Chapter 9 Abbot Liu
Po Sa Temple is one of our famous local temples, and many people come to worship the Buddha and pray for peace during the New Year's holidays.
But I've never been here, and my parents didn't specifically bring me here, and my whole family doesn't believe in that, and I don't know if if I had been here and received the blessing of the Buddha, I wouldn't have received such a note today.
"How does it feel?" Zhou Xiongbing's voice pulled me out of my thoughts.
"Oh, it's fine, I don't feel anything." We just walked into the temple, probably because today is a Monday, there are not many people in the temple, and you can see a lot of monks sweeping the floor.
Zhou Xiongbing said in a low voice: "I heard that if someone has something dirty on his body, he will feel very uncomfortable or scared when he enters a place like the temple, do you really feel nothing?" β
I closed my eyes and felt my emotions carefully, there was still no special feeling, if I was afraid, it was also a note, and it had nothing to do with the temple.
"It's okay, let's try incense sticks, get closer to the Buddha statue, and see if we can feel anything."
I grabbed Zhou Xiongbing's footsteps to buy incense, approached him and whispered, "Teacher, let's go and ask the monk sweeping the floor over there first, maybe he can see something." β
Not far from us, there was a monk in his fifties, dressed in a gray robe, the robe looked a little old, and the monk's face was still pockmarked, but he looked very serious and felt immersed in his own world.
In general novels, such sweeping monks have a big background, either a master outside the world or a martial arts master, encountering such a strange thing, the general life experience is not a reference, I am not like Zhou Xiongbing, even if he encounters such a strange event, he can still use the analysis of mathematical problems to analyze a clear one, two, three.
The only thing that can inspire me is the novels and movies I have read before, and now that I think about it, I really hate books when they are used, and I should read more horror and hunting novels!
Zhou Xiongbing probably guessed my thoughts, nodded, and the two of us walked over together.
The pockmarked monk sensed someone walking towards him, stopped his movements, and looked at us.
I looked at it, and I longed to see a pair of eyes full of divine light, but the monk's eyes disappointed me slightly, a bit like the security guard at the gate of my community, and he looked at the unknown vehicle every time.
But after thinking about it, this doesn't mean that it is a master in the people, how can people easily see that they are masters.
Before I could think of what to say, Zhou Xiongbing had already said for me: "This master, this is my student, and now he is in some trouble..."
Zhou Xiongbing told the matter of the note without reservation, and also told Guo Yi's matter.
Monk Mazi's expression became more and more serious, and his face, which was already a little ugly, now looked a little hideous, "What you said is all true?" β
"In front of the Buddha, how dare you lie."
"Come with me, and I'll take you two to the abbot." As he spoke, he immediately turned around and left, and Zhou Xiongbing and I glanced at each other and followed.
Although this pockmarked monk is not a master, it is an unexpected joy to be able to see the abbot so easily, and to be the abbot of such a famous temple, he is also a person with two brushes.
Monk Mazi led us to the depths of the temple, in front of a more imposing-looking house, and asked us to wait at the door now, and he should inform the abbot when he went in.
Taking advantage of the fact that there were only the two of us, I asked Zhou Xiongbing, "Teacher, did you tell the matter of the note like that?" β
"It's okay, speaking out can get attention here, even if you treat us as psychopaths."
Oh, it turns out that Zhou Xiongbing planned to come here to meet the abbot from the beginning, unlike me, who put his hope on the sweeping monk.
Zhou Xiongbing smiled after hearing my thoughts, "The sweeping monks hidden in the world exist, but the probability of existence is far less than that of a respected abbot in a temple. β
As a math teacher, such a problem can think of probability, but if you think about it, I am indeed naΓ―ve, the existence of a sweeping monk like in the novel is an existence that can be met but not sought, and besides, if he really wants to hide himself, he should also hide in that unknown small temple.
After a while, there was also a monk in a robe who appeared, presumably this person was the presiding officer of the temple.
"Two donors, this is the abbot Liu of this temple."
"Abbot Liu is good." Zhou Xiongbing and I greeted the abbot at the same time, I looked down and saw Abbot Liu's looming belly, and when I looked up, I saw his plain-looking face, and what made me a little difficult to accept was that the abbot still had a pair of silver-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, and suddenly, I had a sense of foreboding.
"I've heard about it just now..."
The hunch was confirmed, the abbot spoke a very inauthentic Mandarin, and he still had a slight buck teeth, and the overall picture was really a little joyful.
I tried my best to suppress my disappointment, and constantly comforted myself psychologically, don't judge people by their appearance, don't judge people by their appearance...
In the eyes of the abbot, Guo Yi and I were both guilty in the previous life, and we have repaid it in this life, and the note is just a way to convey that some people will hear a certain animal talking to him, such as a dog suddenly running in front of you and saying that you are going to die next week.
Originally, I thought it was a bit ridiculous, but when I thought about it, maybe it was true, maybe Guo Yi and I were a nest of bandits in our last life, so I quickly asked: "Abbot, then do I have a way to pay off the sins of my previous life in this life, uh, except in the way of death." β
The abbot smiled slightly, not to mention, this smile still has the feeling of a peerless master.
"Since the donor has found our temple, it is the fate between us, the Buddha said..."
The abbot gave me a solution, that is, from now on I should stop eating, only drink water, all in order to purify myself, at 12 o'clock tonight, come to the temple, bathe and change clothes, he and several enlightened monks will recite sutras for me, drive away the sins of the previous life, and then I must come to the temple at the beginning and middle of the month to worship the Buddha.
These are nothing to me, starving for a day is nothing compared to death, and it is not a matter to come to incense twice a month in the future, and the most desperate thing for me is that I need 10,000 yuan for recitation, which is too expensive.