Not far from the Thunder God Temple, there is a place called the Elephant Washing Pool.

According to legend, when the great disciple of Sakyamuni Fuxian ascended to Emei, he washed his mount white elephant in a six-sided pool, hence the name.

This place belongs to the alpine zone, so the buildings are mostly low.

The house is built with lead skin, and there are the Daxiong Treasure Hall and the Guanyin Hall, which are dedicated to the Goddess of Mercy and the Great Trend to the Bodhisattva, and the incense is extremely prosperous.

Zheng Yanqing didn't expect that Sun Simiao would actually live in a Buddhist temple. Looking at his appearance with the monks in the temple, it seems that he is very close.

However, when the monks in this temple heard Zheng Yanqing's name, they were a little hostile.

When Sun Simiao saw Yanqing for the first time, he couldn't help but be surprised.

"Yanqing, how did you come here?"

After six years of not seeing, Sun Simiao looks more and more clear. However, the appearance does not seem to have changed much. He looked a little younger than he did six years ago. Originally, there were still some wrinkles on the face, but this time, the red light was all over the face, the skin was firm and smooth, and there seemed to be a crystal light circulating inside. The clothes are flying, revealing a bit of fairy style, which makes people can't help but worship.

"Sun Zhenren, you're really hard to find!"

Zheng Yanqing smiled bitterly: "The student came from Luoyang and has been in the mountain for half a month. If it weren't for the fact that you mentioned Cuckoo and Xizhen in your letter last time, I'm afraid you would have to go back empty-handed this time. ”

Sun Simiao's gaze crossed Zheng Yanqing's shoulder and saw Zhao Xichen standing outside the door, standing side by side with Xiong Dahai.

Zhao Xichen's appearance was a little miserable, and the marks on his face that were blackened by fireworks had not yet had time to be wiped clean. Sun Simiao looked at him, but Zhao Xichen was furious.

"You damn bitch, what kind of letter do you write?

You just write letters, why do you have to write my name? It's a pity that I have a furnace of Jindan, and I am about to succeed, and I was disturbed by these guys, and all of them were abolished...... Do you know how much effort I put into that golden pill and how much effort I spent? ”

The more he talked, the more angry he became, and later pointed at Sun Simiao's nose and scolded.

Sun Simiao was not annoyed, and listened to Zhao Xichen's scratching with a smile, not caring at all.

"This big black guy just disturbs my alchemy. I said you should go and look for it yourself, but he carried me away, and when I couldn't get the goods? ”

Zhao Xichen seemed to have found a backer, pointed to Xionghai and began to count up.

Unexpectedly, Sun Simiao ignored him at all, stepped forward and took Yanqing's hand, looked at it and said, "Yes, this head is about to catch up with me...... Hehe, Yanqing, don't pay attention to this madman. That's how he is, alchemy and alchemy...... You've been practicing for 12 years, and I haven't seen you practice any Jindan. If I hadn't rescued him last time, this guy would have been so afraid that he would have lost his surname. ”

Zhao Xichen was a little embarrassed, scratched his head, flicked his sleeves, and turned around to leave.

"Hey, madman Zhao!" Sun Simiao called Zhao Xichen, "Don't say I won't tell you, today Master Fashun is going to hold a vegetarian fast, and invite everyone to enjoy the moon." If you leave, don't regret it. ”

Zhao Xichen immediately stopped, "Monk Fashun wants to make vegetarian food, then you can consider it." ”

Sun Simiao ignored him anymore, took Yan Qing's hand, and walked to the meditation room in the back hall, "Yan Qing, you came just in time, I will introduce you to a master."

Hehe, speaking of which, you have something to do with him. ”

"Connected to me?"

Zheng Yanqing was stunned, and was about to ask, but when he saw Sun Simiao pulling him, he couldn't help but go to the apse. To say that Yanqing has practiced for many years, this is very stable. Ordinary people don't say that they want to pull him away, even if they want to push him a step, they will feel difficult.

However, Sun Simiao pulled him, as if he was not struggling.

Zheng Yanqing was not so much walking by himself, but following Sun Simiao's traction.

"The female donor, the apse is heavy, I can't entertain you, and I also invite the female donor to rest in the meditation room."

Duoduo tried to follow, but was stopped by a monk.

Zheng Yanqing turned his head and said to her: "Duoduo, you just wait for me in the meditation room, and I will look for you in a while." ”

Duoduo had no choice but to take the male sea and two mastiffs and follow the monk to the side room to rest. And Zhao Xichen followed the others to sort out the instrument.

Yan Qing walked out of the apse with Sun Simiao, and the two walked through a bamboo forest.

Walking along the gravel path in the forest, I heard the sound of wooden fish in my ears.

"Sun Zhenren, who are you taking me to meet?"

"Hehe, you'll know."

The two soon came to a secluded meditation room. The light sprinkled on the courtyard, and the courtyard was overgrown with weeds. On the blades of grass, there was still morning dew, but fortunately, Zheng Yanqing was wearing a bureaucratic dress, if he was wearing ordinary clothes, he was afraid that the placket would be wet with dew.

There is a meditation room in the courtyard.

There were two people sitting on the porch, one lying on a bent humerus and the other sitting on a futon.

The person who is lying on the humerus is dressed as a Taoist, half-squinting, as if he is asleep; The other is the appearance of an old monk, sitting on the porch, like an ancient stone Buddha. A hand of the diamond hand beads, seemingly slow, but in fact it turns quickly, a hand of wooden fish mallet, only a long time before the wooden fish once.

This monk is described as weird.

Sun Simiao motioned to Yanqing not to make a sound, and the two sat down on the porch on the side, quietly watching the monk.

Sincere!

After a full cup of tea, the wooden fish sounded softly, and the monk opened his eyes at the same time.

"Old monk, you lost."

The old monk smiled, "Yuan Zhenren, your guests are coming, if you continue, wouldn't it be rude?" ”

The Taoist turned his head and glanced at Sun Simiao and Zheng Yanqing. When his eyes fell on Zheng Yanqing's body, he was slightly stunned, and his slender eyes revealed a feminine light.

"Who are you?"

"Yuan Zhenren, he is the Zheng Yanqing I once told you. Six years ago, you passed through Luoyang and couldn't meet him......"

The Taoist waved his hand, his fingers kept changing, his eyes still fell on Zheng Yanqing, and he said in an extremely soft voice: "Who are you?" ”

"I ......"

For some reason, Yan Qing's heart trembled suddenly.

He wanted to speak, but when the words came to his lips, he didn't know how to say them.

Who am I?

I'm Zheng Yanqing, but my name is Li Jianguo? I am Li Jianguo, but it is obviously Zheng Yanqing.

"I am me."

The Taoist was stunned, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

And the old monk's dim gaze also lit up, and then dimmed again.

"Yuan Zhenren, what are you doing here?"

"Oh, no other, child's play."

Yuan Zhenren smiled, retracted his gaze, sat up again, and stretched, "But it's a good sleep, old monk, let's continue to compare tomorrow." ”

"Ming?"

The old monk smiled: "I'm just afraid that there will be some trouble." Early tomorrow morning, I should go to Chengdu Mansion and my party...... Yuan Zhenren, our battle for interpretation has been nearly half a year, and the winner is not divided. But today, if there is a visit from the original Taoist, why don't we ask him, what is the Buddha and what is the Tao? ”

Yuan Zhenren turned his head and looked at Zheng Yanqing.

"Little donor, what is the interpretation of the Tao?"

Zheng Yanqing would have thought that he would encounter this kind of dispute over interpretation here.

His mouth opened, and for a long time he ate Ai Ai and said, "The Buddha is the Tao, and the Tao is the Buddha." ”

"Oh?"

The eyes of Yuan Zhenren and the old monk suddenly became solemn.

Zheng Yanqing only felt that there was a big stone on his body, and that strange pressure made him very uncomfortable.

"Bodhi has no tree, the mirror is not a platform, there is nothing originally, where is the dust?"

In his mind, a well-known Zen poem suddenly appeared, and Yan Qing blurted it out, but he regretted it a little. Why get involved in this kind of thing? In the controversy of interpretation and Taoism, how many years have not been able to distinguish the superior, and he has been involved in it, isn't it asking for trouble?

The wooden fish mallet in the old monk's hand knocked on the wooden fish.

And Yuan Zhenren also seemed to change color, and he was speechless for a long time.

"But the heavens are far away, and humanity is good." Zheng Yanqing hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Shi Daozhi said, I have nothing to ask for, what does it have to do with me? ”

"And what do you ask?"

Yuan Zhenren immediately asked.

Zheng Yanqing was stunned, and he couldn't help but fall into confusion in his heart.

yes, what is it that I ask?

In the eleven years since he was reborn, he had never seriously considered such a question.

Whether he plagiarized poems, or practiced martial arts, what he asked for was just to be able to hug Li Er's thigh in the future and be happy.

But is that really what he wants?

His thoughts suddenly became confused, and Zheng Yanqing sat on the porch and was silent for a long time.

Sun Simiao didn't expect that it would become such a situation, so he couldn't help frowning, and wanted to open his mouth to defend him, but saw Yuan Zhenren and the old monk glance at him. The two of them shook their heads lightly at the same time, and sat on the porch with their eyelids drooping, as if they were in a state of flux.

Although Sun Simiao didn't know what the hell these two were doing, considering the identities of the two of them, he still kept his mouth shut.

Time passed little by little, and before I knew it, it was already afternoon.

Zheng Yanqing sat on the porch for a full hour, and finally raised his head, with a determined light in his eyes.

"Little donor, do you already have an answer?"

Yan Qing nodded.

"I want to hear about it."

Zheng Yanqing got up and waved his hand, "What the kid asks is heaven and earth." Stand up! For the people, make a life! For the sake of the saints, follow the learning! Open for all generations, peace! ”

This speech sounds a little glorious and tall.

But it was Zheng Yanqing's heartfelt words.

In my previous life, I struggled in a materialistic and morally degraded society, and sometimes I forgot who I was. The great ideals of his youth, as well as all his vows, fell apart and disappeared with the continuous improvement of his material life...... Yan Qing didn't know what the reason was.

When a person has no faith and no fear, material things become the only option.

Reliving his life, he realized that he might be able to change something.

Under the previous pressure, Zheng Yanqing's mind suddenly brightened...... There are some things that we should always stick to!

Yuan Zhenren and the old monk looked at Yan Qing in a daze, and they didn't know what to say for a while.

"For the sake of the saints, for the sake of eternal peace, for the eternal ......"

Yuan Zhenren suddenly laughed, stood up and shook his sleeves, "Baby, you have such a big breath." Hopefully, twenty years from now, you'll still remember what you said today. ”

After speaking, Yuan Zhenren left the meditation room.

Zheng Yanqing stood still, still a little chaotic in his head.

"Sun Zhenren, am I wrong?"

Sun Simiao's eyes were a little confused, and after being silent for a long time, he said in a low voice: "You didn't say anything wrong, but I think I seem to be wrong......"

He came from a wealthy family, but he was obsessed with immortals.

I have learned a skill, but now I think about it, but it seems to be of no use.

For decades, I have been seeking immortal paths.

In the end, I found that it was not as real as a child. Bodhi has no tree, and the mirror is not a platform...... Those who ask for nothing are in vain.

The old monk's gaze was also a little wandering, and he got up silently and returned to the meditation room.

Sun Simiao took a deep breath, then scratched his head, and said with a wry smile: "Yanqing, you are really a demon. What you have asked for for decades has been said to be empty. Even Master Fashun's Great Perfection state of mind was moved by you...... Forget it, let's go back. ”

"Sun Zhenren, aren't you trying to introduce people?"

"Man, you've seen it."

Sun Simiao took Zheng Yanqing and walked outside, "That Yuan Zhenren is the real person of Southern Yuan Yuan Shoucheng, the art of divination and qi observation is unparalleled in the world."

That old monk is Master Fashun.

His family name is Du, and he is the uncle of the Du Ruhui clan. I wanted to introduce you, but I didn't expect it...... But it doesn't matter, both of them are not ordinary people, and they won't blame you. ”

Zheng Yanqing scratched his head and smiled a little embarrassedly.

"By the way, you came all the way from Luoyang, do you have anything to do with me?"

Sun Simiao finally succeeded in cultivating and quickly calmed down. He took Yanqing to his residence and asked curiously.

Zheng Yanqing said: "Sun Zhenren, I came this time to ask you to save people. ”

"Oh?"

Yan Qing then explained the condition of the eldest grandson Wuji, and then said with a wry smile: "Mr. Chao and Mr. Wu are helpless for this stubborn disease. Mr. Wu said that this way of Qihuang should be the first to recommend Sun Zhenren. So, I came to seek a doctor with my innocence. ”

"General Eldest Sun, deceased?"

Sun Simiao has lived in the mountains for a long time and doesn't know much about what is happening outside.

Hearing the news of Changsun Sheng's death, he was not only stunned, but his brows suddenly tightened.

"Sun Zhenren?"

"Oh, I just heard that the eldest grandson was withering, and I was emotional. Back then, I had several relationships with Changsun Sheng, but I never thought of it...... Qi disease is a problem to treat.

It's fine, but I'm not sure if it can be cured. In this way, after sending Master Fashun away early in the morning, I will go to Rongle City with you to take a trip to Rongle City, take a look at the little girl's condition first, and then make other plans...... By the way, do you have any plans after this incident? ”

"The situation in Luoyang is complicated now, the teacher has passed away, and I don't want to go back immediately.

So I want to stay in Shuzhong for a while, on the one hand, I can help you take care of Wuji, and on the other hand, I also hope to study quietly. ”

"If that's the case, you might as well go up the mountain."

Sun Simiao pondered for a moment and said: "Although Rongle City is quite peaceful, after all, the Han bureaucrats live together, and conflicts will inevitably occur.

In the past two years, the conflict between the slang bureaucrats and the official family has been quite intense. I've heard that there has been a massacre of Han Chinese by the wingmen in Yuewang County. You live over there, and it's easy to get caught up in the war. It's better to move over, at least it can be much quieter than outside the mountain. ”

Yan Qing thought for a while, "What Sun Zhenren said is extremely true. However, I still need to go back and discuss this matter with everyone before I can make a decision. ”

"Hehe, that's just as well."

Sun Simiao spoke, a smile appeared on his face.

Zheng Yanqing's mood suddenly became much easier, and being able to find Sun Simiao can be regarded as completing a major goal of this trip. As for whether he can be cured or not, it is no longer something he can meddle in. But come to think of it, in this place of beautiful mountains and rivers, there are famous doctors to diagnose and treat, and it should be no big problem.

The matter here is over, and another accident immediately appeared in Yanqing's heart.

I don't know, has grandpa left Luoyang at this time?

(To be continued)