Tian Xiaozhen's major was completely wrong with what Zhou Tong said, although in order to do this project with the teacher, she temporarily read a lot of books about Tibetan Buddhism, but it didn't seem to be very useful, so she had to ask with a red face at the moment: "Senior brother, what do you mean? Can we still go out?"

"In Tibetan Esoteric thought, the five basic elements of earth, water, fire, wind, and air can form a world, and Mount Meru is the sacred mountain where the Buddha lived, and is known as the center of the world. Tantra combines the nine mountains, eight seas, and four continents centered on Mount Meru, plus the sun and moon that are constantly rotating overhead, to form a world known as the Sumeru world. And we are now in a small world of Sumeru preserved in a mirror. As for those who can't get out......" Zhou Tong said with some embarrassment, "I'm afraid I'll have to find an exit." ”

Thinking of the previous incident, Tian Xiaozhen said with annoyance: "It's all my fault, if only I didn't recite the incantation indiscriminately." ”

"I don't blame you. Zhou Tong comforted, "No one expected this." ”

Tian Xiaozhen was still very sad, she asked, "Then senior brother, what should we do now?"

"Let's go up the hill first. Zhou Tong said, "Since when we were pulled into this small world of Sumeru, we were allowed to fall into the pilgrimage procession, there must be a reason, so we followed the pilgrimage team to the Buddhist temple." ”

"Good. Tian Xiaozhen nodded hurriedly, and she cheered up to follow Zhou Tong's footsteps.

Zhou Tong suddenly stopped, his eyes fell on the person next to him, looked at it for a long time, and then asked in disbelief: "Ling Yuan, look at this person, is it me?"

Ling Yuan looked at it, frowned, and said, "It looks exactly like you." ”

The man was wearing a coarse cloth dress, the patches were tattered, unkempt, although his facial features looked exactly the same as Zhou Tong, but his skin was a waxy yellow that had been blown by the wind for a long time, and the whole person also showed a strange thin and sick state.

He was in the midst of the pilgrimage, and after walking three steps, he stopped and kowtowed to the temple on the high mountain, and behaved reverently, without squinting, as if he had not seen Zhou Tong and them at all.

Zhou Tong glanced casually through the crowd again and found a person who looked like Ling Yuan.

Zhou Tong looked at the man and smiled helplessly and said: "This person looks like you, you look at him, everyone else is pious, he frowns all day long, and his expression of bitterness and hatred is like you." ”

Ling Yuan: "??? "Where am I bitter and bitter??"

Seeing that there were two people who looked very similar to them, Tian Xiaozhen asked curiously, "What about me, senior brother?"

"Not yet. Zhou Tong laughed and teased her, "Maybe not." ”

Tian Xiaozhen looked regretful.

Zhou Tong said: "I feel that they can't see us, otherwise how could they not react at all, it is too pious to say that they are pious, right?"

Hearing this, Ling Yuan walked up to a person and stopped in front of him, the man glanced up at Ling Yuan, then turned around and bypassed Ling Yuan without saying anything, and continued to walk all the way on the pilgrimage road without hesitation.

Zhou Tong: "...... The great power of faith. ”

No longer stranded, Zhou Tong picked up the backpack that Tian Xiaozhen hooked and brought with him from the ground, opened the backpack and looked at it, the little puppet cat was so big that it fell asleep, Zhou Tong smiled helplessly, and then pulled the zipper of the backpack, and said, "Don't talk about this, go up the mountain and take a look, I don't know what age this is, don't treat us as a cult." ”

A few people walked on the side of the stone wall, along the edge of the procession all the way up the hill.

When I reached the top of the mountain, the trace of Buddha second appeared in front of me.

You can see the top of the Buddhist temple in the distance, and when you get closer, you realize that it is not a Buddhist temple, but a stupa.

In front of the stupa stood many pilgrims who folded their hands and closed their eyes to face the golden body of the Buddha statue on the stupa, reciting Buddhist scriptures with devotion to the Buddha.

Zhou Tong walked around from the side, looked at the pagoda, and said, "It turns out that a senior monk is holding a tower burial here today. ”

Zhou Tong explained: "Pagoda burial is the most common burial method for Tibetan monks. The top of the pagoda is composed of leaves, the sun and the moon, which symbolize emptiness, and below it is an umbrella representing the wind, and then there is a cone supporting the wind and the void, which represents fire, and from both sides of the umbrella is a multicolored cloth ribbon hanging down as an ornament. Zhou Tong pointed to the two ribbons fluttering in the wind, and said, "The Buddha shrine is placed in the center, wrapped by a circular part representing water, placed on a rectangular part representing earth, and further down are the four steps and the statues carved into the sacred lion and Dharma treatise that protect the Dharma, and at the bottom are the moon rings and lotus platforms." ”

Tian Xiaozhen nodded after listening, still a little confused, she didn't know what to do now, she had to look at Zhou Tong and wait for Zhou Tong's instructions.

Zhou Tong said: "It's rare to have a chance to see the tower burial, let's take a look, maybe this Sumeru realm will let us leave after the tower burial is over, I can't say." However, it shouldn't have any effect on us, so it's just a dream. ”

Tian Xiaozhen felt a lot more relieved, standing aside and quietly watching the entire burial ceremony.

The senior disciple of the senior monk walked out of the pagoda, and in an instant, all the believers present stopped chanting the Buddhist scriptures and listened respectfully to the teachings of the senior disciple. He folded his hands, made a Buddhist prostration, and began to chant the Buddhist scriptures.

Tian Xiaozhen listened drowsily, and when she heard the words, she jumped out of her ears as they were, and secretly turned her head to look, Zhou Tong listened with relish, frowning and letting go from time to time, as if she had gained enlightenment, and when she looked at Ling Yuan again, she was also listening very attentively, and she couldn't take her eyes off it, and kept looking at the big disciple standing on the stupa.

An hour later, the eldest disciple finished reciting the Buddhist scriptures and performed the Buddha ritual again, which only mentioned the life of the high monk a little, but he did not see the sadness on his face, saying that the master sat down and left, obtained perfection, and persuaded all sentient beings to practice Buddhism diligently and ascend to the Elysium as soon as possible.

Zhou Tong listened to it as if he was in a different world, and said: "Buddhism is vast, and I feel completely new after listening to Zen for only an hour." ”

There seemed to be something arched in the backpack, Zhou Tong opened the schoolbag, the little puppet cat woke up, probably hungry, and meowed at him twice, Zhou Tong didn't expect to be suddenly sent to this Sumeru world, and there was nothing in his hand to feed the little puppet cat.

At this moment, a strong light suddenly emanated from the tower bottle where the corpse of the monk was placed, and the glow flickered like a dazzling morning sun, and the light gradually converged to the center, and actually gathered into a pillar of light like a spotlight, forming a bridge of light between Zhou Tong and the corpse.

In an instant, all eyes were on here, and the eldest disciple looked at Zhou Tong in amazement.

Zhou Tong: "......"

He suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly shouted, "There is a lover!"

The Tibetan Esoteric divides the state of life into sentient beings and unsentient beings, and sentient beings refer to sentient beings.

Zhou Tong looked left and right, he was already surrounded by those believers, and when the senior disciples of the senior monk hurried down, those people knelt down in front of Zhou Tong and bowed their whole bodies.

The eldest disciple gasped, and when he saw Zhou Tongshi, all the sadness and joy before he saw it all disappeared, he folded his hands, performed a Buddha salute in front of Zhou Tong, and bowed: "Master is reincarnated." ”

Zhou Tong: "......"

This is a big misunderstanding.

He looked down at the little doll cat curled up in the bag, and felt that this matter must have something to do with it, but the little doll cat's innocent appearance and innocent winks at him really made Zhou Tong unable to do it......

Forget it, these monks won't embarrass him after all.

Zhou Tong was afraid of causing a deeper misunderstanding, so he hurriedly returned to his own etiquette and said: "If you strayed into this place, you will look at Haihan." ”

The other party was obviously unwilling to listen to him, and looked at him earnestly and enthusiastically, "Master has entered the cycle of reincarnation and continued to preach the Dharma of cause and effect with an illusion body instead of him, and I implore Master to continue to give us the truth." ”

Zhou Tong spoke Mandarin but the other party understood, I don't know what's going on, there doesn't seem to be any barriers and boundaries here, they are obviously completely out of place with the people around them, but these people don't realize anything wrong.

Seeing that Zhou Tong refused to admit it, the monk knelt down in front of Zhou Tong, and also made a full-body bow with the others, Zhou Tong hurriedly squatted down to help him up, and said: "There are many desires and hopes in the world, I have joy, troubles, pain and sorrow, I can't enter the Buddha." ”

"By cultivating the Buddha, you can retreat from yourself, and if you don't stop there, you won't be suffering. ”

"Yes. Zhou Tong followed his words, "The master also knows that living is the pain caused by attachment, and if you want to cultivate the Buddha, you can't do it, so why should the master be attached to me?"

"......" The monk was forced to be speechless by Zhou Tong's rhetorical question, and finally lowered his head and said, "What Master taught is that the disciple's cultivation is not enough, and I hope that Master can give more guidance." ”

Gotcha, go around again.

Seeing that Zhou Tong stopped talking, the monk made it clear that he refused to go with him, so he changed his words and said, "It's getting late, please ask the master to move to the temple." ”

Zhou Tong looked at this group of believers with great difficulty, but it was indeed as the monk said, seeing that the sky was getting dark, and there was a little milk cat in his bag waiting to be fed, Tian Xiaozhen was a girl, and she couldn't suffer much, so she had to say: "Then it's troublesome master." ”

"Don't dare. The monk said with trepidation.

A crowd of people surrounded Zhou Tong and they went to the temple in the mountains.

The monk has been asking about the Dharma on the side, and Zhou Tong can only politely respond to one or two sentences, but the other party's expression of joy at being taught made Zhou Tong very embarrassed, and in the end, he simply prevaricated without understanding the words.

The temple is on the other side of the mountain, and from the side of the pagoda, you will see the temple after another hour's walk.

Zhou Tong's story spread all over the Buddhist temple, and there was no worship of ordinary believers, but there was more worship of lamas in the whole temple, and Zhou Tong always felt that there were people staring at him everywhere.

The temple prepared a meal, Zhou Tong was treated as a guest and placed at the front, and the whole hall was silent, not even the sound of chopsticks touching the wall of the bowl.

Tian Xiaozhen was so depressed that she looked constipated, and hurriedly finished eating the meal and hurried out to breathe. Zhou Tong also wanted to go out to breathe, but every move was watched by a crowd, which was terrible.

Ling Yuan saw that he didn't move his chopsticks much, and sandwiched a few dishes that Zhou Tong had eaten in his bowl, and this small action attracted a group of monks to watch.

Their eyes fell on Zhou Tong's face and looked at Ling Yuan again.

Ling Yuan's long hair was draped over his shoulders, and he was eating expressionlessly, he didn't care about the gazes of these people at all, but his natural quality made his demeanor and demeanor nowhere to be picky.

The monks' gazes wandered between the two for a moment, their eyes revealing suspicion, and even the monks who had invited Zhou Tong to the temple were very surprised, staring at Ling Yuan's face for a long time.

Zhou Tong hurriedly finished his meal and got up to leave, when several monks immediately stood up and asked, "Is Master going to sit in meditation?"

“…… No. Zhou Tong said speechlessly, "I'm just going to go for a walk." ”

The monks looked dazed: "......"

What does it mean to wander around?

Zhou Tong quickly walked out of the cafeteria without waiting for them to respond, and Ling Yuan also put down the dishes and chopsticks and walked out after Zhou Tong.

When he got out of the room and breathed in the fresh air, Zhou Tongcai took a deep breath and exhaled heavily, and said, "It's really terrible." ”

Ling Yuan said, "I thought that the entry point for leaving here would be the corpse stored in the tower, but I didn't feel any qi surging there. ”

Zhou Tong didn't answer Ling Yuan's question directly, but instead asked, "Why do you say we were brought here? The owner of this bronze mirror is Yixi Tsogyal, but this is not like her world. Zhou Tong has been thinking about this question, he has always wondered what it means to be sealed in the Sumeru world in the zài mirror, it is calm and peaceful here, there is nothing else except for the death of a high monk, what is the need to be sealed zài bronze mirror?

Ling Yuan didn't care about these processes, he only cared about how to get out, since Zhou Tong didn't like it, there was no need to stay any longer, but Zhou Tong asked so, he must have curiosity about this place, Ling Yuan asked, "You don't want to go out?"

"Absolutely. Zhou Tong joked with a smile, "This place is not for me, I am a person who is used to living a quiet life." ”

"Then don't worry about it. Ling Yuan said, "Just find a way to get out." ”

"That being said," Zhou Tong said...... "but I'm always curious." ”

The grass moved, Zhou Tong followed the sound, Ling Yuan simply shot a breath, blowing up the weeds, and an unkempt girl fell out from behind the grass, her big misty eyes blinked, and the bread stuffed in her mouth made him unable to speak, looking at Zhou Tong with a worried expression.

She thought for a while, didn't take the bread away but swallowed it quickly, and said with a dirty face: "I don't think you look like monks, let's just don't see each other today, can you say okay?"

Zhou Tong was amused by her expression and said, "You also eat the things in the temple, you don't believe in Buddhism?"

"Letter. After the girl finished speaking, she also performed a Buddha salute, licked her lips when she straightened her waist, and said, "The Buddha will not bear to watch me starve to death." ”

After finishing speaking, she smiled at Zhou Tong, and then said: "I'll go first, they will find me immediately, goodbye!" After saying that, she immediately jumped into the woods and ran away.

Later, the monk came to ask Zhou Tong to take a bath and rest, and the room assigned to Zhou Tong belonged to the monk who passed away, it stands to reason that the obvious age difference between the two could not recognize Zhou Tong as the reincarnation of the monk, but those monks just recognized the Buddha's light, and believed that Zhou Tong, even if he was not the reincarnation of the monk, was the embodiment of the supreme Buddhism of the monk. When the monk showed Zhou Tong the room, he also introduced it, and even his master was sitting there and passed away.

Fortunately, Zhou Tong was originally dealing with these ghosts, so he was naturally not afraid of these things, if he were someone else, he would probably not be able to sleep well all night.

Soon after the monk left, Zhou Tong sat in the room, looking at the futon that the monk was sitting on when he passed away, and suddenly had an idea.

Since they believe that Zhou Tong is the incarnation of the high monk, then let the high monk come and tell them that they are not.

When she slept until midnight, there was a noisy sound outside, and after Zhou Tong was woken up, he got dressed and went out to see that several monks were grabbing a person and pressing her to the ground.

The man's strength was extremely strong, and the three monks couldn't control it together, and suddenly she drank and hit a monk in the chin with a backhand, knocking the man to the ground heavily.

Zhou Tong couldn't help but congratulate her, stood in the shadows, and watched quietly.

After a while, more and more monks surrounded the place, and it was not until five or six of them were brought to restrain the girl.

The girl was pressed to the ground by the monks, her dirty face was tightly attached to the ground, in the dark, the pair of bright eyes were as bright as stars in the night sky, flashing with a wolf-like wild brilliance, in Zhou Tong's eyes, accustomed to seeing the regular and rigorous life of the monks, suddenly saw the girl's rebellion as if seeing a shining brilliance.

Even then, she didn't give in at all.

Several monks tied up the girl and tied it to a wooden post, and the girl held her head high, looked at the monks, and said, "When the monk was alive, he was compassionate and willing to cross a qiē affection, but after the monk passed away, you were not even willing to cross a lonely little girl." ”

Several monks looked at each other, not knowing how to respond.

One of the monks stood up, the same one who had been hit in the chin by the girl with an elbow earlier, and he said in a vicious tone: "Nonsense! There are evil deeds in the world that have their own evil consequences, and you have committed evil deeds by stealing food from the temple many times in the past few days, and you are only reaping the evil consequences at this moment!"

"Hmph. The girl snorted coldly and said, "I am hungry in my belly, and I begged the monks in the temple to take me in, but you refused." The Buddha Mother will look down on your actions as she does it!"

Someone else stood up, but the tone of his voice was much better, "We are all men in the temple, and some people are uncertain, how can you stay here as a girl." ”

The girl said, "It's ridiculous that I have my heart set on Buddha, but no Buddhist temple is willing to take it in." ”

"The world is big, and everywhere you go is practicing Buddha. ”

"Then why don't you wander?"

The girl was very eloquent, and the monks were speechless, and Zhou Tong was very happy to watch the excitement on the side, and suddenly someone said: "Since there is the incarnation of the master, it is better to let him decide." ”

Zhou Tong: "......"

Someone immediately went to invite Zhou Tong, and Zhou Tong saw that there was no way to avoid it, so he simply stood up and asked, "Do you have a place to sleep tonight?"

The girl shook her head and said, "I have been sleeping in the wilderness for three days with the barren rocks on my pillow. ”

"Hmm. Zhou Tong asked again, "Are you hungry?"

The girl hesitated, then nodded at the end: "Hungry." ”

When Zhou Tong heard this, he asked a monk who looked like a steward: "Is there any extra room in the temple?"

"It's gone. The monk replied, "What does Master mean?"

"That's going to be hard. Zhou Tong said, "Would you like to squeeze a room with me and sleep for one night?"

"I don't mind sleeping outside, of course I don't mind. ”

"Good. Zhou Tong's eyebrows curled and he smiled brightly, he walked over to help the girl untie the rope, and ordered, "Go and prepare some food and water for her." ”

The "Master ......" monks were quite unconvinced.

Zhou Tong looked at them with heavy eyes: "It's troublesome." ”

The monks were silent, but they couldn't disobey Zhou Tong, so they turned their heads, and kept muttering on the road, doubting Zhou Tong's identity, Zhou Tong wished they were suspicious, so he could quickly let him out of here.

The girl entered Zhou Tong's house, and Zhou Tong fetched water for her and said, "Wash your face." ”

"Okay!" the girl walked to the basin with a big fall, took the water and began to wash her face seriously, she wanted to take a bath now, but after all, it was inconvenient, she could see that this person was good to her, but she also understood the truth of moderation.

There was a knock on the door, and Zhou Tong opened the door to see that it was Ling Yuan standing at the door.

Ling Yuan had the moonlight on his back, his face gloomy, as if he was very unhappy.

He asked, "I heard you let a woman sleep in your room?"

"yes. Zhou Tong said, "I saw the girl who stole the cake in the evening." ”

"Oh. Ling Yuan didn't care who it was at all, after he entered the house, the girl just washed her face, and when she turned her head, she revealed a face that was exactly the same as Tian Xiaozhen.

Ling Yuan: "......"

Zhou Tong: "......"

Zhou Tong smiled and said, "Oh, it's really similar to Xiaozhen, if it's not too late, I'll ask her to come and see." ”

"Hey!" the girl grinned widely, and she sat down on the futon and said, "Is there anything else to eat?" starvation, I haven't eaten for two days, and that piece of bread can't fill my stomach at all. ”

"Yes. As soon as Zhou's voice fell, they brought over the food, gruel and bread, and the girl saw it as if she had seen a baby, so she took it and began to eat it.

Zhou Tong handed a piece of jade to the girl and said, "You go and exchange this for money, and see if you can stop living so miserably." ”

"Nope. The girl waved her hand and said, "I came here from far away to practice the Dharma, and the master was a figure I admired when I was alive, but unfortunately I came here to find him dead, but I would love to see the sutras he left behind." It was only then that her gaze fell on the surrounding bookshelves, revealing a strong longing for the first time. She tentatively asked Zhou Tong, "Can I read these books?"

Zhou Tong nodded and said, "As long as you don't break the book." ”

The girl nodded excitedly, washed her hands after eating, walked to the bookshelf reverently, picked up the Buddhist scriptures and looked intently, not even thinking of sitting.

"Let's go. Zhou Tong said, "Let's go to your room." ”

The unhappiness in Ling Yuan's heart disappeared at once, and he responded happily: "Hmm." ”