Chapter 2 Chapter One

Hangzhou is a famous city in ancient my country, with many scenic spots and historical sites, and the West Lake is even more beautiful, which is known as the best in the world. Hire a boat from the West Lake to Yuefen, from Yuefen to the mountain, take a long winding mountain road to Lingfeng Temple. This Lingfeng Temple is not famous in Hangzhou, perhaps because Shangao Temple is small and there are few tourists. In fact, the scenery of Lingfeng Temple is very good. There is a small hill in the north, and there is a pavilion on the hill named "Wanghai". From this pavilion, you can have a bird's-eye view of the entire Qiantang River and the West Lake.

In the garden to the west of the main hall in the temple, dense plum trees are planted. It was the frost solstice season in September. On this day, the sun was setting in the west mountain, and it was dusk. A boy of fourteen or fifteen years old was wandering in the garden. This young boy has a plump face and delicate features, especially his eyes, which are as bright as morning stars, look more refreshed. It was already very cold in September, but he only wore a set of thin white clothes, but he showed no signs of chilling. I saw that he was slightly anxious, as if he was waiting for someone.

It was the evening class time in the main hall, and the sound of Buddhist chant was sent, accompanied by the faint fragrance of the plum grove. The white-clothed boy suddenly raised his brows, and whispered: "Shadow fragrance!" People followed the sound, he twisted and folded, but he didn't see his movement clearly, and he flew away like a meteor. "What an exquisite "Shadow Fragrance"!" Where the sound fell, a tall monk in gray robe and red eyebrows appeared, nodded his head and said with a kind smile: "Wei Er, your skill of "Shadow Floating Fragrance" has surpassed this old monk!"

After saluting to the old monk, the white-clothed boy said blushingly: "My old man praises, Wei Er has practiced this way of body skills for several days, but he can't do it well. Just now, he listened to the Sanskrit sound and smelled the plum fragrance, so he did it unconsciously. I don’t know what to do, right?” The red-browed monk snorted, and sighed: "This trick of "Shadow Floating Fragrance" is a light-weight skill. When I was an old monk, I was seen by an old knight who called himself surnamed Xu because of a few good deeds. I use this trick to show my encouragement, I have been practicing it for several years, alas! Unexpectedly, you have only learned it for a few days, and you are so proficient!"

The red-browed monk stared at the white-clothed boy, and said, "Wei Er, do you know why this old monk refuses to accept you as his apprentice?" The bright eyes of the white-clothed boy flickered, and he said, "Old man, Wei Er has never been able to figure this out. Is it because Wei Er is not qualified enough to be unbearable..." The red-browed monk shook his head and stopped, and said: "No! No! Don't think wildly and belittle yourself. Your roots and aptitude are the best choice, which is rare in a hundred years. That's why I dare not accept you as a disciple easily, so as not to be mistaken. Your chance, and the old monk,... Alas! In short, you will get a master who is a thousand times better than the old monk."

The white-clothed boy said stubbornly: "Old man, as the saying goes: a teacher for one day is a teacher for the rest of his life. Wei'er has been taught Taoist inner strength by the old man since he was a child, just like the "Shadow Floating Fragrance" taught to Wei'er a few days ago. Is Wei Er Kung Fu? The old man just refuses to recognize Wei Er as an apprentice, but Wei Er always recognizes the old man as his teacher in his heart." The red-browed monk let out a long sigh, stepped forward and took Wei'er's little hand, and said lovingly: "Why doesn't this old monk want to accept you as a disciple, but the old monk's skills are so superficial that I taught you, but missed you. "Shadow Floating Fragrance" is very different, if this old monk didn't save his life with this light kung fu, he would have died more than ten times!"

The white-clothed boy frowned again, obviously triggered by the red-browed monk saying the word "death". The red-browed monk asked softly, "Wei Er, did your mother suffer from another illness?" The white-clothed boy nodded sadly and said: "Mother is fine at noon, but my father came back before dusk, and for some reason, he pissed off my mother and became sick, scaring my father away. Just now when Wei'er came, my mother was a little better, Lying on the bed, but...but...mother was lying on the bed crying, her mouth... always... shouting "man"! "man"!"

The red-browed monk frowned, and said in thought: "Your mother's illness is really strange, she hasn't improved for several years, alas! I pray to you, your mother was so stimulated back then that she still can't wake up..." The white-clothed boy said anxiously: "Old man, what kind of medicine should I take to cure my mother's illness?" The red-browed monk said: "Heart disease still needs heart medicine. As long as your mother's heart is enlightened, the disease will heal naturally. Taking medicine is useless!" The white-clothed boy wept, "Then... then... how can... mother be happy?"

The red-browed monk gently stroked the back of Wei'er's hand, and comforted him: "Don't worry, it's useless to worry, as long as your mother sees the man named "man", alas, this is also a delusion, if you can find this man, your father will have found it long ago." Unless your mother suffers another major shock, maybe she will recover!" The white-clothed boy wiped away his tears and said softly, "Old man, I'm going back!" The red-browed monk took out a pack of medicine from his bosom, stuffed it into Wei'er's hand, and said, "Take this for your mother, and comfort her god."

The white-clothed boy seemed to be used to taking medicine from the red-browed monk, nodded, and walked down to Lingfeng Temple with the package of medicine in his pocket. Under the long stone steps of Lingfeng Temple, there is a flat land, and the left side turns to the mountain, facing the West Lake. There is a beautiful red brick house with a courtyard built against the mountain. The white-clothed boy walked to the front of the courtyard, stopped and stretched out his hand to push open the courtyard door. The door opened to one side, and a red shadow rushed out from inside with a "bang", and hid behind the white-clothed boy.

An eight or nine-year-old boy rushed out from inside. He had tiger eyes and thick eyebrows, and was as strong as a bull. Seeing the boy in white, he shouted: "Big Brother, Second Sister bullied me and robbed me of my wooden sword!" The boy in white shirt frowned, and said with a smile: "Good buffalo! Big brother will help you get the wooden sword back, don't make trouble." As he spoke, he turned back and grabbed the girl in the red shirt behind her. The girl in the red shirt was caught and shouted, "No! Big Brother helps the buffalo, not Xuanxuan, Xuanxuan is going to make trouble, Xuanxuan wants this..." The white-clothed boy frowned slightly, looking at the hottest younger sister, he didn't know what to do, "Sister Xuan! Mother is going to wake you up, mother just fell asleep, and she will scold you again when she wakes up..." As he said, A girl in a green shirt walked out of the courtyard lightly. Xuan Xuan, a girl in a green shirt, curled her mouth and said, "Who cares about you girl! I'm not afraid of mother. Mother hates me from birth. You all just bully me. No one will fight against Zhi Xuanxuan." pain!" After finishing speaking, he peeked at the white-clothed boy and began to cry. The white-clothed boy waved his hands anxiously, and persuaded: "Sister Xuan, don't cry! If you cry again, big brother doesn't like you." Xuanxuan is small and big, hit the snake with the stick, immediately stopped the sound of the whip, and said cleverly: "Okay, Xuanxuan will not cry, big brother wants to help Xuanxuan, the only one who likes Xuanxuan, otherwise Xuanxuan will cry. " The white-clothed boy really couldn't do anything to her; he turned to the dark-skinned boy and said, "Buffalo, borrow the wooden sword from Second Sister to play for a while, okay?" Of the four children, only this buffalo is the ugliest, not at all like his elder brother and two older sisters, the girl in red and the girl in green are like twins, they look very similar, they are all beautiful fetuses like faces of lotus, But he looked different from this boy in white shirt. Buffalo said aggrievedly: "Second sister always grabs my things, this wooden sword was bought for me yesterday, and second sister will return it to me after playing with it for a while!" Xuanxuan said: "Why don't you return this black charcoal? Dad likes you and will buy you everything. If you don't buy it for us, Dad only loves you. I will bully you and refuse to return you." The buffalo was so angry that it stared around, and it seemed that it was about to cry. The girl in the green shirt was much quieter than the girl in the red shirt. Although she was only a little over ten years old, she was pretty. She took out a colorful marble from her bosom, handed it to the buffalo, and said: "Don't cry buffalo, third sister will give you this marble." The buffalo screamed happily with the marbles, thanked Third Sister, and didn't want the wooden sword anymore, so he went to the backyard to play by himself. Xuanxuan pouted, threw the wooden sword against the wall forcefully, broke it into two pieces, and said angrily, "Who cares about this broken sword!" The girl in the green shirt said in shock: "Second Sister, if you break it, Dad will scold you again when he comes back!" Xuanxuan said forcefully: "Who is afraid of Daddy! He is not my Daddy at all, he is not like us at all, only buffaloes are like him." The boy in white shirt scolded: "Second Sister, if you talk nonsense again, be careful that Big Brother will beat you!" Xuanxuan said angrily: "Brother also bullies Xuanxuan, mother Yunyun hurts, father buffalo hurts, only Xuanxuan has no one to hurt." The white-clothed boy said angrily: "Who doesn't love you anymore? Look how good Yunyun is. She gave her most beloved marbles to the buffalo, but what about you? You mess around all day, who would love a wild girl? You want Learn from Yunyun." Xuanxuan burst into tears and said, "Brother loves Yunyun, not Xuanxuan!" As soon as he finished speaking, he hid his face and rushed down the mountain. The boy in white shirt shouted urgently: "Come back! Come here!" Yunyun also shouted: "Sister, don't run away, dad is back!" I saw a middle-aged strong man walking down the mountain, with tiger eyes and thick eyebrows, his dark complexion looked even darker under the dim light, his face was not handsome but he was upright, only his ears were cut off at the base of the ears , leaving a circular scar. The middle-aged strong man stepped forward quickly, just in time to grab Xuan Xuan who was running down the mountain with her head buried. Xuan Xuan saw that it was her father, and she still struggled stubbornly. The middle-aged strong man said: "Good girl! You must be naughty again! Come back with me, Biguai." Xuanxuan smelled heavy alcohol and knew that her father was drunk. Every time her father was drunk, he beat people very hard. She couldn't help being afraid that she would die. When her hands were caught and she couldn't move, she would straighten the middle-aged man with her feet. , said in horror: "Let me go! Let me go!" The middle-aged strong man was enraged, raised his hand, and slapped Xuanxuan's tender face with a "slap". Xuanxuan was so frightened that she felt a little numb to the pain, and still shouted sharply: "Let go of me, you villain, you are not my father, and my father is not you!" The middle-aged strong man suddenly pushed Xuanxuan away, thinking quickly in his heart: "I'm not her father, how can I beat her so easily, I, Ruan Dacheng, am not a person who bullies children!" You must know that Ruan Dacheng, Fuhu King Kong, is a well-known hero in Shuzhong. place, I hope his wife will take good care of herself and recover soon. Unexpectedly, after ten years, his wife's condition has not improved, and the depression in her heart can be imagined. Because of the depression in her heart, she can't help beating and scolding her three children who are not her own. This is also human nature. I prefer more. It turned out that when his wife married him, she brought a child who was three years old and two months old, and she was pregnant with another child at the same time. If no one else would want this wife again.But he loves her very much, not because of her ugliness, let alone because she is not perfect, so he refuses to talk to her. On the contrary, he marries her as his wife, and gives these three children who don't know who their father is, a family. surname. Now he was suddenly stabbed in the heart by Xuanxuan's innocent words, thinking that he was not Xuanxuan's biological father, so what right did he have to beat her? Xuanxuan was pushed to the ground by Ruan Dacheng, she was so shocked that she didn't dare to cry. When Ruan Dacheng saw five red handprints on her cheeks, he regretted that he had beaten her too hard, so he couldn't help but stepped forward to pick her up and walked back up the mountain. Xuan Xuan thought he was going to beat herself up, so she yelled, "I won't go back! I won't go back!" Ruan Dacheng lowered his earless head, and said lovingly: "Good boy, don't yell, dad is not good, dad beat Xuanxuan hard, dad will buy Xuanxuan a small sword tomorrow, okay?" Xuanxuan was stunned by Ruan Dacheng's coaxing, wondering what happened to her father today!He nodded blankly. Ruan Dacheng walked to the front of the courtyard and put down Xuanxuan, and asked the white-clothed boy: "Wei Er, what's the matter with your mother?" Ruan Wei and Ruan Yun called Dad respectfully, and the white shirt boy Ruan Wei replied: "Mei Yun said that mother is asleep, and the child just went to Lingfeng Temple and asked Uncle Wuyin for a medicine, and he is still here." Ruan Dacheng frowned and said: "It's thanks to Uncle Wuyin that you gave the medicine to Dad. If it wasn't for his medicine, your mother's illness would be even worse." Ruan Yun, a girl in a green shirt, said: "Father, Mother said when she was sleeping: Father is not allowed to go into Mother's room when you come back." Ruan Dacheng sighed, handed back the medicine that Ruan Wei had just handed over to Ruan Wei and said: "You go and dress your mother, and father goes to sleep in the study." He walked into the courtyard very annoyed, and shouted: "Buffalo! Buffalo! Father Bao came to play in the study." Ruan Wei stepped forward and took the girl in red shirt Ruan Xuan, saying: "Second sister, don't be angry with elder brother, go with elder brother to your mother's room." Ruan Xuan threw Ruan Wei's hand away, and said angrily, "Whoever wants to see her will go crazy for a while, and then stare at me again, as if Xuan Jian is her enemy." Ruan Yun rushed forward, grabbed Ruan Wei and said, "Brother, Yunyun will follow you." Ruan Xuan pushed Ruan Yun's hand away, and said coquettishly, "Brother, Xuan Xuan will go with you." Saying that, he automatically grasped Ruan Wei's hand. Ruan Wei's eyes flashed like lacquer, and he said mischievously, "Aren't you afraid of going into your mother's room?" Ruan Xuan said: "Isn't it? With the elder brother here, Xuanxuan is not afraid of anything." Ruan Wei smiled, took Ruan Yun with the other hand, and walked into the courtyard. The night covered the entire land, and the evening classes at Lingfeng Temple had already been finished. In the red brick house, there are two halls in the middle, two columns of wing rooms on both sides, and the innermost room on the right, which is elegantly and luxuriously arranged. Two banners of silk paintings and several vertical scrolls are hung high on the four walls. On the vertical scrolls, there are flying and phoenix-flavored words, all of which praise Ruan Dacheng's good deeds and good deeds. The room is quite large, filled with mahogany furniture and antiques! In the innermost corner, there is a mahogany bed with brocade silk quilt slanted, and the bed is covered with embroidered fabrics. It was night now, and there were two palace lanterns with long legs on the side of the bed, with pink lampshades emitting a soft light. The soft light shone on the face of a woman on the bed. Looking dimly, that face was a beautiful embryo, but—— When you take a closer look, the woman's face is covered with scars. Although the wounds have healed finely due to the long years, it still looks scary. The scar-faced woman slept soundly, her face as calm as water. The door curtain was gently lifted, and the three of Ruan Wei walked in. Seeing that his mother was sleeping soundly, Ruan Wei couldn't bear to wake her up, but he was afraid that if he didn't take Uncle Wuyin's medicine, he would fall ill again after waking up. He gently poured the medicine into a glass of warm water, then helped the scar-faced woman, and poured it carefully into her mouth. The scar-faced woman parted her cherry lips slightly, and swallowed it gulply. After a while, the glass of medicine was gone. Ruan Wei slowly put the scar-faced woman away, she didn't seem to be woken up, she was still asleep. Ruan Yun was small and filial, and when she waited for Ruan Wei to put the cup, she walked to the side of the bed, put her feet up and covered her mother with the quilt. Ruan Xuan stood far away, not caring. Ruan Wei tidied up everything in the room, waved to Ruan Yun, and said softly, "Third Sister, let's go! Let Mother sleep well." Ruan Yun turned and left the bed, and within three steps, the scar-faced woman on the bed suddenly woke up and shouted, "Who is it?" Ruan Wei hurried forward and replied, "Mother, it's Wei'er, Xuanxuan, and Yunyun." The scar-faced woman said angrily: "Who told Xuanxuan to come in? Tell her to get out. Mother gets annoyed when she sees her, so tell her to get out! Tell her to get out!" Ruan Wei waved his hands to Xuan Xuan who was far away, Ruan Xuan was so angry that she shed tears immediately, and rushed out of the curtain in resentment! The scar-faced woman seemed to have improved slightly because of taking the medicine given by Monk Wuyin, and her mind was relatively clear. Ruan Wei said softly: "Mother, Xuanxuan has gone out." The scar-faced woman nodded, and at this moment Ruan Yun came over. Seeing Yun Yun's similar face and nose and mouth to Xuan Xuan's, the scar-faced woman immediately frowned again, and wanted to reprimand her, but she held back, Instead, she called Yunyun to approach her, and reached out to stroke her hair, full of mother's love. Ruan Wei moved his lips a few times without saying anything, seeing his mother's mood improved at this time, he boldly asked: "Mother, who is the "man"?" The scar-faced woman looked blank and said, "What are you asking Mother for? "Man" seems to be the name of a person, but who is this person? Mother doesn't even know." Ruan Wei said eagerly: "Mother, think about it, what kind of person this person is, and who lives there. Uncle Wu Yin of Lingfeng Temple said that as long as I can think about this person clearly and see him, my mother's illness will naturally be cured... " The scar-faced woman said impatiently: "Don't be wordy, mother, don't think about it, you will get a headache if you think about it, you go out, let me be alone for a while." Ruan Wei retreated as promised, and then walked to the door curtain, the scar-faced woman asked: "Weier! Where's your father?" "Father is back! The buffalo is in the study. Father said he will sleep in the study tonight." The scar-faced woman murmured: "It's so cold, how can you sleep in the study?" She hesitated for a while, and finally said: "Wei Er, go and call Dad." Ruan Dacheng slipped into the door curtain and said, "Come on! What's your order?" Seeing his father coming in, Ruan Wei hurriedly took Yunyun out. The scar-faced woman laughed and said, "Look at how old you are, you still talk naughty!" Ruan Dacheng approached the scar-faced woman, sat down and said, "Look at how fierce you were to me during the day, you almost killed me with a knife." The scar-faced woman wondered: "Didn't that one treat you fiercely during the day? Didn't I just wake up?" Ruan Dacheng knew that her mind was not clear, and he didn't dare to explain it. During the day, he said: "When you go to bed at night, you call "man" and "man", I think this "man" has died a long time ago. La!" She immediately went crazy and made a scene. Immediately he hesitated, and the scar-faced woman didn't ask any more questions. As the night deepened and the chill grew stronger, Ruan Dacheng sat on the side of the bed, trembling. The scar-faced woman scolded with a smile: "You idiot don't go to bed yet! I don't allow you to go to bed either." Ruan Dacheng thought to himself: "Isn't it just that Yunyun sent an order not to allow me to come into the room just now, otherwise I would not be an idiot, I can't go to sleep if I have a bed, and just sit on the ground!" In fact, his scar-faced woman had long forgotten what she told Yunyun before going to bed. Ruan Dacheng got into bed, warmed his body and mind, put his head against the neck of the scar-faced woman, and said: "Tomorrow, I want to travel far away. The buffalo is not too young. It's time to practice martial arts. I will send him to Shaolin Temple to learn martial arts, and he will be back within a month at most." On the eve of the farewell, the room was filled with the love of husband and wife again.