Dao Yan put the lantern on the side of the well as usual, tied the bucket with a rope and threw it into the well, and was watching the rope fall quickly into the wellhead, but suddenly realized that something was wrong, and quickly pulled the rope tightly, but the barrel fell but pulled it away, so he hurriedly stretched out his feet on the wellhead to resist, and his body almost fell into the well with the barrel. After pulling the wooden barrel out of the well, Dao Yan leaned into the well and looked into the well, only to see that the well water that used to reflect the bright moon was completely gone, and the black hole in the well seemed to be extremely deep. Dao Yan was deeply surprised, so he had to pick up the wooden barrel and walk towards the White Pagoda Temple with a lantern. As soon as I turned through the woods and walked to the mountain road leading to the temple, I saw a few people walking towards the mountain with lanterns at the bottom of the mountain, and Dao Yan pondered: "I have not seen anyone visit for many years since I was responsible for cleaning the 'Zunsheng Pagoda', and these people come at night to make it important?" When he was secretly thinking about pacing, the comer had come to the front, only to see that the current guide was his master Zong Zhen, a monk in charge of knowing the guests in the Baita Temple, followed by a man dressed as a military general, who could not see clearly due to the dim light, but he was tall and steady. The abbot Zong Kai was accompanied by the general, followed by a Yuan soldier, holding a rectangular artifact covered with sheepskin in his hand, and behind the lamp was Zong Kai's chief disciple Daohua, who was also Dao Yan's senior brother. Seeing this scene, Dao Yan hurriedly turned sideways and gave way to the abbot, master and senior brother. Zong Zhen saw that it was Daoyan, so he made sign language, led the way in front of him, and led everyone to the 'Zunsheng Tower'.

The military general turned sideways to Zong Kai and asked, "Who is this little monk?" ”

Zong Kai hurriedly replied: "This monk's name is 'Daoyan', a few years ago was abandoned outside the door of my temple, and suffered from ear disease, congenital deafness, my junior brother Zong Zhen thought of his pity and then raised him as a disciple, but there are very few people in the temple who know sign language, and his peers and brothers think that he is in the way, and this son is born with strange diseases every time he fights with the same door, often faints for no reason, Zong Zhen took him to visit many Langzhong and can not find out the reason, so he has to arrange for him to take care of the 'Zunsheng Tower' alone, so that he can purify his heart and worship the Buddha, and rarely have a bad disease. ”

The military general nodded, but did not make a sound, everyone then hurried up the mountain, and after a while came to the 'Zunsheng Tower', Dao Yan opened the tower door, and when he was about to welcome everyone into the tower, he was pulled by the military general from behind, and the military general said: "I and Master Zongkai can enter the tower, and the rest of the people stay outside the tower to listen to the order." Zong Kai motioned for Dao Yan not to enter the tower. The military general took the utensils held by the Yuan soldiers behind him, and entered the tower with Zong Kai, Dao Yan waited for the two to enter the tower and then closed the tower door, turned to the side and walked to the master who was talking to the Yuan soldiers, Dao Yan has not seen the teacher for a long time, and was waiting to come forward to greet at the moment, but suddenly someone pulled him from behind the collar, and when he looked back, Dao Hua was looking at himself with a wicked smile. This Daohua relied on himself to be the chief disciple of the abbot, and he was arrogant and domineering on weekdays, Dao Yan was bullied by him in the temple when he was young, and he fainted many times because of him, and moved to the 'Zunsheng Tower' to live, only to get better because of the infrequent meeting. At this time, seeing Daohua looking at himself with a smile, he knew that he was planning to bully himself again. Sure enough, the moment Dao Yan turned around, Dao Hua stepped on Dao Yan's foot hard, and immediately a sharp pain came, Dao Yan gritted his teeth, just snorted lightly, and hurriedly withdrew his foot, only to find that Dao Hua pressed his foot tightly like a thousand catties of boulder, and he worked harder and harder. Dao Hua saw Dao Yan's cry in pain despite his distorted face, so that his feet could twist and writhe, and Dao Yan didn't know what to do, the more angry he was, the more weak his body became, and he seemed to be about to pass out. At this time, the tower door opened, Zong Kai made sign language outside the door to call Dao Yan into the tower, Daohua had to let go of his feet, stared at his eyes, as if to say: "Count you lucky, Hugh wants me to meet you again." Dao Yan then limped towards the tower. After closing the tower door, he saw the abbot, but Zong Kai didn't seem to see his leg injury, and asked him to open the door of the underground palace with sign language, Dao Yan hurriedly took the key, and went down to the door of the underground palace with Zong Kai, only to see that the military general had big eyes and beards, a square nose and a wide mouth, and stood on the side of the door with a gloomy face, holding an iron box covered with sheepskin in both hands, as if he was already very impatient to wait, and when he saw the two of them coming, he shouted: "Don't come over quickly, it's grinding, I can't afford to wait for anyone if something happens!" After hearing this, Zong Kai snatched the key, told Dao Yan to wait outside the door in sign language, turned around and quickly opened the door lock, carried the lantern and entered the underground palace with the general.

After about a cup of tea, Zong Kaifang led the generals out of the door, reflexively locked the door tightly, and carefully checked that it was correct before putting the key away close to him.

The military general said: "The general was reckless just now, I hope the master will forgive me, but I am anxious in my heart, and I hope to complete the important task handed over by the emperor as soon as possible." ”

Zong Kai hurriedly said: "Where is it, the general is entrusted by the emperor, I think it is all the way through the hardships, the old monk is sluggish, and the general is asked to atone for his sins." ”

The military general sighed and said: "As the master said, this road is indeed arduous and abnormal, on the day of departure, there will be the image of the heavenly dog eating the sun, the Yellow River burst, and there have been several civil uprisings along the way, I wait for Xiaosu to travel at night, to Taizhou, the Yangtze River is broken, this vision is unheard of, I have to delay for a few days, I am afraid, the pain is really indescribable, so I only hope to complete this matter as soon as possible, so I can feel at ease." ”

Zong Kai said: "Now that the emperor's order has been completed, the general please go back to the temple to rest, and will stay for a few days, how about the old monk personally accompany the general to visit Hangzhou City?" ”

The military general said: "The master is kind, the general has received it, the task has been completed, and he needs to return to Beijing as soon as possible to resume his life, so he will not disturb the master's Qing Xiu, and he will leave tomorrow." ”

The two exchanged pleasantries for a while, both walked out of the tower, took everyone down the mountain and returned to the temple, when leaving, Daohua turned around and glared at Dao Yan, Dao Yan hurriedly closed the tower door, it was almost late at night, Dao Yan then spread the cover on the ground and fell asleep.

"Hungry, hungry。。。。。。 I'm so hungry! ”。 A faint voice drifted by,

"thief, I've been hungry for so many years, and I was locked up by you again as soon as I ate something. Hungry...... I'm really hungry! A resentful curse in his voice.

"Where are you? I also have a piece of 'Ruyi' here, if it's not too little, please take it and eat it." Dao Yan began to talk to the strange "voice" in a daze.

"Who are you? How can you hear me? The strange "voice" asked as if surprised.

"I'm Daoyan, hey, yes, I'm deaf, how can I hear you? Who are you? Suddenly, Dao Yan woke up suddenly, looked at the oil lamp, and found that the fragrant leaves inside had been burned, and read with a long breath: "It turned out to be a dream, but it is such a feeling of no longer being lonely to hear someone talking, it would be nice to have such a dream every day." Then he shook his head at his unrealistic idea.