In Yunmeng Mountain, there is a "Guigu Cave", also known as the Great Immortal Cave.

According to legend, it was a place where famous hermits and Guiguzi preached and taught disciples during the Warring States Period. Many people come here to see it and unveil its mysteries.

Nongtian likes to travel in the mountains and rivers and visit tea events all over the world. This morning, he walked along the ditch of Daxian Cave, all the way forward, in the ditch, the white stones are piled up, the mountain breeze blows, the shadows of the trees cover the sun, and it is evening, only to feel cold, gradually there is no white stone, the mountain road is getting narrower and narrower, the further you go, the darker it is, and there is no one behind.

The sun set, and the branches of the trees turned the ravine into an unfathomable black hole, and Nong Tianyi finally became worried, how far the hole was still and how to go back in the dark if he couldn't find the hole. It was dark and the road was dangerous, so I had to give up. A year ago, I was unable to visit Guigu Cave as I wished, and I regretted it.

According to the "County Chronicle": "Guigu Cave is fifty miles in the south of the county, Qingxi Temple is five miles to the west, the door of the cave is high and wide, there is a stone niche in a few steps, it is said that Guiguzi speaks "Yi" place. The hole is unfathomable, the white bats inside are like crows, and the layers of pools are like lotuses. There is the Jade Emperor Pavilion in front of the cave, which has been abandoned for a long time. Exchange of jade springs in the cave. ”

The earliest person to identify Guiguzi as living in seclusion here was the Eastern Jin Dynasty scholar Guo Pu, who wrote in the poem "You Xian":

"Qingxi is more than a thousand cuts, and there is a soldier,

By asking who this is, it is Guiguzi. ”

Guo Pu is the assassin of Jingzhou, and he has also made the Linfu County Order, so he must have a certain degree of credibility in his identification.

Taking advantage of this opportunity this summer, Nong Tianyi set off from the upper reaches of the Fu River and headed along the east entrance of the Daxian Cave Ditch. Along the way, I found that there are many small places of interest in the ditch. After the Luohan mouth, hit a few nests, diamond, there are natural holes in the mountain rock on the right, red stalactites appear in the middle, like a human shape, close up is a statue of a natural Guanyin Bodhisattva, turn north from this, enter the fire persimmon ditch, the ditch is full of wild persimmon trees, deep in the dense green leaves, there is a stone pillar hole hidden, several hundred years of loquat next to the hole, the leaves are one foot three inches long, the fruit is bright yellow, the skin is thin and the flesh is thick, eat a few, thirst is eliminated.

Go forward again, meet the three-way intersection, a steamed bun stone stands on the road, inserts a stone tablet on it, and engraves the eleven words of "the road tablet Folin Cave Republic of China ten years stands". Go north from the branch monument, there is really a big hole, the boulder blocks the door, the two forked holes behind the stone, the right hole is open and cool, the left hole is dark and undetectable. Outside the cave, there are many small flat fields, which are the remains of slash-and-burn cultivation of Taoists in the past dynasties.

Nongtian returns to the big stream, passes through the grinding groove pit, there is a sheep intestine trail to the north, walks the trail and encounters a hole again, the name Chaoyang Cave, also known as Taoyuan Cave. The entrance of the cave is three zhang high, two zhang wide, ten zhang deep, the top is like a dome, and the stalactite hanging stone is like a cloud.

There is a stone wall at the entrance of the cave, one foot thick and five feet high, which has long been blackened by the cooking smoke, and there are one door and two windows on the wall. The mountain wall outside the wall is five zhang high, ten zhang wide, the face is flat as cutting, there is Sanzhenglang Cave on the side of the hole, and the cave wall leaves a poem:

"The red sunrise of the three poles is Fusang, and the phoenix dance is auspicious.

Rotate to see the peach is colorful, and the Qiankun stone is brilliant. ”

At this time, Nongtian repeatedly turned back to the big ditch, until he walked to the westernmost point, there are ninety-nine stone steps on the right side, and in the stone gap on both sides, there are three thousand-year-old elm trees and a hundred-year-old triangular maple, which is really peculiar. There is also a dragon pan tree, with twisted branches, which is the oldest. After going up the stone steps, the thatched shed courtyard comes into view, the end of the small courtyard is the entrance of the Guigu Cave, the entrance of the cave is one zhang high, one zhang three feet wide, a stone platform and a stone tiger in the cave, the tiger is four feet long, the curly tail squats and sits, this beast must be the Guiguzi mount.

Ancient books: Guiguzi, a native of the Spring and Autumn Period of Luping, surnamed Wang Mingxu, lives in the Guigu Cave of Qingxi. Taste Yunmeng Mountain to collect medicine, Yan is like a child. Sun Bin, Pang Juan, Su Qin, and Zhang Yi came here to ask, and resigned after three years. Guiguzi has been in the world for hundreds of years, and he doesn't know what to do.

The Guigu Cave is more than 40 zhang deep, where more than 10 folds, it is the habitat of bats with red belly of thousands of waters. Follow the hole and enter, there are small curved water walls on the ground, layer upon layer, horizontal like a mirror, the number is "forty-eight hill fields". At the end of the hole, there is a small hole hidden, which can only be barely climbed through by wearing single clothes, and it is called "stripping hole". The hole is small and difficult to enter, I don't know what it is, and there is no way to verify it.

The mud at the bottom of the cave had already blackened Nong Tianyi's shoes. In the small stone house at the entrance of the cave, live an old man, more than eighty, beard fluttering, face like peach blossoms, Taoist bones fairy wind, has lived here for half a year, less food and vegetables, less water.

Nong Tian thought to himself, not knowing how his life was spent.

It seems that the old-timers are familiar with Buddhism and Taoism, and what he told Nong Tianyi was not Guiguzi, nor Su Tai and Zhang Yi, but Fa Lin, who said that Fa Lin was a famous and well-documented person who lived here for a long time.

He said: In the summer and May of the fourteenth year of Emperor Kaihuang of the Sui Dynasty, when the wise master of Tiantai was giving a lecture on "Mahazhiguan" in Yuquan Temple, a monk from Yunmeng Mountain, who was twenty-three years old and whose legal name was Fa Lin.

Fallin was not willing to marry a wife and have children, so she started a family. Endure its small violations, in order to become a great shun, vow to make a vow, walk the world, single-mindedly help people, pull out the hardship and help the poor, create the cause of life, and plant the cause of suffering. To show off the door of evil and open the way to do good, we must do the big topic of self-cultivation and self-cultivation, and not be a snob in Vanity Fair.

When Fa Lin came to Yunmeng Mountain, she was not looking for mountains and waters, but the Guigu Cave where the Taoist immortal master Wang Xu lived. In Yunmeng Mountain, he really found a ground, a ravine, pine and bamboo weeping shade, vines and roses, and a white stone mountain trail, traversing the east and west. He went down the big stream, and finally found the Guigu Cave, since then, Fa Lin in the Guigu Cave Valley, no one knows, drinking the water in the cave, eating the wild fruits in the mountains, concentrating on diligent recitation, studying Buddhist scriptures during the day, reading the common scriptures at night, and making great progress in his studies.

He not only read the three Tibets, through the heavens and the earth, but also several learnings: arts, the sun, the moon and weft, in his palm, the ancient past and the past, everything is verified; Military science, six Tao and three strategies, endless changes, marching in formation, unpredictable ghosts and gods; Study tour, widely remember and learn, judge the situation reasonably, spit out words, and don't take a thousand mouths; Taoism, cultivating the truth, taking food guidance, walking against the wind, and being as light as a swallow.

And the cultivators who came to Guigu Cave at that time were not alone. Zhao Huizong, a Taoist priest in the early Tang Dynasty, was a native of Yidu, who had studied "Zhou Yi" here, before leaving the cave, he accumulated salary and racked the furnace, sat in the fire with ease, recited the "Book of Death", and went away by the white crane. After the fire was extinguished, the grass in his meditation place was still green, as evidenced by a poem:

"The Taoist priests of Guigu don't know, and there is a crane in the sky and the earth.

The door of the cave is deeply locked, the blue window is cold, and the dew is dewed and Zhu is easy to do. ”

The old man spoke amazingly.

Nong Tian seems to believe it or not.

It's the middle of summer again, the sun is like fire, and Nongtian will go to the Guigu Cave again. Cross the clear stream, turn left and walk to the road, the Bawang grass sandwich road in the mountain stream, the white stone is clean and clean, several small scenic spots along the road in the ditch of the big immortal cave, such as the statue of Guanyin, the road tablet has no trace.

At this time, there was another young newcomer in Guigu Cave, who was handsome, dressed in Taoist clothes, and talked wittily and elegantly. His Chinese food is a bowl of fried leeks, although the life is simple, his thoughts are expressed very profoundly, and Nong Tianyi talked, from the pre-Qin idea of the unity of heaven and man to Lao Zhuang.

He said that the relationship between heaven and man in the pre-Qin period was actually a relationship between gods and man, and in the minds of Yin merchants, the moral attributes of gods were not obvious, so the relationship between Yin people and gods basically took a form of inaction and blind submission to God.

Nong Tianyi looked at the young Taoist who was slightly older than himself, and really admired his knowledge, during which the two talked happily. At the time of parting, the young Taoist asked Nong Tianyi to leave ink, and Nong Tian pondered for a moment, leaving a word for the young Taoist: Dongtian Wonderland.

This time to the Guigu Cave, Nong Tianyi also heard a fresh story, saying that in this Yunmeng Mountain, in addition to the Guigu Cave, there is also an ancient temple, called Bijian Temple. Fa Lin studied in Guigu Cave for several years, the world did not know, and then moved to Bijian Temple, randomly found a cave, fixed his mind, and recited the "Diamond Sutra".

Early one morning, a village girl came, with beautiful makeup and beautiful clothes, her eyes were like the sun, and she carried a bamboo basket with hot food inside, specially to support the monks.

As the saying goes: A cultivator opens his mouth and dissipates his spirit, and his tongue moves right and wrong. Farin ate the village girl's meal, but did not thank her, but continued to chant. The village girl was also very patient, standing aside, listening to the monk chanting aloud, and did not return until late. Early the next morning, another meal was delivered, and after three years, the monk finally spoke:

"Who are you, and why do you give to the poor monks?"

"I am a girl from Feng Deju of the Ganxichang Mountain Goods Company, the mage came to Laoton, and my father ordered me to come to send offerings."

"It's easy for others to hide, but it's hard to hide it from me. Your eyes are like torches, your appearance is extraordinary, and you are not a folk woman!"

"Since the mage has broken it, I will tell the truth that I am the daughter of the Dragon King of Jinghe. Home Min'a, listen to the teacher chanting, the merit is immeasurable, specially come to listen to the scriptures. It's just that the fate is shallow and blessed, and in three days, the little girl will return to the Dragon Palace. ”

"Everything is a matter of fate, not forced. The poor monk has something to ask for, this Bijian Temple, leaning on the mountain access road, near the shore and water, convenient for practice, but it is a pity that the waterfall is noisy, and the heart is not pure. ”

Originally, there is a hole in the sky on the cliff next to this Bijian Temple, the water in the hole, rushes out, gurgles a piece of cloth, really seems to hang a flying curtain, although the scenery is good, but the noise is too loud. The dragon girl listened and said:

"If you want to be easy, it's very easy."

After saying goodbye. On the fourth watch of that night, the dragon girl came to Bijian Temple by the wind, pulled out the silver hairpin, took a deep breath, and blew through the ground, it was a gust of wind, stirring up the flying sand and stones, the two ends of the silver hairpin, poked out two holes at the foot of the mountain, and suddenly came out of the clear water.

Early the next morning, the waterfall was gone, and the spring water at the foot of the mountain was clear and clear, and it flowed quietly down the ravine to the Fu River. The dragon girl did not mention it since she returned to the Dragon Palace, and since then, there has been one less aunt of the Feng family on the Ganxi field.

In order to thank the dragon girl, between the two springs, the golden body repaired the dragon girl temple, whenever the year is dry, pray for rain, tired and effective. Poetry Cloud:

"Floating clouds and sideburns and wind, thousands of miles to Chu Mountain.

Sitting at home is cold and cold, and the crystal palace has never been returned. ”

Since then, Bijian Temple has been renamed Qingxi Temple, on the occasion of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it has become the foot temple of Fengshan in Nanyi County, the cave of Falin chanting, there is Woyun Zen Master Ma Lixi in the Yuan Dynasty, renamed Woyun Cave.

Leaving the Guigu Cave, the sky is late, and a touch of glow is like orange juice leaking into the clear stream, a little leisurely, a little free, and a little free.

Nong Tianyi's mind seems to be still hanging on the inner wall of the cave, and some questions seem to have encountered the mystery of the "Tao", dodging between wandering, or hanging, or deep hidden......