(a)

On my birthday, the third year after Yang Biao's death, I made a request to Liu Shen to rebuild the monastery outside Yantang Pass on a high mountain full of rhododendrons every year. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoBefore we left Yantang Pass, you took me to the former temple that I visited.

I asked people to find the portrait it left when the incense was at its peak in the previous dynasty, and asked Liu Shen to rebuild it in the name of the royal family, worship it, and let it restore the prosperity of the previous dynasty.

Liu Shen readily agreed.

At that time, the prosperity of the country has exceeded the best period of the previous dynasty, the people are rich, the treasury is abundant, the people's hearts are stable, all kinds of arts are unprecedentedly developed, there are more and more temples in various places, and many large Buddha cliff carvings are under construction.

Liu Shen arranged for the crown prince to be responsible for supervising the handling of the matter. Thus began the huge project.

I took out almost all of my precious jewelry and offered it to the project of building the temple.

During the construction of the temple, I had a dream. I dreamed that the entire mountain had turned into a golden statue of Amitabha Buddha. After waking up from the dream, for a whole day, I could still see the brilliant gold everywhere when I opened and closed my eyes.

After I told the crown prince about this dream, the crown prince and his wife also offered their treasures and decided to build a huge statue of Amitabha Buddha on the southern slope of the mountain. The crown prince's siblings and royal family members also followed suit and donated their own funds.

After your death, Liu Shen never took back the fiefdom that you were given. The annual income of the fiefdom, in addition to maintaining the operation of your Yunzhou Mansion and the old Yantang Guan, is divided into two parts, one part is used for the military expenses of the New Han Army, and the other part is reserved for the relatives and friends of your father's line and your maternal grandfather's line, to support the declining families among them, especially to support their disciples to study and serve in the army.

After the project of rebuilding the temple and building the Giant Buddha began, under my decision, I took out half of the income of your fiefdom for five years and supported the project of building the temple and statue. After that, every year, a sum of money will be taken out of the income of your fiefdom to support the monastic group of the abbot and to make offerings to the everlasting lamp in front of the Buddha hall.

The huge project lasted for many years, and by the time it was finally completed, Liu Shen's health was not very good. Therefore, when the temple and the Buddha were completed, Liu Shen and I were not able to pay homage in person, and the crown prince led several brothers to express our respect on our behalf and once again made royal offerings.

Liu Shen personally inscribed the name of the temple. It was called "Amida Temple" at the time.

When Liu Shen was alive, the royal family would send the prince to make a grand offering every year. But Liu Shen has never been there to see it. His body became weaker and weaker, and later, even if he went to the outskirts of Yunjing, he was barely able to make it difficult. I also accompanied him, all the time in the palace of Yunjing, watching time gradually change everything beyond recognition.

(b)

This time, the emperor arranged for me to return to Yantangguan Province, so I had the opportunity to visit this temple in person and visit the huge Buddha statue.

When I returned to Yantang Pass, the rhododendron season had not yet passed, and the whole mountain was still shrouded in a red cloud.

The temple stands next to the huge Buddha statue on the mountain, the momentum is magnificent, and you can see the large golden top of the mist in the distance from a distance of dozens of miles.

I was already a little old at that time, but I was still in good health. I got off the carriage at the official post at the foot of the mountain, rode along the path we had walked to the beginning of the steps halfway up the mountain, and then I dismounted and walked up each step to the temple on foot.

All the steps have indeed been restored to the exquisite carving of the previous dynasty, and the craftsmanship is more exquisite than before.

According to people, after the temple and Buddha statue were completed, the incense here flourished. From the spring when the mountains are full of flowers to the winter when the snow is white and the water is dripping into ice, there are countless devout pilgrims on the roads here, and people who climb to the top of the gold step by step can be seen everywhere. On the days when incense is at its peak, in the golden-domed hall, it is difficult to find a position where you can kneel.

Along the way, I was always in the shadow of time, on the one hand, I saw the current scenery, and on the other hand, I also saw the scenes we saw when we were there. The scenes of the two times overlapped and appeared in my heart, making me feel that life is like a dream, and there is no reality.

The fragrance of flowers in the mountains is still the same, and what has disappeared is only the mood I felt when I was young and walked side by side with you.

Because after the incense is flourishing, there are many tourists, and the traffic is busy, and the bees on the mountain are far less than there were back then. The local officials said that they had to leave the official road far away and go to the secluded part of the mountain, where the sea of rhododendrons was most flourishing, to see the old scene of swarms dancing one by one. But I don't have the strength to go to the depths of such a remote forest.

I stood at the end of the steps that had been polished a little by the footprints of tourists, and I saw the scene when you stretched out your palm and let the swarm of bees land on the palm like spring rain, conjuring a harmless heart, and the eyes you looked at me at that time, and the smile on the corner of your mouth. All of a sudden, my heart was full of mixed feelings, and no words in the world could express it.

Even if the dense flow of people covers every inch of this mountain, it still does not belong to us. This surging crowd will disappear into time and will fall into bottomless death.

This mountain has witnessed the rise and fall of dynasties and the chaos of the world too many times.

We're just a myriad of dust in the eyes of this mountain.

(c)

Stand on the viewing platform. That's where we used to watch the mountain view. It's where you say "it's beautiful" next to me and say, "I'm not talking about scenery". Now, the scenery is still so beautiful and moving, but the red face you once gazed at has withered and decayed. And this is still a beautiful scenery, and there will be this day one day, but it will be a little longer.

At the moment when I wrote these words, the temple was still on that mountain. After I left that world, it went through countless years of vicissitudes alone, destroyed by war many times, rebuilt in peace, rose and fell several times, left countless stories, and now, it has entered a new round of reconstruction. And during this period, we also lived and died, met again, loved each other again, and were separated by death again.

I went to the backyard to look at the well again.

Watching them open the new wooden lid at the mouth of the well, scoop water from the well, and test for poison with a silver needle, Guan Wenliang's young face appeared in front of my eyes, and you said to him, "Water bladder." "He handed me the water bladder.

These scenes emerge like fog and disappear like fog.

(To be continued.) )