The old abbot's meditation room is built on the most secluded hill in the mountain temple, although it can proudly overlook the whole temple, it is also lonely and lonely.

The room was dimly lit, and the doors and windows were still closed and the lights were lit during the day, and the sullen air mixed with the smell of meditation sandalwood and medicine, and the twilight breath of the old and sick was about to come out. The mage of eternal silence on the couch slept in his clothes, half-asleep and even Xinche pushed the door in without noticing, until he heard his voice calling softly to himself.

"Xinche, but you're back?"

"Yes, it's safe and sound, Brother Lao is worried. Xin Che failed to return to the temple as soon as possible, and after so many things, the senior brother was afraid that he had suffered a lot of fatigue. ”

"I'm tired of it, but unfortunately, people always have to serve the old. It's just a hot cold and I have been on the hospital bed for a long time, you see, I have been sleeping since I took the medicine in the morning. Thankfully, you're back. ”

Xin Che helped the old abbot to get up, and his hand was tightly held by Xin Che's hand and refused to let go, and he kept chattering. The old abbot's identity is different, although he can't cry and laugh with joy like the little monk, he is also happy when he sees the living heart in front of him, and his excitement is overflowing, and even the pain on his body seems to have been relieved a lot, and he can insist on sitting cross-legged after getting up half-leaning.

Although Xinche wants to call the old abbot a senior brother according to his seniority because of his identity as a reincarnated spirit child, in fact, in the years that the two have been together for a long time, they are more like a father and son, and Xinche's care for the old abbot is also respectful and dedicated. Seeing that he insisted on meditating, he carefully prepared cushions and blankets. After drinking a bowl of medicine, he bowed down and sat on the edge of the collapse to talk to him, focusing on his situation in recent months.

All the information he reported was true, including from rescuing people on the top of the cliff and encountering willow wind to falling off the cliff to being rescued Yin Suwen's amnesia, and even getting along with He Caiwei without reservation, all of them were honest and honest, but his frankness did not contain Yin Suwen's words of hatred for marriage, nor did he mention that he had gone to Zhang's mansion alone to ask Zhang Shaoqing for a person's freedom.

The old abbot was in much better spirits, listened attentively to his presentation, and would ask a few questions from time to time. After some questions and answers, it was confirmed that what Xin Che said was not concealed. While secretly breathing a sigh of relief, he said earnestly.

"All the time. I have strict expectations for you, even if I came back with the news of your funeral, I didn't believe it even a little, and it turned out that what I thought was right. You're still the same heart as before, the difference is. After going through these worldly experiences. You will become more composed and better. ”

"The heart is always in mind the teachings of Buddhism and the abbot's reminders. I didn't dare to relax in the slightest, and I went back from the west for a few years of experience, experienced a lot and learned a lot. ”

"It's a rewarding experience. But after all, it's only an experience outside the body, and some experience is enough. If you want to hold the cultivation, the most important thing is to go from the inside to the outside, and finally turn all the gains from external things into your own. Now the things in the temple are complicated and not very peaceful, so in the future, you will not leave the mountain temple for half a step, just concentrate on cultivation here. ”

Xin Che was bowing his head and obeying orders, but the old abbot's words of concentrating on cultivation shocked him suddenly. In the more than 20 years that he grew up in Yunju Temple, although he was not absolutely free, except for the schoolwork problems of his youth, the old abbot never had any intention of restraint or opposition in other things. Even when he was young and vigorous and resolutely wanted to follow in the footsteps of his ancestor and go west, he did not hesitate to say much. Now that he had received such a request before he had returned for three months, in his judgment, this meaningful word of expectation was more of an attempt to limit his actions.

"Dare to ask the abbot, but because Xinche has been away from the temple for a long time, he has some scruples and wants to punish him?"

"Amitabha, the punishment is not to be talked about, and what is required is not the reason for leaving the temple for a long time, if you still just want to explore the southeast and northwest to find what Buddhist family relationship is like before, I will naturally not care about you. It's just that this incident implicated the capital of Uehara and the nobles of the imperial court at the same time, and it was inseparable from a secular woman. Although I have lived in the mountains for a long time and rarely go out of the customs, the cause of this incident has passed into my ears word for word, and I don't know that the so-called people in the court have passed on the letters of love, which has produced many bad influences that cannot be understood. As the master of a temple and as your elder, you will never allow this to happen again. ”

What the old abbot said was tactful enough, but Xin Che could roughly think of something, which was nothing more than something related to Yin Suwen. Sure enough, seeing that he seemed unmoved, the old abbot couldn't help but feel a little angry.

"You are a famous monk in Yunju Temple, and now in order to save a woman and do not care about your own safety, you have not returned for months without any news, have you ever thought about the mountain temple and the monks behind you? What's more, if you really have some three long and two short, how do you ask me to explain to the old and young in the temple?! ”

He wanted to mention another person, but he stopped in time and didn't say anything more, only added a stern exclamation.

"If you make a mistake in the love calamity, even if he drives the crane west, I will have no shame to face the gods and Buddhas in the sky. Xinche, you came to the mortal world to help the world and overcome the sufferings of all beings in the world, not for the sake of some ordinary people, and you must not act recklessly without scruples. Master Shenguang's legacy, you must keep it in mind! ”

After repeated reprimands, the old abbot, whose condition had only eased, coughed eagerly, and Xinche hurriedly stepped forward to help, and had to explain earnestly.

"All the experiences and encounters with that Yin Shizhu are really all due to coincidences, and Xin Che has not been half deliberate or narrow-minded. The mountain cliff saves people, and it is all out of a compassionate heart that cannot see death and not save, my heart is open, and I also ask the abbot to see it. ”

He wanted to explain more, but was stopped by the old abbot.

"Okay, I naturally know what kind of character you are, and this matter is a lot of involvement, and it happens to remind you. It is not difficult to distinguish between good and evil, but it is difficult to distinguish between the pink skeleton and the red face and the water, since you have a clean heart, then this matter will be revealed. I am old, and I am really limited in what I can do, and I am only saying this for the purpose of persuasion and teaching. After that, you will stay in the temple with peace of mind, and only share some more temple chores for me every day. ”

The old abbot has raised him for many years, even if he is angry, he is reluctant to be harsh, and when he sees that his heart is clear and his mind is firm, he does not want to pursue it more. Now, every word he said was both a request and a plea, and Xin Che could no longer have any room for refusal, and then he could only nod solemnly yes. (To be continued......)

PS: Who and what are you doing when you come to the world?