Chapter 375: Seeking Freedom
When Yuxiu was lying on the bed, she heard the sound outside the room that should be from Hong Bo.
She took Yuliang's hand and walked out, and after the siege of Runzhou was lifted, Hong Bo accompanied Hong Tianxi back to Yanshan Grange.
Yuxiu didn't see them when she came back, and then she fell asleep all the time, and now she hears the voice, and she doesn't know if Master Hong's injuries are healed.
Hong Bo, who was outside the room, heard Yuxiu's voice, "Big lady, are you awake?"
Yuxiu walked out of the door, and sure enough, she saw that it was Hong Bo, or her previous outfit, she was in good spirits, and there should be nothing wrong, "Uncle Hong, are you all injured?"
"Xiuxiu, I'm here. A loud voice on the side.
Yuxiu was stunned for a moment when she saw the man.
The man had a snow-white beard and a purple face, and that face was Hong Tianxi's face.
But he was dressed in monk's robes and had nine ring scars on his head, just like a monk.
"Hong ...... Why do you ......" Yuxiu was a little surprised, is Hong Tianxi trying to hide his identity? Here in Yanshan Grange, no one has seen him, so there is no need to be like this.
Hong Tianxi looked at Yuxiu's rare appearance of opening her mouth, and finally had the expression that a teenage girl should have, and smiled, "Xiuxiu, I am now called Huiguo." ”
Huiguo?
Repentance?
"I feel that today is and yesterday is not. That day, I fought for my own personal vendetta and for the tiger, alas, ......" Hong Tianxi, Master Huiguo, sighed.
After leaving Runzhou, Hong Bo followed him, and several people bypassed the official road and walked all the way to Yanshan Grange.
Along the way, I saw the village in ruins, the world was desolate, and there were displaced people, old people and children crying. These people are all because the Shu army burned and looted all the way and destroyed their homes.
They saw Hong Tianxi, but they didn't care about their grief, seeing that they were old and injured, and enthusiastically showed them the way.
"It's all the damn rebels! In the past few years, life has been better, and they have been killed by the rebels again. You didn't die in that fortune teller, I heard that there were not many survivors in Songcheng. You have a place to go, hurry up and rest and continue to hurry, after the Lanjiang River, it will be peaceful. ”
Hong Tianxi listened to these words all the way, and felt even more ashamed.
When I was about to arrive at Yan Mountain, I passed by a ruined temple.
The ruined temple was a real ruined temple, and when they saw the courtyard wall collapse and the temple destroyed, they thought that there was no one in the temple.
There was nowhere else to stay nearby, so I wanted to go in and find a room for the night.
Unexpectedly, in the Daxiong Treasure Hall, there was an old monk who was cleaning there, wiping the Buddha statue, seeing their group, the old monk said that the temple was burned down by the rebels, and the rest of the monks were dead and running, and he was the only one left here.
At night, Hong Tianxi couldn't sleep, and when he saw that the old monk was still reciting scriptures in front of the Daxiong Treasure Hall, he couldn't help but ask, "Master, what's the use of you worshipping the Buddha and reciting the scriptures? These clay sculptures and wood carvings should have spirits, and the temple will not be burned." ”
The old monk was not angry, smiled peacefully, pointed to the Maitreya Buddha in the Heavenly King Hall in front of him and said, "Did the donor look at the couplet in front of the Maitreya Buddha over there?"
Hong Tianxi has never cared about these things, so naturally he won't look at them.
"Maitreya Buddha hung a pair in front of him, the upper link is 'the big belly can tolerate, the world can tolerate the intolerable things', the lower link is 'open to laugh, laugh at the ridiculous people in the world'. All living beings can't let go, flies and dogs all day long, but the Buddha can let go and seek to be free. ”
"Then according to what the master said, wouldn't the Buddha live a bad life? A gentleman does something and doesn't do anything, if someone hits you on the left cheek for no reason, just let it go? If someone kills your family, just laugh at it?" Hong Tianxi sneered, feeling that this statement was extremely ridiculous.
The old monk saw that Hong Tianxi was a little indignant, and raised his eyes that had been lowered, "What do you think the donor should do? It's just that how many people can be happy to take revenge? How many people use the name of happiness and revenge to harm all directions? After killing, can they feel at ease in their hearts?"
After this old monk didn't speak Buddhism, his words actually carried a bit of charlatanism, did he also have hatred that he couldn't let go?
What he said made Hong Tianxi stammer, not knowing how to refute it.
There is a debtor and a debtor, and his enemies are Emperor Wu, Lu Xin and Fu Yuande. When he followed King Teng to raise an army, he felt that there was hope for revenge in his lifetime.
But in his heart, did he really think it was right to follow King Teng?
He also knew in his heart that King Teng's rebellion had little hope of success, if there was no Zhou family in Yongding, and if King Teng did benevolent and righteous things, it was still possible. What King Keteng did made the people more interested in the court.
Seeing how many innocent soldiers have died, and civilians have been displaced by the scourge of war.
He killed Rusin with his own hands, and he was in a good mood. Later, Yudong said that he killed Fu Yuande for him, but he no longer had the joy of the enemy's death in his heart, only a faint fear, if Yudong had an accident, wouldn't he have regrets for life?
When he saw Tang Hezhang jump into the river and commit suicide, he felt faintly ashamed in his heart.
Hearing that Songcheng was slaughtered and watching Runzhou besieged, he felt faint regret in his heart.
When he saw the Yan brothers and sisters, he only felt that he was stupid. His biggest enemy is Emperor Wu, but it is impossible for him to kill the king in this life!
Listening to the old monk's words, the more he thought about it, the more remorseful he felt, and muttered, "How does the master feel that he can be at ease?"
"Naturally, it's to let go. ”
"The hatred in my heart can now be let go. But the regret in my heart made me uneasy day and night. ”
"Amitabha, donor, then enter my door. The scriptures can be reassuring, they can overcome, they can make you feel at ease. The old monk smiled and said slowly.
Hong Tianxi looked at the old monk, under the dim butter lamp, his face was kind as if with golden light, which made people look at it and feel peaceful, only to feel that this face, like the three Buddhas behind him, seemed to have the power of purifying all sentient beings.
Hong Tianxi couldn't help but kneel down and said reverently, "Ask the master to accept me as an apprentice!"
The old monk shaved Hong Tianxi, gave him the Dharma name Huiguo, and left the next day.
Hong Bo and the others woke up the next day and saw that Hong Tianxi had become a monk, and they were all stunned.
Originally, Hong Tianxi asked them to go back to Yanshan Grange, but he wanted to stay in the broken temple to repent and practice.
But his injuries were not healed, and several people refused to leave him alone, and in the end, Hong Tianxi couldn't resist everyone, so he had to agree to go to the Grange together to recuperate his injuries, and after seeing the four brothers and sisters of the Yan family, he would leave.
"In this way, I became a monk, and the master said that I was already a monk, and all the worldly things, such as yesterday's death, had nothing to do with me. Hong Tianxi thought about what the old monk said that night.
Yuxiu agreed with what Hong Tianxi said, but he was old, so how could he go out to practice alone? The four of them couldn't rest assured.