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It has been sunny for more than a month. One day at the end of May, Chi Heng was so tired that he fell asleep lying on the stone steps. It began to rain, and he felt the rain hitting his body, his face, and the water running down The soil flowed down and over his face, it was cool and refreshing, but he was too lazy to wake up.

"Chi Heng, wake up."

Chi Heng opened his eyes and saw muddy water flowing past, and then upwards, there was Heng Su's concerned face and an umbrella.When Chi Heng got up, the rain fell heavily, and the tree was blown to one side, as if it was uprooted.Chi Heng wiped his face with mud in one hand.

"Go back to the temple, the rain won't stop for a while."

Chi Heng packed up his tools and went back to the temple silently. This was the first time he went back to the temple after building the road.There is a green bamboo forest next to the Qingzhu Temple. The green bamboos are slender, verdant and verdant, and the bamboo leaves rustle.

A path among bamboo.

Quiet, but like entering a deep pool, Chi Heng stopped.

Heng Su held the umbrella handle and turned back: "Chi Heng, what's the matter? The rain is getting heavier and heavier." Holding the umbrella is useless, and it can't block the wind and rain from all directions. It's all wet.

Chi Heng continued to walk forward.

The two returned to the temple one after the other, Heng Su respectfully worshiped the stone Buddha, looked at Chi Heng with his eyes, and Chi Heng also waved.The temple itself was very clean, Heng Su only had watermarks on his shoes when he entered, but Chi Heng was covered in mud, especially his feet, where there were mud marks every time he stepped on it.Kneeling on the futon, the futon was immediately covered with mud and water.

After worshiping Buddha, Heng Su let him take a bath with a good temper.

Behind Qingshan Temple, there is a mountain spring. The mountain spring is sunken, and there are huge stones blocking it. Below it, a natural pool is formed for a long time. The water is waist-deep, and monks bathe here.

Standing in the spring pool, you can hear the sound of the water and see the water splashing, but you can't get wet.

Chi Heng washed himself thoroughly from head to toe.

Living in the wind and sleeping in the open, he often just lay down on the spot and didn't even bother to wipe his face with water, let alone take a bath. When the weather was hot, he could smell the stench. Every time Xiao Lizi saw him, he was afraid and covered his nose .

His hair was past his shoulders, and his beard had grown.

He washed his hair and face first, and then rubbed off the dirt on his body inch by inch. He washed very carefully. His hands were so strong that the skin was red and red before he stopped.

Chi Heng washed for more than half an hour.

The rain stopped, and when he came out, he felt much lighter. When the wind blew, his half-dry hair flew away, and his whole body seemed to be flying.Putting on the old light gray monk's robe, the monk's robe is so baggy that it feels like the wind is blowing every step he takes, and he returns to the temple with his wooden clogs on.

Little Lizi was babbling and chanting sutras, looking at him in amazement, he forgot all the sutras.

Heng Su gave Chi Heng a razor blade.

Facing the bronze mirror, Chi Heng began to shave three times, five times and two times, and at the end he suddenly laughed at himself, no wonder he said that there are three thousand threads of troubles, and the beard is the same, if they are all shaved, the troubles in the world will be reduced by more than half.

He ran to the old abbot and said that he wanted to be ordained.

The old abbot raised his head indifferently: "If the heart is attached to the world of mortals, what about shaving? 'Infinite, countless and boundless sentient beings', if the heart is shaving to the Buddha or not, it makes no difference!"

Chi Heng didn't force it.

May passed, and it was June. In June, it was hot, morning and evening, and the sun was shining directly on the stone at noon. Let alone chiseling the stone, it would be too hot to step on it, let alone sweat profusely. His whole body was so sunburned that he almost burned.

But Chi Heng couldn't rest. Fortunately, he took advantage of the noon fire to burn stones.

It is easier to chisel than before.

From June to July, Chi Heng was turned into charcoal.Let’s say, one day in June, the sun was very strong. He was digging a road, and he looked up inadvertently, and saw a woman climbing up below, with a two or three-year-old child tied in her arms.Chi Heng looked at the sky, the sun was so hot that his eyes were on fire just by looking at it.

Chi Heng went down: "Give me the child."

The woman was nearly 30 years old, her face was flushed from the sun, and her face was ordinary. At first glance, she looked like a law-abiding woman.She was crawling with difficulty, but was taken aback, and then calmed down in a panic: "Thank you, brother, I can do it myself."

How can you do it under the scorching sun?

The child was also sun-drenched, looking at Chi Heng with obedient eyes, neither crying nor fussing, just clutching his mother's lapel.

Chi Heng still took the child.

Back in the temple, the woman worshiped the Buddha very earnestly, drew a lottery, and asked Heng Jie to chant scriptures for her, with a very pious expression.Seeing that it was getting late and it was impossible to return, she stayed in the side hall and had a fast meal with everyone.

It was a night without a moon, but it was not too dark. The sky enveloped the green hills, glowing with a faint light.

Chi Heng went back to the temple once in a while, and went to the spring pool to take a bath.

On a summer night, the surroundings were extremely quiet, and Chi Heng was walking slowly, when he suddenly heard some strange noises, rustling, and extremely chaotic, he walked towards the sound suspiciously, and heard a crackling sound, like a hand-to-hand fight.

Where did the people on the top of the mountain come from?

Before Chi Heng had time to think about it, he heard a panting voice: "My friend, slow down."

"It's so refreshing, how can the poor monk slow down."

Then there was the sound of violent panting, and the sound of flesh hitting each other. As Heng Jie moved more and more vigorously, the woman was suppressed and moaned before, but then she almost screamed.Not to mention the two of them, Wushan Yunyu, having sex and having fun, Chi Heng, who accidentally heard the erotic palace, hurried away with light steps.

Even though Chi Heng's heart was ashamed, he couldn't help frowning in this situation.Not long after, the woman came back, her face was flushed, but she still cleaned her hands very seriously, worshiped the Buddha, and then put the child to sleep, her face was pious and reserved.

Chi Heng sat in front of the stone Buddha.

Not long after, Heng Jie also came back, sat down next to Chi Heng, and recited sutras for a while.Chi Heng could tell that the chanting was extremely serious this time.After reciting the scriptures, Heng Jie opened his eyes and saw that Chi Heng hadn't left yet, so he put down the wooden fish and said, "Chi Heng benefactor, even a monk, still has six unfinished."

Chi Heng frowned.

"Five years ago, she came to the temple to pray for a child. Because she hadn't had a child for a long time, she was beaten and scolded by her in-laws. In that year, she went up to the mountain by herself and didn't go down more than ten times. The mountain road was not easy to walk. The poor monk saw that she was pious, so he supported her for a while, and after a long time, the wind came, and he felt pity for her after hearing her hard life."

Chi Heng was silent.

"Four years ago, she came to the temple again and said that if she didn't conceive again, she would be divorced...the poor monk...so she did this." Heng Jie was surprisingly calm.

Chi Heng said: "After all, it's all her fault?"

Heng Jie was silent for a while, then said: "It's the poor monk's fault. Since she first came, the poor monk has thought about it. Because she always comes here on the [-]th day, the poor monk remembers it, and every time she goes down the mountain with an excuse Met. She was eager to seek a child later, and it was the poor monk who lured her into it."

It seems that the child is persevering.

"Have you ever thought about how her husband will punish her if she knows that the child is yours? You don't care about everything in the temple, but you don't know what will happen to her!"

"If her husband's family is willing to let her go, or if she is willing to leave her husband's family, the poor monk is willing to return to lay life."

it is more than words.

The woman's husband's family probably knew about it, but they would rather make the mistake, and the woman had no intention of elope with Heng Jie.

Chi Heng thought, there are countless things in the world that he can't understand, such as dewy marriage, such as passing on the family for the sake of carrying on the family.

The next day the woman was playing in the yard with the child, Heng Jie squatted aside and let the child caress his bald head.His smile is extremely kind, and her face is extremely calm. Even if the two look at each other, there is absolutely no such ardor that they are willing to abandon the world and run away.

Chi Heng went down the mountain with the chisel.

After two days, the woman took the children down the mountain, and Hengjie escorted them to the bottom of the mountain. When they came back, they were silent for several days, chanting scriptures until very late every night, and it took several days before they returned to their previous appearance. .During Chi Heng's stay at Qingzhu Temple, the woman brought the child to visit twice more, each time she worshiped Buddha very piously, spoke very little, and brought some home-brewed extremely sweet candied fruit to Qingzhu Temple.A table of people finished eating the honey fruit silently, and the old abbot said: "One thought pours out, one thought revives, my Buddha is merciful."

Hengjie Hengsu and Xiao Lizi clasped their hands together: "My Buddha is merciful."

Chi Heng once thought, maybe one day the woman's husband will get angry; maybe one day the child will notice it, maybe one day..."Bang!" It's on hand.

In July, the weather is still hot and dry.

The stone steps have already taken shape. On July [-]th, the abbot, Heng Jie, Heng Su, and Xiao Lizi all came to the riverside. Heng Su did not bring a food box, but brought a lot of lotus lanterns: "Today It's the Obon Festival on July [-]."

Chi Heng was taken aback: "The Obon Festival?"

The arrangement of the Qingzhu Temple was also different from the usual ones. On this day, there were several square tables in front of the incense table, each with melons, vegetables and fruits.After everything was over, the abbot began to chant sutras.

Fireworks and lotus lanterns are set off after chanting, and then chanting.

Do not associate with evil, the three karma are pure.

The flames of the lotus flowers trembled, Chi Heng put two lotus lanterns into the river, the breeze blew ripples, but the lotus lanterns lingered and returned to Chi Heng's hand, the thin lotus petals brushed against Chi Heng's fingers several times In the belly, Chi Heng pushed it three times in a row, and the lotus lantern reluctantly floated away along the water.

Hundreds of lotus lanterns are floating in the river.

Heng Su said: "Chi Heng, a hundred ghosts are walking at night today, you should stay in the temple."

Chi Heng asked back: "Will all the ghosts take the lotus lanterns in the future? You go back first, and I will stay for a while." He sat by the river with his knees hugged for a night, and when he got tired in the middle of the night, he felt that there seemed to be someone around him. Then he raised his head slowly, and saw many white shadows wandering on the river, like garments fluttering, they didn't dare to get close to Chi Heng, some bent over to pick up the lotus lantern.

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