Chapter 99: Monks are everywhere, and monasteries are tired

As soon as Shen Zhen went to Huangyixin, the temple was built to hide evil intentions.

I didn't see Emperor Liang Yuan back then, but I saw the glazed Buddha chanting.

"The children are so old, and they are still called brothers!" Lin Wan'er turned her head and smiled on the side.

"People are used to it!" Lin Xi'er actually blushed.

"Sister, come in, thank you for your chickens, my brother-in-law made it again, right? It smells so good! Murong Zifeng took the child from Lin Xi'er's hand and hurriedly beckoned Lin Wan'er into the house.

"When you're not at home, my sister often brings delicious food to our mother and son."

"It's not that your brother-in-law sees that you have no time to cook with the children, and I'm afraid that your mother and son can't keep up with their nutrition, since your brother-in-law is back, I won't bother you, my sister will go back!" Lin Wan'er turned around and walked outside the house as she spoke.

"Sister, you go slowly!"

The couple watched Lin Wan'er go out and quietly closed the door.

"Brother Zifeng, you haven't said why you came back today?"

"The emperor has transferred me to be the head of the Buddhist Academy, and from today, I will come back to see you two first, but I miss you!"

"Brother Zifeng, we miss you so much! But what do you do in this role? ”

"I have never heard of this position before, the emperor said that I will be responsible for inspecting, repairing and maintaining the various Zen monasteries, but I will have ten days off every month, so that I can have more time to spend with you."

"That's good, I like it!" Lin Xi'er hugged Murong Zifeng and the child in her thin arms, enjoying it very much.

"Xi'er, you said that I was the commander of the forbidden army, and I didn't make any mistakes, why did the emperor suddenly transfer me?" Murong Zifeng looked preoccupied.

"Brother Zifeng, don't think too much, maybe the emperor thinks this matter is more important?"

"But also, the emperor takes Buddhism very seriously, in fact, this is also a concern for many ministers, including me."

Murong Zifeng kissed the child on the face, and said apologetically, "Xi'er, I have to visit in a while." ”

"Okay, then hurry up and eat before you go. Is it possible for my brother to go home for dinner and rest in the evening? Lin Xi'er asked tentatively.

"Nothing important should be like this." Murong Zifeng smiled and stroked Lin Xi'er's hair with pity.

"As long as Brother Zifeng can go home every day, Xi'er thinks it's a good errand." Lin Xi'er's cat was coquettish in Murong Zifeng's arms.

"You!" Murong Zifeng looked at his shy and lovely lady, and suddenly brightened, thinking that this was not bad.

After the couple finished eating, Murong Zifeng kissed Lin Xi'er and the child's foreheads and set off.

Murong Zifeng began to visit the people, and found that monks could be seen everywhere, so he asked passers-by, where did so many monks come from? Passerby A's answer was ridiculous, and he actually said something like this: "Today, the saint has a lot of money, and he pays money from the treasury to recruit the people to be monks, and he has three or two cases of silver every month, compared to the people who work hard to grow crops with their backs to the loess and the sky, and in the end they will only harvest 100 copper coins." If there is no harvest in the event of a natural disaster, of course the people are willing to be leisurely monks, so it is no wonder that there are not many monks. ”

Passerby B said: "Monks are still so respected by the government, how can they be bullied by the chief of the government at every turn, like me. ”

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Seeing that someone asked about this, after a while, there were many people around, and one of the monks said with a smile: "Your Majesty also decreed that if there is a Taoist priest who is willing to be a monk, he will give two gold." If a monk violates the law, he can be acquitted by bowing a hundred times in front of the Buddha statue. It's a fool not to do such a good thing. ”

When the monk finished speaking, there was a burst of laughter. At this time, another monk came out of the crowd, and he was indignant and continued: "This is nothing, how can we say that we are all Han Chinese, in the Jinling Zen Temple, there are also tens of thousands of monks from Fusang, Ryukyu, Goryeo, Tianzhu and other countries, and all the food and clothing are from the treasury. ”

"Having said that, although it is comfortable to be a monk, but they have all gone to be monks, who will grow food, and what will everyone eat in the future?" Another monk stood up with a worried look on his face.

"Who says it's not, in the end, it's not that the people are suffering, taxes are soaring every year, hard work is planting land for a year, and there is almost nothing left after paying taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and someone has to take care of this situation quickly."

"Who's to say it isn't? You say that we all want to get things, will the emperor not think of it? ”

"Everyone, don't talk about it, if it reaches the emperor's ears, beware of causing death."

"That's it, let's disperse, let's disperse!"

Everyone ran away, leaving Murong Zifeng alone, thinking back to what those people said just now, and was dazed.

Murong Zifeng visited many monasteries in a row, and found that all the monasteries were full of pilgrims, the temples were full of birds and flowers, and the pavilions and pavilions were extraordinary. Murong Zifeng was preoccupied, knowing that the emperor believed in the Buddha, but he didn't expect that he had become a Buddha in such a situation. I was thinking about how much silver taels it would cost to build so many and luxurious temples?

After visiting, Murong Zifeng learned that there was a famous temple, located in Qixia Mountain, which was only dedicated to pilgrims seeking heirs. Although you have to climb thousands of steps to climb the mountain and enter the temple, the strange thing is that there are surprisingly many pilgrims, and there is an endless stream of pilgrims all year round. It is said to be very effective, but there is a peculiar rule that the temple only accepts female pilgrims, and in order to show piety, no family members are allowed to accompany them during the vows.

Murong Zifeng felt very curious, why couldn't he let his family accompany him? So he decided to visit the temple in person to inspect the grand occasion, in view of this temple rule, he thought that it was better to make an unannounced visit, so he was ready to go back to the palace to see if Murong Ningyan could help him.

Hearing that Murong Zifeng wanted to come to the temple in person, and was forced by the temple rules, Murong Ningyan came up with a clever plan to let Murong Zifeng disguise himself as a woman, Murong Zifeng was reluctant at first, but there was no other way, and finally accepted Murong Ningyan's idea. Murong Ningyan secretly blossomed in his heart, but he wanted to see what kind of effect this Yushu Linfeng brother would have when he became a woman.

Speaking of Miaoyin Temple in Qixia Mountain, Murong Ningyan's mind immediately flashed the picture of watching meteors with the emperor that night, and his heart was very yearning to return to his hometown, relive the old feelings and make a wish, but his body was not completely healed, so he had to burn incense and make a wish instead of Murong Zifeng.

Murong Ningyan was very excited about Murong Zifeng pretending to be a woman, so he asked Red Sleeves to send the palace people out, first let his brother change into women's clothes, and looked at the handsome and dashing seven-foot man, after wearing women's clothes, he could actually have the softness of a woman, and then put on light makeup, he should also be a beauty.

Will Murong Zifeng, who is dressed as a woman, be recognized in Miaoyin Temple?

So, Murong Ningyan personally put on makeup for Murong Zifeng. Because Murong Zifeng was born with the appearance of a jade-faced scholar, his skin was as white as a girl, and then he pounced on a layer of peach blossom powder, lightly swept the moth eyebrows, lightly touched the rouge on the cheeks, and then combed a Chaoyun near fragrant bun with hair hanging down on both sides of his cheeks, and finally simply inserted a hosta, and a fair lady who was elegant and refined stood in front of Murong Ningyan.

"The little girl asks the queen to say goodbye, and the mother is blessed with Jin'an!" Murong Zifeng looked in the mirror, and was dressed up by Murong Ningyan as a peerless self, marveling that he still had the potential to be a woman, and humorously imitated the girl's movements and voices, which made Murong Ningyan laugh.

"What makes Yan'er so happy?" The emperor suddenly appeared in the Yaoguang Palace.

I saw Murong Zifeng gently put his hands on his left hip, the back of his right foot, solemnly and slowly bent his knees and bowed his head: "Your Majesty is blessed!" ”

When the emperor heard Murong Zifeng imitating a woman, holding his breath and making a soft voice, he couldn't help but quip: "Which little lady is this, born so handsome?" Manager Zeng, let me be included in the harem! ”

"The old slave obeys!" Seeing that the emperor was in a good mood, Grandpa Zeng also followed suit.

The emperor turned his head and looked at Murong Zifeng with a smile: "Zifeng, what are you making trouble with?" Why did you pretend to be a woman? ”

Murong Zifeng lowered his head in embarrassment with a red face, Murong Ningyan narrated Murong Zifeng's intention to the emperor, and the emperor nodded again and again: "This idea is good, it can understand the temple more deeply, and it also makes the queen smile, it really deserves to be rewarded!" Hahaha! ”

"By the way, why don't I send a carriage or a chariot to take you there?"

"Thank you, Your Majesty, no need, that will attract attention, Weichen retires!" Murong Ningyan wrapped it to Murong Zifeng and tied it behind his back, Ning Feng turned over and rode towards Miaoyin Temple on Hongchen.

Along the way, Murong Zifeng saw that there were constantly young women moving in the direction of Miaoyin Temple, all of them were like flowers and jade, and they looked like flowers.

Judging from the dress, there are small jasper, and there are also ladies, and there seem to be most women from large families and official eunuchs.

Murong Zifeng heard those women talking, saying that there was an even more wonderful legend in the temple.

It is said that there was once a high monk, dreamed that the mountain rock was like coming to shine, so he dug a niche cave, and chiseled more than 500 Buddha statues inside, called the Thousand Buddha Cliff. In the last grotto, there is a masonry statue holding an iron hammer and an iron cone, the original Buddha statue of the excavator also chisels his own image into the Buddha shrine, the Buddha statue is exquisitely crafted, into the transformation and expression, it is amazing.

When Murong Zifeng came to the gate of Miaoyin Temple, he was shocked by its exquisiteness, and the temple in the impression is very different, it is worthy of being the temple with the most prosperous pilgrims in the legend, spacious and elegant, exquisite design, carved beams and paintings, ingenious workmanship. Pavilions, pavilions, small bridges and flowing water, rockery waterfalls, strange flowers and plants, where is the temple, it is simply a beautiful house. Walking into the temple, the furnishings were even more luxurious, which made Murong Zifeng secretly smack his tongue.

Murong Zifeng was not in a hurry to enter the meditation room, only observed a little in the courtyard, and found a strange phenomenon, which was also too abnormal, I saw that after every pilgrim entered the meditation room, the monk locked the door from the outside, why did he lock the door? This is too unbelievable, the temple is really secret, Murong Zifeng wanted to grasp the accurate information, so he decided to observe the scene in the meditation room from the roof.