Xianyun burst out laughing: "Isn't there a Bodhisattva in Yiyun Temple? Isn't it enough to just thank the Bodhisattva?"

"That won't work. I was not saved by the monk from Yiyun Temple. I was saved by the little master. Naturally, I have to go to the little master's temple to thank me."

"Uh, OK, but we can't keep you."

"I know this. I am a big man, so of course I can't live in your nunnery."

Xianyun lowered her head and walked to the turban where she was standing just now. He raised a bamboo basket from the grass and put it on his arm.

Zuo Shaoyang looked into the bamboo basket and said, "Oh, mushrooms? So you came out to pick mushrooms?"

"yes."

"I'll help you pick it."

"Okay, thank you."

Zuo Shaoyang often went up the mountain to dig medicine, and was too familiar with the situation in the mountains, and knew where the mushrooms would grow. Soon, he helped her pick a large basket and made Xianyun happy: "You are so amazing! These mushrooms seem to be grown by your family. You can find one of them right away."

"Of course." Zuo Shaoyang smiled proudly. "I used to help others dig herbs. I often went up the mountain to collect herbs and picked mushrooms."

"So that's it. - Ouch! It's raining!"

The idle cloud stretched out its white tender tenderness. He looked up at the lead-gray sky.

A few raindrops fell on his face, and Zuo Shaoyang said, "Yes. Let's find a place to hide from the rain as soon as possible! How about going to Yiyun Temple? You can hide from the rain there!"

Xianyun shook her head quickly, and her pretty face turned red again.

Zuo Shaoyang immediately woke up: "I'm sorry, you, a little nun, ran to the monk temple. When those pilgrims saw it, they should gossip again."

Xianyun nodded gratefully.

Zuo Shaoyang looked around and saw that there were woods around, steep cliffs, but there were no caves, and even no protruding cliff walls to shelter from the rain. He said, "I'm having trouble now, there's no place to hide from the rain."

The weather in the mountains changes as soon as possible. The rain started to rain.

It is early winter now, and the rain is falling on my body. Zuo Shaoyang took off his coat and robe. He stretched out his head and blocked Xianyun's head: "Pick up the clothes and give me the bamboo basket!"

Xianyun shouted, looking up at him: "How can this work? You will get wet!"

Zuo Shaoyang snatched the bamboo basket in her hand: "It is better for one person to wet than two people. You saved my life, what is it that I am wet with a little rain."

Put the clothes in her hand into her palm and walk quickly up the mountain.

Xianyun had no choice but to grab the clothes, cover her head, and chased after her, "Donor Left, wait! Or... let's cover the rain together?"

Zuo Shaoyang didn't look back: "No. Those clothes are so small, just cover yourself up."

The rain was drizzling, although not too heavy, but not small. Zuo Shaoyang was soaked in a short while.

Xianyun wanted to catch up with Zuo Shaoyang to shelter her rain, but she could not catch up with Zuo Shaoyang.

Finally, the two walked to the place parallel to the top of the cliff. Zuo Shaoyang stopped and turned around and said, "Why should we go?"

Xianyun caught up with him panting and blocked his robe: "Cover it quickly, you're soaked!"

Zuo Shaoyang took the clothes and smiled and said, "The rain has stopped."

Xianyun looked up at the sky and heard it. He smiled embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, it made you soak in this way. It's cold, and you will catch a cold like this. Come with me, let's go back and raise the fire and roast it for you!"

As he said that, Xianyun walked up for a short distance, then walked into the waist-high short trees and grass. There seemed to be a path hidden under the grass.

Zuo Shaoyang followed her and saw the body of a thin body, he couldn't help but sigh that a little girl was living her life on the top of Mount Hua, with the ancient Buddha of Green Lantern. What a loneliness it would be.

After walking forward for a long time, Xianyun finally said, "We're here!"

Zuo Shaoyang was stunned and looked up around, but did not find any temple: "Where is it?"

"Here!"

Xianyun Rou raised her head and pointed to a cliff not far away, "Where is there!"

Zuo Shaoyang looked closely and found a stone cave looming under the cliff.

He smiled bitterly and said, "You live in a stone cave to practice?"

"Yes, what do you think? Go quickly!"

Xianyun brought Zuo Shaoyang to the entrance of the cave. Zuo Shaoyang heard the faint sound of wooden fish and the sound of chanting scriptures from inside.

Xianyun shouted: "Master. I'm back."

There was a huh inside, and the sound of chanting chanting sounds sounded again.

The entrance to the cave is relatively small. Xianyun bent over and entered the cave first, and Zuo Shaoyang then bent over and entered the cave. It was larger inside, and it was more than one foot away from the top of the cave. It was only more than ten square meters inside. There was an oath table with several small bodhisattvas on it. There were no offerings on the altar except the Bodhisattva and a furnace of incense.

On both sides of the altar are two floors, with neatly stacked covers, very old, with a few patches on it, but they were washed very clean.

At the corner of the door of the stone cave, there is an iron pot and two wooden bowls, as well as chopsticks, spoons and a earth stove. On the other side is a small bundle of dry firewood and a small water tank.

An old nie with wrinkles on the futon at the altar, knocking on the wooden fish to chant scriptures.

Xianyun said, "Master, this young man named Zuo came to us to worship Buddha. He also picked up a lot of mushrooms for me..."

Zuo Shaoyang bowed and said, "I have met the Master!"

The old nun continued to recite scriptures as if she hadn't heard it.

Xianyun stuck out his tongue at Zuo Shaoyang, and his hands and feet quickly began to make fire. He greeted Zuo Shaoyang and said, "Take off the clothes and roast them. My clothes are too small. Why don't you put on my master's cold first?"

Why did Zuo Shaoyang have the nerve to take off his clothes in front of the two nuns? He smiled: "No need. Just wear wet clothes and just bake them dry like this."

"Then you will catch a cold. So, you are in the cave and I will pick up firewood."

"No, no need..."

Zuo Shaoyang felt a little embarrassed to look at Old Ni's back.

Xianyun immediately met and burst into laughter: "My master has been blind for many years. She can't see it."

"I, that's not what I mean. I'll just be wearing it and baking. Don't pick up firewood, I'll help you pick it up later. - The teacher is too bad at eyes?"

He said this as if he was talking to Old Ni, and he was asking Xianyun. But Old Ni did not speak and kept reciting the sutra. Xianyun whispered: "Yes. My master has been blind for three years."

Zuo Shaoyang said: "I know some medical skills and can help the teacher look at his eyes."

The old nun continued to recite scriptures without even a pause.

Xian Yunxi said: "My master doesn't speak when he recites scriptures. - Do you really understand medicine?"

"Yeah, understand a little."

"It's great. When my master finishes chanting, please help her see."

"good."

Zuo Shaoyang sat by the stove, holding his clothes and grilling with his hands. He looked around and whispered: "You two female nuns are in this wilderness forest. Aren't you afraid of meeting bad people?

"Why are there so many bad people? We monks are penniless, have no money, and robbers don't look down on them."

Zuo Shaoyang wanted to say that bad people not only rob money, but also robbed sex. But this is hard to say. People are not afraid. Well, there must be a way to deal with it. When the little nun pulled him, he didn't have any strength in his hands and should not know how to do it. Perhaps this old nun is a martial arts master. The monks and nuns in the world can do more or less martial arts. This old nun should have good martial arts skills, and it may be enough to deal with thieves and sexual demons like the world. He is just worried about it.

Zuo Shaoyang stopped talking, for fear of disturbing Lao Ni's chanting.

Xianyun put the iron pot on the stove, scooped half a pot of water, then took a wooden basin, scooped water and started washing mushrooms. In early winter, the water was already very cold and she washed it very carefully, so when she finished washing, her hands were already red.

She put a few mushrooms in the pot and then took some green vegetables to wash them. These green vegetables were obviously not wild. Zuo Shaoyang, whom they should have grown them, asked in a low voice, "Do you still grow vegetables?"

"Well. It's in the open space there."

"That's amazing."

Zuo Shaoyang praised.

After putting all the vegetables and mushrooms into the pot, she took three black buns and baked them next to the stove.

Zuo Shaoyang looked at the three black buns and remembered the hard life he lived when he came here, and he didn't expect that the life of monks was so hard.

The food was ready, Zuo Shaoyang's robe was almost dried, so he put the robe on his body.

Xianyun pinched her worriedly: "This robe is not very dry yet. Especially the clothes inside you will catch a cold like this."

Zuo Shaoyang smiled and shook his head and said it was okay. He practiced the technique of returning to the void and breathing, and he was no longer afraid of the cold. Even in the severe winter of the Western Regions, he only wore a single robe. He never caught a cold and frigid.

This coldness has nothing to do with it now.

At this time, the old Ni finally stopped chanting the scriptures. He put Mu Yuqiu down and put his palm together, and said in a low and slightly hoarse voice: "Young Master Zuo, Ni Ni was not distracted when chanting the scriptures just now, so he didn't answer the words of the master. I'm really sorry."

Zuo Shaoyang quickly hugged his fists and returned the greeting: "The teacher is so serious. Zuo is really reckless to bother him."

"It's okay, I heard from the bad disciple that the young master came to worship Buddha?"

Xianyun said, "Yes, Master Zuo was planning to... Well, he encountered some troubles, but now he is ready to think about it. I heard that we are practicing here, so I come to worship Buddha."

"I'm really sorry, our master and disciple live in seclusion in the Pure Land practice. They don't accept outsiders' worship of Buddha. If the Left Donor wants to worship Buddha, why don't we not the Yiyun Temple at the foot of the mountain?"

Zuo Shaoyang smiled and said, "I actually don't believe in Buddhism. It's just that because the disciples of Gaozhe helped me, I also helped her pick some mushrooms and send her back. It doesn't matter whether she worships Buddha or not."

Old Ni rolled his godless eyes: "Oh, my master knows medical skills?"

"How can Master Master be blind? How do he be blind in his eyes?"

"Bad by miasma."
To be continued...