Chapter 98 The Scholar and the Flower Demon
During the journey, he met the fake Dragon King. It was the first time that Lu Kongruo saw Xiao Tan whip the monster with gold. He really took the Buddhist path. His ability to be able to pass on the power of salvation is even better than that of him, Huizi, who has not yet been able to cut off the world and become a monk.
On the way, the heavy rainstorm caused by the fake Dragon King damaged the hull, which forced Yan Lang and his group of passengers to get off the ship halfway. It took several days to transfer to another passenger ship heading north.
More than twenty days later, the group of four people and monsters turned the passenger ship again, and finally successfully set foot on the road in the capital more than two months after Yan Lang set out from home.
At this time, the weather was getting hotter, and Yan Lang also carried a pot of flowers and a twelve and three-year-old book boy, and successfully stayed in Fahua Temple outside the capital.
Here, scholars like Yan Lang who come to take advantage of the exam can get a small courtyard with three houses only to pay a little room fee. They can make three meals a day or eat with monks in the temple.
This is actually because the spring exam is coming, and most of the people who come to the temple to stay are the students who take the exam. These scholars are very tiring to do their studies. If they really force them to eat vegetarian food, they may be damaged.
These people are already pillars of the court, and even if they fail the spring exam, they can be assigned to work in various places. Therefore, Fahua Temple also treats them as appropriate and allows them to close the door in the courtyard to make some meat and fish for nourishing themselves.
However, the temple also has regulations that hunting and killing animals is not allowed on the back mountain of Fahua Temple, otherwise people will be driven away immediately if they are found.
That rule is nothing. If you want to hunt, just go a little further. Yan Lang was very surprised to have an independent courtyard. He sighed inwardly that it is indeed a big temple under the feet of the emperor, and it is so grand.
With the care of Huizi Lu Kongruo, who has been temporarily listed in Fahua Temple, Yan Lang has a small outer courtyard with a back door that can be entered and exited. As soon as he goes out, there is a stream. The stream is no longer within the back mountain of Fahua Temple. Yan Lang and the others can go fishing occasionally to improve their lives.
After entering the yard, the little shaman who led the way left, in Yan Lang's flower pot, Xiao Tan couldn't wait to pat the edge of the flower pot with green leaves and wanted to jump out, "Scholar, the soil here smells so good! Can I take root in the yard?"
His wife was anxious to take root, so Yan Lang naturally found a broken firewood stick in the corner without saying a word, and then walked away in the small yard with Xiao Tan in his arms.
After finding a corner where Xiao Tan was most satisfied, Yan Lang squatted down on the spot as soon as he lifted his clothes, put down the flower pot and started digging the pit, and the soil around the pit also loosened.
Xiao Tan saw that the scholar was digging the soil and digging it interestingly, so he turned around and turned into a human form. Then he squatted beside him and picked up a dead branch to help dig the soil.
Lin Song put down his luggage and came out of the room. He saw his master and future wife digging soil in the corner together. He suddenly turned silently and looked for the wooden barrel. He went to the stream outside the back door to get a bucket of water and started cleaning the room inside and out.
After digging the pit, Xiao Tan jumped in and tried it. He felt very comfortable and asked the scholar to bury himself, so he jumped out to help clean the yard.
Although Xiao Tan could bury himself, it might be that the scholar would bury her, and it felt different.
When you take root for the first time, you need to bury it. Then Xiao Tan turns into a formal shape and go back to sleep and go back directly because the nest has been trapped by Xiao Tan's root system.
The yard is not big, and even the cottages are elsewhere. On weekdays, I use Gongpu, and there are three not-so-spacious rooms. Because Xiao Tan cannot live in the room, the empty room is used as a place for several people to eat. When I have to cook indoors in winter, this place will also be used as a kitchen.
Yan Lang has no habit of being able to serve him, so Lin Song doesn't need to work on the floor in his room, so Lin Song just lives alone.
This treatment made Lin Song stunned for a long time, and then sat alone in the room and laughed secretly for noon. He had more strength to do his work in the afternoon.
The master is a kind-hearted person, and his wife is a murderer of monsters and practicing Buddhism. Lin Song felt that he was so lucky. Maybe when his wife becomes an immortal and ascends to the future, she will still be thinking about him serving him and willing to give his descendants some protection.
Until three days later, Du Juan, who had just arrived in the capital earlier, came here, and looked at the place where Yan Lang and the others were staying. For the first time, he thought that Lu Kongruo, a fake monk, was still good.
As for Lu Kongruo, except for the time he was busy at the beginning, he would come over every other day to teach Xiao Tan Buddhism. He had not given up on trying to save Xiao Tan and make Xiao Tan a Buddhist flower.
Xiao Tan listens to the nice bells every day, absorbing the air, soil and even sunshine full of Buddha nature, and occasionally secretly goes to listen to the monks in the temple opening the altar.
After finishing her daily practice, Xiao Tan came back and stayed quietly by her scholar's side with the scholar to read and practice calligraphy. Occasionally, Huizi Lu Kongruo gave her a small hospitality. Life was happy and her cultivation was increasing day by day. The bud gradually faded away from the blue, revealing the mature yellow color of the bud, and it looked like it was just around the corner.
At this moment, Xiao Tan still didn't know that her blossoming had nothing to do with her cultivation, and Du Juan didn't know that she didn't have this inheritance memory, but she was just confused.
Du Juan did not stay, but just came to see Yan Lang and the others several times. After that, Du Juan's master, Taoist Xuanqing, also came to the capital and talked to Lu Kongruo for a while. Then Du Juan followed Taoist Xuanqing and left. Xiao Tan also cried sadly for this.
Du Juan left a small bell for Xiao Tan, so that when Xiao Tan had something to do, he could take the bell to the Xilan Mountain Yunxia Temple in the west of the suburbs to find the owner. The owner was Du Juan's master.
"I will definitely come to drink your wedding wine when you get married."
Du Juan comforted Xiao Tan with a smile, said goodbye to Yan Lang, and left with a short knife around her waist.
Du Juan left without leaving directly, but went to find Lu Kongruo. She smiled and apologized to the other party for forcing her to keep someone, and then said, "I guess you have figured out my master's words. Xiao Tan and this scholar have had a love life. If you forcefully save Xiao Tan, this is really a saying that it is contrary to the way of heaven."
Lu Kongruo closed his eyes and chanted "Amitabha" and said, but his heart was actually very confused.
The human and demon have different paths, but why can humans and demons have a love life? What is the law of heaven, what is the way of heaven, and what is the true intention of the Buddha?
Since many things in the world have established causes and effects, are they, who are struggling with difficulties and difficulties in the world, despair and ignorant?
These days, Lu Kongruo has been in the Zen room, but he has become more and more confused.
Du Juan looked at the confused little master, and felt a little pitiful. After thinking about it, Du Juan rubbed his hands and tentatively said, "If you want me to say that, you have too little experience in the world. Didn't you all say let go? You didn't even pick it up and talk about letting go? You haven't experienced it in your love, hate, and you can't understand it in your body. How can you achieve all four elements? Otherwise, you might as well go out with me to see the world, and then subdue demons and eliminate harm to the people?"
Lu Kongruo opened his eyes, stared at Du Juan with calm eyes for a while, and then was successfully abducted by Du Juan.
Du Juan didn't know that this would go so smoothly, and she thought that she would send the fake monk back to Putuo Temple after attending Xiao Tan and the scholar's wedding banquet next year, so that she would be more at ease.
Du Juan didn't believe Lu Kongruo's promise to keep it secret, but was worried that if Lu Kong returned to Putuo Temple in advance, he would be asked about his elders.
Bald donkeys do not lie, and then the fake monk will have to remain silent. The group of bald donkeys in Putuo Temple will definitely see the problem. Once you check it, you may find out something. After all, it is not a secret that Lu Kongruo was invited away by the Mei family.
Du Juan came to find Lu Kongruo just now, originally hoping to keep him in Fahua Temple and fool people into talking, and it was a surprise that he could carry people with him smoothly.
Du Juan kidnapped Huizi away. The people in Putuo Temple just thought that Huizi was going to travel, so they didn't think much about it.
Yan Lang's life was settled so much. The day after he settled in Fahua Temple, Yan Lang had already written a letter to his family.
Naturally, the monsters and ghosts I met on the road did not say anything, but just wrote some interesting experiences along the way, and then explained that I had settled in Fahua Temple. I also said in detail that I had a separate courtyard, so I could feel at ease to read before the spring exam next year.
After writing, Yan Lang hesitated for a moment. He didn't talk about Xiao Tan's affairs. He was afraid that his mother and sister would find out, but instead thought too much.
From summer to autumn, the courtyard in Fahua Temple that was specially prepared for the examination and taking the exam was already full. Yan Lang also met several scholars who were well-known and knowledgeable. Occasionally, he went out to share his ideas and opinions with a few people. Yan Lang himself could clearly find that his cognition and knowledge had made great progress.
Those who can come to Fahua Temple to take the exam are usually not very good family conditions, but there are also several locals in the capital who specially went to Fahua Temple to live in order to integrate into the atmosphere of preparation for the exam.
After all, every time the examination is held, Fahua Temple will have students from all over the country, and the emperor will occasionally ask about the situation of the scholars in Fahua Temple.
Among them, two young men were broad-minded and gentle in character, and were generous and willing to share the books they brought with other scholars. This made the scholars who lived in the temple very happy. They gathered almost every now and then, and did not engage in those expensive scenes. They just found a place with good artistic conception, exchanged knowledge in groups of three or five, and the learning atmosphere was very harmonious.
Yan Lang was busy doing research, so Xiao Tan rarely disturbed him. He either hid behind the golden body of the Bodhisattva Buddha in the Main Hall, or bury himself in the mud bark in the corner of the yard to nourish himself with peace of mind, and strive to make himself look more beautiful.
Lin Song is busy taking care of Yan Lang every day and has to work hard to eat three meals a day, which is also very busy.
In this way, more than half a year passed in a blink of an eye. When it was already snowing in the capital, the local people living in Fahua Temple had already returned to celebrate the New Year with their families.
Yan Lang also relaxed a little, so he asked Lin Song to buy some vegetarian wine with the monks in the temple, and then stewed a steamed whole fish on the dining table with braised rabbit diced rice balls, and met Lin Song Xiaotan with a glass.
The vegetarian wine in Fahua Temple is rice wine, which has not been distilled. It only tastes light and the more sweet it is. The three of them ate a New Year’s Eve dinner with a small pot of vegetarian wine.
I cooked a lot of food, and I kept half of it when I was eating. I couldn’t eat all the New Year’s Eve dinner, so I had more than every year. The remaining food was hot at noon the next day, which was even the meal last year that I ate this year.
As for the morning of the first day of the Chinese New Year, the vegetarian meatballs that the little novice monk in Fahua Temple came to give in early morning. The meatballs were made of glutinous rice and added some sweet wine. They were soft, sweet and delicious.
After the first lunar month, on February 8, Yan Lang packed up his examination bookcase and other items, took Lin Song with a flower pot and went down the mountain and temporarily left Fahua Temple to the capital. Through several friends who made friends, he successfully lived in a civilian courtyard.
Nowadays, houses are in short supply, and inns and the like have already been full. If it weren’t for helping with friends in advance, this private house would not be able to be found.
Yan Lang and Lin Song had only one room, and Xiao Tan could only keep the original shape in the flower pot and placed it on Yan Lang's bedside.
There were other people in the yard, but fortunately, everyone was a candidate like Yan Lang. Everyone was very quiet and not noisy, and they stayed in the room to adjust their condition. The next day was February 9th. At the beginning of Yin o'clock in the morning, everyone in the yard set off and left the yard.
Yan Lang also left the courtyard under Lin Song's gaze, and shared a carriage with other candidates to rush to the tribute courtyard.
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Chapter completed!