In fact, exclude those tourists who came to travel purely after watching "Smart Ikkyu".

There are many artists who come here to find inspiration for artistic creation.

Takiichi felt it as soon as he stepped on the long tunnel of red leaves.

It has just entered late March. After leaving the ticket sales office, Takiichi carried a backpack and held the map given to him by Mashiro.

"Excuse me, is this Takiichi-kun?"

Hearing someone calling his name, Hirai Taki jumped at the sight. Could he still meet familiar people here?

He raised his head and looked towards the source of the sound. On the high stone path in front of Takichi, a monk walked down.

The monk was about thirty years old, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, some ordinary gray robes, and his eyes were a little lazy and lifeless.

"Yes...I wonder what you call me?"

Takiichi clasped his hands and bowed slightly. He was never the kind to judge people by their appearance.

The monk walking towards him gave him an inexplicable hazy feeling.

"Shitanabe Munehiro is the deputy abbot here~"

The monk smiled gently and spoke slowly and softly, as if there was some magic that made Takichi relax.

"It turns out to be the abbot, please take care of me..."

Taki's body tensed up. Anyone who encounters such a noble person would probably be in awe.

Before coming to Ikkyu Temple, he used the Internet to search for information about the abbot of Ikkyu Temple and learned that these two people enjoyed a high reputation in the cultural world.

Tanabe Munehiro smiled and stretched out his hand, placed it on Takiichi's wrist and helped him up.

"The management of the temple told me that Taki Kazu-kun submitted an application online for overnight stay at Ikkyu-ji Temple. Now that I have nothing to do, I will act as a guide myself. Do you mind, Taki Kazu-kun?"

Indeed, if there is such a person as a guide, there will be few people in the world who can be more familiar with every sight and thing here than him.

Although he said thank you, the trace of doubt in Hirai Taki's heart was never consumed.

"Of course not...it's just, why did the deputy abbot receive me alone?"

"I used to be a student at the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo."

A brief sentence, but it caused huge waves in Taki Yi's heart.

The University of Tokyo was the school he was currently studying at. What surprised him was that the deputy abbot of Ikkyu Temple in front of him actually studied in the same school as him.

"I understand, it turns out to be the senior."

As if he noticed a change in Takiichi's heart, Tanabe Munehiro smiled, turned his palm to one side, and made a 'please' gesture.

Walking up from the stone staircase on the first floor, the locals and monks in the temple call it the "Red Leaf Tunnel".

There are several stone benches in a small pavilion on the left for monks in the temple or foreign guests to rest.

Every autumn, the red leaves bloom here.

Unfortunately, it was only the end of March, and the red leaves that Takiichi saw were half light red and half green.

"Your tutor at school heard that you were coming here and called me specifically to ask me to take care of you.

The monks in this temple are not as rigid as you think, so just follow your heart and feel free to visit here."

Seeing Takiichi taking out a single-lens camera from the bag behind him and taking pictures of the surrounding scenery in a stylish way, Tanabe Munehiro deliberately walked at a leisurely pace.

"My senior majored in the same subject as me at the University of Tokyo, so why did he come here later and become a host?"

"Takiichi-kun, could it be that you look down on my job?"

There are many ways for people in Sakura country to call themselves, facing different situations and different people.

For example, when Tanabe Munehiro first introduced himself to Takiichi, he used "I", but now that the two of them put aside their status differences and started talking, it became "I".

Perhaps both of them feel that this way can break away from the seriousness and rigidity of the monks themselves and become more people-friendly and modern.

"No... I just feel a little weird..."

Hirai Taki put down the SLR in his hand and turned around to retort.

Of course, as the deputy abbot here, Tanabe Munehiro couldn't possibly get angry just because of this question.

"I heard that Buddhism is a very boring knowledge. Living in this impetuous era, it is difficult for people like me who have stepped out of university to digest this knowledge."

"Taki Kazu-kun asked me this, why don't you ask yourself, didn't Taki Kazu-kun once said at the school's freshman representative speech meeting that when he was a child, he dreamed of opening a hot spring hotel.

Every day I sit in the yard with the people I like, feed the goldfish in the pond, entertain guests, and clean the house. What's the difference between this ordinary life and me being an abbot here?"

Looking at the birds flying around in the woods not far away, Tanabe Munehiro took out a handful of bird food from the bag he was carrying and sprinkled it on the ground.

Hua Hua Hua....

In an instant, the birds that were originally perching on the trees all flew down the branches, and some even landed on Munehiro Tanabe's shoulders.

To Takiichi, the image of one person and one bird being intimate was very magical, so he directly picked up a single camera and took a picture of the scene in front of him.

"Senior, what you want to say is that no matter what time, people should follow their own heart, and there is no distinction between high and low professions, right?"

"It should be so, but Takiichi-kun should understand that under the appearance of lofty ideals, they are supported by ordinary life."

Tanabe Munehiro grabbed a handful of bird food and gave it to Taki, and the two simply stood on the path and fed the birds.

"Only those who cannot be satisfied will look for a higher platform, but those who want to live a mediocre life do not necessarily have no pursuit.

Or maybe, from the beginning, they had made plans for their future."

Purifying himself in the ordinary way, Takiichi heard this meaning from Tanabe Munehiro's words, and he burst out laughing.

Indeed, thinking about it this way, he does not necessarily have to try to understand other people's lives. Everyone's choices are different.

Just like before, he, a student at the University of Tokyo, never wavered until his relationship with that girl changed.

From other people's perspective, everyone who can enter this university is a proud one.

They were proud of being top academics and unwilling to be mediocre, but they turned out to be a freak like Takichi Hirai.

I don't like the hustle and bustle of big cities, but would rather live in Sanshanmu Village, a small village in the countryside that can't be more remote.

"Senior's words made me understand something?"

"What's the point?"

"For people who come from the Faculty of Law, the skill of talking is the basic thing."

The two looked at each other and smiled. Tanabe Munehiro raised his finger and pointed at Takiichi without making any sound for a long time.

Obviously, if a person studying law does not rely on a eloquent mouth, how can he win a lawsuit?

After walking for a while, Takiichi suddenly stopped.

His eyes fell on a small house on the right side of his body, and he saw the words written on the wooden sign above.

Takiichi wanted to raise his SLR, but he felt it was too rude, so he put it away.

"This is the cemetery of Zen Master Ikkyu."

This place is only a dozen meters away from Takiichi after he came in from the main entrance.
Chapter completed!