"Help—help—"

In the dark night wilderness, this fourteen-year-old little manservant could not distinguish the road, only looked at the faint lights in the southwest direction and ran desperately, shouting with crying, stumbling all the way, even rolling and crawling, I don't know how many falls, elbows and knees were broken, and his face was also hung with miscellaneous trees and thorns, but this frightened and sad little Xi didn't care about the pain, just screamed and ran desperately......

The small mountain village at the southern foot of Boshan is about 20 households, compiled into two cards, the Ming Dynasty's armor protection system is not unified, in Jiangxi this way, about ten households for a card, ten cards for a card, ten for a guarantee, the card has a card head, a and Bao is a long and a chief, Boshan Village's two cards are surnamed Li, a surname is Sun, this night is the head of the Sun brand guard more patrol -

Just after striking the three gongs, Sun Paitou sat in his yard by the firewood door to rest, the small mountain village was silent, only two or three households still have lights, to see that there was nothing Sun Paitou was ready to go home to sleep first, suddenly heard someone on Boshan Road shouting "help", the cry was terrible, Sun Paitou was taken aback, thinking that there was a strong man who robbed the road, and quickly got up and took off the small gong tied to his waist "Bang Bang" and knocked hard, while shouting: "There is a thief!" There are thieves! ”

The originally quiet mountain village suddenly became in a commotion, with dim lights on, wooden doors rattling, and footsteps rattling, and strong men from every household rushing out with flat poles or sticks, and asked, "Where is the thief?" Where is the thief? ”

The waning moon is sparse and the stars are sparse, the night is hazy, and the startled Boshan villagers saw a young man in a short shirt crying and crying, shouting "help" out of breath.

The little manservant named Sixi wiped his nose and tears with his sleeve and cried: "My young master, my young master hanged himself-"

"Hang yourself!" Sun Paitou asked in surprise: "Where is it?" ”

Sixi pointed to the east: "Break the temple over there." ”

There is an ancient temple at the eastern foot of Boshan, the temple name is Nengren Temple, there is it in the Tang Dynasty, the incense has been very prosperous, but a fire three years ago burned this Buddhist temple almost to the ground, only half of the Garan Hall is left in the ruins, because it is impossible to raise funds to rebuild the Buddhist temple, the monks who live in the temple are scattered, now only the fox squirrel is infested, the abandoned temple is only three miles away from Boshan Village, if there is a human life, the government will detain the villagers to inquire, the trouble is really not small.

Sun Paitou called Li Paitou and two other brave villagers to follow the little Xi Yu to the abandoned temple together, Xiao Xi Sixi cried while running to Sun Pai Tou said what happened, his young master's surname was Zeng Ming Yuzi Jiu Li, the county Yongping Township Shitian Village people, this time to Guangxin Fucheng is to participate in the triennial college examination presided over by the deputy envoy of the school, that is, the test Xiucai, this is the third time Zeng Yu participated in the hospital examination, but yesterday the case was released and there was no name on the list, today pack up and go back to the hometown, and do not go to the inn to stay overnight when it gets dark, But walked to the desolate abandoned temple, in the dead of night, Xiao Xi Sixi hugged his knees and took a nap, and suddenly heard the "crunch" sound of the temple beam, looked up, and couldn't help but scatter, the young master Zeng Yu committed suicide by hanging the beam, Sixi rushed up to hold the young master's feet and dragged it down, and fell down with a "bang"——

Li Paitou, who was holding a torch, interjected: "That's saved." ”

Sixi cried: "But the young master is out of breath." ”

Sun Paitou said: "Hurry up, go quickly, maybe there is salvation." ”

The night is heavy, the moonlight is faint, a few people are running briskly in the secluded Boshan Road, the mountain road is bent, and the col that appears in front of you is Nengren Temple, which is known as the first big jungle in Guangxin Mansion is now a barren grass to the knees, there are rotten trees and rocks in the grass, and if you are not careful, you will trip down, and the scientific examination will run here in the middle of the night to hang yourself and beg for death, so that Sun Paitou and Li Paitou these Boshan villagers are annoyed and sigh-

"Young Master—Young Master—"

Sixi was shouting, and the little Xi was almost unable to run, so he fell again, and the bleeding from the corner of his forehead covered his left eye.

The half of the crumbling Garan Hall built on the left side of the Beacon Hill was black and silent, and Li Paitou, who was holding a torch, walked in the front, and when he reached the temple gate, he heard a loud howl from the dilapidated hall corridor, which frightened Li Paitou, and threw the torch in his hand into the grass.

Sixi hurriedly said: "This is my family's donkey - Heibao, Heibao, where is the young master?" ”

There were two more calls in the shadow of the hall corridor, and then a donkey's head with two ears poked out, the long donkey's face was honest and serious, the gray-white donkey's nose was stirring, and the reins were pulled so that the hall corridor "squeaked", and the remaining half of the hall was about to be torn apart.

Li Paitou scolded the donkey in his mouth and reached out to pick up the torch, but it was extinguished, Xiao Xi Sixi shouted "Young Master and Young Master" has run into the Jialan Palace, Sun Paitou four people then also walked into the hall, in the dark, I saw that Xiao Xi Yu knelt on the ground and tried to help someone sit up, Sun Paitou hurriedly stepped forward to help, and heard the sound of "ho ho" in the throat of this person, and several Boshan villagers were happy to say: "Not dead, still saved, still saved." ”

The young man Sixi was so happy that he cried.

Li Paitou said: "It is best to carry it outside the hall to breathe." ”

Several people were about to carry this fallen scholar outside the hall, when the dying scholar suddenly spoke, although his breath was weak, but he said very clearly-

"Don't, move me, let me, lie down."

Since he can speak, he has no worries about his life, and several Boshan villagers are also relieved, Sun Paitou asked Li Paitou and the three of them to go back first, and he and the little Xi are guarding here.

The footsteps are far away, and there is silence all around, the west-slanting moonlight shines down from the cracks in the broken temple tiles, the statue of the green robe and long beard of the Garan Bodhisattva sits there majestically, Sun Paitou kowtows to the Bodhisattva three times, the moonlight slowly moves to the side of the scholar lying on the ground, Sun Paitou looks at the scholar by the moonlight, the scholar is young, and he looks like he is in his twenties, at this time his eyes are closed, his mouth is half open, his breathing is short, and a strangulation mark on his neck is obvious-

"Alas, young master of the Zeng family, why are you so hard, look at your young age, you didn't pass the exam this time and there will be a next time, the days are long, how can you find a short time, how can you be worthy of your parents at home!"

The scholar named Zeng Yu opened his eyes and stared at the hall beam in a daze, where the broken half-cut belt was still hanging, blown around by the night wind.

Sun Pai tilted his head and asked the little servant: "Little brother, where did you just say you are from?" ”

Xiao Xi Sixi felt pain everywhere at this time, and replied with a sad face: "From Shitian Village, Yongping Township." ”

This is the boundary of Chongshan Township, more than 60 miles away from Shitian Village, Yongping Township, Sun Paitou said: "I've been to Shitian, there is a very famous Kanyu teacher in Shitian, known as Mr. Shaolong, also surnamed Zeng——"

Sixi answered: "That's my eldest master, who passed away more than ten years ago. After a pause, he said: "My young master Jiuli was born to the second master, because the eldest master has no queen, so he will inherit the incense to the eldest master." ”

Sun Paitou remembered something and asked: "A few years ago, I heard that there was a prodigy in the Ishida Zeng family, who could pair pairs at the age of six and write articles at the age of ten, and the county magistrate praised him——"

"Yes, yes, yes," Sixi nodded like a chicken pecking rice: "The prodigy is my young master of Jiu Li, and the young master of Jiu Li, who is omnipotent in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but the examiner does not know talents, and the young master is unexpectedly off the list again, and those few people who are lucky enough to be admitted laugh at my young master——"

Sun Paitou looked at the filthy young scholar in front of him again, this scholar is the heir of the famous Mr. Shaolong, he once learned that the county lord was known as a prodigy, Sun Paitou couldn't help but be in awe, and asked: "Your young master Gui Geng?" Oh, you're only twenty years old - Young Master Zeng, you are young, don't think about it, you didn't pass the exam this time, and you will take the exam again in a few years, your Zeng family has good feng shui, you are a must, don't worry. I thought to myself: "Mr. Shaolong has chosen a yin house and a yang house for others all his life, can't he choose a burial place with good feng shui for himself, but it is said that fortune tellers can't count their own lives, and those who read feng shui can't see their own feng shui——"

"Water, if there is water, give me water." Scholar Zeng Yu spoke again.

Xiao Xi Sixi hurriedly got up and went to the black donkey outside the palace gate to get a gourd, there was water in the gourd, Sun Pai helped Zeng Yu sit up, Zeng Yu drank a few sips of water, let out a long breath, and spoke smoothly: "This uncle, thank you, there is no big problem in the next place, uncle go back, excuse me." ”

Sun Paitou, who was enthusiastic about the ancient road, said: "Young Master Zeng will come to my house to rest for two days, this ruined temple is unstable, maybe it will collapse when it happens." ”

Zeng Yu politely rejected Sun Paitou's kindness, saying that he was no longer in trouble, and he could go on the road early tomorrow morning to return to his hometown.

Seeing that Zeng Yu insisted on not accompanying him, Sun Paitou had no choice but to say, "Then I'll go back first, and I'll send a pot of porridge at dawn." Then he got up and went out.

The ray of moonlight in the hall disappeared, and he couldn't see his five fingers, and Xiao Xi Sixi felt frightened, and said loudly: "Young master——"

The young master Zeng Yu responded, and after a while, he said, "That uncle is still outside the hall, a kind person." ”

Sixi nodded again and again: "The young master is right, the young master must not be like that again, the grandmother at home is looking forward to the young master going back, the uncle is right, this time I didn't pass the exam, I can take the exam again next time, the young master will definitely be able to get ahead, and fight to suffer some immediate grievances." ”

Zeng Yu was silent for a while, and said: "Stay in the green mountains, I'm not afraid of no firewood, I won't be so hopeless looking for death and life, I will live a good life, nothing can stump me, it's good to be alive." ”

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Woke up from a coma, the first thing I heard was the crying of a donkey, followed by the sound of miscellaneous footsteps, someone called "Young Master, Young Master" came in, Zeng Yuzhi said that this is Xiao Xi Sixi, but at this time his brain was extremely confused, lying on the ground, he only felt that the sky was spinning, and countless thoughts came one after another, like stars, like the tide of the sea, flickering, galloping, rotating, gathering and scattering......

Several Boshan villagers said that they wanted to move him outside the temple, but as soon as they moved a little, they felt a splitting headache, and compared with the sharp pain in the head, the strangulation pain in the neck was nothing.

Lying quietly for half an hour, he finally came back to his senses, Zeng Yu drank two sips of water, the past life and this life flashed, the chaotic and boiling mind was like thousands of mountain streams, streams, rivers and rivers finally rushed to converge into the sea, inclusive, broad, calm and profound, if it were not for the weakness, Zeng Yu would simply jump up and dance loudly and laugh, wonderful, the world is so wonderful, like a loser who eats, drinks, and has fun, and when he remorses his wealth, he gets a huge sum of money out of thin air. It's like a terminally ill patient with a strong desire to survive suddenly got a life-sustaining elixir when his life was on the verge of death, it is so magical, even more magical than this, the past life and the present life are one, not rebirth is better than rebirth, what if you don't pass the exam, there is not only one way in this world; What if the brother and sister-in-law are not virtuous, why can't the man be self-reliant!

There is a widowed mother and a young sister, Zeng Yu and Zeng Jiuli, what reason do you have not to live well?

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