I ran in in a panic and found that the fox tail I saw was just a severed tail, and I reached out to turn over the female corpse lying on the ground, but she was already frozen on the ground, and her skin was stuck to the ice. I turned her over a little harder, and I saw that her whole face was skinless.

I was so frightened that I retreated, this person's face was not Xiaoxue, I didn't dare to look at the face that was sticking to the ground, but at this time, there was a sudden clicking sound above my head, and I looked up sharply, only to find a huge white snake swooping down from the top of the cave.

The white snake is about seven or eight meters long, the thickness of a bucket, and it has white fur all over its body. It looks scary and terrifying.

The snow ape roared and jumped over, punching the white snake away, the white snake slipped from the cave wall, lying on the ground motionless, its eyes were round, and the corners of its mouth were still dipped in the hair of the black fox, I found that it was already dead, its body was full of traces of sharp claws, and its abdomen had a long incision, as if it had been cut by sharp claws. Only then did I realize that the blood in this cave belonged to this white snake.

I walked out of the cave and followed the snow peak to the top, and looked around, I saw faint footprints on the edge of another snow peak in the distance, I slowly descended to the mouth of the cave, and said to the snow ape, "Brother Ape, go over there." ”

The snow ape carried me on his shoulder, and with a sudden leap from the sky to a snowy slope, and leaped in the direction I pointed, and we reached the top of the cave again, and found that in the cave there was a large snake covered with white hair, and the belly of the great snake was still cut open, and there was blood lying on the ground.

I searched for a long way with the snow ape. We didn't return until we were almost down the hill.

After going back, the snow ape returned to the stone house, and after a moment's hesitation, it asked me to enter the stone house as well, and motioned for me to lie down on the bed where Chen Shisan had been lying to sleep.

Our communication is so simple, so simple that we become friends when we meet.

I don't know where the black fox took Xiaoxue, or what it was trying to do when it killed the white snakes, and I felt sad as I listened to the wind whistling outside the cave.

I don't know what happened to Xiaoxue at this time, and if she misses me too. Brother Winter.

I dimly saw the white light emanating from my body again, but this time I didn't go far, I stood by the bed, and a large and peaceful force dragged me down. I looked at the table in the stone house, and saw a peaceful aura emanating from the hat and the monk's robe, calming my restless soul.

I slowly retreated into my body, and opened my eyes in a peaceful state of mind, this is the most peaceful soul out of my body in my life, I looked at the clothes on the table, and remembered the old monk recorded in Chen Shisan's notes, Xuyun.

When I was learning the Tao in the mountains, the master once told me about the Xuyun Zen Master, and the master's evaluation of the Xuyun Zen Master was even higher than that of Master Hongyi, the first genius of Buddhism.

Xuyun Zen Master was born in the Qing Dynasty Daoguang 20 years, when his mother died because of it, his life was full of disasters and difficulties, several times on the verge of death, he was a monk at the age of 19, and at the age of 40 he sent his heart to Wutai Mountain to repay his parents' deep kindness. From the Fahua Temple of Putuo Mountain began to incense, three steps and one worship, three years to reach Wutai Mountain, see Manjushri Bodhisattva Jinyan.

In the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu, foreign enemies invaded Beijing, the capital was in turmoil, and Emperor Guangxu and the Empress Dowager Cixi fled to Chang'an.

Prince Qing heard that someone around him said that the old monk Xuyun was a high-ranking monk, so he personally went to ask Xuyun to accompany him to keep safe, and the Xuyun monk at that time raised a small white ape, so he took it with him.

At that time, Chang'an City was full of hunger, the people were not happy, there were dead people everywhere, many living people were so hungry that they began to eat Guanyin soil, and more people chose to eat the flesh of the dead, and the road was full of rotting bones.

At that time, it was the eighth month of Futian, the scorching sun, the stench of corpses in Chang'an City, the plague and cholera, Xuyun asked the emperor to issue a holy decree prohibiting the living from eating the dead, and mobilized all the wealthy households to donate their stored grain to open a soup kitchen to relieve the victims. He has mercy on all sentient beings, and is willing to organize a 7-day snow prayer meeting in Wolong Temple, hoping that God will have mercy and can snow to eliminate disasters.

Praying for snow in August, in the eyes of everyone, is a fool's dream, this is impossible to achieve, no matter how advanced a person's Dharma is, it is impossible to violate the sky, since ancient times, praying for rain and snow is mostly the day when some conspirators are well versed in the way of meteorological changes, and the precipitation is calculated.

Praying for rain in August is reasonable, and praying for snow is inevitably too confident.

What's more, the old monk of Xuyun doesn't know Taoism and martial arts at all, many strange people who admire this old monk found him in private, and said that the current catastrophe is in the heat of the day, even if Yuan Tiangang is alive, it is impossible to change the weather, you only have karma, no Buddhism and martial arts, and it is not possible to simply take things from the air, let alone change the rules of heaven with your own strength?

Xuyun did not listen to the persuasion, bent on seeking snow, all the monks of Wolong Temple together to build a Buddhist door to ask for rain, thousands of monks moved by him, he was about to die in Zhongnan Mountain, the old master also helped, his master told him that the key to praying for snow is not in people, but in his Buddha power to awaken the snow ape around him.

The snow ape has been raised by Xuyun for several years and has already understood human nature, so it is naturally the master who understands Xuyun.

After the Buddha gate asks for rain platform to be built, it enshrines Shakyamuni Buddha, Maitreya Buddha, Guanyin Bodhisattva and the great trend to the Bodhisattva, the golden Buddha flag of praying for snow is hung high on the rainy day, the virtual cloud takes the stage, with more than 100 monks chanting Buddhist scriptures for six days and six nights, on the seventh day, Chang'an City has a goose feather heavy snow that is seen once in a hundred years.

That year, Chang'an City was frozen for thousands of miles, and snow fell for thousands of miles.

The Empress Dowager Cixi, accompanied by the palace maids and guards, came to the Wolong Temple in the snow, and saw the thin Xuyun sitting in the wind and snow holding a spell and casting spells, and was moved to tears, and knelt in the snow, and buckled the noble head of the Xuyun monk.

Later, Xuyun disappeared into Chang'an City with the little snow ape, and no one knew where he went.

Until the Yunmen Incident in 1951, which shocked China and the rest of the world, the military and police slaughtered the monks of Yunmen Temple in order to investigate the rebellion and firearms, and the 112-year-old Xuyun Zen Master was beaten to death, without pulse and breathing, but he was resurrected the next day.

The following year, when the great man heard about the deeds of Master Xuyun, he summoned Xuyun and wanted to take refuge in Buddhism.

Xuyun said, if you want to take refuge, come to see me in person.

Xuyun Zen Master is not afraid of life and death, at the age of 120, he traveled all over the world in his life, a rod, a hat, and a clock, from self-discipline to save people, abstaining from wax (equivalent to not committing any precepts) for one hundred and one years, creating countless miracles with the body of a mortal, and being the first person in the history of Buddhism.

I think that the Snowy Demon Ape should be the little white ape raised by the Xuyun Zen Master back then.

I got up and walked out of the stone house, came to the outside of the cave, and looked at the snowy moonlight of Changbai Mountain, feeling desolate in my heart.

I quietly walked to the back of the snow peak, and saw an old man in monk's robes enshrined in the shrine, and I knelt in front of him reverently, saying nothing, and I didn't know what to say.

I looked at the poems on both sides of the Buddha statue, sat and read the five emperors and four dynasties, and I didn't feel the vicissitudes of life; After suffering nine tribulations and ten tribulations, he knows that the world is impermanent.

I can't help but feel that I don't have much ambition, and I don't want to go through the vicissitudes of life, I just want to wake up one morning and see Shi Xiaoxue return safely.

I knelt all night in front of the Buddha statue in the void clouds, and when I saw my face reflected on the silver lamp on the altar altar, I realized that my temples were gray now.

What I didn't know was that the snow ape just stood not far away and watched me kneel reverently all night.

When the sun rose the next day, a large and a small figure greeted the first rays of the morning sun and breathed out fresh air, I looked at the snow falling heavier and heavier, and my heart became more and more anxious, I said: "Brother Ape, the snow in Changbai Mountain is getting bigger and bigger, I still go to my friends by myself, don't trouble you." ”

The snow ape frowned and looked at me, there was a sadness in his eyes, and he squeaked, as if he was afraid that I would leave, and the snow in the sky suddenly became heavier.

I looked at him with a frown, and then I remembered that in the story about Xuyun, the little ape who was opened by the power of Buddhism should be the snow ape in front of me, is it afraid that I will leave?

The snow ape stretched out his hand and slowly pointed forward, and the snow flying in the air immediately stopped, the wind stopped and the snow stopped, as if time had stood still, so mysterious and mysterious.

I was so surprised that I couldn't add it to myself, it turned out that the Xuyun Zen Master prayed for snow back then was really thanks to the snow ape, and he was also gathering the wishes of all beings to open the snow ape's magical powers.

The snow ape lowered his head, squeaked, and then waved his hand slightly, and the snow continued to fall, only much smaller than before, and he turned back to the cave in a sad way.

I said, "Brother Ape, wait until I come back." ”