Daiyu of the Red Chamber

Chapter 83 Visiting Hanshan Temple Again (2)

Hong Jin came back to her yard and happened to see Mo Xuan making tea, so she walked over and poured herself a cup, took a sip, then shook her head and sighed: "Your skills are far behind that of Miss Lin. " After finishing speaking, he pretended to be mysterious and smiled: "I must ask Miss Lin to make another pot and try it later."

Mo Xuan didn't understand why his cousin suddenly brought up Miss Lin, and said, "You still have so much to say over a cup of tea. If you don't think my tea is made well, don't eat it. After all, Miss Lin is a boudoir girl." Where can I just make tea for you?" Hearing this, Hong Jin glanced at Mo Xuan, and said thoughtfully: "You don't have to worry about it. Just don't fight with me when the time comes."

Mo Xuan shook his head disapprovingly and smiled and said, "Don't you think Miss Lin is one of your maids?" This was originally a joke, but Hong Jin replied solemnly: "How can a maid be with you?" Compared to her? Don't insult her!" After speaking, he threw up his sleeves and left without even eating tea, leaving Mo Xuan with a dazed expression.

Naturally, Daiyu and Wanyu didn't know about this, they returned to Wanyu's yard, it was already noon, when Wang Xifeng saw them enter the door, he said: "You guys are full, leave me here What about starvation?"

When Daiyu heard this, she quickly apologized: "I'm sorry, sister-in-law, I stayed with the princess for a while." After she finished speaking, Daiyu turned her head to look at Wanyu.

Wan Yu also smiled and said: "We haven't eaten yet, aren't we coming back to accompany you? I don't know if I'm hungry and I don't know how to ask the maids to set the meal first." Just after finishing speaking, the maids have already brought in the food, and they moved the food quickly. The meals were placed on the small square table.

Wang Xifeng walked in and saw that it was either green vegetables or radishes, and the only thing that could be eaten was tofu. She couldn't help but regret that she wanted to come to this temple to play.She didn't know how many troubles this trip caused.

Although the food at Hanshan Temple was low in oil and clean, the taste was excellent, so although Wang Xifeng complained and regretted it in the beginning, all three of them ate very satisfied after all.After Wang Xifeng finished eating and put away the bowls and chopsticks, Daiyu said: "Even if I come here, I should go to see the abbot no matter what. He was the one who healed my wounds back then."

After hearing this, Wan Yu nodded her head and said: "It should be so." Then she asked: "Do you want me to go with you?" But Dai Yu said with a smile: "You also came all the way to the mountain by car, and for the sake of I've been so busy. It's time for me to take a good rest, and my sister-in-law is about to take a nap, I think you all should take a rest, I'll go by myself."

Wanyu didn't stop her, but ordered Chai'er, who was familiar with Daiyu, to accompany Daiyu, but Daiyu couldn't escape, so she had to agree.He took Chai'er back to his small courtyard first, and seeing that everyone had settled down, he invited Nanny Yang to go to the abbot's place together.

Not far from the Puming Pagoda after passing through the stele corridor is the Fangzhang Temple. Under the leadership of the little novice, Daiyu and the others walked slowly. follow her.Nanny Yang sensed that someone was peeping, but she turned her head and found no one, so she had to protect Daiyu even more tightly.

Standing behind the ancient pine, Hong Jin was a little dazed watching the background of Daiyu gradually disappearing, and Mo Xuan didn't even notice when he came behind him.Following Hong Jin's gaze, Mo Xuan saw a group of people gradually going away, and asked curiously: "What are you looking at? So engrossed."

Hong Jin woke up only after hearing Mo Xuan's voice, but as if he had been greatly frightened, his eyes wandered, and without looking at Mo Xuan, he scolded in a low voice: "How can you walk! You don't make a sound, carefully scare you!" Dead man!" Mo Xuan laughed and said, "You've lost your mind, but you're blaming me! I just ask you what you were watching just now? You were so focused."

Hearing Mo Xuan's repeated questions, Hong Jin couldn't help but blushed like a cat whose tail had been stepped on and said: "I didn't see anything, go back and have a rest." After speaking, he turned and left.Mo Xuan only felt that Hong Jin was very abnormal today, but he couldn't explain why, so he could only shake his head and walk back behind Hong Jin.

After taking two steps, Mo Xuan seemed to be thinking of something, stopped again, looked at the passerby who was walking away, thought for a while and asked: "Who is that passerby? They are all women, but they are the abbot He went over there." Seeing Mo Xuan staring at the passerby, Hong Jin couldn't help feeling a little anxious, and said, "How do I know who it is? Are you going or not?"

Mo Xuan didn't pursue it anymore, and followed Hong Jin all the way back to the courtyard, but he still felt that Hong Jin was not normal today, so he asked, "Are you okay today? Why doesn't it feel right?" Mo Xuan was originally just Asked casually, but Hong Jin blushed, but didn't answer him.

Mo Xuan was curious and asked a few more questions before Hong Jin lowered his voice and said to Mo Xuan, "Who did I see today?" shook his head.

Hong Jin didn't expect Mo Xuan to answer and said self-consciously: "I heard that Wan Yu was back in the morning, so I went to the concubine's courtyard, but I ran into it when I came out." Speaking of which, Hong Jin Seeing Mo Xuan's eyes lit up twice, Mo Xuan felt a little creepy suddenly, but Hong Jin said in the next sentence: "I didn't expect Wan Yu to pick Miss Lin here."

Mo Xuan didn't recover from Hong Jin's piercing eyes all at once, and subconsciously asked: "Why is Miss Lin here?" After speaking, he realized, and said, "You mean Miss Lin is here?"

For some reason, seeing Mo Xuan's surprised face, Hong Jin felt very uncomfortable, so he nodded and only answered "Yes" without further words.But Mo Xuan suddenly thought of the previous group of people, and asked with interest: "Did you just peek at Miss Lin before?"

Hearing this, Hong Jin blushed immediately, stepped over, covered Mo Xuan's mouth, and said in a low voice, "What nonsense are you talking about?!" Seeing Hong Jin's intense reaction, Mo Xuan was taken aback for a moment. .

Here, Daiyu met the abbot smoothly, and saw that the abbot was still the same, and he didn't look old after four or five years.When the abbot saw Daiyu, he smiled and said, "I didn't see you for five years, but now you have grown into a big girl."

Daiyu also smiled slightly and said: "At the beginning, thanks to the abbot for healing the little girl, today I came to thank the abbot specially." Hearing what Daiyu said, the abbot said: "The monks save the suffering and save all sentient beings. Healing the girl is the most important thing. In my duty, I should not thank you. What's more, the girl was injured in my temple."

Daiyu just smiled slightly after hearing this, and thought: If I am just a girl from an ordinary family, I am afraid that you will not save me if I am an old monk, right?What are you talking about helping people in need?What are you talking about saving sentient beings?It's just for my parents' sake!

On the face, Daiyu didn't show it, and said with a smile on the corner of her mouth: "No matter what the abbot's reason is, it is a fact that he healed the little girl. The little girl remembers the abbot's kindness in her heart. Buddhism pays attention to the cycle of cause and effect. Today is also considered a The little girl is here to repay her karma." After speaking, Daiyu turned her head to look at Nanny Yang.

Nanny Yang nodded, took out a silver bill of one thousand taels from her sleeve, and handed it to the abbot, "This is our girl's kindness to the Lord Buddha. The right should be added as sesame oil money." The abbot said the Buddha's name before He took it, put it aside without looking at it, and called out the Buddha's name again: "The Lord Buddha has a spirit, and sincerity leads to spirit."

Daiyu frowned and looked at the abbot but said nothing more, since the purpose of coming here today has been achieved, she wants to leave.Unexpectedly, the abbot said: "Miss, I have a destiny with Buddha, can you listen to the old man?" Daiyu didn't like to hear that there was a destiny with Buddha, which made her think of the lame Taoist and the monk Laitou involuntarily.

But the abbot had already spoken, and Daiyu couldn't refuse directly, after all, she was the one who found it first.Furthermore, Daiyu felt a little apprehensive about her coming to this world, and remembered the nun at the Panxiang Temple on Xuanmu Mountain, so she nodded and agreed.

But the abbot didn't speak at this time, but looked at Nanny Yang quietly with his eyes.But Nanny Yang ignored him, pretending she didn't see anything.Anyway, she would not let Yu'er stay with this old monk alone.

Daiyu looked at the abbot, and saw that there was a light in the abbot's eyes that could see everything, very similar to the nuns in Panxiang Temple, so she said to Mammy Yang, "Mother, please wait for me in the courtyard. I won’t have much to say to my children’s family either.”

When Nanny Yang heard what Daiyu said, she couldn't help looking over in surprise.But Daiyu nodded firmly to her, her eyes calm and calm.Now that Daiyu had opened her mouth, Nanny Yang couldn't say anything more, she thought for a while and said, "In this case, I will wait for the girl in the courtyard with the county master's people." Daiyu didn't speak, just nodded with a smile Nodding his head, he turned to look at the abbot.

Seeing Daiyu act like this, the abbot smiled.But he was not in a hurry to speak, instead he reached out and poured Daiyu a glass of water.Although Daiyu was puzzled, she took the water glass with a smile and was not in a hurry to ask.Seeing this, there was more approval in the abbot's eyes.

The abbot sat down opposite Daiyu, stared at Daiyu for a long time, Daiyu looked at the abbot for a long time without dodging, and then heard the abbot say: "There is a saying that if you come, you will be safe. You have always done a good job. When I saw you last time, you seemed ignorant but actually panicked. Now you are much calmer." After speaking, the abbot also poured himself a glass of water.

When Daiyu heard this, her heart was shocked, and she couldn't help asking: "I don't know why?" The abbot just smiled and said nothing.Daiyu asked again: "How can I be safe?" Seeing that Daiyu became anxious, the abbot shook his head and said, "I said you were much calmer before, why are you becoming impatient now?"

After finishing speaking, he put down the cup in his hand and said, "Just follow your heart and be kind to others. Dependence, origin and extinction are all caused by cause and effect, so there is no need to force anything. Since you have come, there will naturally be your cause and effect waiting for you." After finishing speaking, the abbot said No more talking, just put your hands together and close your eyes to chant sutras.

Daiyu saw that she couldn't ask any more questions, so she had to get up and leave.But I knew in my heart that some people in this world knew where they came from.For example, the nun of Panxiang Temple, or the abbot of Hanshan Temple.I just don't know what is the meaning of this dependent origination and extinction?What is the cause and effect of oneself...

Daiyu has been in a trance since she came back from the abbot's place, and she has been silent when she sat down in Nanny Yang's room.Seeing this, Aunt Yang and Aunt Luo were very worried, but no matter how much they asked Daiyu, they didn't answer.

At dinner time, Wanyu saw that Daiyu hadn't come back yet, she was puzzled, and sent a little girl to look for it, but she met the hairpin who had returned from Madam Yang's place, and she called to ask her to find out that Daiyu hadn't returned. After going to the abbot's place, he has been in a trance.Wan Yu was very worried, so she went to find her herself.

Seeing Wanyu coming over, Daiyu forced a smile and said: "Sister Lao, don't worry, Yu'er is fine. I just heard the abbot explain the principles of Buddhism, and I didn't quite understand it, so I thought about it for a while." Hearing what she said , Wan Yu breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Stop listening to Buddhist principles and dharma, it's not going to spoil your mind, so don't let your imagination run wild."

Seeing Daiyu smiling and nodding her head, Wanyu gave up and continued to preach.They led Daiyu back to their courtyard, after the three of them had dinner, both Wanyu and Wang Xifeng saw the tiredness on Daiyu's face, and let her go to rest early.

Unexpectedly, as soon as she lay down, Daiyu heard the faint sound of flute from a distance. Although she couldn't hear it clearly, she felt very sad, so she couldn't help asking Wanyu, "Sister Wan, do you know this is the sound of the flute?" Who's playing the dick?"

Wan Yu listened attentively for a moment, then said in a low voice: "Who else? This is Mo Xuan who misses his aunt again. Although his father, queen, mother and concubine treat him no differently from his elder brother, even his aunt treats him very well. Yes, but he still feels lonely."

Seeing Wanyu's downcast expression, Daiyu knew there must be a story, but she didn't ask any more questions. Who doesn't have a pain in their heart?He wanted to comfort Wan Yu, but he didn't know what to say.After hesitating for a while, I listened intently but couldn't hear it.

Daiyu originally thought that she would suffer from insomnia that night, she didn't want to fall asleep shortly after she lay down, and when she woke up, the outside of the window was already white, and birdsong could be heard leisurely.After getting up and washing up with Wanyu, Daiyu went to say goodbye to Princess Dao's courtyard. Wanyu knew that she was going to visit Jia Min at Guiyuan Temple today, so she didn't stay any longer.

(End of this chapter)