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Chapter Thirty-Nine

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    39 hair loss

    After Liu Hai opened a restaurant, he became a chef himself and couldn't go anywhere.  He heard that we were going to Yunnan to see Zhou Daming, and he wanted to go too. He said that he would temporarily hire a chef to replace him for a few days.  I said, forget it, we will bring your mood here, the restaurant has not been open for a long time, and the business is not bad.  Don't change the chef, the customers will run away, that's not good.

    Lu Wei asked for three days off, and my job is basically free, but I also said hello to my boss, saying that I would go to Yunnan to see a friend.  He asked me: "Is it a beautiful friend?" I dismissed him in my heart and said, "A brother."

    Lu Wei and I bought tickets for the morning, and it was almost noon when the plane arrived at Kunming Airport.  Kunming Airport is very close to the city, so we took a taxi to the city and found a place to eat.  Zhou Daming lives in Dali. We called and asked about it. The train from Kunming to Dali takes more than eight hours. Lu Wei and I decided to charter a car to Dali.

    Just as the food was served, someone called me, and the place name of the call turned out to be Kunming.  I don¡¯t seem to know anyone in Kunming, so I answered the phone suspiciously: ¡°Hi, hello.¡± A man¡¯s voice came from the phone: ¡°Hello, are you Mr. Jiang Tao?¡±

    "Yes."

    "I'm Zhou Daming's friend, are you in Kunming now?"

    "Yes, in Kunming, just off the plane, eating."

    The other party asked me to give me an exact place, and he will come to us later.  I asked the restaurant waiter for the full address of the restaurant and sent a message to the person who just called.

    Half an hour later, my phone rang again.  I saw a man standing there at the door of the restaurant talking on the phone. I felt that he was Zhou Daming's friend, so I walked towards the door with my mobile phone.  He also guessed who I was, hung up the phone and asked me with a smile, "Are you Mr. Jiang Tao?"

    I said yes.

    After shaking hands, we went to the table and sat down.  I introduced Lu Wei to Zhou Daming's friend and said we came together.  Zhou Daming's friends said that his name was Chen Zhihui, he was Zhou Daming's brother, and he was a lay disciple who converted to Buddhism.  They are all disciples of a master who became a monk in Dali.  Lu Wei and I invited Chen Zhihui to have dinner together, and he said he had already eaten.  I will continue to eat with Lu Wei.

    Chen Zhihui said that he waited for us in the car outside, and said that a black Guangben was his car.

    After we finished eating, I called the waiter to check out, and the waiter said that someone had already paid.  Only then did we know that Chen Zhihui had already paid the bill secretly.  No wonder he said that he would wait for us in the car, so he made an excuse to go to the front desk to check out first.  When we got out of the restaurant, we saw Chen Zhihui sitting in the car waiting for us.  He told us just now that he would send us to Dali.  After getting in the car, I said, "Mr. Chen, how dare I ask you to pay the bill."

    Chen Zhihui said: "You have come to Kunming, I should invite you." Both Lu Wei and I felt that the people in Yunnan are warm and honest.

    Both Lu Wei and I asked Chen Zhihui not to take us to Dali, and we went there by car.  Chen Zhihui said that he would also go to Dali to attend Zhou Daming's hair-cutting ceremony, and he heard Zhou Daming say that we are going to Kunming, so let's go to Dali together.

    I said: "When Zhou Daming came to Yunnan, he told us that he was here to handle business. Why did he want to become a monk all of a sudden? Did he get any stimulation or shock?"

    Chen Zhihui smiled and asked me: "Do you think that people who become monks are world-weary or they become monks to escape from something?"

    I said: "It seems to be."

    Chen Zhihui laughed again, and said: "You don't understand the true meaning of Buddhism, so you think so."

    While driving, he talked to us about Buddhism and how to save all living beings.  Lu Wei and I listened in a fog, and neither of us spoke, but listening to it, both of us dozed off.  Chen Zhihui probably saw from the rearview mirror that we didn't listen to what he was talking about, so he stopped talking and concentrated on driving.

    After passing Xiangyun, I woke up and stared at the scenery outside in a daze.  I thought to myself, I don't know if I can persuade Zhou Daming to go back after seeing Zhou Daming.  According to Liu Hai, Zhou Daming has also experienced many hardships. When he was very young, his parents divorced, and he and his younger brother entered the society before they were adults.  In Shenzhen, Zhou Daming did a lot of work and made some money later, but later he partnered with others to start a company, and all of them lost money.  Zhou Daming must have been desperate before he decided to become a monk.  I discussed with Lu Wei and persuaded Zhou Daming to go back, we can help him do something else.

    When we arrived in Dali, Chen Zhihui said that Zhou Daming was in a temple, and we asked him to take us to see Zhou Daming.  He will become a monk tomorrow, and we want to persuade him to give up the idea of ??becoming a monk today.

    Arrived at a temple in Xiaguan, just in time for the evening class at the temple,There are many monks and masters standing in the main hall, chanting scriptures.  Chen Zhihui knelt on the ground and kowtowed outside the main hall. Lu Wei and I looked inside curiously to see if Zhou Daming was also inside.  The masters were all wearing monk robes, and we didn't see Zhou Daming.  I wondered again, Zhou Daming knew we were coming, would he hide from us?  Or his master simply didn't let him see us?

    After Chen Zhihui finished kowtowing, he took us to a place similar to the reception room of a temple and asked us to sit first, and he went out.  After a lot of effort, he came with Zhou Daming.  Lu Wei and I stood up from the sofa all of a sudden, for fear that Zhou Daming would see us and run away again.  Zhou Daming greeted us with a smile. We can't see any sadness or helplessness in him. On the contrary, he looks more energetic than when he was in Shenzhen, and his face is full of happiness.

    "Why did you think of becoming a monk?" I asked Zhou Daming eagerly.

    Lu Wei also said: "Don't leave home, come back to Shenzhen with us. We will help you if you have any difficulties."

    Zhou Daming clasped his palms together and said Amitabha. He said with a smile, "Being a monk is a practice, a liberation, and the salvation of more sentient beings. I am not hiding from anything, but going home."

    It has only been a month since he came to Dali, how did Zhou Daming become different from when he was in Shenzhen? His words about Amitabha and Yitong made us feel a little confused, making us feel that he is now a monk.

    Lu Wei said: "Stop acting so deep, go pack your things and stay with us in the hotel, and return to Shenzhen tomorrow."

    Zhou Daming clasped his palms together again, and his face became serious: "Bodhisattva Lu, the pure land of Buddhism, don't talk nonsense, you don't understand me now, and you will gradually understand me and the greatness of Buddha in the future."

    We chatted with Zhou Daming for a long time, and he was determined to become a monk.  Both Lu Wei and I sighed, we really wanted to drag him away.  But this is in the temple, we still have some scruples.

    Zhou Daming said that we should live in the temple, but Lu Wei and I couldn't agree, so we went to live in a hotel outside.  After Chen Zhihui came back, Zhou Daming asked him to take us out for dinner, saying that the fasting meal in the temple was over, otherwise, it would be good for us to have a fasting meal in the temple.  He said it would be available tomorrow.

    After leaving the temple, I told Chen Zhihui to find a hotel to settle down first.

    In a hotel in Xiaguan, we registered the house and stayed there, then went to have dinner.  Chen Zhihui said that he didn't eat dinner, and Lu Wei and I ate it.  Lu Wei and I were both listless after eating, and we both felt very uncomfortable if we couldn't persuade Zhou Daming to return.  I don't know why, but I suddenly felt the vicissitudes of life.  Zhou Daming will become a monk tomorrow, and he will be a different person from us from then on.  From now on, we can no longer be called brothers.

    The next day, we went to the temple again.  There were dozens of people who came to Zhou Daming's hair-cutting ceremony. Besides the master in the temple, there were also many people like us from outside.  There was no room to stand in the hall, and there were many people standing outside.  Yes, old and young, male and female.  I thought, Zhou Daming had only been in Dali for a month, how could he know so many people?  Later we found out that many people, like that Chen Zhihui, were master Zhou Daming's lay disciples.  At the beginning of the hair-cutting ceremony, we were afraid to speak, just like what we saw in movies and TV shows, a monk shaved off Zhou Daming's hair.  After a while, his head became bright.  A master presiding over the ceremony chanted something, and Zhou Daming followed suit.  Later, the master asked Zhou Daming if he could uphold the three precepts, and Zhou Daming said yes.  At that moment, I couldn't help but cry, and so did Lu Wei.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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