"Yugan Li Sanlang was sent to Shangrao to escort the military rations and baggage to save tens of thousands of people in the city.

I don't want to be attacked halfway today, there are a lot of casualties, and there are forty or fifty wounded who need to be rescued by the venue, and I want to borrow your treasure hall for use.

Or salt water and herbs are provided, which would be appreciated! You can leave some grain, beans, and noodles for the Buddhas as almsgiving.

It's just ......, and when I came in, I saw that your temple was empty, which was really unexpected! ”

The monk was not annoyed when he heard this, and bowed down with a slight smile and said, "Little donor, can you go to the abbot for a cup of tea with your joy?" ”

This is the meaning of the invitation, Li Dan raised his hand: "Okay, there is a labor host!" ”

After speaking, he told Song Xiaoniu to let the townspeople pay attention to the fact that the brigade should not be harassed when entering the village and the temple, and then took Mao Zai to follow the monk and walked forward.

The monk Tongzhi introduced while walking, and Li Dan knew that there were people practicing in this place at the end of the Tang Dynasty, but the place was too remote, so he couldn't afford to build the temple.

Fortunately, in the early days of this dynasty, a wandering master of Jiashan came, and left a few taels of silver from his fate, so that he was able to build the archway and the mountain gate.

The former presiding officer Yutong vowed to build the three major halls in his lifetime.

Unexpectedly, he took the whole temple to save money, open up wasteland and farm, plus make fortunes and raise funds everywhere, and the hundred taels of gold that he had easily saved were actually robbed by several robbers who broke into the temple and took it away on a stormy night.

As a result, Yutong fell ill and soon passed away, and his eldest disciple gathered the monks and distributed the remaining scattered silver taels, grain, and degrees to everyone, and told everyone to go and find their own way of life.

At present, there are only three and a half monks and a small novice left in the temple, one meal a day, and the days are extremely miserable.

"Just these few people, no wonder they don't have incense!" Brother Mao tied Zao Lu and Daqing well, and listened to it when he caught up.

"Little military master, it's not that there are few people and there is no incense, it's that this place is weird, not a good place to build a temple!" Tongji smiled wryly.

"You're saying this place is not suitable for a temple?" Li Dan said, standing in front of a cliff and was stunned.

It's a huge square mountain, and the red cliffs are almost straight up and down.

But at the foot of the mountain, thousands of years of rain have created a miracle, forming an arched hall and a recessed courtyard on the Chibi Dan Cliff.

The monks borrowed the terrain to build the outer wall and some of the grass-paved roofs, which stretched along the cliff face.

The tall one is the main hall, and the low one is the monk's room, the room, and the scripture room.

"So, this is your temple?" Li Dan was surprised.

"There's no way, I can't afford to build a hall, so I have to make do with it like this. From generation to generation, I don't know how many years I've made do! Tongji sighed.

"You live in a cave?" Mao Zai was incredulous: "If you become a monk here, you have to live in a cave for the rest of your life?" ”

"This is not a cave," Li Dan told him, "This is called Danxia Landform." It was formed by the accumulation of sediment deposited by large lakes and seas 10,000 years ago.

At that time, the water was much higher than it is now, and the top of the mountain may have been underwater, or it was a small island out of the water.

Later, the water gradually decreased, and the flow rate increased, and these caves and recesses were washed out on the cliff face.

And then there was no water, and all of it was exposed, and it became what we saw. ”

"Oh, the defense says yes! The water should have been drained away by Dayu, right? Brother Mao seemed to understand a little more, and looked at Li Dan with admiration.

"Amitabha." Tongzhi clasped his hands together: "It is really rare for the donor to be able to see the past and the present." The little monk was also taught! ”

"Looking through the past and the present? That's a good word! Li Dan laughed: "But the master just said that this place is not suitable for building a temple, and I can't agree with it." ”

"Oh? Don't donors feel that this place is cramped, and the restricted terrain is difficult to use? ”

"The topography is difficult to change by manpower, and it is only necessary to adapt measures to local conditions. An example of this is the building of a cave by you. Li Dan walked into a large hall, looked up at the Buddha statue and continued:

"In ancient times, temples were built to see feng shui, especially the well-known temples, now Jinling's Qingliang Temple, Jing'an Temple, Chang'an's Daxingshan Temple, Daci'en Temple, Jianfu Temple, Qinglong Temple, Wutai Mountain in the late Tang Dynasty, Luoyang's White Horse Temple, Guanghua Temple, etc., all of them are the same."

"Childe is very familiar with my teachings, huh?" Tongzhi looked up in surprise, and then Li Dan realized that he was only about forty years old, but his perennial penance life had made his beard and hair gray.

"The purpose of building a temple is nothing more than two: promotion and meditation. Or one or both.

For the sake of promotion, the temple should indeed be built in an open, convenient, and densely populated area.

But if it's just meditation, then it doesn't have to be like that, just choose a place where you can live, and karma will naturally create a pure place.

Master Tongzhi took me to see that there are landscapes and pastorals here, which is suitable for Qing cultivation! Li Dan came out and walked to the gap in the courtyard wall, pointed to the scenery outside and said loudly.

"It's ......."

"I know what Master means by 'may'. You still can't let go of the idea of promoting the Dharma, can you? Master forgot that the Buddha taught us to 'give up' and follow the fate of everything.

Since this place is not suitable for promotion, why force it? It's better to take one of the two, it's more natural. Furthermore, you want both at the same time, and the cost is great.

Instead of being like this, it is better to give up one thing first and achieve one. Isn't it also a contribution and merit to the Buddhahood to provide a good place for monks and believers to cultivate? ”

"Yes, yes." Tongji opened his mouth wide for a moment before closing, and then said these two words.

Li Dan smiled, walked back and said, "You Tang Mina, you always want to make it magnificent, it seems that if you don't do this, it will be difficult to show the freedom of the heavens outside the world, the reverence of Buddhism, and the majesty of Vajra."

Don't you know that when Shakzu practiced, the only futon was just that, how could he cover his body with tiles? It's because you've been in the world for a long time, and you think that you must live in a retreat and a robe for your cultivation, but in fact, it's just a miracle! ”

The monk was dumbfounded when he said this, and only after a while did he ask: "How does the prince know that our temple is a Tang secret inheritance?" ”

Li Dan glanced at him with a smile: "How can I not see that big black sky standing there with his hands open and staring?" Seeing that Tongzhi blushed, he laughed and said:

"The good place that Master Ru has found, others can't destroy the Buddha here. If Master wants to build the temple to be splendid, it will go against his original intention! ”

Na Tongzhi was full of shame when he heard this, and bowed: "My lord's words wake up the person in the dream."

Don't hide it from Your Excellency, the presiding officers of our temple have not understood the truth that the ancestor stopped here, and I don't want to be seen through by adults, which is really a little monk who is embarrassed! Even so, the main hall is really not repaired! ”

"Eh——, I let you not cultivate it to be splendid, but I didn't tell you not to cultivate it!" Li Dan waved his hand and said:

"But master, we can discuss other things slowly. The bandits are coming, and I want to ask Master to persuade the villagers to take refuge in the temple, where I am surrounded by a train formation and guarded by hundreds of sharp guards.

This matter cannot be delayed, and the master is invited to come forward to help! Dozens of other wounded people need to be housed, and the master is also asked to lay out the house. ”

"The monks are compassionate, these are easy to say. Although the injured man sent him, I have a junior brother here who is very good at healing.

As for the villagers, they are already tenants of our temple, so I will send someone to collect them. ”

"So, thank you, Master!"

Tongzhilian said, "Don't dare to be", turned around and called out two monks with vegetables to come and give them orders.

Li Dan noticed it, and while walking out, he instructed Mao Zai to take thirty catties of rice noodles and five catties of beans to the temple to help.

When he stepped out of the temple wall, he saw Song Xiaoniu striding over, hurriedly walked to the side to beckon him over, and asked, "Is everything arranged, but is there anything else?" ”

"San Lang, the pacification has been arranged. My uncle told me to tell you that the sentry sent out did not find the bandits. ”

"Didn't find it?" Li Dan was puzzled, scratched his head and said: "It's impossible, Sheng always said that he confessed from a captive, and he couldn't have heard it wrong." Did they get scared when they heard that the strikers were all gone, and turned around and fled? ”

"Hey, that's a good dare, you don't have to fight this battle!"

Song Xiaoniu stretched out his hand and patted it on the edge of Mao Zai's hat, and then whispered: "My uncle said, don't slack off before you determine the enemy's traces, who knows what bad they are hiding!" ”

"That makes sense." Li Dan thought about it and asked: "Before Master Sheng left, he said that he still kept the captured thief leader, what about the people?" ”

"Below, my uncle's people watched and didn't care about him."

"Bring it over and I'll try it again." Li Dan looked back at the Heavenly King Palace: "It's here, hurry up!" ”

The calf ran away to fetch the captives. Li Dan looked at the rumbling carriage and the driver in front of him, and waved Zhao Jingzi to come:

"You go up to the West Mountain, find a high place to draw a picture of the surrounding area, I will use it when I have a meeting!" Then he looked at the wall that the men had pushed and widened, and called a herald:

"Please make a wooden fence in the left camp, it can't be open like this, and do some rejection of horses, and send some to the archway mouth and mountain gate below, be fast!"

There is a place called Kwun Tong in the southwest of Lingyan Temple, which is a small village of about 20 households.

The whole family of the only rich family in the village is now lying in the mud by the pond, and the living villagers are either cooking, delivering food, or doing some pulp washing.

A few strong laborers carried things out of the rich family's house, and the mule cart at the door was already full of cages and brocade quilts, and some people turned around and put them in the car cart pulled by the little donkey.

The soldiers, with spears and guns and a red cloth wrapped around their heads, crossed their waists in the back of the car, stared with good eyes.

About ten paces away from him, by the red clay wall, the two men were talking in a whisper.

The guy with thick eyebrows, a mustache, a leather belt with a double plug (a collective term for bow bags and quivers), and a fishskin sheath and a swallow knife in his waist said to the dark, short-bearded man opposite:

"General, that group of people hiding in the temple is obviously cowardly inside, he knows what is going on with us behind?

In my opinion, it is time to catch up with them while they are weak-minded, surround them with all their brains, kill a piece of armor first, and then take food away after taking revenge. You can't wait for them to recover from their breath, and it will be much more difficult to fight again! ”

"The fight must be fought, and the revenge must be avenged." The thin lips of the black-faced man on the other side moved slightly:

"I just felt something was wrong. If it was said that the officials and soldiers abandoned them and ran away, it stands to reason that a group of people should have broken up a long time ago, and there was no reason to retreat into the temple.

But if that's not the case, what would it be? Hey, who is leading the team in this case? Very interesting! ”

"I'll wait for the general, can you not mention that it's useless! You mean, what other plans do they have? ”

"It's hard to say!" Thin lips spat on the ground:

Feng Laosan ran back and said that the other party was caught off guard at first, but immediately someone took out a bamboo gun to resist, and there were officers and soldiers covered with people's coats to help stabilize the situation, and then a young general in Tsing Yi riding a red horse led people to charge from the side and forced them to retreat.

The people who came out to answer in the woods in the west were also Tsing Yi, and it seemed that they were in the same group as this young general. Then someone shouted that the official army was coming and was surrounded, which led to the rout of the front and Li You's fight was killed.

It doesn't sound like Li You ambushed the grain transport team, but like someone set up a trap to put this kid in. When he finished speaking, he slammed his fist against the wall, knocking the fine earth brush down.

"Ask Feng Laosan to come to see me. Mom, this kid abandoned his brother on the battlefield as a deserter, and now he has to make it back! I don't collect waste under Sanjiang! ”

It turned out that this person was the You Sanjiang who had been mentioned by the Han garrison before, and defeated Lin Baihu on the river and plundered the military rations!

He walked away, and was stopped by him: "Go and ask the people in this village, is there any other way to Lingyan Temple?" I don't believe it, can't this king really find a crack? ”

After speaking, he walked slowly into the courtyard of the rich family's house with his hands behind his back, looked up at the main house with black tiles and eaves, walked in and pulled a chair to sit in the sun, and called the soldiers:

"What about his maids and slaves? Find one to serve General Ben.

Lao Tzu killed the rich and helped the poor for them, and did the right thing for heaven, and enjoyed what the old men enjoyed, this is always okay, right?

This is so boring that you don't even have a person to serve tea and water! ”

The soldiers hurriedly went to the firewood room of the prisoner and offered two or three to boil water and serve tea, and picked a good one to beat his shoulder.