Chapter 17: Meal
[Boom, one year older, I'm going to get old~/(tot)/~~]
No one wants to listen to Dong Weibin's opinion, and Dong Weibin really has no opinion, after all, he recklessly accosted him before, and he was sarcastically ridiculed by He Ning, but He Ning's words hit the nail on the head, and he was powerless to refute it, so this time he learned to be obedient and didn't open his mouth to talk about himself. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Tonic drove back to the city of City A, and went straight to one of the temples that is located within the city limits, but it seems that it is not very famous in the local area, and according to the navigation prompts, it is finally the temple far away from the city center, which seems to be really not very popular, and it is quiet.
Tonic parked the car nearby, and went over to knock on the door with He Ning, I don't know if I thought that this place had never been open to pilgrims, or if they came on the wrong day, the two wooden doors were closed, Tonic saw the doorbell button in the corner of the wooden door, so he reached out and pressed it a few times, and after a while, someone came to open the door.
The person who opened the door for them was a monk who looked to be in his twenties and thirties, wearing a blue-gray monk's robe and leggings on his legs.
"Master, hello," Tang Li said hello to the monk who opened the door for them, and showed his ID, "We are from the Public Security Bureau, I want to find out the situation here, have you ever taken in a young man named Miao Yuan to live in the temple?"
"This ...... I don't know very well, but we have a few laymen living here, but I don't know all their common names," the monk who opened the door for them looked embarrassed, "Otherwise, come in, I'll take you to our master, and you can talk to our master about anything." ”
"I'll have no problem going in, right?" He Ning has never been a person with religious beliefs, but she maintains a respectful attitude towards other people's beliefs, so she doesn't know much about what kind of rules there are in places like temples, and most of the fur comes from martial arts TV series and even Journey to the West, such as the big temple where they have been to the peak of incense, she has no worries, after all, there are many people who come from all over the world to burn incense and worship Buddha, men, women and children, and people are also wide open to welcome pilgrims from all directions, which can basically be understood as a place of worship for people with faith, and for people without faith, it is equivalent to a more special scenic spot。 But this place is different, it looks quiet here, and the door is closed, so He Ning is not sure if there will be a rule that female guests are inconvenient to enter.
When the monk heard He Ning ask, he couldn't help laughing, waved his hand at her and said, "This female layman, except for the fact that you can't be allowed to stay overnight, there is no other problem, you don't have to worry." ”
So the three of them entered the gate, and the monk who opened the door for them closed the gate again, and then took them to find the master of the temple to understand the situation, and introduced them while walking, because this is not the kind of particularly famous temple, so in addition to the first and fifteenth days of each month, the temple door will be opened, so that people can come here to worship the Buddha, there is nothing special for the rest of the days, they are not open to the public, and there are not many monks in the temple, only about a dozen, and a few laymen who stay overnight, and generally speaking, the personnel are very simple。
Compared with the temple they have been to, it is indeed not so magnificent, the buildings are blue-gray bricks and blue-gray tiles, the style of the doors and windows is also very retro, fortunately, when you walk in, you can see that they are all made of plastic steel, the ground is paved with stone slabs, and the environment is particularly quiet, it does give people a sense of tranquility from the inside out, and then the impetuous people can seem to be a little calmer in this environment.
The master's room was in the backyard, and the monk who opened the door for them came to the door of the courtyard master with them, and asked the three of them to wait at the door for a while, he knocked on the door, pushed the door in to explain the situation, and after about four or five minutes, he retreated again, nodded to them, and made a gesture: "You guys go in!"
Tang Li and they thanked him, and walked into the room of the courtyard master, the courtyard master's room is not very spacious, but it looks very simple and tidy, there is a monk wearing a dark yellow monk robe sitting on the chair facing the door, it seems that it is the previous courtyard master, he looks only in his early thirties, quite young, there is a little monk sitting on the chair next to him, five or six years old, also wearing a blue-gray monk's robe, shaved a small bald head, with a round head, and holding a tablet computer in his hand。
Tang Li and He Ning said hello to the master of the same house, and He Ning saw that the little monk was really cute, and couldn't help but tease him: "You little master also use these things like tablets?"
"Of course, this is not ancient times," the little monk looked like He Ning was rare and strange, but then added, "But Master won't let me play more, saying that if I play too much, I will be short-sighted." ”
The master of the courtyard looked at him from the side, a little crying and laughing, then reached out and patted his head, and said to him: "You go out first, if there is nothing to do, go to the dining hall to help the senior brothers set up chopsticks and serve the meal." ”
The little monk was a little reluctant, he was more curious about the three strangers who suddenly visited, but don't look at the courtyard master's slow and logical speech, and his tone is not heavy, but he should also be quite majestic on weekdays, he didn't dare to disobey, and he pouted and walked out of the courtyard master's room with his tablet very unwillingly.
After he left, the master of the courtyard got up and folded his hands in salute, probably because he was afraid that they would have some misunderstanding, and said to them helplessly: "He is not a disciple of our temple, such a young child still has to go to school, and he doesn't understand anything, I don't know if he really wants to be ordained and enter the Buddhist sect, we won't accept it." The child was spoiled at home, I don't know what TV I watched, I cried and made a fuss to be a monk, my parents didn't listen to how to persuade him, and then it was really so noisy that the family couldn't stand it, and I didn't go to kindergarten, there was no way, so I discussed with us, and asked if he could stay here for a while, after all, it was a child, we ate vegetarian dishes here, and it was light, and the daily life was relatively monotonous, as long as he found that being a monk was not as lively as he saw on TV, it was estimated that he would cry and shout to go home. Now this is his fourth day with us, and I guess there will be another three or two days, and he will be tired of it. ”
No wonder there is such a small doll as a monk here, after listening to the explanation of the courtyard master, He Ning and the others suddenly realized that there was such a reason behind the child.
"Are you looking for someone to look for me?" the master of the courtyard explained the matter of the little monk and asked again.
Tonic explained their intentions to the master, and after listening to his words, the master's face suddenly became a little clearer, and he nodded without even looking at the photo.
"This man is indeed with us. He said to the others, "I have been living for a while, and at the beginning I didn't tell us my real name, let me call him Xiao Zhang, I saw that his eyes were a little dodgy, I was afraid that if he was a fugitive, I would have to be responsible for the safety of the other people in our temple, as well as the laymen who came here during the open day, so I told him at that time that I had to check his ID card, otherwise I couldn't take him in." He couldn't help it, so he showed me his ID card, and the name on the ID card was Miao Yuan, because he lied to me at the beginning, so I was more impressed with him. ”
"Does he still live with you, how long has he been there?" asked Henin.
"He's still living here for more than three months. The Master replied.
"Then how much is the cost of your accommodation here?" He Ning asked again, wanting to judge how much Miao Yuan might have benefited from the posture of Yin Houlu's body being dropped, and what kind of role he might play and play, whether it was the main character or the secondary character.
The courtyard master shook his head: " We don't take a penny, originally there was no such plan to receive accommodation, but the more familiar layman occasionally came to live for a while, if you have the heart to help do something, we don't refuse, the money is not collected, Miao Yuan lived in and occasionally helped to do some chores in the dining hall, and did not cause any trouble, living is also living in a room with other people, sleeping in the bunk, so we will not charge him anything, I asked him, he has no intention of wanting to fall into practice, so we just let him, if you want to live, you can continue to live, you can leave at any time if you don't want to live。 ”
"According to your observations, during the period when Miao Yuan lived here, was there anything that was not quite right?"
"He seems to be very afraid of the dark, he doesn't dare to go out of the room alone after dark, and he doesn't want to stay alone, we have meditation every night, he said before that he wanted to participate, and I agreed, but he couldn't sit still, he couldn't calm down, I told him not to be reluctant, just let it be, he didn't participate, we sat in the room when the time came, he sat at the door, and didn't go anywhere, until the end of the meditation, he went back with the people to rest." He also likes to sit at the door of the Daxiong Hall during the day, especially when he first came, and later he got better. ”
"Then when he came, what reason did he ask you to take him in?" asked Hein.
The master shook his head helplessly, after all, he was a monk, and his emotions were much calmer, so even if he felt very incomprehensible about the reason Miao Yuan gave at the beginning, he didn't express too strong emotions: "He begged me to let him live here for a while, because he wanted to be closer to the Buddha." So I originally thought that he wanted to lose his hair and practice, but then I found out that it was not the case. ”
The reason given by Miao Yuan does sound a little nonsensical to others, but after understanding some background information, especially about Lin Rongde's series of reactions when he suddenly went crazy, it is not difficult to judge what Miao Yuan's intention is to do this.
"Then he's still in the temple, can you arrange for us to meet him?" asked the master.
The owner of the courtyard nodded, since the police came to the door, there was naturally a reason for this, he was in line with the indifferent nature of the monk, and did not ask much, and immediately left his room with three people to find Miao Yuan, but after inquiring in the past, he found out that Miao Yuan went out today, saying that he wanted to go out to get some money, breathe, and come back later, and the luggage, clothes and other things he brought with him were still here, and they were not taken away.
In this case, I don't know how long Miao Yuan will come back, the three of them plan to go out to find a place to solve lunch first, and then come back to wait for Miao Yuan, the master of the courtyard immediately invited them to stay in the temple to dine with them, after making sure that it would not disturb other people or cause any inconvenience, He Ning gladly accepted such an invitation, of course Tang Li has no opinion, as for Dong Weibin, he has been acting as a human flesh background board for so long a day, and he doesn't know anything about the case, so he can't say anything, so at this time, naturally no one will ask his opinion, of course, if he is reluctant to stay, can also choose to go out to find a place to eat by himself, no one will stop him, but he also chose to stay together.
So this dinner three people stayed in the temple, the food in the temple is really not delicious, after all, this is not the kind of for-profit restaurant, the purpose of the monks to eat is to fill their stomachs, it seems that they are not too picky about taste, everything is very light, there is no oil star, tonic has always been not picky, He Ning has the right to be light to lose weight, after all, she has never eaten in the temple before, and she also thinks it is very fresh and interesting, only Dong Weibin, a taste like chewing wax, because the master of the courtyard has explained, you can't waste food when eating in the temple, you have to eat as much as you want, So when he was serving the meal, it was as if he was preparing cat food, only picked out a few white noodles, just looking at the amount of food, it seemed that he was a girl who was dieting to lose weight, and a meal also attracted other monks to look at him, Dong Weibin was looked at as if he was sitting on pins and needles, but he couldn't say that he thought that there was no meat in Pingsu, and now he couldn't eat the clear soup and little water, so a big man was a little unsightly, so he had to look at his nose and nose, and pretended that he didn't notice anything。