has gradually become impoverished.

It's not over yet, it's really a disaster. In the earthquake, Xue Ai's family suffered heavy losses, not to mention the collapse of two rooms, Xue Xueyi was even more injured in the earthquake, because he rushed into the room to move some food out, but the house collapsed as soon as he reached the middle of the house, and the beam falling from the sky pressed heavily on his feet.

Later, it was with the help of neighbors that he was able to get out of danger.

After settling down in their own home, the couple remembered Xue Xueming's family, who lived alone. Who knows, Xue Xueming's home is even more miserable, it was razed to the ground, and people have no way to find it.

Xue Xueyi also didn't give up, and took the person he paid to ask to pick up the house, but as a result, no one was alive or dead, and Xue Xueming's two sons disappeared like their sons back then.

After thinking about it, Xue Aishi picked up the clothes of the two in the ruins and built a mound of clothes.

Today is Na Zhu's birthday, so Xue Aishi went to burn some paper money ingots for the couple, doing his best.

After listening to the old woman's story, Yin Ping was a little emotional. It's just that he still doesn't understand what an earthquake is.

Xue Dan didn't have any expression on his face, but there were already ripples in his heart.

It seems that there is nothing wrong with what the Buddhist scriptures say, birth, old age, sickness and death, life and death, all of which cannot be avoided in this world. At this moment, he really wanted to go back to the temple.

Since the master said that his fate was over, then he would find another temple.

In this world, in this red dust, he is no longer willing to stay, although he has only stayed for a month.

Xue Aishi didn't lie, her home was indeed not close to Xue Xueming's clothed mound. After walking for about half an hour, a crowd gradually appeared in front of them. After walking a little further, a rudimentary courtyard appeared.

Originally, this courtyard was a typical courtyard house, but now, it can only be called a triple courtyard, just because the wall on this side of the gate has collapsed, so that the whole courtyard is unobstructed, and it is all exposed in front of people's eyes.

In the courtyard, the roof of the west wing looked like it was added later, because it was extremely incompatible with the whole courtyard.

Under the eaves, there sat an old man of about fifty years, thin and thin, with many wrinkles on his face, which made people think of those criss-crossing ravines for no reason. One of his legs was stretched and straightened, and a stool was padded underneath.

"It seems that this is the Xue Xueyi who was hit by the beam of the house in the old woman's mouth," Yin Ping thought in his heart. Thinking about it, I couldn't help but look at the yard again.

Looking at this, Yin Ping felt that the Nameless Temple was much better than this.

Xue Aishi said to the old man who was basking in the sun: "I just went to worship my brother and sister's family, but I fainted somehow, but these two little masters saved me." I brought them back for a vegetarian meal. ”

When Xue Xueyi heard this, his eyes were full of gratitude. Xue Dan still looked like a monk, and returned the gift seriously. Yin Ping was not as restrained as before, and he dealt with the couple's gratitude casually.

It's just that the three of them didn't speak, and for a while Xue Xueyi felt that the scene was a little embarrassing. But. He was completely overwhelmed.

Because Xue Dan didn't know what embarrassment was, he was thinking about his Buddhist scriptures and where to go next. As for Yin Ping, he didn't care even more, he just wanted to eat now, and after eating, he continued on his way.

Fortunately, Xue Aishi is very good at cooking, and after a while, the meal is ready.

I have to say that Xue Dan and Yin Ping are both extremely well-fed people. Xue Aishi just made a tofu with only salt and a stir-fried vegetables in clear oil, and the two of them ate it with relish. Xue Dan still sandwiched the dishes, holding the bowl, facing to the side, and then began to eat.

Yin Ping no longer pays attention to that set, and sits on the table with Xue Xueyi and his wife to eat.

Seeing the sweetness of the two eating, the couple sighed in their hearts, at this time, even the monk is not having a good time. Otherwise, two children who are so young would actually come out to make a relationship.

Looking at this, I don't know how far I've gone.

Xue Dan raised his hand to eat, revealing his robe torn by thorns in the forest, he didn't realize it, but he was seen by the sharp-eyed Xue Aishi.

After eating, Xue Aishi didn't wash the dishes, and said directly to Xue Dan: "Little Master, your clothes are torn, and it is unreasonable to think of this to the Buddha." Take it off, I'll help you sew it up, it's just a matter of a few stitches, it's very fast, and it won't hinder you from hurrying. ”

Xue Dan thought about it, it was true, it was a small matter if his clothes were torn, but it was a big deal to be disrespectful to the Buddha. So, after some hesitation, he went to the back room and took off his shirt.

In the past, this kind of thing was done by the Master.

After taking the clothes, Xue Aishi quickly took out the needle and thread and immediately sewed it. Looking at her serious appearance, Yin Ping and Xue Dan felt that something was flowing in their hearts at the same time, which made Yin Ping confused and made Xue Dan panic.

For more than a month, he has felt emotions that he hadn't felt for more than a decade. It seems that this red dust land is the most moving.

Originally, this was not big, and Xue Ai's needlework was familiar, but it took a while to sew it. She stood up, shook the dust on her clothes, looked at it again, and then handed it to Xue Dan.

After taking the clothes, Xue Dan hurriedly went to the back room to dress.

Yin Ping was a little anxious and also went to the toilet.

Xue Aishi, who squatted down and was about to pack up the needlework, found that there was a brocade bag lying quietly on the ground, with the word "Xue" embroidered on it. Picking up the bag, Xue Aishi lost his mind for a moment.

"Master, look at this bag, how can it be so familiar, as if you have seen it somewhere, but where have you seen it? Hey, why can't I remember! ”

Holding the bag, Xue Aishi said with some surprise.

After a glance, Xue Xueyi couldn't remember that he had seen it, because he said: "Tips, aren't they all like that." I thought that this was someone's little master's, and I would return it in a while. ”

He saw that his mother-in-law had just shaken her clothes vigorously, and there was nothing at home, so he thought that it had fallen from her clothes.

As soon as Xue Xueyi said this, Xue Aishi had no choice but to give up, but he still felt confused in his heart, because this thing looked inexplicably familiar.

Xue Dan got dressed, and when he saw the bag handed over by Xue Aishi, he became more and more flustered. He always felt that he really couldn't stay in this red dust land, why was he so unsteady in his heart.

As soon as Yin Ping came out, he exchanged a few words of greeting and thanked him, and Xue Dan pulled Yin Ping away.

As soon as he walked to the door, as if he had thought of something, Xue Dan turned back to Xue Aishi and said, "Dare to ask the donor, is there any place for Buddhism near here?" ”

"There is a place for Buddhism, but it's not close to here, and it's still some distance. It is called the Big Buddha Temple, which is very famous, and everyone in this vicinity knows it, and you will know it when you ask. Xue replied.

She was still immersed in the inexplicable familiarity brought by that bag.

"It doesn't have to be big, and the incense doesn't have to be strong, it's just a temple."

"Then I don't know, I only know about this big Buddha temple."

Xue Dan originally wanted to find a temple closer to him, so he hurriedly went in to practice. Hearing this, I had no choice but to give up.

After thanking him, Xue Dan turned around and left.