"Child, what do you mean? How can you have no feelings for us? We are your biological parents!"
"Yeah, in the end you're still blaming us, right? Blame us for abandoning you to the Fogan Temple, blame us for not raising you ourselves!"
Mr. Gu and Mrs. Gu sang the same tune and kept putting pressure on Chen, trying to morally blackmail Chen by using their identities as biological parents.
Liaochen didn't say anything, but slowly twisted the Buddhist beads in his hand.
Mr. Gu raised his hand to wipe away his tears, a dark color flashed across his eyes quickly, and when he raised his head, he returned to the look of a heartbroken old father.
"My child, I know you are living well here. You have a master and fellow apprentices here. I don't want to disturb you unless it is absolutely necessary."
Master Gu looked at Lechen with an embarrassed expression, his lips and teeth trembling, and he hesitated several times to speak: "Child, you have a master and fellow apprentices, but your mother and I only have you..."
"Your mother contracted a serious illness half a year ago. The doctor said she didn't have much time to live. Her greatest wish was that our family could be reunited in her final days!"
Mr. Gu opened his mouth and after hearing what he said, Mrs. Gu clenched her hands, turned her head and glared at him calmly.
Damn old thing, how dare he curse her!
But words once spoken cannot be taken away. Mr. Gu said that she was sick, so Mrs. Gu had no choice but to keep pretending.
"Ahem, my child, even if I beg you, I only hope that my last days on earth can be spent together as a family. Will you promise me that you will come home with me?"
"Son, I beg you, please come home with me. I've been looking forward to this day for twenty years!"
Seeing that Chen was unmoved, Master Gu made up his mind and used his ultimate move!
Plop!
Mr. Gu, who was slumped on the ground, suddenly got up and knelt down in front of Le Chen with a plop!
hiss--
Everyone stared with wide eyes and gasped, staring without blinking at the scene of the father kneeling in front of his son.
Mrs. Gu didn't expect that Mr. Gu would use such a trick. She gritted her teeth and knelt in front of Le Lechen.
"My dear child, I know you have been in the temple for twenty years and you are the kindest person in the world. I beg you to be kind and fulfill my last wish in this life! Will you come home with me?"
"Today is your birthday. Mom and Dad have already prepared a birthday party for you and are waiting for you to come home!"
Mr. Gu and Mrs. Gu both knelt in front of Chen, crying and begging him to go home with them.
Lechen frowned and was about to speak when a clear voice came from behind him.
"Those who know you are Master Liaochen's parents, those who don't know you might think you are enemies coming to collect a debt."
Jiang Jingyu, who had caught up with them later, heard Mr. and Mrs. Gu's "heartfelt words" as soon as she arrived at Fo'an Temple. Their tone was full of sarcasm.
Mr. Gu and Mrs. Gu were stunned and subconsciously looked to the side following the sound.
Then I saw a woman in white with a veil on her face walking towards me. Except for a pair of eyes that seemed to be able to see through everything in the world, everything else was covered by the veil.
"Who are you?"
"It doesn't matter who I am. What matters is that you, Master Chen's parents, cruelly abandoned him in his infancy at the gates of Fo'an Temple. If Master Jingkong hadn't happened to see him, Master Chen would have frozen to death on that snowy day twenty years ago, right?"
Jiang Jingyu walked straight to Chen's side and stopped, looking down at Mr. Gu and Mrs. Gu.
"You haven't seen Master Lechen in the past twenty years, and now you suddenly appear before him, crying and making a scene, using ethics and morals to pressure him into leaving the monastery and returning home with you. What do you think of Master Lechen?"
"A discarded object? Throw it away if you want, pick it up if you want? You keep saying you feel guilty and want to make amends, but have you ever asked Master Chen for his opinion? Have you ever respected his opinion?"
Mr. Gu and Mrs. Gu blushed and were angry when asked by Jiang Jingyu. They wanted to refute but their brains were stuck for a moment.
Jiang Jingyu looked at their sullen expressions and sneered, "You're just kidnapping people in the name of your family. Don't make yourself sound so noble and great."
Mrs. Gu, who was exposed, was somewhat humiliated and angry. "Stop slandering me! We explained clearly why we did what we did back then. What right do you, an outsider, have to question it?"
"Oh? Then I'd like to ask, you keep saying that you abandoned Master Lechen in his infancy in front of Fo'an Temple because your family was poor. Then why didn't you come to take Master Lechen away after your family's financial situation improved?"
"I think Master Liaochen would have been more accepting of you when he was a child than he is now, right?"
As soon as these words were spoken, the scale in everyone's heart tilted again.
Just now, when they saw Mr. Gu and Mrs. Gu crying bitterly, they thought about persuading Master Chen to forgive them, but after hearing these words, their hearts calmed down instantly.
If you feel so guilty, why didn't you come and bring Master Chen back to your side earlier?
"What nonsense are you talking about? If our family situation had improved earlier, how could we have left our own flesh and blood to wander around in a temple all by ourselves?"
"We just made a little money from our recent business, and after we made sure we could provide for our family, we immediately came to Fo'an Temple to look for our child, who we'd been separated from for twenty years. We've already come this far, what else do you want us to do?"
Jiang Jingyu glanced at Master Gu and said calmly, "The material of the clothes Master is wearing is the finest Shu brocade, and the jade pendant around his waist is obviously extraordinary. I'm afraid it must have cost over a thousand taels of silver, right?"
Upon hearing this, Mr. Gu subconsciously wanted to cover the jade pendant around his waist, but Jiang Jingyu had already taken her eyes off him.
"And the red hairpin and jade pendant Madam is wearing, it definitely cost several hundred taels of silver, not to mention the clothes she's wearing, which are woven from expensive brocade. So, what the master meant by "food and clothing" is actually such gorgeous clothes and robes. It's truly eye-opening."
Mr. Gu and Mrs. Gu's faces turned pale and purple. They came in such a hurry yesterday that they actually forgot about this matter!
Mr. Gu's eyes rolled back and forth, looking for a way to deal with the situation. Just as he was about to speak, Jiang Jingyu spoke faster than him.
"Master and Madam just kept saying that they've come to the temple to see Master Chen every once in a while over the years. I remember there's a booklet at Fo'an Temple that clearly records the days and times of every pilgrim's visit."
"Why don't you ask the monks at Fo'an Temple to take out this booklet that records the pilgrims' information and see how many times your names appear in it. If it's really as you say, maybe Master Lechen will be so moved that he will agree to return home with you."
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