There is no phoenix

Seeing that the group had already left, Xichun Caiping hurried forward to thank Liu Xianglian.Liu Xianglian took Xichun's hand and said, "Sister, you don't need to be too polite! I heard that the accent girl is also from the capital, right? Don't be afraid, I am also from the capital. I will take you on board. I don't know where the girl is going?"

The color screen on the side hurriedly said: "We are going to Gusu!"

Liu Xianglian looked at Xichun and said, "My sister is going to Gusu? Are you going home or visiting relatives?"

Xichun said: "We are going to Gusu to find my sister."

Liu Xianglian said: "Then your boat is going to Gusu?"

Xichun nodded and said: "Yes! Because there are guests on the boat who are suffering from sudden illness, the boat owner said that we will leave after noon, so we went ashore and strolled here for a while. Who knows, we ran into this gang of villains. Thank you, brother, for saving us!"

Liu Xianglian said: "I think girls are beautiful and kind-hearted, don't they usually come out? My surname is Liu, you can call me Brother Liu. Master and I are going to Gusu. I'll take you on board. Ask the boatman if You can give me a ride with Master!"

After Liu Xianglian finished speaking, she said to the lame Taoist beside her: "Master, let's get on the boat first, and I'll talk to the boatman later."

The lame Taoist nodded.

So the four of them boarded the boat. As soon as they got on the boat, they saw the boatman coming out of the cabin.Caiping stepped forward and said: "Boatman, these two masters are our benefactors, and they are going to Gusu too. Please let the boatman make it easier for them to go to Gusu with us, okay?"

Hearing what Caiping said, Liu Xianglian hurriedly stepped forward and said to the boatman: "Boatman, we two are practitioners from Gusu Huqiu. If it is convenient for us, we will take your boat. If it is not convenient, we will get off the boat immediately. You will not lose money. of!"

The boatman hurriedly said: "Two masters, you have already boarded my boat, so I have a relationship with the masters. My mother has always respected monks and Taoism, so I will form a good relationship. I will not charge you money. You can live in peace. You are so generous and helpful, I respect you! There is a small room next to the two girls, you two masters just feel wronged!"

After hearing this, Liu Xianglian said with great joy: "Then thank the boatman."

The boat owner said: "We stopped here for a long time today. The guests said they ate outside, and they bought something to board the boat if they didn't have anything to eat. So no lunch will be prepared on the boat today. If you haven't eaten yet, just go and eat." Go eat first, or buy some food, because there will be no dinner on board until evening."

After hearing this, Liu Xianglian smiled at the lame Taoist: "Master, you can rest on the boat for a while, and I'll go shopping. That villain gave enough money just now, and we can live without worry for three years!"

The lame Taoist said: "Xianglian, bandage the wound on your hand before going!"

Only then did Liu Xianglian recall that she was bitten by Mr. Chen on her hand, so Liu Xianglian and the others followed the boatman into the cabin.The lame Taoist took out a pack of medicinal powder from his bag and sprinkled it on Liu Xianglian's hand that was bitten by Mr. Chen.Seeing that there was no strip of cloth, Xichun hurriedly took out her handkerchief, handed it to Liu Xianglian and said, "Brother Liu, use this to bandage, or the medicine will fall off soon."

Liu Xianglian didn't refuse either, and asked the lame Taoist to help her bandage up, then got up and said to Xichun Caiping: "Sister, what do you two want to eat, I'll go out and bring it together!"

Xichun hurriedly said: "We have already bought a lot of food, so there is no need to buy it."

Seeing that Caiping was indeed holding a bag of things, Liu Xianglian hurriedly said: "Then you wait here a moment, I'll come as soon as I go!"

For a while, Caiping went to bring water to wash the hands of the Taoist at Pojiao, and then went to bring water to Xichun.The lame Taoist said with a smile: "You two girls are brave enough, just put on men's clothes and go far away, and I will impress the old Taoist."

Xichun said: "To tell the truth, Master, I no longer have parents. Although I have a brother and sister-in-law, our relationship is weak, so I will go to Gusu to find my sister."

The lame Taoist said: "You seldom come out, so you don't know the danger outside. If you didn't meet Xianglian today, I'm afraid you don't know how bad it is!"

Xichun hurriedly blushed and said: "Master is right! When we went out, we also thought there were bad people outside, but we didn't know that we would meet them so soon. I must be sorry that I don't have parents. Let us meet Brother Liu and avoid it." This catastrophe is truly a blessing in misfortune!"

The lame Taoist said: "I don't know if the girl's elder sister is in the city of Gusu or the country? Have you ever been there? If you haven't been, I'm afraid the girl will have a lot of trouble."

Xichun said: "Master, rest assured. My sister said that her family is in Gusu City, but not in the downtown area. Master practiced in Gusu Huqiu, must have heard of Gusu Lin's family? My sister's family is a century-old scholarly family, five generations Liehou's Gusu Lin family." The lame Taoist heard this, and quickly asked: "Young lady is talking about Qian Tanhua, the former Yangzhou patrol salt censor Lin Ruhailin's family?"

Xichun nodded and said, "Exactly, does Master know?"

The lame Taoist nodded and said: "Of course I know. Who in Gusu Yangzhou doesn't know the Gusu Lin family! It's just that I was surprised that Xianglian and I met Master Lin's daughter and her fiancé-in-law in Yangzhou a few days ago. Why didn't you come together?" How about going to Gusu?"

Xichun was a little surprised and said, "How could it be? My sister left the capital and returned to Gusu on the [-]th day of the first lunar month. Why didn't she arrive in Yangzhou two days ago? Did Master remember correctly?"

The lame Taoist smiled and said, "Although I am old and dim-sighted, how can I remember wrongly? It was just a few days ago. Xianglian also talked to Miss Lin's fiancée for a long time."

Xichun said to herself: "My brother-in-law is here too? Could it be that my sister went to Beijing Palace first, and then left the capital?"

Thinking of this, Xichun also guessed that there must be something hidden, and hurriedly said: "Maybe my sister and brother-in-law went back to Jiangnan all the way, so they are so late. Master, this is not very far from Gusu, I think my sister has already arrived home .”

The lame Taoist nodded and said, "It will take three or four days to go to Gusu from here. They should already be in Gusu. After Xianglian arrives in Gusu, she will also visit the Lin family."

After hearing this, Xichun said happily: "Is what Master said true? Then I would like to ask Master and Brother Liu to take us both to my sister's house. I wonder if Master can agree? I don’t know the way, and I have to inquire about my sister’s home. Today’s incident really scared us, and we are really afraid of encountering such a bad person again.”

The lame Taoist said with a smile: "I don't have anything to do. It doesn't matter where I go. You can ask Xianglian later."

Xichun asked Caiping to take out the food he had bought, put it on the table, and said to Pojiao: "Master, you can eat first, we just ate some outside, and it will be broken tomorrow." The Taoist pours tea.

The lame Taoist didn't evade, and said with a smile, "Girl, I'm really hungry, I'll taste it first."

Xichun hurriedly said: "Master, you can eat it. We buy it to eat, or we will waste it."

The lame Taoist said with a smile: "Girl, I think you look like my apprentice. Although you don't smile very much, your heart is the best. I want to say a word, but I am afraid that the girl will get angry."

Xichun hurriedly said: "It can be seen that Master is a straightforward person. Although I don't have parents, I feel that Master is kind and amiable. Master is respectful and respectful. To tell you the truth, I often read scriptures and know this sentence , There is a Buddha in the heart. Zhuangzi also said, "The perfect man has no self, the gods have no merit, and the sage has no name. If the master has anything to say, just say it, and I will listen with my heart."

The lame Taoist was a little surprised when he heard Xichun's words, and hurriedly said: "I didn't expect that the girl would know Zhuangzi's words at such a young age. It's really not easy!"

Xichun said: "Master, there is nothing strange about this. Didn't the Buddha say that everyone can become a Buddha, regardless of whether they are rich or poor. Master and Brother Liu can do it, why can't I?"

The lame Taoist hurriedly said: "Miss misunderstood me, that's not what I meant. I mean that the girl is now in her youth, and she looks beautiful, and she is so talented. How could she fall in love with Buddhism and Taoism? People chase after fame and fortune, and are obsessed with all kinds of mundane things. It is difficult to turn back until death, but the girl is different, like a lotus in the mud. What I just wanted to say is that the girl, like my disciple Xianglian, looks silent A taciturn person who doesn't like to laugh, even if he's a kind-hearted person."

Xichun blushed when she heard this, but quickly said calmly: "Master, people's temperaments can change, because everyone's experience is different, and the poems and books they read are also taught differently. I am just a vulgar woman." , but I want to be clean in mind and body for the rest of my life. I don't want to take care of the rest, and I don't have the ability to take care of it well."

The lame Taoist heard this, smiled and said: "Looking at the three thousand great thousand worlds, there is nothing like a mustard seed. It is not the place where a Bodhisattva sacrifices his life for the sake of all living beings, and then he can attain the path of Bodhi."

Xichun hurriedly said: "how can you get the upper Bodhi? The Buddha hangs upside down in the open space, passing through countless places. After hard work and hard work, you can cultivate and cast it, and then you will be accomplished."

The lame Taoist was even more surprised when he heard this.