The seats in the hall were half full, and many new diners looked curiously, attracted by the movement somewhere in the corner of the lobby.
But I wasn't too surprised. I just thought that the strangely matched but surprisingly pleasing pair of man and woman were a young couple quarreling, breaking up and getting back together.
"Sit down, senior brother."
Ouyang Rong pursed his lips slightly and looked sideways at the little junior sister who jumped out of nowhere.
Hearing these frightening casual words, his right eyelid twitched fiercely.
sit?
Sit down with your life.
His dark eyes rolled up slightly and he looked up at his felt hat.
Xie Lingjiang seemed to have come to his senses and silently withdrew his hand that was holding the dog's head.
She sniffed again, turned around and walked to the table in the corner, taking out the monk's robes, luminous pearls and other items placed on the stool.
But the next moment.
Ouyang Rong wanted to sit down, but ran away without saying a word.
Under the strange looks of everyone, he rushed out of the lobby of the Zaozhaiyuan and ran like a rabbit running for his life in the direction of the Beitian Almshouse.
Xie Ling Jiangtou didn't bother to look back, so he walked back to his original seat in the corner, bent down to pick up the monk's robes, night pearls and other items, and patted the dust on the way.
She looked back.
After seven breaths.
On the lawn a hundred meters away from the Zaozhaiyuan, a young man in soap clothes who moved like a rabbit was kicked out on his butt.
The felt hat on his head was detached from his head and flew three meters away.
With a sound of "Ouch", Ouyang Rong fell down and ate his shit.
Someone suddenly felt a little regretful and climbed up hungry to eat his last pickled radish breakfast.
Ouyang Rong lay on the dewy lawn and rubbed his face with his hands, as if he was lucky that he didn't fall into his handsome face.
Good guy, this kick from the junior sister was just like when the junior sister met him for the first time and mistook him for being a thief who stole his senior brother's pearl, so he gave him a flying kick with his long legs.
Ouyang Rong turned over and leaned back with his hands to support the ground. He looked at Xie Lingjiang who was biting his lip and narrowing his eyes as he slowly approached. He had a bright smile on his face and laughed and said:
"Hey, junior sister, why are you here too? Haha, what a coincidence. You also have breakfast."
Xie Lingjiang silently walked between Ouyang Rong's spread legs,
stop,
Squat down,
Hold your knees with your arms,
It seems to be covering up the swollen breasts that are squeezed and deformed.
Her crouching body leaned forward slightly, pursed her lips and sniffed, and stared at him with a sullen face:
"Run away, senior brother."
Ouyang Rong immediately grimaced and looked around, avoiding her little sad eyes.
"Why did little junior sister come back early? Didn't you say after the 15th of this month..." He sighed and asked.
Xie Lingjiang lowered his head, buried his pretty face in his knees, and without saying a word, stuffed the monk's robes, night pearls and other objects into Ouyang Rong's arms.
Ouyang Rong was stunned.
The unjust little junior sister buried her head deeply and silently took off the skirt knife from her waist. With a soft "bang", she slapped the elder brother's chest with the knife and sheath.
"It's all yours, take it and don't try to cheat on it!"
Her fierce voice still had a little bit of the soft crying sound before, making her look fierce and ferocious.
Like a kitten that is angry and purring at its owner.
Ouyang Rong looked down at the things in his arms and hesitated to speak.
Finally, he turned his face and looked in the direction of Beitian Almshouse not far away, and asked silently:
"How did the junior sister know that I would go there? Was it someone reporting the news, or... did you leave any sense of foreign objects in my place?"
The two of them squatted and sat.
Eyes facing each other.
Xie Ling Jiang Hongshang's clothes were wet with dew just like Ouyang Rong's soap clothes.
She didn't care about this at the moment. She squatted down and hugged her knees, raised her head and stared at him, saying word by word:
"I won't tell you, but remember, no matter where you go, I can catch you. Don't try to hide it from me... let's run away."
After a pause, Xie Lingjiang turned his face sideways:
"The kick just now was for Aunt Zhen and my father. Are you...are you okay?"
Ouyang Rong frowned and nodded, with a serious look on his face:
"Something's wrong. This kick hit my critical point. My vitality was severely damaged and my side leakage continued. Someone needs to stop it..."
"Achilles' heel? What is this?" Xie Lingjiang was stunned, and his pretty face suddenly showed an eager look. He stretched out his hands and examined his body with distressed and self-reproaching eyes.
Ouyang Rong waved his hands, raised his head with a difficult expression, and pretended to be relaxed and free in his tone:
"Don't worry, I happen to know that one person can block this fatal hole. Junior sister, go and invite Master Shandao for me. He can rejuvenate me and cure me. I can still hold on for a while. Go quickly, I will wait for you here...
…”
Xie Lingjiang nodded, "Okay."
Ouyang Rong lowered his head, sighing on his face, but feeling happy in his heart, but soon he found that the junior sister in front of him didn't move at all, still squatting on the spot.
Looking up, Xie Lingjiang looked at him with a straight face:
"Has the vitality drained from the fatal point? Why isn't Senior Brother dead yet?"
Ouyang Rong stammered: "How... how can it be so fast? Junior sister, don't be joking."
"Okay, I'll wait until you finish leaking. Hurry up." Xie Lingjiang nodded.
Ouyang Rong:?
You're just saying, "Eldest Brother is so ready to open the champagne", right?
The corner of his mouth twitched.
Well, the little junior sister is becoming less and less cute. She is not as serious and old-fashioned as before. She is cute and easy to deceive. I don’t know who led her astray.
When Ouyang Rong was heartbroken, Xie Lingjiang suddenly asked:
"Eldest Brother is a banished immortal who came to the human world?"
Ouyang Rong was startled, "What about banishing an immortal?"
Xie Lingjiang watched his senior brother pretending to be confused and not taking it, and slipped the jade target white sandalwood knife in his hand, pursed his lips, and asked softly:
"What's going on with the purple energy in your eyes?"
Ouyang Rong remained calm: "What are you talking about, junior sister?"
"It was said by the monk who stayed behind in the underground palace called 'Pure Land'."
Xie Lingjiang raised his finger and pointed at the monk's robes, night pearls and other objects in Ouyang Rong's arms:
"I just rushed there and saw the clothes you wore and the precious luminous pearls you once gave me, all scattered on the lotus pedestal in the center. I thought... I thought the senior brother was gone."
Ouyang Rong suddenly understood. No wonder the junior sister looked like she had cried, and her expression was a little haggard and sad...
But immediately, he was speechless again.
After finishing the psychological work for himself last night and preparing to leave, it was already dawn. Ouyang Rong heard the familiar early morning bell ringing outside the underground palace.
He suddenly thought about whether he should try the pickled radish from Zazaiyuan one last time.
After all, I won’t be able to eat it again after I go back.
At least that's how he explained it to himself.
In fact, Ouyang Rong also understands that the wisest thing to do is to immediately redeem the "Return to Come" blessing.
If you can go back, let it go;
If you can't go back, then give up the idea as soon as possible and make plans as soon as possible.
However, if people could really be absolutely rational, then there wouldn't be all the complicated things in this world.
Before leaving the Meilin courtyard the day before yesterday, Ouyang Rong burst into indignation while muttering to himself while watering the orchids.
Now, as he is getting closer and closer to the blessing of "returning here".
The original anger in my heart gradually cooled and dimmed like red hot iron water standing still.
It's a certain reluctance to say goodbye that's causing the problem.
The closer he gets to the end, the more he subconsciously looks for the "last excuse".
Because sometimes people just need such an excuse to let their minds rest temporarily.
Even if the excuse is clumsy and shoddy.
It is also in this kind of back and forth that you can penetrate your true heart and grow suddenly at some point in the future...
So Ouyang Rong withdrew his hand at that time, temporarily took off his gray monk clothes, put on his soap clothes and felt hat again, climbed out of the underground palace, and went to the Zaozhaiyuan in a familiar way, preparing to have one last taste of the unique pickled radish.
It's just that Ouyang Rong didn't expect to meet Xiufa on the way, and he was dragged by a young novice monk to the Sutra Copying Hall next door early in the morning to investigate the incident of abnormal noises from the Buddha statue.
So Ouyang Rong wandered around the Sutra Copying Hall again, his chest pressed against his back due to hunger, and his hair was chattering, so he let him go and returned to the lobby of the Zazaiyuan to eat.
Then he was caught by the junior sister who appeared out of nowhere.
Thinking about it now, he must have just left the Pure Land Palace with his front foot, and his junior sister arrived with his back foot, and they just missed him.
However, he was dragged to the Sutra Copying Hall and was delayed for a while. When he returned to the Zaozhaiyuan to eat, he happened to be met by the junior sister who had left the Pure Land Palace.
Ouyang Rong couldn't laugh or cry.
He lowered his head and glanced at the Night Pearl before putting it back into his sleeve.
In fact, he deliberately dropped this pearl on the lotus pedestal and did not drop it carelessly.
And this is not a luminous pearl, but a relic burned by eminent monks.
Ouyang Rong felt that this was the return of the property to its original owner, so he took it back to the underground palace and placed it there.
Therefore, when he was preparing for the funeral at the foot of the mountain, he did not leave this bead with Ye Weilai, Xie Lingjiang, or Su Guoer.
Ouyang Rong raised his head again and said seriously:
"The monk in the underground palace is not a left-behind monk, but a crazy monk named I don't know...his name is Xiuzhen, and he is Xiu-haired's senior brother.
"Next door to the underground palace is the Beitian Almshouse for the sick and lunatic. Xiuzhen could not stay above ground for a moment. She liked to run into the dark underground palace, saying that it was a pure land and so on. She told everyone who came close to her.
"Master Shandao and Xiufa couldn't do anything to him, so they just let it go.
"So, Junior Sister, don't take Xiu Zhen's words seriously."
Xie Lingjiang raised her eyebrows and glanced at Ouyang Rong. After a moment, she nodded and said:
"No wonder. This monk also said that you are in the murals of the underground palace..."
Ouyang Rong nodded, "He really praised me."
Xie Lingjiang looked Ouyang Rong in the eyes:
"However, Senior Brother explained so much, but he still didn't say why he suddenly resigned and went into seclusion and left without saying goodbye."
Ouyang Rong stood up, and Xie Lingjiang also stood up.
Ouyang Rong lowered his eyes and patted the offal roots on his clothes:
"Can't it be that I am tired, worship Taoism and think about seclusion, imitate Tao Yuanming in the past, resign from office, and return to the countryside?"
Xie Lingjiang shook his head: "Senior Brother's behavior style has nothing to do with the Taoist concept of 'loneliness and inaction'. Are you not such a person?"
Ouyang Rong asked: "What kind of person am I in the eyes of junior sister?"
"Be sincere and unite knowledge and action."
“Unity of knowing and doing?”
Ouyang Rong shook his head and laughed at himself:
"I can't bear to say this. If I really united my knowledge and action, I wouldn't know that I had to leave, but still hesitate and use various excuses to delay my action."
Xie Lingjiang looked serious:
"Doesn't this further prove that senior brother's knowledge and action are unified? Because even if senior brother has a hundred reasons in his heart for wanting to leave, as long as there is one reason to stay, senior brother will find it difficult to let go. This is the pure heart.
, there is no room for any guilt.”
Ouyang Rong smiled and asked:
"Then tell me, why should I stay?"
Xie Lingjiang picked up the skirt knife and handed it out.
A skirt knife was placed horizontally between Ouyang Rong and Xie Lingjiang.
Xie Lingjiang raised his hand and motioned for Ouyang Rong to take the knife again, and his words sounded quite good:
"Elder brother, now thousands of people in Longcheng County need you! They need you to stand up!"
Ouyang Rong laughed and shook his head: "Little junior sister, don't make trouble."
"I am not kidding!"
Xie Lingjiang took a deep breath and said seriously:
"You were so angry that I almost forgot about it. I came to find you in a hurry because I learned something important from the mouth of the Yuxi female fairy. I am extremely urgent!"
Ouyang Rong was startled. Seeing the look on his junior sister's face, she didn't seem to be looking for an excuse to leave him alone, so he couldn't help but ask:
"What's the urgent need?"
After a pause, he looked a little surprised and said:
"Wait a minute, the Jade Princess Fairy is awake? Could it be that she confessed to the Liu family? That's okay. There are all the witnesses and physical evidence. Junior sister, you can just take Liu Lang to seize the house and ransack it. There is no need for me to come."
Xie Lingjiang immediately shook his head and suddenly said:
"Elder brother, there is bad news and worse news. Which one do you want to hear first?"