"Who's to say it isn't? Otherwise, people will say that this royal family has no father and son, and it is better to be born in the emperor's family, it is better to be born in the people's family and be at ease. Xiao Shengzi sighed and shook his head: "This Jingtan master is also unlucky, since there is no other suspicious cause of his death, I will also go back to the yamen to restore my life." Will Miss Ruyi and Young Master Yin continue to stay in this temple, or will they go back with me? ”

"It's rare to go out with the fox, we're going to walk and go shopping again." Xing Ruyi made a "you go" gesture to Xiao Shengzi.

Xiao Shengzi muttered a few words softly, turned around, and walked out of the small courtyard.

"Such a cute child, I don't know which girl will be cheaper in the future."

"He had a good marriage."

"What about mine? Do you know how to read faces, or do you know how to read palmistry, and help me see what my future holds? ”

"Don't look at it, your future is not in your life, but in your hands and mine." The fox clenched Xing Ruyi's hand: "The number of lives can only be counted as someone else's, not as one's own." ”

"It's also true, my life is up to me, not God, so I won't go according to God's arrangement." Xing Ruyi took a deep breath, withdrew his hand from the fox's palm, and then held him with his backhand: "Even if you are a thousand-year-old fox, you have to be taken in by me." Fox, let's say that you will not fail me in my lifetime. I know that I will get old, I will become ugly, and I will even become very bad, but you are a fox, my long life is just a blink of an eye for you, even if you have other thoughts, I ask you to be patient for the time being, and when I go to the underworld to report, you can find other girls you like, okay? ”

"Good!" The fox replied lightly, hugged Xing Ruyi into his arms, and hugged him tightly.

"Loosen up, let go, this is the temple, if you want to hug it, you have to wait until you get back to the shop. Besides, it's in front of someone else. Breaking free from the fox's arms, Xing Ruyi looked at the wandering spirit standing under the jujube tree: "Miss Zhou, are you here to find the master of the pure altar?" ”

Zhou Xiaoyu, the soul of Zhou Xiaoyu, who could not be found, actually appeared in the White Horse Temple.

"I came to look for the altar, but when I found him, I found that I was dead." Zhou Xiaoyu bit her lip tightly.

"Don't cry yet, can you tell us what happened to you."

"I-" Zhou Xiaoyu's eyes turned even redder: "I don't remember, I really don't remember." ”

"And what do you remember?"

"I remember, I woke up early that day. The day before, I asked my maid Fluttershy to come to the monastery and see the altar in the name of worshipping the Buddha. I ask Fluttershy to tell him that I want to see him. If he wants to see me, let Fluttershy bring her back. If he doesn't want to see me, let Fluttershy bring her back. I also asked Fluttershy to bring him a message, saying that I was willing to wait for him, as long as he wanted to stay with me, no matter how long he could. If he doesn't want to be vulgar, I won't force him, I will follow my father's arrangement to find a man who is the right man for our Su family, and from now on, I will never go to the temple to disturb him again. ”

"Is it because the Pure Altar Master has heard these words that he is entangled in pain?"

"No, no, no, no." Zhou Xiaoyu said repeatedly: "Jingtan he is not the kind of person who is particularly entangled, he asked Fluttershy to bring me a letter, saying that the master has agreed to let him return to the world, but there are still some things in the temple that have not been dealt with, and he asked me to wait patiently." ”

Zhou Xiaoyu turned around and looked at the monk's room before Jingtan's death. Today, his body is also parked inside.

"I've known him since I was very young. My mother is a pilgrim at the White Horse Temple, and she comes to the temple almost every month. I heard from my mother that I was only half a year old when she first brought me here. At that time, I was a fat doll who couldn't even eat with eyes. When my mother kowtowed to the Buddha, she handed me over to the maid to hold. But I refused, I kept crying. Jingtan was a few years older than me, and at that time he was already learning to recite scriptures with the master, and when he saw me crying, he came to tease me. It is strange to say, but when I saw the altar of purification, I stopped crying. Not only did he stop crying, but he also smiled and stretched out his hand for him to hug.

Later, every time I offered incense to my mother, I could meet the pure altar. It's just that when he was a child, he was an older brother, and when he grew up, his mind changed. I can't tell when it became, but in short, I knew I liked him, and I wanted to be with him, the kind that would be with him forever and ever.

When I first started, I didn't know what I was thinking. In order to find out what kind of feelings I have for the Pure Altar, I listened to my father and mother and went to meet a few sons. They are not bad, some are admitted to show talents, some are good at business, some are gentle and considerate, and some are particularly amusing. But no matter how good they are, I can't get that feeling like it. The more people I saw, the more I understood my thoughts, and I began to know that my love for Jingtan was no longer the kind of little sister to the monk's brother, but the love between men and women. ”

"What about the altar of purification?"

"He's stupider than me." Zhou Xiaoyu's eyes were filled with moisture, but a smile overflowed at the corner of his mouth: "When I first told him that I liked him, not my sister to my brother, but the kind of woman who likes men, he was frightened, turned his back, and kept chanting Amitabha. At that time, I was fourteen years old. Also particularly fond of pranks. While he was reciting Amitabha, I suddenly reached out and hugged him from behind. He was so frightened that he didn't move, and his whole body seemed to freeze and freeze. After a long time, I heard him sigh, turned around, gently pushed me away with his hand, and said: Xiao Yu'er, I am a married person, I can't be liked by you, and I can't like you.

I was very sad and sad, but I still pretended not to care. It's okay, you can dislike me, but you can't stop me from liking you. Just as we can't force the Buddha to like all the people in this world, but we can't stop all the people from liking the Buddha. He said I was wrong, he said that the Buddha loved all the people in the world, but not all the people in the world loved the Buddha. I continued to tease him, and I said, "Then like the Buddha, like me." ”

"And then?" Xing Ruyi asked.

Later, he began to deliberately avoid me, deliberately not seeing me. But how could he hide from me? I am very idle, I run to this White Horse Temple every day, and I look for him when I come. Ruyi girl, think about it, I have known him since six months, and as soon as I started to learn to speak, I called him all day long, and the people in this temple have long been used to it. Sometimes I think that the reason why they got used to it, and why they didn't notice a change in my relationship with the Pure Altar, was because they had always treated me like a child. But I've grown up, from a little doll to a big girl.

At that time, Jingtan didn't dare to tell others that my mind about him had changed. Others didn't know, so every time they would take the initiative to tell me where the altar was, I would run over to him with joy.

I especially regret it now, if I knew...... If I knew that things would turn out the way they are today, I wouldn't have been so stubborn about the Pure Altar in the first place, I would have respected his decision, and I would have tried my best not to let him like me. In this way, he will be able to stay in this monastery and serve his Buddha well. When I miss him, I can still come to this temple from time to time to see him. But now, it's too late to say anything, it's really over. ”

"It's not your fault, the feelings in this world just don't have any reason, and there is no trace to be found. If everyone can control it, how can there be that poem. Ask what the world is like, and teach people to live and die. ”

"Not really." Zhou Xiaoyu squatted down: "Jingtan left the temple for a year in order to avoid me. He told the abbot that he was going out to practice and to visit other monasteries. The abbot didn't know what he really thought, so he agreed. For a whole year, in spring, summer, autumn and winter, I came to the monastery every day to wait for him, but I never waited for him. At the time, I thought he would never come back, and that he might have forgotten about me.

I still remember that on the day he came back, it snowed very heavily in Luoyang City, and when I came home from the monastery, I accidentally fell and broke my legs. When he got off the carriage, he limped and had a lot of mud on his body, and the whole person looked very embarrassed. When I looked up, I saw a monk standing in front of my house, and when I looked again, it was a pure altar. I thought I would run over in surprise, but no, I couldn't move, I just stood there like a fool.

Later, he also saw me and walked towards me step by step in the snow. Do you know what I did? I sat on the ground, like a child who had not grown up, crying aggrievedly, crying very sadly, very ugly.

Why do you feel aggrieved? Probably because he came back just when I was about to give up in despair. In my most embarrassed and ugly time, he returned.

He walked up to me, removed the hat from his head, removed the cloak with the snowflakes, and put it on my shoulder. He asked me, are you hurt? He also asked me, do you hurt?

I said it hurts, I said I want to hug you, but you're a monk, I can't hug you.

I said Jingtan, I like you, but I like you, why is it that you are a monk?

I said Pure Altar, I feel so uncomfortable, I don't want to disturb your practice, but I can't control my own heart, I can't control my own feet.

I said clean altar, do you have medicine in your pocket, you can forget your kind if you eat it.

He looked at me, half speechless, and then picked me up from the ground.

He said that he could stop being a monk for my sake.

That year, when I was sixteen years old, Jingtan said that he was willing to take off his monk's robe and return to the world for me. ”