Chapter 20: The Pine Forest
Two days later, it was just in time for the good weather, and the autumn was crisp.
There were so many people who went to Yunfu Temple to offer incense, Lin Chen and Xu Aqi were surrounded by the crowd, and they almost got separated several times.
The courtyard in front of the temple is not large, and the several Bodhi trees in the courtyard are huge. Surrounded by greenery, mostly pine trees, although they are old, they are still so tall and green.
Lin Chen and Xu Aqi walked through the courtyard, along the long winding stone steps, all the way up.
Above is the main hall of the temple, along the way, there is an endless stream of pilgrims and hawkers carrying goods, and occasionally you will see monks in monk's robes, they walk or sit, holding prayer beads in their hands, looking particularly pious.
Xu Aqi was tired of walking, and looked up, the golden hall in front of him should be the Daxiong Treasure Hall. There is a tour group walking by, the tour guide walking, while introducing: "This is the Ming Dynasty imitation Tang Dynasty building, the hall is more than ten meters high, and the four cornices are hung with copper bells. ”
The wind blew, and the brass bells on the cornices made a "tinkling" sound, as if playing music.
"Wait for me!"
"Hurry up! Come on! ”
Lin Chen turned around in front and waited for Xu Aqi.
Xu Aqi stepped one step at a time, stopped, bowed, and gasped for breath from exhaustion.
"Heroine, how did you really become a prawn this time! How far has this gone! You're tired like a shrimp! It seems that there is a lack of exercise on weekdays! ”
"It's a long stone staircase! I'm exhausted! Forget it, or you will go to the incense and worship the Buddha alone! I'm too lazy to go! Otherwise, I won't go! I really can't walk! I'll be waiting for you here! ”
A few tourists behind climbed the stairs, bypassed Xu Aqi, and overtook him.
Lin Chen glanced back at the hall behind him, walked back from the steps above, and stretched out a hand, "I'll pull you!" Now that they're all here! It's better to say goodbye above! ”
"Temples and halls are like that! Nothing new either! Go on your own! I can't walk anymore! ”
"What! You can't walk on such a small road! Take a walk and rest! You are not religious! Think of the believers in Tibet who kowtow along the highway, for the faith in their hearts, they kowtow all the way from their hometown to Lhasa, three steps and one kowtow, it is still in the harsh plateau! Not to mention the bad weather, there is also a serious lack of oxygen! Some people even took their lives into it! Compared with others, what is your bitterness, this tiredness! ”
"I'm too lazy to compare with them!"
On the side of the steps, there were some abrupt stones, Xu Aqi stepped on these stones, and casually found a bench under the tree and sat down.
Lin Chen's outstretched hand was still stagnant in mid-air, he sighed, shook his head, reluctantly retracted his hand, put it in his trouser pocket, and followed in a few steps.
"Alas! Count me on for nothing! ”
"I really can't walk! Go on your own! On behalf of me, I go to the gods and Buddhas, which means! I'll just sit here and wait for you! I'm fat, I'm okay if I'm willful! ”
"Insincere! Think about the hardships of people kowtowing, you..."
"Oh, I don't compare with them! Obviously, if you don't sit in a car, you don't need to have long legs, but you have to kowtow and kowtow all the way! Knock your head into a blood blister! All I can say is that they are called heartless eyes."
Xu Aqi's words were interrupted by Lin Chen before he finished speaking, "Be careful with your mouth!" You can't just talk about it here! Be careful to let the gods and Buddhas hear, they can't spare you! ”
Xu Aqi smiled disdainfully, "It's so spiritual!" ”
"That's not for sure!"
Xu Aqi leaned back on the chair disapprenorantly, folded her legs, took the small snacks bought at the entrance of the temple from her backpack, and ate them with relish!
Lin Chen stood silent for a while, then turned around in disappointment and walked down the steps towards the main hall alone.
It was already approaching autumn, and the wind was whistling over Xu Aqi's head, and the fallen leaves could be seen everywhere, flying one after another.
The small snack went into her stomach, Xu Aqi patted the dim sum residue on her hand, she thought for a while, looked at Lin Chen's back, smiled slyly, stood up, sniffed and walked a few steps behind him, gritted her teeth and rushed to his side, her five fingers interspersed between his fingers, and held it tightly.
"What? Listening to me talk about kowtowing, do you know that your heart should be sincere? Doesn't stop? ”
Lin Chen stopped, raised his eyebrows slightly, and looked at her.
Sincerely?
Xu Aqi rolled her eyes and shook Lin Chen's hand back and forth.
"It shouldn't be, I'm afraid that I'm not by your side, and you will be abducted by someone else!"
His fingers were sore by Xu Aqi's grip, Lin Chen withdrew his hand, inhaled, shook it gently, and looked at Xu Aqi with a bitter face.
"You can't just tap it! Why am I so upset for you! ”
Lin Chen sometimes wonders, is he and Xu Aqi also a match made in heaven? The personalities of the two of them are really different, and they have come together.
Lin Chen is a man who is more gentle, likes literature, fine arts, and classical music. Personality traits can be boiled down to these words: sullen, rational, occasionally paranoid, plus a little conservative.
Xu Aqi is a more arrogant person, cheerful, fashionable, true temperament and her enthusiasm seem to make her own aura, easy to make friends, and pragmatic is her style.
The two of them are together, and the occasional contrast can be a joke.
For example: Lin Chen loves Tchaikovsky, and Xu Aqi loves "spicy chicken".
"Aqi, do you think we are a match made in heaven?"
"Hmmm! Forget it! You see, you are a wolf, and I am a sheep! To be exact, our story is that a sheep fell in love with a wolf! ”
Lin Chen couldn't laugh or cry.
"Am I that evil?"
"When you leave me and fall in love with another woman, it's evil to me!"
Lin Chen didn't want to refute it anymore, he didn't bother to explain her doubts about his love, and he was tired.
Entering the main hall, the Buddha with a red gold plastered body is sitting on the lotus platform with a smile. The bronze Buddha statue, the whole body is shiny and shining, and there are disciples on both sides of the Buddha, such as Bodhisattva, Lux, Heavenly King, Arhat, etc., all of them are kind and kind-eyed, and their faces are serene.
People lined up in a long line and bowed three times in front of the Buddha statue to pray for peace and make their wishes come true.
Lin Chen and Xu Aqi were already sweating profusely when they left the hall.
The weather is terrible hot, and the main hall behind it may be being renovated, and the flow of people is scarce.
"Let's go, take a look at the back, there's a tree behind it, it's cool, let's go there and rest!"
Xu Aqi suggested.
Lin Chen didn't answer her question, but found a tree, leaned over, opened his backpack and found a bottle of water, and drank it by himself, and wiped his mouth after drinking.
"Hey, let me ask you, what wish did you make in front of the Buddha just now?"
Lin Chenle asked hehehe.
"What more can I wish for? Wishing to marry you? Cooking for you, cooking, washing stinky socks? Are you satisfied? ”
Xu Aqi took out a tissue and handed one over to Lin Chen. "Please! Wipe the sweat off your head first! Look at the oil on your face! It's uncomfortable to watch! What a wish! Alas, if I make a wish to marry you, you will be very proud! ”
"What am I proud of? If you want to marry, you will marry, let's not make a wish to marry, if you make a wish to marry again, if I make something wrong, it will not be the arrangement of the gods and Buddhas who have failed me, and if the gods and Buddhas blame it, I can't afford it. ”
"You're going to have to be scared! I don't mean that much to you anyway! ”
Xu Aqi muttered a few words, looking not very happy, and walked out of the side door of the temple alone, Lin Chen felt that he had said something wrong, so he took three steps and two steps to chase after him.
Outside the courtyard, there is a large pine forest, and the temperature is much cooler.
The ancient pines like giant umbrellas are intertwined, and the bare roots of the trees are like big pythons, densely bound on the stone wall.
The pine trees here, estimated to be hundreds of years old, are covered with scales and armor, with a thick torso, the pine crown is like a cloud of dark clouds, so dense that it can't blow into the wind, and among the layers of needles, there are strings of huge pine towers, and two squirrels chase on the branches, suddenly appearing and disappearing.
Xu Aqi was tired of walking in the forest, so he found a big stone under a big pine tree, sat down to rest, Lin Chen sat next to Aqi, and arched to Xu Aqi's side, Xu Aqi pretended not to see it.
The golden sunlight shone through the gaps in the leaves, and countless mottled spots of light appeared on the ground.
"Hey, who said you didn't mean that much to me!"
Lin Chen opened his mouth first.
A small pine needle fell on Xu Aqi's hair at some point, and he carefully took it off.
Xu Aqi wore a water-red dress today, and her long hair was coiled up with a hairpin, revealing her long neck.
Lin Chen's fingers still touched her bun, maybe she was still angry with Lin Chen, or maybe she felt the looseness of her hair, Xu Aqi didn't pay attention to Lin Chen, but simply took off the hairpin and rearranged her hair.
"Aki, you know what? I just love your hair, it's black and long, and it's waterfall-like! When I have a stable job and plenty of money, will we get married? ”
Hearing this, Xu Aqi was still unhappy on the surface, but her face seemed to look better than just now.
"When we get married, I'll help you comb your hair every day!" Lin Chen said flatteringly.
Xu Aqi finally showed a smile.
After a while, she coiled her hair, bit her lip, and said pitifully to Lin Chen: "You are going to marry me, why don't you dare to make a wish in front of the Buddha?" ”
Lin Chen was silent for a long time, and Fang raised his hand to caress her face: "Aqi! ”
Xu Aqi blinked, looked at Lin Chen, and waited for a long time without any follow-up, then frowned suspiciously: "Hey! What do you want to say to me? ”
Lin Chen paused and said solemnly: "I have wronged you!" ”
"That's what you think?"
Xu Aqi said this in his mouth, his eyes were full of cunning, "Tell me, why did you make me feel wronged?" ”
"I'm going to marry you, I'm going to build a nest first, right! For you, build a warm nest for our future baby, I'm afraid I'm not good enough, I'm afraid you're not satisfied! ”
Lin Chen opened his backpack, took out a bottle of mineral water, handed it to Xu Aqi, and picked up a small wooden stick from the ground. Seeing that there was a flat piece of land in front of Xu Aqi, Lin Chen said as he squatted on the ground and drew it.
He drew a house, and he wasn't quite satisfied, so he scribbled it out and drew a standard unit floor plan.
"Look, this is our home!"
Xu Aqi looked down, "That's it?" ”
"Hmmm! Not bad, right? ”
"Our family is a rat family, and we live in the dirt!" Xu Aqi said with a smile, "The children of rats will make holes, so we will save the money for buying a house in the future!" ”
Xu Aqi's dark eyes can speak, but at this time, she smiled into a slit, Lin Chen looked at her, her eyes were deep, and she continued to paint by herself.
"Hey, you're still addicted to drawing?"
"How are the Mole Family? Your rats will burrow in the dirt! ”
Xu Aqi laughed a little out of breath, and stabbed Lin Chen with a serious expression with his elbow.
"Good, good! Daddy Mouse, talk about what else you have planned! ”
Lin Chen continued to draw a square and said, "This is the kitchen, I'm going to cook a lot of delicious food for you here, make sauce fried squid, I will put more sugar, I know you like this bite, it's sweet and you won't pay for it anyway!" ”
He drew a square on the side again, and drew a small rectangle in the square, Lin Chen looked at it, felt dissatisfied, picked up a few pine needles on the ground, and lined them up on it.
"What are you putting these pine needles for?"
"You don't understand that! This is the baby's room, the baby's bed, the pine needles, the sponge cushion on the bed! ”
"Oh!" Xu Aqi thought for a while, "This means that our baby has become a squirrel again, sleeping in a nest built by pine needles." ”
Xu Aqi laughed while drinking water, and the water poured into her throat, choking her cough.
"Hmmm! As for the furniture, it must be imported, it must be environmentally friendly, and there is no harm to the baby! ”
"It's like it's true!"
"Also, this is our room!"
Lin Chen drew a big rectangle, looked at Ah Qi, and said with a smile, "It's where we love love." ”
"Nasty! Talking and talking, it's not serious again! ”
Xu Aqi hammered Lin Chen hard.
"Who is not serious! I'm planning our future life very seriously! ”
Xu Aqi moved his buttocks, sat next to Lin Chen, took the branch from Lin Chen's hand, and drew a three-story house with a pointed spire on the ground at a fast speed, "Hey, look! My painted home! ”
"Oh! So big? It's still Gothic architecture! ”
"What do you think? The pattern of the two of us is different! ”
Xu Aqi drew a square building on the side of the house and a big circle on the back of the house.
"What is this?"
"It's a villa with a garage, a garden and preferably a swimming pool!"
"Oh, this.. So big! My little aunt, how many oceans is going to cost me! How can I earn it in my lifetime! ”
"What's wrong? It's just not, don't let me fantasize about it! Besides, we're still young, so we won't earn it! Really! You see, now there are more people with luxury cars and bungalows, and you don't have fewer arms and legs than others, why can't we live in a villa! ”