Eight.

The monk was met by Lao Li's family outside the small temple in the town.

At that time, Lao Li was desperate and didn't know what to do, so he could only take the whole family to the temple to burn incense.

As soon as he arrived at the gate of the temple and smelled the smell of incense and candles wafting from the temple, Nan Nanwa cried, crying and fighting in Xiao Li's arms, and the people passing by looked sideways, probably thinking that they were abducting and selling children.

When they were crying until they were out of breath, someone whispered Amitabha Buddha behind them.

It's also strange to say, as soon as she heard these words, Nan Nan immediately stopped crying, but looked at the person who chanted the Buddha's name with a twitch of her nose, and then turned her head very aggrieved and said to Ah Xiu: "My feet hurt." ”

At first, Lao Li and the others didn't notice the monk, because as soon as Nan Nan said that it hurt, all their attention was drawn by this sentence. immediately took off her shoes, but after a careful look, she didn't see anything wrong with her two feet, and this action made Nan Nan cry again, kicking and screaming while crying, saying over and over again, her feet hurt, her feet hurt.

So what does it hurt, and why does it hurt?

How can such a young child be able to tell. Seeing in the eyes and listening in the ears, Lao Li's family is anxious in their hearts. At this moment, the person who recited the Buddha's name said softly: "Look at it above the ankle, why don't you look at it?"

As soon as he heard this, Lao Li immediately rolled up Nan Nan's trouser legs.

This volume can make three people break out in a cold sweat. I saw that Nan Nan's delicate and tender calves were very clearly printed with two cyan handprints. The handprint disappeared immediately when she saw the sun, and Nan Nan stopped crying because of this, and began to play with Xiao Li's collar as if nothing had happened.

At this time, Lao Li's family noticed the young monk who was always standing behind them, tall and thin, with an elegant face.

Lao Li said that at first glance, this monk looks like a college student who has not yet graduated. Carrying a backpack in his hand, his hair was not particularly shaved, and his brush head was green, if he wasn't wearing a monk's robe, who would have seen that he was a monk.

The monk seems to have been observing Lao Li's family for a long time, so as soon as he saw them looking at him, he immediately explained his intention, and he said, Amitabha, old man, your family is afraid that you have been provoking something that should not be provoked recently.

It may be that he was really tossed enough, seeing that although the monk was young, he pointed out the current situation of their family with a sharp point, Lao Li did not hesitate, almost like pouring bitter water, he told the monk the cause and effect of the cause and effect as it was, and when it came to grief and indignation, tears fell down, and finally sighed and said to the monk: " Little master, our family is now completely forced to the point where there is no way out, you said that there is still a fair way to fight between people, you really feel that you can sue the court, let the police investigate again, and wait for the court to decide. But what kind of argument is there with ghosts, do you want to go to the Lord of Yama to theorize? Hey, if this is just pestering a few of us adults, even such a small child will not be spared, and he will not be afraid of retribution!"

After listening to this, the monk pondered for a while, and then said to Lao Li, "This kind of thing will happen, I can't judge anything just by listening to your words, after all, people die as ghosts, but it is not easy for ghosts to get out of Huangquan Dao. If everyone is so easy to turn into a ghost after death, then what is the use of setting up so many positions in the underworld? However, the whole thing is really strange, now I can't leave the temple for the time being, I might as well give you a way to avoid evil spirits, if it works, I will visit the door again in three months, there are ghosts to eliminate ghosts, there are demons to subdue demons, do you think it's okay?"

After the monk's words were finished, Lao Li was skeptical when he listened, after all, this monk is so young, and he speaks a little nonsense, what black and white impermanence, bull head and horse face, it sounds mysterious, but anyone in Haikou can boast, seeing is believing, isn't it?

But on second thought, what else can you do but choose to believe. Dead horses are used as live horse doctors, and just now he could see at a glance where his granddaughter was in pain. Then believe it, but I couldn't help but ask, "What if it doesn't work?"

"If it doesn't work, you see, the temple is here, as the saying goes, if you can run, the monk can't run the temple, are you afraid that there is nowhere to find someone. ”

At this point, Lao Li had nothing to say, but just as he was about to ask the young monk what method he had to ward off evil spirits, the monk followed up and said: "But before I tell you about this method, there is something I want to discuss with the old gentleman." ”

Lao Li chuckled in his heart when he heard this, thinking, oh no, I won't talk for a long time, I'm here to cheat money.

Fortunately, following what the monk said, Lao Li's hanging heart was put down again. He said: "It is also for the convenience of the practice, so I must make a reluctant request to you, I have a piece of paper and a cinnabar pen here, and you can use this paper to write down the birth date of your granddaughter, and then burn it on fire, and burn the remaining ashes for me, just do it." ”

Lao Li thought, this is very simple, and if he is only asked to write Nan Nan's birthday to this monk, Lao Li will hesitate and refuse, after all, this thing can not be given to people casually. But since it's written and burned by yourself, there's nothing to worry about. So without any hesitation, he immediately followed the monk's explanation, wrote Nan Nan's birthday on paper with a cinnabar pen, burned it into ashes, and carefully put away the ashes by the monk.

After that, the monk took out a Buddha statue from his backpack, poured the ashes of the birthday eight characters into the hole of the Buddha statue's pedestal, and then handed it to Lao Li, and instructed that after taking the Buddha statue home, choose a place with the brightest light in the home, sit east to west, place it in a place that does not touch the ground, and light an incense stick to worship in the early morning every day.

The method is surprisingly simple, so Lao Li will naturally be skeptical about its effect.

After taking it home, it was placed in the workshop according to the monk's instructions, and it didn't take it too seriously, but it seemed to have played a role in the first few days, although Nan Nan would still cry from time to time, but the interval was much longer, and the process was much shorter, and she was not even heard crying for most of the day.

But just after Lao Li's family had great hope for the power of this Buddha statue, suddenly one night, Nan Nan suddenly woke up when Lao Li had just finished offering incense, and pointed to the direction of the gate and screamed.

After that, he started crying again.

No matter how much you coax it, it can't be coaxed, and it's even more noisy than before, it seems that the validity period of the Buddha statue is only a few days, and after that, it will never play any role again.

After tossing like this for a few days, Ah Xiu couldn't bear it anymore, so he insisted on asking Lao Li to go to the temple to find the monk and ask him what to do, why Nan Nan had only been well for so many days, and suddenly his symptoms worsened. But when I arrived at the temple, I found that there was no such monk in the temple at all, because the monks had to go through the formalities when they entered the temple, and there were records and photos.

"So, you've been deceived?" I couldn't help but interject when I heard this.

Lao Li was stunned. nodded, and shook his head again: "It's not easy to say, you say...... If he lied to me, then he had to deceive me into something, right? But he didn't deceive me of anything, even the Buddha statue was given away for nothing. It's still wood-carved, and it's not like a good piece of wood, but it's worth a lot of money when sold outside, don't you say?"

"Can you show me, then, the Buddha statue?"

"Absolutely. As soon as he heard the young man ask, Lao Li immediately nodded and made a gesture of invitation in the direction of the workshop: "Originally, when I saw what you said just now, it seems that I also know a lot about these things, so I have this plan." Brother, come over and take a look. ”