Chapter 309 Visiting the Temple on a Moonlit Night
Late at night, Hongde Temple returned to peace.
During the day, the chattering chanting sounds of the maids completely disappeared, and people finally had a pleasant feeling of being freed from the chirping of cicadas outside the window.
In the main hall where the Buddha and Bodhisattvas were, the smoke filled the air during the day, making people cry. At this time, there were only two green lanterns left, like some insects glowing in the wind.
The front yard of Hongde Temple is like this, and the back yard, which is not allowed to enter, is even more quiet. Except for a few meditation rooms and corridors with weak firelights, the rest of the place is dark.
A Bodhisattva with a majestic appearance and full heaven.
King Kong with angry eyes and murderous intent.
A vivid and lifelike boy.
A naked monk with a pious expression.
This is what the peasant woman Xu Cheng saw through the dim firelight.
She came from the countryside and didn't have a name that could be registered. People from the countryside all had names like A Feng and Gillian. After she got married, people simply stopped calling her by this name and just called her Xu Cheng.
The prosperity of Hong Kong Island is limited to Hong Kong Island. It seems that if we take a step outside, the great power of industry will wither in an instant.
The steam engine wheel became a waterwheel in the field, the sophisticated machinery became the needlework of the peasant woman, the reins that drove the camel became the crutch of the old man, and the sandwiches that many people were tired of could be exchanged for many meals of sweet potatoes in the countryside.
Mrs. Xu Cheng has been married to someone else for many years. Working has made her hands thick and her figure a little out of shape. Only her face still retains some youthfulness and beauty.
I don’t know how many generations of the Xu family have been passed down alone, and it’s not like they like to pass down the family alone and don’t like having children.
The main reason is that after many births, only one survived, so it is called a single birth.
In this generation, the hope of inheriting the Xu family's incense falls on the Xu Cheng family.
It's just like the saline-alkali land in front of her door. No matter how hard she works, she still gets nothing.
If this continues, according to clan rules, their unpleasant and estranged nephew will inherit their fields and family property in the future.
Even though it was just a shabby house with a few acres of thin farmland.
The neighbor's aunt was a good person, so she brought her all the way to Hongde Temple. It is said that the Guanyin Temple here is very efficacious. As long as they come here once, many people will hug their children when they go back.
The monk from Hongde Temple left her in the backyard. As for the neighbor's aunt, her husband died early and she was not lucky enough to hold a child, so he just gave her a few instructions and left.
At this moment, Xu Cheng's pupils couldn't help but tremble as she looked at the monks in the darkness who looked like Arhats descending to earth.
Somehow, in her world, those pickled bodies that once looked like they were unclean and had needle holes, now seemed to be faintly exuding a kind of brilliance that made people's hearts tighten.
Xu Cheng collapsed on the ground, trembling all over her body, until a red cloth gently covered her eyes.
Only then did her trembling finally stop, leaving only the sound of heavy breathing.
……
A corner of the moon poked out of the clouds, illuminating Yin Xiu's figure.
At this moment, he was running on the roof, and he had passed several Buddhist temples between the rabbit and the falcon.
[Taibao Shenxing] gives Yin Xiu's feet a grip like a gecko. No matter how steep and smooth the surface is, as soon as he steps on it, the blood and energy filling the soles of his feet will firmly fix him to the wall. .
Just being fixed was not enough. When he touched the surface, he kicked off his feet, and his whole body shot out like a cannonball and fell to the other side.
With the sixth level of the entrance, coupled with this unimpeded spell, Yin Xiu was like a legendary martial arts master, able to easily cross a large distance with just a tap of his toes.
During the day, Yin Xiu had already found an excuse to look at the well in the backyard.
The mouth of the well is not big, but you can't see the bottom at a glance, as if something is blocking your view.
He took advantage of the monk's break to fetch water and tried using [Transparency], but he couldn't detect anything.
At this moment, he entered the backyard for the second time just to investigate.
In such a large temple with thousands of monks, there is only one well left for people to use. Can't wells be dug elsewhere?
After tapping her feet again, Yin Xiu jumped out like a leopard and landed gently on the square, her shadow stretched extremely long under the moonlight.
After looking around and realizing that even the wild cats had gone to sleep, Yin Xiu walked slowly to the well.
He grabbed the edge of the well and looked down. It was dark, and the half moon reflected on the water looked like a baby's sleeping eyes.
Yin Xiu took out the Feng Shui diagram in his pocket, which was taken from Liu Banxian's studio.
Not only the Feng Shui chart, but also the gold-plated and silver-plated Feng Shui compass in his hand, with the hands made of emeralds, was also taken from Liu Banxian.
After Liu Banxian's studio almost turned into a murder scene last time, the little old man changed the door locks, inside and outside, like a treasury door.
This made it take a little longer for Yin Xiu to enter again. Originally, he could open the lock in just a blink of an eye, but now he needed to blink twice.
After aligning the compass and the blueprint into the well, Yin Xiu began to adjust the angle between the three through the moonlight.
This is one of the Kanyu techniques that Liu Banxian said. Things that cannot be seen during the day often cannot be hidden at night.
Using a compass and a Feng Shui chart to calculate, he could roughly figure out the veins at the bottom of the well.
While she was busy, a voice came from behind Yin Xiu.
"Young man, you stayed up in the middle of the night and came here to poison yourself?"
The tone was extremely calm. It seemed that Yin Xiu's appearance here in the middle of the night was not a terrible thing. It seemed that the other party didn't even intend to call anyone.
Yin Xiu turned around and saw a man wearing strange clothes standing there. Apart from him, most of the people who could be in the backyard of this temple in the middle of the night should be monks.
But the man's clothes and demeanor just couldn't make people associate him with a "monk."
He was a tall, thin man, standing with his legs spread apart, like a crooked bamboo.
He looked to be in his sixties, with no beard on his face, and even his eyebrows were washed, and his face was as dry as tree bark.
The somewhat dirty gray-blue monk's robes and hat, coupled with the badly damaged straw sandals and cattail leaf fan, and the black rosary beads in his hand that couldn't tell the original color, all looked weird.
Yin Xiu glanced at him and said, "Are you pretending to be Jigong?"
"Pretending? Don't I look the same?" the monk laughed.
Yin Xiu shook his head, "It has nothing to do with [the statue]. Jigong is from Buddha."
The monk shook his cattail leaf fan and laughed even louder.
"You said I don't look like me, and you said Jigong is a Buddha. Then I ask you, what should [Buddha] look like? Look like a man, or look like me?"
[What a madman. 】
Yin Xiu sighed, "If I knew all this, I wouldn't be working here in the middle of the night.
Forget it, if you have nothing to do, please go to the side and find a place to practice Buddhism or enlightenment. Don't hinder me. ”
Originally, he thought he had been discovered by someone, even the knife had been stuck out of his sleeve, but he did not expect that he met a strange person, or a madman.
Staying awake most of the night and wandering around in this temple, it was obvious that the monks here had thought that he did not exist, so they did not use the set of rules and regulations to restrain him.
Who would find trouble for themselves and discipline a lunatic when they have nothing to do?
Yin Xiu waved to him, motioning him to go further away, and planned to continue working.
Unexpectedly, the dirty monk came forward and blocked the moonlight.
Yin Xiu raised his head and frowned: "Hey, don't think that because I'm handsome, I won't hit people. You should know that I'm not a good person by looking at my clothes!
If you get in my way again, I will really hit you. If you hit me with a fist as big as a casserole, you won't be able to get up from lying down for several days! ”
The monk didn't take it seriously, and he didn't know whether he didn't understand or what.
He smiled and said: "Do you have any wine?"
Yin Xiu glanced at him and said, "Are you a monk?"
"I am not a monk, how can I still be a Taoist priest?"
"You really don't look like a Taoist priest."
Yin Xiu shook his head, took out the square wine bottle he carried with him from his pocket, and handed it over.
The monk patted his empty robe and said, "I didn't bring a cup."
Yin Xiu frowned and said, "I gave it to you. It's just a wine flask. It's worthless."
When the monk heard this, he couldn't help but glance at Yin Xiu and murmured: "Monk, no one has ever given me anything in my life. This is the first time I have seen such a generous person like you. ”
Yin Xiu asked: "What, you are not very popular? You don't have a good relationship with others?"
The monk shook his head, "It's not about popularity or relationship, others just pretend they can't see me, so why do they care about what I do?"
"Oh, isn't that just like a ghost?"
"Ghost?"
The monk's eyes widened, "Brother, can you also see ghosts?"
"You can see it! You can see it!"
Yin Xiu was already bored, so she casually responded: "In Sai Wan and Causeway Bay, there are a lot of red-haired and blond-haired ghost guys. I see them every day!"
"Oh..."
The monk suddenly looked disappointed again, and muttered to himself: "I thought you were like me, little brother, and could see ghosts."
Seeing that Yin Xiu stopped answering, he didn't mind. He just stepped back slightly to let out the moonlight, and then unscrewed the bottle cap.
After a series of gurgling swallows, the monk let out a contented sigh.
"Good wine! Good wine!"
Yin Xiu glanced at him sideways, "What, you also drink?"
"Do you need to know how to drink? Isn't it just a matter of unscrewing the bottle cap and drinking it in one sip?" the monk asked.
Yin Xiu paused. It seemed like this was true. He would drink if he could. If he couldn't drink, he would spit it out. How could there be anything to say about drinking?
Thinking like this, he ignored the crazy monk and just continued to play with the drawings.
Feng Shui Kanyu is still a bit difficult for him. Although he already knows how to operate it, it is not drawing with a ruler after all. Every line is like a mountain. Yin Xiu's movements are always not so flexible and quick.
Just when he couldn't get it right several times, a dirty hand reached out to the drawing.
"Brother, the Kun position is here, Kun Kun Li Li Gen, didn't your master teach you?"
(End of chapter)