In a secluded courtyard planted with persimmon trees, a maid in a green shirt trotted down a red sandalwood food box and stepped on a path made of ink and blue pebbles. On both sides of the path, there are waist-high urns, white and pink lotus flowers floating on the water, and a faint fragrance fills the elegant courtyard.

The maid hurried to a hall at the end of the courtyard, the door was open, and the sound of a woman chanting could be heard through the crack in the door. Seven or eight women were chanting and singing the "Yuanjue Sutra", and even a few colorful birds on the tree were ashamed and listened quietly.

The green-shirted maid and the two women in dark suits at the outer door of the hall nodded in agreement, but they did not rush into the house. After standing outside the door for about a stick of incense, and when the chanting in the room had stopped, the maid smiled and nodded with the two guards again, and then pushed the door and walked into the hall.

Walking into the hall, there is a strong smell of incense and candles, and the smoke is a little intoxicating, as if you are really in the Western Buddhist country. The light in the room was a little dark, perhaps because all the windows were covered with brocade curtains. Each curtain is beautifully embroidered with stories from Buddhist scriptures. There is the Buddha holding a golden mandala in his hand, and one of the people in the dazed crowd laughs at the picture of the opening of the Zen sect of the world-honored one, there is the picture of the Buddha's step-by-step lotus at Christmas, there is the picture of the Buddha cutting meat and feeding the eagle to all beings, there is the picture of filial piety worshipping the Buddha on behalf of the mother, and the picture of filial piety touching the heavenly dog tooth relics and so on.

At the top of the yellow sandalwood shrine in the center of the hall is the statue of the three western saints cast in pure gold. The robes and ritual vessels of the Buddha statue are decorated with pearl agate, which is lifelike and solemn. At the bottom of the bottom are eight bodhisattva statues that are more than one foot high, which should be the eight bodhisattva statues of the Mahayana lineage. In the two lotus ever-bright lamps carved by white jade, there are flowers and fruits and a plate of incense that is burning, and the gilded purple jade incense burner in the middle has just burned out three pillars of good agarwood.

A middle-aged woman dressed in a simple lay robes is bowing to several nuns, and six nuns are hugging an elderly nun as they walk outside the house, passing by the maids who enter the house, who bows their heads respectfully and sings a Buddha horn in return.

The maid placed the food box on the wooden table on the other side of the hall. The middle-aged woman came to the maid, took a cup of tea that the woman had just poured and took a sip of it. When he put down the teacup, he smiled softly at the young maid, but he looked like a bodhisattva holding a willow branch on the wall.

The maid waited for the woman to sit down on the throne, and took out a few plates of delicate food from the food box and placed them on the table.

"Why did you prepare so many dishes today?" the woman's voice was low but soft, not like a reproach, but more like she was worried that the woman was tired from bringing so many food.

"Madame forgot, today the two teenagers are coming to visit Madame. The maid's tone was more like that of an elder reproaching a forgetful junior, and as she spoke, she placed three pairs of chopsticks on the table and winked mischievously at the woman.

"I just offered new flowers and fruits when I was worshipping the Buddha, and when I turned around, I forgot that today is the fifteenth. My memory is the same as my body, and it's getting worse every day. As if to confirm her words, the woman coughed as soon as she finished speaking. She hurriedly covered her mouth with a handkerchief, for fear that the sound would be too loud and disturb the ears of her two precious sons. The maid hurriedly put down the work in her hand, poured another cup of tea, handed it to the woman, and then stood beside the woman and gently patted the woman's thin back to calm her down.

"Madam, you eat fasting and chant Buddha every day, and you are a good person, the Bodhisattva will definitely bless you with a long life. The young maid comforted, and then changed her words again, "But Madame still has to take a look at the doctor again, Madame's body is vain in the summer, and she should change her prescription to recuperate." ”

"It's okay, I'm just a little tired from chanting before, just drink some water to moisten my throat. Calling the doctor again will definitely alarm the two children again. The last time they came, they said that Hao'er was going to retreat and break through the Six Realms, so they should not be distracted. Jing'er seems to be going to visit the family's business with his second uncle, and now is not the time to be distracted. ”

Hearing this, the young maid pursed her lips and said with some displeasure: "Don't say it." The second lady was not happy to hear that the family owner personally took the second son to familiarize herself with the family business, and she made trouble many times, pestering the family owner to bring her son with her. That kid is not yet nine years old, and he doesn't know what to do with fart. ”

The woman slapped the maid's hand with her other hand in a feigned rage, "Hugh is going to talk nonsense, didn't Hao'er and Jing'er understand a lot when they were nine years old?"

"That kid in her family is stupid and the whole house knows it, how can he compare with our two young masters. The maid's tone was full of disdain and pride, as if the two sons she spoke of were more talented than she was to be happy.

"Bastard girl, don't have an ostomy business. The middle-aged woman seemed to be really angry this time, and her speech was a little rapid, so that she lost her strength and coughed dryly. After coughing for a long time, he finally spit out a mouthful of red and brown blood clots on his handkerchief. The woman's face, which had been swollen from being stuck in her throat and lack of energy, had become a little pale, but there was obviously less of a breathless struggle and pain in her expression, but there was still a dripping sweat on her forehead.

Seeing this, the young maid cried out "ah", and then hurriedly covered her mouth and looked at the woman anxiously, "Madam, I'll invite Mr. Sun to you." The voice was low, but the tremor and urgency in it were palpable.

Madame glanced at the blood on her handkerchief, closed it, and said, "Take a new one for me, and throw it away." Be careful when you go out, and don't get caught if you bump into the two of them. Otherwise, these two children will have to be careless again. ”

From the loving eyes of the lady, the maid saw an extra trace of undoubtedness, which was the majesty of the superior brought from the bones of a wealthy family. Although the sharpness and bearing of the daughter of a wealthy family and the wife of the palace have been cultivated by the incense and candle Zhai Sutra over the years, only the heart is like water and there is no dispute with the world, but the unquestionable and majestic words and words seem to have never been washed. The maid hurriedly lowered her head and did not dare to look at Madame, she was about to take the handkerchief held in Madame's hand, when two immature but still loud voices sounded at the door.

"Mother thinks that if she hides it from us, we won't care too much?"

"We're all so old, and my mother still treats us as children. ”

Hearing this, the woman hurriedly got up, and the moment she turned around, the look of seriousness and haggard on her face turned into a moment of embarrassment and panic. I don't know if I was afraid that my two sons would be worried when they saw their sick looks, or if they were a little embarrassed to hear their previous words. Sometimes parents are more like children than their children in front of their precocious children.

Immediately, the panic on the woman's face turned into a loving smile, but compared with the usual plain smile that was not shocked and kind, there was some heartfelt joy and warmth on her face at this moment. It was the fulfillment of the eagerly awaited wish, the only concern of a mother who had almost cut off her seven passions and six desires in this mother's world.

A young man dressed in a lake-blue brocade dress saluted respectfully outside the gauze tent, followed by a young man in a dark robe, who was slightly shorter and had a more immature face. The young man in Xuanfu put the two pieces of purple jade carved cabbage in his hand into his sleeve, and saluted the woman who was walking out of the gauze tent like a young man in front of him.

The woman smiled and supported the two teenagers, pulling them to her front and looking at them carefully.

"Mother, I only saw it half a month ago, why is it still like I haven't seen it for a long time. The older boy in blue was a little shy by his mother's staring, and couldn't help but speak.

"Mother, the child misses you. The younger brother of the dark robe looked more like a child of this age, and he threw himself into the woman's arms. The scent of the woman's body penetrated into the nostrils of the young man, and although the fragrance of Buddha in this room was the same as that of the woman, the young man greedily sniffed the tenderness and love in his mother's arms every time.

Seeing this warm scene, the maid on the side was also moved, and her heart seemed to be gently pinched by a warm hand. She hesitated for a moment but then opened her mouth to break the scene of mother and son filial piety in front of her, "Woman, two young masters, if you don't need to eat, the food should be cold." ”

"Mother, I'm hungry, let's go eat. The young man in the dark robe pulled his head out of his mother's bosom, and took her by the hand, and then went into the gauze tent.

"A few days ago, my brother said that he was hungry for his mother's food, and I said that I wanted the kitchenette to cook it for him, but he refused, not because it was not as delicious as my mother's food. It's all made in the same kitchen and the taste is the same. The young man in blue teased his younger brother as he walked.

"It's clear that it's better for my mother to come here, but it's a pity that I can't visit my mother every day. The young man in the robe said unconvinced, and in the second half of the sentence, he was glad to cover up the loss in his words.

"It's clear that you're eleven years old, and you don't look the same, like a child. The young man in blue was also worried that his younger brother's unintentional complaint in the second half of the sentence would make their mother worried, so he hurriedly picked up the stubble.

"What do you know, the second uncle said, the highest level of business is to make people who do business with you not think that you are a businessman, and you must think that you are as easy to deceive as a child and a fool, so that you can ...... You martial arts idiot, you don't understand what you said. ”

"Who said that I don't understand, there are also tricks in martial arts that can win without moves, it's a truth. The second uncle is talking about great wisdom and foolishness, but what about you, you are really stupid. I'm not a martial idiot now, how can I assist and protect you, the future head of the family, in the future?" said the blue-clothed young man as he helped the middle-aged woman to sit down, and then sat opposite his younger brother.

The young man in the dark robe heard his brother's words, and his face sank, and the happy look of reuniting with his mother before was swept away. His tone was cold, "If you want to be the head of the house, you must first get rid of that poisonous woman and her stupid son." At this moment, he seems to have a long-standing killer in the body of the young man.

When the woman heard this, she was about to turn her head and reprimand the second son who did not choose to speak, but the young man in blue on the other side said: "Even if I don't compete for the position of the head of the family, I will definitely recover the woman's debt." Although his words were more polite than his brother's, the killing intent in them made the Buddha incense in the room a little faint.

"Amitabha, sin and sin. The woman did not seem to know which of her children to blame, so she had to recite the Buddha's name softly in order to eliminate the unscrupulous verbal karma of her two sons. It's just that the woman still wanted to open her mouth to persuade her, but was interrupted by the young man in the black shirt.

"Mother, the compassion of Buddhism is also divided. These things like the woman did to you are going to hell. My eldest brother and I are not only avenging you, but also eliminating harm for the family and exorcizing demons in the world. ”

The woman sighed helplessly, "She may not have done that." It's all a family, don't easily suspect the elders without evidence, it hurts the harmony of the family. ”

"I took out the snow clams that my mother boiled that day from my own private store, and this snow clam was a congratulatory gift from the woman on my fourteenth birthday. There is no outsider access to my private vault. My mother was poisoned after drinking the snow clam soup, which only means that the snow clam was poisoned when it was given to me. The woman clearly wanted to poison me, and in the future, I would get rid of my second brother, so that her son could inherit the position of head of the family in the open. Little did I know that I would give the clams to my mother. The blue-clothed young man looked gloomy when he said this, his head hung down slightly, and there was some guilt and remorse in his tone. "I shouldn't have given this clams to my mother. Hurt your mother, you have lost all your cultivation, and you have been ill for a long time. ”

The woman put a somewhat cold hand on the back of the eldest son's bulging hand, "Hao'er, it's not your fault. Of course, you shouldn't blame your aunt, your father and second uncle have a deep brotherly relationship, and she will definitely not do anything harmful to us. ”

"Mother, why are you as stupid as your father! If a person is not destroyed for herself, what can't she do for her son to inherit the position of head of the family in the future?"

"Second brother, be cautious!" The blue-robed young man slapped the table with his other hand and scolded, "You mention your father, don't you think your mother is not sad enough?"

The woman removed her hand, patted the young man in the black robe who bowed his head on the other side, and shook her head at the young man in blue who wanted to continue to blame her brother, "Jing'er, your father is not stupid. You remember, he and your second uncle are brothers who are closely related by flesh and blood. If you ...... in the future," the woman stopped talking, and then diverted the subject: "Even if it is really your aunt who did it, your second uncle has allowed her to see her son only once in three months in the past year, until your cousin is an adult." I'm also a mother, and this punishment is heavy enough. No matter how great the hatred is, you should let go. ”

"Big brother, is that stupid boy going to meet with that poisonous woman on the first day of next month?" After listening to his mother's words, the young man in the black robe suddenly looked up at the young man in blue opposite and asked.

The young man in blue nodded, "I may be in retreat at that time, and I may not be able to visit my mother. ”

"It's good that you concentrate on impacting the Burning Kiln Realm, and when the foundation is firmly laid, it won't be too difficult to impact the Upper Martial Realm in the future. ”

"Mother, don't worry, the eldest brother can't do anything else, so he is the best at martial arts. The two children began to quarrel again, and the chattering woman really looked like a woman.

The cicada noise Zen courtyard is quiet, and the fly drama is shy. Incense and candles can hardly make the dining hall warm, and Haojing can break the mother's heart Zen.