Chapter Seventy-Three: Burning Incense
Waiting for the weather to get warmer, Xu Man has something to worry about, that is, the City God Temple where she went with her neighbors last time, although no one comes to her anymore, but she is also in awe of worshipping the gods, afraid that if she doesn't worship once, she won't get his blessing.
But she can become like this now, obviously without the blessing of the gods.
But she still asked Shen Yeling to help her burn incense, and asked the sensible Xiao Lin to go with him. This made Xiao Lin excited, and her kimono restrained her walking pace, and it was difficult to even jump and walk, so Xiao Lin walked extremely weirdly in order to express his excitement.
Shen Yeling looked at her from behind, whether she was concerned: "Xiaolin, let's take a foreign car."
Xiao Lin turned to her and shook his head, the 'Mr. Shen' at the beginning had already become 'Ye Lingjun', she replied: "No, even if we go to worship the Buddha, the most important thing is piety, we must go step by step to let those immortals see our piety."
After speaking, Xiao Lin walked to Shen Yeling's side, honestly and decently began to walk, she walked very steadily, and Shen Yeling walked peacefully without distractions.
Xiao Lin's questions came one after another, and she could always open a pair of big black eyes, and began to ask Shen Yeling like a student in the academy eager to gain knowledge: "What kind of immortals are there in China?"
"There are many, such as the Buddha, Guanyin Bodhisattva, our main thing is to worship them and pray for them to bless us with peace."
"Then they will really come to bless us."
"This is just a kind of belief, worshipping the gods is just a way to find sustenance in the gods, a way to make yourself feel at ease."
"Faith, our country also has faith, we believe in the emperor, is this considered your immortal here."
"Well, that's understandable."
Shen Yeling can always answer every question thrown by Xiao Lin one by one, and Xiao Lin throws them one after another, and he is also patient and tireless.
When they arrived at the City God Temple, according to Shen Yeling's previous way of serving Shen Wan to worship the Bodhisattva, he also probably knew what to do when he entered the door, and Xiao Lin also respectfully followed him. The garden in the backyard of the City God Temple, which is about to be idle, is gradually getting warmer as the days get warmer, and the scene left in the backyard is also a piece of spring.
After they worshiped the Buddha, they came to the backyard to enjoy the flowers leisurely, and there were quite a lot of tourists here, Shen Yeling sat quietly with them like this, looking at Xiaolin who was chasing butterflies in the distance.
A touch of familiarity came quietly from the corner of his eye, and Xiao Lin chased the butterfly through the layers of tender green rape buttercups that had just grown next to him.
I couldn't take care of the clogs hanging under my feet, and my eyes were full of butterflies flying in the air, but when Xiao Lin reached out to grab the butterfly that fluttered with the white wings, the clog shoes on her feet and the kimono blocked her in place.
She was thrown heavily into the mud, and Shen Yeling ran over to help in a panic and patted the layer of ash on her body. Xiao Lin raised his immature face and grinned embarrassedly at Shen Yeling, a row of white teeth revealed.
Shen Yeling looked at him and smiled, and it took a long time to react bit by bit, apologize to her, and lowered his head in embarrassment and said that he accidentally offended her: "You look very similar to a girl I have seen, and I hesitated a little because I saw it wrong just now."
Xiao Lin shook her head good-naturedly, a face that had illuminated her translucent in the sun, her white skin reflected a soft light, she looked at Shen Yeling with black round eyes and said, "It's nothing, Jia Baijun also said that I want to be alone."
Then she lowered her head, and her obsidian-like eyes also went down, turning back and forth twice before she raised her head and said: "Ye Lingjun, am I really like Luo Xiaoqi, oh, it's the head of the Luo family, Jia Baijun said that I look like her, but when I see her, I don't look like it at all."
Just looking at it, it really doesn't look like it, how can a ruthless Luo family head be similar to an ordinary girl, but after a long time, Xiao Lin's lively and cheerful personality, coupled with a smile, had to make Shen Yeling feel that this was also Luo Xiaoqi's body, after all, before she broke her leg, Luo Xiaoqi was still Luo Yunsheng, and she was as innocent and carefree as Xiaolin.
"Ye Lingjun, do you know Luo Xiaoqi? And who else do you think I want", Kobayashi asked again. indirectly pulled Shen Yeling, who was out of his mind again, back.
Shen Yeling was pulled back into her thoughts, fluttered her eyelashes twice, smiled, thought in her heart for a while, and then replied: "I have a niece who is nine years old from me, I will think of her when I see you, and then something happened, she changed, and I sometimes didn't know her, I was afraid at first and wanted to run away, but then I felt that she could become like this because I didn't always be by her side."
He looked at Xiao Lin and smiled again, his eyes began to blur again, but there was light in his eyes as if he was looking at Luo Yunsheng through Xiao Lin, and said: "I'm sorry, Xiao Lin, you are yourself, I don't want anyone to be anyone's substitute."
Saying that, he silently got up and walked back, Xiao Lin quickened his pace, but his steps were still tightly bound by the tight kimono.
Shen Yeling clenched his hands into fists, his head lowered slightly, making it impossible to tell whether he was thinking or in a daze, in short, he was distracted again, letting go of his usual steps, and didn't pay any attention to Xiao Lin, who was hurrying behind him.
Xiao Lin also changed from the original drive to running, and she suffered even more this run, stumbling on the stones on the side of the road and falling straight into the mud, and the white and elegant flower kimono she was wearing was printed with a large piece of dirt.
Xiao Lin's fall was enough for Shen Yeling to know that the task given to him by Xu Man to take care of Xiao Lin was not completed, so he helped Xiao Lin up, took off his gray coat and put it on Xiao Lin, and said a series of apologies.
Xiao Lin shook his head, still smiling at Shen Yeling as if she could dissolve everything with a smile: "Ye Lingjun, I see that your family loves your wife, cares about your apprentice and little nephew, and is also considerate to the servants at home, but I have rarely heard of you and your niece, but I listened to your words just now and in your tone, you prefer your niece, I am curious, Ye Lingjun, can you talk to me about it."
Luo Xiaoqi? Shen Yeling lowered his eyes, ten years ago, he really seemed to have been buried in his heart and never said it, so that after waiting for a long time, the memories were rusty and dusty, and only those memories were the most impressive, and those memories must be the memories of climbing the wall and drilling trees when he was with Luo Yunsheng.
Since Xiao Lin wanted to listen, then he had to pick up the beautiful and interesting things and tell her, Shen Yeling deliberately slowed down his walking speed, trying to make Xiao Lin able to keep up. The distress on his face melted away for a while, and what stayed on it was already a spring breeze pride.
Xiao Lin listened very carefully, her round eyes stared at Shen Yeling from time to time, the road under her feet was smooth, and the clogs and clothes on her feet seemed to have made another mutual compromise.
She almost didn't have to look at the road, just watched Shen Yeling keep walking, and unconsciously walked to the flat road and a stone popped out, Xianxian tripped her again.
She tripped over this stone and lost her center of gravity, and almost nodded and fell to the ground, but fortunately, Shen Yeling made a move and grabbed her shoulders firmly so that she didn't fall into the mud entirely.
She took a breath, and this time it was the third time, she raised her head and smiled at Shen Yeling again, Shen Yeling stabilized her, and sighed: "What a reckless girl."
If it was replaced by Luo Yunsheng, Shen Yeling would have long been afraid that she would fall and pick her up, and went down the mountain with her with a smile.
"Ye Lingjun, why don't you help me. I'm afraid I'll accidentally fall again", Xiao Lin was enthusiastic, and stretched out his hand in the air, trying to let Shen Yeling hold it.
Shen Yeling looked at this hand, putting aside the mud and ash, this is a white and flawless hand, a pair of hands that are raised in the greenhouse with ten fingers that do not touch the spring water, facing such a hand, Shen Yeling shook his head and said: "Xiaolin, I'm sorry, there is an ancient Chinese saying called 'men and women can't say clearly' I'm sorry, I can't hold you."
He looked at Xiao Lin, he was very young and very young, and he was a little younger than Luo Xiaoqi, Xiao Lin was as simple as a blank piece of paper, he treated such a girl as if he could be a daughter.
He can care about Xiaolin like a daughter, but can others know and understand him, if this hand is held, there will be people who are boiling outside, Shen Yeling of Chunhe Garden hooked up with an underage girl, it is really not good to hear it like this.
He took out a cotton handkerchief from his arms, carefully spread it out and folded it into a triangle, handed one end to Xiao Lin, and held the other end himself. If Xiao Lin falls down again, he can sense it for a while, and he won't take advantage of the girl.
There are more and more people who come to the City God Temple to burn incense, and they are already the ones who have finished burning incense, but they did not expect a group of pilgrims to come one after another.
Shen Yeling and Xiao Lin also humbly gave way to them, only to hear a high-pitched male voice in the distance: "Ye Ling", someone is calling him, and this voice has a sense of familiarity.
They all looked at the pilgrims in front of them, and among the crowd, Shen Yeling recognized Zhang Rao Shun, who was wearing a military-style tweed uniform.
I saw Zhang Raoshun cut a very energetic short hair, a neat suit and dress ironed on him, holding a bamboo basket in his hand, at first glance it looked like a big girl only used when she went to the street to buy things, he is now full of spring breeze, and when he saw Shen Yeling on the way to burn incense, he was even more excited to come together.
He saw that Shen Yeling was sticking to the past vigorously, but now that he was by his side, he could only suppress his heart and stop his movements.
Shen Yeling looked at Zhang Raoshun and then at Xiuzhu, first curious about how the two of them could be together, but then he came up with an understanding and smiled, arched his hand and said, "Congratulations."
Xiuzhu and Zhang Raoshun went to the City God Temple to burn incense and saw Shen Yeling, who was already a little shy, but now they were even more ashamed and annoyed when they heard Shen Yeling say congratulations to them again, and hurriedly said: "Mr. Shen, don't get me wrong, Zhang Zhenshou saved my life before, and I will give him a gift when he comes back after the New Year, and this time I am so familiar."
She didn't know how to explain it, the more she explained, the more confused it became, could she say that she had said it openly before, and secretly said that it was Shen Yeling who she liked. But a few days later, he followed Zhang Raoshun again. I don't know what to think about it, saying that my feelings are not dedicated or that I am a secret doorman.
Xiuzhu couldn't explain why, so she lowered her head and simply blushed and didn't speak, but she didn't speak and was unwilling, and at the moment she lowered her head, she noticed Xiao Lin beside Shen Yeling, and then discovered the relationship between the two of them.
Her long needle-like eyes saw it, and after Shen Yeling saw them, she took the initiative to let go of the handkerchief she was holding with Xiao Lin, and this reaction was as if she was doing something bad and was caught by them.
Shen Yeling let go of the handkerchief, and Xiao Lin beside her still held on tightly, and put the handkerchief away in a daze, she felt a sour taste in her heart inexplicably, clenching her teeth and 'gurgling' in her mouth. It turns out that Mr. Shen actually likes such a girl, a wild girl whose hair has not yet grown and her whole body is dirty, the more she looks at it, the more she feels that she is better than this girl, why does Shen Yeling dislike her, why should she refuse her again and again.
She looked at Xiao Lin again, and found the wide coat on Xiao Lin's body, and after careful consideration, she concluded that it was Shen Yeling's clothes.
Not only Xiuzhu felt that they were not right, but even Zhang Raoshun beside him felt that they were not right, pointed to Xiaolin and asked, "Ye Ling, this is."
"Oh, the female student who came to study with me is from a foreign school with the Luo family."
Zhang Raoshun suddenly 'snorted' in his mouth, not aimed at Shen Yeling, but heard the words 'Luo family'.