Being-Towards-Death

On weekdays, the Ci'en Temple is quiet and leisurely.Shi Guyuan likes to come here to smell the incense and soothe his tense nerves day and night.He put a stick of incense in the main hall, and Dele stood beside him. After he got up, he said, "Amitabha, the stone donor seems to have something on his mind."

Shi Guyuan smiled: "Nothing can be hidden from you."

Dele clasped his hands together and said, "If Donor Shi doesn't mind, you can tell the poor monk."

Shi Guyuan said: "Alright, I also want tea from Ci'en Temple."

The two came to the side room to sit down. The tea in Ci'en Temple is no different from the tea in the outside world. The difference may be that the tea has been touched with Buddha's fate, without the five flavors of the world.Dele added tea to Shi Guyuan, Shi Guyuan took a small sip, then opened the conversation box, and carefully took out each word: "My sister is coming back from abroad, she blames me for not telling her that our adoptive father passed away The news, you got angry with me."

Dele said: "What Donor Shi did in this matter is indeed inappropriate. It is reasonable and reasonable, so we should tell her in time."

"I'm afraid to disturb her exam..." Shi Guyuan sighed, "The main thing is still me, I don't want to mention it."

Dele said: "The matter has come to this point, it's useless to think too much, please donate Shi to relax, so that my sister will understand."

In spring, there are a lot of flowers, and the flowers of Ci'en Temple are light, as if standing out of the world.Shi Guyuan pushed open the small window, suddenly a gust of flower petals hit his face in the wind, he sneezed, and when he looked closely, it turned out that a little girl in red was blowing flowers.

Dele also saw it, and he came to the window with a headache and said loudly, "Anle, what are you doing again?"

The little girl looked twelve or thirteen years old, looked up and saw De Le, her smile was more beautiful than Luo Hua.She walked through the flowers, came under the window, poked her head into the room, and said, "Are you drinking tea? I'm very thirsty too, pour me a cup."

Dele did not avoid suspicion, and gave his teacup to the little girl, seeing that Shi Guyuan was a little curious, so he simply made a joke: "This girl is a little monster in our temple, she must be guarded by Buddha - she may not be willing to live in peace. "

Shi Guyuan smiled and asked the little girl: "Good flowers, I provoked you, are you going to knock them down?"

The little girl said eloquently: "I am reading "The Besieged City", and I think there is a passage that is quite correct. It says that there is a poem in Huangshan Valley that says, "The scent of flowers can make people want to break Zen." It’s like meat, it’s broken the precept! I’m helping them.”

Just as Dele was about to speak earnestly, he turned his eyes, and the conversation followed suit, and asked Shi Guyuan, "What does Benefactor Shi think?"

Shi Guyuan said: "I think of the story of "The Goddess Scattering Flowers" in the Vimalakirti Sutra. The Tathagata sent the Goddess to check the way of the Bodhisattva and the Shravaka disciples. The whole body is covered with flowers, "if the practice is not completed, the body will be covered with flowers; if the practice is exhausted, the flowers will not be covered with flowers." It can be seen that flowers are innocent, and people are self-intoxicated."

Dele nodded with a smile, and the little girl clapped her hands and said, "You are amazing! I will stop beating you!"

Dele bowed to Shi Guyuan to the end, and said with a smile, "Thank you, Donor Shi, for saving the lives of the flowers and plants in Ci'en Temple."

Shi Guyuan hurriedly helped him up, the little girl said to Dele, "Brother, I'm going to play with Fei Fei," and then said to Shi Guyuan, "Shi Shizhu, you look so pretty when you smile, you should smile more. Goodbye!"

Most of Shi Guyuan's depression stagnated in his chest dissipated, but he was quite puzzled about what the little girl called Dele.But he smiled and said nothing, so he didn't ask, drank some tea, said goodbye and left.

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Dai Chenming's head injury finally healed.Zheng Zhichu urged him so hard that he had no choice but to come to the Municipal Bureau as soon as he took off the gauze covering his head.

The law and order in Taoxian City has been good recently, and the criminal police detachment of the city bureau is relatively quiet. Captain Song Weibin put his feet on the table and slumped in the swivel chair to read the newspaper. A few interns were borrowed by the traffic team to press the road.

Vice-captain Qin Ming found a boy poking his head at the door, and shouted, "Who is it?"

The newspaper dropped, revealing Song Weibin's eyes: "Who is at the door?"

Dai Chenming entered the office carelessly, pulled up a chair and sat down, and said quite familiarly: "It's quite leisurely!"

Qin Ming frowned, his long and thick eyebrows were connected to the soil, matched with a beard, very much like Lu Xiaofeng with four eyebrows.His eyes were as big as copper bells, and his pupils were like springs. When the eyeballs moved, there was almost a sharp sound: "Who are you?"

Dai Chenming reported his family name and said, "My surname is Dai."

Song Weibin and Qin Ming looked at each other, Song Weibin said: "Oh, you are the son of Chief Dai?"

Dai Chenming nodded and said, "How do you treat guests? You don't even have a glass of water."

Qin Ming said: "Go home and drink when you're thirsty, every needle and thread here is public property!"

Dai Chenming curled his lips, and for his own sake, he didn't care about him: "Come on, if you don't drink, don't drink. Then what, you're fine anyway, so do me a little favor."

Song Weibin asked: "What's the matter?"

Dai Chenming made nonsense: "I'm a law student, and I need to give examples in my thesis, but all the cases I can find are 80 years old, which have expired long ago. I would like to ask if I can go to the archives of your criminal police team to have a look. , look for criminal cases in the past one or two years."

Song Weibin said in embarrassment: "I'm afraid it won't work, right? Bureau Dai didn't say anything. It's a mistake."

Dai Chenming said: "Why did you make a mistake? Don't we all advocate transparency in the office now? I just want to read it for the paper. Why don't you ask your police officers to follow me and watch me. I promise not to rummage around." "

Song Weibin still refused, and Dai Chenming became impatient: "My dad is the director, it's not just a matter of his words, what are you afraid of! Or is there some ulterior secret in the archives of the city bureau?"

Qin Ming said in a cold voice: "Rules are rules, even if you are the son of the provincial bureau chief, you can't be flexible!"

Dai Chenming was so angry that his lungs would explode: "If my dad tells me, it will be fine?"

Song Weibin said, "We have to obey the orders from above."

Dai Chenming stood up and said, "Okay, I'll go back and ask my dad for instructions. When it's time, see if you can stop me!"

After finishing speaking, he went away.Song Weibin watched him go out, then smiled wryly at Qin Ming and said, "Look, children nowadays are not polite at all."

Qin Ming said: "As long as I'm an official, I think I can do whatever I want, hum, I'm making us human!"

Song Weibin lowered his voice and said, "Slow down, it's not good for people to hear you."

"To be honest, what am I afraid of!"

"Qin Ming, you are also a veteran," Song Weibin said, "Why haven't you learned the officialdom? The opportunity to enter the party school this time should have been yours, but you gave the old bureau chief's sister-in-law It's been investigated, tell me who else you haven't offended?"

Qin Ming said: "I'll be like this for the rest of my life, and I don't expect to be promoted again. But you, Team Song, you have to rely on your conscience. I always admire you. You can't be with them!"

Song Weibin smiled and said: "Official affairs must be enforced impartially, and other things, follow the fate, haha, follow the fate."

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On Saturday, Chi Xiaoyu's kindergarten held a morning parent-child activity.Chi Yu had to work overtime, so he had to ask Shi Guyuan to go for him.Shi Guyuan responded immediately, and at the same time said worriedly: "What's wrong with your hospital, you work overtime every weekend? The doctors are tired and irresponsible to the patients. Go and talk to your director."

Chi Yu said: "I will find time to talk, and Xiaoyu will leave it to you."

Shi Guyuan looked at the time. Shi Guyuan's plane arrived at [-]:[-] p.m. After the parent-child activities were over, there was still time for him to take Chi Xiaoyu to the airport directly.When he arrived at the kindergarten, the kindergarten was decorated like a wedding cake, newly coated with a layer of white putty, and colorful flowers hanging from the ceiling, which became the lace of the cake.

The stadium is the main venue for the event.The competition was divided into three groups: large, medium and small. Shi Guyuan saw Song Jianghan and his mother Xu Ping in the large group.The two chatted for a few words before returning to their respective seats.

Chi Xiaoyu reported two events: a relay race and a hoop jump.Chi Xiaoyu held back her breastfeeding energy, fired it like a small cannonball, and came back to Shi Guyuan to take over, surrounded by high-pitched voices of children: "Come on, Dad!" or "Come on, Mom!"

The mother of a classmate Chi Xiaoyu next to her smiled and said to her friend: "Hey, like a father, like a daughter, I said Xiaoyu is so beautiful, with this father, how can she not be beautiful?"

Chi Xiaoyu looked up at the aunt who was talking, and the aunt said, "Xiaoyu, come on, cheer for your father!"

Chi Xiaoyu looked left and right, and the children were all calling "Mom" or "Dad". The word "Uncle" was trapped in her little stomach, and the opening was tied tightly by a rubber band, like Monkey King trapped in a golden cymbal, even if Nezha made troubles in the sea, he couldn't get out.Her stomach hurts a little, and something is about to burst out of her throat.

At a loss, she followed the trend and shouted a little: "Come on, Dad!" After doing it again, she found that what she thought was difficult had become extremely easy, and her voice became louder and louder: "Come on, Dad! Come on, Dad!"

Shi Guyuan rushed to the finish line first, and Chi Xiaoyu screamed and squeezed out of the crowd, as if he had sprouted wings, and flew into Shi Guyuan's embrace with one kick.Shi Guyuan laughed loudly and hugged her tightly, kissed her tender cheek, and said, "My good daughter!"

The winning prize is a set of parent-child mugs, one smaller, yellow, with "BABY" written on it, and two larger mugs, one blue, one pink, blue with "DADDY" written on it, and pink It says "MOMMY".

Shi Guyuan looked at it several times, and said maliciously: "Xiao Yuer, the yellow one is yours; the blue one is mine; the pink one is for your father, okay?"

Chi Xiaoyu said generously, "Okay!"

After the sports, there are also craft activities.Two people made a big tree with brushes, wool and buttons.Shi Guyuan enjoyed it even more than Chi Xiaoyu, cheering bursts of cheers from time to time, causing the parents on both sides to laugh.

Shi Guyuan taught Chi Xiaoyu to write "ToDearDaddy" in the upper left corner, and draw a small fish after writing "FromMiss" in the lower right corner.

Chi Xiaoyu handed the pen to Shi Guyuan, and said, "We did it together, and you have to write it too."

Shi Guyuan readily accepted it, and drew a circle after writing "Mr" under "Miss fish".

Chi Xiaoyu pointed to the circle and asked, "What is this?"

"Stone."

"It's not like it, it's not like it at all."

Asking for a circle to be like a rock does require imagination.Shi Guyuan wrote "stone" in the circle, the letters were squeezed together like boneless sardine cans, but both of them were quite satisfied.Shi Guyuan tapped on the drawing paper and said, "Go back and let your dad take a look. This is the result of our victory today!"

Chi Xiaoyu won the No.1 award, proudly holding the award and refusing to let go.After finishing the activities, Shi Guyuan didn't see Song Jianghan and Xu Ping, so he didn't say hello, and took Chi Xiaoyu to the airport to pick up his sister.

Shi Guyan's plane was a bit late, so Shi Guyuan took Chi Xiaoyu to eat pizza at the airport, it was the first time Chi Xiaoyu ate this pizza, his mouth was full of cheese, and he didn't forget to bring it back for his father to try.

The sky outside the airport gradually darkened, and another group of passengers came out.Shi Guyuan held Chi Xiaoyu in his arms, and immediately saw Shi Guyuan standing out from the crowd.Shi Guyan has practiced ballet for a long time, and every movement has the rhythm of ballet. His neck and legs are thin and long. Because of the long-distance flight, he wears casual clothes, but the comfortable flat shoes seem to stand on his head at any time. People are as tall and straight as the big trees they make today.

But there was no smile on Shi Guyan's face, as if he was still angry with Shi Guyuan.Shi Guyuan smiled and covered her eyes with one hand from behind, Shi Guyuan was startled, took off his palm and looked back, excitement and longing prevailed in an instant, she yelled "Brother!" She wanted to fall into Shi Guyuan's arms, but failed, she saw Chi Xiaoyu.

Now all the resentment, cold face, and excitement and longing are gone, Shi Gufen's eyes moved back and forth on the faces of the older and younger two: "Brother, when did you get married, you didn't tell me!"

Shi Guyuan had to amplify his voice in the noisy crowd: "I'm not married! Let's go, get in the car first!"

"Then where did this kid come from? It's not that you don't plan to take responsibility, do you?"

Shi Guyuan said: "Nonsense." He opened the door, let his sister and Xiaoyu get in the car first, and loaded the luggage into the trunk by himself.

Sitting in the car, the surrounding finally quieted down.Shi Guyan looked at Chi Xiaoyu and said, "What nonsense? This child is definitely yours, it looks exactly like you, you can't let it go!"

Shi Guyuan glanced at his younger sister from the rearview mirror, and pursed his lips happily: "I also find it strange, but she is really not born to me, she may be my daughter in my previous life. If there is a chance, I will take you to be with her father See you—here."

He took out two pieces of fruit candy from his pocket: "You two stay together, don't fight."

Chi Xiaoyu grabbed her own, and tore the package with her hands and teeth; Shi Gufen couldn't stand it anymore, so she tore it open for her, and said while tearing: "Brother, how old am I, and I still eat candy, you can give it to the children .”

Shi Guyuan smiled and said, "Aren't you a child too?"

Shi Guyan laughed: "Then you have to peel off the sugar for me."

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With sugar in his mouth, Shi Guyan studied Chi Xiaoyu's appearance all the way. Chi Xiaoyu was a little shy, and hid in Shi Guyuan's arms after getting out of the car.When the three of them returned home, Shi Guyuan had already bought groceries and cooked for his younger sister.After Chi Yu got off work, Shi Guyuan also called him home, saying that the family had a meal together.

Shi Guyuan held the mobile phone and said to Shi Gufen, "Tell Cao Cao, Cao Cao will be there in a while."

Chi Yu listened to the address of "family", a warm current flowed silently in his heart.After hanging up the phone, he changed his clothes and went out, thinking at the same time: "This Shi Guyuan..."

There is no second half of the sentence, only: "This Shi Guyuan..."