Xing Ruyi has never seen such a handsome monk, nor has he ever seen a monk in a cage, described as withered, but can still maintain an elegant posture. Even though it was dark in the cage, the monk's calm eyes were bright.

Xing Ruyi stood outside the cell, looking at the handsome monk's face, and finally understood why Liu Wei would rather disobey Liu Laoshi than find the stubbornness of marriage, because all girls are good-looking, just like men are lustful.

"Your name is Xu Liang?"

Xing Ruyi half-squatted down and looked into Xu Liang's eyes. There is peace, learning, hidden pain, and reluctance to give up on the world. Hearing Xing Ruyi's voice, he just raised his head slightly and glanced at her with some surprise.

"You don't need to look at me, I know this is a men's prison, I'm just here to visit."

"You don't know the poor monk and the girl!"

"Just because you don't know me doesn't mean I don't know you." Xing Ruyi pointed to the door lock on the cell, signaled Xiao Shengzi to open it, and he lifted the corner of his skirt, grabbed a handful of clean straw, and sat cross-legged opposite Xu Liang: "Let's talk less nonsense, I came today to ask you a few words on behalf of the yamen, and also to come to see you on behalf of Liu Wei." Actually, the person who killed Liu Wei wasn't you, right? ”

Xu Liang raised his eyes, and he didn't know how to answer for a while, after all, Xing Ruyi's sentence contained too many questions, which made him a little unable to turn around for a while. After thinking about it, he still only asked the one he was interested in.

"Does the girl know Fennel?"

"A few days ago, she came to my shop to buy rouge, and I recommended Sun Xian Maiden Cream to her. Xu Gongzi knows what is the use of this Sun Immortal Maiden ointment? ”

Xu Liang shook his head, he didn't understand, what this thing had to do with whether Xing Ruyi knew Liu Wei or not, but he had an excellent temperament, and he was very interested in what Xing Ruyi said, and he couldn't bear to interrupt.

"This Sun fairy girl paste, is with 1 gram of cork, 10 grams of soil melon roots, 7 jujubes, first remove the outer layer of cork coarse skin and soil melon roots into a fine powder, and then add jujube to reconcile into a sticky paste, every morning with boiling water to bloom some, add warm water to wash the face. It can be used for more than ten days, and it can be tolerated like a girl, so it is called Sun Xian Maiden Ointment. Although the medicinal materials used in this thing are not expensive, it takes a lot of effort to prepare, so in my rouge shop, the price is neither high nor low, but this is not high or low, not for Miss Liu Wei. ”

"The poor monk understands that these things are usually made by young ladies from large families."

"But Liu Wei is not a young lady from a big family, she is just a butcher's daughter, and she has to help her father kill pigs, slaughter sheep, and slaughter chickens and ducks all day long, why did she come to the door and ask me to buy this Sun Xian Maiden cream?"

Xu Liang's eyes moved slightly, but he didn't say anything.

Xing Ruyi continued: "I can see that Liu Wei is not the kind of person who cares about her appearance very much, so she came to buy these things for only one reason, that is, women are confidants. ”

Xu Liang didn't say anything, only lowered his head silently.

"How many days have you and Liu Wei not seen each other?"

"More than one!"

"So, you're going down the mountain to see her this time, right?"

Xu Liang first shook his head, and then nodded lightly.

"The descent was arranged by the master, but deep down in the heart of the poor monk, he also missed her a little. So the girl asked me if I was going down the mountain to see her? The poor monk can neither deny nor nod. ”

"When did you meet?"

"The day after I went down the mountain, I went to the market with my brother and happened to meet her. I wanted to hide, but when I saw Fen'er running towards me with joy on her face, I couldn't move my feet anymore. I knew that at this time, I could no longer call myself a poor monk, because my mind was not firm enough, I could not forget the mortal dust, and I had shamed the Buddha. Xu Liang said, got up, took off the Buddhist robe on his body, and sat back silently: "Whatever the girl wants to ask, just ask!" ”

"After we met, did you go somewhere else?"

"It was asked by Fen'er, because she saw me dressed as a monk, and she was afraid of causing me trouble on the street."

"Just the two of you?"

"Nope! Senior brother is also here, but there is still a distance from us. ”

"What did you all talk about?"

"In the past, when I was a child, there was still a girl who asked me, why did she leave her to become a monk?"

"You answered her?"

"Some of them returned, some of them didn't, like the last question she asked me."

"Why don't you answer, because I'm afraid she'll hate you if she finds out?"

"Nope! Because I am afraid that if she knows, she will be in a dilemma and don't know how to choose. When Xu Liang said this, he looked up at Xing Ruyi, he always felt that the girl opposite had a lot of things hidden in her eyes, and that gaze seemed to be able to penetrate people's hearts, as if he was trying to hide Liu Wei's secret, but she knew everything.

Silently recited a Buddhist sentence in his heart, Xu Liang's eyes were calm, and he felt that there were some things, and it was good to say them.

"It has something to do with the death of your parents, doesn't it?"

Xing Ruyi crossed his legs and held his chin, but his words were like those hosts in later generations doing interviews.

"Yes!"

"Something to do with Liu Laoshi?"

"Yes!"

"So you have no choice, you like Liu Wei, but you can't marry the daughter of your father's enemy. You want revenge, but you pity Liu Wei, because Liu Laoshi is her only support in this life, and you are afraid that she will suffer, and you are afraid that she will hate you. So, you can only choose to become a monk and choose to use the Dharma to resolve the entanglement in your heart. However, the Dharma is profound, and it cannot resolve the love in the world. ”

"Yes!" Xu Liang closed his eyes lightly, and slowly opened them again: "But if I knew that this meeting would cause trouble for her, I would rather stay in the mountains for the rest of my life, and I would rather never see her again for this life." ”

Xing Ruyi's eyes rolled and asked, "Did you do anything indescribable during that meeting?" ”

"Indescribable?" Xu Liang raised his eyebrows.

"It's the kind of thing that can only be done between husband and wife, between a lady and a master?"

Xu Liang's face turned red, and his voice whispered: "She is a good girl, although I am not a decent gentleman, I will not ask for her innocence at that time." Besides, my brother is still around. ”

"But when you were on the scene, you admitted it yourself."

"That's because of"

"Good! Let's move on to the next topic. Xing Ruyi interrupted: "When we met, did you ever mention that you wanted to eat chicken?" ”

"I mentioned it!" Xu Liang lowered his head: "When we met, I suddenly heard the rooster crowing, and Fen'er smiled and said, when I was young, I loved to eat chicken legs the most, and even had an awkward relationship with her in order to eat two more bites." Later, I don't know when we started to stop fighting, but humble each other, let the chicken legs go cold, and no one wanted to bite the first bite. Every now and then, she would pretend to cry and force me to take the first bite and she take the second bite. She also said that because she knew that I liked to eat chicken legs, I learned a lot of ways to make chicken legs in private, but she learned it, and I became a monk. Monks are not allowed to eat meat. I saw that she was sad, so I comforted her, saying that I actually missed the smell of those chicken legs. ”

"Then Liu Wei said that she would go home and cook it for you, and also made an appointment for you to meet for the second time?"

"Nope! She knew that I had a strong intention of becoming a monk, and she did not force me. She only said that when she got married on another day, let me come down the mountain to see her. ”

"Last question, can your senior brother use ambergris?"

"Why did the girl think of asking this?"

"You just have to answer me, whether he uses it or not."

"Yes! Because of the hidden disease, the senior brother was often discussed behind his back by the brothers when he was young, so the master bought a lot of ambergris for him, but he only used it when there were many people going out. ”

"Now, then, let's go back to that question. There is no intimate relationship between you and Liu Wei, so why did you personally admit that you and Liu Wei had a good time when the crime occurred? There is only one answer, because Liu Wei was raped, you know that during the autopsy, you will definitely find out this, so you will bear it yourself, and the person who committed the violence is yourself. ”

Xu Liang clenched his fists silently, the corners of his eyes were slightly moist, but he bit his lower lip tightly and did not say anything.

"Now, let me help you restore the case!"

"You and Liu Wei have been childhood sweethearts since childhood, and the two families have similar backgrounds, and their parents have a very good relationship, so you have also been set up as relatives since childhood. However, I don't know why there is a conflict between your parents and Liu Laoshi, I guess it must be related to interests, otherwise according to Liu Laoshi's personality, it is impossible to attack your parents one after another. ”

"It's a box of jewels!" Xu Liang suddenly said: "That was many years ago, I vaguely remember that I was only seven or eight years old at that time. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, my father and mother and the father of the child invited each other to celebrate on the river, and the rented fisherman's boat, although not luxurious, was also available. My mother prepared moon cakes, my father prepared good wine, and my father brought a lot of meat, and we all ate and drank a lot, and when the moon was in the middle of the day, we all fell asleep. Before I knew it, the boat floated a long way down the Luo River, and finally got stuck in a reed. Then, in a daze, I heard my father and mother talking, saying that the river bandits were killing people outside, and vaguely, I also heard the cry, but the sound soon disappeared.

When I came out of the cabin, I saw my father and mother, and my father, standing in the bow of the boat, and the boat slowly sailed out of the reeds, and under the silver-white moonlight, there was a bloody river, and many floating corpses floated on it. My mother was soft-hearted and whispered to my father, do you want to go down and have a look, maybe there are still living people. My father said, the river bandits shot, how can they stay alive, let's leave as soon as possible, lest the river bandits come back, and we will also be robbed together. ”

"It's a pity that you didn't leave!"

"Yes, we couldn't leave, or it was providence that allowed our two families to coexist peacefully, and our hearts were pure and good-hearted, and we stayed in that bloody night." Xu Liang's eyes were empty, as if he had returned to that Mid-Autumn Festival night.

(Education 123 Literature Network)