Chapter 11 Buddha Statue

Tuoba Shen walked to a Buddha picture engraved on the tablet of Sakyamuni's preaching, only to see Sakyamuni sitting on a double-layer lotus platform, wearing a robe outside, with a high fleshy bun on his head, his face slightly downward, his right palm bent forward and his arm pushed flat, his face was gentle and solemn, and there were three layers of Buddha light behind him, and the outermost flame was rising. On the left of Shakyamuni Buddha is a Manjushri, on the right is a Vimala monk, and in the middle are the disciples and the heavenly kings. The depiction is deep and shallow, and the whole picture is mainly to highlight the Buddha Shakya.

Under the inscription, there are several villains worshipping the Buddha, wearing obvious Xianbei narrow-sleeved long clothes. Next to the Xianbei inscription engraved prayer, to the effect that he has been in the border town for a long time, can not be at home, hope that the Buddha can bless the family and children of the health and longevity, the last engraved is the name of the worshipper, it turned out to be a military lord called Hebaling in Rouxuan Town, the time is three years ago in the summer of May.

I read several in succession, and the inscriptions are engraved with some trivial matters, but there are no prayers such as "the daughter-in-law of the neighbor of the east family gave birth to a child safely" and "the child of the west family grows up healthily", I can't help but be slightly disappointed, thinking about it, even if there are those things, they are hidden in the stomach.

After a while, I suddenly saw a Bodhisattva statue wearing a red scarf, which was very conspicuous among the many Buddha statues, Tuoba Shen walked over and looked, this is a standard Buddha statue, the Buddha sat on the lotus platform, pinched the Buddha seal, and the Buddha was bright and prosperous behind him. Tuoba looked at the lotus platform and found no inscription under the lotus platform. Maybe it's engraved in the back, right? Stretching out his hand to take a look at the statue of the Buddha, he found that there seemed to be words tattooed with red silk thread on the scarf, and the words were embroidered with red silk thread on the red scarf.

Untied the scarf, before getting the light, turned over and over against the light, and finally saw the font clearly, the embroidery was obviously very good, the font was clear, it was Chinese.

"Letter Woman Aiying Jingqi ......" Tuoba tilted his head cautiously, looked at the words on the scarf and read it gently, just after he started, he suddenly heard a slight footstep and the sound of stairs at the stairs, and it sounded like there were two people together.

It is very embarrassing to peek at other people's prayers, Tuoba Shen subconsciously wanted to tie back to the Buddha statue, but now it is too late, who knows who is coming up, it may be the novice in the temple, it may be just a passerby, or it may be the owner of this scarf......

In a hurry, Tuoba Shen had no choice but to wrap the scarf into the sleeves, fortunately it was a narrow sleeve, although the scarf was not small when rolled up, but it could still be put down, as long as it was not a hanging hand, ordinary people could not see what was hidden inside.

Tuoba Shen walked in front of the Medicine Buddha, looked at the Medicine Buddha with a loving face, prayed with both hands, and prayed silently that the person who went upstairs was not really the owner of the scarf.

The one who came up turned out to be the girl she had just seen on the first floor, this time she was not alone, there was one behind her, it looked like it should be her maid, the dress was very simple, about the same age, and there was a one-piece red mink robe with a hat on her arm, this kind of mink robe was like the Zhaojun costume in the picture of the ladies of later generations, very beautiful.

The girl went upstairs and looked straight at the statue of Medicine Buddha, and paused for a moment, but she didn't expect it to be the young man Langjun she had just met on the first floor. It looks like they are worshipping Medicine Buddha. Immediately inadvertently turned her head to look for the floating Buddha she worshipped, because the light was not very good, she walked into a few steps to look for it, and suddenly her face changed greatly, and the embroidered red scarf on the statue of Shakya Buddha she worshipped was gone. The girl stepped forward and looked carefully, but there was no behind. I couldn't help but get anxious. This statue was made by her to pray for the blessing of her parents, and there are prayers embroidered by her own on it. Although I am not afraid of being looked at, I can't calm down any one in this situation.

This Buddha statue was enshrined by her two months ago, specially embroidered with a red silk scarf and tied to the Buddha statue, and then several times when I came to Yongning Tower, since the death of the Queen Mother, because the Yongning Temple was closed, I have not come in, today just opened the temple she begged her father to come to Yongning Temple to see, I didn't expect it to be taken away.

The girl looked left and right, but she didn't see the little novice stationed in the tower, and she thought that there were many people here, and the novice might not know that this kind of taking other people's offerings had not happened before. After all, the good men and women who can enter and exit here all have status, and no one will do such an unseemly thing.

Tuoba Shen bowed to the Medicine Buddha and watched, but his eyes stared at the girl's movements from time to time, and saw that the girl was indeed the owner of the red scarf, and couldn't help but feel empty, looking at the girl who was anxiously looking for it, several times I wanted to tell the truth, but I was afraid that I couldn't tell the truth, and I was afraid that I would be considered a pervert who liked to peep, so I had to shut up, thinking that it was better to wait for her to leave and then tie the red scarf back to the Buddha statue.

The girl and her maid searched separately again, but when they still didn't find it, they thought that they could only ask someone else about it. Seeing that Tuoba Shen was still praying in front of the Medicine Buddha, as if he was still praying silently, he didn't know whether he should go up and ask, after all, it was very rude to disturb others to worship the Buddha. Tuoba Shen is also very helpless, he can only use the Buddha to cover himself now, once he does not hold the incense in his hand, and then the arm is flat, it will be very abrupt, and it is easy for the girl to see that there may be something hidden in the sleeve of his arm.

The girl waited for a while, and saw that Tuoba Shen was still in a praying posture, and she didn't think it was a little strange, even if the Buddha could help you, you can't ask too much, right? The Buddha is not your servant, let you send it.

Tuoba Shen also saw that the girl wanted to ask him, and he didn't know if he should deal with a few words and leave first, but after hesitating for a while, he found that the girl was still waiting for him, sweating profusely, gritting his teeth, knowing that he couldn't pretend anymore, and if he dragged on, it became more and more suspicious. So he stood up and put his contribution into the incense burner with both hands, saluted again, turned around and did not dare to look at the girl, and walked towards the stairs.

Seeing that Tuoba Shen had finally finished praying, the girl glanced at the maid beside her, and pushed it gently, she was an innocent daughter, so it was naturally inconvenient to take the initiative to ask a young man.

Tuoba Shen was also paying attention to the pair of master and servant, walking slowly past them, his eyes not squinting, his expression calm, just waiting for him to get out of this layer of the tower and be freed.

"This ...... This Lang Jun, please wait a moment. The maid had never experienced the initiative to greet a strange man, and she was a little timid and hesitant to speak.

Tuoba Shen turned around, his expression was puzzled, and replied, "This lady, may I ask why you are staying down?" ”

The little maid saluted and said: "I don't dare to call the lady, the little maid is just a maidservant, and I don't deserve the word lady" looked back at her own lady, and then said: "My lady has always saluted the Buddha, and a Buddha was enshrined here before, attached to the Buddha with a pair of red gauze, just came up but only the Buddha Tu, did not see the scarf again, this Buddha Buddha is the lady for my family to invite, just because the lady is anxious, this is the presumptuous call to Lang Jun, dare to ask Lang Jun if he has seen it", said and pointed to the statue of Buddha Shakya.