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The two rested for a moment and continued their way up the hill along the trail. Towards the top of the mountain, the village chief stopped again.

"Xiao Li, did you hear any sounds?"

Xiao Li stopped, pricked up his ears and listened carefully, J frowned, and replied to the village chief.

"It's nothing, it's just the sound of the wind blowing in the woods. There is a mountain that is not big or small, and it is also hundreds of meters high, so it is normal to have a little wind and grass. ”

The old village chief narrowed his eyes and shook his head.

"Xiao Li, you're still a little younger. This is not the sound of leaves, this is clearly the sound of the wind blowing the bamboo leaves in the bamboo forest. It's just that there is a mountain here, when will bamboo grow? ”

Xiao Li was slightly embarrassed, so he had to follow the village chief and go up. He didn't believe what a bamboo forest was, the old village chief was nearly 50 people, and his ears were better than that of a young man!

The two of them didn't walk long before they came to the mountain, and they were both stunned when they came up.

The top of the hill is flat and neat, and there is a path leading to the temple gate at the intersection of the word road. The turf on both sides is not overgrown with weeds, it is flat and neat, and it looks like someone has repaired it.

What surprised them the most was the small temple not far away, looking at the small temple, the red walls and black tiles, clean and clean, not to mention broken bricks and tiles, even weeds and fallen leaves.

"Xiao Li, I'm not mistaken! Where is this a dilapidated temple, it is clearly new! ”

"Director, except for a little new, it doesn't seem to have changed much, it is estimated that it has been renovated."

After listening to Xiao Li's words, the old village chief also nodded, and thoughtfully, the two continued to walk towards the gate of the small temple.

Xiao Li also deliberately paid attention and took a look at it privately, it doesn't matter if he doesn't look at it, he was startled when he saw it. Noise asked the old village chief with some confusion.

"Director, do you see that piece of bamboo forest over there?"

The old village chief looked at the dilapidated temple in front of him, thoughtfully, and heard Xiao Li's words next to him, and teased.

"I said Xiao Li, you are also from our village, a native of the countryside. What's the matter, I went out to study for a few years, and I don't even know bamboo? ”

Hearing this, Xiao Li was anxious, it's not that he didn't know. Who doesn't know bamboo, as long as it is not subdivided, this bamboo is section by section, that is, three-year-old children can recognize which is bamboo and which is sugarcane.

The reason why he wasn't sure was because the bamboo in front of him was so special. It doesn't look like a bamboo at all, but it's a bit like fake bamboo in some scenic spots in the city.

But who would have nothing to do with so many fake bamboos in the countryside, and it's still on the top of the mountain. The most important thing is that even if it is a child, even if it is a 5A-level scenic spot, I haven't seen anyone do so much.

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Seeing that Xiao Li was still urging, and his face was still red, the old village chief couldn't help but shake his head and smile, and looked in the direction that Xiao Li said.

The old village chief looked at the past, and it was crisp and green, and it was green. Under the sunlight, there is actually some green light.

"Huh? What's going on, is my glaucoma serious? ”

The old village chief is a little older, and his eyes are a little difficult to use, plus he has had glaucoma before, and things that are a little farther away are a little blurry.

The two of them walked towards the bamboo forest, wanting to go over and see what was going on. As soon as I approached the bamboo forest, a fresh and elegant bamboo fragrance came to my face. The two of them were refreshed for a while, and they couldn't help but feel refreshed.

The old village chief squinted his eyes, his face was full of enjoyment, and even his complexion was a little ruddy. I took a deep breath, and then slowly exhaled it, looking like I was smoking a big cigarette, very pleasant.

"Ah~~, I haven't smelled such a fresh aroma of plants and trees for a long time, as if I am in nature, it is so comfortable!"

"I feel dozens of years younger, and I think when I was a baby, I didn't go into the bamboo forest."

"I think of chasing and fighting in the bamboo forest of my friends, that is my youth that has passed away for many years!"

"Now that youth has returned, I am the only one left in a group of friends back then!"

The old village chief was talking to himself, as if he was sighing, and as if he was muttering to himself. There was no sentence, and in the end, tears appeared in the corners of his eyes.

Xiao Li had never seen the village chief like this, standing aside at a loss. I didn't know what to say, and I was even more afraid of ruining the mood of the old village chief.

It took a while for the old village chief to react. He raised his head slightly and blinked, and smiled apologetically at Xiao Li.

"People are old and amorous, and they have to serve the old! Let's go in and see, I have never seen such a bamboo forest, I'm afraid it's very rare! ”

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The two walked into the bamboo forest and saw that the men were all crisp and turquoise bamboo. Bamboo is large and small, the big one is the thickness of a child's arm, and the small one can be about the same as a brush stick.

However, no matter how big or small this bamboo is, it is transparent and turquoise, like emeralds. It even makes people a little suspicious, if this bamboo is cut into pieces, it is estimated that it can transmit light!

After Xiao Li entered the bamboo forest, he also looked east and west. He had seen the fake bamboo in the scenic spot, observed it carefully, and even took out the key and scratched it on it.

"Huh? These don't look like fakes, I've seen fake bamboo, most of them are cement molds, and then painted. The most realistic is just a 1:1 finished product made of plastic.

But these things in front of me don't look like fakes! But if it's true, that bamboo is too beautiful! ”

"Of course it's true!"

When the village chief said this, he had an extra bamboo branch that had just been broken off in his hand. The bamboo branches are crisp and turquoise, and there are several bamboo leaves connected to them, and the bamboo leaves can be pinched out with their hands, and even a faint juice seeps out.

"I've lived so old and I've never seen such beautiful bamboo, and I've never even heard of it. This bamboo is almost the same as the jasper carving, and it is estimated that the variety is not simple! ”

Xiao Li nodded approvingly, the old village chief said that he hadn't seen it, and he didn't think it was surprising, after all, how far can a person of this age go.

But I am a young man in the new century, in the age of the Internet, and information is so developed. I haven't even heard of it, which is a bit unbelievable.

"When I go back, check it out on the Internet!" Xiao Li thought silently in his heart, and followed the old village chief to walk towards the temple gate again.

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The two walked into the main courtyard, which was smooth and clean, without a trace of weeds. In the middle of the courtyard is a cyan stone platform, and a large merit box is placed on the stone platform!

Seeing this merit box, Xiao Li Ke was startled and exclaimed.

"Oh, I'll go, such a big box, how much does it have to hold!"

When the old village chief saw this scene, he also frowned. You must know that the old Zen master back then was famous for being diligent and thrifty, and did not seek money, fame and fortune. Back then, the villagers said that they wanted to fund some money, but they were all pushed back by him.

Only when he comes to the temple to worship the Buddha and leaves the incense money and sesame oil, he will accept it. Incense is clearly marked and never sold. As for the sesame oil money, it is completely arbitrary to give more and less.

Having said that, the merit box back then was just a small box.

And the one in front of me, uh... It's too big! How greedy is this, so that such a big box can be used as a merit box, aren't you afraid of ruining the image of Buddhism?

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