Chapter 41: Qingying Lake
The mountain peaks rise into the sky, the waterfalls cascade down from the mountains, the mist fills the air, and the air is filled with a crisp and sweet smell.
The stream is murmuring around Fangdian, lush and full of spring colors. Birds and butterflies are singing here, and the beauty here provides the best enjoyment for the senses of the three.
"What is drawn on the map is - we can see Qingying Lake when we climb over this mountain!" Pei Yao carefully looked at the scroll in her hand, a few wisps of green silk in her ears were blown by the breeze, and her cheeks seemed to be rippling with spring.
"Your Elder Shen of the Begonia Pavilion is quite good at choosing a place! We went south all the way, the scenery is getting more and more beautiful, I really don't know what the Qingying Lake looks like! Mu Chuyu moved to Pei Yao's side, leaned close to her cheek, and checked the map with her.
"Click", a fan paved with golden cicada silk unfolded in the middle of the faces of the two people close to each other.
Before Mu Chuyu, who was disturbed by the pin bone fan, could nag, Shen Xiaoxun took the scroll from Pei Yao's hand and walked in front neatly: "What's so nice about the map?" Hurry over this mountain is the most important thing! ”
Pei Yao firmly locked her eyes on Shen Xiaoxun, and followed quickly, not even bothering to look at Mu Chuyu.
Mu Chuyu followed at the end, and when he saw the white and yellow in front of him, an inexplicable vinegar rose in his heart. Occasionally, when he couldn't think about it, he would bow his head and smile self-deprecatingly.
As shown on the map, after climbing over this mountain, you will arrive at Qingying Lake.
The water of Qingying Lake is clear and visible, and the stones on the edge of the lake are washed and polished very cute and smooth. At this moment, the setting sun is like an orange-yellow egg yolk gradually sinking into the water and the sky meets, and the sparkling lake is smeared with a sparkling halo.
Qingying Lake is found, but what about Shen Wenxin?
Mu Chuyu snatched the map from Shen Xiaoxun's hand a little impatiently, but even if he lowered his head and saw through the map, he couldn't see why, and when he looked up, he didn't see a house at all.
"The map only marks the specific location of Qingying Lake, but where is Elder Shen?" Pei Yao raised her head and asked Shen Xiaoxun, who was looking at the beautiful scenery of the sunset.
"It's getting dark, are we going to camp out by the lake tonight?" Mu Chuyu walked over and stood side by side beside Shen Xiaoxun, but when he saw Shen Xiaoxun's expression on his brows, he had no choice but to give up, "I'll go find some branches to burn the fire!" ”
Pei Yao also thought that Mu Chuyu's idea was good, so she turned around and wanted to find a branch with him to make a fire.
Unexpectedly, the two of them were dragged by Shen Xiaoxun's wrists at the same time: "Wait a minute, you can take a look at the sunset in front of you!" ”
Pei Yao turned around very obediently, and before the doubts in her heart could be blurted out, she only heard Mu Chuyu cruelly refuse: "This son has no time to accompany you now!" As he spoke, his other hand stepped forward to help shake off Shen Xiaoxun.
Shen Xiaoxun's strength was a little heavier, he looked at him with a sigh, and dragged Mu Chuyu back to his side with his strength, standing with him.
Mu Chuyu showed a look of "at the mercy of others", and looked at Shen Xiaoxun's gaze: What is there to see about this sunset? What a hassle! However, Shen Xiaoxun's martial arts should not be below me, and the strength he used to catch me was very ingenious, what kind of martial arts trick is that?
Pei Yao's dazedness was no less than Mu Chuyu's, but in order not to appear more stupid than Mu Chuyu in front of Shen Xiaoxun, she had no choice but to obey her orders and pretend to be unfathomable.
This egg yolk is very beautiful! I'm hungry! Pei Yao said in her heart, swallowing her saliva without even a trace.
Among these three people, only Shen Xiaoxun's mind is pretending to be serious, and the other two's minds are full of unbalanced thoughts, especially Pei Yao!
Suddenly, Shen Xiaoxun's two arms grabbed Mu Chuyu and Pei Yao respectively, and with a slight touch of his toes, the three of them jumped up in the air and ran towards Shen Xiaoxun's target direction together, and that direction was the sun!
"Brother Shen, what are you doing here?" After holding it for so long, Pei Yao finally couldn't help but ask.
Mu Chuyu was quiet now, he looked at the sunset intently, as if he was looking at a picture, a picture of the sunset?
Suddenly, the stars shifted.
It was still sunset at the lake in the evening, but in the blink of an eye, it turned into the middle of the night when the sky was full of stars......
Not only that, but the calm and clear Qingying Lake is also fleeting and disappears.
"What the hell is going on? What about Qingying Lake? Pei Yao was completely stunned, staring blankly at the calm two people around her and the unfamiliar scene around her that was not very clear.
"Under your feet is Qingying Lake!" Mu Chuyu replied confidently as if he had suddenly opened his mind.
Pei Yao subconsciously looked at the ground under her feet - this is obviously not very soft soil, and it can't be beaten by the eight poles of Qingying Lake!
"Qingying Lake is just a set of tricks!" Shen Xiaoxun staggered the pin fan in his hand and slowly explained to Pei Yao, "We have stepped into Elder Shen's psychedelic circle from the moment we went up the mountain, and the beautiful scenery we saw along the way are all illusions that mislead us, and only by doing the opposite can we break the illusion and return to reality!" ”
As soon as he finished speaking, an oil lamp suddenly lit up in a small hut a few feet in front of him.
"Then let's go and visit Elder Shen now!" Mu Chuyu smiled knowingly and took the lead in the direction of the small thatched house.
Although Pei Yao heard it a little foggy, fortunately, she was used to not seeking a solution, and swallowed all the things she didn't understand into her stomach, never occupying her already small brain capacity.
It seemed that the elders in the hut had been waiting for a long time, and the firewood of the fence was wide open for the three of them.
"Elder Shen! Below is Shen Xiaoxun, the master of the White Begonia Hall of the Begonia Pavilion, and this girl is Pei Yao, the master of the Begonia Hall, and her friend Mu Chuyu, the 'Jade-faced Sword God'! Our visit is for the task of 'Penglai to find medicine', there is a lot of disturbance, please forgive me! Shen Xiaoxun bowed his hand respectfully and said respectfully.
Pei Yao and Mu Chuyu stood behind him and smiled cooperatively.
"Amitabha! The three donors don't have to be polite! Meeting is fate! Have a seat! After the epiphany, Shen Wenxin had already shaved his degree, and since then he has always accompanied the ancient Buddha of the green light and does not ask about the world.
The four of them sat around a small table of eight immortals, and the lights flickered endlessly. As a way of hospitality, Shen Wenxin poured tea for them in a dignified manner.
"Elder Shen, can I take the liberty of asking how to go to Penglai Mountain?" Pei Yao, who wanted to complete the task as soon as possible, asked straight to the point.
Shen Xiaoxun and Mu Chuyu fell on her with their eyes, but Shen Wenxin turned a deaf ear to the Buddha beads in his hand, and recited in a vigorous voice: "Amitabha!" All things are born because of fate, fate meets each other, and fate ends up scattering! A person's life is a process of continuous fate, everything is fate! ”
What mess? Pei Yao didn't understand a word! However, from Shen Wenxin's unfinished words, she heard that people didn't want to tell her at all.
Pei Yao smiled awkwardly, holding the teacup in her hand and sipping it gently to hide Fang Cai's abruptness.
For a long time, the four of them were silent.
Shen Wenxin seems to have entered a state of complete "self-forgetfulness", transcendent from the world, playing with Buddhist beads while reciting Buddhist scriptures. A white-washed tattered robe is draped on the body, not like a "living bodhisattva", but a bit of a "mud bodhisattva" posture.
"Elder Shen, you are also a member of the Begonia Pavilion, and it is also your duty to assist us in completing the task!" Shen Xiaoxun's face did not change, and his heart did not beat, staring at Shen Wenxin's slightly wrinkled fat face.
Shen Wenxin opened his eyes dissatisfied, and smiled faintly: "What Lord Shen Shi said is extremely true! It's just that the poor monk is now a monk, and he no longer cares about mundane things, and the matter of Haitang Pavilion has nothing to do with me! ”
"Elder Shen's words are wrong!" Shen Xiaoxun took over unhurriedly, "Presumably, Elder Shen is also familiar with the rules of the Begonia Pavilion, and once he enters the Begonia Pavilion, he will serve the Begonia Pavilion for the rest of his life, otherwise it will be regarded as a betrayal of the master...... What will happen to it, the elders should know better than me! ”
Perhaps it was a bit of unruly threat in Shen Xiaoxun's words, and Shen Wenxin's face twitched unnaturally a few times.
"Elder Shen," the corners of his eyebrows and eyes stared at the crispness and indifference that could not be refused, and he continued after taking a sip of tea, "You have to go home before you become a monk, and you have to enter the world before you are born!" You can't just get into a lot of trouble after joining the WTO and then walk away! Your fate is not over, and becoming a monk is just a way for you to escape from calamity, and the Buddha may not accept you! Also, the employer of our mission came with an agarwood begonia order, which caused trouble when you entered the WTO! Now, if you don't help us solve this problem, then the Buddhist family has a saying, 'If I don't go to hell, who will go to hell?' ”
Pei Yao held her cheeks and watched Shen Xiaoxun's clever appearance sweetly, and admired her in her heart.
Mu Chuyu saw Pei Yao's "spring heart rippling" expression, and added another sentence to Shen Wenxin disdainfully: "Besides, no matter what you do, you have to let the master lead you in, Elder Shen has neither a master to shave your hair for you, nor a master to give you a legal name...... I'm afraid you can only be regarded as a wild monk! ”
Shen Wenxin was so angry by the harmony of these two people that he almost blew his beard and glared, but fortunately he suppressed the irritability in his body, and said in a deep voice: "Since the employer came with an order from agarwood and begonia, it can be regarded as a sin created by a poor monk in the first half of his life!" Let me tell you the way to Penglai Mountain. ”
The three of them looked at each other and smiled when they heard this, and their joy was not too much on their faces.