life in a hurry

Lu Ding didn't know who beat him, his face was bruised and purple, there were new wounds and old wounds, and his eyes seemed to have lost their luster.

Chen Feiqing has seen Lu Ding like this before.

Lu Ding used to be like this.

It's just that there is a slight difference. In the past, Lu Ding would not kneel in the temple waiting to be shaved. Although his eyes were not bright, he still smiled like a beating, very unrestrained.

Chen Feiqing squatted in front of him and asked in a low voice, "What's going on?"

Lu Ding glanced at him, he didn't seem to be surprised why he came, but rather relieved, he turned to the elderly monk and said, "Master, you said you want my family to come, and my family only has this elder brother, and now he's here , can be shaved."

The old monk said: "He doesn't seem to know that you are going to become a monk."

Lu Ding said: "He knows now."

The old monk asked Chen Feiqing: "Do you agree to let him escape into Buddhism?"

Chen Feiqing replied inexplicably: "Of course not. What's going on here?"

The old monk said: "This little benefactor has been kneeling here for many days, saying that he wants to escape into Buddhism, but we see that he seems to have no ties to the world, and he wants to do this for the sake of a breath in his heart, so we have not agreed for a long time."

Chen Feiqing nodded: "I'm sorry to cause you trouble. He is my younger brother, and I will take him back right away."

The old monk said: "It's no problem. The temple is located in a secluded place, and pilgrims don't come here often. It's fate for the two benefactors to come here. You don't have to leave in a hurry. It's better to talk. If you don't have something urgent to leave, you might as well stay for a while. A vegetarian meal."

Chen Feiqing smiled and said to him: "Thank you, master."

The old monk also smiled, got up and went out.

Watching the monk go out, Chen Feiqing asked again: "What are you doing?"

Lu Ding said: "Become a monk."

Chen Feiqing asked instead: "Why do you want to become a monk?"

Lu Ding said: "I drank a lot of wine before, and I was drunk for many days. When I woke up, I had nothing. I suddenly felt that it would be better to escape into Buddhism."

Chen Feiqing only felt that his brain was hurt by drinking and drinking, and said: "You go back with me first, and you can talk about everything slowly. You don't have to feel ashamed of me, I figured it out, King Ning asked me to come here today, it must be It was for you, so it was King Ning who asked you to falsely preach the imperial decree in Jiangnan that day. Everything made sense, and it was just a trick. You couldn’t say it at the time, but you should tell me afterwards. I said, it doesn't matter if you don't say it, it won't be like this. Or do you have other things? "

Lu Ding smiled: "Brother, sometimes I am really curious about how big your heart is."

Chen Feiqing said: "I also want to know what I have done. Every one of you will say that about me. In fact, I think I am very good, there is nothing wrong with me."

Lu Ding asked: "Don't you ask me when I had a relationship with King Ning?"

Chen Feiqing said: "Of course I want to ask, but I'll talk about it when I go back. I'm not in a hurry to ask."

Lu Ding ignored him, and said to himself: "I am the son of Teacher Ning Wang's sister, and he is the student of my mother's younger brother."

Chen Feiqing was startled when he heard this.As for King Ning's teacher, he had only heard of one, a person with many rumors.

After a long while, Chen Feiqing asked, "Is your mother from Mo Country?"

Lu Ding said: "Yes. Is this what you want to ask?"

Chen Feiqing said: "I said it, I'm not in a hurry to ask, I'll talk about it when I get back."

Lu Ding said: "I won't go back, I want to become a monk."

Chen Feiqing asked patiently: "Then at least tell me, what is the reason?"

Lu Ding said: "I've said it before. I was very drunk, and when I woke up, I suddenly saw through the world of mortals, and suddenly felt that life is nothing more than this. I have thought so, so apart from dying, I can only become a monk."

Chen Feiqing shook her head: "To see through the red world at a young age, I think it's self-willed and self-defeating, although I don't know why you have to give up on yourself."

The two struggled for a while, before Lu Ding finally said: "When King Ning asked me to blame you, he didn't tell me the whole thing. I even suspected that he really wanted to use you to deal with your father, but I still obliged him."

Chen Feiqing couldn't help laughing: "Is it because of this matter? I've said it all, this matter has passed—"

"Afterwards, he said that I was as untrustworthy as my uncle." Lu Ding raised his face to the Buddha statue, but the corners of his eyes drooped, and said, "I have thought about it these days, and he is quite right. How you treat me and how I treat you, of course I can't believe it."

Chen Feiqing felt that this was simply inexplicable.King Ning certainly hurt people, but everyone he met on weekdays said he couldn't be trusted, from the queen mother to Fu Nansheng, and even said that An Guohou was not trustworthy, not to mention the little prince and others. You don't have to become a monk because of this, do you?

Brother Chen Feiqing has known Lu Ding for so many years. He seems to be open-minded and uninhibited, but in fact he likes to dig into the horns.

He had no choice but to persuade: "At least you go back with me and think about it for a while. If you still think so in half a year, it's not too late to come here again. In the first half of the year, I'll buy you a bunch of scriptures and read them at home, okay? "

Lu Ding gave him a strange look: "You can keep it and read it yourself."

Chen Feiqing said: "Then the master doesn't want to accept you either, why don't we go back first and I'll find you another temple."

Lu Ding said, "I want this temple."

"why?"

Lu Ding stopped talking.After a while, he said, "Then you ask him to apologize to me."

Chen Feiqing thought to herself, if King Ning apologized for this matter, he might as well consider going to the Ministry of Rites to help put the sun, moon, and stars back in place. It seemed easier to achieve.Speaking of which, today he thought it was some important event, but it turned out to be such an indescribable matter.

Lu Ding said again: "Forget it, don't say it, don't say I said it."

Chen Feiqing: "..."

Lu Ding said again: "Go to him, don't say I said it, but let him apologize to me, it's you who said it, you scold him first, it's all you want to scold, it has nothing to do with me. "

Chen Feiqing: "..."

Lu Ding felt that what he said was very funny, so he suddenly laughed.Smiling and laughing, he stood up, rubbed his knees for a while, and said, "I won't tease you anymore."

Chen Feiqing looked at him suspiciously.

Lu Ding said: "King Ning made a bet with me, betting that your heart is boundless, and he won again."

Chen Feiqing was speechless, and slapped him on the chest with his backhand: "One is more boring than the other."

Lu Ding took advantage of the situation and grabbed his hand, and said seriously, "I'm sorry."

Chen Feiqing glanced at him: "Try to tell me as much as possible in the future, I won't ruin your business."

Lu Ding nodded: "Then I will tell you one thing now, Goer wants to kidnap the princess."

Chen Feiqing was startled: "What?"

Lu Ding said: "Today the Empress Dowager and the princess went to the Temple of Mercy to offer incense to the Buddha for the emperor's illness. We got the news that Gouer is going to attack the princess."

Chen Feiqing asked: "Why did you attack the princess?"

Lu Ding said: "You have to ask Fu Nansheng about this."

When Chen Feiqing arrived at the Temple of Mercy, the Queen Mother was still surprised: "Why are you here suddenly?"

Seeing the queen mother's unhurried appearance, Chen Feiqing asked, "Where is the princess?"

The queen mother said: "Although it is a royal temple, I don't come here often. It is inevitable that the monks will not be able to greet me. The princess's clothes are stained with some tea, so I changed them in the backyard. What's the matter?"

Chen Feiqing said: "I have received news that someone is trying to harm the princess."

The Queen Mother hurriedly said: "Then go and have a look."

The guards and eunuchs were still standing by the wall of the backyard, and it seemed that there was nothing unusual.The queen mother breathed a sigh of relief, but saw Chen Feiqing go straight to knock on the wooden door of the backyard: "Is the princess in?"

There was no answer for a long time.

Chen Feiqing knew something was wrong, kicked the door open, stepped in a few steps, and pushed the door open, only to see several maids fell to the ground, and the princess was nowhere to be found.

The queen mother came in behind, and panicked when she saw this: "Ting'er!"

Chen Feiqing shouted: "Leave enough people to protect the Queen Mother, and the others will immediately go to the back mountain to search for the whereabouts of the princess, and let the monks in the temple go to the main hall immediately!"

After he finished speaking, he turned around and walked out. After walking more than a dozen steps, he stopped abruptly and asked Lu Ding, "You knew about this a long time ago, why did you tell me now?"

Lu Ding said: "I can't figure out what a big man does, why don't you just ask King Ning?"

Chen Feiqing didn't believe that King Ning would use the princess's safety as a bait, but he was really uneasy.

The princess regained some consciousness in a daze, only felt a chill on her shoulders, and a figure dangled in front of her eyes, but she couldn't see clearly.She wanted to speak, but couldn't speak, wanted to struggle, but couldn't move, she was groggy, and just wanted to fall asleep.

Suddenly, someone next to her said something, but she couldn't understand it, and then the figure in front of her pinched her chin, and poured something into her mouth, it was sticky and had a strange smell.

Gradually, she was no longer cold, and felt as if charcoal was burning in the room, warming up.

The paper and ink in the academy ran out, so Fu Nansheng went to the street to buy it, and happened to see Shuangshuang and some women from Huajie shopping at the Zhuchai stall.Shuangshuang also saw him, but didn't call him, smiled softly, and led the sisters to go elsewhere.

Fu Nansheng turned around and went into a bookstore, flipping through the few books placed outside.

The shopkeeper is not as noisy as the shopkeepers in other stores, let him watch, teasing his little girl by himself.The girl was only a few years old, lying on the small table, holding a pen, scratching back and forth on an old book.

Fu Nansheng smiled: "It seems that she will be a talented woman in the future."

The shopkeeper also laughed: "The child is tossing around and has to stare at it every day, for fear of ruining other books."

Fu Nansheng suddenly remembered that when he was a child, he sang in the front hall and secretly hid a few rewards. The next day, he slipped to the street and bought a book. His mother found out after he brought it back to the building before reading two pages. They want to tear up the book and beat him, saying that he stole money to buy junk.

It was Shuangshuang who felt sorry for him and stopped him from beating him, saying that buying books was a good thing.

His mother scolded: "What a waste of money! I still expect him to learn etiquette, justice, integrity and shame and expect him to be the number one scholar?!"

He didn't beat him in the end, but the book couldn't be kept, so he never learned etiquette, justice and shame.

Thinking of this, Fu Nansheng smiled in a low voice, picked out a few books and handed them to the shopkeeper.