I was delayed by the old monk's affairs, and if I tried to rush to Minzhou City, I might miss the closing time and not be able to enter the city. So at the old monk's kind invitation, Li Changan rested for a night in the group room.
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Early next morning.
"Boom."
The distant bells break the silence in the mountains, and the morning bells are accompanied by the morning glow, which is like the artistic conception of a secluded temple in the mountains.
But no matter how good the artistic conception is, it still disturbs people's dreams.
Li Changan turned over and pulled the quilt to cover his ears, but the sound of the bell penetrated his eardrums unyieldingly, so he had no choice but to stand up, yawn and get out of bed.
Opening the door, the morning light shines.
The rooster had just begun to crow, and Li Changan felt hypotensive and irritated.
You said you, a fake monk, are doing morning bells and evening drums in the temple?
"Taoist Master, good morning." In the corridor, a young novice sweeping the floor saw Li Changan and quickly clasped his hands in salute.
"Well, good morning, little master." Li Changan responded casually, but suddenly froze before taking two steps.
"Huh? Little monk?"
He turned back so suddenly that the little novice monk dropped his broom to the ground.
Li Changan stared at the little novice's embarrassed expression and smooth head.
Oh, what a monk!
After fighting Feifei yesterday, Li Changan also swaggered around the temple for a while. Along the way, I didn't notice any monks in the temple, but there were bandits everywhere. After all, even the Bodhisattva gave up his seat to the feast. Li Changan only thought that this temple was just a den of thieves, but he didn't expect...
He smiled with interest, turned around and walked out of the courtyard, arriving in front of the main hall.
When he left the main hall yesterday, Li Changan saw drunken bandits all over the floor. Now, the bandits were nowhere to be seen and only a few monks were sweeping the place.
A sound of chanting came into his ears, and Li Changan followed the sound and walked towards the side hall where the banquet was held yesterday.
He strolled into the hall, and the Bodhisattvas on both sides of the side hall had all returned to their seats, showing mercy where they should and glaring with anger when they should. The Tathagata Buddha sat with his eyebrows down and smiled softly, and the plaque that had been "stealed" by Tianxing was replaced with "Buddha's Light Shining".
In front of the Tathagata, the old monk was wearing a cassock and leading a dozen monks to recite scriptures in a grand manner.
Overnight, the bandits' den turned back into a monk's temple.
Oh, this world is really weird and bizarre.
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When the old monk saw Li Changan, he came up to him.
"Amitabha, Taoist Master is awake."
Li Changan smiled, not bothering to pretend to be pretentious with him, and said frankly that he was here to say goodbye.
"Taoist Master, please wait a moment."
The old monk gave a few instructions to the monks and took Li Changan to a side courtyard.
As soon as he entered the courtyard, he put aside the pretense of being a great monk, clasped his fists at Li Changan and said loudly:
"Yesterday, my little boy really troubled the Taoist priest, so I prepared some gifts for the Taoist priest to practice."
He clapped his hands, and two bandits with shaved hair and perms and ring scars carried a large box into the yard.
The two of them carried the box to the old monk, put it down, and opened it. When Li Changan looked inside, he looked strange.
Seeing the sudden change in Li Changan's expression, the old monk frowned slightly, but still said with a hearty smile: "Taoist Master, this gift..."
He originally thought that Li Changan was too young, and thought that this Taoist priest looked free and easy, but he was so greedy in private, so he couldn't help but despise him, but when he turned around, he was also stunned.
It's not that the items in the box are valuable or unique, it's just some silk cloth inside. It doesn't matter, because this world has the habit of using silk as currency. But the problem is that Li Changan, a wandering Taoist priest, carries such a large box of stuff with him, isn't it a burden?
The most important thing is that the gift prepared by the old monk is not silk!
With a gloomy face, he called the box carrier to his side and asked in a low voice:
"What's going on? Where is the money I prepared!"
The man carrying the box had a grimace, leaned into the old monk's ear, and whispered something. As the old monk listened, his face was angry, confused, and confused. It was just like the clouds in the mountains, changing in ever-changing ways. Although this look is complicated, it is also very common. Without him, every time a parent hears that their naughty child is cheating again, they will have this expression.
"Taoist priest...hey!" The old monk didn't look like a giant bandit at this moment. "Please wait a moment, I'll prepare another one."
"No."
Li Changan waved his hand and suddenly strode to the box, a charm burning quietly in his hand. He leaned over and buried his head in the box, his nose twitched (harmony) a few times, then he stood up and nodded and said:
"really."
When he opened the box just now, Li Changan looked strange, not because of the cloth, but because of the familiar smell faintly wafting from the box. He offered the Chonglong Jade Talisman, aroused the spirit of his nose, and walked closer to smell it carefully, only to confirm that the smell on the cloth was very similar to the smell in the Shetou Mountain Cave.
It's the smell of the spider monster!
Li Changan turned around and asked, "Where does this come from?"
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"This is the recently famous 'Yun Huan Sha'!"
"It is said that this material is plain white when woven, does not touch dust or water, and is very tough, but it is as light as nothing when worn on the body. When it came out, it was priceless. Even the officials in the city wanted to Use this material as a tribute to the emperor..."
Li Changan raised his hand to interrupt the eloquence of the man opposite him. How could a bandit who was robbing things suddenly become a salesman?
"I'm asking where this thing comes from?"
Li Changan asked more carefully, and he discovered just now that the evil spirit on Yun Huan gauze was not contamination, but came from the material itself. In other words... Li Changan came to a somewhat shocking conclusion... the raw materials of this material are most likely to come from the demon itself!
"This material comes from Qi County."
"Qi County?" Li Changan remembered that there was Qi County under the jurisdiction of Minzhou City.
"That's right." The man took the opportunity to speak again, "This Qi County used to be poor. The land was poor and the water was even worse. Good farmers could not grow in the land. They could only marry their daughters from outside the country, but not from the inside. But it is said that a Weaver Girl suddenly came from the mountains of Qi County and brought with her the fairy shuttle that weaves the sunset in the sky, which is why this 'cloud weaver and mist spinner' was created..."
"Wait a minute." Li Changan suddenly asked: "Mountain? What mountain?"
The man replied blankly: "Yunluo Mountain."
"A big spider came from a mountain in Minzhou. It was so ferocious that it ate all the little monsters nearby."
Li Changan rubbed the short beard growing out of his chin. Is that it?
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Li Changan declined the old monk's offer and took the donkey out of the mountain gate.
This temple is built on the mountainside. It was still early, and there was still mist on the mountain road, but there were already pilgrims coming to worship the Buddha.
When they saw Li Changan, they all looked strange. A short-haired Taoist priest led a donkey out of the monk temple?
However, Li Changan looked at them with even weirder expressions.
There are countless temples in the world, and there are even more Bodhisattvas. Why do you worship the blood-licking Bodhisattva in this temple?
He went down the mountain, turned around, and went to Naqi County to see the "Weaver Girl" before he got on the donkey.
suddenly.
A scream suddenly started in my ears.
Something came out of nowhere!
