The place where Akiko took Tiger Niu was an empty meditation room. Tiger Niu said, "What's the point here?"

Mingzi pointed to a small hole in the wall and said, "Don't worry, lie on this small hole, it will look good in a while." ”

The tiger girl listened to his words and leaned on the small hole and looked in. On the other side of the wall is another meditation room. After a while, the door of the meditation room over there opened, and their third master, Monk Xuanning, walked in.

After Monk Xuanning came in, he began to take off his shirt. Hu Niu turned her face and saw the words "Have you seen it" written on Mingzi's face, she asked, "On such a cold day, will the third master freeze?" Mingzi shook his head.

The tiger girl put her eyes into the hole in the wall again, and Monk Xuanning's gaze happened to sweep over the wall. Hu Niu was so frightened that she closed her eyes, and when she opened her eyes, Monk Xuanning was already shirtless and began to practice boxing.

This winter, because of her father, Hu Niu had to stay in the temple for dinner before she could go home. Mingzi took her not only to watch the third master boxing shirtless, but also to see the fourth master dancing stick, the sixth master kicking, and the ninth master chopping wood. The ninth master chopping firewood is very good-looking, I saw that he was holding a firewood knife, and with a flick of his wrist, the calf-thick firewood in front of him was split in half from the middle. When I saw it for the first time, the tiger girl didn't see the moment when the firewood knife fell, but when she saw that the firewood suddenly split into two halves from the middle, the tiger girl was amazed. After watching it a few more times, Hu Niu saw the firewood knife falling from the sky. After a few more times, Hu Niu felt that the speed at which the wood knife fell was getting slower and slower. However, when she could clearly see the lines on the falling firewood knife, the speed of the falling firewood knife in the ninth master's hand was suddenly so fast that her eyes could not catch it. This phenomenon happened several times this winter. The last thing Hu Niu wants to see is the meditation of Abbot Xuanjing. Abbot Xuanjing could sit for several hours as soon as he sat down, and the tiger girl fell asleep, and woke up to find that Mingzi was still there with wide eyes watching Abbot Xuanjing meditate. Tiger girl thinks Akiko has made some novel discoveries. Akiko shook his head and said with admiration, "The abbot has been motionless for several hours, it's too powerful. The tiger girl said, "You've been watching?" and Akiko said, "Yes, I just want to see when the abbot can move." Hu Niu deliberately imitated the tone of Mingzi's admiration for the abbot just now and said, "You are also very powerful, the same as the abbot." ”

Spring came, and the tiger girl left Shaomuro Mountain with her father. Hu Niu and her father went to the temple to say goodbye. She quietly stuffed Mingzi with a pair of straw sandals that she had knitted herself, saying that she was grateful to him for taking her to watch the masters practice. Mingzi said that when the tiger girl came back, she would see a new Mingzi who was boxing shirtless like the third master, dancing sticks like the fourth master, kicking legs like the sixth master, and chopping wood like the ninth master. Hu Niu said that as long as she didn't meditate like the abbot, she didn't say anything more. Akiko didn't ask about the return date of the tiger girl, he didn't know what to ask. Tiger Niu didn't tell Akiko either, and she didn't know when she would return. In this way, the tiger girl went down the Shaomuro Mountain......-

Spring goes to autumn, several cold and summer, when Hu Niu and her father set foot on the blue brick road in front of the mountain gate again, it is another year when swallows build nests. At this time, although the tiger girl did not get rid of the childishness of her childhood, she had grown taller and stronger, and her strong chest held her clothes tightly.

According to the rules, the tiger girl and her father first bowed to the painted clay statues of the Buddha, Ka Ye, Ananda, etc. on the Mahavira Hall. The father had something to report to the master of the temple, while the tiger girl wandered around the familiar temple like a child.

The old monks she knew at that time are still kind when they see her, the big monks she knew at that time are still smiling and talking when they see her, and the little monks she knew at that time have become taller and stronger, but they have become a little restrained when talking to her. After a lap, the tiger girl didn't see Akiko.

"He was accepted as a closed disciple by the abbot, and he went to Shandong with Master Xuande on errands!" This is the news that Hu Niu heard when she was in the Pilu Temple, because she couldn't help but inquire about Mingzi.

Hu Niu looked at the potholed ground and knew that these were all traces left by the monks' feet on the ground when they practiced. She wondered which of them was left by Akiko. To be selected as a disciple by Abbot Xuanjing, Mingzi must have worked very hard during his absence, and Mingzi in the eyes of the tiger girl was no longer the stunned appearance at that time.

Under the arrangement of the masters, my father lived at the foot of the mountain again. Hu Niu doesn't have to go to school in the temple anymore, but she goes to the temple every day to watch the monks practice martial arts.

Finally, one day, the abbot returned. When Hu Niu saw Abbot Xuanjing, the old monk asked her where she had been in the past few years. The tiger girl answered one by one, and the abbot seemed to know the answer, looked at her with a smile, and asked her how she practiced the stick technique.

There are many martial arts involving weapons in Shaolin martial arts, among which there are more than a dozen kinds of stick techniques alone. In addition to secretly watching the martial arts of several high-ranking monks with Mingzi, Hu Niu has also been practicing stick techniques with her father over the years. Listening to the abbot's question, the tiger girl carried an eyebrow-high wooden stick and played a set of stick techniques, dancing like a tiger. The surrounding monks all nodded, and couldn't help praising her, Abbot Xuanjing twisted his beard and smiled, and when she finished practicing, he also said that she practiced well.

Hu Niu asked the abbot when Akiko would come back.

The abbot of Xuanjing said, just these few days.

The abbot spoke accurately. A few days later, the tiger girl heard a message at the foot of the mountain that she had come back last night. The tiger girl hurriedly spread her feet and ran to the temple. When I ran into the mountain gate, I saw the pot-bellied Maitreya Buddha and the Veda holding the divine stick. Hu Niu is too familiar with the environment in the temple, and she walks through the stele and stone forest. At the end of the road is the Hall of the Heavenly King, and the four great King Kongs are holding magic weapons and looking at her. The tiger girl passed through the Tianwang Hall and came to the Daxiong Treasure Palace, where there was no Mingzi. When he came back at night, how could he still worship the idol now, the thought even made her laugh. Could it be that she was in the Scripture Pavilion behind the Mahavira Hall? She ran over the bell and came to the east wing of the Scripture Pavilion, where the monk who spoke the scriptures told her that Mingzi was in the abbot's room. The abbot's room is behind the Dharma Hall, and the tiger girl has been there, and I remember that there is a picture of "Dharma and a reed crossing the river" hanging inside. She was standing at the door of the abbot's room, and when she was hesitating how to call the door, the voice of the abbot Xuan Jing came from inside, asking who was outside. Hu Niu hurriedly pushed the door in, only to see that in addition to the abbot, there were also six masters, Xuande monks and several masters with a very high status in the temple. It's just that there is no Akiko.

When the abbot saw the tiger girl, he smiled kindly and asked, "Are you looking for me?" The tiger girl lowered her head and shook it, and the abbot smiled again: "Aren't you looking for your sixth master?" The sixth master Xuande never smiled, and said, "It must be here to find Mingzi." ”

The abbot put away his smile and said, "Mingzi went down the mountain this time and violated the precepts of Buddhism, and I punished him for keeping vigil in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion." ”

Hu Niu let out an "ah" and said, "What rules and precepts did he commit?"

The abbot said: "He went down the mountain this time to take the precept of hatred, and he committed the precept of drinking, Amitabha. ”

Hu Niu hurriedly asked herself worriedly if she could go to see Mingzi, and the abbot, who had always been kind and kind, refused him. Hu Niu tried all kinds of disputes to no avail, and left a sentence of "No wonder others say that you monks are the Three Realms, Five Precepts, and Eight Precepts" and left in a huff. Only a few senior monks in the room were left looking at each other, but it was the abbot of Xuanjing who spoke first and laughed.