After a while, the early morning sun gradually began to fall from the distance.

At this time, Daddy noticed that both the snake and the frog turned their heads to the slanted sunlight. The mouths of snakes and frogs open and let the sunlight shine into their mouths, as if they were about to swallow it.

Looking at the old monk again, he actually opened his mouth in the sun, and his face was comfortable.

At this time, my grandfather was already hungry, and out of hunger and curiosity, he also tried to imitate snakes and frogs to open their mouths. But his mouth was open for a long time, and Grandpa didn't feel anything abnormal, just like he used to bask in the sun. This kind of boring action, why do snakes, frogs and old monks have to do it?

Daddy closed his mouth and looked at the animal and the old monk.

Grandpa saw that the old monk was swallowing, and his Adam's apple went up and down.

Both snakes and frogs have the action of swallowing.

So, Daddy opened his mouth to the sunlight again, and then swallowed dryly. A strange sensation ensued, quickly spreading throughout the body!

It was the feeling of hunger subsidence.

Grandpa didn't swallow once, and he felt a little full.

The intestines were almost knotted, and the grandfather, whose chest was almost close to his back, hurriedly swallowed non-stop, which could be described as gobbling up. Soon, Daddy felt full of strength, and his stomach was no longer hungry.

After the time of the half-pillar of incense had passed, the frog closed its mouth. Then the snake closed its mouth, and finally the father and the old monk also closed their mouths.

The old monk pulled his grandfather out of the deep pit, stroked his abdomen and said with a smile: "This method of clearing the valley is very simple, once it is known, it is also very easy to learn, but few people in the world know it, and a very few people may not be able to do it completely." You know why? ”

"Why?"

"There are too many temptations in the world, and it is rare in the world for a person to be able to overcome all temptations and stick to his nature." The old monk said.

For the next few days, the old monk led his grandfather to this deep pit to feed on the sun. Grandpa never starved again during his study of reincarnation.

Before you know it, seven days have passed.

The old monk sent his grandfather away on the evening of the seventh day. Daddy looked up and saw that the moon in the sky was round, just like the night he was introduced into the cave by the spirit monkey.

The old monk sent his grandfather to the small pavilion where he met him when he came, and he didn't send it any further. The old monk unexpectedly grabbed his father's hand, reluctantly, and the old tears were rampant.

Grandpa thinks that the old monk is a master of the world, born a fairy, and should not be emotional for joys and sorrows like ordinary people, but should be chic, pampered and humiliated, and indifferent to gains and losses.

But in the end, the old monk couldn't hold back and cried.

Seeing him like this, Grandpa hurriedly asked, "Master, will I suffer a catastrophe after I leave here?" So that the master mourns for me like this? ”

The old monk raised his arm and wiped away a handful of tears without the demeanor of a master, still with a crying face, and said: "I remember experiencing the same scene many, many years ago. I sent my master out, and I never saw him come back since. Many, many years ago, it was he who taught me a lot of knowledge and truths here, let me understand the vastness of life like the sea, and show the veins of life in front of my eyes like the veins of falling leaves after autumn. ”

It turned out to be a touch of sadness, and my father was a little relieved. The friendship between master and apprentice is no less than the love between father and son, which is naturally unforgettable and heart-to-heart.

But the old monk's next words made Grandpa hit the back of his head.

The old monk said, "I think at that time, Master told me that he was going to a temple in Nyingchi, Tibet, to save people, and if he didn't go, that area would suffer a disaster like hell on earth. I asked him when he would be back. Master said that there was a presiding officer in that temple, and his cultivation was unfathomable, so the trip might not be smooth. If it doesn't go well, I won't come back. ”

Daddy's mind suddenly remembered the scene of the dervish leading a group of weak men with corpses to jump into the river. Could it be that the dervishew used to live here? And such an apprentice?

Without waiting for Grandpa to think clearly, the old monk said: "Master also said that there will be a person who will come to Mount Emei on a certain year, a certain month, and a certain night, and ask me to teach that person all my life's learning. The Master instructed that the person may not be able to understand even if he learns, because he only has 'knowledge' and not 'action'. Only when 'knowledge and action are united' can he truly understand the magic you have taught him. In the tempering of life in the future, he will gradually wake up, gradually understand, gradually master, and gradually integrate into his own ability like a bean sprouting. ”

Grandpa's face was dazed, just like the pale moon.

"Let's go! Sending you a thousand miles must be goodbye in the end! The monkey will lead you on the road ahead! The old monk folded his hands and bowed deeply to his grandfather.

The spirit monkey jumped out from behind the old monk.

Daddy hurriedly folded his hands and bowed deeper than the old monk.

The spirit monkey didn't care whether the two of them were reluctant or not, and the hexagram returned to the original way first.

The old monk urged again: "Let's go, let's go." ”

Daddy had no choice but to turn around and follow the monkey out of the pavilion.

Not far away, my grandfather heard the old monk behind him sing in a strange tone similar to singing: "The past is the future, and the future is the past!" The teacher is the apprentice, and the apprentice is the teacher! The circle is the shortage, and the lack is the circle! Coming and going, often coming and going, reincarnation, reincarnation, reincarnation, is for the great life-"

The last word "sheng" dragged on for a long time, longer than the shadow in the moonlight, longer than the gurgling water, longer than the endless thoughts of my grandfather.

The old monk's voice seemed to be wrapped around his father's ears, and it lingered. Grandpa's mind was empty, but his footsteps did not stop, and he followed the spirit monkey like a machine.

When his thoughts eased up, Grandpa looked back and saw that the figure of the old monk had disappeared.

Grandpa remembered that when he first met the old monk, the old monk didn't let him give a gift, and at this time he said, "The teacher is the apprentice, and the apprentice is the teacher." Could it be that Master Mihai has always treated me as a master?

Unable to figure out a thousand things for a while, Grandpa simply put aside these thoughts and focused his eyes on the spirit monkey in front of him.

It seems much easier and faster to get out of it than it is to walk in.

Within an hour, Grandpa walked out of the cave and returned to the elephant washing pool.

Grandpa looked up and saw that the moon in the sky was as round as a jade disk. The clouds and fog converge, the sky is blue, the mountains are silent, and the autumn breeze is cool. The moonlight filtered through the dense dark green jungle, as if it had been sifted through a sieve. Look at the spirit monkey that led the way, it was already hidden in the shade of the tree, as if it had never appeared.

Grandpa was about to chase after him, when a monk came down the steps in front of the elephant washing pool. The monk asked, "Donor, why don't you rest at such a late hour?" Are you lost? ”

Grandpa turned around and saluted and said, "I watched the scenery of the elephant washing pond here, and I didn't get lost." ”

The monk said, "The terrain here is high and the temperature is low. It is better for the donor to go back to the house as soon as possible to rest, so as not to be infected with the wind and cold. "The elephant washing pond is located in the slope of Mount Emei, which means that the sky is almost broken, which shows that it is very high here. It's cold in the heights. The monk's concern is not unreasonable.

Grandpa thanked the monk and asked, "I wonder if Master has heard the name of Master Mihai?" ”

The monk was stunned for a moment, and his face was extremely unnatural: "Why is the donor asking this?" He is a famous ghost monk here. I have been a monk for more than 40 years, and when I was young, I heard my 100-year-old master talk about him, but I never met him. The ancestor has never seen it, but he is an illegal monk who is in the Buddhist family but secretly learns Taoism, and was expelled by the teacher, and later died with resentment. Has the donor ever seen it? ”

Grandpa was surprised and said: "Being in a Buddhist family but secretly learning Taoism? Since he is dead, he should be afraid of the sun, how can he ......" Grandpa glanced at the monk and swallowed back the words that followed.

The monk thought that his grandfather was afraid, so he comforted: "Although Mihai is a ghost monk, he has never harmed anyone. Someone had met him on Emei before, and asked him for his Dharma name, and he said that the Dharma name was lost in the sea. ”

"Could he not have died?" Grandpa said casually.

"No, it won't. Buddhism cultivates the next life, while Taoist monks cultivate this life. If he is immortal, then he is not a monk, but a Taoist. "Monk humane.

"Didn't Master just say that although Mihai is in the Buddhist family, he secretly practices Taoism?" Daddy questioned.

The monk disagreed: "Since it is a stealing habit, it is naturally difficult to improve." There are so many Taoist priests in the world who specialize in learning Taoist Jindan that they can't live forever in their lifetime, and he can achieve it by secretly studying? ”

Grandpa nodded again and again, but thought of the scene of the Lost Sea monk feeding on the sun. Grandpa still remembers what he said: "This method of opening valleys is very simple, and once it is known, it is also very easy to learn, but few people in the world know it, and a very few people who know it may not be able to do it completely." ”

Maybe for Mihai, the art of immortality is also very simple and easy to learn, but except for him, few people in the world know about it, and a very few people who know it may not be able to do it completely.

Grandpa said goodbye to the monk, and could no longer find the spirit monkey, nor could he find the original way, so he had to return to the accommodation to rest. Before going to bed, my father asked the visitor who lived in the same room what day it was, and the answer was fifteen. The roommates did not notice any sign of his father's disappearance for seven days.

"In the evening, you said you went early and came back early, why did you come back so late?" The roommate asked.

"After watching the night view of the Elephant Washing Pond, I went into a deep hole and groped for a long time before I came out." Daddy didn't want to be in the same room, so he covered it up like this. However, even if you tell what you have seen and heard, your roommates may not believe it.

"Oh? You went to the Nine Old Immortal Cave? The roommate, who was already groggy, suddenly lost his sleepiness and asked excitedly.

"That cave is the Nine Old Immortal Cave?"

"I don't know if you're going to the Nine Old Immortal Cave. It is said that there are immortals living in that cave, and it is also said that it is the cave house where Zhao Gongming, the Taoist god of wealth, cultivates. ”

The speaker has no intention, but the listener has the intention. Grandpa hurriedly asked: "Isn't this Mount Emei a Buddhist powerhouse?" How could there be a Taoist God of Wealth cultivating here? ”

The roommate shook his head and said, "I don't know the difference between Buddhism and Taoism. ”

Grandpa stared at the face of his roommate for a moment, and said, "You don't know about Taoism and Buddhism now, but you will become an excellent monk in the future." ”