Ayuya stood outside the gate for a moment and walked into the courtyard.

All around, there are countless transparent closed cages, large and small.

The snake inside was like a child of joy, and it couldn't stop screaming.

The thick clouds cast a glimmer of moonlight on the iron door of the hut, reflecting the inside and outside of the door into two worlds.

Ayuya walked to the hut and stopped, her cold brown eyes glancing around.

When they landed, the neighing snakes quickly stopped making noise.

The night was quiet. Only the wind howled.

In the village under the hillside, there is only a faint lamp, like a fluorescence in the night.

Ayuya took a step forward, her palm pressed against the cold iron door.

The ethereal voice seemed to come from behind the door.

After a long hesitation, Ayuya pushed open the iron door.

The door was unlocked, and when it was pushed open, the chains were pulled, making a dull clattering sound.

There were no lights on in the house, and the dimly lit room gave a sense of unease.

The bright moonlight poured in, like a liquid, pouring on a person's body.

He looked to be no more than twenty years old, with a red upper body and sitting cross-legged.

On the top of his bare head, there was a handful of black hair that had not fallen clean.

The environment in the house is terrible, but he gives people a sense of trance out of the mud without staining.

The man raised his head, his eyes were deep and kind, it was an indescribable gaze: "Female donor, I have been waiting for you for a long time." ”

Ayuya was stunned.

She didn't speak, she met the eyes in front of her.

Living in such a remote place is not a good stubble at first glance.

When it comes to talking, you have to be more cautious.

The last time in the illusion of the Black Forest, the fake Ronan Bruce taught Ayua a valuable and painful lesson.

Now in the face of strangers, she began to think more and became more guarded.

Ayuya leaned down slightly, looked at the environment in the room, and finally returned to the original point: "Wait for me?"

The man smiled gently, and the calm smile gave people an inexplicable sense of affinity:

"The female benefactor is confused, so she can naturally find here. ”

"Me?" Ayuya took a step back and stared at the other party tightly, "Confused?"

The monk-like man just smiled and didn't answer.

Ayyua snake's pupils narrowed slightly, and only then did she see clearly.

The man's limbs were bound by heavy chains, and he couldn't move, as if he had been imprisoned here.

"When you and I meet, it is the will of heaven in the dark, and it is up to me to untie the knot in your heart. ”

As the words fell, the man was like a high-wattage yellow light bulb, with a dazzling golden glow on his body.

The room suddenly lit up, and the darkness was swept away.

Ayuya raised her hand to shield her eyes, the glare made her a little uncomfortable.

"If the female benefactor is confused, you might as well say it. ”

The man's tone was ethereal, like a Sanskrit sound.

It's like a brainwashing comedy, constantly echoing in her mind.

"I ......" Ayuya paused, her eyes a little gloomy: "I used to ...... Loved someone. Even after ten years of waiting, I still love him. But...... He was gone, and a man who looked exactly like him appeared. ”

The bald man kept smiling and waited patiently for the following.

"I know he's not coming back. No matter how hard I tried, he couldn't come back. I understand the truth, but it's just ...... It's just that I don't want to accept it. ”

Ayuya tilted her head, her eyes returning to a charming green, tears rolling in her sockets, and her voice choked a little.

"Later...... I followed him voluntarily to find out the man's shadow, but ...... I can't. The two of them...... It was a completely different person, and for the first time in him, I experienced what it was like to be needed. This feeling...... It's hard for me to forget. ”

In this confession, it is not clear whether Ayuya took the initiative to confide or was influenced by the golden light.

"I ...... I don't know if I like him or love him, which makes me feel guilty, and I feel introverted, and I feel sorry for the person I used to be. But ...... Emotions can deceive others, but they can't deceive themselves. I was so touched by the moment when he stepped up and took the hurt for me. Even if he has a better woman than me, I want to stay by his side and do as much as I can. If...... You can really solve the confusion, and hope you can show me the way. ”

Speaking of this, Ayuya raised her head and looked at the man in front of her:

"Is it the one I loved, or the one I love now?"

The man clasped his hands together, and the golden light around his body did not diminish at all, looking solemn.

His lips twitched, and he spoke:

"Bodhisattvas in the Dharma should have no place to live, and should practice in generosity. Affection is like generosity, not living in the phase. (Note 1)

"Huh. Ayuya didn't know if she understood, laughed at herself, shook her head, and said, "I'm really crazy to tell you this." Forget it, when I asked this, I already had the answer in my mind. ”

Finally, she walked to the iron gate, ready to leave.

Seeing this, the bald man raised his voice and shouted, "Female donor, slow down!"

Ayuya heard this and stopped.

She raised her eyebrows, and her green eyes turned into brown and yellow snake pupils:

"You went to such great lengths to find me, I don't think you just want to be a listener. Tell me, what's the matter?"

The bald man bowed his head and saluted, with a kind face: "Female donor, please do me a favor." ”

Ayuya tilted her head, and the vigilance in her eyes did not diminish in the slightest: "Helped you remove the chains?"

"No, no. ”

The man shook his head, and the magic seal in his hand changed: "I came to the world this time, and when there is a catastrophe, I hope that the female benefactor will call Luo Wu to help." ”

Ayuya's eyes rolled, she knew that Luo Wu was Ronan's name in this world, and asked, "Why do you have to look for him?"

The man smiled apologetically: "There are various reasons, it is inconvenient to talk about them in detail." Call him in and talk about it. ”

"Okay, if you don't want to say it, wait for him to come and say it yourself.

Ayuya took an object out of her trouser pocket in front of the bald man.

She removed the wrapped black cloth and shook it in front of the other person's eyes.

It's a phone with lights on.

The screen shows that he is on the phone with Ronan.

It turned out that before entering the hut, Ayuya had a little more thought.

She dialed the phone early, wrapped it in a black cloth and put it in her trouser pocket.

In this way, the confession just now was deliberately said to Ronan.

Ayuya is simple-minded, and it is unlikely that she can think of this.

Most of the time before she contacted Tamamo before going out, she came up with a plan.

As the high beams flashed, a car stopped at the entrance of the small mountain village.

Boom.

Ronan closed the car door and looked at the glowing cottage not far away, his eyes narrowing.

......

Note 1: Excerpt from the Diamond Sutra, with modifications.

The original text means not to be attached to giving, not to deliberately give for the sake of merit, but to go with the flow.

By extension, we should not cling to our emotions, but let them go with the flow, just like generosity.