newbobooks Chapter 308 The Real Story
Chapter 308 The Real Story
I was an orphan. When I was still a baby, my master adopted me and named me Huineng.
My master is the former abbot of Anruo Temple in Daliangguo Temple, and my senior brother is the current abbot of Anruo Temple. I grew up under their care and became proficient in various Buddhist scriptures at an early age.
Gradually, people came to know that there was a monk named Huineng in Anruo Temple who was good at explaining scriptures.
My master often said that I was extremely intelligent and a good candidate for spiritual practice, but I just couldn’t calm my mind, so I was easily drawn into unnecessary troubles.
I felt confused and aggrieved about what my master said to me.
I grew up, studied, and practiced in Anruo Temple since I was a child. I have never seen the world outside the temple. It is normal for me to have some yearnings in my heart, and it is not because my mind is unstable.
Later, my master passed away and my senior brother became the abbot. I begged him to let me leave the temple and travel.
My senior brother told me that the master had predicted that I would have a romantic disaster in my life and that it would ruin my spiritual practice, so he didn’t let me leave the temple.
But the master also reminded me that if I insisted on leaving the temple, I should not stop him. Everything happened according to fate and cause and effect. Huineng had his own path to take.
So, under the calm gaze of my senior brother, I packed my bags and started traveling.
I plan to go to Kyoto first. I have been fascinated by this capital city of Daliang for a long time.
But I didn’t expect that before I encountered the peach blossom calamity that my master mentioned, the life and death calamity suddenly came.
When I was walking in an unnamed mountain, a snake suddenly jumped out, bit my calf, and then swam back into the grass and disappeared in an instant.
I don't know if the snake was poisonous or not, I just felt the wound was very painful. The two narrow and deep bloodshot eyes made the surrounding skin a little red and itchy.
Just then, I met a man and a woman who seemed to be lost in the wilderness.
The woman seemed to know some medical skills. She bandaged my wound and told me that the snake that bit me was probably non-venomous, but to be on the safe side, I should not move easily.
I had a map and knew how to get out, so I made an agreement with them that after my injuries had eased, I would take them to the inhabited villages and towns.
Gradually, I felt that those two people were very strange. They often got together and said things that I couldn't understand. To be on the safe side, I remained silent most of the time.
However, they usually avoided talking to me and often talked secretly when I was asleep.
But they don’t know that I have a habit of doing evening lessons with my eyes closed every night.
Others thought I was sleeping, but actually I was reciting scriptures silently in my heart.
Because their words were so unique, I couldn't help but stop reading the scriptures in my mind with my eyes closed and listened quietly to their conversation, and thus understood their origins.
Although the Buddha said there are three thousand worlds, no one has ever seen the world outside the world, but these two people actually came from another world, which is simply unbelievable!
I listened to them talking about their previous livelihoods. The man was a "college student" who had just graduated half a year ago. I didn't know what a "college student" was, but he should be a student with some achievements in his studies.
The woman was a "doctor", which I roughly understood, it means "physician", no wonder she treated my wound.
I heard them say a lot of words I didn’t know, such as time travel, pulabi, three views, car, mudslide, time shuttle, black hole…
I could guess the meaning of some words based on their conversation, but for others I just couldn't understand them at all, so I had to give up.
Later, as we became more familiar with each other, we exchanged names.
I no longer call them "donor" or "donoress", and they no longer call me "monk" or "monk".
The man’s name was Li Yifan, the woman’s name was Xu Xiaojing, and I was Huineng.
Li Yifan should be younger in their world, so he is more impetuous and impulsive.
In contrast, Xu Xiaojing is calm and composed, and never panics in times of crisis. This is just her inner character. Her outward appearance combines the liveliness of a woman with the responsibility of a man, which is very eye-catching.
As we spent more time together, Xu Xiaojing and Li Yifan were no longer wary of me, and would even speak the language of their world in front of me. I would just listen quietly but never say anything.
Xu Xiaojing asked me if I didn’t think the relationship between her and Li Yifan was weird?
I curled my lips and smiled. The world is so big that there are all kinds of wonders.
Xu Xiaojing also laughed and said that I was a very interesting monk.
Sometimes, she and Li Yifan would joke with me, saying that I was a jade-faced monk. If I just wore the plain monk's robe and walked around the streets of their hometown, I would attract the attention of many girls.
My heart moved slightly, my ears felt hot, and a heat rushed from my heart to my neck and cheeks.
When Xu Xiaojing and Li Yifan saw that I blushed, they laughed even harder, and they liked to tease me even more after that.
Once, Xu Xiaojing stared at me and talked to Li Yifan, saying that I looked so silly even when I was bald, and that I would be even more stunning if I grew my hair and tied it into a bun like Li Yifan's.
Although I don’t know what “HANSAIMU” means, based on the “更惊艳” in the second half of her sentence, I can guess that “HANSAIMU” is used to describe a handsome person.
My face turned red again.
I don’t know why I blushed. My master and senior brothers never blush. They are sometimes strict, sometimes kind, and most of the time they are calm and composed.
When my injuries healed a little, I took them downstream along the river. The map said there was a village there.
On the way, Li Yifan said that he was tired of eating wild fruits and wanted to eat some meat, so he insisted on jumping into the river to catch fish despite the objections of Xu Xiaojing and me.
As a result, before we found the village or caught any fish, Li Yifan fell ill with a febrile disease and even fainted.
Thanks to Xu Xiaojing, she asked me to burn the fire brightly, which made Li Yifan sweat and brought his body temperature down.
But Li Yifan had caused more trouble than this. After we arrived at the village, we stayed at the village chief's house.
Everything was going fine, but for some reason the village chief suddenly said that Li Yifan had molested his daughter, so he kicked us out and wanted to expel us from the village.
The village chief said that no one in the village dared to take us in. We had to persuade them to exchange money for some food and then we were on our way again.
We exchanged Xu Xiaojing's jewelry for food. Her jewelry was very exquisite and luxurious, but the villagers did not know its value. A gold hairpin only bought us three days' worth of food.
Of course, Li Yifan also had a share of the credit for this loss-making deal.
I frowned secretly when I noticed that many men in the village kept their eyes on Xu Xiaojing. But when I took her and Li Yifan away, I was actually relieved.