"Hurry up, Xiaonuo!" My mother urged me again. I wanted to cry but had no tears left!
My mother and Aunt Chen went to burn incense while chatting and laughing. Before leaving, Chen Xi asked me to wait to find a parking space to park. Looking at Aunt Chen who kept smiling at me, I had no choice but to smile and nod in agreement.
Standing at the door of the Zhengfo Hall, the air was filled with the fragrance of sandalwood. The faithful men and women were kneeling and worshiping the Bodhisattva, whispering their wishes in their mouths, asking the Bodhisattva to bless them. I looked up at the majestic and loving Bodhisattva who saves all living beings, and I couldn't help but feel happy.
In order to show respect, I followed the example of those people, knelt on the futon, put my hands together, and bowed devoutly three times.
As soon as I got up, I saw an elegant figure walking towards the back hall. I followed him involuntarily, as if being pulled by an inexplicable force.
After passing through the back hall, through the long corridor, through the fireworks of the world, through the sound of Buddha in the temple, through the myriad appearances of men and women around us, we arrived at a secluded bamboo forest.
The bamboos grow lush and green, swaying in the breeze, blocking the scorching sun, and casting cool and refreshing shadows one after another.
It is very peaceful here, a refreshing tranquility. The tall bamboos block out all the hustle and bustle, fireworks, joys and sorrows of the world.
I stepped on the yellow and dry bamboo leaves on the ground, holding on to the thick bamboo joints on my wrists and walked through the bamboo forest, looking for the elegant figure, but I could only see layers of interlaced bamboo trees towering into the sky, thin and thin.
bamboo branches and lush green bamboo leaves.
The farther I walked in the bamboo forest and the closer I got to the depths of the bamboo forest, the more peaceful and peaceful my heart became.
Walking into the depths of the bamboo forest, I saw the bamboo trees surrounding me, but I still couldn't find that elegant figure.
I looked up at the sky, but I could only see the heavy bamboo trees that blocked the sky. There was no sound in the huge bamboo forest, not even the chirping of birds. It was quiet, too quiet.
I gave up searching and walked back, but a calm voice came from behind me: "Are you looking for me?"
I turned around, and there was a master with a loving and solemn face, a Buddha bead hanging on his chest, looking at me with a smile, his white beard trembling slightly.
I was about to nod when the master slowly stretched his hand into a fist in front of me, "Are you still looking for it?"
The fist slowly unfolded, and lying on the palm was a green and transparent jade bracelet, and a familiar feeling rushed to his face.
"This is not..." I took it with trembling hands and looked at the two small words on the inner ring. I was so excited that tears filled my eyes. How could it be here? Could it be...?
"This is the girl's thing, but the person she wants has not come." The master seemed to be able to see through all my thoughts. I looked at him in surprise, "Can you read my thoughts? Are you a god?"
"God? No, no." The master smiled and shook his head.
"The master's voice is very familiar. I seem to have heard it somewhere before." I frowned and thought, but I couldn't remember where I heard it.
"The girl is indeed smart, but I still remember that when the girl was in a coma, her soul came back. I once said to the girl, go back! Go back!..."
"It's not the time to come back yet, you should go when you go, and you should go back when you return!" I accepted the master's words, and this sentence that I always couldn't understand echoed in my mind, "It's not the time to come back then,
Master, is now the time to come back?"
"The girl is really smart."
"Master, you know I can come back, but do you know how I can go back?" I nervously grabbed the master's loose robe and asked eagerly.
"With your parents and family here, can the girl really let you go?"
"I..." It would be a lie to say that I am completely willing to give up.
"Why go if you can't let go?"
"The master said that there is a solution?" I looked at the master's eyes with joy. His eyes were very clear, so clear that I could see the quiet time flowing quietly in his eyes. "I can't bear to part with mine."
My parents and family, but I can’t bear to leave my lover in time and space even more, Master, please send me back!”
"Girl, since you are back, why bother thinking about going back? It may not be good to go back, and it may not be bad to stay."
"No matter how bad it is to go back, I want to go back. Master, just help me! Please."
The master smiled and said nothing. The air was so quiet that I could hear my heartbeat and breathing. The wind blew quietly, making the bamboo leaves rustle and the bamboo branches sway gently.
After waiting for a long time, the master finally spoke.
"Girl, something unexpected may happen when you go back. Girl, do you really want to go back?"
I nodded firmly. The worst outcome would be that they would all get married and I would become an ugly monster that they didn't recognize. So what, the worst possible outcome would be to create a gang of beggars!
"Can you let go of your parents and family?"
I still nodded.
The master looked at me and smiled. After a long time, he picked up the beads and sighed: "Okay, three days later, at the beginning of the hour of Unity, I will be by the Pingyang River. I will help the girl."
"Thank you, Master!" I bowed my head in joy. When I looked up again, there was no one in the bamboo forest. The gentle breeze blew up the fallen leaves in front of me. The bamboo forest was so quiet that it seemed like no one had been here.
"Xiao Nuo!" Chen Xi called from behind. When I turned around, Chen Xi ran to me out of breath, and said out of breath: "You, you... why are you here? You hurt me.
Easy to find!"
I flicked his forehead with my index finger like I did when I was a child, then jumped three steps away and said loudly to him: "Chen Xi, if one day I suddenly disappear, will you miss me?"
"Are you having a nervous breakdown again? How could such a good person suddenly disappear?"
"I mean, if," I looked at him, smiling as brightly as a summer flower, "tell me, if I disappeared one day, would you miss me badly?"
"Don't think about it! I've been thinking about it for more than ten years. I don't want to! I don't want to think about it anymore!"
"Chen Xi, if I disappear one day, you must help me take care of my parents!"
"I know you have no conscience, no love, no filial piety. Don't worry, your parents are my parents. As long as I'm here, they won't lose a hair."
"You'd better keep your word! Otherwise, I'll curse you to never get a wife!"
"How can you be so vicious?"
"How's it going? Are you going to bite me? Hee hee..."
"Stop! Don't run!"
"You'd be a fool not to run!"
…
Three days have passed by in a blink of an eye. Tonight will be the last night I spend with my family. My father has gone to work, Xiaohan has gone back to school to meet his tutor, and my mother and Aunt Chen have gone shopping. I dove into the kitchen and ding
Ding dong dong got busy.
First, stew the chicken with mushrooms in a purple clay pot, then steam the fish head with chopped peppers, chop the green onion into fine pieces, mix the eggs, make an omelette with chives, and then make the braised pork that Dad loves to eat.
The spicy pork ribs that Xiao Han loves to eat, the spicy pork trotters that mom loves to eat, and a stir-fried side dish.
When the food was ready, family members came back one after another.
Seven dishes were served on the table, including meat and vegetables, fish and meat, rich in nutrients, bright in color, and the aroma of various dishes wafted in the air. Xiaohan was so greedy that he took the chopsticks, picked up a piece of ribs, and put it in his mouth.
"The taste is not... good. Although compared with my mother, it still lacks... some heat, but for your age, it is... pretty good." Xiaohan chewed the ribs in his mouth and spoke inarticulately.
, I slapped away the chopsticks that she was trying to eat secretly, "Everyone hasn't arrived yet!"
"Mom and dad are here, who else is there?" Xiaohan put down her chopsticks unwillingly and muttered.
"And..." Just at this moment, the doorbell rang. I glared at Xiaohan and said, "No stealing!" I hurriedly opened the door.
"Why so late?"
"Is it too late? I refused the boss's request to work overtime because of these four words: you cook by yourself. Hey, Xiao Nuo, you see I offended the boss because of you. You invited me to dinner today. Have you changed your mind?
"Chen Xi came close to my face with an ambiguous expression on his face.
"What change of mind?"
"What other ideas do you have? Just be my girlfriend! Xiao Nuo, you must have seen me waiting for you for so many years, and after spending the past few days getting along with you, you know that I am a rare and good man. How about you? Decide quickly.
Come on! I'm very popular, and many girls have already thrown love balls at me. If you don't decide, I will be snatched away. By then it will be too late for you to regret it." Chen Xi helped me.
He adjusted his glasses and gave me a wink.
"Look at you, you look like a decent person. Why did you say something so inappropriate?" I suppressed my shivers and threw the slippers in front of his feet.
"You are wrong in saying this. People who say unreasonable things may not be unreasonable, and people who say serious things may not be serious. There is no connection between whether people speak serious words and whether people are serious, just like..."
"Sister, Chen Xi, what are you still mumbling about? The food has gone cold. If we want to keep in touch with each other, please change the time and place." Xiaohan shouted impatiently at the two of us.
"Come on, come on!" I ignored Chen Xi and sat down at the dining table. Chen Xi washed his hands after me and sat down next to me.
"Uncle and aunt, I'm sorry to keep you waiting for so long." Chen Xi smiled politely.
"It doesn't matter if you wait a little longer, it doesn't matter if you wait a little longer." My mother looked at me and Chen Xi and kept smiling, her smile was meaningful, "Look at you kid, why are you still calling us uncle and aunt? You can use another name.
It doesn't matter, her dad and I have been waiting for a long time."
"Cough cough cough cough..." I choked on the soup and coughed. As if I was afraid that others would not misunderstand, Chen Xi patted my back very considerately: "How are you? Are you okay?"
"It's okay, it's okay!" I looked up and saw my mother smiling as if it was a good thing, while my father smiled and nodded at me, meaning this kid is good, so what?
"Woman, are you really in love with someone else?" Xiaohan leaned close to my ear and whispered softly.
"It's nothing!" I categorically denied and put a piece of ribs into her bowl, "Eat! You talk too much!"
"Thank you, Mom and Dad!" I put a piece of braised pork into my father's bowl, and then put a piece of pig's trotters into my mother's bowl.
"Thank you for what?"
"Thank you for giving me birth, raising me, educating me, and giving me twenty-two years of happiness. It must have been very hard to raise me to the age of twenty-two! Thank you!"
"What are you doing, kid?" My mother almost burst into tears, while my father looked at me affectionately and seriously, "Girl, are you encountering any problems? Is it a job problem? Looking for a job?
If you can't find it, you can look for it slowly, and the family won't rely on you to make money, so don't be impatient."
"No! I'm so beautiful and capable, how can I not find a job? Besides, if I can't find a job, I'll just stay at home and let my parents take care of me, okay?"
"You just need an extra pair of chopsticks. Anyway, it's been so many years. I don't care how many more years it has." My mother glanced at me, picked up a piece of fish and put it into my bowl.
"Don't worry, Xiao Nuo, I'll take care of you in the worst case!" Chen Xi smiled and came close to my face. My mother's eyes lit up with excitement, as if we were about to get married and have a baby.
"Please! Don't spray your saliva on my face." I opened the distance between my two faces. Chen Xi rolled his eyes in shock, "I'm telling you, there is no store like this after passing this village. Don't do it."
I regret it."
"Tch! I will only regret it if I choose you!"
"Oh, my god! How can you bear to let me be so hurt? How can you bear to trample my love under your feet? My heart is broken, who will save me?" Chen Xi was as sad as a love saint, I
She gave him a funny look.
"Just break it to pieces! Anyway, I won't be the one to save you."
As soon as these words came out, Chen Xi was not the only one who was hit. My mother looked at me with a sad look on her face. Xiaohan glanced at her and said, "Mom, they call this flirting! What are you in a hurry for?"
When my mother heard this, she immediately smiled like a flower, kept picking up food for Chen Xi, and said, "Look at this kid, his body and bones seem to be hurt a little, eat more, you're welcome, just treat it like your own family"
, anyway, sooner or later this will be your home..."
"mom!"
"You kid, why are you so anxious with your mother? Chen Xi, our Xiaonuo is really good. He is pretty, has a good temper, can be generous, and has good cooking skills. It can be said that he can go to the hall or the kitchen.
, are you right?”
"Yes, yes!" Chen Xi nodded repeatedly with a smile on his face, smiling meaningfully at me from time to time.
"You have to be nice to our little Nuo. Our two children, Xiao Nuo and Xiaohan, are as painful as baby bumps. If you don't treat her well, Auntie will be angry."
"Okay, okay, I will definitely be good to her!" Chen Xi nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, but did not explain.
"Mom, we know clearly what the relationship between Chen Xi and I is, so please don't get involved."
"How does this child talk? Mom, this is..."
"Okay, wife, young people can handle their own affairs. We can just watch from the sidelines. We don't understand their affairs anyway." Dad took the pig's trotters and put them into mom's bowl.
"Have a meal, you see little Nuoduo is filial and even made spicy pig's trotters that you like."
"That's natural. I don't even think about it. My daughter was born after ten months of hard work. If I don't be filial, who can I be filial to?" The mother looked so happy that she couldn't find any boundaries, which was really heart-wrenching to see.