It had been three years, and the Chen family had really survived.
The hardships during this period can be imagined, but they have all been experienced without danger, and Chen Gong has grown from a teenager to a seventeen-year-old young man.
Eating, drinking, and sleeping every day, these trivialities did not overwhelm Chen Gong, but on the contrary, they enhanced his courage to deal with difficulties and also enhanced Chen Gong's ability to solve difficult problems.
But there is a sensitive issue that has to be faced.
Xiaoqing is "ripe", this is already an indisputable fact, if you shirk it with the age problem, I am afraid it will not work!
Chen Gong and Xiao Qing are also in love for a long time, which is a normal thing, under the repeated urging of Mrs. Chen, the two finally rounded the room.
The transformation from a big boy to a man was naturally completed, Chen Gong looked at Xiao Qing, who was shy and full of sweetness, and sighed:
"Xiao Qing, you should be called a young lady, in the future, what is that, you have to follow me to suffer!"
"Husband, since you and I have become husband and wife, Xiao Qing will grow old with you, and you will not abandon me!"
"Good! Good! Good! ”
Chen Gong nodded in response, this is a man's primary responsibility, but his heart is still entangled with another person.
"Gong'er, you have officially grown from a young master to an old master of the Chen family, and you have made a wish for your mother."
"Bodhisattva bless, the Chen family has spent several spring and autumn festivals peacefully, and Gong'er will go to the Huangjue Temple with me and make a wish for incense!"
"Yes, the child obeyed the order!"
Ding Shaobao has been practicing martial arts every day for several years, which is the true kung fu he inherited from his uncle Ding Busan, and it can also be regarded as the ding family's unique skill.
With a foundation in martial arts, Shao Bao naturally became the Chen family's bodyguard, and he wanted to escort the old lady and the young master to the temple.
It was just dark.
Chen Gong and the three of them went out from a hidden place in the backyard and quickly disappeared into the morning light.
I hadn't been out for more than three years, and the sight in front of me was both familiar and unfamiliar.
The unnamed river valley has almost become a flat river, where there is still a riverbed, and the air is suffocatingly dry.
There was also a fishy smell, along the road scattered with pieces of debris of the victims, people do not know how long they died, the scene is terrifying!
Chen Gong quickly wrapped the old lady in a turban, deliberately blocking her view, and Ding Shaobao habitually raised his vigilance, shuttling back and forth around the two.
Such a miserable road, the more people walked, the more unpleasant the heart became, and the three of them had a hard time reaching the outside of the Huangjue Temple.
The temple was not peaceful in this year.
The gate and several stupas in front of the door were tattered and crooked, completely lifeless.
The jackdaw made a desolate cry, and Chen Gong helped the old lady into the mountain gate and scared away a few mountain rats that were foraging on the ground.
Half a day later, I saw two deacon monks, and the two of them were lazily sweeping the courtyard in front of the Buddhist hall, and when they saw someone entering the temple, they stopped.
"Lord, don't come unharmed!"
An older monk recognized the old lady, and Duan Quickly bowed down to give the salute.
"Amitabha, master is well!"
The monk welcomed the old lady into the main hall and turned to ask the abbot of the temple.
The main hall is dedicated to three clay statues of bodhisattvas, with Manjushri Bodhisattva in the center and disciples of high monks on both sides.
The whole hall was dimly lit and covered with cobwebs, and the bodhisattva's golden body had not been wiped for a long time.
The old lady had already bowed reverently on the futon, and there were words in her mouth.
The abbot of the temple also came to the temple with a silent face, and the old lady hurriedly summoned Chen Gong to give gifts to the senior monks.
"Amitabha, the old lady does not have to be formal, the giver has compassion, and if he sows good causes, he will get good results."
"Thanks to Master's kindness, thanks to the blessing of the Buddha, the Chen family has finally saved their lives, and today they and the dog came to make a wish, please ask Master to be perfect!"
"Well said, well said."
The abbot arranged for several monks to begin preparing for the ceremony, and the old lady asked Shao bao to carry a bag of wheat she had brought into the temple as incense money.
This bag of wheat can not be underestimated, the current situation is far more useful than a bag of copper coins, and the monks in the temple have received such a valuable alms, and everyone is happy.
Therefore, the rituals arranged for the Chen family are also extra attentive, ringing bells and fishing are all hard, and burning incense and chanting are also board and eye-
Chen Gong accompanied the old lady to complete the ceremony of returning the wish, and the old man continued to let the abbot chant the prayer, and Chen Gong and Shao Bao slipped out of the hall.
Outside the temple, there are constantly monks who go out to return from their fates, they are all small monks with very low positions, and this year the monks must also put down their self-esteem and take the initiative to go out to seek a glimmer of life.
The old monks and high-ranking masters in the temple do not have to wade through the mountains and rivers to go to the door to "beg", on the contrary, these monks live a life of food and clothing.
Moreover, the senior monks rarely chanted the sutras and worshipped the Buddha, and the usual rough and tiring work was all handed over to the young monks and the new monks who had just entered the temple.
In fact, it is not only the Huangjue Temple that is like this, just as the so-called crows in the world are as black as the crows, and people can't eat normally, they will want people to eat people.
"You've been out for a few months, so did you get all this food?"
Two elderly monks were outside the door berating a young monk.
Chen Gong looked far away and found that the monk who had been reprimanded was very familiar!
Take a closer look, ah, it turned out to be Zhu Zhongba!
"Heavy Eight!"
Chen Gong quickened his pace and came to Zhu Zhongba's body.
Zhu Zhongba was wearing a worn-out robe, his hair had long been shaved, his face was obviously much thinner than a few years ago, and his height had grown a lot, but he was too thin.
"Chen Gong Brothers!"
The two of them clasped their hands tightly, tears flashing in their eyes, they didn't expect Shigehachi to become a monk, and the situation was obviously not good.
"Brother, it's hard to say anything!"
Zhu Zhongba and Chen Gong walked to a secluded place, and Zhongba told him all the twists and turns of the past few years.
"After leaving Chen Jiazhuang that day, I marched up along the river valley, walking for three days and three nights in a row, but I couldn't see a single bit of people..."
Shigehachi seems to have suffered no less, and it seems that it is a miracle that he can survive.
"Later, I went to Shandong and Henan, and the situation there was even more dangerous than ours!"
The Yellow River broke its banks, drowned hundreds of thousands of people, there were rotting corpses everywhere, there were disaster victims fleeing the wilderness everywhere, people saw strangers, their eyes would turn green, and they would eat a person!
Hurry up and escape!
"I went to Huaixi again, where there was no flood, but there was drought, and there was plague, and the people in the village fled and walked, and it was a miserable scene!"
You'll have to escape!
"In this way, I was begging, fleeing, going around in a big circle and coming back, no way, I had to leave the house at the Huangjue Temple and become a monk!"