Volume 1: A stone strikes a thousand waves, the world surrounds Li Daosheng Chapter 128: What is the Greatest Precept of Buddhism?
When Li Si woke up the next day, he found a warm hand in his hand.
He was stunned for a moment, then looked up in confusion, only to see that it was the tiger girl leaning against the head of the bed sleeping quietly.
Her eyelashes fluttered slightly, and her hair fell over her shoulders, hanging on the side of his face on the bed.
Li Si looked at her silently for a while, then gently pulled his hand out of hers.
Unexpectedly, just such a small action woke up the tiger girl.
The two looked at each other for a moment, and the tiger girl's eyes gradually changed from hazy to panic.
Her face turned red at a speed visible to the naked eye. She then quickly let go of Li Si's hand. Her eyes moved around for a moment , and finally she lowered her head and spoke softly in a hoarse voice.
"Yesterday, it was Sect Master Tang who sent you here..."
"I see." Li Si nodded in understanding and smiled calmly: "Then I'll trouble you."
"No, it's okay." The tiger girl buried her head and answered in a stiff tone.
Perhaps sensing that something was wrong in the atmosphere, Li Si sat up from the bed, stretched out the window and said.
"Ah, it looks like the weather is nice today. I'll go out for a walk."
After saying that, he got up from the bed, looking like he was ready to go out.
"Yeah." The tiger girl responded softly while sitting on the bed. In fact, she had no idea what the weather was like today because she hadn't even raised her head.
But at this moment, Li Si beside her suddenly said again.
"But you should get some more sleep."
Shuhu Nu was stunned for a moment, then raised her head and looked at Li Si with some confusion.
Why, shouldn't they be on their way?
At this time, Li Si was touching his nose and looking away helplessly.
"You probably didn't get enough rest last night, so you should rest for a while. We will set off in the afternoon."
Having said that, he walked out of the room, leaving only the tiger girl still sitting in the room.
After a while, the tiger girl came back to her senses. She smiled to herself, turned her head silently, got up and lay down on the bed.
The quilt was still warm, with a slight smell of wine and herbs.
How to put it, the smell was not that pleasant, but she still closed her eyes peacefully and fell asleep.
Maybe it was because she was really tired, or maybe she felt that there was nothing wrong with the taste.
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In the afternoon, when Shu Hunu woke up, Li Si took her to bid farewell to Tang Chong.
At this time, Tang Zhong still looked pale and it was obvious that he drank too much last night.
Tang Zhong's alcohol tolerance is only slightly better than Li Si's. The difference is that he can still maintain a certain clarity of mind after being drunk, and will not pass out directly like Li Si.
Before leaving, he asked Li Si if he still remembered what they said last night.
Li Si said he didn't remember, Tang nodded, and just pretended that he didn't remember. Even if Li Si actually said a lot last night, drunken nonsense was just drunken nonsense after all, and there was no need to remember it.
After leaving Tangmen, Li Si wrote a letter and went to Jinshan Temple.
In the letter, he said that he was going to Shaolin to meet a monk named Yuanjie, and asked the old monk if he needed him to bring a message to the other party.
Yuanjie is the Buddhist name of the Shaolin monk who observes precepts, and the old monk’s former Buddhist name was Yuanyuan.
After a while, the old monk wrote back to Li Si, saying that he had no message for Yuanjie, but if Li Si had a request for Yuanjie and Yuanjie did not agree, Li Si could mention his name, and the other party would agree.
Li Si had no doubt about this, because he knew the old monk very well and knew that the old monk would never say anything without certainty.
Moreover, the old monk's martial arts were the most powerful he had ever seen, so powerful that even now, he had no choice but to run away.
Shaolin Temple was not far away. A few days after receiving the old monk's reply, Li Si had arrived at the foot of the Shaolin Gate.
He had been here many times and had met the current Shaolin abbot Yuan Nian.
At that time, Monk Yuannian wanted to persuade him to convert to Buddhism, but Li Si did not answer and turned around and ran away. After all, he could not stand the monk's life without wine and meat.
I don’t know what the old abbot is thinking now. Fortunately, Li Si didn’t come to find him this time.
Unlike when he met Tang Chong, Li Si did not choose to ask someone to pass the message this time .
Because in Li Si's opinion, those monks spoke in a very roundabout way, so it was better to say less to them.
He took the tiger girl and climbed over the Shaolin gate and went to the precepts hall behind the Sutra Library.
The Zhijie Hall is a place where no monks usually come. In addition to the monks who have made mistakes coming here to be punished, on weekdays, only the monks of the Zhijie Hall will clean the area.
In the precept hall, usually only Monk Yuanjie entered and left.
The reason is simple, it is because the Buddha statues enshrined in this precept hall are different from those enshrined in other places.
There are no Bodhisattvas worshipped here, only Vajra.
The Eight Great Vajras all held pestles in their hands and stood in a circle in the hall with their eyes wide open in anger, making the people kneeling in the hall look as if they were being stared at by them and waiting to be dealt with.
Monk Yuanjie just knelt here.
He said he had made a mistake, a huge mistake, so he was repenting here.
But what was that mistake? No one has ever heard of it. The world is really big, so the past events can always be hidden.
For Monk Yuanjie, he has been kneeling here for seventy-two years. Except for eating and sleeping, he hardly leaves the Buddhist hall.
He just knelt there, lowering his head and admitting his mistakes under King Kong's angry glare.
It is strange to say that the monk who observes the precepts in Shaolin Temple is the one who violated the biggest precept.
Today the precept hall was as quiet as usual, with only the occasional fall of a leaf from the old tree outside the hall making an inaudible sound.
The silence was broken only by the sound of footsteps.
In the Buddhist hall, Monk Yuanjie opened his closed eyes, turned his head slightly and looked behind him.
Outside the Buddhist temple, a man in white walked into the hall with a woman.
There was incense burning in the hall, which made the air smell like smoke.
"Hmm." Li Si raised his eyebrows and sniffed, muttering to himself, "The orchid smells good."
This is also one of the several kinds of incense commonly used by Buddhists.
"Donor." At this time, the voice of Monk Yuanjie finally came.
His old and deep voice echoed in the Buddhist hall as he spoke indifferently.
"We don't accept pilgrims here."
