It was still early summer when Qingli came to Fahua Temple, and it was autumn in the blink of an eye. Autumn is the harvest season for both the mundane world and the cultivation world. At least that's the case at Hokkeji Temple. The 10,000-year-old pine trees of Hokkeji Temple have already borne fruit.

Speaking of the pine trees and apricot trees of Fahua Temple, for tens of thousands of years, they have listened to the morning bell and dusk drums, Buddhist scriptures and Sanskrit singing, bathed in the light of the Buddha and the faith power transformed through the formation. From a mortal tree to a fruit that can improve the qualifications of cultivators. But that doesn't change the fact that they bear fruit every year after they mature. The hundreds of acres of fruit groves in Fahua Temple are not given for nothing. If it is in the outside world, whoever has so many fruit trees will definitely ask someone to help pick them. But in Fahua Temple, everything depends on hundreds of monks to do it themselves. When Qingli first came, the apricot fruit had already been harvested. This time she picked pine cones, but she caught up.

On this day, after the morning class, everyone in the temple came to the edge of the pine forest. Pine cone picking is something everyone has to participate in. Even a little dwarf like Qingli. Although it is a job that everyone has to do, the amount of harvest you set for each person is not equal. As soon as it was mentioned that Buddhism had the criteria for dividing responsibilities and obligations, Qingli couldn't help but want to complain. Either the more capable people are, the greater the responsibility, or they are divided according to their age. When it comes to Buddhism, it is divided according to generation. The higher the seniority, the heavier the responsibility. The same is true of this daily work.

Qingli looked down at her little arms and legs, and couldn't help but mourn for herself for a few minutes. Yes, she has refined her body, and now she has also entered the third layer of asking Buddha. But she can't stand her small and short body. She has a high seniority, and the harvest goal that she has been divided into is the same as that of Qingtan and Qingzhi. Each person is responsible for 300 trees. Think of this 10,000-year-old pine tree, more than 10 meters high. To pick the pine cones from the tree, she had to jump up and down like a monkey. And this 10,000-year-old pine tree is still highly productive. A tree bears hundreds of pine cones. Qingli had already anticipated the scene of herself jumping up and down and busy picking pine cones, while her group of brothers and nephews watched the joke. Don't talk to her about the friendship between teachers and disciples. That's how this group of hangers came over. Psychologically, they are 100 percent likely to see a joke.

As Qingli expected, the elders of the word generation smiled and patted her on the shoulder, and walked into the woods happily. The senior brothers of the Qingzi generation saw that Qingli had a tendency to blow up their hair, and they all suppressed their desire to reach out and pat Qingli's head. They glanced at Qingli with a smile on their faces, and then Shi Shiran entered the woods. Qingli exhaled deeply, as if she wanted to exhale all the depression in her heart. The only thing she was glad about at the moment was that the pine forest was too big, and the area that the juniors were responsible for was far away and she couldn't see her jokes.

Qingli walked into the woods on her short legs. When she reached the area she was responsible for, she looked up and saw a huge pine tree, with plump pine cones hidden among its lush foliage. Qingli sank into the dantian, and jumped on a branch more than two meters above the ground with a slight jump. Qingli reached out to pluck a pine tower, but found that her hand was not big enough to hold the pine tower with one hand. You must know that many plants in this cultivation realm seem to have mutated. Such a pine tower is the size of her little face. Qingli swallowed her saliva and reminded herself that this was not the earth, it was the cultivation realm, so don't make a fuss. Then she could only hold the pine tower with both hands and take it off vigorously.

Because of the excessive force, Qingli almost fell off the tree. Qingli reached out in time to hold on to the branch on the side so that it didn't fall. But the pine cone in her hand was rightfully transferred to the ground. Qingli looked at her little hand, and then at the big pine cone that fell on the ground. She rolled her eyes at the sky. Although she was the only one in this forest, Qingli was extremely sure that those monks of the character generation and the Qing character generation must be secretly paying attention to her. Maybe there are also monks who have cultivated to a high level. Don't think she doesn't feel the look of the Buddha that comes from time to time. Hmph, her senses are keen.

Qingli guessed correctly, the group of monks who were black inside were indeed snickering. However, Qingli thought a little bit of Ah Q's spirit, anyway, she couldn't hear it, she couldn't see it, so she didn't care. What is more important now is how these pine cones are collected. Don't think that just picking the pine cones from the allotted pine trees will be all right. If the pine cones are not picked within two days of ripening, the fruits will automatically fall to the ground and turn into fertilizer. Even if you pick it up, the fruit inside loses its potency. This is also the reason why all the people in Fahua Temple are dispatched to pick pine cones.

Qingli tried to pick another pine cone, but the result was still the same as the first one. Qingli looked at her little arms and legs, and wiped a handful of bitter tears in her heart. At this time, Qingli heard a squeaky sound. Although the voice is not a human voice, the mocking meaning contained in the voice is quite obvious. Qingli was angry, turned her head and glared at the source of the voice, but the other party did not restrain herself, but she became a little crying and laughing. I saw a golden-eyed giant ape about as tall as her holding her stomach with one hand and pointing at her with the other, laughing exaggeratedly.

This giant ape Qingli knows, it is the son of the king of the golden-eyed giant ape in the woods next door. There are very few fierce beasts among the spirit beasts in the Fahua Mountain Range, and even if there are, they are in the deepest part of the mountain forest. This caused the golden-eyed giant ape clan to become the hegemon of this mountain forest. The spirit beasts in the Fahua Mountain Range listened to the scriptures, bathed in the light of the Buddha and grew up, and they all became essences. The juniors in Fahua Temple often go to the woods to chant and chant, just to exercise their affinity with spirit animals. This golden-eyed giant ape was met when Qingli first came to the woods to sing. Don't look at it now, it's still in its infancy, but it's already a fifth-order spirit beast (equivalent to the golden pill stage of humans). The little guy is very naughty, and only Qingli has hair in the temple, so the little guy is curious to touch Qingli's hair. After tearing Qingli's hair for the first time, the little guy knew that he had done something wrong, and took the initiative to give Qingli a spirit fruit as an apology, and when he touched Qingli's hair again in the future, he would be gentle. In this way, Qingli became familiar with it, and named it Xiaojin. Qingli looked at Xiao Jin, who was laughing non-stop, and had an idea in her heart. She beckoned to Kim, who stopped laughing and jumped to Qingli's side.

Xiao Jin touched Qingli's hair, and Qingli also touched Xiao Jin's head in turn and said, "Xiao Jin, do you golden-eyed giant apes pick pine cones?"

Jin reached into the branch, and a pine cone was sent to Qingli. Qingli held the pine cone in both hands and put it in the storage bag distributed by the temple. Then Qingli said with a sly face: "Xiaojin, do you want to take a bath?"

You can't enter the monastery without the animals in the mountains. That is, Qingli is wonderful, and once took Xiaojin to her meditation room and took a bath with it. As a result, after running in the shower, Xiao Jin was promoted. At that time, the movement was so loud that the entire Hokke Temple was alarmed. After finally learning the reason, Qingli was laughed at by the master for a long time. It was then that Qingli learned that the Innocent Spring was also useful for spirit beasts.

Xiao Jin has fallen in love with bathing since the last time he soaked in the Innocent Spring. Although the Pure Spring is not a panacea, it is not more useful the more you soak. I can't stand it and soak it often. As soon as he heard Qingli say this, he immediately nodded excitedly and screamed. Qingli saw that it was hooked, and hurriedly said, "Then you help me find your clansmen to help pick pine cones." When I'm done picking pine cones from 300 trees, I'll take you to a bath. ”

Jin nodded, stretched out his paw and shook it.

"Five days?" Kiyori immediately understood what it meant. Although she doesn't care how long she lets it soak, the so-called sky-high asking price, sitting on the ground to pay back. After staying with the group of old monks of Fahua Temple for a long time, Qingli habitually bargained, "Two days at most." ”

Kim shook his head and withdrew his fingers from the two.

"For two days, at most I did seven consecutive evening classes in the woods, and I sang with you. ”

Xiao Jin reached out and patted Qingli to indicate the deal, and then swept out of the woods in an instant. After a while, hundreds of golden-eyed giant apes came to this forest. Under Xiao Jin's command, these giant apes flexibly strung books, picked pine cones one by one and put them on a large piece of furoshiki that Qingli pounced on the ground. Qingli saw that the pine cones on the furoshiki were quickly piled up into a small mountain with the speed that could be seen by the naked eye, and hurriedly put them into a storage bag.

The area in charge of Qingli became lively, attracting those great monks to use their Buddhist knowledge to investigate here. Seeing that Qingli had found a giant ape as a helper, these great monks just smiled with relief. Only Qingtan was a little disappointed, after all, his situation was the same as Qingli's at the beginning, but unfortunately without the help of the giant ape, he could only ask the unscrupulous master for help. This caused him to be oppressed by his master for the next ten years. Qingtan looked at Xiao Jin, and then at Qingli's satin-like hair, and sighed. He doesn't have the conditions of his junior sister, so he can only admit it himself.

Originally, it was stipulated that the picking should be completed within two days, but with the plug-in of the golden-eyed giant ape, Qingli completed her task in half a day. In order to thank these giant apes, Qingli specially did an evening lesson in the woods and sang for them for half an hour. In the end, the giant apes left satisfied, leaving only Xiao Jin to follow Qingli back to her meditation room like a little tail. It's going to start bathing today.

In the evening of the next day, the pine cone picking was completed. Qingli looked at the martial arts training ground covered with pine cones as high as a hill, and couldn't help but shout in his heart. Qingtan smiled and patted her little head: "Senior sister, is this stupid?" but you will come once a year, you will get used to it in the future." ”

Qingli sighed and said, "If there are more good things, they won't be worth much." ”

Qingtan smiled: "This thing is really not worth much to us. Although there are not many things that can improve the cultivation qualifications, there are really only a few that have no side effects. It just so happens that Fahua Temple accounts for three. But there are limits to everything. Take this pine cone as an example, the ability to really improve qualifications is also limited, and the effect is better for people with poor qualifications. People with good qualifications disdain to use it. Moreover, it is required that the users are all above the Juyuan period. This has limited many people. If it weren't for the sake of not causing unnecessary trouble and disturbing the purity of this Buddhist gate, we wouldn't have hidden these things. The most important thing in Buddhism is understanding. So this thing is just a snack for us Buddhist cultivators. Or send it to the people of the branch temple to digest, or do favors with other sects. If it weren't for the fact that this pine forest is also part of the mountain protection array, we wouldn't have spent so much energy on them. ”

After listening to Qingtan's words, Qingli felt that this pine cone was getting cheaper and cheaper.