He did not go up to say hello to the old monk, but continued forward. Not long after walking, he saw a peaceful small mountain village at the foot of a mountain. In front of the village was a large field with criss-crossing roads.

Surrounded by green mountains and green water, it is a pastoral picture.

Wu Sheng stood there and watched for a while before moving on. At noon, he went to a house to ask for a bowl of water, asked for directions, and then continued on his way. As the sun set, he saw another village and heard something

The sound of crying was heard, and a woman stood by the river, looking at the water and crying. The river was not wide, only a few feet, and the water flowed not fast.

Could it be that he was thinking about committing suicide? Wu Sheng thought after seeing this.

Just as he was thinking about it, the woman fell headfirst into the river.

It’s true!

Wu Sheng came to the river in one step. The man was just a little bit on the river, like a dragonfly touching the water. He reached out and picked up the woman and dragged her to the river bank.

The woman spat twice, and when she looked closer, her vagina was swollen from crying.

"Is there something that I can't get over and I have to commit suicide?" Wu Sheng advised.

The woman didn't say anything, just lay on the ground and started crying again.

There was the sound of footsteps, Wu Sheng raised his head to look for the sound, and saw a man running over with a hatchet in his hand.

"What are you doing?" he yelled as he ran.

He ran up to Wu Sheng and stabbed Wu Sheng. Wu Sheng flicked his finger, and the hatchet flew away from his hand, drew a beautiful arc in mid-air, landed on the ground, and was inserted into the soil.

The man was stunned for a moment.

"Is she your relative?" Wu Sheng pointed at the woman still lying on the ground.

"She is my wife." The man said.

"She just jumped into the river, and I rescued her."

"Ah?!" The man didn't come to his senses for a while after hearing this, and then he thanked Wu Sheng. He had just regarded Wu Sheng as a bad person, and then he scolded his wife.

In the words, Wu Sheng could tell that their child came out to play and fell into the river and drowned. The woman was heartbroken and had thoughts of committing suicide.

"What am I still doing alive?!" The woman's words were cold and cold, and there was nothing strange about them. Listening to them, she felt that she had lost her spirit and had lost confidence in life.

"The fortune teller was right."

"Don't listen to his nonsense." The man roared after hearing this.

"Just divorce me, marry another one, and give you a baby."

"What nonsense are you talking about? He is just a blind man and you believe what he says!"

"What he said is right. None of the children has lived beyond the age of five. Xiaoyun is only two days away." The woman did not continue and could only cry.

Through the brief conversation between the couple, Wu Sheng roughly heard something.

Destiny?

Out of sympathy and curiosity, Wu Sheng asked the man a few more questions. It turned out that a blind fortune teller once came to the village to tell their fortunes, saying that they were not destined to bear children, and even if they gave birth to children, they would

Died young and would not live past the age of five at most. The first child died of illness when he was two years old, the second child died not long after he was born, and the third child was the one who fell into the water, still two days shy of five years old.

, I was very careful at first, but for some reason, the child came out on her own. Someone in the village saw her falling into the river, and she disappeared after a while.

After hearing this, Wu Sheng also sighed secretly. He was really a pitiful man.

Many times, reality is very torturous. Should we believe in things like fate or not?

Wu Sheng didn't know how to comfort them, so he stood by the river and silently recited Buddhist scriptures, hoping to save the poor child.

"I just put the new clothes on her this morning. She said she liked the color of the willow buds and the pigtails I gave her. She went to the Taoist temple to ask for a longevity lock. Why?" The woman started crying again, crying loudly.

Huh? Wu Sheng stopped chanting.

How come the five-year-old girl, with her light green clothes, braids, and longevity lock, looks so much like the child he met at noon?

Wu Sheng turned around and asked the couple carefully about the appearance of the child. What they were talking about was probably the crying child he saw being led by the old monk at noon. But that place was a little far away from the village.

It's at least dozens of miles away.

How could that child appear so far away and float along the river?

If so, you will know just by asking.

After Wu Sheng asked the couple their names, he disappeared in front of them.

immortal?!

The man was stunned and the woman stopped crying. The two of them stared blankly at the place where Wu Sheng left.

When we came, we walked on the official road. When we left, we walked directly with the "Shen Zu Tong". In just a moment, we arrived at the place where we met the old monk and the child.

"Going to the mountains?" He raised his head and looked into the mountains.

Walking through the air, we entered the depths of the mountain forest.

The forest is lush, with birds chirping and insects chirping from time to time, and it is full of life.

Since he is an old monk, he should have a temple.

Found it,

In the depths of the mountain forest, Wu Sheng saw an old temple. He descended from the sky and came to the temple door.

The temple wall made of green bricks is covered with weeds. When the mountain wind blows, it shakes and shakes. The dilapidated temple door can only be closed with difficulty. The crack in the door is big enough for people to get in. Above the temple door, there is a piece of

It is a cracked horizontal plaque with three big characters "Donglin Temple" written on it, which has a vague charm of flying dragons and phoenixes.

Bang bang bang, Wu Sheng heard a sound coming from inside, very rhythmic.

wooden fish,

Hearing this sound, Wu Sheng suddenly realized that he had never heard this sound in Lanruo Temple. He had never knocked on a wooden fish in Lanruo Temple for so long. Thinking carefully, were there wooden fish in the main hall?

, yes, or not?

He suddenly realized that he was a failure as a monk!

He reached out and pushed gently, and the door opened with a creak.

It's a small courtyard that is fairly clean.

The two old trees are both ginkgo trees, with lush branches and leaves, which is very pleasing to the eye.

Walking along the stone path paved with bluestones towards the main hall, the small Buddhist hall is also dilapidated. In the Buddhist hall, an old monk is sitting in front of the Buddha statue, knocking on wooden fish and reciting Buddhist sutras. His figure is slightly rickety, his body

The outer monk's robes are shabby, but the Buddha statue is spotless.

"Master?" Wu Sheng shouted softly.

The sound of wooden fish stopped, and the old monk slowly turned his head, slightly surprised when he saw Wu Sheng.

"Why did this donor come back here?" The old monk was a little surprised.

"I came here specifically to see the master."

"Looking for a poor monk?" The old monk was stunned when he heard this.

"Master, did he bring a child to the temple this morning? He is about four or five years old and is wearing light green clothes."

"That child, the poor monk wanted to take her back to the temple, but deep in the mountains, the poor monk is already old and frail. He might go to the Paradise of Paradise one day. It is not appropriate to leave a child behind, just half

We went down the mountain, found a village, and gave the child to a family to raise. The couple was old but had no children, so they should be kind to the child," the old monk said.

If so, then my trip was in vain. The Way of Inanimate Mind.

"Where did the master pick up that child?"

"riverside."

That's right.

"This child came from a village upstream. He fell into the river while playing alone without the adults paying attention. He was taken downstream and was met by the master. His parents were very worried. I happened to meet him and came to find the master.

"

"Oh, even if that's the case, the poor monk will accompany the donor down the mountain to find the child."

Cough, cough, cough, the old monk suddenly coughed, his face turned red, and his body was trembling slightly. It looked like he was not in good health.

"You don't have to go down the mountain. Just tell me which village and family the child is in, and I will go look for it myself."

"That's fine." The old monk told Wu Sheng the name of the village and the appearance of the couple.

After Wu Sheng thanked him, he said goodbye and left. The old monk sent him out of the door.

He did not immediately rise into the air, but walked down the mountain along the path covered with grass.

With a creak, the broken temple door closed behind him.

It is not easy for the old monk to be alone in the deep mountains and forests.

Abbot Kongkong suddenly sounded to Wu Sheng. It must have been the same when he was alone in Lanruo Temple, right?

Is there some kind of demon hiding under this temple?

Wu Sheng had just such a thought and subconsciously looked at it, but his expression suddenly changed.

There was actually a black air floating above the dilapidated temple.
Chapter completed!