Through the book is calculated by the little black lotus

"The winding path leads to the secluded place, and the meditation room is deep with flowers and trees."

Bai Enci only really understood the meaning of this poem today. The place where he lives is the name of the Buddhist temple on the back mountain of Guiyuan Temple---Bodhi Court. , It's hard to be surrounded by one person, I think it's been a few years.

There is an acre of flower fields behind the temple, in which there are ancient plum blossoms. Strange to say, the plum blossoms bloom even in summer, but the blooms are more sparse and the flower bones are thinner.There are vegetables, melons and fruits planted in the flower field, and the melon vines are wrapped around the plum tree, green and red, leisurely and elegant!

The Chanyuan where he lived was a large courtyard, divided into two courtyards, the east courtyard and the west courtyard with a gate. The east and west courtyards were not connected and separated by a wall.Bai Enci lives in the east courtyard, and the facilities in the courtyard are relatively simple.Open the door, a cross stone path is paved in the yard, there is a deep well on the right, a plum tree is planted in the south of the yard, a wooden table and two wooden piers are placed under it.

His bedroom is adjacent to the meditation house on the west, surrounded by two side rooms, one is the kitchen, and the other is the Buddhist house for meditation and chanting.

Bai Enci pushed open the door, and saw a one-meter-wide bed facing the door, with a floor lamp in front of the bed.A desk is placed on the left, with several Buddhist scriptures hanging on it, two brushes that have been used, and a copper lamp panel hung on the pen stand.On the right side is a window kang with a small coffee table and medicine jars on it, a stove in the ground, and a square cabinet against the wall, on which there are stone mills, medicine jars and small bottles, and several dried herbs.

Hanging on the wall is a pair of calligraphy and paintings depicting streams and rivers, and there are also common farm objects such as baskets and coir raincoats hanging beside them.Seeing this, Bai Enci thought that there might be people living here, otherwise how could there be such a complete set of things.The house was cleaned so clean that it didn't need to be cleaned again.

Bai Enci started to make the bed, and in the middle of the journey, someone knocked lightly on the door.

"Excuse me, is this the benefactor Bai?"

When Bai Enci turned his head, he saw a tall, handsome, kind-hearted monk standing outside the door, bowing slightly while saluting with one hand.He looks so good-looking, like a demon monk!

Bai Enci also wrote to the monk, "I am." Then he said: "May I ask you what you want?"

The monk smiled and said: "The poor monk is named Shikong, and he lives in the plum garden of Bodhiyuan. Because the abbot told him that a white benefactor is going here today, the poor monk wants to see if the benefactor needs help."

Bai Enci groaned and said, "... In that case, there are still some!"

The ancient quilts were spread out on both sides, and the quilts needed to be stitched. When Bai Enci received the quilt from the monk, he was speechless for a moment because he couldn't put the quilt on.With an idea, he had no choice but to sandwich the cotton between the upper and lower quilt covers, tie a knot at the four corners, and cover it!

Monk Shikong saw his masterpiece, but he didn't poke it open.Bai Enci looked embarrassed, and said: "Then I will trouble Master Shikong to help you make the mattress."

Shi Kong saluted again before entering the door, "Then don't disturb me."

So he took the needle and thread and began to stitch the quilts. The technique was very skillful, and it was done in a short while.

After that, he took Bai Enci to familiarize himself with the environment here. After a while, the two got to know each other a lot.Bai Enci felt that although Monk Shikong was rigid, he was too polite.But he does things in an orderly manner and is a trustworthy person.

When Bai Enci came back from eating at Shikong's place, it was already midnight, because Bai Enci was not familiar with the way, and wild animals often appeared on the mountain.Although it was only a hundred meters away, Shi Kong was worried that Bai Enci would return alone, so he had to send him back with a lantern, and after explaining something, he returned to the plum garden.

Entertainment activities were limited in ancient times. Because of the first night of coming here, Bai Enci was a little excited and couldn't sleep, so he turned on the lamp and looked through the Buddhist scriptures. The content in the book was very boring, and most of them were in Sanskrit, which Bai Enci could not understand.

In this way, he fell asleep in a daze. In the middle of the night, the white candle had been burned out, and the room was pitch-black, and even the sound of breathing was heard occasionally.In the early morning and late at night, Hei Tian's dream of "clang clang clang clang" was disturbed, Bai Enci opened his dim starry eyes, turned over to face the wall, closed his eyes and continued to sleep.Yet a ray of light fell on his face.

Bai Enci woke up immediately, and opened his eyes in a daze, only to realize that the light was shot from the wall.It used to be that the east and west courtyards were separated by a wooden wall, and the exposed gap allowed us to see the scene on the opposite side.

Who's there in the middle of the night?

Bai Enci had been to the west courtyard during the day, and the installations there were almost the same as those in the east courtyard, but the houses there were not repaired, so there were many leaks of light and rain, and there were cobwebs and thick dust inside.The yard was overgrown with weeds again, and there was a dry well, but there was no one there during the day.

Someone who comes so late, can't be a thief!

Thinking about it, Bai Enci began to panic. He leaned over the wall to peek, and saw a figure from the back in a moon-white long coat with waist-length black hair.

Washing hands!