Walking out of the peach blossom forest, you will come to a highway, you can see people and cars, no different from the outside world, and there are bus stop signs next to the highway. Ding Qi and Xian Hao did not take the bus, but walked along the highway in the direction of Wucheng City, and smelled a smell of wine after walking a short distance. There is a winery across the road, with a beautifully built gate with a flagpole on the upper floor, and the national flag fluttering in the wind.

This scene, it looks like an outside world. If there really is such an outer world, it can't be almost the same as the outside world, right? It's more like a legendary parallel world, but is there really such a parallel world in reality? Even if there is, can it be so easy to traverse?

Ding Qi's feeling is no longer clear whether it is fantasy or science fiction, anyway, it has already come, let's take a look at the situation first.

Walking through the winery, I saw many construction sites, and there were many completed real estate. In recent years, the city has been extending to the periphery, and the area of the old city is limited, and many real estate projects are distributed in the new urban areas on the periphery, such as Yuling District and Jiangbei District in Jinghu City. The city of Wucheng is much smaller than Jinghu City, and the city center can be reached by walking distance from the foot of Zhaoting Mountain on the outskirts of the city.

The first place they passed through when they entered the downtown area of Wucheng City was the Old North Gate, and there was a street that ran through the old city from north to south. The road north of the city has obviously not been widened for many years, the trees on both sides of the road are very tall, about a kilometer ahead, there is a sign on the sidewalk on the right side of the road, pointing to an alley between the houses, the sign reads, "Jiulin Zen Temple from here 300 meters forward".

Ding Qi asked, "Will you go in and have a look?"

Xian Hao: "Since you are here, of course you should go to the shrine." ”

The two turned into the alley beside the road, where the ground was a mixture of concrete and stone slabs, undulating and undulating, surrounded by jagged old houses, some of which were apparently uninhabited. It is more troublesome to move the old town in a small place, and many merchants would rather start a real estate project in the new city, which is not far away anyway, so the contrast between the styles of different locations in the city is very strong.

After walking a few hundred meters in the alley, an open field suddenly appeared in front of them, and it felt like a willow and a bright flower, and they came to the gate of Jiulin Zen Temple. There is no admission fee for Jiulin Zen Temple, and the Zen room on the side of the open space is a place for fasting, where pilgrims can have breakfast and lunch, all of which are free cauldron vegetarian dishes and white rice. The rice and oil used in the temple are basically donated by pilgrims.

There are stalls selling incense and candles in the open space in front of the temple. There is one person who looks the most eye-catching, holding a nine-ring tin staff, wearing a bright yellow monk's robe, wearing a red and gold thread robe, and wearing a hat like Tang Seng in the TV series on his head. He stood there with a sign standing next to him: "Welcome to take a group photo, each time the fee is ten yuan."

Jiulin Zen Monastery does not sell tickets when the middle door is opened, and two meals of vegetarian food every day are also provided free of charge to pilgrims, and pilgrims can put money in the merit box by themselves, how much at will. But relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to eat the water, with such a temple here, the residents who have nothing to do nearby can also find some small business to do. At first glance, this "monk" is not a monk in the temple, but a nearby resident dressed up.

Seeing Ding Qi and Xian Hao coming, the "monk" greeted: "Handsome guys and beauties, come and take a group photo, the background is the gate of Jiulin Zen Temple, leave a souvenir!"

The vendor selling incense and candles next to him also beckoned: "I have a full set of incense to burn when you enter the temple, there are twenty, eighty, and one hundred and eighty, which one do you want?"

Ding Qi whispered: "We took a photo with the three monks just now, and it seems that we didn't give money." ”

Xian Hao covered his mouth and smiled: "There is a merit box in the temple." ”

The pattern of Jiulin Zen Temple is very strange, it does not have a separate mountain gate hall and front and back yards, the whole temple is open, the surrounding open space is equivalent to the courtyard, and the surrounding dwellings are equivalent to the courtyard wall, and the temple is directly to the main hall.

The pattern of the main hall here is also something that Ding Qi has never seen, deep and narrow from the front to the back, after entering, I first see the Jizo Bodhisattva offered in it, and on both sides are the ten halls of Yan Jun. There is incense on the incense table, and there is a small sign, the yellow line is very dim, and you can only notice the handwriting on it if you look carefully: "Burning incense is free, and each person is limited to three." ”

Ding Qi and Xian Hao glanced at each other, put all the cash they had brought with them into the merit box, and then each took three sticks of incense, lit them on the oil lamp, and retreated to the back of the tuanpu in front of the incense table to raise incense and worship. Both of them were not Buddhists, and they did not kneel and bow, but held the three incense sticks high above the top and bowed deeply, and then they heard the sound of dang, dang, and dang three Qingyue.

There was a monk sitting in the hall, with his back to the direction of the gate, wearing a dark green monk's robe, located on the right side of the incense case, he was holding a few beads and closing his eyes as if he was chanting scriptures, Ding Qi and Xian Hao did not react when they came in, and the two did not disturb him. When Ding Qi and Xian Hao raised incense to worship, he picked up a mallet and struck the purple gold bowl in front of him.

Such a sudden sound often startles people, but Ding Qi and Xian Hao were not frightened, and even felt very natural. The sound of this bowl became clearer and longer, as if it was echoing in the primordial spirit, and Ding Qi even had an inexplicable feeling, and the Jizo Bodhisattva in front of him seemed to look at them on both sides of the ten halls.

Of course, the statues are all with their eyes open, but they are only clay wooden tires, and when the bowl sounds, these statues seem to be "alive", which makes Ding Qi feel like being watched, and Xian Hao also feels the same.

After worship, they put incense into the hearth. And the monk who struck the bowl closed his eyes again, as if nothing had been born, and he didn't even turn his head to look at the two of them.

Ding Qi and Xian Hao didn't disturb the monk with his homework, but just thanked him and walked around Jizo Bodhisattva into the apse. The front and back of the main hall are one, and there is no courtyard in the middle, but they are all in a long and narrow hall, which is divided into two entrances by arrangement.

But as soon as I walked into the apse, I felt that the light was much brighter, as if I had traveled through the two worlds of yin and yang. The apse is more like a showroom, and on the eaves of the three pillars on the left, middle and right, there are portraits of the 33 ancestors of Zen Buddhism hanging in turn, as if introducing the process of Zen Buddhism.

The first one on the left hand is a portrait of the Zen patriarch Mokogya, who is smiling at Shakyamuni at the Lingshan Festival. Zen Buddhism was passed on to the twenty-eight ancestors of Bodhidharma, Bodhidharma came to the east of the Middle Earth, as the ancestor of Chinese Zen, and left the mantle and passed on to the six ancestors of Chinese Zen Huineng. The last portrait of Huineng on the right hand in the apse is exactly opposite to Ka Ye.

After visiting the Jiulin Zen Temple, the two did not speak for a long time, nor did they ask anyone for directions. Ding Qi paid attention to the street signs when he walked through each intersection, walked for about ten minutes, turned left into Binjiang Road, and finally asked Xian Hao: "What are you thinking, why haven't you spoken?"

Xian Hao seemed to breathe a sigh of relief when he spoke: "I don't know what I'm thinking, it seems that I remember something, and I don't seem to think of anything, this feeling is indescribable......"

Ding Qi took out his mobile phone and opened the photo album and said, "When Master Fahai took pictures of us, it was obviously empty around us, but he also took himself into the photos. ”

Xian Hao: "This master didn't say a word, but what does he mean, color is emptiness, emptiness is color?"

Ding Qi: "If you don't reach the realm, you don't have to think about it...... Hey, the Zhiwei Building in front has arrived!"

Zhiwei Building has three floors, the front door faces the street, and the back faces the Jushui River. The electronic clock hanging in the lobby showed the time at four o'clock in the afternoon, and the date was two months faster than the outside world.

It's not a meal now, but there are still several tables of diners in the lobby, and business is clearly good. The two asked for a small private room on the second floor, Ding Qi took the recipe and looked through it, and Xian Hao asked the waiter directly: "Can I order a dish that is not on the menu?"

The waiter replied, "Yes, as long as we can make it, can you tell me what kind of dish it is first?"

As soon as he heard this, Ding Qi didn't turn over the recipe anymore, looked up and said, "Let's have a plate of fried peanuts, a plate of pepper eggs, and two catties of old spring yellow." ”

The waiter smiled: "There is no problem with the dish, but Lao Chunhuang has a bottle and a pot for sale, which one do you want?"

Xian Hao asked, "Is there any difference?"

Waiter: "On the bottle sells for 50 yuan a bottle, and on the pot sells for 500 yuan a pot, both of which are one catty." ”

Ding Qi and Xian Hao said together: "Then come to the pot...... Two pots!"

The waiter asked Xian Hao again, "This beauty, what else do you want to order?"

Xian Hao: "I want to order two dishes, steamed crab roe and wild crucian carp seeds, can you make them?"

The waiter was stunned: "I have to go to the back kitchen and ask, if I can make it, I will tell you the price again, you can see if you want to order it or not." ”

After the waiter went out, Ding Qidao reminded: "You seem to order a skewer, those two dishes are not in this book!"

Mr. Zhuang recommended eight books. The book that Ding Qi used to cast spells to open the portal of the Kunlun realm was called "iQue", and after they entered the Kunlun realm, they also saw the locations and characters in "iQue". But the two dishes that Xian Hao ordered came from another book called "Lingshan".

"Lingshan" mainly tells the story of the Tang Dynasty, the protagonist's name is Mei Zhenyi, who is now the ancestor of Mei Yeshi, the leader of the two Kunlun Alliances, and these two dishes are what Mei Zhenyi loved to eat when he was a child.

Steamed crab roe is a special product of Wucheng Qingyi Lake, the crab roe and crab paste are specially removed after steaming, and the crab foot meat is ground into a soup together in proportion, and many crabs should be used in a dish. What's more particular is the wild crucian carp seeds, which are not complicated to say, that is, the seeds of braised wild crucian carp, but the complexity is complicated in this dish to eat seeds, and other fresh stem and leaf vegetables can not see the fish.

The raw length of wild crucian carp is extremely slow, and the fish weighing about half a catty has seeds that are suitable for cooking, and they need to be fresh. When cooking, the seeds are not specially made, but several crucian carp are braised together, and after cooking, the seeds are taken out separately, and then processed with other side dishes and served on the table.

Of course, the dishes of the Tang Dynasty can be made in modern times...... Judging from the preparation and labor only, these two dishes are not something that ordinary restaurants can serve, so the waiter said that he wanted to ask.

Xian Hao stuck out his tongue, his expression was rare to be so cute, and said with a smile: "Didn't you tell me, the Kunlun realm that the Feng Junzi said includes ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, and it should not be limited to a book." Besides, in the book you've read, you mentioned the story of Lu Xue's future, haven't you seen it now? I ordered two dishes, I just wanted to try it!"

Ding Qi: "Steamed crab roe, now some restaurants have it on the menu, but the crab used is different, the last time Tian Xianglong had a treat, I ordered one...... But wild crucian carp seeds, never seen before!"

Xian Hao: "You're talking about the restaurant outside, and this is Kunlun Realm and Zhiwei Building, and the waiter didn't say no at the first time, which means that there is a play." Now that you're here, of course you have to try a special dish, otherwise where are you going to eat?"

Ding Qi felt the same way: "That's right, why didn't I think of it? It's just that these two dishes won't be cheap." ”

Xian Hao: "If you order a pot of wine for 500 yuan, you might as well be more generous." Ask the price later, as long as you can afford it, if you really can't afford it...... Then forget it. ”

There was not much time, and the waiter knocked on the door and came in and said, "The kitchen said that those two dishes can be made." ”

Ding Qi was surprised and delighted: "How much?"

Waiter: "Our boss said again, no money will be charged, even if she is giving it to the two of them for free." ”

And such a good thing! After ordering a plate of fried peanuts and a plate of preserved eggs with sharp peppers, the owner of the restaurant actually gave away steamed crab roe and wild crucian carp seeds for free, how could there be such a business? Ding Qi quickly stood up and said: "This is so embarrassing, we don't know your boss, can we express our gratitude in person?"

The waiter said, "In this case, I'll go talk to the boss." ”

The waiter went out again, there was not much time, a woman pushed the door in, Ying Ying smiled: "Ding Dao is friendly, Xian Dao is friendly, welcome two to Zhiwei Building." ”

The man looked to be twenty-five or six years old, and smelled of maturity all over his body. Her eyebrows are slightly curved, the slender eyebrows have a provocative charm, her lips are pink, the slightly full lip line in the ruddy has a bit of seduction, and the duck egg face is slightly pointed at the chin position. The most important thing is the eyes, and women with single eyelids are sometimes more flattering.

Nowadays, many women are clamoring to lose weight every day, in fact, they are not fat, and skinny is not necessarily beautiful, if it is really a reed stick, it is not good-looking, let alone sexy. Look at her again, the place that should be slender is slender, and the place that should be full is full, and there is an indescribable charm.

Needless to introduce, Ding Qi and Xian Hao immediately recognized it, this person should be Han Ziying, the proprietress of Zhiwei Building and the Taoist companion of Mei Yeshi. Han Ziying in the book is a stunner and a goblin, the goblin mentioned here is not an adjective, she is originally from a demon cultivator.

Ding Qi and Xian Hao hurriedly got up and saluted: "Hello Boss Han! I have admired the name for a long time, and it is really better to meet than to be famous! But the first time we met, you gave such two dishes, which is too polite! It really makes us embarrassed......"

Han Ziying: "I heard that the two of you saw the Wind Gentleman and Lu Xue on Zhaoting Mountain yesterday, how is the Immortal Master?"

Ding Qi was a little puzzled: "Are you talking about Mr. Feng, he is very good, haven't you seen him recently?"

Han Ziying: "The immortal master's whereabouts are erratic, and I haven't seen him for a few days. The immortal master can invite the two to taste tea, just two small dishes, and of course the two are also welcome to taste. ”

A few people chatted for a while, and the food and drinks were quickly served. Han Ziying had other things, so she didn't continue to disturb the two of them eating, said hello and went out, and took the door with her when she left.

Xian Hao lowered his voice and said, "I heard that this woman is a monster, she is really a delicate and sexy stunner." ”

Ding Qi snorted and said noncommittally: "The book says that her original body was Xiangfei Musk Deer, and now it is extinct. ”

Xian Hao seemed to be joking: "After all, people are still no better than monsters, who am I or her pretty?"

Ding Qi replied unhurriedly: "If it is in the eyes of Mei Yeshi, the leader of the two Kunlun Alliances, it should be her." But if you ask me, of course it's you! Do you have any different opinions?"

Xian Hao glared at him and said, "Dulicitous! Eat vegetables, eat vegetables, such a good dish, hurry up and taste it while it's hot." ”

The two dishes ordered by Xian Hao are so delicious, and the entrance is full of fresh and fragrant, which is amazing again and again. Of course, a good dish must be paired with good wine, and the two poured wine for each other, and they couldn't even stop eating and drinking, and the two pots of wine quickly bottomed out. Lao Chunhuang is very easy to eat, and I feel that the degree is not high, but the stamina is quite large.

Ding Qi was already three points drunk, and then looked at Xian Haoqiao's flour on the opposite side, his body, his eyes, and his voice were a little sultry and charming. Ding Qihe had seen her like this, and he couldn't help but be moved......

For the first time in his life, Ding Qi felt that the word "Qi" in his name could be interpreted in this way in his life. Maybe it felt too good, but it didn't feel so real, he couldn't help but recall some of the past, and inexplicably added a trace of sadness.

Xian Hao was also drunk, but he seemed to be more sensitive than usual, and immediately noticed such a subtle change in Ding Qi, and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

Ding Qi raised his wine glass, as if looking at the wine in the glass, but his eyes looked at Xian Hao through the upper edge of the glass, and his tone was a little murmuring: "Because it feels so beautiful!"

Xian Hao quipped: "You're so beautiful that you're bubbling, do you want to say something?"

Ding Qi suddenly turned around and shouted loudly to the door: "Two more pots of ——!"

When the two of them finished drinking and went downstairs to settle the bill, Ding Qi remembered that he didn't have any money with him, and all the cash was put in the merit box of Jiulin Zen Temple, he took out his mobile phone and said, "I can use >."

This is a bit of a lack of confidence, who knows if the mobile phone brought in from outside can be brushed here, it shouldn't be a signal of the world, if you can't brush the mobile phone, won't this meal become an overlord meal?

The cashier smiled and said, "Of course, what age is it now!"

Swiping WeChat to settle the bill successfully, Ding Qi breathed a sigh of relief. This meal cost a total of two thousand and dozens of yuan, mainly the four pots of wine, the two dishes ordered by Ding Qi were only a fraction, and the two dishes ordered by Xian Hao were given by Boss Han. When they came out of the gate to Binjiang Road, the breeze blew, and both of them had some drunken and beautiful spring.

It's almost time to go back. Ding Qi held Xian Hao, his steps were a little floating, he walked to a secluded and uninhabited place by the Jushui River, and took out the door where Jingwen Stone almost didn't open it, because he drank too much, but fortunately, it was finally opened.

On the other side of the portal is the large activity room on the second floor of the small building, and the hot pot is still on the table. Walking through the portal back to the table, it was another very uncomfortable trance, and they still maintained the posture before entering the portal.

Ding Qi's reaction was very fast, and he reached out in time to help the side. Because Xian Hao's body was a little soft, he didn't stand firm in a trance, and turned upside down to him. said that it was helping, but in fact, it was supported by the body, so Xian Hao leaned on himself, but the hand seemed to be hugging her waist, which was completely subconscious.

This sudden action made Xian Hao a little uncomfortable, twisted his body and stood up straight, then turned his head and said, "I'm coming out now?"

Tincey: "Yes, it's back. ”

Xian Hao: "But the posture is a little wrong!"

Ding Qi: "What's wrong, wasn't it good just now?" If according to the "scientific standards", he should be at the end of the stage of nervous excitement after drinking, and has not yet reached the stage of nerve paralysis, that is, as the saying goes, he seems to be drunk but not drunk.

Xian Hao: "It's not like we came out of it, but we just stood there and didn't move!"

Dingzi: "That was the case the last time I came out...... Hey, why don't you smell alcohol when you speak?"

Xian Hao: "You don't have either." ”

They walked out of Zhiwei Building "just now" and walked on the riverside road in Wucheng, Ding Qi could smell the breath exhaled by Xian Hao when he spoke, it was warm and fragrant, it seemed to be the fragrance of wine and her body fragrance, like a spring breeze at night. In the blink of an eye, why couldn't they smell any wine? But both of them were clearly drunk.

As soon as he said this, the wine seemed to wake up suddenly, and they reminded each other at the same time: "Look at your phone!" and took out their phones at the same time.

Xian Haoxiu frowned and said, "I looked at the time before I went in, and now less than a minute has passed." ”

Ding Qi: "If you deduct the time after we came out, it's actually only a moment. We may not have consumed any time in reality when we entered and exited the Kunlun Realm!"

Xian Hao reminded again: "Look at the wallet!"

There is a saying that "reach out and ask for incense money", which does not refer to the performance art engaged in by the monks in the temple, but a mantra that people who are away from home need to remember. Shen is the homonym of "body", refers to the ID card, the hand refers to the mobile phone, if the homonym of "key", it refers to the key, incense refers to the cigarette, fire refers to the lighter, and the money refers to the wallet, a total of six sets, don't forget to bring these six things when you go out.

For non-smokers, the mantra is even simpler, just remember the four words "reach out for money". In short, when everyone goes out, don't forget to "reach out and ask for money", of course, don't be so exaggerated with a bowl and a stick.

Ding Qi and Xian Hao took out their wallets after looking at their mobile phones at this moment, and then both of them were stunned. In the era of mobile payment, there is no need to use cash on many occasions, but you have to carry some with you in case of emergency, especially the Jianghu people have this habit, otherwise what if the mobile phone runs out of power, or there is no signal?

After entering the Kunlun Realm, they put all the cash they had brought with them into the merit box in the Jiulin Zen Temple, but at this moment, there was not a cent in their wallets!