Dinner is a vegetarian stuffed zygote eaten at the temple. It is a dumpling the size of a palm, chopped with leeks, dried tofu, and vermicelli to make a filling, wrapped and fried. Drinking millet porridge tastes good, except for the fat brother who has been complaining and has not gone back to Liu Laohan's house to eat, everyone else is very full.

We chatted in the yard for a few minutes, and because of a few drops of light rain, we all went back to our rooms. I have one room with Fat Brother, one room with Lu Shan and Sister Hua, and the two rooms are next to each other. The furnishings in the house are relatively simple, it is still a fire kang, a large square box is placed on the kang next to the corner of the wall, one meter five is long, eighty centimeters wide, fifty centimeters deep, the lid is lifted, there is a futon inside, a small round table is placed in the middle of the room, and three wooden square stools with four legs are around. On the table was a teapot, a tea bowl and a pot of boiling water. The floor is covered with wooden floors, and due to the dampness, many places are slightly bulging, and there are two plastic basins in the corners, which are estimated to be used for washing.

On the windowsill is a small incense burner, and there is a copy of the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra, I thought that this kind of ancient temple scriptures should be the kind of old thread-bound books, but at first glance, it is also the kind of pirated printed reading materials on the bookshelf. Still, I took it from the windowsill to the table so that it wouldn't get wet from the rain.

After a while, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old monk knocked on the door and came in, and said to me very politely: "The host is waiting for you." ”

I tidied up my clothes and went to the host's room with the little monk.

Knocking on the door and entering the host's room, I couldn't help but lament the abomination of the class system. The host's room also had a wooden floor, but the quality was much better than ours, and on the floor were two futons sewn with golden silk cloth, and on either side of the mahogany square table, the monk Deshun was sitting on it with his eyes closed.

On the table is a copper carved incense burner, and the curling incense slowly wafts out and spreads from the carved incense burner. There is a scripture book next to the incense burner, and this time it is really a line-bound ancient scripture "The Buddha Crowns the Lengyan Sutra". Not only this one, but also the mahogany bookcase in the corner of the wall, the upper three floors are bookshelves, full of line-bound scriptures, and the carved bookcase with the door below, from the carving on the cabinet door, you can vaguely see that all the scriptures are placed inside.

A kang the size of a double bed was also spray-painted dark red, with a mattress on it, and two mahogany boxes were placed on the kang, each of which was the same size as our room, but the workmanship was much more elegant, and it was also carved with patterns, and some neatly stacked clothes were placed on the lid of the box.

On the wall, hang an old yellowed statue of Guanyin, holding a jade net bottle standing on a lotus flower, eyes half-open, the corners of the mouth seem to be slightly upturned, lifelike.

The roof is a white round ceiling lamp, and inside it is supposed to be an energy-saving light bulb, unlike our house, which has a yellow light bulb.

The host spoke first: "Little donor, if you have anything to ask the old monk, just say it, since I have a fate, I will definitely answer it carefully for you." ”

Without waiting for him to give in, I walked over to the futon across from him and sat down. I told Boss Zhou fifteen years ago, he lost his wife here, a monk said that he couldn't marry a wife in his life, and he found a little wife, fortunately he found it early, otherwise he would have been pitted, and the original thing was told to the host.

also said that Boss Zhou believed it, which was for me to thank him, and then asked the monk if he had any instructions. Of course, I didn't say that Wang Yuanyuan was dead, Buddhism said that these are not good, and I have to abide by professional ethics and will not talk nonsense.

The host was silent for a while, and then said: "I do have a relationship with this Zhou benefactor, but because the years are too long, I can't remember what I said back then, so you tell him that as long as he is dedicated to the Buddha, he will definitely be able to resolve a calamity." ”

I knew that the old monk said this, I didn't use it, and I could make up a sue to Boss Zhou.

Clearing my throat, I asked again, "Then why did you coax me out today?" Where did I rebel against the Buddha? ”

The old monk replied: "You are a group of four, you are the leader, you are not dressed like ordinary people, since you have money, but you don't bring any incense and candles, it can be seen that you don't believe in Buddhism, and those who don't believe in Buddhism come here?" I'm afraid it's a troublemaker, so please go outside the temple to observe first. ”

I went, the monk's theory was like a punch, and it almost didn't give me a damn, it turned out to be such a strange reason, so the four of us waited at the door all afternoon. If you come, you will be safe, who will make me have a good temper?

Curiosity drove me to continue to ask the following questions, I knew that this was a private matter in the temple, but curiosity finally defeated reason, I tentatively asked: "The well in the temple should have water, can you talk to me about why there is no water?" ”

I thought that the old monk would say that the secret of heaven should not be divulged or something, prevaricating in the past, but I didn't expect him to answer my question very happily, and the old monk first told me a story that has been passed down from generation to generation in the temple.

Legend has it that the spirit of this evil beast was attached to the stone statue in order to guard the treasure on this light spirit mountain, and the treasure was in the well, and the water in the well was used to drink the beast, so the monks in the temple did not drink the water from the well, but opened another well outside the cooking house.

Every time the moon is full on a sunny day, the treasure in the well absorbs the moonlight, and it will shine directly into the sky at night. Seeing the light, the evil eye beast came from the sky, attached to the stone statue to look at the baby, so as not to be stolen by the thief, and three days later the well water will sink a lot, saying that the evil eye beast drank it, and then the mist of the mountain is that this Rui beast stepped on the cloud and returned to the heavenly palace to restore his life, and then the monk admired the divine beast, so he built a temple here, named Wangtan Temple.

After telling the story, the old monk said: "The night fifteen years ago, it was the three friends of Zhou Shizhu, the night when they were lost, a thunder struck the ghost eye of the stone beast, it was the evil eye of the beast that arrived, and it was robbed by the thunder, and since then the well has become a dry well, and the beast has gone to bliss. ”

As soon as I heard the old monk's words, my brain suddenly failed, and I hurriedly asked, "Isn't it one?" Boss Zhou didn't just lose his girlfriend, why are there three of them? ”

The monk stared at me for a few seconds, and then said, "It is indeed three people, they were two men and two women, just like the four of you, one of them is his wife, except for him, the other three are missing. ”

I didn't expect Boss Zhou to hide something from me, but people only said that his wife was lost, and he didn't say that only the two of them went up the mountain, and there were no friends who traveled together. Maybe the identities of the other two people are inconvenient to disclose, so they didn't tell me in detail.

I asked, "Is the ghost eye you are talking about the eye in the middle of the evil eyed beast?" ”

The host replied: "Legend has it that there are six eyes in the world, and all eyes are the naked eyes, which can see the flowers bloom and fall and the seasons change. The ghost eye is also the evil eye, which can distinguish between life and death and can recognize the sick, that is to say, all beasts, including human beings, can see when the mother gives birth to a baby, what the specific situation is when the baby is born, or when and why a life dies, and it can also see what disease the life with disease suffers from. The other four-eyed old men were unaware of it. ”

As soon as I heard it, this ghost eye has a different function than my eye, I guess it's not one, but my eye is not unprecedented, it must be among these six eyes. I then asked, "Is the well dry and the baby gone?" ”

The monk Deshun got up, lifted the mattress close to the position of the head, there was a pit on the surface of the kang, inlaid with a red cloth bag, and the cloth bag was opened to be a copy of the "Diamond Sutra" and a disc.

When I looked at the disc, it was made of blue ore, wrapped in carved silver, and the bottom was flat and completely covered in silver. The front is slightly bulging upwards and covered with silver skin, with a round hole in the middle. I immediately thought of Boss Zhou's kettle, I said why is the kettle so awkward, it turns out that the base is here, put the bottom of the pot upside down in the small bowl-shaped semicircle, put it in the hole in this disc, isn't this exactly a set.

I hurriedly said to the monk: "You baby, I know, this is the bottom of a pot, the pot is at Boss Zhou's house, I saw it before I came." Then I told the monk about the texture and appearance of the pot.

When the monk Deshun heard this, he was silent for a long time, and then re-wrapped the bottom of the pot and the Diamond Sutra in the red cloth, and said, "It seems that the fate of this temple and this treasure has ended. As he spoke, he stuffed the red cloth bag into my hand, and I thought to myself that the hundred-year-old treasure was given to me like this, which was too rash.

Thinking about it, I still took off my glasses, respectfully took the cloth bag, and then took the opportunity to look at the old monk, the projection behind him was laughing miserably, I don't know if it was a little cold when it was raining outside, I immediately got goosebumps, and then looked at the Guanyin statue as if it was also laughing, and then looked at the carved cabinet, and felt that in the darkness behind the carved cabinet, there were a pair of evil eyes staring at me.

I immediately said no more disturbing or something, and almost ran out of the house.

After leaving the house, I walked back in the heavy rain, still pondering the projection of the old monk in my heart. As soon as I walked into the dark place between the two houses, a strong arm suddenly stretched out from inside and grabbed me at once.

Someone behind his ear said, "I've been waiting for you for a long time." ”