The last to say goodbye from Qingquan Villa was the Zen master Kongyun who lived in the other courtyard and would also participate in meditation with the old lady in the past few days.

Sitting on the horse, as if he had nothing to do, the horse carried him on the mountain road, step by step, unhurriedly, until he was out of the city gate.

"Here we are."

The horse stopped in front of a person, Kong Yun opened his eyes, didn't say a word, got off the horse, and the person opposite greeted him, and Kong Yun just returned the salute.

The man made a gesture of please, and the two of them sat down in a small shop outside the city gate. The busy little two had already seen no surprise, and seeing that they were all monks, they prepared a pot of tea, so they went to be busy again.

"Senior brother has come all the way to come here, I don't know what's going on?"

Kong Yun was polite between the lines, but there was no expression on his face, and his eyes were not looking at the person he called his senior brother.

The man sighed, "Don't you want to come back?" ”

Kongyun said: "Poor monks travel all over the world, everywhere is home, where to come and go." ”

"The host has been waiting for you."

"The poor monk has long been careless, but he is just a scattered person, and he doesn't dare to worry about it."

"You still mind what happened back then."

"In the land of Buddhism, the six roots are pure, and there is no desire or desire."

But there seems to be another world in his heart, he once said that they are all people in the red dust past, as long as they are still breathing and there are people beside them, they are still in this red dust.

He could have had no desires, and all he wanted in his life was the peace of one person, but after all, it became an empty dream.

"There's a place where they might be able to give you the news you want."

As a senior brother, he still said what was in his heart after hesitation.

Kong Yun only looked at him at this time, and then smiled lightly, full of care: "Senior brother wants to say that it is Fudi?" Or Peach Blossom Stream? Perhaps, I think the probability of floating is greater. ”

The man was guessed the answer, and he was speechless for a while: "You have been in Qingluo Temple all these years, don't you have nothing?" ”

"So did Guangyuan Temple do something with Fudi?" Kongyun took a sip of tea to hide the ups and downs in his heart.

The man shook his head, after the Yuan presided over the return from Biluo Palace, I don't know why, he mentioned Kongyun to them for a few days in a row, he is a disciple Benyi who relied on the Yuan, and Kongyun grew up in Guangyuan Temple since he was a child, and he was raised by Yuan, and Kongyun was not Kongyun at that time.

"Senior brother, if you came this time to let me go back, then it would be a trip in vain."

"I know, where you live, I'll go and see, and I'll have an explanation."

"Then let me come."

Ben Yi went to Qingluo Temple with Kongyun, and along the way, Kongyun still closed his eyes and meditated, and Ben Yi had nothing to say.

When he arrived at the place, Kong Yun first took Ben Yi to the apricot forest, and now that spring is approaching, the apricot leaves are gradually recovering their greenness, and the wildflowers under the trees are also preparing to bloom.

Occasionally, swallows flew by, and the sky clouds would stop, take a look at them, and then continue to walk forward with Benyi, the Zen temple was not there a few days ago, and actually climbed the green vines again.

In front of the courtyard, there are a few plots of land planted with some vegetables, and the high climbing frame next to the house is prepared for the melons and fruits of the new year.

In fact, he lives a very good life, in the mountains, in the mountains and forests, there are all things to accompany him, and he does not often go to the temple to worship the Buddha, and meditate and participate in Zen under the apricot tree.

Ben Yi walked silently with him all the way and learned something.

The two of them simply swept away the dust on their bodies, and then went to Qingluo Temple. The little monk who was sweeping the courtyard in front of the door saw the empty clouds and stepped forward to greet him: "Zen master." ”

"Is the Skyclave Master here?"

"Yes, Master is in the meditation room."

"Thank you."

Qingluo Temple is not big, compared to Guangyuan Temple, Qingluo Temple can only be said to be an ordinary temple, but Benyi feels that this is an empty world.

The Skyclave saw them, talked about some Buddhist things, kept people for the evening fast, Kongyun was pulled to accompany the little disciples to practice the evening exercises, and Benyi stayed to talk to the Skyclave.

"Senior brother should have never mentioned us, and I hope the master will forgive me for being rash and abrupt."

Skyclave kept smiling, a kind of fatherly smile: "If you don't ask about the past, there is no such thing as saying or not talking." ”

The little monk said bluntly, Ben.... How are Kongyun doing here? ”

"The little master also saw it, whether it was good or not, it was up to him to say that the empty clouds were free."

"He, when did he come to your temple?"

"It's been a few years, and I'm afraid it's been ten years. However, Kongyun has no intention of entering the temple, and the apricot forest is what he is happy with. ”

"The little monk has been there, it's beautiful and quiet."

"This year's apricot grove seems to have sprouted earlier than usual."

"Yes."

"Year after year, over and over again, do you say, do you start over or just repeat yourself?"

Silence, the two people sitting opposite each other have nothing to say, what are they thinking, maybe they are enlightening themselves, Buddhism and Zen principles, sometimes we think it is easy to understand, but sometimes we feel that only through can we know the meaning.

When Kuyun and Benyi left, they just bowed to the Sky Master outside the door, and Xiao Shami sent them out of the temple gate.

The little novice asked Kongyun, "Zen master should remember to come here often." ”

Kong Yun smiled, patted Xiao Shami's arm, nodded in agreement, and instructed a few words to practice well before leaving.

Ben Yi lived here in Kongyun for a day, and apart from talking about his life in the past few years, the two of them never talked about anything about the past.

The reason why the past is regarded as the past is that it cannot be erased, but it is not necessary to remember.

It's just that when leaving, Ben Yi still reminded Kong Yun out of his heart: "Peach Blossom Stream and Fu Tu are both investigating the girl's affairs, although I don't know the reason, but you will have an intersection after all, and one day they will all find you." ”

Kong Yun nodded slightly, he knew that he had already prepared. Seeing him like this, Ben Yi sighed helplessly, so he had to leave without looking back.

Besides, Peach Blossom Stream, after fifteen, it was also a year, and the men, women and children in the town also began to be busy for spring, Gu Qingyan and Baili Mo came back all the way, met many familiar people, and said hello a lot.

Someone talked to Gu Qingyan: "Fourth girl, I saw Dong Ling hurriedly riding out two days ago, but what's the urgency?" ”

Gu Qingyan thought about it, they were all trusted people, there was nothing that could not be said, and said: "Oh, there is nothing urgent, let him go to the bamboo forest to do something." ”

"Bamboo forest? The third master, the fourth girl, you are well-informed, tell me why this forest is so easy to have accidents? ”

Baili Mo and Gu Qingyan glanced at each other, and Bai Limo asked, "Xiao Linzi has an accident?" ”

The man was a little puzzled, and after thinking about it, he felt that Bai Limo and Gu Qingyan should not know, and he didn't say anything gossy, and said directly: "It's not Xiaolinzi, it's the back mountain, a few of us wanted to take advantage of the good weather to pick up some firewood and come back, and we saw several bloodstains there." ”

Later, because I didn't see the injured people and corpses, I thought it was the people from Peach Blossom Stream who dealt with them, so I didn't take it too seriously.

After listening to this person, Baili Mo and Gu Qingyan thanked each other, and hurriedly rushed to the valley, and just after seeing the entrance of the peach blossom stream, they saw the figure of Holly pacing back and forth.

He got the news from the secret guards along the road that Gu Qingyan and they were almost there, so he came from the stone gate and waited at the door.

"Phew~"

Gu Qingyan and the two took the reins, and the horse stopped: "Say." Gu Qingyan knew that something was wrong, so he directly asked Holly to say.

Holly finished saluting and said, "Back to the master, the back mountain has made a move in the past few days, and a total of five people want to go from the back mountain to the stone house, but they have been intercepted." ”

"Did you catch it or did you catch it?"

"I handed it in, and I'm in the torture room now." Holly said.

They didn't want to arrest people directly, but the other party seemed to be in a hurry to investigate, seeing that their secret warnings were useless, the two sides handed hands over, since they had already startled the snakes, Holly didn't need to let them go anymore, so they had to tie up the people and throw them into the torture room first.

"Got it, didn't you miss it?" Gu Qingyan thought, it seemed that the bloodstains seen by the residents of the town were left by their fight.

"Nope."

"Third brother."

"It's okay, you go, I'll go back to the valley first and then go to the other garden to say hello, and come to me when you have something."

Baili Mo comforted Gu Qingyan and asked her to do what she could first, and then watched Gu Qingyan and Holly enter the valley first.

"Western Decision."

When he heard the summons, he stepped forward: "Master." ”

"You turn around and go back to Yuhualou first, and reorganize everything in the valley and Shimen recently. Don't let go of all the details. ”

Bai Limo planned to let Xi Jue go over first, and he waited for Gu Qingyan to have some news here, and then went over.

Xi decided to take the order, turned the horse's head, and immediately went out of the peach blossom stream to Yunmo City.

Gu Qingyan and Holly did not go directly to the torture room, but went around the stone house from the stone gate first, Fufeng was still there, and when they saw Gu Qingyan coming, they asked about the situation of the old ghost, and Fufeng truthfully said that everything was normal.

"Master, although the stone house is connected to the back mountain, nothing abnormal has been found." Holly chimed in.

Gu Qingyan nodded, she looked through the window on the side, the old ghost was still the same as before, sitting in the middle of his pile of urns, the sunlight would pass through the window, mottled and sprinkled.

Gu Qingyan still remembered that in the early spring, she would receive a lot of extracted venom taken out of the stone house.

Later, Gu Qingyan asked the old ghost, and the old ghost said: "It's spring, everything recovers, and these little guys are the same. ”

Although such remarks do not affect Gu Qingyan's care about whether the effect is really better than other times when making it, it is undeniable that sometimes it is true.

Gu Qingyan left expressionlessly, and Fu Feng also looked into the house, these days, the old ghost has always been step-by-step, never doing anything different, sometimes he will wonder, is they too cautious, people, will be assimilated, the time is longer or shorter.

Holly and Gu Qingyan went up the back mountain, crossed the path that could only be bent down by one person, and the two walked forward, Holly said about the situation in the past two days: "They just kept looking for the way, it didn't look like they were looking for something." ”

Gu Qingyan twisted her eyebrows, she still didn't know the identity of the other party, but it was understandable that she could be so targeted, either she was a fufu or someone in the capital who was not long-eyed.

Part of the reason why they are looking for the way is that since the beginning of the year, Taohuajian and Shimen have increased their manpower to guard against it, and the people on the opposite side are also afraid of accidentally touching it, so they are also extremely careful.