When he stepped into the threshold with his legs raised, Daddy even remembered every face of the group of people in the secret room. But he clearly remembered that the last time he saw the group of people, he was too scared to take a second look, and he closed the mechanism before he could see any of their faces.

At this time, Grandpa not only remembered the faces of the group of people, but also remembered that there were thirty-six people inside, and what the name of each person was. But in his memory, those faces were always cold, never laughing, never crying.

Grandpa unconsciously walked to the last room and found that the mage had been waiting at the door for a long time.

Seeing his father's dejected appearance, the mage smiled slightly and said, "I believe that you have also seen those things behind the wall, right?" ”

Grandpa came back to his senses and asked, "How do you know?" Is this what your master said before he died? ”

The mage replied, "No. Because that teacup was full of water, Zaba said that you were the only one who came in. Dzhaba was referring to the little lama.

Grandpa remembered that he had left in a hurry without pouring the tea from the cup, believing that the mage could also deduce that he had discovered the secret behind the wall, and couldn't help but smile awkwardly.

Since he has peeked at the mage's secret, and the mage already knows that he has peeked at his secret, then there is no need to hide it, it is better to be open and honest. Grandpa said, "May I ask the mage, do you usually have a habit of collecting corpses?" ”

This was broken at a moment, so the mage didn't dodge, and laughed: "Haven't you already seen it?" They weren't corpses, at least their eyes could move. To tell you the truth, they are weak. ”

Although Grandpa was prepared, he couldn't help but gasp when he said this. This mage is recognized as a master of hunting down weak langs, why do he still secretly hide so many weak lang in the pure place of the temple? Isn't this as questionable as destroying the illegal collection of cigarettes at home by officials who have banned them?

It was an era of smoke, and the crumbling Qing Empire was ostensibly banned, but most of the people of the Qing Dynasty could not do without it. When my grandfather was admitted to Xiucai, I also heard that the imperial court would temporarily vacate Manchurian nobles such as Prince Rui Kuibin and Prince Zhuang Zaigong, who refused to quit smoking, as a punishment, and the following year I heard that the cabinet bachelors Wen Hai and Zaichang were found to be addicted to smoking, and they were dismissed at the request of the Minister of Anti-Smoking. There are so many important ministers in the court who can't do without the big smoke, which shows that the people are even more serious.

Therefore, when my father saw the mage of the Tibetan weak man, he was like seeing the anti-smoking official of the Tibetan big smoke, and he was a little more distrustful.

"Since the mage is a master of catching weak langs, why do you still have so many weak langs at home?" Daddy asked.

The mage said something that Daddy couldn't understand. He said, "You should know better than I do!" ”

Grandpa was stunned for a moment.

The master invited my grandfather into the house and sat down, and said, "You taught me to raise the threshold, saying that the door of the temple should not be too low, so raise the threshold to deal with the weak man." Because the weak man's legs can't bend and can't jump high, in addition to the low gate can block them, the high threshold can also stop them. They know that the high threshold can trip them and will not come in. ”

There were a few more teacups on the table than last time. The master lifted the teapot, poured a cup of tea, and then respectfully handed it to his grandfather, saying, "You also taught me to secretly hide these weak men in the temple, saying that snake catchers should raise snakes in order to find out the snake's temperament, so as to attack its weaknesses and avoid its strengths. ”

Grandpa took the tea in a daze, wrinkled his eyebrows and pondered for a moment, and asked, "I told you this?" I hadn't been here before, and I don't remember saying that. ”

The mage sat down opposite his grandfather and said gently: "I heard that you are a talent who was admitted by Ding Weinian, and you know astronomy and geography, I wonder if you have heard of the reincarnation of the spirit child?" ”

Grandpa's knowledge is very profound, so he naturally knows what it is like to be reincarnated.

In Tibet, reincarnated spirit children can recall the names of their past lives, the events they have experienced, and so on. In this place, this is commonplace and not worth the fuss. There are also monks who are able to study or memorize important sutras with ease, even though they have not studied hard. At that time, there was a great yogi, Gyalyang Chenchen Rinpoche, who lived with a very strict master in a hut deep in the mountains when he was a child. One day, his master went to a neighboring village to recite sutras for the dead, and before leaving the house, he left a fifty-page copy of the Manjushri Sutra for him to memorize. Like any other playful child, as soon as the teacher left, he ran to play with the other children. The neighbors were afraid that his master would punish him when he came back and persuade him to endorse him, but he didn't care. When the sun went down, he read the fifty-page book from beginning to end. When his master came back, he asked him to recite it, and he easily memorized it word for word in front of the master. And it takes several months for the average person to be able to memorize this sutra. The reason why he can recite it after reading it only once is because he has memorized it in his previous life.

In addition to the reincarnated spirit children who can remember the events of their past lives, some masters with advanced cultivation can also predict where they will die and what kind of person they will be reincarnated into before they die.

When they passed through Sikkim, the famous Tibetan master Da Le Chau, who once worshipped India with his dependents, said, "I will die here now, and I will be reincarnated here in six years, and I will be born in such and such a family." If you can wait six years, then come to his house and find me. He told his entourage this and died shortly after. As a result, his attendant Gashi Zayan waited in Sikkim until six years later he found the newborn spirit child according to his will. Lingtong was invited back to Tibet, and after he went to the monastery "Duomang Monastery" before his death, he retreated for a month, and after leaving the customs, he had no teacher of the thirteen treatises he had created in his previous life.

These stories about the reincarnation of the spirit child and the reincarnation of the master were told to me by my grandfather. These stories may or may not have happened in my father's time, and I don't know what my father knew or didn't know. But my grandfather, who is a former dynasty talent, must know more than my grandfather and me.

Daddy immediately grasped the hint of the mage, and whispered, "What does the mage mean...... I lived in this temple in my previous life, and you are my disciple? ”

Seeing that his grandfather had comprehended, the mage sold Guan Zi again, folded his hands and smiled: "You can't say if you're not born, you can't say if you're alive, you can't say if you're alive, you can't say if you're not born, you can't say if you're not born, you can't say if you're not born, you can't say if you're not born." ”

Daddy asked, "Why can't you say it?" ”

The Master said, "This is what you taught me, you can't say it for no reason, you can't say it because it's deep, you can't say it because you can lead to no righteousness, and you can't say it because you can't say it because it's the place where the Dharma is located." ”

Grandpa followed the Master's words and said, "It is impossible for people to understand all things, there are many things that cannot be said, and some complicated things should be accepted indifferently than painfully entangled in finding the cause?" Daddy spoke as smoothly as if he were reciting a scripture. After saying that, Grandpa was taken aback by his words.

"How could I say such a thing?" Grandpa glared at the mage, expecting him an answer.

The mage's smile became even more unfathomable.

When Grandpa saw him like this, he told him truthfully, "To tell you the truth, after you told me that your master predicted on his deathbed that I would come here in nineteen and a half years, I suddenly felt that everything here was so familiar. It's as if this is my hometown, and I've been away from home all these years and finally returned to my hometown. When I stepped into the threshold, I remembered stuffing a piece of wood into the gap in the threshold. ”

The Master listened to his grandfather silently, just like a respectful disciple listening to his master's teachings.

"Last time, I accidentally twisted the mechanism in the teacup, and I accidentally saw those weak men who were motionless and blinking, and I was so scared that I couldn't straighten my legs. But just now, I remembered the appearance of those weak men, and I remember every face vividly. ”

The mage nodded again and again, still not saying a word.

Grandpa thought for a moment, and then said, "So, I did live here in my previous life?" I'm just like those reincarnated spirit children, who can remember everything from my previous life in a short period of time? ”

The mage does not speak.

Grandpa said to himself, "I listened to ...... last time Zaba ...... That's right, Zaba...... I heard him tell him about the past when hundreds of monks had raised the corpses of this temple, and the ascetic used a special way to lure the weak men into the river in front of the temple to drown, and later salvaged the body only to find that the body of the presiding officer was missing. Could it be ......"