Chapter 3 The second most surprising beggar

The most prosperous place in Miao Town is a commercial street near the town square.Of course, "prosperity" is also relative, because Jie'an once proudly brought a donor from other places to visit there, but the donor from other places looked at the side street with his mouth open, then looked at Jie'an, and then looked at the side street, Look at Jie Chen again, and finally with an expression of "For the sake of you are a monk living in the mountains, I won't laugh at you for being ignorant", he held back and said nothing. On the bustling commercial street, most of them are small vendors, but at the same time, there is another special group of people, that is, beggars.It may be because there are often foreign tourists with relatively good economic conditions here, so several beggars in the town have set their begging places near the commercial street.

It was almost last summer when Jie Chen saw the beggar Uncle Gao.Uncle Gao is very old and has a disability in his legs.He has no pants on his legs and is always just wrapping his disabled legs in newspaper.Unlike other beggars, there is no miserable "complaint" in front of him, just a lonely bowl with never much money.He never stared at the passing crowd like other beggars. Instead, he lowered his head in silence and huddled in the corner of the street.The reason why Jie Chen knew his surname was because he heard it from the side. Compared with other healthy and young beggars, Uncle Gao's condition is quite worrying.Every time Jie Chen passed by him, if there happened to be a coin, he would put one in his bowl.

Jie Chen looked at his legs carefully, they were as thin as two wooden sticks, they were placed straight in front of him, and never moved.Beside him was a worn-out walking stick, which should be his means of transportation.Sometimes, Jie An would even think about how he came to the small street, but Jie An had never seen it before, because Uncle Gao went to the street very early every day and stayed until night.As for quitting anger, you usually don’t go down the mountain in the morning. People in the small town sometimes mention Uncle Gao, but the content is always worrying.A benefactor once said that he once saw Uncle Gao looking for food in the trash can.

When the wind and rain came, Jie Chen was also quite worried for Uncle Gao, after all he was physically disabled, how would he avoid the sudden change in the weather. What surprised Jie An was one night, when Jie An was delayed that day, it was already dark when he returned to the temple, and when he passed the commercial street, Jie An saw Uncle Gao, but this time Uncle Gao was standing, he He stood up with those legs that he thought were broken. Uncle Gao bent down to pick up the crutch and held it in his hand.It was only then that Jie An realized that the crutches could also be decorations, and it was it that made Jie An preconceived that Uncle Gao's legs were disabled.

Looking back at that scene to this day, it still makes people laugh and cry.This question that has been troubling Jiechen has finally been answered.Before that, Jie Chen had imagined countless tragic scenes, a lonely old man, using his hands instead of legs, crawled to the small street with heavy breathing before dawn.But now, the answer to the question is much simpler than Jie Chen imagined, it turns out that he came here. Suddenly, Jie Chen felt very uncomfortable.Jie Chen thought of a sudden rainstorm, and even asked Jie Ao to make a phone call to ask his friends on the commercial street where Uncle Gao was hiding from the rain!

In this matter, Jie Chen always thought that he was playing a strong man, a strong man who was willing to do his best to help others.But now what Jie Chen thinks of is that maybe in Uncle Gao's heart, he already has an impression of Jie Chen—a monk who is a bit Buddha-minded and also a bit stupid. From then on, when Jie An walks, he always intentionally or unintentionally avoids the street where Uncle Gao is begging, perhaps he is also hesitating deep in his heart, how should he face Uncle Gao? When he was in the temple, there were more and more revelations about Uncle Gao.A pilgrim also said that looking for food from the trash can was originally a trick of Uncle Gao to win sympathy.In fact, what is hidden in the dustbin is a tightly wrapped lunch box, which is not only clean, but also of good quality.

It was at dusk when Jie An saw Uncle Gao again. On that day, Jie An saw Uncle Gao walking towards him on a small road. If calculated according to the normal time, Uncle Gao should still be on the commercial street in the town at this time. That's right, Jie Chen doesn't know what caused Uncle Gao to end his "work" early, so that we have the opportunity to meet on another small road.Jie Chen passed by Uncle Gao, but Uncle Gao didn't take a second look at Jie Chen, maybe it was hard for Uncle Gao to remember Jie Chen, a small client among many customers.Jie An turned his head and looked at Uncle Gao walking slowly, and suddenly found that his back was already bent very badly, and the walking posture that annoyed Jie An before was actually not very stable.

Seeing Uncle Gao walking away in the afterglow of the setting sun and gradually disappearing at the end of the road, he was suddenly relieved.Jie Chen once thought that it was only natural for him to feel annoyed after knowing the truth, because Uncle Gao could only stand very low on the moral balance. However, at this moment, Jie Chen suddenly felt that he should think about this issue from another angle.In fact, in our life, at this age, most of Uncle Gao’s peers already have a full house of children and grandchildren, enjoying their old age in peace.And Uncle Gao still has to perform begging every day in order to survive at such an age.

Jiechen once believed that all things that violate morality must be condemned.But at this moment, Jie Chen suddenly thought that the moral standard may not be a constant thing, for different people, the moral standard may be different. For a man who can have enough to eat has no right to set moral standards for a man who cannot have enough to eat.