Datang beauty walk

The hustle and bustle on Chang'an Avenue gradually calmed down, and the heads of people who had gathered together before had dispersed in all directions.

The road is wide again, and the carriages and horses are flowing freely. At the same time, there are shouts from the waiters in front of the shops:

"Hey, the authentic Bi Luo of the capital is just out of the pot!"

"Spicy grilled fresh meat, come and taste it!"

"Come here, come here! Come and see, it's cheap!"

"..."

It was dusk, and it had been a whole day since Qiqing and Danniang came out. The two of them were walking towards Datongfang's house. Before they reached the gate of the workshop, a sharp voice suddenly came from the front:

"Oh, I said who is this! Hey, everyone, do you know who this is? You don't know her, but I know her. Don't be scared away by her current appearance..."

Qiqing and Danniang looked forward after listening to the voice, the person who spoke was a tall and thin young man, his voice was high and shrill, and people from far away could hear him.People passing by him stopped and gathered around him.

Qiqing and Danniang walked forward, and every word the man said was heard clearly in their ears:

"At the beginning, she was one of the most beautiful women in our village. At that time, she was so arrogant. When we talked to her, she didn't even look at us. Today, she begs for food money from me. You say, this is not the past ten years. Ten years in Hexi!"

Gradually, many people surrounded the man, and another voice said:

"Hey! So I met your fellow countryman here, so you have to give her some money, right?"

"Hmph, give her money? There's no way!" The tall and thin man answered.

"Hey, why are you so heartless?" asked the person who spoke to the tall and thin man just now.

"Let me tell you, it's not that I'm ruthless, it's that this woman is too cheap. You don't know that a few years ago, this woman had a relationship with a white-faced scholar from our neighboring village, and she didn't care about the face and opposition of her family and that white-faced scholar. Face eloped, and later gave birth to a little bastard—is this the little bastard? After hearing that her man took her home, her man begged his family to accept them, but her man's parents refused, and her white face was poor. It’s a pity if you don’t go out and get sick, this bitch and her bastard have become beggars, begging for food!”

Qiqing and Danniang had already walked up to the crowd, and saw the man standing in the middle of the crowd, speaking righteously and spit everywhere.

Then look at the woman surrounded by the crowd, she is about thirty years old, her face is blue and white; the old gray clothes are full of rotten patches of various sizes that have been mended many times, and the old patches are sewn with other colors rags; on her arm was an old bundle that had been mended many times, and she was holding a little boy over nine years old with one hand.

The little boy was also wearing Shan Han's shabby clothes, holding a chipped black bowl of coarse sand in his hand.The little boy rushed up to the woman and glared at the man who was making irresponsible remarks to them.If he hadn't been pulled tightly by the woman, he would have already pounced on the man like a hungry little tiger.

"You are not allowed to call my mother! You are a big villain, a villain!" The little boy shouted at the man.

"Yo, kind!" said the man.

Although the beggar woman was told about herself by her fellow villagers in front of her, there was no shame on her face.She raised her head and glared at him, but in the end she seemed to suppress the rising anger, and lowered her two dull eyes, and said to his son indifferently:

"Xing'er, let's go."

Looking at this pair of mother and child in thin clothes, Danniang couldn't bear it, she turned her head and whispered:

"Qiqing!"

Qiqing took a look at Danniang, pushed aside the crowd, walked in, and was about to speak to the woman, but didn't want a tall man to pass by, pushed away the man who was chattering to everyone, and said:

"You are obviously full and have nothing to do! His mother and son have reached this point, and you still want to ridicule them like this, where is your conscience?"

The man from the same village who was talking about the mother and child was pushed and almost fell down. He turned his head and saw that the man who scolded him was tall and strong, and he seemed to have kung fu, so he didn't dare to say another word. He turned around and left in embarrassment.The bystanders also dispersed.

The beggar woman stepped forward and said to the tall man: "Thank you sir for saving the siege!" She turned her head and said to her child: "Huang Xing, quickly kowtow to the good man!"

The middle-aged man waved his hand:

"No need, I can't be called a good person. I didn't care about my own business, but because I saw you, I thought of my dead sister. I think you orphans and widows are begging everywhere, and it's not a long-term solution. How about it?" , let this child follow me, and you also help to do some housework, I, Liu, will not starve you, are you willing?"

When the woman heard about it, she hurriedly pulled her son Huang Xing to kneel down and said:

"Thank you so much, we will repay you by doing our best!"

"Get up, it doesn't have to be like this! - Liu Shan, you take them with you."

"Yes."

The servant behind the man replied, and he approached the beggar mother and child and said:

"You come with me."

The rest of the onlookers who hadn't finished walking all dispersed after seeing it.

Qiqing felt that there was nothing to do, and returned to Danniang:

"Let's go back too."

They walked a few steps away, Qiqing saw Danniang's sad expression and lowered her head thoughtfully, so she asked her:

"What's wrong with you? Your hands are so cold, are you okay?"

Dan Niang shook her head and said as she walked:

"I'm fine. Do you know who the man who took in the mother and child just now is?"

"I don't know, do you know him?"

Danniang said sadly: "He is sister Xirong's elder brother Liu Chaorong!" After speaking, she sighed deeply.

Qiqing was taken aback, and couldn't help but turn around and look at the people who had gone away, and after walking a few steps, he said again:

"Perhaps, his helping the mother and son today is also a remembrance and atonement for his sister!"

Tanniang said sadly:

"No matter what, some things are irreparable!"

While the two of them were talking, they walked into the gate of the workshop and into the alley.

Behind them, at the place where the beggar Huang Xing and his mother met just now, a sixty-year-old mother-in-law was looking at the beggar mother and child who had left. At this moment, a voice rang in her ear:

"Tanny B!"

The old woman was obviously a little surprised. She looked around and asked in her heart:

"Where are you?"

A voice that seemed far away but very close came to her ears again:

"Tao Yi, I'm not with you, I'm outside Liuyu."

Tan Yi was a little disappointed, but he still said, "Did you see what happened just now?"

"Yes, I just saw the scene just now." Fairy Yin Ming replied.

"And what do you think of the boy?"

"what?"

Fairy Yinming didn't understand what she meant at this moment.

Tan Yi smiled and said:

"The lotus seed you kept."

Fairy Yinming also laughed after hearing this, and said:

"Do you want to help me? Hold out your hand."

Tanyi opened her hand, and put a lotus seed as plump as a freshly picked one in her palm, only to hear Yin Ming say again:

"What about the boy is up to her to decide. Find an appropriate time and help me do this."

Earlier, when Ta Yi went to Yinxing to look for the fairy, one day, in the fairy's flower orchard, she saw an ordinary lotus seed placed in a shining clam-shaped crystal.When Ta Yi saw the lotus seed, he felt very strange, so he asked the fairy why, and the fairy told him:

"730 Two years ago, when I went to Yunxian Cave in Tianshan Mountain, I saw a princess Xijun who was married far away. She missed her hometown and relatives every day, but she was separated from them by thousands of mountains and could not see each other. She was about to die in depression. At that time, I sympathized with her and asked her what her dream would be if she could live again. She said that she had married several times after leaving her family and had already hated her own body. I choose to decide my own life. I promise her that if there is a chance, I will let her live again. Before she died, I received her thoughts and memories in this lotus seed. Now this promise has not been fulfilled, I want to live again Millennium, let her be reborn."

After hearing this, Tan Yi said:

"In another thousand years, although the status of a woman may be higher than that of women in the world today, it will be too far away from the time she lived before, and the customs and environment at that time will be too different, which may make it difficult for her to adapt. And the present world can be said to be the most prosperous era in history. Women's talents have also been valued by the world, and their status has also improved compared to her time. Even if she can't decide her own life by then, you You can also help from the side, why don't you let her be reborn in this era?"

"You're right. I'll find an opportunity to let a predestined person open her consciousness."

Therefore, since Ta Yi saw the "Water Lily" and heard about Princess Xijun, he never forgot about it.Now, seeing the pair of beggar mother and son, she thought of what she said to Yinming back then.

Fairy Yinming asked her for help now, and Tayi readily accepted it. She put away the lotus seed, only to hear Fairy Yinming talk to her again:

"Tao Yi, you are wandering in the world of mortals, don't let your own cultivation go lazily."

"You don't have to worry, haven't you heard that there is a saying 'out of the mud but not stained'?"

"So good."

☆, Dharma teaching