Chapter 1: A Doomed Encounter

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It is said that the sky in the mountains is like a child's face, and it changes when it is said.

In the mountains, the rain always comes quickly, one moment the sky is clear, and the next second the rain comes.

The torrential rain extinguished the heat in the mountains and washed away the few specimens of dust in the small village halfway up the mountain.

The rain fell from the sky, down the roof tiles, from the eaves, and together with the rain that fell on the ground, it gathered into a small pool in the courtyard. And the water began to multiply, and flowed and flowed, and flowed out of the mouth of the waterway at the gate, and into the streets.

People in the mountains will not let the rain flow freely, because the rain will wash the roads in the mountains into potholes. So they dug shallow canals in the village to divert the rainwater into a ravine lower in the village.

At the bottom of the ravine, due to the impact of the perennial rain, a very large and deep pit was formed, and a small river next to it was diverted by people, and the joint efforts of the two made this big pit slowly evolve into a small lake, which can catch fish and swim, and even in the summer heat, it has a good effect of cooling off, so it has become a good place for the villagers to relax and entertain.

On such a rainy day, at the end of summer, two people, one tall and one short, came on the path leading to the mountain village, both carrying a big hat and wearing a coat to cover their bodies tightly.

The tall one was holding a Zen stick in his hand, on the mountain road, one step at a time, making a sound, accompanied by the crispness of the collision of the iron ring above the Zen stick, echoing in the valley, spreading far and wide, and the ethereal voice had a feeling of washing the soul.

The shorter one was less than a quarter of the taller, and the coat on his body did not fit well, and the hem dragged to the ground, leaving a mark behind him, which was not long, because it would be washed away by the heavy rain after that, so the mark was like a tail, and followed him closely. The hat on his head also appeared to be large, resting on his small body, making him look like a mushroom common in the mountains.

Suddenly, a baby's cry came, mixed with the sound of the Zen staff, and also messed up their steps, and the cry full of anger startled a group of birds sheltering from the rain, and the mountains and forests were no longer peaceful.

The dark clouds in the sky seemed to be frightened, and they slowly dispersed around the small mountain village, and the rain stopped.

The sun reappeared high in the sky, shining its rays in the mountains, and then a large rainbow appeared, one end perched in the mountain village, and the other ended, stretched far, far away.

The tall man stopped, looked up at the small mountain village, showed a thoughtful expression, raised his hand and was just about to announce the Buddha's number, but he was hit on his leg, and when he looked back, it turned out to be a short man walking with his head down, and he didn't see him stop, and the hat that would be hit was crooked, revealing a childish little face below, looking at him distressedly, with an unhappy face: "Senior brother, why don't you say a word when you stop." ”

The tall man shook his head helplessly, and gave a Buddha salute: "Amitabha, little junior brother, I didn't have time to say it, you bumped into it, and besides, you walked behind, you should be able to see it when I stopped, but you didn't pay attention to yourself, why did you blame me?" ”

The little man straightened his hat and raised his head with great difficulty, but found that he still couldn't see the face of his senior brother, so he simply picked up the hat and hung it behind him, but he didn't expect the big hat to be taller than him, he pouted in depression and handed the hat to the senior brother who was standing on the side. Without any burden, he proudly raised his bare little head: "Master can say, I am a rare genius in Buddhism for thousands of years, if you break the head of this genius, can you afford it?" ”

"Amitabha! Ahem, little brother, the master let us go all the way south, he said that when we heard the first baby cry, we found the goal of this trip, we walked for two months, originally thought that we needed to look carefully, but I didn't expect it to be so earth-shattering. The tall man wisely changed the subject.

"That's right, listening to this cry, it's really a healthy child, and it's only slightly inferior to the cry of the genius back then." The little man nodded solemnly, with a serious expression.

The tall man turned his head and looked at him with a strange expression: "Little junior brother, you are only less than three years old, what are you pretending to be old, and crying loudly is not something to be proud of......"

"Hmph, the mental age of this genius is much older than you, how can a mortal man like you understand the world of genius." The little guy looked up at the sky, looking like everyone in the world was drunk and I was awake.

What a stinking little ghost! The big man flashed a trace of disapproval in his heart, and looked down at the little guy: "You are a genius, yes, such a small point has almost read the Buddhist scriptures in the temple, but the master said, you have Buddha nature, but you lack Buddha heart, we came out this time to find you Buddha heart." ”

Wiping the rain that dripped from the big man's hat on his head, the little guy stood back in disgust, his brows furrowed tightly, and he was very distressed: "What is the Buddha's mind?" How do I find it? And what exactly is the mission we came out on this time? ”

The big man straightened his attitude, folded his hands and bowed to the north: "Amitabha!" The old man said, let you guard this newborn baby girl until she is eighteen years old. Without waiting for the little guy to ask, he continued to explain: "Her life is very strange, obviously it is excellent, it should be a rich and noble life, but I don't know why there are many ups and downs waiting for her on the road ahead, but if you are guarded, it will be different, with you as a genius as her guardian, her life path will be much smoother." At the same time, when your guardianship is completed, your Buddha heart will also be found, and then the master will be ordained for you and let you worship the Buddha. ”

Hearing this, the little guy was stunned and looked up: "What? Girl? How do you know it's a woman? "This master didn't tell him, and the senior brother didn't mention it, so he didn't know about it.

"Amitabha! These are naturally calculated by the master, and if he says it is a girl, it must be a girl. "The big man's face was full of respect, the master was the highest person in the Dharma he had ever seen in his life, and he never missed what the master said.

The little guy was unwilling: "Then why do you want to guard her for eighteen years?" Not nineteen, not seventeen, but eighteen? And if you keep a girl for eighteen years, aren't you afraid that I will be nostalgic for Hongchen and move my heart? ”

Do you know what a mortal heart is, you little kid? The big man was very disdainful, but he didn't show it: "Since the master has arranged it like this, he naturally has the truth of his old man, if you really move your heart, it can only be said that you have no relationship with Buddhism, and you don't want to enter Buddhism, as for why it is eighteen years...... Amitabha, the secret of heaven must not be revealed! ”

The little guy rolled his eyes, and scolded his senior brother from beginning to end in his heart, but the senior brother refused to say that there was nothing he could do, so he had to helplessly raise his head and look at the sky in the distance, the rainbow in the sky had dispersed, and the rainbow was so big that the time of existence was not like words.

It was not early, and the two of them hurriedly began to speed up in order to spend the night in that village, but as the saying goes, "Wangshan runs a dead horse", looking at the small mountain village that is very close, they walked for half a day.

When they reached the entrance of the village, the sun was almost completely set behind the mountain, and the beautiful sunset reflected in the sky, as red as blood.

The village is very lively now, and for a small mountain village like them with a population of only more than 100, every additional person is a great joy. They are now celebrating together to welcome this tiny new member.

As soon as they entered the village, they were seen by the villagers, and the simple mountain people warmly welcomed them. A young man who obviously just became a father, smiled honestly, and stuffed the only few eggs into their arms, and the tall one refused to take them, because eggs are also meat, and eating them is to break the precepts, but the little guy didn't care, took the eggs and peeled them there, and looked at the tall man and frowned, but he couldn't say anything, after all, the little guy has not been ordained, but he is just a lay disciple, and he does not have to strictly abide by the rules and precepts of Buddhism.

The cute appearance of the little guy soon attracted the attention of several aunts in the villagers, who ran over to touch his little bald head, pinched his little face, and looked at the distressed look on the little one's face, but they laughed very happily.

An aunt brought the newborn baby over, and after inquiry, the little guy already knew that it was indeed a baby girl, and he took the swaddling clothes from the aunt's arms, and looked at the little guy who was carefully held in his arms, and the little guy's heart was happy.

What a small life, her head was only slightly larger than an adult's fist, and the hair on her head was sparse. Her eyebrows were almost thin, and her eyes were tightly closed, but judging by the width of her eyes, if they were opened, they would be a pair of large, extremely beautiful eyes. Her nose is so small, the tip of her nose is round, and she looks extremely delicate. The small mouth under the little nose is slightly open and is breathing heavily.

The little guy looked at her cute sleeping appearance, couldn't help but reach out and touch her chubby little face, and then kissed her, and the aunts who watched the excitement laughed even more happily, and joked if he wanted to marry her as a wife in the future. The little guy shook his head firmly, and then said with a serious face, he is a genius of Buddhism, and when he grows up, he will definitely inherit the mantle of the master, he wants to become a monk, and a monk cannot marry a wife.

It's a pity that his serious appearance is even more cute in the eyes of the aunts, so it has attracted a new round of crazy "ravage" on him, and the little guy whose face is almost deformed can only lament in his heart: The world of genius, no one can understand you!

After dinner, leaving behind the little guy who was teased by several aunts in the village, the tall man pulled the village chief on the side, and went to his house, according to the teacher's order, he had to tell the village chief some things, after all, to let the little guy stay with the baby girl for eighteen years, there are still many things that need to be negotiated and arranged.

To the great man's surprise, the conversation went extremely smoothly, and when the tall man said that he wanted to stay here with the newborn baby girl, the village chief agreed without even thinking about it, and he promised to take good care of the little one, and would send him to school, and do his best to give him the best education and living environment.

The tall man asked him strangely why, and the village chief smiled and said that the little guy was very cute and likable, and the whole village would agree to keep him.

After that, the tall man told the village chief about the little guy and some arrangements in the temple, but the village chief didn't ask them why they left the little guy here, but secretly kept the tall man's words in mind.

The night passed with the laughter of the people, and the next morning the tall man came out of the village chief's house, went to see the little one who was still asleep, and left without looking back......

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