The courtyard wasn't very big, and Wang Yue kept chanting the same incantation over and over. It was giving Pian Ran, the fox, a headache.
But Tan Tai Jin, Ye Xi Wu, and Chun Tao were out in the courtyard making sparks fly, and Pian Ran had nowhere else to go.
Of two evils, she chose the lesser. In the end, Pian Ran went straight into the main hall and sat on a cushion beside Wang Yue. She figured listening to him chant sutras had to be better than listening to the three of them shriek in surprise outside.
As it turned out, when Pian Ran sat crookedly on the cushion, she realized her head really didn't hurt as much. Before long, she actually began to doze off.
The real reason for this was that Wang Yue didn't believe in Buddhism either. So although the sutras he chanted were powerful, they had no effect on him.
That also meant that the closer someone was to Wang Yue, the less the sutras affected them.
But Ye Xi Wu, Chun Tao, and Tan Tai Jin thought that if even a little fox liked listening to sutras so much, then as Wang Yue's disciples, they ought to study them properly, too.
So the three of them, who hadn't been particularly fond of chanting sutras, gradually got used to the endless drone after Pian Ran arrived.
After Pian Ran came, something else changed, too. Ye Xi Wu had originally gone home once a month to bring delicious food back to Ci Shou Temple.
She couldn't bring meat, but vegetarian dishes could be delicious when prepared well.
But after Pian Ran arrived, Ye Qing Yu began coming almost every day, bringing a whole cartload of food each time. That improved the meals for everyone in