Chapter 45: The Buddha
"Master Master, you don't need to explain so much to me as a resident, I can't control you guys, please go out, I'm going to bed."
Jian Chaos folded his hands and bowed to Li Huo Wang towards the door, just as he brushed past Li Huo Wang, a light word floated past him.
"Don't look down on the Buddhist sect, I was a Taoist priest before I became a monk, the Xuan Sect is actually the same, it's just that you don't know."
Firm chaos gone, the whole room only left Li Huo wang one person, he turned his head, look at the distant temple shrouded in darkness, at this time no longer feel any majesty and solemnity.
Li Huowang slowly exhaled at the darkness, "This shitty place is really dirty, isn't there any clean place?"
Since the incident that night, Li Huowang tried his best not to go out at night, so as not to jeopardize the monks' good deed, and invite people to hold a grudge.
As the days passed by, Li Huowang's mental condition got better and better, and he basically didn't have nightmares anymore.
Just as he was about to go and ask the Abbot when he was going to start, he sent someone ahead of time.
"Abbot Xuan Yang, the preparations for the Pudu Lent will begin soon, at this time, the preparation of the puja once costs a great deal of money, please don't walk around in recent days."
"Alright, you go back and tell the old Abbot that I already know." Li Huowang said to the little sanya in front of him.
When the little sanya had just left, a familiar silhouette flashed in, with an expression tinged with surprise, "Little Taoist, so you live here ah, why don't you tell me about it?"
That was the old beggar from before, only now he was clearly different from his previous wretched appearance.
He was wearing a brand new yellow monk's robe, and there were no stains on his face and body, and he looked a lot more spirited.
Although with this monk is just a passing acquaintance, but in this strange place to meet such a familiar person, Li Huowang still feel close.
"Monk, how are you doing here?"
"It's not bad, I have enough to eat and wear every day, but I can't do good deeds in the temple anymore, it's a bit uncomfortable."
At the mention of good deeds, Li Huowang immediately remembered what happened that night, he looked at the old monk in front of him and sighed softly. "Don't mind there much, stay well, this temple is a bit dirty, but at least you won't be hungry."
"Come, little monk, I'll take you to the place where I work to see, that place is huge." The excited old monk pulled Li Huowang and headed for the door.
"The sun is so big, wait for next time." Li Huowang was a bit disinterested, he had little interest in sightseeing at this temple.
"You come! You definitely won't regret coming over to take a look! There are so many interesting things!" Li Huowang was dragged out of the room by the old monk.
After following the monk around, Li Huowang arrived at a spacious open-air compound of Zhengde Temple.
Coming here, he realized that this Zheng De Temple was really big!
"Clang clang clang!" Inside the courtyard, some monks with gauze tied to their mouths raised stone cones and hammers, sculpting Buddha statues.
The statues were in two rows, one on the left and one on the right, stretching towards the far side of the compound.
The monks' bald heads glistened in the sunlight as they sweated and concentrated on their works of art.
"Is this where you work? It's not a great environment." Li Huowang covered his nose with his hand in a slight frown to avoid breathing in the dust.
"Yes, I'm in charge of moving useless rubble, I have a part to play in these Buddha statues." The old monk seemed very proud of his position.
The two of them walked to the path between the two rows of unfinished Buddha statues, observing the variously shaped works.
The monks who walked past them from time to time didn't stop them, completely treating them as if they didn't exist.
"Zhengde Temple surely didn't carve these things for their own use, and at a glance it's clear that they're sold to incense burners. It seems that this monk has a strong ability to engage in income generation." Li Huowang secretly sneered to.
However, after what happened before, Li Huowang did not feel surprised at all by these things.
"These are not all! There's more ahead!" The old monk said excitedly and was about to walk towards the front gatehouse.
Seeing him walk forward, Li Huowang raised his feet to follow, but suddenly his spirit was in a trance and his body shook a little.
"Hey, hey, hey, little Taoist, what's wrong with you?" Seeing that the situation was not right, the old monk hurriedly ran back to assist him.
"What's going on?" When Li Huowang regained his footing and shook his head vigorously, the strange feeling gradually disappeared.
"Is everything alright? Infected with wind chill? Why don't you go back and rest first?"
Li Huowang rebuffed the old monk's kindness. "It's fine, I'm fine, keep walking."
"Alright, anyway, if you really have contracted windchill, you need to bask in the sun more, so let's continue onward."
Hearing his words, Li Huowang looked up at the blazing sun above his head. "Could it be heat stroke? How long has it been since the New Year? I don't feel hot either."
After feeling nothing strange about his body, Li Huowang raised his feet and was about to follow the old monk forward.
But just as his foot lifted, he realized that the sound around him had changed, it was no longer the clanging sound of the chisel chiseling the stone, but had turned into the slapping sound of flesh and skin hitting together.
"Hm?" Li Huowang turned his head in confusion and looked towards the stone sculpture on his right, and his body instantly froze.
The stone carvings that had just disappeared, and in their place was a mound of white flesh, those were monks.
Those stone statues that had just carved the statue of Buddha, they were crowded and piled up together with their eyes devoutly closed, their bodies were like white maggots constantly writhing, doing things that only men and women would do.
"This is ...... This is?" Eyes wide open, Li Huowang took a step back.
Li Huowang slowly raised his head and squinted at the blinding sun above his head, he was not blinking.
He slowly turned around and looked behind himself at those previous statues, and not surprisingly, they had all changed, dozens more mountains of flesh under the bright winter sun.
"Taoist! Hurry up and go!" The old monk shouted excitedly in front of him, as if he were like a child eager to show off something to his companions.
Li Huowang took a deep shuddering breath and lifted his feet as he continued to walk forward, past the huge gatehouse and another spacious compound appeared before them.
It was still heavy with mountains of meat, only this mountain of meat was no longer filled with just people, but with something else, like pigs.
They hissed in agony, yet this mountain of meat formed by pious-looking monks was like sludge, trapping them in.
"Look, this carved unicorn and stone lion are so much like the real thing, how wonderful I want to have this craft."
Li Huowang mechanically followed the old monk forward, continuing to watch the "works" of the monks of Zhengde Temple. He saw dogs, horses, cows and donkeys.
After careful identification, he also found more abnormalities, that is, these monks are half-male and half-female yin and yang people!
At this moment, Li Huowang's mind was a mess of buzzing...
Suddenly one of the old monk's hands reached out and tugged him a few quick steps into an empty hall.
But the popping sound not only did not disappear, but even louder, echoing in the empty hall.
Li Huowang's neck stiffened as he looked into the hall, and as his head tilted higher and higher, the pupils in his eyes shrunk smaller and smaller.
"Look!" The old monk pointed upwards with his hand, a child-like smile on his face, and said with emotion in his tone, "What a big Buddha!"
