The first rays of morning light came from the sky, passed through the mountain mist, began to gradually descend from the top of the mountain, and sprinkled all over the mountain, so the ginger flowers all over the mountains were bathed in the morning light, and at this moment, whether it was pink or white, it was extraordinarily clear and clean.

Bathing in the morning light with the spring flowers, there is also a swallow. A black and white swallow, if you look closely, is not pure black, it is blue and black, with a slight metallic luster in the sun, it flies freely between heaven and earth, sometimes up and sometimes down, sometimes left and sometimes right.

The morning mist in the mountains becomes a mass under the high-altitude perspective, and it is precisely from this perspective that the ginger flowers half-covered by the morning mist are spectacular and hazy, and each tree becomes one, and then connects into a piece, covering the mountain.

It's a beauty that is hard for a mortal eye to see.

......The swallow passed through a cloud of mountain fog again, and the picture in front of it quickly became clear from hazy, and then it retracted its wings, and suddenly plunged into the sea of pink flowers.

Crossing the tips and branches, it is as agile as if walking through a world of flowers, and the field of vision is full of pink flowers.

The flowers in the swallow's eyes are bigger than in the eyes of people, and each one is almost as big as itself, so it has a different kind of beauty.

When passing by the flower, you can clearly see its texture and texture, and the faint floral fragrance with a hint of ginger lingers on the tip of the nose all the time.

Occasionally bumped into, and will pass through it. It's also a pleasure that no mortal can experience. Until a Taoist appeared in front of him.

The man sat in the Jiang Puhua forest with his eyes closed, with a bed of felt under him, and the quilt bag was placed next to him. A red horse gnaws on the grass under the tree, which looks like a behemoth in the eyes of the swallow.

A three-flowered cat was sitting upright next to the Taoist and licking its paws, and suddenly noticed it and raised its head to stare at it.

One night of mountain wind, I don't know how much red fell. The flowers are still falling. Whether it is a Taoist, a felt, or the top of the quilt bag, all of them have fallen with the petals of Jiang Puhua, which is the jujube red horse that has been moving, and there are also a few pieces of pink jade on the body.

The three-flowered cat is clean. Maybe it's too small for the petals to fall on. But...... Then I saw a petal fluttering down, and it happened to fall on the top of her head.

The three-flowered cat immediately paused, showed a puzzled expression, and then tilted its head back to see what was touching its head, but this action only caused the petals on the top of its head to slide down.

So when it raised its paws to touch its head, it could not touch anything, so it became even more puzzled, and began to circle and turn its head on the blanket, even ignoring the swallow.

The swallow folded its wings and shot at the Taoist like an arrow.

The "tent ......" swallow disappeared in an instant. The Taoist opened his eyes. Looking down, I saw that there were petals on my shoulders and legs, in fact, this was already a lot, and when I woke up this morning, the blanket was already full.

Twist a piece casually, put it in front of your eyes and look at it carefully, comparing the difference between it and the swallow's eyes.

"Taoist priest."

"Huh?"

"Did you touch me just now?"

"Take it as it is."

"What are you touching me for?"

"I didn't touch it."

"Who touched that?"

"......" Song You stood up from the felt and shook off the petals on his body: "It's almost time for us to go." ”

"Oh." The three-flowered cat consciously left the felt, stood on the grass full of petals, looked down, looked up again, and waited until the Taoist priest shook off the petals on the felt, folded it and put it away, and put the quilt bag on the horse's back and walked away, she took small steps to follow.

It is still a man, a horse and a cat, still a path winding through the forest and meadow, and they go all the way down the flower-filled mountains, bathed in the morning sun, without hurrying.

"Who touched that?" Sanhua cats have the spirit of perseverance. …… It's another day's trip. At dusk.

The group walked along the barren mountain ancient road and crossed the last mountain, which is already the boundary of Nanhua County. Song You hadn't seen the farmland and the city and the village yet, but he first heard the loud singing of Ruowu, there were men and women, singing and harmonizing, and when they got closer, the singing voice was also clear.

"It's March spring again~~" The Taoist stopped on the mountainside and looked into the distance. I saw that there were still mountains and rivers ahead, and they were all shrouded in twilight, but the fields could be seen in the mountains.

Occasionally, a little golden can be seen in some places, and the cauliflower here is especially late. And the song echoed in the mountains, and the women's voices were loud and the men's weights were coming from nowhere.

All this shows that he has walked out of the hundreds of miles of barren mountains and ancient roads and returned to the human world.

"It's already March." Song You sighed with some emotion and continued to move forward. The horses and cats followed him.

The wind filled the mountains, blowing Song You's clothes trembling, but it was cool, and the sky was gray and cloudy. There was even a large area of jet black, and the world ahead didn't seem to be planning to welcome them well.

After descending the mountain, it merges into the main road. I also saw pedestrians on the side of the road, either carrying burdens or carrying backpacks, or riding ox carts and donkey carts, or walking on foot, all knowing that the mountain rain was coming, so they hurriedly walked in a hurry.

"Dare to ask how to get around Nanhua County?"

"Follow this path."

"How far is it?"

"More than ten miles."

"Thank you."

"It's going to rain......" passers-by have become farther and farther away. Song You also continued to move forward. Half an hour later, the rain had fallen.

The rain in the twilight of spring, as if it had been stained with a little summer momentum, came so hard and urgently, hitting the head and covering the face, wetting the road in the blink of an eye, and blooming muddy water on the ground.

Song You put on a coat and a hat, and the three-flowered cat was put in the quilt bag by him. The smoke and rain in front of him are hazy, and the road ahead is bent.

The light of the day was getting darker and darker. It seems that he will not be able to go to the city. Song You wanted to find a pavilion to hide from the rain, but he didn't see the pavilion, but instead saw a small temple with the remaining daylight.

The monastery is on the side of the road, on a small slope. The small slope is not high, only more than ten zhang. The monastery is not large, with a few huts.

"Exactly!" Without thinking, Song You stepped up. The horses were still behind him. Song You quickly walked up the small slope, and habitually looked up, but there was no plaque hanging, and there were no couplets on both sides.

Still, he snapped the knocker.

"Tuk Tuk Tuk ......" The sound of the rain was so loud that he was afraid that no one would hear it, so he knocked two more times, and after a while, there was a sound of hurried footsteps and the sound of splashing water.

"Squeak~" The door was opened a crack. Contrary to Song You's expectations, there was a bhikshuni standing inside, that is, a nun.

The appearance of a thirty-something, slightly yellow skin, may not be as old as thirty. She didn't hold an umbrella, just a few steps, the moon-white monk's robe was already wet with raindrops, and there was a rain eaves at the door to cover the rain, so she stood under the rain eaves and looked at Song You up and down, and then asked, "Which one are you looking for?" Song You was stunned for a moment, and then showed helplessness: "I didn't know that this was a nunnery, so I took the liberty to visit and disturbed it." He bowed and apologized, and then turned and left.

Buddhist temples are in

"Convenience with people" is really good, and it is easy to stay overnight, but if it is a nunnery, it is obviously not suitable for men to stay overnight.

What's more, it's dark now, it's still crackling and raining outside, and there are no pedestrians on the road below.

Therefore, Song You didn't ask much, so he left. But at this time, I heard the nun behind me ask, "Which one are you looking for?" Song You just turned around and took a step, but when he heard the words, he had to turn back and politely replied, "I didn't look for anyone." A mountain person in Lingquan County, Xia Nai Yi Prefecture, just traveled through here, suddenly encountered heavy rain, and did not meet a pavilion that could shelter from the rain along the way, so when he saw a roadside temple, he dared to ask for accommodation, but he didn't expect that it was a nunnery, which disturbed the masters' cultivation, and asked for forgiveness. ”

"You're not here...... Looking for someone? ”

"It's not." The nun stopped at the doorway, looking him up and down. Suddenly, I saw the quilt bag on the horse's back shaking, but it was the three-flowered cat who heard someone talking outside, and was urged by curiosity to get out a cat head.

By the dimming of the sky, the nun could still see that it was a cat, and those eyes were extraordinarily attentive, staring at her without blinking as soon as she came out.

The rain was unabated, and the raindrops were hitting her head, wetting the hairs on the top of her head, and sometimes falling on her eyes, or flowing down the top of her head to her eyes, and she had to blink continuously.

But he refused to retract again.

"What's that?"

"It's the cat that walked with me."

"Where did you come from?"

"From Yizhou, through Xuzhou, and then here, I was going to go to Nanhua County to rest, but I suddenly encountered heavy rain."

"You're a Taoist?"

"I have been cultivating in Taoist temples since I was a child."

"You want to come and hide from the rain?"

"I'm here to hide from the rain." The nun apparently pondered for a moment before stepping aside.

"Come in then......"

"How can this work?"

"If only you weren't wicked."

"Naturally, he is not a wicked person." Song You smiled politely,

"It's just that the lower body is a man, after all, it's inconvenient, so I still don't bother...... But now that I've met Master, I would like to ask, how long will it take to walk from here to the city? When does the city close? ”

"It's okay, it's raining heavily outside, don't get wet." When the nun saw that he was gentle and polite, her voice was much softer.

"There are still ten miles to the city, and now I'm afraid I can't get in."

"Is there any other shelter from the rain?"

"Come in, there happens to be another room, and it's raining so hard that no one else is coming."

"......" Song You was a little strange, but he didn't think much about it, just pondered for a while, and then saluted respectfully: "Then come in and put a stick of incense, if it rains less, leave immediately." The nun snorted and said nothing.

Song You led the horse into the door. The nun closed the courtyard door, and then pointed to a shed in the corner: "The horse can be tethered there, the rain is not expected to stop tonight, you stay here for one night, and leave early tomorrow morning." Song You wanted to say no more, but he heard a man's voice faintly in the heavy rain.

It rained so hard in the courtyard. In order to avoid the rain, the nun had already run quickly across the courtyard with her trouser legs and ran towards the shed, and Song You had to follow when she saw this.

"Why doesn't your horse have a leash?"

"Horses are obedient and don't need reins."

"How's that going to be tethered?"

"No tether, it's going to stay here, it's not going to wander around."

"Really?"

"Every sentence is true, don't dare to lie."

"......" Song You unloaded the quilt bag from the horse's back, and the horse only stood obediently, motionless. The nun watched from the sidelines, frowning, still worried that the horses would run around at night.

"In the next surname Song Mingyou, the word dream, I haven't asked the teacher's father's name yet."

"Don't ask."

"Okay." The nun took him to a small room. Song You originally only said that he would burn incense in the main hall to avoid the rain, but now he no longer insisted, only respectfully thanked him, and carried the quilt bag into the house.

This burst of rain is too heavy, and the quilt bag itself has a certain waterproof ability, and it has been soaked in the rain, and the things inside are wet.

Song You took them out, prepared to deal with them a little, and went to the city tomorrow to find a place to wash and dry.

But just as I was tidying up, I could already hear the sound of the next room in the rain.

Yes - many nunnery nunnery is not even allowed to allow men to go in and burn incense, how can any nunnery take the initiative to stay with male guests?

How can a small nunnery have a shed dedicated to keeping donkeys and horses? It's a nunnery, but it's not.