Chapter 50 Encounter
“Yes, it happened decades ago, and Beichen was also traveling with me back then.”
Shi Zelan raised his eyes and saw a look of nostalgia flashing through the eyes of Master Decheng, I asked out of curiosity: "Uncle, did you have a lot of people traveling together that time?"
"Yes, there were more than ten people traveling together, and everyone was a good partner.
Sister Lan, you Do you want to hear about your father? ”
Shi Zelan shook his head: "I have heard my father's various outstanding deeds told many times in the lecture hall.
Uncle, they are better at telling stories than you."
Decheng Zhenren watched it Shi Zelan glanced at it and sighed: "But they don't know as much as I do."
"Uncle, you have never thought of telling me about my father before.
This moment , I don’t want to hear it, but you want to tell me, what do you want me to do for you?”
"Pfft." Master Shanzheng smiled: "Girl, you and Xiaoliu should clean up your place tonight."
Shi Xiaoliu and Shi Zelan nodded at the same time, and Shi Xiaoliu said to Master Decheng: " Master, can you look around and see if anyone is here?”
“There’s no one around right now. Your uncle and I are tired, so we’ll take a rest outside for a while.”
Shi. Xiaoliu and Shi Zelan were outside the temple. They had already smelled the smell and were mentally prepared.
But after they entered Shoushan Temple, the two of them immediately took two steps back. It was so smelly. No wonder Master Decheng and Master Shanzheng were unwilling to get close.
Shi Zelan didn't care too much, and directly covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief, and said to Shi Xiaoliu: "Let's clean the dirty things out of the temple first, and then use the dust purifier to clean the environment in the temple.
The surrounding area Why don’t farmers come to the temple to collect fertilizer?”
“Do you still know about farmers collecting fertilizer?”
“Ling Yu said that farmers in the secular world are diligent. They are busy all year round.
Collecting fertilizer is the most leisurely job for them. ”
The two of them endured their nausea, transported the fertilizer from the temple to the mountainside, and then used the dust-purifying technique to clean up the inside and outside of the temple.
The two of them stood outside the temple and exhaled, then changed into a pair of coarse clothes.
Decheng Zhenren and Shanzheng Zhenren were walking on the country road, and both of them enjoyed this kind of life.
"Beichen told me back then that he would come with me next time.
As a result, I don’t know where he is now. Instead, I came with his senior brother and my daughter."< br>
Master Shan Zheng glanced at him: "You were not sentimental before."
"You are sentimental. What do I, a grown man, have to be sentimental about?
This is not because of you, master and disciple. Beichen?
You are as cold-hearted as my master and disciple."
"You want me to hold you and cry bitterly, saying that I miss my little junior brother and say that I am worried about his safety?"< br>
"No, stay away from me."
"You are not me, so you will not understand my worries.
You are not Sister Lan, and you will not understand her feelings of missing her father. ."
Master Decheng shook his head at Master Shanzheng: "I don't have such a loving relationship. It's just that when I go to the old place, I can't help but think of the old people."
"Then we will go there in the future. There are more places, you won’t have to inspect our master and disciple every time you go, right?”
"I'm not that bored. Maybe we can find traces of Beichen and his wife during this trip."
"I hope so. Sister Lan still needs her parents now and can still build a deep relationship with them."
"Shan Zheng, you are smart but you are confused for a moment."
"Go away, you are too noisy."
They were fighting and walking back, they were almost there Near Shouyama Temple, the two stopped.
"Shanzheng, the two children have cleaned the Shoushan Temple very well. We will stay here for a few days and repair the walls of the temple." "Okay, I will take them to build the brick walls.
When the temple is clean, the visiting monks will stay for a few more days.”
Shi Xiaoliu and Shi Zelan worked together to lift the leaning Buddha statue and carefully wiped away the stains on it.
After they finished this, they looked at the clean Shouzanji Temple and their expressions changed.
"Xiao Liu, we have done it."
"Sister Lan, we have done it beyond measure."
The two looked at each other and had to accept the facts before them.
Master Decheng and Master Shanzheng walked in. Seeing the expressions on their faces, they sighed: "We have just agreed to stay a few more days.
It's just that our identities have to change again. , to become the monk You Fang, Sister Lan will disguise herself as a man.”
Master Shan Zheng brushed his hand towards Shi Zelan, and she reached out to touch her bald head. Then she looked down at her master of monk robes, clasped her hands together and saluted.
"Donor Xiao Liu is well!"
Zhen Zheng shook his head after seeing this: "Sister Lan, you are too cheerful and lively, the young monk should keep quiet."
Shi Xiaoliu stood very upright: "Master, neither Sister Lan nor I can recite scriptures."
"Your master, I can recite the Medicine Sutra, which is also a good sutra for persuading people to do good."
Master Decheng replied frankly to Shi Xiaoliu's words. He was not a Buddhist, so naturally he had never memorized Buddhist scriptures.
“Master, I can recite the Tao Te Ching.”
Shi Zelan proudly told Shan Zhengzhen that she seemed to be a person who had no connection with Buddha either.
Master Shanzheng looked at her: "You have cleaned Shoushan Temple too well. We stay here and repair the missing walls."
"But people in the secular world, It’s impossible to repair a courtyard wall without five or six days of hard work.”
Master Decheng and Master Shanzheng went to check out the Buddha statues, while Shi Xiaoliu and Shi Zelan stood next to each other and talked in a low voice.
"Xiao Liu, at least now we are sitting under the tree in the temple, the air is much fresher."
Shi Xiaoliu nodded: "Sister Lan, we just want to learn about the monastery wall "
Decheng Zhenren and Shanzheng Zhenren are determined to train Shi Xiaoliu and Shi Zelan, starting from cleaning the foundation of the courtyard wall and letting them do things by themselves.
Of course they were not idle either. They went to the foot of the mountain to pick up dirt, and to the river to pick up sand. They also went into the village and found someone to buy wooden boards to make temple doors.
The four of them were busy in the past two days.
On the third day, an elderly farmer passing by came up and asked Master Decheng: "Great monk, will you stay at Shoushan Temple in the future?"
"Donor, we have traveled far and wide and come here. There is a destiny with Shoushan Temple.”
“Does this mean you will stay?”
Master Decheng and the old man explained that they were going to another place and that Shoushan Temple had to wait for someone who was destined to be there. .
The old man sighed: "You have built the temple, but if you don't keep it, it will become deserted again over time."
He shook his head and left. Master Decheng looked at Master Shanzheng and sighed: "It's difficult to be a human being. .
But what he said makes sense. Master Shanzheng, please tell me how long it will take for the guardian to come here. There’s no need to count it one more time.”
“Okay.”
They all thought that the old man just came to say a few words, and they didn't take it seriously.
An hour later, Master Decheng and Master Shanzheng went to the river, where Shi Xiaoliu and Shi Zelan were making mud bricks.
They saw the old man coming with a group of people. After the two looked at each other, Shi Xiaoliu stepped forward to greet them.
(End of this chapter)