readsfreenovel Chapter 408 An Extraordinary Monk
Chapter 408 An Extraordinary Monk
After asking the basic questions, Sister Ping felt there was nothing more to ask, so she gave up on chatting with the monk.
Yu Ru, still puzzled, continued the conversation. "Master, do you have a twin brother?"
Hearing her voice, Yuan Juren turned around and glanced at her, then quickly lowered his eyes. "Benefactor, what makes you say that?"
“I attended a Buccellati private collection exhibition in March or April, and there I saw someone who looked exactly like you, and even his voice sounded the same as yours. Did you go to that exhibition?” Yu Ru said, while carefully observing Yuan Juren’s face.
“Bridges are bridges, roads are roads. You must have mistaken me for someone else. This humble monk has been traveling and has never participated in the exhibition.”
"I'm so sorry, I was being presumptuous." Yu Ru kept her eyes fixed on Yuan Juren. In that instant, a very outrageous guess popped into her head. She felt that the monk in front of her looked somewhat like Yun Jianyue, both resembling foxes. Could this monk be Yun Jianyue's long-lost son?
The monk before her looked quite young, roughly the same age as Yun Jixing, old enough to be Yun Jianyue's son. Once an idea takes root, it grows rapidly. Yu Ru's conjecture had already extended to…
Many years ago, Yun Jianyue had a childhood sweetheart. The sweetheart's mother's family was an enemy of the Yun family, so the sweetheart's mother despised the Yun family, and the young sweetheart was raised to resent them as well. Yun Jianyue, loving the house and hating the crows, shared the sweetheart's hatred. Later, the two grew up and had the monk before them. However, before the child reached adulthood, the sweetheart had an accident and lost the child. Before her death, she entrusted Yun Jianyue with the task of destroying the Yun family.
Coincidentally, Yun Quan's mother was introduced by the Yun family, and Yun Jianyue reluctantly married her. He kept Qingmei's instructions in mind, and also thought that the Yun family's arrangement of this blind date had ruined his pure relationship with Qingmei, so hatred grew in his heart. According to the insidious Rat Man's nature, no matter who is good to him, he will always shift the blame for his ultimate failure onto the person who cares about him the most.
However, this conjecture is a bit too far-fetched; it's full of loopholes from beginning to end. She's probably just been idle lately, reading novels and watching short dramas like Ming Shi Sui, watching too much mindless plot. The plot she came up with doesn't fit Yun Jian Yue's character setting at all. Yun Jian Yue is a male protagonist in a male-oriented novel, not a female-oriented one; he couldn't possibly be busy with love his whole life.
Only she, this poor thing, is still pitifully hoping for love even after growing up to be this old.
The car fell silent.
A moment later, an untimely cell phone ring broke the silence. It was Yuan Juren's phone ringing; he didn't answer and hung up immediately.
Pingjie was secretly amazed when she saw him take out his phone; she hadn't expected a monk to know how to use a phone. Yuru, however, discovered that the monk's phone was a custom-made model, costing at least two hundred thousand yuan. This wasn't a phone that money could buy; one needed power and connections. It seemed this monk was no ordinary person.
After dropping Yuan Juren off at the designated location, Yu Ru and the others returned to their hotel.
After they left, Yuan Juren took out his phone and dialed back the number he had just hung up.
As soon as the call connected, an anxious voice came through the phone, "Young Master, where have you been? I've searched all around the area and can't find you anywhere!"
"I'll send you my location, come pick me up." After saying this, Yuan Juren hung up the phone.
On the other end,
After the monk left, Sister Ping couldn't help but bring him up again.
"Madam, that master is just like the one in the TV series, an unfathomable NPC."
“It’s quite mysterious,” Yu Ru agreed. “Did you see his phone? It’s a custom model, starting at 200,000.”
"What? Two hundred thousand?" Sister Ping exclaimed in surprise. "Are monks this rich? It seems that we can't donate money when we go to temples to burn incense and worship Buddha anymore. All the money we donate will go to the monks, and we won't even get a hair on Buddha's head."
Long Legs burst out laughing. "Sister Ping, how much do you donate each time you go to burn incense and pray to Buddha?"
"One hundred."
"Then you're really a sucker. I'll just donate one dollar," Long Legs laughed.
“The money that monk used to buy the phone probably wasn’t from incense money. You can’t just buy a phone with money. Without an introduction, you can’t even get close to buying a phone. He must be some young master from a wealthy family who’s out experiencing life. Do you think he looks like an ordinary person?” Yu Ru said.
"Not at all. He doesn't seem like someone who travels the world. Who travels the world with such fair and delicate skin? He's just a pampered brat. I don't know what he's up to wandering around in the middle of the night," Pingjie replied.
……
Yu Ru had originally intended to give the people who vandalized her glutinous rice restaurant a good beating. But now that she had encountered the monk, she focused all her attention on finding out his true identity. So, she returned to Shuicheng the next day.
As for the troublemakers, she punished them using her old methods. She emptied all the money from their cards, used their identities to take out loans of over a million yuan, and then posted the video of them smashing the TV and tearing down banners that night online.
Unsurprisingly, this surveillance video went viral again. The fast food restaurant owner, suffering from online harassment and public condemnation, couldn't withstand the pressure and closed the restaurant. Within days, the local police station called Yu Ru, threatening her to delete the video. Of course, she refused. Instead, she reported the person who threatened her, contacted his superior to handle the matter, stole all the money from the officer's account, and even used his identity to take out loans.
That was the end of it.
Yu Ru also came to the mountain city.
The mountain city is a frozen history book, with its ubiquitous ancient buildings forming its sentences. Written with wood and stone, this monumental work is rich and powerful. Even after a thousand years, the bricks, tiles, beams, and pillars still retain the warmth of ancient life and the poetic sentiments of scholars. The deep-rooted integrity of the Shanxi merchants, the shouts of travelers heading west, and the resilience of the people rammed into the earthen walls have long since faded with time. It is the ancient architecture rising from the earth that has preserved these elements, giving the city's profound history a tangible outline.
On the first day of the trip, I slept.
Yu Ru will need to recuperate for a long time. She is always in pain, and now that she has so much money, she no longer works as hard as before, and sleeps until noon every day.
Therefore, they set off in the afternoon and arrived in the evening. They spent the whole night packing and were so exhausted that they could only sleep the next day.
Yun Jixing was looking at food guides on her phone, while Yu Ru was fast asleep in bed.
The food in this mountain city is mostly strong in flavor, but Yu Ru is recovering from her injury and needs to eat light food. Especially her voice, which was badly injured from being choked, requires her to abstain from certain foods for at least six months to ensure a full recovery. And yet, several months have already passed. Finding a few light dishes among all the strong flavors is really not easy.
After looking at her for a while, Yun Jixing felt a little agitated, so he sat down on the edge of the bed to look at Yu Ru. He reached out and gently touched Yu Ru's forehead, murmuring, "Besides giving you money, there's nothing I can do. Marrying me is really a disservice to you."