Chapter 44: Luo Han Guo
Wei Shu saw six or seven fawns, and the antlers of these fawns emitted blue light, but when he looked closely, he found that it was not their antlers that emitted blue light, but several blue butterflies that stopped on their antlers.
A few fawns kept leaping on the mountainside, and blue butterflies flew up and fell from time to time.
At this time, a fawn came to Wei Shu's side, it was not afraid of people at all, and walked to Wei Shu's side and sniffed Wei Shu's sleeve.
Wei Shu smiled and flipped his hand, revealing a biscuit in his palm.
The fawn happily licked the biscuit in Wei Shu's hand, and at this time, several other fawns also surrounded Wei Shu.
"Dang!"
There was another loud bell on the top of the mountain, and several fawns were startled and jumped up the mountain one after another.
Wei Shu followed, he followed closely behind a few fawns, probably because Wei Shu had just shown friendship, or maybe they were particularly close to humans, so they all surrounded Wei Shu and moved forward with Wei Shu.
Wei Shu followed the deer over the rocks, jumped over the small river and stream, and finally saw a path, which Wei Shu followed straight up, and finally saw a quaint bell pavilion, and in the bell pavilion there was an old monk who was about sixty or seventy years old.
"Dang!" When the bell rang, the fawns ran to the old monk's vicinity, and then they saw that the old monk had spilled a lot of special green fruits, and these fawns immediately nibbled on those green fruits.
The old monk's beard and eyebrows have turned gray, there are nine ring scars on the top of his head, he is wearing ordinary patched monk clothes, and his feet are wearing cloth shoes. ”
Wei Shu thought for a while before replying, "I came from nothingness, and I went to nothingness?" ”
Old Monk: "..."
The old monk said, "I'm just asking who you are?" What are you here for? There is no need to answer so complicated. ”
Wei Shu: "..."
Then don't you ask bluntly?
Wei Shu said, "I just found this mountain a little strange, so I came up and took a look." ”
The old monk walked out of the Zhong Pavilion and asked, "What's so strange about this mountain?" ”
Wei Shu looked around and saw that the plants here were not growing wildly, and the buildings were intact, and he asked, "Don't you know what happened outside the mountain?" ”
The old monk clasped his hands together: "I sit in the mountains, what does the mountain have to do with me?" Even though the mountains are ever-changing, the stars are changing, I am safe and immobile in the mountains, people do not change, heaven and earth do not change, if people change, heaven and earth change! ”
The old monk's realm is very high, and only now did Wei Shu discover that this old monk was actually a rare-level existence, in other words, his soul strength had reached 100 times that of ordinary humans.
This made Wei Shu feel quite interesting, is this old monk of high realm, or is this mountain not simple?
Wei Shu asked, "You have always been alone in this mountain?" ”
The old monk shook his head: "There should be a village at the foot of the mountain, but most of them have moved away, and someone has contracted dozens of acres of mountain land on the mountainside, and it seems that they plan to plant fruit trees, but I haven't seen or heard it, it seems that they have given up." ”
Wei Shu said: "I think you should go outside the mountain to see, this world is very different!" ”
The old monk clasped his hands together: "I can't leave here, if I leave, who will ring the bell?" Who will sweep the ground? Who will take care of the tower? ”
Wei Shu listened carefully, and suddenly felt that what the old monk said was very zen, and he nodded: "It makes sense." ”
The old monk said to Wei Shu: "Distinguished guests come from afar, it is better to go to the temple to drink a cup of tea, eat a few fruits, a month ago, the temple courtyard suddenly had a tree dozens of meters high, the tree bears unknown fruit, I named it Bodhi fruit, I picked and ate, but also distributed to these deer to eat." ”
Wei Shu asked, "Didn't you notice that the day has become longer?" ”
The old monk smiled and said, "A day is a day, how can it get longer?" ”
The old monk took Wei Huo into the temple, which was an ordinary temple with a small courtyard, a main hall, three rooms, and a kitchen.
There was a set of stone tables and chairs in the courtyard, just under a large tree in the center, which was a very strange tree, with pale blue leaves, pale red trunk, and turquoise fruits.
The old monk let Wei Shu sit at the stone table, and then walked into the kitchen, soon, the kitchen chimney came out of the white smoke, not long after, the old monk carried a pitch-black water furnace out, the appearance of the water furnace is all carbon black, this is the carbon accumulated on the surface of the iron furnace after the fuel is not fully burned, the old monk used this furnace to boil water for a long time, the whole iron furnace has become black, the surface is also covered with some uneven but black and shiny carbon black, open the iron furnace, the iron furnace is full of scale, circle after circle, from the inside to the outside, from deep to shallow.
The old monk's way of making tea is very simple, take two white porcelain bowls with notches, put some broken tea leaves, pour hot water into the bowl, accompanied by the "Xuan" sound made by the porcelain bowl, the tea leaves are constantly rotated by the hot water, and gradually, a fragrance is emanated.
The old monk said, "This is a dried wild tea leaf, and if anyone comes and is willing to drink it, I will make this tea." ”
Wei Shu nodded, the appearance of this water stove does not look very good, it is dark, the scale in the furnace is also very thick, and the color is very dark, and this tea bowl is indeed simple, and this tea water is coming out along the cracks.
There are not many people who come to this kind of temple, and no one wants to drink this kind of tea.
Wei Shu took a sip slightly, only felt that the tea had a faint fragrance, not bitter, the hot water was originally hot, but with tea, it only felt hot, not hot, but after drinking, the whole body would be hot.
"Try this monk fruit." The old monk picked a few blue-green fruits, this fruit is about the same size as a walnut, neither sweet nor sour, just like this tea, light, but after eating, Wei Shu felt a fever all over his body, this fruit contains a strong energy, no wonder the old monk does not feel that the day is very long, because he does not feel hungry.
"I want to make a deal with you, I need fruit seeds and seedlings of wild tea leaves..."Wei Shu suddenly stopped in the middle of speaking, because he suddenly realized that he might not have what the old monk needed.
Food? There was no shortage of old monks, and Wei had only the meat of his prey. Wearing? The old monk should not need it. Silver? The old monk didn't need it at all.
Wei Shu asked, "Do you have anything you need?" ”
The old monk smiled and shook his head: "There are many of these things in the mountains, I'll just send you, I don't need anything." ”
Wei Shu also smiled: "He is worthy of being a master, he has no desires and no desires." ”
The old monk stood up, looked at the sky, and said, "It's almost time, it's time for me to practice." ”