Chapter 117: Hearing the Bell Chime (4)
Xinche and Kongkong are not familiar with each other, but they also miss the kindness of the porridge and rice he once gave. Xin Che has practiced martial arts for many years, and his body is quite strong, but there are some deficiencies in his mother's womb, and when he grows up, he has a slow disease with a weak spleen and stomach, and occasionally has a dull pain. He is in charge of the logistics of the temple, although he is rough and careful, he is also very concerned about his illness, and he will always take more care of his diet. It was the same door, and the dripping kindness was reciprocated by the spring, and today he rebelled against the temple and died, and Xinche was the only one who came to visit.
The old abbot of Fang Cai also painfully recounted the absurd past with Xinche, and there seemed to be regret in his words, but after all, he was more angry than ashamed. For Sora, this place where the sandalwood lotus is built is not a happy land, and the wooden fish prayer flags are more like a cage that restricts freedom, where the six impurities and apostasy are unforgivable felonies. He may have had some beautiful yearning or thoughts, but such thoughts are destined not to be understood or accepted in this mountain temple.
After returning to the temple, Xinche got the guidance of the abbot, and re-entered the Baoguang Pavilion to listen to the Buddha's admonitions, and should have sat in the position of his uncle and ancestor as usual, but in fact, he had not had an easy time in just a few days.
The old abbot's health became worse and worse, and there was no improvement after drinking bowls of soup and medicine. All the affairs of Yunju Temple have been handed over to Xin Che to deal with, and even the governors of the back hall have been preparing for him as a succession ceremony for the new abbot.
He was busy during the day, but at night he couldn't sleep well. After listening to the old abbot's teachings, he thought that he would return to peace. But after worshipping the empty space that had passed, he had a few nights of chaotic and heart-wrenching dreams. In that dream, he would always see the whole process of the parting of the air, how he broke into battle alone without regrets, and how the grief-stricken peasant girl wept on the steps. At the time of the accident, his heart was clearly far away in the valley under ten thousand miles, but the scene in the dream was so vivid that it seemed as if he was standing at the scene. Even before Sora died, he had been looking at himself with difficulty, and his eyes seemed to beg for help from Xinche.
This dream appeared for several days in a row, although the dream was miserable, but the heart in the dream was always trying to help but could not help under the angry gaze of the old abbot and the monks, and every time he woke up from the dream, he was accompanied by cold sweat and uncomfortable stomach pain all over his body. He didn't tell the old abbot about the dream, but the more the dream appeared. The more he felt that it might be really difficult to distinguish between right and wrong in this matter. And emptiness is not really that heinous.
In Fang Cai's nightmare, the empty scene reappeared, and this time Xin Che finally made up his mind to reach out to help, regardless of everyone's obstacles. But when he stretched out his hand, he saw that the woman in front of him who was looking back was not the peasant girl who was with the empty one. Instead, Yin Suwen, who hadn't seen him for half a month, asked. Yin Suwen in the dream frowned at him with tears on his face. His eyes were full of sorrow and sadness, and his heart was suddenly painful.
He lit the lamp again and got up, twisted his handkerchief and wiped his sweat. Xin Che didn't fall asleep again, only took three pillars of incense and closed his eyes in front of the offering table, recited a mantra to clear his heart and then made up a mantra for the sake of death, wishing that all those who were harmed and injured by love could reach bliss as soon as possible. This is what the old abbot said about the "love calamity", like a flood and a beast devouring all the bodies and souls of people, and even after death, they will never forget it.
Thinking about it carefully, this bumpy road is no wonder to others. He never dreamed, and when he started dreaming, his dreams were full of Yin Suwen's face, but he never forgot all the good and bad, her smile or tears. When such a dangerous thing happens, it's time to stop the precipice.
"Amitabha, sin and sin. All the karma created in the past was born from beginningless greed and ignorance, from body, speech, and mind, and I repent of everything now. My Buddha is merciful, please forgive my disciple's sins. ”
He bowed sincerely before the Buddhas, and immediately after chanting all night, he wrote a handwritten letter and sent a young monk in the temple who was not familiar with him to go down the mountain to deliver a letter. The letterhead was thin, and there were only a few words on the pale yellow envelope: Yin Shizhu, personally opened.
This letter was written to Yin Suwen in the valley, and the whole text did not have many words and polite words, but only indicated two things: one was sorry, indicating that he was busy with temple affairs and could no longer meet her according to the agreement; The second is to draw a simple route map, indicate the address where the cave is located, and settle her life after that. However, it is obvious that the life after this can only be the life of Yin Suwen and has nothing to do with Xinche.
It stands to reason that such an important letter should be handed over to Yu Yuan to deliver, he is the closest to Xinche, flexible and careful, and acquaintance with Yin Suwen, should be the most suitable and first choice. However, it was precisely because he was an old acquaintance that he was deliberately avoided by Xinche. The heart is clear and conscious, since it is a disguised letter of breaking friendship, it must be done thoroughly, and everything related to the past should be put down from now on.
In fact, he never thought carefully about whether his acquaintance with Yin Suwen was considered to have touched the legendary "love calamity", but the words and deeds of the old abbot and the empty made him feel greatly shocked. Yin Suwen is safe and sound at the moment, if his act of giving up like this can make everyone feel at ease and allow him to continue to practice with peace of mind, then even if he owes a little, it will be worth it.
However, Xin Che didn't expect that the last letter he asked Yin Su would not be successfully delivered to the valley under the mountain.
The hot weather caused people to be upset, because of such a high temperature, Yunju Temple also specially reserved enough lunch break for the monks after the end of the lunch class. At this time, except for the monks who were on duty at the temple, most of the people in the temple had already rested.
He didn't rest, but hesitated for a long time in front of the door of the old abbot's meditation room with a sad face, until a voice called him came from the house, and finally pushed the door in.
"It's round, why don't you come in in the sun outside the door on a hot day?"
The old abbot is still weak, but he still insists on chanting in front of the hall at noon every day, and in the past two days, he has asked to come to the interview every other day. Everyone thought that it was to help Yuan deepen his cultivation, but only he knew that this daily interview was actually an interrogation in disguise.
He bowed to the abbot and helped him sit back in front of the futon on the bed, but he only replied that he was afraid of disturbing his rest.
"Did you get the thing?"
"Back to the abbot, I've got it. I stopped me before I went down the mountain, and I got the smuggler, please take a look. ”
After a little hesitation, he obediently took out a letter from his sleeve, which was the one that Xinche sent down the mountain to hand over to Yin Suwen. (To be continued......)
PS: What is a love robbery? Broken bones and heart-eaters.