Just when the old monk and Li Jing were meeting each other, Li Yu saw that the monk who was entourage had turned out a small cloth bag from under the other side of the wall where he was hiding, turned around and walked to the door of the luxurious monk's house, took out the door key from his waist, and opened the door.

As soon as the door opened, a kitten with snow-white fur and a pair of blue eyes burst out of the room, "Meow, meow" and pounced on the monk who followed him.

The attendant monk hurriedly opened the mouth of the small cloth bag in his hand, put the small cloth bag on the ground in front of him, and said to the kitten apologetically: "It's all my fault, I forgot to feed you in the past two days, feed you more food today, and when the master comes back, you are not allowed to sue me." ”

The kitten was evidently hungry, and before the monk could put the little cloth bag on the ground, he cried and pounced, and without saying a word, took a dead mouse from his pocket in his mouth, and ran away with joy to enjoy its delicacies.

Li Jing saw all this in his eyes, and felt strange in his heart: Buddhist disciples never kill, why would this retinue monk use a dead mouse to feed this cat?

He grew up in Chang'an since he was a child, and made friends with a group of noble eunuchs like Liu Jushi, since he has seen the Hu people in Chang'an West City, the Hu people shop secondary school to Chang'an City, the noble eunuchs in the ladies and ladies of the family to sell as pets this kind of cats, but today is the first time I have seen with my own eyes, there are monks raising this kind of cats.

The monk who had instructed Li Jing to stay in the back mountain saw that Li Jing's attention was attracted by Hu Mao, and he didn't listen to what his master said to him, so he couldn't help but scold Li Jing and said, "Master invited you to stay in Qianshan Temple, did you hear that?" I haven't thanked Master yet! ”

The old monk raised his hand to stop his apprentice, as if he didn't want Li Jing to stay in the temple for a long time, and once again invited Li Jing to follow him back to the Tiantai Temple in Qianshan.

Seeing this situation, Li Jing had to follow the old monk to the mountain gate, looking back as he walked, wanting to see the appearance of the cat eating, but saw that the monk who fed the cat was opening the door of the monk's house one by one, as if he wanted to clean the room, so he said to the old monk walking in front of him: "Senior monk, it is getting late today, and I will simply spend the night in the back mountain in Xia, maybe Master Zhiqi will return to the temple tomorrow, and I need to rush to other places after seeing him next, so I will no longer trouble the monk to arrange another place for him." ”

The old monk took Li Jing straight out of the mountain gate, and replied: "The little donor doesn't know, the temple on the mountain is a place for the poor monk and brother to live alone and practice, and usually never receives believers who go up the mountain to drop incense. ”

Li Jing stood outside the mountain gate, looked in the direction of the row of monks' houses in the temple, and asked the old monk in puzzlement: "May I ask what is the name of the senior monk?" Below, I clearly saw that there seemed to be dozens of Buddhist disciples living in this temple, why did the monk say that it was a place for the senior brother to live alone and practice, and asked the monk to show it. ”

"Amitabha." Hearing this, the old monk put one palm on his chest, recited the Buddha's name, and asked Li Jingdao, "The poor monk is a monologue, he is the deacon of the Zhike in this Tiantai Temple, and now he listens to the accent of the little benefactor, not like the Jiangnan people, may I ask the little donor to see the abbot's junior brother, what is the matter?" ”

Li Jing saw that he avoided answering his questions about the things in the Houshan Temple, so he had already guessed that there must be many hidden things in the two Tiantai Temples before and after that were not enough to explain to outsiders, and it was not appropriate for him to continue to ask, so he hugged his fists and replied: "I just heard the senior monk mention that it seems that he is the same brother as Master Zhiqi, so I won't hide it from the senior monk: my name is Li Jing, the Guanzhong people's family, and this time I came to Tiantai Mountain to ask for Master Zhiqi, but I came to my family His Royal Highness King Jin to pass a letter to Master Zhiqi. ”

"King Jin, is it the prince of the Sui Dynasty who led a million-strong army to destroy the Chen Dynasty last year? In this way, the little benefactor should be a general of the Sui Dynasty, please quickly return to the Qianshan Temple with the poor monk to speak. When the monolingual monk heard that Li Jing was under the command of Yang Guang, the king of the Jin Dynasty of the Sui Dynasty, he couldn't help but say, stepped forward and pulled Li Jing up, turned around and climbed towards Lotus Peak.

Li Jing saw that the Duyu monk's reaction was so unexpected, and he knew that there must be a reason, so he followed the Duyu monk all the way up the Lotus Peak and returned to the front mountain.

When the two returned to Qianshan Tiantai Temple and sat down in the monk's room where the Duyu monk received believers daily, Li Jing saw the Duyu monk wipe the sweat on his forehead, and said to himself happily: "Fortunately, we left in time, Xiao Shi mainly met Senior Brother Dujing in Houshan Temple, and something big will happen." Since the little benefactor trusts the poor monk and informs the poor monk of the true purpose of coming to Tiantai Mountain to see the abbot and his disciples, the poor monk also has a trouble, and the little donor must remember: during the settlement of our temple, except for the poor monk, you should not disclose the identity of the little donor and the purpose of coming here to others. ”

Li Jing lowered his head and thought about it, but decided to ask: "Is Master Duyu so instructed because of Senior Brother Master Dujing?" I don't understand why you and Master Dujing are both brothers and sisters, so why do you want to hide from Master Dujing? ”

"It's true that the three of us are usually called brothers and sisters, but they are not from the same school." The monologue monk sighed and replied, "If the little donor wants to ask the ins and outs of this matter, it is better to wait patiently in the temple for a while, and wait for the abbot to meet the junior brother, and he will explain to the little donor himself." ”

The Duyu monk refused to explain to Li Jing why he, Dujing, and Zhiqi were called brothers, but the reason why they were not from the same school, Li Jing was inconvenient to ask again, and that night, under Duyu's personal arrangement, he stayed in the Tiantai Temple of Qianshan, hoping that Master Zhiqi could return to the temple one day earlier.

In the early morning of the next day, in accordance with the habit he had cultivated for many years, Li Jing got up early without waiting for the light to shine outside the guest house, cleaned up and stopped, walked out of the mountain gate, and found an open and smooth place in the mountains and forests not far from the monastery, and practiced the exercises one by one.

Just as Li Jing was swinging his fists and kicking his legs, and he was full of interest in practicing, he suddenly heard someone on the only mountain path behind him ask: "Empowerment, look at the skills of the young man who practiced in the early morning in the forest, how is it compared to you?" ”

"Master, the apprentice has just carefully looked at this young man's body and moves, and it seems that it is not all the way to Master Dujing's previous kung fu, so it is inconvenient to compare the two." Another, younger-sounding voice replied.

When Li Jing heard this, he immediately stopped his moves, turned around and looked at the path, and saw that it was two monks, an old man and a young man, who were walking slowly up the hill along the path.