Chapter 120: Pot
The aura of Xuanwu's knife was very sufficient, and none of the men, women, and children who seemed to be indignant before dared to make a sound, and as he approached step by step, the crowd dispersed little by little.
Xuanwu walked into the circle of the crowd besieging the city, first glanced at Yuan Xing, and saw that although his robe was wrinkled, it was not embarrassed, and then he turned to the young man who had been very excited before, and said slowly: "Amitabha, what happened to make the donors so excited?" But before he could finish speaking, a baby's cry suddenly sounded from the ox cart beside him.
The young man first looked at the two monks in front of him again, and when the baby started crying, his expression became more irritable, and he said angrily: "This great monk, the monks in your temple have a child with my little sister, how can this matter be counted?" In his eyes, Xuanwu, who is over forty years old, is tall and majestic, standing with the young and white Yuanxing, and he really looks like two generations, which is why he said this.
"What?" Xuanwu was startled at first, turned his head and stared at Yuan Xing for a long time, then snorted coldly, and waved his sleeves at everyone: "Hugh has to talk nonsense, slander the monks, this is going to hell." ”
The young man's face became even more atmospheric, and he pointed to Yuanxing and said: "This monk does not abide by the rules, and it has damaged my little sister's body, and the children are all there, how dare I climb indiscriminately?" ”
Yuan Xing is also confused, he has lived two lives, except for his relatives, he has never even touched a woman's hand, and he never thought that such a word would be put on his head one day, and he also had a child?
His gaze couldn't help but fall to the ox cart with the sound of the cry. The situation was chaotic, and the woman's loose clothes covered it, so she really didn't notice that there was a baby wrapped in rags next to her.
What kind of child is this? Only the big head and a dry wood-like arm were exposed, and the eyes were not yet opened, and she only howled and cried, but the woman was no longer able to breathe, and only trembled and raised her hand to pat twice to appease, but in vain.
Probably aware of his gaze, the woman struggled to turn her face as well. Yuan Xingzheng saw the despair and pleading in her eyes.
"Unmarried child, what will you do with this female benefactor? What about children? Yuan Xing lowered his eyes, sighed secretly, and said solemnly.
Before the young man could answer, Xuanwu on the side showed an unbearable look on his face, bowed his head and recited the Buddha's name: "Amitabha." "He has been walking for many years and obviously knows a lot about folk customs.
Yuan Xing felt bad when he saw his expression, and glanced at the young man again, seeing that his face twitched, as if he was enduring pain, and his heart couldn't help but chill.
Sure enough, an old woman in the crowd on the side screamed: "Of course it's a sinking pond, this little evil seed can't live." ”
"Alas, the family is unfortunate that there is such a shameless woman in the clan, it is really ......"
"The adulterer can't run away, let's deal with it together......"
"Hmph......" didn't want to listen to the messy discussions around him anymore, and a cold snort with internal force came out of Yuanxing's mouth, and in an instant, the scene was quiet again.
He took a few steps forward and carefully observed the woman in the car, without any shreasmonia. said that she is a woman, but in fact, if she is placed in modern times, she is still a girl, she can be fourteen or fifteen years old, she looks thin and small, her face is pale at the moment, the corners of her mouth are bruised, and the long hair on her head is missing a few pieces, revealing more scars on half of her arms, and she should have suffered inhuman abuse and beatings.
When the girl saw him looking straight at herself, she hurriedly turned her head.
"The poor monk can guarantee the safety of your mother and son, what is going on, let's talk about it here." Yuan Xing sighed, seeing the miserable appearance of the other party, the trace of anger that had surged up before quickly dissipated and turned into pity.
But even if he wronged himself and took on the charge of cheating, in this closed atmosphere of folk customs and madness, it was completely useless, except to make the situation more difficult, and he couldn't save anyone.
Therefore, not only can this pot not be carried back, but the truth should be clarified as soon as possible, and then find a way to protect the mother and son in front of them.
When the girl heard this, she turned her head again, her wandering gaze skimmed over Yuanxing's face, and finally turned to Xuanwu on the side, her mouth opened, as if she was hesitating.
"What else can you say?" Someone in the crowd snorted.
"Yes, pull these two adulterers away ......" An old woman who said this was swept by Yuanxing's gaze, and in that plain gaze without any emotion, she swallowed and spat with difficulty, lowered her head and stopped making a sound.
And the young man before frowned, and he also found something unusual, because the monk in front of him was too calm, and he didn't react to being caught cheating at all.
The girl listened to the noise around her, her body couldn't stop shaking, and after a moment she seemed to have made a decision, gritted her teeth and nodded: "I said." After finishing speaking, he asked, "But has the Yuanxing mage who has recently arrived in the town?" But this was said to Xuanwu.
The latter was stunned for a moment, then shook his head with a wry smile, and pointed to Yuanxing: "It's not a poor monk, this is Yuanxing Master." ”
Everyone was in an uproar, and they didn't even know anyone, so it was obviously impossible to have an affair with a monk.
The girl struggled twice and sat up straight: "I was picking wild vegetables outside the village last year, and was ...... by a passerby" The woman covered half of her face with her hand, as if she had gone out, and her voice was much louder than before: "I was afraid, there was no parent at home to help me, and my brother had no idea, so I didn't dare to tell my brother, thinking that I could hide it quietly, but who knew that it was inexplicable." ”
At this point, I have cried: "I have secretly thought of various ways, but this child's life is too hard, how can I not beat it, I lied to my brother that I was sick, and I have been hiding in the room recently, who knows that it is less than seven months, this child was born, and I can no longer hide it, the people of the clan and my brother are forced to ask, and in a trance I heard someone in my ear that there is a monk in the town who can practice, and he has a compassionate heart, and he should be able to save me." I couldn't stay up last night, so I ......."
There was silence in the room, except for the girl's cry echoing in the open space in front of the temple.
The young man's face changed, sometimes red and sometimes black, and after a long time he did not say a word, bowed his head and led the ox cart to leave.
"Wait." Yuan Xing dodged and stopped in front of him.
"I'm sorry Master." The man turned his face away and said in a muffled voice: "I'll pull the person back and ask for clarification, and I'll give the master an explanation another day." ”
"...... first" how could Yuan Xing let him leave easily, he is gone, can the mother and son in the car still live? So he stopped the people without much thought, but he really couldn't do it, so he could only solve the problem by force.
But before he could make any move, a hand was stretched out in front of the man, and on it was a large ingot of silver.
Xuan Wu stared at the man coldly and said, "You pull my sister back, how can she live?" It's better to sell it to my junior brother, this small temple is lacking a cleaning person. ”
Yuan Xing couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, how can there be a reason for the monk temple to recruit female employees? Just as he was about to say two sentences, Xuan Wu turned around and whispered: "Saving a life is better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter, leave people behind first." ”
Yuan Xing opened his mouth, but he didn't speak. These are two lives, and there is no other good way to save people, so I can only sigh and be silent.
The man hesitated a little, Xuanwu took a step forward, approached him and said, "You are an elder brother, can you really bear to watch your sister drown in the pond by the clansmen?" ”
"How could I let someone do that?" The young man opened his eyes in anger, looked back at his sister, and snatched the silver into his arms.
He also simply untied the cow from the car, and the more he wanted to leave, "Since you have given the silver, this girl will not be from our Shen family in the future, and it will matter whether she is dead or alive in the future." "Someone spoke up in the crowd and then dispersed. Even the wooden cart and the mother and son on it were left.
Yuan Xing watched everyone go away, and looked back at the girl in the car, maybe because she had to get out of trouble, her face was even better than before, the child in her arms was still crying, and the girl was obviously inexperienced, just shaking and coaxing vigorously, still to no avail.
"This ......" Yuan Xing thought for a while and spoke: "This is hungry, right?" ”
"This child is less than seven months old, and I haven't ...... yet" The girl's face turned red and she lowered her head in embarrassment.
Yuan Xing glanced at her shriveled figure, realized a little, and instantly felt embarrassed, coughed hurriedly, and turned his head.
"The poor monk will find a way." Xuanwu was more mature in the end, sighed when he saw this, and disappeared with a flash.
Yuan Xing stared at his distant back and fell into deep thought, his brows furrowed slightly, and it took a long time to regain his former glory.
Thinking that he couldn't let people stay outside all the time, he stepped forward and whispered a word of offense, and carried the girl and the child into the temple.
When he went to the room where he and Xuanwu lived, he placed the mother and son on his futon. When she got up, the hem of her robe was already stained with blood, and it was clear that the girl had not been well cared for after giving birth.
Then, a monk and a woman stayed in the room with big eyes and small eyes, and no one knew what to do next, so they could only listen to the baby's cry and wait slowly.
Xuanwu's movements were fast, and it didn't take long for him to return with a doe in his arms. The mother's body is inconvenient and can't get up, and the two big men actually have no experience in this area, one presses the struggling doe, and the other holds the baby, tossing until dark to feed the child.
The child was full, and the adult was still hungry, so Yuan Xing went to make dinner and served it to the pregnant woman.
Late at night, Gengo set off again and sent the doe back.
Yuan Xing made a bitter face, coaxed the little ancestor to sleep and handed it to his mother, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
I couldn't sleep in my room tonight, and while sitting in front of the Bodhisattva statue waiting for enlightenment, Yuan Xing was thinking in his mind, which bastard mentioned himself to the girl? Suddenly, a white shadow flashed in my mind.
immediately smiled bitterly, and I didn't know if it was right or wrong to release the white fox at the beginning. Right, this guy has made such a big trouble for himself. If you are wrong, these are two lives, how much merit can be saved?
However, when Xuanwu entered the main hall, he was no longer entangled, after all, compared to human life, troubles and reputations seemed irrelevant.
The two monks meditated like this for a night, and on the second day, Xuan Wu came forward and hired a woman from the town to help the girl wash her body, and hired a doctor to treat her injuries.
This girl named Shen Ya is injured and is not good at walking. Even if there is a place to send people away, it is not suitable for the time being, so they can only be taken in first. What's more, he is not familiar with life, who will take over such a big trouble for him?
There is no choice but to keep people.
But in this way, the news of a woman and child living in the ghost temple outside the town naturally spread, and the first person to be affected was naturally the monk Yuanxing who was the "abbot".