Chapter 15: The Assassins

On the second day, the cold-faced man left Qinglu Temple early, and he secretly went down the mountain, and I didn't go to see him off.

I got up and was very angry, and the abbot was very tolerant of me, not forcing me to listen to his lectures with all the disciples. Occasionally, once or twice, I sat in the lobby and listened to the lectures, and when I heard half of it, I was sleepy and my eyelids were fighting.

After chanting the scriptures, I have breakfast, there is a small kitchen in my courtyard, you can make some food alone, but I have always been the lord who is served, and I can't even make a simple soup, so the temple specially arranged a little monk to bring me food regularly, and it happened that it was the little monk Changkong who took me to see the abbot the next day.

Changkong has a low seniority, but he is very diligent, and every time he delivers food to me, he trots all the way, for fear that it will be cold when the food is delivered to me. When the weather was nice, he would take my clothes and quilts out into the sun to bake them so that I could sleep comfortably at night.

The temple is clean, not as lively as the streets of Qinzhou, I am counting by the hour in just five days, and I still find something to do on such a monotonous day. Lonely came to me again on the day the cold-faced man left, and it could be seen that he respected the abbot master very much, even if he was driven away by me before, he still came with a good temper, but because of my bad habit of getting up, he waited outside the door for a full hour, and afterwards I asked him if he was a little cultivated monk with such good patience, he lowered his eyes and said: "I don't know why, I can't do anything to you." ”

Most of the brothers of the same mother have a peculiar feeling, they don't hate me, Dugu Hao is naturally the same, that's a later story.

I opened the door and stretched out casually, the sun was just right, this sleep was very sound, yawned and rubbed my eyes, only to see the white figure outside the fence wall, remembered that yesterday when I drove him away, he said that he would come to the courtyard to find me, and sure enough, he did what he said.

I was ashamed for a moment, I didn't come forward to say hello, and I was still hesitating how to open my mouth to break the silence, he heard the sound behind him, and turned to face me first, with only a calm face: "Now that the donor is awake, let's start today's schoolwork." ”

At that time, I hadn't eaten breakfast yet, and my stomach was empty, and when I heard that he was coming to urge me to copy the Buddhist scriptures, my spirit immediately wilted, and I smiled and discussed: "Master Lonely, can I start again when I fill my stomach?" ”

He nodded: "The abbot told the little monk not to be too strict with the donor, and the little monk should respond to the donor's reasonable requirements." ”

It seems that I have to find a chance to thank the abbot when I turn around, I smiled and went to the small kitchen to carry the food box into the house, and then followed silently, he calmly watched me drink a bowl of porridge to the bottom, and ate half a steamed bun, never showing a displeased look.

It seems that nothing in this world can cause his mood to fluctuate, and when he is not speaking, he is like a stone statue, and he does not see joy or anger.

I took the dishes and chopsticks, obediently took the Buddhist scriptures and put them on the table, and laid out the rice paper, prepared the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, I don't like to practice calligraphy, but I have to put on a full posture, this is like Li Xuan, no matter how bad the environment is, you must be blind.

Silence grinds the ink very naturally, and his grinding movements are elegant and calm, because there is no distraction, and his serious appearance is more gentle. When I opened the first page of the sutra, every word of the sutra was easy to read, but when put together, it was enough for me to be head or two, and I didn't know what it meant. I took out a flat piece of white paper and took the pen to copy.

I peeked at it, and his handwriting was quite neat, although it was not as vigorous and powerful as Li Xuan's, but it was as noble as his person, and it was not stained with dust. I put aside distractions and wrote calmly, reading aloud as I went, and by the time I had filled the entire page, he had copied several pages. When he saw that I was finished, he stopped his pen and talked about the Buddha carefully for me.

Lonely cultivation is profound, the realm of enlightenment is also high, no matter how profound the Buddha's reasons he said are also easy to understand, his voice is low and warm, his demeanor is elegant, often in the temple for the disciples to teach, I wonder if he will have a feeling of playing the piano to the cow when he explains a bunch of Buddhist principles to me?

The abbot's Buddhist scriptures I copied three times a day, without interruption, although I can not understand the deep meaning, according to the words copy is no problem, my words are ugly, crooked, at first I was embarrassed to show it to Ran, afraid that he would make fun of me, when he checked my eyes looked away, in the quiet air only to hear him indifferently said: "Copy very seriously, there is still merit, remember that there are two left." ”

He spoke quite tactfully.

After a few days of getting along, I feel more and more lonely erudition, compared to Dugu Hao's wanton romance, the detachment of lonely body brings people a kind of distant mountain-like tranquility, and he stays together, the slow flow of time seems to be able to spend happily, the abbot once said that there is a kind of person in the world who can do the real heart like stopping water, probably lonely is this kind of person.

If he hadn't been kicked out of the Dugu family, maybe with his cleverness, he would have the ability to compete with Dugu Hao.

It was rare that I didn't fall asleep in the morning class that day, just because the last class was taught by Silence, I sat straight on the futon, and insisted until the moment when the bell rang, thinking that Silence would praise it, but his eyes swept lightly over everyone in the lobby, except for me.

The monks left the hall one after another, and I stayed until the end, and stepped forward and said, "Master Shanran, are you still copying today's Buddhist scriptures?" ”

I mean very clearly, without his supervision I will definitely not honestly copy the Buddhist scriptures, he knows that my bad nature is difficult to change: "The donor goes back first, the little monk still has some things, and he will go to supervise the donor later." ”

He is a monk of his uncle's generation in Qinglu Temple, he must be entangled in chores, I went back to the courtyard where I lived alone, just walked into the fence gate, my mouth was covered by a cold hand, the person behind me kidnapped me to the root of the wall, cleverly hiding in a blind corner that could not be seen from the outside, I was still afraid, only to hear the man calmly said: "Princess, the subordinate is Bai Yi, if the princess agrees to go with the subordinate, the subordinate will let go." ”

Hearing Bai Yi's name, I almost jumped up and shouted with joy, I nodded heavily, Bai Yi let go of his hand, I asked him with a smile, "Did he let you come?" ”

Thinking of that person, my voice trembled obviously, I really miss him, I think about him day and night, I think about it when I want to take a bath when I eat, even when I recite Buddhist scriptures with Silent Ran, his figure also breaks into my brain from time to time, I must be sick, lovesick and sick.

This parting is too long, too long.

Bai Yi's fair face gradually became red, and he hugged his fists and said: "The prince has been waiting for the princess in Yancheng for a long time, and he specially ordered his subordinates to take the princess to Yancheng to meet the prince." My subordinates have been in the vicinity of Qinglu Temple for several days to survey the terrain, and I asked the princess to deign to go down the mountain along the path with my subordinates. ”

I chuckled and said cheerfully, "I'll go with you." ”

I was too happy too early, forgetting the earlier agreement with Tranquility, so that not long after Bai Yi and I walked out of the courtyard, we met Tranquility who came to accompany me to copy Buddhist scriptures as promised, if he hadn't just arrived, I was afraid that I had successfully descended the mountain with Bai Yi, and in the dark, Li Xuan and I were only one step away, and even God was not willing to take care of us a little.

Seeing Bai Yi with a murderous face, he looked at me and said, "He's the one who is here to kill you?" ”

He obviously regarded Bai Yi as an assassin, and I was worried that he would alarm the others in the temple, so Bai Yi pulled me with an idea, put the sword in his hand in front of me, and whispered in my ear: "Princess, offended." ”

He threatened Silence with this: "Monk, if you dare to act rashly, I will kill her immediately." ”

I am a guest brought into the temple by the cold-faced man, even the abbot master has to be polite to me, and he should not be so stupid and hurt my life, and sure enough, his eyes are indifferent: "I can let you go, but she must stay." ”

With a lonely and cold temperament, he will never let go of what he believes, I read that he has taken care of me a lot in the past few days, and I don't want to hurt his life, so I put my neck against the sword, and the skin of my neck came with a tearing tingling pain and coolness, Bai Yi was startled and wanted to retreat, I stopped him: "If you want to leave, this is the only way." ”

The sword body went a little deeper, and Bai Yi once again put pressure on Silent Ran: "Monk, let us go, otherwise you can only leave her corpse." ”