Chapter 108: Clear the Mountain
"If you scold it, you will scold it, and if you scold it, you will put it down, what is the problem; Hate is born of injustice, injustice is born of persecution, life or nothingness! Suiseiji Temple~"
In front of the temple gate on the top of the mountain, Sheng Linyun suddenly stopped, attracted by a couplet in front of the door, "The pair in front of this temple seems to be written by a Taoist!" ”
"Yes, the first time I came, I thought it was a dojo, but there are bodhisattvas inside, let's go! Let's go in! Xu Shangao was a little impatient.
After the temple gate, there are three houses inside, one main hall is dedicated to the Buddha statue, the other two side rooms are like living purposes, surrounded by a big locust tree in the middle, a bronze bell falls under the tree, the overall area of the temple is not large.
"Master! Guru? Monk? Xu Shangao shouted to the main hall in the middle, stretched his neck and probed to find that there was no one, and ran to the other two rooms to take a look, "Where are the people?" ”
"Is the master blind in both eyes?" Sheng Linyun asked.
"Hmm~ Where can I go if I can't see the road?" Xu Shangao muttered.
Hearing Xu Shangao say this, a bowl on the threshold of the main hall attracted Sheng Linyun's attention, and there was half a bowl of porridge in the bowl.
"Linyun! It's all coming! Shall we sit under the tree for a while? Xu Shangao saw that Sheng Linyun was in a daze, thinking that he had no strength and was too hungry to walk, so he called him over to sit.
The two of them came to the stone under the locust tree and sat against the tree, but they didn't know that there was a person behind the Bodhisattva in the main hall watching them.
Yan wrapped around three branches, the incense ash was broken, and a cough came from outside the temple gate, followed by a monk entering the temple from the temple gate.
"Master! Do you remember my voice when I'm here again? Xu Shangao instantly jumped up from the ground and walked towards the monk.
"Aang? Remember! You came to find someone a few days ago, and you ended up playing chess with the poor monk for an afternoon! I saw a wooden bucket between the monk's waist, and inside it were soaked clothes.
"I went to do the laundry!" Xu Shangao said, and waved his hand in front of the monk to see if he really couldn't see it.
"Don't wave, the poor monk really can't see it, it's just that the way to the waterfall is too familiar, haha~" The monk felt the slight wind, so he guessed Xu Shangao's movements, imagined Xu Shangao's curious appearance, and felt interesting and laughed.
"I just heard that you coughed when you entered the door, don't freeze your body in winter." Xu Shangao said and took the wooden barrel from the monk's hand, "I'll help you dry your clothes, and in return, how about you help my friend cook a bowl of porridge?" ”
"It turns out that I brought a friend" The monk closed his eyes and his head moved slightly, instinctively wanting to hear Sheng Linyun's voice.
"Hello Master!" Sheng Linyun immediately said hello.
"Hello~" The monk nodded slightly, and then said to Xu Shangao, "You are really like a chess person, you can't suffer at all, I'll help your friend do it!" After the monk finished speaking, he turned around and walked a few steps towards the side temple, and suddenly turned around slowly and asked, "You didn't encounter anything when you came, did you?" ”
Sheng Linyun and Xu Shangao looked at each other and thought about it, "What can I do?" The east side is full of mountains and forests, and there are only a few scattered houses, are there still wild beasts? ”
"Strange to say! There seems to be something else in the temple these days, and there will be pilgrims giving me some food every three days, but these days are gone~" The monk said while skillfully touching something on the stove, and after a while, he seemed to be unable to touch and gave up, so he took out the rice grains from the rice jar on the side, and then washed the rice and cut the leaves.
"Maybe people don't have time for you?" Xu Shangao said disapprecatively.
"But yesterday a pilgrim asked me how her radish tasted~ I didn't receive the radish she gave me, she usually put it on the stove!" The monk did things with his eyes closed, and his speech was slow and methodical, and he was very disciplined.
"Uh..." Xu Shangao was speechless, but Sheng Linyun's curiosity was aroused and he walked outside the house.
The monk poured the food into the pot one by one, came to the kang and began to add firewood, "And the clothes I dry will be lost or fall on the ground mysteriously, sometimes I am afraid that the wind will blow away and the clamp is very firm~"
"Anything else? What's so strange about it? Xu Shangao saw Sheng Linyun walking out of the house with a puzzled expression, and he began to feel a little strange in his heart.
"And my steamed steamed buns and boiled porridge will also disappear like being taken away by a dog, hehe~" The monk pushed the light box and smiled, and touched the firewood to the side.
"You don't seem to be scared at all~" Xu Shangao squatted down and picked up a piece of wood and handed it to the monk, but was pushed away by the monk, "You are like this, I won't remember where to put the wood next time~"
"Oh~" Xu Shangao put down the wood and clapped his hands, "What's the strange thing?" ”
"At night, I can hear people turning things in this room, and the firewood pile is always moved these days, and the straw is messed up and piled up!" The monk continued, "Oh! By the way~ I don't have a cold~ I just coughed because I was afraid that I would go back to the temple and be afraid of bumping into something, so give it a wake-up call first, haha~"
Xu Shangao pondered for a moment, and shouted to Sheng Linyun outside the house, "Linyun!" Did you find anything? ”
Sheng Linyun was observing the ground in the small courtyard, and he could clearly see many footprints, but there was a pair of barefoot marks among them.
"Linyun!" Xu Shangao saw that Sheng Linyun was already in a trance, and shouted again.
"Ahh Not yet~" Sheng Linyun followed the footprints and took a few steps and found a barefoot person repeatedly going back and forth between the main temple and the kitchen.
'There are two rooms in the kitchen, one is for stacking firewood, and the other is for cooking, now that Mr. Xu and I are here, we shouldn't be able to hide people, so it will be in the main hall? But just now, Mr. Xu has already observed with a probe, and there is nothing in the hall! After thinking, Sheng Linyun prepared to enter the main hall to have a look.
"Master, I'll go out!" Xu Shangao saw Sheng Linyun looking at the main hall with a solemn expression, and he followed out with some anxiety, and said softly in Sheng Linyun's ear, "Did you find something?" ”
"Look at the bowl on that threshold~" Sheng Linyun pointed to the main hall, and also lowered his voice.
Hearing Sheng Linyun's prompt, Xu Shangao quickly understood what he meant, and pointed to the main hall, "Let's go in and have a look?" ”
Sheng Linyun shook his head and said softly, "Let's follow the master's habit and don't alarm it first~" Then the two looked at the main hall meaningfully and returned to the side room where the monk was.