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Chapter 303 Arhat Apparition 1

When Liang Chuan arrived at Yuetai Temple, Master Hongyi was sweeping the floor. He did not think that Liang Chuan, a strange neighbor who was still beating him abacus on the dog meat abacus, would have any great help. Everything has a fixed degree, and he had already seen it.

Liang Chuan trotted and shouted happily: "Master is so happy!"

Hongyi's old face turned slightly red: "Although I drink and eat meat, I will never marry and have children. Don't be happy with me."

Liang Chuan laughed and said, "It's not just a joke to the master, but I have thought of how to regain the glory of Yuetai Temple!"

Liang Chuan tilted his head and put the method he thought into Master Hongyi's ear and said it. There were only two people in the temple, but he was still afraid that others would hear it.

Liang Chuan talked for a long time, then looked at the monk with a thief on his face, wanting to hear his opinion. Hongyi was happy at first and his body was a little excited, but then he thought about it, sighed and said, "This seems inappropriate. If the Buddha knew that we would be distracted from the world."

Liang Chuan immediately smiled bitterly and advised him: "Will the Buddha be happy if you drink and eat dog meat? And you also say that the legends your master told you, do you say they are all true? But everyone who comes to our Yuetai Temple will tell them these legends. Do you show me and let this flying tower fly from the sky to try?"

"I have broken the precepts when I drink and eat meat. Besides, the meat in my hotel passes through the intestines and keeps it in the heart of the Buddha. This is not disrespectful to the Buddha." Hongyi still felt that Liang Chuan's method was inappropriate.

Liang Chuan said: "The Buddha needs incense, otherwise I wouldn't come to you. The method I said was not to cheat. This is just to let the world see the illusion, and the Buddha will stay in their hearts."

Liang Chuan and the monk had been fighting for a long time, and Master Hongyi finally agreed to Liang Chuan's method, everything was for this temple.

The two of them acted separately. Liang Chuan went to find Bi Zhaosheng. There was a master who could carve at their home. This matter could not be known to outsiders, otherwise it would be exposed. Their carving master was good at craftsmanship. Liang Chuan called Zhao Xiaopin and asked their master to carve a statue of the Arhat according to Zhao Xiaopin's appearance.

The face and expression of the Arhat statue are exactly the same as those of the sketch. However, Liang Chuan ordered that the Arhat statue's eyebrows were particularly long, the roots of the eyebrows were black, the tips of the eyebrows were white, and there were a large string of Buddhist beads hanging around its neck. However, these Buddhist beads could be picked.

Bi Zhaosheng didn't know what Liang Chuan suddenly asked his craftsmen to carve this, but Liang Chuan gave them compensation, friendship belonged to friendship, business belonged to business, and if you have something to make money, you can do it.

Master Hongyi found the broken plaque in Yuetai Temple under the Buddha statue in the main hall. It turned out that there were two large gold characters on the platform. Now the golden paint was scratched, with only two vague marks on the platform. The wooden strips on the spliced ​​plaque were still falling off. The whole plaque looked like a piece of rag. He originally saw that the plaque was too shabby, so he took it off. He wanted to repair it himself and hang it up. After a while, he forgot to hang it for too long and forgot to hang it anyway.

Zhao Xiaopin was a model and was completely confused. However, he usually didn't work at night and was idle while sitting. He did whatever Liang Chuan told him. The statue was not that fast, and the masters also carved a prototype, so he did not let the skit sit in front of him to copy it. He only asked the skit to go over and take a look when he couldn't remember some details.

Liang Chuan cut a strand of hair and dyed it a little white, and the roots were naturally black. Then he dripped some rice paste and put it on Xiaopin's forehead and turned into the eternal-browed arhat. Liang Chuan originally wanted to let Zhao Di go, but Zhao Di was too honest and did not have enough ability to adapt to the situation. Zhao Xiaopin was an old fried dough stick, and the mountain people could eat it. Liang Chuan had seen it, so he could feel at ease.

"Boss, what do you want me to dress up as this Arhat?"

"Sketch, there is an important task to hand over to you."

Liang Chuan carefully explained the plan to the sketch, and even prepared the sketch for the sketch. The sketch was so smart that it understood what it meant.

"You are really a big deal, you want to get such an idea!"

"Stop flattering. I told you that you should quickly find Zhaodi to practice first in the past two or three days, and then prepare for those Buddhist beads, copper coins, monk robes, etc.!"

Since Zhao Xiaopin plays the leading role, he naturally needs a supporting role to play, so that this good show can be performed well.

It is quite difficult to carve the head of the Arhat statue to be vivid and vivid. The master in Bizhaosheng's shop carved it for three days before carving it. After carving it, it also requires body shape and eyebrows on the head. Not only that, this newly created Buddha is too new, and others can tell at a glance that it is new and done soon. This requires some old things, so that people can't see the flaws!

Making old is also a profound craft. Many antique dealers travel around the world by relying on this craft. Good skills can make the master beat the eye, but poor skills can only make others beat themselves in the face. The arhat statue has been processed and looks like it has a history of hundreds of years, with dust and spider webs on it. If the arhat statue is not broken, it will not be seen that the arhat statue is a new carving. After it is done, Liang Chuan took a piece of cloth and moved the statue to the main hall of Yuetai Temple. There were several arhats in the hall, standing on the left and right of the Buddha statue. Master Hongyi replaced one arhat statue and placed this new arhat statue in his eye.

The only thing that was more difficult was that Zhao Xiaopin's hair had to be shaved off. Liang Chuan lit it with him. Zhao Xiaopin picked up the scissors and a scraper and shaved it clean by himself! This was also Zhao Xiaopin obeyed Liang Chuan's advice and had a deep relationship. Otherwise, if it were someone else, he would not say anything.

After everything was ready, Xiaopin went out to the street. He was leaning on a monk's stick and wearing a cassock. Walking on the street, pedestrians pointed from time to time, because Zhao Xiaopin, a monk, was rosy and was not old, but his eyebrows were long and had a little white.

Zhao Xiaopin ignored the eyes of passers-by. When others asked, he just politely replied to others. He walked back and forth several times in the crowded place on the East Street of Qingyuan County, which attracted the attention of many people. At noon, when he was having dinner, he saw the largest and most grand restaurant on the East Street, Yuehua Restaurant, and walked straight into the restaurant lobby, walked to the counter, and begged for the store!

Yuehua Restaurant is the largest restaurant in Qingyuan. Its scale is much larger than that of Jinzundadi in Xinghua. It is crowded with people and the restaurant is even more lively at lunch. It is open to do business, and the business is very prosperous. When I saw a monk coming in to beg for alms, I felt a little unlucky at that time, but it was inappropriate to drive the monk out in public. However, it was even worse to let the monk enter the restaurant to have a meal, and there was wine and meat on other tables.

The sketch deliberately pretended to be a stubborn posture like a wooden fish. He clinged to the store and wanted to give some food. The waiter took some rice dumplings from the store. The sketch refused, saying that there was lard in these rice dumplings, which was a meaty thing and monks could not eat them. Unfortunately, the waiter went to make some soup again. The sketch pointed to the oil painting in the bowl and shook his head.

"I said, monk, why are you so rude? We are a restaurant, and the food we cook is naturally not like the vegetarian rice in your temple, without any oil stars. We are polite to you. If you feel dissatisfied, you can go elsewhere to beg for alms! Don't disturb us opening the door to do business. I'm not polite to hold it like this!" the waiter said angrily.

"Your store has food made of tofu and tofu oil, so I can eat it like this!" Zhao Xiaopin was like a dog skin plaster, and he was determined to make the store compromise.

The waiter got excited and cursed, "Can you still have to open a stove for you, a bald donkey? You are so grand, why are monks so shameless?" After that, the waiter began to push the sketch.

There were already many people in the restaurant, and for a moment everyone stopped chopsticks and started watching the fun. Zhaodi had long pretended to be a diner, ordered two dishes and sat in the hotel building to eat the dishes.

Two waiters ran out from behind the counter to help, one of them was in a mess. While pushing, Xiaopin waved the monk's stick in his hand and suddenly slammed a beautiful vase on the counter to the ground and broke it into a pile of porcelain.

"Okay, stinky monk, you are deliberately making trouble. If you want to ruin our business in the store, you will also damage our vase!" The waiter pointed at Zhao Xiaopin and cursed loudly.

Siaopin explained innocently: "I didn't mean to break the vase in your store. It was because you just pushed me hard, and I accidentally broke the vase. Everyone could see that they could make the decision for me."

"Yes, you waiter is a little anxious. It's not easy for the monk to make things difficult for him." Zhao Di mixed in the crowd and began to guide public opinion. He said in a loud voice. The guests next to him still looked more sincerely and spoke fairly, not biased into sketches and even more biased into waiter. Every word of your words made the waiter hard.

The waiter was in the lost place and no longer made things difficult for the monk. He called the shopkeeper, who said to the skit: "I don't make things difficult for you, but you have to compensate the broken vase in the store."

The sketch sang Buddha and asked, "I wonder how much money this vase costs?"

The shopkeeper said, "You just pay for the original price, you will pay two thousand yuan for this vase."

After touching her body for a long time, she only found two copper plates and said to the shopkeeper in embarrassment: "I don't have that much money on me now. Otherwise, you can go there and go with me to Yuetai Temple in Chengtian Lane to get money. No penny will be missing."

The shopkeeper agreed. The amount of money was not small, so it was not convenient for him to let the waiter go with the monk alone. If there was a mistake in the middle of the journey, he would definitely not be able to explain it clearly. He followed Zhao Xiaopin to Chengtian Lane in person. Zhao Xiaopin took the shopkeeper to the gate of Yuetai Temple and asked him to wait outside the door, and he went in to get the money.

The shopkeeper thought that he could run away, the monk could not run away from the temple. There were so many customers in the store to make certificates, so he stood at the door and waited. He waited around, and waited from noon until afternoon, but never saw a single figure coming out. Then he came to his senses and was deceived! He immediately pushed open the door and rushed into the temple to find someone.

The entire temple is empty, and there is no trace of a person. The temple is dilapidated. Not to mention two thousand yuan, it is good to take out even a hundred cents.

At this time, Master Hongyi walked out of the main hall and pretended to know nothing and asked, "Amitabha, what's the point of not knowing anything about the donor coming to the archery temple?"

The shopkeeper was so angry that his nose was crooked and asked, "Monkey, have you seen a monk with long eyebrows just now running in? He broke my vase and ran to you and disappeared. You should hand over the person out, otherwise I will go back to report to the official and let the government seal your bird place!"

Master Hongyi looked around and frowned and said, "Did the donor read it wrong? I am the only one left in Yuetai Temple now. There is no such thing as a monk in Changmei? If the donor doesn't believe it, I will walk around the temple with the donor."

After saying that, Hongyi led the shopkeeper around every corner of the temple and walked to the bedroom. The beds were covered with dust. It seemed that no one had slept in a long time. There was only one set of sheets in the room, and only one set of bowls and chopsticks, and no second person could be found in the entire temple.

"It's so strange. I clearly saw that thief monk ran in. You don't have a back door here, so why can't you find it?" The shopkeeper even wondered if he had read it wrong.

While chatting with the shopkeeper, Hongyi took him to the hall for tea, and walked towards the newly-created statue of the arhat. The shopkeeper was puzzled and looked up at the scene in the hall. His eyes fell on the arhat statue. He was shocked when he kicked!

Isn't this Arhat look exactly the same as the monk he met? Even his eyebrows are almost the same. The Arhat looks like his body is covered with dust and there are many spider silk. It is obvious that it has been in this hall for many years. What is even more surprising is that the Arhat holds a monk's stick in his hand, and a string of Buddhist beads on his neck is exactly the same as the monk's. The Arhat looks like he has two strings of copper coins on his hand. Both strings of coins are ancient coins, and the rope that uses money has long been rotten.

"This is the monk I just met, right!" The shopkeeper swallowed with difficulty, pointed at the Luohan and said.

Hongyi smiled and said, "This Arhat has been in my temple for hundreds of years and has never moved. Since you said that he broke your vase and there were two strings of copper plates on it, it must be the Arhat who left it to you, so you can take it away."
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