insane

Chapter 38

Yu Wanran sat in front of the fire and rubbed her hands, Feng Langqu came over and put the quilt on Yu Wanran, "Brother Yu, it's cold in the hall, you should put on the quilt."

Yu Wanran politely returned the quilt to Feng Langqu, "No, I'm not cold, you should use it yourself, and be careful not to catch a cold."

Yu Wanran was just polite and courteous words, Feng Langqu felt happy when he heard that, he only thought that Yu Wanran was caring about him.Feng Langqu said, "I'm not cold. Brother Yu's body is thin. If I catch the cold, I will definitely blame myself for not taking good care of Brother Yu."

Yu Wanran refused to accept it, looking at the door of the palace from time to time, thinking why Liu Mu had been gone for almost half an hour and why he still hasn't come back, maybe some kind of accident happened due to the cold weather.For a while, I regretted why I didn't go out with her just now.

Feng Langqu still showed great hospitality from the side, "Brother Yu, if something goes wrong, I will definitely blame myself, brother Yu should take this quilt."

Yu Wanran and Feng Langqu declined, and decided to go out to look for Liu Mu, suddenly heard a 'bang', and saw Liu Mu breaking through the door, to be exact, it seemed that he hit the door and fell close.When Liu Mu came in, he happened to see the two people holding the quilt and tugging at each other, and suddenly there was an unknown anger.

Liu Muben's eyes were straight from the cold, his face was flushed, and he was holding two pheasants in his hands. Coupled with his stiff and angry expression, he looked extremely embarrassed.Liu Mu sat down beside the fire, his trembling teeth were still chattering, Yu Wanran hurriedly put the cloak on Liu Mu's body, Liu Mu ignored Yu Wanran, and just pushed the cloak off his body.He looked up at Feng Langqu again, and said, "Is your fire down? What are you doing here?"

Feng Langqu was already bored, but Liu Mu said so, so he had no choice but to go back to his fire in resentment.

Seeing Liu Mu's appearance, Yu Wanran thought it was funny, and put the cloak on Liu Mu again, and Liu Mu said angrily, "I'm not cold!"

Yu Wanran said with a half-smile, "My teeth are chattering, and I still say it's not cold."

Liu Mu snorted and ignored Yu Wanran.

Yu Wanran said, "Why does it seem like you're not happy all of a sudden?"

Liu Mu replied angrily, "I didn't, but it was too cold outside, and I couldn't take it easy for a while." I thought to myself, I was half frozen to death, and I went out to find food for you, but you are still here with this little boy. Pulling!

Liu Mu never let go of the hands holding the two pheasant legs, the two pheasants suddenly flapped their wings, which eased the awkward atmosphere a little bit, Yu Wanran pointed to the pheasant in Liu Mu's hand and said, "You caught this?"

Liu Mu snorted, "If I hadn't been afraid that my little brother would starve to death, I wouldn't be bothered to go out to find food in heavy snow and risk freezing to death."

Liumu warmed up his body, and Zhiyu also prepared boiling water.Liu Mu plucked the feathers of the chickens neatly, and then used a dagger to disembowel the two pheasants and empty out their internal organs.Yu Wanran saw the dagger in Liu Mu's hand, the dagger was engraved with patterns, and an inconspicuous purple stone was embedded at the end of the handle, but Yu Wanran could tell at a glance that the inconspicuous purple stone was not an ordinary gemstone, it was a valuable gem. rarities.It can also be seen that this dagger looks ordinary, but it is made of hundreds of steel refineries, and it can cut iron like mud.Yu Wanran said, "Unexpectedly, you still carry a self-defense weapon with you."

"Apart from Xiangyun, this dagger is the most precious thing my mother left me. I never leave it."

Yu Wanran blurted out, "Then if Xiangyun and Dagger can only choose one, which one would you choose?" After speaking, she regretted in her heart, how could she ask such a stupid question.

"You don't have to ask. The dagger is dead, and Xiangyun is alive. Of course, I will choose Sister Xiangyun. She is a good sister that I will never change for a thousand dollars. Not to mention a thousand taels of gold, I am willing to risk my life."

Yu Wanran felt sour, "So you are willing to give up your life for Xiangyun."

Hearing the words of giving up one's life, Liu Mu remembered that Zi Yan asked herself back then, "If one day I am in trouble, will you risk life and death for me?"

Liu Mu was lost in thought, his eyes were dazed, and he said to himself, "Yes, I will." I don't know whether Liu Mu was answering Ziyan's original question in memory, or Yu Wanran's question just now.

Seeing Liu Mu's stupid look, Yu Wanran couldn't help feeling angry, so she just took a packed pheasant and went to cook chicken soup.

When Liu Mu regained his composure, he realized that Yu Wanran was no longer by his side, so he couldn't help but say, "Why do you appear and disappear like a ghost." After speaking, he also took another pheasant and roasted it on the fire.

Zeng Qing was already a little confused by the fever at this time, his speech was vague and unclear, and it sounded like he was talking in sleep, "Brother Liu...Brother Liu..."

"I'm here." Liu Mu said, "Wait a minute, the chicken soup will be ready to drink soon."

"Brother Liu, my family is in the capital, but I'm actually...Zeng Qing...I'm not Zeng Qing..." Zeng Qing's tone was vague, and he lost his voice as he spoke.

Liu Mu's ears were almost close to Zeng Qing's mouth, but after listening for a long time, he still couldn't understand what Zeng Qing was going to say. Liu Mu was so frightened that he thought Zeng Qing was going to leave a last word, so he hurriedly asked, "Yes for a while, and no for a while." , What are you trying to say? Zeng Qing, don’t die. I still want to marry my sister to you, so we can play together every day when we leave the academy. I want to take you to the casino , to the brothel..."

Yu Wanran came over with the chicken soup, seeing Liu Mu's appearance, she felt both annoyed and ridiculous. "It's time to drink."

Liu Mu took the chicken soup, but was clumsy and didn't know how to feed it to Zeng Qing, and finally Yu Wanran fed the chicken soup to Zeng Qing to drink it down.

Zeng Qing's dazed eyes opened a gap, "Brother Liu, I dreamed of drinking chicken soup..."

Liu Mu smiled and said, "It's not a dream, it's real chicken soup."

Zeng Qing said without confidence, "So you are also dreaming. How could there be chicken soup in the monastery?"

After Zeng Qing drank all the chicken soup in the bowl, he fell into a drowsy sleep.

Seeing that Zeng Qing drank all the chicken soup in the bowl, Liu Mu smiled at Yu Wanran, "You still have a way to let him drink it." His tone could not hide his surprise, "If this kid survives a catastrophe, I will I still don't know how to thank you."

Yu Wanran didn't say much, just smiled unnaturally.In his heart, he began to wonder whether Liu Mu knew Zeng Qing's identity, or what kind of emotion Liu Mu had towards Zeng Qing.Yu Wanran asked, "It seems that you like Zeng Qing very much."

"Yeah, you kid is stupid, sometimes you are weak and like a big girl, you will blush when you make a few jokes about him, and your naughty look reminds me of Liu Ye. I I want to tell my father when I get back to Jinling, and marry the willow leaves to him."

After hearing this, Yu Wanran couldn't help pursing her lips into a smile, it seemed that this guy was so stupid that he didn't know Zeng Qing's identity.

Liu Mu roasted another pheasant, pulled half of it and handed it to Feng Langqu, "Eat some, we don't know when we will be able to go down the mountain, be careful to starve to death here."

"Thank you." Feng Langqu took the chicken delivered by Liu Mu, but still had no good expression on his face.Seeing this, Yu Wanran couldn't help frowning.

Liu Mu snorted disdainfully, and said, "I'm not afraid that you will starve to death, I'm too lazy to bury you after you die, and if I throw you two in a mass grave, I'm afraid that the nearby villagers will be infected with corpse plague."

Wen Siren was so hungry that his chest was stuck to his back, and he didn't have the energy to argue with Liu Mu, so he started to gobble up the chicken offered by Feng Langqu.

Liu Mu took the chicken and chicken soup and said to Zhiyu, "You can eat some too." After speaking, he handed the things in his hand to Zhiyu's eyes.

Zhiyu hastily put his hands together, lowered his head and said, "It's a sin, a monk must not eat meat. Now killing animals in the temple is already a violation of the precept, how can I break the precept of meat again."

Liu Mu said, "It's snowed several feet outside. I don't think people from the mountain will come up today. If we don't eat any more, I'm afraid we will starve to death here before the people from the mountain come up."

"Benefactor Liu is not a Buddhist, so it's okay. But if a monk eats meat, the Buddha will blame him."

Liu Mu said, "Then let me ask you why monks can't eat meat."

Zhiyu said, "Eating meat is the same as killing a living being. It is killing other lives."

Liu Mu asked again, "Then you want to stick to the rules and regulations and become a Buddha in the future?"

Zhiyu said, "I was born stupid and my understanding is not high. I am afraid I will not be able to become a Buddha. However, if I can devote myself to cultivating the Buddha and not violating the precepts in my lifetime, it will be regarded as a merit. Eight difficulties, I am also willing."

Liu Mu said, "Cows and sheep are born to eat grass, and they have never eaten a piece of meat until they died, but I have never seen them become immortals or Buddhas. Chinese food."

Zhiyu said, "How can humans and animals be the same?"

Liu Mu sighed, with an old-fashioned look, and said, "If you starve to death because you don't eat meat, what's the difference from suicide? To put it bluntly, it's not killing a life in vain. I killed the chicken, chicken soup It was cooked by my cousin. The killing has nothing to do with you. Even going to hell is my business. All you have to do is drink chicken soup and eat chicken to save Zhiyu's life. This is a matter of life and death. When I was at home, I often heard my father tell me that in business, you must know how to be flexible and not stick to the old principles, so that you can be invincible. The same is true for practicing Buddhism. Starving for a dead chicken Killing another living person's life, isn't that..." Liu Mu paused, and couldn't remember how to say that word for a while, "Isn't it... that... Oh, it's no different from killing people anyway. At that time, the Buddha will not only blame you for killing, but also blame you for being stupid and not enlightened."

Zhiyu suddenly laughed when he heard this, and Liu Mu said, "What are you laughing at, did I say something wrong?"

Zhiyu said, "I am Xiaoliu. The benefactor said it well. It was like enlightenment. One word awakened the dreamer. It made me, a stupid person, suddenly realize. As the saying goes, if I don't go to hell, I will go to hell. I don't want to live in a temple since I was a child, and I practice Zen and recite scriptures all day long, but I can't realize such a truth. I want to be an open-minded and free-spirited true Buddha like Liu benefactor, but I can't convince myself to really see through everything. As you said, so How can you become a real Buddha if you stick to the precepts and don't know how to adapt." After speaking, he took Liu Mu's chicken soup and drank it.

Wen Siren seemed to eat too fast and choked, Liu Mu hurriedly handed over another bowl of chicken soup when he saw it.After Wen Siren drank the chicken soup, he hiccupped two more times, and said in a bad tone, "Thank you."

Liu Mu ignored Wen Siren and went back to the fire to take care of Zeng Qing.

As night fell, the Daxiong Palace was once again shrouded in blackness that made Liu Mu feel uneasy.Now both Liumu and Yu Wanran's quilts are on Zeng Qing's body. Yu Wanran has internal strength to protect her body, so she is naturally more resistant to freezing than Liumu, so Liumu has to sit curled up by the fire, rubbing her hands and face for a while.

"I found it, I found it!" The voice came in before the person arrived, "This is the quilt used by the abbot before his death, I almost forgot about it." Zhiyu handed the quilt to Liu Mu after finishing speaking.

Liu Mu stood there to pick it up, or not to pick it up, thinking that it was something the dead had used before, he couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable.

Zhiyu saw Liu Mu's concerns, smiled and handed his quilt to Liu Mu, "You use my quilt."

Liu Mu smiled, and took Zhiyu's quilt, "Zhiyu, you're not stupid at all!" After Liu Mu finished speaking, he gave the quilt in his hand to Yu Wanran, "I'm not cold, just squeeze Zeng Qing and I for a while, you Go to bed first."

Not long after everyone fell asleep, Yu Wanran saw Liu Mu curled up in front of the fire by the light of the fire, Yu Wanran went over and divided half of the quilt to Liu Mu, Liu Mu looked up and saw Yu Wanran, and said, "No, you should rest earlier .”

Yu Wanran covered Liumu with the quilt, and said with a smile, "Don't think that I care about you, I'm afraid that Zeng Qing's illness is still not cured, and you will be frozen again. I don't have the energy to take care of two people at the same time."

Liu Mu smiled, and leaned towards Yu Wanran, but suddenly hesitated, Yu Wanran asked, "What's the matter?"

Liu Mu said, "You asked me to make a quilt with you, so don't beat me up because of this in the future!"

Yu Wanran smiled and said, "I'm not that capricious villain."

Liu Mu curled his lips and said, "It's not that there is a saying that only women and villains are difficult to raise."

Yu Wanran smiled and said, "Then do you want to fall into the hands of my little girl, or do you want to freeze to death in this ruined temple?"

Liu Musi thought about the best and worst outcomes, and finally stuck to Yu Wanran with fear.