Chapter 425 The beautiful snake master and apprentice met Shijing Temple on the westward road

The beautiful snake Zhu Yeqing master and apprentice left the Dragon Palace of the Rising Water River, and traveled to the west, time flies, and it is a year to walk westward. The road along the way is strange, suddenly on the cliff of a thousand feet, suddenly walking in the middle of the flat river, suddenly the water and grass are dense like the south of the Yangtze River, and suddenly the barren and desolate like the north. The weather is also unpredictable: warm and cold, cloudy and sunny. Wind and rain are common things.

When the sun had set in the afternoon, they went to a temple with their master and apprentice, and when they wanted to walk again after fasting, they walked into the temple and saw that there were three golden characters written above the gate of the temple "Shijing Temple", they saw that the temple was full of cigarette smoke, the bell rang in the sky, and the beautiful snake walked to the gate of the Shijing temple and asked: "Master, excuse me, can you use fasting in this temple?"

The monk guarding the temple gate asked the beautiful snake Zhu Yeqing: "Look at the accent of your speech, you know that you are not our local, Xiangu, where did you come from?" ”。

The monk guarding the temple door said to the beautiful snake Zhu Yeqing: "I am the monk of Shijing Temple, we have a fast meal in the temple, you can eat freely." Liu Ruchun, the apprentice of the beautiful snake bamboo Yeqing, was happy and said: "There is really such a good thing in the world, and there is no money for eating", and the monk Zhixiu said to her: "The incense at our temple gate is vigorous, and these money are all silver taels donated by the generous people who burn incense." ”。

After the monk Zhixiu finished talking to them, he led them into the Shijing Temple, he took them to the Shijing Temple Patriarch Hall, they came to a temple palace surrounded by pine and cypress, Zhixiu monk said to them: "This is the Shijing Temple Patriarch Hall, the Patriarch Zhizen spell is inside, am I taking you in or do you go in by yourself?"

The beautiful snake Zhu Yeqing master and apprentice said to him: "Master Zhixiu, you accompany us to see Master Zu, you help people to the end, and the good deeds must be done." When the monk Zhixiu saw the beautiful snake master and apprentice say this, he said to them: "Then you go with me", the beautiful snake Zhu Yeqing master and apprentice followed the monk Zhixiu to the ancestral hall, and in an instant, they followed the monk Zhixiu to the ancestral hall.

Master Zhizen, the patriarch of Shijing Temple, said to them on the dragon chair in the patriarch's hall: "Zhixiu, who is the benefactor who brought you!", Zhixiu said to the patriarch: "Zhizen patriarch, they are two masters and apprentices, the older one is the beautiful snake bamboo Yeqing, and the younger one is her apprentice Liu Ruchun. They went to the majestic Kunlun Immortal Hongmeng Daojun in the galaxy thirty-three days away to get the "Nine Xuan Dao Sutra", and they passed through us, and they came to our temple to eat fast when they were hungry. ”。

Master Zhizen, the patriarch of Shijing Temple, said to his disciple Sun Zhixiu: "Then you can take their master and apprentice to the dining hall for dinner." Monk Zhixiu replied to his patriarch, Venerable Zhizen, "Yes, Patriarch, I follow your instructions. After speaking, he said to the beautiful snake Zhu Yeqing master and apprentice: "You come with me to the dining hall for dinner." Seeing this, Zhu Yeqing said to the apprentice Liu Ruchun: "Sister, let's go, let's go to dinner." After speaking, their master and apprentice followed the monk Zhixiu of Shijing Temple to the temple dining hall.

Liu Ruchun, the apprentice of the beautiful snake, asked the master, the beautiful snake Zhu Yeqing and said, "In this hall, why does the temple monk take some rice grains and not eat them?", and the master of the beautiful snake Zhu Yeqing replied: "It was given to the hungry ghost according to the "Mengshan Alms Ceremony" when he stayed in the evening hall. Liu Ruchun, the apprentice of the beautiful snake bamboo Yeqing, said: "Very rules!".

The beautiful snake Zhu Yeqing said to her apprentice Liu Ruchun: "You are a nun cultivator in vain, and you know the etiquette! In fact, the monk has to recite mantras and perform rituals at any time. The beautiful snake Zhu Yeqing said to the monk Zhixiu of Shijing Temple: "Master Zhixiu, you said to my apprentice Liu Ruchun to listen!", Shijing Temple monk Zhixiu said to Liu Ruchun, the disciple of the beautiful snake: "Nun girl, you listen well, for example, get up early, you have to read: "Sleep begins, you should wish all sentient beings, all wisdom, look around the four directions......"; Wash your face with water, and recite the wish that all sentient beings will be purified and unstained forever.'"

After listening to the speech of the monk Zhixiu of Shijing Temple, Liu Ruchun, the apprentice of the beautiful snake Zhu Yeqing, opened her eyes and said to the beautiful snake Zhu Yeqing: "Sister, there are really a lot of things about the mother-in-law of the Buddha who eats fasting, my stomach is hungry, let's eat fast." ”。

The monk Zhixiu of Shijing Temple said to their master and apprentice: "You sit down at the fasting table first, and then a monk will come and ask you what kind of food you are eating. ”。

Sure enough, after a while, the beautiful snake Zhu Yeqing master and apprentice had just sat down, and a nun walked up to them and said, "Two fairy aunts, what are you eating for your fast?"

The beautiful snake Zhu Yeqing replied: "Two bowls of rice, a plate of vegetarian tofu, and a clear soup." The nun who served the meal said, "I'll bring it to you right away." Suddenly, Liu Ruchun, the apprentice of the beautiful snake bamboo Yeqing, shouted: "With such a little dish, bring us another vegetarian winter melon." ”。

The nun said to their master and apprentice, "Okay, you wait, bring it at once." With that, the nun turned and walked towards the kitchen, where she went to prepare their meal.

The monk Zhixiu of Shijing Temple saw the nun who served the meal walking away, and he said to the beautiful snake Zhu Yeqing master and apprentice: "Now it is the moon hanging in the sky, the two girls are resting in our Shijing Temple tonight or in a hurry, if you want to rush overnight, I will go back to guard the gate of Shijing Temple, if you want to rest and stay in Shijing Temple, wait a while, I will wait for you to eat, I will go to Shijing Temple to arrange two rooms for you in the guest room, let you rest." ”。

The beautiful snake Zhu Yeqing said to him: "You see that the moon has hung in a semicircle, and the night is already very deep, our master and apprentice will live in the guest room of this Shijing Temple for one night, and then hurry tomorrow at dawn." ”。

At this time, the nuns of Shijing Temple brought two bowls of rice from the beautiful snake Zhu Yeqing master and apprentice, and they asked for two dishes, a vegetarian tofu and a vegetarian winter melon.

After a while, they were full, they put down their chopsticks and said to the monk Zhixiu of Shijing Temple: "Master Zhixiu, you take us to the guest room of your Shijing Temple to rest in peace, we have traveled a long way today, and we are a little sleepy." ”。

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