"My father never lets me go to the temple."
"Then you said you wanted to take me to Thousand Buddhas Temple?"
Ren Qi stopped and looked at Akko with doubt in his eyes.
At this time, they had just hit the road and it was not too late to return to their original house.
"I just said that I have never been in, and I didn't say that I don't know how to get out."
Akko smiled and said: "I promised my father not to enter the Thousand Buddhas Temple, but I didn't say I wouldn't take a look at it from a distance."
"According to your statement, he is in the temple himself, why didn't he let you go?" Ren Qi asked.
"Abba said it is not convenient for girls to enter Buddhist temples."
"Your father was right."
Ren Qi sneered, "As soon as a woman enters the temple, it will become chaotic. It will be extremely chaotic."
"You know again?"
Akko was unconvinced and said: "The masters of Qianfo Temple are all devoted to Buddhism, so they are not as dirty as you think. And you only heard about it, right?"
"Hearsay?"
Ren Qi snorted coldly, "I have seen it in a temple in the south of the Yangtze River. An abbot raised seven or eight beautiful women, and he gave birth to a bunch of sons."
"Hey, this is too abominable. He has committed a crime, and God will punish him." Akko said angrily.
"No need for God to take action."
Ren Qi said calmly: "I hung him on the city wall. It was summer at that time, and the weather could kill a dog just by walking on the street. The monk had a lot of fat and could survive. He screamed for several nights and was exposed to the sun for three days." Genius is dead.
When a person dies, the layer of skin droops down and it looks like the whole person has melted. ”
Akko nodded in agreement and said: "Those who commit adultery in Buddhist temples should be killed. You are doing this to eliminate harm for the people."
"Eliminate harm to the people?"
As if hearing a big joke, Ren Qi laughed out loud, causing the birds on the branches to flap their wings and fly up.
In Ake's puzzled eyes, he explained: "At that time, I was supervising the case of the White Lotus Sect. I killed a group of people and arrested another group.
There was a local Taoist priest who was at odds with the abbot and had always wanted to build the monk's temple, so he gave me a box of yellow notes, and I conveniently labeled the monk as an accomplice of the White Lotus Sect, and we helped him together. ”
"Huh?"
Akko frowned and said, "That Taoist priest is so cruel. The monk was not prepared for this move."
"Who said he didn't? He came to me and gave me two boxes of yellow notes."
"Then you shouldn't turn around and deal with the Taoist priest?"
"Why should I deal with that Taoist priest in turn?"
Ren Qi broke off a branch from a tree on one side and pinched it in his hand.
"Because he gives you more money than the Taoist priest, shouldn't you just help whoever gives you more money?"
"Wrong!"
Ren Qi corrects Akko's thoughts.
"If I kill him, then the money won't be mine? The Taoist priest is only willing to give out a box of gold for things like killing people and seizing land, which means that his family is not as rich as a monk.
The monk can easily carry out two boxes of gold. If I squeeze a little more, can't I get more? ”
"Is this why you killed the monk and ransacked his house?"
"Absolutely. Anyway, when I hung him on the city wall, he even told me where to put my concubine's bellyband."
"Hey... this monk is really nothing, so it's better to just give my family's wealth to the Taoist priest."
"It's still wrong!" Ren Qi said coldly.
"Where did I go wrong again?" Akko felt dizzy.
"That Taoist priest was also killed by me."
"Huh??"
Ren Qi threw the branch aside, "Because I thought it was just a deposit, but I didn't expect it to be the Taoist priest's entire property. He didn't respect me, so I killed him."
"Don't you need to give an explanation to others for killing people like this?"
"I am an expert in Ouchi, who should I answer to?"
"Master in Ouchi?"
Akko's eyes widened and he became more nervous than ever before, "My father said, be careful of those big masters, they, they..."
"Yes, the Ouchi masters are all a bunch of beasts and evil spirits, but this has nothing to do with me anymore, because I am no longer an Ouchi master."
"Oh, so that's it."
Akko breathed a sigh of relief, "I just said that you don't look alike."
"It doesn't look like it?"
Ren Qi glanced at her, "Then tell me, who do I look like?"
"You seem like a good person."
"Good guy?"
Ren Qi laughed.
"Why are you laughing again? In the past ten days or so, you have never laughed once, but today, you have laughed twice."
"Because anyone who hears two big jokes in one day will laugh like me."
Akko, who was still looking confused at first, started to laugh heartily.
"What's so funny about this."
Putting away his smile, Ren Qi extended his hand and said, "Let's go. If you have anything to say or laugh about, we'll talk about it when we get to Thousand Buddhas Temple."
"But at that time, I have to stay outside." Akko said.
"Because your father refuses to let you enter Thousand Buddhas Temple?"
Akko nodded, inevitably a little aggrieved: "He often goes in and out of Thousand Buddhas Temple, but he never lets me follow him, and he doesn't allow me to ask him what he is doing."
Ren Qi did not answer, but remembered that during the more than ten days in the house, he had never seen the father A Ke mentioned.
Akko just goes out for a while every time it's meal time. When he comes back, he always brings back some wild vegetables and fruits.
As for rice and bacon, they hang high on the beams, as if they would stock up for half a year at a time.
"What did your father do at Thousand Buddhas Temple?"
"I don't know either."
Akko touched his chin, "Abba never told me. You know, he didn't allow me to ask, but I often smelled the smell of herbs on his body. Maybe he was helping the masters of Qianfo Temple take care of the medicine garden. ”
"Is there a medicine garden in Thousand Buddhas Temple?"
"I've never been to Thousand Buddhas Temple, how would I know?"
Akko blinked, "Anyway, my medical skills were passed down to me by my father. He himself said that he was already a very famous doctor when he was in the village.
It's just that I have never been back to the village. I have been here since I was born, so I don't know what the specific situation is in the village. ”
"Stadly?"
Ren Qi squinted his eyes and looked at her, "So, you are Miao people?"
"What?"
Akko shook his shoulders playfully and said with a southwest accent on purpose: "I just changed into clothes that are convenient for walking in the mountains. Brother, can't you see that I am a Miao?"
……
Although she was mentally prepared, when Yin Xiu opened the door, along with the stench, there was also a shocking visual impact.
In this small room, with the help of the light, he saw a piece of rotten flesh that was almost inhuman shape lying on the bed.
He was naked and only covered his body with a thin quilt. The hand exposed by the quilt was almost only bones, and the distinct joints and bones were exposed under the somewhat ulcerated skin. One of his hands was hung up, and this was the hand that Yin Xiu saw through the window paper.
This arm was covered with pinholes, especially at the elbow. They were so densely packed that they looked like an insect nest.
This is the great monk Fayin, with his mouth opened mechanically. The only moving part of his body is his eyes, which are muddy and lifeless, dotted with black spots.
At this point, his breathing sound like a broken blower became more obvious, and it sounded like a life-threatening reminder to Yin Xiu's ears.
Yin Xiu slowly approached and smelled the smell of Monk Fayin mixed with the smell of herbs, which seemed extremely strange and pungent.
Monk Fayin's eyes turned around and shone brightly, while the sound of phlegm in his throat became more obvious.
He seemed to have something to say to Yin Xiu.
Yin Xiu approached and saw Buddhist scriptures and rosary beads placed next to him, but these two things were useless to him at this time.
Neither the Buddha nor the good doctors could save him.
In other words, it was precisely because someone used herbs and acupuncture to hang his life that he could live in this state.
"I understand."
Yin Xiu flipped through the scriptures while sorting out his thoughts.
"Among the monks of Thousand Buddhas Temple, some of them don't want you to die, right? Just like the monk just now. They want you to live longer so that you can be the signboard of Thousand Buddhas Temple and promote the profoundness of Buddhism.
No wonder, now is the Dharma Ending Age, Taoist priests and monks are in recession, there must be some miracle to maintain the faith of others.
Only in this way can we promote Buddhism and protect our disciples. As for Abbot Dharma, even if you don’t want to, you are this miracle. ”
Fayin's eyes rolled and he made a noise in his throat, as if he wanted to tell Yin Xiu something, but in the end, all that came out was only a turbid sound, like bubbles in a swamp.
"It's a pity that you don't know how to telepathize, and I don't have the medical skills to make you speak."
Yin Xiu sighed, "Although your body can't move, your mind is still clear. You must have a lot to say, and I also have something to ask you, but it's a pity..."
He suddenly saw the Buddhist scriptures in his hand and got an idea.
"This way..."
Yin Xiu handed the Buddhist scriptures to Fa Yin and raised the wick higher.
"If there is something you want to say on this page, just roll your eyes up. If there is nothing on this page, just skip it.
If so, I will point you to the word one by one. When you get to the word you want to say, just roll your eyes again. Can you do that, Abbot? ”
Monk Fain rolled his eyes upward.
So Yin Xiu took off his gloves and began to slowly turn the pages of the book, pointing out the words on them to Fa Yin.
Even though it feels like a long time, it actually goes very quickly.
After a while, when Yin Xiu closed the scripture, he had already obtained three words.
Death, me, sand.
"Kill me?"
Yin Xiu asked him, "Is that what you mean?"
Fine's eyes turned up and down, looking very excited.
"Okay, I will rescue you from hell, not because we know each other, just because this is just something that can be done easily."
Yin Xiu shook her sleeves and took a dagger in her hand.
Fayin stared at the dagger, and the cold light reflected in his pupils, which made his dead fish-like eyes look brighter.
Yin Xiu stopped talking nonsense and pointed the knife at Fa Yin's throat.
At this moment, footsteps came from outside the door again.
With a creak, the door was pushed open.
The person who entered was not a monk, but a man wearing a turban and wearing a style similar to that of White Phoenix and White Peacock.
He was also a Miao man named Sang Jiu.
He was holding a bamboo basket, stood at the door and began to bow.
"Abbott, good evening."
Sang Jiu's accent was the same as that of a white peacock, which made Yin Xiu suspect that he was the Miao man who lived in seclusion in Qianfo Temple that the two sisters were looking for.
At this time, Yin Xiu hid behind the screen and observed him carefully.
I saw Sang Jiu put the bamboo basket on the table, and took out a long tube, scarf, and a bowl of steaming, green, thick porridge that smelled of herbs.
After Sang Jiu put the porridge on the table, Fain's breathing suddenly became rapid, and the abnormal sound in his throat became louder.
"Don't worry yet, Master, it's hot."
Sang Jiu took out the tobacco stick from his clothes, knocked it on the table, shook out the old leaves, and filled it with new tobacco leaves.
Then he took out a match and rubbed it on the sole of his shoe, and sparks lit up.
After a pause, he remembered that there was an oil lamp in front of him.
"Hey, I forgot again, there is a fire here."
As Sang Jiu said this, he still put the match close to the cigarette rod.
Zi……
With a sigh, misty smoke enveloped Sang Jiu's face.
He shook his hand and put out the match.
"Elder Wuchen told me that this place must be protected from fire and smoke. It is a pure place for Buddhism and must be pure and clean.
cut! Can smoking a cigarette be associated with uncleanness? I like to be very clean. I wash my cigarette rod over and over again so that there is no oil on it. And I only smoke two bags a day, one bag when I get up in the morning and one bag here.
Because I know, Abbot, you like to smell the smoke, but it's a pity that you can't move, otherwise I can still take a sip for you. ”
After slowly smoking a pack of cigarettes, Sang Jiu stood up and touched the edge of the bowl with his hand.
"Okay, it's already warm. It won't get any hotter."
He took the long tube from one side and wiped it carefully with a white cloth.
"It's not easy, Abbot. We are all persisting and suffering. However, I know that the suffering we suffer is not one ten millionth of what you have suffered.
But Elder Wuchen said, before the time comes, you and I still have to endure in this world, and we can't just let it go.
This can only be painful for you, but as you said, abbot, if I don’t go to hell, who will? Grit your teeth and bear it one more time. ”
As he spoke, Sangjiu inserted the long tube into Monk Fain's toothless mouth, and at the same time skillfully put the bowl up.
Gulu, Gulu, Gulu...
Yin Xiu watched this scene from behind the screen.
I just feel that this is the best torture in the world.
Monk Fayin's throat, which was originally dry, shrunken and collapsed, suddenly swelled as the bowl of rice porridge was poured in. As the porridge water entered, it swelled, undulated, and gradually became rounded and turned into a drum.
From time to time, green porridge water flows out from the corner of his mouth.
At this time, Sang Jiu would stop for a moment, pick up a piece of cloth and wipe away the traces.
During this process, due to the natural reaction of the throat and the flow rate, Monk Fayin sometimes reacted as if he was choking on water. Sometimes the green porridge water came out of his nose and flowed to his mouth, and sometimes it was mixed with it. Tears slipped from the corners of his eyes.
At this time, the dead tree-like body seemed to react again, trembling and shaking from time to time.
However, Sang Jiu was really very patient. When Fayin choked on the rice porridge, he would stop and clean it up without any hint of impatience.
After a while, as the last drop of rice porridge was poured down, Fain felt like a deflated ball, and his body shrank again.
Sang Jiu took back his tools and carefully helped Fa Yin clean up his body.
Gulu...
Yin Xiu suddenly saw that in Fain's mouth, his tongue seemed to be moving and sticking out of his mouth. (End of chapter)