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Chapter 7 Laughing?Laughing is also considered a merit!

"Tan Lang, good boy, ah, open your mouth." Mrs. Zhen gently twisted the medicine spoon and handed it over.

"Auntie, I can drink by myself." Ouyang Rong took a sip helplessly and muttered.

As if Zhen didn't hear it, she continued to scoop up the medicine and ignored it.

Early this morning, Mrs. Zhen brought her maid over to take care of Ouyang Rong's meals and medicines, and also invited the abbot of Donglin Temple to check his pulse.

Ouyang Rong was going to propose to leave the temple and go down the mountain today, but seeing Mrs. Zhen like this, he wouldn't let him go unless he raised him alive.

Ouyang Rong frowned silently.

At this time, the pretty maid who seemed to be called 'Banxi' beside Zhenshi invited in the master and apprentice who was in charge of seeing the doctor from the front hall.

"Master, Tan Lang doesn't seem to have much appetite today, please take a quick look to see if his illness has recurred." Zhen frowned worriedly.

Ouyang Rong hesitated to speak, he was fed like a child, no wonder he had a good appetite.

"Female Bodhisattva, don't worry, your nephew looks good, I'll check my pulse again."

"There is Master Lao."

Mrs. Zhen turned to someone again and said, "The director's medical skills are well-known in the surrounding counties, and the medical officers in the state medical department may not be able to match it. This time, it is thanks to the director that he rescued you." , you don’t like to listen to your aunt’s words, but you always listen to the words of the host who saved you, right?”

The presiding old monk smiled while supporting his beard, sat down calmly, with white eyebrows and downcast eyes, and felt the pulse of Ouyang Rong who was lying on his back.

Ouyang Rong turned his head and took a look. The abbot of Donglin Temple was indeed a high-ranking monk with an immortal demeanor.

"May I ask what the master's name is?"

"My old monk is kind..."

Ouyang Rong waited attentively, but after waiting for a long time without saying a word, he froze, "Huh?"

Xiufa, who was holding a medical kit at the side, interjected, "Shandao is Master's Dharma name."

Suddenly, Ouyang coughed: "So it's Master Shandao, sorry for your disrespect."

But I was madly complaining in my heart, what kind of names do you monks from Donglin Temple take? Do you dare to be more serious?
Master Shandao added with a smile: "However, the old monk is really good at enlightening others. If Mingtang has any confusion in life or does not understand Buddhism, he can come to the old monk and welcome him at any time."

"Okay, master." Ouyang Rong nodded, glanced out of the window, and said suddenly: "The pagodas in your temple are quite tall."

Master Shandao thumped in his heart, and observed the face of the weak crown county magistrate calmly.

The old monk sighed, helplessly and pitifully said:
"So that Mingtang knows that these pagodas are all voluntarily raised by pilgrims and laymen at the foot of the mountain. The construction of pagodas is one of the three bases of Buddhism, which can accumulate merit. It’s hard to refuse, but it’s indeed a bit of a waste of time and money... But every time a pagoda is built, the temple has to go to the county government to file a tax report... and this year’s floods, it will definitely not be repaired again, Mingtang can rest assured."

Ouyang Rong didn't expect that a casual sentence would make people misunderstand that he wanted to fight Qiufeng.

He was noncommittal, but continued: "Do you have a pagoda in Donglin Temple... called the Gongde Pagoda?"

Master Shandao gathered his two white eyebrows together, remained silent for a while, first shook his head lightly, and then nodded.

"It used to be there, but it's gone now."

"Why is it gone?"

"Walk. And twice."

"Can you elaborate."

"At first, before Dagan established the country...even earlier than the previous dynasty, that is, during the Southern Dynasty, there was a southern royal family funding, and a magnificent lotus pagoda was built in the temple, and an underground palace was built below it. During the reign of Emperor Wen, the water flowed, and the pagoda collapsed.

"Then in the reign of Emperor Taizong of Dagan, that is, when Master Lao Na was in charge, the temple rebuilt a new pagoda on the original site of the Lotus Pagoda and named it 'Gongde' to store the relics of the Buddha. In the year when Lao Na took over as the abbot of the temple, this merit pagoda accidentally ran out of water again..."

The white-haired old monk shook his head and sighed: "So from then on, the temple no longer built the pagoda on the original site of the 'Gongde Pagoda'. It's just a pity for the expensive underground palace below."

Ouyang Rong couldn't help but look sideways, "This abandoned underground palace, shouldn't it be the Pure Earth Palace?"

Master Shandao nodded.

Ouyang Rong silently glanced at the ancient pagoda in the clouds in his mind.dude, is this a coincidence or...

"The underground palace is named Pure Land, but is there any particularity?"

"Ming Tang really has the Buddha nature. The name Pure Land is naturally not for nothing. First, 'rebirth in the Pure Land' is one of the teachings of our temple. Second, in that underground palace, there used to be an eminent monk in our temple. Become a Buddha and ascend to the Pure Land."

"Is this really the case?" Ouyang Rong's back fell off the pillow.

Master Shandao recited a solemn Buddha's name, and said very seriously:
"Of course it's true, because this eminent monk is the old monk's uncle Master Zhongma. I remember that at that time, the old monk was still about the same age as Xiufa now.

"On that day, the gate of the underground palace, which had been blocked for decades by the collapsed pagoda, was reopened. I went down with my master and saw with my own eyes that my uncle, who had been missing for many years since the collapse of the lotus tower, was sitting cross-legged in the center of the underground palace, and had passed away for many years. But his appearance and skin are still lifelike, even the blue veins on the back of his hands are clearly visible, and he has become a Buddha in the flesh! On the ground next to the master and uncle, there is a book with the words "return to come"...it seems to be returning to the pure land gone."

"Even after many years, I still can't forget the fairy face of my master and uncle. The Dharma is boundless, and it can save sentient beings, go to the pure land, and be bright and free. There are such Buddhist relics, which is why this temple is the incense of Longcheng County and even Jiangzhou. One of the reasons for the most prosperous monastery is that many lay people have traveled thousands of miles to burn incense in the mountains, and even in recent years, foreign monks from Dongying have come here to learn Buddhism and spread the Dharma to the south."

Behind Master Shandao, the hair holding the box was filled with longing.

Even when Ouyang Rong and Ouyang Rong were talking, Mrs. Zhen and the maidservant, who had retreated behind the curtain consciously, listened with fascination and envy.

Ouyang Rong was stunned.

He suddenly felt that there seemed to be some kind of providence in the dark.

Ouyang Rong said thoughtfully: "No wonder you set up a lotus throne in the center of the underground palace, but there is no Buddha statue on it, it is empty."

"Master's uncle has already ascended, so it's naturally empty." Master Shandao gave an inscrutable smile, and said in surprise, "But Mingtang is quite familiar with that underground palace."

Can you be unfamiliar? He woke up on it at the beginning, and stepped on countless feet. He even confiscated the lotus golden lantern that may be dedicated to the relic of Master Zhongma. He came to a physical "ascension"...

Ouyang Rong complained in his heart and smiled.

clang~
Suddenly, a muffled sound of wooden fish echoed in my ears.

Added merit?Could it be the unintentional thing that I told Xiufa yesterday... Ouyang Rong was stunned for a moment, and looked at the normal appearance of the people in the room who hadn't heard the sound. He immediately found an excuse of "dizziness" and sent everyone away.

Ouyang Rong put down the bed curtain, closed his eyes and leaned on the pillow, concentrated, and flew back to the merit tower surrounded by white clouds, looking expectantly and curiously at the blue-golden seal characters above the wooden fish...

However, after seeing clearly, he almost staggered and fell to his death.

[merits: one hundred]

"Grass, why did you still buckle upside down?!"

This... Take a deep breath... Ouyang Rong calmed down.

Sure enough, the merit value can not only increase, but also decrease without ringing the bell.

"Damn it, what's the reason, what's the reason, what's the law of heaven? I didn't do anything wrong, did I? Could it be that something happened in the distance that caused the deduction. Didn't I just laugh... Huh."

Ouyang Rong suddenly stopped talking.

Isn't it? Could it be that the hell joke also deducts my merits?
He stared at the little wooden fish in front of him with a straight face, not knowing whether to be angry or happy.

It's all right now, I really have to be a gentleman all the time outside, otherwise this little merit is not enough for him to "laugh" - Le Ziren is furious.

In addition, Ouyang Rong also noticed something different, thoughtfully:
"When adding merit, the sound of the wooden fish seems to be lighter and crisper; but when deducting merit, the sound of the wooden fish seems to be duller.

"The difference between the two voices is like slapping your girlfriend's butt, and the other is slapping your gay friend's butt...the difference is quite big, the former must be more beautiful..."

Just as Ouyang Rong was savoring something carefully, there was a sound of opening the door in the room, and someone approached on tiptoe, he quickly restrained his mind and left the merit tower.

However, as soon as he opened his eyes, he saw... big breasts.

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