64, the first signs (three more)
When Tan Mo was still pondering, Bai Guzi had already brushed his teeth, so he beckoned Tan Mo to go out together.
"Senior brother, don't you go to the canteen of this temple to buy steamed buns?" Tan Mo followed and couldn't help asking. The steamed buns in this Niutou Temple are dry and hard, but they are the cheapest and most conscientious food in this temple. Half of the tube is full, and the other holds up to doubt life.
"The two of us went out to eat ravioli." Bai Guzi made a boo, and then whispered in Tan Mo's ear.
Tan Mo's eyes suddenly lit up, and he nodded hurriedly.
He hadn't eaten meat for several days, and his mouth was almost unbearable.
The happiest thing in this life is eating meat. The ancestors worked hard to reach the position of the chief of all souls, but it was not easy, and they had to cherish it, and only by eating meat were worthy of the ancestors.
Although, this has crossed into this strange and unpredictable world, and the ancestor's set may not work, but Tan Mo, as a carnivore, eats meat is his belief.
"Meat ravioli?" Tan Mo couldn't help but ask.
"It's too expensive, let's be vegetarian." Bai Guzi shook his head again and again.
Tan Moxin sighed.
I really miss the days in the Lotus Temple, knocking on the wooden fish and chanting the scriptures, living in peace, and eating meat. Of course, this is the treatment that only the disciples of the inner court, that is, the seven of them, have.
The disciples of the outer court, in addition to the homework of reciting scriptures, also have a lot of work every day. Hunt pigweed and sell it down the mountain, carry water and weed, chop firewood and plant vegetables, etc.
At the end of the day, I was basically tired enough.
But to be able to eat enough in the Lotus Temple, this is enough. For this reason, Luowan Town doesn't know how many people squeezed their heads and wanted to worship the mountain gate, but they couldn't.
Thinking of this, Tan Mo was suddenly stunned.
"Senior brother, you said that the abbot let us go down the mountain because of the matter of the precept of Senior Brother Bodhi?" He asked aloud, and in retrospect, he always felt as if something had been missing, and the whole thing seemed to be less coordinated, and there was a strange sense of haste.
"At that time, the abbot and senior brother also found something breaking into the temple, but ......" Bai Guzi said this, paused, he rubbed his chin, and a smile gradually appeared on his face, but for some reason, this smile was a little obscene, he said hesitantly: "I have some guesses about this, if we go back and find that the sixth senior brother is also at the bottom of the mountain, and the group of little novices have all gone home on vacation, then my guess is correct." ”
"What speculation?" Tan Mo was suddenly curious.
"Don't dare to say it, I'm afraid that the abbot will beat me once he sees me in the future." Bai Guzi shook his head again and again, looking like he didn't say anything.
Tan Mo was choked by Bai Guzi's appetite, but seeing that Bai Guzi refused to speak, he didn't force it.
Sometimes, knowing too much is not a good thing.
The two walked out of the Niutou Temple, and along the way, Tan Mo found that there were not only monks and Taoists in this temple, but also wealthy squires who dragged their families and brought their servants to their families, and these were people who often monopolized a courtyard.
Tan Mo was thoughtful, but he didn't say a word, until he left the Niutou Temple, he discussed with Bai Guzi: "Senior brother, these squires have also entered the temple, what do you say is going on?" ”
"It seems that the problem in this peony county is not small, but there are many people who know about it, but it is just ...... Most of these insiders are afraid to speak. Bai Guzi said after thinking about it.
"Senior brother, do you mean that boatman?"
"Hmm." Bai Guzi nodded, "Think about it, when we came, there were no other boats on the river, I'm afraid it's not that we came at a coincidental time, but that those boats left early." As for the boatman, he also fled from Shaoyao County to Luowan Town, and this time it was probably because he remembered the kindness of the abbot and his brother back then, and had the heart to repay the kindness, so he sent us over. ”
"The shipwreck didn't unload the cargo at the time, and I thought he wasn't unloading it around here." Tan Mo nodded, he didn't think it at the time, but when he looked back at this time, he found that the details at that time were really full of doubts.
"Let's go around the river, and if we don't see the boat, we will go back to Niutou Temple immediately." Bai Guzi said.
Tan Mo naturally had no objections.
Immediately, the two stopped talking and hurried to the river.
At this time, the streets of Peony County looked the same as last time, but Tan Mo found that there were obviously more red-haired and red-eyed foreigners than yesterday.
Nearly twice as many as the others, most of the people on the street looked like these red-haired and red-eyed foreigners.
As they appeared, the foreigners turned their heads and stared at them.
The strange thing is that such red-haired and red-eyed foreigners, each of them just watched, did not make a sound, did not make other movements, as if time stopped, but this neat range is undoubtedly a little scary.
Something is wrong with these people!
Bai Guzi forced himself to be calm, and glanced at Tan Mo quietly, only to see that Tan Mo's face was expressionless, and he looked calm and calm, which made Bai Guzi ashamed.
Deeply ashamed, reciting the Buddha's name silently, Bai Guzi's mind quickly calmed down, and even looked at these foreigners as usual.
As a senior brother, he can't show cowardice in front of his junior brother.
Tan Mo's face was wooden, and he was extremely nervous at this time in his heart, this feeling was completely like a sheep in a wolf pen.
Being stared at by a pair of eyes, that feeling is really creepy.
He couldn't help but glance at Bai Guzi, and found that Bai Guzi's face was as usual, extremely light, and then, Tan Mo's heart suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, he only thought that Bai Guzi had some means to press the bottom of the box to ensure the safety of the two, so he followed behind Bai Guzi, and walked step by step, and began to walk naturally, no longer tense.
The two brothers walked through the crowd of foreigners as usual.
These foreigners looked at the white bones and Tan Mo with indifferent faces, and suddenly dispersed and no longer stared at them.
Tan Mo and Bai Guzi came to the river, the river was calm, only a few ripples, swinging in circles on the surface of the river.
No boats!
Without hesitation, the two immediately returned.
As when they went, they passed through the strange crowd, and then hurried to the gate of the Niutou Temple, but the two saw that the door of the temple was closed.
Bai Guzi stepped forward and knocked on the door, but no one opened the door, so he shouted a few times, and then someone came to open the door, but it was not the little novice last time, but a middle-aged monk wearing a robe.
He glanced at Tan Mo and Bai Guzi, and said, "The two of you are in the same door, let's talk about it first." ”
Bai Guzi and Tan Mo went in.
The middle-aged monk immediately closed the door of the temple, and then he looked at Bai Guzi and Tan Mo, folded his hands, and said, "Even if you are a master of art, don't leave the temple gate at this time." In another day, you can leave as you please. Otherwise, if the others heard it, they wouldn't have opened the door to the two of them again like the poor monks. ”
This was said by the middle-aged monk in a tone of lesson, and after he said so, he turned around and left directly.