This was the first time that Axia called Brother Alang. Normally she would never call him. I wonder if she felt like she couldn't make it through today, so she said it easily.
Alang smiled and touched her head: "Don't worry, I won't let anything happen to you."
He had no choice but to let his sister see it. He did not go to the front of the shop, but walked to a place where the veiled woman could not see her.
The guy saw a kid who looked like a beggar walking over. He stood up with a frown on his face and said, "Let's go quickly. Let's go quickly. There is no advantage for you to take."
Alang's Chinese was not fluent at this time, but he could still hear the guy talking to him. He seemed to have not heard anything and stared blankly behind the clerk. The clerk looked strange at him and turned around to look back.
At this moment, the high priest used all his strength to throw himself down on the nearby bread stall, and he pulled the bread off the bread stall. I don’t know if it was because I really ran out of energy, but the cake I was about to get actually slipped from my hand and fell to the ground, covered with dust.
The man cried out in distress when he saw it. Seeing that the high priest was still trying hard to grab the piece of bread, he was so angry that he picked up the fire stick next to him and hit the high priest on the body.
The high priest held the bread in his hands and said nothing. I don’t know if the guy is really impatient. The attacks became more and more severe, and a group of diners nearby who were watching the fun were about to beat people to death.
At this time, a Buddha's call came from behind the waiter: "Amitabha, donor, please stop."
The waiter then stopped and turned around to see a monk and two monks standing behind him. The Taoist priest looked very strange and had no idea where he came from. But the monk he was familiar with couldn't be more familiar, it was the presiding monk of the treasure temple on this mountain.
The clerk saw the abbot master and hurriedly returned the courtesy: "Master, it's not that he is a villain, but he really doesn't understand the rules. There is no reason to rob openly. How can I do business like this?"
The monks looked at each other, and it was the great monk who spoke: "In that case, let the poor monk buy this cake."
"No, no, no, now that the master has spoken, let's treat it as a villain and give it to the temple."
The great monk nodded after hearing this and stood up to help Alang without saying anything else. Unexpectedly, he stood up tremblingly on his own. He didn't even look at the waiter, nor at the two monks and Taoists. He just dragged his body and walked back slowly.
He walked up to Axia and sat down next to her. He patted the cake covered with dirt and put it on his lap. Then he reached out and took out another clean cake from his arms and stuffed it into the veiled woman's hand, and finally gave her a proud smile.
At this time, the veiled woman had already burst into tears.
"Eat, it's still hot," the high priest said
At this time, the two monks and Taoists walked closer to the two children. They looked at the two orphans who looked like beggars.
"Is it Miao?"
"Yes, they are Miao people."
"Why are you here?"
"You should have guessed it."
"Sin, sin!"
"Heaven and earth are unkind and regard all things as rudderless dogs. The saints are unkind and regard the common people as rudderless dogs."
"Don't talk about state affairs."
"Old monk, no wonder you have such a big fortune, but you are quite proficient in worldly matters."
"You and I should stop arguing now. It looks like this kid is dying."
"My internal organs have been injured and I can't survive more than seven days."
"You'd better send me to the temple, maybe I can be saved."
"If you are willing to give up, you will be saved, but I'm afraid you won't be able to."
After hearing this, the old monk showed a pained expression, and then chanted the Buddha's name: "Amitabha, saving one life is better than building a seven-level pagoda with a few foreign objects..."
"You don't care, give me that thing."
"You save yourself but not others. It will be wasted on you."
"What you give me is to save others but not yourself, to increase your merits."
"Amitabha, that boy is dying. Let's go back to the temple first."
"Humph, old monk, you are not very practical."
Although the two were arguing, they did not delay their men's actions. Just when Alang passed out, the great monk had quick eyes and quick hands and held him in his arms. Axia was shocked when she saw it, and the old Taoist shook Fuchen next to her. Axia fell into a coma for some reason.
When she woke up again, she was already in a Zen room, with a strange Zen incense burning around her. Alang was lying next to her motionless, as if he had died. Axia struggled to get up and wanted to see how he was doing.
Suddenly a voice came from the side: "Don't move, he can't move now."
Only then did Axia see that there were two monks and Taoists whom she had seen before in the meditation room.
"What happened to him? What did you do to him?"
"He was injured to all his internal organs. The great monk spent a lot of money to save him. You little girl, don't be ignorant."
Only then did Axia notice that Alang was breathing evenly, and he must have fallen asleep.
Axia knelt down on the ground and said, "Thank you two old gods."
Neither the old monk nor the old Taoist priest helped them. They kept looking at the two of them. Finally, the old monk said, "What do you think of these two children?"
"Puyu. I have an idea. There is no winner or loser in this discussion. Let's simply accept a disciple each. I will come back to you with my disciples in ten years. How about that?"
The old monk thought for a while and nodded: "Okay! Then..."
"The boy is yours, you can't let a girl shave her head."
After Alang woke up, the two monks expressed their thoughts. They thought it would be difficult to tell these two little guys about this matter, but unexpectedly it went surprisingly smoothly, especially when they heard the great monk say that he worked in the largest temple in the world. The host monk and the two of them agreed without thinking.
However, this made the two monks frown. The look and application of these two people were not quite right, and they might become some kind of scourge in the future.
The old Taoist priest laughed loudly: "It's a chance meeting with these two children. If God insists on it, then why force it."
"Niubi, you are very free and easy."
"You and I shouldn't have to worry about this in the first place."
"Right."
A month later, Alang's injury was completely healed. Under the observation of the old Taoist priest and Axia, they worshiped the old monk. After the ceremony was completed, Axia followed the old Taoist priest and left the temple.
I heard an old Taoist priest say that his Taoist temple is not located in famous mountains and rivers, but in the mirror, flowers and water. If you don't know the Dharma, you will never get there.
The two of them went upstream along the east-west river. The old Taoist priest often spent the entire day watching the surging river. I don’t know what I was thinking, but more than a month later, the river became much narrower and shallower.
This day is the night of the full moon. The old Taoist priest looked up at the moon in the sky and called Axia to his side.
"Disciple, do you know where we are now?"
"It should be in the south of Yongzhou."
"Go south from here and you can return to Southern Xinjiang."
"right."
"Are you homesick?"
Axia's expression darkened: "I don't want to."
The old Taoist priest paused for a moment and said, "If you miss home, I can take you home. If I miss your brother, I may also ask the old monk to bring him back."
Years later, when she recalled that conversation, she said to herself: "How can I have a home if my family is gone?"
But that's when she raised her head and said, "I want to follow Master."
The old Taoist priest nodded and said nothing. At this time, the full moon hangs at the end of the river. The seal shines silvery light on the river.
He turned back to look at Axia: "Disciple, I hope you don't regret it."
"Regret? I don't regret it."
The old Taoist priest nodded and said, "Let's go."
"Where to go?"
"Go to my dojo."
"how to get to?"
The old Taoist priest pointed to the river under the boat. Axia didn't understand what the old Taoist priest meant.
At this moment, the old Taoist priest grabbed Axia's hand, pulled her and jumped off the bow of the boat.
"Ah!" Axia didn't know why the old Taoist priest threw himself into the river, but the rapid falling feeling made her scream in panic. But what followed was not the feeling of falling into the water. Axia felt like she was floating for a while, and then landed firmly on the ground.
When she opened her eyes again, she was still standing on the boat, and her master was looking down at the moon in the water. There was no trace of the sailors around.
"Master, just now..."
"This is my dojo."
"Here? On this boat?"
"It's not this boat, it's here. Everywhere you can see or can't see is my dojo."
"Master, I don't understand."
"You'll understand later."
It turned out not to be a long time later. At dawn the next day, Axia understood what the old Taoist meant.
This is no longer the world before.
It took Axia a long time to accept this fact. She could not understand how the master did it. The landscape and terrain of this world are exactly the same as the previous world, with countless birds and beasts. The only difference is that there are only two people here, namely her and the old Taoist priest.
In other words, before he came, this was a world that only belonged to the old Taoist priest. This whole world is the dojo of the old Taoist priest.
Axia thought about ten thousand possibilities, but she never thought that there was such a thing.
"Master, how did you do it?"
"It's a long story." Axia looked at the old Taoist priest and knew that it was not that he didn't want to say it, but that he really had to explain it to her for a long, long time.
Axia has been living here with the old Taoist priest since then.
It's really like a paradise here. The two people's boat went down the river again. Axia sat on the bow and felt the air was particularly sweet when she took a breath. There were countless birds surrounding her, and occasionally some bold ones landed on the boat and stood close to her.
Suddenly one day, the old Taoist priest stopped the boat. He led Axia off the boat and walked along the road for a long time until a high mountain appeared in front of him.
Axia didn't know where this was. The old Taoist priest stopped here. He smiled and said to Axia: "My good disciple, there will be a few beasts coming over in a while. Don't be afraid."
Axia nodded and thought to herself that she had never seen any animals in southern Xinjiang, so how could she be afraid of those things.
