Chapter 82: The Temple of Universal Salvation
Pufu Temple is located six or seven miles away from the ancient city of Puzhou. It is close to the ancient city of Puzhou in the south and Xixiang Village in the east. The temple site is towering, full of pines and cypresses, facing the Yellow River Bay in the west, the water is surging and surging, and the east is close to Zhongtiao Mountain, like a barrier standing, and the line of sight is broad and cheerful. Under the head of the hill is an ancient post road leading to Chang'an.
Gao Jie and Yu Hongzhi were riding horses and slowly walking on the ancient post road. On the autumn day at noon, the warm light shone on the pedestrians, and Gao Jie was in a mood and looked lazy.
Because his mood was very unhappy, firstly, his stomach was rumbling, and they had walked for half an hour on the way, and they had not seen half of the place to eat;
For they were followed by a tall horse and an eccentric young man with his head held high and in a good mood.
Of course, that person was the entangled Ji Longfeng. No matter how much Gao Jie opposes and tries his best along the way, he can't get rid of this sticky guy even if he lives or dies. Seeing Gao Jie's stinky face, Ji Longfeng was extremely happy. He hated Gao Jie's excessively handsome face with a mesmerizing smile, but now Gao Jie's deflated appearance made him feel a lot more comfortable, with a wheat stalk in his mouth, humming a little tune proudly, although he was also hungry, he felt that the gurgling sound in his stomach had a hint of pleasure.
Gao Jie looked around, except for the temple not far away, there was a flat river in front of the ancient post road, and there was no trace of a home. He couldn't bear it anymore, stopped the black horse, turned back to Ji Longfeng and shouted, "Hey, follow the fart, you are a local, do you know where to eat near here?"
Ji Longfeng blinked his eyes, urged the horse, came to Gao Jie's side, pretended to think deeply, and said slowly: "Where to eat...... I'm afraid it's going to take more than half an hour!"
When Gao Jie heard this, he was angry and anxious: "What the hell is this place, not only the people are weird, but the place is also weird!"
Ji Longfeng saw Gao Jie's angry appearance, and said happily: "Aren't you quite capable?
Gao Jie glared at him, and wanted to sneer at him, but another gurgling sound sounded in his stomach, which made him instantly weak and simply shut up.
Ji Longfeng's ears were sharp, and when he heard the hungry sound in Gao Jie's stomach, his heart was completely relieved, so he touched his big nose and said slowly: "However, there is still a place to eat......
Gao Jie grabbed his hand and said happily: "Where is it?"
Ji Longfeng looked down at the hand that was tightly held by Gao Jie, until he realized that it was abrupt and let go of embarrassment, then he raised his hand and blew it on the side of his small mouth, and continued lazily: "The vegetarian food in Puji Temple is famous, and it is said that it is ......"
Before he could finish speaking, he saw that Gao Jie had already turned his horse's head and ran towards the Puji Temple next to him with Yu Hongzhi.
Ji Longfeng looked at Gao Jie's back, shook his head in an old-fashioned manner and muttered, "Young man, the concentration is not good enough!" After speaking, he raised his whip and urged the horse to follow.
Pufu Temple was built in the Tang Wu Zetian period, formerly known as Yongqing Temple, is a Buddhist Shifang Temple. Wang Shifu of the Yuan Dynasty said in "Cui Yingying Waiting for the Moon in the West Chamber" that the love story of "the red lady pulls the red line under the moon, and Zhang Shengqiao will Cui Yingying" happened in the Pufu Temple.
The layout of the temple building is upper, middle and lower three-storey platform, from the top to the bottom, the palace pavilion, the corridor and the pagoda, according to the plateau, step by step, giving people a sense of majesty, upright and handsome.
Pufu Temple is the most prosperous local incense temple in Puzhou, but when Gao Jie and others came to the gate of the temple, they couldn't see half of the pilgrims at all.
Not only Gao Jie, but even Ji Longfeng also felt very weird, he didn't believe in gods and Buddhas, and rarely came to the Pufu Temple on weekdays, except for his father who forced him to be reluctant, and he came once or twice a year. This year, Ji Longfeng still came once at the beginning of the year, and in his impression, the Pufu Temple had never been so deserted and lifeless as this time.
Seeing that there was not even a guest monk at the entrance of the temple, and the temple door was also tightly closed, it didn't look like there was a vegetarian meal, Gao Jie looked back at Ji Longfeng, and asked in a sarcastic tone: "Young Master Ji, this is the place where you said you have food?!Are you playing with me?"
Ji Longfeng looked embarrassed, he had just gained the upper hand in front of Gao Jie, and was ruined by this damn broken temple, and suddenly lost his temper, he got off his horse and came to the door of the temple in anger, raised his fist and pounded the door hard, while shouting: "Is there a living person? What door is closed in the daytime!"
The empty temple was lifeless, and there was not a single echo for half a day.
Ji Longfeng's nickname "Little Demon King" is not covered, and when he saw that no one answered the door, his heart became angry, and he roared angrily: "Are all the stinky bald asses dead?
After speaking, Ji Longfeng took two steps back, and with a big shout, he raised his foot and wanted to kick.
Although Gao Jie does not believe in Buddhism, he has never desecrated the religious mountain gate so much, he saw that the temple gate of Puji Temple was about to be destroyed at the feet of this lawless guy, he stretched out his hand to block his eyes, and could not bear to look at it again.
Before Ji Longfeng's feet were kicked out, he heard a "squeak", a side door next to the tall temple gate suddenly opened, and a monk wearing a monk's hat came out and shouted: "Who dares to make a loud noise and do nonsense in the holy land of Buddhism?!"
Ji Longfeng retracted his feet and sneered: "It seems that Young Master Ben doesn't need to make any ruthless moves, you won't open the door!"
The monk was in his thirties, looked Ji Longfeng up and down with a cold face, and saw that he looked fierce and vicious, and he was carrying a silver short gun behind his back, and his face couldn't help but change a few times, before he went out of the side door, put his hands together and said: "This donor, I don't know what you have to do in this temple?"
Ji Longfeng clasped his arms in his hands and said lazily: "What else can you do when you come to the temple, naturally it is to worship the Buddha and incense!"
The monk smiled and said, "It's really unfortunate, this temple is being renovated recently, and there is a lot of inconvenience, please go back!" After speaking, he turned around and wanted to go back.
Ji Longfeng rushed over to stop the monk with an arrow step, and said with a strange smile: "It's slow, it's inconvenient to worship the Buddha and incense, so it's okay to spend money on a vegetarian meal!"
The monk was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "Most of the monks in this temple are not here, so there is no vegetarian food prepared today, so the donor should go to another house!"
When Ji Longfeng heard this, he was even more annoyed, he seemed to feel Gao Jie's mocking eyes behind him, and shouted: "Aren't monks paying attention to being convenient and compassionate to others?
The monk panicked, and said in a loud voice: "There is really no vegetarian food in the temple today, how can you mess around, so unreasonable!"
Before Ji Longfeng could speak, Gao Jie had already stepped over, he stared at the monk tightly, and said lightly: "There is no vegetarian food, then we can borrow the incense soup kitchen of your temple and be self-reliant, this is still possible, right?"
The monk looked back at Gao Jie and stammered, "What kind of incense and what kind of cooking, I'm ...... I don't know what you're talking about, anyway, there's nothing to eat in the temple, you ...... Let's go!"
Gao Jie was already standing in front of the monk at this time, he stared coldly at the monk's panicked eyes, and said coldly: "I don't even know about the Xiang Ji Kitchen, you are new?!"
The monk was stared at by Gao Jie, turned around and fled into the door, shouting as he ran: "Come on, someone!
Gao Jie and Ji Longfeng stepped into the door back and forth, and Ji Longfeng whispered in Gao Jie's ear, "What is the Aroma Kitchen?"
Gao Jie turned around and threw Ji Longfeng a contemptuous look, and said lightly: "Kitchen!"
In his previous life, Gao Jie was a college student in the Department of History, and he was very interested in these remote things in ancient times, he not only knew that the kitchen in the temple was called Xiangji Kitchen, but also knew that the dining hall was called "Wuguantang".
Ji Longfeng didn't come much, how did he know that there were still these titles in the temple, after listening to Gao Jie's explanation, he nodded and said: "It's really suspicious! It seems that you just asked that sentence to test this guy!"
Gao Jie didn't bother to answer, and walked straight inside.
Ji Longfeng was unwilling to give up, and continued with Gao Jie: "How did you find out that this monk is strange?"
Gao Jie shook his head helplessly and said, "Didn't you see his monk's hat and hair running out?"
Ji Longfeng was stunned and said to himself: "Why didn't I pay attention?!"
Gao Jie replied: "You are stupid!"
Before Ji Longfeng could refute, he suddenly heard a noisy sound, and more than a dozen powerful men holding various weapons suddenly appeared in the temple, all of them fierce and vicious, and in a moment they surrounded Gao Jie, Ji Longfeng and Yu Hongzhi who followed up.
Gao Jie pretended to be panicked and shouted, "Oh my god! Are we in the wrong place?! Is this the Universal Salvation Temple or the underworld?!"
Ji Longfeng didn't have those people dancing with knives and guns and surrounding them at all, he blinked his eyes and looked at Gao Jie and continued to ask, "What is the underworld?"
Gao Jie knew that he was speechless, but he didn't want to lose face in front of this annoying fart, so he casually said: "That's my hometown dialect, which is the meaning of the bandit's nest!"
Ji Longfeng nodded in understanding: "It's indeed like an underworld!"
A man in Tsing Yi at the head signaled his subordinates to close the side door, he held a machete in both hands, and sneered: "Why don't you three listen to persuasion?
Gao Jie smiled and said: "This boss, we were wrong, can we re-elect?!"
The big man in Tsing Yi showed murderous intent in his eyes and shouted: "It's late! Since you're here, you don't have to go out again!"
Ji Longfeng suddenly shouted in horror: "Help, help! The monk is going to kill someone!"
Gao Jie looked at Ji Longfeng, who was performing exaggeratedly but very hard, and nodded in praise: "Yes, Young Master Ji, I'm afraid you have a few years of acting skills!
Ji Longfeng restrained his exaggerated expression and asked softly, "What do you mean by stealing the show?"
Gao Jie was speechless for a while, not knowing how to answer.
But he heard Yu Hongzhi next to him say angrily: "It's you who robbed my young master's play and wanted to be in the limelight!"
Gao Jie looked back at the humble Yu Hongzhi, and looked even more surprised, and thought to himself: "Brother Yu and I have been together for a few days, but I have learned a lot of knowledge!
In fact, not to mention Hongzhi, all those who have stayed with Gao Jie are now more or less familiar with Gao Jie's "hometown dialect".
Looking at Gao Jie and the three of them, they first pretended to be panicked, and then they chattered as if no one was around, saying some strange things, the man in Tsing Yi led by him couldn't bear it anymore, and shouted angrily: "Give it to me!"