Monk Shenxiu never seemed to be in a hurry to enter the palace to preach, and Liu Yi and the three of them stopped and stopped.

If you are hungry, one monk and one small monk will go to fasting with a bowl, and if you are thirsty, there is no shortage of mountain springs in the mountains.

The three of them saw a pickpocket like a bamboo pole stealing the money bag of the son of a large family in a deserted town, and the son of the son who was dressed in nondescript clothes immediately commanded the slave to chase after him.

The pickpocket, tired of being a dog, escaped the clutches and tossed the coin high, his face full of pride.

The pickpocket led a gray-haired old dog to buy seven or eight hot meat buns, and before leaving, he did not forget to throw a bun to the old dog who followed him all the way.

When the old dog looked up again after eating the buns, the stalk-like man was gone.

Shenxiu recklessly approached the young man who was walking backwards after being proud.

The young man hit the old monk with his back and frightened him, thinking that he could hide from the first day of junior high school, but he couldn't hide from the fifteenth, but he didn't escape, and the meat bun was thick and small, and he almost choked him to death.

The young man pressed his neck and swallowed the bun skin stuck in his neck, patted his chest and sighed that there was no danger.

The young man looked at the old monk with a precept on his head, and saw a young man in a green shirt with a sword, and a little monk who was so white and pure that even men wanted to sleep.

Shenxiu sang the Buddha name, "Amitabha." ”

The young man thought that Liu Yi and the others were going to snatch his buns, so he hurriedly hid the meat buns behind him.

Liu Yi hugged his fists and smiled: "Brother misunderstood." ”

The young man couldn't hide his smile, feeling that he was really thinking differently from ordinary people, and he was often startled.

Shenxiu said with a kind face: "The donor has Buddha nature. ”

The young man, who had never been in contact with a monk for most of his life, smiled coldly, and his face was angry.

He thought that the old monk was going to trick him into becoming a monk, and he wanted to scold, but he was in a good mood today, and he was punishing evil and promoting good, so he didn't want to scold people, so he folded his hands and echoed Amitabha, turned around and left happily.

The young man whistled after walking away, thinking about today's harvest and then looking back at the three of them, the old monk is not too ugly, the little monk is cold and kind-hearted, as for the young man in green shirt, if it weren't for the world's difference in identity between them, he would really want to make friends.

The young man beckoned back and said, "Lao Tzu's name is Cheng Da, and the words are thousands of miles." ”

Liu Yi hugged his fists and smiled: "Lao Tzu's name is Liu Yi, no word." ”

The young man laughed, laughed at the fact that there was a confidant in the world, and asked why he answered, and then the young man said: "If you make a name, you make a friend, and if you can't get along in the future, you can come to White Horse Town to find me, and Lao Tzu will look for you if you can't get along in the future." ”

Liu Yi was dumbfounded, thinking that young people are too casual to make friends, right?

The young man didn't hear Liu Yi's voice, and asked loudly, "Do you say yes or not?"

Liu Yilang said: "I agreed." ”

The young man strode away and never looked back.

After Shenxiu verified the Buddha's nature in the town, the three of them left the town, the old rules, Monk Shenxiu walked in front, and Liu Yi and Monk Wolong walked side by side.

When Liu Yi left Xuankong Mountain, Yang Zhi's words were only taken as a joke, and he didn't care.

A few days after Liu Yi went down the mountain, he saw the servant with the iron head who could pound the meat sauce, although he only saw it in a hurry, the bald man he had seen a lot in Xuankong Mountain, but the bald head of Yang Zhihu made him very impressed.

The bald head did not come to temptation, but to declare war.

Liu Yi scolded his mother after seeing his bald head, "Yang Zhi, you are a dog, you can't afford to joke, then it's just a joke, what kind of thing is bullying people?"

After scolding, Liu Yi was a little unconfident, and asked Shenxiu: "Is he really a bullshit prince?"

Shenxiu shook his head and said, "No." ”

Liu Yi thought that he had made the right bet, hugged the sword and laughed: "I'll just say it!"

The old monk shook his gray monk's robe, folded his hands and said, "Lord Yang is the prince." ”

Liu Yi drew a big circle with the wooden sword, and said nonchalantly: "There is only one prince, and there are more princes, I'm afraid it's not as valuable as the eldest young master of the world." ”

After Liu Yi finished speaking, he put away his sword and hung it on the top of the dragon's head that was walking side by side with him, after all, shaking the clever knowledge of this kind of thing, the previous Wang Xie did not do less.

The little monk who was hurt by Liu Yi raised his head to prevent tears from flowing out, and his eyes were full of tears.

Shenxiu, who was walking in front, seemed to have eyes on the back of his head, and sighed softly, no one could hear his sigh, but it could be perceived, and the tearful Wolong looked at the back of his uncle, not knowing everything, but as if he knew something.

Shenxiu, who was walking in front, was a little worried that Liu Yi would be endless, and said with a wry smile: "Liu Daochang doesn't have to be as knowledgeable as him, you like to listen, the old monk just told you to listen." ”

Liu Yi waved his hand at Lao Dao, "I just want to hear Wolong Zen Master say and listen to me, you can fucking manage it?"

Liu Yi didn't let Shenxiu say it didn't mean that Shenxiu really didn't say it, "Lord Yang is the only prince, and the crown prince is dead." ”

Liu Yi smiled: "That's worth it, is it too late for me to go back and admit my mistake now?"

Monk Shenxiu looked up at Qingtian and chuckled: "Wufu doesn't look down on the temple, and the temple despises the martial artist. On the day he went down the mountain, Lord Yang had the courage to despise the martial arts, and Liu Daochang seemed to have the spirit of the martial arts today. ”

Liu Yi hugged his fists and said: "Just like you have the compassion of Buddhism." ”

The monk nodded lightly and said with a smile: "The old monk with compassion is there, the old monk on Xuankong Mountain is quiet and old and repairs stone ladders day after day, it is very boring, the junior brother preaches the scriptures every day, he can say a scripture thousands of times and does not feel annoyed, even more boring, the old monk's understanding is not as high as the junior brother, and the martial arts are not as good as the quiet, but the old monk is not obsessed with Qingjing, and compared with the junior brother, there is faith." In the past, they were often complacent, but now they find that the old monks are not as comfortable as them. ”

The three of them walked until evening, when two monks, one old and one young, were lazy, sat on the ground and began to chant sutras.

Liu Yi hurriedly picked up firewood to make a fire, the sky was slowly dark, Liu Yi felt the darkness and cut the artemisia grass and piled it on the fire, and a billowing smoke that could disperse mosquitoes came out of the fire.

Liu Yi cut a pile of thatch and laid it flat on the stones, and he lay on the stones after a tired day.

When the moon is in the sky, the stars in the sky are flickering, like sesame seeds on the cake, but unfortunately the sky is not a cake, and the stars are naturally not sesame seeds.

Liu Yi reached out and took out a dry and hard dough cake from his arms and bit it, the dough was too dry, Liu Yi got up and stole Wolong's water hyacinth.

He has stolen the water bottle of the Shenxiu monk many times, Liu Yi, who stole the water hyacinth of Wolong for the first time, immediately fell into the road, and the water contained in the newly made water hyacinth was also bitter, and after drinking it, Liu Yi shivered a few times, and his mouth almost couldn't be closed.

Liu Yi finally resisted the urge to throw the gourd, the little monk knew that he had money, what if he asked him to borrow money to buy water hyacinth at the first sentence?

Liu Yi, who was lying on the stone, had a dream half-asleep and half-awake.

A magnificent and huge palace, in the center of the main hall there is a statue of ten thousand feet tall, the statue holds a sword in one hand, and a woman dressed in clouds in the other.

The hall was full of people, all swordsmen, because they all carried swords, and each of them carried swords in different ways, carrying them on their backs, holding them, and hanging them on their waists, and all of them had complex expressions, awe, worship, and pride.

Several old men standing in front of everyone were gray-haired and had long eyebrows, and there was awe on their faces, as well as eagerness to try.

Liu Yi squinted and looked at the face of the statue carefully, a bit like him, as for the woman's face and body, he couldn't see it clearly, after he approached, his whole body was covered by clothes, a petite woman on such a big statue, Liu Yi thought to himself that no one could see the woman's face clearly.

Liu Yi heard the sound of the door opening, and the two heavy doors of the main hall slowly opened, and a man and a woman walked in.

The man is clothed in fire and crowned with a ding, and his whole body is hot and golden.

Liu Yi didn't see his appearance, he first heard his hearty laughter, and when he saw him, he knew that he was a man with a wide face and a tall figure.

The woman is dressed in water, and she is full of clear light, and the woman is still far away, and Liu Yi feels like a spring breeze.

For a man and a woman crossing the main hall, the swordsmen in the room subconsciously gave way, including the old men.

The man smiled and said, "How about looking at the statue I made for you?"

Liu Yi had already written down the face of the statue just now, and now he found that most of them looked like himself, and a few of them looked a little like men, Liu Yi complained: "It's not like me, it's not like you, it's not like you." ”

The man put one hand on Liu Yi's shoulder and muttered in a low voice: "You help me be such a matchmaker, and I can only help you make such a statue." ”

The woman slapped one hand on the man's shoulder, and the man who was in pain hurriedly loosened the arm on his shoulder and held the woman with both hands in front of the public.

The huge statue exploded in Liu Yi's heart, Liu Yi woke up, only to see the dawn of the sky, only to feel the thatch under him,

Liu Yi got up and practiced his sword.

After waking up from the dream, Liu Yi was full of spirits, practiced swordsmanship hard, and as soon as he practiced, it was time for several people to eat dry food and continue on the road.

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It was June when the two of them arrived in Ruyang City.

It rains a lot in June, and when it doesn't rain, it's very hot, and pedestrians are almost smoking, as if they are facing the sun above their heads.

When the weather is hot and thirsty, most of them need to endure, can not drink water if they want to drink water, after drinking a lot of water, people are weak and weak, and they can't walk, the three of them saw seventy or eighty people carrying axes on their backs by the side of the post road, and at the same time they were carrying a large thick rope.

They were the workers of the official family who were responsible for maintaining the post roads.

Daqin is also a post road maintenance workers are divided into three kinds, there are road repairers, bridge builders, maintenance, workers are different, and they are all hard work, but they have a high status, and they all eat imperial grain.

There were seven or eight of the three types of workers, and a few of the workers with axes on their backs were responsible for cutting down trees, and the big trees blocking the post road were cut down and pulled all the way out.

There are usually no major problems with dual-use post roads, even if a few trees on the side of the road grow up and obstruct the road, those men in the people will cut them down easily, and the caretakers of those post roads are very leisurely.

Ruyang City is surrounded by well-developed post roads, and the roads are long and short.

The post road taken by Liu Yi and the three of them is purely military, Ruyang City and the garrison camp and Chonghe Pass thirty miles away in the north form a horn trend, this post road is the link between the three places, the garrison in the north of the city can quickly achieve the purpose of rapid assistance, but there are very few civilian caravans to Hejian County, not to mention that this is not the closest road to Hejian County.

It was going to rain when the three of them passed through the camp, and there were damn cicadas chirping all the way, and the cicadas were even louder when they entered the dense forest.

Shenxiu pulled his head and said, "There is a killing machine in the forest ahead, I don't know if it is aimed at Lord Liu or the old monk." ”

Liu Yi stopped and smiled: "It must be aimed at me." ”

Liu Yi walked in front of Shenxiu first, taking the lead, Liu Yi, who was a bandit in the deep mountains, didn't rush to the front when he robbed someone, His Royal Highness the Prince, Lao Tzu will fight with you to the end.

Liu Yi thought about how to save his life while walking, and discussed with the monk Shenxiu "tactfully": "You can't do this outfit, neither can the little monk of Wolong, you two walk together, it's like a big liar with a little liar all the way to the trap and abduction, I, Liu Yi, is different, to say that Yushu Linfeng couldn't be more appropriate, it looks kind and kind, you know that I am very familiar with the little Taoist boy on the ascension platform, right?"

Shenxiu nodded.

Liu Yi smiled and said: "You give me my life, and in the future, in the dispute between your Buddhism and Taoism, I will let the little Taoist boy release water for you?"

Shenxiu smiled after hearing this, and asked tentatively, "Really?"

Liu Yi didn't talk nonsense, and said with a smile: "You don't know what kind of friendship I have with him?"

Shenxiu touched Wolong's little bald head and said with a smile: "Okay." ”

Liu Yi smiled: "You escorted me all the days under the mountain." ”

Shenxiu said heartily: "Okay." ”

They are all smart people, and they are all cheerful people, and they don't drag their feet in doing things.

Liu Yi negotiated his life in a few words, and still took the lead in stepping into the dense forest.

The three of them walked out of the dense forest calmly, it stands to reason that the three of them should go to Ruyang City, but the monk Shenxiu did not go to Ruyang City immediately, but walked around within two hundred miles of Ruyang City every day, sometimes cutting a tree, sometimes pulling out a grass, sometimes digging a handful of soil, and still liked to say "Buddha nature".

One day it was raining, and the three of them took shelter under the thatched eaves, and the old woman in the house brought them three bowls of hot water.

Shenxiu clasped his hands together and said, "There is Buddha nature." ”

One day, the three of them bought baked cakes in the market, and took the candy man to the poor friend and ate half of it, so he ate it happily.

Shenxiu clasped his hands together and said, "There is Buddha nature." ”

One day, the three of them cut down a big tree on the top of the mountain, and when they came down the mountain, they saw the woodcutter carrying a load of firewood to the side of the earthworm that had accidentally jumped out of the earth, and then put down the firewood, and the woodcutter dug a pit with a firewood knife to bury the earthworm in the soil again.

Monk Shenxiu said to the woodcutter: "The donor has Buddha nature. ”

The woodcutter picked up the firewood, moved the pole to his habitual position, and said with a smile: "I think it is a life." ”

The monk Shenxiu folded his hands and saluted the woodcutter, who carried the firewood down the mountain and saw nothing.

One day, the three of them were taken captive by the strongman who occupied the mountain as the king, and the strongman only robbed money and did not hurt people's lives.

The strongman leader ordered two minions to send the three of them down the mountain.

Shenxiu folded his hands and said, "The donor has Buddha nature. ”

The strongman leader looked up and smiled bitterly, with a smile on his face and a bitter look on his face.

Liu Yi and the three were sent to the bottom of the mountain, and Shenxiu said to the two strongmen: "The two donors have Buddha nature. ”

The two strongmen don't necessarily have the good temper of their boss, one knocks him two chestnuts.

Monk Shenxiu still said: "The two donors have Buddha nature. ”

One of the strongmen roared and said "get out".

Monk Shenxiu smiled warmly, and there was no unpleasantness.

One day, the three of them saw Tan people on the ferry, father and son, actually supporting the penniless scholar to cross the river.

After the scholar got on the boat, he talked eloquently, "If you get high school, you will definitely go to the book and abolish this cheap system." ”

Shenxiu clasped his hands together and said, "Buddha nature also." ”

Liu Yi looked at the two monks, one big and one small, for four months, he only saw the heart of the big monk Buddha, not selfishness, he didn't see the heart of the little monk, and he didn't know what kind of heart he was.

Liu Yi saw a lot of things this time, but he didn't seem to feel much, as if he was detached.

False Taoist priests are like people outside the real way.