Chapter 20: Probation is better than planning
After walking for a while, before reaching the top of the mountain, Tang Sha saw that Xiao Shami's forehead was sweating a lot, so he snatched the broom from his hand.
Xiao Shami, who was suddenly empty in his hand, stared at Tang Sha blankly.
"I'll take it for you, let's go." Tang Sha explained.
Xiao Shami looked at the broom in Tang Sha's hand and wanted to say something, but he didn't dare to say it.
Tang Sha was also surprised as he walked, such a long ladder was swept by this little novice, a little unbelievable.
On the desolate stairway, the backs of one big and one small moved slowly, looking at the inexplicable harmony.
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In Nan'an City a few decades ago, incense was also extremely vigorous. It's all because of the existence of a master. Legend has it that this master can pass through the heavens and the earth, break through the fog, and see the future, and many people come to admire him.
Later, the master passed away, and because of the remote location of Nan'an Temple, gradually there are fewer and fewer people, and now in the Anhe period, in addition to a few old people who have received the grace of the master, they will come to worship, donate some incense money, and have not seen a stranger for several years.
However, there are few people in the temple, only five or six, and they can make a living by going to the mountains to get something to sell.
On the threshold of the gate of this poor group of Nan'an Temple, there was a young monk in thin clothes, handsome and a little impetuous.
He held a gourd in his hand, and from time to time he tore the stopper and sniffed it, with a look of longing, and then pressed it back in longing. After repeating it several times, he simply put the gourd farther away: "I'm so special, I even covet the things of the junior brother." Amitabha, Gyalkya Yama, Shasha Sha Shen Ya, Zha Tana, Tata Ta Tana, Bo Po Po Brahma ......" The young monk moved from the threshold to the ground and sat cross-legged, folded his hands, and began to recite the mantra of Shanpu in the "Buddha Gate Daily Chanting". (also known as the Purifying Mantra)
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"Senior brother!" Grandma's glutinous voice was full of countless grievances.
The young monk immediately opened his eyes when he heard the voice, and a few meters away from the door, in addition to his cute little junior brother, there was one more person, a woman.
The young monk furrowed his good-looking sword eyebrows, and his face was unhappy. Not because the person was a woman, but because why did she touch the head of the little junior brother with her hand! Still touching it and not letting go? Can his little brother be touched by others?
Without saying a word, he got up and walked over and picked up the little novice, and then he saw the red eyes.
Now the young monk exploded, and his little junior brother who was reluctant to say a word was made to cry! What's the matter! So he stared at Tang Sha with a gloomy face: "You made my junior brother cry."
Let's just say that most of them are habitual, Tang Sha saw that the young monk wanted to eat her fiercely, and couldn't help but smile helplessly, how can he fix his temper when he has such a big temper?
She didn't deny it, and said directly: "It's right that I made me cry."
"Then trouble the donor to get out of Nan'an Temple. If the donor is unwilling to go, the poor monk does not mind sending the donor away. The young monk accentuated his tone, and at first glance it was a naked threat. But what she doesn't eat the most is this set.
"Don't be so angry, young man, the person who comes is a guest, didn't your master teach you how to treat guests?"
"If you make my junior brother cry, you are not a guest of my Nan'an Temple." The young man said coldly.
Oh, he's a madman who spoils his brother! Just like her brothers.
"Then how can you forgive me?" Tang Sha asked, Tang Sha had a not-so-authentic idea.
"The person who provoked my junior brother is unforgivable!" The young monk dragged and said.
Tang Sha determined that the second phase of this young monk has not yet passed.
"Shall I make this little novice happy, then? I've got something good that he's going to love. Tang Sha negotiated.
As soon as he heard that there would be something he liked, Xiao Shami stared at Tang Sha curiously without blinking.
Tang Sha smiled at him, and Xiao Shami immediately turned his head over and looked at the side face of his senior brother.
The young monk felt the gaze of his little junior brother, and immediately took his eyes off Tang Sha and put it on the junior brother he was holding in his hand, his eyes were full of pity and love.
At this glance, he understood that the little junior brother wanted that thing, and he blamed them for being too poor to buy gadgets for the little junior brother, and he couldn't ......
"Then you take out your things, and if my little junior brother is happy, I will let you go in and pay homage." The young monk was a little reluctant, if he didn't really want it, who would want to...... Hum!
Tang Sha took out the exquisite purse that Qinglan had given him from his waist, which contained a few ingots of silver, a few silver tickets, and a few pieces of sugar. Then he beckoned to the little novice.
The young monk put the little novice down, and he still didn't believe what this woman could do in front of him.
The little novice glanced at his brother and saw that he nodded at him. He turned around and walked towards Tang Sha.
Tang Sha waited for the little novice to approach, squatted down, took his hand out of the cloak, and handed the purse to him.
The purse is pink, with a crane rust on it, and the little novice's eyes are shining, and he stretches out two small hands to hold it, which is really beautiful.
Xiao Shami felt a little heavy, and asked Tang Sha curiously: "What is this play with noodles?" ”
Tang Sha touched Xiao Shami's head and said, "It's a shiny thing, it's very beautiful, can you open it when my sister is gone?" ”
The little novice nodded, he liked this very much, it was a color he had never seen before.
The little novice returned to the young monk, and the monk also saw that it was a bulging purse, and he kept staring at it when he saw that the little brother liked it, and he didn't take it to see what was inside, presumably with some spices.
"Go in and pay homage." The monk spoke.
"Thank you, I'm not here to worship this time, can you ask the little master to take me to meet you to preside over a meeting?" She now has absolute confidence in getting the monk's office.
The monk looked at her a few times, the host brother knows this woman? At first glance, it is either rich or expensive, and the host brother looks serious and pure-hearted on the surface, but he didn't expect it......
"Hentai, you go and move the firewood in the yard to Dazhu, and I'll take her to find the host brother." The monk said to the little novice, who nodded, put the purse on his waist like an adult, turned around and ran to the courtyard.
"Come with me."
Tang Sha followed the monk into the door, the temple is not small, and after twisting and turning, he came to a Buddhist hall dedicated to Guanyin. Under the seat of Guanyin, a monk in a red robe sat on the cushion, knocking on the wooden fish and reciting the Buddhist scriptures.
The young monk bowed to Guanyin in a proper manner, and then said to the Taoist: "Senior brother, there is a girl...... Looking for you. "How strange the tone is.
The knocking sound stopped, and the man stood up and bowed, then turned around and looked at the little junior who never paid attention to the rules of Buddhism on weekdays.
The young monk smiled stupidly, hehe, he understood: "Senior brother, Wujian will retreat first, you can talk." After speaking, he slipped out of the Buddha hall.
The host carefully took a large number of Tang Sha and made a Buddhist salute to Tang Sha, and Tang Sha naturally replied with a smile.
"I don't know what the donor is looking for?"
"I want to ask for a monk's seal." Tang Sha said it truthfully.
Wushi didn't expect her to be so direct, so he felt that this woman was straightforward by nature: "If you are not a person in my temple, you can't have it." Wu Shi also directly refused.
"Why not?" Tang Sha asked with a smile.
"The rules set by the abbot." No reply.
"Why did the abbot make this rule?" Tang Sha asked again.
"There are one and two, there are monks who are monks, monks are born, left in the red dust, and the Buddha is also dirty." Unexplained answered.
"Master Shakti, what do you think is the purpose of a Buddha?" Tang Sha thought for a while and asked in a different direction.
"Purify all beings."
"How to Purdue?"
"Influenced by the Buddha, when the Buddha is recited, that is, when the heart is born as a Buddha. If you have a Buddha in your heart, you will not feel suffering. ”
"In your heart, is it the Buddha or the sentient beings that are important?" Tang Sha continued to ask.
"There are Buddhas and sentient beings." No answer.
Tang Sha listened to this answer and smiled: "Master, I have heard a saying that Bodhi belongs to all sentient beings, and without sentient beings, all bodhisattvas cannot become supreme enlightenment. Do you think that's reasonable? ”
Wushi didn't speak, Tang Sha continued: "The master just said that the Dharma is inspired, there is a Buddha in the heart, and there is no suffering. But Master, many people who have a Buddha in their hearts and are struggling in the sea of suffering, when they pray for the Buddha to take them away, where is the Buddha? The people of the Buddhist family also say that they have compassion for all sentient beings, but they only ask the Buddha to recite sutras when the Buddha sits down. Master, if you don't enter the world and don't know the suffering of sentient beings, how can you be compassionate? There is a person today, fatherless and motherless, who has been orphaned for 20 years, and wants to join the army to protect the dawn of the world, which can be described as righteousness? There is a Buddha in the heart, the righteousness is achieved, and the Buddha is also born! Can it be reasonable? ”
Wusha was stunned by what he said, not knowing the suffering of sentient beings, how to compassion sentient beings? How to get out of the dust without entering the red dust, it is true. In fact, he himself is only one of the sentient beings, all sentient beings have suffering, resentment, love and separation, can't ask for it, birth, old age, sickness, death, the five yin are blazing. In fact, I am also struggling with these eight hardships.
"Would the host be willing to give me a monk?" Tang Sha asked.
"I will, but the abbot's law cannot be abolished, the girl can go and ask the abbot." Wushi gave Tang Sha a crying and laughing answer, and said it in vain.
If you don't make a little bit of cruel material, you won't be able to.
"Does the master know the little novice of the end?"
Wu Shi was stunned again, and then nodded.
"Why did you tell him to sweep such a long staircase?"
Wushi hesitated for a moment, but still said: "Little junior brother, the body is naturally weak, afraid of heat in summer, cold in winter, and very susceptible to disease. Sweeping the stone steps is for the body of the little junior brother. ”
Tang Sha nodded clearly, no wonder he felt so sorry for him: "But I don't think he's dressed particularly warmly." ”
"In winter, I will drink wine for my little brother to keep my muscles from the cold."
"That little novice seems to like my purse, so I'll give it to him." Tang Sha began to make small calculations in his heart.
Wu Shi was a little helpless, the little junior brother liked them, and naturally no one would take them back.
"Is it feasible for me to give the girl a string of Buddhist beads in return?" Wu Shi asked.
Tang Sha made a thoughtful look, and then said casually: "It's okay, anyway, it's just a few hundred taels of incense money, small money, and Buddha beads that I brought to donate, you can, bring it!" ”
Wushi's expression at the moment can be described as wonderful, how can he get a few hundred taels of silver? It's hard to take out dozens of taels.
"The girl can get the silver ticket back."
"There is no reason for the things that this girl gave out to be taken back. Look at how tight the little novice likes, forget it. Tang Sha waved his little hand, making it extremely difficult.
"Hey, donor, come with me. Now that the donor has merit, the Buddha is determined to fulfill the girl's righteousness. "All day long before the Buddha is indoctrinated, invincible to the world's cunning.