Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Fruit Picking Turmoil

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Xiao Laodao smiled, "I mentioned this monk to you, you should have an impression." ”

The master didn't say anything, he couldn't remember when Xiao Laodao mentioned this fat monk to him, Xiao Laodao continued: "The big tomb in Sanshi Mountain is what he told me. ”

When my grandfather heard this, he suddenly let out an "oh" and said, "I know, he is the monk who broke the precepts and was expelled from the monastery. ”

"Yes." Xiao Laodao said: "Because of many violations of meat and alcohol precepts, was expelled from the monastery, and later, begging everywhere, once a few days did not beg for something, almost starved to death on the side of the road, just happened to be bumped into by me, gave him some food, he in order to repay the gratitude, he told me about the tomb, I want to ask him to follow me, but he didn't have this mind, he still wanted to be a monk, he himself also gave himself a legal name, not quit." I saw that although he drank wine and ate meat, he was devoted to the Buddha, so I built a temple for him here, and I regarded it as giving him a share of the treasures in the ancient tomb. ”

My grandfather asked, "Then how did he know about the ancient tomb?" ”

Xiao Laodao said: "This is what his master told him before he died, and his master is the only person in that temple who knows the secret of the ancient tomb......

Xiao Laodao said here, the fat monk came back with a stool and three futons, the fat monk smiled awkwardly at everyone, and said: "There are not often guests in the temple, there is no stool to entertain you, this futon will sit down." ”

"Okay, don't get in the way, they're all my own brothers." Xiao Laodao took a futon from the fat monk's arms, put it on the ground and sat down, and when my grandfather saw this, he also took one.

After a few people sat down, Xiao Laodao introduced my grandfather and the fat monk to each other, and the fat monk smiled at my grandfather, "Fortunately, I will be lucky." Immediately, the fat monk opened the wine jar, in his temple, not only lacked stools, but also wine bowls and chopsticks, and finally a few people shared two wine bowls, grabbing meat and eating.

Between eating and drinking, the fat monk and Xiao Laodao chatted, and my grandfather listened to it without saying a word, so I heard Xiao Laodao say about the fat monk, "I said no, you have a good life this day, there is wine and meat, I want to follow you as a monk, but ......" Xiao Laodao changed the conversation, "Where did you get this fragrant meat, it won't be stolen from the village next to you, right?" "Fragrant meat is also dog meat, Xiao Lao Dao means, it won't be a dog stolen in the village.

The fat monk hurriedly said: "How can we monks do that kind of thing, this is not actually dog meat, it is wolf meat, last night there was a wolf pack in their village, so I went out to fight." ”

When my grandfather heard this, he looked at the fat monk a few times, but he didn't expect that such a big fat man who didn't look amazing could still fight wolves, and he was a wolf in the wolf pack, my grandfather couldn't help but ask: "How did you beat the wolf?" ”

The fat monk looked at my grandfather and said: "Shoot with arrows, when I was a child, our family was an orion, my father taught me to shoot arrows and hunt since I was a child, yesterday evening I heard wolves howling outside the village, I knew that they would definitely come to the village at night, I climbed to a tree in the village in advance, and shot their head wolf to death, the head wolf died, and the other wolves were all scared away, and then ...... I saw that the wolf was quite fat, so I carried it back. ”

After the fat monk finished speaking, Xiao Laodao smiled, "You can be regarded as eliminating harm for the people, come, brother, I will give you a bowl." ”

My grandfather asked again: "Since you were a hunter in the past, why did you become a monk again?" ”

When the fat monk heard this, his face darkened, and he put down the wine bowl and said, "Later, ...... Our father and son were chasing an injured leopard in the mountains, and my father accidentally fell off the cliff......" said, the fat monk sighed, "When I was very young, my mother died, and my father fell off the cliff again, so I became a monk, who knows, there are too many rules in the monk temple, I have been used to eating meat and drinking wine with my father since I was a child, so I secretly ate meat, and later, my monk master also died, and they drove me out." ”

When the fat monk said this, he looked very sad, Xiao Laodao patted him on the shoulder and said: "Don't forget those rules and precepts, let's drink wine and eat meat and still be monks, and be happy!" ”

After a few people lived in the monastery for a few days, my grandfather found that the fat monk's life was not so leisurely and happy, and he lived a very hard life, there was a large sloping land behind the monastery, and the monk reclaimed that piece of land, planted food, and every day in addition to chanting scriptures, he went down to work in the field, carried water and watered the crops. Occasionally, pilgrims would come and leave some food for the monks, some would leave a few sesame oil money for the fat monks, and the fat monks would prayed for them and chanted sutras.

In the past few days that my grandfather and they have come, the fat monk's life has been a little better, every day Xiao Laodao pays money to buy meat and wine, and the fat monk is like a relative to Xiao Laodao, taking care of everything and talking about everything, in my grandfather's opinion, the two of them are more like father and son. In the past, people got married early, starting a family at the age of fifteen or sixteen, and some fathers and sons were only a dozen years apart, so it is not surprising to say that they are like father and son.

In this way, I lived in the monastery for more than half a month, and the Mid-Autumn Festival passed quickly. At this time, almost all the fruits from the fruit trees around the temple were eaten.

In the afternoon of this day, a few children in the village were invited to pick fruits on the trees to eat, Xiao Shiyi and the ghost monkeys saw it, and their hearts were itching, after all, they were also children, so they ran to pick fruits with those children, and even ate and played.

However, I don't know what's going on, and then the two of them fought with that group of children, how could those children be the opponents of Xiao Shiyi and the ghost monkey, and they were all beaten and cried.

When my grandfather and Xiao Laodao heard the cry, they all went out to see what was going on, and then asked, it turned out that these children pulled the tail of the ghost monkey, and the ghost monkey was not happy, the tail of ordinary animals is their lifeline, and few animals like to be pulled by their tails. So, Xiao Shiyi gestured to warn them, and they laughed at Xiao Shiyi for being a mute, and as a result, the two sides fought.

Xiao Laodao didn't care whether it was right or wrong, he reprimanded Xiao Shiyi and the ghost monkey, and my grandfather personally climbed the tree and picked a lot of fruit for the beaten children, and those children left happily with the fruit.

Back to the temple, my grandfather explained to the ghost monkey again, you look like this, you can't go out like this in the future, you must wear clothes, fortunately it is a group of children, playful, they all think you are a monkey, if you are seen by adults, just like you, you will definitely say that you are a monster.

When the ghost monkey heard my grandfather say this, he actually sat there and sobbed sadly, aggrieved exactly like a child, sobbing and shedding tears.

Perhaps, in its heart, it would prefer to be a human being.

In the eyes of my grandfather and Xiao Laodao, this kind of thing is not a matter at all, and after saying a few words about Xiao Shiyi and the ghost monkey, they don't care about it.

Who would have thought that in the evening, when it was about to be dinner, a group of people came to the temple noisy, clamoring for the child to come out.

Xiao Laodao heard it, which child's family did not agree, came over to turn over the accounts, the fat monk heard this, and hurriedly went out first, Xiao Laodao ordered Xiao Shiyi and the ghost monkey with a straight face, they all stayed in the room honestly, and no one was allowed to go out!

Leaving Xiao Chujiu to look at Xiao Shiyi and the ghost monkey, Xiao Laodao and my grandfather came out together.

I saw five or six men and women standing in front of the temple, and the fat monk was explaining to them at this time, what to say, it is impossible for children to fight like this, and when they left, they were all fine and waiting, but several men and women did not give up, and they couldn't listen to what the monk said.

My grandfather and Xiao Laodao walked closer and took a look, and saw three boys lying next to a group of people, three of whom were fighting with Xiao Shiyi's ghost monkeys.

Xiao Laodao hurriedly went over to ask them what was going on, and one of the women cried: "What's going on, you don't know how to see it yourself, hurry up and call that dumb child out, and what's more...... What monkeys, I know they are still in the temple! ”

When Xiao Laodao heard this, he hurriedly gave the woman a slap and said softly: "Female donor, that dumb child is the apprentice of the poor Dao, and the monkey is also raised by the poor Dao, if there is anything, you can tell the poor Dao." ”

As soon as Xiao Laodao said this, several people hugged Xiao Laodao, gossiping, some said, your apprentice beat our child to death, you see what to do now, some said, hand over your apprentice to us, there is nothing to do with you as a master.

My grandfather didn't come forward, turned around and walked to the three children, squatted down and checked the pulse of the three children, and his heart sank after taking the pulse.

At this time, several people were still arguing around Xiao Laodao, Xiao Laodao was full of mouths for a while and couldn't explain it to them clearly, my grandfather took a breath of dantian qi and shouted at the crowd: "Don't make any noise!" ”

The sound was like thunder, and the noisy crowd quieted down all of a sudden, and Qi Shushu looked at my grandfather, who slowly stood up from the ground and asked those people, "The children have become like this, didn't you take them to see Langzhong?" ”

One of the men looked my grandfather up and down a few times, and replied, "Look, Lang Zhong said that this is a strange disease, and he can't cure it." ”

My grandfather nodded slightly, "It's really a strange disease, these three children have lost their souls, unconscious, and feverish." ”

"Lost your soul?" The other man actually turned his head and glanced at Xiao Laodao, and shouted, "Their master and apprentice don't know how to use demon arts, so they cast demon spells on the children." ”

As soon as the man said this, several people suddenly seemed to have fried the pot, and quarreled around Xiao Laodao, insisting that Xiao Laodao return the children's souls to them, although Xiao Laodao can speak well and speak skillfully, but in the face of a group of villagers who are about to lose their minds, he really has no way at all, and looked at my grandfather for help, my grandfather nodded at him slightly, and shouted again: "If you want to save the child, stop arguing!" Thank you for the 100 yuan red envelope from the 'Night God'. ”

The crowd fell silent again, and one of the women asked suspiciously, "Big brother, who are you, can't you be with the Taoist priest?" ”