Rebirth of the Merchant Girl

Chapter 78
Xie Yanniang's timid voice broke the silence: "Since the host wants to meet an old friend, why don't you invite him to meet you. Your Excellency must be willing to give up a room for the host's convenience."

At the critical moment of the ceremony, it is impossible for the host to leave the temple openly, but it is not difficult to let a strange face in. I believe Ruan Jingxin can do it.

As long as it is placed under the nose, it is not easy to make mistakes.

I thought Ruan Jingxin would readily agree. After all, he and the host have a very good personal relationship, and the two are rare friends who have forgotten each other.

What Xie Yanniang didn't expect was that Ruan Jingxin flatly refused without hesitation: "The host should understand how important this ceremony is, and how can outsiders enter the temple without authorization?"

A trace of melancholy flashed across the eyes under the mask, and he said with emotion: "I have known the host for a long time, and the host has never lied, but now he has broken the precept."

There was a flash of struggle and hesitation on the calm expression of the old abbot, but he finally confessed: "Amitabha, what Li Benefactor said is right, the person here is not a brother of the poor monk, but a young woman."

Hearing that it was a young woman who came, Xie Yanniang couldn't help being surprised, but also worried.

Is this young woman the one who ruined the old host?

She couldn't help but look at Ruan Jingxin, who stood quietly on the spot with calm eyes, and Xie Yanniang's terrified thoughts gradually calmed down.

"Host, I would like to hear the details." Ruan Jingxin flicked his sleeves, waiting for the host to tell the truth.

The old abbot clasped his hands together, and he was silent for a moment before speaking, as if there was something difficult to say: "Before he became a monk, the poor monk was just a layman. According to his parents' order and matchmaker's words, he once married a wife."

Pang Yudi on the side was dumbfounded. He really didn't know that the host had married a wife?
He looked up and down the old monk with a wrinkled face. After all, he hadn't seen the host in contact with outsiders in these years. Everyone thought that the host was alone.

If not, Ruan Jingxin probably would not have recommended him as the abbot of Lingfa Temple.

Pang Yudi squinted his eyes, looked at Ruan Jingxin who was silent beside him, and said with a cold snort, "Master, you've kept it a secret. Why haven't you said it all this time? What exactly are you trying to hide?"

The old host chanted the Buddhist words again, and explained honestly: "Back then, the master passed by the door of the house and enlightened the poor monk. Now that he has turned to the Buddha, the past and the past are all empty. The poor monk cut off the trivial matters of the world, and he is naturally alone."

Xie Yanniang thought of the little wife who was left behind, she couldn't help feeling sympathetic, and asked anxiously: "What should the wife do when she presides over Duan Hongchen?"

The host lowered his head and said again: "The Buddha taught, the first thing is to abstain from sex. The poor monk left a letter with his own handwriting, stating the reason, and let her marry again."

Xie Yanniang listened, but felt sad.After happily marrying, the husband suddenly became a monk, and he hurriedly tried to get her married. The wife who presided over it was afraid that he would feel sad and unhappy.

The host was too self-righteous, thinking that his wife remarried for her own good, but he just knew it. Who knew that his wife actually didn't want to remarry at all?

Even Pang Yudi couldn't help being a little annoyed when he heard the words: "As soon as the host left, it's cool to devote one's heart to the Buddha. It's hard for such a little girl who just got married and was forced to remarry. So, the young woman the host wants to see, Has something to do with your former wife?"

"That's right," the old host was sneered at by Pang Yudi, his face was still indifferent, without any expression, as if the previous sadness was fleeting.

Xie Yanniang can't understand that monks are merciful and save all sentient beings, but they are a little indifferent to those around them.

"Less than two years after remarrying, her husband died of illness, so she adopted a little girl and was filial to her knees. Later, the adopted daughter married a scholar and became the wife of a scholar. Unfortunately, the scholar failed many times and got into the bad habit of gambling. After squandering the poor birth left by her adoptive mother, she borrowed money and ran away. Before she died, she had to seek help from the poor monk to take in the adopted daughter, so as not to be caught by the creditor and sent to the red building to pay off the debt."

Hearing this, Xie Yanniang couldn't help being surprised.If she was really sent to a place like the Red Mansion, life would be worse than death for the woman.

That unresponsible scholar husband-in-law escaped to avoid disaster, he really has no backbone and no responsibility.

(End of this chapter)