Earth Fire Chapter 51: The Bodhi Tree (4)
[Congratulations to the Chinese Forbidden City team for finding the ancient cultural relics Bodhi Tree!]
“…… We found it. ”
Youmi and Xu Jin were also moved by the sudden surprise and looked up at the Bodhi tree in a daze.
The single leaves of the linden tree are alternate, with petioles, the whole margin is wavy, leathery, triangular ovate, the surface is smooth, the apex is long tail-like and acute, extended into a tail-shaped, the base is broadly wedge-shaped to shallow heart-shaped, the length and width are larger than a palm, the surface is dark green, shiny, and the back is green.
"Oh my God......" Yumi touched the bark with emotion. "It's really zen, isn't it......"
Xu Jin: [+1]
"Why do you use the team channel?" Feng Jianfei asked Xu Jin, as soon as there was new information, the dialog box shook, the Forbidden City team was together almost every day, and rarely used the team channel to chat, this shaking scared Feng Jianfei.
Xu Jin: [You can express your feelings, I feel it, after all, I don't know what to say ^_^]
"This expression is very much like an old-fashioned dead house ......," Yumi complained silently.
Xu Jin: [⊙_⊙]
Lin Hainan: [( ̄∇ ̄)Haha] Lin Hainan also made an expression.
Lin Hainan: [Can you focus on the Bodhi tree? Don't go off topic so easily, okay?]
Feng Jianfei: [You're going to shake me to death (¬_¬)ノ] Feng Jianfei opened the settings and turned off the "new message prompt jitter", but Youmi sent a dynamic emoji, and suddenly a big fat face and the words "666" appeared.
"Scared me. ”
Lin Hainan: [Hey, Bodhi Tree ......]
Yumi: [Brother Lin, I'm also very concerned about this lesson on the Bodhi tree, but we are not animal and plant protection workers...... ╮(╯▽╰)╭】
"That's the case," Lin Hainan stretched out his hand and touched the bark, the bark was smooth and shiny, "This tree looks healthy too." ”
When touching the tree, a transparent screen suddenly pops up: [Tree of Rebirth]
"We didn't have a clue about finding the Eye of Shiva before, but in the end, we can follow the quest prompts. Have you noticed, although the system prompts us to find the linden tree, it does not prompt us to start the repair task? Lin Hainan withdrew his hand and took a step back to look at the Bodhi tree.
"I think our focus needs to be adjusted as well. Yumi looked around the tree, "We say that the Bodhi Tree is the place where the Buddha awakened, also called the Tree of Enlightenment, the Tree of Wisdom, but there has never been a saying called the 'Tree of Rebirth'. Yumi walked back to the team and stood beside Xu Jin, "Our focus is still on the 'Tree of Rebirth'. ”
"Actually, there is a clue ......" Feng Jianfei and Lin Hainan glanced at each other, Lin Hainan nodded, and said slowly, word by word to ensure clarity, and at the same time sent it to the team channel.
"I have the impression that there are four sentences......"
Lin Hainan: [Bodhi fruit on the Bodhi tree,
It's not that blood can't live.
Fairy flower under the linden tree,
Huangquan relied on it to guide the way. 】
"What does that mean?" Yumi wondered.
"This is very different from the traditional image of the linden tree. Xu Jin touched the hair on the back of his head, "I'll look for information." ”
Xu Jin opened the database, and there was a new document lying inside, with a red "1" corner mark.
"Huh?" Xu Jin opened the new information, "There is new information in my database. ”
[Once upon a time, there was a kind-hearted great good man with a beautiful and kind wife, and he also did a lot of good deeds and accumulated a lot of merits, but after the age of twenty, his body became weaker and weaker, and his life gradually declined. He told his wife that he felt his life was running out. One day, when he was studying at home, he suddenly saw a man walking by the window, the man with the Buddha statue, looked at him lightly, he was attracted by the man's face, chased him out, the man led him to the river, and said, "This is the Yellow Spring." ”
The great benevolent man seemed to understand that his life had come and prayed to the Bodhisattva to let him go back and say goodbye to his wife. The Bodhisattva finally sighed softly and said go back, and then disappeared.
When he got home, he told his wife about it, and he told his wife that he wanted to live well and so on, and his wife's eyes were full of sadness and love, and the two snuggled up to each other and said many, many things. At night, in a dream, the Bodhisattva asked him, "You have accumulated a lot of virtue, do you have any requirements?" and he said that he hoped that his wife would still be able to live happily after he died. But the Bodhisattva said, "I can't help you fulfill your wish, you are a good person with good fortune, but unfortunately your life in this life is only twenty-five years." Your wife is a reincarnated fairy, and she loves you so much that she wants you to live past the age of sixty. And your wife has given up her life in this life and has been reincarnated as a tree in exchange for your life. ”
The great benevolent man was very shocked and moved, and when he woke up, his wife was indeed not around, and then disappeared.
He asked the Bodhisattva how he could see his wife, and the Bodhisattva said, "Go and look for it, maybe you can find it." ”
After more than 30 years, he finally saw a tree before he died, but it was a plague of insects, and the tree was thin and small, and it was bitten by insects, and the great good man asked, "Are you my wife?"
The tree was silent for a long time, and finally said, "I'm not." The great good man sighed in regret and fell down under the tree and died.
For 500 years, my wife suffered the pain of making trees, endured wind and rain, could not move, could not speak, but no one of the great goodness found her again. The wife was so sad that she left tears in her eyes. One day, 500 years later, a person suddenly walked up from afar, and it was the person she had always dreamed of. She was so excited that she danced and shook the branches and leaves all over her body, trying to get the man's attention. How she wanted that man to go out into the shade of her tree and rest in the shade. But the man just passed by her and didn't look at her.
She was very disappointed, she was aggrieved. But she was content to see her lover again. That night she saw the Bodhisattva again. The Bodhisattva said that if she still wanted to see that person, she would make a tree for another 500 years, and every 500 years, she could see him. The wife was sad and happy to hear this, and finally agreed.
And just like that, another 500 years. One day, 500 years later, the man came from afar, and this time the wife was not excited, did not shake the branches, but just stood there quietly. The great good man seems to be mentally healthy, for this day, his wife gave up the opportunity to be a man, and made a tree for 1,000 years, endured all the hardships, and broke too many hearts. She had been able to wait with a calm heart for that person to appear. And she saw the man come towards her, and go under the shade of his tree, and sit down peacefully, and sit down for seven days and forty-nine days. In the end, he died under the tree.
When a great good man died, his wife let herself bloom with flowers, and the petals fell on her dead lover, which was the most genuine tenderness of her wife.
The great good man is gone, and the wife is still standing there, never blossoming and bearing fruit, just quietly waiting for the next meeting. 】
“...... Is it because his wife has brought the great good man back to life, that it is called the 'tree of rebirth'?" Yumi copies the information into her own database, conjuring up notes, and writing something carefully.
Feng Jianfei took a step back to look at the whole picture of the Bodhi tree, and combed it while recalling: "The man walked to the Yellow Spring, but the wife exchanged her life for a man, and then made a tree, and has been waiting. ”
"This legend is still not quite the same as the traditional one," Lin Hainan walked around the Bodhi tree, "although the role is very in line with the traditional cultural image, but it has always been said that the education of people is a good Buddha, and the Bodhisattva here gives people a feeling of evil, and men are one of the main characters of the legend, but there are too few descriptions of men." ”
"And then this wife is not a reincarnated fairy, why don't you have any abilities and spells?" Yumi cares very much about the role of this "wife", "Isn't the Bodhi tree in front of us a wife?"
"Isn't she blooming? Feng Jianfei said lightly.
"I'm not talking about that. Yumi sighed.
Of course, Feng Jianfei knows what Youmi is talking about, the traditional stories that have been circulated in the world will always have a certain truth and the moral that they want to promote, such as the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, advocating love, and Yugong Yishan advocating persistence, but the plot and characters of these stories will be very complete, and the characters may not be full, but they will definitely have outstanding character characteristics. The legend of the Tree of Rebirth is a bit anticlimactic, and in addition to the wife, the character traits of the Bodhisattva and the man are not distinct. "The great good man has done so many good deeds, and the only request he made was that the Bodhisattva refused, tsk. Feng Jianfei shook his head, and sighed twice with a sigh of emotion.
"This legend must have its own special significance," Lin Hainan looked around the Bodhi tree, "and what is the identity of this man? He worked under the tree for forty-nine days, the same time as Shakyamuni woke up under the tree, does this imply anything?"
"The story is so incomplete, and there are too many clues given. "Yumi has been roughly sorted out," There are three main characters, the cause of the story is not the kindness of a man, but the death of a man, and the climax of the story is the encounter between men and women for five hundred years, and the protagonist has met three times in total, with a time span of about 1,006 years. The ending is an open-ended ending. ”
"The cause is the death of a man...... Is it?" Lin Hainan frowned, "But this tree is not called the 'Tree of Love' but the 'Tree of Rebirth', this tree must have her own special abilities, and the legend does not mention it." ”
"It's not that it wasn't mentioned. Feng Jianfei suddenly said in a loud voice: "The last time a man saw the Bodhi tree, and when he died, the Bodhi tree was full of flowers. ”
"You mean?"
"The legend coincides with the poem said in Hainan," Feng Jianfei's expression was serious and serious: "'The fairy flower under the Bodhi tree, Huangquan relies on it to guide the way. You see, when the Bodhi tree blooms, it can point the way to the Yellow Spring, and for whom it will point to the dead. ”
"Then what about the first sentence, 'The Bodhi fruit on the Bodhi tree is not that blood cannot live.'" 'This 'can't live' refers to the Bodhi Fruit, or is it a person? You can be reborn after eating the Bodhi Fruit, right?" Lin Hainan said along Feng Jianfei's train of thought, Feng Jianfei groaned, Xu Jin conducted a new search in the database, Youmi thought about it and just wanted to answer, then heard a gentle female voice:
"Yes. ”
The eyes of the four widened, Lin Hainan, Feng Jianfei and Xu Jin turned their heads to look at Yumi, the only girl present, but Yumi shook her head nervously and waved her hand.
"Are you here to be born again?"
The four members of the Forbidden City team immediately gathered together and looked at the Bodhi tree that was talking.