"Female benefactor, I'm not running away, I'm going on a walk to practice Zen!"

Xu Zhu held his crude baggage, raised his face and refuted Xia Xiyan's words.

"Just a little guy like you, you still go to practice meditation all over the world? I'm afraid you just went down the mountain with your front foot, and your back foot was abducted by kidnappers to do coolies!" Xia Xiyan looked at Xu Zhu's innocent face with great determination, I couldn't help but open my mouth to attack his enthusiasm that he took for granted.

It's just that Xia Xiyan thought that Xuzhu would be afraid when she mentioned 'kidnapper', but she didn't expect that the little guy grew up in Shaolin Temple, and he chanted scriptures and meditated with his master every day. what is it.

"Female benefactor, what is a kidnapper?" Xiao Xuzhu stroked his little bald head, and asked Xia Xiyan curiously, choking Xia Xiyan's question, and then tried to organize words to explain the meaning of kidnapper to him.

"A kidnapper is a type of bad guy, who specializes in cheating and kidnapping ignorant children and women..."

Xia Xiyan just finished explaining the kidnapper, and was about to persuade Xu Zhu not to go on the road alone so recklessly, but Xu Zhu asked several common-sense questions about the kidnapper, as if asking why.

"Female benefactor, why did the kidnapper abduct others?"

"For money!"

"Female benefactor, what is silver?"

"You don't even know the money, you still go out, are you going to starve yourself to death?" Xia Xiyan was almost brought to her knees by Xu Zhu's innocent question, she didn't have any common sense of life, yet she dared to run away with a small burden.

"Do you need money to go out? Why do I see Master Xuanji going out for a walk, and he only brought the bhikkhu and six things with him before he left the monastery. Didn't I hear that he needs to bring money?" Xu Zhu's big eyes showed innocence and confusion, which made Xia Xiyan couldn't help but sighed.

Little Xuzhu, who doesn't understand the outside world at all, is squeezed out by the monks in the temple, and those who can't stay any longer take up a small burden and prepare to leave the temple to live alone in the complicated rivers and lakes.If she hadn't happened to meet Xu Zhu today and stopped Xu Zhu, I don't know what terrible things would happen to such an ignorant and ignorant child who fell into the secular world.

"Silver is money, it is used to buy daily necessities!" Xia Xiyan simply explained to Xu Zhu, and then carried Xu Zhu to the mountain, ready to take Xu Zhu to Shaolin Temple to find Xuandu and Xuanci To put it bluntly, Shaolin Temple doesn't care about this child?If she doesn't care about it, she is ready to accept it, she can't see Xu Zhu, who is still a milk baby, wandering like this.

"Female benefactor, please let me down!" At first Xu Zhu was a little confused thinking about what Xia Xiyan had mentioned to him, but later he realized that Xia Xiyan was holding him all the time, and blushed in embarrassment Struggling to get Xia Xiyan to let him down.

Xia Xiyan saw that he was struggling hard, so she put him on the ground, and then led him by the hand, but Xu Zhu put his hands behind his back, expressing that he would not let Xia Xiyan hold him, Xia Xiyan said without forcing, "Then You follow me back to Shaolin Temple, I will take you to ask..."

"Xu Zhu don't go back to Shaolin Temple!" Before Xia Xiyan finished speaking, Xu Zhu strongly expressed that he didn't want to go back to Shaolin Temple.

Xia Xiyan looked down to see the determination on Xu Zhu's face and the injury in his eyes, and knew that he must have suffered a big blow in the temple.

Otherwise, how could a child who never went down the mountain want to leave alone without knowing anything about the outside world? How much courage is needed to take the first step.

"It's okay if you don't go back to Shaolin Temple, but you can't go for a walk alone! Do you know how many dangers you will encounter if you go for a walk alone? You are still young, follow me back to Gusu first, and wait until you are older I'm deciding what to do." Xia Xiyan thought about it and was not going to hand Xu Zhu back to Shaolin Temple, Shaolin Temple couldn't tolerate Xu Zhu because of what happened to Xu Zhu's parents, even if she came forward to let Shaolin Temple continue to accept Xu Zhu, Xu Zhu's life in Shaolin Temple was not peaceful.

"Are you willing to go back to Gusu with me?" After Xia Xiyan finished speaking, she saw Xu Zhu hugging his little burden, lowered her head and neither refuted his words nor agreed with hers, so she knelt down and looked into his eyes and asked he.

For some reason, Xu Zhu looked into Xia Xiyan's eyes and thought of the way he saw Ye Erniang for the last time yesterday, Ye Erniang's eyes looked at him so warmly, and now Xia Xiyan is looking at Ye Erniang His similar look made Xu Zhu feel helpless from yesterday until now, he seemed to have found a foothold, calmed down slowly, and subconsciously nodded to Xia Xiyan.

In fact, he had a deep dependence on leaving Shaolin Temple, the place where he had been staying since he was born, and thought he would stay there for the rest of his life. Zhu is keenly aware that he is not welcome in Shaolin Temple, he is no longer accepted by Shaolin Temple, he has to leave, so he packs his bags and prepares to go for a walk like those great monks who go out for a walk as adults.

Regarding the unknown world outside, Xu Zhu, who is only five years old and has never left the temple, is impossible without fear. His fearful palms have been shaking all the time, and it is true that he has been thinking that the Buddha will bless him, so that the employer has the courage to step out. Shaolin Temple, just pretending to be strong and fearless, just left the temple, and couldn't help crying when looking at the strange surroundings.

In addition to his reluctance to leave Shaolin Temple and the harm his brothers' words had done to him, he cried because he was more afraid of the unknown and helpless.

So now Xia Xiyan looks at him with bright eyes and asks him if he wants to go back to Gusu with him, Xu Zhu nods completely out of instinct.

Seeing Xu Zhu nodding, Xia Xiyan stretched out her hand and rubbed his head, then took his hand and said, "Then you can call me godmother from now on! Now you go to Shaolin Temple with godmother to meet someone, after meeting the godmother Mother will take you back to meet some brothers and sisters, and tomorrow we will set off for Gusu Yanziwu, Yanziwu, don’t you know? It’s the godmother’s home, and it will be your home in the future!”

This time Xu Zhu didn't break free from Xia Xiyan's holding his hand, but was held by Xia Xiyan's big and warm hand to him, and took him home!

'Family', this word is rarely heard from Xu Zhu's memoirs, and I heard it occasionally from the lay disciples of Shaolin Temple.

That was when he followed his master to deliver food to the big kitchen of Shaolin Temple. He saw those Shaolin lay disciples who could go home to have a look after they were rested. He saw them leave the temple with their bags on their backs, and they talked eloquently. Xu Zhu can't help but touch his different head from his parents, relatives and friends at home, he is bald, while those Shaolin lay disciples wear their hair in a bun.

And with a bun, as the great monk once told them, he still has an inextricable relationship with the world, but he has been bareheaded since he remembered, and has no connection with the world.

Xu Zhu always knew that he was an orphan, and he was thrown away in the vegetable garden of Shaolin Temple just after the full moon, and was picked up by the big monk who was watching the vegetables inside and brought to Shaolin Temple to take care of, and Shaolin Temple would adopt many orphans like him every year to be young monks, they usually If they are not hungry, but they can talk, they have no choice but to start reciting scriptures and meditating with the great monks, and do something for the Shaolin Temple according to their ranks, so they will not get too many "homes" in the Shaolin Temple warmth.

Xu Zhu sometimes sees those lay disciples carrying a load of food on their backs on the mountain, talking about the happy appearance of his parents at home, he also thought foolishly whether his parents would care about him and love him like this .

I also thought that my parents would come and take him away to live a life with a 'home'.It's just that Xu Zhu will always show this kind of thought when he is being bullied by other monks, but usually he lives foolishly and contentedly in Shaolin Temple.

Xu Zhu has been living contentedly, even if because of his honest personality, he is often bullied by some shrewd little monks, Xu Zhu doesn't care, he thinks that he will gradually become like the master Huilun who led them. A great monk like him, who has been studying scriptures and practicing Zen in Shaolin Temple all his life, never expected that his parents would suddenly appear. His mother would be Ye Erniang who killed many children, and his father would be the former abbot of Shaolin Temple.

For the five-year-old Xu Zhu, these news were already complicated, before he had time to be happy to know who his parents were, he immediately received the news that they died one after another.

And these blows to Xiao Xuzhu have not been fully understood, the Shaolin Temple began to have extremely ostracized things against him.He just went to see Ye Erniang, and wherever he went, there would be monks, big and small, pointing and swearing at him.These exclusions forced Xu Zhu to pack his bags and leave Shaolin Temple.

But now, a woman who has been showing kindness to him is willing to take him home, Xu Zhu feels his heart is full and swollen.

"Swallow Pier is very beautiful. When the time comes, you will live in the same courtyard with the godmother's son. The scenery there..."

Xia Xiyan took Xu Zhu's hand, and slowly led him up the mountain, and found that Xu Zhu was holding her hand a little tight, afraid that Xu Zhu would be afraid of the unknown life, so she told him in a gentle voice A lot of things about Yanziwu and Murongfu.

While Xu Zhu listened to Xia Xiyan's words, he watched Xia Xiyan hold his hand.He didn't know whether the hand he held would still be so warm in the future, but he just wanted to grasp the warmth of this moment, as long as he could.

"The godmother's son and niece will get along very well, Xu Zhu, don't be afraid!" Xia Xiyan saw that there was still some distance to go up the mountain, but Xu Zhu was wearing simple straw sandals, and the road on the mountain was full of bumps. , leaned over and picked him up and said to him, "Xu Zhu, the godmother will take you to meet an old monk quickly, and after we're done, we'll go see your brother and sister, okay?"

Xu Zhu was picked up, although he blushed a little unaccustomed, but nodded obediently, Xia Xiyan told him to hug her neck tightly, and then performed lightness kung fu and quickly flew towards Shaolin Temple.

When Xia Xiyan approached the entrance of Shaolin Temple, she noticed that Xu Zhu felt a little stiff all over her body, so she didn't lead him through the main entrance, but found a remote wall to sneak in, and then took Xu Zhu to avoid the encounters on the road. The monk who arrived touched the relatively remote place behind the Sutra-Depository Pavilion, then put Xu Zhu down, and was about to whisper in the direction of the Sutra-Depository Pavilion, 'Old Senior' to call out the sweeping monk, but he heard the The sweeping sound appeared.

"Senior!" Xia Xiyan looked back and saw the floor-sweeping monk holding his broom and sweeping the ground with embarrassment, so she asked Xu Zhu to stand there and wait for her, while she approached the floor-sweeping monk and called out respectfully He said.

"Layman Murong is here!" The sweeping monk stopped sweeping the floor, raised his head and smiled kindly at Xia Xiyan.

Xia Xiyan also smiled back at him, and then asked him why he asked her to come.

"The old monk called Layman Murong to come today to ask about Layman Murong!" The sweeping monk asked Xia Xiyan about Murongbo as if he were asking an old friend, but it made Xia Xiyan feel cold on her back. cold.

"It's been more than a year since he passed away!" Xia Xiyan looked into the eyes of the sweeping monk, and didn't dare to hide anything and directly said the real time when Murong Bo was poisoned to death after his fake death.

"Passed away?" The sweeping monk looked at Xia Xiyan with some doubts and muttered the word 'passed away', and Xia Xiyan felt her dizziness.

"Master, the sweeping monk is spying on your soul, don't look into his eyes, I'm cutting off his voice from disturbing you."

When Xia Xiyan was in a daze, she suddenly heard the sound of the system, and immediately turned her head to avoid the sweeping monk's eyes.

The sweeping monk moved his mouth a few times and said something, but Xia Xiyan didn't hear it again, and his mind became more and more clear.

The sweeping monk saw that he was curious about the death of Murong Bo, who had pretended to be dead, and unconsciously used the method of sound transmission and soul search. First, it was useful for Xia Xiyan and confused her. It also allowed her to spy on some of her spirit. Xiyan didn't lie to him when he said that Murong Bo died, but later found out that he wanted to further manipulate Xia Xiyan to say what Murong Bo died of. Xia Xiyan didn't have any disturbances anymore.

"Interesting, interesting!" The sweeping monk was not angry when he found out that his soul-searching method of sound transmission didn't work on Xia Xiyan, but instead found Xia Xiyan's unknown kung fu very interesting.

"Master, he withdrew his attack." At the same time as the system notified Xia Xiyan, it unblocked the sound of the sweeping monk, so that Xia Xiyan happened to hear the "interesting" said by the sweeping monk.

"Murong Layman, he was only a few years later than Layman Xiao in stealing the classics of Shaolin martial arts in the Sutra Pavilion, and he greedily took away the scriptures and copied them back after Layman Xiao. He also didn't study Buddhism, and his hidden dangers were more serious than Layman Xiao's. Layman Zhi Xiao is even older, I originally asked you to come here this time, and planned to send some Buddhist scriptures for Layman Murong to take to him to have a look, so as to dispel the hostility in him, but I didn't expect Layman Murong to be dead." After speaking, the sweeping monk took out two scriptures from his sleeve, looked at Xia Xiyan, then looked at Xu Zhu behind Xia Xiyan, then took out another book from his sleeve, and handed it to her Said, "Since Layman Murong is dead, let's give these scriptures to Layman Murong and the young monk that Layman Murong is going to take away today!"

Xia Xiyan was flattered and took the book handed over by the sweeping monk. The sweeping monk smiled at Xia Xiyan, chanted a sentence of Dharma, turned around and left sweeping the floor.

Seeing the sweeping monk leave, Xia Xiyan didn't know what to say, she could only stand there and stare at his back.I don't know why the sweeping monk called her here today?

Could it be that he was just curious about Murong Bo's future after she killed him?

What was the reason for the mental attack on her before?

Xia Xiyan was confused, and the system informed Xia Xiyan of his new discovery about the sweeping monk.

"Master, the sweeping monk just wanted to spy on your spirit, and he used the soul-searching method of the Xiaoyao School through sound transmission!"

"Then this sweeping monk is really the patriarch of the Xiaoyao sect?" Xia Xiyan asked the system in surprise, but the system said, "Although the sweeping monk used the martial arts of the Xiaoyao sect, it is possible that he is the patriarch of the Xiaoyao sect. According to the data analysis , the correct rate can only reach 70%, not 100%, if the master really wants to confirm the identity of the sweeping monk, why not ask him directly. I can feel that he has no malice towards the master. "

"Ask directly?" Xia Xiyan was moved by the system's proposal, and looked up at the sweeping monk, only to find that the sweeping monk was slowly sweeping the floor with a broom while leaving. For some reason, Xia Xiyan saw the sweeping monk earnestly sweeping the floor His behavior, and the curiosity about his identity before entering the temple, suddenly disappeared.

Who is the sweeping monk?The sweeping monk didn't want to mention it, but only recognized an old monk who swept the floor in Shaolin Temple, so he must be such a monk now.

"Xu Zhu, we're going home!" Xia Xiyan put away the scriptures in her hands, then bowed in the direction where the sweeping monk left, turned around and walked to Xu Zhu who had been obediently standing there looking at her Beside him, hugged Xu Zhu up and left Shaolin Temple.

"mother!"

"Old lady!"

Xia Xiyan returns to the inn with Xu Zhu in her arms, and is surrounded by Murong Fu who are waiting outside the inn.

"Mother, why did you bring a little monk back?" Murong Fu was the first to see Xu Zhu in Xia Xiyan's arms, and couldn't help asking Xia Xiyan.Xia Xiyan put Xu Zhu on the ground, then led him to introduce him to Murong Fu and the others.

"This is my new godson, Xu Zhu, Xu Zhu, this is the elder brother whom the godmother mentioned to you before, this is the godmother's niece Wang Yuyan, this is Abi, Azhu, and Azi."

Xia Xiyan took Xu Zhu by the hand, and led everyone back to her guest room.

When they got back, they solemnly let them know each other, Xu Zhu looked at Murong Fu and the others with wide eyes curiously, Murong Fu looked at him with a frown and looked at him holding Xia Xiyan's hand tightly, and A Zhu and the others looked at each other. Xu Zhu looked around very curiously.

Children, you look at me, I look at yours, at first no one spoke, but in the end it was little Ah Zi who excitedly looked at Xu Zhu and asked him, "Are you the new brother?"

"Brother!?" Xu Zhu tilted his head and looked at little Azi with some doubts about the title, but little Azi thought that Xu Zhu recognized him as his younger brother and said even more excitedly, "You are a new brother, so we will ask you to do it later. Call me sister Ah Zi!"

"Sister Ah Zi!?" Seeing that Ah Zi was happy, Xu Zhu honestly called Ah Zi, and Ah Zi, who was so happy that he could only call someone else's sister, stretched out her chubby hands dancing and imitating Ah Zhu. The tone they spoke to her, grabbed Xu Zhu and said, "Brother Xu Zhu, sister Ah Zi will take care of you from now on!"

"Pfft!" Xia Xiyan couldn't help laughing when she saw A Zi, who was less than three years old, pull Xu Zhu who was a few heads taller than her to call her younger brother, and Xu Zhu foolishly followed A Zi to call her sister.

Murong Fu, who was somewhat repulsed by Xu Zhu, couldn't help laughing when he saw Xu Zhu like this, and then said Xu Zhu's 'silly boy' in his heart.

"Ah Zi, Xu Zhu is older than your older sisters, he is your elder brother, not your younger brother!" Xia Xiyan stroked Ah Zi's bun, and explained to her that Xu Zhu is older than her.

"Ah, didn't he come later? How could it be the elder brother?" Ah Zi looked at Xia Xiyan with a puffed face in disappointment. Xia Xiyan saw that she was ordering the size in order, so she ordered her cute With a round nose, I told her about the ranking by age.

"Then he is brother Xuzhu, not brother Xuzhu?" AhZi mumbled even more dejectedly after hearing this, "AhZi thought she could be a young lady and take care of younger brother this time!"

Xia Xiyan patted her head to comfort her, but Ah Zi was depressed for a while, then she cheered up and pulled Xu Zhu to look at her gadgets, she obviously liked Xu Zhu very much.

Xia Xiyan saw that Xu Zhu, under A Zi's leadership, gradually let go of the restraint and discomfort of being in a strange environment, recovered his childish nature, played with A Zi with her gadgets, and asked him curiously. A Zhu and the others talked about many things, they felt relieved towards Xu Zhu.

"Mother, why do you want to accept him?" Murong Fu saw Xu Zhu playing with Ah Zi and the others, so he asked Xia Xiyan about Xu Zhu in a low voice.

Xia Xiyan didn't hide anything from Murong Fu, she gave a general account of Xu Zhu's life experience, and then she also explained the reason why she took him in.

"He is so young by himself, so he can be a walking monk! I think he is quite popular with me, so I adopted him as my godson. From now on, you will have a brother, who will take care of you no matter what happens!"

"Mother!" After hearing Xia Xiyan's words, Murong Fu's rejection of Xu Zhu completely disappeared, and he felt that Xia Xiyan adopted Xu Zhu purely for him to have a companion, and his heart was still sweet.

Xia Xiyan saw at a glance what Murong Fu was thinking while sitting on the side, and she didn't explain to him that she took Xu Zhu in. In fact, it was more because she felt sorry for Xu Zhu, and took him as a godson with a thought, so that Murong Fu had a Brother, Ah Zhu and the others have one more brother, and they just hope that their relationship will be closer, so that they can be more dependent on each other when they grow up.

In this way, she left, they condensed into a rope, and she was assured that they could take care of each other.

"Auntie, let's go out for a stroll!" When Xia Xiyan was thinking about Murong Fu and the others when they grew up, Wang Yuyan who was on the side saw the bustling crowd outside the inn, so she threw herself into Xia Xiyan's arms with some excitement, and followed Xia Xiyan Yan said to go out for a walk.

Seeing that it was still early, Xia Xiyan agreed to Wang Yuyan's proposal, shaved her nose, and then led her out of the inn with a group of people.

"Go to the tailor shop first, first buy some clothes for Xu Zhu!"

Xia Xiyan goes out, sees Xu Zhu being led by Ah Zi to talk about her anecdotes, finds the thin monk robe and straw sandals on Xu Zhu's body, and thinks of buying some clothes and shoes for Xu Zhu.

"Nu Shi... cough... Godmother, Xu Zhu doesn't need new clothes! Xu Zhu has some!" Xu Zhu first called Xia Xiyan by mistake, Xia Xiyan coughed and asked him what he wanted to call her, Xu Zhu's voice was a little soft He called Xia Xiyan 'godmother', then subconsciously turned around to pick up the baggage, only to remember that Xia Xiyan unloaded his baggage when he entered the inn, put it aside, and has not brought it out now.

"The godmother knows that Xu Zhu has clothes, but those are not suitable for Xu Zhu to wear in the future, so the godmother needs to buy some new clothes for Xu Zhu, if Xu Zhu likes to wear monk robes very much, when he returns to Yanziwu, the godmother will let him Someone prepared it for you."

Xia Xiyan's words made Xu Zhu touch his bald head and didn't know how to refuse, so Xia Xiyan dragged him into a clothing store and bought him a lot of clothes and shoes in one go.

"Female... Godmother is enough, enough, Xu Zhu can only use two sets of clothes for a year! There are so many, Xu Zhu doesn't know how long he will wear them!" Xu Zhu stopped Xia Xiyan's madness. Xia Xiyan looked at Xu Zhu who had changed his monk robes and put on ordinary clothes for his purchasing behavior. Although he felt that when Xu Zhu was not wearing monk clothes, the cuteness of the blessing of the little monk status, but felt that Xu Zhu is more like an ordinary child, not a monk who doesn't know how to choose his own life and has no choice but to be forced to be a monk who abides by rules and precepts, eats fast and recites Buddha's name.

If Xu Zhu becomes an adult, he has fallen in love with the life of a monk because of years of habits, Xia Xiyan will not change Xu Zhu's mentality and life as a monk, but Xu Zhu is only five years old, Xia Xiyan hopes He can be like an ordinary child, having a simple and happy childhood, with colorful growth choices. If Xu Zhu still wants to become a monk when he grows up, Xia Xiyan will not stop him, and will support him, but he hopes that this decision is false. Zhu has experienced other lives, and he chose it because he likes the life of a monk.It's not because you grew up in Shaolin Temple, you have no other choice to be a monk all your life, and you don't experience other joys and sorrows in life.

"Brother Xu Zhu, can you touch your bald head for me?" AhZi looked at Xu Zhu who was not wearing a monk robe but made his bald head more obvious, and wanted to touch it with some itch.

"Ah Zi..." Xia Xiyan heard that Ah Zi was about to touch Xu Zhu's bald head, and made some dumbfounded noises to interrupt her whimsical thoughts, but Xu Zhu squatted down with a good temper and gave you his short A lot of Ah Zi touched his bald head.

As soon as Ah Zi touched it, A Zhu and Wang Yuyan also called Xu Zhu 'Brother' very curiously, and begged him to touch their heads, Xu Zhu kept squatting and touched his head for them before standing up, looking at Xia on the side Xiyan didn't know what to say.

But seeing that the children were very happy, she didn't say anything, and asked Lu Lan to send the clothes Xu Zhu bought back to the inn, while she continued to take a few children to go shopping, and bought some snacks for the children on the way out tomorrow. Snacks, some gadgets that the children love, Xia Xiyan was going to take them back to the inn when she saw that it was time for dinner.

"Xu Zhu, Yan'er, A'Zhu, A'Bi, A'Zi, you guys have seen enough, we'll go back when we've seen enough..."

"Ah Zhu, Ah Zi?"

Xia Xiyan saw Xu Zhu and several little girls gathered in front of a clay figurine booth, and asked them if they wanted to come back, but she was interrupted roughly by a high-pitched voice in the middle of the conversation up.

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