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Xianyun snorted and laughed: "Isn't there a Bodhisattva in Evian Temple, why don't you go there to thank the Bodhisattva?" ”

"That's not good, I wasn't saved by the monk of Evian Temple, I was saved by the little master, so naturally I have to go to the little master's temple to thank you. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Uh, okay then, but we can't keep you."

"I know that. I'm a big man, so naturally I can't live in your nunnery. ”

Xianyun lowered her head and walked to the place where she was standing just now, took out a bamboo basket from the grass, and put it on her arm.

Zuo Shaoyang glanced into the bamboo basket: "Yo, mushrooms?" So you came out to pick mushrooms? ”

"yes."

"I'll pick it for you."

"Okay, thank you."

Zuo Shaoyang often goes up the mountain to dig medicine, he is too familiar with the situation in the mountains, and he knows where the mushrooms will grow. Soon, I helped her pick a large basket. Xianyun couldn't keep his mouth shut: "You are so good!" These mushrooms seem to have been grown by your family, so you can find one. ”

"Of course," Zuo Shaoyang smiled a little smugly, "I used to help people dig herbs, and I often went up the mountain to pick herbs, and I also picked mushrooms by the way. ”

"I see. - Ouch! It's raining! Xianyun stretched out his white and tender soft wattles, and looked up at the lead-gray sky.

A few raindrops fell on his face, and Zuo Shaoyang said: "Yes, let's quickly find a place to hide from the rain!" How about going to Evian? You can hide from the rain there! ”

Xianyun hurriedly shook his head, his pretty face turned red again.

Zuo Shaoyang immediately woke up: "I'm sorry, your little nun ran to the monk's temple, and those pilgrims saw it, and it was time to chew the root of their tongue again." ”

Xianyun nodded gratefully.

Zuo Shaoyang looked around, there were woods all around, and there were steep cliffs, but there were no caves, and there were not even protruding cliffs to shelter from the rain, and said: "It's troublesome, there is no place to hide from the rain." ”

The weather in the mountains changed as soon as it was said, and the rain began to fall.

It's early winter, and the rain is cold and cold. Zuo Shaoyang took off his coat and robe, stretched his head, and blocked the top of Xianyun's head: "Take the clothes and give me the bamboo basket!" ”

Xianyun sighed and looked up at him: "How can this be done?" You're going to get wet! ”

Zuo Shaoyang snatched the bamboo basket in her hand: "It's better to be wet than two people wet, you saved my surname, what is it if I get a little rain." He tucked the clothes in his hand into the palm of her hand and walked briskly up the mountain.

Xianyun had no choice but to grab his clothes, cover them above his head, and chase after him: "Master Zuo, wait!" Why don't you ...... it, let's cover the rain together?! ”

Zuo Shaoyang didn't reply: "No, the clothes are so small, just cover yourself." ”

The rain was rustling, although it was not too big, but it was not small, and Zuo Shaoyang was drenched into a soup chicken after a while.

Xianyun wanted to catch up and give Zuo Shaoyang a shade from the rain, but where could she catch up with Zuo Shaoyang.

Finally, the two walked to the parallel place on the top of the cliff, Zuo Shaoyang stood still, turned around and said, "Where should I go?" ”

Xianyun panted and caught up, and put the robe in his hand on top of his head: "Cover it quickly, you're soaked!" ”

Zuo Shaoyang took the clothes and said with a smile: "The rain has stopped." ”

Xianyun looked up at the sky, and sure enough, he smiled embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, I caused you to be drenched like this, it's cold, you will catch a cold like this." You come with me, let's go back and raise the fire to roast you!" ”

As he spoke, Xianyun walked up a short distance, and then stepped into waist-high trees and grass. There seemed to be a path hidden under the grass.

Zuo Shaoyang followed her, and when he saw her emaciated body, he couldn't help but sigh, how lonely it should be for a little girl to spend her life on the top of Huashan, the ancient Buddha of green lights.

After walking forward for a long time, finally, Xianyun said: "We have arrived!" ”

Zuo Shaoyang was stunned for a moment, looked up and looked around, but did not find any temple: "Where is it?" ”

"Whoa!" Xian Yunrou raised his head and pointed to a cliff not far away, "There!" ”

Zuo Shaoyang took a closer look, and only then did he find that there was a looming stone cave under the cliff. He smiled bitterly and said, "You live in a stone cave to cultivate?" ”

"yes, what do you think? Let's go! Xianyun took Zuo Shaoyang to the entrance of the cave, and Zuo Shaoyang heard the faint sound of wooden fish and the sound of chanting scriptures inside.

Xianyun said loudly, "Master, I'm back." ”

There was a humming sound inside, and there was a gurgling chanting sound again.

The entrance to the stone cave was relatively small, Xianyun bent down to enter the stone cave, and Zuo Shaoyang followed and bent down into the stone cave. The inside is relatively large, stand straight waist and be more than a foot away from the top of the cave, there are more than ten square meters inside, there is an offering table in the middle, there are several small Bodhisattvas on it, there are no offerings on the offering table except for the Bodhisattva and a furnace of incense.

On either side of the offering table were two floor bunks, neatly stacked, very old, with a few patches on them, but very clean.

In the corner of the stone cave near the door, there is an iron pot and two wooden bowls, as well as chopsticks, spoons and an earthen stove. On the other side was a small bundle of dry firewood and a small water tank.

An old nun with a wrinkled face sat cross-legged on the futon in front of the offering table, knocking on the wooden fish and chanting sutras.

Xianyun said: "Master, there is a son surnamed Zuo who came to worship the Buddha with us. They also picked up a few mushrooms for me......"

Zuo Shaoyang arched his hand and said, "I've seen Shitai!" ”

The old nun continued to chant as if she had not heard.

Xianyun stuck out his tongue at Zuo Shaoyang, and began to make a fire with his hands and feet, and beckoned Zuo Shaoyang and said, "Take off your clothes and bake it." My clothes are too small, why don't you put on my master's warmth for the time being? ”

How embarrassed Zuo Shaoyang was to undress in front of the two nuns. smiled: "No need, just wear wet clothes and just bake them dry." ”

"Then you're going to catch a cold. So, you bake your clothes in the cave, and I'll go collect firewood. ”

"No, no need......" Zuo Shaoyang was a little embarrassed and glanced at Lao Ni's back.

Xianyun immediately met and laughed: "My master has been blind for many years, and she can't see." ”

"I, I didn't mean that, I just wore a roast. Don't pick up firewood, I'll pick it up for you later. ――The teacher is too bad-eyed, huh? ”

He said this as if he was talking to Lao Ni, and it seemed like he was asking Xianyun. But the old nun didn't say anything, and kept reciting the scriptures. Xianyun said in a low voice: "Yes, my master has been blind for three years. ”

Zuo Shaoyang said: "I know some medical skills, I can help Shitai look at his eyes." ”

The old nun continued to recite the scriptures without even a pause.

Xian Yunxi said: "My master doesn't speak when he recites the scriptures. ――Do you really know how to heal? ”

"Well, I understand something."

"Great, when my master finishes reciting the scriptures, you can help her take a look."

"Okay." Zuo Shaoyang sat by the fire, holding his robe with both hands. looked around and said in a low voice: "You two nuns, in this barren mountain forest, aren't you afraid of meeting bad people?" ”

"How can there be so many bad people? Our monks are destitute, have no money, and robbers don't look down on them. ”

Zuo Shaoyang wants to say that bad people not only rob money, but also rob sex, but this is not easy to say, people are not afraid, there must be a way to deal with it. When the little nun pulled herself just now, she didn't have any strength in her hands, and she shouldn't know martial arts, maybe this old nun is a martial arts master, and the monks and nuns on the rivers and lakes will more or less know some martial arts, this old nun should not be bad at martial arts, maybe it is enough to deal with the general thieves and demons in the rivers and lakes. I'm just worrying about it.

Zuo Shaoyang didn't speak, for fear of disturbing the old nun's recitation.

Xianyun put the iron pot on the stove, scooped half a pot of water, then took a wooden basin, scooped up the water and began to wash the mushrooms. In the early winter, the water was already very cold, and she washed it very carefully, so when she finished washing, her little hands were already red from the cold.

She put a few mushrooms in the pot, and then brought some greens to clean, these greens are obviously not wild, they should be planted by them, Zuo Shaoyang asked curiously in a low voice, "You still grow vegetables?" ”

"Well, it's in the clearing over there."

"That's amazing." Zuo Shaoyang praised.

After putting the greens and mushrooms in the pot, she took three more black flour buns and roasted them next to the fire.

Zuo Shaoyang looked at the three black-faced steamed buns, and remembered the bitterness he had when he crossed over, and he didn't expect that the monks were also so bitter.

The meal was ready, Zuo Shaoyang's robe was almost dry, and when he put the robe on his body, Xianyun pinched it worriedly: "This robe is not very dry, especially the clothes inside you, it will catch a cold." ”

Zuo Shaoyang smiled and shook his head and said that it didn't matter, he practiced the technique of returning to the void and vomiting, and he was not afraid of the cold for a long time, even in the harsh winter of the Western Regions, he only wore a single robe, and never caught a cold. It doesn't matter if it's cold now.

At this time, the old nun finally stopped chanting, put down the wooden fish mallet, put one palm together, and said in a low and slightly hoarse voice: "Zuo Gongzi, the poor nun is chanting the scriptures, and he can't be distracted, so he didn't answer Gongzi's words." I'm sorry. ”

Zuo Shaoyang hurriedly hugged his fists and returned the salute: "The teacher is too serious." Zuo was so bold that he was really reckless. ”

"It's okay, listen to the bad disciple and say that the son is here to worship the Buddha?"

Xianyun said: "Yes, Master, Zuo Gongzi was going to ......, uh, he encountered some troubles, but now he has thought about it, I heard that we are cultivating here, so I came to worship the Buddha." ”

"I'm really sorry, our master and apprentice live in seclusion and don't accept outsiders to worship the Buddha. If you want to worship the Buddha, why not go to the Evian Temple at the foot of the mountain? ”

Zuo Shaoyang smiled: "I actually don't believe in Buddhism, it's just because Ling Gaotu helped me, so I also helped her pick some mushrooms and send her back, it doesn't matter if you pay tribute to the Buddha or not." ”

Lao Ni rolled his godless eyes: "Oh, Gongzi knows how to heal?" ”

"Yes, how did Mrs. Shi's eyes ...... blind?"

"Wounded by miasma."

"Miasma?"

"Hmmm! Three years ago, when the poor nun took the poor disciples to look for a place to practice in seclusion on this Huashan Mountain, he found that there was a cave, which was very hidden, so he asked the poor disciples to wait outside the cave, and the poor nun went in to see, and never thought that there was a miasma inside, and the poor nun found that the torch in his hand was suddenly extinguished, and he knew that it was not good, so he quickly closed his breath, but he didn't know that this miasma also hurt his eyes, and he felt the burning pain in his eyes, and quickly closed his eyes, it was too late, and he struggled to climb out, and he fell ill for half a year before he gradually got better. But a pair of eyes ......, alas! ”

Zuo Shaoyang said: "I'll show Shitai his eyes." ”

"There's Mr. Lao."

Zuo Shaoyang squatted beside her, opened his eyelids to observe her eyes, and found that the two eyeballs were all necrotic, not cataracts or anything, even in modern times, there is no way to do such eye diseases, although modern medical technology can replace the heart and cornea, but it cannot replace the entire eye. said gloomily: "I'm sorry, I can't heal Mrs. Shi's eyes." ”

Lao Ni smiled calmly: "It's okay, I once asked a famous Lang Chinese medicine for treatment, and they all said that there was no cure." I heard that there was a miracle doctor in the capital, who was also surnamed Zuo like Gongzi, and his medical skills were like gods, and he could almost come back to life, but unfortunately he had left the capital for more than ten years. I heard that I went to the Western Regions. Alas, the poor nun had no chance to meet a miracle doctor, and these eyes were useless. ”

Zuo Shaoyang felt a little ashamed, he couldn't imagine that his fame even knew about the old nun who lived in seclusion in the mountains, but he couldn't treat the old nun's eye necrosis. If Lao Ni knew this, he was afraid that he would be even more desperate. Or don't let him know, leave a little fantasy.

Xianyun smiled reluctantly and said, "Master, Zuo Gongzi, it's time to eat!" ”

Seeing that their lives were so hard, Zuo Shaoyang was reluctant to eat their food, not because he was used to eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, and he couldn't eat this coarse grain and light rice. Instead, I wanted to leave them more food. Zuo Shaoyang got up and said, "No, you can eat, I still have something to do, so I won't bother." ”

Lao Ni said expressionlessly: "Okay, Xianyun, send Zuo Gongzi." ”

"Yes, Master!"

Xianyun sent Zuo Shaoyang out, watched him walk into the dense forest, bowed, and then returned to the cave.

Zuo Shaoyang decided to go to the edge of the cliff to see if it was possible to climb down the cliff.

After walking hundreds of zhang, he saw a mountain with white clouds floating in the dense forest, and he knew that he was close to the cliff. Sure enough, not a few feet away, I came to the edge of the cliff.

He took out the zipline and grabbed a strange pine protruding from the cliff, and slowly slid down the cliff. His claws were only a few feet long, not to descend the cliff, but to observe the situation. So when I came to the end, I stopped, and when I looked around, the cliff was as smooth as a mirror, and there was no place to put my feet and grasp it.

Looking down, the clouds are shrouded in mist, and you can't see below at all. The Evian Temple was also hidden in the mountain fog and disappeared.

According to the treasure map, the treasure is on a mountain wall parallel to Evian Temple, and the vertical distance from the top of this cliff to the place parallel to Evian Temple is much more than 300 zhang, which means that the rope needs to be very long to go down from the top of the mountain. Hanging boxes of treasure from such a high place is hard to imagine. It's hard for several people to do it. And the hidden treasure is definitely as few people know about it, the better. From this point of view, it seems impossible to hang from here.

Could it be that there is another hidden passage for transporting treasures?

Zuo Shaoyang walked along the cliff and on the edge of the cliff, but he couldn't find anything suspicious. I slipped down to check it out, but I couldn't find anything.

Seeing that it was getting dark, Zuo Shaoyang returned to his hidden cave on the top of the mountain near Evian Temple. His stuff is left here.

In the evening, he was just in the cave, thinking about it, but decided to go down the mountain the next day to buy a rope and go down to find out.

(To be continued)