Chapter 52: Night into Shaolin

After making up his mind, Zuo Dengfeng left Harbin, except for eating and relieving his hands all night long, all the way south to Henan, and after arriving in Shandong, Zuo Dengfeng went to Jinan again, and made sure that Fujisaki did not come to the 1875 troops before going south again.

When he arrived at the border of Shandong, Zuo Dengfeng found that going to Nanjing and going to Shaolin Temple were not on the same road, and he had to go east to Nanjing, and he had to go west to Henan. Zuo Dengfeng hesitated slightly, and finally decided to go to the Shaolin Temple in Henan first.

Henan was also affected by the disaster last year, a large number of victims fled north, many places are ten rooms and nine empty, dozens of miles without people, hunger and rotting corpses can be seen from time to time along the way, the ancient saying has Yunshan Shandong Xiangma Henan thief, which means that Shandong people will rob if they are in a hurry, and Henan people will steal when they are in a hurry, in fact, Henan people will also rob, Zuo Dengfeng encountered many bandits and bandits along the way even he can't remember clearly, his bicycle is like a good-looking big girl, along the way to him to recruit wolves.

Zuo Dengfeng is naturally not afraid of bandits, not only did the bandits not rob him but also let him rob it, but Zuo Dengfeng only grabbed a box gun, which was made in Germany, and it was better than the chicken leg of the devil, he took it out to study and study when he had nothing to do along the way, and tried to shoot two shots, but when he figured out that the bullet was gone, Zuo Dengfeng threw the pistol away, he grabbed the gun because he was curious, not wanted to use it.

Shaolin Temple in Songshan, Henan, Zuo Dengfeng came to the foot of Songshan and found that there were a lot of victims gathered here, at the entrance of the mountain road there is a big iron pot, Zuo Dengfeng has never seen such a big iron pot, there are three meters square, I don't know where the monk got it, Zuo Dengfeng came early in the morning, the pot is boiling porridge, the porridge is cooked with messy grains, rice, corn, wheat, sweet potatoes have everything, but although the materials used are very miscellaneous, the fragrance is not strong, because the water is more and the grain is less, the porridge is too thin.

Zuo Dengfeng hid the bicycle, settled down thirteen, then found a place from the foot of the mountain and squatted down, not long after, the monks began to give porridge to the victims, Shaolin Temple's righteous act made Zuo Dengfeng look at the monks of Shaolin Temple, but did not give up the intention of stealing things.

Although the porridge is very thin, but each victim has been given a bowl, this bowl of gruel must not be full, but you can hang your life, now is the time when the green and yellow are not picked, after these months, in the autumn, it will be a little better.

"Come here, I'll give you something to eat." After receiving the porridge, the victims left, and the monk who distributed the porridge found Zuo Dengfeng squatting not far away, and immediately raised his hand to summon him.

"Master, I'm here to offer incense." Zuo Dengfeng stepped forward and spoke. He knew that shouting monks was masters, and shouting Taoists was Taoist chiefs.

"Let's go up." The monk who divides the porridge scrapes the rice grains on the edge of the pot with a spoon.

"Thank you, Master." Hearing this, Zuo Dengfeng turned around and walked along the mountain road towards the mountain. It was his first time in Songshan.

Shaolin Temple is a thousand-year-old temple, the ancestral court of Zen Buddhism, the temple is simple and magnificent, there are many monks and novices, but there are many places in the temple and the monastery are damaged, and the cinnabar red paint on the gate and the wooden pillar is also mottled very seriously, it can be seen that the Shaolin Temple in the troubled times is not good.

The main hall of the Taoist Taoist temple is the Sanqing hall, which is dedicated to the Sanqing patriarch, the main hall of the Buddhist temple is the Daxiong Treasure Palace, which is dedicated to the Buddhist patriarch Sakyamuni, and the Dharma statue of Sakyamuni is a mud tire with gold, but at this time the people's words are very difficult, there are few pilgrims, and even the Buddha is also poor, and the gold on the Buddha's body is very bleak, and it can be seen that the gold paint has not been brushed for a long time.

After entering the main hall, there was a monk on the right side, and Zuo Dengfeng took out the copper and put it into the merit box, and the monk handed over the tribute incense. Zuo Dengfeng took the incense and lit it, and then he began to worry, because he was not a believer in Buddhism, he practiced expounding the magic of teaching, and he didn't even belong to Taoism. After pondering for a while, Zuo Dengfeng stepped forward and inserted the incense into the incense burner, without giving a salute.

"Master, I want to sculpt the Buddha's body in gold, how much gold do I need?" Zuo Dengfeng walked back and opened his mouth to the monk Zhike. His plan was to donate a certain amount of incense money to the Shaolin Temple, and then ask the other party to take him to visit the temple, so as to determine the location of the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, the Shaolin Temple Tibetan Scripture Pavilion is famous all over the world, and everyone knows that the scriptures and martial arts secrets of the Shaolin Temple are stored in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion.

"The thickness of the gold coating of the Buddha statue varies, the thick one costs one hundred and twenty taels of gold, and the thin one costs sixty taels of gold." The monk frowned and glanced at Zuo Dengfeng, Zuo Dengfeng's dress did not look like a rich man.

"I don't have that much, this is my thrift savings, donate to you, it's not enough to put gold for the Buddha, buy some food for the victims." Hearing this, Zuo Dengfeng took out a small gold bar from his arms and handed it to the monk who knew the guest.

"Amitabha, good, good." Seeing this, the monk immediately folded his hands and thanked him first, and then reached out and took the gold bar.

"The donor is invited to enter the back hall for a while, and the poor monk informs the dining hall to make eight blessing porridge for the donor." The monk of Zhike happily rushed to the left and said that a gold bar is thirty oceans, which is a huge amount of money.

"No, I've had breakfast. Master, I'm not a local, I'm here for a long time, and I'd like to visit our magnificent monastery, is that okay? Zuo Dengfeng shook his head and said.

"Wait a minute, the poor monk sent someone to take the donor forward, Chongneng, Chongneng......" The monk turned around and summoned to the inner hall, shouting for a long time, but no one answered. The monks of Shaolin Temple have a total of 70 generations, the iron shoe law is clear, 47 generations of monks, and 49 generations of Chongzi generation.

"Forget it, master, I'd better go around by myself." Zuo Dengfeng hurriedly stopped the shouting of the monk who knew the guest.

"The poor monk has a ministry and can't leave without permission, so the donor will visit it by himself." Zhike Taoist nodded in agreement, and then took out a black porcelain bowl from behind him and handed it to Zuo Dengfeng, "When the monks in the temple see this bowl, they know that the donor is a pilgrim who gives alms."

"Master, please tell me which places in your temple are not allowed to be visited by outsiders, and I can also abide by the rules of your temple." Zuo Dengfeng took the "pass".

"The northeast of the main hall is the place where the monks in our temple retreat, and the northwest side hall is the place where the scriptures are hidden, and outsiders are not allowed to enter these two places." The monk who knew the guest didn't think of Zuo Deng's words at all to retreat into advance.

"Thank you, Master." Zuo Dengfeng thanked the monk when he heard this, and then walked out of the main hall.

Zuo Dengfeng is called a tour, in fact, it is to step on a little, after leaving the main hall, he took a black bowl in the temple and turned around at will, what he did not expect is that many buildings in Shaolin Temple have been destroyed, and there are still gun holes on the masonry of some pagodas.

The side hall that the monk said was not short from the monks' room where the old monks lived, and there were not many monks around, Zuo Dengfeng figured out the basic situation and left, he decided to do it at night, and it was easy to arouse suspicion after wandering around for a long time during the day.

Zuo Dengfeng returned the black bowl when he left, and then came to the bottom of the mountain to find a bicycle hidden in the grass, and rode the bicycle around Songshan to check the situation, looking for a route to escape after succeeding.

At noon, Zuo Dengfeng hid his bicycle in the grass northwest of Songshan Mountain, and then took Thirteen to touch it from the back mountain, and lurked outside the courtyard wall of Shaolin Temple, just waiting for it to get dark.

The reason why Zuo Dengfeng wants to steal instead of ask is because he knows that the martial arts of Shaolin Temple will not be passed on to outsiders, and it is in vain to ask for it. If you don't ask for it and steal it again, then Shaolin Temple will definitely be on guard, and it is better to steal it directly.

In the evening, the monks of the temple went to the dining hall to eat, Zuo Dengfeng decided to do it, he has a habit, that is, he likes to do it in the evening and early morning, this time the other party's vigilance surname is the smallest, much better than the middle of the night, the middle of the night is too quiet, a little movement is easy to startle others.

The three-meter courtyard wall naturally couldn't help him, and immediately jumped in after making sure that there was no one on the left and right, and quickly came to the door of the side hall, there was a copper lock on the door of the side hall, and Zuo Dengfeng directly twisted it and entered sideways.

After entering the side hall, Zuo Dengfeng was stunned, before this he had always thought that the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion would be a room of books, but he never thought that it was a reclining Buddha, the big Buddha was in the center of the side hall, and there was nothing else.

Zuo Dengfeng looked around suspiciously, and found that there were two side rooms in the east and west directions of the side hall, Zuo Dengfeng quickly entered the east side room, and found that there were a small number of books on the bookshelf inside, and he could clearly see the handwriting in the night, so he approached the bookshelf to quickly search, but when he finished reading all the books, he did not find any martial arts cheats, all the Buddhist scriptures were placed here, and many Buddhist scriptures had signs of being burned.

Zuo Dengfeng paused slightly and turned to the side room on the west side, and only found some basic martial arts books when he rummaged again, and there was no shadow of the Washing Pulp Sutra at all, and the books here were also mottled and incomplete, as if they were snatched out of the fire.

Unable to find the Purifying Pulp Sutra, Zuo Dengfeng was not too frustrated, in fact, the situation of excessive Yang Qi in his body could be neutralized by borrowing cold gloves, the reason why he wanted to find the Purifying Pulp Sutra was to find a way to quickly condense the aura.

"The Washing of the Pulp Sutra may be something important, and something important is not usually placed in such a place." Zuo Dengfeng said to himself, and then walked quickly to the door and pulled the door out, since he couldn't find it, it was better to go.

As soon as he opened the door, Zuo Dengfeng found that two middle-aged monks were coming from a distance, and the other party also spotted him at the same time. After a short pause, Zuo Dengfeng rushed out of the side hall and ran towards the courtyard wall, and the two middle-aged monks shouted "Stop" and chased after them.

Seeing this, Zuo Dengfeng frowned secretly, and quickly jumped over the courtyard wall and ran into the woods, what he didn't expect was that the two middle-aged monks also came out, judging from the height of their jumping off the wall, their cultivation was not low.

"Don't look, run." Zuo Dengfeng ran under a tree and waved at Thirteen on the tree, since the last time he was electrified, Thirteen no longer stayed on the wall.

Hearing this, Thirteen immediately jumped down from the tree and fled with Zuo Dengfeng. The woods outside the Shaolin Temple were very sparse, and the two middle-aged monks in the back jumped out and immediately found Zuo Dengfeng and chased after them from behind.

People who are thieves are weak-minded, Zuo Dengfeng is weak now, but he is not only a thief himself, the most important thing is that the cultivation of the two middle-aged monks behind him is not low, he and Thirteen may not be able to beat others, in case the reinforcements of a person's family arrive, he and Thirteen will not be able to run.

Zuo Dengfeng and Thirteen ran desperately in front, and the two middle-aged monks chased after them desperately, and several times Zuo Dengfeng wanted to turn around and tell them that he hadn't stolen anything, but after thinking about it, he still didn't shout, and people wouldn't believe it.

Because the escape route was determined in advance, Zuo climbed the peak and immediately rode a bicycle to escape after descending the mountain, he practiced the yin and yang life and death tricks, and pedaled the bicycle to run faster.

Although the quality of the bicycle is very good, but after all, it can't stand the huge force of the yin and yang life and death formula, and the chain of the car is broken before it runs far.

They ran in front, the monk chased behind, Zuo Dengfeng practiced Taoism, the monk practiced martial arts, Zuo Dengfeng couldn't get rid of the monk, and the monk couldn't catch up with him, the two sides kept a distance of dozens of steps, which could not be lengthened or shortened.

ran for more than 20 miles in one breath, the monk still didn't give up the chase, Zuo Dengfeng complained bitterly, these two monks really belonged to Wang Ba, and they didn't let go when they bit it......