All five aggregates are empty

Chapter 6

During that "special period" that year, all the temples in Yanjing City experienced damage to varying degrees.After that, some temples were directly abolished, and some were moved to the suburbs. Only Baiyun Temple still has its own place in the center of Yanjing City.

Baiyun Temple enshrines a six-meter-high white jade Guanyin statue, which was also smashed during that period, and what is now enshrined in the temple is a rebuilt one after that period.

Meng Lijun was arranged in the guest room, and did not live with other monks.The little monk Xianjia followed him all day in case he had any inconvenience.

After staying in Baiyun Temple, Meng Lijun wondered if he should go to the hospital to have a look, what if what Ming Hua said was unreliable?But fortunately, his eyes gradually recovered from the next day. From the beginning, he could only feel the brightness and darkness of the light, but now he can see some figures clearly. He also felt relieved and continued to live in Baiyun Temple.

The environment of Baiyun Temple is really good.Yanjing in mid-May already has the shadow of midsummer, but the Baiyun Temple is still very cool.Every day, many pilgrims come to the temple to petition or restore, which shows how strong the incense in Baiyun Temple is.

In addition to being only vegetarian, life in the monastery is not bad.Although he couldn't see very well, Meng Lijun asked Xianjia to take him around the temple.There are not only squares and activity centers for rituals in the temple, but also libraries and multimedia centers.In the eyes of outsiders, this is a modern temple and a tourist attraction in the city center.

However, in fact, the reason why Baiyun Temple is open to the outside world is only to compromise with the outside world.In other words, including Baiyu Guanyin, the parts that outsiders can visit are managed by the government, and Baiyun Temple has no jurisdiction over it.The part that is not open to the outside world is the real main body of Baiyun Temple.

For example, the library in Baiyun Temple is open to citizens and believers, but not everyone can enter the scripture storage deep in the temple.All kinds of "politically correct" Buddhist books are placed in the library, but the truly precious Buddhist classics are collected in the Sutra Library.The exterior and interior of Baiyun Temple are the same as the library and the Sutra Pavilion. The former is to show the world, while the latter is the real world of Buddhism.

"In this case, who is the real enshrinement in Baiyun Temple?" Meng Lijun asked Xianjia.

"To be honest, I don't know either." Xianjia young monk said, "I heard that there is a Buddha statue in the main hall, but we can't enter the main hall."

"Then you secretly take me to the main hall to have a look."

"No, no, no one can go there."

Under Meng Lijun's coercion and lure, Xianjia still did not waver.Meng Lijun is not in a hurry, anyway, after his eyesight recovers, he can go by himself.

Minghua was not in the temple recently, and Meng Lijun hadn't seen him for several days.Hearing from the little monk that the abbot of their family flew to South Korea for a meeting, Meng Lijun thought to himself that there are so many meetings to be held, and he was probably going to catch ghosts again.

After dinner, Meng Lijun groped his way to the bathhouse.There is a hot spring in Baiyun Temple, which makes Meng Lijun most satisfied.I heard from Xianjia that the location of Baiyun Temple is very particular, and there is no other place like this in Yanjing City.It is said that there was a snow disaster in Yanjing one year, the roads in the urban area were severely icy, and there was snow everywhere, but the snow in Baiyun Temple could not accumulate, and it didn't even snow much around.

After washing his body, Meng Lijun soaked in the hot spring pool.In fact, the hot springs are also open to lay Buddhists or monks who come to the temple to practice, but few people come to stay in Baiyun Temple, and only Meng Lijun lives in the entire row of guest rooms, so the hot springs are also reserved by him that day.

The hot spring is an open-air hot spring, divided into several large and small pools.Around the hot spring is a well-built courtyard, revealing a strong Zen flavor.There is a rockery next to a pool in the hot spring, and water flows out of the mountain, forming a small waterfall, which is very artistic.

Xianjia once told Meng Lijun that the pool with the waterfall is for the exclusive use of the abbot, and no one else can enter it.However, some people are like this. If you don’t let them in, they want to.Meng Lijun looked around and saw that there was no one there, so he took a towel and touched the small waterfall.

At this time, four or five days had passed since his eye was injured. Although he was still hazy, he could still see more or less.

Meng Lijun first stretched out his right foot to check the temperature, and found that it was obviously much higher than other pools.

"The abbot is the abbot, taking a bath is different."

Meng Lijun slid his body into the pool, and the warm feeling instantly surrounded him.

"Ah, comfortable..." Meng Lijun sighed from the bottom of his heart.

The temperature of the pond was indeed a bit high, and after a while Meng Lijun couldn't take it anymore.He was about to change to a pool with a lower temperature, but at this moment footsteps came from the door.He squinted his eyes and vaguely saw a figure of a monk walking over.

—Sorry, come out now.Meng Lijun thought that a monk came to remind him that he could not enter here, so he subconsciously wanted to apologize first.But when the words came to his lips, he swallowed them before he could say them.

"Abbot, the tools for copying scriptures are ready." The person who came over said.

Meng Lijun wondered how could someone be more blind than him.Is it true that the person who soaks in the abbot's special pool must be the abbot?Can such thick hair be invisible?

He was just about to open his mouth to remind the other party, but suddenly a voice came from the left——

"Understood, let's go down first."

"???" Meng Lijun moved several steps to the right in fright, "You, why are you here?"

The owner of the voice is none other than Minghua.

"I am always here."

Ever since Meng Lijun entered the open-air hot spring, Minghua has been watching him.It's just that he didn't expect Meng Lijun to come directly to his pool.

"Then you should say something."

"Didn't anyone tell you not to come in here?"

"...Aren't you curious?" Meng Lijun whispered, "I'll go out right away."

After Meng Lijun finished speaking, he covered a certain key part with a towel, and was about to stand up.And Minghua said "no need", and stretched out his hand to pull him to his side.

Although Meng Lijun couldn't see clearly, he also knew that Minghua was not wearing clothes.

It was a bit embarrassing for the two to be so close.

"This pool is too hot, I'd better go somewhere else." Meng Lijun obviously felt a little blood rushing up, and he didn't know if it was the effect of the hot spring, or because he was too close to Minghua.

"How is your eye recovering?" Ming Hua asked, not letting go of Meng Lijun.

"Okay."

"Can you see me?"

Minghua moved closer to Meng Lijun while talking, the distance between the two was less than one foot.

"Of course I can see it so close." After Meng Lijun finished speaking, he turned his face away uncomfortably. Unexpectedly, Minghua held half of his face and turned his gaze back.

"Can't you see clearly from a distance?"

"nonsense……"

"It seems that the recovery is still a bit slow."

"What should I do?"

"It's easy." As soon as Minghua finished speaking, he pushed Meng Lijun into the water.

again? !Meng Lijun thought to himself, why does this monk like to do things so much when he looks at the gentleman?

"You... let go... Lao Tzu..." Meng Lijun choked on a few mouthfuls of hot spring water, and subconsciously opened his eyes while struggling.As soon as the eyeball touched the hot spring, it was like being burned by fire, and the stinging pain instantly spread throughout the nerves of the whole body.But in the next second, the pain gradually disappeared, and the world in his eyes gradually became clear.

And the first picture Meng Lijun saw after his eyes recovered was Minghua's legs sitting cross-legged, and...

Meng Lijun poked his head out of the water with a dull expression on his face. What's the matter with this monk?What is that giant?Is this normal human size?There is such a fetish who chooses to be a monk, why can't he think about it?

"How's the eye?" Minghua asked.

The sight gradually focused, and Meng Lijun found that everything around him became clearer.

Minghua's skin is wheat-colored, and his body is full of tight muscles.Although he looked like a weak Zen monk in cassock, he was obviously more like a warrior monk at this moment.

Seeing Meng Lijun staring at his chest in a daze, Minghua asked again: "Are your eyes okay?"

"Ah? It's all right." Meng Lijun wiped off the water droplets on his face with his hand, looked around again, and sighed in surprise: "I didn't expect the hot spring here to be so effective..."

"Wait..." Meng Lijun frowned and looked at Minghua, "In other words, this pool can cure my eyes."

The tone is not an interrogative sentence, but an affirmative sentence.

"That's right." Minghua didn't deny it.

"Then why didn't you tell me? Don't let me enter this pond." Meng Lijun suddenly felt full of malice from Minghua.Why does he always feel that this monk is trying to harm him?

"It's true that not everyone can enter this pool. You have no accident, so I can only say that you are lucky."

"Is that so..." Meng Lijun looked at Minghua suspiciously, thinking that he would try it with the little monk Xianjia in another day.

Not far away, the little monk who was cleaning up the kitchen sneezed inexplicably.

"Also, I wasn't in the temple a few days ago, it's not a good thing that your eyes healed."

"How to say?"

"I'm not here, who can control you?"

"what?"

"There are many forbidden places in the temple. If your eyes are fine, you may have broken into it long ago."

Meng Lijun blushed, even though his face was already red at this time due to the effect of the hot spring.

"You're slandering me." Meng Lijun said without confidence.During the few days he came to Baiyun Temple, he didn't have much to do. The only thing he found interesting was the little monk.So it can also be said that he came here these days by acting like a domineering.

"The tools for copying scriptures have been placed in your room. Copy the "Heart Sutra" tonight and give it to me tomorrow morning."

"Copying scriptures?" Meng Lijun looked shocked, "I'm already a doctoral student, and you still punish me for copying?"

"Then you mean..." Ming Hua raised the corner of his mouth, "You want me to punish you physically?"

Looking at Minghua's firm chest, Meng Lijun swallowed, "I, I was wrong, I'll copy the scriptures."