Just as the motorcade was moving quickly along the official road, Yongcheng was sixty miles ahead of the motorcade.
At the gate of the city, an old monk was sitting cross-legged on the ground. He had a kind-hearted look and eyebrows hanging down to his earlobes. He attracted the attention of many people as soon as he appeared.
However, no matter how the people around him watched and discussed, he just sat there motionless.
Next to him, a hexagram stall was set up.
The man who set up the stall was a middle-aged Taoist priest with a long beard and a beautiful beard. He had an immortal Taoist spirit and was very extraordinary.
There is not much business in his Gua stall, and the middle-aged Taoist priest doesn't care. He just glances at the old monk next door from time to time, half-smiling but not smiling.
One Buddha and one Buddha, this wonderful combination has made many people curious.
At this time, several people in ragged clothes came from outside the city. They were a middle-aged couple. The woman was holding a child of four or five years old in her hand, and the husband was carrying an old woman who was as angry as a gossamer on his back.
The family saw the monk and the Taoist priest. After hesitating for a moment, and not knowing where they got the courage, they suddenly ran to the monk and knelt down in front of them.
The woman cried and said: "Master, you are a monk, can you save us?"
The old monk opened his eyes, glanced at the family, and said slowly: "Amitabha, I am merciful. Is this donor in trouble?"
The middle-aged Taoist priest next door couldn't stand listening anymore and said: "Immortal, bald donkey, are you blind or have nothing to say? They are so poor that they wear rags to pick up the family.
You know you are here because you are fleeing, but you still ask if someone is in trouble?"
With one leg on the stool, the carefree middle-aged Taoist priest smiled and said to the family of four: "The bald donkey is the most shameless. If you beg him, you might as well come to the Taoist Master. At least the Taoist Master will not be thinking about your charity."
The Taoist priest's words made the family of four hesitate immediately.
The old monk said calmly: "If the donor is in trouble, just tell him directly. Meeting the poor monk is fate. If the poor monk can help, he will definitely help."
The woman mustered up her courage and said: "Master, we came here to escape from the border. The Liao army over there is fighting with the imperial court, which has caused suffering for us people living on the border. Now we really can't survive. Please take in my child."
, it is better for him to become a monk than to starve to death with us."
The old monk glanced at the girl who was standing in front of his mother, looking at him timidly, frowned slightly, and said: "Buddhism is a quiet place where you don't see suffering, but this girl is really not suitable to enter my Buddhism."
The middle-aged Taoist priest next to him sneered and said: "I said you are also interesting. How can you send your daughter to become a monk? It's better to find a sister-in-law. If it doesn't work, send her to my Taoist sect, learn the way of the Dragon and Tiger Celestial Master, and become an immortal."
It is also a beautiful thing to ascend to immortality and seek ultimate happiness."
The family looked at the Taoist priest and felt that the middle-aged Taoist priest's careless appearance was really unreliable, so they had to look at the old monk helplessly.
The old monk raised his hand and touched the girl's head and sighed: "If you make up your mind, the poor monk will take her away and place her in a nunnery. When she grows up, she will either return to secular life or become a monk.
Or if she wants to find a relative, then it's all according to her own wishes, okay?"
After hearing this, the family immediately knelt down and burst into tears of gratitude.
The old monk reached out to hold the girl, but he didn't expect the girl to hide back. She pointed at the Taoist priest next door and said bluntly: "I want to go with him."
