Lu Zhishen stood there and saw this magnificent Xiangguo Temple, and felt that this place was even larger than the Wenshu Monastery of Jinxiu Peak on Wutai Mountain.

I don't know how many people, financial and material resources will be exhausted to build such a big temple in the heart, how can a country be so extravagant, and make so many puppet clay statues to occupy this vast building, not to mention that there are so many temple properties, is this a monk is a misguided country.

He said that the army was raised in troubled times, and temples were repaired in prosperous times, and so many temples that cost people and money could really bless the people's lives with happiness?

Let's just say that this Great Xiangguo Temple was built during the Northern Qi Dynasty, when Buddhism was the most prevalent, and the Northern Qi Dynasty was not also a dead country.

Lu Zhi stood on the square in front of the temple and looked at the Daxiangguo Temple, feeling emotion in his heart, and at the same time admiring the splendor of this building.

Daxiangguo Temple, formerly known as Jianguo Temple, was built in the first year of the Tang Dynasty in the sixth year of Tianbao in the Northern Qi Dynasty, Tang Ruizong was given the name of Daxiangguo Temple because of the commemoration of its ascension to the throne by King Xiang.

This Tang Ruizong is not very famous in Chinese history, but his mother was the first female emperor in Chinese history, that is, Wu Zetian, and Wu Zetian's throne was taken from him.

He also has a son named Li Longji, that is, Tang Xuanzong, who is the emperor who is willing to be a winged bird with Yang Yuhuan in heaven and a branch in the earth.

Tang Ruizong also has a well-known and ambitious sister, who is Princess Taiping.

As the saying goes, a person gets the way of the chicken dog ascends to heaven, when Tang Ruizong was the king of the Xiang, he had lived in the Jianguo Temple for a night, and later became the emperor immediately gave this place the name of the Great Xiangguo Temple, and allocated money to carry out large-scale transformation, making this Great Xiangguo Temple the largest temple at that time.

Daxiangguo Temple is the traditional axis of the Chinese layout, the main buildings have the gate, the Tianwang Palace, the Daxiong Palace, the octagonal glazed hall, the Tibetan scripture building, etc., from south to north along the axis distribution, the east and west pavilions and the corridor on both sides of the hall stand opposite each other.

The Tibetan Scripture Pavilion and the Daxiong Treasure Hall are all Qing Dynasty buildings, the form is heavy eaves rest the mountain, the layers of bucket arches are overlapped, covered with yellow and green glazed tiles.

The temple and the platform are surrounded by white stone railings. The octagonal glazed hall rises high in the center, surrounded by verandahs, covered with glazed tiles, and the wing corners are suspended with bells.

The hall is built in the wood carving tantric four sides of the thousand hands dry eyes Guanyin giant statue, about seven meters high, the whole body is pasted with gold, it is said that it is carved into a whole ginkgo tree, it is extremely exquisite. The bell tower has a huge bell of about four meters high in the Qing Dynasty, weighs more than 10,000 catties, and is called "Xiangguo Frost Bell".

After Lu Zhishen watched and sighed in the square, he strode up the steps, walked towards the temple, and said to the monk guarding the temple gate: "Amitabha, this senior brother, the poor monk is from the Wenshu Monastery of Wutai Mountain, and he came to visit Elder Zhiqing here on the order of the teacher, and I hope that the senior brother will help inform him." ”

The monk said, "Since you came all the way from Wutai Mountain, you can wait here for a while." The little monk went in to inform the guest monk. ”

After a while, the monk led a monk wearing a red robe and walked out and said to Lu Zhishen: "Senior brother, this is a monk from our Daxiangguo Temple. ”

Lu Zhishen hurriedly put down the Zen staff in his hand, put his palms together, and stepped forward to salute: "Amitabha, the poor monk is polite. ”

The monk stood on the steps and said coakingly, "No courtesy." Since you are from the Wenshu Monastery of Wutai Mountain, there is a letter. ”

Lu Zhishen looked at the other party's appearance and said, "Amitabha! This bald donkey himself thinks that he is a guest monk of Daxiangguo Temple, and he looks down on me as a monk from afar. I had no choice but to take out Elder Zhizhen's letter and hand it over.

The monk took the letter and said, "You can wait here first." ”

This is really a temple monk and a cow B.

Monks are also divided into three, six, nine and so on, and monks will also look at the monks with dog eyes.

It is no wonder that people would rather be a watchdog in the prime minister's yamen than a little sesame official.

The sweeping monk of Daxiangguo is estimated to be not capable of ordinary monks.

Different temples and monks are different.

Look at the clay pot temple in tatters, a few old monks can't even drink porridge, hungry and staggering.

Look at the magnificence of this great Xiangguo Temple, the monks are full of red light, hi hi! The reason for this is that if you ask Shakyamuni Buddha in the Western Elysium, the Buddha can only say: "Amitabha, don't say!" Unspeakable! ”

Besides, the guest monk took Lu Zhishen's letter to the abbot's room and handed the letter to the presiding abbot Elder Zhiqing.

Elder Zhiqing took the letter and opened it, only to see that the letter read: "Monk Zhizhen palms Bai Yan's virtuous brother Qinggong Dade Zen Master: I don't feel that the world is separated forever, don't look far away. Although the north and the south are divided, Qianli agrees. Today, there is a small apprentice who is a monk of Tanyue Zhao Yuanwai who is a monk Zhishen, and the common surname is the old breed of Yan'an Mansion and the premise of the public account of Lu Da. Because he killed someone, he was willing to become a monk. The second time he was drunk and made trouble in the monastic hall, and the ministers could not be reconciled. Specially come to the upper brake, and hope to be included in the ministry personnel. Luckily! Don't excuse yourself. This monk has a very positive result after a long time, and it must be accommodated. Precious, cherished! ”

After reading the letter, Elder Zhiqing frowned and said, "Amitabha! Senior brother, aren't you embarrassing the poor monks? ”

The monk said: "Senior brother, I don't know what makes you embarrassed? ”

Elder Zhiqing handed over the letter and said, "Take a look! ”

The monk took the letter and looked at it and said: "Presiding abbot, the disciple was at the gate of the temple just now, and when I saw that Lu Zhishen was not like a good person, he was fierce and evil, and he didn't look like a monk at all. How can our Daxiangguo Temple control him. ”

Elder Zhiqing said: "That's what I said, you go and call all the people in charge here, and everyone will discuss what to do." In a short time all the monks came to the abbot's room.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, Elder Zhiqing coughed lightly and said, "Hmm! You see that my senior brother Zhizhen Zen Master is so unreasonable! In his letters, he introduced a monk, who turned out to be an officer of the Jinglu Prefecture. Because Xunzi made trouble and killed someone, he went to Wenshu Monastery to become a monk to escape his sins. Later, he got drunk twice and smashed the monastery there to the ground. Therefore, Senior Brother Zhizhen felt that Nalu Zhishen was difficult to discipline. I introduced him to our Daxiangguo Temple. I wanted to send him away, but that Zhizhen was Lao Na's senior brother after all, and he couldn't get over his face. Let's leave him here, I'm afraid that he will mess around, disrupt the order in the temple, and destroy the rules, everyone think about it, what is the best way. ”

After Elder Zhiqing finished speaking, the abbot's room moved for a long time.

Elder Zhiqing picked up the tea bowl in front of him, took a sip of tea, and said angrily: "Amitabha! Why did you all become mud bodhisattvas at a critical moment? ”

The monks looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

At this time, the monk of the capital temple walked up to Elder Zhiqing and said, "Master, since everyone doesn't have any good ideas, the disciple has a way. ”

Elder Zhiqing glanced up at him and said, "Then let's hear about it." ”

The monk of the temple said: "I think, only the vegetable garden outside the sour jujube gate is the vegetable production base of our Daxiangguo Temple, and now there are often ruffians and hooligans there, stealing vegetables and fruits, indulging sheep and horses, which makes everyone have a headache." Some time ago, an old monk sent by the disciples was the abbot there, and he didn't want to be beaten by those hooligans, and no one in the temple dared to go out of the temple again. Why don't you teach Zhishen to go there as an abbot. ”

Zhike monk said: "Master, the idea of the senior brother of the temple is very good, and Lu Zhishen is the most suitable to go there." He is an officer, he must be very capable of fighting, in this case, let him go there to fight, he has the ability to suppress it, and if he can't suppress it, it is his own incompetence, and then he will leave with interest, and your senior brother Zhizhen will have nothing to say. ”

Elder Zhiqing said happily, "Okay, that's a good idea. You go down and teach the waiter to lead Nalu Zhishen to the guest room in the monk's hall, and early tomorrow morning, send a little monk to lead him to the vegetable garden. ”

Lu Zhishen came to the capital from the distant Wutai Mountain with great difficulty, and was arranged to see the vegetable garden.

After eating fast the next morning, Lu Zhishen put the package on his back, straddled the precept knife, Zen staff, and two monks who were sent to the hospital, and came straight to the abbot outside the sour jujube gate.

Lu Zhishen knew that the monks of the Great Xiangguo Temple were not well-intentioned, and there were some unkind-hearted people who were waiting for Lu Zhishen to give him a blow.

This is really sinister, and there are traps everywhere.

The hearts of the people are vicious, and there are conspiracies everywhere.

In addition, in the vicinity of Xie Tangyu's vegetable garden, there are more than 30 ruffians who often steal vegetables in the garden and sell them in the city to support their families.

Although there were a few monks in charge of affairs in the Great Xiangguo Temple, all of them were beaten up by the ruffians, and there were still people there who dared to take care of it.

These scoundrels come and go here as if they were in their own vegetable garden, they come and go whenever they want.

On this day, a few small ruffians ran to the vegetable garden to steal vegetables, but they saw a new Kusi list hanging on the door of the hall and said: "Daxiangguo Temple specially appointed Lu Zhishen, a monk in charge of the vegetable garden, to come to the abbot. From tomorrow to the beginning of the job, I hereby inform the nearby idle people, etc., not allowed to enter the park to disturb. ”

When the ruffians saw it, they hurriedly ran back and gathered more than thirty accomplices together and said, "Daxiangguo Temple has sent a monk named Lu Zhishen to take care of the vegetable garden. Let's take advantage of his new arrival, go and give him a fat meal first, so that he knows how good we are. ”

Their leading eldest brother, the short-tailed dog Li Sidao: "No, no, he doesn't know us, how can we beat people casually, so the teacher is nameless." ”

The second leader, the green skin snake, Zhang San, shook his head and said: "I have an idea, when that Lu Zhishen comes, let's go and lure him to the dung cellar in the vegetable garden, pretend to congratulate him, throw him into the dung cellar, and tease him." Everyone said in unison, "Okay, okay." It's a good idea, and it's not bad to ask the monk to taste the taste of the dung soup. Ha ha! ”

Lu Zhishen followed a little monk to the vegetable garden of Tangyu, settled the luggage, leaned on the Zen staff, hung up the ring knife, and the little monk led the two old monks who were originally guarding here to walk back to the Great Xiangguo Temple.

Lu Zhishen came to the vegetable garden and began to inspect, the size of this vegetable garden covers an area of 50 acres, the north side is planted with beans, eggplant, cucumbers, cabbage and other seasonal vegetables, and the south side is planted with peach trees, plum trees, apricot trees and other fruit trees.

On the west side is a row of houses for vegetable growers, and on the east side is the courtyard gate leading to the street, from which there is a large manure tank. (To be continued.) )