Chapter Eighty-Four: The Black Shop

The sun is shining, the wind is beautiful, and it is a beautiful one.

  Runzhi and his entourage politely declined the abbot's invitation to stay in Shaolin Temple and stayed in an inn halfway up the Shaolin Temple for one night.

  This is naturally because it is inconvenient to stay in the meditation room with Qing'er, so I stayed in an inn on the mountainside of Shaolin Temple.

  But this inn is also a little interesting, I think it is because there are a lot of people who come on weekdays, so all the rooms are deliberately divided into three floors above ground and underground, each floor has more than 20 rooms, each room is decorated, but it does have a bit of a deep feeling of Zen room flowers and trees.

  In the middle of the night, Runzhi came out to solve, and happened to meet Qing'er unexpectedly, because there was no one else in the inn, the two were at the railing of the inn, looking at the distant mountain peaks in the night, covered with a hazy black veil, and chatting with each other about each other's very concerned words.

  "You know, I've never believed in Buddhism, Buddha is like a street seller who has been praising how delicious his rock sugar gourd is, but in fact, it tastes like that. Even sometimes if I am unlucky, the rock sugar gourd I eat is still a little sour."

  Qing'er looked at the mountains in the distance and knew about Run.

  "Actually, I'm too, I grew up in Qingguan, and I have received the washing of Mohist thoughts, and my master has often told me that those monks are not good at studying the scriptures of this school, but in order to achieve some of their own material interests, they calculate each other, deceive pilgrims, and deceive people everywhere, and do more disgraceful things, where are we disciples of the Mohist school so bright."

  Runzhi seemed to pause and continued:

  "Our Mohist disciples can at least rely on their true talents and learning to work hard to gain fame, seal their wives and sons, and glorify their ancestors, but these monks are hiding in the temple and not thinking of making progress, waiting for don't spare alms, and they are only worthy of deceiving some ignorant people to barely live."

  When Qing'er heard this, she suddenly remembered something and said:

  "Of course, although I don't believe in Buddhism, but I think those who believe in Buddhism are normal, we still have to respect their choice, for some people, we do take care of their spiritual and cultural defects in the world, and only a little Buddhism brings some sense of ritual can give them some spiritual baptism, which is to make up for some shortcomings in the world, and there is still a reason for his existence in general."

  Runzhi listened to Qing'er's words, and suddenly, he felt that Qing'er's thoughts had suddenly risen by more than one level, so he said:

  "Indeed, everyone has their own freedom of choice, you can choose to believe in Buddhism, you can also choose not to believe, there is no good or bad, just a need to be different, just imagine those who have no money to enjoy other spiritual products, illiterate and do not understand the rhythm of the peasants, the only thing they can shock the soul may be these Buddhist activities full of rituals, thinking that Buddhism can exist for thousands of years, naturally there is a profound truth"

  Qing'er listened to Runzhi's words, patiently staring at Runzhi's eyelashes as she spoke, and the half of the dimples that occasionally appeared in her smile, she felt that it was so charming, so charming, and she had the idea of wanting to make a promise in an instant.

  "Why don't we talk all night tonight?"

  Qing'er suddenly opened her mouth shyly to know to Run, her tone was full of a sense of dodge, and it was still a long time of courage to come out, which was really not an easy task for her daughter's family, especially for Qing'er, who grew up in a wealthy and noble family after receiving the most stringent traditional "Daughter's Sutra" education.

  "As long as you are happy, I will be happy, as long as you are happy, my heart is full of sunshine, as long as you need, I am willing to give everything for you at any time, so what is it to talk together?"

  The two of them were about to go back to Qing'er's room together, when suddenly a Cheng Hanyun appeared in front of Liangrao, her face was nervous, and then she whispered to Runzhi:

  "My lord, based on our experience, we found that this shop is a black shop, adults are very careful, and they can't be negligent."

  Runzhi naturally slowly let go of the hand holding Qing'er, and then said, "Oh, how can you see it?" ”

  Cheng Hanyun continued:

  "Here's what happened, we found hair in the buns in this store, and at the same time we found that in the back hall of this shop, there were actually blood stains, it seems that this shop is a black shop, and the black shop opened by the dominatrix Sun Erniang in Shi Nai'an's "Water Margin" is exactly the same, so I hope everyone is very vigilant, and our brothers have decided to wait around the adults at any time tonight in case of accidents."

  In this way, Runzhi and Qing'er's idea of wanting to talk all night together had to be shattered.

  Liangrao's eyes were filled with a strange flame, as if he had drunk an aphrodisiac, but it was so magical, he always felt that there was a slight sense of mysterious ritual that was implied, or something was missing.

  Obviously, it's impossible to get a good night's sleep.

  "Come on, go and get me all the shopkeepers and all the guys here!", Runzhi instructed the head-catchers.

  Because it was the middle of the night at this time, except for the second brother who usually dozed off on the counter in this shop, the shopkeeper, the proprietress and other guys must have gone to bed.

  But because the shopkeeper couldn't sleep tonight, he asked some people in the store who specialized in providing other entertainment services for tourists to wait for him.

  In the Yongzheng period, there was no such thing as prostitution.

  In fact, the shopkeeper of this store opened an inn and a brothel at the same time, just hanging the signboard of "Shaolin Temple Inn", not the signboard of the Qinglou such as "Drunken Flower Xuan", but it was a two-handed transaction of the inn and the Qinglou, and he only needed to pay the taxes of the inn, and he thought that the owner was shrewd.

  Hearing that the governor summoned him, all of a sudden, the shopkeeper named Qian Tanxing suddenly thought that he had secretly raised a dog and sold dog meat to open a brothel, and his heart suddenly felt a little panicked.

  In less than an hour, with the efforts of the head-catchers, all the people in the entire inn arrived.

  There were about a dozen women dressed in prostitute costumes, two or three of them, who looked disheveled, and it turned out that these prostitutes took advantage of the scarcity of customers these days to do indecent things with the other second brothers in this shop. Unexpectedly, he was suddenly inspected by the government, and he was a little frightened for a while, thinking that the matter of the shopkeeper's private opening of a brothel was revealed.