Horse-head Wall Reflects the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 45: Sun, Moon, Green Mountains, Morning and Evening, Falling, Heaven and Earth, Flying Birds, Clouds and Mist, Living

The rain stopped, and everything in nature began to move in an orderly manner again.

When the birds' calls are very clear, it is nothing more than a bird landing under the eaves. Soon the wind blowing through the cracks brings the call from the peaks of distant mountains.

The heat that had accumulated overnight finally burst out from the valley, piled up to the top of the mountain in the early morning, and was then dispersed little by little by the rising sun, revealing the original features of the green mountains.

Guan Yin hadn't dreamed of Cheng Heng for almost half a month. In these mountains where the sun rose and the sun fell, he had plenty of time to worry about his own and the other person's situation.

"My husband, yesterday I went to the market with my wife to buy something, and my wife met a teacher who seemed to be an old friend."

San Heng certainly didn't come to tell tales to his wife. If he could tell Guan Yin, there must be some trouble that he couldn't let his wife hear.

"Could it be that this man did something to Madam?"

But not all teachers are good people. Guan Yin certainly understands this: "He should know that this is not appropriate for a girl."

Liu Jiaoan's marriage to her original body was already criticized. If she was bullied again at this time, it would be one thing whether there was anyone around her willing to help her, and another thing was how Liu's father would take advantage of the opportunity.

"That's not the case." It was the first time that San Heng saw her husband get angry. He was also stunned for a moment. It was a bit like the teacher that Mr. Liu invited into the house when the lady was a child. "It's just that the teacher seems to be testing the lady."

"So Sanheng thought that the teacher and his wife might be old friends..."

A new character appeared, and Guan Yin felt that he was getting closer and closer to being discovered.

Guan Yin just wanted to visit the neighboring couple to see if he could help take care of the huge house and land to prevent it from being abandoned, and at the same time improve the life in the small courtyard.

"Sanheng, do you believe that there are ghosts and gods in this world?" Guan Yin finally listened to Cheng Heng's words and used the so-called underworld trial to end this story that was difficult to complete. While struggling to think of the story, Guan Yin also wanted to use this opportunity to test Sanheng's opinion.

"If Sanheng says he believes it, my husband will think..."

At that time, Sanheng had heard the private school teacher say something like "A Master does not speak of strange and supernatural things" and had originally sneered at it. But then he could imagine his parents always praying to gods and Buddhas, and still barely having enough to eat and wear all their lives - if gods and ghosts really existed, why didn't they help those poor people?
But Sanheng also heard that Mr. Liu hired a group of monks to perform rituals every year. The monks banged and banged drums and chanted scriptures, and soon they would be able to bring in money for the big carts.

Weak and sickly children were sent to the mountains to learn martial arts from the Taoist priests there. Later, they became much stronger than other children of the same age.

So Sanheng began to believe in the so-called ghosts and gods again. There must be ghosts and gods, which made Mr. Liu so rich, and there must be gods, which made the sick child gradually get better.

"Why do you think there are ghosts?"

Sanheng certainly wouldn't tell Guan Yin all the details of what he was thinking, so he just looked at Guan Yin and spoke sincerely about the people he knew: "The people who work with me always go to the mountain to kowtow, and they will be much happier when they come back."

"Then what do you think, if one person comes back to life and becomes another person?" Guan Yin spat a few times inwardly, muttering to himself, "I'm not dead, I'm just giving an example."

"This..." San Heng felt that this was a little too bizarre. If there were such a thing in the world, wouldn't it be a mess? "It's that a person, due to various reasons, came into another person's body and lived as another person."

Maybe the husband was writing the story. He had eavesdropped once with his wife, who had not yet married him, and learned that even people who had become ghosts for many years could return to their bodies and be reborn. It seemed that the husband was just imagining more: "What about the other person? Is it because the other person died too?"

"Maybe he's dead." Guan Yin couldn't say for sure.

Sometimes, he would be easily moved by the actions of Liu Jiaoan and Sanheng. Guan Yin always felt that perhaps the obsession of his original self was still there.

"As long as this person doesn't do bad things and doesn't affect the original person, Sanheng thinks it's good enough for him to be alive."

"But why isn't the person behind him alive? Does the person behind him have the power to choose?" Sanheng suddenly thought, if one day, someone was inexplicably "reborn" in his body, who would take care of his parents, and would that person stay by his wife's side steadily?

"I don't know." Guan Yin really didn't know, "But this person will definitely not do anything bad. She is just going to complete what she needs to do... In fact, she doesn't want to occupy the latter's body."

"Then he... is not wrong."

"Are you telling me the story you wrote? Why must one of you be gone?"

"Hmm?" Guan Yin didn't understand Sanheng's meaning, because seven parts of his original intention were to test him, and three parts were the story itself that had already taken shape.

"Wouldn't it be good for both of us to live a good life?"

Of course, it's good, but it's impossible, right? San Heng and Guan Yin looked at each other, and Liu Jiaoan just happened to come back into the room at this time.

"Madam." Guan Yin told Liu Jiaoan the same thing, and finally added, "Madam, what do you think your cousin will think? Will she think that these two people are evil? Or will she think that the reborn person should return to her original place?"

Liu Jiaoan could clearly hear the hidden meaning in Guan Yin's words, but she didn't expose him, nor did she act like a problem baby like Sanheng. She just looked at the person in front of her with some certainty in her eyes: "As long as she didn't do this with malicious intent, it's not wrong."

At this point, Guan Yin realized that if he continued to test the waters, it would inevitably arouse the suspicion of Liu Jiaoan and San Heng.

Liu Jiaoan is very smart. If there is an "if" in this world, Liu Jiaoan's achievements would definitely not be within any high-walled courtyard...

"Madam, husband, according to the time, the fermented rice cakes should be ready. Sanheng will go get them." There was always a strange tacit understanding between the madam and the husband, which Sanheng knew he would never be able to achieve.

So when the two of them sat together, Sanheng preferred to look at them from a distance.

The round red dots on the rice wine cakes completely offset the fillings that should be inside. When the steam spreads in the room, the warmth and sweetness melt in the mouth, which is more sincere than any words and promises.

Guan Yin knew that her temptation and exploitation were not good, and it was the most impure point for this balanced and warm courtyard of three people. But Guan Yin did not regret repeating it again and again - because her home was not this small courtyard, but the sky outside the mountain.

(End of this chapter)