The top of this mountain is bare, and there is neither a Taoist temple nor a temple.

For two days, Mu Fengzhi, who had only eaten some leaves, bark and small wild fruits, was already dizzy from hunger.

Listening to the wind whistling on the top of the mountain, looking at the blue sky overhead, I thought of my father, mother and wife, and the unborn child.

I think of my heart when I was young, my heart was higher than the sky, I think of the high spirits of my youth and the humble dust of these years.

Life is like a dream.

What a big dream!

The sorrow of the wind came from it, and he cried loudly.

There are many accidents in life.

Some people missed and didn't come anymore.

Some things have passed, and they are dreams.

Mu Fengzhi cried for a long time, finally put away his tears, looked around, and saw a big white dead tree on the edge of the cliff.

I don't know what it was, but it was already dead, and its trunk was white and shiny, white as jade.

When the sun shines, it is beautiful.

Mu Fengzhi untied the dirty belt around his waist, tied it to the branch, tied it strongly, stretched his neck into it, and said secretly in his heart: "It's here!" ”

Mu Fengzhi put his neck into the belt sleeve, kicked hard, kicked down the stone under his feet, and suddenly began to regret it.

He heard that the starving ghost saw the king of Yama, and it was not easy to be reincarnated!

That's why everybody wants to be a full ghost.

He is hungry now, and if he dies, he will be a starving ghost of the hungry.

What King Yama saw must have been angered.

The belt gradually tightened, breathing gradually became difficult, his eyes gradually blackened, and his heart gradually regretted it more and more.

"How nice would it be if I could eat four pig's trotters? How delicious is braised big elbow? ”

"I should have eaten four big elbows before hanging myself, can I still eat it?"

Just when Mu Fengzhi was about to lose consciousness, there was a 'snap', and the belt was overwhelmed and broke!

Mu Fengzhi 'bang' and slammed his ass hard.

He reacted for a long time, and when he was conscious, he realized that he was not dead!

He was angry and annoyed, and scolded the first swear word in his life: "He X's pig's trotters!" So expensive, I can't afford it! ”

"What? Do you want to hang yourself because you can't afford to eat pig's trotters? Earlier, huh? I have! An abrupt voice sounded from the back of his head.

Mu Fengzhi thought he had seen a ghost, he was still a little confused, but now he was even more confused, he looked up and looked, the blue sky was white, he looked down and saw that there was rubble all over the ground.

"Hey, hey, hey, you're pinching someone, what's up? Hanging stupid? Am I behind you? ”

Mu Fengzhi Huo Ran turned around and saw that not far behind him, I don't know when, there was one more person.

The man had no hair, nine incense scars on his scalp, a flowing white beard, a kind face, and a gray monk's robe, covered with various patches.

When Mu Feng saw the monk, he was angry, and thought to himself: "This thief is bald, it's not evil, I will kill myself to see the excitement?" I must want to wait for me to hang myself and steal my clothes and leave! ”

He is disgusted with those pretending monks and Taoists in the world, why can't you pass the exam, you are admired by thousands of people, and you have money to earn and eat, but I can't pass the exam, so I waste dim sum?

After thinking about it, it just so happened that I hadn't found this kind of trouble for this kind of fake Taoist and fake master today, and I sent it to the door myself, so let's fix it up, right?

The old monk had a kind smile on his face, but a hint of cunning flashed in his eyes, as if he had completely seen through all of Mu Fengzhi's thoughts.

"You bald monk, where did you come from?" Mu Feng's high-spirited posture!

"Amitabha, Buddhism talks about compassion, and the old man just heard that the donor will eat pig's trotters, so come and take a look!" As he spoke, the old monk took out a freshly roasted and steaming pig's trotter from his gray cloth pocket.

The pig's trotters were steaming, and when the wind blew, the aroma blew into Mu Feng's nose, and Mu Feng's eyes were straight!

"Do donors want to eat?" The old monk ostentatiously shook the pig's trotters at Mu Fengzhi.

The aroma of pig's trotters is stronger!

Mu Fengzhi couldn't wait to fly over, snatched the pig's trotters over, swallowed them all, he swallowed a mouthful of foam, and said with difficulty: "I want to eat, of course I have to eat, can the master ......?"

He suddenly stopped, he had already made up his mind to embarrass this old monk, how could he grovel because of a mere pig's trotters?

That's not possible, you have to be a principled person!

Mu Fengzhi endured the intense hunger and cleared his throat, turned his head to look away, and said casually: "Don't eat, I won't eat anything in the hands of a dead bald man!" ”

"Oh! Don't eat it, I'll eat it! The old monk opened his mouth, took a big bite of the pig's trotters, devoured them, and ate half of the pig's trotters in the blink of an eye.

As soon as the old monk ate it, the taste became even more fragrant, Mu Fengzhi's eyes widened, and his saliva flowed down like a river.

He swallowed his saliva viciously, resisted the urge to snatch the pig's trotters, and shouted angrily and jealously: "What an old bald donkey, who does not abide by the rules and precepts, has eaten the pig's trotters!" Who let you eat it? Shut up! ”

The old monk not only couldn't stop eating, but ate faster, and said while eating: "You are such a strange person, you just said that you committed suicide after eating pig's trotters, how can you have pig's trotters and say that you won't eat them?" I want to eat when I'm hungry, why should I stop? ”

When he met this kind of monk, Mu Feng was a little speechless, he reorganized his thoughts, and shouted: "Monks are not allowed to eat meat, don't you know?" ”

The old monk nodded: "You know?" ”

"And you still eat?"

"I'm eating pig's trotters, not meat?"

"Pig's trotters are also meat! Buddhists are not allowed to touch meat! ”

"Why aren't Buddhists allowed to eat meat?"

"If you want to understand the Dharma and become a Buddha on the ground, how can you see the Buddha nature if you don't keep the precepts and rules?"

The old monk had already eaten a pig's trotter, and he didn't gnaw some of the remaining tendons, but played back and forth in his hand, and continued to ask very ignorantly: "What about seeing Buddha nature?" ”

Mu Feng's homework is very sufficient, he has been very interested in metaphysics since he was a child, and he has read countless scriptures and Taoist collections, even more complete than the homework of ordinary monks and Taoists, and he has a few treasures for this matter: "Seeing the nature of the mind is for the Buddha, all people are Buddhas, entering the world, and losing their nature, and when they find their own nature, they will be restored to the Buddha body, at that time, a thought can not be found, a thought will not be extinguished, the merit will be complete, all the troubles in the world will be broken, and all the wisdom in the world will be obtained!" ”

The old monk finally got tired of playing, waved his hand, threw the pig's trotters that had not been eaten clean, and clapped his hands: "That's good! That's wonderful! But I still don't understand, what does this have to do with me eating pig's trotters? ”

Mu Fengzhi was completely defeated, he stretched his neck, and looked hard at the bottom of the cliff, but the pig's trotters that had not been eaten clean had long been gone, he turned his head and glared at this hateful old monk, resisting the urge to kill the old monk who did not gnaw the pig's trotters clean, his lips trembled for a long time, and he said urgently: "Monks are not allowed to eat pig's trotters!" The one who eats pig's trotters is not a monk, don't you understand? ”

The old monk smashed it and smashed it, which means that a pig's trotters are not full, and the corners of Mu Feng's eyes on the side of it jump sharply!

"I eat pig's trotters, I am also a monk, how can I say that I am not a monk? The old monk has been a monk since I can remember, when I was a child, I was a little monk, and then when I grew up, I was a big monk, and now I am old, an old monk, I have eaten pig's trotters all my life, I have always been a monk, why am I not a monk? ”

"You...... You stupid monk, you can't participate in Zen if you eat meat, you can't participate in Zen, you can't enter Zen, you can't see the nature of the mind if you can't enter the mind, you can't become a Buddha if you can't see the nature of the mind, if you can't become a Buddha, what monk do you do, what sutras do you recite? Why not save your hair and return it to the vulgar? ”

The old monk nodded: "What you said is very reasonable, I don't look like a monk, you are very much like a monk, you know the monk so well, why don't you become a monk?" ”

Mu Fengzhi was asked, he was speechless for a long time, and said angrily: "How many monks are there in the world? No less than hundreds of thousands, how many people have become Buddhas? How many people became ancestors? If I also become a monk, will I become a Buddha? If you can't become a Buddha, what's the use of being a monk and not being a monk? What's the difference between failing to pass the exam? It's better to die quickly! ”

The old monk nodded again with certainty, and said with a smile: "That's good!" I just didn't eat enough, your words are worth my next pig's trotter! ”

In Mu Feng's stunned expression, the old monk took out a steaming pig's trotter that seemed to have just come out of the pot from the gray pocket on his waist very calmly, and gnawed it again!

Mu Fengzhi used all the strength of the rest of his life, swallowed the flowing breath, and looked at the gray pocket on the monk's waist, it could only hold two pig's trotters at most, and it was impossible to have a third pig's trotters!

He insisted and persisted, but finally he didn't hold on, and looked at the big pig's trotters with great eagerness, and begged: "Master, can you divide my pig's trotters into a few bites?" ”

The old monk ate with a greasy mouth, raised his eyelids inadvertently, and said in surprise: "I just heard someone say that you don't eat anything in the hands of a dead bald man?" ”

"That's a kid's gaffe, please don't remember the villain's mistakes, give me a bite!" Mu Feng is repeated.

The old monk didn't care about handing the pig's trotters to Mu Fengzhi: "Eat if you want, monks, compassion, it's all for you!" ”

Mu Fengzhi took the gnawed almost, only some pig's trotters with tendons and minced meat remained, and couldn't help but burst into tears, holding the big bones, regardless of whether the old monk was dirty or not, he licked it viciously!

It's a pity that the good meat of this pig's trotters has been eaten by the monk, Mu Fengzhi can't wait to eat even the bones, but he didn't eat much, he stretched out his tongue and licked the bone seam, if it weren't for the big bones really couldn't bite, even the whole bone had to be swallowed!

I haven't eaten anything for two days, I'm really hungry!