windy cold

Chapter 48

What they met was a goblin with extremely high morals, who made disasters for one side of the land, dried up the fields, dried up the pond water, and stole the livestock. The people worked hard but had no harvest, and suffered unspeakably.

The two only thought that the goblin was no different from the monsters they had fought before, and they went to subdue it with confidence, but they were taught a severe lesson by the goblin.

"Be careful!" Zhu Qing flew away, forcibly using her body to block the goblin's blow for Ji Chen, and immediately fell into a coma.

Ji Chen hurriedly caught the flying bamboo, and swung the beads vigorously. A single sandalwood bead sank an inch into the ground in front of the goblin's feet, instantly blasting up dust, covering the goblin's sight.

This battle has been fought for a long time, the two are inevitably tired, and both were injured, and Zhu Qing suffered a severe blow for Ji Chen, and the injury was particularly serious, so Ji Chen had to drag the others to retreat temporarily.

He chose a nearby hidden place to hide, Zhuqing was unconscious, her emerald robe was soaked red by the blood from the wound, her condition was critical.

Jichen opened his eyelids, probably to observe whether he was still conscious, which one seemed to be frightened by something terrible, and the whole person couldn't stop staggering.

Lu Wanfeng became curious, and waited until Jichen pushed aside Zhuqing's eyelids for the second time as a proof, but he didn't want to but saw a pair of emerald green pupils that couldn't be concealed due to injuries. The pupils almost occupied the entire eyeballs, which was extremely terrifying.

Lu Wanfeng thought to himself: So Jichen knew Zhuqing's secret at this time.

Seeing that demon pupil again, Ji Chen kept backing away, his face changing, bewildered, surprised, fearful, flustered...

After a while, he stood up tremblingly, walked back to Zhuqing's side, gently covered his eyes with his palms, and remained silent for a moment, as if mustering up his courage, he began to treat Zhuqing's wound.

Due to the inconvenience in the field, Jichen had to scribbled a bandage, and then sent a signal to the temple for help.

After half a day, Zhan Ming and Ji Yuan came.

Ji Yuan hurriedly supported Ji Chen, saw that his body was covered with bloodstains, and asked left and right: "How is the injury, brother?"

Ji Chen nodded to him and comforted him: "Junior Brother Mo You, I'm fine, but brother Zhuqing's injury is more serious."

Ji Yuan squinted at the man on the ground, curled his lips, and looked back: "Master and I rushed over immediately after receiving the news. With Master here, brother just feel free to tell the goblin's hiding place!"

Zhan Ming has been staring at Zhu Qing since arriving here, and Ji Chen secretly glanced at the master, with a guilty look, walked over to block the master's sight, and said, "Master, let me go with you..."

Zhan Ming finally raised his eyes to look at him, sighed softly, raised his hand to interrupt the little apprentice who was loudly objecting, and said to Ji Chen: "You and the little benefactor are both injured, the healing is important, you go down the mountain and go back to the small town to wait, It is enough to go there as a teacher and your younger brother."

Hearing this, Ji Chen was surprised at first, and seeing the master's expression was the same, he quickly pointed in the direction, watched the two leave before he let out a long sigh of relief, and carried Ji Chen down the mountain full of thoughts.

A few days later, the goblin was subdued successfully, and Zhuqing's injury improved but she did not wake up.

When the master and apprentice returned, although Zhan Ming didn't say much, Ji Chen understood what the master meant, and was also depressed. After hesitating again and again, he paid a lot of money to hire someone to take care of Zhuqing, and then went back to Chaohua Temple with the master and younger brother.

When the gate was closed, the illusion began to change, and Lu Wanfeng returned to the bamboo forest.

Zhuqing was standing there grinding his feet, looking very anxious, and not far away, Jichen was walking slowly.

Zhuqing let go of her heart that had been suspended for a long time, and hurried to the back of the mountain. When they finally met, he pulled Jichen past him, looked at his whole body, and said worriedly: "It's fine, I'm still worried You are hurt."

Ji Chen was a little uncomfortable, and said: "I'm fine, some minor injuries have already recovered."

Zhuqing looked up at him, and asked unhappily: "Then why did you leave without saying goodbye? I woke up and couldn't find you, so I was going crazy!"

Ji Chen was a little dazed.

"Ji Chen?" Zhu Qing finally saw that something was wrong with him, and asked in confusion, "What's wrong with you, why didn't you speak?"

"Ah, ah..." It took a long time for Jichen to come back to his senses, he didn't dare to look at him, and said in a dull voice: "There is something important in the temple...so..."

"What's the important thing, I have to leave without saying a word, do you know how long I've been looking for you?" Zhuqing said aggrievedly, "The boy you called to look after me didn't know anything about it. My memory is only When I stayed in the battle with that goblin, I thought something happened to you..."

He turned around and stood with his hands behind his back, stopped talking, and left a back view to Ji Chen, as if he was blaming the neglect, but also as implying to invite favor, the two meanings were ambiguous.

Jichen hesitated to speak, raised and lowered one hand, seemed to have gone through a long period of ideological struggle, and finally couldn't bear it, so he pulled him over and patted his back to comfort him: "...Jichen didn't think carefully, ah Qing Mo is angry with me..."

"It's good that you know!" Zhuqing got her wish and waited until she was appeased, she muttered, but she still leaned her head and stopped making a fuss.

The two sat down side by side, Zhu Qing told Ji Chen all his experiences in the past few days, and from time to time he blamed Ji Chen eagerly, so that he had to apologize repeatedly and tried his best to comfort him.

In this situation, it seems that the reconciliation is as good as before, but whoever has something on his mind is the only one who knows.

Lu Wanfeng watched thoughtfully.

Later, when the two said goodbye, Lu Wanfeng followed Jichen back to Chaohua Temple, and when he opened the door of his room, he found the master in the room.

Zhan Ming sat cross-legged on the futon, fiddling with Buddhist beads with both hands, chanting scriptures in a low voice, Ji Chen quietly entered the room and closed the door, standing aside and waiting.

Shaoyan, after chanting sutras, Jichen stepped forward to help him up, and asked, "When did the master come?"

"Not long ago, I saw that you were not here, so I waited without authorization." Zhan Ming shook his head and did not sit down, and smiled faintly: "Did you just go to the bamboo forest in the back mountain?"

Ji Chen lowered his head, not daring to look at him, "Return to master, yes..."

Zhan Ming didn't say much on this matter, and changed the subject: "I fell asleep as a teacher last night, fell into a dream, and accidentally remembered a past event..."

He stopped for a while, and Jichen looked at the master suspiciously.

"When I was a teacher, I was not yet a monk. I once rescued a short-haired dog in the village who was bullied by other children. The dog was grateful. From then on, it followed the teacher every day, guarding the gate, playing for fun... until it became a teacher and court. Hua Temple formed a Buddhist relationship, and the temple sent people to the house to pick up the teacher and go up the mountain." Zhan Ming called his disciples to sit down together, took the hot water pot, poured water into the earthen cup with tea, and washed the tea. "That day, the teacher found a puppy. He was extremely restless, shrank in the nest and did not dare to come out, and was very worried about it, but the monk who came to pick him up as his teacher came to see him and was shocked."

Ji Chen took the tea from the master, it was a little hot, he didn't drink it and didn't put it down, he held it in his hand and asked: "Is there a problem with the dog?"

Zhan Ming shook his head, then nodded again, "The monk said that this dog has been cultivated into a dog spirit, and he will cultivate into a human body in a few days. At that time, the power of the demon will be greatly increased, and it will definitely cause harm to the world... Once you hear it is a demon, you will become a teacher." I hid in fear until the monk told me that the dog demon had been ambushed and killed."

"Master!" Ji Chen put down the teacup, stood up, and said anxiously, "That dog is with Master all day long, has it ever harmed people? Why do you allow others to kill it just because it is a demon?"

Lu Wanfeng was sitting on the wooden bed, and almost jumped up, but he heard that Jichen had already spoken for him.

Zhan Ming looked up at him without saying a word.

Ji Chen's face was burning hot when the master saw it, so he quickly bowed his head and apologized: "I know my mistake."

Lu Wanfeng's brain just got hot. Now that he thinks about it, no one can see him, but how can there be an apprentice who contradicts his master like this. Besides, he has also heard the story of Master Zhanming of Chaohua Temple. It is rumored that he was born at the age of five. How can we expect a five-year-old child to have a clear understanding of the world when he goes up the mountain to seek Buddhahood?I am afraid that when I hear a monster, I will shrink into the quilt in fear.

So he sat back down again.

Zhan Ming motioned his apprentice to sit down, but he didn't blame him, instead he said: "What's wrong with you? Master was indeed wrong. At that time, the puppy died, and the sound of wailing before death was circling in Master's mind day by day. For this reason, I couldn't sleep peacefully for a long time, and I didn't figure it out until I was enlightened by your master ancestor when I went up the mountain."

Rubbing the edge of the cup with his rough fingers, Zhan Ming sighed softly, stared into his apprentice's eyes suddenly and continued, "What would happen if it was a demon, and so what if it wasn't a demon. As a teacher, he is also a servant and a friend; if you don’t do evil, why should you bear the consequences of the evildoers? It’s a pity that I was young at the time and didn’t understand this truth.”

"Master..." Ji Chen became embarrassed, his eyes full of embarrassment avoided, he hesitated to speak.

Zhan Ming naturally saw it, and said to his apprentice: "Everything is divided into good and evil from birth. The most primitive purpose of existence in the world is to survive. Some people do good for this, and some do evil because of it. Get rid of the original intention." , but also need a good teacher and helpful friend, so there is a Buddha who can save all living beings, if there is no distinction between good and evil, wouldn't it be against the original intention of the Buddha?"

Ji Chen shook his hand, got up again, solemnly saluted the master, and said sonorously: "Thank you for the teaching, Master, Ji Chen suddenly became enlightened, and he will always remember it in his heart!"

Zhan Ming nodded in relief, took the slightly cold tea from his apprentice, and added water to make it again.

The so-called authorities are obsessed with onlookers, Lu Wanfeng listened to the heart-to-heart conversation between the two masters and apprentices, and naturally knew that Master Zhanming was teaching his apprentices, recalling that he was walking around in these illusions, and so far he had never seen Zhuqing. He evil thought of evil deeds, indeed, such a deep friendship between Jichen and Zhuqing is really rare, so it is not worth keeping grudges in my heart.

The master and the apprentice talked at night while holding candles, and they left when it was almost bright and bright. Seeing that it was not long before the morning class, Ji Chen was not asleep, and he was doing morning exercises in the house, with a relaxed expression.