Lu Zheng asked a series of questions with one mouth, and the ascetic smiled and said: "You ask so many questions at once, which one do you ask the poor monk to answer first? It's getting dark, and there is a cave not far ahead, let's rest there for the night, and the poor monk will tell you slowly, okay?"

Lu Zheng hurriedly said: "Okay, okay, you just said that you would take me to the other side of the fence for treatment, what kind of place is that? ”

Lu Zheng likes to listen to stories the most, and his favorite thing every day is to pester Tang Xiaojiu to tell stories. Tang Xiaojiu's brain is active, and his mouth is very sharp, even if it is a miscellaneous incident that everyone thinks is not interesting, he can also speak eloquently and interestingly. Now that this fairy-like monk wants to tell a story, he is naturally full of anticipation of how wonderful and interesting it is.

The ascetic carried Lu Zheng on his back and continued to walk on the mountain ridge for a while, and Lu Zheng kept looking back at the place where Mingyue Mountain appeared just now. As the sun had just sunset, the two of them came to an open place on a mountain ridge, where several boulders were piled up on top of each other, forming a cave. Entering the cave, it is very spacious inside, and there is even a bend to form a small room of its own, so as to avoid the direct inflow of mountain winds. What's even more amazing is that there is also a large square stone, like a small stone table, and there is a straw futon in front of it, and there are a lot of dry grass and firewood piled up in the corner of the cave. Seeing this, Lu Zheng said: "Great monk, it seems that there are people living here, let's change places to rest!"

The dervish laughed, "Hehe, that's not necessary. This futon is made up by poor monks, and if you want to say that there are people who live, it means that poor monks live here. ”

It turned out that this stone cave was made of stacked large stones brought by ascetics, Lu Zheng was surprised when he heard this, and asked: "Great monk, you live here, is this your home?

The ascetic said: "This is a place for poor monks to rest for a while, not a place for poor monks to live." Eating and sleeping are all wrapped around the cover, the seeds of troubles, the cultivation of karmic obstacles, and the compassion of my Buddha has its own wonderful method to deal with it. ”

Lu Zheng didn't understand and asked, "Great monk, do you mean you don't have to eat and sleep?"

The dervish laughed, "You're right. ”

When Lu Zheng heard this, he touched his stomach and whispered, "Oh, that's the case, then you are really amazing." Suddenly, I saw a white-faced steamed bun in front of me, and it was the ascetic who handed it over. Lu Zheng was overjoyed, hurriedly took it and took a bite, then his face turned red, and he was very embarrassed to say: "Great monk, I can't skip dinner yet, I'm really embarrassed......"

His expression twisted, and the dervish couldn't help but smile. When Lu Zheng saw him laughing at himself, he also smiled, burying his head and eating steamed buns seriously, as if he wanted to hide his face with this steamed bun.

After eating half a steamed bun, Lu Zheng felt that his stomach was full, he was weak now, and he was very hungry when he was hungry, but after eating a few bites, he felt that his stomach was very strong, and he couldn't eat anymore. Although his movements on his hands and feet were much better than before, black qi was faintly revealed between his eyebrows, and his body became thinner and thinner. After carefully receiving the remaining half of the steamed bun in his arms, he said to the ascetic: "Great monk, you must be very tired from carrying me on your back for so long, it doesn't matter if you sleep well first, and then tell me a story." ”

The ascetic said in his heart: "This child is really well-behaved, and he actually feels sorry for me." "What he practices is the Vajra supernatural power, the most powerful, explained: "The little donor doesn't have to worry, the poor monk has been practicing asceticism since he was a child, and his body is strong, although he has carried you all the way, but he is just a walk, and he will not be tired." ”

Just as Lu was eating steamed buns, the ascetic had already laid a bun out of the hay in the hole, and made a bonfire with firewood. He asked Lu Zheng to lie on the hay, and he sat cross-legged on the futon and stood by the side of the fire, which was the direction of entering the cave.

Lu Zheng saw him sitting cross-legged, his back was straight, his left foot was on his right foot, his right foot was on his left foot, and his two legs happened to be knotted raw, reflecting the firelight, which was so solemn that people had a kind of respect.

The ascetic said, "Little benefactor, you just asked so many questions, and some poor monks can answer you immediately, such as what is a fence, such as what is Mingyue Mountain." But some of them are not clear to you now, such as Mingyue Mountain Weishenme suddenly disappeared, but you can find the answer for yourself in the future. You must know that no matter how things or truths are in this world, there is always too little that others can tell you, and you may not be able to really understand what others say. But if a person wants to understand something, he has to verify it himself, do you understand?"

Seeing that Lu Zheng nodded seriously, the ascetic smiled slightly and said, "Hehe, what a smart child." There is a lot of nonsense in the recitation, and the monk is a little verbose, please don't be surprised. The poor monk is not very good at telling stories, and he didn't know where to start for a while, so he thought about it carefully, since we are going to the other side of the fence, why don't we tell you a story about the fence first!"

Lu Zheng said curiously: "Great monk, what do you mean by the fence, is it the fence around the vegetable garden?"

The ascetic smiled and said, "Yes, that's what this fence means, but this fence is not used to prevent cats and dogs from stepping on vegetable seedlings, and chickens and ducklings come to peck at vegetable leaves." ”

Lu Zheng: "What is that for?"

"What for?" the dervisheck pondered for a moment, as if wondering how to phrase it, and then said, "Well, with this fence, there is a human world!"

Lu Zheng was puzzled: "Isn't there no fence, there is no world?" Then why don't I know what fences there are, and I have never heard anyone say anything about them, and the whitebeard in the private school next to the City God Temple has not said anything about fences, and I have heard a lot of stories from Mr. Storyteller, and none of them have anything to do with any fences!"

The ascetic said, "Little benefactor, the fence that the poor monk is talking about is not made of bamboo, but nailed with wooden stakes. Because of this fence, there are two shijie separating them!"

Lu Zheng asked, "Two shijies?"

The ascetic said: "One is the world you came to, and the other is the place where the poor monk wants to take you, called the cultivation world!"

Lu Zhengdao: "Weishenme wants to use the fence to separate two shijies?"

The ascetic said: "The poor monk asked you, have you ever seen a snake demon before that snake demon in Yujian in Qinglong Temple? Not necessarily a snake demon, have you ever seen other monsters?

Lu Zheng was stunned for a moment, scratched his head and said: "I didn't have this, but I heard it from the storyteller, and Brother Jiu said that it was used by adults to scare children, but I didn't expect that there were really man-eating monsters!" Speaking of this, Lu Zheng had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and shouted happily: "I understand, great monk, monsters come out of the cultivation world, and that fence is to prevent those monsters from eating people, so without a fence, there will be no world!"

The dervishes approvingly, "Little benefactor, you are really smart. ”

Lu Zheng said embarrassedly: "Great monk, you make fun of me, you said to this point, if I can't guess it, wouldn't it be too stupid, if the ninth brother is here, I must have guessed it a long time ago, I am not as smart as him." ”

The dervish shook his head and said, "You can recite the mantras I taught you by ear without making the slightest mistake, how can you say that you are not smart?"

Lu Zhengdao: "I just have a good memory, but my brain is stupid, but whenever I encounter something that uses my brain, Brother Nine is worrying, and I am not as smart as Brother Nine." ”

The ascetic said: "No, no, a good memory is smart." If a person can't even remember things, how can he think about it and make the right choice? It's just that you have been taken care of by your ninth brother for a long time, and you have never faced things by yourself, and you have less experience and lack of self-confidence. ”

These words of the ascetic monk are exactly the weakness of Lu Zheng's character, Lu Zheng's character is soft and weak, but there is a kind of stubbornness in his heart, he has been used to hiding behind Tang Xiaojiu for a long time, but he may not have the courage to take on himself.

The dervish continued his previous words: "As you guessed, there are countless monsters in this world besides people, and they live in the cultivation world, because there is a fence separating them, which makes it difficult for them to enter the human world, and only in the human world can people live in peace. And where this fence came from......"

Lu Zheng suddenly interrupted: "Countless monsters, great monk, I want to ask first, where did the monsters in this world come from?"

The dervish was not annoyed that he interrupted at will, but reached out and pointed at the tip of his nose and asked, "Then where did you come from?"

Lu Zheng was stunned for a moment, then lowered his head and said, "I, I jumped out of the stone." ”

The ascetic was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect to hear such an answer, and said in amazement: "How is this possible when it pops out of the stone! The poor monk is asking your parents?" Although he knew that Lu Zheng was a little beggar, he didn't know that he had been abandoned by his parents since he was a child.

Lu Zheng subconsciously held the jade pendant in his heart, which was strange to say, whenever Lu Zheng was unconscious or asleep, the jade pendant would exude a white brilliance, and when Lu Zheng was awake, the jade pendant was as ordinary as usual, plain. Holding the jade pendant, the expression on Lu Zheng's face suddenly became a little cold, he stared at the bonfire, the flames jumped in his pupils, and pretended not to care: "I don't know, I was left on the side of the road." ”

The ascetic wanted to inquire about the origin of the jade pendant, so he took the opportunity to ask, "Is that jade pendant the one you have always carried with you?"

Lu Zheng held the hand of the jade pendant and unconsciously nervous, grabbed the jade pendant, glanced at the ascetic in front of him, and then took out the jade pendant from his arms, held it on his chest, and said, "Great monk, you ask this jade pendant, do you know this jade pendant?"

The dervishew shook his head and said, "The poor monk doesn't recognize it." But you have to keep this jade pendant well, don't lose it, this is your way to find your parents in the future. ”

Lu Zheng thought that the great monk was so powerful, maybe he could know the origin of the jade pendant, and he was a little disappointed when he heard this: "Grandpa Lu, who adopted me, also said so, he said that this jade pendant was the only thing by my side when he saw me, and it was a certificate for me to recognize my parents in the future." ”

The ascetic said that the jade pendant was a "method", but he did not say that the jade pendant was a "certificate", and when he saw that Lu Zheng had a misunderstanding, he no longer explained. But from this, he also knew that Lu Zheng didn't know anything about this jade pendant, and seeing that he was depressed, he persuaded him: "Everything is fate, there must be a cause and effect, everything always has a certainty, and you don't have to be too persistent." Little benefactor, you are deeply blessed, and there will be a day when you will see your parents again...... But you just asked where the monsters came from, but in fact, where the people come from, the monsters come from. ”