[Comprehensive martial arts] Holy Monk

In April, the world is full of fragrance,

The peach blossoms of the mountain temple began to bloom.

In April, the water in the spring river is warm, and the bamboo is green with new branches. Although there are no peach blossoms on Tiansheng Mountain, the apricot blossoms are still in bloom.

The old apricot tree was quite old, and it was planted by San Wei outside the fence. Now it has luxuriant branches and leaves, and the flowers are blooming like red clouds and fire mist.

At noon, the red cloud became more and more scorching, and two bald men squatted under the cloud and were stabbing the fence.

These two people were dressed in old monk's robes, they were tall and thin, and they looked like ordinary people.Their faces are so flat that there are almost no ups and downs, as if the bones under the flesh have been pressed several times by a copper iron for ironing.They were not very old, but their skin was very slack, and the white and flat skin slumped softly on the skeleton, like a fat man of three hundred catties who lost all his fat overnight.Their facial features may not be ugly, but they are as weird as a pair of snowmen that have almost melted. If a stranger sees them suddenly, they will probably feel a little frightened——

It's common for monks to have no hair, but they don't even have eyebrows.

Even the freshly boiled pork skin jelly is no smoother than their faces!

These two monks are brothers Zhou Hao and Zhou Qi.

The poison in the mountain tomb did not kill them, but it tortured them almost beyond recognition and lost all their martial arts.

I don't know whether it was out of understanding or trust, when Chu Liuxiang left, he still handed over Fang Tianzhi's mother-killing enemy to him, and didn't even ask a single extra word.As expected, Fang Tianzhi did not kill anyone, he just took the two of them back to Dongxin Temple, and besides taking care of food and clothing, he also ordered them to do some miscellaneous chores within their capabilities.

But to his surprise, the Zhou brothers lived in the temple for half a month, and they were very honest until they recovered from the poison, never sneaking away down the mountain.

Fang Tianzhi then asked: "Changmeiling Zhoujiazhuang has been burnt to rubble, do you still have a place to go?"

Zhou Hao was chopping bamboo outside the temple at that time.Holding the iron sickle tremblingly, he knocked the blade carefully on the bamboo joints, and then slowly chopped down with all his strength.His younger brother Zhou Qi was standing by the bamboo grove with his waist bowed, clumsily and slowly dragging a few long bamboos on the ground towards his elder brother.

Fang Tianzhi looked at them quietly, and suddenly realized that even though they were once the masters of Changmei Ridge on the Megatron side, at this moment they were nothing more than two old men who were dying.

Aging and death are always equal and just.Sooner or later, they will come.After the halo has faded, if a person has never done anything in his life to comfort his old age, how can he still stand upright and dignified under the ravages of the years, and fight against loneliness with a smile?

After recovering from the poison, the Zhou brothers lost all their beard and hair, their ears and eyes were troubled, and even their tongues could not be controlled very well.Zhou Hao listened with his ears sideways for a long time before he understood Fang Tianzhi's meaning. He opened his mouth wrinkled due to the loss of teeth, and said vaguely: "There is nowhere to go."

Even if they had left a back road for themselves, at this time their martial arts are completely lost and their faces are beyond recognition, that back road has become a way of death.

In this world, there are far more people who guard and steal than those who are loyal and righteous.

Fang Tianzhi was silent, Zhou Hao suddenly threw away the sickle and bamboo, knelt crookedly on the ground and kowtowed to him.

Fang Tianzhi still avoided it, saying: "Amitabha."

Zhou Hao murmured inconveniently, "I would like to be a monk, but I just want to save my life." He kowtowed again, "Great kindness, great compassion, regardless of past suspicions."

Zhou Qi dragged the bamboo and walked over, squinting his eyes to see his elder brother, and Fang Tianzhi, and also knelt down in a daze.

Fang Tianzhi finally kept these two old guys who were either shaved or bald.

He knew that these two people might not have repented so far, but living like the two of them, doing farm work, working as a coolie, isn't it more useful than dying?

Only by being alive can one repent and redeem one's sins.

Perhaps no one in the world understands this truth better than him.

After shaving Lin Shishi and Huai Xu that day, Fang Tianzhi also wiped their two marinated eggs with a spatula, and said: "You two Zhou benefactors, once you enter the Buddhist door, don't ask about the past. There is no longer the owner of Changmei Zhuang. Great mercy, great treachery and great evil are often just a thought. In the future, if you practice self-restraint, call it great mercy and great compassion."

Zhou Hao and Zhou Qi didn't speak, but looked at Fang Tianzhi earnestly with cloudy eyes, bowed his hands together and saluted.

Lin Shiyi's head turned blue, and he asked baldly, "Master, are they my younger brothers?"

Zhou Hao and Zhou Qi seemed to show their sincerity, they all turned around slowly together, clasped together and said: "Eldest senior brother." Then he said to Huai Xu, "Second senior brother."

Fang Tianzhi was about to shake his head, but he saw that Lin 11 was so young, he was quite calm and composed, even if he was called a big brother by the former Shi uncle, he would not be moved.He didn't look pleased at all, but opened a pair of big eyes with very thin pupils, and said in a childish voice: "My master hasn't said anything yet." Seeing that Fang Tianzhi didn't say a word, he asked persistently: "Master, what are they doing?" Is it my junior brother?"

Fang Tianzhi was already used to him, and said: "No. The three of them are just monks here, and they don't give me the gift of master and apprentice."

Lin Shishi said, "Then what's my name?"

Lin Shixi is not a person with a name.

Back then, Lin Wangsun's talent was limited, so he had no choice but to take the risk of practicing Jin Chan Yu Yu Kungfu, and he wanted to give birth to a smart child with good bones, so as to completely get rid of this martial arts that practitioners must die, and support the huge foundation of Haihou Mansion in an open and honest manner. , but watched the sons being born one by one, but did not see any outstanding features.He knew that his life was not long, so he couldn't help but be extremely disappointed, he only cared about his sensuality and unrestrained behavior every day, he was very indifferent to his sons, he didn't care at all except for urging them to practice martial arts.When Lin Shishi was born, he didn't even bother to name him, so he was only called Shishi sequentially.

Fang Tian felt pity in his heart, and said, "Do you have any name you want to choose?"

Lin Shiyi was taken aback for a moment, and said, "Myself?"

Fang Tianzhi smiled and said: "I was also a child. I know the names that adults give to children. Children may not like it very much. Now that you have become a monk and converted, in addition to the name given to you by the master, you can also name yourself. A dharma name, as long as you want, you can take as much as you want."

Lin Shiyi stared at him in a daze for a moment, then said slowly, "Then what name do you want to name me?"

His voice seemed to suddenly become less cold, revealing a trace of unusual dependence.

Fang Tianzhi stared at this withdrawn and cold child, and was suddenly moved, and said: "You are a very smart child..." He pondered for a moment, and continued, "Of course, if you know deeply, you will not live long, and if you are extremely wise, you will be hurt. Accepting you as an apprentice, I don't plan anything else, I only hope that you will become an adult in the future, and you will be harmless to others, and you will be harmless at all....You can be called harmless."

Lin Shixi didn't say yes, nor did he say bad.

He only lowered his eyelids, folded his eyes together and said, "Thank you, Master, for giving me the name. Wushang remembers it."

And at this moment, several months later, beside the apricot cloud, the merciful man mended the fence, while Fang Tianzhi and Wushang were doing farm work in the field with their trousers tied up.He held a thin bamboo stick in his hand, and every time he took a small step, he made a palm-deep hole in the field ridge.Wushang followed behind his butt step by step, with rapeseed in his skirt, and sprinkled a few into holes whenever he saw a hole.

I don't know if he was hungry, Fang Tianzhi was doing farm work, and suddenly he smelled the scent of fragrant oil from the stove piercing his nostrils, so he couldn't help standing firmly on the ground, holding his bamboo stick in his arms for support, looking up and thinking about the noon what to eat.

Just as he was thinking, Wushang also turned his head to look at the stove, and said, "If you have money, let's fry tofu today."

Fang Tianzhi was taken aback, and immediately began to calculate: "What? You still have money to eat tofu this month? You still use oil to fry it?"

Wushang looked at him silently, and said: "When you went to practice in the morning, Youqian said that he was going crazy from eating pickles, and he must eat tofu today. After all, he will definitely earn back the tofu money."

Being rich is Huai Xu.

After Huai Xu had his head shaved, he didn't ask Fang Tianzhi to name him, but his own alias was rich.He said that the landlord in April is in charge of money. Although he is a swordsman, he is also a businessman.Isn't it reasonable for a businessman to be called rich?

Fang Tianzhi didn't care what name he took, he wanted to ask You Qian how he planned to get money, but the fried tofu was really delicious!

He and Wushang were not the only ones who were stunned by the incense, Daci Dabei also came from a family, pampered and raised to old age, the past few months have been so exhausted, they don't even care about the fence, they just stretch their necks and go to the stove in despair Looking at the room, until Youqian held the rice bucket in one hand and the vegetable shovel in the other, opened the bamboo curtain at the door and peeked out——

With eight fiery gazes on his face, he said coldly, "Dinner is ready."

There is no rice, but there is always enough pickles and steamed buns.

The five bald men were holding steamed buns, eating a plate of fried tofu, a big bowl of steamed pickled vegetables, and a pot of bamboo shoot soup. No one had the leisure to speak.Fang Tianzhi, who has been in the big pot for decades, has mastered the 81 styles of grabbing vegetables, and the other four are just rookies among monks.

The other Fang Tianzhi basically didn't care about it, but he was still healthy without injury, and he occasionally added a few chopsticks tofu for the child to eat.

Wushang is currently laying the groundwork, he has to stride even when eating, his legs are straight, his face looks like vegetables, and sesame oil doesn't taste very good.He was absently picking vegetables into the bowl, when Fang Tianzhi put down the bowl and chopsticks, and said to him: "Tomorrow I will teach you a set of boxing techniques, but you still have to consciously practice the pile skills, and you must not stop."

Wushang was indifferent to everything, as if he was not obsessed with martial arts, he only said: "Got it."

Fang Tianzhi said to the compassionate and merciful couple: "You two were poisoned, your body has been damaged, and it will definitely hinder your lifespan. Moreover, if your meridians are damaged, it will probably be impossible for you to learn any martial arts for the rest of your life."

Dacitai and Dabei had lost all their teeth, and it was very difficult to eat corn bread, so they just nodded silently with their mouths puffed out.

Fang Tianzhi looked at them, and said slowly: "I have nothing to teach you, I only have a set of meditation formulas. Although it is not a martial arts mentality, it may strengthen the internal organs and strengthen the muscles and bones externally. After you memorize the formulas, Practicing breathing and sitting in meditation according to this method every day should be of some benefit.”

The chopsticks of Daci Dabei stopped suddenly.The two looked at Fang Tianzhi together, but neither of them spoke.

Fang Tianzhi finally looked at Youqian, and said: "You are quite accomplished in martial arts, do you have anything you want to ask me?"

You Qian swallowed a mouthful of cornbread silently, and said, "Yes."

Fang Tianzhi said: "You ask."

You Qian said word by word: "Why did you place your chopsticks and add vegetables so quickly."

Fang Tianzhi: "..."

You Qian said: "My question is not ridiculous."

Fang Tianzhi naturally didn't want to laugh out loud, so he also said lightly: "Perhaps the poor monk has robbed a lot, so it will be fast."

You Qian frowned and said: "I have learned swordsmanship by myself, and I use my sword thousands of times a day, just for the sake of quickness. Up to now, no matter whether it is flowers falling in the wind or mosquitoes and flies, they can be pierced with confidence." He turned his eyes to Fang Fang. Tianzhi inquired, "Since I went up the mountain, I have never seen you practice swords."

Fang Tianzhi said: "I have never practiced before."

You Qian stared at him intently, and said, "It's not because you grabbed more food than I can draw chopsticks faster. But if you and I both have swords in our hands, and I strike a sword, you've already done it four or five times." sword." His eyes were so piercing that no one dared to stare at him, "Temple Master, you have sword skills under your chopsticks."

Fang Tian was at a loss.

He couldn't help asking himself, what kind of swordsmanship did he have in his chopsticks?Could it be that he was originally a swordsman, and he unknowingly brought out something, but he didn't know it?

You Qian said: "I want to ask you, what kind of sword is that?"

Fang Tianzhi already understood his intention, he thought about it carefully, and said, "That's not a sword."

You Qian looked at him dumbly.

Fang Tianzhi said: "The swords in other people's hands are not swords to you. Because if you have two swords in your eyes, the sword in your heart will naturally slow down. If the sword in your heart is slow, how can the sword in your hand be fast?" ? If you want to draw your sword, then the moment you draw your sword, there should be only one sword in the world, and it is the sword in your heart!"

Rich's complexion changed, he sat for a while, then suddenly knelt down on the ground, and kowtowed three times to him.

Fang Tianzhi didn't evade this time, he just said: "If you understand, just try to do it. It's just...sometimes everything is a sword, sometimes everything is not a sword, why are you so stupid?" He said When I got here, I looked at the table in a daze for a moment, smiled and said, "These are just a pair of chopsticks for eating and holding vegetables."

Youqian finished three kowtows by himself, then got up and continued to gnaw on the cornbread, saying: "I see."

Fang Tianzhi said: "I'm about to leave the temple for a wandering tour, and everyone in the temple will depend on you to take care of it. Wan Wang urges you to practice martial arts without injury, remember to water vegetables and weed, if you can get a small piece of land, and plant some beans and rice, that would be great gone."

You Qian said, "Don't worry."

Fang Tianzhi was about to nod, but Wushang stood up suddenly, and said to Fang Tianzhi, "I won't stay here. I want to be with you."

Fang Tianzhi was stunned, and said: "Don't mention the dangers of the world, it's too hard to go out, eat the wind and drink the dew..."

Wushang suddenly burst into tears, looked at him with a very hurt look, and shouted: "I said, I am not afraid of suffering! I am not afraid of danger! I grew up, and I have experienced more danger than you. Imagine much more! Don't leave me here, I don't want to be with them, I want to be with you!"

When Fang Tianzhi went out this time, he naturally went to work as Lei Feng.

He stared at Wushang carefully, and suddenly realized that there were probably many unsolvable problems lurking in this child, just teaching him martial arts, providing him with food and clothing, and making him understand the principles of Buddhist scriptures, maybe he must be hurt in this life.

It's not that you can't wear a bald head if you learn from Lei Feng to do good deeds.

Perhaps, he should wear this weird little bald head.

So Fang Tianzhi softened his voice and said, "Pack up your luggage tonight and go down the mountain tomorrow morning."