When the old woman saw that they were strangers, she continued to introduce them to them: "This bell is a divine bell. Passed down from ancestors, it is said that a woman once came to the temple to pray for blessings, but her husband had not returned from guarding the frontier for many years, and there was no news of him, and his life and death were uncertain. Later, the abbot asked her to write her wish on yellow sheet paper, and after doing so, she pasted it on the big bell, and then asked her to ring the bell. Miraculously, three days later, her husband returned home and never left. ”

"Is there such a god?" Wen Tingkai didn't seem to believe it.

The old woman smiled and said, "Pray for God to worship incense, and sincerity will lead to spirituality." We ordinary people, but we just want to have hope in our hearts. ”

Xu Bo also heard the old woman's words, and was especially puzzled by the 'sincerity of the heart', so he asked: "Childe, what is the sincerity of the heart?"

Chu Yi didn't expect him to ask such a question that tortured the soul, so he had to answer stiffly: "There is nothing difficult in the world, but I am afraid of people with hearts." As long as there is a firm belief and a correct attitude, the wish will come true, which is sincerity and spirit. ”

Xu Bo nodded, then looked at the golden bell and fell into deep thought.

Chu Yi saw that he was thinking, so he chatted with the old woman about some anecdotes about Xianfu Temple.

After about a cup of tea, Xu Bo suddenly woke up and said to Chu Yi: "Childe, I understand." ”

"What do you understand?"

Xu Bo said indifferently: "A person, even if he is in the gutter, must look up at the starry sky." Because, the distant starlight is an inextinguishable lamp in life. ”

When the old woman heard this, she looked at Xu Bo and said meaningfully: "It seems that a monk has hair, and it seems to be vulgar and dustless." Dream within a dream, see the body outside the body. ”

Chu Yi's heart trembled suddenly, looking at the old woman, where was this person's figure.

"Big brother, what's wrong with you?" Wen Tingkai asked kindly when he saw his strange expression.

Chu Yi frowned and said, "Before, there were only the three of us here?"

Wen Tingkai looked puzzled and said, "Yes, what's wrong?"

Chu Yi looked at Xu Bo, Xu Bo glanced at him and didn't speak.

Chu Yi smiled bitterly a few times and said, "Let's go to the Yanming Tower to have a look." ”

Just as he was about to turn around and leave, the seventh-level floating tower in his body suddenly had a slight movement.

Immediately afterward, he seemed to hear the ancient desolate bells echoing in his ears. The sound of the bell seems to make people forget all mundane things, and quiet a restless heart, sit quietly in front of the stream, listen to the flowing water, and watch the clouds roll in the distance.

The first three floors of the seventh-level floating tower opened, there was a golden light. With the ringing of the bell, the sound of Buddhist chanting can be faintly heard.

In a trance, traversing thousands of mountains and rivers, Chu Yi suddenly fell down at a mountain gate.

Looking up, the red mountain gate stands majestically.

In the middle of the gate, the inscription is "Ethereal Shore" three big characters, and the font is strong and elegant.

"Ethereal Shore, I'm not in Xianfu Temple, how can I be here?" Chu Yi wondered.

Although Chu Yi didn't know where he was, there were bursts of Sanskrit sounds in front of him, attracting him to move forward step by step. After walking through a long snake side road, you will enter the ancient temple.

The sky is ancient and lush. Everywhere is life, everywhere is desolation.

In the main hall in front, the sound of wooden fish suddenly sounded, followed by the sound of Lang Lang's chanting.

Chu Yi didn't know when, walked to the door of the main hall, looked up, the expression on the face of the Buddha statue in the middle was lifelike, and there was a bubbling spiritual spring in front of the Buddha statue, clear as a mirror.

And the incense that was clearly extinguished in the hall was like the open eyes of the Buddha looking at batches of good men and women.

At this moment, a figure suddenly walked out of the courtyard gate, a scholar in a white shirt.

He held a folding fan in his hand, his eyes were far and deep, he looked at Chu Yi, and said to himself: "Reverse the waves, and the fall is clear." Fortunately, the boat is late, and I have to go through it to the fullest.

The ethereal glow is steep, and the maple is hidden and steep. Youth is still selfless, and the day is also biased. It can make the camp live in my home, and finally support the long howl. The miasma is not enough to worry about, and the soldiers are full of soldiers. Leave a grudge to the person, and be ashamed of the master. Return to the sail to covet the extension, and the best place to receive its essentials. ”

Chu Yi didn't understand the true connotation of this poem, but he could still hear it between the lines that the person who wrote the poem was resentful of the broken world and Huai Cai, and he was also full of hope to have a piece of pure land on earth to talk about comfort.

Just when Chu Yi was out of his mind, a middle-aged monk in a robe suddenly walked out behind the man in white, and said slowly: "The urn is full of wine, and there is a silent piano on the knee." The sages are lonely, and they are alone. Donor, emptiness is the universe, the spirit is the stretch, the Elysium is the other side, the back is the shore, may all the kings embrace the hundred rivers to be compatible, there is no Amitabha Buddha in the south. ”

The man in white smiled slightly, but said, "Your shore is the shore, and my shore is not the shore?"

The middle-aged monk was taken aback, turned his head, and looked at Chu Yi outside the door of the main hall, as if he was surprised.

Suddenly, Chu Yi came back to his senses, looked at the monk who suddenly appeared, and gasped.

Because the monk is exactly the same as the man in white, except that one is a scholar and the other is a monk.

The middle-aged monk looked Chu Yi up and down, and said, "I don't know who the donor is, where he came from, and where is he going?"

Chu Yi looked stunned and didn't know how to talk.

He couldn't figure out whether he was in the real world or in the imaginary world, but what was happening in front of him seemed to be real, but he couldn't be sure.

"Master, your question is a little abrupt. As the saying goes, people's hearts are like mirrors, shining on mountains is mountains, and shining on water is water. But because of the ignorance of the world, or the dust stained, what you see in the mirror is unrecognizable. Who is it, who is not it, who can say it clearly, and the way is clear?"

The middle-aged monk smiled and said, "Great wisdom is idle, indifferent to life." The real machine is silent, free in silence. The Three Realms are empty and a hundred are governed, and the six roots are quiet and a thousand are poor. If the heart is quiet, it will be alone, and if the heart is present, everything will be clear. The hearts of all living beings are ordinary hearts, that is, they are dyed by floating dust, and there is the heart of color. All things are pure, the colors are clean, and the Buddha nature is revealed. When the mind has Buddha nature, we know the past and the future. ”

Immediately, his eyes moved away from Chu Yi, looked at the sky and ancient trees in the courtyard, and said in a low voice: "Where you come from, go back." As for who it is, it is still necessary to ask. ”

I saw that the middle-aged monk's robe waved lightly, not taking away a cloud.

Chu Yi only felt that for a moment in front of him, the whole person flew out of the ethereal shore, and when he looked down, there was already a rolling river below.

"Big brother, big brother, what's wrong with you?" Wen Tingkai shouted a few times, but Chu Yi didn't react.

Suddenly, Chu Yi's body trembled, his eyes stared at the golden giant bell, and his eyes changed from doubts to clarity: "It's okay." It's just remembering some of the past. ”

Wen Tingkai saw that he was back to normal, and he didn't ask any more questions, so he said, "Then let's go to Yanming Tower to have a look." ”

Chu Yi nodded, walked out of the Bell and Drum Tower, and turned his head to look at the giant bell again, his eyes full of doubts.

The scene when he just entered the ethereal shore, the faces and expressions of the middle-aged scholars and monks, as well as the words they said, seemed to be engraved in their minds, vivid, and unforgettable.

Chu Yi didn't expect that there would be such an adventure on this trip.

It's just that he doesn't know whether this adventure is good or bad for him.

What is the Ethereal Shore?

Who are the middle-aged scholar and the middle-aged monk? Why are they the same person, are they twins?

The sentence "People's hearts are like mirrors, shining on mountains is mountains, and shining on water is water." But because of the ignorance of the world, or the dust stained, what he saw in the mirror was unrecognizable" like a pebble, smashing into the lake in his heart, causing ripples.

Yanming Pagoda is located in the mountain behind Xianfu Temple, with a height of thirteen. The tower base is the tower body, and the bottom of the tower body is higher.

The height of the second floor and above decreases step by step, so at a glance, the outline of the Yanming Tower presents a tower-shaped beauty, and the upright and exquisite scroll brake.

Under the careful look, the tower body is single-walled, the tower is hollow, the tower body is stacked astringent eaves, the tower body is brick-laying out of the eaves, the eaves are stacked with astringent bricks, between the water chestnut teeth, the eaves of each layer on the surface of the tower are built with oblique tooth bricks.

The north and south sides of the bottom floor of the tower each open a coupon door, bluestone door phase. The door frame is covered with exquisite line carvings, especially the lintel engraved with the image of celestial and human offerings, which is extremely rare.

The south ticket door is engraved with "Wanhui Dipping Grace", and the north ticket door is engraved with "the only way".