God's Gift

When the sedan bearers saw Yu Youyou's movements, they panicked and tried to carry her down, but were stopped by the leading sedan bearer.

The sedan bearer looked at Yu Youyou, then raised his head to look at the Faceless Buddha above, his eyes deep. He slowly bent down and put his forehead to the yellow earth ground.

When the other sedan bearers saw his action, they also knelt down and bowed their heads.

The air became quiet.

Yu Youyou sat for a while, then stood up on four legs, walked to the Ten Thousand-Faced Buddha, and sniffed it with her wet nose.

She sniffed for a few seconds, then quickly lost interest, sat down in the clay niche, raised her paw and began scratching her head.

"Master..." Anthony looked at the bearers who suddenly bowed their heads, feeling strange, "What are they doing?"

Lu Keming glanced at the kneeling sedan bearer indifferently, then shifted his gaze back to Yu Youyou and said something without any emotion.

“Maybe I think the Buddha has appeared.”

Since she is a servant dog, every move of Yu Youyou will be carefully interpreted.

Anthony glanced at Yu Youyou, who was scratching her head with one foot in the niche. Her expression was indescribable. He replied hesitantly, "How about this..."

Over there, Yu Youyou scratched her head, jumped down happily from the mud niche, staggered on the ground, hit her face on the ground, quickly got up, and ran towards Lu Keming with a grin on her face.

"Use the dog!"

Lu Keming and Anthony were standing at the door. Yu Youyou's movement of running towards that direction made the sedan bearers think that she was trying to escape again. They stood up quickly and tried to catch Yu Youyou.

Yu Youyou braked the car right under Lu Keming's feet, and stepped on Lu Keming's feet with her dusty claws, making Lu Keming's shoes dusty.

Lu Keming glanced at the dust on his shoes, paused for a second, then bent down and picked up Yu Youyou from the ground.

The sedan bearer who was chasing after him looked at Lu Keming, a dazed look appeared in his eyes, and he stopped.

Lu Keming did not move, his deep eyes staring into the eyes of the sedan bearers.

The bearers stared at Lu Keming, dazed for a second, and then they seemed to regain their composure. The leading bearer looked at Yu Youyou in Lu Keming's arms and scolded him, "Put the servant dog down quickly. How can you hold the servant dog directly?"

His tone made it seem as if he had treated Lu Keming as a colleague.

Lu Keming raised his eyes and glanced at the sedan bearer with cold and wet eyes. After a few seconds, he looked down at Yu Youyou in his arms, and the corners of his mouth briefly raised an arc, and his voice sounded a little innocent.

"It makes the dog want me to hold him."

When Yu Youyou heard this, she raised her head and looked towards Lu Keming above. She tilted her head, rolled her eyes around, and soon began to nod. Her ears kept flickering as she nodded, like a pair of little dragonflies.

“How could it be…” The leading sedan bearer was about to deny it when he saw the little servant dog nodding in Lu Keming’s arms.

The leading sedan bearer was silent for a long time, and looked at Lu Keming with a bit more jealousy in his eyes.

Lu Keming and the sedan bearer looked at each other briefly for a second, then looked away without changing their expressions.

"Offer incense." The sedan bearer turned his head as if nothing had happened and asked the other bearers to light the incense and insert three incense sticks in the incense stand in front of the clay niche.

After the incense was offered, the sedan bearers knelt on the ground again and kowtowed three times devoutly. Then they lifted up the servant dog and started to go down the mountain.

Before leaving, Lu Keming looked back at the faceless Buddha in the clay niche, then walked out of the temple gate with an expressionless face.

But at this moment his eyes swept across the temple door. The mirror hanging on the door happened to be facing the faceless Buddha in the temple.

Lu Keming paused, his brows slightly furrowed, and there was a hint of thought in his eyes.

"Master, what happened just now?" Anthony noticed Lu Keming's pause and leaned over to ask.

"It's okay." Lu Keming half lowered his eyes, with an unclear emotion in his eyes. He walked out of the temple gate calmly and went down the mountain carrying Yu Youyou.

When Anthony heard Lu Keming say that everything was fine, he nodded and rubbed his arms with his palms.

"Master, this place is very strange. Ever since the day we first arrived, I've always felt a chill on my back. Sometimes, even when I'm standing by the wall, it feels like there's someone standing behind me. It's chilly."

"The feeling in this temple just now was even worse. The cold seemed to penetrate my bones. I was so cold that I wanted to go out several times."

Anthony looked back at the Buddhist temple he had just been in and continued:

"But this temple is also strange. If you want to burn incense, why don't they open any windows? They block all sides tightly and even the door is opened so small that when the incense is lit, the smoke can't get out at all."

Yu Youyou lay in Lu Keming's arms, listening to Anthony's speech curiously. Anthony noticed Yu Youyou's focused eyes, smiled, and continued to ask Lu Keming:

"Master, is there any mention of this Buddha in the history of the mainland?"

Lu Keming didn't take his eyes off Yu Youyou and replied calmly, "No."

Yu Youyou raised her head and her attention turned to Lu Keming again, staring at him with her dark eyes.

Lu Keming looked at Yu Youyou in his arms, half lowered his eyes, and explained a few more words.

"Although there is a Buddha without form in Buddhism, which means 'the Buddha has no form, but takes sentient beings as his form', he has no face and no five sense organs. However, the Buddha without form is not like the faceless Buddha in this temple. Although he has no ears, nose, lips and other sense organs, he still has a pair of eyes."

"Oh..." There was a look of understanding in Yu Youyou's puppy eyes, and she nodded in sudden realization.

"So that's how it is." Anthony responded and turned to look at the Formless Buddha. It seemed that he had to investigate further.

"Why did you sniff the Faceless Buddha just now?" After Lu Keming finished speaking, he suddenly asked Yu Youyou.

"This one." Yu Youyou wrinkled her nose and said with some disdain, "Because it stinks."

"Stinky?" Lu Keming repeated. Although the temple was filled with a strong smell of incense, he was not confused by it.

There was indeed no other smell in the temple just now.

Lu Keming looked at Yu Youyou's nose and understood a little more.

Maybe it’s because puppies have more sensitive noses?

"Let's come back and have a look when there's no one around." Anthony didn't hesitate. Now that the sedan bearers and villagers were there, it would be difficult for them to take action.

Speaking of this, Anthony thought of something else, "Master, where should we live then?"

According to the information he had gathered, the village would only host some tourists during the Ten Thousand Buddhas Festival.

However, since the festival only takes place once a year and the village does not seem to like tourists to stay, there are no special inns. If you cannot leave in time, you can only stay at the villagers' homes.

"Go to my house! Go to my house!" As soon as Anthony finished speaking, Yu Youyou wagged her tail and spoke actively. She was just like a host, warmly inviting the two to stay.

"Your home..." Anthony was just about to ask where Yu Youyou's home was and whether it could accommodate so many people, when he heard Lu Keming's quick answer.

"it is good."

There wasn't much emotion on Lu Keming's face, but his answer was extremely decisive.

Anthony looked at Lu Keming's calm face and shut his mouth sensibly.

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On the other side, Ye Li and Shen Minghua bypassed the group of villagers and happened to see Lu Keming and Anthony in the group going down the mountain.

The two were not too surprised. They believed that Lu Keming would just go and find out the news like them.

But what puzzled Shen Minghua was why Lu Keming and Anthony were in the dog team. Although they could control the villagers with their mental power, their movements would always be restricted as they were watched by people in the team.

Shen Minghua looked at Ye Li, but found that Ye Li's eyes were always on Lu Keming.

Shen Minghua followed Ye Li's line of sight and found the small white pine tree in Lu Keming's arms. He turned to Ye Li and said, "That's the servant dog."

Ye Li was still looking at the pine tree, his expression somewhat serious, and he shook his head.

"That dog looks familiar to me."

"Looks familiar?" Shen Minghua looked at Tusong again and didn't notice anything wrong with the dog. But when did Lu Keming actually hold a puppy?

Even though Godot was raised by Lu Keming since childhood, Shen Minghua had never seen him hold him.

Ye Li looked at it for a long time, but couldn't remember why she felt it looked familiar. She shook her head, turned around and said to Shen Minghua, "Let's go."

Shen Minghua nodded, and the two of them walked up the mountain along a more remote path a few meters on the other side of the mountain road where the dogs were walking.

But after they walked a few meters, they realized something was wrong.

Starting from halfway up the mountain, this road covered with messy branches and leaves is lined with rows of half-meter-high Buddhist niches, each containing a clay statue of Bodhisattva.

These niches all open towards the top of the mountain, and the Bodhisattvas inside also face the top of the mountain.