A small outlying town.

On the street, a baked cake shop.

From the very old but spotless tables and chairs, it can be seen that the store has been in business for many years.

It stands to reason that business is not bad.

However, at this time, the owner of the shop, an elderly master, sat by the oven, staring at the only three guest tables in the small shop with an embarrassed face.

Two empty ones.

There was only one table for two people.

A monk with a stiff face, a blind woman.

The monk seemed to be sitting motionless.

The woman quietly munched on the biscuits, sipping on the water.

Some guests who came to buy baked cakes, saw the monks sitting at the table, and they all changed color and avoided them from afar.

Although Buddhism and Taoism are both cultivators, the disciples of Taoism build the heavenly court, seal the immortals, control the three worlds, and protect the people. Born of mortals, but not from mortals.

The vast majority of people in Buddhism choose to retreat from the world and practice, and rarely appear in front of the world. Even if there are occasional Buddhist disciples among the laymen, their indifferent faces, their solitary and hard-hearted way of dealing with the world, sometimes, in the eyes of mortals, they are even equivalent to demons.

In the distance, there were people whispering in twos and threes.

"Poor old man, this old man ......"

An elder looked at the master of the bakery, shook his head and sighed: "This monk who came from nowhere, sit down in Old Man Wang's shop, it is estimated that there will be no business in the next few days." ”

Some people also gloated: "The old man is a lot old, and it is not better to take advantage of the shop to take care of his old age." ”

"How do you speak, if that monk goes to your shop and sits down, you can still laugh!" said the elder unhappily.

The man laughed dryly.

Buddhists are reluctant to deal with outsiders, and mortals are equally taboo against Buddhists.

"Let's hope he'll leave soon......"

"I always feel that those monks are a little difficult to understand. ”

“...... You mean, perverted. ”

"Shhhhhh I heard that they are more powerful than the gods in the sky. ”

"Ah......h

At this moment, a timid child's voice sounded out at an inopportune time: "However, I heard from my uncle, who had traveled abroad, that in a distant country, there was a monk who preached compassion and advocated good deeds. I heard that after ten years of hard work, people in the city followed him to believe in Buddhism and do good deeds......"

"Nonsense!"

"What does the little kid know? Nonsense, how can there be such a Buddha!"

"Buddhas are not human beings, they don't have hearts. ”

"But ......"

Seeing that the adults could not be denied one by one, the child was a little skeptical.

......

"Don't pay attention to them, don't rush, eat slowly. ”

Middle-aged monk humane.

"Venerable, won't you eat?"

Yan Xiaowu took a sip of water and swallowed the baked cake in her mouth.

"The poor monk has already opened the valley, and what he eats is the aura of this heaven and earth. The middle-aged monk said: "The poor monk could have given you some spiritual power, so that you would not be hungry or thirsty." However, the foreign spiritual power is not cultivated by oneself, and it is not a great avenue after all. ”

"Hmm. Yan Xiaowu nodded.

After Yan Xiaowu finished eating, the middle-aged monk left the silver money before leaving.

Originally, some bustling streets became empty because of the middle-aged monk and Yan Xiaowu, and pedestrians avoided them.

"Venerable, when a Buddhist disciple is outside, shouldn't he beg for food without anything?" Yan Xiaowu asked.

"Only disciples who don't practice enough will go to turn their fate. ”

The middle-aged monk patiently explained Yan Xiaowu's doubts: "We ate his baked cakes, and he took our money." He doesn't owe us, we don't owe him, the two are clear, and there is nothing to do with it. ”

"We who practice Buddhism pay attention to 'detachment,' and what is detachment? That is, to remove oneself from this world! How to remove oneself? Only by disalling oneself from all the people and all things in this world, and not touching cause and effect, will we naturally remove oneself. ”

Yan Xiaowu nodded thoughtfully.

"Son, wake up! Everything that can be sold at home has been sold, even the last few bits of land have been sold, and there is really no money. ”

Suddenly, an old woman rushed out of an alley at the fork in the street and fell in front of the two.

Looking at the clothes defeated, they are not rich, but they are not poor.

A young man followed behind, and his face looked a little similar to that of an old woman, but his face was full of anger.

He caught up with the woman, lifted his foot, and kicked at the old woman, shouting:

"Old thing, don't you still have a house at home!

"That's what your father left for you to marry, and you can't sell it!" said the old woman, pleading as she protected her body.

"Marry a fart relative, and if you don't pay back the money, they will kill me! Old thing, want to watch me die!" The young man kicked more and more fiercely, and even used his fists.

The old woman's body was soon bruised and purple, and blood was seen. Seeing that it was useless to protect her, she simply didn't protect it, and the old tears were all over the place.

"Didn't you pay back the money you made last time you sold the land?"

"I just wanted to turn the book, who knew I would lose it again!" the young man roared, his face indescribably hideous.

"Son, why don't you listen to the old lady! You can't gamble anymore! Nine out of ten bets are lost, it's a bottomless pit......"

"Less nonsense!"

The people in the distance probably understood what was going on, and their expressions were furious.

"Iniquity!"

"This beast!"

"Unworthy of a man!"

"This man is damned!"

There were many people who scolded, and some people were so hot that they forgot that there was a monk standing on the side, rolled up their sleeves and rushed over, and surrounded the young man is a violent beating.

While beating and scolding, "Animal, go to hell!"

"Don't fight, don't fight......" The old woman was even more anxious when she saw the young man being beaten.

"This beast should be taught a lesson, and it is against heaven. ”

Seeing that she couldn't persuade her, the woman was in a hurry, so she kowtowed to those few and kept snorting: "Please, don't fight, don't beat......"

Tears fell, and those who heard it were relatives.

"Hey...... Mothers and children ......"

Those people hatefully made up for the young man who was beaten to the ground, and dispersed helplessly.

"Son, here you go...... Sell and pay off the debt, let's start all over again!" the old woman pounced, clutching a yellowed title deed.

"Old things, if you don't take them out early, you will be beaten in vain. ”

The young man grabbed the title deed and spat a mouthful of blood, which made him breathe in pain.

"Hmph, the dog takes the mouse. ”

He scolded viciously, pushed the old woman away, crawled up with grinned teeth, and thought as he walked away:

"This time, I will definitely win it back with interest!"

Just didn't take a few steps, and suddenly hit someone with a "bang", the person's body was as hard as a stone, almost knocked him into a daze, and he scolded angrily:

"Who the doesn't have long eyes when they walk?"

He looked up.

Wrong!

It's not human!

"Youkai!"