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"Shi Kong, who is he?"

Seeing that there was an inexplicably more person behind the buttocks of the younger brother who came back from carrying water, all the monks in Anle Temple were puzzled and asked questions. Come wandering monk."

Shi Kong was stunned for a moment, turned his head expressionlessly, and realized that the person behind him had changed out of a black gilded robe at some point, and was wearing a plain monk robe, with his silver hair tied up high—— At this time, those evil red pupils turned into a faint dark brown, like the color of blood after drying...

It looks strange and uncomfortable.

It's just that the elegance and luxury have faded away, the man's jaw is slightly raised, his neck is slender, his clothes are simple but clean and tidy, and he really has the aloofness of some practitioners.

"Wandering monk?" All the monks looked at the man's silver hair in unison.

"Cultivate with your hair." Zhu Jiuyin's smile remained unchanged, "I heard that Anle Temple is the most famous temple in Jinling and even the surrounding area, so I came to bother Qingxiu, and I just hope that I can understand Buddhism here and become enlightened."

Shi Kong was stunned: "You want to stay?"

Zhu Jiuyin asked back: "Ben... I can't stay?"

Shi Kong stopped talking, and under the pressure of Zhu Jiuyin's aura and temperament, the monks in Anle Temple did not question what he said, and they really believed that he was a wandering monk with hair. ... They asked someone to tidy up a side room, and after Zhu Jiuyin paid the food and silver for staying in the monastery, they moved in without any hindrance——

Zhu Jiuyin swaggered to the table in the side room and asked without raising her head, "What's the name of the best tavern under the mountain?

Shi Kong: "..."

Shi Kong always has a feeling of himself leading wolves into the house.

If it is said that he used to believe in the so-called "monsters have good monsters", after what happened with Hui Hai, he no longer has any sense of trust in the monsters in the world... So he also watched Zhu Jiuyin's questions with his eyes and nose, and his heart. : "Monks abstain from alcohol and meat."

"so what?"

"This is the pure place of Buddhism, don't mess around here."

"Otherwise?"

"I will expose you as a monster with Master and let him take you away."

"Oh, you told me obediently that day that monsters have good monsters, and it would be a pity if someone like me was captured innocently..." Zhu Jiuyin raised Erlang's legs swaggeringly, "Just I'm afraid you, a soft-hearted little monk, won't bear it."

"I'm reluctant?" Shi Kong smiled, "You try?"

Zhu Jiuyin stopped talking.

There was a strange atmosphere between the two, sparks flew when the eyes met, and it made people feel depressed for no reason... At this moment, the monk holding a clean bedding outside the door pushed the door with his shoulders and entered, seeing the two people in the room One person was sitting by the bed, and the other person was standing far away by the table, and said inexplicably, "What are you doing? Shikong, you are showing the guests around the temple."

Shi Kong was taken aback: "It's me again?"

The monk was also taken aback: "Otherwise?"

After all, Shi Kong brought him back from the back mountain, and everyone agreed to follow-up matters as his job—so although he was very reluctant, Shi Kong took Zhu Jiuyin to walk around the temple and talked about it. Where is the Buddhist hall, where is the scripture study room, where is the rest room, etc... and patiently explained which part is only used by monks in the temple and is not open to the public. Fortunately, it is just a room of other scriptures, Zhu Jiuyin did not mention it at all. Interested.

When passing by the front yard, passing by among the pilgrims, although Zhu Jiuyin was dressed in a monk's robe, it still attracted the attention of many people - among them, young girls who came to pray for marriage, saw Zhu Jiuyin So handsome, all with cheeks shy, whispering and discussing...

"Who is that master? He is really handsome."

"When Shi Kong went to that station, he made him compare, ah."

"What nonsense are you talking about? Have you seen the monk's robe on his body? The master is a monk. It turns out that the monk's robe can make people wear it so beautifully."

When Zhu Jiuyin seemed to be feeling something and turned her head to smile at them, the group of girls became even more agitated——

"Ah, he smiled at me, he smiled at me! The Buddha really came true, and the little girl feels that her fate has come!"

The voice of one of the girls reached Shi Kong's ears, the chattering made his brain ache, he was already in a bad mood, he muttered "Amitabha", stretched out his hand and dragged the person behind him to the backyard ——Fortunately, the man obediently let him drag him away, until the two of them came to the backyard, standing among the faithful men and women holding the wishing red silk, Shi Kong threw away his hand as if disgusted. .

"What is this?" Zhu Jiuyin asked.

"I don't have eyes and can't see?" Shi Kong said, "A tree."

"A lovesickness tree." Zhu Jiuyin didn't seem to feel offended at all, but just smiled and said, "The little monk brought me under such a tree. Could it be that he wants to form a good relationship with me on the spot and wish for a hundred years of happiness?" combine--"

Before he finished speaking, the little monk in front of him jumped up and covered his mouth—covered by the delicate fingers that were also stained with a touch of sandalwood fragrance from playing with the beads all day long, the arc drawn by the corner of Zhujiu's gutter became even stronger. Clearly, his dark brown pupils were also slightly narrowed, and he suddenly blew a breath of hot air on the palm of the little monk's hand as if playing a prank.

"what!"

Shi Kong was startled by the heat and humidity in his palm, and was about to withdraw his hand when the man bent down slightly, stretched out his hand to hold the little monk's slender wrist, and pulled the man who was about to jump to his side , asked lightly: "How old is this tree?"

At this moment, the two were very close.

The man's tall nose almost touched the little monk's.

"Many years ago, when the temple was just built, the Mok Bodhi Temple gave a branch of the Bodhi tree that Sakyamuni Buddha realized and became a Buddha to plant in the temple. At first, the Bodhi tree had luxuriant branches and leaves, and it grew very well. On a thunderstorm day, the thunderstorm smashed it, and everyone thought that the tree was going to wither, but they didn't expect that after the rain, a new sprout of vitality would inexplicably grow from the dead tree."

"Oh?"

"It's the lovesickness tree in front of me - I heard that the late emperor and successively prayed to meet under this tree, so this tree became a gathering place for faithful men and women. However, since this tree appeared, there have been about one Thousands of 300 years of history..."

"One thousand eight hundred years?"

"Yes."

The man lowered his eyes, Shi Kong couldn't see the emotion in his eyes, but the people around him were looking at him - two monks in monk's robes were pulling each other, very close to each other, and the ambiguous atmosphere was overflowing...however, the two of them His expressions are very natural, but it makes people feel that they have misunderstood their own thoughts...

"Let go of me first." Shi Kong reminded, "Many people are watching, you are so close to me, I can't talk properly."

Zhu Jiuyin let go of Shi Kong.

The little monk moved his wrist, and stepped back a little: "Speak directly when you have something to say. Don't move."

"It was you who jumped up and covered my mouth first."

"It was you who started talking nonsense and talking dirty."

"It's not my fault. I just look at the atmosphere under the tree. Standing on the soil, there is an urge to fall in love." Zhu Jiuyin smiled and said without seriousness, "The roots under the feet Emotional blood flows in it."

"Nonsense." Shi Kong glanced at Zhu Jiuyin, "If you don't speak well, I will leave."

"This gentleman is talking well," Zhu Jiuyin said with a smile, "isn't that obvious enough? This gentleman said that this acacia tree is alive—because it has grown in temples since birth, monks often use it Under the tree, chanting Buddhist scriptures, chanting Buddhist scriptures, and enlightening Buddhist principles, over time, the ears and eyes have been infected all day long and become a demon, and it is a tree demon who has thoroughly understood the Buddhist principles and was born from the Buddhist principles, what is so strange?"

Shi Kong was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Zhu Jiuyin to say such astonishing words just by looking at him——

And thinking of the bandages on Huihai's body, it seems that there were bruises that were tightly bound by something...

Shi Kong raised his head and looked at the luxuriant acacia tree, which stretched out to almost cover most of the backyard. The branches twisted and twisted like snakes——

"Before the accident that night, I did see Senior Brother Hui Hai coming to the backyard, and I also heard a faint crying sound..."

"Oh, you didn't go to see it?"

"..."

Shi Kong bit his lower lip.

"It's a good thing I didn't go to see it, so as not to scare your young mind after seeing it. Mahayana Buddhism, the Sutras stress three immeasurable eons to become a Buddha, but the Esoteric Buddhism takes the longest thirteen lifetimes to become a Buddha. You said that this acacia tree is more than [-] years old, I'm afraid it just happened to be at the right time—”

Halfway through Zhu Jiuyin's words, he suddenly felt that the people around him seemed to have quieted down. He was stunned and stopped to look around, only to find that at some point, the little monk standing beside him had knelt down and bowed down to him. Aiming at a certain direction under the acacia tree, he kowtowed several times upright——

The smooth and white forehead hit the ground, stained with gravel and dust, and there were faint blood marks, which was enough to show that he exerted a lot of force.

Zhu Jiuyin paused lazily in his eyes, frowned slightly, picked up the little monk who was going to continue to kneel down with one hand, and said indifferently as if he had read his mind: "Even if you really followed up that night In the backyard, that monk who practiced Tantra deserves to die sooner or later, don't take everything on yourself..."

"It's my fault." Shi Kong said with straight eyes, "Even if Senior Brother Hui Hai just lives a few more days—"

"So what? I'm still going to die." Zhu Jiuyin became impatient, "That's why I hate you bald donkeys. You always think that you are responsible for all the crap..."

While speaking, he walked towards the acacia tree——

Without even looking at it, he stepped over the guardrail, stepped on the falling lovesickness red beans and branches and leaves, came to the tree, raised his hand, and brushed against the tree trunk as if inadvertently...

Ordinary people around did not notice any difference.

But at that moment, Shi Kong seemed to see the giant tree trembling, a few leaves falling, and the tree seemed to be groaning in great pain...

"What's wrong?" He asked Zhu Jiuyin.

"Give it a mark. The tree and the demon are one. Right now, it's true to find the demon monk who sneaked into the temple to play the monk. This gentleman is enough for him to drink a pot."

Zhu Jiuyin withdrew her hand and said calmly.

But at this time, during the conversation between the two, there was a sudden tremor from the thick treetops on the tree, and then, pale and bloodless faces appeared, and the face of monk Huineng appeared under the tree. in sight--

"Shi Kong? Why are you here?" Hui Neng seemed surprised, "Who is he?"

"Brother Huineng?" Shi Kong's eyes changed, "Why are you here?"

"I had nightmares for days and nights. I heard Huihai talking to me every night. I couldn't sleep well. Today I came to clean under the tree, but I felt peaceful physically and mentally. I couldn't help but climbed up the treetop to hope for a good night's sleep." Hui Neng Jumping off the tree, he smiled, "It turned out to be a good dream."

"what?"

Shi Kong stared at Hui Hai, and saw that his complexion was ugly, and his eyes were black and blue—it was really listless, and he didn't sleep well for a few days.

"I dreamed that Hui Hai was standing under a tree, smiling and reassuring me, saying that he had attained enlightenment and was going to the Buddhist kingdom first." When mentioning his friend, Huineng's numb eyes lit up, "He smiled so happily .”

Shi Kong was silent, at this moment his eyes were attracted by Huineng's slightly messy neckline - under the torn neckline, a small red mark could be vaguely seen.

Feeling Shi Kong's gaze at this time, Huineng muttered "but there are a lot of mosquitoes on the tree" while reaching out to adjust the neckline to be neat, then smiled at Shi Kong, turned around and nodded to Zhu Jiuyin, then leave by mistake...

Shi Kong turned sideways to watch Huineng leave, at this moment, the person standing behind him bent slightly and leaned into his ear and said, "Look at his prayer beads."

Shi Kong looked subconsciously, and as expected, he saw that the beads wrapped around Huineng's left hand were looser than usual - except that it had something to do with Huineng's weight loss these days, maybe it was also because of...

There are a few more beads.

"It's late autumn now, and the red marks are not mosquito bites." Zhu Jiuyin lazily said, "That's hickey marks, oops."

"What?" Shi Kong turned his head and asked in a daze.

Zhu Jiuyin was also stunned. He stared at Shikong for a while like a strange species, and suddenly pulled him to the corner without saying a word——when there was no one around and the little monk could not react, the man took advantage of the situation to pull him away. Put his wrist to his lips, and bite it lightly——

Shi Kong was taken aback.

When the man's cold lips pressed against his wrist, his teeth pecked lightly, and the tip of his tongue slipped out and slid across the white and delicate skin... Shi Kong was stunned until a moment later, the man let go of him and left behind Then he stretched out the tip of his tongue to lick the corner of his lips, and said with a smile, "This is the hickey."

Shi Kong: "..."

He lowered his head and looked at the red mark on his wrist like a mosquito bite for a while.

He looked up again at the man standing in front of him smiling like a fox——

a long time.

Snapped!

"Ouch! Why are you beating me?"

"The obscene demon! Get the hell out of Anle Temple!"

"Didn't you ask what a hickey is? This gentleman is here to teach you and explain your doubts. On-site teaching... If you want to fight, it's almost enough! Don't push yourself. This gentleman warns you—"

Snapped!

"what!"