After staying at the farmer's house for a few months, Hui Neng felt that too many people came and went in this county, and he carried the golden bowl of the robe passed down by the five ancestors Hongren, if he stayed here for a long time, it was easy to expose his identity and cause trouble, so he said goodbye to the farmer, went up the Nanxi River, and went to the Sanjiang Ferry under the Huaiji High Ridge, and went to the northwest after the transition, and when he stepped on the land of Jiaoping and Shilong, he was at a loss, and he didn't know where to go, and suddenly saw a red and yellow intersecting halo on the small hill in the northwest corner of the hill in the swirling, In the swirling.

"Are you showing me the way?" Huineng was all hot, and involuntarily walked towards the place where the aura flickered, and went up a small hill, and suddenly saw a winding ancient road extending westward, submerging into the dense woods.

Huineng traveled west along the ancient road in the mountains half-covered by basil, and I don't know how long I walked, and it rained heavily. Huineng saw that there was a big mountain in the wilderness, strange rocks and towering ancient trees, so he braved the torrential rain along the thorny mountain road, and struggled to climb the peak, and suddenly felt that his eyes were bright: there was a stone chamber on the side of the road ten zhang away from him. Huineng hurriedly rushed over with his bags on his back.

This stone chamber is made up of three large pieces of naturally occurring granite stacked on top of each other, and one boulder on top is supported by two boulders below, forming a large eaves more than a zhang wide. The stone chamber is about two zhang high and three zhang wide, and what surprised him was that there were stone tables, stone benches, and stone incense burners in the stone room, and there was a flat and wide stone on the inner wall, like a stone bed. The stalactites in the rock have a steady stream of clear dripping water. Huineng stepped forward to take the drop of water and tasted it carefully, it was as sweet as nectar. If you look closely, you can see that grains of grain fall down from time to time in the stone slabs on the cave wall. Apparently, this is a rat dragging the grain from the field into the hole for collection.

Huineng's heartstrings seem to have been plucked by something, in the past in Caoxi Baolin Temple, was chased and killed by monks from the north, set fire to the mountain, and he was fortunate to escape the catastrophe of his life by relying on the boulder behind the temple. Now after a lot of hardships, there is a huge stone in front of you, it seems that you are related to the stone in this life, and this place can be regarded as a "Buddha land cave"! In the midst of tribulation, he seems to be protected by the Buddha and the gods.

Huineng took off her wet clothes, wrung out the water, and set it aside. After looking around,

Huineng hid the robes and bowls in the cracks in the caves, and then blocked the gaps with stones so that they did not leave any traces.

After being chased and killed, constantly tossing and turning, and traveling long distances, Huineng was so tired that he lay on the stone bed, stretched his limbs, and recalled the teachings of the five ancestors to him, and recalled the series of encounters after escaping into the empty door......

Outside the stone room, thunder and lightning were blowing, and the rain was pouring non-stop. Huineng unconsciously blinded her eyes and fell asleep.

In the haze, Huineng seemed to hear something, he woke up and opened his eyes, heh, the sky is already dawning.

The clouds and rain are over, and the mountains and fields are washed by the rain overnight, making them bright and green, and the air is exceptionally fresh.

Overlooking the mountain, there are two small rivers like jade belts, meandering, winding in the hills and ravines.

By the river, there are more than a dozen cottages connected to the village, hidden in the dense phoenix tail bamboo forest.

The sound of "click" was getting closer, Huineng walked out of the stone room, looked to the right, and saw a woodcutter forty miles away on the mountain road, holding a machete, carrying bamboo poles and strips, stepping on the fallen leaves all over the ground, and came up the mountain. After the rain, the mud and decaying leaves on the road are particularly loud when people step on them.

When the woodcutter suddenly saw a man with a publisher coming out of the stone room, his heart shrank, and he couldn't help but clench the woodcutter in his hand, and with a little vigilance, he asked, "How did you come to this turtle's mouth rock room early in the morning?"

Huineng stepped forward and gave a salute: "Last night, I passed by this mountain range, and I encountered wind and rain, so I had to take shelter from the rain here. ”

When the woodcutter saw that he was kind and kind, and that he was polite in his speech and manners, unlike a fierce and treacherous villain, he relaxed his heart and took a step forward: "Where did you come from and where are you going?"

"This ......" Huineng knew that it was not appropriate to disclose his life experience to the public at this time, and replied, "My surname is Lu, my name is Neng, like floating wild geese, and the four seas are home." ”

"Ah, it turned out to be a casual walker."

Huineng: "Excuse me, what kind of place is this?"

The woodcutter pointed to the mountains: "This mountain is called Shangai Ridge, this cave is called Guizui Rock, and the river under the mountain is called Lengkeng River. Water River. ”

"What kind of territory is this?"

"Huaiji."

"Huaiji?" Huineng's heartstrings were violently touched, and he couldn't help muttering, "Huaiji, Huaiji......"

When the woodcutter saw that he seemed to have something on his mind, he asked strangely, "Huaiji, Huaiji, what are you talking about?"

It turned out that Huineng suddenly touched the words that the five ancestors gave him when they parted: "When you are in arms, you will stop, and when you meet, you will hide." Now, when I came to "Huaiji", didn't I respond to the words of the five ancestors? Huineng looked around, here are layers of mountains, steep mountains, pine trees rising from the ground, dense and verdant, it is indeed a hiding place, and the villages are dotted in the distance.

He thought in his heart, "Master, I will follow your instructions and settle down here for the time being."

Huineng turned to the woodcutter and asked, "What do the mountain people here do for a living?"

The woodcutter replied, "Cultivate the mountains for hunting, plough the fields and plant grain." What is this for, you ask?"

"I feel like a rootless duckweed, wandering for a long time, feeling physically and mentally exhausted, and I want to live here."

"This ...... In this way, my brother died of an unfortunate illness a long time ago, leaving a thatched hut, if you don't dislike it, please come to our village to live" This woodcutter is a warm-hearted man.

And Huineng had his own opinion, so he excused himself and said: "I understand your kindness." However, I never wanted to cause trouble for others. What do you think of the stone chamber at Turtle Beak Rock?"

"This stone chamber is facing north to south, there is no heat in summer, and there is no severe cold in winter, but it is a good place. However, you are here alone, and it is too quiet. ”

"I'm a person who just likes to be quiet."

As he spoke, the woodcutter sneezed several times.

When Huineng was chopping wood to raise his mother in Xinzhou, he had learned medical skills from the people in the village, so he knew a thing or two about curing some common diseases, and asked with concern: "Ah, are you suffering from a cold?"

The woodcutter replied, "A few days ago I went up the mountain to cut wood, and it rained heavily, and I dragged my wet body back home, and my whole body was hot that night. But the mountain trail is rugged and difficult to travel, and it is too far to go to the polder city to seek medical treatment. ”

Huineng: "You can't put it off again and again."

The woodcutter looked helpless: "Then what can be done?"

Huineng said: "The mountains here are full of treasures."

The woodcutter was puzzled: "Treasure? The mountains are full of grass, where is there any treasure? ”

"If you know it, it's a treasure, and if you don't know it, it's grass," Huineng pointed to some weeds on the side of the road, "You pick those herbs and go home to fry them, and then cover them with a heavy quilt and press them, and your illness will soon be cured." ”

Now, the skeptical woodcutter had no choice but to follow Huineng to pick mountain herbs and go home with an attitude of trying.

The next day, the woodcutter happily came to tell Huineng that his wind chill had really been cured.

The woodcutter's name was Tan Sheng, and in order to thank Hui Neng, he specially invited him to his home.

At the beginning of the meal, Tan Sheng's wife brought out steaming soup and vegetables, and a rich aroma came to her nose.

Huineng asked, "What kind of soup is this, what kind of dish?"

Tan Sheng looked a little mysterious: "This is a famous dish that our mountain people entertain guests, called 'Lonely Nine Cold'."

Huineng heard that this was the words of the Cantonese people ridiculing the stingy rich man, and he was stunned and puzzled: "What is 'Lonely Jiuhan'?"

Tan Sheng explained triumphantly: "'Lonely' is Jane refers to the partridge, 'Nine' is Jane refers to the turtledove, and 'Han' refers to the white pheasant. This soup and dish is made with these three kinds of birds, and it is very delicious. ”

Thinking that the birds that were flying freely in the air have become the delicacies on the table, Huineng felt distressed.

This meal, Huineng did not drink bird soup, and the chopsticks did not clip the bird meat, but the green vegetables to eat.

Tan Sheng was strange and asked the reason, Huineng expressed his opinion, and advised them to kill as little as possible.

Tan Sheng felt that Huineng was quite reasonable, and in addition to eating less birds for himself in the future, he also advised other neighbors.

Since then, Hui Neng has been living in the turtle beak rock chamber in Shangai Ling.