In the evening, the three men, who had gained nothing, met again in the Xiu was naturally disappointed because he didn't find out anything. However, all three of them were safe and sound, which was enough to make people happy and glad at this moment. "Is there anything wrong? Any doubts?" Yin Xiu asked. White Peacock shook his head. "I got lost in the temple and wandered around. I finally got out. Other than that, I didn't find anything unusual." Ma Xiaoyu agreed, "I thought children were the easiest to let slip, they couldn't keep secrets, so I deliberately approached them, but in the end I didn't find any secrets." Yin Xiu scratched his face and sighed, "It really is just like the plaque on the hall." "what?" Yin Xiu didn't answer, but just pointed forward. Ma Xiaoyu and Bai Kongque turned their heads and saw four big characters written on the plaque on the hall: Aboveboard and Honest. "What should we do now?" The white peacock couldn't help but cry out.

Yin Xiu smiled slightly, "How about we eat first?" "Have a meal?" Ma Xiaoyu turned around and saw a monk walking slowly towards her. "This should be the first time for the three donors to come to my temple. I don't know where to eat, right? I will take you there." "Thank you for your help, little master." Yin Xiu clasped his hands together and then secretly glanced behind him. Ma Xiaoyu immediately touched her stomach and said, "We have been wandering around the temple for the whole afternoon and we are very hungry." The monk lowered his eyes and did not look at Ma Xiaoyu. "Where did you three go?" Well…… When Ma Xiaoyu paused, Yin Xiu had already taken up the conversation: "In the end, I just wandered around the temple and worshipped so many Buddhas and Bodhisattvas that I can't remember too many." "It was the same when I first came to the temple. I always felt like I could never finish my wanderings, but I had no idea where I had wandered." The little monk held out his hand and said, "Please come this way, three of you." So the three of them followed the little monk to the back hall. There is a very long and large room here, with several long tables neatly arranged inside that can accommodate twenty or thirty people for dinner. There are stools on both sides, and the tables are filled with porridge, steamed buns and some vegetarian dishes. The monks in the temple ate with the common people and sat together. This is mostly the case with Buddhist diet. There were monks who specialized in helping people make porridge and distribute steamed buns. Everything was in good order and everyone's face was calm and happy. Yin Xiu took the two of them to sit in a corner, and the monk handed them three bowls of porridge. "While it's hot, please," he gestured.

Seeing that they were new, an enthusiastic woman nearby immediately pushed a plate of cabbage over to them and said, "This is grown by the masters on the mountain. It's sweet and delicious. You should try it." "Thank you, thank you very much." Yin Xiu clasped his hands together and said, "But my wife has been feeling unwell lately, I'm afraid..." When his hand dropped, Ma Xiaoyu immediately felt the hint from Yin Xiu on her thigh. She immediately covered her mouth as if she was about to vomit. Then when Yin Xiu hurriedly put his hand on her shoulder, she let go and smiled embarrassedly, "Sorry, I feel a little uncomfortable." "I see." The woman was an experienced person, so she took Ma Xiaoyu's hand and asked softly, "How many months?" "Three, maybe a little more than three months." Ma Xiaoyu whispered. "That's when my appetite is poor, so I can't eat much." "But." Another monk came over. He was one of the monks who had met the three of them in the morning. "I heard that you came here to pray for a child. How come you are already three months pregnant?" "..." A blush appeared on Ma Xiaoyu's face. While Bai Kongque was still in a daze, Yin Xiu had already put his hand on her waist. "Alas, people in this world cannot escape from greed, anger, and ignorance. To be honest, I am too greedy, so I have two wives..." "Oh I got it." The monk nodded and said, "So, it is this female donor who wants a child?" The white peacock didn't react until she felt a pain in her butt. "Yes, it's me..." Bai Kongque snorted softly, glancing at Yin Xiu intentionally or unintentionally, "The head of the family loves his son dearly, and I can't bear to see him working so hard, so I suggested going to the Thousand Buddha Temple to take a look." "Amitabha, the donor is truly kind-hearted." The monk sighed again and again. The woman also glanced at Ma Xiaoyu, and then secretly looked at the white peacock. She couldn't help but said to Ma Xiaoyu with pity: "You are so young, but you are open-minded and can let go." Ma Xiaoyu smiled, her eyes kind yet with a hint of resentment. "Alas, what can I do? Weak women like us only hope to have someone to pity us. As for other things, how dare I say anything more?" As she said this, she looked at Yin Xiu with tenderness, which made him feel creepy.

"My dear husband, we should be grateful for your kindness. We are so happy that we don't even have time to be happy. How could we want to chop him into pieces and throw him out to feed the dogs? Don't you think so, sir?" Realizing that his life was at stake, Yin Xiu quickly smiled and said, "Yes, my Lord. If not, how could I dare to let my wife down?" "That's good." Ma Xiaoyu gently helped him up and said, "Let's go, my dear." "it is good!" Yin Xiu took a deep breath and said to Bai Kongque, "Do you want to eat here first, or go and rest with us?" "Rest, rest well, I'm not hungry yet." The white peacock was also shocked, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses. "Please come with me." The monk gestured, "I will arrange rooms for the donors to stay first." "Good work." Yin Xiu took Ma Xiaoyu and Bai Kongque and followed the monk into the backyard. The monk brought them to a courtyard and opened the door to a large bunk bed. "Please rest here, lady." The monk looked at Yin Xiu again and said, "Donor, please follow me and rest on the other side." "Well……" Yin Xiu frowned, "Master, are there no other rooms?" "What does the donor mean?" The monk was puzzled. "Is such that." Yin Xiu took Ma Xiaoyu's hand again and placed it on her belly. "Isn't my wife pregnant? I'm worried about leaving her here alone." He was filled with sorrow, and Ma Xiaoyu almost shed tears, "My dear, this is a holy place of Buddhism, we should abide by the rules, and we must not ruin the tranquility here because of our love affairs. The Buddha is merciful and will surely bless us." "But sister!" The white peacock's eyes were red. "It's okay for me to be here, but my poor sister is pregnant and has to go through such setbacks. It really breaks my heart!!" "This, this..." The monk had never seen such a scene before, and he became confused and scratched his head. "Three donors, what should we do?" Originally, it should have been others who asked him, but now it was the monk who had to ask them for help.

Yin Xiu immediately stepped forward and secretly handed over a few silver dollars from his sleeve, "To help others is to help yourself. The Buddha also said that Buddhism is about opening the door to convenience. I wonder if Master has heard of this." The monk was startled when he felt the heavy coolness in his palm, as if Yin Xiu had released a poisonous snake into his hand. However, when he tried to escape, he was held tightly by Yin Xiu and could not move. "Master, please don't misunderstand me. Just think of this as offering incense money to the Buddha." "Donor, you are disrupting my practice." The monk sighed deeply, and felt the silver dollar in his palm suddenly become hot, as if it had really turned into a living thing, jumping around in his palm. After a pause, he finally put the silver dollar into his sleeve. "There is an empty Zen room, it's very small and clean, but because it's haunted, no one dares to live in it." "Is there a ghost in the Buddhist temple?" asked the white peacock in surprise. "Maybe it's not the ghost on his face, but the ghost in his heart?" The monk whispered, "If you three insist, that's the only place." "no problem." Yin Xiu clasped his hands together and said, "This is a Buddhist temple. The Bodhisattva will bless us." "Then please come this way." The monk walked quickly and brought them to a more remote meditation room in the backyard and stopped there. "Please don't tell anyone else." The monk thought of the heavy silver coins in his sleeves again. He felt like they were huge rocks weighing thousands of pounds, pressing on his sleeves and making him feel suffocated. "Of course we won't tell anyone else. Thank you for your concern, Master." However, the monk was not afraid of others knowing. He just said calmly: "This is a calamity that I must endure. It is also a hardship. Don't worry about it." Yin Xiu paused, a little unbelieving, "Master, did you take this money on purpose?" The monk smiled and said, "Whether it was intentional or not, with or without cause, it doesn't matter. In the past, Sakyamuni was begging for alms by the Ganges River. People gave him stale rice, meat, gold, silver and treasures, and he accepted them all. When others asked him why he broke the precepts, he simply said that giving alms meant eating and drinking whatever others gave him, and that was all. I naturally don’t dare compare myself to Sakyamuni, but I also want to do something similar.” Yin Xiu felt mixed emotions for a moment, not knowing whether the monk was just speaking superficially. Is it true that he does not covet money, or that money is really not important to him? Is there such a person in the world? Even if he is a so-called pure-hearted monk? If what he said was true, wouldn't that mean I would become a Rakshasa or a demon king who was testing this monk? But it didn't take long for Yin Xiu to let it go. It doesn't make sense for him to care about his identity, all he needs to look at is what he does.

Speaking of killing, in the eyes of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, it is not a good thing. Although there are many explanations, once it is committed, it is a sin and will be affected by the cause and effect. But so what? Even if there are many just reasons, in the end, to achieve the goal, one still has to rely on scheming against people's hearts and killing people. If this is the case, you will eventually be associated with evil, whether it is a big evil or a small right or wrong, it is inevitable. "Don't mind it, benefactor." The monk whispered. "Don't worry, I won't." Yin Xiu said lightly: "Just send it here, please go back." "I'll take my leave." The monk turned around slowly, and suddenly looked back, "There is another test, I am also undergoing, it is much more difficult than the one in front of me." "what?" Yin Xiu didn't understand what the monk was talking about for a moment. The monk opened his mouth and his lips moved a few times, as if he was speaking, or as if he was swallowing the words that were about to come out of his mouth. After a long while, a hint of disappointment appeared in his eyes. Finally, he put his hands together, bowed and said, "It's not time yet. I'll take my leave." "Everything in the world is a matter of chance. Master, take care." When he turned around, the smile on Yin Xiu's face had disappeared and his eyes were cold. He was considering whether he should keep the other party and torture this mysterious monk so that he could get the truth out of him and relieve his depression and confusion. However, just a moment later, Yin Xiu gave up this plan and watched the monk leave. As soon as he entered the room, the white peacock was delighted to find that the room was cleaned regularly. He jumped onto the bed and rolled around on it, ignoring the fact that it was a hard bed. "Hey, that really made me nervous." She blinked, "You guys also think that the food is not right, right?" Yin Xiu and Ma Xiaoyu just looked at each other. "We were just being cautious and didn't notice any problems with the food. Did you notice anything?" The white peacock was lying down, then raised her upper body, supported her chin with her hands, crossed her legs and lifted them behind her head, her toes swaying as she spoke. "Hey, so you guys are from the Central Plains who are used to eating good food and have no shortage of oil and salt. Of course, you don't know what the people in the mountains care about." Bai Kongque said seriously: "Even now, in the Miao village, there are two things that can be used as money, one is oil, and the other is salt. I can understand that the food in the temple is light and oil-free, but didn’t you smell it? There is no salt in that dish of cabbage.” "No salt?" "Yes, I can smell it with my nose."

The white peacock sways its feet. "It's hot and humid in southern Xinjiang. It's fine if you sit at home, but if you work and don't eat more salt, you will inevitably feel weak and unable to walk. You should also eat more spicy food, otherwise the moisture in your body will not be able to be discharged. I just checked, maybe it's a taboo, the dishes in Buddhist temples don't have chili, ginger or garlic, but they don't even have salt, which is a bit too outrageous. Even if monks do less physical work, they will inevitably get sick without salt, right? " After Bai Kongque finished speaking, he looked at Yin Xiu with his watery eyes, waiting for him to give orders. However, Yin Xiu did not comment on this. He just took out a meat pie from the bag on the side and handed it to the white peacock. "Are you hungry?" "Of course, I haven't eaten for a day." The white peacock bit off a piece of the cake and felt a salty taste in his mouth. Yin Xiu handed another two cakes to Ma Xiaoyu, then sat down and took a sip of wine. "Do you have any plans?" Ma Xiaoyu always knew Yin Xiu's temper. At this time, she asked him while eating meat pie. Of course Yin Xiu had a plan. Even though it had nothing to do with what Bai Kongque said, he had planned it from the beginning. "Do you still remember the great monk Fain?" "The abbot of this institute who has lived for more than 200 years?" "Yes, that's him. I'm going to see him tonight." "But isn't he in poor health?" "It's ok." Yin Xiu grinned, "I'm in good health." (End of this chapter)