After the Buddha bathing meeting, on April 15, a sign of "Peaceful Residence" was hung outside the temple gate.

It's like closing the country to the rest of the world, not receiving visitors, and not going out to communicate with people.

Shiliu's days are becoming more and more standardized.

After the morning class with the morning bell every day,

Instead of letting the Dharma teachers explain the scriptures and learn the characters to themselves, they studied with the little novices in the monastery.

Study together, so study time is placed after evening class.

After the morning class, I went back to the small Zen monastery to meditate, read the scriptures and study the characters after meditating, and then went to the Wuguantang for dinner at noon.

In the afternoon, I sometimes go to work with the novices.

said that it was together, but it was just to occasionally help pick a vegetable when she got to the ground, and she was resolutely not allowed to do other tasks such as weeding and turning the ground.

looks like if she dares to do it, he dares to cry.

Shiliu is not a person who has never gone to the ground by himself, so he is very calm, and he will not let him if he doesn't let him.

Sometimes he would go to Master Jingming for an afternoon.

If he started zazen, Shi Liu would not go up and disturb him.

As a royal temple, even during the summer retreat, it is not completely closed to pilgrims.

Something happened to the family of a certain royal relative and wanted to offer incense and pray for blessings, could he still stop him from entering?

However, during this period, pilgrims will never be allowed to stay overnight.

May is also known as the Evil Moon when the yang energy begins to wane, the heating begins to flourish, and the insects and beetles flourish.

On the fifth day of the fifth month of May, it became the worst of evils because it was exposed that Xi had killed a child.

In this month, whether it is a dignitary or a common person, every household will hang wormwood, pejusuo, eat horn millet, and bathe in orchids to avoid plague insects, relieve evil and poisonous gases, and pray for a safe year.

Monasteries are no exception.

In fact, since the beginning of summer, wormwood will be burned in the Zen courtyard to repel mosquitoes and insects.

It is said that the medical monks in the temple will also mix and make some special incense, which can refresh people's minds and repel insects after being lit, and such incense is generally lit in various halls.

Unfortunately, due to the cumbersome production process and the fact that the materials are not available, this incense cannot be used by all the monks.

It can only be lit in the halls to make offerings to the Buddha.

Shi Liu is still very interested in making incense, not to mention that it is easy for her to ask for materials.

If she speaks, someone will do it for her.

But the doctor refused because of her age and inflexible hands.

I'm afraid she's blind to good things.

Tell me to wait until she is older to teach her.

Everyone said so, and Shi Liu didn't bother, but he didn't mind that her bystanders when he was making incense was the best lesson for Shi Liu.

After all, after reading it, Jiuwu can record it, and she will naturally be able to try to do it herself in the future.

Sometimes Shiliu will also carry a cloth bag up the mountain.

She wanted to carry a small basket, but her round strength didn't allow it.

What can Shi Liu do, she is also desperate.

This cloth bag style is a miniature version of the traveling cloth bag commonly used by monks.

The legal back is still in front of the tail with a small back basket.

"Master, there are still warrior monks in the temple."

Shi Liu nodded, she already knew, what was so strange about this.

"Can I go to school?"

Shi Liu stopped, turned around and looked him up and down for a long time, and then said, "Warrior monks are not casual words, and not everyone can be taught martial arts. ”

"Huh? Don't you think that all the monks in the monastery can practice? ”

Well?

Shi Liu shook his head and said, "This is not clear. But chanting sutras is meditation, meditation is meditation, going to the field to farm is meditation, and even going up the mountain to pick herbs is also a kind of practice. You have to know that martial arts is just a way to practice meditation. ”

The master is worthy of being the master, and he understood everything not long after he came to the temple.

However, the law still insisted: "After practicing martial arts and becoming a warrior monk, you can better protect your master." ”

"Oh." Shi Liu didn't think it was a good idea, and asked, "Am I in danger here?" ”

The legal shook his head directly without thinking about it,

"And what are you protecting me?"

"But, Master, there are always accidents in life. What if you leave the confines of the monastery? ”

"Oh. If you insist, you can ask your senior brother yourself. As long as you can pass the test, I'm sure they'll let you practice with the monks. For such a single-minded law, Shi Liu felt that it was better not to pour cold water on it.

Go up the mountain and walk on the mountain road, Shiliu is going to Biyun Temple, naturally all the way up and then to the right.

As we walked, the trees became denser and denser, and the weeds on both sides of the path became more and more dense.

He couldn't help but start to get nervous, and his voice was full of nervousness: "Master, why don't we go back." The trees here are almost blocking out the sun. ”

"I'm not afraid, what are you afraid of. The more places like this, the more we can find what we are looking for. ”

The law is quite speechless, you haven't told me what you're looking for.

What if it's right at the foot of the mountain?

Wherever they went, they were naturally followed by guards. Even if the whole mountain is actually protected.

There are no animals in there that can hurt people, but what if?

So you have to follow it, and you can't let the two children find out.

If you go up and down on the mountain road and turn straight and turn, fortunately there is only one road, otherwise you will doubt whether you can still find the way back.

I don't know how long it took, and suddenly saw a yellow wall and red tile between the green mountains and jungles.

"Master, isn't it also a temple over there?"

Shi Liu Xindao finally arrived at Biyun Temple, and her two legs were about to be wasted.

But he said, "Let's go, just go and see." ”

Before I arrived at the gate of Biyun Temple, I saw the old princess and her daughter-in-law who had met once in Tanyuan Temple come out of Biyun Temple with their servants.

Seeing their master and apprentice, the old princess came over with a smile: "But the fourth prince? ”

Shi Liu helplessly raised his neck and looked up at her: "Who are you?" ”

"The old body is the princess of the old king of Xin, and the mother of the current king of Xinjun, Shen." The old princess didn't perfunctory her just because she was still a child.

"Amitabha, the old princess is good. The little monk Jingchen. Shi Liu folded his hands and bowed slightly to say hello.

The old princess and her party turned sideways to avoid her salute.

Master Ciying, the presiding officer of Biyun Temple who sent the old princess and her entourage out, naturally noticed the two tired little novices a long time ago.

As for why they came here and were not stopped by others, it obviously also explained the identities of these two little novices.

Shi Liu's gaze looked past the old princess and her entourage to the old nun Ciying, and asked, "Master, can you give saliva to drink?" I'm dying of thirst. ”

Several people couldn't help laughing softly, the old princess also said goodbye to Shi Liu, and the group said goodbye to Ciying again before going down the mountain together.

"Little master, come in and drink water."

"Thank you, Mrs. Shi."