Chapter 3: Into Shaolin
"No way!" As soon as the words fell, Lin Chunxi and several people refuted.
"The lay disciples of Shaolin Temple can't get the advanced inheritance, but once they become monks, how can they pass on the ancestry, and the incense of your vein will be broken?" Lin Chunxi said with a serious face.
"Isn't that second uncle also a monk, and now he has become the first seat of the Discipline Hall!" Chen Yan retorted based on the memory in his mind.
"Your second uncle is different from you!"
"What's the difference?"
Hearing his words, Lin Chunxi sighed helplessly and said, "Your second uncle is a person who is a heavenly eunuch, so he can't pass on the ancestry, and it doesn't hurt to enter Shaolin." ”
“?” Chen Yan looked confused.
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A few days later, Dengfeng Shaomu Mountain, Daxiong Treasure Palace.
In the main hall of the box, Chen Yan lowered his head and asked a kind-eyed old monk to shave off the three thousand troubles on his head for himself.
Since that day Lin Chunxi proposed to let him practice martial arts, Chen Yan was bent on entering Shaolin Temple despite dissuasion, so Lin Chunxi had no choice but to let his second brother connect Chen Yan to Shaolin. Fortunately, although the youngest son is a monk, there is still an eldest son, so the bloodline inheritance is broken.
The old monk's face was old, but the hand holding the razor was calm and powerful, and after a while, Chen Yan's black hair fell to the ground, revealing his green head.
And not far from Chen Yan, there are many little novices like him, with green skin on their heads and gray novice clothes on their faces.
Although Chen Yan was indifferent at this time, he was overjoyed in his heart.
Shaolin Temple is not ordinary people want to enter can enter, when his uncle Lin Gaoxi entered Shaolin, he first met with the guest monk, presented a thick amount of sesame oil money, and then said the request to worship Shaolin.
Shaolin Temple first let Lin Gaoxi settle down in the temple, and then sent someone to Dengfeng to investigate the eight generations of the ancestors of the Lin family, and confirmed that Lin Gaoxi was innocent and a child of a good family.
After that, Lin Gaoxi went all the way through five levels and six generals, passed many audits, and finally became a small novice, and finally achieved the first seat of the Precept Hall after decades.
And because Chen Yan was Lin Gaoxi's nephew, he was directly exempted from the identity review, and finally easily passed the review and entered the Shaolin Temple, becoming a little novice without a legal name, that is, a monk in reserve.
At this time, he had just entered Shaolin, so he received novice ordination on his head, and there was still a long way to go before he received the bhikshu ordination and became a full monk.
"The novice is the novice!" Chen Yan felt the feeling of brightness coming from the top of his head, lowered his head and secretly rolled his eyes: "Because of Lin Gaoxi, I can be regarded as following Zheng Miaohong, and I have already received the novice ordination at this time, and at least I can get the teaching of the introductory exercises at that time." ”
"Once you enter the Buddha's door, you forget the world. Longevity, you have received the novice vows, whether you want to meditate and participate in meditation or learn martial arts in the future! The old monk glanced at Chen Yan's thin body and said routinely.
Chen Yan learned from the appearance of his uncle in his memory, folded his hands and said: "The disciple is weak, so he wants to boil his skin first, and then often accompany the green lantern scrolls in the future." ”
The old monk raised his eyebrows, Chen Yan's answer was expected by him, even if Chen Yan wanted to study Buddhism, he would ask him to polish his body first.
To Chen Yan, a disciple of an innocent background, Shaolin Temple has always been very welcome, not to mention the nephew of the first seat of the Discipline Hall, with his physical state at this time, his face is sallow, and his eyes are slightly sunken, which are all manifestations of physical deficiency, and he must make up for the deficit in his body first.
"In this case, in the future, you will be like those lay brothers and sisters, carrying water and chopping wood every day!"
"Receive the decree!" Chen Yan bowed.
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The morning of Mt. Shaomuro is still a little clear, and the mist rises one after another, like a fairyland.
A group of novices dressed in gray and lay disciples with hair in their hands, carrying two wooden barrels with pointed bottoms, lined up up the steps up the mountain.
The mountain people who appear from time to time on the side are not surprised by this, and when they stop to rest, they will take a look.
Behind a pile of novices, Chen Yan, who was still slightly thin, followed closely behind the team with two wooden barrels, breathing calmly, and his pace was steady and powerful, which was slightly more than the novices in front, and the team leader on the side couldn't help but nod.
Due to his identity, the leader of the team is more well-informed than the monks on the side, and knows that this Lin Yanshou is the nephew of the first seat of the Discipline Hall. At this time, he looked at Chen Yan and couldn't help but feel more satisfied. After Lin Yanshou started, he didn't rely on the first seat too much, but worked extremely hard, even if his body suffered a slight loss, but his performance on weekdays exceeded that of most of the other novices.
On the other side, Chen Yan was at the back of the team, firmly following the steps of the brothers in front of him.
At this time, it has been more than three months since he came to Shaolin Temple, Chen Yan is honest on weekdays, in addition to chopping wood and carrying water every day, he is to boil his muscles and bones, and conceive and nourish his body.
After carrying water and chopping wood, Chen Yan fetched water to wash off the hot sweat on his body, and then came to the canteen.
"Senior Brother Lin, your medicinal diet!" A fat monk with a fat head and big ears handed a wooden tray to Chen Yan.
"Thank you, brother!" Chen Yan folded his hands and saluted, then took the tray and found a table and sat down.
There was not much food on the wooden plate, only a bowl of porridge and a plate of vegetables. But this bowl of porridge exudes a strong medicinal taste, and even though Chen Yan has been eating it for three months, he still has no appetite.
However, Chen Yan still pinched his nose and swallowed the medicinal food.
The first level of martial arts practice is to polish the flesh, pull out the muscles and bones, and store the essence. This step is called the Hundred Days Foundation Building in Taoism.
Where does the essence come from? Nature is obtained from food.
The most common way for a martial artist to ingest essence is to swallow a large amount of meat, and if the conditions are better, it is naturally supplemented by many medicinal herbs.
Although Shaolin Temple prohibits eating meat, it has a lot of money, and directly uses medicinal materials to make medicinal food for disciples to practice martial arts.
Monks who want to learn martial arts, in the beginning of the 100-day foundation building period, must take a daily medicinal diet specially prepared with medicinal herbs in the Medicine King Buddha Hall to make up for the deficiency of the body. Otherwise, before the martial arts are practiced, his body has already collapsed.
Originally, although Chen Yan noticed the generosity of the Shaolin Temple according to the words of his uncle Lin Gaoxi in the memory of the original owner, only after he really entered the Shaolin Temple did he know the wealth of the Shaolin Temple.
Shaolin has a large amount of sesame oil money income every year, as well as those donations from good believers, for example, the Lin family will donate a donation to Shaolin Temple every year, the reason why Lin Gaoxi can become the first one in the precept hall, out of his own natural talent, the help of the Lin family can not be ignored.
Of course, not only these, but also the large tracts of fertile land near the foot of Shaolin Mountain are owned by Shaolin, and because it is a temple property, there is no need to pay taxes, so the tenant rent is relatively low, which attracts a group of people.
It can be said that the Shaolin Temple is a real big dog. With such financial support, just smashing can kill other enemies. It is also because of the support of this huge financial resources that Shaolin can support the huge number of warrior monks in the temple to practice martial arts, and can also hold the Central Plains righteous path Niu Er.
Because when Chen Yan entered the temple, his family made a special touch, and his uncle, who was the head of the precept hall, opened his mouth, so his medicinal diet was specially configured, not only was the medicinal property more mild, but also the medicinal power was five or six points higher than that of ordinary outer disciples.
This is also the reason why he was able to recuperate his originally weak body in a very short period of time, and he still caught up with most of the outer disciples in the progress of polishing his body.
After eating the meal, Chen Yan returned to the meditation room and began to meditate.