In the case of reluctance to break away from modern life, the so-called seclusion is just a state of mind.

Fifteen years ago, when Chen Tiange exercised on this trail, there was almost no one every day. Now, because there are too many morning exercisers going up the mountain, the municipal government has barely staggered the road between two cars. The slope of the hill is carved into a grinning section, and is filled with weeds and shrubs, jagged, like freshly cut hairstyles.

The weather in March and April is not enough for the low herbs to thrive, and the scattered efforts are bubbling up to tender green. To say that it is to climb a mountain is actually to walk along the slope, and there is no leg lift to do the work. Fortunately, it is a forest of pine trees and shrubs, which can be regarded as fresh air.

Chen Tiange didn't dare to run away, like piles of morning exercisers, his eyes wandering around caressed the dew again and again. Years of habitual travel and methods no longer allow him to sweat like everyone else, even if he doesn't stop from the bottom of the mountain to the top of the mountain, he only has a slight fever.

"Xiao Chen is still amazing"

"If you see the sky like this, it will be the same as me for more than ten years"

These few words every day, acquaintances, familiar roads, familiar words. I was tired and bored, so I had to laugh and laugh. A sentence can be repeated thousands of times to fade out of the bird, and you forget what it means when you talk about it, just like that, whatever he says, you will do it.

"21 minutes, it's boring. Chen Tiange looked at his watch and muttered. The average person is forty or fifty minutes away, and even if he presses it again, it won't take half the time.

"The old rules?"

"Old rules" is a bowl of small rice, a plate of shredded potatoes, and a plate of radish pickles. He hasn't changed his breakfast since he came to Changzhi here more than ten years ago, and even the direction of the stool he sat on was the same.

"Brother Tian, why are you going to Digu Temple when you're done?

"I'm also a slanderer, and he doesn't dare to talk to anyone anymore. ”

"Brother Tian, the monk slammed the door. Seeing the sky, people are looking for him to tell fortunes, they are all bosses, and they still ask for money from above to repair the temple. What is he doing with money when he has no children or daughters? How is it like Brother Tian, who has pre-saved 2,000 yuan for eating small rice. ”

"I'm too lazy to pretend to be change, and it's easy to lose change if I'm sloppy. ”

"Hehe" Ergangzi was busy greeting more and more morning exercisers. Chen Tiange also got up and left after eating. You don't have to say hello, it's easier than the children who eat at home. and repeat the days when he ate and waited for death.

Chen Tiange passed by here in 2000 and felt that it was not bad, so he stayed, and there happened to be an interface for buying a house at that time. It's been fifteen years, except for the mountain road of Beiwudang Mountain when I miss it during morning exercises, and I have already regarded it as my ancestral hometown.

I went back a few years ago, the Taoist temple where the incense was flourishing was no longer the tattered appearance it was at the beginning, seventy or eighty brothers were all oily, the Taoist robe was no longer wrapped in the original Taoist heart, and the hand held was no longer the original affection.

The original tortuous and steep road was full of people, moving to the Taoist Temple step by step, even he himself bought a ticket, but it was going home, and at that time I especially understood the taste of Pu Yi going back to the Forbidden City to buy tickets.

"Old Yuan" Chen Tiange didn't care if there was anyone to answer, so he wandered to the backyard. The monk said it was a Zen temple. Chen Tiange's name Yuanzhen has also been corrected many times, and he will no longer be entangled after it is useless. Chen Tiange thinks that he is a monk anyway, it doesn't matter what his surname is, what he calls it. The monk was speechless, and he had to pretend to think that Chen Daoyou's Zen machine was infinite.

Digu Temple is a three-entry quadrangle, except that the gate is open in the middle, the others are not much different from the quadrangle. The main hall is also called the Daxiong Treasure Palace, the Buddha of the past, the Buddha of the present world, the Buddha of the future is crowded like that, tall and majestic, solemn and solemn. It's a pity that the pious laymen surrounded the red curtains and red flags, which is especially festive. The east and west wings, and even the south wings on both sides of the main entrance were also created by Lao Yuan, and inexplicable statues were erected.

"Lao Yuan, I've been blind for a while, and I heard that your Buddhism has Pure Land Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, Mahayana, Hinayana Buddhism, Tantra and something. Which one are you?"

"I'm from the local sect, and I'm different from those who come from outside. It is the same sect as your Taoism, and it belongs to the transfer of the teaching. "Lao Yuan used to be an old man and a poor monk, but later Chen Tiange was no longer old or poor after spitting on his face. Also, if he were really a monk, he wouldn't be thinking about the Book of Changes every day and using the Four Pillars of Bagua to tell fortunes to people.

"Oh, why don't you say you're calling for wind and rain?"

"Can you say that Hongjun Ancestor doesn't exist?"

This really can't be said, Chen Tiange has a Taoist certificate no matter what, and no matter how tired he is with the god on his head, he can't casually talk nonsense about the gods. Although his master only survived in the name of a Taoist priest, he told him that there were gods in his head. What's more, he has always advertised himself as a true Taoist priest in the world, so he is not more real than the fake monks in the temple.

"Brew the tea sent by your apprentice, and let's talk about the explanation, Taoism, and Buddha today. "The only one of Lao Yuan's customers (as Chen Tiange calls it) who opened Q5 was fooled by Lao Yuan into becoming an apprentice. What's even more terrifying is that the apprentice is wearing tea glasses, straightening his short inches, and his face is full of meat, and he actually shakes his head and recites the entire Zhou Yi original text.

With a long period of reluctance, the monk Yuanzhen soaked the monkey kui in the unique order, the real pine cone burned red mud, and the mountain spring was poured verdant. Chen Tiange really liked this taste after dipping it, and it was indeed much better than the big enamel jar and stainless steel thermos cup stuffy tea. Chen Tiange wanted to talk about tea, but he wanted to praise a few words, but he pouted and didn't make a sound. It doesn't matter if you say that everything else is true, you can really be a monk, with a kind face, not shocked or annoyed, but you can't laugh with tea. The tea in his heart is more sacred than the Buddha.

In the morning, from the creation of the Yuan Ling to Chen Tiange, from Sakyamuni to Yuanzhen, the legend resonates with the wild history, and Buddhism and Taoism blend. If it weren't for Chen Tiange rushing to the chess and card room in the community to see if he could make a scene, he would have continued, and the rare few times he was still unsatisfied, this time it would be considered a lot.

"It's time for you to find a woman to partner with, you can't be too late. ”

Chen Tiange was stunned, his steps towards the outside did not fall outward, and the oblique fall was just suitable for his head to look at Yuanzhen with a straight face.

"What's the matter? You are different from me, the second half of my life, the future affairs of the temple and the Buddhist Association. You are alone, you can't go back to the original view, and you can't go back to the vulgar or not. ”

Chen Tiange shook his hand and turned away. It's not that he doesn't want to, it's that no one has adapted to him. Practicing every day, reading books, and walking around in all kinds of stories as a passerby, he feels that he is a cultivator, and no matter how he looks at it, he eats and waits for death.

When Chen Tiange settled down, he bought a house and a shop at the same time, saying that it was not much, and he also had an annual income of three or five hundred thousand yuan. At that time, it was to give myself a guarantee of idleness, and I did have a guarantee of idleness. He doesn't feel that persistent getting ahead is the only thing in life, and it's okay to eat and wait for death. The order of society should be that each person finds his own position and abides by the rules of his own position, so he does not interfere with the life of others, but he can't stop the crowd. Yuanzhen was told from the afterlife, and it is not a disguised statement of general recognition.

Chen Tiange had a marriage, and he was also the first time he came to Changzhi, and he drove a car at the gate of the university campus at night to whistle and snap his fingers. At that time, he was soaked in impetuousness, and the experience after going down the mountain made him lost, although he had the idea of cultivating his nature, he was reluctant to prosper, probing in the wandering, trying to find his own way of living.

It's ridiculous that he hasn't met a girl who knocks on the car window and calls the big brother, so that way to pass the boredom can only be an interlude after all. On a snowy night, Chen Tiange, who was curled up in the driver's seat and woke up, started the car in a daze and knocked down a girl. Later, Chen Tiange married her, then had a daughter, then she went to graduate school, then she took her daughter away, and then Chen Tiange went out to visit her daughter once a year.

Chen Tiange didn't expect his daughter to support him to the end of his life, and he could see from his daughter's eyes that she was just as disdainful as her mother and waiting for death. From the attitude of the daughter, it can be seen that he is more upbringing and etiquette as a father, and not even as close as a stepfather. Chen Tiange enjoyed the taste of others sleeping with his wife and letting his daughter call him father, because it was inconvenient to visit his daughter without a car, he directly bought a car in his daughter's name, and even bought a house. In addition to decent etiquette is heavy work and study, looking at the lives of his ex-wife, husband and wife and daughter, Chen Tiange knows that it is not the life he wants to live.

The partner again was a woman who accompanied Chen Tiange to eat and wait for death, introduced by a card friend. Messy housework, lazy cooking, chaotic routines and endless luxury. It's Chen Tiange who can't stand it anymore. threw out a million to get rid of the time of serving people, and never thought about finding a partner with him.

Chen Tiange is waiting for death, but what he does is to let himself wait for death for a very long time. The fists and feet that have never been put down every day, the plain and natural mentality, the regular and orderly work and rest, and a lot of reading every day. He is determined to be a tasteful person waiting for the dead, a person waiting for the dead with rich connotations, not a body.