The forty-fourth bell and drum of the twilight

"Such a lame lie, you can tell it."

The hands that were in front of the chest were lowered as if the seven-in-a-ten was down. He hesitated for a moment, then his right hand landed on her shoulder.

Her shoulders sank unexpectedly, and Qin Ying shrunk, but she didn't turn sideways to avoid his touch.

"Don't shoot. I'm really going to cry when I shoot it again. She sniffled, her voice choked up.

"Hmm." Ruqi withdrew his hand after answering the voice, but the touch of slender bones remained in his palm.

He didn't ask what the first monk said to Qin Ying, nor did he ask why Qin Ying was crying, he just stood silently in front of her.

Qin Ying finally couldn't hold back her tears under his gaze, and she whispered, "Borrow your sleeve and use it."

Ruqi was stunned and stood on the spot like a log.

She glared at him with tearful eyes, tugged at the other man's sleeve, and wiped her own snot and tears away.

"You have to break your sleeves and score the occasion. This will be seen by the Bodhisattva, but he will be blamed. ”

The young monk put his hand to his mouth and coughed, and turned his head to look at the heavens.

"Where are the broken sleeves?"

"What do you mean by broken sleeves?"

Qin Ying and Ruqi said in unison, and the two glanced at each other again.

"Okay, okay. It was the little monk who inadvertently created the karma of the mouth. The young monk bowed to them with his hands together, "Please go with the little monk to the squatter in the backyard to rest." ”

Qin Ying responded in a thick nasal voice, stepped forward, and loosened her wide sleeves with both hands.

After crying, she figured out the direction she wanted to go for the future.

Ruqi touched his sleeve, feeling a little crying and laughing.

――It seems that after seeing Qin Ying, he often encountered water disasters.

At first, he was sprayed on the back by buttermilk, then he was drenched in heavy rain, and now he is covered with tears.

However, what he didn't know was that Qin Ying himself was a catastrophe that he couldn't escape.

The young monk hurried the way to the last row of squatters in the backyard.

"The first monk said that Daoist Qin was a distinguished guest, so he opened up a small room for you alone. If you have any questions or needs, please contact the same staff. He said respectfully, this is also to get rid of the errand early.

Qin Ying nodded, indicating that she had understood.

The other squatter room is arranged next door. The first monk thought that Qin Daochang had many acquaintances, so he dialed a room out. If you have any questions, you can also apply for a swap. The young monk said again.

Ruqi smiled and said: "There is no need to change, thank you for the trouble of the first seat for the little monk." ”

"Then the two of you will rest, and the little monk will go to the evening class." The young monk bowed his head, then turned and walked out of the backyard.

Qin Ying and the others also went into the compartment to put their luggage.

When she pushed the door open, she was taken aback, and the room in front of her was only the size of an abbot.

However, except for a wooden couch and a small table, there are no other sundries. The range of activities is reasonable.

And if she had seen Ruqi's room, she probably wouldn't have felt that she was justified here.

For example, if Qi lives alone, he can sleep seven or eight people in a room, not to mention anything else, just that one shop can make Qin Ying greedy.

After packing up his blue cloth baggage, Qin Ying knocked on the door next door.

He opened half of the door when he heard the sound, revealing warm eyebrows: "Is there something wrong?" ”

"--I want to eat." Seeing that Ruqi raised his eyebrows slightly, Qin Ying puffed out his cheeks and defended himself, "Crying is also a very exhausting job." ”

Ruqi lowered his eyes and smiled: "Yes, yes, what you said makes sense." With that, he turned around and found the rest of the fruit in her bag.

Nibbling on a handful of green persimmons he picked at the end, Qin Ying sighed: "Why doesn't the temple open the stove at night." ”

"Because the monks don't eat dinner." Ruqi replied to her with a complicated face.

She frowned and asked, "Why don't the monks eat dinner?" ”

"There is no why, this is the commandment." He took a deep breath before he took the trouble to speak.

"Why do you write such a rule in the precepts?" Qin Ying was very resistant to this inhuman precept.

Ruqi was finally worn out by her, so she began to tell the truth: "The little monk doesn't know either." ”

Qin Ying looked at the last fruit in the bag, with great reluctance in his eyes, but he still handed it to Ruqi.

While handing it out, she blinked and said, "I don't know the meaning of the precepts, so do you still have to obey them?" ”

Ruqi felt that Qin Ying's words were very familiar. After thinking about it for a long time, he finally remembered.

――I said the exact same sentence a few years ago.

At that time, he knelt in front of the shaver, and the senior brother behind him let himself admit his mistake to the master, but he was unwilling.

Instead of admitting that he was wrong, he spoke out in a bad way. During the period, such words exploded.

The shaver stared at him deeply, and after a long pause, he said, "I don't know why I don't care, just know what it is." Go back to your room, copy the precepts three times, and come back to me. ”

Now he no longer pursues the meaning of the precepts, but only wants to follow them in a proper manner and not make any mistakes.

Qin Ying saw that his expression seemed to have something on his mind, so he unceremoniously took back the fruit: "If you don't eat it, I'll eat it." ”

Ruqi came back to his senses faintly, and immediately smiled at her: "Don't tempt the little monk to break the vows." ”

She lowered her bun face and muttered in a low voice, "I can't tempt you anyway." ”

He didn't hear Qin Ying's self-talk, and suddenly said, "There is a morning class in the temple. You remember that Mao Zheng got up before the bed, and if you got up late, you couldn't grab breakfast in the dining hall. ”

Qin Ying wanted to answer righteously, she was not a foodie who only knew how to eat. But she didn't seem convincing right now.

Finally she looked up and replied, "Well, I see." ”

She had been in Zhonglu Pavilion for more than half a year, but she had never slept for a day. For her, getting up at the end of the day has become a regular habit.

When she was in a daze, the bell of Qingyue like water entered her ears, gradually waking Qin Ying up from her dream.

Qin Ying got up, tied the left and right straps of the gray robe, and stretched a big waist after lifting his shoes.

She remembered what Ruqi told herself yesterday, and couldn't help but smile.

- There is this chiming bell in the temple, how can she sleep lazy?

As soon as he opened the door with a wooden basin and was about to go to fetch water to wash, Qin Ying saw Ruqi doing the same thing.

"Morning." Qin Ying greeted first.

He nodded, "What a coincidence." ”

There is a patio not far in front of the squatter house, and Qin Ying had already paid attention to it yesterday.

After taking Ruqi to fetch water, Qin Ying put the basin back in the abbot's small room and stood in front of Ruqi's room and waited for him to come out.

Ruqi closed the door, turned around and saw Qin Ying waiting beside him, and said dumbly: "Do you want to go to morning class together?" ”

"Don't be so surprised. We Taoist priests also have morning classes on weekdays, but when the trail comes, we have to enter the temple and follow the customs, from reciting Taoist scriptures to reciting Buddhist scriptures. ”

Qin Ying said the words he had thought of last night.

――If you don't study Buddhism now, how will you pick the thorns of Buddhism in the future?

"Learning is like sailing against the current, and if you don't advance, you will retreat." Ruqi exclaimed.