Chapter 827: The Wedding Ceremony
He said faintly, "I guess it's to help the kids with their homework."
Tutoring Lu Chaochao with homework is the most difficult task here. The biggest challenge in his life.
Everyone burst into laughter and laughed out loud.
I just felt that the Buddhist was joking, and this time, the Buddhist seemed to have become more down-to-earth.
Everyone was talking about the difficulties of tutoring homework.
Everyone was joking happily, but Xie Yuzhou alone had a hint of bitterness in his eyes. He quickly clenched his Buddhist beads and closed his eyes.
Xu Shiyun was stunned for a moment, a bitter smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.
I couldn't help but gently raise my hand and rub my eyebrows.
I don't know why her eyes hurt...
How can it not hurt?
How could it not hurt when I cried myself to sleep day and night?
After the discussion, Princess Jingxi begged in a low voice: "Yunniang, can you...can you accompany me to see him?"
The child she missed day and night was right in front of her. She looked forward to seeing him day by day, but when she actually saw him...
But there is a feeling that I dare not get close.
After Yunniang agreed, the group was invited by the novice monk to the meditation room where Master Qingwei was temporarily staying.
Everyone stayed outside the house to drink tea, while Princess Jingxi and Xu Shiyun came into the meditation room.
There was a chessboard in the Zen room, with cold tea on both sides, as if Master Qingwei had been drinking tea and playing chess with someone before.
"Has anyone been here just now?"
The little monk whispered, "Master Lu has been here before. Master and Master Lu have been exchanging letters for many years and are very good friends."
The two were a little surprised, as they thought they had lost contact after Yuzhou became a monk.
You know, Princess Jingxi had sent countless letters, but never received a reply.
The princess' eyes felt a little hot, and she lowered her head to wipe the corners of her eyes.
After a while, the maids' respectful voices rang out from outside the door: "Greetings, Master."
The young man in monk's robes paused for a moment. The compassion between his brows added a bit of holiness to him, making people unable to help but surrender at his feet.
"I am a poor monk, Qingwei." After saying this, he turned and went into the Zen room.
The chubby and rebellious little boy back then is now without desires and is no longer the same as before.
The princess looked at her son infatuatedly, tears falling like beads from a broken string, unable to stop.
"Donor." The word "donor" made the princess break down emotionally.
"Zhou'er, my dear Zhou'er." Princess Jingxi couldn't help but break down and cried as she went forward to hug him.
Trembling, he traced his cheeks bit by bit. His once chubby face was now angular and even a little cold and hard. But wearing monk's robes and with a face full of compassion, he had lost that indifference and instead looked more resolute.
In that face, one can still vaguely see the shadow of his childhood.
For six years, Princess Jingxi spent six years constantly telling herself that her child had entered the monastery and converted to Buddhism for a purpose.
But the moment I actually saw my son, everything fell apart.
That was the child she had carried for ten months and raised for more than ten years.
"How can you be so cruel that you won't even call me mother?"
"How could you be so cruel that you didn't even reply to the letter your mother sent you."
"Do you want to dig out my heart?" Princess Jingxi was trembling so much that she could hardly stand. Even so, he just clasped his hands together and did not hug her back.
"Without Chao Chao, do you even ignore your parents?"
"You clearly said you wanted to marry eight wives back then, why don't you want to marry them now?" Princess Jingxi cried and complained...
Yunniang stepped forward to support her, tears in her eyes.
When she heard the word "Chao Chao", she bit her lips tightly and her body trembled.
"Yesterday's events are like yesterday's death, and today's events are like today's birth. Please, benefactor, call me Qingwei." He frowned and said in a low voice.
"Since I have left home, all external matters have nothing to do with Qingwei."
Princess Jingxi cried until she was about to faint, and Yunniang had no choice but to help her leave.
When she left, she looked back, and there seemed to be tears in the corners of her eyes.
When I looked again, he had closed his eyes and was chanting Buddhist mantras with his head down.
After everyone left, the temple became quiet.
Qingwei knelt on the ground and kowtowed in the direction of Princess Jingxi: "Father and mother, I am an unfilial son. I cannot be with you and be filial to you. I am guilty."
"But Yuzhou...what he did was against the will of heaven."
"Yuzhou dare not implicate my parents, I hope they will forgive me."
Lu Yanshu appeared at some point and seemed to sigh: "Yuzhou, thank you for planning for her."
Master Qingwei shook his head, stood up again, and had returned to his usual Buddhist appearance.
"But after this matter is over, perhaps... you won't even have the status of a Buddha's son."
He chanted the Buddha's name with a frown on his face: "Everything is external to the body." Not as good as her, not even a little bit.
Even if it's just a legend, we should try our best.
I once didn’t understand Lu Chaochao’s seven disciples, but now, they are taking the same path.
Xu Shiyun sent the princess back home, and was in a low mood when she came back.
"What's wrong, ma'am?"
"I did not follow Madam into the meditation room, but I must have seen the princess meet the prince and was saddened by the scene." The little maid replied.
Rong Che looked at her worriedly. In the past six years, Yunniang had never asked Chaochao when he would return home.
He had some guesses in his mind, but didn't ask.
Yunniang didn't want to make everyone worry, so he pretended not to know.
"Tomorrow is Chaochao's fifteenth birthday. I'm afraid you'll be upset." Dengzhi lowered her head and made clothes. Although Chaochao is no longer with us, the mansion still makes clothes for her every year.
For three meals a day, there were bowls and chopsticks at her seat.
Rong Che didn't dare to ask more questions, and just asked people to prepare a sumptuous banquet for tomorrow's feast.
"Before the banquet tomorrow, let's go to the ancestral hall and pay our respects."
The next day, before dawn, Xu Shiyun got up and started working.
"Today is Chaochao's coming-of-age party. Although Chaochao is not at home, as her mother, I have to take care of the preparations for her." She placed the clothes, shoes and socks that she had prepared early in Chaochao's room.
I went to the stove to check the dishes again. Today, they were all Chaochao’s favorites.
Several brothers also returned home early and gathered at home.
Lu Yuanxiao coughed lightly and said, "Today is a rare good day. How about going to the ancestral hall to pay respect? Just to comfort our ancestors?"
Xu Shiyun smiled and agreed: "Okay."
Rong Che clenched his fists to hide the bitterness in his heart.
In the center of the ancestral hall, there was an unlettered tablet. Xu Shiyun never asked about it after seeing it.
"Let's move the banquet over. We will have the meal in the ancestral hall today. Let our ancestors have some fun too..." Xu Shiyun even asked someone to move the table to the ancestral hall.
Xu Shiyun and Rong Che personally stepped forward to light the incense and candles, and placed them right in front of the incense burner on the blank memorial tablet.
"Today is Chao Chao's fifteenth birthday. Please come and congratulate us, elders, and the whole family."
"May the ancestor be well."
The incense and candles were burning with a crackling sound. Everyone in the Lu family offered incense one by one, and everyone looked at the blank memorial tablet in silence.
It has been more than six years, but the pain in my heart has not eased.
The longing increases day by day, and the pain becomes more severe day by day.
A breeze blew, and the incense and candles flickered, and everyone came to their senses.
"Let's eat."
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