Chapter 118 Temple Ceremony, Eating Meat in the Temple

Since returning from an outing one day, Liu Qingxi has become unusually gloomy.

Although Liu Qingxi has been gloomy most of the time since he came to Focheng, he seems very disappointed and dissatisfied.

But it is far from the degree of "gloomy".

I think he must have encountered something.

Li Changxiao joked with him, and he was also very impatient.

One night.

Li Changxiao saw that the night was nice tonight, so he called him out for a drink.

He borrowed the stove of Kongwo Temple in advance and fried a few side dishes. Of course, they were all vegetarian dishes. There was almost no meat in the whole Focheng.

Li Changxiao suspected that it was monopolized by the temple.

Liu Qingxi was unwilling. In fact, Li Changxiao kept calling him to drink, but he never agreed.

Helplessly, Li Changxiao could only digest this blessing by himself, thinking that it would be better if Lao Zhang was there. Drinking alone is a solitary drink, but drinking with two people is different.

Thinking of this.

Li Changxiao sighed a few times.

Just then.

The next second, on the mountain road outside Kongwo Temple.

Zhang Daoke's heroic laughter was heard, shouting: "Lao Su, look what I brought back for you."

Li Changxiao was delighted, thinking that he had dreamed so many times that he had the ability to make his dreams come true?

He walked out of the courtyard of Kongwo Temple in two or three steps and looked at the mountain road below.

I saw the man with a stubble on his face and a scar on his left eye, carrying a fan of wild boar meat with a proud look on his face.

In addition, he also carried two bamboo rats and a fragrant bird in his left hand.

"Lao Zhang, where did you get these things?" Li Changxiao was surprised and happy. He really hadn't eaten meat for a long time.

Zhang Daoke winked and said that the mountain man had a clever plan.

Li Changxiao walked to his side, helped him carry half a fan of pork, and entered the courtyard of Kongwo Temple.

The abbot came out from the backyard and was not angry about eating meat in the courtyard. On the one hand, the outer courtyard was originally for outsiders to live in, and on the other hand, he was not too taboo about eating meat.

The two put half a pork, two bamboo rats, and a fragrant bird on the ground.

Then prepare some wine.

They smiled at each other, it seems that tonight, they will have a good meal.

The two have a clear division of labor.

Li Changxiao made a fire and set up the fire rack, while Zhang Daoke processed the ingredients, cut the bamboo rats and processed the internal organs.

They chatted while busying themselves.

Li Changxiao asked Lao Zhang where he got these things, which are out of print in Focheng.

Lao Zhang kept it a secret, and finally said proudly: "Bah, those bald donkeys in Qizong Temple are really nothing."

"They said they were vegetarian for three meals, but in the middle of the night every day, they all ran to the back mountain to eat meat."

Lao Zhang smiled and told Li Changxiao that half a pork was stolen, and the two bamboo rats and the fragrant bird were hunted by himself in the back mountain.

Now that there is meat, I immediately think of you, Lao Su.

Li Changxiao smiled and said, we are really in sync, I was just looking forward to you.

As soon as this was said,

Zhang Daoke laughed and twitched his buttocks happily.

The fire was soon lit, the water was boiled, and the ingredients were processed.

Half a pork was fixed on the fire and roasted.

A bamboo rat was wrapped in lotus leaves, then covered with yellow mud, and thrown directly into the fire.

It is said that the two of them ran all over the mountains to find lotus leaves. They finally found a pond and ended up getting wet.

The other bamboo rat was used to make soup, sprinkled with onions, ginger, garlic, and some vegetarian dishes.

As for the fragrant bird, it was braised on the stove.

In this way.

Vegetarian dishes, meat, and wine were available.

The two of them brought a small stool and looked at the delicious food on the ground, feeling quite accomplished.

The nine Jianghu guests who accompanied them, except Lao Zhang and Liu Qingxi, only stayed in Kongwo Temple for a few days, and then went to find an inn to live in.

So they didn't have this kind of good fortune.

The two of them couldn't wait to clink glasses.

Li Changxiao sprinkled a layer of cumin on half of the pork, and the roasted aroma was overflowing, which was extremely delicious.

When the pork was cooked, he cut off a piece with a knife. He took a bite and felt very hot at first. He exhaled while biting. After the mouth slowly adapted, the taste of the barbecue slowly bloomed.

A sip of wine.

A bite of meat.

The moon was full and the wind was clear.

Interesting things in the world.

The two people had similar interests and were very happy. Just as they were eating excitedly, the bamboo rat wrapped in yellow mud lotus leaves was also cooked.

As soon as it was opened, the aroma was fragrant.

Liu Qingxi cursed twice, jumped up from the bed, and looked at the two people in the yard with resentment.

"Old Liu, the first bite is for you." Li Changxiao shouted at him.

Liu Qingxi's face was very bad, but he couldn't stand the smell of meat, so he also moved a stool and sat next to the two people.

"Little monk!" Zhang Daoke looked at the handsome monk squatting at the foot of the wall and swallowing his saliva, and waved at him.

The handsome monk shook his head.

Eating meat is a taboo.

"Xiao Si, go ahead."

At this time.

There was a figure behind the handsome monk.

This person was very tall, with a red mole on his forehead, bald, not handsome, but gave people a sense of tranquility and peace.

"Brother?" The fourth monk was surprised, and then happy: "You came out of retreat?"

"Yes." The monk with a red mole on his forehead nodded gently, "Tomorrow is the temple ceremony."

This person is the big monk in Kongwo Temple. He had been in retreat to practice Zen until tonight.

The tall monk with a mole on his forehead, like a big brother next door, took the fourth monk's hand and came to the three of them.

He smiled and asked: "Would you like to add two more positions?"

"Of course, you are most welcome." Li Chang smiled and replied.

Liu Qingxi said sarcastically: "Why, you, the monk, are also greedy?"

The monk with the red mole smiled leisurely and said calmly: "Of course I'm greedy."

"Haha, you break the precepts so easily, how can you become a Buddha?" Liu Qingxi looked at the monk with red mole.

The red mole monk was not annoyed at all. After sitting down slowly, he replied: "Then just eat the meat and then practice Buddhism. The Buddha probably won't care."

"You..." Liu Qingxi was speechless for a moment.

Li Changxiao and Zhang Daoke secretly laughed.

"Donor." The man with the red mole looked at Liu Qingxi, "You are depressed, don't bother to confide in it, I might be able to relieve your worries."

Liu Qingxi ignored it and continued to eat meat.

The man with the red mole looked at Liu Qingxi, smiled slightly, and said again: "The donor has wavered in the Buddhist Dharma he believes in? Do you think it is just an illusion?"

Liu Qingxi was stunned.

"It seems that I guessed it right." The man with the red mole said again: "But what you saw in the Buddha City makes you think that the rumored Dharma is nothing more than that, or even a scam?"

"You..." Liu Qingxi's face was filled with shock.

The man with the red mole smiled slightly and said, "I see that the donor has a heart to worship Buddha. Why don't you tell me what you saw and heard?"

Only then did Liu Qingxi tell the story.

It turns out that someone died in the defense court today.

That person had met him once before, and he was the foreigner who had spoken unabashedly and insulted the Buddhist controversy some time ago.

He was caught by the people of Changxiang Temple, tortured, his tongue was pulled out, his teeth were broken, and finally he was trapped on a shelf and burned to death in the debate field.

He also slandered him as evil.

After a few words.

Li Changxiao frowned, never expecting to be so violent.

He warned the young man, but he didn't listen.

It was this incident that completely shook Liu Qingxi's faith.

Bullshit Buddha City.

Bullshit monk.

What surprised Liu Qingxi was that he had thought that the monk with the red mole, as a member of the Buddhist city, would speak out to defend him and make excuses for him.

But no.

The other party has been very calm, neither denying nor affirming, just talking like friends. He also told Liu Qingxi that Buddhism is never limited to one temple or one place.

Liu Qingxi was quickly moved by the other party's remarks, admired the other party's magnanimity, and his attitude gradually became more solemn.

The gloom on his face was blown away by the wind. Not only that, but he also asked for advice seriously later on.

Hearing that the other party was going to challenge the "Temple Ceremony" tomorrow, he gave his heartfelt blessings and wished the other party success. In the future, Kuga-ji Temple will be classified as orthodox, and he will definitely contribute a lot of incense.

The two of them chatted more and more happily, and Liu Qingxi smiled for the first time. It seemed that all his fantasies about the Buddhist city were embodied in the monk with the red mole on his eyebrows that he met tonight.

It seems that Buddha City is not that bad.

It’s just that I have never met a truly knowledgeable monk.

He is looking forward to tomorrow's "temple ceremony" even more.

other side.

Li Changxiao and Zhang Daoke teased the handsome Fourth Monk.

These two men had evil intentions and told ghost stories to the four monks.

Zhang Swordsman told a story about a ghost village, and Li Changxiao told a story about a fox demon.

But the young monk Jun was so frightened that he trembled all over and shouted for Buddha's blessing.

Zhang Swordsman did something bad again and told a story about a ghost in the temple. Monk Jun turned pale with fright. He probably would not dare to go to the toilet in the middle of the night in the future.