Second Continuation of Golden Plum

Chapter 41

The old widow is sad and has no children, and she is willing to send a poem saying:

Old tears and new cries are full of sleeve marks, but who will save the fragrance and jade.

The pink spring breeze in the mirror, the silver vase under the candle Ye Yuxuan.

Ben Yue has turned his bones into bones with the pill, and fell down to reward his kindness with death.

Changzhou grows fragrant grass at dusk, and the river floods the soul without dying.

Press Zhao Xing'an to abandon his home and build a temple, and sit down for a while, Zen Master Yueyan promotes Buddhism.Let's say that Chu Yunniang and Lu Jiayan met in Huai'an Mansion, and they lived together as widows for more than a year.At that time, the soldiers and horses of Dajin rushed across the Yellow River, and the north and the south could not communicate with each other, so someone sent a letter to Wucheng County.Brother Hui's letter was like a stone sinking into the sea, and it was getting farther and farther day by day, that is to say, he died in the chaos of the army, and there was no longer any hope of having a son.Yunniang waited to resign from Lu Jiayan and returned home. The Jin army was in chaos, the road was sparsely populated, and there was no way to go back.Mrs. Lu didn't want to make Yunniang bother, it was really two sages who got together and were of one mind, eating a long fast, as if they were practicing in one place.At that time, An Lang was ten years old, and Uncle Lu collected some rent to open a millet shop in the Huzui shop, and he would ask for a few cents a day to buy water and vegetables.In the next year, the plague was prevalent, and Uncle Lu got sick occasionally, without sweating for seven days, and died of ineffective medicine.Lu and Yunniang wept bitterly, bought a coffin, and buried them in the temple in the middle of the lake.Needless to say, there is no one in the family, except for a young man named Jinbao, who was bought by Yanzhou government.Very stupid, useless at all, had to look at the door to carry water.There is no capable person in the family, the two widows and Xizhu are at home, and Anlang is sent to study in the school next to the wall.Mrs. Lu often went to the Shuitian Village of Huxin Temple to see the tenants working as farmers, and rented a home for a few loads.Unexpectedly, An Lang developed a rash, and called a medicine woman to see a doctor. He didn't know about the rash, but complained of a cold stomach. He misused hot medicine, which turned into a fire syndrome, rolling intestines, and killed a ten-year-old orphan in a few days. I bought a coffin and buried it in the village.Needless to say, Lushi wept bitterly, and Yunniang Si'er was very grateful. The two widows cried for their own children, and they shed the same tears. They cried day and night, mourning several times.This Lu family guards the widow and the husband and father-in-law's coffins, which are now placed under the corridor of the Huxin Temple.Due to the chaos in the North and the South, several family members were sent back to the Zhending Mansion, and they have not returned for two years. How can a widow send the funeral coffin back?

It is:

Weeping eyes see weeping eyes, heartbroken people accompany heartbroken people.

In another year of famine and famine, both inside and outside Huaicheng were flooded, and the paddy fields in the lake were not rotten, and each bucket of rice was sold for one or two taels of silver.How could these two widows survive, seeing that they were exiled.Take some jewelry and clothes, one by one, and sell them on the street with fine pearls-items for one tael of silver can't be sold for one or two dollars of red silver, buy some coarse rice, and grind the bran and beans into porridge.Seeing that Mrs. Lu has no son, she is also lonely and widowed, and she is reluctant to let him go, she has no choice but to spend the day.The two of them had nothing else to do, they even ate fast and recited the Buddha's name, so they had to cultivate some good fruits in the next life, and they didn't have to think about their son in this life anymore.At that time, Lu Jiayan was married to Nan Gongji for 21 years since she was 15 years old, and married to Li Yanei for seven years. She was a widow for three years, but she is 45 years old now.Chu Yunniang is one year older than Lu Shi, and she is still a beautiful woman.Two widows, with no children or relatives, are away from home, how can they survive the years of war, famine and famine?

A poem sighed and said:

In troubled years, the family is empty and the family is empty, and the guards in other lands are weeping and the road is poor.

Ciwu Nianzi's head turns white in mourning, and the lonely Yan Sichu sheds tears red.

Thousands of miles away, it is difficult to turn back, and the fate of the two is easy to fluctuate.

The yellow sand decays the grass in the Huaihe River, and the book of Ande Yin is sent to Saihong.

It was Jin Chaowu who spoke at this time? Prince X has been thinking about revenge for a long time because of his previous defeat, but he is inconvenient to break the contract because of the peace made by the Song Dynasty, but he is greedy.Marshal Yue withdrew his troops and horses again, and only guarded Jiangkou with heavy troops, but could not take care of Huaiyang at all.After inquiring about the details, he played to know the gold master and pacified Jiangnan.Because of the command of 20 troops, he and Nian did not drink and Gan did not come to take Jiangnan in two ways.Wu? Prince X and the King of Dragon and Tiger led [-] troops from Shandong to camp from the bank of the Yellow River, and went straight to Huai'an. The Kang family will gather together so that they can go to fetch Lin'an.Drive all the way, unobstructed, and cross the Yellow River.The people in Huai'an City fought to flee for fear of death, and even the soldiers guarding the city left.

When Yunniang and Lu heard that Fanbing had crossed the river, they discussed where to escape. Lu said, "To the west of Huxin Temple, there were two hectares of paddy fields, four yellow oxen, and four buffaloes that my father-in-law bought back then. He knew that the north was in chaos. Unexpectedly, my father-in-law passed away, and even the yamen is gone. Now there are still a few tenants living in more than a dozen thatched cottages, asking for some rent every year. I have two sisters and no man. , to avoid the soldiers there, so we have to temporarily hide in the village. The few houses in this city are left locked, and we don’t care what happens when the soldiers come.” While talking, I saw men and women walking on the street chaotically. , the prefect and county magistrate played a card to appease, that one is not afraid of death.Xizhu said: "Let's go out of the city now, and you won't be able to get out when you get there. Let's start tonight." Wrap up some clothes and bedding, and the boy picked them out;Yunniang and Xizhu were originally empty.Go out of the city in a hurry, three small boats, shake to the village.The tenant had to move out three vacant rooms to accommodate his family of four.The next day, they sent people into the city to fetch some household utensils, pots and bowls of rice for cooking.

There is a small nunnery at the west end of the village, where an 80-year-old nun lives.It turned out that Mrs. Lu gave up two acres of land to cover Guanyin in white, and asked for a son, and gave up five cents of the vegetable garden to grow vegetables with him.Lu Shi and Yunniang went to the nunnery to burn incense, and then went to Anlang's grave to cry with a headache, and stayed in the village, no problem.

In a few days, the Jin soldiers set up camp at the Yellow River, and most of the people in Huai'an had fled. Some of the soldiers had the same general as the county magistrates, so they had to surrender.When the Jin soldiers entered the city, they killed and kidnapped them for three days before stopping.Those who let go of the robbery at night are still searching for the fugitives by the river outside the village, seeing one person killing another, and seeing one abducting another.

This Huxin Temple is not far from the city, how to escape.I saw Yun Niang saying to Lu Shi: "Sister, I have something to discuss with you. We have no children now, and we are an old widow. You and your father-in-law's coffin have not been sent back. It is a big matter for you. I I'm just lonely, thinking about my son all day long, looking forward to plum blossoms to quench my thirst, most of the points are gone, and even Taiding can't see him, so I have missed the past few years. I think this poor man is a nun.

Now that the soldiers and horses are in chaos, I met Fan Bing and took them into captivity for a while, and I couldn't be the master of my body. I stayed as a widow for several years in vain, and even killed my life. Why don't you shave your hair at this time and become a monk in this nunnery.Our sisters live in the same village as companions, and I will not go back to Shandong either.

Let Xizhu drop, and when things settle down, Xiaoxin and Taiding will come and lead him home. Mrs. Lu persuaded Yunniang, "Brother Hui doesn't know where to go. There is still hope in the future. My sister shaved her head. Brother Hui comes back. How can I go home at that time?" " Yunniang refused to die. Please bring the old lady from the nunnery immediately. Poor Yunniang cut her hair—half white because she was worried about Brother Hui—cut off in three ways, and shaved it as a bhikkhuni. It is because he has believed in Buddhism all his life that he cried and wished him nothing, and his previous life's Daogen should have become a righteous fruit from now on.

Poetry:

A few strands of fragrant cloud and gold were cut open, and the jade mirror illuminated the high platform back then.

Don't you expect to spend time in Buddhism, and return home with your son in peace?
Zhu Cui never leaves the cream to wash away, and the temple cicadas have been urged by Xueshuang for a long time.

Ten thousand fates have gone through only meditation, and there are still crows mourning in the middle of the night.

Press Yunniang to wish her hair as a nun, which has nothing to do with the hard work of Lu's village.Let's say that Taiding and Brother Hui went out from Pilu nunnery and traveled thousands of miles south to find their birth mother, Yunniang. They were hungry, hungry and thirsty, lived in Xiaoxing at night, and came to Huai'an Mansion to ask for directions.At that time, Huainan and Huaibei used troops at the junction of the Jin and Song Dynasties, and all the people took refuge together in the cottage islands. There were too many people for a long time, and they had no rations, so they had to rob and become local bandits.There were one or two lonely guests, none of whom dared to leave.There is another thing that scares people: years of shortages, no place to buy rice beans, everyone robs them, but dare not sell them, there are many strongmen blocking the way, killing fat customers, and turning them into meat for dinner.The people were poor, and most of them died of starvation. There were also things like changing their sons to eat, and dissecting their remains.Taking people as food is said to be extremely delicious, and it has a good name. It is not called human flesh, but two-legged sheep.Wouldn't it be a dangerous thing for this Taiding, a fat little monk who was fourteen or fifteen years old, to lead Huige to go south alone.

The two of them didn't know the way to the south, so they ate food step by step and asked for directions. They either went to deserted villages to beg for food during the day, or went to ancient temples to seek accommodation at night.Or one day, when I arrived at the Taoyuan place of Xiapi at the ferry of the Huaihe River, I saw people wandering around, dragging men and women, some pushing carts and driving donkeys, and carrying parcels. The prefectures and counties along Huai'an were destroyed without attack, and the people fled everywhere.There was nowhere to escape from the bluffing of Laokong and Taiding, and they couldn't find a temple in their busy schedule.Looking to the southeast, half of the pagoda is in the woods, not five or seven miles away.Taiding called out: "Brother Hui, we have nowhere to go now, so we might as well hide in the monastery. You are a monk, and I am a Taoist. When the golden soldiers come, it will not be difficult for us to become monks." So Taiding went forward, Kong followed and walked away all the way.I saw an ancient temple from a distance, but I saw: the ancient pagoda is high and the clouds are in the Han Dynasty, and the mountain gate has collapsed and dust.The pines are dry and bald, and there are no branches, and the wild grass is all lost.There is no gold in the three Buddha statues, only wild birds come to their nests; if one sits on a Wei Tuo hanging a treasure pestle, then an eminent monk can live in tin.There is no incense in the main hall, and there is no sound of wooden fish when you come to the door.

Taiding and Liaokong entered the mountain gate, only to see the bell tower collapsed, a large underground bell half buried in the soil, and the basil growing on the main hall was more than a foot deep.Walking to the back, the meditation hall and incense product kitchen have been demolished, only the Garan Weituo Hall has been demolished halfway, and there is a stone incense burner covered with grass.The sun was setting, but no one came to wish the mountain gate a look. It was all lakes and no villages.Liaokong was a little scared, and said: "Taiding, how can we stay in this ruined temple?" Taiding said, "If it's late today, and there is no place to stay, do you know when the soldiers of the Jin Dynasty will arrive, and where to hide? Let's stay here Behind the statue of Garan, spend the whole night indiscriminately, and ask for directions tomorrow.” Xingxing said, it was getting dark, and the temple was full of darkness, and no door was closed.The two of them fetched dry grass, leaned their Zen sticks and futons next to the divine seat, and meditated with their clothes on. When they were empty, they secretly recited the Sutra of Avalokitesvara and the mantra of the pharmacist for relieving suffering.

In the fourth watch weather, people are always cut off, and chickens and dogs don't hear a sound.The two of them closed their eyes and opened their mouths, only to hear a group of people coming into the temple. When they reached the main hall, there was a ping-pong-pong sound for a while.Tai Ding was so frightened that he crouched behind the statue and made a pile, not daring to breathe out.Liao Kong didn't know, so he asked, "Who is it?" Zao Yi scratched the hook and draped the sleeves of the ripped skirt, and tore them out of the temple gate.Taiding dares to speak!Before dawn, these thieves had already scattered, and I don't know where they took Kong captive.

Tianming Taiding came out and saw that Brother Hui was gone. He cried a lot and wanted to go forward to find the letter, knowing which way to go;I had to pick up the Zen staff and futon: "Go ahead and find Huai'an on the main road. It won't be too late to visit Brother Hui after you find the mistress." Taiding was helpless, hungry and thirsty. I had no choice but to hunt wooden fish for nothing, hummed "Nanwu Guanshiyin Bodhisattva" a few times in my mouth, copied a few pennies, and begged for food, which was really difficult.I don't know when the master and servant will meet again, and when the mother and son will meet again.

It is:

The sea of ​​bitterness is boundless, and the previous waves never stop, and the latter waves rise again; disasters and evils are rolling, and one level is not released and another is coming.

Let's listen to the next chapter.

(End of this chapter)