The night wind squeezed into the Buddhist hall, and the four scholars who stumbled through the door opened their mouths, swallowed the words they wanted to shout, and looked at the swaying lights, and the monks with their backs knocked on the wooden fish, and hurriedly retreated to the door, looking at each other.

"An Old Monk ......"

"There is no response to such a big door opening, it's weird. ”

"Could it be ......"

"It's a ghost, there is a national teacher, what are you afraid of?!"

Lu Liangsheng tied the old donkey and came in, and the four of them hurriedly made a way out of the way, and the scholar who came in raised his hand to ask them not to speak, carefully looked at the monk's robe for a moment, and then shook off his wide sleeves and bowed his hand to the old monk with a smile.

"Lu Liangsheng, the Great Sui of the Eastern Soil, has seen this monk, passing through here, it is getting late, so I have to ask your temple for accommodation, and please make it convenient. ”

The old monk's robe is slightly different from the monk's clothes seen on the way, the collar is tight, not like the monk's robe favors the right shoulder, exposing the arm, more like the Central Plains Buddhism, the dress is simple and solemn.

So Lu Liangsheng opened his mouth, and what he said directly was Chinese, but when the words came out, the old monk with his back just knocked on the wooden fish, his lips moved quickly, and he chanted Buddhist scriptures.

Knock knock~~knock knock~~~

"Miao Zhan always holds the head, Leng Yan, Wang Shixi, and has ....... If a sentient being has not become a Buddha, he will not end up taking mud here

Nobita's great compassion......

Nam no Shakyamuni Buddha Nam no Buddha Nam Mu Vajra Tibetan Bodhisattva ......."

After chanting the scriptures for a while, the last syllable stopped, and the old monk, who was kneeling on the futon facing the clay statue, slowly opened his eyes, put down the gavel, folded his hands and bowed to the Buddha, and then straightened up.

"The five donors have been waiting for a long time. ”

As he spoke, he stood up on his knees and turned around, Lu Liangsheng saw that the old monk's face was beardless, although he was thin, his eyes were bright, and he immediately smiled and arched his hand again.

"Wait a long time, but I can meet my people from the Central Plains in another country, and I am happy in my heart, I don't know what to call the master?"

"The poor monk's law number, the law is revealed. ”

The old monk laughed along? Invited the scholar in front of you? And the four of them over there, walking together to the small table on the side of the Buddha hall and sitting down? Brought a kettle? Pour a few glasses of water.

"The Buddhist temple here was built by the local villagers, and it is a little small? However, since the five donors want to stay overnight, don't dislike it. ”

Chirping~~

A rat bark from under the tribute table? The four scholars with the broken bowl cautiously glanced under the table? I saw that the rat also poked out his nose and shook outside, and climbed up along the foot of the table with a smoke. Suddenly, they all hit a spirit.

"Oh? By the way, the five donors haven't eaten yet, and there are still some leftovers of cold rice on the stove of the poor monk, all of which are light food, so take it to heat it up. ”

It seems that the monk Fa Xian is just practicing alone in this temple? Do everything yourself, and you want to get up? The four scholars over there stared at the rat that was crawling up to the offering table with their tails wagging their tails, and they felt like there were dense ants crawling on their backs? Hurriedly got up first, pressed the old monk back and sat down.

"This ..... Guru? Hot rice? Or shall we do it ourselves? Master, you sit and talk to my national teacher. ”

Without waiting for the old monk to reply, the four of them pushed each other and ran to the back hall, here, Fa Xian watched them disappear behind the Buddha curtain, turned his head with a smile, and looked at Lu Liangsheng on the opposite side: "It turns out that the donor is still the national teacher, but I don't know why the Tianzhu Kingdom appeared?"

"Because of some things, I strayed into the Western world, and now I am preparing to return to China. When he first arrived, Lu Liangsheng naturally wouldn't calmly tell some things to a monk who had only met once, and after saying this, he couldn't help but be a little curious when he looked at the old monk opposite.

"Master Fa Xian, why do you live alone in the temple in this Tianzhu country?"

"Hehe....." the old monk Zhuyin laughed, "The Buddha once said that Buddhism will flourish in the Central Plains, three thousand Buddha Gate novices go east, and the white horse carries the Buddha's will, but unfortunately this place of Buddhism revitalization has now begun to change the court, and the Buddha Gate is inside, and the poor monks come to the west, not to obtain scriptures, but to promote the prosperity of the Buddha in my Middle Earth, and to overcome the misery here." ”

Lu Liangsheng nodded, "I see, I don't know which temple the master used to practice in the Central Plains? ”

There were a few squeaks, a brocade-haired white mouse climbed on the oil lamp to lick the lamp oil in the lotus plate, and the old monk picked up the kettle and added water to the scholar.

"Hehe, the same Zen is not the same temple, the poor monk was originally in the swarm temple practice, and then left the temple, all the way west to participate in Zen enlightenment, after more than ten years, only to arrive here. ”

"Master good perseverance. Lu Liangsheng couldn't help complimenting, his eyes were attracted by the sound of the mouse, and the old monk over there looked sideways, and said with a smile: "Don't care, this rat is also a living being, if it has the fate to steal lamp oil and get the Tao today, it is its creation, and it can be regarded as my Buddha who lives for ten thousand years." ”

Lu Liangsheng's eyes seemed to have some emotions in a flash, he still kept a smile on his face, and his tone was gentle: "What the master said is extremely true, but this rat only wants a meal and clothing, and he doesn't know that there is a Buddha at all, and what is in front of it is just something that can satisfy hunger, how can there be fate?"

"That's why it's crossing. The old monk smiled and stared straight at the young man opposite.

"I still feel that it may not feel comfortable when it crosses it, on the contrary, it is not bad to keep its original appearance, it is hungry to find food, thirsty to lick the dew, sleepy in the cave to perch and sleep, why let it be forced, it doesn't understand, what it doesn't want?"

It seems that the benefactor is also a man of great wisdom. ”

"Don't dare, Taoism has a saying, return to the basics, everything is the best to go with nature, just like mortals in the world, living life, old age, sickness and death, joys and sorrows, that is called the world, the cycle of life and death, when there is nothing to do, go to the temple to worship the gods and Bodhisattvas, ask for a peace of mind, suddenly there is a day, the gods who worship suddenly lived, and walked down from the altar, the person will only be like this mouse frightened, can not deal with himself. ”

Creak~~

The brocade-haired white mouse suddenly screamed in terror, licked the lamp oil, and the white hair burned black with a pinch of white hair on his head, jumped off the lamppost in horror, and ran back to the table along the foot of the table, burrowing into the gap under the altar.

An old man and a young man watched so quietly, and then, the four people who went to the back hall came back with a hot meal, and soon, after dinner, the old monk took them to the temple wing room to settle down, and after laying out the futon, Lu Liangsheng and the others were allowed to rest, and then left.

As soon as the old monk left, the toad Taoist jumped out of the bookshelf, stood on the simple tabletop, rubbed his flat chin, "Liangsheng, this old bald donkey is a little weird. ”

"There must be something weird, and I haven't figured out the depth of his cultivation until now. ”

Lu Liangsheng shook off the futon, there was a musty smell, thinking that no one had used it on weekdays, and it had been pressed to the bottom of the box for too long, so he put down the quilt, frowned slightly, and followed the master's line of sight to the closed door.

“..... Along the way unimpeded, when I got here, I met a monk from the Central Plains, it was too coincidental, just now the Buddhist hall dialogue, openly and secretly seemed to be warning...... To say that it is ugly is to warn. ”

Well?!

Hearing the apprentice's words, the toad Taoist turned around sharply with his flippers and met Lu Liangsheng's gaze, "This is the land of Buddhism, isn't this old monk a Bodhisattva or Arhat in Buddhism?"

At this moment, a golden hair suddenly poked into the edge of the scholar's sleeve and tilted his head, and the sound of a monkey gritting his teeth sounded.

"Lu Liangsheng, get out of here quickly!"