V1.Chapter 7

The shadowy mountains are like a sleepy fairy, covered with cicada like gauze, full of emotion and silent eyes. Li Fan walked in the mountains to feel the autumn, tall and straight trees around to block the invasion of the autumn wind. And the yellow leaves at your feet are reminding you of the coming of autumn.

After communicating with Chen Xi on the playground, Li Fan decided to study in the ancient temple on the mountain during the holidays. He didn't know until he asked his local classmates according to the address in the advertisement. It turns out that there is a millennium old temple on the mountain near my school.

It is said that the ancient temple was built in the Tang Dynasty. It has been tested for thousands of years. But as time goes on, fewer and fewer people will go to the ancient temple to burn incense. It's not that there are fewer people who believe in Buddhism, but that the journey to the mountain is difficult. Every year, only on the first day of the first lunar month do some businessmen go to the mountains to burn incense and pray for Buddha's blessing to make their business prosperous.

When Li Fan went up the mountain, he felt that the road was fairly flat, and there would be some people doing exercises on the mountain. After walking for more than an hour, I found that the number of pedestrians decreased gradually. And there are more winding paths and steep stone steps. If there are no old road signs on both sides of the road. Li Fan felt that he would be lost in the mountains.

After a hard morning's March. Li Fan finally found the Millennium Temple in the advertisement at noon. Li Fan couldn't believe his eyes when he saw the ancient temple.

This is the thousand year old temple in the advertisement. Li fan can't believe it. In his imagination, since it is a thousand year old temple, even if it does not cover a vast area, it should be as solemn as a famous temple. But the ancient temple in front of us is about the size of two football fields. Outside the temple, there are many weeds and it looks very desolate. If you don't see a monk sweeping the floor from the open door of the temple. Li Fan will surely think that this is a deserted temple.

"Amitabha, are you here to offer incense?" An old monk who looked about fifty saw Li Fan enter the temple gate, stopped his action, and asked with his hands folded.

Li Fan couldn't believe it when he looked at the clean ground inside the temple. Compared with the chaos and desolation outside the temple, the temple was solemn and quiet“ Hello, I didn't come to Shangxiang. I came here only when I saw the advertisement of recruiting students from your temple. " Li Fan quickly took out the advertisement in his pocket and handed it to the old monk.

The monk looked at Li Fan up and down and took Li Fan's advertisement: "in that case, benefactor, please come with me."

The old monk turned around and took Li fan through the main hall to a room with a registration office at the door“ Almsgiver, here it is, "the old monk reached out and buttoned the door three times, then pushed the door open with a squeak and made a gesture to Li Fan to come in.

Li Fan walked into the room and found that there was only one table in the room. On the futon behind the table sat a monk who closed his eyes and recuperated. About 60 years old, there is nothing else in the house. The door behind him squeaked and closed. The light coming in from the window darkened the room.

"Little benefactor, are you here to be a student?" Sitting on the futon, the monk asked.

"Exactly," Li Fan gradually adapted to the light in the room, and saw the monk opposite twisting the beads in his hand, but he still didn't open his eyes“ My name is Li Fan. I don't know if I'm suitable for your requirements. "

"Amitabha" the old monk opened his eyes. Although he was very old, his eyes were still bright. "No one has come to our temple for many years. The monk's name is Huineng. Little benefactor, but as the recruitment information said, undergraduate, CET-6 ah. "

Li Fangang wanted to open his mouth to say that he met the requirements, but suddenly he said, "no, I'm a junior college student and I've never been to English."

Huineng's eyes swept over Li Fan several times and said with a smile, "it's good, little benefactor, since he doesn't reach the standard, he dares to tell the truth. It's good. It seems to be predestined relationship with my Buddha. Just take you. You can be an intern in our temple now. "

Li fan can't help but have some surprise. According to his own idea, he thought that there would be no hope. Unexpectedly, Huineng accepted him. "Master Huineng, I don't know what I'm mainly responsible for."

"Since you are predestined relationship with my Buddha, I will give you an important task. Later, you will be responsible for the work of the Sutra Pavilion. Come on, sign this contract. We'll call you Xiaofan in the future. " I saw Li Fan sign his name on the contract. Huineng said to the door, "nephew Wuchen, take Xiaofan to get familiar with the situation of the temple. Later, he will be in charge of the Sutra Pavilion."

The door creaked open, and the monk who brought himself in stood at the door. Facing Huineng, he put his hands together and said, "it's martial uncle. Xiao Fan, please follow me

Li Fan looked at the monk called Wuchen at the door, looked back at Huineng, and found that he closed his eyes and twisted the beads in his hand. Had to follow behind the dust-free out of the house.

Wuchen took Li Fan to the so-called Sutra pavilion after he had a general tour of the temple and explained some rules of the temple

"Xiaofan, this sutra pavilion has been an important place since the temple was built in the Tang Dynasty. There are many years of Buddhist books and historical documents. It used to be managed by martial uncle Huineng himself. I didn't expect you to be in charge. I hope you can cherish the kindness of martial uncle Huineng. " Monk Wuchen stood at the door of the Sutra Pavilion and said solemnly to Li Fan.

"Master dust free, please rest assured that I will do my job well." Li Fan also nodded solemnly. "Xiaofan, you can call me master Wuchen. In this case, you will take care of the Sutra Pavilion. You will live here in the future. " With that, Wu Chen turned and left. Li Fan pushed open the wooden door of the Sutra Pavilion and found that there were bookshelves in the room like a library. Each shelf is full of books. Li Fan looked in turn and found that some books were covered with dust, which was obviously not moved for a long time, while some books seemed to be frequently turned without dust. When Li Fan looked through all the bookshelves, he found that the Buddhist books were classified according to scriptures, laws and theories, while other literature books were placed in chronological order. There are about one million books in the library. Seeing that the whole Sutra pavilion was a bit messy, Li Fan began to clean it up. After all, this is the place to sleep for himself. He still wanted the place to be clean“ It's true that Xiao Fan has integrated into his work so quickly. " I don't know how long later, Li Fan heard a voice coming from the gate of the Sutra Pavilion. I went to the door and found that it was master Huineng I had seen before. Li Fan throws things away. Learning from Huineng, he asked, "master Huineng, I just cleaned up when I saw some chaos here. By the way, you haven't told me what my job will be in the future? " Huineng went to the middle of the bookshelf, picked up a book and looked through it“ You are doing a good job now. Just keep it up in the future. " Li Fan pointed to the bookshelf and asked, "do you mean to let me be the cleaner of the Sutra pavilion? It's a student, isn't it? "“ Yes, "Huineng raised her eyes from the book after hearing Li Fan's question." what we are looking for is the cleaner of the Sutra Pavilion. The cleaner of our temple is the name of the students. "“ You "Li Fan felt a burst of blood surging, mercilessly shook his hand and said," I quit. "