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Chapter 265 Causal Loop (2)
"Then it's Master Lao." Ruoxi nodded back, then followed the little monk to the backyard.

The Hou Mansion has a special box in the temple, and the young monk led Ruoxi and others into it.The room faces the sun and is spacious and clean inside. Seasonal fruits and various snacks are placed on the kang table.

Guiyuan ordered the little girl to bring in water, waited for Ruoxi to wash up briefly, and the little monk made tea and brought it in.

Ruoxi lifted the lid of the teacup, and suddenly felt a special fragrance coming out of her nostrils.She looked over carefully, and saw the tea leaves slowly stretching up and down in the water, and it is rare for green tea leaves to be round.

She had long heard that there were two tea trees in Puji Temple, which were said to have been planted by the eminent monk Guo Guo himself.These two tea trees grow extremely lush day and night, and the tea leaves picked and made into tea have a very special taste.

"Try it, we can't drink tea from Puji Temple in our house." Ruoxi asked Aunt Luo to taste it, and she took a sip from the teacup, then frowned.

"My servant also heard that the five-flavored tea in Puji Temple is special. Not everyone can drink it. Today, I borrowed from grandma." Aunt Luo smiled and took a sip, savoring it repeatedly and said, "It's bland and tasteless. It’s not as magical as people say. But servants have never understood the tea ceremony, and any kind of tea tastes the same in their mouths, so it’s useless to waste this five-flavored tea.”

Ruoxi ordered Guiyuan and Qingyu to drink a cup too, one said that the bitterness was sweet, and the other said that the sweetness was slightly spicy.

"This is strange. Could it be that we are not drinking a pot of tea? Why do the tastes of the teas differ?" Aunt Luo wondered.

Ruoxi took another sip, stared at the teacup thoughtfully, and replied with a smile for a moment: "I understand! Life is sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, and salty with five-flavored tea. Everyone has different tastes in their hearts, and the tea they taste will naturally have different flavors." Same."

Aunt Luo is dedicated to the Buddha and has a weak temper, and any good thing tastes the same in her mouth; Guiyuan is cautious and careful, and has to think about everything in her heart;It seems that this tea is really touched with spirituality, and it has such a miraculous effect!
Ruoxi picked up the teacup and took another sip, all kinds of tastes of sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty came to her tongue, and she felt a lot of emotion for a while.Thinking of what happened to him on the farm, how he went about every step of the way after returning to the mansion, the heart-to-heart connection with Yixuan after marrying into the Hou's mansion, the pain of pregnancy and miscarriage.Scenes flashed before her eyes like a movie, causing her calm heart to stir again.

"I'll go for a walk in the bamboo forest in the back mountain, you stay and rest." Ruoxi only brought sapphire, and told the others to stay behind.

The master and the servant walked through the moon gate to the direction of the back mountain, but there was no one in sight along the way.Although Yixuan didn't come with them, he sent someone to seal the way up the mountain, and they were the only pilgrims in the huge Puji Temple.The back mountain is secluded, few monks go there, only the sound of birdsong is heard occasionally, it is a clean and elegant place.

I think it was there that Ruoxi met two brothers Yixuan and Yihao back then, and then the oolong incident happened.As soon as they arrived near the bamboo forest, they smelled a smell of barbecue.Who is so bold in the forbidden place of Buddhism to open meat!

Ruoxi looked intently, and saw an old man in ragged clothes was sitting on the ground, a fire was lit in front of him, and he was grilling with something like a chicken pierced with branches.

His hair was disheveled, and his face was black and white and dirty from a distance.The barbecue exuded a tempting aroma, and his saliva flowed out, and he quickly sipped it with his yellowed sleeve.

"Why did you come here to roast chicken, you old beggar? Leave quickly, lest our grandma be disturbed by this elegant place." Qingyu frowned and shouted.

The old man raised his eyes and looked over, Ruoxi was taken aback by his playful eyes.The appearance of such a character in Buddhism is already suspicious. Although his appearance is rough and messy, his eyes are not what ordinary people can have.

Ruoxi hurriedly reprimanded Qing Yu and said: "Don't be rude, the Buddha said that all living beings are equal. Besides, we are latecomers, it is we who disturbed the purity of the old seniors." After that, he apologized to the old man, and then turned around and was about to go back.

"This benefactor, go slowly. I have a few words to give to this benefactor!" The old man suddenly said, "It is fate that we can meet today. There are causes and effects to follow and cannot be forced. The benefactor has taken what is not his own. Returning a piece of flesh to others is considered even. Being able to settle a public case in the past and present is also the result of the donor’s good deeds, and it is a good thing! Hahaha, the world laughs at me for being too crazy, and I laugh at the world’s inability to see through Hahaha..." After speaking, he got up and entered the bamboo forest, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Qingyu frowned and said, "This old beggar is probably a lunatic, why is he talking nonsense? What is taking up a piece of body, what is the past and present, who opened his eyes and saw it? It's all nonsense. talk!"

Ruoxi was stunned in place, awakened by Qingyu's words, she looked up for the old man but couldn't see it.She chased into the bamboo forest, but still couldn't find the shadow of the old man.

"Grandma, are you looking for that old beggar?" Seeing this, Qingyu hurriedly asked: "How far can he go in his old age, he must have gone to hide and eat chicken. I will find a little monk and look around for a while, and I should be able to find it. "

She nodded after hearing this, and walked back without any intention of wandering, thinking about the old man's words all the way.Could it be that I met an expert who was pointing me?He actually revealed his secret in one word, it seems that he is definitely not an ordinary person, if he can find it and ask him carefully.

Back in the wing room, just as the previous ceremony was finished, Wuchen came to tell me.

"Just now I met an expert near the bamboo forest in the back mountain. I wonder if the master can recognize him?" Ruoxi asked politely, and then described the old man's physical characteristics.

Wuchen heard that he recited a Buddha's name, and was a little excited for the first time, "I heard the words of the second grandma, it seems that the old monk's master is really the master, it's a pity that I can't see it!"

"That old beggar is Master Sure enough?" Qingyu blurted out, Ruoxi glared at her, scaring her back so that she didn't dare to speak anymore.

"Grandma didn't know something, but the ancestor traveled around more than 30 years ago. At that time, the master had not passed away, and the old monk was just an ordinary monk in the temple." Wuchen fell into the memory, "The ancestor lived in front of the Buddha After sitting in meditation for 49 days, I suddenly laughed wildly and ran out of the temple, never to be seen again. Master sent people to look around, but there was no one, but there were many legends about Master Master among the people. The people all said that Master Master was the reincarnation of the living Buddha who saved the suffering, and even Some people set up a Buddhist hall at home to burn incense and kneel down every day. In the past ten years, the legend of the ancestor has gradually disappeared among the people. We all thought that the old man had passed away. Before the master passed away, he suddenly said that the ancestor had already realized Buddhism. He has reached a height that no one else can reach, and even if he passed away, he might not be able to meet again. The old monk has never understood the meaning of the teacher's words, and only got a glimpse today. Alas, the old monk insists on being proficient in Buddhism, but he is far inferior to the first teacher. Master, even the skirts of the master's ancestors can't be touched. It seems that the ancestors have broken the six realms of reincarnation, and they are not far from being promoted to immortals!"

(End of this chapter)