Chapter 54: Showers Seal the Road 3
On the tablet dedicated to the deceased in the Reclining Buddha Temple, the name is engraved very conspicuously, and every word is engraved with a big fight. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć Below the name of info is the year of birth and death engraved in an extraordinarily small and delicate manner, and if you don't look closely, you won't notice it at all. Every word and stroke on the tablet is carefully depicted in gold, and it looks like a kind of low-key luxury.
After sending the Mongolian tablet back to the west side hall of the Third Buddha Hall, watching the kind old monk in the hall respectfully place the Mongolian tablet at the foot of the Jizo Bodhisattva statue, Leng Qing turned around and walked out of the west side hall.
It was noon, and it was time for lunch.
followed Leng Qing out of the West Side Hall, Liang Shengxiao, who was holding a bamboo Xiao, slowly stopped, looked up at the huge sun above his head, and then looked at Leng Qing's back as he strode forward, and hesitated slightly, Liang Shengxiao still shouted "Leng Girl" in the end, and shouted Leng Qing who walked in the direction of the mountain gate of the Reclining Buddha Temple as soon as he left the West Side Hall.
Leng Qing, who was striding in front, immediately stopped when she heard the sound, and looked back at Liang Shengxiao, who was standing behind her, who was five or six steps away from her, and Leng Qing asked with a puzzled face: "What's wrong??"
On that side, Liang Shengxiao slowly walked in front of Leng Qing, and stood one step away from Leng Qing, Liang Shengxiao said to Leng Qing in a warm voice: "It's noon now, Miss Leng might as well stay and have a meal before going down the mountain." ā
Hearing Liang Shengxiao say this, Leng Qing also felt a little hungry for a while, but when she thought of her agreement with Zhu Zimo last night, Leng Qing, who rushed to "meet" Zhu Zimo, immediately shook her head without hesitation and said: "No, the sun is just right now, let's go down the mountain now." With that, Leng Qing turned her head back and continued to walk forward.
Behind Leng Qing, Liang Shengxiao had to step to keep up with Leng Qing, but she was very bitter and persuaded in Leng Qing's ear: "Not to mention that Miss Leng's injuries have never healed, just say that Miss Leng came up the mountain without eating anything this morning, and climbed such a high mountain road, if you don't eat lunch again, I'm afraid you won't be able to support it on the way back." ā
Liang Shengxiao originally thought that his words might not be able to convince Leng Qing, because Leng Qing's desperate desire to go down the mountain was too obvious, and he could get a glimpse of it from Leng Qing's striding meteor alone.
Clinker, Liang Shengxiao's words fell, and Leng Qing, who was striding forward, suddenly took a step and stood there without moving. Liang Shengxiao, who had been walking forward with Leng Qing's footsteps, naturally stopped in a hurry and looked at Leng Qing with hopeful eyes.
Standing in place and silent for a while, Leng Qing suddenly raised her eyes to look at Liang Shengxiao who was standing beside her, and opened her mouth to ask, "Where is the place to eat fast in the Reclining Buddha Temple?"
At the moment when she was silent just now, Leng Qing thought about it very seriously and carefully, and felt that what Liang Shengxiao said was quite reasonable.
Leng Qing felt that if she was physically exhausted due to hunger on the way down the mountain, or even fainted from hunger, it would be a trouble to meet Zhu Zimo at that time!
So, after Leng Qing asked the question "Where is the place to eat fasting in the Reclining Buddha Temple", Liang Shengxiao immediately smiled like a spring breeze and took Leng Qing to the dining hall specially opened up to receive pilgrims in the Reclining Buddha Temple.
Unlike the restaurants and restaurants in the world, the meals in Wat Pho are provided free of charge. Although the free meals offered at Wat Pho are bland and tasteless vegetarian dishes, and there is not even a trace of oil splashes, the rule in Wat Pho is that no matter how many people you come, as long as you enter the dining hall of Wat Pho, you can eat for free.
A bowl of boiled cabbage, a plate of shallots mixed with tofu, a plate of stir-fried lotus root slices, and unlimited white rice, this is the free meal provided by the Reclining Pho Temple for pilgrims who come to the Reclining Buddha Temple to worship the Buddha.
Although these three dishes really don't look delicious at all, no matter how bad they are, they can't withstand hunger - Leng Qing sat down at the dining table, just smelling the fragrance of the food, Leng Qing felt hungry.
The hall in Wat Pho that was specially set up to receive pilgrims is not large, but it is brightly lit. Because of the floor space, there were only six boxy tables in the hall, one with four benches.
The table is not big, the bench is not too long, and only eight people can sit at a full table, and you have to squeeze hard to sit down, and there is no room to even raise your hand to pick up the food when you sit down.
Although the free fasting provided in the Reclining Buddha Temple is too simple, there are still seven or eight people who stay in the Reclining Buddha Temple to eat fast like Liang Shengxiao and Leng Qing, but they are all old people, probably because they are too old to bear the hunger and go down the mountain, so they stay to eat fasting. And those of Liang Shengxiao and Leng Qing are not at all.
Xu is Liang Shengxiao and Leng Qing's age is too eye-catching, and maybe Leng Qing's bright red dress is too eye-catching, in short, since Liang Shengxiao and Leng Qing entered the dining hall, they picked an empty table against the corner and sat down, and the old people sitting around began to look at Liang Shengxiao and Leng Qing frequently.
In the face of those frequent sideways glances, Leng Qing didn't know what Liang Shengxiao thought, but Leng Qing didn't care, just ate her fast wholeheartedly, and was not disturbed by the eyes around her at all.
However, just when Liang Shengxiao and Leng Qing were eating in the dining hall of the Reclining Buddha Temple, the sky that was still full of white clouds and bright sunshine suddenly surged up, and with it, there were lightning and thunder.
When she heard the thunder outside the dining hall at the beginning, Leng Qing put down the dishes and chopsticks in her hand and walked to the door of the dining hall in three steps and two steps.
At first, Leng Qing was still counting on this sudden rain to thunder and rain small, but when Leng Qing saw the dense raindrops pouring down from the sky in the blink of an eye, Leng Qing felt that her hope was definitely in vain-
The tumbling black clouds carried lightning and thunder, but in the blink of an eye, the sky was obscured, and in the blink of an eye, the downpour poured mercilessly down from the terrifyingly black sky.
Although the rain came suddenly, it was heavy and dense, as if it had been brewing for a long, long time, but in a moment, it accumulated a pool of water of different depths on the otherwise dry ground.
Standing under the eaves of the dining hall, watching the originally dry open space outside the dining hall turn into small puddles in the blink of an eye, Leng Qing really didn't know how to describe her luck.
"Miss Leng doesn't need to worry, the autumn in Daliang Country has always been dry and dry, and this rain came suddenly, and it will stop in a day or two at most. Just when Leng Qing couldn't help but sigh that her luck was really bad, Liang Shengxiao's clear and humble voice suddenly sounded beside Leng Qing, with a soothing meaning.
Shifting her gaze from the rain curtain to Liang Shengxiao, who walked to her side at some point, when she met Liang Shengxiao's reassuring gaze, Leng Qing pursed her lips and smiled, didn't say anything, turned around and entered the dining hall behind her, and continued to eat her fast.
However, Liang Shengxiao, who was still standing under the eaves outside the hall, looked at the rain curtain and slowly frowned......
As Liang Shengxiao said, this sudden rainstorm only stopped after an hour and a half.
When the rain stopped, just after the first moment, and as soon as the rain stopped, the dark clouds that covered the sky all dispersed, revealing the sun that had been hidden before, and slowly illuminating a rainbow bridge in the distance.
was trapped in the Reclining Buddha Temple for an extra hour and a half by this sudden rainstorm, thinking that Zhu Zimo must have been waiting for her to "meet" her on the mountain road, Leng Qing was already in a hurry, so as soon as the rain stopped, Leng Qing hurriedly walked out of the dining hall and walked quickly towards the mountain gate of the Reclining Buddha Temple with his eyebrows twisted.
Although Liang Shengxiao's mood to go down the mountain was not as urgent as Leng Qing's, Liang Shengxiao always followed Leng Qing's footsteps not far away, and followed Leng Qing towards the road down the mountain.
However, unexpectedly, when they walked out of the mountain gate of the Reclining Buddha Temple less than 400 meters, Liang Shengxiao and Leng Qing were forced to stop moving forward again.
Wat Pho is built in the middle of a large mountain, and there is a gentle section of the mountain outside the mountain gate, and in the middle of this gentle mountain, there is a stream of water between a creek and a river, which can be called a miracle of nature.
Let's call that the water flow "small river", the small river has a bamboo and wood pontoon bridge on the water, close to the water surface, that is, when the wind and waves are calm, people walk on it, and one carelessly will still wet shoes and socks, and at this moment......
Looking at the small river in front of him that was still flowing when it came, and the water surface was less than ten meters wide, it flooded into a turbulent water after a sudden rainstorm, and the water surface was more than doubled, and even the bamboo and wood pontoon bridge was covered by the turbulent water.
Staring at the other side of the river for a long time, Leng Qing's hands hanging down at her side clenched their fists and released, loosened and clenched, and after tossing and turning like this for a long time, Leng Qing could be regarded as suppressing the urge to scold the sky in her heart, and tried her best to remain rational and calmly and asked Liang Shengxiao, who was standing beside her: "What should I do?"
In the face of Leng Qing's inquiry, Liang Shengxiao, who was standing beside Leng Qing with a bamboo in his hand, did not look at the turbulent river in front of him, but frowned at the upstream of the river, and responded with some concern: "With such a turbulent current, I am afraid that the flood control mountain road upstream of the Reclining Buddha Temple has been washed away." ā
When Leng Qing heard this, she couldn't help but raise her eyebrows to look at Liang Shengxiao, opened her mouth, and spit out two words in a faint tone: "So??"
Turning his head to Leng Qing's faint gaze, Liang Shengxiao, who had always been gentle as the wind, turned solemn on the ground.
After a moment's silence, Liang Shengxiao replied in a calm voice: "If you want to go down the mountain, unless you can repair the washed out mountain road in time, or wait for the water upstream to drain ......" The voice paused slightly, but Liang Shengxiao said in a deep voice: "Anyway, I can't go down the mountain today." ā
As soon as she heard Liang Shengxiao's words, Leng Qing was anxious at that time: Can't you go down the mountain? What can you do!! Zhu Zimo is still waiting to meet her on the mountain road!!
Thinking like this, Leng Qing didn't think much about it in her heart, and opened her mouth to ask Liang Shengxiao: "Can Liang Gongzi swim?"
On that side, I saw Liang Shengxiao glance at Leng Qing with a rather strange expression, and after a long time, Liang Shengxiao spit out a sentence unhurriedly: "I can't get by." ā
Before Leng Qing opened her mouth again, Liang Shengxiao continued unhurriedly: "The mountain road was destroyed, and the water that had accumulated for more than ten years behind the mountain road poured down, and its water was fierce and turbulent. A few decades ago, the mountain road upstream of Wat Pho was washed away by torrential rains, when someone tried to swim across the river, only to be carried away by the rushing current. ā
Although Liang Shengxiao's words were slow, the deep meaning contained in the words had to make people think deeply. And after Liang Shengxiao's words were spoken, Leng Qing undoubtedly had to dispel the idea of swimming across the river.
As far as Leng Qing is concerned, although the meeting with Zhu Zimo is very important, her little life is even more important!! If even her little life is gone, what will she do with Zhu Zimo?!
On that side, seeing that Leng Qing had been silent, Liang Shengxiao couldn't figure out what Leng Qing wanted to do, lest Leng Qing jump into the turbulent river in front of him on an impulse, and when he heard that Liang Shengxiao was a little uneasy, he opened his mouth and called: "Miss Leng ......"
"Let's go back to the Reclining Buddha Temple!" Before Liang Shengxiao could say the worry in her heart, Leng Qing said so. At the end, Leng Qing added as if suddenly: "Hmm...... I don't know if the Reclining Buddha Temple minds the female guests staying overnight?" "If you mind, it will be troublesome, in this heavy mountain, she has no place to sleep except for the Reclining Buddha Temple!!
On that side, Liang Shengxiao, who was stunned for a while by Leng Qing's sudden words, immediately smiled at Leng Qing after coming back to his senses: "It should be no problem." Before leaving Beijing, he also had some friendship with the abbot of the Reclining Buddha Temple, if the monks in the temple did not allow the cold girl to stay in the temple, he would go to the abbot of Huijue to negotiate. ā
However, on this side, hearing Liang Shengxiao's words, although Leng Qing didn't want to hit Liang Shengxiao, out of practical considerations, Leng Qing hesitated for a few seconds and still opened her mouth to ask, "Uh...... Liang Gongzi has been away from Beijing for ten years, can he still be sure that the abbot of the Reclining Buddha Temple is the old friend Master Huijue before Lin Gongzi left Beijing?"
"It should be. The answer to Leng Qing was Liang Shengxiao's somewhat uncertain statement.
Leng Qing naturally heard the uncertainty in Liang Shengxiao's words, but she was the one who couldn't wait to leave the Reclining Buddha Temple before, and now she is the one who proposes to go back to the Reclining Buddha Temple to spend the night...... Even if Liang Shengxiao really couldn't help her, Leng Qing couldn't say anything, so she could only be silent.
On that side, Liang Shengxiao's voice only paused slightly, and then he muttered: "Ten years ago, Master Huijue was only in his prime, but ten years have passed, and Master Huijue is only in his prime. There are many people in Buddhism who live a long life, and according to the age of Master Huijue, he should not have passed away now. If Master Huijue has not passed away, then the abbot of the Temple of the Reclining Buddha must be Master Huijue. ā
"Anyway, let's go back to Wat Pho and have a look. In the end, Liang Shengxiao, who was smiling with her eyebrows, concluded with this gentle and light smile.
So, Leng Qing took one last look at the turbulent river, and after sighing, she followed Liang Shengxiao on the road back to the Reclining Buddha Temple......