Chapter 50: Childhood sweethearts
"Brother Qing!"
Just when the young man was angry, sleepy, and overwhelmed, a sweet voice woke him up who couldn't find an outlet in his melancholy.
When I looked back, it was Yan Hong, the second daughter of the old Sun family in the village not far from the vegetable garden, who walked in from the fence outside the vegetable garden......
The young man turned his head sideways and wiped the liquid on his face with sweat or tears, and lifted the wooden barrel that had fallen to the ground.
Yan Hong walked quickly to the young man's side, and beat the dirt on his body with her handβthe marks left by the fat monk Fakong who kicked him with his monk's shoes.
"They're too much!" Yan Hong said hatefully as she bounced the soil.
"Xiaohong, I'm fine, really!" The youth said.
Yan Hong looked up at the young man's face and said with concern: "Brother Qing, I saw it all just now!" They're too bullying! As soon as Elder Huineng is gone, they won't treat you as a human being! If you keep going like this, you will be tortured to death by them! β
The young man looked down at the excited light in his red eyes, and said in a harmonious voice, "They won't do anything to me." It was Elder Huineng who saved me, and my life was given by this Temple of Light. I should serve the food and clothing in this temple, but I ...... For now, I just need to be patient. β
Yan Hong's good-looking face flushed, and she said excitedly: "Forbearance? How long will it take? Could it be true that they forced you to death, so that you repaid the life-saving grace of this Guangming Temple? β
The young man looked at the bright red girl in front of him, and couldn't help but feel excited, as if he had just returned to the time when he had just moved to the vegetable garden of this Guangming Temple a few years ago.
He was a teenager at the time, and he was pulling weeds around the hut where he was looking at the vegetable garden. Behind the mottled walls of the vegetable garden, a little girl in a red jacket suddenly appeared, poking her head out and looking at him timidly. After a while, there was a red apple on the wall, and when the boy chased him out, the man was gone, only the red apple on the wall, the color was as red as the little girl's face.
After a long time, the two slowly got acquainted. When the boy learned that she was the second daughter of Lao Sun's family in the next village, he often picked a bouquet of flowers to weave a wreath, or caught a grasshopper and put it in a small bamboo cage made of bamboo strips, and gave it to her as a gift. The girl often brought some delicious maltose or fragrant meat steamed buns that her father bought from the city, stuffed them into the boy's hand, and watched him gobble them up. The simple boy and the pure girl, in the fragrant rape flowers in spring, under the stars in summer, on the osmanthus tree with fragrant osmanthus in autumn, and in the snowy land in winter, poured out and played, and unconsciously formed the most beautiful feelings in their youth. In this way, spring goes to autumn solstice, the cold and summer are easy, the boy grows into a sturdy youth, and the girl also becomes a big girl like a hibiscus.
However, the good times did not last long, since the death of Elder Huineng in the Guangming Temple, the young man lost the only backer in the Guangming Temple, and the remaining Faming and Fakong, the two evil monks of the Guangming Temple, changed their faces to him and brutally exploited him, making the burden on his shoulders much heavier all of a sudden. The girl often brought him some food, and even secretly financed him a few times. Young people were not afraid of hardship, and even when they were bullied, they firmly believed that they were repaying their kindness, "endure the calm wind and waves, take a step back and open the sky"; It's just that his self-esteem is troublesome, and he is always afraid that his shabby and bullied embarrassment will be seen by the red girl who is a childhood sweetheart, so he can only tell her very reluctantly in private, asking her not to come to the vegetable garden to find him again.
The miserable reality of life and the painful inner struggle tortured the heavy body of the young man and the nerves that were tortured to the extreme, so that he really didn't know what he came to this world for, why God and fate played tricks on him so much. He could only silently pray that Elder Huineng could bless Yan Hong and himself in another world, bless Yan Hong's good people with safety, and bless himself from this great suffering.
And at this moment, he saw that Yan Hong cared so much about his safety, and his heart was like knocking over the five-flavor bottle, not knowing whether he should feel happy or sad, the five tastes of sweet, sour, bitter, spicy and salty came to his heart together, turning into a palm with five fingers representing the five flavors, and grabbed his already exhausted heart.
Yan Hong held back the tears from flowing out of her eyes, took out a few copper plates from the purse around her waist, and stuffed them into the young man's hands.
The young man stubbornly pushed the money back to the Yanhong girl, but Yanhong still stuffed the copper plate into the thick palm of the thick calloused that the young man had grinded out because of his years of labor, and wrapped the young man's rough big hand with a soft and boneless little hand, and even held the copper plate firmly in the warm hand without letting go.
"Aha! I said that what's wrong with you kid lately, it turns out that you have forgotten your roots, and if you have a sweetheart, you don't care about repaying your kindness! A sharp and piercing shout suddenly sounded in the ears of the two of them, and it turned out that Fa Ming and Fa Kong had left and turned back. Fang Cai's sarcastic and prickly words were shouted by Fakong.
The hands that the young man and Yan Hong had clasped together immediately separated, and the copper plate in their hands fell on the ground at their feet. The young man and Yanhong's faces were swollen crimson, and the shyness and embarrassment made the innocent two embarrassed and anxious.
Fa Ming looked at the copper plate on the ground, and then at the two people who were standing, and then pretended to be like it, stood with one palm on his chest and said, "Amitabha! Good, good! Brother Qing, there is a way that monks don't speak. If you live in the vegetable garden of this Guangming Temple, you can be regarded as half a Buddhist. How can you open your eyes and talk nonsense and deceive Senior Brother Fakong and me? Didn't you just say that you can't open the pot at home and need to pawn to get by? Why did you secretly hand over this copper plate to the red girl here? β
Seeing that her good deeds had attracted Fa Ming's misunderstanding, Yan Hong opened her mouth to defend herself: "What Master Fa Ming said is wrong! I forced this copper plate into Brother Qing, not Brother Qing! β
Fakong seemed to have suddenly discovered something on the side, and said sourly: "Ouch, it's all called 'Brother Qing' and 'Brother Qing'!" What a relationship! β
The young man said solemnly: "What Miss Yan said is true, please don't guess the two senior brothers." The red girl is ice clear and jade, it is really not what the two senior brothers think! β
Fa Ming raised his eyebrows and said coldly: "So we blamed you wrongly?" But why did you two sneak up here? This is a bright and clear world, a pair of men and women hold hands in this Buddhist holy place, and the men and women are not kissed, what explanation do you two make? β
Fakong smiled maliciously: "Yes, Yanhong girl 'Bingqing Yujie', we can't say anything." You kid has a bad stomach, and it's obvious. Is it that the toad wants to eat swan meat, and wants to eat the grain first by borrowing the dowry of the eldest girl? β
Yan Hong violently hugged her face with her hands, tears of shame streaming down her fingers.
Rao is young man remembers his heart of repaying his gratitude, and at this moment he can't hold back the nameless karmic fire in his heart, he raised two clenched fists, pounced on the fat Fakong, knocked him on his head, and lay down on his back.
"The surname is Zhang! How daring! Did Master teach you to treat your brother like this? Fa Ming shouted at the young man.
Taking advantage of the young man's stunned emptiness, the Fakong monk who fell to the ground roared and jumped up, grabbed the young man's clothes, pushed him to the ground, pressed his chest with his left hand, and slapped the young man in the face with his right hand.
Seeing this scene, Yan Hong hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down and grabbed Fakong's left arm and begged bitterly, "Master Fakong, you can't fight anymore." If you continue to fight, you will die! β
Fakong's eyes were red, and with a wave of his left hand, he threw the red girl out several meters away at once. Yan Hong was caught off guard, stumbled, and fell flat in the vegetable field, but her head hit a stone in the field, and she fainted all of a sudden, not knowing whether she was alive or dead.
The young man looked sideways in his eyes, his heart was full of anger, but at this time, the Fakong on his body hit his cheek with an old fist in his right hand, and his head seemed to be blank, watching in slow motion as the Fakong on his body and the hideous and angry face of Fa Ming beside him became more and more distorted, and finally he couldn't see anything in a white light.
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Wait, who am I? Where am I?
Oh, by the way, my name seems to be Zhang Qing, because I guard the vegetable garden in Guangming Temple, so people call me "vegetable garden" Zhang Qing.
Yan Hong, where is Yan Hong, the second girl of the old Sun family?
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When the young man woke up again, he saw a fat monk sitting on top of him, slapping him in the face.
Looking at his fierce face, he is vaguely the monk of Guangming Temple. He was so powerful, how could he punch so softly? Hit yourself in the face like a tickle?
When the young man turned his head to look at the girl who had fallen beside him, it seemed that she had begun to wake up, and sat up and rubbed her head with her hands as if it were in pain.
The young man struggled to stand up, and the fat monk Fakong on his body actually let him lift it up, and a fat body flew out directly sideways, hitting Fa Ming, and the two of them fell down together with an "ouch".
He didn't care about the people on his body at all, he only cared about whether the people he cared about at the moment or not.
When I came to look next to Yan Hong, I saw that she seemed to be completely fine.
Yan Hong smiled when she saw the young man, and the young man also smiled and looked at her, as if a couple were looking at each other. The two of them stood up with each other, patting each other's bodies with dirt, completely ignoring the two monks.
Fakong saw that these two situations had changed greatly, and he was not at all as squirming and pinching as he was just now, as if he was openly treating each other as his lover, and he was openly showing his affection here.
Fakong's mouth was full of foul language, and he struggled to stand up, and when he looked back and saw it, he only complained bitterly in his heart. I saw that Fa Ming's head was impartial, and he just smashed into the edge of the wooden barrel containing water, and his skull burst out, and blood gushed all over the ground. When I looked at him again, my sternum collapsed because of the pressure of my huge body, and it seemed that my ribs were broken a lot, and I saw that I couldn't save him.
Fakong was annoyed and ashamed, and shouted "Wow" with a scoop of water and rushed towards the young man, and he was about to hit the young man with his head and face. Before she could swing it at the young man's body, the scarlet girl raised her slender legs, and kicked the water scoop to pieces with a single kick from her embroidered shoes. The fragments of the water scoop pierced Fakong's face, and two fragments were also inserted into Fakong's two eyes, and two blood injections flowed out at the time.
Fakong shouted heartbreakingly, as if his eyes could no longer see, and he waved his hands and scratched and beat indiscriminately, desperately trying to find the girl and the young man to take revenge.
The girl and the young man took a few steps back gently, away from the circle of Fakong's fist. Fa Ming couldn't see, stepped on the low-lying place of Longbian under his feet, stumbled, and suddenly fell to the place where he pushed Yanhong just now, and his whole face hit the hard stone head-on, and he survived motionlessly.
Yan Hong and the young man didn't seem to be moved by the bloody scene in front of them at all, just holding hands and looking at me, I looked at you, like lovers of first love, lingering with each other.