At night, the Guifeng Mountains are dark and quiet, except for the occasional unknown strange bird sound, the huge mountain area seems to be empty.

Located in the middle of Guifeng Mountain, the Yutai Temple was built in the Han Dynasty, was burned down by fire at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and then rebuilt in the orthodox years of the Ming Dynasty, the Yutai Temple after the restoration became one of the four major Buddhist temples in Guangdong Province because of its incense flourishing, and the monks in the temple once reached as many as 1,000 people during the Chongzhen period. Now, in this temple together with the old monk Qilin, the monks are only 100 people, all of them are old and weak monks, most of the buildings in the temple are dilapidated, the Zhenshan pagoda is even more down half of the tower base, the spire above is crumbling, I don't know when it will collapse violently.

Alas, the monks can't avoid the mortal world, let alone the world, and the years of war have suffered not only the people, but also these monks. Without the incense offerings of believers, where can this temple have income, and where can it support so many monks, let alone repair the buildings in the temple.

There are a lot of fields in the temple, but most of the original tenants either asked the Qing army to catch the master or the Ming army to arrest the master, and the rest are mostly away from their hometowns for refuge, without these tenants to work, the monks are naturally not allowed to cultivate, so that the old monk Qilin wakes up every morning The first thing is not to chant the Buddha, but to explain which piece of land to water today, and which piece of land to plough, and sometimes even do not forget to tell a few words to fertilize the vegetable field in the temple

Every day, I don't think about Amitabha Buddha, but these things that ordinary people who I don't look down on and disdain to look down on in the past, and it's really embarrassing for the old monk Qilin. Fortunately, no matter how chaotic the world is, this monk always has a reason to make a living, and there is also a reason to be close, as long as the temple does not get involved in outside affairs, and does not expect believers to gather, incense is luxuriant, and offerings are piled up, but it is still possible to keep one's own family safe. After all, no matter how fierce the soldier is. Seeing that most of the monks can't wield a knife.

When he is older, the old monk Qilin can also see it, which is good. Qing is good, if you sit in the country, you have to govern the country. Throughout the ages, I haven't seen anyone who has sat on the country and ruled the country, so now the Ming and Qing dynasties are fighting outside, you call here today, you kill the past tomorrow, and you are very happy, but when the overall situation is certain, can the soldiers still fight like this? When the time comes, life will have to be the same as before. Otherwise, what will you get by fighting the country! As for whether it is a Han or a Hu person, in the eyes of the old monk, it doesn't matter at all, so what about the Buddha or the Hu people, and how much does it matter whether this emperor is a Hu person or not. As long as the Buddha does not condemn sin, he will do other things.

Because I heard a few monks in the temple who went out to travel that the Nanming Dynasty was not as good as a day, the Qing Dynasty was afraid that it would be a certainty, so the old monk Qilin had the intention to deliberately make friends with the officials of the Qing Dynasty. And it is strictly forbidden for the monks in the temple to have any contact with the Ming army, and if one is found, they will drive one away, and they will not be soft. And that's not all. At the beginning of the year, the old monk also went to Xinhui City at the invitation of the county governor of Xinhui to do a ritual to surpass the tens of thousands of innocent people who died tragically during the defense of the city.

Although he knew that these tens of thousands of people were killed by the Qing army guarding the city, the old monk gritted his teeth and scolded the old thief in the city, and did not mention the Qing army at all. The new Governor Li deliberately mentioned his "righteous act" of Qilin on the note sent to Beijing, which made the old monk really excited: it was the note sent by the Governor to the capital, and it was a note for the Qing Emperor to see. As soon as the name of his family can sweep the dragon's eye, it is really the kindness of the Buddha. There was a spirit in the ancestors.

In addition to being excited, Qilin didn't care about his almost eighty people. I wondered if I would take the initiative to go to Guangzhou, on the one hand, I would like to thank the Governor for his encouragement, and on the other hand, I would like to take this opportunity to form a good relationship with the new Governor, and after the situation is settled, I would like to ask the Governor Yamen to come forward to help Zhang Luo and some wealthy families to repair the Yutai Temple.

People want clothes, Buddha wants gold, no matter how much the scriptures are read, no matter how much the Buddha understands, it will not be enough for the believers to look magnificent and practical.

The old monk Qilin understood, who would have thought that he had just thought about going to Guangzhou, but a catastrophe suddenly came. The sudden rush of people and sergeants from the bottom of the mountain that day really frightened the old monk Qilin, and also frightened the monks in the temple. Before the monks opened their mouths to ask, the sergeants who fled up the mountain fiercely drove them into the Daxiong Treasure Palace, and then a Song Daren who claimed to be the general affairs officer of the Taiping Camp of the Ming Dynasty was ashamed to announce to them that the Yutai Temple would be taken over by the Taiping Camp from now on, and the monks in the temple would be taken over by the Taiping, and the food in the temple would also be taken out for the Taiping Camp to use.

The robbers of the heaven-damn, the god-damned Taiping Army, and the god-damned Song General Affairs!

After seeing the bandit-like Taiping army digging out the food hidden in the temple, the old monk Qilin was almost so anxious that he turned his back on his breath, if it weren't for the apprentice's eyes and hands to quickly pat his chest, I am afraid that he would really be able to "pass away".

When Xiucai meets a soldier, it is unreasonable, and when a monk meets a soldier, it is also unreasonable. Facing the unashamed Lord Song, who had no sven at all, Monk Qilin could only swallow a stomach of bitter water into his stomach, and did not dare to resist at all. But seeing that his own territory was occupied by a large group of tattered people, and his own food was swallowed by them, the old monk who had recited scriptures for decades and worshiped the Bodhisattva for decades was not reconciled.

Song Xianggong wants the monks to cooperate honestly, but he has no intention of killing these monks, after all, he is also a scholar, and he always respects these monks.

The tiger does not hurt people, and people have the intention of killing tigers.

Song Xianggong had no intention of killing the monks of Yutai Temple, but these monks intended to kill him!

Late at night on the second day after the Taiping army occupied Yutai Temple, a very inconspicuous-looking little monk sneaked out of the temple while the security guards were not paying attention, and then secretly descended from an unknown path in the back mountain at night.

After going down the mountain, the little monk did not escape, but went straight to the Qing military camp tent at the bottom of the mountain, and he hid a letter close to him, but it was a letter written by the old monk Qilin, who was kind and kind-eyed, virtuous and respectful, and was quite famous among the believers in Guangdong. (To be continued)