Chapter 297: Almsgiving
Early the next morning, Zeng Daniu came to Nie Chen's room, served breakfast, chatted with Nie Chen for a while and left.
After a while, two monks in gray robes knocked on Nie Chen's door and said to Nie Chen: "Uncle Xumi, the time has come, Uncle Empty Cicada has ordered us to pick you up, let's go." ”
Nie Chen followed the two gray-robed monks to the meditation hall, where there were already several monks waiting there, and in front of the statue of the Buddha, there was an empty cicada. Seeing Nie Chen coming, he raised his eyebrows and said lazily: "Xumi, are you here?"
Nie Chen hurriedly replied, "Xumi asks Uncle Shi for peace." ”
"Hmm"
Nie Chen's respectful attitude made the empty cicada quite useful, and the expression on his face looked much better.
"Xumi, from today on, you are a member of my Buddha Longquan Temple, I hope you will cultivate hard and promote my Longquan Temple, understand?"
"Yes, I will definitely live up to your cultivation of me, Uncle Empty Cicada. Nie Chen said this, but he wanted to laugh in his heart, feeling that he bribed the empty cicada and joined the Longquan Temple, which was no different from a robber joining the gang.
Next, the empty cicada read the Buddhist precepts and various codes to Nie Chen, and then the law enforcement monks in the temple shaved Nie Chen.
There are few restrictions on the monks in the temple, except for the morning and evening must meditate in front of the Buddha for an hour, the rest of the time is arranged by the monks themselves, and the time of morning and evening meditation is called morning and evening classes.
On this evening class, Nie Chen and a senior brother had already come to the main hall, and after about a stick of incense, they saw a monk in a purple robe slowly walking in, a pair of eyes were extremely sharp, looking downward, and his gaze stopped on Nie Chen's body.
Nie Chen felt that the cultivation of this old monk in purple robe was extremely high, and it should be the abbot of Longquan Temple, so he carefully used his spiritual power to hide his strength, and only released the fluctuation of the Yuan Commander's Yuan power.
The empty darkness looked at Nie Chen for a moment, and then looked away.
Behind him was three old monks in yellow robes, one of whom was the empty cicada.
After the four of them sat down, the evening class officially began, and I saw all the monks holding their hands in the dantian and entering a meditative state one after another.
It turned out that there was no need to chant the scriptures, Nie Chen was secretly happy in his heart, feeling the breath of the monks around him, Nie Chen's so-called evening class was just a change of place to practice, and the Buddha in front of him was just an ornament.
So Nie Chen also immediately entered the cultivation state.
At the end of the evening class, Nie Chen saw a gray-robed monk in front of him, it was Chenjing who led the way for him yesterday, and he walked a few steps forward and said, "Chenjing." ”
Na Chenjing looked back and saw that it was Nie Chen, and hurriedly said respectfully: "It's Uncle Xumi, what do you command?"
Nie Chen said, "I heard that Senior Brother Void is in retreat, do you know when he will come out?"
"I heard from the uncles that it was a three-month retreat, and now that it has been two months and twenty days, is there anything wrong with Uncle Xumi?"
"Oh, it's fine. ”
The next day, Nie Chen left Longquan Temple and contacted Su Yinyue.
After Su Yinyue saw Nie Chen's bright and bright head, she couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"If you want to hear about the relics, you have to go to the core layer. Nie Chen told Yinyue about his plan.
Hearing that he was going to challenge the Void, the senior brother of the Void Generation, Yinyue admonished: "Be careful, don't be recognized. ”
Nie Chen smiled: "I know." ”
Through the observation in today's evening class, although the cultivation of the old monk in the purple robe is quite high, his momentum is much inferior to that of Nie Ling'er at the beginning, and it is estimated that at most it is the realm of the three grades of the Yuan Emperor, as long as he avoids fighting with him, there should be no danger.
After returning to Longquan Temple, he directly entered the state of cultivation and comprehended the "Taixu Sutra".
In the next few days, Zeng Da Niu would go to Nie Chen's room every day to clean the house and wash his clothes, and Nie Chen asked the monk Da Niu a lot about the Buddha Kingdom and Longquan Temple. Nie Chen would also work with Zeng Da Niu, but in order not to arouse the suspicion of other monks, once he left the house, Zeng Da Niu would be commensurate with Nie Chen's servant.
The day of the Void Exit was getting closer and closer, and Nie Chen stepped up his cultivation, wanting to comprehend the fifth chapter of the "Taixu Sutra" before the Void Exit, the Love Word Formula.
But whenever Nie Chen comprehended that the truth of heaven and earth was about to gain something, that shadow came as promised and appeared in Nie Chen's mind, making Nie Chen miserable.
"It's so difficult to crack this love word. Nie Chen shook his head, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and entered meditation again.
"Tuk Tuk"
There was a sudden knock on the door.
"Is it Brother Da Niu?" Nie Chen opened the door, only to see several monks in yellow robes standing at the door.
Nie Chen saw that it was a monk of Longquan Temple.
"What's the matter?"
Nie Chen's meditation was interrupted, and his face was not very good-looking.
One of the yellow-robed monks said, "Xumi, Master ordered you to go with us to give alms to the people in the city. ”
It was the empty cicada's personal disciple Void Cicada who spoke.
"Almsgiving?"
"Go and give them food. The cicada said impatiently: "Are you going or not?" ”
As soon as he heard that he was going out to give alms of food, Nie Chen hurriedly got dressed and walked out with a few monks.
Nie Chen was silent along the way, so Xucian spoke: "Xumi, you just came, I don't know that this charity is an excellent errand, many senior brothers look forward to such an opportunity every day, Master gave you this opportunity today, it is to take care of you." ”
"Oh, thank you, uncle. ”
Nie Chen replied obediently, but he was thinking in his heart, this Longquan Temple is shameless enough, and the people of the Buddha country have been recruited in their prime.
Nie Chen was well aware of the suffering of the people of the Buddha Kingdom, and thought to himself, I will give them more food in a while.
Soon, Nie Chen and his party walked out of the temple and came to a building in the city.
The building was quite spacious, but it was built in a very secluded place, and although it was only afternoon, the sun was still shining, but there were hardly any people around.
But it was such a remote place, and there were still many gray-robed monks guarding it, and Nie Chen saw their gaze towards him, and there was a look of envy in their eyes.
Since it was to send food to the people, why should the monks be arranged to guard it, was it because they were afraid that the people would rob it? Nie Chenyue felt inexplicable.
After entering, Nie Chen saw a wide hall, the hall was full of grain, fruits, and even pork and beef, around the hall, there were more than a dozen private rooms, each of which was covered by a thick curtain, even if he stood at the door, he couldn't see the movement inside.
Nie Chen and several yellow-robed monks stood still, and the cicada nodded at the yellow-robed monk at the entrance of the hall, and a large group of people were brought in by the monk from the back door.
Nie Chen saw at a glance that these people were all ordinary people of the Buddhist country who had no cultivation, and all of them were women.
(End of chapter)