Chapter 2 Visitors from the Mountain Village
Ren Cheng hurriedly kowtowed and said: "The master is too serious, the younger generation does not have the view of the door in his heart, and he wants to hide the clumsy meaning, I wish that all the righteous ways in the world can benefit from the clumsy work of the younger generation, not to mention the great sage and monk like you, master." ”
Xuan Zheng sighed: "My master once said to me that martial arts are the same, and people with a broad heart tend to have a higher level of cultivation and understanding. It's a pity that the old man is incompetent and can't solve problems for Ren Shaoxia. ”
Ren Cheng smiled bitterly and said: "Life and death are fate, and the master doesn't need to worry about me, but pity my little sister, after I left, I was lonely and helpless, and asked the master to help find a good family to raise her as an adult." Under the sadness, the old wound flares up, and a few lines of blood oozed from the corners of the mouth. Ren Xiaomei was flustered and anxious when she saw this, and she didn't speak, but just walked close to her brother.
Xuan Zheng sighed again: "Young man's trust, please rest assured that the old man will do his best." After speaking, she looked at Ren Xiaomei, and felt a lot of regret in her heart.
The three of them talked again, and Ren Cheng took his little sister to live in Dalin Temple. The next day, Ren Cheng resigned to Xuan Zheng, saying that there were still private matters to be done, and he told his little sister a few words and left alone.
Ren Xiaomei's name Ren Yue, is her parents after middle age, since childhood parents love, brother is the same, young children lively and smart, a few years ago after the death of parents and brother dependent, gradually lost the liveliness, recently and know that the only eldest brother is also seriously injured and died soon, heartache I don't know how to be good, I don't want to leave Ren Cheng for a moment, but I don't dare to go against the will of the eldest brother, I have to wait in the temple, I hope that the eldest brother can come to see you again after the matter. Standing at the entrance of the temple and looking at the back of the eldest brother, the more I thought about it, the more sad and sad I became.
Ren Cheng left Dalin Temple, got on the official road, and went north, walking, thinking. He is not yet a year old, but he is already a man who is about to die, and he can't help but feel sad in his heart, and he thinks that his little sister will be helpless in the future, and he doesn't know how much suffering he will suffer, and he can't help himself. Even if the sea and the sky are open, seeing the sunset scene, he can't help but cry.
At dusk on this day, Ren Cheng abandoned the carriage and horse and walked on a mountain road, and suddenly felt that internal injuries were about to attack, so he found a clean place on the side of the road and sat down. This is already in the territory of Huangzhou. Ren Cheng had never been here before, and he didn't know if there was a village nearby, but at the moment his chest and abdomen were tingling, and he didn't want to force his way away, for fear that he would have to sleep in the wild for another night, although he was unwilling, it didn't hurt.
After resting for about half an hour, he suddenly heard someone rushing to this side noisily, and Ren Cheng didn't care about him. In a few moments, a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy ran wildly in this direction with a red face, panting for breath in his mouth. The boy ran in front of Ren Cheng and bent down to stop, supporting his knees with one hand and patting his chest with the other, obviously running too hard.
Ren Cheng closed his eyes and ignored him, the young man slowed down for a moment, and kept turning to look back, as if to see if the pursuers were coming. This road is very remote, there are a few forks in the road not far away, the young man thought that the adults chasing him were afraid that they would go wrong, so he sat down not far from Ren Cheng, wheezing non-stop.
After some time, Ren Cheng was about to get up and hurry again, he saw that there were people here, there must be villages and towns nearby, and he thought that he should be able to find a place to stay before dark. He was about to ask the boy where there was a house, but the boy first asked, "Hey, do you have any water?" I'm dying of thirst. ”
Ren Cheng threw the water bag to him, the young man opened the lid after catching it, drank wildly, wiped his mouth with his hand after drinking, returned Ren Cheng's water bag, and thanked him three times.
Ren Cheng looked at the young man, his body and appearance were all of the quality of a person, and his eyes were quite bright, but on the whole he was not as good as when he was young, he was dressed in a peasant house, and his hands and feet were slender and sturdy, so he thought it was because he often did farm work. Ren Cheng took the water bag and asked, "Little brother, is there an inn around here?" ”
The young man heard that he didn't have a local accent, looked at Ren Cheng, and said, "If you want to go to the inn, you have to go to the town again, and the town is not close to here, almost twenty, three, forty or fifty miles." The boy is a farmer at the foot of a nearby mountain, and he doesn't know how far away the town is.
Ren Cheng suddenly understood, and asked, "Is there a farmer family nearby?" ”
"Yes, our village is nearby, and it's only half an hour away. You're going to spend the night, I drank your water, and I was supposed to take you to my house for a night, but a few bastards happened to be chasing me, and I couldn't go home until dark, or would you wait? ”
Ren Cheng smiled: "It's not in the way, you take me to your village, and the people chasing you won't do anything to you." ”
The young man said in his heart: "The people chasing me are all some gangsters and murderers in the neighborhood, are they afraid of you?" You also don't have more hands and feet, toes or more than one or two than others, but that's useless either. He thought about it with disdain, and he didn't say it, but he sat and refused to get up.
Ren Cheng saw that the young man didn't get up, so he was not in a hurry, and said, "I'll be with you when you go home." Then he closed his eyes again.
After sitting for a while, the young man felt bored, and had the heart to chat with the man next to him, but he didn't know how to call each other, and said to Ai Ai: "Big, big brother, where are you going?" Ren Cheng just called him little brother, thinking that it should be right for him to call the other party's big brother.
Ren Cheng opened his eyes and said, "It's far away to go to the north." ”
"What's your name?" The boy continued.
"Ren Cheng."
"Oh." Seeing that Ren Cheng didn't say much, the young man didn't know what to say, so he paused for a moment and said, "Why don't you ask my name?" ”
"May I ask the little brother's name?" Ren Cheng asked with a smile.
The young man paused for a moment, and gradually understood that "asking oneself about one's name means asking one's name", and replied: "My one's name is Lin Yin." ”
"Good name."
"Really? I also think my name is good, but there are always people who say that my name is too sissy, do you think sissy? ”
Ren Cheng stood up and said with a smile: "Where is the name of a sissy grandfather, just like it." Then he said, "It's getting dark, take me to your village." ”
At this time, the sunset has been covered by the mountains, and the sky is about to be dark, the young man still gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, but if someone beats me, you have to help me stop it." ”
"Okay."
"Then let's go."
Ren Cheng followed Lin Yin for half an hour, crossed a few intersections, and entered a mountain depression, at this time it was completely dark, but seeing a few fires leaking from the mountain depression, Lin Yin's village had arrived. Here is a mountain depression at the southern foot of the Dabie Mountain Range, the mountain is nameless, the village is called Linjia Village, more than 30 households, there are several large villages nearby, and the nearest town is more than 20 miles away from the mountain.
When the mountain people are busy, they tend to take care of a few acres of thin fields in the flat area, and they will also go into the mountains to hunt in their spare time. At this time, the crops have been planted in the fields, but it is not time to harvest, so many mountain people will go into the mountains to hunt at night, hoping to get some roe deer, hares and pheasants, and also sell some salt and cloth money. Lin Yin's parents are about forty, and his father will also follow him into the mountains.
Lin Yin took Ren Cheng back home, his father had already eaten dinner and went into the mountains, and his mother was still washing dishes in the stove. The mountain people are frugal and rarely light the lamp, so except for the kitchen, the house is still dark. Mother Lin saw Lin Yin go home, and was about to scold a few words, but when she saw Ren Cheng, the scolding became a question.
Lin Yin hurriedly explained that Ren Cheng was here to spend the night, and Lin's mother was embarrassed to beat and scold her son in front of strangers, glanced at Ren Cheng, and said to Lin Yin: "Eat first, add a bed and quilt for you after eating, you and this brother will squeeze for one night, and I will go to order some noodles." The woman knew that her son often came late and did not wait for him to eat, but kept some food in the pot.
Ren Cheng thanked him and took out a few pieces of broken silver for cooking and lodging. Lin Mu looked at it and said, "The people in the mountains are poor, but there is still a meal." Without further ado, he turned around and went under the boiling water.
After dinner, the three of them were about to close the door and rest, but they heard a burst of footsteps, very hurried. After a while, a middle-aged man ran in, it was Father Lin.
Father Lin ran into the house out of breath and immediately closed the door, not even noticing that there was one more person in the house. Mother Lin felt that something didn't seem right, so she lit a mutton fat lamp. The lights were turned on, and suddenly I heard the two of them crying out "ah" at the same time.
Father Lin was surprised that there was one more person in the family, and Mother Lin saw that Father Lin had a wound on his chest, which was still gurgling and bleeding. The woman was quick to talk, and quickly asked what was the matter, and said that she went to find a clean strip of cloth and came to help her husband bandage it.
Father Lin seemed to be in shock, and he didn't care about Ren Cheng, and said hurriedly: "We went into the mountain together, except for me, we were all killed, and I pretended to be dead before I escaped." After speaking, the wound was extremely painful, and he didn't dare to touch it with his hands, only grinning his teeth.
Ren Cheng frowned, didn't speak, looked at Father Lin's wound before saying, "Sister-in-law went to find some spirits and washed the wound, I have some wound medicine here." ”
Mother Lin was already in a hurry when she saw that her husband was injured, so she went to bring a pot of wine over when she heard what Ren Cheng said. Ren Cheng took the wine, tore the clothes on Father Lin's chest, and saw that the wound was about two inches long but not very deep, and it did not hurt his heart and lungs. After saying to Father Lin, he poured the wine around the wound, and then hung his palm an inch away from the wound, and used internal force to dry the wine around the wound. Father Lin was in severe pain at first, and after a while, he felt that the wound was warm and comfortable, and he didn't know what method Ren Cheng used.
After the wine dried, Ren Cheng took out a small porcelain bottle, took out some cyan powder to Lin's father's wound, and asked for a strip of cloth to bandage it carefully.
After bandaging, Father Lin suddenly felt that the wound was not so painful, and he thanked him a few times, and did not ask who this person was, and said: "A dozen of us just left the village a few miles before entering the mountain, we met a group of monks, I don't know what is going on, and we fought in a daze, the group of monks is very fierce, all with swords, all like practicing a family, a bag of cigarettes can not be done, we were all beaten down, I was stabbed, but fortunately I didn't die." After saying that, he remembered something again, and he was busy: "Quickly turn off the lights, otherwise they will follow the lights to find them." ”
Mother Lin was already very flustered at the moment, babbling to herself that the Bodhisattva blessed the Buddha and blessed, and was busy blowing out the lamp. Ren Cheng asked, "Monks, how many monks, what clothes are they wearing?" "I was also surprised in my heart, there is still such a brutal and martial arts monk here?