Shifang gently lowered the master from his back and slowly removed the earlobes from the master's eyes. The earlobes that were several inches long left the eyes of Zen Master Baiyun, and slowly retracted and returned to their original state.

The eyes that were covered by the previous earlobes reappeared in front of everyone's eyes. Zen Master Baiyun's two eyes were pale white, and the two eyeballs were covered by a thick white membrane, obviously unable to see anymore.

The little monk of the Ten Directions shouted with a crying voice, "Master!"

Zen Master Baiyun gradually came back to his senses, "Shifang, is it you?"

The little monk of the ten directions withdrew the robe on the old monk's body, hugged the master, and cried incorrectly. Zen Master Baiyun raised his trembling hand, touched his very square bald head and said, "Silly child, don't cry, Master is fine." ”

Shifang said with a crying voice, "Master, your eyes?"

Zen Master Baiyun smiled and said, "It's okay, there should be such a calamity on the way to the master's cultivation, child, don't be sad." ”

Yan Chixia shouted from the side, "Okay, little monk, your master has been rescued now, and our transaction is completed, I am going to start settling accounts with Brother Zuo." ”

Zen Master Baiyun listened attentively, "Shifang, who is this person? Why do I hear such a familiar voice?"

Yan Chixia smiled, "Old Zen Master, it's me." The young man who was taught by you at the bazaar. ”

Zen Master Baiyun then remembered, "It turned out to be a Taoist friend, and I would like to thank the Taoist friend for coming to rescue the old man." ”

Yan Chixia said nonchalantly, "The old Zen master doesn't have to be polite, it's my principle to take money to do things." ”

Zen Master Baiyun's face changed, and he said, "Shifang, how is the Golden Buddha?"

Shifang suddenly stopped crying when he heard this, "Master, Golden Buddha ~ Golden Buddha ~"

Zen Master Baiyun hurriedly said, "What happened to the Golden Buddha, you are talking!"

Shifang took out the golden Buddha like a big cake from his skin bag and handed it to Zen Master Baiyun, "Master, the Golden Buddha has suffered a catastrophe and has sat down~"

Zen Master Baiyun touched a ball of gold cake in his hand, and was speechless for a while, Yan Chixia pulled Zuo Tianzong to the side and muttered, probably going to talk about the 1,000 taels of deposit.

Zen Master Baiyun was silent for a long time before he spoke again, "Shifang, tell me in detail, why did this Golden Buddha end up like this?"

Seeing Master's question, Shifang didn't dare to slack off, and immediately explained the ins and outs of the matter carefully to Master. Baiyun Zen Master heard that the disciple was deceived in order to find the goldsmith to return to the market, the short boss saw the wealth and swallowed the golden Buddha, and then saw that he could not do anything, and the evil heart rose again, and destroyed the golden Buddha in the furnace, and finally everyone died, leaving only this Buddha statue turned into a golden cake, and there was no previous mana.

Zen Master Baiyun recited a Buddha name, "Amitabha, time passes like a white horse, and the world is like a white cloud and a dog, even if there are thousands of joys, but they can't get rid of the sea of suffering." The Golden Buddha was robbed, presumably fate is like this, Shifang, you don't have to care. ”

Shifang asked, "Master, should we go to the Great Buddha Temple?"

Baiyun Temple laughed slightly, touched Shifang's head and said, "When we left the temple, Senior Brother Bai Yin, the abbot, told me. This road to the north has the opportunity for me to practice. Today, I can't see with my eyes, and the Golden Buddha is in trouble again, so I should go back to the temple to ask for sin, hoping to face the wall to forgive my sins. ”

Shifang felt that he was deeply sorry for his master, and he lowered his head and didn't dare to look at Bai Yun, so he had to say, "Master, I will accompany you to face the wall." ”

Zen Master Baiyun smiled, "Silly boy, this is none of your business, what are you doing with Master facing the wall?" Shifang wanted to say something, but Zen Master Baiyun waved his hand, "Before becoming a teacher, I was too persistent with demons and heavenly beings, and felt that this world was either good or evil. Then Zen Master Baiyun bowed his head and said, "All appearances are false. If you see things that are not like each other, you will see them as they are. ”

Zen Master Baiyun recited the Vajra scriptures, gradually ceased to be silent, and the hall gradually became quiet, and suddenly a boy's voice came from his ears, "Grandpa, you can't use this golden Buddha, give it to me." It was the voice of the left sky.

Zen Master Baiyun was disturbed by this voice, and couldn't help repeating, "Little donor, what did you say?"

Zuo Tianheng's voice sounded again, "Grandpa, give me this golden Buddha." Brother Shifang said, you can call the shots. ”

Yan Chixia and Zuo Tianzong over there had already finished discussing, and when they heard Zuo Tianheng's words, they immediately looked over here.

The little monk of the Ten Directions immediately repeated Zuo Tianheng's words last night to the master.

Zen Master Baiyun stopped chanting, listened to Shifang finish talking about things, and asked, "Little donor, why? This golden Buddha is a treasure in our temple, although it is damaged today, Lao Gao still needs to return it to the temple." Little donor, why do you want this golden Buddha?"

"Because it is in the hands of the old man, the Golden Buddha is still the Golden Buddha, and it cannot be eaten or used. Although the Golden Buddha has become what it is now, in my hands, if it is divided into many small pieces, I believe it can help many people. ”

"Do you help people, do you help people?" Bai Yun heard this, and suddenly his heart moved, and he remembered that in the Minglun Temple, when the old monk of Jingkong was preaching, this little benefactor also wanted the Bodhi tree in the Bodhi Garden in the Minglun Temple.

"Dare to ask the little donor, what does it mean to help people?" asked Zen Master Baiyun.

Zuo Tianheng smiled and said, "Grandpa's words are so strange, others are unhappy, I will help them, everyone is happy, what else do you not understand?"

Zen Master Baiyun's heart suddenly moved, "Are you happy, do you want everyone to be happy?" Suddenly Fu Zhi's heart had to say a word, "Little donor, my golden Buddha can't be given to you for nothing, what do you exchange it for?"

"What?, old monk, do you really want to give the Golden Buddha to this child?!" Yan Chixia immediately screamed in surprise when she heard Zen Master Baiyun say this. Zuo Tianzong smiled on the side and did not speak.

"Master, you are really~" Shifang was also frightened.

Zuo Tianheng's eyes grunted, bang, bang, and ran to the front yard with small steps, and after a while, he ran back, his little hands were wet, and he was holding a lotus pod tightly, which was the lotus pod that grew in the pool outside.

When Zen Master Baiyun heard Zuo Tianheng coming back, he asked, "Shifang, but Zuo Xiao's benefactor is back?"

Shi Fang immediately replied, "Master, it is Zuo Xiao's benefactor. ”

Zen Master Baiyun smiled, "Zuo Xiao Shi came back so soon, did he bring anything with him?"

Shi Fang replied puzzledly, "The little donor Zuo is holding a lotus pod, as if it has just been plucked." As soon as the words fell, Zuo Tianheng came to stand in front of Baiyun Zen Master.

Zen Master Baiyun listened to the words of his disciple Shifang and said with a smile, "Little Master Zuo, but you want to exchange the lotus canopy in your hand for the golden Buddha of the old man?"

Zuo Tianheng shook his head and said, "No. ”

Zen Master Baiyun's smile suddenly froze and he said in surprise, "Isn't it?

Zuo Tianzong used his small hand and small mouth to break open the lotus pod in his hand, took out all the lotus seeds in it, and counted them one by one, "one, two, three~" until twelve, and there were only twelve lotus seeds in this lotus pod. Zuo Tianheng thought about it, took one of the largest and whitest of the twelve lotus seeds, pulled over the left hand of Zen Master Baiyun, and put the lotus seeds in his hand, "Grandpa, this lotus seed is the biggest and sweetest, I will use it to exchange it for a golden Buddha with you!"

Yan Chixia and Shifang were stunned when they heard this, a lotus seed for a golden Buddha of thirty catties, if they didn't see it with their own eyes, it was really a fantasy.

Zen Master Baiyun held the lotus seed in his hand and smiled, "Little donor, why do you want to exchange this lotus seed for Lao Gao's Golden Buddha?"

Zuo Tianheng said happily, "The Golden Buddha is gone, this lotus seed is planted in the soil, it can grow into a lotus flower in the future, and it can produce a lot of lotus seeds, isn't it better? ”

Although Zen Master Baiyun is blind, he can feel that the lotus seed in his left hand seems to exude colorful brilliance, and life is pregnant in it, is this the mystery of life? Zen Master Baiyun nodded, "Little donor, please take the golden Buddha, the old man thanked the donor for the gift." ”

When Zuo Tianheng heard this, he was immediately happy, and immediately beckoned his brother Zuo Tianzong to come and take the Golden Buddha away. Yan Chixia was so shocked that her mouth couldn't close, the old monk really gave the Golden Buddha to him, and he couldn't believe his eyes.

Shifang also wondered about Master's reaction, but since Master had agreed, he happily handed over the Golden Buddha that had turned into a golden cake to Zuo Tianzong. Yan Chixia saw Zuo Tianzong take the Golden Buddha, and hurriedly begged to come over to see it, looked at it for a while, and finally returned it to Zuo Tianzong, although she collected money, but she couldn't rob it openly, otherwise what was the difference between it and the robbers, every penny she earned was what she deserved.

For a moment, there was no word in the hall, only the sound of Baiyun Master and apprentice chanting scriptures came slightly.

It was getting dark soon, and Zuo Tian stood up, "Tonight, everything will be over!"

Yan Chixia said with a smile, "Brother Zuo is in high spirits tonight? Okay! I'll accompany you to get rid of demons!"

The night was getting deeper, and suddenly, a figure ran from the front gate of the front yard, it was the female ghost Xiao Zhuo, who shouted as she ran, "Shifang, it's me, Shifang!"

"Huh?!Xiao Zhuo is here?!" Shifang suddenly got up and was about to rush out of the hall, but was pulled by Baiyun Zen Master's shoulder, "Demon, see me come to subdue her!"

"Master, this female ghost is good, she has helped her disciples many times. The little monk of the Ten Directions hurriedly explained.

"Oh, that's it, forget it. "Zen Master Baiyun has a lot of trust in his disciples, and after getting the lotus seed in the afternoon, he only feels that the light and shadow inside are bright, and the inexplicable feeling on his body is getting clearer and clearer, and he can observe external objects without the help of his eyes, and he seems to be able to feel that everything in the world is composed of different colors of light. Although this feeling is very faint now, Zen Master Baiyun believes that one day, he will be able to realize the divine power of Buddhism.

Zen Master Baiyun had just put his mind at ease, and suddenly frowned, "Oh no, there's another one! Shifang, be careful!"

Before Zen Master Baiyun finished speaking, he saw a figure also running in the corridor in front of him, still the appearance of the female ghost Xiao Zhuo, and shouted, "Shifang, it's me, Shifang!", and immediately confused several people in the hall.