On this day, Li got up early in the morning, a gust of wind blew her hair, the autumn cicadas stopped on the red cotton tree in front of the door and "chirped", as if to call her "return", and a white cloud drifted south in the clear sky...... Seeing that the weather was sunny today, it was a good day for the autumn breeze to send cool and fry the township, so he packed his bags, said goodbye to Uncle Lin and them, and embarked on the road back to his hometown.

When the mother and son left their hometown to join Wenlong in Guangzhou, Huineng was still a weak child, and six years passed in a blink of an eye, and Huineng had grown into a high-spirited teenager at this time.

After stepping out of Guangzhou City, Huineng suddenly remembered that once, he inadvertently heard the porter in Boss Tan's store say that they came from Xinzhou and came to Guangzhou by taking the ancient tea horse post road with yams, which was much closer than taking the rugged mountain road of Foshan.

Huineng listened to them coming from Xinzhou, and when they met fellow villagers in other places, they naturally felt very cordial, and of course they remembered it carefully.

Huineng led his mother and relatives along the rugged mountain road in Lingnan, and after several rounds of demolition, he finally found this shortcut back to his hometown - the ancient post road in the middle of the deep mountains and dense forests.

The ancient post road, also known as the post road, is the main channel of land transportation in ancient China, and at the same time, it is also one of the important military facilities, mainly used to transmit military grain and grass materials, and transmit military orders and military information.

Nearly 100 miles of tea horse ancient post road zigzags, through the mountains and gorges off-road. The autumn sun hangs high in the blue sky, and the warm sunlight shines on the boundless ancient post road. Years of wandering firewood career have enabled Huineng to quickly grow into a shrewd and capable person, and the subordinates have the wisdom of the subordinates.

Along the way, Huineng saw the industrious and simple people, ploughing in the fields, the rice in the fields was already golden, bending down heavily, chanting the ballad of harvest in the gentle autumn wind; The fruit groves on the mountainside, surrounded by mountains, the thick citrus and orange tree poles bear full fruits, in the plots next to the mountain road, the green leaves of sweet potatoes are flashing with the light of the sun, and under the staggered coiled sweet potato vines, the red-skinned and white-skinned sweet potatoes are still intoxicated in sweet dreams; In the vegetable field on the side of the road, clumps of beans, loofahs, and bitter (cool) melons climb on the rows of melon sheds tied up with bamboo and wooden sticks......

The mountains, the mountains, the fields, and the villages are all bathed in the ripeness of melons and fruits and the fragrance of rice.

Finally, Li's mother and son walked nearly 100 miles, entered the boundary between Enping and Xinzhou Mountain, and then crossed the Tianlu Mountain in front, it was already dusk.

Turning over the Tianlu Mountain lying in front of you, and crossing the endless fields under the mountain, ah, finally home!

Floating clouds cover the sky, and the moon is dim.

Li's mother and son walked south along the Luxi River beach, and the familiar old lychee tree in the small river at the edge of the village was in sight.

This small river, this lychee tree, and this village have left too many memories for Li's mother and son......

Li's thoughts intersected, the days and nights spent here after marrying Lu Xingyao, and the past events that passed with time, disturbed her heart at this time......

When Huineng was just three years old, Huineng's father Lu Xingyao learned from a letter from his classmate Brother Wenlong in the same year that the emperor had demoted himself to a commoner and would never renew it, his heart felt as if he had been hit with a heavy hammer, and he screamed "wow", and a stream of blood shot out of his mouth, and his whole body fell to the ground with a serious illness.

Lu Xingyao's ambition was unpaid, leaving Huineng's mother and son behind, and driving the crane west......

The orphans and widows of the Li family lived on the two acres of thin fields placed by Lu Xingyao. However, Lu Xingyan was helpful in his lifetime, taught people to read and write, and helped the villagers a lot, so he aroused the jealousy of Huang Leitian, the rich man in the village, and blocked his financial route, so he held a grudge and made things difficult in every way. Fortunately, the next-door neighbor Li Xueru came forward to mediate, so he was safe.

Li Xueru is an old pedant, Xiucai was born, has no intention of career, runs a township school in his hometown, and only teaches the book of holy words, and is a famous teacher in the school along the dozens of miles. married his wife Chen, and gave birth to five golden flowers: Li Xin, Li Zhou, Li Hua, Li Xiang, and Li Lan. The four daughters of Xinzhou, Zhou, Hua and Xiang have been married, and Li Lan is still young and waiting for the word boudoir.

In the autumn of the year when Li Lan was four years old, she followed her fourth sister to the river to wash clothes, and was accidentally bitten by a poisonous snake and was rescued by Huineng. Since then, the Lu and Li families have begun to live in a friendly manner.

Li Lanya's father went to the school to teach, she stayed at home with her mother, and sometimes saw her mother sitting in front of the weaving cloth "squeak" busy weaving, so she sneaked out to the isolation to find Huineng to play.

Li saw that Li Lan was born with ice and snow and was very cute, so he didn't stop him.

When Li Lan's father and mother found out, not only did they not stop it, but asked the little girl to invite Hui Neng to come over to play.

Li Xueru knows that Huineng is the benefactor of his family, and his youngest daughter likes to play with him, maybe this is because of fate. To tell the truth, he has no children under his knees, his youngest daughter is two years younger than him, and his family and age are right.

Li Xueru heard Huineng say that because of his poor family, he had no money to go to school, and he didn't want to break the rules, so he taught Huineng "Three Character Classic" at home.

Hui Neng understands and can recite as soon as he hears it. Because his father once taught him the "Three Character Classic".

Li Xueru saw that Hui Neng was extremely smart and highly perceptive, and he memorized the "Three Character Classic" like a stream, so he began to teach him "Analects" and "Hundred Family Names......

If Huineng's father taught him the "Three Character Classic" is Huineng's enlightenment teacher, then Li Lan's father who taught him "Analects" and "Hundred Family Names" is Huineng's Mr. Mengxue.

Unexpectedly, Li Lan became a friendly link between Lu and Li's two families.

......

The past has come to Huineng's mind again:

Under the hardships of the years, before you know it, Huineng is six years old.

One day, the sunset had set over the western mountains, slowly retracting the last rays of afterglow.

The vast twilight haze flowed among the mountains.

"Child, where are your parents?" Xiao Huineng, who was playing with the old hen on the grass on the hillside, turned her head and saw an old man with long gray hair standing in front of her.

The old man's slightly round face was stained with a thin layer of yellow dust, and he looked tired and weak. He wore a faded and worn black gown, carrying a simple bag, and exuded an elegant demeanor in Luotuo.

Xiao Huineng raised her head, her two big eyes flickered, like in a blue sky, flashing two black and oily gems: "Guest officer, you are a passerby, do you want to stay here?"

"Heh, how do you know?" The old man was surprised.

"There is no one in the nearby village wearing your clothes. I've never had a guest like you in my house. Therefore, my mother must not know you. ”

"Yes. I don't know your mother. ”

"What's more, there are barren mountains and mountains everywhere within a radius of ten miles here, and there is no village in front and no store in the back. The sun had just gone down. At this time, the outsiders who came were all staying overnight. Although Huineng is young, his answer is quite reasonable.

"You're so smart!" The old man stretched out the big finger of his right hand and praised, "What's your name?"

"Huineng."

"Huineng?" The old man was stunned, "This seems to be the Dharma name of a person in Buddhism, how did you come up with this name?"

"I don't know, that's what people in my village call me."

"Where is your home?"

Xiaohui can point to the south: "It's at the foot of that mountain." ”

Old man: "If you don't dislike it, please take me to your house." Okay?"

Xiaohui can agree: "Okay." ”

Xiao Huineng led the old man towards home.

The old man walked and walked with a larger pace than a six-year-old child, and the old man was walking ahead before he knew it.

Suddenly, the old man heard Xiao Hui Neng's crisp shout: "Don't move!"

The old man froze, twisted his head, and asked, "What's the matter?"

Xiao Huineng pointed to the ground: "Look at it." ”

The old man squinted his presbyopia eyes, looked down, and found nothing on the ground, so he shook his head and said, "I don't see anything." ”

Xiaohui can come up, squat, point to the place in front of the old man about two feet away, and say, "Look, aren't the ants moving?"

The old man looked away, and sure enough, he saw a few lines of ants lining up on the mountain road in front of him, so he breathed a sigh of relief: "The drink you just now scared me." I thought something big had happened, but you meant the ants were moving. ”

Xiaohui can argue reasonably: "I don't remind you. You're going to step on this swarm of ants. Your feet are so big, how many ants will you trample to death!"

Hearing Xiao Huineng say this, the old man's heart surged with a heat wave that had not been seen for a long time, and he stroked Huineng's round little head with his hand, and said with emotion: "Ah, in this chaotic world, material desires are rampant, and I am cheating, fighting for your life and death." The old man hasn't seen such a kind person as you for many years. ”

Xiao Huineng disagreed: "In life, the greatest sin is killing. Ants also have a small spiritual life, they work all day long, and it is extremely difficult to find two meals. ”．

The old man asked curiously, "Ah, how can you speak like an adult when you are so young?" ”

Xiaohui replied with a straight face: "This is what my mother taught me since I was a child." ”

The old man became interested and asked, "What else did your mother teach you?"

Xiao Huineng: "My mother told me that Buddhism regards 'killing' as the first of the ten evils. ”