Pretend to be nice

Li Qinghe has been away for a month, and Lin Guan is so worried that he calls every day. Every time he sees either a crumbling earthen wall or a dilapidated Buddha statue that is not kind at all. Serving dinner with a pot of sweet potatoes, luckily the child looked very energetic, otherwise Lin Gu'an would have personally flown the plane to bring her back.

Li Qinghe was not at ease, and the Lin family's parents were not idle. They caught her on the phone a few times and asked her several times in a roundabout way.

Lin Gu'an couldn't stand both sides, so he simply confessed to his parents that he likes girls.

Lin's father was a university professor before retiring, and his mind is more open than this generation's. He also met many same-sex couples in the university. In addition, Lin Gu'an has never had a boyfriend until now, so he has already had some guesses in his heart. Hearing her suddenly come out of the closet, a big rock shaking in my heart slammed to the ground, and fell heavily to the bottom.

Lin's mother was also silent for a while. Although she had discussed this issue with Lin's father, she still hoped that her daughter would like the opposite sex. The world is really not friendly to homosexuals. Parents always hope that their children will live well Some.

The two old people couldn't say anything for a while, and they went back to the room and stayed quietly for a few days before finding Lin Guan, saying that this is your own life, just live well, just like Lin Guan chose to live in When they settled down in Nancheng, the couple were reluctant but still supportive.

But at the end, Lin's mother couldn't help asking: "Do you really not like boys?"

Lin Gu'an smiled, and said helplessly, "But the person I like is a girl..."

Mother Lin was silent for a while, then sighed: "Then can I bring her back next year for the New Year?"

"Let's see if you can prepare a red envelope for her." She blinked, with a sly look, and Lin's mother patted her hand angrily.

—

Li Qinghe didn't know what happened to the Lin family, otherwise she must have been surprised that the two came out so close to each other. At this moment, she was holding a first-grade Chinese book in her hand, and her expression was not very happy.

I don't know if they were fascinated by the Buddha. The three children memorized Buddhist scriptures more smoothly than the other. When they came to the textbook, it was like learning scriptures from the west.

Looking at the homework that was crooked and couldn't tell what the words were, Li Qinghe looked at Sangji's simple face and hesitated to speak, for fear of hurting the child's enthusiasm for learning.

Traveling in the sky is also very painful, a few months more painful than Li Qinghe, this is the first year he took them to study, and it is also the first year he does not need to cut his hair every month, thanks to my Buddha's foresight, the bald head will not bald.

"Are you really born little monks?" Xing Kong twisted his face, "I still plan to send you to college."

Li Qinghe suppressed his temper, and said to Xingkong as calmly as possible: "Go down the mountain, find an elementary school teacher, and I will pay for it."

Xingkong stroked his bald head and nodded heavily.

A group of people packed their thin luggage and hurried down the mountain into the city.

—

Saying goodbye to the veteran brother who sent Li Qinghe up and down the mountain, a group of people lived in the hut recommended by him. The conditions on the mountain are bad because the mountain is high and the road is far away, and money is useless. This will go to the city, Li Qinghe hurriedly took it with him. Three small children went to supplement nutrition.

Because Buddhism in Tibet allows meat to be eaten, so Xingkong followed them and ate a lot of food. Li Qinghe suspected that the reason why he chose to become a monk in such a difficult place was because he could eat meat.

But Xingkong didn't answer her question directly, so Li Qinghe had no choice but to affirm his answer silently. Finally, the store looked at Xingkong and gave them a discount.

After eating and drinking enough, I took the three little guys for a few laps. The three kids had never been down the mountain, and they were curious about everything. Boss Li was rich. The children said they wanted to buy it even if they didn't want it, and finally everyone returned to their temporary home with a big bag and a small bag.

The child was sucked by the world of flowers, and when he got home, he washed up and fell asleep. Li Qinghe was going to go back to his room to call his sweetheart, but Xingkong stopped him.

The two sat side by side on the steps of the courtyard, the starry sky cut into a square by the eaves was dazzling, and the snow-capped mountains in the distance could be vaguely seen.

Unlike a monk, Xingkong begged for a cigarette with Li Qinghe, lit it and smoked halfway before speaking: "When will you go back?"

Li Qinghe didn't dislike his second-hand smoke, looked up at the sky, and replied lazily: "In a while, just go back before school starts."

"Yes, you are a college student," Xing Kong scratched his bald head again, "Go to school, I don't know if these three little pigs can be admitted to high school."

"Let's worry about whether I can go to junior high school. I'll find a teacher tomorrow." When talking about this, both of them looked sad. The two college students had nothing to do with the three preschool children.

They sighed heavily in unison.

"Hey, I'll go look around tomorrow and find some work." The savings saved before Xingkong have been spent one after another after his parents passed away and he was ordained. The daily life of the temple is to rely on growing vegetables by himself and the old abbot Teaching him medical skills and occasionally supporting herdsmen to make ends meet, this will go down the mountain, and Xingkong, who is isolated from the society, has to live with three children in the city, which is quite stressful.

Li Qinghe thought about it: "I can..."

Xing Kong interrupted before he finished speaking, "I can't always rely on you."

Li Qinghe was speechless, and could only say: "I will pay for the three of them to go to school," he wanted to interrupt, but when she saw this, she hurriedly finished the rest of the sentence, "If it weren't for the three of them, I would have been gone. It's repayment."

"Okay, you pay for the school fees, and I will take care of them." He has three children, and it would be hypocritical to refuse, so he agreed.

I also remembered that day when the passing herdsmen sent the group of exhausted people to the temple, and I came back the next day because I went down the mountain for medical treatment. In the evening, when I saw myself coming, I was still chanting Buddhist scriptures that didn't work to pray for her.

Li Qinghe glanced at him: "Let's talk about it after you find a job. There seems to be a temple here, do you want to go and have a look?"

Xingkong refused, and could only rub his head again, he was clearly in his [-]s and [-]s, but he could still worry about work.

"Can't go to the temple, Sanji kid..."

Li Qinghe was puzzled: "What's wrong?"

He considered it for a while, then lowered his tone and said: "This kid really has a bit of Buddha nature, I'm afraid he will be dragged to be shaved."

Li Qinghe felt that he was nagging and looked disgusted.

"Hey, don't believe me, it's very strange. When I first picked up Sanji, he was thrown in the snow for two days. You said that the two-year-old child can be carried in the snow for two days and still be healthy. of,"

Li Qinghe frowned cooperatively.

"I asked him when I brought him back, do you know what he said? He said Jiang Ge, wolf! I didn't believe it at first. When the child was talking nonsense, but after taking him back, the old host touched his butt. His head was about to be shaved, and he was said to be destined for Buddha, so I tried to persuade him, my Tathagata Buddha, I begged this old man for two years, but he was not shaved."

"... If there is a Buddha's fate, there will be one, and they will not force him to become a monk."

"If that's the case, I'm not afraid. It's not a bad thing to have a bit of Buddha nature, but what if a wolf really took care of him during those two days?"

"The winter of the past two years was very cold, the mountain was covered by heavy snow, and all the food in the temple was eaten. I tried to go down the mountain several times but couldn't get out. I thought it was really over, but I didn't expect that when I opened the temple door the next day, there was a There is a pile of meat, and there are still a row of wolf footprints in the snow..." He lit another cigarette, speaking heavily.

Li Qinghe didn't know what to say, which somewhat broke his common sense.

"I'm a university graduate anyway, and I don't believe in these things, but what if? Although Sanji said he didn't study well, he is learning Buddhist scriptures very quickly. I haven't finished it yet, and he is on the same level as the old abbot." .”

"It's not that I don't want them to become monks, but wouldn't it be better to choose later if they have a choice?"

"Is this why he didn't study well? Materialism and idealism cannot coexist?"

"..." A moment of silence.

Li Qinghe changed the subject: "The conditions at the bottom of the mountain are better than those at the top of the mountain. They are all growing up. They still need to have some meat. Milk and fruit are also..."

Xingkong nodded heavily: "You can't suffer the child."

"When I go to the teachers tomorrow, I have to buy some clothes for them."

"Okay, milk and fruit are also bought together."

She nodded, and suddenly a question arose.

"Have you considered returning to vulgarity?" She looked at this fake monk.

He said with a hearty smile, "Do you think I look like a monk? The host didn't give me a shaved degree, and in the end, I was only thinking about me and my three children before letting me be the host. I just wanted to have a place for us to live in." .”

Li Qinghe was silent, he didn't expect this monk to be able to pretend like this.

"Stay in the temple all the time, it's just me all the time", Xingkong took his last puff of cigarette, stood up, patted his buttocks, and went to sleep.

Li Qinghe looked at his thin back, fell silent for a while, stood up and went back to his room.

—

There are more and more messages accumulated in the mobile phone every day. Except for the one message that Li Qinghe replied on the first day of the first day of junior high school, he was too lazy to reply to other messages because of the reason of poor signal.

The video application was sent out quickly, and Lin Guan connected in doubt. The signal over there was too poor. Except for the Buddha’s manifestation on New Year’s Day, it was always stuck, and the card was not working at other times. This time it was connected. .

"Good evening, Lin Gu'an."

"Good evening, no matter big or small", these words have been repeated many times, neither of them get tired of it.

Li Qinghe smiled nonchalantly, and explained to her what happened today.

Lin Gu'an was relieved when he heard that she had gone down the mountain, and even more at ease when he heard that she had eaten meat.

"Will you know it's hard? Why don't you think you won't be able to eat meat when you run up the mountain?"

In the past few days, these words have been spoken a lot, and Li Qinghe coped with it with a cheeky smile.

"After finding the teachers, observe them for two more days. They are so kind," she said, taking care of the child and changing out "stupid" from "kind" instead of "kind".

"I'll send you a red envelope later, I want to give them some clothes." Perhaps Lin Gu'an, who doesn't like children very much, has some buddha nature in him, and in the video with Li Qinghe, he and three The children became close to them after chatting a few times.

"Well", she solemnly agreed, there is no need to refuse the money to buy clothes for the children, and she did not forget to complain a few words: "I will buy some copybooks tomorrow, but you didn't see them, and I almost didn't see those words. It's Chinese characters."

Lin Gu'an smiled and persuaded: "It's a child."

The two chatted for half an hour before reluctantly saying good night to each other and hanging up the phone.