Volume 1 The Long Night Chapter 7 Thunderstorms
In Kan'er County, due to the rectification of local officials by the imperial court this year, the county order Bao Shengyu has been busy since the beginning of spring until today's spring equinox, and even the spring "green" that cannot be shaken by thunder once a year can not spare time, and he has to be plucked off a few beards by his baby daughter Bao Qingqing.
Fortunately, the new county secretary of the imperial court sent to the place arrived, and Bao Shengyu, who was busy with leisure, took his wife and children out to "go green" because Mrs. Situ believed in Buddhism and insisted on going to the Ziyun Nunnery to incense the Bodhisattva, Bao Shengyu did not understand how the Buddhism was quiet, but he knew that the food of the Ziyun Nunnery was very delicious, and it was also a good place for the county magistrate who was tired of eating the delicacies of the mountains and seas.
Of the two carriages, Bao Yusheng occupied one alone because of his obesity, and his daughter Bao Qingqing and mother Situ occupied the other, and Bao Yusheng rarely had a trace of purity.
Bao Qingqing pulled her mother all the way, said that the bhikshuni playmate named Xiaoxiao, shook the delicate peach pit Buddha string in her hand and said:
"This is what Xiaoxiao made for me, mother, look at it, it looks good, Xiaoxiao said that we are young, just wear this kind of fourteen, you can avoid anything, anyway, Xiaoxiao knows a lot of knowledge. ”
Xu is the belief in Buddhism, Situ temperament mild, temperament is more easy-going, she was born in Cangzhou local scholar Situ family, regardless of the opposition of the clan, married to the poor scholar Bao Yusheng, or out of respect for this affection, the poor student Bao Yusheng was angry, finally won a jinshi, five years ago the old county order of Kan'er County told the old Rong to return, Bao Yusheng happened to take the position of the old county order, as for whether there is a secret help of the Situ family is unknown, but in recent years, with his wife to visit relatives, the father-in-law finally softened his attitude towards himself, and Bao Yusheng finally had a feeling of raising his eyebrows。
"It's to avoid evil, Qing'er, you have to learn more from Master Xiaoxiao"
"Hee-hee, I will, I brought Mi'er Su today, and I'll eat with Xiaoxiao later"
The mother, Situ Shi, smiled gently, and was happy to see the child befriend the bhikshuni, which was good for her babbling temperament.
Situ gently lifted the corner of the curtain with one hand, looked at the lush greenery that was rapidly retreating on both sides of the road, liked it from the bottom of his heart, and smiled slightly, showing his charm and charm.
Inadvertently, Ziyun Nunnery was already in sight.
The lotus leaves are round and green like a basin, out of the water hibiscus is a different kind of day, standing outside the three gates of the Ziyun Temple, the middle-aged Bao Shengyu looked at the full pool of lotus leaves in the release pool, remembered the vulgar poems written when he was young, the mood was suddenly good, slowly climbed the stairs and went up, stepped through the middle door of the three gate halls, the middle door of the three doors hall is also called the empty door, there is the meaning of the empty door of the Buddha gate, the door is red dust outside the door is the green light.
The owner of the nunnery, Jing Xianshi, saw the county order family from a distance, so he greeted him with a smile.
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Bao Qingqing is a child's heart in the end, after worshipping Guanyin, Fuxian, and Manjushri with his parents, he carried a food box and quietly went to the backyard.
Xiaoxiao, who had been frozen all night on the hard wooden bed, had been listless all day, she couldn't understand how it was still so cold at night in the warm spring days, those cool breezes blew in through the somewhat broken windows, and got into her thin little futon, which could freeze her enough.
Jingyue Shitai moved a recliner, Xiaoxiao yawned, pulled out a basket, Jingyue Shitai quietly basked in the sun, Xiaoxiao quietly basked in the bamboo shoots dug from the dry forest.
Jingyue Shi is too quiet, she likes to squint her eyes in her spare time, and always gives people a feeling of half-asleep and half-awake, at this time she smiled and looked at the little girl behind Xiaoxiao.
Bao Qingqing is slightly younger than Xiaoxiao, but she is much more eccentric, holding the food box in one hand and reaching out with the other, covering Xiaoxiao's eyes, because it is very inconvenient to carry the food box, although she tried her best, she was still broken free by Xiaoxiao.
What a fight.
"Qingqing, why did you come all of a sudden?"
Bao Qingqing smiled and said:
"It comes every year at the beginning of spring, but it's a little late this year."
Xiaoxiao rubbed her eyes and smiled:
"So I thought you weren't coming"
Bao Qingqing had already opened the food box and took a piece of honey cake and stuffed it into Xiaoxiao's mouth.
Xiaoxiao looks very white, and with a baby face, there is a feeling of sunshine, at this time, the mouth is full of honey cakes, chewing the cake while whining, and Bao Qingqing, who is a daughter, has a feeling of heart.
Bao Qingqing is fortunate to grow up more with his mother, rather than being as "majestic and fat" as his father, and he is also a rare Jiangnan embryo, as the daughter of the county order, but he does not have the arrogance of the children of the official eunuchs, but he is very comfortable in this Ziyun Nunnery.
Mrs. Jingyue, who seemed to be half-asleep and half-awake, also held a piece of honey cake brought by Bao Qingqing, leaning on the recliner and smiling cutely.
"Qingqing, when are you going back?"
"Soon, Daddy has been busy with business lately, and I guess I'll have to go back after fasting. ”
Xiaoxiao shook Bao Qingqing's hand, looking a little reluctant.
Bao Qingqing took the opportunity to hug Xiaoxiao.
Bao Qingqing suddenly thought of something and walked straight to Xiaoxiao's room.
Xiaoxiao, who was eating honey cake with a happy face, suddenly remembered something, and stared at Lao Yuan with a pair of eyes.
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Bao Yusheng has prepared the incense money, handed over to the quiet leisure teacher, standing aside meditation master for the nunnery master to take the incense money, the nunnery owner said again meritorious, in fact, for the nunnery owner Jing Xian Shitai, the reason why the Bao county order who does not believe in Buddhism is so polite, is not because of his county order, but every time the Bao people worship the Buddha, they will send a lot of incense money,
As the so-called family does not know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive, no matter how frugal the nunnery is, there are dozens of mouths waiting to be fed.
Since it was almost lunchtime, Bao Qingqing's mother, Situ Shi, found out that her daughter had gone somewhere, but she was not worried, she must have gone to the backyard to find the little bhikshuni.
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When Bao Qingqing saw Li Changchun lying in the room, she didn't react much at first, until Xiaoxiao blushed and began to explain, although Xiaoxiao didn't know why she wanted to explain.
"This benefactor is in poor health"
"The Boy in Distress"
"If you recuperate in the temple for a few days, you can't let the masters and uncles take care of you"
"Pretty Little Nun"
"So that's it"
"I understand, I understand, it's really the same as in the book."
Bao Qingqing looked at Xiaoxiao with a playful look, and the latter looked dazed.
Lunch was in the dining hall, and the nunnery specially made room for the Bao County Ling family, close to the round window, and you could see the scenery outside.
couldn't resist Bao Qingqing's pull, half pushed and half pushed, Xiaoxiao also sat at the county order, during the banquet, Bao Qingqing was an idle master, one would pick up vegetables for his father, and one would ask Xiaoxiao why our Buddha strings were fourteen, and the owner of the nunnery had thirty-six.
Bao Qingqing, who didn't stop the car for a while, also mentioned the young man in her room, the speaker was unintentional, and it sounded intentional, Bao Yusheng was the chief official of a county in Kan'er County, Ziyun Nunnery is located at the junction of two counties, but it is under the jurisdiction of Kan'er County, and now the imperial court is rectifying the local officials, and there is a private visit to Qin'er County, although the affairs of the two religions are not within the scope of this rectification, if his jurisdiction is spread out of the nunnery, how can it be good when the time comes, so Bao Yusheng is not very happy to eat this meal, originally this kind of thing with his Bao Lord and the incense of the nunnery, just turn a blind eye, let alone take in a young patient, even if something really happens, he doesn't care, who made it so eventful now.
Originally, the owner of the nunnery reminded Mrs. Jingyue that although saving someone's life is better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter, but after all, that person was born as a boy, and he didn't have a good relationship with the etiquette and law when he left, so don't talk to people.
But Master Jingyue is too gentle, and she forgot to remind her when she came and went.
After the meal, Bao Qingqing separated from Xiaoxiao with red eyes, but Bao Yusheng had a long conversation with the owner of the nunnery before leaving, probably the court was watching closely, and you didn't want me, the big benefactor, to lose his official position, and he also went to the owner of the nunnery to deal with the seriously ill young man early.
So much so that the meditation master who accompanied the owner of the nunnery was very ugly.
"Senior sister, why don't you find a good medical center, it's better than ours in the medical hall, and now it's even more embarrassing. “
The owner of the nunnery shook his head with a smile, and said that seven days is seven days, and the child's body, it is not possible to leave this nunnery in these seven days!
The night was gloomy, the wind was getting stronger, maybe it was going to rain, Xiaoxiao put her hands into a basin of hot water, squinted her eyes comfortably, she looked at the donor, still with an empty and lifeless look, Xiaoxiao was afraid that the donor would die so silently.
"You have to get better quickly, originally today Qingqing sent honey cake, but unfortunately you can't eat, the master often says that everyone is blessed, you have suffered so much, you will definitely be very blessed in the future, when I first met Qingqing, I was very timid, Qingqing was very bold, and I told a lot of things outside the nunnery, like the drama book she said, I have never seen it, she said that there is a pair of lovers, and finally both turned into butterflies, I don't understand, why turned into butterflies, Qingqing said that they flew away together, it was very romantic"
Xiaoxiao wiped Li Changchun s face while muttering about what there is or not, the nunnery is clear, the green light ancient Buddha, it is still too clear to talk about it, although it is not bad to be light.
The heavy rain that had been brewing outside the window for a long time, with a flash of lightning, seemed to pierce the hornet's nest, and the rain swarmed.
The rain hit the lotus leaves, hit the window, Xiaoxiao hurriedly closed the window, and there was another thunderclap.
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Senior brother came over from the rain and stabbed Li Changchun in the heart with a sword, no matter how much he shouted, it was useless, why, it was obviously not me.
Sister...... Senior sister, I still have junior sister.
Liang Yuyan smiled at him, pulled out the Ruoshui sword casually, and gently pushed, the long sword sank into his chest, until the hilt of the sword, Liang Yuyan smiled faintly.
The sky darkened.
Am I dead, there were sparks flashing in the darkness, as if someone was muttering something.
Why is death so noisy.
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Xiaoxiao knocked over the basin in a panic, and she couldn't care about this, she patted Li Changchun and comforted softly:
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, the thunder will pass soon. ”
Li Changchun, who had been unresponsive all the time, suddenly moved after the thunder, his hands trembled, and his face was frightened, as if he had fallen into a never-ending nightmare.
Xiaoxiao suddenly panicked, and continued to comfort Li Changchun, at this time Li Changchun had already bitten his lip, and his originally godless eyes were full of horror.
Xiaoxiao remembered that when she was a child with thunder, the master always held herself in her arms, patted her back, and hummed a song.
As soon as she thought of this, she didn't care if it was a violation of etiquette, Xiaoxiao thought, the Buddha also said that I am not as good as hell, who will go to hell, she slowly hugged Li Changchun in her arms, and hummed the scripture that the master often hummed: "According to Prajnaparamita, the heart is not hindered, there is no obstacle, there is no terror, it is far away from upside down dreams, and Nirvana ......."
Xiaoxiao's voice was soft, her tone was soft, and the rain in the courtyard was like the sound of silk and bamboo, and for a while there was a feeling that there was only the sound of Buddha in the silence.
Li Changchun was all frightened, as if he had recovered his previous demeanor, but there was no sign of soberness.
However, even Xiaoxiao didn't notice that Li Changchun gently pinched the corner of Xiaoxiao's clothes with his left hand.