Chapter 40: The Scriptures

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When the monk Han guarded, Bu Jue and his party gradually moved away. The stone steps leading to the temple gate in front of www.biquge.info pen & fun > pavilion have resumed the crowding of slowly moving forward. When Yaozu followed the senior brothers and finally walked into the majestic temple gate, a sense of spaciousness also arose.

It's really as Senior Brother Nian Xu said just now, the inside of this temple is really wide. The monks who entered before them were all sitting on the ground at the table. Rows and rows of tables are neatly arranged on the stone and brick floor. This is a very wide circular field, and in the center there is a three-story stone platform made of large bluestone, which is more than three zhang high. The tables are all centered on the stone platform, which is spread out in a circular circle in an orderly manner.

As soon as he walked into the circular venue, a monk with a ring stick in his hand stepped forward and said, "Those under the age of fifteen, go to the fourteenth note!" You guys go over there! As he spoke, the monk stretched out his hand and pointed out two places.

As far as the eye can see, the monks sitting there are all teenagers. In another place, there was still room for the table, and the people sitting were about the same age as they had come. Without waiting for them to say anything, the monk with the ring stick in hand walked towards the other monks who had just entered.

"Yaozu, go by yourself. When the test is over, let's go back together! ”

Nian Lai instructed Yaozu, and at the same time whispered to Yaozu: "When the test starts in a while, don't look around!" Do you see these monks with sticks? They are going to be on this test site for a while, staring at us! If you're looking around, or peeking at a test strip on a case. was seen by these stick-wielding monks, and they were going to be taken out of the stick by the stick, and they were beaten up! They don't care how old you are, you can fight however you want! Remember everything that my brother said! ”

Thinking of it, he said to Yaozu like an old man, and glanced at a monk with a stick not far away. These stick-wielding monks, at a glance, know that they must be the monks in the temple and the ordination hall.

For the test that year, there are some things that I have never forgotten! Although he was young at that time, he also listened to the senior brother who took him at that time, and he was very honest after a try. And sitting not far from him, it happened that a dishonest young monk committed it, and the monks were in the hands.

He saw the man with his own eyes and was taken away by two monks with a ring stick. The one who was carried away by the two ordained monks left and right, but he was left to walk by himself, and he was carried out without touching the ground!

And after that trial, there were really a few restless guys. Blame them for their bad luck and bumped into the hands of the monks! In addition to being beaten with a stick, some were also removed from the monks in the temple! Expelled from the temple gate!

It is because the participants in this examination have always been afraid of being planted in the hands of the ordination monks who patrol the field. Being taken out of the test room is small, even if you eat a spicy stick, you can only consider yourself unlucky! But if you lose your monk status because of this... If you are expelled from the temple, you will no longer be a monk!

What's more, this test was opened by Master Puyun! This mid-term inspection will definitely be more severe! After all, it was Master Puyun who came here to start the test, and if anyone in this test, he fell into the reputation of this temple... I'm afraid I won't be able to eat and walk around!

"Hmmm! Got it, brother! Then I'll go! ”

Yaozu folded his hands as he spoke, and after bowing slightly to Nian Lai, he went to the examination ground where he should go, which was called by the monk with a stick, and the fourteen notes. And Nian Lai, Nian Xu, Nian Feng and Nian Pre, also walked towards the test site they were going to.

When the wide round was gradually filled, the monks who came to participate in the test. The whispered whispers gradually continued, and the stick-wielding monks who were patrolling around disappeared as they walked back and forth. After a while, a group of more than 100 monks walked in from the temple gate, each carrying a basket.

It was very rough straw paper, with a small brush that had fallen off, and an old wooden ink cartridge. It is the items that this team of hundreds of monks and monks sent out in turn from the basket. Then the monks and men, carrying a large bucket full of water, began to send water from front to back, in front of the row of tables. The rest of the water was then placed next to the last place, guarded by a monk with a wand in his hand.

When the water-carrying monk Han passed by Yaozu's table, Yaozu had already opened the wooden ink cartridge and took out a small inkstone inside. Scoop water with a wooden ink cartridge and gently inject it into the inkstone, slowly thickening the inkstone. Yaozu also looked at the big bluestone platform in the center of the front when the ink was thick.

But with the 100-person team coming, the monks and men who carried baskets and handed out things did not leave afterwards. Except for those monks who also lifted the ring stick as an inspection site after discovering things. There are also some monks and men who carry sticks and climb the three-zhang high platform in the center. Just scattered on the stage, looking at the unobstructed view of the participating monks in the audience. In addition, at the front of the stone platform, there are also a number of empty tables. Next to each empty case, there is a name for each station, and a monk holding a stick guards it.

"Knock knock!"

As the dull bell rang out, as if hearing an order, a group of more than a dozen monks slowly walked out of a house built against the wall in the round field. At the head of these monks were two middle-aged monks dressed in plain robes. Both were in their forties. When the two temple masters walked to the central stone platform, the monks who followed the two of them also coincidentally stood in turn, and stood separately under the big bluestone platform and said: "The first volume of the Sutra, the first volume of Dadu Tanleng, what is coming, what is going, what is this, what is such as, followed by two hundred and thirty-seven words." At the end of the scriptures, write the scriptures and annotations of the meeting! ”

"The first volume of the Sutra, the first volume of Dadu Tanleng, what is coming, what is going, what is this, what is such as, followed by two hundred and thirty-seven words. At the end of the scriptures, write the scriptures of the 100 words you will know, annotations! ””

"The first volume of the Sutra, the first volume of Dadu Tanleng, what is coming, what is going, what is this, what is such as, followed by two hundred and thirty-seven words. At the end of the scriptures, write the scriptures of the 100 words you will know, annotations! ””

"The first volume of the Sutra, the first volume of Dadu Tanleng, what is coming, what is going, what is this, what is such as, followed by two hundred and thirty-seven words. At the end of the scriptures, write the scriptures of the 100 words you will know, annotations! ””

When the first monk finished shouting, the monks who stood in turn repeated the words one by one. It wasn't until the last monk finished shouting that all the standing monks said in unison in the next moment: "Open the scriptures!" ”

As the test opened, there was a sound of rustling, and the circle was quiet again. Some monks began to write their own test paper on straw paper, stroke by stroke, with great seriousness. And some of them have made difficulties, and they can't help but scratch their ears and cheeks when they don't know where to start. Others still sit silently in front of the desk, as if the old monk was sitting motionless. And Yaozu belongs to the last person at this time, the kind of old monk who has entered the meditation. I haven't listened to today, but I will write after the beginning and end of the question.

He didn't want to... After today's test, the first question is... A few days ago, I just memorized the Dadu Tanleng Sutra! And coincidentally, the scroll he memorized happened to be the first volume of this scripture! ...

I can't help but make him feel like this... What a coincidence, it couldn't be more coincidental! And after listening to the first question of today's meeting, he was not busy writing the next 237 words. Rather, some of them are the end of today's scriptures, so they have to find a scripture at will to limit it to a hundred sentences, and write it down in addition to writing the scriptures, and the meaning of the annotations in the scriptures is difficult to worry about.

After all, he had memorized a lot of scriptures. If you let him pick one out of it at random and write hundreds of scriptures to explain his feelings in the commentary, it will not be a problem... But what made him worry was that he didn't know which scripture to choose...

While thinking about it, the titles and texts of the scriptures that he had memorized kept flashing in his mind. But for some reason, he always felt that the titles and texts of the scriptures were not what he wanted. Until in his mind, a picture was inadvertently frozen. He finally chose the last question he wanted to write!

In the picture, the aunt in old clothes is sitting on the steps under the stone monument, smiling at him. And the stone tablet scriptures behind his aunt, the Deleng Yansa scriptures left by the main masters of the temple in the past dynasties, are familiar to him and can no longer be familiar. Thinking of the Deleng Yansuo Sutra on the stone tablet, Yaozu who picked up the small pen, took the pen and dipped it in the inkstone, and began to write on the straw paper.

Over time, from early morning to noon, and from noon to afternoon. The sparse monks also began to stream in, handing over the test papers they had written to the empty case at the front guarded by the stick-wielding monk and the shouting monk, one left and one right.

I had already handed in the test essay and came out of the thoughts, and at this time, I looked at the monks who walked out of the temple gate one by one with a sad face. But in my heart, I can't help but be secret... Could it be that this time I will read the same as ten years ago? Can't even get through this first meeting? Alas! I also made a lot of strides and wrote some scriptures with the epiphany. I didn't even write much of a commentary... Not to mention, the first question of the Dadu Tanleng Sutra... I didn't even write half a word...

Nianlai said secretly in his heart, and at the same time, he glanced at the senior brother Yaozu who was standing on the side, who had also handed in the test essay early and came out of the temple gate. And among the few of them, the first senior brother to come out and wait.

"Come on, can you stop putting on a donkey face all the time?! Look at you! It's awkward to look at! Look at people's feet, as if they are nothing! ”

Nian Xu was not used to looking at the side, and he was dissatisfied with Nian Lai with a sad face. Immediately, he looked at the temple gate that kept walking out of the monk's house: "This Nianfeng and Nianyu, why hasn't it come out yet?" Write addictive?! ”