Chapter 60, Qinglian Temple

That night, Yan Yu sat at Yan Yan's place for a small hour, and everyone knew that this family affair had been settled, but they didn't persuade Yan Yan to do anything, but pulled Yan Yan to recall some interesting things when he was a child.

Sending Yan Yu away, Yan Yan took a good bath, originally thought that he would have insomnia that night, but strangely slept well, and had no dreams all night.

Early the next morning, Yan Yan was entangled for a while, but she still went to the upper room to ask for peace, and had breakfast with everyone, and then she took Qinghe and Qingwei into the carriage and left Qingmiao and Qingyu at home.

Originally, Ma planned to take Yan Yu and Yan Tong to send Yan Yan to the nunnery to watch her settle and come back, but Yan Yan refused.

She said that she was going to practice, not to incense and make wishes, let alone to visit the mountains and rivers, but it happened that at this time, the Lu family sent someone to send a post, saying that Mrs. Lu would come over to discuss the matter of retiring her family.

Therefore, Ma gave up traveling with Yan Yan, but she sent Liu's mother to accompany her with two mothers-in-law who did rough work, and also sent four small servants to ride horses.

Because the carriage couldn't run fast in the city, it was past noon when Yan Yan and his party arrived at the mountain gate of Qinglian Nunnery, which was the hottest time of the day, and the ancients wore a lot, Yan Yan was already sweating.

Partial Qinglian Nunnery is halfway up the mountainside, the carriage can only go to the mountain gate, there are several rooms and a large open space outside the mountain gate, which is exclusively for men to rest and park the carriage and sedan chair, this is the rule of the Qinglian Nunnery, men are not allowed to enter the mountain gate, all the female dependents must get off the car and get off the sedan chair to walk here, saying that this is sincere.

Therefore, the more than 600 steps from the mountain gate to the gate were walked up by Yan Yan himself, which would not be a problem at all if it was placed now, but the original owner of this body was a real lady, and most of the time he stayed at home and did not leave the door.

Therefore, Rao is her hands are empty, after walking the more than 600 steps, Yan Yan's clothes are also soaked, fortunately, she went out without makeup, otherwise, it is estimated that this face will also be like Qinghe Qingglaze into a cat.

Liu's mother had followed Ma Shi to Qinglian Nunnery to make incense and make wishes, so she was very familiar with the masters in the nunnery, and as soon as she entered the gate, she left Yan Yan and went to the backyard to find the abbot to discuss Yan Yan's stay overnight.

Yan Yan stood under the porch at the entrance and looked at the layout of the courtyard, in the middle is a bluestone paved road, on both sides of the road is a vegetable field, there are water spinach, beans, cucumbers, winter melons, the ground near the courtyard wall is full of pumpkins, and the courtyard wall is full of loofahs, there are two tall soaphorn trees in front of the main hall, Yan Yan knows this kind of tree because she knows that in ancient times, soaphorn was used to wash clothes, and even the soap beans she used for bathing were made of soaphorn.

It seems that this Qinglian Nunnery is far away from the urban area, and its life is basically self-sufficient.

When he was building a pergola with his hand and wanted to see how many loofahs had grown on the loofah vine, a pair of ragged mother and daughter walked past Yan Yan with a small bamboo basket and entered the main hall.

Seeing this, Yan Yan instructed the mother-in-law beside him, and entered the hall with Qinghe and Qingglaze.

The main hall is dedicated to Guanyin Master, the body is carved in stone, nearly three meters high, it is the standing statue of Guanyin wearing the crown of heaven and holding the net bottle foot stepping on the lotus, the eyebrows are low, it is like rescuing the suffering victims in the vast number of living beings, people stand in front of them, suddenly feel small, but also respond to the situation.

It is said that the Guanyin Master here is very effective, and Yan Yan, as a traverser, cannot fail to believe in these, so she involuntarily knelt down and prayed sincerely.

I don't know if it's because the weather is too hot, at this time there is no one else in Qinglian Nunnery except for the pair of pilgrims, listen carefully, the mother and daughter seem to be asking Guanyin Bodhisattva to bless a patient in her family to get better as soon as possible.

Yan Yan knew that the poor people of this dynasty looked down on the sick, so he ordered Qing He to give the other party a few taels of silver plus a string of money.

After receiving the silver money, the mother and daughter also knew that they had come to thank Yan Yan, knelt and kowtowed to Yan Yan, and then cried with joy and left with this bit of broken silver.

This scene happened to be seen by the abbot who accompanied Liu's mother to see Yan Yan, Master Kong, nodded and stepped forward to Yan Yan with his hands together, "Good, Lord Yan looks like a person with a good heart and good fate, I haven't seen him for two years, this has always been good?" ”

"Alright, Master, alright?" Yan Yan also clasped his hands together and greeted each other.

When her grandmother was alive, she brought Yan Yan to Qinglian Nunnery twice, and after her grandmother passed away, Yan Yan followed Ma and Yan Yu to come twice, so it was not surprising that she met her.

"Lao Ni is a person outside the party, it doesn't matter if it's good or bad, but the donor's complexion doesn't seem to be very good, presumably because he is tired, Lao Nun will order someone to take you to settle down." Likong took a closer look at Yan Yan's face and said.

"It's so hard." Yan Yan replied respectfully.

Soon, Likong called a fifteen or sixteen-year-old nun named Wuchen to come over and took Yan Yan and his party to the backyard.

The backyard is very large, most of the open space is also planted with vegetables, there is a small pool in the middle, there are a few lotus flowers in the pool, there is a small stone arch bridge above the pool, the stone arch bridge used to be a row of bungalows, a total of five, this is where the masters live, and the middle room is used by the masters to chant scriptures and do homework.

There is also a row of houses on each side of the courtyard, the east side is the squatter room, which is for the guests who come to the incense, and the west side is the kitchen, dining room, reception room, and bedroom where the little masters live.

Yan Yan knew that there was a small gate in the northeast corner of this courtyard, and there was a courtyard in the past, which was specially used for distinguished guests from the city.

This is also what Liu's mother meant, she also knew that Yan Yan brought not many people, and she couldn't afford this responsibility if something happened, so when she heard that Yan Yan took the initiative to ask to live in the squatter room in the east, she hurriedly took the package in Qinghe's hand and took the lead to the east.

Fortunately, there are no other guests in this season, Liu's mother chose the middle room for Yan Yan, the two mothers-in-law live next to each other, Qinghe Qingglaze and Yan Yan live together, they are all big kangs, but they are not crowded.

When the two mothers-in-law fetched water to clean the house, Qinghe ordered Wuchen to take a mother-in-law to boil water to bathe Yan Yan, she kept the house to sort out Yan Yan's luggage and utensils, and the green glaze cleaned Yan Yan's basin and bathtub, which they brought by themselves and were brought up by the two mothers-in-law.

Seeing that it would take a while for the house to be cleaned up, he took Yan Yan and Liu's mother out and entered the room where the teachers and wives of the upper room were doing their homework.