Zen room.

The windows are bright and clean, and the snow falls silently.

Ye Dingxi picked up a white seed and gently placed it on the chessboard.

The situation of white chess is very different, and there is nowhere to win, but he insists on putting white in a backward position.

"Hehe, Lord Ye is careless. "Desheng squinted his eyes pleasantly.

Ye Dingxi smiled indifferently, picked up the cup of tea in his hand, the wall was slightly cold, and he subconsciously looked out of the door again.

Desheng mentioned the fourth son and said with a smile: "Master Ye, but are you worried about the female donor?"

"She went for a long time. ”

Ye Dingxi's gaze slowly fell back to the chessboard, and a strange light flashed in the corner of his eye.

Desheng shook the Buddha beads in his hand and recited Amitabha Buddha and said: "The female benefactor has a special identity, and being able to follow the side of the Ye donor can be regarded as a blessing of her own." ”

Smack.

A white son falls on the black "waist eye".

Ye Dingxi raised his eyebrows slightly and said, "It seems that the master is not unaware of her origin. ”

With this piece, the situation of black suddenly turned passive, and the smile on his face was lost, he looked at the person opposite, and then looked at the chessboard again, and hesitated for a long time before he dropped another piece.

Ye Dingxi smiled and said, "Master Desheng, you still lost in this third game." ”

Desheng's eyes stared, and then he looked at the situation and died.

"The donor's chess is high, and the poor monk admires it. He clasped his hands together, and the tassels on the beads swept over the cold cup of tea, bringing up a few drops of water and landing on the chessboard.

Ye Dingxi's expression was indifferent, and he got up and said: "The master's chess skills are famous in Beijing, and the temple is restless today, so maybe the master is disturbed." ”

Desheng's eyes flashed, and he stroked his beard and chuckled.

"Lord Ye Shi looks young, but he has a unique eye and an old mind, and he will definitely have a great transformation in the future. ”

In this way, it was useless for Ye Dingxi, he saluted and retreated, and said, "My wife has been out for a long time, I should go and find it." ”

Outside the monastery.

On the way back, Yunma probably couldn't find my footsteps, and deliberately walked very slowly.

I looked at the small bamboo basket he was carrying in his hand, covered with a gray coarse cloth, and it looked quite heavy, so I asked, "What's in it?"

"It's turnips. ”

The clouds stopped, and the cloth on the bamboo basket was uncovered, revealing a few large white radishes.

"With such a thick layer of snow, you can still dig up turnips?" I was amazed.

Yunjian said with a smile: "It's very easy to dig, just now where I met my sister, there is a field in the woods, which began to grow radishes a few years ago, big and full of water, sweeter than the one that Uncle De bought at the bottom of the mountain!"

I nodded, and then asked, "Didn't you have enough lunch?"

"My sick uncle and I don't eat meat, but recently it has been a disaster due to heavy snowfall, and Uncle De said that vegetables are more expensive than meat, so I ...... them."

"Are you the only ones in the monastery who are vegetarians with the sick master?" I asked.

Yunma nodded.

I originally had a lot of questions about a Zen temple, the four monks of birth, old age, sickness and death have their own weirdness, only Yunjian seems to be normal, and now I am alone with him, so I want to knock on the side to find out some inside the temple.

After a pause, I asked, "Yunma, did you grow up in a temple?"

"yes. ”

Yunjian is very honest and answers all questions.

"A few years ago, Master picked me up in the mountains and brought me back, and at that time there was a jade pendant in my swaddling clothes, engraved with the word Yunjian, and Master called me Yunjian. ”

"How many monks are there in the monastery as far as you can remember?" I asked again.

Yunjian scratched his white dough-like head and said, "There were still more than a dozen in the early years, but then they all came down one after another and didn't come back." ”

"Didn't you come back?

"At first, Uncle De Lao and Uncle De Die would go down the mountain every once in a while to look for them, but according to them, all the monks they found were still layman, so they didn't look for them again. ”

"Old and ......Dead"

I wondered even more, "Isn't their relationship very bad?"

Yunjian turned his head, smiled in my direction, and said: "The two uncles did not grow up in the monastery, they both became monks more than ten years ago, I heard that they were both from Beijing in the past, and they also knew each other, maybe there seemed to be some festival at that time, and they accumulated grievances." ”

If there were grievances before becoming a monk, then it is understandable that they are so-for-tat now.

But......

Since the grievances have not been settled, it is not considered to cut off the red world, so how can such conditions be able to become a monk?

I really don't understand.

"Yunjian, your master, and the sick master, isn't their relationship with the old and the dead not very good?"

Yun Jian first shook his head, then nodded, and then shook his head: "These ...... Yunjian doesn't know very well, it's just that Master and Uncle Shi perform their own duties every day, except for the time of practice, they rarely get together, for example, my Master, he often stays in the Kuixing Pavilion and receives those pilgrims who come to worship and worship the incense, and Uncle Sick stays in the front hall most of the time to chant sutras, sometimes sitting for most of the day, and doesn't talk to anyone. ”

So weird?

It is clearly a brother in a temple, living under the same roof, how can it become a four-cornered relationship?

"What about you?"

I asked, "What do you like to do on a daily basis?"

"Me?" Yun Jian was stunned, and smiled a little embarrassedly: "Master is very busy when he is in Kuixing Pavilion, I am inconvenient to disturb, sometimes I go to the front hall to chant with my sick uncle, and at other times I find some wild vegetables and radishes outside the temple and send them to the kitchen, and when the weather is fine, I will also go to the woods to collect firewood......"

From this point of view, it confirms my previous thoughts, Yunjian is the monk who is most like a monk in the temple!

Just when I wanted to continue to ask questions, I suddenly saw Ye Dingxi's long jade standing in front of the mountain gate, his dark eyes reflecting the clouds and mist on the horizon, and that moment was enough to amaze time.

"Ye Dingxi!"

I waved at him.

The clouds saluted, "Lord Ye." ”

Ye Dingxi nodded at him first, then walked up to me and asked gently, "Where did you go?" ”

I smiled and said, "I took a walk to eat, but I didn't expect to get lost, but fortunately, I met Yunjian and brought me back." ”

"Amitabha. ”

Yunjian smiled: "The two donors, please take care of yourself, I'll go to the kitchen to deliver the radish!"

"Go, go, thank you!" I waved at him, remembering that he couldn't see me, so I reached over and patted him on the shoulder.

After the clouds left, Ye Dingxi pulled me back to the temple slowly.

Front hall.

He still knelt on the futon and chanted, as if he didn't sense our arrival, but when we stepped into the door, the beads in his hand were noticeably half a beat slower.

I quietly approached Ye Dingxi and said, "I came back with Yunjian today and learned some secrets from him!"

"Oh?"

Ye Dingxi smiled and said, "What secret?"