In my life, the last thing I can say is a lie, and the last thing I can do is deception. When I was a child, the old man was well educated, and his words must be done and his deeds must be fruitful.

At this moment, kneeling in front of the Buddha and looking at the expressionless Shakyamuni, I wanted to cry without tears, and finally realized that I can't eat indiscriminately, and I can't speak indiscriminately this wise saying.

Can I refuse? Perhaps, it was a prank joke that shouldn't have been taken seriously. But if others have to be more serious, but you say it's a joke, I can't do this kind of thing. I've never been a man of my word, and at the same time I've never learned to say no.

Could it be that from now on, there is no Xiao Zuo in this world, but just a little monk Daoxi in Yongming Temple?

Chaowen said, Xi can die. This Dharma name, life extension seems to have taken a lot of thought. Why did I already take precautions against the old monk, but I was so stupid to take the matter of ordination as a joke?

It doesn't matter if a person is stupid, it's a big deal to be diligent, but if a person is stupid, it's really hopeless. I'm the biggest fool in the world.

Yanshou took the ring knife and shaved my head very carefully. I bowed my head bitterly and greeted the Buddha's whole family very cordially. While trimming the thread of troubles for me, Yanshou muttered the rules and precepts of Buddhism. Since I am not yet 20 years old, I am not yet a full-fledged monk, so I cannot take the bhikshu ordination, so I can only take the novice ordination.

I became a monk of Yongming Temple in such a daze, Daofan became my senior brother, and Yanshou became my master. And Yongmingji Temple has become my home with a little bit of meaning in this shijie.

"Daoxi, why are you sad. ”

In the meditation room of Yanshou, I sat on the **, Yanshou sat opposite me, under the candlelight, he carefully recited the idealism for me several times. I was distracted, my mind went blank, and I didn't listen to a word.

"Master," I struggled to get used to calling him longevity, "you say, did you premeditate?"

Yanshou picked up the ring ruler and slapped it on my freshly plucked head, which made me shrink my neck in pain. "Master, you must have done it on purpose, did you find Li Zhongxuan?"

Yanshou stood up and said, "Daoxi, don't you think you have a relationship with my Buddha?"

If you are destined to be a fart, you are destined to be his disciple? I despised it in my heart, but I didn't dare to say that. "Master, do you believe me?"

When I talked to Yanshou before, I felt that he was an old monk who was not too familiar, and he still had to make do with polite words, but now that he has become his apprentice, he is still pitted, so I don't have so much ideological burden. What respect for the teacher, the master is not a good bird, why should I respect it.

"You have a grudge in your heart. ”

"Nope. ”

"You have a hatred in your heart. ”

"Nope. ”

Yanshou shook his head, opened the idealistic decision, and began to read it again. Somehow, this time the voice of the longevity extension is different from the previous two times, and it seems to carry an irresistible magic that makes you fall into it unconsciously. It seemed that he was listening to him tell an extremely profound philosophical story, and the more he listened, the more incomprehensible he became, and then his mind began to wander, and there was a very subtle trickle in the dantian that slowly spread out towards his body.

Feeling that my body was strange, I suddenly stood up and looked at Yan Shou in disbelief, could this old monk be some kind of demagogic crooked way?

Yanshou didn't care, he continued to read, he read slowly, his voice became deeper and lower, but the magic revealed continued unabated, making my already irritable heart gradually calm down.

After repeating it three times, Yanshou finally stopped and said, "Has your heart been settled?"

I nodded, feeling less anxious than before, "But, I don't understand, why do you want to take me as an apprentice?"

Yanshou pointed to the idealistic decision, and then said: "Quietly recite ten times a day, it is your homework, other times, you can arrange it yourself, Daofan's foreign kung fu is good, if you want to learn, you can go to the back mountain spring stream every morning to find him." ”

After saying that, Yanshou didn't look at me again and left quickly. As soon as I saw him leave, I closed the door and touched my bald head helplessly, no, this Yongming Temple can't stay, I have to leave quickly. If you stay any longer, what fun will life have?

I cleaned up a few pieces of clothing, then changed out of the coarse cloth robes and found a turban to wrap my bald head. Looking up at the sky, the scorching sun was in the sky, and the monks outside were either busy worshipping the Buddha or busy working. If you leave at this time, it is estimated that it will be easy to be caught, so it is better to wait until it gets dark before acting.

After dinner, I went back to my room early, and when I saw that it was still early, I squinted for a while. When he closed his eyes, he fell asleep, and when he woke up, he didn't know what time it was. But look at the darkness outside, the lights in the Yongming Temple have been extinguished.

I gently pushed open the door and walked out of the temple by the moonlight. But when I walked to the gate of the temple, I found that the mountain gate was closed, I looked at the door bar, and then looked at the flickering lights in the front yard, I hesitated.

If I go out through the front door, I will inevitably alarm the monks who practice ascetic in the front yard, but if I go from the back mountain instead, but I am not familiar with the route, and I don't know what jackals, tigers and leopards will encounter, it is not a joke.

I pondered for a while, but decided to walk from the back mountain. When he walked around the Daxiong Treasure Hall and walked to the Zongjing Hall, he was about to move forward, but he was stopped by a familiar voice, "Daoxi, where do you want to go?"

I turned around and saw a vague figure standing at the door of the Sect Mirror Hall, and in the faint candlelight, the figure slowly walked towards me.

The person who came was Yanshou, who was holding a wooden fish in his hand and knocking on it as he walked. The crisp and deep sound of the wooden fish knocked on my weak heart, and I couldn't help but shiver.

"Well, I can't sleep, I'll just walk around. I smiled awkwardly and quietly took the burden from my shoulders behind me.

"You come with me. ”

Yan Shou was noncommittal, then turned around and walked towards the Zong Jing Hall. was discovered by the old monk, and it seemed that he couldn't leave, and I followed Yanshou with anxiety, and I didn't know what he wanted to do.

Zongjingtang was originally known as the Acting Hall. Longevity is the author of the "Zongjinglu" 100 volumes, which collects the three principles of the virtuous head, mercy and grace, and Tiantai, and integrates the Zen mind. This book was first written, and its spread spread far and wide, and the number of recipients of the Dharma is innumerable. Later, in order to commemorate the longevity of the book "Zongjing Road", this Zongjing Hall was specially set up.

Entering the hall, under the Buddha statue, Yanshou knelt and sat on the **, and then motioned for me to sit down. I awkwardly put my baggage aside, and then sat on my knees on the ** as well.

"Daoxi, for the teacher to know that you have a lot of unknowns, originally I thought that with your heart, you will be able to understand, but look at what you did tonight, as a teacher, if you don't explain, you will not be able to practice in the temple at ease. ”

I looked at Yanshou in amazement, and couldn't help but say, "Master, where do you see that I look like a monk cultivator?" ”

Yan Shou didn't say a word, but grabbed my left hand suddenly, then opened my sleeve, pointed to my arm and said: "You have three red spots on your arm, which means that you are destined to be a teacher."

I looked at my arm in horror, and sure enough, there were three irregularly arranged red spots, "Master, what is this, and why is it on my hand?" ”

Yanshou sighed and said, "When the medicine was hidden outside the Agarwood Valley, you saw the red spots on your hands, so I asked Daofan to bring you to Yongming Temple on the grounds of detoxification." ”

"What the master means is that I am not poisonous, and I am not a dying person. I looked at Yanshou suspiciously, completely confused by what he meant.

Yanshou smiled slightly, and said: "The Heart-devouring Grass Venom in your body has been integrated with you, it will not be fatal, and it will not be easy to live, you can rest assured." ”

"What the master said, what is the fate between my three red spots and the master?"

"Seven years ago, Emperor Chen Qiao of the Zhao and Song Dynasty mutinied and usurped the Zhou Dynasty. At that time, the poor monks watched the sky at night and knew the general trend of the world, and they would eventually return to the Song Dynasty. But at night, the Buddha dreamed, and when the world was prosperous, there would be demons and evil spirits. The Buddha said that there must be a person who should be robbed, and this person should be robbed of three red spots on his left hand and arm, if the poor monk encountered, the Buddha entrusted me to give it to me, this person will be able to resolve the calamity. ”

I looked at the old monk dumbfounded, what kind of night observation of the sky, what kind of Buddha dream, how come the more I listen to it, the more I feel that it is nonsense? Before I could react, Yanshou continued: "The first time I saw you, I talked about you in front of the well, and I knew that you were extraordinary, and then I quoted physics, although it was surprising, but it was not unreasonable. At this time, as a teacher, you know that you are very different from the living beings in this world, and you firmly believe in what the Buddha said in your dream, so I leave my idealism to you, and I hope you can cultivate the true taste, and you can be regarded as a poor monk who has done his meager help for the world. ”

"However, master, you don't need me to be a monk. ”

"Accepting you as an apprentice for the teacher and letting you become a monk is the unintentional act of the fighting spirit between the ** and Jinling Li Gongzi, and in the future, you will cultivate idealism, if you want to return to the vulgar, you will go to it yourself. ”

“............”

I looked at the longevity speechlessly, it turned out that when I said this monk, I still have to blame myself for my pranks.