Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Monk's Story
Qingkong endured the pain and grinned reluctantly: "It's okay, little sister, where is your home, why are you here?" After hearing this, the little girl lowered her head sadly and said: "My family is in Yangzhou, the Jianghuai generation, I ran for three days to come here, because I have no money on me, so I am ready to come here to find something to fill my stomach." Qingkong looked at her and said, "You come to me first, I cooked some wild vegetables here, if you don't mind, you can eat them together." When the little girl heard this, she hurriedly agreed, and Qingkong took her to the place where she was going to stay, warmed the pot of wild vegetable soup, and then served a bowl to the girl, and simply dealt with the injuries on her body, and then asked the girl who was still eating: "What is the name of the donor?" The girl was still eating, chewed and swallowed the wild vegetables in her mouth and said, "My name is Zhao Huiling." Then he asked rhetorically, "What's your name?" Qingkong smiled and said, "My Dharma name is to cultivate foolishness." Zhao Huiling thought for a while and asked, "What is your common name?" Qingkong still said with a smile on his face: "Li Fengcheng." Zhao Huiling said: "Then I'll call you crazy brother in the future, I don't like to cultivate foolishness one by one, it's troublesome." "As long as the donor likes it." ”
After eating a pot of wild vegetable soup, Zhao Huiling patted his stomach and said, "Ah." It's so full. That's right, madman. Qingkong smiled helplessly this time: "Yes." "Actually, I didn't eat at all, I just helped Zhao Huiling make soup. At this time, Qingkong asked: "Where does the donor live now, and the poor monk sends the donor back." Zhao Huiling was sad when she heard about home, and said: "I don't have a place to live now, and I still found some people to complain a few days ago." And I lost the silver I had with me this morning. She couldn't bear to keep her awake at night, so she had to sleep with her tonight, and she began to keep vigil. It is now the season of early winter, and it will become cold as soon as it gets dark, and he is afraid that his wool quilt will not keep warm, so he takes off his big robe and covers it on the quilt of Zhao Huiling, who is already asleep.
It was the hardest night of the night, and even if you were leaning against the fire, you could still feel the cold, and the wind was blowing. Zhao Huiling woke up when he was on the second stroke the next day, and saw a person in front of him who was constantly rubbing his hands and was startled, and then found that the crazy brother at this time. Looking at Qingkong's current appearance, Zhao Huiling was also a little uncomfortable in her heart, and saw that there was still a robe on her quilt, so she quickly grabbed it and put it on Qingkong's body. Seeing the little girl's intimate movements, she was also a little relieved, packed her luggage and said to Zhao Huiling: "Where is your home, I'll send you back." Zhao Huiling said unhappily when he heard that he was going home: "I don't want to go back, I will listen to the nagging of the bad old man when I go in a while, and I will go to learn the piano and dance, and I will be annoyed to death." Qingkong persuaded: "But the donor is not a matter of this, you should go back as soon as possible, follow the persuasion of the elders, the poor monk believes that the donor's parents will never harm the donor." Zhao Huiling was only seven years old, and she couldn't stand the persuasion, so she finally agreed, provided that she let Qingkong take her back. Because after last night to now, Zhao Huiling was very moved by everything Qingkong had done, which made her feel dependent on the crazy brother in front of her.
On this day, they began to set off, and Qingkong took Zhao Huiling to watch the mountains and rivers along the way, and then took her to Huayuan, to put it bluntly, she went to ask for food. Finally on this day they came to the door of a large family, the threshold is very high, the flat on the door is written with two silver characters "Zhao Mansion", when the family at the door saw Zhao Huiling, they hurriedly greeted and knelt in front of Zhao Huiling and said: "Miss Zhao, I can be regarded as looking forward to your return." Seeing the tattered love empty man wearing next to him, he said suspiciously: "Who is this?" The Love Sky Alliance called a Buddha and said: "The poor monk cultivates foolishness, and today he specially sent Zhao Shizhu home." Now that the task of the poor monk has been completed, I would like to send Zhao Shizhu to complete his studies as soon as possible. Zhao Huiling suddenly grabbed Qingkong's sleeve and said pleadingly: "Brother Crazy, don't go, come to me, let's build a temple for you." Qingkong shook his head with a smile and said, "Donor, the poor monk still has to travel, and he can't delay time here." But Zhao Huiling held Qingkong's hand and didn't let him go. At this time, a person walked out of the gate, a dignified middle-aged man, and next to the middle-aged man stood a fairly young beautiful woman, who hurriedly ran over and hugged Zhao Huiling after seeing her daughter: "Ling'er, where have you been running these days." When did you come back, why didn't you let the family inform us? Zhao Huiling looked at Qingkong and said, "It was the madman brother who sent me back." The beautiful woman hurriedly thanked the love empty, and there was no arrogance that those nobles should have.
At this time, the middle-aged man walked over and looked at Qingkong and asked, "What's your name?" Qingkong hurriedly replied: "The poor monk is called cultivating foolishness." The middle-aged man nodded and glanced at the butler beside him, who hurried into the room and soon walked out with a plate of silver in his hand. The middle-aged man said: "Xiuyu, these are all you deserve, thank you for sending my daughter back, this is a gift." Please come back now. Qingkong didn't even glance at the silver and said, "The monks don't accept other people's treasures, so the donor asks you to respect yourself." The housekeeper next to him glared at him and shouted angrily: "Bold, how dare you bald donkey ignore the prince." Zhao Huiling suddenly stood in front of Qingkong's body and shouted to the housekeeper: "Uncle Guan, if you dare to be rude to the madman, I will ignore you in the future." Then he turned to Qingkong and said, "Brother Madman, when will you come again." Qingkong looked at her immature face and smiled and said, "We will meet by fate, donor, and there will be a period later." After saying that, he left without looking back. Zhao Huiling suddenly cried, but she couldn't help but hear it, and walked straight out of their sight.
Originally thinking that this matter had already passed, and that he would not meet them in the future, Qingkong returned to the temple and began to practice after wandering. He didn't want Hui Neng to be able to have an epiphany, so he could only slowly comprehend it like Shenxiu. However, since Yun You widened his eyes, his cultivation speed had also increased significantly, and he had already reached the level of an advanced monk in just six years. His master also had nothing to teach him, so he had to send him down the mountain again to let him continue his wandering, and Qingkong also obeyed the master's persuasion, wearing the five Buddha crowns that can only be worn by Taoist monks, holding an iron Zen staff, and wearing an old gray robe, and walked out of this Buddhist temple.