After sleeping in the hotel for a night, Zhuang Zuo felt stretched all over his body, when he rested in the mountains and wilderness, he sat cross-legged before, although it is beneficial to calm the mind and calm the mind, but the muscles and bones are the muscles and bones, and after bending for a long time, it will be soreness and discomfort.

Through an inner door, Chen Jiebing struggled to get up from the bed of Little No. 1, yawning and stretching. Before the meal was served, there was a constant sound of footsteps on tables and chairs outside, making her unable to sleep.

Compared to this, living in this room is not as good as living in the circle drawn by the national teacher, which is quiet and warm, but it looks a little cold - the night he left the town, he finally got his wish and saw the national teacher's ability to "raise tall buildings from the ground......

Hey, although it is not as miraculous as she imagined, and she has not really conjured up a room for her to sleep in, but those three talismans are one to warm and calm her nerves, one is sound and insects, and one is hidden, which is enough to shut her up.

There were three knocks on the door.

"Get up. ”

On the other side of the inner door, Zhuang Zuo has already washed up, and his clothes and luggage have been neatly dressed.

Seeing that there was no movement inside, Zhuang Zuo raised his voice lightly, pinched out a serious tone and said: "Chen Xibing, the country cannot be without a monarch for a day, and the national religion cannot be without a national teacher for a day, I have been away from the Nine Inch Cliff for more than two months, and the messengers and protectors of the Taoist altar are waiting for me......

“...... I also brought you this way, the guardian of Zhushun City is a kind old gentleman, it is better for us to say goodbye, I will go back to my nine-inch cliff, the matter of the mountain road, you go to ask him for advice. ”

After finishing speaking, there was a rush in the door-

Cutting Ice crawled and fell out of bed, came to the door unkempt, unlocked the door, and pushed the door open.

"I'll get up, I'll get up!" said to the national teacher who turned around and walked away.

Zhuang Zuo turned his back to Chen Jiebing, sneered proudly, and then turned around with a good face-

"Wash your face first, sloppy girl. ”

......

During the day, the Zhushun city was much deserted, not to mention the bright lights, and even the birds shrugged their wings and bent their necks, resting listlessly on the trees on the wall.

It is said that the egrets that are full of the city sleep during the day and come out to fly and prey on the fish that are startled by the fireworks and singing boats. At sunset yesterday, Zhuang Zuo did see the egret flying, but now he didn't see half of the heron feathers, so it seems that this rumor is true.

The Tiandao Temple of Zhushun is located in the south of the city, although the city of Zhushun is large, the Tiandao Temple of this city is smaller than the Longqiao Walled City. After all, it is the territory of the princes, and it is already a face-saving thing to be able to vacate a piece of land for your state religion, and if you want to encroach on his more than an inch of land, you will not give it to you.

However, it may not be seen that this part of the city is the only place in the city is difficult and simple, and the decoration of Zhushun Tiandao Temple is the same color as the rest of the city, and the temples with larger regulations are not lagging behind.

Zhuang Zuo led Chen Jiebing into the bluestone threshold of Zhushun Tiandao Temple, and after the front hall, the center of the courtyard was also an empty white marble double-petaled lotus platform.

There are some idlers scattered in the courtyard, the front hall, the front yard, the front hall, these three places are open to everyone, the front hall of the road needless to say, the front yard has a temple, the front hall has arbitration, these three places have to be opened.

However, even at a time like now, when there is neither a meal nor a public opinion, the neighboring idlers want to find a place to walk, sit, and chat, and this clean and magnificent Tiandao Temple compound is a good place to go.

There is no Tiandao Temple in the small Xieting Town, there is one in the county town of Yinyin, Chen Jiebing went in a few times when he was a child, and only remembered that there was a beautifully carved white marble lotus platform in it, during the festival, people love to put the incense wax paper candles, melons, fruits, and livestock on the top, and were cleared away by those fancy soldiers in the temple.

The empty lotus in front of him is the same as the one in his memory, it is also a finely carved double-petaled lotus, and it is also missing a god, Buddha and Taoist.

The only one in the world is beside him, and the opportunity to solve this puzzle that has been pressed in his heart for many years has finally come. Chen Dibing tugged at the sleeve of the great master, pointed to the empty white marble lotus with the other hand, and asked like a little disciple-

"Your Majesty, why don't you offer anything on the lotus platform?"

Zhuang Zuo was stunned when he heard this, why did this Nizi suddenly say this-was she frightened by the threat this morning?

There is also such an empty lotus platform in the Cunya Dao Altar - but it is much bigger than this, the petals have seven layers, and the top layer has ninety-nine petals, and he doesn't count any further down, because there are too many.

At that time, he also asked the national teacher, asking why this well-repaired lotus platform did not offer anything.

I only remember that Rong Shi raised his head to look at the sky, and explained quite angrily-

"Immortals are also heaven, Buddhas are also heavens, twenty-seven patriarchs are heavens, and eight million grass-headed gods are also heavens, who is good to sit on this lotus......"

“...... Immortals are not heaven, Buddhas are not heavens, twenty-seven ancestors are not heavens, and eight million grass-headed gods are not heavens, no one is ...... sitting on this lotus."

“...... Believe in immortals, believe in Buddha and seek Buddha, believe in 27 patriarchs and ask for 27 patriarchs, believe in 8 million grass-headed gods and ask for 8 million grass-headed gods, everyone who sits on this lotus is begging, only this rosette is asked by people no matter who sits. ”

Zhuang Zuo also learned from Rongshi's appearance, raised his head to look at the sky, and said this seemingly mysterious car retort around. At that time, he was also the same as Chen Jiebing at this time, biting his fingers, his eyes were empty, he didn't understand anything, and he didn't dare to ask anything - for fear that the masters in front of him would see that he was a rammer without Huigen.

It's just that now that I think about it, what Rong Shi said is just a simple truth, the world's Chi Li Li is asking God to worship Buddha, what matters is not God and Buddha, but seeking and worshiping, the three religions and nine streams in the world often fight for this God and Buddha, often fight for words, often fight for swords and swords, but I haven't seen this request and worship-

When Tianyi saw it, it became the state religion; Tianyi also had its own 27 patriarchs, but it just wanted to offer this empty lotus; when the people of the world saw the empty lotus, they went to worship the invisible and shadowless heavenly way on the lotus; when the king of the world saw the empty lotus, he did not have to be afraid of the gods and Buddhas on the lotus seat to speak.

Zhuang Zuo raised his head to look at the silent sky, smiled and shook his head, looked down and saw Chen Xibing's familiar appearance of not pretending to understand, and shook his head with a smile.

Cutting Bing didn't know what the national teacher meant by smiling and shaking his head, so he just buried his face, so as not to expose himself to not understanding anything.

The morning breeze blew and blew Zhuang Zuo's sideburns a little, Chen Jiebing listened and watched, and only felt that this person was worthy of being a great master of the Inch Cliff, and the fairy wind and bones were hidden in the heavenly principles between talking.

Is this really the same guy who was chewed by a donkey on the grassy slope? Cutting Bing looked at the great master in front of him, and he often had such a sense of confusion in his heart—he was so close, he was so far away.

If Zhuang Zuo could read Chen Jiebing's heart at this moment, he would definitely beat his hands happily again and again—this is not what Rong Shi often gives him—but Zhuang Zuo's ability to give people a profound and far-reaching impression is mostly due to this appearance.

"Let's go, my friend should be up now. Zhuang Zuo patted Chen Jiebing's shoulder and led her inside.

In the backyard, the rooster who was so noisy by singing and dancing that he couldn't sleep came out of the nest and crowed listlessly twice, and the two of them could hear the tiredness in the cry across the entire hall between the front and back yards.

Zhuang Zuo and Chen Jiebing approached the hall with a rooster crow, and at the other end, a kind old man with a sunflower cockatoo on his arm also walked out from behind the wall of the sea cliff and the sunrise in the east.

The old man squinted and yawned, and when he opened his eyes, he saw someone coming, and his cloudy eyes shone with light—

"National teacher?"

The old man's legs and feet are inconvenient, but he also staggered three steps and two steps to get closer, and the old man's face is the joy of a long drought and a cold rain, and a foreign country.

Zhuang Zuo smiled decently, he knew that this Zhushun protector had been very similar to the national teacher at the Cunya Taoist altar, and whenever he felt something and understood, he would come to discuss with the national teacher for an afternoon.

The national teacher often complained that this old man was too pedantic and as verbose as he raised the parrot......

When Zhuang Zuo went to Longqiao to take up his post, the national teacher asked him to send greetings to the patron of Tiandao Temple in Zhushun City, and to see that his sunflower-headed parrot was still alive and noisy in the wind of the northern country.

"Youkai! Youkai!"

The cockatoo perched on the arm of the guard flapped its wings and cried out in its hoarse voice.

"Haha," the escort officer laughed dryly, "you're still so young." ”

Zhuang Zuo lowered his head in embarrassment, covered his mouth and smiled politely.

His mind was quickly searching for the way the national teacher would get along with this person, whether it was sympathetic or casual, casual or polite.

"As soon as the dragon bridge changed, the bad news came, I really thought that you were killed by the black dragon, and you couldn't eat tea and dinner for three days......" The escort officer shook his head, and the wrinkles on his face deepened.

"A few days ago, I heard that the great master appeared in Jining Mansion, safe and sound, and was heading west over the Jieshan Mountain. Fortunately, at that time, I thought that you had gone out of the Jaw Mountain Road, why did you have to go to my Tiandao Temple in Zhushun City to sit, and I couldn't sleep for a few nights when I was happy. ”

"Can't sleep! Can't sleep!"

The parrot shrugged its neck and learned to speak.

Zhuang's left index finger is hooked into a ring, teasing the fine feathers on its neck, which is very soft and comfortable.

"When you're old, you should pay attention to your body and don't make any mistakes. Zhuang Zuo teased the parrot as he instructed the old guardian.

The guardian nodded in response, and then sighed: "I really envy the national teacher, your ability to stay in time, my old bones, are getting deeper and deeper into the soil day by day——"

Sixty years for a life, how can I not be an old bone half cut into the ground? Zhuang Zuo also sighed when he heard this, but the sigh was still a modest smirk on his face.

"Settle in the ground!

The sunflower-headed parrot learned it somewhere, and cried out loudly, and its little paws jumped to the side, avoiding Zhuang Zuo's scratching of its hand.

The Guardian tapped the parrot's head on his arm and smiled apologetically.

"Who is this little girl next to you?" he asked.

Zhuang Zuo also stroked Chen Jiebing's head and said, "It's a Nizi who has been pestering me since the county town of Jayin, and I came to you this time, partly to help her ask for something." ”