Text Chapter 35 Skeleton Rosary

"There are people in this temple."

Lu Zhishen stopped and looked. Although the door of the Garan Temple in front of him was closed, Lu Zhishen seemed to sense something, stared at the Garan Temple in front of him, and said with some regret: "Wu Jialan, what an ancient temple, but unfortunately it is dilapidated."

Hearing this, Chao Gai nodded. The short stretch of road in front of you is full of quaint stone steps, and although the weather is hot, there is a rare cool feeling on this mountain. The sunlight shines down, the shadows of the trees are mottled, and if you look closely, you can see that there are still layers of moss in the cracks of the stone steps. Before coming to this Garan Temple, it must have been a famous ancient temple, but then it declined for some reason. Ruan Xiaoqi looked at the haggard Daddy Lin in the car and said, "Daddy Lin, the carriage in front can't work, I Xiaoqi will carry you in."

Seeing this, Father Lin refused to resign. But seeing that there were stone steps in front of him, he couldn't get off the ground with a leg injury, so he could only nod helplessly.

Chao Gai and the others tied their horses on the spot, Lu Zhishen lifted the Zen staff, and walked in front with Chao Gai. A group of five people hiked up more than 100 stone steps to the temple gate.

Lu Zhishen called the door a few times, but no one came. While hesitating, Chao Gai tried to push it, but found that the temple door was not locked, but only hidden.

Seeing that there was no movement, Chao Gai and Lu Zhishen glanced at each other, and then pushed the door in.

Seeing that there was no one around, Chao Gai and Lu Zhishen came to a room not far away. I knocked on the door again, but found that there was still no movement. Pushing the door open, there was no one in the fruit room, but Chao Gai felt a burst of fragrance waft into his mouth.

Grunt.

At this time, it was Lu Zhishen who couldn't help but make a noise in his stomach.

"How can you drop such incense, the sprinkler family is just hungry."

But there was a stove in the house, which was burning brightly, and there was a somewhat tattered pot on the stove. Chao Gai took a closer look, and immediately frowned, sure enough, there was a pot of good meat stewed in this pot, and he saw that the meat was already seven or eight times cooked.

Just then, he smelled the smell of meat, but it was in the temple after all, and he thought he was hungry, so that he hallucinated, and only then did he know that it was actually true.

"Heh", Lu Zhishen looked closer, and couldn't help but be happy, and his two copper bell-like eyes suddenly widened a lot: "Buddha, but there is a pot of meat to eat?" ”

Seeing this, Chao Gai couldn't help but be happy. It's just that Chao Gai is very strange, there is still meat stewed in this pot, and it is obvious that there were people here before. But why haven't you seen anyone? Could it be that he was afraid that he and others would find out that he was eating meat here and that he had broken the precepts of Buddhism?

At this time, Lu Zhishen and Ruan Xiaoqi were not polite. shouted a few words at the top of his voice, and seeing that there was no one around, he sat down honestly and unceremoniously, and each scooped up a piece of meat in the pot to taste. While smacking his mouth, he also scooped up pieces of meat and distributed them to Father Lin and Mrs. Lin on the side.

"You flower monk, but you live up to your name", Ruan Xiaoqi saw Lu Zhishen eating meat happily, and couldn't help but smile: "I have never seen a monk who eats meat so fragrantly, you are the first one."

After a few days of traveling, Ruan Xiaoqi is also familiar with Lu Zhi. They all felt that the other party was like-minded, so they joked at this time.

"I told you a long time ago", Lu Zhishen heard this, laughed, took another bite of the meat in one hand, and said while eating: "The Sprinkle family is not a serious monk."

Hearing this, Chao Gai and the others immediately laughed, especially Lin Niangzi, who leaned forward and backwards with laughter, unable to help herself.

"I think there was someone here just now", Ruan Xiaoqi said with a smile: "But it is estimated that this person is a real monk, and he saw that he was bumped into by us stealing wine and meat, so he avoided it." This is good, this pot of good meat is cheaper for us. If only there was one more sip of wine."

"Xiao Qi said it well", hearing this, Lu Zhishen was suddenly stunned: "Since this guy has also eaten meat, the eighty percent of the wine ring has also been broken." The Sprinkler family went out to look for it, and said that they couldn't turn out a jar or two, and they just had a good drink."

Saying that, Lu Zhishen looked around with great interest, and saw that there was no one in this house, so he immediately ran out of the door and looked for it in others.

Seeing this, Chao Gai couldn't help but smile and shake his head. I was about to speak, but I heard footsteps outside the door. Chao Gai thought it was Lu Zhishen, but he didn't care, and he didn't want a strange figure to appear at the door.

"Amitabha, Huiguang has seen you."

Hearing this, Chao Gai and the others came back to their senses, and when they looked around, they saw that the figure at the door was a head.

The man was of medium height, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, eyes sunken into his face, a collar of soap, and an iron hoop on his head. Although he was saluting, his eyes fell on a few people in the room. Chao Gai noticed, especially when the person's gaze fell on Lin Niangzi, there was an imperceptible glimmer of light in his eyes.

"Your Excellency?"

"Eh", the head Tuo saw Chao Gai asking, so he smiled at Chao Gai and said: "The poor monk has lived here for a long time, and he went to the backyard at the right time, and he didn't want to have a distinguished guest in the house."

Hearing this, and learning that it was the master who came, Ruan Xiaoqi suddenly said with some embarrassment: "It turned out that Master Hui was here again, and my stomach was empty, and I thought that there was no one in the house, so I ......."

"It's okay", seeing this, Na Huiguang smiled and waved his hand, entered the house and said with a smile: "It's just food, it's convenient for monks and people, why should this strong man be polite."

As he spoke, he saw that everyone was looking at him, and then said: "The monks should have cut off the five meat and three hates, and the poor monks couldn't control their mouths, so they just came here, and I hope everyone will not make fun of them."

"Oh, where is it", at this time, Lu Zhishen didn't know when he would return to the house, and when he heard Hui Guang say this, he couldn't help laughing: "Those Buddhist rules are too strict, and the Sprinkle family can't stand it." Don't you smell that wine and meat have passed through the intestines, and the Buddha has left it in his heart? ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone present couldn't help but laugh.

"Alas", Ruan Xiaoqi said when he saw it, and then took the burden from the side: "We have eaten the master's meal, and we really can't help it." I am a layman, and I will use the silver as the master's food."

As he spoke, Ruan Xiaoqi took out a piece of silver from his burden and handed it to Hui Guang in front of him. Seeing this, Hui Guang shook his head again and again, insisting that he would not accept it, but his eyes swept over the burden from Ruan Xiaoqi's hand without a trace.

"What is the use of these coins for monks? The strong man is too polite, just take these foods and eat them", he said and pushed the silver handed over by Ruan Xiaoqi.

"Why should the master be polite, we are laymen, and the right is just meat money. It's just that the master's meat is good, but there is no wine, and he has never enjoyed himself", Ruan Xiaoqi insisted on stuffing the silver in his hand into Hui Guang's hand, and turned around to look at the remaining half pot of meat in the pot, and smiled casually.

"Since the strong man insisted on sending it away, the poor monk accepted it", saying that Hui Guang no longer shirked, accepted a piece of silver, and then said: "Today's dare is a good day, and the distinguished guest is coming." It seems that the poor monk's private collection of the few jars of good wine also has a place today, everyone wait, the poor monk will go and change back."

"Ah", Ruan Xiaoqi slapped his thigh suddenly when he heard this. put the burden in his hand on the table on the side, and then saw that there was a little firewood and grass piled up on the side, as if he was hiding something, and couldn't help but walk over with interest and said: "What treasure is this Master Huiguang still hiding here?" ”

While speaking, Ruan Xiaoqi casually flicked with his feet, but he didn't want to have a string of things scattered along with the thatch and fell in front of everyone's eyes.

Seeing this, Ruan Xiaoqi suddenly bent down, picked up the bead-like thing on the ground, and looked at it intently.

Immediately, Ruan Xiaoqi's complexion changed suddenly: "This...... This is...... Skeleton rosary? ”