always a fairy

Chapter 56

There are two roads to Lingyin Temple, the first is land road, straight from the avenue to the Zhengxiong Hall, this road is full of pious pilgrims on weekdays, with their wishes and money, worshiping Buddha and praying for gods, trying to Let the Buddha see his piety and change his fate against the sky.

The second is the waterway. The waterway leads directly to the Mani Hall behind the Dabei Building. This road is specially prepared for people with high status, because the process of going ashore here, entering the temple, and finally leaving is absolutely confidential. Few people know who entered Lingyin Temple today.

Therefore, there are strict restrictions on this waterway. Not only do you need to make an appointment in advance, but you also need to travel at intervals. Before the last pilgrim leaves, the next pilgrim must not enter.

Chu Xiuran sat on the boat, he chose the waterway.

Along the way, he has been thinking about all the things over and over again. He only feels that he has been led by the nose until now. There is nothing he found out by himself. Everyone else is saying it doesn't feel good.

After thinking about it, it was still a mess, and I couldn't find any clues.

He decided not to think about it for now, let his mind rest for a while, good night.

The human mind is very strange. If you don't use it, it will rust, but if you use it too much, it will become numb.

When we arrived at Lingyin Temple, the morning light had already emerged, and there were already few pedestrians on the distant shore.

His boat was stopped without accident, it was a boat with three monks on it.

Of the three of them, one was holding a paddle, the other was fishing, and the other stood at the bow of the boat with folded hands and bowed in Chu Xiuran's direction, "My benefactor, are you going to Lingyin Temple?"

There is only one waterway here, and you can only go to Lingyin Temple. This is not that the monk is stupid, but humble. He is telling you that you cannot go forward.

Chu Xiuran stood up and replied, "Exactly."

The monk said: "I also hope that the benefactor will hand over the name card."

Chu Xiuran said: "I don't have a name card."

The monk holding the oar was still paying attention to the river just now, and after hearing Chu Xiuran's words, he glanced over.

The monk holding the ceremony said: "Benefactor, if you don't have a name card, if you want to enter Lingyin Temple, you must enter through the main entrance."

Chu Xiuran suddenly panicked.

He has never quarreled with others in his life, let alone fighting. As long as it is something that can be polite, he will be polite. If he can bear a step, he will choose the sea and the sky. But now, he can't bear it again. Nor can you be polite.

Being polite can neither investigate cases nor enter temples.

With a steady mind, he said in a deep voice, "What if I insist on going in from here?"

The monk holding the oar had already taken the oar out of the water, and his gaze was fixed on Chu Xiuran in an instant.

The monk holding the ceremony smiled and said: "Monks don't lie. If the benefactor doesn't want to swim back, it's better to turn the bow of the boat as soon as possible."

Chu Xiuran said: "The way of hospitality in Lingyin Temple is really extraordinary. I don't know if my position as a Bapin county lieutenant is enough to enter through this road today?"

The monk in charge raised his head, looked at Chu Xiuran again, and then said: "My lord, even if Master Jing Zhaoyin of Lin'an wants to come, he must hold a name card and queue up. This is the rule."

Chu Xiuran's heart trembled again, he never thought that this monk would not give any face, and he could be so defiant, it really opened his eyes.

The county lieutenant is not a person who has been in the officialdom for a long time, let alone someone with deep plans in the city, so he naturally looked a little depressed, but he still suppressed the fear and said: "I am not here to buy incense, let alone wine. "

The monk holding the ceremony said: "Then what is the matter that your lord is here?"

Chu Xiuran said: "Investigate the case."

The monk in charge of the ceremony smiled, his smile seemed to be mocking, "My lord, do you mean to go to Lingyin Temple to investigate the case?"

Chu Xiuran said, "Not bad."

He tried to speak as little as possible, so that he could show less cowardice, and the less cowardly he would not be suppressed in terms of momentum.

It is true that after these words were spoken, Chu Xiuran gained the upper hand for a short time.

The ceremonial monk looked at the fishing monk behind him.

The fishing monk didn't turn his head from the beginning to the end, and he didn't speak from the beginning to the end. His world seemed to be only the fishing rod in his hand and the fish in the river in the morning.

The light rain was still falling, just like silver beads falling on a jade plate, sparking light waves and ripples, at this moment, the fish floated.

The fishing monk picked it up lightly in his hand, who knew that the fishing rod was directly propped up in his hand, and a red koi hanging on the bait was picked up in the air, and then landed in his hand accurately.

The fishing monk smiled. He turned around slowly and concentrated on looking at the fish in his hand, but this face surprised Chu Xiuran.

No one could have imagined that this face would actually grow on the face of a monk. Under the light of the stars and the moon and the early morning, seeing his eyes were like bright stars, his lips were red and his teeth were white, his face was as bright as a young girl's, and his expression was gentle and his demeanor was unrestrained. But it is unmatched by any woman in the world.

His whole body looked spotless, as if he were falling from the sky above the clouds.

The red dot on the center of the eyebrow made the autumn color of the whole dawn much darker.

The monk held the fiery red koi lightly, as if he was afraid of hurting it, and pointed at the fish's eyebrows, then took the hook out of its mouth, held the cuff with the other hand, Put the koi back into the river.

Chu Xiuran's gaze immediately shifted from the monk to the koi.

The koi jumped into the water, but it didn't fully enter the water. Its whole body was floating below the water surface. Even in this rainy morning, its figure could be clearly seen.

It swam very fast, bypassing the two small boats in an instant, and went straight to the upper river channel, and then it seemed to be possessed, and insisted on climbing the stone steps of the river.

The stone steps are very high, as high as the calf of a seven or eight-year-old child. It is very difficult for ordinary people to walk up the slippery stone steps, let alone a fish?

But the koi still worked hard, it slid down again and again, and charged again and again.

Chu Xiuran was dumbfounded.

He just kept watching the koi rushing upwards.

Once, twice, ten times, twenty times.

It has not given up yet, and has been rushing, it seems that victory is just around the corner.

At some point, a lot of koi like it had gathered behind it, and they entangled themselves, trying to make a springboard for him, to help it take a step when it finally jumped up.

This time, it jumped high.

Chu Xiuran clenched his hands unconsciously, sweating for it.

The koi jumped high and stepped on the springboard laid out for him by his classmates, his whole body was like a rainbow!
It worked!

The once unattainable stone steps were trampled down by it.

but……

It ran aground.

It lay on the stone steps. The stone steps were not wide, but it was a full step away from an adult.

It ran aground on the stone steps, and even though the water flowed past him, he couldn't take a step forward, nor could he take a step back. The water here couldn't even support him to continue living.

dry up.

withered.

Chu Xiuran wanted to help it, but before he could slide the oar, the koi was already dead.

It stubbornly swung its red-golden tail a few times for the last time, but it never moved again.

died.

Chu Xiuran's chest seemed to be blocked by a stone, choking every breath he took.

Suddenly, the fishing monk said softly: "My lord, this way please."

Chu Xiuran stood there blankly, and looked at the fishing monk again, his eyes were puzzled.

What is he going to say?
What is he trying to tell me?
The fishing monk asked again: "My lord, don't you want to go?"

Chu Xiuran didn't know why, he clearly didn't say a word, but he was already half short in front of him.

"Go, of course."

"Please."

(End of this chapter)