Seeing Bai Guzi hurriedly descending the mountain, Tan Mo turned around, but saw several people walking into the canteen of the Lotus Temple. These people had hair, men and women, and they were not wearing monk's robes, but they were not silk brocade robes, but the burlap cloth commonly used by ordinary people.

It's not like a pilgrim.

Tan Mo looked at the Mirror Void and the Ring Bodhi.

"That is the former Qing court bachelor Cao, is a squire in the nearby Luojiang County, because of some things, abandoned the family business and fled, and now there is nowhere to stay, so he came to the temple to live temporarily. He had the tokens left by the senior brother for more than ten years, and the second senior brother checked it carefully, and it was indeed left by the senior brother, so he took them in. Mirror Void whispered.

Jie Bodhi looked at the glasses Void and Tan Mo, and knew that his third senior brother was unwilling to deal with that Master Cao, so he stood up and greeted him.

He was born in a family of eunuchs, and he has been educated for many years, which makes him not rude to others.

After a while, Jie Bodhi led the Master Cao over and said, "Little junior brother, Master Cao wants to see you. ”

"Cao is not a bachelor for a long time, not to mention that the emperor has died, and only King Teng is left among the many princes, according to the etiquette system, King Teng is not qualified to sit on the throne, and can only be selected from the descendants of other princes, not to mention ...... Ay. As he spoke, this Master Cao seemed to be touched by something, and sighed.

Then he looked at Tan Mo and the others, and said, "Since Cao Mou lost his power and fell behind in his family, he has become more and more verbose, please forgive me." ”

"The little monk is flameless, and he has seen Mr. Cao." Tan Mo clasped his hands together and bowed.

"Hello little master Ming Wuyan, little master is in the dust, but he just came back from outside?" Seeing Tan Mo saluting, this Bachelor Cao's eyes lit up, and then he hurriedly approached Tan Mo and asked.

"Exactly." Tan Mo nodded, "I don't know if Mr. Cao needs the little monk to do anything?" As much as he can, the little monk will definitely agree. ”

"The little master is profound, Cao is not talented, and some books may be in line with the little master's mind. Cao is about to take his family on a long trip, but there is no way to bring these books, why don't you take a look? ”

When Tan Mo heard this, he couldn't help but feel happy in his heart, and he hurriedly agreed: "The little monk is not talented, but he is also a lover of books, so he must give Mr. Cao a satisfactory price." ”

He could see that this former Master Cao was very depressed now, if not, why would the family come to live in the Lotus Temple temporarily? He also took out the token left by his senior brother Lotus Monk more than ten years ago.

Seeing Tan Mo know the meaning of the song so well, Cao Deping couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in his heart. The Qing court collapsed, and I don't know how many rich and noble families were scattered, and his Cao family was one of them.

The family has fallen in the middle of the road, and the valuable money in the family has been continuously sold, and now, only some books that have been collected by his family for several generations remain.

Originally, Cao Deping was reluctant to sell, but after being so hungry that he gnawed on the bark, Cao Deping immediately put down the face of the reader and prepared to sell the book.

However, it was only then that Cao Deping discovered that this book was not something he could sell if he wanted to.

Finding a suitable buyer is hard!

In addition, his Cao family was already depressed, he couldn't even eat a meal, he was hungry and cold, and those big families didn't even let him in.

In desperation, Cao Deping accidentally found a token left by the Lotus Monk more than ten years ago.

He forgot to take it out when he casually held it in a book, and the book was never thought of becoming a banned book of the Qing court, Cao Deping was unwilling to burn the book, so he secretly hid it, and even the token was hidden for more than ten years.

When this token was discovered, Cao Deping took his family to the Lotus Temple overnight, and finally took this opportunity to drink a mouthful of hot soup and eat a mouthful of hot rice.

These days, Cao Deping is also looking for a book buyer, and originally he liked the lotus monk.

After all, the Lotus Monk is a monk known to many people, and his Cao family's collection of books is not an insult to the Lotus Monk, and the most important thing is that the Lotus Monk is literate and loves books, and will give him a very high price.

It's a pity that the lotus monk is not in the temple.

In this way, Cao Deping lived in the temple for several days, but he waited left and right, and never waited for the lotus monk. However, it was also during this period that Cao Deping learned a piece of news.

There is also a little junior brother in the Lotus Temple, who is the only daughter of King Teng, and the relationship with King Teng is also good, although he is not very old, he has been literate for thousands of years, and he can export into chapters, if he is not a monk, the Qing court collapsed again, and he may be able to take a fame and come back.

So, Cao Deping set his sights on this little junior disciple of the Lotus Temple.

The big red man in front of the little county lord knows King Teng, how can he have no money with such an identity?

With thousands of literaries and chapters, he must also be a lover of books.

And being young, doesn't that mean it's easy to fool? In this way, wouldn't the price of those books of his Cao family be sold higher?

Therefore, after waking up from the movement made by Tan Mo, he found a little novice and asked, and after learning that it was the "little junior brother" he had been waiting for for many days who came back, he immediately brought his family to Tan Mo, and by the way, he had a hot porridge to drink.

The food in this Lotus Temple is not ordinarily good.

Especially in such a world.

Tan Mo first asked the junior brother in the outer courtyard to serve hot porridge and salted duck eggs to this Bachelor Cao's family, and then personally cut a large pot of pickles and served it, and waited until the Bachelor Cao's family had eaten before letting him take him to read a book.

Cao Deping hurriedly led the way, these books were still at the bottom of the mountain, and they didn't bring them up, after all, in that situation in their family at that time, the servants were all gone, and they were hungry, where did they have the strength to take care of those books?

followed Cao Deping's family to the bottom of the mountain, Tan Mo saw the books that this Master Cao said in a small courtyard, and flipped through them casually, they are all very old books, and there are many treasures, and there are even a few unique Buddhist scripture commentaries that Tan Mo has never seen before hearing his name.

This made Tan Mo surprised and delighted, but fortunately, the Cao family was already down, and in the end, these books, which are usually difficult to get, were bought by Tan Mo for only ten taels of gold.

Carefully packed in two boxes, one in Tan Mo's hand, the two boxes added up to nearly two hundred catties, but in Tan Mo's hands, it was as light as nothing.

He took the book and came to the gate of the temple, but suddenly saw a sedan chair.

There were also several guards and maids he was familiar with beside the sedan chair.

At this time, a familiar crisp voice came, still calling his name: "Little Muyu, you're back!" ”

Tan Mo looked over, and sure enough, it was the little county lord.

Waving his little hand, he stood beside the graceful princess, with a small face smiling like a flower.

It's nice and it's sweet.

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