Chapter 5: New Year (10)

Di Renjie was stunned and immediately replied, "Okay, of course it's OK. Chen Huai, just run and send Miss Zhou back to the house." Chen Huai was surprised when he heard Zhou Jingyuan's request. Seeing that Di Renjie ordered, he was not easy to refuse, so he had to say goodbye to obey the order. The two said goodbye to Di Renjie and Zeng Tai, went to the stable to pick up their respective horses, and went back to the Zhou mansion.

Halfway through the journey, Zhou Jingyuan burst into laughter and said softly: "Hey, General Chen, are you mute? Why don't you say a word?" Chen Huai said dullly: "What does Miss Zhou want to say?" Zhou Jingyuan blinked: "Carring casually, can General Chen not chat?" Chen Huai said: "Mr. Di only asked General Mo to escort the lady back home, but did not let General Mo chat with the lady." "You!"

After thinking about it, Zhou Jingyuan said again: "Well, then I'll ask you, it's okay. Don't tell me, Lord Di didn't ask you to answer my question." "Miss Zhou, please." Zhou Jingyuan was secretly funny, but pretended to be serious and began to ask: "Who is General Chen?" "I am from Bianzhou." "Oh? Bianzhou, a native of the Central Plains. How did General Chen come to Luoyang to be a military officer?" "Chen Huai has been serving as the commander of Guoyi in Bingzhou before, Lord Di Nian When he retired in Bingzhou, he met Chen Huai, and later he was appointed as the chief guard of the imperial court." "So that's it, then... has General Chen's family brought him to Luoyang?" "Family?" Chen Huai glanced at Zhou Jingyuan, and she was also looking at him. When the two of them looked at him, they quickly turned around. A small ripples appeared in their hearts. After a pause, Chen Huai replied: "Chen Huai's parents died since childhood. It was my uncle who raised me. Now there are only two uncles and cousins ​​in the family."

When Zhou Jingyuan heard this, she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. She raised her eyes and saw that the Zhou Mansion was right in front of her. She turned her head and smiled at Chen Huai: "My house is here. General Chen will send it here, please come back." "Okay, Chen Huai said goodbye." Chen Huai hugged her fists and turned her head to leave, but she heard Zhou Jingyuan whispering behind her: "General Chen, thank you for accompanying me home... and chatting with me!" When Chen Huai looked back, Zhou Jingyuan's figure had disappeared in the black painted gate of Zhou's mansion.

Chen Huai was in a heavy mood while riding his horse back to Di Mansion on the bustling streets. The father and daughter far away from Jincheng Pass, the two closest people in his life so far, were both deeply missed and often deliberately avoided. Zhou Jingyuan's words forced him to face his concerns: I wonder if they were doing well this New Year?

After Chen Huai and Zhou Jingyuan left, Di Renjie took Zeng Tai out of the corner gate of the backyard of Tianjue Temple and came to the next courtyard connected to Tianjue Temple. The courtyard is not large in size and is extremely quiet. The plants and trees in the courtyard are withered, the houses are old, and the weather is very bleak. Zeng Tai looked around and asked curiously: "Master, these houses seem to be Zen rooms, but they are not in Tianjue Temple. What is it?" Di Renjie said: "Zeng Tai, do you know that Tianjue Temple is the Great Zhou Dynasty court. A specific temple for the Sutras and Translation of the Sutras?" "Students have heard of it." Di Renjie also said: "There are more than ten temples for the Sutras and Translation of the Sutras in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and Tianjue Temple is just one of them. This place is the place where Tianjue Temple's Sutras and Translation of the Sutras is called the Sutras and Translation of the Sutras. There are monks and some lay children among the Sutras, so it is not located in the courtyard of Tianjue Temple. Although the Sutras and Translation of the Sutras are affiliated to Tianjue Temple, it is actually managed by the Honglu Temple." "So that's the case, the students have received the teachings."

As they were speaking, the two came to the largest Zen room in the center of the yard. A monk with white hair and beard stood in front of the Zen room. His eyes were slightly closed, and his hands were folded together to salute to the two, "Two donors, the old monk is polite." Di Renjie was stunned and stared at the old monk for a long time. He rushed to hold his hands tightly, and said in tears: "Liao Chen, it's me. I haven't seen you for a few years, why are you so old?!"

Then Li Chen also held Di Renjie's hand tightly, choked for a while, and then sighed, "It's Brother Huaiying. Long time no see, long time no see. Li Chen knows that you are working hard on national affairs and working hard, it's really hard. How can you have free time today?" Di Renjie shook his head repeatedly, looked at Chen's lost eyes, and suddenly shouted, "Liao Chen, your eyes?" Li Chen smiled slutty: "It's completely invisible. Alas, it's better to not see, but the heart is even cleaner if you don't see."

Di Renjie stood there in a daze. Still, Le Chen greeted: "Brother Huaiying, don't rush to leave today. If you don't rush to leave, please sit in the house. Let's have a good chat. It's rare. And that donor..." Di Renjie remembered and quickly introduced Chen and Zeng Tai to each other. Zeng Tai realized that this Master Chen was the master of the School of Translation and the Master Di Renjie's long-term friend. In recent years, Di Renjie has been busy with state affairs and has not come to walk around for a long time. However, Chen's eye disease has deteriorated for many years and is almost blind.

In the simple and simple Zen room of Chen Chen, the three of them sat for a long time. Di Renjie was in a very heavy mood. After a while, he sighed and said, "Master Chen, I often remember the past recently, especially the scene when we first met." Chen Chen said, "The same is true for me. Since my blindness, what often appears in front of me, except for the endless darkness, are all things from more than 30 years ago. Everything is vivid in my mind, just like yesterday. Brother Huaiying, do you still remember Cao Pi's poem "Yu Zhishu" that thanks to the Jian'an philosophers?"

Di Renjie smiled bitterly and said in a low voice: "When you travel, you will be together when you walk, and when you stop, you will be together. How can you lose each other in a moment?" His voice trembled and could not continue to recite. Le Chen continued to recite: "How can I fall and fall in a few years, and I am sad to say... I remember my past travel, but these sects are still in my mind, and these sects have turned into dung soil, how can they be said again!" After reciting the last few words, his voice was sad and almost crying.

Zeng Tai was frightened to find that tears flashed in Di Renjie's eyes, and he murmured: "Lu Chen, something I didn't want to think about for so many years, but I have been wandering in my mind recently. In many dreams, I have seen them again, Ru Cheng, Jing Zhi, and...she." Le Chen lowered his head and slowly uttered two words: "Yu Rong." Hearing this name, Di Renjie was shocked, and the expression on his face suddenly intertwined with love and hatred, and finally showed infinite sadness. He repeated over and over again and again: "Yu Rong, Yu Rong..."

The past, like this, gently lifted up the veil full of dust, walked towards them, and finally dragged them into their arms, and fell into the endless cycle of fate together.
Chapter completed!