Countless people came and went, incense, alcohol and countless faint warm fragrances diffused between the bamboo curtains, forming a luxurious and soft smell. He drank wine silently at the other end of the small stone table, his expression expressionless.
, his expression was as dull as clear water.
Xie Fanjing looked at the silent face opposite him, which seemed almost transparent under the lamp, and his facial features were also dimmed. Only the eyelashes as thick as crow feathers made the gentle eyes as dark as ink at the moment, like a wisteria frame.
The deep ancient well below.
"You today..." Xie Fanjing lowered his head and his voice reached the other side: "Didn't you go to see her?"
"You bear my life, and I repay your debt. Because of the cause and condition, it will last for hundreds of thousands of kalpas, and it will always be in life and death. In my heart, I pity your color. Because of the cause and condition, it will last for hundreds of thousands of kalpas, and it will always be entangled."
"What?"
"Did Tan Yue hear a story?" Wu Ming did not answer, but held his forehead with both hands, pressing his head which was so painful that it felt like it was going to explode.
Everything in front of him was shaking, and the world was shaking wildly in the whirlpool. At this moment, he just wanted to find someone to talk to. No matter who it was, as long as he sat down and listened to him...
"The story of a bridge." Wu Ming held his forehead and silently twitched the corner of his mouth: "The story of a stone bridge."
Xie Fanjing helped up the small wine bottle that was tilted on its side. She nodded silently and said nothing.
"There was a young and beautiful woman who came from a wealthy family with a rich family fortune and many talents. She lived a good life.
The matchmaker almost broke the threshold of her home, but she never wanted to get married because she felt that she had not yet met the man she really wanted to marry.
Until one day, she went to a temple fair to relax, and saw a young man among the crowd of thousands of people. She just glanced at it and couldn't leave her. She prayed to the Buddha in the morning and evening, and finally moved the Buddha with her devotion, and then the Buddha appeared.
His wish."
Wu Ming said: "The World Honored One said——"
[You have to practice for five hundred years before you can see him again. Will you regret it? 】
[I don’t regret it!] The woman replied with a firm tone,
So the woman turned into stone. She lay in the wilderness for four hundred and ninety-nine years, enduring the wind, the cold and the summer. Finally, in the last year, she was spotted by the quarrying team and chiseled into a stone.
, was attached to the guardrail of the stone bridge. On the day when the stone bridge was completed, the man finally walked across the bridge. He took his wife and children with him, and he was in a hurry, and he didn't notice that there was a stone staring at him intently.
he.
After this glance, the man disappeared again.
【Are you satisfied?】The Buddha asked.
[If I were not the guardrail of the bridge, if I were spread out in the middle of the bridge, I would be able to touch him and touch him. 】
【Don’t you regret it?】
[I don’t regret it!] His tone was still decisive.
[Then you have to continue practicing.] The World-Honored One said.
This time, the woman turned into a tree. She stood on the bustling official road, with countless people coming and going. She waited for a long time, one after another. Unexpectedly, during the long wait, her
My heart actually calmed down, and I was no longer agitated or confused.
On the last day, the man finally came to rest under her canopy. He took a nap with his clothes on for a while. After waking up, he gently stroked the tree trunk and left without looking back.
[Next, do you want to pray to be his wife?] After the man left, the Buddha appeared and spoke.
"That's enough. All this has made me very satisfied." The woman said.
——
"I once told this story to my teacher, and then the teacher told me..."
A dull look like Guanghui slowly appeared on Wu Ming's face:
"He said that men are clinging, and women are egotistical. This is a story that revolves around not being able to get what you want. You can't get what you want, and you can't get it. From the first moment a woman sees a man, she is fascinated by her thoughts and falls into a trap.
Amidst the troubles and obstacles of seeing, hearing, and understanding, all the envy and difficulty in giving up are nothing more than sinking deeper into the troubles and obstacles. The more you cannot seek, the more deeply you will be burdened by the five aggregates and cannot be purified."
"The teacher told me."
Wu Ming clasped his hands together and smiled silently: "This is a story about liberation..."
Let go and you will be free!
If the heart is impure and impure, how can one attain supreme Bodhi and how can one reach the other shore of bliss?
I chant the sound of thunder in my heart at all times, and break all obstacles with the devil-slaying sword. My heart is invincible!
…
The teacher's teachings before going down the mountain are still in my ears. They are rushing left and right in my mind like galloping horses, overturning everything and smashing everything to pieces!
Wu Ming staggered back a few steps on the table, knocking the barnacles and rolling them around a few times. He gently supported the corner of the table with his hands, and let out a hoarse bitter laugh in his throat.
"You didn't go to see her today?" Xie Fanjing was inexplicably sad: "You didn't go."
"No."
"Why?"
"Monks...cannot break the precepts."
"and you……"
Xie Fanjing suddenly raised his head, and his eyes, which had always been dull, suddenly brightened up, looking forward to him. His eyes were full of stars, as clear as the stars in the galaxy after the rain.
"and you……"
Her voice suddenly became urgent, containing an indescribable urgency and hesitation, like the violent river tide that was about to break through the embankment. But before she could finish what she said, the person opposite her was already pushing her.
Like a golden mountain falling over a jade pillar, he collapsed on the small stone table and passed away drunk.
He did not use his true energy to remove the alcohol's power. On the contrary, he deliberately indulged it a bit. For a person who had never drank alcohol, he drank too much and drank too quickly...
Xie Fanjing was stunned, then laughed silently.
"Then do you like her?"
She looked at Wu Ming and said softly in her heart.
There was light on the stone table, a shallow, bright yellow halo. Half of his face was exposed in the light, his eyebrows were lowered, and his eyelashes looked distant and cold under such light. In addition,
Half of his face was covered by the loose monk's robe, and only the corners of his pursed lips could be seen.
There was a pleasant smell of alcohol on his face, a warm and numbing smell, and when it was near, it was like some kind of fragrant floral fragrance.
The heartbeat sounded inexplicably like a drum, and by some strange coincidence, she gently stepped forward.
The fragrant fragrance of flowers enveloped her, and a warm and soft touch came from the corner of her lips. Her face suddenly turned red and hot, as if she had been stung by a swarm of buzzing bees, with a numbing itching and a fine breath.
--Hello.
--do you remember me?"
——We have obviously met before...
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next.
In the large hall, the faces of hundreds of people at the bottom were flushed with excitement. They all looked at the monk in white above them, with undisguised burning eyes.
What is in front of them is a big deal! A deal that is completed, a deal big enough to make their descendants rich and worry-free for three generations!
No one can refuse money and silk, and no one can refuse the opportunity to become a master. The road to heaven is in front of you. Whether you can succeed or not depends on this moment!
"The stone monk slandered the Buddha and the Dharma, and his crime cannot be punished!"
As he stood up, Wu Ming looked around at the people below him, clasped his hands together and said slowly, "He has lived in Lotus Ruins for a long time, and his whereabouts are strange. Now, I would like to ask all the laymen to give me some advice and help me in this grand event of exterminating demons!"
The voice was low, but like a lion's roar, which shocked everyone's heart. Amid the wild responses from the surroundings, Zhang Yan pulled Xie Fanjing, who was watching the scene, over and rubbed her head hard.
"Aren't you going to take a boat ride on the canal and watch the fireworks in Chang'an?" Zhang Yan rubbed her head with a strange look on her face: "Why are you here again to watch the fireworks?"
