Chapter 14: Seeing Flowers Through Water
In the past few days, Zhang Muyun and Yuechan stayed in the secluded temple in the mountains, worked from the sunrise, and rested from the sun, and copied the "Sutra of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva" every day. Before they knew it, seven or eight days passed. On the ninth day, seven or eighty sutras in the Liandeng Pavilion had been copied, and they were neatly placed in the sandalwood sutra cabinet beside the wall. At this time, there were still six or seven days before the agreed deadline for Zhu Mian. At the speed of these days, there was no need to worry about completing the hundreds of sutras. Therefore, Elder Zhikong, the first seat of Liandeng Pavilion, discussed with the abbot, and decided not to copy them all day, but to copy them every morning. In the afternoon, the monks went to the Sumeru Altar to meditate and recite the Buddha's name to make up for the routine practices of these days.
The monks did not copy the books in the afternoon, and Zhang Muyun and Yuechan also rested together. This is not because they were not diligent, but according to Zhiguang, the great sages of Zhu would probably go up the mountain to check the progress of copying books in the past few days. If they came in the afternoon, they would not look good in the huge book pavilion. Therefore, from this day on, Zhang Muyun and Yuechan were also idle in the afternoon.
When he had his spare time, Zhang Muyun had already itchy hands and began to get ready to move. He wanted to go to the cave outside the temple to take out the bow and arrow and kill everywhere. However, although he was itchy and had to wait until several days before he could go down the mountain, so he was a little hesitant. In the first two afternoons, he only took Yuechan to wander around the huge Baolin Temple, and didn't know what to do for a while.
After a day or two, I finally came to me if I had something to do.
On the eleventh day of coming to Baolin Temple, that afternoon, Zhang Muyun and Yuechan stopped under the shade of flowers in a Zen temple. Yuechan looked at the pink rose flowers among the green leaves with interest, while Zhang Muyun squatted under the bluestone beside him, watching a group of ants transporting the corpse of a green worm. The afternoon was long and bored; the ant road was long and there was an end. Seeing the big green worm with a scattered soul quietly moved into the ant hole, Zhang Muyun felt very sad.
"well……"
"I have to find something else to pass the time. It's so hard..."
Just as I was thinking about it, I suddenly heard the flower-watching girl next to me call him:
"Brother Mu Yun..."
"Um?!"
Zhang Muyun heard Yuechan's words in a strange tone, and then became excited, stood up and asked happily:
"What's wrong with girls?"
“That’s it…”
I don’t know what happened, but the girl who was already very familiar with her was extremely embarrassed in front of Zhang Muyun. After saying something, she lost the following sentence. She wanted to speak but stopped, which made the boy who was looking for trouble very anxious. After waiting for a long time with expectations, she saw Yuechan’s eyes flashing and her expression dodging, and Zhang Muyun began to feel suspicious.
"Could it be... Yuechan has something to do with her girl's family, and she is inconvenient to tell me about it for a moment? Could it be..."
"Is it because the girl's family's menstruation is coming?"
I thought that Zhang Muyun had been in the market for so long and didn't understand anything. Although she was simple, she was not a fool. Seeing Yue Chan as shy as she was so rare, she became suspicious.
Thinking of this, Zhang Muyun was not full of thoughts. On the contrary, because of the ignorant and reserved instinct of a young man at this age, he was a little unhappy. Zhang Muyun thought to himself that girls are really not suitable to mention them to men; let alone that she is not unable to take care of them, she has been here for more than a month. Although everyone is bored now, there is no need to use this as a topic of discussion. Yuechan is inappropriate this time.
"Brother Mu Yun..."
Just as Zhang Muyun was thinking so randomly in his heart, he heard Yue Chan say softly:
"It's like this... Somehow, every night I bathed in a temple soup bucket and felt a little burning pain in my skin, and my body was red until today..."
"Uh...it turns out that's just this!"
Seeing that he was wrong, Zhang Muyun couldn't help but feel a little discouraged. However, he didn't pay attention. Yuechan was ashamed when she heard what he blurted out and said apologetically:
"Brother is so surprised. This is really just a trivial matter, I just blame myself for not being able to do my best."
"Uh, no, no."
It was only then that Zhang Muyun woke up. Seeing Yuechan misunderstood, he waved his hand and said:
"Yuechan, I'm not blaming you. I just remembered another thing just now. Let's see what's going on."
As he said that, he asked Yuechan to roll up her sleeves, and she saw that her forearm, which was originally as tender as white lotus and as greasy as fat, now had large pieces of red clouds.
"Understood."
Zhang Muyun fell like a gentleman sitting in a pharmacy. The old god looked at the girl's arm on the ground, signaling her to put down her sleeves, thought for a while and said:
"It should be because the water quality of the well in this temple is too hard, your skin is delicate, so it burns."
Speaking of this, he suddenly realized, stared at Yuechan, and praised him:
"I didn't expect Yuechan, your skin is so delicate. It really suits what the play says. It's so irritating. You have to take a bath in orchid paste and fragrant soup!"
"...Brother made fun of Yuechan."
After hearing Zhang Muyun's very praiseworthy words, the girl was a little embarrassed. After living this hard and hard life together, the girl who forgot the past really didn't think that her delicate physique was a glorious thing.
Let’s talk about Zhang Muyun. After looking at Yuechan, he was also a little anxious when he saw her look gloomy. He turned around twice, looked at the girl’s wrist, and suddenly had an idea and had an idea.
"Yuechan, let's do this. Don't take a bath in the room tonight. I'll take you to a place in the mountain outside the temple. Maybe the water there is light and soft, which is very suitable for you!"
Chapter completed!