Chapter 6: Gaze
Lu Xiaonan shook his head and blinked vigorously, suspecting that he was hysterical, dizzy, obviously there was nothing, how could he inexplicably conjure up many strange things. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
He looked around, the closest to him was a female classmate who was picking incense candles at the door of the Daxiong Treasure Hall, she seemed to say that her grandmother believed in Buddhism and wanted to burn a stick of incense for her grandmother, while most of the others were scattered around and watched the stone inscriptions in the temple or those sculptures of Buddha, Bodhisattva, Arhat and so on. There was nothing unusual about these people, and no one paid attention to him at all, let alone see the strange thing he had just seen, maybe he really should go to catch up on sleep, and he was tired from the hard seat train for several days in a row.
Bypassing the huge brass incense burner full of residual incense, the Daxiong Treasure Hall is completely displayed in front of you, four big red paint pillars in front of the hall fix the corridor, there is a dragon pattern carved with gold powder on the columns, but the paint gold powder has not been repaired for a long time, and there are some mottles on it. The main hall enshrines the three Buddhas, from left to right is the medicine master, Sakyamuni, Ani Buddha Buddha, the law is solemn and solemn, seems to see through the red dust, and there are eighteen arhats of different forms distributed on both sides of the main hall.
Lu Xiaonan walked into the main hall, there was the sound of wooden fish in his ears, and when he looked up, there was already a girl on the futon in front of the Buddha who had offered incense and candles and was kneeling and muttering prayers. He couldn't help but take a few more looks, it was a delicate and pitiful girl, especially the slender double hands, which looked like the hands of playing the piano, because Su Lin had practiced the piano and envied such a pair of hands for a long time.
Turning around, a five-short-figure monk with an underdeveloped neck and limbs was knocking on the wooden fish, reciting unintelligible scriptures in his mouth, all of which looked like a high-ranking monk, but the appearance was a little strange in Lu Xiaonan's eyes. Lu Xiaonan exhaled lightly, secretly thinking that it was probably all fine products, although it was really difficult to compliment this monk's appearance, but he kept in mind the principle that people should not be disguised, because he seemed to have heard that to be a monk requires at least a bachelor's degree, but not ordinary people can squeeze into this ranks.
Lu Xiaonan stood on the side and watched the monk unsign for the girl and confirmed his guess, the monk was very eloquent, quoted scriptures, and every word was said to the hearts of the people, only a few minutes before and after, the girl stuffed five or six four great man banknotes into the merit box twice in a row, and finally left with a happy face.
He couldn't help but sigh that the monk was powerful, but the monk suddenly turned to him and said with a smile, "This benefactor is full of spring breeze, and the seal hall is red, presumably it must have been a good thing recently, it must be a new college student, right?" ”
Lu Xiaonan nodded, secretly thinking that this guy would not be ready to fool himself, but when he thought that this was in the temple, in front of the Buddha, he secretly confessed sins in his heart.
"The poor monk's observation skills are really not wrong, if the poor monk's view is not bad, the donor and the temple, and the poor monk should have more origins, this fate is destined to ...... cause and effect"
"Huh?" Lu Xiaonan was stunned when he heard this, and instinctively felt that something was wrong, but in this hall, at the feet of the Buddha, listening to the monk's remarks quoting scriptures, he felt that his head was not enough for a moment, and only the mouth spitting in front of him was closed like a fish.
Inexplicably, I burned incense.
Inexplicably, I asked for a signature.
Inexplicably, he was slapped on the ass by the monk.
Lu Xiaonan finally heard his words clearly in the monk's eyebrows, "...... There is no incense money to ask for what to sign, there is no incense money to burn, the Dharma is boundless merit, the Buddha also wants to eat, you say that you are a young man, and you look like a human being, why are you so deceitful, why do you deceive in front of the Buddha and say that there is no incense money......
The shouting immediately alarmed the new students who were touring the neighborhood and gathered one after another. Lu Xiaonan was in full view of everyone, his face was red, and he was almost dripping blood. Although he is an orphan and the tuition fee is also sponsored by the company to the school, he still has some living expenses, especially the card that Su Lin's parents secretly gave him, there are enough 10,000 yuan, and the cash is also carried, but they are all in the backpack, the backpack is in the car, and he can't take out a dime at this time.
The monk saw that there were more onlookers, and his words became more intense, although he was not vicious, but he was heartfelt, "You said that you are a manly husband to do something bad, you actually deceived the Buddha in broad daylight, 500 yuan of incense money, 100 yuan of signing fees, you can't take out a big man?" Do you think you really don't have any money? Do you dare to say that you really don't have any money? Are you too embarrassed to speak? If you dare to say in front of the Buddha that you have no money, the poor monk will waive your incense money......"
"I really don't have any money with me." Lu Xiaonan felt that he should explain his current situation clearly, and after the words came out, he couldn't wait to find a crack in the ground to get into.
The monk was stunned, almost biting his tongue, and secretly said that this guy really doesn't care about his face. After a moment of silence for the freshmen audience, they burst into laughter.
"If you don't have any money on you, it doesn't mean that you don't have money, how dare you come to the Buddha to burn incense without money?" The monk's face was not red and his heart was not beating, and he didn't seem to feel that there was anything wrong with his behavior, and he had to pay for the debt to the end, not to mention in the name of the Buddha, "You say, what should I do?" Incense money is inevitable......"
"This?" Lu Xiaonan felt very helpless, in a strange city, surrounded by strangers, the monk still held his hand tightly for fear that he would run away, and he couldn't go back to the car to get the money.
"What do you say?" The monk stared into his eyes.
"So what do you say?" Lu Xiaonan felt that he was about to die of shame.
"Otherwise, you can do some chores in the temple to pay it off." The monk was right, "When will you pay off the Buddha's incense money, and when will you leave." ”
"Huh?" Lu Xiaonan's thinking has stopped, he can't hear anything, he can't see anything.
"Get out of the way, get out of the way, what's going on? Let me see. Tu Feng pulled away the crowd and squeezed in, "Hey, Lu Xiaonan, is that you?" ”
"Hey......" Lu Xiaonan saw that Tu Feng wanted to open his mouth to borrow money, but then he thought that he and the other party had only just met, and they had no friendship at all, so how could they speak.
The monk also looked at Tu Feng and frowned slightly.
Tu Feng looked at the monk, then at Lu Xiaonan, then grinned, and asked Lu Xiaonan, "It must be this ugly monk who asked you for incense money, right?" This thing, I am familiar with this Shaoxian, I think our Qianyun Mountain Jinguang Cave Zixiao View is also like this, this Shaoxian I used to ...... Uh, don't look at me like that......"
Tu Feng put it in the monk's ear, "I said big monk, we are all peers, that guy is my friend, the meaning is right, don't go too far." ”
"Ah, ah, hahaha......" The monk laughed twice, his face solemn, "No! The Buddha's incense money is not worth a penny! If you don't have money, you pay off your debts with work, and if you want to set up, there is no door. ”
"Hmph, who said that Ben Shaoxian has no money, Ben Shaoxian has money." Tu Feng took out a pile of hundred-yuan bills from his pocket, shook it in front of the monk, counted it, and there were five or six thousand, but in the end he only took out one of them and slapped it into the monk's hand, "My friend owes you a total of six hundred, right, this Shaoxian only has a hundred here, do you want to love it, otherwise there is no point, this Shaoxian can tell you, you still earn eighty for this hundred, don't go too far, that's all, two clear, I'll take my friend away......"
Before the monk could react, Tu Feng pulled Lu Xiaonan to squeeze through the crowd and fled outside the temple, leaving only some dumbfounded monks staring at the scattered crowd in shock.
After a while, the temple was deserted again, and the monk looked at the hundred-yuan bill in his hand and laughed, "This little Taoist priest actually calculated the cost of incense and candles clearly, and he is really a fellow Taoist......"
"You've just passed a bit." I don't know when, a woman wearing a white dress and high hair appeared behind the monk, staring at Lu Xiaonan, who was pulled by the wind and was about to step out of the temple gate.
"Oh, I said Miss Ruoxi, you can't say hello in advance when you come out, you are so elusive, the poor monk's little heart can't stand it."
"He's already suffered so much that I don't want him to be hurt in any way." Ruoxi's face was indifferent, but her words were a little cold.
"Hey, I said eldest lady, alas, everything the poor monk did was for you, what do you think, why did I squeeze him so much and let him owe incense merit money? It's not that I want him to come to the temple to work, so that the eldest lady can see him often......"
"Hmph, don't do your job!" A domineering voice interjected, and the monk couldn't help but shrink his neck.
"Are you looking for fault!" Ruoxi glared at a place in front of the hall where there was nothing to see, "I warn you, don't let me see you do anything crookedly, otherwise, you know the consequences!" ”
The voice just snorted unconvinced, and then said no more.
Ruoxi's figure flashed lightly and went up to the top of the main hall, staring at the back that was gradually moving away, at this time there was only that figure in her eyes, and she couldn't tolerate anything else. Two lines of tears, blurred for thousands of years, that is a figure that will never be forgotten......
In the distance, Lu Xiaonan seemed to feel something, but when he turned around, he didn't see anything, but he felt that there was an inexplicable sudden moment that disturbed his emotions, and he burst into tears unconsciously.
Tufeng suddenly screamed, "Oh my God, are you playing with me?" Why is it raining again, this ghost weather is really hell, run, I said Lu Xiaonan, don't forget, you have to pay me back the hundred yuan, you can owe other money, incense money really can't be owed......"