The old man deliberately followed Xiao Huineng's words to try the exam questions: "Do you know what the Ten Evils are?"

"Of course I know," Xiao Huineng closed her eyes slightly, shook her head lightly, and recited, "Among the ten evils, one is killing, the second is stealing, the third is adultery, the fourth is delusion, the fifth is Qi' language, the sixth is two tongues, the seventh is evil mouth, the eighth is greed, the ninth is anger, and the tenth is evil opinion." ”

The old man was so surprised that his two yellow eyes widened as big as a copper bell: "Ah, your memory is so good. ”

Xiao Huineng: "I have all the teachings of my mother in my heart. ”

The old man asked again, "What is the opposite of the ten evils?"

Xiao Hui Neng replied, "Ten Virtues." If you don't commit the ten evils, you are the ten good. ”

Old man: "Does your mother often recite Buddhist scriptures?"

"Well, she used to recite the scriptures with her hand." Xiao Huineng nodded, "Ah, it's getting late, let's hurry up and go home." ”

The old man stepped over the ant array, and soon walked to the door of Huineng's house. "Mother, a guest is here!" Xiao Hui Neng opened her small mouth and shouted loudly. The crisp and immature children's voice is like a yellow warbler chirping in the valley at dusk.

In a few moments, a middle-aged woman came out of the ground behind the hut.

The old man looked around: the woman was dressed in a dark blue linen garment, coarse fabric, apparently woven at home, and then dyed with potatoes. The garment is made to fit perfectly. She wore no shoes and socks, and her broad feet were not wrapped in cloth like the rich lady, but were covered with mud, and she carried an iron hoe in her hand. She is Xiao Huineng's mother-in-law, Li.

Li was planting vegetables on the hillside behind the hut, and after hearing Xiao Huineng's cry, he hurriedly walked with a hoe, and as soon as he met the old man, he bowed his body and asked: "Guest officer, I have come from afar, and I have worked hard." ”

The old man waved his hand: "We are like idle clouds and wild cranes, things are drifting, and there is no hard work at all." ”

"Guest officer, if you don't think the grass hut is shabby, please go inside and rest." Lee's kind invitation.

When the old man entered the grass hut, he saw that the house was surrounded by four walls, and as soon as he sat on the pine bench, Li handed over the freshly brewed Longshan green tea.

The old man took a sip, felt mellow and sweet, and exclaimed, "Good tea!" The old man, who had been running all day, drank openly.

Seeing that this old man was extraordinary, Li asked, "Where did the guest officer come from and where do you want to go?"

The old man stroked his long hair and sighed: "In this mountainous and wild place, I am not afraid to say everything plainly. The old man's name is Li Chunfeng, and he was originally a national teacher of the dynasty......"

So, Li Chunfeng told his life experience.

It turned out that Li Chunfeng offended the traitors in the court because of his upright personality and law enforcement, and impeached the emperor. As soon as the emperor was angry, he was dismissed from his post and served as a citizen.

Li Guoshi devoted his whole life to helping the community, and now he was left in the prosperous place of the Shengxiao orchestra, and decided to drown in the forest and springs, traveled to the famous rivers and mountains, and chased along the dragon veins of the Nanling Mountains until he reached the Xinzhou region.

Li listened to Li Guoshi's confession, and also scolded angrily: "The government and the opposition are dumped, Geng Geng is loyal to the ministers, and there is no way to serve the country!" My husband is also a clear proof of this. ”

Li Guoshi's heart moved, and he asked, "Your husband is—"

"My husband was originally the same as you, and he was both a fallen person at the end of the world." Li also told Lu Xingyu about it.

After hearing this, Li Guoshi sighed: "When I was in the imperial court, I also heard about it. But the emperor was mediocre, alas......"

Li went to the kitchen and slaughtered the only old hen that laid eggs in the family to entertain Li Guoshi.

At night, Li Guoshi slept on a hard bed made of pine planks in the living room.

Underground was a muddy ground with uneven potholes, with only three of the four feet of the bed touching the ground.

As soon as Li Guoshi turned around, the bed board "creaked" like a shaking wooden horse.

Outside the window, the moon was covered tightly by thick black clouds, and the stars that usually blinked mischievously did not dare to show their faces in the inky black night sky, and the earth was pitch black.

Li Guoshi felt nostalgic for his life experience, and recalled that the traitorous ministers in the court were successful and the loyal ministers were killed, and he couldn't help but feel sad.

However, during the day, he waded and climbed the mountain, walked too much, and was very tired all over, thinking and thinking, and unconsciously fell asleep.

Li Guoshi tossed and turned a few times on the bed, and in the haze, as if he heard a moan, he suddenly opened his eyes and looked around.

Night, there was nothing unusual in the dark night, and the sparse starba outside the window blinked his weak and weak eyes, flashing a faint cold light.

"It's your own delusion, isn't it?" Li Guoshi was a little suspicious of himself, but in this lonely night in the mountains, there was indeed a slight moan.

"Where did this moan come from?" Li Guoshi squinted his eyes again and listened attentively: Heh, I heard it, the sound of moaning came from under the bed.

Li Chunfeng stretched his head out of the mosquito net blackened with dioscorea and saw a black thing crawling on the ground. He was suddenly startled, hurriedly wiped the fire medium placed at the head of the bed, and lit the small oil lamp placed at the head of the bed.

The dark hall was immediately filled with flickering yellow light.

Li Chunfeng looked fixedly: it turned out that a child was crouching under his bed, and the small palm of his right hand was stretched into the foot of the bed that could not reach the ground.

"Ahh Li Guoshi immediately jumped out of bed, pulled out his right palm from the foot of the bed for Xiao Huineng, and said in a reproachful tone, "It's late at night, you don't sleep in bed, lie on the ground, what are you doing?"

Xiao Huineng rubbed her sore little palms and said, "I saw that you couldn't sleep when you tossed and turned, and I knew that this bed was uneven, and one of the beds couldn't reach the ground." ”

Li Chunfeng said indifferently: "If the foot of the bed is uneven, it will not be flat." ”

Xiao Hui can say seriously: "You can't sleep, I see in my eyes, I will worry about this matter all night, I can't sleep." You have been in constant haste for days, and the soles of your feet have almost worn out; And to get up early tomorrow morning, it is too hard to drive away the mountain road. I thought, this night, rather than me and you can't sleep, it's better for me to work hard and let you get a good night's sleep first. ”

Li Chunfeng said a little angrily: "If you want to get up at the foot of the bed, you don't have to use your palms, you can go to find stones." ”

Xiao Huineng explained: "It is so dark, it is not easy to find a stone of the right height and size. Besides—"

Li Chunfeng: "What's more?"

Xiao Hui was able to snort for a while before replying: "Besides, I'm afraid that when I go to look for stones, the slightest sound will also wake you up." ”

Li Chunfeng: "So, you put your palm under the foot of the bed and flatten the foot of the bed?"

Xiao Huineng nodded: "Hmm." ”

"Your palms don't hurt?"

"It hurts, of course it hurts! But the thought that you can sleep soundly makes me do my best to hold back. ”

Hearing Xiao Hui say this, Li Guoshi felt a wave of heat surging from the bottom of his heart, tumbling, and rushing to his throat, his nose felt unbearable sourness, and as soon as he gasped, two lines of old tears poured down from his dry eyes. He hugged Xiao Huineng tightly and praised sincerely: "You, a six-year-old child, have such a perfect and sincere understanding, you are really the Buddha to the world!"