Mud people

Yunqi is the dharma name given to him by the old man, which comes from the sentence "Walk to the poor water, sit and watch the clouds rise".

There was a plague in the city that year, and his whole family died, leaving only this infant child.At that time, everyone was unable to protect themselves, and no one was willing to help.

The abbot of the temple softened his heart and carried him back.On the surface, the old man blamed him for meddling in his own business, but in fact he loved the child very much. He took him by his side and taught him to read and write. Although he was strict, he did it for his own good.

He is competitive, very intelligent, diligent and conscientious, he is very serious in everything he does, he never goes crazy like his brothers, but his temper is a bit dull, and he doesn't like to talk and laugh, everyone respects him, but they can't avoid him .Except for a little girl named Yushan who wandered around behind him all day long.

This Yushan is also a dharma name. She was originally the daughter of a rich family, named Mu Qingyun. Later, her mother passed away, and the eldest lady at home couldn't understand her, so she found an excuse and sent her to the temple.

Ordinarily, this man and woman are different, so they shouldn't be allowed to be so close, but Qingyin Temple doesn't have so many rules, since they are still young children, they also let them go.When you are an adult, you will be strictly controlled.

In the final analysis, most of the children in Qingyin Temple had a hard life, most of them wandered on the street, or were abandoned by their families.In this way, they are all children who share the same disease and sympathize with each other, hug each other to keep warm, and grow up in this world hugging each other.It seems that the host will take care of how much trouble has been poked. At most, the old man will give him a good beating, and the pain will heal after three or two days. It is really carefree.

Yushan was not. She had kept a secret in her heart since she was a child, and even her favorite senior brother Yunqi hadn't told it.

She has been having a dream repeatedly since she was a child. She dreamed of a big fire with huge smoke, and the three characters Qingyin Temple could be vaguely seen, and the sound of pine wood being burned by the fire was all around her ears.

She took two steps forward, and saw Senior Brother Yun Qi sitting in the ancestral hall crying, crying so painfully.Then, she woke up drenched in sweat, gasping for breath in shock.

She was always afraid of that dream, she felt that something terrible must have happened to cry so heartbroken for a stable person like Senior Brother Yun Qi.But whenever she wanted to tell her senior brother, she couldn't open her mouth. In the end, she often comforted herself and said, "Dreams are always reversed".

Yushan likes Yunqi, it's a secret that everyone tacitly knows, but Yunqi seems to be ignorant, still cold, unwilling to show a smile easily.

Not long after, when the host Huazhai came back, he was followed by a little boy, about four or five years old, holding the host's prayer beads tightly in his hand, and lowered his head slightly.

The old gentleman asked him to raise his head and asked his name. He hesitated for a moment, and then said in a childlike voice, "Shen Xilai, my mother called me Ah Chen."

The old man smiled and touched his little head. He suddenly raised his head and looked at the old man carefully for a long time. His long eyelashes were flickering. After staring at him for a long time, he suddenly laughed, very loudly. Sweet, sweet to Yun Qi's heart, his smiling eyes turned into crescent moons.

In the later days, the old gentleman often said that Shen Silai was very much like Yunqi back then, smart and down-to-earth, even gentler, and very popular among his seniors.

Shen Xilai grew up in Qingyin Temple day by day. In the blink of an eye, it has been more than ten years. The good boy back then has grown into a modest gentleman with excellent talents and looks. He never knew that the senior brother who was by his side day and night, also I waited for him for more than ten years, waited for him to grow into a teenager, waited for him to bloom, and waited for him to discover that I had hidden my thoughts for more than ten years.

Shen Xilai's calligraphy is excellent, and he also likes to practice calligraphy, often sitting in the study for a whole day.Yun Qi was at the small table next to him, looking at him, quietly painting a portrait of him, and after he finished copying the book, Yun Qi also finished painting one.The big wooden box under his bed is full of his portraits, and it has been like this every day for all these years.Little by little, he watched how this junior brother who was six years younger than him grew up, how he changed, and how he took away his soul little by little for more than ten years.

Suddenly one day, Shen Rulai told him with a smile about the boy who came to the temple to pray for blessings. As he listened, sadness filled his heart bit by bit.He knows his little junior brother better than anyone else, his smile at the moment is just like his own back then, when he quietly got up at night to look at Shen Xilai's sleeping face, there was also a smile that couldn't dissipate on his lips.

Later, he went to Huazhai with the host, and when he came back, he saw Shen Silai and Meng Xi sitting side by side in the small courtyard. Shen Silai lowered his head to apply the medicine, his expression was extremely focused, and his movements were extremely gentle.

His heart tightened, his cuffs were crumpled, and he just looked at them from the corner.Until Meng Xi left, Shen Xilai still looked at Meng Xi's back for a long time, the tenderness in his eyes could not deceive him.

When returning to the house, he ran into Yushan at the gate of the courtyard. Yushan's eyes were red, and when she saw him, she covered her mouth and ran away.

He was suspicious in his heart, but he didn't think too much about it. One Meng Xi was enough for him to have a headache.