When the man heard Yuan An's question, he hurriedly said, "Little master, I want to be ordained, can you help me introduce the master in the temple?" ”

The man's appearance is dignified, with melancholy between his eyebrows, if he is a little younger, he can pretend to be a melancholy child. Well, if he shaved his beard, it wouldn't be a problem to pretend to be a melancholy student, but in modern times, he would barely be a child at his age, right?

The man was dressed in brocade, which was definitely not something that people in the poor family could wear, and his bearing was not like that of ordinary people, he should be the noble son of a big family. It's just why did you come to their little broken temple?

"Another hill is Qiyuan Temple, why don't you go to Qiyuan Temple to become a monk and come to us?" Yuan An asked curiously, "You can see clearly, we are dilapidated and old here, and our life is also very hard, which is not suitable for a noble person like you." ”

Qiyuan Temple is on Jiming Mountain, it is not the largest temple in the south, but it is the most famous temple, its history can be traced back to the Three Kingdoms period, the royal and aristocratic people want to go to the temple, the first choice is this Qiyuan Temple. The condition of Qiyuan Temple is very good, with a large amount of fertile land, and even monks and soldiers protect the temple. The monks there have new monk's clothes to replace every year, unlike them, Kongyuan and Kongxing only have two sets of clothes to wear, and the clothes on Yuan'an's body are still changed from Kongyuan's old monk's clothes. Later, after the potatoes, corn and sweet potatoes were planted, the villagers at the bottom of the mountain were grateful for the seeds they sent and pooled money to help the three of them make new monks' clothes.

The man replied, "I became a monk only to practice the Dharma, not to enjoy it, otherwise I would not have become a monk." Qiyuan Temple is not for me. ”

Yuan An felt that this man must have a story that led him to become a monk. Seeing that this man's willingness to become a monk was very firm, he said to the man: "Come in with me, I'll call the master and uncle, whether to accept you or not, the master and uncle have to make a decision." ”

"Thank you, little master." The man put his right hand on his chest and made a Buddha salute.

Yuan An brought people into the temple. This small temple called "Qingyuan Temple" is really small, there is only one large hall dedicated to the Buddha, and then there is the courtyard behind the larger point and the houses on both sides of the courtyard. There are four rooms on the left and right of the house, and on the left is the quiet room, which is actually the bedroom of Kongyuan Kongxing and Yuan'an, and there is one empty. On the right are the kitchen and utility room, and the two rooms that are vacated are used as guest rooms, although there will be no guests in this small temple, and there are no extra bedding in the temple for people to stay.

Yuan An took the man to the backyard, waited him under the big tree in the courtyard, and knocked on the door one by one to call Kong Yuan and Kong Xing out of the room.

The man knelt in front of Kongyuan Kongxing, and expressed his determination to escape into the empty door very reverently and firmly. The man recounted his past. He really came from a big family, but he was a concubine. Men have no ambitions, they don't compete for power and profit with their brothers, and they live a low-key and stable life in the family. When he was old, he married a beautiful girl and gave birth to a daughter.

When his wife gave birth, she had a difficult birth and almost lost her life, and then she developed a fear of childbirth, and even refused to have sex with a man for fear of getting pregnant again. Fortunately, the man also has concubines who can help him with his physical needs. It's just that none of these concubines are pregnant, and the man is getting older, but he only has one child born to his wife's daughter. Later, the man inadvertently learned that his wife did not get pregnant when the concubine did not get pregnant, and she did not allow other women to get pregnant and give birth to children in order to ensure the status of her daughter.

The man was very angry about this, and it was at this time that he gradually became attracted to Buddhism, threw himself into Buddhism, and slowly distanced himself from the women. If this continues, the man will continue to study the Dharma and will not become a monk. It was he who killed his own wife.

It turned out that his wife had a relationship with his brother-in-law before marrying him, but her wife's identity was not worthy of his brother-in-law, so she could only wronged herself to marry a man. After getting married, the wife did not withdraw her feelings for her brother-in-law, and broke off the connection with her old lover behind her husband's back. The reason why the wife is not allowed to be touched by the man after giving birth is because she wants to guard her lover like jade - Yuan'an vomited badly, and even gave birth to a daughter, and she is still like a jade P? - The wife and brother-in-law have rekindled their old relationship during the wife's pregnancy. In the years that followed, the man was cuckolded by his brother and wife.

The wife is pregnant, and the child is not the man's, but the brother's, and the two are found out by the man when they are discussing what to do together. In a fit of rage, the man beat his brother-in-law, killed his wife, and alarmed the rest of the family.

It's a big scandal now. Brother Yan was punished for this, fortunately he was only the second son of the second son, not the heir of the family, the family did not attach much importance to the brother, and the brother did such a scandalous thing, the family hated him even more, although the brother was not removed, but the future of the brother was cut off.

The man is appeased by the clan, but it is also appeased by materials, and the rest, the family cannot give him. Although he was a victim, his way of making a big deal out of it rather than suppressing it made the clan unhappy. Since then, the man's future has been the same as that of his brother-in-law, and it has been gone.

The man was not as depressed as his brother-in-law, he saw many problems clearly through this incident, and he was determined to become a monk. He didn't want to go to those big temples, in his opinion, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and the temple and a family actually have a lot in common. He didn't want to be intrigued after becoming a monk, he wanted to go to a temple where there were not many people who had no right and wrong to become a monk, even if he had to live a hard life after that.

Kong Yuan and Kong Xing did not accept the man into the Buddha gate, but only let him stay in the temple for a longer period of time to experience the poor life in the temple.

The man thanked the two of them and settled into the remaining room on the left. Fortunately, the weather is not cold now, and it will not be cold at night without bedding. On the second day, Yuan'an asked the man to carry a basket of sweet potatoes and a small basket of radishes on his back, and went down the mountain with the man to change the bedding.

"Can this lump-like thing really be exchanged for a futon?" The man asked suspiciously, he had never seen sweet potatoes and did not know the value of sweet potatoes.

Yuan An hummed and said, "Don't underestimate it, this is a sweet potato, it tastes sweet, it's delicious, and it can fill your stomach." The villagers at the bottom of the mountain like to eat it, and they have grown a lot of it themselves. ”

The man was even more puzzled: "Since they have planted themselves, can we still get things if we bring these down?" ”

"Of course you can." Yuan An said, "These villagers and their daughters married into other villages, and those villages also want to grow sweet potatoes, but unfortunately the number of seeds left in the village is not much, so they can't provide them to others." Let's bring this basket down to help them solve some of their problems. ”

The man wondered, "Is this thing called a sweet potato really that good?" ”

"Sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn are all high-yielding grains, and there is nothing better for farmers. As for the taste, I'll make sweet potato porridge for you to taste at noon today, and you'll know what it tastes like. Yuan An replied with a smile. On the round little face, a pair of big eyes completed a slit, which looked very cute, so that the man couldn't help but move in his heart, and his right hand unconsciously touched Yuan'an's little bald head.

"Little brother is so cute." The man said. He actually likes children very much, but unfortunately, except for his daughter, who is not close to him, he has not had a child for so many years. Looking at Yuan'an's cute appearance of "pretending to be an adult", a father's love can't help but pour out on Yuan'an.

Yuan An slapped the man's hand away: "Don't move your hands and feet, I'm your senior brother, you have to respect me." ”

Buddhism does not judge seniority by age, Yuan An entered the door earlier than men, so he is naturally a senior brother.

The man quickly withdrew his hand, but the smile was not retracted, and the gloom between his brows was much less gloomy.

The two came to the village at the foot of the mountain, and the villagers all knew the little monk Yuan'an, and when they saw him, they greeted him one after another, and took out the vegetables grown at home and stuffed them into the arms of the little monk, and when they saw that the little monk couldn't hold those vegetables, they stuffed them into the man's arms.

The man was deeply touched by the warmth and kindness of the villagers, and the emotions and experiences that were completely different from those in the family and the family. He felt that he should have made the right decision.

Yuan An exchanged sweet potatoes and turnips for a futon with the richest family in the village, which was not a very good bedding, a little thin, barely enough to cover it until late autumn, and not enough to keep warm in winter.

"When the autumn comes, we will harvest more sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn, and when the time comes, we will sell them in the city, and buy you a thick bedding in exchange for money, and then buy a leather coat for the master and the uncle." Yuan An said.

Seeing that he was planning so systematically at a "young age", the man thought of his own daughter, who was eleven or twelve years old, but was not raised by his mother and did not know the world. I wonder if this child has grown up after her mother died and she left home? Let's hope she grows up again.

The man's feelings for his daughter are not deep, because his wife has always looked down on men in front of her daughter before her death, and always said good things about her lover, so that her daughter does not like him as a father, but has a good relationship with her brother. The man once thought that his daughter was the child of his brother-in-law. However, it was later confirmed that the child was really his. But also because the child has been behaving all the time, he doesn't like that child.

After leaving all his possessions to the child, he left without a grudge. I don't think about how a girl can keep that money without a father and mother. Look at Lin Daiyu, a little orphan girl, who obviously has a lot of money from the Lin family, but was slandered by the people of Jiafu as a poor relative who fights the autumn wind. His daughter's status in the family is not high because of the relationship between the concubine's daughter, how can she keep the money she left behind?