Fragrance is good for purifying the heart

Chapter 213
The man smiled when he heard the words, came over and touched the silly girl's head with a pair of meaty hands, his eyes full of love, "By the way, I am daddy, good boy, do you still remember me?"

Finally, the man turned around and stared at Gardenia again. Seeing the doubt in Gardenia's eyes, he introduced himself to Gardenia, "Girl, thank you for sending silly girl back. My surname is Shen Mingdan, why don’t you follow me into the house and take a rest..."

He introduced Gardenia and the girl into the house. There happened to be two burly old ladies standing in the house. When they saw it, they came up to them. But when they saw Shen Dan's face, they took two steps back, looking like they didn't dare. The way he stepped forward.

Shen Dan glanced at the two nuns, with a hint of coldness in his eyes, and then said to one of the nuns: "Mother Zhang, take the silly girl down quickly and clean it up."

After receiving the order, Zhang's mother quickly stepped forward and pulled the silly girl away. When the silly girl saw that she was about to leave Gardenia, she was a little reluctant at first and began to cry. She repeatedly shouted: "I won't go, I won't go." Don’t go…”

But she couldn't resist the efforts of the two mothers, and was immediately taken away.

Gardenia then looked at the room carefully. In fact, when she first stepped into the room, she had already noticed that the walls and even the roof of the room were covered with large and small Guanyin statues.

Judging from the ink and brushwork used in these portraits, they should still be painted by the same person as the image of Guanyin at the door.

These Avalokitesvara are sitting or lying down, looking down or sideways, holding jade purification bottles in their hands, or wearing hairpins on their heads, but they are all dressed in white jade robes, looking dignified and holy, with a sense of compassion for the common people.

Gardenia quietly counted. In this seemingly spacious room, there were more than nine hundred Avalokitesvara statues hanging in total. Perhaps the people who drew these Avalokitesvara statues had different thoughts about Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva. Make offerings religiously.

And right in front of this room is the largest statue of Guanyin. Guanyin's appearance is nothing special. They are all so kind and kind. They just pinched out a magic formula with their fingers, one hand pointing up and the other down. What he stepped on turned out to be a [-]-petal lotus platform painted by the artist one stroke at a time.

Using the same brushwork and colors, the artist has really paid attention to every detail, from Guanyin's hair to the texture of her clothes. It seems that he has put a lot of effort into it.

"I haven't asked the girl her name yet?"

"Gardenia."

"Gardenia? Which gardenia?" Shen Dan seemed confused.

Gardenia unconsciously raised the corners of her lips and quoted a poem from Emperor Qianlong, "The gardenia whose color purifies the eyes and the fragrance that purifies the heart can be used as medicine to remove fire and dampness."

After hearing this, Shen Dan thought for a moment and kept nodding, "Yes, the pure mind refers to the Buddha's mind, and it also refers to a mind without doubts and no pollution and troubles. Who dares to ask Miss Gardenia, but such a person who is not afraid of trouble? What about people who are suspicious?"

Gardenia thought for a while and said, "When things happen, let them take their own course. Blessed people will have their own blessings. Do things with a clear conscience. Generally, you will not be suspicious of what you see."

"Okay, okay, okay, a lucky person will have his own blessings. This is very good. It is not easy for a girl to have a pure heart to look at this world at a young age. I admire you very much." Shen Dan looked at it with a smile. Gardenia's eyes indeed showed more approval and admiration.

After chatting for a while, and seeing that the room was full of Guanyin statues, and thinking that he was not a bad person, Gardenia gradually let go of her initial wariness when entering the village, and informed Shen Dan of her intention to come here. She asked Master Shen road.

"Oh, it turns out that Miss Gardenia is going to Yuquan Township, but this is Shengpingzhuang, which is at least a hundred miles away from Yuquan Township. Dare I ask, did the girl come here without knowing the direction?" There seemed to be disbelief in his eyes. , because for an ordinary person to walk here on two legs, I don’t know how long it would take, but there was no tired look on Gardenia’s face.When Gardenia heard Shen Dan ask this question, she was a little embarrassed that she was a Lu Chi and couldn't answer, so she just smiled.

When Shen Dan saw this, he didn't ask any more questions and said, "Girl, you may be tired after walking all this way. It's getting late. If you don't want to give up, why don't you have dinner here before leaving?" how?"

Following him, he called an old woman and asked her to go down immediately to prepare meals.

Gardenia noticed that it seemed that other men were rarely seen in Shen Dan's family. Even the servants were mostly burly mothers-in-law like Zhang's mother just now, which she felt was a little strange.

It is impossible for a family to only choose these old mothers to work. There should still be many places that require strength and require men to serve as servants, right?But for some reason, there were no other men in the room.

Not long after, the food was put on the Eight Immortals table. Although only Gardenia and Shen Dan ate, the cook made four dishes and one soup, two meat dishes and two vegetarian dishes. The soup was stewed lotus root and jujube, which was also completely vegetarian. of.

"Girl Gardenia, don't be dissatisfied. There are not many good dishes in this remote country that can be served on the table, so let's just make do with it and have a meal together."

Under Shen Dan's help, Gardenia also moved the chopsticks. She ate in small bites and chatted with Shen Dan for a few words during the dinner. Then Shen Dan told her about Sha Niu's life experience.

"This silly girl was not stupid originally. It was mainly because she encountered a sudden change in her family and received some stimulation that she turned into the girl you see now." Shen Dan said, drank a small bowl of vegetarian soup and put it down. He ate chopsticks and sighed, with a look of sympathy in his charitable eyebrows.

From Shen Dan's description, Gardenia finally understood Sha Niu's life experience, which was actually very similar to her own:

Sha Niu's parents loved Sha Niu very much when they were alive, but who would have thought that one time, Sha Niu's parents went into the mountains to collect medicine and encountered wild beasts in the mountains and forests. They were both bitten to death and became one of those animals. The beast's "dinner" left Silly Girl alone.

Sha Niu couldn't accept this fact, so she became stupid. Shen Dan took pity on her life experience and adopted her. Therefore, Sha Niu only called him "Daddy" when she saw Shen Dan.

Unexpectedly, Sha Niu's parents were killed by wild beasts, and Gardenia's parents and all the folks in Ruiyun Village were also killed by the ancient ferocious beasts.

Things in the world are really unpredictable. What happened to Sha Niu brought back Gardenia's memories of her parents, which made her nose feel a little sore. When Shen Dan called her, she came to her senses and saw that Shen Dan actually gave her a bowl with chopsticks. She picked up a piece of braised pork and said with kind eyes and a gentle tone: "Girl Gardenia, please eat more meat. I think you are too thin. You were distracted just now, but are you thinking about something?"

"Oh, it's nothing." Gardenia was embarrassed to refuse Shen Dan's kindness and to reveal her emotions too much in front of strangers, so she shook her head. Suddenly, she remembered something important.

When Sha Niu first met her, she only had obvious symptoms of amnesia. She didn't look like a fool. Why did Shen Dan call Sha Niu a fool?Amnesia and being stupid are not the same thing.

Gardenia had a pulse with Sha Niu before. In addition to the amnesia caused by bleeding on her head, she was probably raped in the corn field and lost her virginity. Otherwise, how could there be blood between her legs? Drain?

(End of this chapter)