"Silver Fox Layman?" I chanted the name.

Silver Fox Layman, Green Snake Master Tai...... Judging from the name, you can probably guess that they should all be elven cultivators.

"My senior brother Silver Fox was alive when the mountains and rivers were broken, and in the last years of the Republic of China, there were both internal and external strife, and the people were struggling to make a living." Master Green Snake said: "He was a great cultivator at that time, and his supernatural powers were definitely the best among the cultivators at that time, but it's a pity that he ...... He has a dead knot that he can't untie in his state of mind. ”

"What's in his heart?" I asked, confused.

Master Green Snake said: "You also know the situation at that time, the Japanese invaded China, and the people were struggling to make a living, my senior brother faced such a crisis, he gave birth to a kind of thinking, is my cultivation for myself, or for the people of the country?" ”

"What do you mean by that?" I asked.

Master Green Snake said: "My senior brother already has great magical powers, and his question is, in the face of troubled times, do I avoid the world and lose my mind, or use divine powers to help the Chinese defend against foreign enemies?" This question bothered him for a long time, and he visited a senior monk, who told him that there are Mahayana and Hinayana Buddhism in the world, and that the Mahayana universalizes all sentient beings, and the Hinayana cultivates themselves, and that there is no distinction between Mahayana and Hinayana and Hinayana, and they are all nothing more than names. ”

Master Green Snake was obviously talking about her senior brother's matter, but in fact, he was talking about the Fa through the matter, and Wang Lan Jushi took Beibei's hand and listened attentively beside him. Especially Beibei, a child who is so little, probably can't understand it, but he is very interested in this matter.

Master Green Snake said: "At that time, my senior brother Silver Fox asked the monk, monk, why did you choose to escape the mountains and forests when the mountains and rivers were broken and the country was in danger? The monk asked him rhetorically, who do you want me to help? The silver fox monk said, who else can you help to help us Chinese resist foreign humiliation. If I was born in Japan, who should I help at this moment? My senior brother was stunned, thought for a long time, and said, who to help and who not to help depends on justice, and we have to help the righteous side. The eminent monk asked rhetorically, what is justice? The senior brother was speechless again. ”

The crowd was silent, I had never thought about such a question.

Master Green Snake continued: "The senior monk asked him, if China invades another country one day, will you still help it? My brother shook his head and said that naturally it couldn't help. The monk said, then how do you judge whether it is aggression, I can also modify aggression, say that it is a passive counterattack, and the enemy is not in the middle of rising. My brother stopped talking. The monk sighed and said, it is nothing more than a name, the ancient Chinese saying has clouds, teachers are famous, and all the names are nothing more than those who have a heart. Moreover, human wars are intertwined and complex, with many causes and effects entangled, and it is really impossible to distinguish right from wrong, and helping them to fight is nothing more than killing people, not the right path of cultivation. ”

I listened and shook my head.

Master Green Snake asked me, "Master Feng, what do you think?" ”

I said, "What this monk said makes sense, but it doesn't make sense. If a husband acts only about cause and effect and does not ask about good and evil, he will lose his true temperament. No one can say what the big war is, but if it were me, I wouldn't interfere in the big decisions, and I wouldn't have the ability, I just try to help the people around me as much as possible. No matter who it is, no matter what banner it is, as long as it harms the people, it is the opposite of my cultivators, and I should take action. ”

Master Green Snake looked at me solemnly, and suddenly smiled: "Natural temperament, sure enough, he is a little golden boy." ”

Wang Lan said with a smile: "The central idea of a senior monk is not to kill people, while Xiao Feng's central idea is to save people, and the realm is high. ”

Master Green Snake continued: "My senior brother, the Silver Fox Layman, has figured out a truth, in a chaotic world, the action of the great supernatural is nothing more than to destroy an order, and then copy a new order, reincarnation is not stopped, it is still the same ghost. In the battle of the Three Kingdoms, if there is an immortal, will he help Liu Bei or Cao Cao? The Silver Fox monk has read a lot of classics since then, and found that in the world of great chaos, except for the list of gods a long time ago, there is no record of the gods making a move. During the Three Kingdoms, there was an old immortal named Yu Ji, who was also anxious to see the troubled times, and spread the Taiping Dao, what was the result, the Zhang Jiao brothers, who inherited the Taiping Dao, caused the rebellion of the Yellow Turban Army, which accelerated the defeat of the world and added countless hardships in the world. ”

I have never been exposed to this truth taught by Master Green Snake, and it is like opening a grand door in front of me and seeing something different.

Master Green Snake said: "Later, senior brother, he walked north and south of the river, and wherever he went to the war, he didn't go to save people, just to see." Looking at the murder, seeing the lack of eyes of the sword and gun, and seeing the cruelty of the enemy, he did not make a single move to save people. At that time I was a little girl, and sometimes I stayed with him, with him. I saw that the whole village was on fire, and the villagers were being machine-gunned, and I asked him, why didn't you save people? My brother said that this is the law of natural elimination, just like a flower blooming and failing. ”

Hearing this, I shook my head: "How did you cultivate this senior brother, this is a typical Darwinism, it is a murderer's grease and whitewashing, how can he understand so biased." ”

Master Green Snake said: "Later, the years have changed, after the artillery fire, the corpses are everywhere in the war, and after the crazy road, the blood is flowing like a river, these decades, the changes and changes that have taken place in this land are dazzling, dizzying, my senior brother completely lost his mind, he began to paint in the eighties, in the last years, you see these shoji paintings on the paper sliding door are all made by him at that time, after the painting was completed, on the night of the full moon, he chose to pass away. “

I gasped, "Not really." ”

Master Green Snake didn't talk about this issue, but pointed to the painting on the sliding door of the paper and said, "He painted all his life's cultivation in these paintings, and I used to take it for a long time to understand, but I couldn't understand what he wanted to express, and then the cat came." Speaking of this, a slight smile appeared on the corner of her mouth: "The first time I saw this cat, I knew that it was my senior brother, the Silver Fox Layman." ”

"Huh?" I really didn't expect it to be like this: "You're talking about reincarnation? ”

Master Green Snake nodded: "Now you understand the cause and effect of this cat." ”

I didn't speak, I fell into deep thought, this was not an ordinary cat, he was a cultivator with great supernatural powers in his previous life.

Master Green Snake said: "How to catch it, I think you will have a way." ”

Wang Lan said beside him: "It's not okay to use the ordinary means of catching cats in the world, use your brains more, little golden boy." ”

Master Green Snake pointed to the painting full of sliding doors and said, "If you want to catch my senior brother, the secret is in his painting." ”

She didn't say much, and slowly walked out of the Buddhist hall, and Wang Lanju took Beibei's little hand and followed behind.

I looked at the back of Master Green Snake and said, "As long as I catch that cat, can I do anything?" ”

Master Green Snake didn't look back, nodded slightly, and the three of them walked away and walked out of the courtyard.

I sat on the futon on the ground and looked at these paintings, and the secret was in the paintings, what was the secret?

Until nightfall, I didn't see why. These paintings are all-encompassing, painting everything, mountains and rivers, fields, mansions and deep courtyards, Shura hell, there is no theme, the whole hodgepodge.

However, the style of all these paintings is relatively uniform, and they are all in the same tone, so they are not abrupt.

I wondered, will I be able to discover the secret inside by entering the painting? After all, that cat is not ordinary, it is the reincarnation of the silver fox layman, it can enter the painting made by itself, there must be a way, I can choke enough to get in.

Thinking of this, I began to concentrate on it, and I had also entered the painting before, and I used the vipassana method of Professor Li Blind to re-enter the painting, but I found that I couldn't get into the meditation no matter how I got in, so I had to give up.

From this day on, I had one more task, which was to look at paintings. Wake up at three o'clock in the morning and take a cool bath at the mountain spring before feeding the deer. But not to mention, after this cold shower, at night the ghosts on my body did not attack much, I was free of a lot of pain, I was able to sleep peacefully, and even my body was much healthier.

As for the cat's nest in the back mountain, I won't go, it's useless to go, I will go to the Buddhist hall to watch the paintings from the mountain. I still have to participate in the homework in the morning, noon and evening, and I was stunned when I came to see the paintings, and I could almost memorize the order of the drawings on each side of the paper.

Liu Yin watched me drill the Buddha hall every day, and she also came in, and we didn't talk to each other, just looked at the paintings.

This Buddhist hall is sheltered from the shade, and it is difficult for the sunlight to shine in during the day, and the light depends on the floor lamps in the four corners of the room, which is very dim. The paintings look and feel, the light is dim, and the paintings appear on the page as if they were real.

That afternoon, I, Liu Yin and Liu Jiajia were sitting in the Buddhist hall looking at the paintings, when suddenly there was a slight sound of footsteps, I looked sideways, and the cat appeared and came in through the crack in the door.

It was the first time it had appeared since the last time it had been caught, and it landed silently, very lightly in front of an empty futon, and jumped on it, treating us as nothing.

I kept my cool and turned a blind eye to it, it was extremely difficult for this cat to appear here, and if I caught it again, I am afraid it would be difficult to see it again in the future.

The three of us and a cat just watched like this, and sisters Liu Yin and Liu Jiajia were also quite fascinated by the paintings here.

Aside from the mysteries of these paintings in front of me, the artistic attainments are actually quite high, and there is a strong sense of beauty when you look at them.

As night fell, and it was dark outside, I whispered, "You two should go back first." ”

Liu Yin agreed, and walked out with Liu Jiajia in her arms, Jiajia has been doing her homework in the past few days, and her performance is getting better and better, no longer losing her temper, and no longer shedding tears, but now she is still a little muddy.

When they left, it was just me and the cat in the temple.