Chapter 41: The Monk
On the dark forest dirt road, Li Huowang held a torch and led the others forward.
The sky was still dark, but the stunned ones didn't feel any sleepiness, after all, after experiencing so many things just now, no one could care about sleeping.
The donkey cart was piled up with some cut off horse meat, apart from a few pieces of broken silver from the robbers' corpses, this was likewise Li Huowang's only trophy.
"It's almost time, let's rest around here until dawn, it's not safe to drive at night." Li Huo Wang gave an order, and soon the torches were piled on top of each other, re-forming a new bonfire.
"It's fine to squint if you can't sleep, we have to continue the journey tomorrow, keep up your strength, I'll keep watch."
As the sound of donkey hooves and footsteps disappeared, the entire dirt road once again returned to silence.
Sitting on the fire Li Huowang turned his head towards the road he just came from, where it was pitch black, it seems that the old beggar will not follow him until he finishes burying all those dead people.
Thinking back to everything that just happened, Li Huowang heart can not help but feel some emotion, this place is really messy.
All kinds of messy things are already dangerous enough, being of the same kind do not embrace the warmth of the group not to mention, but also kill each other.
He stabbed the dying bonfire with his longsword and grabbed the firewood beside him and threw it in.
As time shifted a little bit, those who ran away in the forest gradually gathered towards Li Huowang's bonfire, and soon several small bonfires gradually rose by the bonfire.
There is no figure of Lu's family among the returning people, but Li Huowang is not worried at all, when the robbers came out just now, they were the fastest ones to run away.
Lu Scholar is no less than an old man, no wonder he is so stingy that he has to choose a horse for the animal pulling the cart. He must have long considered this situation today.
Time passed little by little, as the sky gradually dawned, the others began to wake up, grilled up horse meat for breakfast, and prepared to start a new road trip.
Never mind if the horse meat was good or not, at least horse meat was meat, and it could replenish their stamina very well.
Just as they were gulping down their food, a trembling silhouette walked over from behind.
Seeing the appearance of the person coming, Li Huowang's vigilant heart slightly lowered, that was the old beggar from before, it looked like he buried people for a night.
Early morning dew dampened his tattered monk's robe, freezing him and making him shiver. He walked to a place slightly closer to the campfire and squatted down his body shrinking into a ball.
Seeing that Li Huowang was looking at him, the beggar smiled nervously.
Thinking about his action of sacrificing his life to save him last night, the hostility in Li Huo Wang's heart weakened quite a bit.
Although he thought that this old beggar was so rotten and kind-hearted that it would not be easy to survive in this dangerous world, but no one would be excluded from contact with a good person.
Seeing Li Huo Wang handing himself a steamed bun, the beggar hastily reached out and took it, saying vaguely while chewing, "May Buddha bless you."
Hearing the other party say this, Li Huowang immediately became interested, "Which Buddha is that Buddha in your mouth?"
"Huh? Isn't Buddha just called Buddha? What else is there to distinguish which one?" A trace of confusion appeared in the old beggar's eyes.
"Hey, hurry up and eat, it's rare to have someone like you in this world. I hope you are not cheating me."
"How can I cheat people? I'm a monk, monks can't cheat people." The old beggar said firmly.
"Reciting scriptures will only recite an Amitabha Buddha, and it's not even which Buddha you believe in, what kind of monk are you."
"Sun Xiu Cai said monks are bald, I will shave my head, Wang Tailor said monks can't ask for a mother-in-law, I won't ask for a mother-in-law! Mr. Liu said monks can't eat meat, so I don't eat meat! And I saw other monks shouting ah-mi-do-pho, then I learn to shout ah-mi-do-pho, I have done, how can I not be a monk?"
It looks like the old beggar cared a lot about this aspect, and argued very obstinately.
Hearing the other party say this, Li Huowang dumbfounded, the other party this monk as a monk is even more fake than himself as a Taoist priest. "But it does not mean that you are a monk."
The old beggar froze, holding half a steamed bun discreetly looked at Li Huo Wang. "Then what do you say, what should a monk be like?"
Looking at the other party's gaze, Li Huo Wang opened his mouth, and as a result, he could not answer this question, the other party's words seemed to be a hint of truth in a great fool.
For some reason, Li Huo Wang saw Danyang Zi's shadow in him, ignorant persistence in foolishness.
"I guess you don't recognize words, right?"
"How do you know? Are all you Taoist priests so good at counting?"
"Huh."
"Why are you so obsessed with being a monk?"
"If it wasn't for a monk saving me in the beginning, I would have died a ball of death, and from that day on, I swore that I would become a monk too! I must be a good monk!"
As he spoke, Li HuoWang looked at the distant Lu JiaBan that was making its way back from afar, he patted his butt and stood up, heading that way.
The next road without any accidents, in the road the old monk also has been followed, sometimes see him hungry to chew raw wild vegetables, Li Huo Wang also occasionally relief one or two steamed bread.
So so go have more than ten days later, a than Jianye more magnificent city, appeared in front of Li Huo Wang, Xijing into arrived.
The brick city wall is tall and magnificent, standing at the entrance of the city looking upwards, a huge sense of oppression came, "Finally, we are here?
"Finally arrived?" When he saw the city gate, Li Huo Wang's heart was completely relieved, his heart was scared all the way, fortunately the scene in his nightmare did not appear after all.
"Little Taoist Master, the inns in Xijing City can't be messed with, they can rip people off, I'll take you to an inn, it's absolutely cheap," Lu Zuoyuan said as he was about to walk towards the tall city gates, but he was pulled back by Li Huowang.
"Wait, where is that monk temple you were talking about before?" Li Huowang asked impatiently, this was the most important purpose for him to come to this place.
Under the lead of Scholar Lu, Li Huo Wang walked towards the Zheng De Temple, which had the most flourishing incense in Xijing City.
Before even seeing the temple, Li Huowang could smell the sandalwood scent unique to Buddhist places, and the spacious streets began to get crowded.
Old men, women, adults, children, all kinds of people.
Looking at the several stacks of incense in their hands, Li Huowang immediately understood that these people were going to worship Buddha.
"Has the incense in this temple always been this strong?"
Hearing Li Huowang say this to Scholar Lu beside him, the incense burner next to him chimed in, "Of course, the Bodhisattva at Zhengde Temple is very spiritual! My daughter-in-law got pregnant after she prayed here once."
"And the masters at Zhengde Temple are very nice, they give porridge to the poor every now and then."
"Yes, yes. It's really a blessing of several lifetimes to have such a good temple in Xijing City."
