Chapter 20: The Black Monk of Zhongyue Temple

What kind of temple is that?

Zhongyue Temple in Henan.

There was a strange tree in the courtyard, white wood and branches, green leaves and flowers, that day the host walked under the tree, looked up at the sun through a mottled and golden light, he stopped, fell into deep thought.

The little monk said, "Master, what are you thinking about old man?" ”

The host looks like he is only more than 30 years old, and it seems that he can't grow up to be a few years old for the little monk, and it's really strange that the little monk actually calls him an old man.

The host said: "It is said that there are few people who don't see trees, so they have to see people old on trees, but I think this tree is really old." ”

"Of course, master, I heard the former presiding master of Zhihua who passed away say, he said, this tree is 2,000 years old."

"2200 years old."

"Oh, your old man must know better than the apprentice."

"Or maybe." The host smiled.

It seems that he saw the outside of the temple again, the neon is shining, the feathers are dripping, the unicorn car, the peacock fan, the queen is under the sedan chair, the central axis of the step, he greeted him at the front door, accompanied by the king walked slowly, came to this tree, she stopped, and asked after a little groaning: "Master, is this tree more than a thousand years old?" ”

He returned the salute and said, "Back to Your Majesty, exactly." It's 1,300 years old. ”

"Master," the little monk called out to the master and said, "Hong Kong's He Shi is afraid that it is time to come again this year, are you waiting for her?" ”

"It will take some time for Lord He to arrive, she is dedicated to worshiping the Buddha, making good connections, her heart is very pious, we should treat each other with courtesy, but today I am not waiting for her."

"The master burned incense in the morning, and ordered me to prepare tea, wasn't he waiting for a distinguished guest?"

"I'm waiting for a distinguished guest, but he's just an old man, and he should have arrived at this hour."

In this summer day in the Central Plains, the ground fire is burning the ground, and when it is close to noon, the spicy sun is really unbearable, and it is only about knowing that I am happy to get carried away in the trees. In this season, if it is not the summer vacation of the children, who will take the children out on a trip.

What a sin.

Han Hongwen was on a whim and said that he wanted to take a look at Zhongyue Temple.

He said: "When my grandfather was a child, he always gave him an advance in advance, saying that there is a thousand-year-old tree in the temple, the bark is white, and in autumn, the leaves are full of gold, and the locals say that it is a sacred tree." ”

"Why don't we go and have a look?" He said to his wife and two children.

Born and raised in Taiwan, Professor Han Hongwen is from this place.

My grandfather was a descendant of a famous anti-Japanese general, and in the past two years, the local government also funded the renovation of their ancestral hall, and he was invited to take the family on a trip to his hometown in Henan.

The two children saw an ancient temple for the first time, and everything was very fresh, especially the second princess was very excited, touching the stone pillar in the east and the stone lion in the west, chattering and asking.

When Han Fanghua walked into the temple, he also felt cool.

"I was very hot outside, but I didn't feel so hot when I came in, and when I came to this hall, I was even cooler." She said.

"You're probably calm and cool." Han Hongwen smiled and said.

"Why haven't you seen the tree you said yet?"

"It looks like it's in the backyard of the temple, wait for us to look for it."

While the two couples were talking, they were greeted by several monks, the leader of whom was dressed in a robe with a gentle smile on his face, although he was young, he had a good temperament. He was followed by several young monks, one of whom was still holding a wooden box in his hand. It's just that this leading monk is clearly with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and his complexion is dark, not like a traditional Chinese.

The monk took the initiative to come and give a salute and said, "Amitabha, several donors are polite." ”

The little monk beside him also smiled, and said, "This is our host Master Lifang." ”

The two couples hurriedly returned the salute and said, "The master is too polite. ”

The monk then bent down with a smile and said to Max, who was standing quietly on the side, "After so many years, I finally see you again, and it is not in vain that I have waited so long, or I can finally get my wish in this life." ”

This? The professor and his wife were stunned for a moment, what nonsense did this monk say. Ziyu is so young, how can she know him?

The monk only smiled slightly and said, "Amitabha, I only feel a little familiar with this little benefactor, and I just sighed for a while, and my words were abrupt, please forgive me." Buddha is destined to be a person, I have a small heart here, please smile. ”

Then the little monk behind him opened the wooden box in his hand, and there was a white wooden Qiong branch inside, which was cool and clear.

"Amitabha, according to the date of birth of this child, his five elements belong to wood, and he has been tempered by heavenly fire and thunder, may the white divine wood of this courtyard bless him." The monk said.

Has been tempered by heavenly fire and heavenly thunder? Han Fanghua was shocked, and said, "Master, we don't seem to have told you when my child was born?" ”

"Amitabha," the monk said, "I guess I figured it out." ”

The Han couple didn't answer, in fact, even the nun couldn't accurately determine Max's date of birth, how could the monk calculate it?

The monk didn't say much, Amitabha, bow and leave.

Zhi Yao still remembered that the abbot's expression was very funny, round and round, with a smile on his face.

Alice once asked Zhiyao, "Why do you always like to call Max wood?" ”

"You think he's amazing?" Zhi Yao paused and said, "Actually, he's not just a piece of wood." ”

"What wood, he just doesn't like to talk much." Alice disagrees with Zhiyao's assessment of Max.

"He's a piece of wood, that's not what I said." Zhi Yao laughed.

"Oh, who said that?"

"Many years ago, our family traveled back to China," Zhiyao said, "Max was still young at that time, and it was in a temple, oh I remember, it seems to be called Zhongyue Temple." We suddenly met the abbot of the temple, and the abbot said that he belonged to the wood of the five elements, and what was tempered by the heavenly fire and thunder......"

"What the abbot said is really interesting." Alice said.

"I just thought it was funny. But guess what happened? My parents whispered, saying that what they said was really accurate, and they really donated a lot of money to the temple for this. ”

"That's why you call him wood. The abbot is playing tricks, and it may be for your donation. ”

"So, it's a lot of money to buy it. As for the white divine tree now, my mother is still carefully keeping it," Zhi Yao said with a smile: "If you want me to say, he has a divine tree there, at most a stupid wood, hehe." ”

"How could Max be a dumb log, he doesn't know how smart he is."

"Really?" Zhi Yao smiled and said, "I'm afraid that in your eyes, he is okay with everything." ”

"No, I've heard he's very popular with his mentor's Scott psychiatric clinic. He must be a good psychiatrist in the future. ”

This calm and introverted person is as strange as him, and he is also very popular with patients. Even some white clients are looking for him, can't you think of it? Even the white-haired and childlike female model of the century, Martha, who is nicknamed Tianshan Tong Grandma by Asian fans, is also his guest. Of course, the outside world will not know that this is the female model of the century, and she is actually depressed.

"Not necessarily, Max said he only wants to do psychological research in the future."

"Well, I've also heard that he's only doing a temporary clinical internship at the psychiatric clinic. Whatever you do, it's fine, anyway, he has such a high IQ. ”

Ziyu's astonishingly high IQ was discovered in this way.

When he was a child, he always described the people and things he sensed, and his adoptive parents never took him to see a psychiatrist, a brain doctor. After repeated examinations and tests, brain surgeon Doctor Lewis made a discovery.

"Max's brain waves are different from ordinary people, but he doesn't see any problems with his mind at all, and not only that, the IQ test data is very amazing," he said, "It is certain that this child is an abnormal child, as for why he has such abnormal brain waves, but his health is not affected at all, I can't give a very reasonable explanation for the time being, or he and his head was injured in that thunderstorm." ”

Fang Hua, the adoptive mother, was worried about whether the child would have visual or auditory hallucinations.

Doctor Lewis laughs it off: "Our tests show that children have absolutely no problems with this, maybe children are more imaginative, and many imaginative children in this age group will have some image things and friends in childhood, and it's not a big deal." ”

Of course, Ziyu has also been confused about this, why is she different from others? Why does he always feel some strange people and things? But gradually he was relieved.

As the years went by, he didn't talk to his adoptive parents about his strange feelings, and he wouldn't talk to Yaoyao, the only reason he didn't want to say too much was because he didn't want them to worry.

Only he knows that he has neither auditory nor visual hallucinations, those are accidental inductions, those are the original of life, and they are innocent things.

Why bother to tell?

He eventually learned to be indifferent, and the people and things he sensed, whether they were sad or joyful, did not affect him as much as possible. He tried to be as calm as an iceberg, pretending to be a normal person, even though he knew he never was.

For most of us ordinary people, our dream may be to be a little special, but for a truly special person, he really just wants to be like a normal person.

How special is his super induction? Actually, he didn't know.

He just knows that he can accurately predict the turmoil of the stock market, and he instinctively knows the winning numbers of the lottery and can see the gambling rate of the casino.........

Excited, isn't it? No, he smiled wryly.

When you find out that your superpower is to turn stones into gold, you will not throb to turn all the stones of the world into gold, and all the paper of the world into money, and then sit on it stupidly.

Anyone who can completely leave aside the pressure of survival will start to really think.

Love and hate, eating and sleeping.

Money is nothing more than a concept, a piece of bread, a flower and plant are much more precious than it, too much. We all think we understand, but how can we, with the pressure of survival, really understand?

So what else is there to pursue? Learn, he thought.

A strong thirst for the unknown. He likes to wander in the endless ocean of learning and explore the unknown world.

He wants to unlock the secret of his abnormal brain waves.

He first aspired to become a scientist in neuroscience, and he soon got his wish. When he graduated from graduate school, he anonymously published the secret of ectoderm - on the relationship between brain wave abnormalities and sensitive constitution.

In this article, published in a scientific journal, the new theory shocked everyone. The new ideas provide new possibilities for the treatment of common mental illnesses among adolescents such as Asperger.

When the reporter tried every possible way to find him, he couldn't see him and refused to be interviewed.

"I don't like to be noticed." He said.

Later, he went to study for a doctorate in psychology, but he didn't have any interest in being a psychiatrist, what he liked was still research.

"Strange," Zhi Yao said to him once.

"What's weird?"

"Other people's top students all wear 1000-degree eyes, why don't you say your eyes are short-sighted?" She looked up into his eyes: "It's still so handsome." ”

"Chefs don't have to be fat." Hearing her praise him like this, he smiled slightly.

She always made him laugh.

The biggest comfort in childhood was Yaoyao, when he was frightened because of his adoptive mother's worries, she walked over and hugged him, and whispered: "Ziyu, you don't have any mental problems, you have superpowers!" ”

Even now she would occasionally pester him, tease him, and ask him to tell him if he still felt anything special, and she would deliberately smile and say, "I won't tell anyone, it's a secret between my sister and you!" ”

"What's the sense, stop playing." He would say that to her as he always did, and he loved to watch her hold his arm and shake it, and watch her pouting and pretending to beg him.

Her smiling face is the sunshine of his life.

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