The starry night doubled the road, rushed to the east of Putuo Mountain, outside the purple bamboo forest, I pressed the sword light, looked at the sky was late, but my heart hesitated. Zhu Xuan ignored it all, stood on his heels and went to call the door, startling a group of birds perched on the trees nearby.

I didn't expect Zhu Xuan to act more eagerly than me this time. I said, I'm afraid it's rude to visit at this hour, and if no one answers your greeting, we can stay until dawn and ask for another visit. Zhu Xuan smiled without saying a word, and glanced at the bamboo forest. A gust of wind was sent from the bamboo fences, and the mist in the dense forest dissipated with the wind, and the bamboos quietly retreated to both sides, revealing a stone path that could accommodate two people walking side by side. I saw a brown-clothed boy with tied hair walking quickly in the forest, carrying a lantern, with a guilty face, walked up to the two of us and bowed his head, and said, "Uncle Shi ordered me to wait for the two immortal chiefs here, and I don't want to sleep and make mistakes......

Zhu Xuan interrupted him and said with a smile: "You fell asleep in the second watch?" Why doesn't your drowsiness get better? No wonder he had to do the vigil. ”

The boy looked quite annoyed: "Back then, he was greedy for wine, and he secretly drank and drunk at the Huixian feast. Master Meng did not give up, and punished me to guard the anther bar here, which is also the way to cure this demonic obstacle. ”

Zhu Xuan pointed at the boy and smiled at me: "Don't be deceived by the way he looks like he is walking on thin ice right now." His name is Shui Zhongwu, nicknamed the Golden Retriever Lion, and he was already a powerful character in the side door before he was under the disciple of Master Puzhi of Yaoshan Mountain. ”

The shame on the water's face deepened, and he said, "The Taoist is laughing."

Zhu Xuan smiled again: "He also has a senior brother named Yue Zaitian." These two people are years and years old, you don't accept me, I don't accept you, and they often fight so much. Later, he was surrendered by the Miao Lianhua Shenni in the East China Sea, and the original person who was extremely casual and nonsensical is now cultivating the Vinaya Sect, and he is really brave. Speaking of which, I don't know how your brother has been entering the country recently? ”

Shui Zhong did not reply: "Before I received the punishment here, my senior brother had chosen a cave in Zhongnan Mountain to retreat. ”

Listening to these two people talk as old acquaintances, chatting all the way, passing through the sandwich road to repair bamboo, stepping across the shallow stream stone bridge, and then came to the outside of a bamboo hermitage, with a large cyan bamboo piece hanging on the door. There were no lanterns removed from the water, the moonlight was cool, and the surrounding courtyard seemed brighter than before. When I looked up, the large piece of bamboo on the door was gone, replaced by a jade plaque, on which the words "Qianrushi" were carved in yang script along the natural lines of jade. Shui Zhongwu stepped forward to push open the bamboo door, made a gesture to invite in, and said, "Please go in first, use some refreshments, and rest for a while." The day before yesterday, the master went to the Anutda Spring to fetch water, and he expected to be able to come back tonight when the children and ugliness intersected. ”

"Don't you bother to entertain here, go quickly, and bring your uncle's best tea."

I just hoped that Miao Lianhua Shenni would come back soon, and I was in no mood to pay attention to the rest of the things, so I took the tea cup that was not in the water and put it aside, and then closed my eyes to recuperate.

"I often hear that the peony is planted all over the Yaoshan Temple, in spring and summer, each hall, the nunnery is like floating on the sea of flowers and clouds, the scenery is strange, among the flowers, especially a few golden wheel peony on the dripping rock side is the rarest. However, although the soil cultivates a hundred herbs, most of the herbs that can be seen are usually grass and peony, and there are no treasures to grow. A few days ago, the apprentice of the old man Hong came to this mountain, and said that the old man was only admired by those golden wheels, saying that they were divine products from heaven and grew according to the boundary of Yaoshan Temple. What is the allusion in this, there is no brother to tell me? ”

"There is no Amitabha Buddha in the south."

"Buddha Amitayus!"

"The Tibetan master Huijian's lawyer did explain the origin of the peony medicine in the temple for my generation. When the patriarch of Yaoshan Temple settled in the mountain, there were dragons and their dependents who came to seek the Dharma, so the patriarch explained the "Huayan Sutra" to them. When preaching, the ground swelled with golden lotus, the sky fell, and now the peony in the temple has been everywhere since then. The golden wheel peony on the side of the dripping rock is originally a relic of the heavenly and human offerings, and it has taken root there, and the bones are green and the branches are positive, even if it has grown taller and taller, it does not need to be supported by bamboo sticks. Every major event in the temple, always the golden wheel is the first sign to appear, such as the eve of the death of the patriarch, they wither one by one, after the fire is raised, the public welcomes the relics of the ancestor into the tower, suddenly feel the fragrant fragrance in the air flowing, the wind does not disperse, until the road passes through the dripping rock, only to find that the bush of flowers came to life again. ”

"It's so strange, it's no wonder that Old Man Hong can't forget it. What is planted in the garden of Miao Lianhua Shenni, but the golden wheel peony? ”

"That's the golden vein peony in the temple, which was incarnated in the void when the patriarch said the law, and the number is more than the golden wheel."

"It was unexpected. Miao Lianhua Shenni's anther column, wonderful use very, famous in the world, not long ago, even known as the first in southern Yunnan Erhai old immortal also coveted this treasure, I thought that transplanting the anther column in the peony, what should be listed as a god, there is a shocking origin. ”

"Amitabha, the Taoist is deliberately pretending to be a layman with Xi Ci."

Zhu Xuan smiled, seemingly satisfied.

"The effectiveness of the anther column is not determined by the provenance of the flowers. When the old immortal of Erhai came, it was the time when the temple of Wuwu taught the three altars of the great precepts, and the master advised the old immortal of Erhai to go to receive the precepts at home, and from then on, he sincerely kept the three refuge and five precepts, and repented in front of the Buddha, in order to use the power of the Buddha and Bodhisattva to turn his karma. However, the old immortal of Erhai was unwilling, thinking that he would be able to get a hundred of the anther column, so the master had to give up. ”

"I heard that the old immortal of Erhai threatened to move Qianru is nunnery in southern Yunnan, and I said that he couldn't ask for it and couldn't lose face, so there was still this story."

"The anther column can't be used as a turtle shell, where can people hide! But the old man was unreasonable. ”

"The Death Star is as he is told, and everything he believes and thinks and does is arching on the wrong path, I am afraid that he will cut off his own way of life in this catastrophe, and he will not be able to pass it."

"Alas......"

"Old man Hong still has some friendship with him, but the old man has always liked to watch the excitement and never think it is a big deal, and now it is not a big deal to be in the period of seventy-seven - what is the sound outside?"

"Almost broke the big deal! Flowers are about to bloom! Before he finished speaking, the figure in the water flickered, turned into a cloud of yellow light and shadow, and flew out of the door.

Is this the sound of a flower blooming? But the sound was like thunder on a rainy night hundreds of miles away, and a thunderbolt burst apart from the heavy clouds. Zhu Xuan and I didn't know where to go, so we rushed to the back of the house, walked along the bamboo fence for more than 100 steps, and suddenly saw a pool of water, silver and bright, hidden between the layers of purple bamboo, like a mirror bearing the moonlight in the sky. Standing on a stone by the pool, his hands are in his chest as lotus palms, his mouth is chanting, his head is tilted, and he is engrossed in the top of the pool. We also looked up, and I asked softly, "What's wrong?" ”

Zhu Xuan responded: "This blue and black breath is very strange, fishy and smelly, snakeing into a ball, I have never seen it, and I don't know what it is." ”

"Where?"

Xu was not surprised by a so-called "senior" who suddenly asked at this juncture, Zhu Xuan turned his head to look at me, and I also looked at him. He understood almost immediately, and said with a smile: "We are gathering six or seven feet above the pond." ”

"How about striking first and breaking them up?"

"No. He can handle the lack of water at the moment, and if we act recklessly, we may ruin his arrangement. ”

As soon as I said it, I felt that I was indeed cautious, and after listening to Zhu Xuan, I quickly adjusted my temper and waited for the changes. It is said to be "quiet observation", in fact, I only saw a bright moon in the sky and a cloudless atmosphere, but the two people next to me were waiting for it, why was it that I was the only one who couldn't see the black gas? This is the first time I've encountered such a situation.

There was no wind on all sides, but the water gradually rippled. There is no retraction in the water, the tip of the nose seems to be looking, the more the mouth is thinking, the more urgent the mouth becomes, the center of the pool begins to sink, and the edge of the water waves reflects the moonlight, forming a silver-white whirlpool, and the ripples turn into waves to the pool bank. With the unchanging handprints in the water, the whirlpool drives the air flow in the air, and the bamboo leaves and twigs are pulled and hang low, pointing in the direction of the whirlpool.

I blinked, looked around carefully, and still didn't see anything out of the ordinary. There is a metaphor in the "Lengyan Sutra" that "such as the too void to participate in the artifact", and the ether void is a metaphor for the hidden nature, showing the six roots of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind. I have limited understanding of this truth, but the first time I heard this parable, I thought it was wonderful—"The shape of the instrument is different, and the name is different." Except for the instrument to observe emptiness, say that emptiness is one" - when a bunch of vessels of different shapes are placed into the void, we think that this void is bounded by the utensils into different shapes, and the void in the shape of the vessel is different from the original void; If we throw away all those vessels, we have to think that this void is still a complete one. In fact, however, if there is a "one," it is not vanity. I thought of myself and Zhu Hyun and Wu in the water, just like the shape of the vessel in the void, round, square, hexagonal, and eight-edged, so what I saw, heard, experienced, and experienced was completely different......

Suddenly, the scalp froze, and the clear sky was opened, and a round sword light swung out from the back of his head, dissolving a light and invisible thing. I couldn't really see what it was, but I felt that when they got closer, there was a faint pain on my face that I couldn't tell whether it was burning or cold. Before digging deeper, in the pool a few steps away, the light is great, and countless large and small lotus flowers can be faintly seen in the intermingling. I was overjoyed, so I wanted to beckon Zhu Xuan to come and see, but when I looked up, I saw that the two of them looked strange. Zhu Xuan's sword light still circled around his body, and he looked at me with a look of crying and laughing, while letting the sword light chase a few wisps of foreign objects in the air and eliminate them.

There was no deep feeling in the water, saying that it was a thank you for "saving your life". Nine times out of ten, he was a monk, how dare I accept his salute, flashed to the side, and bowed back. The corners of his mouth were bloody, and it was obvious that he had been injured internally, but there was joy on his face. It turns out that he has a catastrophe tonight, if he doesn't handle it well, although he won't die here, he is afraid that he will make a big mistake and affect others, so he can only rely on the maturity of good karma to see if there is a chance to avoid this catastrophe. Zen Master Puzhi had already explained the cause and effect of this calamity in advance with Shui Zhong, but he did not specify how to resolve it, and Shui Zhong did not have the courage to ask, and was knocked on the head by the master with a tin stick, and did not dare to mention it again. Later, Shui Zhongwu asked Miao Lianhua Shenni again, it happened that Miao Lianhua Shenni was taking water to water the flowers, holding half a gourd scoop in his hand, listening to his question, he also asked his brain to eat a scoop, that is, he walked away. After thinking about it, I felt that the two elders were angry that they were ordinary people who were "afraid of the consequences and not the cause", so they turned their hearts sideways, and no longer thought about how to avoid this calamity, but still worked every day, recited homework, and practiced. There was nothing to say in the water, and suddenly he realized something, and sighed, Okay, you elm head, you should have asked the teacher to beat a few more times.