Poor Monk

Unexpected.

Shen Du never expected that his own apology would not bring back any memories.And the way the monk looked at him just now, and the way he saw him apologizing last time...

too similar.

He finally knew where that uncomfortable feeling came from.

This look is too transparent.

I can't feel it on weekdays, because his evil thoughts are faintly hidden on weekdays, and the other party's eyes are transparent, and he doesn't feel anything; but when the evil thoughts and hypocrisy come out, his transparency will make people feel Feeling uncomfortable.

He was clearly fully armed, but under those eyes, he felt completely stripped naked.

More importantly, if you are not keen, you will not notice it at all.

Because this bald donkey feels really good and comfortable.Shen Du even felt that if he hadn't shown such obvious indifference to him, he wouldn't be able to distinguish his likes and dislikes.

"Even if this bald donkey isn't such a famous person as Shanzai, he probably shouldn't be a simple person in Tianji Temple..."

He still didn't understand Tianji Temple.

As soon as the monk left, his brows were all wrinkled.

The picture of Chunlan was pressed on the table by an ordinary ceramic paperweight, and the ink was still wet.

Shen Du didn't care anymore.

He walked to the table, took a look at the porridge, then at the shabby pickles, and finally smiled angrily: the day he can leave, he must make this bald donkey look good.

After thinking about it again and again, he finally suppressed the absurd and angry anger in his heart, and honestly served porridge and pickles.

If you have a lot of big fish and meat, just treat it as porridge and side dishes.

Shen Du is picky, but in a sense, it's not that he can't endure hardship.I have seen life and death, so what is this?

After putting away the bowl, he went out to take a look.

The bowl of white rice that was placed under the eaves yesterday has been taken away by the monks, and the eaves are empty.Only on the muddy floor not far ahead, there are still marks from bamboo chopsticks.

People are in the bamboo house, and the bamboo house is in the bamboo sea, which feels like a legacy.

He did some calculations, and there were only fifteen days left before the backlash of Liuhe Shenjue.

It's time to prepare.

I didn't continue to look at the scenery outside the house, nor did I go out to walk around and bask in the sun.Shen Du walked into the house again, and pulled out the outer robe from the previous cabinet.

The blood has been washed away.

The openings made by swords on the robe were also carefully sewn up with dark needles one by one, and the damage was hardly visible from the front.

But when I stretched out my hand to pinch it, it was still slightly thick under the sleeve robe.

"Hiss", he tore it hard, and tore a small hole on the inside of the sleeve robe, a piece of thinly pressed fragrant skin was actually sewn inside.

Half purple brown, half snow white.

If someone with knowledge in the Jianghu sees it, he will surely recognize that it is the legendary "Secret Consciousness Fragrance" that is rare for thousands of gold, and it has both northern and southern fragrances.

The Youshi Incense is a strange fragrance, it is colorless and odorless when burned, but it can be recognized by the Youshi Bird.

Once the incense is lit, if there is a bird of consciousness nearby, it will come smelling the incense.

Since the discovery of this mystery hundreds of years ago, the forces of the rivers and lakes have made more incense and raised this bird for special occasions.

It's just that fragrant trees are hard to grow, and weak birds are hard to last.Hundreds of years later, it is very difficult to find Youshixiang in the world, even there are not many Youshibirds left.

There are demons in the Dao, and they are also filial piety to the wealthy businessmen who travel below.

After Shen Du got this thing, he only wanted to keep it and play with it in case of emergency, but he never thought that he would really need it one day.

He gently lifted the layer of fragrant skin with his nails, divided it into two pieces according to the different colors, and rolled them up carefully.

So it became two thick and thin little fingers, both only five inches long.

One is purple-brown and the other is snow-white.

The purple-brown ones are southern incense, and the snow-white ones are northern incense.

Because the fragrance of Youzhi grows in both the north and the south, there are slight differences; the bird of Youshi grows in both the north and the south, and the fragrance of the knowledge also varies from region to region.The southern fragrance does not attract the northern birds, and the southern birds do not know the northern fragrance.

Therefore, in Shen Du's hands, these two incenses had unusual uses.

The bird of consciousness attracted by the purple-brown southern fragrance can fly back to the demon way with a letter; the bird of consciousness attracted by the snow-white northern fragrance can carry the message and fly to Pengshan Mountain.

Youzhiniao is extremely fast, and it will take no more than five days to travel between these two places.

This is his "life-saving straw".

However, if it is not used well, or if there is a mistake in thinking, lighting the wrong incense, attracting the wrong bird, or calling the wrong person, I am afraid that "saving life" will become "killing life".

"One is the righteous way, on the surface, the enemy who can't kill me quickly..."

Shen Duli tapped the white incense lightly with his fingers, and remembered Gu Zhao's fairy-like posture standing with his hands behind his back, then moved to Zixiang next to him, and remembered Pei Wuji's calm and scheming attitude face.

"One is evil, it is very likely to plot against me and betray my old confidant..."

Difficult to choose.

It's really hard to choose.

Only then did he feel the loneliness: there are so many, so many people in the world, and when he climbs up on the path of demons, thousands of people bow their heads, but who do they dare to trust?

Even the two remaining after choosing and deliberating over and over again are full of uncertain dangers.

In my heart, there was an inexplicable kind of burnout.

He randomly folded a small piece of bamboo outside the window, covered the two incense sticks with a paper roll, put them together into a thin bamboo tube, and put them in his sleeves to hide them.

Without knowing the situation outside, he would not light incense rashly.

You know, if you make a wrong order, the only thing waiting for him is the word "death".

In the final analysis, I still have to go to Tianji Temple to have a look.

I didn't follow the monk yesterday because I was angry; I didn't follow the monk today because I felt that it would be too courageous to follow the monk in broad daylight and at noon.

If you accidentally lose it, God knows if someone will find out.

So, after collecting the incense, Shen Du walked around, trying to see the terrain around Bukong Mountain clearly, in order to prepare for the future.

Then, before the bald donkey came back, he returned to the bamboo house.

Just pretending that he hasn't been out all afternoon, sitting behind the desk and reading scriptures.

Those who don't know, probably thought that Shen Du would convert to Buddhism from now on.

But even so, people couldn't see any flaws, and the monk ignored him.

Come and deliver the food and leave.

It's still the same bowl of porridge and that dish of pickles, nothing has changed.

In this way, five days passed.

Ren Shen Du said all the good things in the open and in the dark, and even condescended to talk to him about his own experience and understanding of a certain passage of scriptures, but the other party was indifferent.

He didn't even move his eyebrows!

No eating meat, drinking and dreaming!

There are two meals a day at noon and evening, with meals delivered on time, porridge and side dishes.

Shen Du didn't feel ascetic and indifferent to fame and wealth, but he was full of evil fire, his mouth turned pale, his eyes turned green, seeing that dead bald donkey, he wished he could pick up his sword and chop it up!

But I have to endure it.

you ask why?

why?It's not because of the big formation on Bukong Mountain!

Five days passed, and he naturally followed the monk carefully for five nights.Basically, when others walk in front, he follows up with the back.

I thought it would be easy to find out the walking route.

But after following him for five nights and losing him every night, Shen Du felt a little wicked.

Today is the sixth night, and it has only been ten days since the backlash of Liuhe Shenjue.

Half of his strength has been recovered.

Doing all kinds of things is naturally more comfortable than before, and also has a little more self-protection power; but along with the increase in skill, there is also that evil spirit.

In the past few days, although the monk was dumb, he couldn't speak, and he couldn't express it to him, but Shen Du felt that...

The way I looked at him these past two days was definitely not quite right.

Because the thoughts in his heart were very wrong.

It can be said that there is not much time left for him.

But tonight is definitely an excellent opportunity.

The weather was beautiful, and it snowed heavily during the day, covering the entire mountain and even breaking many branches on the mountain.There is a thick piece of snow on the ground.

And near this evening, the snow has stopped.

This also means that when people walk through the snow, they will leave footprints and will not be covered by new snow for a short time.

In the past few days, Shen Du chased half of the people and lost them.

But today...

He couldn't believe it, even though God was helping him, he still couldn't get in!

He didn't touch the bowl of hot porridge brought by the monk.

A pair of beautiful phoenix eyes, under the dim light, has a gloomy and breathtaking brilliance, just staring out of the window so steadily.

The figure of the monk leaving has become smaller and smaller, and finally he is on the mountain road.

"Hoohoo!"

At this moment, Shen Du didn't even think about it, his figure was like a ghost, and he flew out of the window directly!

He was as light as a feather, jumping in the sea of ​​bamboos, his toes occasionally landed on the snow, but he didn't leave any traces.

After following for a few days, he is already familiar with the way.

The section of the road ahead was passed by almost without thinking, and after about three breaths on the mountain road, I saw the back of the monk again.

The moon-white monk's robe was somewhat blurred in the gloom.

But the whole mountain is covered with white snow, and the glimmering snow light shines from the ground, which dyes the moon white, like a piece of pure white snow, almost blending with the snow all over the mountain.

No hurry, no hurry, move forward safely.

The mountain road is also covered with snow.

After his footsteps passed, two lines of exceptionally clear footprints were left on the thick snow.

Seeing this situation, a slightly cold smile appeared on Shen Du's thin and cold lips, he held his breath more and concentrated, and followed the series of footprints without distraction.

On the Bukong mountain, there are many forks in the mountain road.

When he got to the [-]% high position of the mountain, the dead bald donkey turned around a pile of tall rock formations, and there was a faint sound of rocks turning, and then disappeared.

That's how it used to be.

Shen Duyi chased him for five consecutive nights, and he was stuck here every night. When he turned around, he couldn't see the figure, and the footprints on the ground were messy, and he couldn't tell which direction he was walking in.

But today's snow really helped a lot.

Although there is no shadow of the person, the clear footprints on the ground are still there.

He cautiously waited beside him for a while, but he didn't see the monk turning back, and he didn't see anyone around him, so he stepped out, stepped on the footprints left by the monk, and walked through the chaotic stone formation step by step.

Stone shadows passed by in front of my eyes, which only made people feel dizzy.

But when he took seven steps of No.20, he suddenly became clear.

Shen Du took a closer look——

Tianji Temple is in front of you.

This should be the back mountain.

From his angle, he could only see a corner of the high mountain gate of Qianshan, and the towering bell and drum towers on both sides of the Tianwang Hall, leaving symmetrical shadows on the dark blue sky.

One after another, the Buddhist halls are stacked one after another, solemn and solemn.

White snow covered the golden glazed tiles.

Everywhere in the Chanyuan was lit with lamps.

The dim light shines on the walls full of gods and Buddhas, the sutra pillars engraved with scriptures, the carved windows engraved with lotus patterns, and the small bodhi trees with leaves in the courtyard.

The whole Buddhist temple gives people a strange sense of stability.

Every detail is full of Zen.

The area behind the mountain is a meditation room and a monk's house where ordinary monks live.

But no walls.

The monk in the moon-white monk's robe walked up the steps of the back mountain after leaving the stone formation, passed by the meditation room, but did not go in, but went further inside.

"Strange, what is this bald donkey going to do if he doesn't go back to the monk's house?"

Shen Du saw it and was a little curious.Anyway, I'm not familiar with this monastery, so it's just right to pick someone to follow and get a feel for the situation of this place first.

With a flash of thought, he restrained his breath and followed.

He had reached the peak of his lightness kung fu, he climbed up to the eaves easily, stepped on the snow on the glazed tiles of the roof, and covered it silently.

Walk all the way.

After more than half a moment, the monk turned from the path, climbed the steps, and entered a large hall.

Shen Du lay on the eaves of a nearby hall, watching from a distance, and almost subconsciously wanted to lean over to explore.But when he was about to get up, when he looked up, he was suddenly shocked!

There is a somewhat old plaque hanging on the gate of the hall.

The surrounding light was too dark, so it was a bit blurry.

But what is his vision?

In just this moment, the three-character seal engraved on it has been clearly seen——

Thousand Buddha Hall!