The Yunju Temple, which has been clean for a hundred years, is rare and lively, and before dawn, the temple is already crowded with people and busy. Yunju Temple is handed over to Xin Che such a capable and noble holy monk in charge, all the monks are happy to surrender to it, except for Xin Che himself, it seems that everyone is happy with a smile.

At the same time as the star rises from the east, the temple bell rings and the prayer begins for the monks of the temple to pray together. In the incense mist of the curling scripture hall, the heart is clear and wears a robe and a crown, and slowly steps into the main hall in the sound of everyone's chanting, and bows to the gods and Buddhas of the temple step by step. At that moment, Xinche was not an emperor but dignified and noble, not a god or a Buddha but deserved to be worshipped, and the sacred temperament of returning to the unity of the Yuan was vividly reflected in him.

The succession ceremony of Yunju Temple completely inherits the ancient ritual training system, and the order of each link, the starting time, and the rules of march have strict requirements, even if the old abbot is now in decline, he must attend and act in full strict accordance with the requirements of the canon. The ceremony begins at the beginning of the morning star and ends with the appearance of the Big Dipper, symbolizing the beginning and end of the Buddhist path of reincarnation. At the end of the morning salute, all the monks performed their duties in an orderly manner, and only waited for the old abbot at noon to officially award the new abbot the Eight Treasures Zen Staff in front of everyone in the hall.

After the morning prostration, Xinche will have an hour's rest, during which he will burn incense and chant sutras, and then change into the new abbot's three-colored robe and wait for noon. Half an hour later, he closed his eyes and finished chanting. I looked up and looked around, but I didn't see the circle that came back with the robe. Seeing that he was about to enter the main hall to salute in a few moments, he was inevitably delayed, so Xinche had to order Wu to go to the garment hall to pick up the clothes first. He hurried back soon after going out with his legs and feet, but he couldn't get the robe back, and the whole person was sweating profusely.

"Qi, Uncle Qi, the governor of the Clothing Hall informed that the Dharma robe had been taken away by Senior Brother Yuan in advance, but the disciple searched around but still did not find the senior brother himself, and even the Dharma robe was missing."

"Have you found a meditation room, a clean room, or even a dining hall?"

"Yes, several brothers and sisters helped me to search for it. Except for the forbidden place in the temple. We've already looked for the rest of the places where Senior Brother Yuan can go. I didn't even see half a figure. ”

The inexplicable disappearance of the abbot with the abbot's robe caused a lot of trouble among several little monks, although Xin Che did not blame anything, but his heart was not at ease. That's not a long time. Although he is a little lively and jubilant on weekdays, he is still an obedient and good disciple most of the time. What's more, he has a smart mind and a clear heart, and his feelings are good. Nothing could have gone wrong on such a fateful day. At present, all the teachers and brothers searched the whole temple and couldn't find anyone, but they realized that a sentence of "forbidden land" reminded Xinche.

The ruined hall between Yunju Temple and Donghuang Mountain Cliff, except for Xinche, occasionally went to worship. For the rest of the time, only Yuan was arranged to help take care of it. A few days ago, when Xin Che went to visit the ethereal position, although he didn't see Yuan, it still looked like someone was occasionally taking care of the temple in that hall, maybe the Yuan was there at this moment.

Time was pressed and he didn't care about explaining to others, so Xinche casually changed into his regular clothes and walked towards the side hall of the back mountain in person. Sure enough, as soon as he arrived at the gate of the ruined hall, he noticed something different. The ruined hall is declining, and the crooked wooden door is hidden most of the time when it is difficult to close, but today it seems that it is tightly sealed, and it should be deliberately blocked by someone from the temple with a door gate, except for the circle will not be someone else.

Looking back, there are indeed some weird things about the circle in the past few days. Since the second day of Xinche's return to the temple, the child's eyes have always been evasive when he looks at him, and he has been confused several times when he asks him. On weekdays, I love to serve by Xinche's side when I have nothing to do, but I'm always so busy these days that I can't see people, and these many abnormalities seem to be related today. Xin Che raised his hand to knock on the door, thinking of this, he suddenly hesitated, and after a while, he simply used his internal force to exert force towards the old wooden door panel at the same time, and pushed the door directly without much effort.

"Uncle Shi?! You, how did you get here? ”

Inside the ruined hall was indeed Yuan himself, and when Xin Che broke through the door, he was squatting on the ground and seriously burning a basket of unknown objects. Seeing Xin Che appear in the midst of a burst of fire and smoke, he was immediately frightened to the ground, and with one hand, he quickly gathered up the unburned objects and hid them behind him.

"The ceremony is coming, don't you hurry up and take your clothes and go back, what are you doing alone in this ruined palace?"

At the same time as Xin Che asked, he glanced over and saw that the gold-lacquered tray covered with red cloth was placed on the offering table not far away, and he thought that the robe was fine. On the other side, Yuan was so frightened that he stammered, saying that he was greedy for a moment and forgot the time, so he hurried back. Xinche's gaze wandered around and landed in the bamboo basket behind the circle, not believing his justification.

"Playing and forgetting time? What kind of child are you, how can you not know as a teacher, but at such an important time, you say that you are here to burn a fire and play. Amitabha, if the monks don't speak, you also know the allusion to the hell of pulling out the tongue, do you still insist on lying? ”

Xin Che's sharp reprimand without saying a word and pulling out his tongue from hell instantly blocked all of Yuan's justifications, and the little monk's little face was wrinkled, and the already frightened Xiao Si was about to cry out after this fright. Seeing Xinche approaching him step by step with an unkind face, he had to resign himself to dragging out the bamboo basket behind him, and he knelt straight and bowed to Xinche to admit his mistake.

"Uncle Shi is on top, and the disciple will know that he is wrong!"

"Do you know what's wrong with you?"

"Disciples should not have neglected their duties and delayed the progress of the ceremony at a critical time today, and they should not have ?????? it."

"What should it be?"

Liyuan was very nervous, his hands were tightly clasped in front of his eyebrows, his body was trembling slightly, and he finally gave an explanation in his heart.

"You shouldn't have made an arbitrary claim, intercepted your letters, sealed the cave where you practiced, and burned all the physical evidence!"

Liyuan gritted his teeth and confessed, but it was Xin Che himself who was really shocked. Just now, he had also imagined the various reasons for Yuan's disobedience today, and even thought that he was going to do something treacherous to the temple, but he never thought that all his abnormal actions were all related to himself.

No, maybe it's not just about himself. The letter, the cave house, all the things were pointing at the same time to another person in the distance, the person he had sworn never to think about again-Yin Su asked. (To be continued......)