Chapter 19 There Are Really Many Boomerangs

In the eleventh year of Tianwen, winter began.

The plum trees in Linquan Temple were heavily loaded with snow, leaving only their bare branches stretching outward.

The accumulated snow bent the fence and dead grass of the vegetable garden. The vegetable garden was silent and desolate, as if it had entered a deep sleep of winter.

There were several piles of cleared snow at the entrance of the mountain, shimmering slightly.

A little monk's footprints fell on the snow, and he walked into the room step by step.

"Brother, have some tea to warm yourself up."

Axue brought a pot of hot tea with her warm palms and served it to Torachiyo with both hands.

Torachiyo, who was sitting in the courtyard enjoying the snow, took the tea, smiled slightly, and patted the floor with his hand to invite Axue to sit next to him.

"Axue, another year is about to pass."

Torachiyo's black hair had already fallen past his waist, and he no longer looked like the eight-year-old boy he had just met.

As she grew older, the facial features of the thirteen-year-old Torachiyo became more and more delicate. There was always a hint of charm in her eyes when she looked at Axue, and her lips became bright red.

The only thing that remained unchanged was his temperament, which was still so cool and elegant.

"I have known my senior brother for many years."

Ah Xue followed the trend and recalled the same thing.

"Seven years, eight months, and twenty-one days."

Torachiyo didn't hesitate at all and accurately stated the exact time when they met.

"...Senior Brother is really amazing."

Axue didn't know how to react for a moment, so she just laughed it off.

The golden Buddha enshrined in the hall appears more solemn under the candlelight, and the air is filled with a calming fragrance.

This quaint mountain temple is peaceful and harmonious all year round.

Torachiyo held a cup of hot tea in her hand and glanced sideways at her junior fellow student beside her.

At this moment, the hustle and bustle of the world is completely put aside, leaving only the purest peace in the depths of the soul.

"Axue, if days like this could continue forever, Senior Brother would live a very satisfying life."

Torachiyo is no longer as expressionless as he was in his early years. He now knows many ways to show his emotions, especially in front of Axue, he will appear as boisterous as a girl.

"Speaking of which...Axue, you seem to have forgotten something?"

Torachiyo freed his hand and turned Axue's head over.

"whats the matter?"

Axue was a little confused, not knowing what she had forgotten.

"——I forgot about this year's kiss."

When Xue heard what Torachiyo said, she was so scared that she quickly took several steps back.

He choked on the tea and coughed repeatedly, his face flushed. "Master, what on earth are you talking about? I'm not a child anymore! There's no need for this kind of thing, right?"

Once, three-year-old Axue longed for maternal love, so she asked eight-year-old Torachiyo for a kiss of affection.

Now that the eight-year-old Axue has already understood the truth, it is naturally impossible for her to do these childish things with the thirteen-year-old Hu Chiyo.

But Torachiyo's brain seemed to be regressing as it grew.

His face instantly revealed disappointment.

"Eh? Axue has grown up. It seems that Senior Brother is no longer Axue's family. After all, Axue is no longer a child. Ah, it turns out that Senior Brother is the only one who still remembers the promise we made..."

Facing the ambiguity of her senior brother, Tiger Chiyo, Axue silently delivered the fatal blow—

"Brother, you said it yourself at the beginning. This kind of kiss is only for this one time."

"Uh."

Torachiyo's face froze.

I didn't expect the boomerang to be so powerful.

It flew for five years and finally circled back to Torachiyo himself, leaving him with a black eye and a swollen face.

However, Torachiyo soon came up with a solution. He rolled his eyes and quickly explained, "That means it's just a one-time kiss, not a kiss on the cheek!!!"

"............."

Axue was speechless for a moment.

No matter what, such a ridiculous thing as kissing should not happen between their fellow disciples.

But Torachiyo's demands are becoming more and more excessive day by day.

Axue could see that the color rising from Torachiyo's body was no longer bright pink.

Instead, it is a charming pink color that burns like a flame.

Axue had only seen this extremely strong color on her senior brother Hu Chiyo.

This also made Axue sigh——

Senior brother is truly a man with an ice-cold exterior and a fire-like heart.

"I have to hurry up and give a lecture to the pilgrims later, so forget it, Brother..."

Just as Axue tried to evade the question, Torachiyo immediately asked in a bad mood:

"Are you going to hang out with those unclean women again? Ah Xue, how old are you? Do you really have to preach the scriptures?"

Torachiyo was jealous again.

Senior brother has been so clingy lately.

Whenever she was separated from him for a moment, Tora Chiyo would feel as if ants were crawling all over her body.

Especially when Axue was in charge of chanting scriptures and giving lectures, Hu Chiyo would stand outside the window and stare at the donors listening to the lectures below with her emotionless amber eyes.

Those guys who had just come to Linquan Temple to practice Buddhism were all shocked.

Guigui, has a Buddhist temple been rolled up like this?

The private schools that prepare for civil service exams don’t have such great pressure, so why do they still have class teachers coming to supervise the classes every day?

"Brother, stop messing around. There are many people waiting for me to explain the scriptures."

Axue's words are not an excuse.

Now there are indeed many people who want to listen to Axue, an eight-year-old child, explain the scriptures.

There were not only noble ladies attracted by his handsome and young appearance, but even many common people were moved by the new Buddhism and Taoism that Axue talked about, and specially made time to listen to Axue's lectures.

It can be said that Axue’s understanding of the scriptures is completely different from the routine rhetoric spoken in most temples.

"No, I must kiss you!"

Torachiyo knew that he couldn't stop Axue from giving the lecture, so he made up his mind and knocked Axue to the ground.

Axue was definitely no match for this senior brother who was born with extraordinary strength. In an instant, Hu Chiyo held her wrist tightly and pinned her under him.

"Humph."

Torachiyo looked down at Axue who tried to break free but finally gave up helplessly, and hummed a few times with pride.

"Brother, you and I are both monks, we should abide by the rules!"

Axue is still making her last struggle.

"Aren't we a family?"

Torachiyo was like a big cat that had finally caught its prey, his eyes flashing with desire as he blinked. If he had a tail now, it would have been shaking with excitement.

"...Hey, you can only kiss the cheek?"

After getting Axue's tacit consent, Hu Chiyo quickly moved his face closer, buried it in the monk's neck and began to sniff greedily.

"What are you doing again..."

"Replenish Axue's energy."

Torachiyo leaned lazily in Axue's arms, her eyes half-closed comfortably, rubbing his face and purring with satisfaction from time to time.

"Brother, are you a cat...?"

"I'm a tiger, huh?"

After replenishing his energy, Torachiyo finally decided to get down to business.

He slowly stuck out his tongue and began to lick Axue's face.

The human tongue is not as rough and scratchy as a cat's tongue, but even though Ah Xue is blind, she still gets goosebumps all over her body!

"Brother! What are you doing?!"

"Kiss."

Torachiyo didn't give too much explanation, but just shamelessly said that he didn't do anything strange.

"Ridiculous!! This is absolutely ridiculous!! Senior Brother!!"

Ah Xue's face flushed with shame, but she finally broke free from her senior brother's restraints and quickly fled into the snow.

The tiger, whose plan had succeeded, lay there licking his lips, staring at Axue's fleeing appearance and said with a smile: "Axue has become more and more adorable recently. I really want to eat him in one bite."

A tiger's stomach can never be filled.

No one who is targeted by Tora Chiyo can escape unscathed.

Before Tora Chiyo could savor the taste in his mouth for long, he suddenly noticed a few more footprints on the snow out of the corner of his eye!

"Young Master!"

Sure enough, the next moment a black-clad ninja appeared from the snow.

"...Are you spying on me?"

Torachiyo's face instantly turned icy cold, and the pair of tiger eyes that had been smiling before suddenly showed murderous intent.

"I dare not! I am only here to convey an important matter!"

The ninja didn't dare admit that he had seen the intimate things between the brothers.

He just knelt on one knee and spoke in a very urgent tone.

And that major event did indeed make Torachiyo's expression freeze——

"The head of the family passed away in the middle of the night yesterday!!!"

That is Torachiyo's biological father.

The treacherous hero Nagao Tamekage of the Warring States Period was finally punished by heaven and died of illness.

Chapter 20 When the Dharma is Extinct

"Namo Amitabha. The Pure Land Sect teaches that by reciting this mantra one can reach the Western Paradise after death."

Axue folded his hands in front of the Buddha statues in the temple hall, sat cross-legged on the cushion and explained Buddhism.

"But what kind of world is the Western Paradise? Can Namo Amitabha really lead everyone to that perfect world?"

"If you have accumulated virtue and done good deeds throughout your life, you can enter the Pure Land by reciting Namo Amitabha. If someone commits a heinous crime and recites Namo Amitabha before being executed, will both of you enter the Pure Land?"

The people below were fascinated by what was being said, waiting for Axue to continue preaching and answering their questions.

"The so-called Western Paradise is nothing more than a world created by the Buddha in our hearts."

Axue twisted the Buddhist beads with her fingers and said calmly.

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