Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Howling of the Night
It rained heavily overnight, and the next day, the clouds cleared and it was a fine day. Zhang Xuanmeng bid farewell to Master Jinguang and went with Monk Yuliu to find asexuality. After a night of heavy rain, the air is exceptionally fresh, and the green grass and trees are even more green under the overnight cleaning of the heavy rain.
The two crossed the mountains and walked side by side. Yuliu quickened his pace from time to time, wanting to get rid of Zhang Xuanmeng. walked straight for three or four hours, but I always saw him shoulder to shoulder with him, not in a hurry or slow, as fast as he could, slow and slow, not falling half a step, but he slowly lost his physical strength. After walking for more than two hours, Yuliu was already stagnant, and by this time, his heart compared to Zhang Xuanmeng had already been exhausted, so he slowed down.
Zhang Xuanmeng was so anxious that he couldn't wait to fly to the sexless residence, stretched out his hand and put it on his back and said, "Master Yuliu, thank you for your kindness in leading the way for me, I was offended." Yuliu suddenly felt that his body was much lighter, and he flew away like his feet, much faster than when he first came out, and then he knew that Zhang Xuanmeng had been letting him, and he was even more admired.
The two walked like this for a few hours, and it was already dark, and Yuliu said: "Master Zhang, the small nunnery in front of you is." Zhang Xuanmeng saw that on the back of the mountain in front of him, there was a small nunnery standing. After a while, the two arrived in front of the nunnery. Stretch out your hand and push the door, and the door is plugged in from the inside, and someone lives there. Zhang Xuanmeng was overjoyed, could it be that the sexless predecessors are back again, Kexin is really here?
Yuliu stretched out his hand and knocked on the door, and after a while, an old voice came from inside, "Who is it? It's dark, and you're still here?"
Zhang Xuanmeng was stunned, bowed down and saluted: "Senior, can you be sexless senior?" The old woman looked him up and down and said, "Where did such a handsome young man come from, did you also come to find my young lady?" My young lady no longer lives here. Strange thing, an old Taoist priest came the day before yesterday, and a young man came today, has something happened to my young lady? Oh, aren't you a little monk from Yuliu? I haven't come to see my old woman for so many days. ”
Zhang Xuanmeng was cold when he heard this. Yuliu bowed and said, "Old woman, has Uncle Asexual never come back?" The old woman said: "Of course I haven't come back, my old man is seventy or eighty, what are you lying to your little baby." Who is he?"
Yuliu said: "Old woman, this is Zhang Xianggong, who came all the way from Songshan to meet Uncle Wuxue. ”
How do you know that the old woman was furious when she heard this: "It's the Shaolin monk of Songshan again, how can that be a good person in Songshan?"
Yuliu smiled and said: "Old wife, you look carefully, he is not a monk, but a young man, he has not offended your old man?"
The old woman said: "As long as he is from Songshan, I will not see him, whether he is a monk or not." My young lady, I haven't seen her for more than ten years, and I don't know where she is, what Miss hates the most is the monk of Songshan Shaolin, let's go. ”
Yuliu smiled and said, "Old woman, let's stay for a night, it's getting dark, where do you want us to go?" Okay, I'll come to see you often in the future." Zhang Xuanmeng also bowed.
The old woman hesitated and said, "Okay, you can come in and rest for a while, but you can't stay with me, especially this boy." As he spoke, he glanced at Zhang Xuanmeng.
The two of them went in with her, and sure enough, there was only a small courtyard inside, and there was no one else. The wife said: "I showed the young lady her home for more than ten years, and she didn't come back, it was all caused by your Songshan Shaolin Temple, and something happened." ”
The old woman said, "Little monk, don't be verbose, I don't know where the young lady is, if I do, if I know, why am I staying here?"
Yuliu sat down, listened to her chatter, and talked for a long time, I really didn't know where the sexuality was, and shook his head at Zhang Xuanmeng. Zhang Xuanmeng was disappointed, and the old woman was not welcome, so he pulled Yuliu up and said goodbye.
This old woman is the asexual maid of the year, and she has lived in seclusion here all her life, and she has not been married when she sees that she has no sexuality.
Zhang Xuanmeng came out and looked up, there were no clouds in the sky, the moon had not yet come out, the sky was full of stars, and the stars were exceptionally bright and bright. This mountain is very high, and I feel that the stars are very close to people, and you can reach out and catch them. The deep blue sky is crossed by meteors from time to time.
Seeing him in a daze, Yuliu knew that he was disappointed, and comforted: "Master Zhang, maybe Uncle Shi is still living in seclusion in this big mountain, let's look elsewhere." Zhang Xuanmeng's heart moved, Yuliu was right, the asexual predecessor may still be in this mountain, as long as she is in this mountain, she will definitely be able to find it. So Tongyu went elsewhere.
Soon they came to a place, and saw that in front of them was a bottomless ravine, and in the ravine there were clouds and mist, but in the middle of the clouds and mist stretched out an island-like peak, and in the middle of it, behind the peak was a dark peak. There is no way ahead. Yuliu said: "Master Zhang, let's rest here for a night, and then find a way to go elsewhere tomorrow." ”
Zhang Xuanmeng nodded, although he was not tired, he could not ignore the Yuliu monk. The two of them found a smooth rock and lay down. After a while, Yuliu snorted, thinking that he was tired for a day, and he was very tired.
Zhang Xuanmeng lay down and practiced for a while, but he was upset and couldn't put his mind away, so he had to give up and look at the sky with his eyes. I don't know how long it took before I fell asleep in a daze.
While he was sleeping, he suddenly heard a whistling sound, which woke him up. Only listen to this howling sound is high and low, continuous, spreading all over the mountain, but there is no break in the middle, and when it is high, it is like a dragon's roar, and it is like a tsunami.
Zhang Xuanmeng was shocked, what kind of sound is this? Could it be a strange beast in the mountains, how can it seem to be a human roar? If it is a human roar, how can it be continuous, without ventilation, without interruption.
The whistle lasted for half an hour. Yuliu was also awakened by the howling sound and asked, "What kind of sound is this?" Zhang Xuanmeng shook his head and said, "Master Yuliu, are there any magical beasts in Mount Emei that love to scream?"
Yuliu shook his head and said, "No, even if it is a tiger or lion or the like, there is no such howling." The two were stunned for a while.
Yuliu was disturbed by the whistling sound, and his sleepiness disappeared completely. Suddenly, he pointed to the front and shouted, "Master Zhang, look, the Buddha lamp has appeared." Zhang Xuanmeng responded: "Buddha lamp?" looked at his finger, and saw a small fire in the distance, from the entrance of the valley, Ran Ran floated into the valley, like a star, sometimes bright and dark, flickering non-stop. In less than half a pillar of incense, the second, third, fourth, until countless small fire points appeared, one up and down, floating in the light and dark, some fast, some slow. Some go from far to near, then to far, from small to large, and then to smaller. Some only flash and then disappear. Some of them turned from one to two or three, and scattered.