Fang Yu followed behind the host and soon arrived at the Eight Treasure Temple, and he felt that it took less time than the last time he left.

The monks in the monastery have already rested. Dinner time had already passed, and Fang Yu saw that the host didn't ask him about dinner, so he knew that he had no food tonight. Luckily, he still had cans and compressed biscuits in his backpack.

The host took him to the office, lit a candle, and wrote the same document as yesterday for him to sign and press his fingerprint. Fang Yu did all of this, and then asked the host, "Excuse me, can you give me a cup of hot water?" He took out his tea bag and wanted to make a hot cup of tea.

"Yes." The host stood up, Fang Yu followed him puzzled, and when he found him carrying the bucket next to the water tank outside, he was startled, and quickly stepped forward to stop him and asked, "Host, are you ...... Do you want to go and fetch water now and come back and boil it? ”

The host said, "Yes, please wait a while." ”

Fang Yu hurriedly said that he didn't want hot water, and there was ready-made mineral water in his bag.

The host didn't mind him going back on his word, the two of them sat in the office, and he watched Fang Yu get up again after eating "dinner" and took him out to knock on the door. Like yesterday, after knocking on two doors, I found an empty bed in the third room. The host stood in front of the door and said, "Go in." ”

There were no candles in the house, and the monks inside were already asleep. Fang Yu cautiously entered, the host was very considerate and waited for him to find the bed before closing the door, before closing the door, there was a little bit of light reflected in the moonlight outside, when the door was closed, there was not even moonlight, the room was pitch black, and he couldn't see his fingers.

Fang Yu put the backpack on the pillow, took out the sleeping bag, and got into it without taking off his shoes. After lying down, he took out his mobile phone, it was now nine o'clock in the evening, he asked the secretary and the driver about the situation in the town now, and chatted with Qin Qing for a while, and only turned off the mobile phone at half past nine, at this time the battery on the mobile phone was still ninety percent.

This night, Fang Yu slept soundly, and only woke up in the morning when he heard the sound of the monks in the house getting up. It had been a long time since he had slept so soundly, but he had slept well during the two nights in the temple.

He took out his phone, and as soon as he turned it on, the phone sounded a battery alarm: there was 9% of the battery left.

This temple will "eat" electricity.

Fang Yu remained silent, took out the charger, plugged in his mobile phone, and waited for a while, and sure enough, he found that the electricity in the charger had also disappeared.

Breakfast was the same as yesterday. Fang Yu casually found a seat and sat down, today he could already remember the appearance of the twenty-six monks in the temple, and sure enough, a few of them were different. But these monks don't seem to notice that the people around them are different from yesterday.

After breakfast, the monks had to go out to find Zhao Lanshan. Fang Yu said to the host: "I'll go with you too." ”

"Yes." The host looked at him and said, "Come with me." ”

"Okay." Fang Yu also glanced at the host. Since he came here, it seems that he has only heard the host speak, and he has only talked to the host.

-- The other monks in this temple don't seem to be able to speak.

When the monks set out, they didn't take anything with them. They didn't bring water, they didn't bring food. Fang Yu was carrying a backpack with first-aid items, including first-aid medicines, a small pacemaker, flares, and a radio.

After he and the host went out of the temple gate, the host looked up, pointed in one direction and said, "Let's go there." ”

The two of them set off.

Zaoshan has not been developed, so there are no roads.

Fang Yu walked in the mountains, remembering the information he had seen before coming.

In addition to the visit of geology and mineral experts, the town government of Zaoshan also considered several development plans, but in the end they all failed.

The soil of Zaoshan is different from other places, it is ordinary soil, does not contain any special elements, and the soil and stone are mixed, some people wanted to dig the soil here to sell, drove the excavator down, dug a big stone, dig in another place, and knocked a stone, finally dug a pile of soil out, put it on the flat ground to see, at least sixty percent of the soil is large and small stones.

This development plan failed.

The people in the town government thought that since there were many stones, they would dig stones to make money. As a result, the stones near Zaoshan are all small stones, and there is nothing special about it, whether it is the material, color or composition, the development value is too small. So this plan also failed.

Other places guard the mountain, you can't dig the mountain and dig out the stones, but you can still cut down trees to make money. But I don't know what's going on near Zao Mountain, it doesn't grow trees, and the trees don't grow thick, and they grow for ten or eight years, and they are only thin and thin.

The town government has thought of any tricks, and has even thought of selling the mountain to others as a cemetery and developing it into a cemetery. As a result, because the soil color of Zao Mountain was red, people refused to come again after coming to see it, saying that even if this kind of place was developed into a cemetery, the tomb would not be sold. "It's blood-red, it's scary."

So Zaoshan became a child that no one wanted.

Fang Yu was still able to walk beside the host at first, but after two hours, he was out of breath and could only follow behind.

There is no road in the mountains, and it is extremely hard to walk, climbing high slopes and crossing low ditches, and walking 50 meters to come back and forth. Fang Yu has been following the host closely, without complaining or shouting to stop. He still has the energy to observe his surroundings.

There are no big animals in this mountain.

All I saw along the way were squirrels, weasels, foxes, and badgers.

Also, there are no birds.

The host doesn't seem to be tired at all, and the pace hasn't changed at all from the time he set off to the present.

Judging by the compass, Fang Yu has been heading west.

After walking for another half hour, my eyes suddenly opened up.

The host paused and said to Fang Yu, "Take a break." ”

Fang Yu couldn't even speak, nodded, put the backpack down, sat on the backpack and gasped for breath before opening the backpack and preparing to start a fire.

It is a wasteland with a radius of about four or five kilometers, there are no trees, and there are many large and small stones on the ground.

The host casually found a stone with a high bottom and sat down, watched Fang Yu make a fire and boil water, and when the water boiled, Fang Yu made two cups of tea and handed a cup to the host, who took it and drank it slowly in his hand.

Fang Yu also sat down on a random stone next to him, and the two of them did not speak, drinking tea quietly.

"You're very good friends with Zhao Shizhu, aren't you?" The host said suddenly.

Fang Yu snorted.

The host said: "Master Zhao has been here a few times, but he has never mentioned his □□. After his disappearance, only you rushed to find him. ”

"We're friends." Fang Yu said that he didn't look at the host, as if he was not interested in this topic.

The host seemed to be very interested, he said: "Zhao Shizhu is in the world, although he has a heart for Buddha, but for him, Hongchen is more charming. ”

"We are all laymen." Fang Yu said with a smile.

The host said to Fang Yu, "You're not. ”

Fang Yu asked curiously, "Why am I not?" I have a beloved girlfriend and plan to marry her and have several children together to raise them; I have a company that I hope to have branches all over the country by the age of 50. I am both lustful and greedy for money, why am I not a layman? ”

The host smiled: "You are not called love." If in addition to your beloved girlfriend, you will also be attracted by the hue that walks by, then it is called love. You are in love, you only love this taste, how can you call it love? ”

Fang Yu said, "How do you know that she is just a blind eye in my eyes? When I saw her, I saw all the hues of this world. ”

The host shook his head, "The donor doesn't have to argue. As for money, you don't make money just for money, how can you call it greed for money? ”

Fang Yu smiled and said, "Then I am neither greedy for money nor lustful, the host will see if I have Huigen?" ”

The host put his hands together and recited the Buddha's name: "If the donor is willing to shave the ordination, it is the supreme merit of the little monk!" ”

Fang Yu was stunned, and it took a long time to react: "...... Is the host persuading me to become a monk? ”

The host shook his head: "The little monk is not persuading the donor, but just pointing out a way to the donor." If one day, the donor feels that the red dust is tasteless, and he is willing to enter the empty door, get great wisdom, and accumulate great merits, it is worth it for the little monk to add sword fire in the future. ”

Fang Yu smiled, took a sip of tea and said, "A person I know said that merit cannot be accumulated. If you do good for the sake of doing good, then good is not good anymore. ”

The host said: "The benefactor's friend can see it clearly. But how foolish are the world, and if there is no good, how can they be willing to do good? Tell them to do a good deed today, and they will be blessed in the future, so that they will do good deeds and accumulate virtue for themselves in the future, in the final analysis, everyone is selfish. But a good deed is a good deed, whether it is for oneself or for the sake of others, and a good deed does not become a bad deed because the heart is not pure. Just like Fang Shi came to save his friends, what I saw was that you came to save people, and the world may impose all kinds of reasons on Fang Shi's behavior, including good and evil. But it is the benefactor who comes to save people, and it has nothing to do with what you think in your heart. ”

After half an hour of rest, they set off again.

The host continued to walk forward with Fang Yu, but Fang Yu judged from the compass that they were going back to the Eight Treasures Temple. Sure enough, two hours later, when the sky was getting dark, they could already see the prayer pagoda of the Eight Treasures Temple.

They came around to the back of the Eight Treasure Temple.

Fang Yu has been here for two days, and he hasn't seen the warp tower yet.

The tower is nine stories high, and the glazed tiles also shine in the dark night. But when he got closer, Fang Yu smiled. The masters in the temple are not lazy, but they don't seem to take good care of the prayer pagoda. There was a thick layer of dust on the glass windows on the ninth floor of the tower, and there was a plastic bag hanging under the eaves.

The host took him around the prayer tower, saw him smile at the prayer tower, and said, "There are only donated scriptures in the tower." ”

In other words, the scriptures in the tower were donated along with the tower, and there was no original collection of books in the temple.

Fang Yu asked curiously, "Are the scriptures in the temple stored elsewhere?" ”

The presiding officer said: "There are no scriptures in the temple. ”

Fang Yu was naturally surprised. The host looked at Fang Yu with a surprised expression, thought for a moment, and explained: "There is a literacy textbook in the temple, and that one is placed in my room. ”

Are literacy textbooks more important to the monks of the Eight Treasures Temple than scriptures?

After the tower, it is the back of the main hall. Compared with the grandeur of the front, the back of the main hall is a row of ordinary bungalows, like the two rows of bungalows in front of the hall, as if they were built together.

There was a shed in front of the bungalow with a huge stone grinding disc.

Fang Yu saw that the host deliberately walked over, he followed, and saw a handful of wild fruits on the stone grinding plate.

The wild fruits seem to have been washed, and there are still water stains on the grinding discs. Wild fruits vary in size, including black, red, and cyan, black ones are small fruits, and red ones are slightly larger, with smooth skins and a layer of frost on the cyan skin.

If when he saw the wild fruit, Fang Yu thought that it was picked by the monks in the temple to prepare it, but when he saw the host walking around the millstone and picking up two fish on the ground on the other side, he knew that it was not caught by the monks.

The host looked at the fish, handed it to Fang Yu and said, "I'll make it for you." ”

Fang Yu was stunned for a while, and he suddenly remembered a story he had heard Qin Qing tell before, in her book "Xujiatun Folk Customs Preliminary Examination".

He said, "...... Is this a gift for me? ”

The host nodded.

Fang Yu took a deep breath and said, "...... If there is a gift, why doesn't the owner show up? Do you want the guests to eat for themselves? ”

The host was stunned, as if he had just discovered what Fang Yu's words meant.

The two looked at each other and stood for a while, the host turned around with the fish, and Fang Yu hurriedly followed.

The host was to go to the kitchen, and at this time the monks who had returned to the monastery had already begun to cook dinner.

The host put the fish on the board, rolled up his sleeves, washed his hands, took a knife, cut open the belly of the fish, and said to Fang Yu: "...... Then it depends on whether the master will come for a while. ”