Ning Chen mustered up the courage to step forward and wanted to meet the beautiful woman. He had been looking for her for a full year and he didn't want to lose this opportunity.
"This lady, I..."
However, just as he opened his mouth, the maid next to him stopped in front of the beautiful woman and said fiercely: "Who are you? I'm warning you, my young lady is already engaged. Don't have any ideas about my young lady, otherwise don't blame me for being rude.
"
engagement.
With a bang, Ning Chen felt as if he was struck by lightning. He was at a loss for a moment. She was already engaged. Why did she get engaged?
Ning Chen asked anxiously: "When will we get married?"
"I want you to take care of it." The maid said angrily, but perhaps in order to make Ning Chen give up, she added, "My lady got engaged during the Mid-Autumn Festival last year, and she will get married in a few months. I think you
Like scholars, you should know what integrity is."
Last year's Mid-Autumn Festival, last year's Mid-Autumn Festival...
Ning Chen felt great grief in his heart. He had been searching for a full year, from the Lantern Festival last year until now, but he still couldn't find it. If he could have found it earlier, maybe...
However it was too late.
At this time, it suddenly started to rain. Ning Chen was heartbroken and turned around silently.
The maid snorted and said, "Miss, it's raining, let's go back."
The beautiful lady nodded, and after walking a few steps, she suddenly turned around and saw Ning Chen walking in the rain, his steps slow, as if he had lost his soul. She couldn't bear it, and said to the maid: "Bier, give this umbrella to me just now
Send that young man to see how pitiful he is."
Bi'er was not happy, but she couldn't win over the young lady, so she had no choice but to catch up with Ning Chen glumly, gave Ning Chen an oil-paper umbrella, and turned around to leave without saying a word.
When Ning Chen came back to his senses, he found that he had an oil-paper umbrella in his arms. He turned around and looked around, only to see misty rain and oil-paper umbrellas passing by on the street. Where was the shadow of the beautiful lady?
From then on, Ning Chen treasured the oil-paper umbrella and began to study hard.
Three years later, he was in high school.
Five years later, he became the prefect, but accidentally learned that the beautiful woman did not live well after getting married. The husband's family suffered changes. Her husband died of illness, leaving only her, her mother-in-law, and her son to depend on each other.
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Although several years have passed, he still keeps the oil-paper umbrella.
After knowing the news, he sent someone to help the beautiful woman secretly, and occasionally took a look at her from a distance.
The beauty whose lanterns were on the Lantern Festival were even more beautiful than Yihe's lanterns. Nowadays, she looked a little more weathered, but in his eyes, she was still the same as before.
There are thousands of flowers in bloom, but none are the same as them.
Unfortunately, that flower does not belong to him.
In the following ten years, he served as an official in many places, and once reached the rank of third-rank official. However, in the end, he did not stay in the capital to live out his old life, but returned to his hometown.
The original beauty has become an old woman, and his hair on the temples has turned white. Only the oil-paper umbrella is still the same as before.
The Lantern Festival is here again.
Ning Chen came to the street, holding an oil-paper umbrella, watching the young people playing, and the vendors passing by, hawking all kinds of eating tricks...
By the river, lanterns lit up and floated along with the river water.
A young man looked ahead, facing a woman across the river... Ning Chen saw it in his eyes, but couldn't help but wonder, could this be another case of asking for something but not getting it?
...
Time goes by.
Ning Chen didn't know how many lives he had experienced, from tribal leader to scholar, to general, to old man... He seemed to be reincarnating, living life after life.
At the beginning, he still remembered Zeng Fanshu and Du Xiao, but then he forgot about them.
Later, I even forgot about the big bird flying in the sky, the black wheel on the ground, the fast running box... these things.
Life after life, he forgot who he was, what he had experienced, and his past and present lives.
I only remember that my name is Ning Chen.
I don’t know how many times I have been reincarnated and how many lives I have experienced.
Ning Chen turned into a young man. He stood on the snowy mountain, holding a three-foot green peak in his hand, and suddenly felt a sense of emotion for no reason: "This world is not worth it."
The world is not worth it.
world......
Suddenly, the young man was stunned. Many blurry pictures flashed through his mind. He murmured to himself: "Who am I? Where am I? Is this the human world?"
I don't know how long it took, but the young man's eyes finally regained their luster. He looked at the three-foot green peak in his hand and slashed a sword in front of him.
Strangely, the void was shattered into pieces and turned into pieces of broken mirrors.
And in the mirror, it is not just young people who are reflected, but also old people, scholars, generals...
"All living beings suffer, but the human world is worth it." The young man said to himself, with a glint in his eyes, "Is this the way of the world? The Buddha said that all living beings suffer, and there are eight sufferings in the world: birth, old age, illness, death, separation from love, and the meeting of resentment and hatred.
If you cannot ask for it, the five yin consciousnesses are strong."
"It turns out that the so-called way of the world is to reenact the eight sufferings in the world."
Wow...
The broken void spread and finally submerged the young man.
When everything shattered and finally returned to nothingness, Ning Chen opened his eyes. In front of him was a cave entrance, just like when he entered the human world.
Ning Chen turned around and looked behind him.
Total darkness.
I can't see Lu Xiao, nor can I see Zeng Fanshu.
"They probably haven't walked out of the human world yet." Ning Chen said to himself, recalling what happened, but found that the memory in his mind was very blurry. It seemed that he had experienced a lot, but he seemed to have experienced nothing at all, but he already understood what the human world was about.
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The so-called human way is to let people experience the eight sufferings in the world.
In the first life, Ning Chen became an infant, that is, birth. After that, he grew up and became the leader of the tribe. He encountered an epidemic, his wife died of illness, and he also died of illness...
These are birth, old age, illness and death, four of the eight sufferings in life.
In the second life, Ning Chen became a scholar and had a classmate, Meng Huai. He hated Meng Huai, but he had to endure his dislike and became an official in the same court as Meng Huai.
That is the meeting of resentment and hatred among the eight sufferings.
In his third life, he became a general. When his wife was pregnant, he had to rush to the front line and was separated from the one he loved without being allowed to see each other.
This is love parting.
In the fourth life, he became a scholar who loved beautiful women. He met a beautiful woman on the Lantern Festival and fell in love with her at first sight, but he couldn't find her after searching for a year.
When they met again, the other party was already engaged, and even though the other party's husband died later, she still had children, and she was already a court official.
Due to various limitations, in the end I just can’t get what I want.
Finally, he was trapped in the five aggregates of form, feeling, thought, action, and consciousness, and went through countless reincarnations. This is the prosperity of the five yin consciousnesses.
Suffering is not terrible.
The scary thing is that every time you go through reincarnation and every time you experience suffering, some of your original memories will disappear. In the end, you may forget who you are forever and be trapped in the human world.