As night fell, a crescent moon hung high in the sky, and the temple was quiet, with no brightly lit Buddhist halls and no warrior monks under martial law. The moonlight-wrapped Dabei Temple is like a silent sea, beautiful but full of dark vitality. Si Kouxi walked alone towards the cliff of the mountain behind the temple, Wuge and Qi Jia both went to different places to investigate, and she stood in the back of the hill was the best place to observe their distress signals, so that she could rush to their side immediately.

Houya is deserted, but there is still a pavilion built here, and there is a pot of tea and two teacups on the stone table of the pavilion. Si Kouxi looked at the two teacups and frowned, she didn't think it was all a coincidence. She sensed that someone was approaching, but she felt it would be most convenient to disguise herself as a mute when she was outside, so she just turned around. An old monk in a robe stood behind her, and she immediately folded her hands in a salute, but did not say a word.

The old monk also stepped forward, stood in front of Si Kouxi, stretched out a hand and said, "Donor, please." The direction he was pointing was exactly the pavilion. Si Kouxi's brows furrowed even deeper, one of these two cups of tea was really prepared for himself. She had no choice but to follow the old monk in front of her, she sat down quietly and was not ready to say a word, she wanted to see what the old monk had to say.

"Today the people in the temple told me that they saw a special jade pendant, a phoenix pendant. I haven't seen this jade pendant for a long time, and when I suddenly saw it today, I wanted to meet the owner of this jade pendant. The old monk handed a cup of tea to Si Kouxi, and then looked up at the only eyes on Si Kouxi's face. Si Kouxi clenched the jade pendant he was wearing around his waist in his hand, and his eyes met the eyes of the old monk without fear.

The old monk suddenly laughed, he took a sip of tea, and fell into memory: "Your dress reminds me of Lan Jing's youth, when he sat in front of me and wore a black robe, with only a phoenix pendant around his waist, his eyes were tough and sharp, but he was clear and fearless. You are dressed in white, with a phoenix match on your waist, and your eyes are very similar to him, and the most similar thing should be the tenacity in your eyes. You guys reminded me of the yin and yang poles in gossip, one black and one white are incompatible with each other but one as a whole. ”

Si Kouxi's heart lifted when he heard him mention Lan Jing, but when he heard what he said next, he felt that this old monk's speech was still very good, but unfortunately now Si Kouxi didn't have the heart to thank him for his praise. Si Kouxi narrowed her eyes, still looking immovable, she was never ready to speak.

The old monk seemed to see that Si Kouxi didn't want to speak, but he didn't force it, he still said it to himself. "I think this world is colorful, and pretending to be deaf and dumb is the greatest torture for most people, and it's rare that you can bear it so much." Si Kouxi rolled his eyes in his heart, this old monk actually knew that he was pretending, and he actually pretended to be immovable, which was really embarrassing.

"The world is a big world, but I can't understand it when I'm in it, and pretending to be deaf and dumb may make me a good bystander." Si Kouxi thought that since others knew that they were pretending, it would be boring if he didn't speak.

The old monk shook his head and smiled, "Then do you understand?" Si Kouxi was really speechless at this question, this sentence may also be what she wanted to ask herself, she lowered her eyes slightly.

"Like Lan Jing, you stubbornly think that you can see everything and prevent yourself from falling into it, but you are actually in a way and already in it. All living beings include you, and you belong to them, how can you not be involved. The old monk stroked his beard, as if what he said was very reasonable.

Si Kouxi had to admit that what the old monk said was indeed right, but the old monk seemed to have mistaken himself and Lan Jing. She raised her eyes to look at the old monk and said, "Lan Jing and I are indeed in it, but our so-called seeing clearly is not to see everything clearly, but to see clearly what is happening around us, and the love and hatred that are entangled in us. We seem to be working hard for our future, but in fact we just want to protect our families; I want revenge, but I want more than just hatred. Besides, haven't you seen through the red dust and transcended the world, what do you care about? ”

The old monk was choked by Si Kouxi's words, and finally smiled and said, "Okay, I don't care about your love and hatred, it really has nothing to do with me." Then let's talk about something else. Si Kouxi despised this old man in his heart, and changed the topic if he couldn't say it. Do you know why this place is called the Great Compassion Temple? Si Kouxi shook his head, "This is the name mentioned by Lan Jing's mother, and she hopes that those who are officials in the court, especially the emperor, will have compassion." Si Kouxi didn't expect that there was a great connection with her mother-in-law here, and she took the name.

"The jade pendant on your body is still the light I opened back then, the old man He took the trouble to create these two excellent jade pendants, and specially sent them to open the light, and in the end, the He family sisters had a piece, and the eldest son had nothing. Thinking that he loved his two daughters so much at the beginning, but in the end they were all gone, he should have been hit hard. He whispered regretfully, "The two daughters of a family are actually the queens of a country, and it is rare for an old monk to see them in this life." Both children are beautiful girls in the sky, but in the end, they confirmed the conclusion of the thin life. When He Shu left, the child also came to the Great Compassion Temple to say goodbye to me, I advised her to think again, but she was too stubborn at that time, fortunately, your father and her sister still felt sorry for her, even if she did something to leave the house, but still protect her and help her. ”

Si Kouxi really wanted to know some things back then, so she was willing to be a good listener and listen to him quietly here. "Your father even sends you to her every year, so that you can accompany her, so that she still has a little warmth of being cared for, your mother was also a close friend of He Shu back then, I am afraid that she misses He Shu no less than others. On the day He Shu left, one of my ever-bright lights went out. I knew that even if it did, it would no longer be the candle she had lit herself, but I stubbornly wanted to light it, and sadly it was useless. After speaking, Si Kouxi found that the corners of the old monk's eyes were a little red, and Si Kouxi's heart was indescribably sour.

"She left with a smile on her face, a relief." Si Kouxi hoped that saying this would give the old monk some comfort, Si Kouxi didn't expect that her aunt's death would have such a big impact on so many people, if her aunt knew that there were so many people who were worried about her, she should be very reluctant to leave. "On the day when her everlasting lamp went out, many of the everlasting lamps were a little shaky, and it was really a few days before her bad news, your father, mother, and son of the He family knelt in the temple for a day, and the temple recited the Sutra of Transcendence overnight. Everyone didn't want to keep her for too long, and hoped that she would go quietly. ”

"My aunt knows that she has your thoughts, and she shouldn't be so cold when she should leave." Si Kouxi thought of her aunt, and remembered the smile she showed when she looked at her when she left, and at this moment she believed that her aunt was really smiling when she left, instead of comforting her. "Oh, by the way, I've seen her child, it's really like He Shu in my memory." Si Kouxi wondered, how could Jinshen come here. Lan Jing took him to the Changming Hall and lit an everlasting lamp, and in the vacant place of his mother, the everlasting lamp that everyone couldn't light was actually lit. It's nice, it's good······"

Si Kouxi somehow felt that a knot in her heart was untied, and her aunt probably had no attachment to this world after that day, and she would appreciate the variety and warmth of this world on her behalf. "I should have asked you to light a lantern too, but someone has already lit it for you. The day before your wedding, Lan Jing suddenly came to me and said that he wanted an everlasting lamp, and I thought to myself who he was for, and it turned out to be you, the youngest daughter of the Si Kou family, and his future wife. Si Kouxi suddenly wanted to see him for some reason, she suddenly wanted to hug him at this moment, it was the first time she thought of someone like this.

"Husband and wife are birds of the same forest, they should be in the same breath, and he lights an everlasting lamp for you, which is the best promise to you. You are in him, and you are dead. Maybe you used to have concerns about him, but from now on I don't think I need to. After saying that, he got up with a smile and was about to leave, the corners of Si Kouxi's eyes were really about to shed tears, she looked at the back of the old monk who was about to leave, and muttered: "You don't care about the world." The smile on the old monk's face deepened, and he walked briskly.

Si Kouxi looked at the bright moon in the sky, she really wanted to see him, she wanted to ······

As the old monk walked, someone came to his side to help him, and the person who helped him was much younger, and said with a smile: "Senior brother, the question you asked today was also asked by Lan Jing, and his answer back then was still reflected in my mind. The old monk smiled and said, "Yes." Those who have broken six roots should not care about the people in the red dust. It's really not a family that doesn't enter the door. The man holding the old monk nodded and said, "Now you should rest assured." The old monk didn't speak, but sighed in his heart: rest assured, people of this generation are much more reassuring than people of the previous generation.