Chapter 441 Where to Go (3)
There is clear water in front, green mountains behind, and thousands of acres of fertile farmland on both sides. Tenants from several villages are working hard in the fields.
At the foot of the green mountain, a large Zen temple stands quietly. On the gate is a plaque with the words "Huqiu".
Lu Yu raised his head and looked at the plaque with the words "Tiger Hill" for a long time, but he still couldn't figure out where the name of this Zen temple came from.
But why bother about him so much?
As soon as the group entered the gate of the Zen temple, they were greeted by Jinmona's disciples. They were all skinny, but in great spirits. The big and small monks were calm and indifferent, and had the demeanor of great monks.
Lu Yi flicked his sleeves, and nearly a thousand monks from Hanyue Temple flew out immediately, led by Monk Songguo. The monks put their hands together and chanted the Buddha's name in unison.
The monks of Hanyue Temple were all skinny, but each of them had a reserved demeanor and behind their heads there was a clear moon of varying sizes.
Jinmona's disciples were stunned and bowed to the monks at the same time.
These true monks in Hanyue Temple are much better than Jinmona's disciples in terms of Buddhist practice... After all, they have all benefited from the Foyin Hall and comprehended some of the true meaning of Buddhism.
Jinmona's tense face couldn't help but relax a lot, and he also bowed to Monk Songguo: "Jinmona greets senior brother. Senior brother has transcended the devil's calamity and gained great freedom. Congratulations."
Monk Songguo and his entourage returned the greetings and were about to exchange pleasantries when Lu Yi waved his hand, "No need to be polite. From now on, all the monks of Hanyue will practice in the Tiger Hill Monastery, right? You will have plenty of time to discuss Buddhism and Taoism in the future, so don't make a fuss today."
Jin Mona glanced at Lu Yi and said nothing.
Lu Yi released Qingyou's three daughters, A'hu, Yu Dianhu and others. A'hu and Yu Dianhu took over the role of guests and directed Jinmona's group of disciples to allocate rooms to the monks of Hanyue Temple and to place all the necessary items for their food, clothing, shelter and transportation.
By the way, accompanied by groups of tiger gods, they strolled out of the Zen temple to explore the local customs, folkways, and geographical features.
By nightfall, everyone had settled down.
The small temple that Master Jinmona had bought was not big enough to accommodate more than a thousand people. However, this Tiger Hill Monastery was a secret property of Mahakala, and it was now allocated to Jinmona for use.
The huge Zen temple has many pavilions and can accommodate three thousand monks.
There are tens of thousands of acres of fertile fields nearby, mulberry forests, several mountains with playgrounds, several fish ponds, reed marshes, etc. Below the Zen temple are wine-making workshops, silk-reeling workshops, paper-making workshops, etc., and thousands of tenants work for the Zen temple all year round.
This is a Zen temple that is not too greasy, but extremely abundant.
Although Jinmona was a little dissatisfied about leaving the dojo set up by his master, he had to admit that his disciples would have a much better life if they practiced here.
"Dong, dong, dong!" The evening drum sounded, and the sound could be heard for ten miles.
In the Zen hall, Jinmona's disciples and monks from Hanyue Temple began their evening classes by beating wooden fish and chanting scriptures.
Lu Yi, Qingyou and the other two girls stood beside the clear water in front of the temple, watching the villagers' small fishing boats return with full loads. By the small pier, the village children and small dogs chased and played with each other. Whenever they saw their fathers and brothers returning, they would go to greet them and laugh loudly.
Lu Yi touched his belly and walked along the path along the shore with a smile. He sprinkled a few pieces of silver and exchanged them for a large basket of lively river fish and shrimps.
Not wanting to argue with the young monks in Huqiu Zen Temple, they chose a flat piece of grass on the shore. Lu Yi, Qing You and the other two built a bonfire, took out pots and pans , and boiled fish soup, cooked river shrimps, and also caught a few huge river crabs, turtles, etc., all of which were prepared by Lu Yi to be extremely delicious.
The three daughters of Qingyou went out to travel and explore the world under the pretext of traveling, but in fact they were all young ladies. It cannot be said that they knew nothing about cooking or needlework, but they were certainly not as good as Lu Yi.
However, Lu Yi cooked seriously, and the three women helped him loudly, using sword energy and sword flashes to clean the fish, shrimp, turtle and crab, which was also of some use.
We had a delicious meal and spent the whole night in silence.
In the next few days, Lu Yi, Qingyou and the other two girls walked leisurely in the streets and alleys of several villages around Huqiu Zen Temple. They had no purpose, just walked casually. When they came across the best rural products, such as bacon, lamb legs, dog meat, dried fish, etc., they bought some and did not go to the Zen temple's kitchen, but directly cooked these delicacies outside.
As for Ah Hu and his friends, they had already changed their appearance and invited others to a county town dozens of miles away for a feast.
Jinmona's new dojo was located in a small country in the secular world of Yuanlingtian, with a land area of only 2,000 miles and a population of only 20 to 30 million. The products were not abundant, and there were no sacred mountains or spiritual veins, so there was not even a cultivator family with a bit of influence.
In the entire country, there are only a few young cultivators in the Furnace Realm among the king's clan.
That's all.
As for the few young monks from the royal family, they all huddled in the capital, concentrating on their hard practice in seclusion, and had no mood to wander around.
Therefore, life is free, relaxed and peaceful.
However, Jie Yin Tou Tuo had agreed to come to Huqiu Zen Temple to meet Lu Yi in two or three days. However, more than half a month had passed and there was no sign of him.
Lu Yi had a vague feeling that the old bald thief might have died somewhere. At dusk one day, a trace of deathly aura lingering around him, his body tattered and like a torn sack that , appeared at the gate of Huqiu Temple weakly.
Lu Yi, Qingyou and the other two girls had just had a good meal. A family in the village was marrying off their daughter. They had slaughtered a few big fat pigs, killed a few old fat sheep, and made up their minds to chop up an old cow that was about to die of illness. They prepared a very sumptuous wedding banquet.
Lu Yi and a few others congratulated the couple and gave a silver ingot as wedding money. Then they went to the wedding banquet which was full of local flavor and ate to their heart's content. At this moment, they were rubbing their bellies slowly and had just returned to the gate of the Zen temple.
The two sisters, Qingning and Qingmeng, were still arguing about whether the stir-fried chicken offal with sour beans or the mutton offal soup was more delicious. The Jieying Monk, who had holes all over his body, with knife wounds, sword wounds, finger wounds, claw wounds... all the necessary wounds, suddenly appeared beside them like a ghost.
"Ouch!" The two sisters Qingning and Qingmeng were shocked. The Buddhist sword-art inheritance 'One Heart Wisdom Sword' they received in the Buddhist Sound Hall moved with their heart and rose with their thoughts. There was no sword light, and two 'ding ding' sounds were heard. Two sparks came out from the center of Jieying Tou Tuo's eyebrows and Adam's apple.
After the sparks were ejected, two faint green sword lights flashed by.
Having inherited the Buddhist sword art from the Foyin Hall, the sword art of the three Qingyou girls improved by leaps and bounds, and is already more than ten times better than the sword art inherited by the ancestors of their own family, the Qinglin Sword Pavilion.
The speed of the sword light, the level of concealment of the sword light, and especially the lethality of the sword light, are incomparable to the past.
Jieyin Tou Tuo had such high level of skills, yet he was hit directly by the swords of the two women and had no time to dodge - even though he was seriously injured, it can be seen how high the sword skills of the two women had reached!
If the two women's cultivation was not too weak, these two swords would not be so easy to withstand!
"Hey, family members!" When the two women's sword lights were emitted, Lu Yi noticed that the two women had taken action... He originally had time to intercept the two women's sword lights, but when he saw that the sword lights were targeting Jie Yin Tou Tuo, Lu Yi hesitated slightly, and the sword lights had already hit the unlucky old monk.
Jieyin Tou Tuo groaned, took a step back, and said with a wry smile: "The two female donors have great sword skills... Ahem, this old monk is a good person."
The sword light of green lime and green lemon is extremely fast, but what is faster than them is green pomelo.
The light of Qingyou's sword had turned into a green thread of light, suspended at the vital point behind Jieyin Tou Tuo's head.
Jieyin Toudao said that he was a good man, but Qingyou didn't believe it... It was just that her temperament was more stable than her two sisters, so she didn't kill him.
Lu Yi coughed lightly and said, "Ah, it's you, old man... Why do you look like this? Were you robbed by bandits?"
Jieyin Tou Tuo looked at Lu Yi with a sad face: "Cause and effect, cause and effect, there must be effect if there is a cause. It was me who led you into Mahakala. This cause and effect must be borne by me personally! Ahem!"
Lu Yu's face twitched and he pointed at his nose: "Yes, it's my fault?"
Jieyin Tou Tuo looked at Lu Yi with resentment: "I asked you to save the Moonlight Monk, but you took down the Wanhua Sect... I don't know how you did it... but you took down the Wanhua Sect, why did you bring disaster to so many sects?"
A trickle of golden blood slowly flowed out from the corner of Jieying Tou Tuo's mouth.
The fat monk appeared silently in front of Jieying Tou Tuo, holding a white jade stick in his hand. He carefully collected all the blood sprayed out by Jieying Tou Tuo without leaving a drop.
Jieyin Tou Tuo continued to smile bitterly: "You go and save Moonlight Monk. I, along with several fellow monks, will go... go..."
After hesitating for a moment, Jie Yin Tou Tuo whispered, "We are going to seize a Buddhist treasure that has been planned for thousands of years... We originally thought that this time it would be a safe and easy task... Unexpectedly, because you caused such a big mess, several immortals from the top ten sects rose up and intervened..."
Lu Yu's eyes widened: "You, were ambushed?"
Jie Yin Tou Tuo's face darkened. "They had ten times more people than us, and their cultivation was equal to ours. There were even two old monsters who had the power of a god... In less than half a cup of tea, we were beaten and seriously injured and fled."
Sighing, Jie Yin Tou Tuo murmured, "Fortunately, no one was captured or killed, but several of our fellow apprentices were seriously injured... Those fellow apprentices told me that they don't want to see you, a little thief baldy, in the future..."
Lu Yu's face turned ugly.
It makes me feel like I have become a disaster or something?
Lu Yu sneered, "Okay, so I worked so hard for Buddhism, but it's still my fault?"
"Okay, then, I'm leaving... If I can't stay here, I'll find another place to stay... Qingyou, let's go!"
Lu Yi blinked his eyes. He really wanted to take the opportunity to slip away.
What is Mahakala? The name sounds a bit like a terrorist!
Jieyin Tou Tuo hurriedly grabbed Lu Yi's wrist with one hand and said, "Don't say that. I was wrong... Buddhism is declining, and we need rising talents like you who have deep Buddhist roots... We can discuss all the conditions!"
