In the evening, the three people who still found nothing met again in the square.
Nothing was found, so Yin Xiu was naturally disappointed.
However, all three of them were safe and sound, which was enough to make people happy at this moment.
"Is there anything wrong or suspicious?" Yin Xiu asked.
The white peacock shook his head, "I kept getting lost in the temple, going around in circles, and finally got out. Other than that, I didn't find anything unusual."
Ma Xiaoyu also agreed: "I think children are the easiest to tell. They can't hide secrets, so I deliberately approached those children, but in the end I didn't find any secrets."
Yin Xiu scratched his face and sighed: "It's just like the plaque on the main hall."
"What?"
Yin Xiu didn't answer, just stretched out his hand and pointed forward.
Ma Xiaoyu and Bai Peacock turned around and saw four big words written on the plaque on the main hall: Upright and Bright.
"Then what should we do now?" White Peacock couldn't help crying.
Yin Xiu smiled slightly, "Why don't you eat first?"
"Eat?"
Ma Xiaoyu turned around and saw a monk walking slowly towards him.
"It must be the first time for the three donors to come to our temple. Don't you know where to eat? The young monk took the three of them there."
"Sorry to trouble you, little master."
Yin Xiu clasped his hands together, and then secretly glanced behind him.
Ma Xiaoyu immediately touched her belly and said, "We have been wandering around the temple all afternoon, and we are also very hungry."
The monk lowered his eyes and did not look at Ma Xiaoyu, "Where did the three of them swim?"
Well...
When Ma Xiaoyu paused, Yin Xiu had already answered: "I just walked around the temple and worshiped many Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, too many to remember."
"The same thing happened to the young monk when he first came to the temple. He always felt that he couldn't finish sightseeing, but he didn't know exactly where he went."
The young monk stretched out his hand and signaled: "This way, you three, please."
So the three of them followed the young monk to the back hall.
There is a very long room here, with several long tables that can accommodate twenty or thirty people eating. Stools are placed on both sides. On the table are porridge, steamed buns and some vegetarian dishes.
The monks in the temple ate together with the people and sat mingled.
Most Buddhist diets are like this.
There are monks who help people make porridge and make steamed buns, and the order is very orderly. Everyone's faces are calm and happy.
Yin Xiu took the two of them to sit down in the corner, and the monk just handed over three bowls of porridge.
"Please wait while it's hot," he gestured.
Seeing that they were newcomers, an enthusiastic woman next to them immediately pushed over a plate of cabbage, "This is grown by the masters on the mountain themselves. It is very sweet and delicious. You can try it."
"Thank you, thank you very much."
Yin Xiu clasped her hands together, "But my wife has been feeling unwell recently, I'm afraid..."
When his hand dropped, Ma Xiaoyu immediately felt the hint from Yin Xiu on her thigh.
She immediately covered her mouth as if she was about to vomit.
Then when Yin Xiu hurriedly put his arm around her shoulders, he let go and smiled sheepishly, "Sorry, I feel a little uncomfortable."
"I understand, I understand."
The woman was a visitor. She took Ma Xiaoyu's hand and asked gently: "How many months have it been?"
"Three, a little more than three months." Ma Xiaoyu whispered.
"That's when I have a bad appetite, and I can't quite eat."
"But."
Another monk came over, one of the monks who had seen the three of them in the morning.
"I heard that the donor didn't come here just to ask for a child? Why is the female donor already three months pregnant?"
"..."
A blush appeared on Ma Xiaoyu's face.
When Bai Peacock was still stunned, Yin Xiu had put his hand on her waist.
"Alas, the world cannot escape the samadhi of greed, anger, and ignorance. I feel ashamed to say that I am just too greedy, so I have two concubines..."
"Oh, that's it."
The monk nodded, "So, it's the female donor who wants a child?"
Bai Peacock didn't react until she felt a pain in her butt.
"Yes, it's me..."
The white peacock hummed, and glanced at Yin Xiu intentionally or unintentionally, "The master's beloved son is very eager, and I can't bear to see him work hard, so I proposed to go to Qianfo Temple to have a look."
"Amitabha, the donor is really virtuous."
The monk sighed repeatedly.
The woman also glanced at Ma Xiaoyu, then secretly looked at the white peacock, and couldn't help but feel sorry for Ma Xiaoyu: "You are young, but you are open-minded and let go."
Ma Xiaoyu smiled, with a hint of sadness in her kind eyes.
"Hey, what can we do? Weak women like us just want someone to pity us. As for other things, how dare we say a word?"
As she said this, she glanced at Yin Xiu tenderly, making him feel creepy.
"Lang Jun Boai, we should also feel lucky. We are too late to be happy. Why would we want to cut his body into thousands of pieces, cut him into eighteen pieces, and throw him out to feed the dogs?
You think so, Mr. Lang? ”
Realizing that life and death were at stake, Yin Xiu quickly smiled and said: "Yes, my dear, no, how can I dare to be ashamed of my wife?"
"That's good."
Ma Xiaoyu gently helped him up and said, "Let's go, Sir."
"Okay!"
Yin Xiu took a deep breath and said to Bai Peacock: "Are you going to eat here first, or come with us to rest?"
"Rest, rest well, I'm not hungry yet."
The white peacock was also shocked, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses.
"Please follow me."
The monk signaled: "I will arrange rooms for the donors to stay in first."
"Good work."
Yin Xiu took Ma Xiaoyu and Bai Peacock and followed the monk into the backyard.
The monk took them to a courtyard and opened the room to a large shop.
"Female donor, please rest here."
The monk looked at Yin Xiu again, "Donor, please follow me later and rest on the other side."
"Well..."
Yin Xiu frowned, "Master, are there no other rooms?"
"What does the donor mean?" The monk was puzzled.
"That's right."
Yin Xiu took Ma Xiaoyu's hand again and placed it on her belly.
"Isn't my wife pregnant? I feel uneasy leaving her alone here."
His face was full of sorrow, and Ma Xiaoyu was almost in tears, "Mr. Lang, this is a holy land of Buddhism. We should abide by the rules. We must not ruin the tranquility here because of the affair between our children.
Buddha is compassionate and will definitely bless us. ”
"But sister!"
The white peacock's eyes were red, "It doesn't matter that I'm here. My poor sister is not yet stable in pregnancy, but she has to suffer such twists and turns. It really breaks my heart!!" "This, this..."
The monk had never seen such a scene before. He suddenly became confused and scratched his head.
"Three donors, what should we do?"
Others should have asked him originally, but now it was the monk who wanted to ask them for help.
Yin Xiu immediately stepped forward and secretly handed over a few silver coins from his sleeve, "It is convenient for others and for yourself. Buddha also said that Buddhism should open the door to convenience. I wonder if Master has heard of it."
Feeling the heavy coolness in his hand, the monk couldn't help but startled, as if Yin Xiu had put a poisonous snake into his hand.
However, when he tried to escape, Yin Xiu held him tightly and could not move.
"Master, don't get me wrong, this is just money for Buddha."
"The donor is mistreating the young monk's practice."
The monk let out a long sigh, and felt that the silver dollar in his hand suddenly became hot, as if it had become a living thing, jumping around in his hand.
After a pause, he finally put the silver dollar into his sleeve.
"There is an empty Zen room. It is small and very clean, but because it is haunted, no one has dared to go in."
"Is the Buddhist temple also haunted?" White Peacock asked in surprise.
"Maybe it's not the ghost on the face, but the ghost in the heart?"
The monk whispered: "If you three insist on needing it, there is only one place."
"No problem."
Yin Xiu clasped her hands together and said, "This is a Buddhist temple, and the Bodhisattvas will protect us."
"Then please come this way."
The monk quickly took them to a more remote Zen room in the backyard and stopped there.
"Please don't tell anyone else."
The monk thought of the heavy silver dollar in his sleeve again, and felt that it was a huge boulder weighing ten thousand kilograms, weighing down his sleeve, but it made him breathless.
"Of course we won't tell others, Master has taken the trouble."
However, the monk was not afraid that others would know. He just said calmly: "This is a disaster that the young monk must endure, and it is also a difficulty. There is no need to worry about it."
Yin Xiu paused and couldn't believe it, "Master, did you accept this money on purpose?"
The monk smiled and said, "Intentional or not, whether there is a reason or not, it doesn't matter.
In the past, when Gautama Buddha was alms by the Ganges River, others gave him rotten rice, meat, gold and silver, and he accepted them without hesitation. When others asked him why he broke the precepts, he only said that giving alms is what others give you. You eat and drink what you want, that's it.
Naturally, the young monk did not dare to compare himself to Sakyamuni, but he also wanted to do such a thing. ”
Yin Xiu felt complicated for a moment, and she didn't know whether the monk was speaking superficially.
Is it true that he is not greedy for money, or that money is really not very important to him? Does such a person exist in the world? Even if he is a so-called pure-minded monk?
If what he said is true, wouldn't it mean that he has become a Rakshasa and a demon king who tests this monk?
But after not struggling for long, Yin Xiu felt relieved again.
It makes no sense for him to care about his identity, he only cares about what he does.
Speaking of murder, it is not a good thing in the eyes of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. Although there are many explanations, committing it is creating karma, which is tainted with cause and effect.
But so what?
Even if there are many righteous reasons, in the end, to achieve the goal, you still have to rely on calculating people's hearts and killing people.
In this case, we will eventually have something to do with evil, whether it is big evil or small right and wrong, it is inevitable.
"Donor, you don't have to worry about it." The monk whispered.
"Don't worry, I won't."
Yin Xiu said easily: "Just send it here. Please come back."
"The little monk bids farewell."
The monk turned around slowly, then suddenly looked back, "There is another test, and the young monk is also undergoing it. It is much more difficult than the one in front of him."
"What?"
Yin Xiu didn't know what the monk was talking about for a moment.
The monk opened his mouth and moved his lips a few times, as if he was speaking or swallowing the words that came to his lips.
For a long time, there was a hint of disappointment in his eyes, and finally he clasped his hands together and bowed: "It's not time yet, little monk, take leave."
"Everything in this world is just chance. Master, walk slowly."
When he turned around, the smile on Yin Xiu's face had disappeared and her eyes were cold.
He was considering whether to keep the other party and torture the monk who was pretending to be mysterious and mysterious, so that he could ask questions from him and get rid of his depression and confusion.
However, just a moment later, Yin Xiu gave up this plan and watched the monk leave.
As soon as he entered the house, the white peacock couldn't help but become happy when he found that the place was often cleaned and kept clean. He jumped onto the bed, ignoring that it was a hard bed, and rolled around on his own.
"Hey, I was really nervous just now."
She blinked, "You also think there's something wrong with that food, right?"
Yin Xiu and Ma Xiaoyu, on the other hand, look at me and I look at you.
"We are just being cautious and cannot see the problem with the food. Have you noticed anything?"
The white peacock lay down, raised his upper body, supported his chin with his hands, folded his feet behind his head, and swayed as she spoke.
"Hi, so brother, you are people from the Central Plains who are used to eating good food and have no shortage of oil and salt. Of course you don't know what people in the mountains care about."
Bai Peacock said seriously: "To this day, in Miao Village, there are two things that can be used as money, one is oil and the other is salt.
I can understand that the food in the temple is light and not oily, but didn’t you smell it? There was no salt in that dish of cabbage. ”
"No salt?"
"Yes, I can smell it with my nose."
The white peacock swayed its feet.
"It's hot and humid in southern Xinjiang. It's okay for you to sit at home, but if you work and don't eat more salt, you will inevitably feel weak and unable to walk.
You should also eat more spicy food, otherwise the moisture in your body will not be discharged.
I just saw it, maybe it’s a taboo, the dishes in Buddhist temples don’t have spicy, ginger and garlic, but that dish doesn’t even contain salt, which is a bit too outrageous.
Even if a monk does less strenuous work, he will inevitably get sick without salt, right? ”
After the white peacock finished speaking, his watery eyes looked at Yin Xiu, just waiting for him to give orders.
However, Yin Xiu didn't comment on this. He just took out a meat pie from his bag and handed it to Bai Peacock.
"Are you hungry?"
"Of course, I haven't eaten all day."
White Peacock bit off a piece of the pancake and felt salty in his mouth.
Yin Xiu handed the other two cakes to Ma Xiaoyu, then sat down on the side and took a sip of wine.
"Do you have any plans?"
Ma Xiaoyu has always known Yin Xiu's temperament. At this time, she was eating meat pie and asked him.
Of course Yin Xiu had a plan, even if it had nothing to do with what Bai Peacock said, he had planned it from the beginning.
"Do you still remember that great monk Fayin?"
"The president of this hospital who has lived for more than two hundred years?"
"Yes, that's him. I want to see him tonight."
"But isn't he in bad health?"
"It doesn't matter."
Yin Xiu grinned, "I'm in good health." (End of Chapter)