Chapter 161: Bell Zen Words
A day later on a Saturday morning.
Lu Li drove behind Lin Li's car and went to the temple near the prison.
In the past two days, the temperature in Fengtian has risen sharply, and there is a lot of momentum to go straight to early summer, and the scenery along the way is very good, but unfortunately Lu Li has no mood to appreciate.
After she came back from Qibao Town, she began to have an inexplicable low-grade fever, and she didn't get better after taking medicine and sleeping well, and she was about to go to the temple today to finish Zuo Na's affairs, so she went to the hospital to have a look.
After driving for almost an hour, the car stopped at the foot of the mountain.
Lu Li and Lin Lin went up the mountain along the stone steps, and the residual leaves were paved all the way up the stone steps from the foot of the mountain, and the footsteps stepped on, making a crisp sound, Lu Li liked this movement.
When he was halfway there, Lu Li gasped and offered to take a break, Lin Lin took out water for her to drink, and Lu Li asked after drinking and asked if she could leave Zuo Na's urn smoothly when she went down to the temple.
"It should work." When Lin Lin replied, his voice was also a little panting.
"Are you so sure you've done it before?" Lu Li regretted it after asking, why did she go online like she did in the past.
She didn't think Lin Lin would answer.
"After Officer Bai died, I also sent some of her ashes to the temple, but it was far away, and she wanted to go to a place she hadn't been." Lin Lin replied.
Lu Li was stabbed by the three words "Officer Bai", his eyes were sharp, and he was really caught off guard.
Lin Lin raised his head to drink water, and looked at the halfway up the mountain at the end of the stone steps, where the temple they were going to was there.
"Before my dad left, did I see you, I saw you in the detention center." Lu Li also asked about this coldly, and Lin Lin was also defenseless.
He swallowed a mouthful of water, screwed on the lid of the water bottle, and looked down at the stone slab under his feet, "Yes." Lin Lin didn't know if the meeting between himself and Lu Guowei was what Lu Guowei told his daughter.
No matter how he knew, he didn't plan to hide it, but he didn't expect Lu Li to ask at this time.
Lu Li stepped up a step, "I also went to the detention center to see him, the last time I saw him." ”
Lin Lin looked at Lu Li distressedly, "I know." ”
Lu Li pursed her lips, a cool breeze from the mountains blew, and there was a chill on her arms, and she instinctively shrank her shoulders.
Lin Lin wanted to immediately hold her in his arms to shield her from the wind, but in the current relationship between the two, he couldn't do so.
But he can hide the distressed feeling so that others can't see it, so Lin Lin let this grow wantonly in his body, which makes him feel better.
"If you get over, just continue." Lin Lin raised his hand and pointed down the stone steps and looked at Lu Li.
Lu Li didn't speak, and there was no expression on his face, looking at the stone steps without moving.
"If you're tired, take a break." Lin Lin looked at Lu Li's eyes, and intuitively felt that the topic just now would continue.
Another gust of mountain wind blew, and Lu Li suddenly opened his mouth in the wind, his voice was a little blurred in the wind, "That question, you haven't answered me, I want to know now." ”
Lin Lin was squinted by the wind, he knew that Lu Li was talking about that question, the one he didn't want to mention the most, but he might not be able to avoid it today.
Lu Li took another step closer to him, as if he had exhausted all his strength, and spit out a sentence: "Did you do ......anything in that cultural relics case back then?"
worked so hard, but in the end, he still couldn't say all the things he wanted to ask, and the moment Lu Li closed his mouth, he felt that his eyes were so hot.
Behind Lu Li, three companions of passers-by gradually approached along the stone steps, and she turned her head when she heard the voice, and tears suddenly fell at this time.
I don't know if Lin Lin saw it, Lu Li hurriedly pretended to fix his hair, raised his hand to wipe away his tears, and stood sideways to the side to make way for the people who came after.
Lin Lin also followed her sideways to give way to the stone steps.
The three people who came up from behind greeted him when they passed by, asked if there was a thousand-year-old temple above, and continued to go up the stone steps.
"Let's go up the mountain first, go back after finishing things, and I'll tell you anything you want to know." Lin Li's eyes were obviously cold, and he walked to the opposite side of Lu Li, waiting for her to answer.
Lu Li stared at him silently.
A trace of helplessness flashed in Lin Leng's eyes, and after disappearing soon, it became the ordinary of daily life: "I will definitely answer, believe me." ”
Lu Li raised his feet, "Let's go." ”
When they arrived at the gate of the temple, they saw that the three people from before were looking in at the door, and they did not know why they had not entered.
When the two of them were about to enter the temple, a young monk came out of the temple, who looked no more than a teenager, dressed in gray-blue monk's robes, and saw several people at the entrance of the temple, giving a salute with one hand.
The middle-aged woman among the three people stepped forward a few steps, and after saluting the young monk in return, her voice asked cautiously, "Little Master, please ask for one thing." ”
"Donor, please speak."
The middle-aged woman's eyes became confused, "I want to ask, can I go to the temple to pray for my children serving sentences in prison?" ”
Lu Li turned his head to look at her, but he didn't expect her to ask this, and Lin Lin also looked at the middle-aged woman.
The young monk remained calm, and after listening carefully to the question, he folded his hands and saluted respectfully: "Yes, as long as you are sincere and do not have evil thoughts, you can do it." ”
"Oh, great, thank you, little master, thank you!" The middle-aged woman smiled and turned around to greet her two companions, "Come in, make a wish and burn incense as soon as possible." ”
The three of them quickly entered the temple gate.
The young monk looked at Lu Li and Lin Lian, and after clasping his hands together again, he asked them if they needed help.
Lu Li didn't speak, and directly took out the empty urn in the backpack, and when she uncovered the red cloth that wrapped the urn, the young monk's calm eyes flashed.
Lin Lin looked at the urn and explained his intention to the young monk.
After listening to him, the young monk nodded, asked Lin Lin and Lu Li to follow him into the temple, and took them to find the senior brother in charge of the temple.
Lu Li wrapped the empty urn in red cloth again, and when he followed the young monk inside, he asked him if people often came to the temple to deal with this kind of thing.
The young monk shook his head, saying that it was the first time he had encountered him, and that he would have to wait and ask his senior brother about the details.
When I walked in, I found that the courtyard in the temple was not very big, and after crossing a threshold, Lu Li saw a few monks who were buried in cleaning, and then saw that the three people were passing by in the main hall just now, kneeling down and praying for blessings.
Lu Li guessed that many of the people who came here to burn incense may have something to do with the prison not far away.
The young monk led them further into the courtyard until they stopped at the door of a wing room at the back of the main hall.
"Donor, wait a minute, I'll go find Senior Brother first."
Before Lu Li had seen the whole place, the young monk had already walked out of the wing room with another monk wearing glasses.
The bespectacled monk quickly saw the urn covered with red cloth in Lu Li's hand, he raised his eyes to look at Lu Li, and then at Lin Lin next to him, and was silent for two seconds before saying, "Two donors, please come with me." ”
An hour later, Lu Li and Lin Lin stepped out of the temple gate empty-handed.
She turned her head to look back at the temple gate, and silently called Zuo Na's name in her heart.
The bell rang in the temple gate, and the words of the old monk who had just taken Zuo Na's urn were still ringing in his ears: "A parting word for the donor...... Young people, if you don't belong, don't force it, the future will be long, and there will be an end. ”
The old monk only told her this, and didn't say a word to Lin Lone.
When the two of them went down the mountain, half of the sky was covered by clouds, and the wind in the mountain became colder and colder.
The two went down the mountain speechlessly, and when they reached the foot of the mountain, Lu Li quickly opened the car door and sat in, turning on the air conditioner to keep warm.
Lin Lin didn't rush to get into the car, stood by the door and lowered his head to take out a box of cigarettes and lighters from his pocket, turned his back to the tuyere, lit one and put it in his mouth.
Lu Li saw him smoking, and his eyes were stunned.
Lin Xiao smoked quietly, and the light white smoke gradually dispersed around his face, and from Lu Li's point of view, there was a carelessness rarely seen in this man.
In this way, he hooked Lu Li's addiction to smoking. She pushed the car door down and walked towards Lin Lone.
Before he could get to the front, Lin Lin suddenly pressed the cigarette he had only smoked a few puffs on a stone beside him and extinguished it, pinched the cigarette butt in his hand, and picked up the mobile phone with the other hand to pick it up.
Lu Li didn't continue to move forward, Lin Lin didn't look at her, and then the phone walked farther away from her.
Lu Li couldn't hear the female voice in the receiver of Lin Lian's mobile phone, nor did he see the vigilant look in Lin Lian's eyes when he listened to the phone.
The call ended after about five minutes.
When Lin Lin turned around, she couldn't see Lu Li, and she had already sat back in her car.
When the two drove back to the city, it was not yet noon, Lin Lin offered to find a place to have lunch together, Lu Li hesitated, but still offered to go to her house to eat.
"I don't want to eat out at all lately."
Lin Lin also hesitated for a moment before agreeing.
When he arrived at Lu's house and opened the door and entered the house, Lin Lin was immediately stunned by what he saw in front of him, and Lu Li didn't look back, but as if he could see Lin Li's expression at the moment, he said to him casually: "I'm going to hang up this house and sell it, and I'm packing up my things." ”
Lin Li's eyes swept across the living room, watching Lu Li go to open the refrigerator door before he spoke: "Are you leaving Fengtian?" ”
"No, where can I go, I just don't want to live in this house anymore, I will buy another place after the sale, let's eat dumplings." Lu Li opened the door of the freezer, and there were still 1 breakup dumplings that Lin Lin wrapped for her.
"Do you have any food at home, I can cook it for you." Lin Lin rubbed his eyes, changed his slippers and walked to the side of the refrigerator.
"Don't bother it, eat dumplings."
"Okay." Lin Lin didn't insist anymore.
The dumplings were cooked and served, Lu Li ate most of the plate alone, Lin Lin looked at her eating appearance, and couldn't help but hook the corners of her mouth.
When she put the last dumpling in her mouth, Lu Li heard Lin Lin say to her, "Do you mind selling me here?" ”
Lu Li raised his face, a little suspicious of what he had just heard, "Huh? What did you say? ”
"I said," Lin Lin glanced at the little dipping sauce on the corner of Lu Li's mouth, "If you don't mind, I'd like to buy here." ”