Chapter 17: Finding Him
My husband meditated cross-legged, and I leaned next to him, resting my head on his lap and letting him put his hand on my shoulder.
I said, "Sir, after the peach died, did you also go to the three ways with a lot of flowers?" ”
"Hmm." The gentleman replied, his tone as calm and charming as ever.
"Why didn't the mountain god go to Santu to find her by himself after recovering his memory?"
"There is no entrance to the underworld, there are very few souls who can go to the three paths here, all of them are people with great merit, most of the ghosts in the world will dissipate in the heaven and earth with time, and even those who have reached the three paths may not be able to be reincarnated, some of them jump off the helpless, into the three-way river and never recover, and some have become ghosts in the underworld, such as the impermanence of the underworld, and the last rest can be reincarnated. The world thinks that hell is full of evil spirits, but in fact, hell is just an empty space. He has entered the three roads twice, which is already rare in the world, and the third time, there is no way for him to go to the underworld. ”
"But don't you say that the first time he secretly begged for a white-clothed hunt; The second time was not what he wanted, I once saw with my own eyes that he had done a lot of good deeds and accumulated a lot of virtues, why didn't God give him a chance to belong to him and be upright, as he wished. ”
"Everything goes well, after all, it's just an expectation."
The gentleman looked at me with a silent look that seemed to see the desolation of the earth, and he said no more, obviously within the reach of one of my hands, but I only felt as if he had fallen far away alone.
In my dream, I had a thousand sails, and when I woke up, I found that I had only been in the cave for one night.
When I woke up from the stone bed, there were no candles burning in the cave, but it was as bright as day.
The cave hall I am in now is not small, about 100 square meters in size, and there are more tall screens in front of it, a total of seven, each of which has a different picture of the daily life of a woman in ancient costume. The painting above is full of artistic conception, and the painting technique is simple and beautiful. And the picture is embroidered with stitches and threads, the stitches are fine, the colors are bright, and it is really a rare treasure to look at.
The strange stones on the cave wall are craggy, there are a few milky white stalactite pillars, the stone flowers on it are like ice cubes, some stone flowers are still dripping with stone slurry water, in addition to the few pieces of furniture that I brought when I came, there are also some big stones piled up in three piles, all placed in the position of leaning against the wall, and do not affect life, there are a lot of strange horizontal plates on the top of the cave wall, because the light was too poor before, I still noticed for the first time, the stone slabs on these horizontal walls, the largest is only one meter wide, more than two meters long, the strange is that those stone slabs, as if there was something?
Retracting his thoughts, he found that Mr. was sitting at the stone table and looking at the old thread-bound book in his hand alone.
"Sir!" I called him softly.
The gentleman pressed the old book in his hand to the table, his black hair, scattered in his ears, his long eyebrows were like willows, and there were soft ripples, as if there was a kind of casual maturity on his smiling face, which made people feel that it was really charming. His low, gentle voice sounded, "Wake up, the toiletries are over there, what do you want to do after that?" ”
Do what? After washing up and cleaning up, the first thing I did was to dig out the clothes that my father had brought from home and secretly put in the hole for me.
The feeling of watching others go through so many years and still be the same, especially the feeling that you haven't changed your clothes for countless years, is really ...... Of course, exclude the previous dream of swapping hands with Mr.
I flipped through the pages, found an orange and white cotton dress and just wanted to change into it, Mr. shook his head with a smile, rubbed his palm on the top of my head, and suddenly the stars twinkled, a sleeveless white dress and ankles, the corners of the skirt were scattered, and there was a turquoise gauze on the outside, and a green corset.
Sure enough, before, it may not have been a dream.
Although this skirt is not as stunning as the red dress, but it is also as beautiful and moving as the moonlight, I was amazed by the magic of Mr., and looked at the two people in the mirror with anticipation, not without two people, Mr. next to me, not in the mirror, the cave in the mirror is empty, only a beautiful girl stands in it, her eyebrows are delicate and timid and cold, the whole person is like a smoke wave, like a fairy like a demon, I never knew that an image can be wonderful to such an extent, I was amazed and frightened, raised my right hand, The elf-like girl in the white dress in the mirror also raised her hand, I raised my hands, she also raised her hands, the same height, the same costume, and even the same horror, but the woman in this picture was clearly not me.
"Sir." I turned my head to look at the gentle-smiling gentleman beside me, who clearly saw all my fears, but he continued to laugh after a hum, gradually calming my restless heart.
"Good, don't ask." The gentleman pressed my head to his chest, and all that came to my mind was a gentle, smiling face.
Well, I don't ask.
Then there is the matter of the mountain god. As soon as I returned, I had been thinking about it in my heart, and without a ward gentleman, I took a step toward the side of the cave hall, but as soon as I took a step, I took it back in time.
A tangled head turned to Mr. and said: "In that time and space, I have passed thousands of rivers and mountains, and this time I feel like a world away, and I don't even know where to find the mountain god now." ”
The gentleman raised his eyelids slightly, looked at me helplessly, and once again took down the old book in his hand that had never been turned over at all and said, "Didn't your grandfather give you a talisman, bring it, and I will accompany you." ”
I remember that after the master gave it, I put the talisman directly in my pocket, found the knitted jacket that had just been changed, took out the yellow talisman folded into a triangle from the inside, and handed it to Mr., Mr. did not look at it much, and directly burned the talisman in his hand, and then walked straight to the outside of the cave hall, I was a little confused, and did not dare to move for a while, Mr. walked to the entrance of the cave hall, and turned back to me and stretched out a hand and said: "Come here, don't be afraid." ”
Walking over, the gentleman's hand rubbed on my head: "Fool, don't believe me, are you still unhappy about what you were not allowed to ask just now?" ”
Not happy? Yes, absolutely; Don't trust? Of course not, it's already trusting, but it's not as trusting as it is in the deepest part of my heart.
“…… I'm sorry. "I was worried that he would leave the impression that I was too stingy in my heart, so I coaxed.
The gentleman called me stupid, and after that we stopped talking about it.
The gentleman did not shrink into inches like the gods I imagined, he walked in front of me, and led me around and around, and slowly, after a while, there were faint traces of road signs in the cave, painted with chalk, some incense inserted in the mouth of the cave, some tied ropes on the rocks, and some carved on the limestone.
There are a lot of small pits the size of ping-pong balls on the ground for unknown reasons, and the walls are still dripping with water, and Mr. walks in front of me step by step, obviously I am walking the same road as him, I am attacked by the muddy water in the hole, but Mr. does not dislike it at all.
The first embarrassment we encountered was a very narrow hole, a circular hole more than two feet in diameter, and a child my size had to kneel on the ground to get through, and besides, a tall adult like my husband, but ...... What do I see?
It is unimaginable that such a person who is full of light and moon, just talking and laughing, suddenly leans over calmly and coexists with the dust.
The gentleman smiled at me, still in a gentle voice, "It's okay. Then he knelt on one knee and lowered his upper body, first poked his head into the hole, and after confirming that it was safe, he retracted and turned his head to me and nodded to me to follow, and climbed in alone. Fortunately, as soon as we entered, the small hole gradually widened, but after kneeling on the ground and crawling two or three steps, I was able to stand up, but the bitter gentleman did not look very good with his waist bowed. A few more steps, Mr. can already straighten upright, soon the eyes suddenly opened, is a dozen square small cave hall, the middle of the cave hall to the right position there is a stalactite stone pillar, but the width of centimeters, connecting the top of the cave and the ground, the stone pillar is open, close to the top of the cave direction shape complex, flowing patterns are fine and dense all over it, the stone pillar as a whole is white, slightly transparent, some places mixed with wisps of red.
The appearance of the stalactites in this cave is somewhat similar to the color of the white marble railing, but it is not as dense as jade. The magic of Mr. is that his whole person is like a luminous body with its own light source, these days together, we are obviously in a dark underground cave, but as long as we stay with him, it is like daylight, where I go with him, where it will naturally light up.
Just like we are in this cave hall now, I don't know where the light came from, but I saw the light penetrate the stalactite pillars of white marble, refracting the brilliance of the stars, and sprinkled all over the ground like gold. When we stood in the starlight of the room, we instantly felt that the muddy water on the skirt had disappeared, and people and the environment had become as romantic and charming.
After the stone pillar, there are three roads in front, in the middle, there is a dark but flat avenue, on the left is a hole the size of a small hole just walked, and on the right is a pit five or six meters wide and more than half a meter deep, and there is a crack on one side of the pit.
My husband led me towards the flat avenue in the middle, and in the darkness where I couldn't see my fingers, I had only walked about ten steps, and my husband suddenly stopped.
A low, gentle voice sounded,
"Found it."
Suddenly there was a bottomless circular pit in front of me, which was the same pit I had seen when I met the mountain god last night.
The diameter of the pit is almost as wide as the walls of the cave on both sides, blocking the way forward, on the other side of the pit, a familiar figure is translucent and fluoresces light green, as if it is disappearing, and there is a shadow of an eight or nine-year-old child next to him sticking to the wall, the appearance is clear, but the body is not visible.
"Mountain God Qi Ming?"