After a while, after the people in the distant bungalow walked away, Mo Ran walked out from behind the tree, and as soon as she returned to the pavilion, she met Biluo and Liu Ying who came to look for her.

In addition to the main hall of Taoyuan Temple, which enshrines the temple of the previous emperor, the rest of the side halls enshrine the Buddha statue, the end of the fast, Su Yingzhi chatted with the emperor, and the rest of the Su family went to the side hall where the statue of the god was enshrined.

Mo Ran didn't believe in the gods and ghosts, after Ge Shuwang, Su Jinnian and Su Yingrong entered, Mo Ran waited outside the palace gate, and a man in tattered clothes sat leaning on the door, and there was a gossip map on the ground in front of him, on which a wooden bucket full of bamboo sticks was placed.

The man saw Mo Ran, Xu had not patronized his business for a long time, and the man called Mo Ran, "Girl." ”

Mo Ran stopped, there was no response, and the man continued, "Do you want to come and count a hexagram?" ”

This person spoke in a relaxed tone, not like a modest and respectful Dharma disciple, but more like a liar, Mo Ran said lightly, "I don't believe in these. ”

Hearing this, the man was not angry, knocked the melon seeds, picked up the wine jug placed on his side, took a sip, and said with a smile, "Poor Dao can see at a glance that the girl is related to Poor Dao, presumably the girl also has a lot of doubts, doesn't the girl want to solve it?" Maybe what the girl wants to know, the poor road just has the solution. ”

Mo Ran paused again, she smelled the aroma of wine overflowing between the man's lips and teeth, only to feel that this Taoist priest was quite strange, Mo Ran turned around, walked to him and sat on the small stool.

As if expecting her to be like this, the Taoist priest put down the wine jug with a smile and glanced at her slowly, "What is a girl?" He looked at the sky and stretched, "Future, fortune, wealth, marriage, you can do it." Finally, he added, "You are not allowed to ask for money." ”

"How do you tell I'm related to you?"

The Taoist priest was not surprised, as if he had guessed that she would ask this, "Poor Dao looks familiar to the girl, as if she had seen it before." ”

"When? Where? ”

The Taoist priest smiled and was not in a hurry to speak, "Xu is from the previous life." ”

It was a light-hearted joke, but Mo Ran couldn't help but be surprised.

"The Taoist leader believes that there is a saying of 'borrowing corpses to return souls'?"

"That girl believes in 'ghosts'?"

"I don't believe it."

The Taoist priest smiled, and looked at Mo Ran with a pair of bright eyes, "Why did that girl come to ask Poor Dao about this?" ”

"Where does the Taoist think people will go when they die?"

"All things are born, there is life and there is death, and all things are condensed, and naturally after death, they will also return to chaos."

"Will there always be an exception?"

"Everything has a fixed number, and of course everything has its reason for survival, since God has made people live in another way, this is also his gift but also a punishment?"

"What do you mean by that?"

The man had a smile on the corner of his mouth, but his eyes looked at the direction of Luoyang City with a daze, and he said slowly, "The first cry of the baby when he is born means the suffering of the world, since life is a kind of suffering, others only suffer for one lifetime, but if you live again, you have to suffer for two lifetimes, isn't this a gift and a punishment?" ”

Mo Ran smiled bitterly, and secretly thought in his heart, yes, for himself, it would be a kind of torment to live again and experience the same pain twice.

The melancholy on his face was fleeting, and Mo Ran smiled and said, "You Taoist priest is interesting. It's just that she won't go through the same hardships in two lifetimes as others say, "Then the Taoist will help me do the math." ”

"What?"

"Past life, this life."

The Taoist priest picked up the bamboo tube, shook it vigorously, the bamboo sticks collided and made a "click" sound, and then a bamboo stick fell steadily on the gossip map, the Taoist priest picked it up, looked at the bamboo stick, and said solemnly, "The girl has been a person of hard life for two lifetimes." ”

He sighed, Mo Ran's lips hooked when he heard this, and he sighed secretly, "Indeed." ”

"Do you think that the girl has a long way to go, and it is really difficult to move forward this time?"

"It always has been."

"Poor Dao has something I want to say to the girl."

Mo Ran looked at him lightly, "Dao Chief, please speak." ”

"The girl still has a long way to go, it is difficult, and there is no one around to accompany her, she is destined to be lonely and difficult, and the girl can choose to stop."

Stop it? How could she stop, it was never easy to carry on her thin shoulders, she smiled wryly, "It doesn't matter. ”

How can she live up to it in her first life?

The Taoist priest sighed and said, "Although the girl has strong perseverance and intelligence, the poor Dao thinks that 'bamboo canes and mango shoes are lighter than horses'. It's not necessarily a good thing to carry too much. ”

Mo Ran lowered his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.

The Taoist priest knew that he couldn't persuade her, so he sighed again, "Girl, if you say one more word to the poor Dao, seeing may not be believing!" Even if the Lingtai is clear, it is difficult to protect a leaf. ”

Mo Ran nodded, "Why did the Dao Chief tell me this?" ”

The Taoist priest packed up the things on the ground, wrapped the gossip diagram, and tied it to his body, "entrusted by the old man." ”

Mo Ran stared at the back of him leaving, and the confusion in his heart became more and more high.

When she was stunned, Su Jinnian had already walked out, he stood beside her for a long time, and Mo Ran didn't notice it, until the person next to her spoke, "What does my sister think?" ”

Mo Ran Mu Ne came back to her senses, looked at him, and then glanced at the statue in the temple, she couldn't help laughing, "Brother still worships the old moon?" ”

Su Jinnian was pierced in his mind, his face was ashamed, he glared at Mo Ran, and turned his head to not talk to her.

Mo Ran smiled and shook her head, she knew that Su Jinnian hadn't given up on Ruan Ningwei yet.

At the end of the night's fasting, the abbot led everyone to the place where they were staying, although it was narrower, and there was a sultry smell wafting in the air, but it was better than one person, Liu Ying and Biluo were led to the place where the maid was staying, and Mo Ran sat alone on the side of the small table.

It was a little dark, and an oil lamp flickered in front of the window.

Mo Ran got up, quietly opened the door, and after making sure that there were no people in the narrow wooden corridor, he went out of the room alone.

Mo Ran was sure that standing outside Taoyuan Temple at noon, he saw the golden-topped carriage hidden in the dense forest, which was the crown prince Li Kai.

She followed the noon route and returned to the bungalow behind the bamboo forest, Mo Ran was not sure that they would come again, but she had to gamble.

Before leaving, she changed into the clothes of the maid brought by Liu Ying.

Along the way, there were only a few monks on the road who were still cleaning, and Mo Ran avoided them, and he didn't see anyone anymore after passing through the bamboo forest.

Near. In the bungalow, Mo Ran was next to the window, there was no light in the room, presumably it was not time yet, she opened a crack, looked around to make sure that there was no one, flashed into the room sideways, and then closed the door.

There was nothing special in the room, it was a simple room, with a desk and two cushions in the middle, and there were wooden cabinets against the wall on all sides.

It wasn't until it was dark outside that Mo Ran heard a sparse movement coming from the door, as if someone had pushed the door open and walked in, he walked to the table and lit the candlestick, and the room was bright in a flash.

Through a slit, Mo Ran saw the back of the man, a monk in a rough robe, standing at the door as if waiting for someone.

Then there were footsteps approaching, like two people in front and behind, and they entered the room, and one of them asked the monk who was waiting at the door, "Have they all slept?" ”

The monk's voice was lowered, faintly, and Mo Ran heard a few words, "I put medicine in the fasting meal, and I fell asleep." ”

While speaking, the three people have walked to the side of the case and sat down, Mo Ran realized that he did not eat fast at night to escape a catastrophe, taking advantage of the candle flame, she just could see the figure of the three people, the monk who spoke sideways, Mo Ran was stunned, although he did not have two temples at that time, and the beard on his chin was still black, but Mo Ran just couldn't forget his face, which once made her resentful, and she couldn't wait to be the person who was quick to slash - the demon road of Ganlu Temple!