"Master Feng Shi, I heard you just now, this spiritual creature used to be called hairballs?" Master Green Snake asked.

I nodded.

Master Green Snake thought for a moment: "Now that the spiritual creature has been reborn, it can no longer use such a name, since it is from my Zen Gate, then it has something to do with Zen Gate." She raised her eyes to look at the morning glow on the horizon and said, "If you get the pill, the next step is the time to break through." 'Guan' is a very important concept in Zen Buddhism, and in popular terms, it is the level that needs to be passed. There is a public case where a high monk has gone through 90 days of practice and asked the monks, "I have said a lot of things that I shouldn't have said in the past 90 days, so I should accept the punishment of shaving my eyebrows, so do I still have eyebrows?" Many Zen masters present listened to this question and answered him in complicated language, but only one monk said one word, that is, 'guan'. As soon as this word came out, the words overwhelmed the audience. This monk's Dharma name is Cloud Gate, and later there was the name of 'Cloud Gate Pass'. ”

I was fascinated by it, and I didn't expect there to be such a story, and I saw that the gray cat came at some point, crouching in the threshold, and listened quietly.

Master Green Snake said: "Xutang Zen Master borrowed the case of the monk of Yunmen to leave a Buddhist proverb, cloud: where to break the entrance of the cloud gate, a break through the entrance of the sky, the willow cotton on the branches blooms and falls, and the bright moon on the mountain is still round. The timing must still be advanced, and cause and effect are not necessarily up to him. once remembered that Meng tasted Qin's state affairs, and the rooster crowed not to wait for the fifth cold. When we stand in front of a level, there are always many roads ahead of the level, whether you choose one casually or muster up the courage to pass the level. Sometimes you miss a level, but it's just a blink of an eye. ”

I held the hairball in one hand and made a Buddhist salute with one palm: "I have been taught." ”

Master Green Snake said: "We have to face all kinds of hurdles every day, and I can't think of any other name at this moment, so let's just call this spirit marten Tiantian." ”

I muttered a few words, every day, every day. Okay, it's catchy, and it also has a meaning. I patted the mink's little head: "Every day, thank you yet, master." ”

The newly named spirit marten sat in the palm of my hand, really like a human being, with its two front paws folded together, bowing to the green snake master.

Master Green Snake beckoned to the gray cat in the threshold, the cat sprang out, and Master Green Snake said: "Master Feng, you have a great merit in refining the Divine Pill, and I can't give you anything good in the Pure Land of Buddhism, so let's let the gray cat follow you in the future." ”

I said, "How embarrassing is that......"

Master Green Snake waved his hand and continued: "It has its cultivation, and in order to achieve positive results, it must accumulate blessings and transform the world. The two of you can help each other, it's your help, you're also its platform, and you complement each other. ”

I hurriedly saluted the gray cat and said, "I don't dare to call you Mimi, let's call you the Silver Fox Layman." ”

The gray cat meowed twice, seemingly indifferent.

Actually, I have doubts about containing this gray cat, Huang Tianba wants to break into the mountain, he has prepared all kinds of treasures, I asked him if he already knew that there was alchemy on the mountain, he also admitted it, and said that someone had already informed him.

The only people on the mountain who know about this, Huang Xiaotian, the green snake master and the gray cat silver fox layman, pondered and pondered, the biggest suspicion is still this cat, it is deceitful by nature, it is really difficult to figure out the mind. Keeping such a cat close to you is equivalent to a ticking time bomb.

I looked at Master Green Snake, Master Green Snake looked back at me, and I suddenly understood, Master Green Snake is not testing me, or is he going to press a bomb next to me, and I want to see how you deal with it.

Okay, if there are more lice, they don't bite.

Master Green Snake said: "The Silver Fox Monk has just obtained the Divine Pill, and he still needs to take it to digest and be reborn, so I ask Master Feng to stay in the temple for another week." ”

All I could say was, "It's easy to say." ”

Wang Lan said happily: "A dark cloud has dispersed, Master, let's clean up the temple, and all the lay believers will come up in a while." ”

The gray cat ran away, and I returned to my lodgings every day with the mink in my hand and put it on the table. Tian Tian is very clever, full of spirituality, and is as sensible as a person, but he can't speak. I told him I was going to clean the yard, and it chirped twice and pointed to a book in the house.

It was a copy of the Jizo Sutra, I thought about it, handed it the book, and turned the first page. Squatting on the table every day, concentrating on looking.

This scene was a bit funny, and I didn't dare to be happy, so I went to the front to help Master Green Snake and Master Wang Lan clean the temple.

People came back one after another, and sisters Liu Jiajia and Liu Yin also arrived in the morning. Liu Jiajia has regained her senses, seeing that I am still a little embarrassed, I asked her if she still remembers last night, Liu Jiajia frowned and said: "I seemed to have a nightmare last night, I didn't sleep well, I was very tired, I listened to Xiaoyin talk about it this morning, and I knew that I was sleepwalking crazy last night, alas, I caused trouble to everyone." ”

I took her hand: "Look at what you said, everyone can understand. ”

Who knew that as soon as I touched her, she retracted her hand as if she had been electrocuted. I was very embarrassed, and Liu Jiajia smiled and walked away. Liu Yin said in the back: "Brother Feng, my sister is like this, she is stimulated, don't be careful, it will be fine after a while." ”

I felt very bad in my heart, a cold wind blew, and I felt extremely stunned, and I felt in a trance that I might never go back to the past.

From this day on, the temple returned to its previous situation, and it seemed that the matter of alchemy had never happened. Every day, I still go into the mountains to flush the spring water and clean the deer park.

Liu Jiajia's situation has recovered very well, she loves to talk and laugh, everyone in the temple likes her, but there is one point, she always has a kind of indifferent politeness when she sees me, and she talks to me, but her attitude is like a friend she just met, and she does not have the intimate tacit understanding before at all.

When Liu Jiajia was doing her homework, she was very serious, just like going to school, Master Green Snake taught the Fa, and she had to copy down her experience in a proper manner. I sometimes look at her from the door, it's cold outside, it's bright inside, and we seem to be separated by two worlds.

I feel bitter in my heart, and I can't talk to anyone, so I can only numb myself by washing the mountain spring every day.

This morning, I was rushing to the mountain spring, suddenly my whole body stiffened, I couldn't control my hands and feet, I thought to myself, it can't be some sudden illness, the surrounding mountains are dark and there is no one in the middle of winter, I can't stand steadily, and I am planted in the pool.

The pool was full of rocks, and I was covered in blood, and I continued to sink, unable to move my hands and feet, and watched as I sank deeper and deeper. The pain on the outside skin was unbearable, and the body was like sprinkled with disinfectant water, and I watched my skin wrinkle, and then fell down the dead skin, layer by layer, mixed in the pool water, and suddenly it was dirty.

As the dead skin fell down, I was so sore and refreshed that I forgot about the difficulty of breathing for a while. just sank to the bottom of the water, numb, painful, crispy, and itchy, it was just refreshing. I was here in a groggy state, and I don't know how long it was, but when I woke up, I found myself floating on the water, and the sky was overcast, and it was raining lightly.

I snorted, wiped my face, and stepped on the water to float, and I was horrified to see that there were a lot of skin impurities floating on the surface of the pool, layer by layer, and were rushing downstream along the water.

I looked at my body again, and I was shocked, all the strange faces on my body that were condensed by the ghosts were gone, smooth and delicate. I was so happy in my heart that I couldn't wait for a long howl, the problem that had plagued me for so long was finally solved.

I was having fun, when suddenly there was a creak from the cliff above, and I looked up, and a stone was unstable by the heavy rain, and it fell from it, and I couldn't dodge, and it hit my head.

I bared my teeth, how could I be so unlucky, I just washed away my karma, and I was hit by a stone, and such a big stone must have been concussed.

Who knew that the stone smashed on my head and fell into the water, and I touched my forehead, as if it didn't hurt much, and it didn't even break a little blood. I wondered if this stone had been eroded. Is it a silver-like pewter head? On the surface, it looks extremely hard, but in fact, it is like a shortbread.

I didn't have the heart to stay here, what happened today was really weird, I quickly swam to the shore, my clothes were soaked, I barely put it on, I can't go bare-ass, I don't have the heart to go to the deer park, the rain is too big, I don't need to clean it.

I came down from the hill and went back to the house trembling. I didn't bring any clothes when I came, and I had no clothes to wear for a while, so I had to take off and wipe my body clean first, and lay under the covers.

I was pondering what happened in the morning, when someone knocked on the window, and through the window I saw that it was Liu Yin. She held an umbrella and gestured to me to open the door.

I wrapped myself in the quilt and went down, opened the door, Liu Yin came in with a shaking umbrella, and when she saw me like this, she sneered and smiled: "Brother Feng, what are you doing?" ”

I was a little embarrassed and said, "It's raining too hard today, and my clothes are wet, what's wrong with you." ”

"Do your homework this morning, and when Mrs. Shi saw that you weren't there, let me call you." Liu Yin said.

"I wanted to go, but I didn't have any clothes." I say.

Liu Yin took out a shopping bag from the back, which was a set of gray monk's clothes, and she said: "It's really a god, Mrs. Shi has thought that you have no clothes to wear, let me bring you a new set of monk's clothes." ”

I looked at the monk's robe and was a little embarrassed: "I'm not a monk, it's not appropriate to wear this." ”

Liu Yin smiled: "Brother Feng, it's hard for you to follow Shitai to chant the scriptures these days, don't you know this sentence, everything is like a dream bubble." You don't care if it's a monk's robe or something else, it's meant to cover the body and keep out the cold. ”

I looked at her and was a little surprised: "You little girl didn't expect to have a bit of Buddha nature." ”