How can there be two temples with the same name on a Tiantai Mountain? Li Jing stared at the plaque hanging high on the mountain gate, and then vaguely recalled that the guest monk of the Tiantai Temple in the front mountain told him that there was a Buddhist temple in the back mountain that could be used by people to stay in the expression, and seemed to have said a sentence "Occasionally, there will be guests to spend the night in the back mountain temple", at this time it is also quite strange to think about it.

However, he immediately thought that it could not be ruled out that this Buddhist temple in the back mountain was an annex to the Buddhist temple in the front mountain, although it was located in different directions on the mountain, but it was still the same temple, so he stepped forward and slapped the mountain gate hard, and called loudly: "Is there anyone in the temple?" ”

It was very different from the noisy front mountain, there was silence on the back mountain, and Li Jing's sudden knock on the door did not get any response except for startling a group of birds in the mountain forest.

Li Jing called loudly for a long time, but he never saw anyone in the temple answer, which aroused his curiosity more and more, and shouted loudly to the temple: "If I don't open the door again, I'm going to jump over the wall and jump in, but don't blame me for being rude." While looking at the wall that was more than two feet high in front of him, he suddenly stepped and twisted his waist, and his body rose in the air, jumped steadily on the wall, and looked at the temple.

I saw that there was no one in this Tiantai Temple in the back mountain, but the temple was built in the palace and monks' dormitory, although the scale was not as grand as the Tiantai Temple in the front mountain, the temple could accommodate more than 100 people to practice as a monk. But what makes Li Jing feel very puzzled is that when he was in front of the mountain, he clearly saw that the incense in the Tiantai Temple was vigorous, and he wanted to stay in the temple but couldn't, and this huge temple was deserted, but there was no trace of popularity, although there was a distance between the front and back mountains, but the scene in the temple was so different that it could not help but make people feel in a trance.

Li Jing rode on the top of the wall and observed the temple for a long time, and decided to enter the temple to find out. He thought like this: if the temple in Houshan is an uninhabited and abandoned temple, then it is not too late for him to return to Qianshan and find another place to stay after finding out what is going on in the temple, but if he guesses outside the mountain gate, this place is only closed to the public on weekdays for some reason, and there are still people living in the monks' houses in the temple, then he might as well live here.

Therefore, Li Jing jumped into the temple and walked straight towards the row of monks' houses behind the Daxiong Treasure Hall.

There are more than a dozen monks' houses in this row of monks' houses in the Tiantai monastery in Houshan, Li Jing first walked out of the window of one of the monks' houses, stretched out his fingers to poke a small hole in the window paper, and used the carpenter's single-hanging thread skills, and looked into the monks' houses through the small holes in the window paper: the monks' houses were unexpectedly empty, and there were about seven or eight monks' beds next to the bed next to the bed against the south wall, which were vaguely visible through the mosquito nets hanging on each monk's bed, and each bed was neatly placed with pillows, bedding and other necessary things on the bed, and Li Jing noticedThe mosquito nets hanging on each monk's bed in the monk's house are clean and spotless.

This should be what it looks like for people to live in on a daily basis. Thinking like this, Li Jing chose two other monks' houses at random, pierced the window paper, peeked into the room, and saw that the situation in these two monks' houses was not much different from the previous monk's house, so he was even more convinced that there were still people living in this seemingly deserted temple.

When Li Jing walked to the easternmost door of this row of monks' houses, he suddenly heard that there seemed to be a noise in this monk's house, and his heart was overjoyed, and he hurriedly stepped forward to call the door: "Is there anyone in the room?" I'm here to stay overnight in the temple, so I would like to ask Master to open the door. ”

"Meow".

He was answered by a feeble meow.

Anyway, I finally met a living creature in this temple. Li Jing painted the gourd in the same way, stepped forward to pierce the window paper of this monk's house, and looked into the room: this monk's house is very different from the others, like the temple is very important to the status of the monk to live, not only in the room is only placed in a rather spacious pot door bed, but also a few, case, box, cabinet and other furnishings, compared with the other monks' houses in addition to a row of monk's beds, almost empty, it seems a lot of luxury.

"Meow, meow".

Li Jing listened to the sound of the argument, and heard that the cat's meow seemed to come from the door, and was calling for the cat to come to the window, when he heard the mountain gate behind him being pushed open, and he was so shocked that he didn't have time to think about it, so he hid on the other side of the monk's house, and looked at the mountain gate.

I saw the opening of the mountain gate, and three monks walked in from outside the temple. The monk who walked in front was about sixty years old, wearing a robe, and was the first to walk into the mountain gate, walking straight towards the row of monks' houses where Li Jing was, and asked a monk behind him as he walked: "Did you really instruct that young man to come to the back mountain?" Why didn't we see him return to the front mountain all the way? ”

One of the two monks who followed behind the old monk was the monk who instructed Li Jing to stay in the Houshan Temple, and replied with a smile: "Master, the apprentice only heard that the young man spoke with a Guanzhong accent, and as soon as he entered the temple, he inquired about the whereabouts of Uncle Zhiqi, and his identity was very suspicious, so he didn't dare to keep him to stay in the temple to spend the night, so he sent him here. Afterwards, he was afraid that Master Dujing had returned to the temple, and if he met this young man, it would probably be unfavorable to him, so he told the master about it. Now we haven't met him, I think this young man has arrived in the back mountain, and he thinks that this temple is deserted, so he has gone down the mountain to find another place to stay. ”

As they spoke, they approached the monk's house.

"Meow".

Another cat meow came from inside the lavishly furnished monastic house.

The old monk at the head stopped in front of the monk's house, turned back to another monk and asked, "You haven't been here to clean up for a few days, have you fed this cat?" I listened to the barking of the cat, and it was clear that it was very hungry. ”

When the monk asked, he hurriedly replied: "In the past two days, there are too many believers who have come to the Qianshan Temple to drop incense, so Uncle Xiao ordered the apprentice to help a few Zhike senior brothers to receive the believers who descended the incense, and forgot to come to the Houshan Temple for a while, so the disciple went to feed the cat." As he spoke, he walked towards the place where Li Jing was hiding.

Li Jing saw that there was nothing to hide, so he flashed out of the corner of the wall, and apologized to the old monk who was the leader: "Please forgive the senior monk for being rude, because he had not opened the door of the mountain for a long time, so he had to climb over the wall and enter the temple without permission." ”

The old monk turned around and glanced at the guest monk, and saw that he nodded at himself, and then knew that it was Li Jing who was sent to the back mountain by him, and said to Li Jing with both palms: "The little donor doesn't have to blame himself, today this matter was originally committed by the poor monk's apprentice, and the little donor should not be guided to live in the Houshan Temple, and the little donor has nothing to do." Then ask the little benefactor to return to the Qianshan Temple with the poor monk to rest. ”