Chapter Twenty-Nine: Where We Are Going
"Mage, who are the people who will fall into the Infernal Hell?"
"No one is wronged, and all those who are affectionate are evil."
"But the Buddha also said that the world is impermanent, and there are sentient beings."
"It is in impermanence that we know sentient beings, and in sentient beings, I know all sentient beings, Congratulations to the donor, where are you now?"
"Mage, didn't you see me sitting here on the threshold?"
The ancient temple in the deep mountains, the tourists are depressed, I sit on the threshold outside the hall with the old monk of the Dizang Hall of the Quanling Temple, there is a match without a match to play the edge, this back and forth, it is also very interesting.
The temperature in the mountains was exceptionally cool, and the fresh air was very comfortable to inhale into my chest, and I lazily stretched my muscles, and the old monk looked at me with a smile and said:
"Lord He, can you hold it today?"
I was stunned and looked at him.
The meaning of this sentence is to ask me whether I can keep the vows now or not.
Buddhism has a saying that the precepts are also called liberation, and if you keep the vows well, you can also be liberated, and you can enter the bodhisattva path from then on.
To put it more bluntly, this old man wants to take me as an apprentice and become a monk with him.
Where am I willing to do this, quickly wave my hand and laugh at myself:
"Yo, this can't be sustained, mage, my six roots are full of filth, and I haven't experienced enough of the wind and moon in this world."
The old monk was not annoyed after hearing this, but just smiled and said to himself:
"It seems that the poor monk asked early."
"It's not early, I'm thirty-one, even if I had Huigen in the past, I'm afraid I'll be bald a long time ago, mage, you can dispel this idea."
I put this sentence down, but the monk's gaze did not look at me, but looked at the other end of the corridor of the Buddhist hall, and I followed his gaze, and a woman's figure appeared in front of me.
I sighed in my heart, but my face was silent, the old monk stood up, and we put our hands together and saluted each other.
He then entered the temple and walked towards his bodhisattva.
And I, who stayed outside the temple, walked over to the woman.
"It's really here, what's the matter, I'm in such a hurry, I don't hesitate to run to the mountains to find me."
I said as I walked, and when I came to Wen Liang, her face was full of tiredness, and her chest was constantly rising and falling, panting, I guess she climbed the mountain.
But even so, I noticed that her gaze had stayed on my face from the moment I walked over.
She stood quietly in place, looking at me in a daze, I touched my face and said, "I have flowers on my face?" ”
She shook her head and asked, "How did you make an appointment here?" ”
I smiled and said, "I want to lose weight recently, but I'm afraid I don't have much self-control, so I came to the mountains to eat vegetarian food for a while, you came just in time, the food in the temple should be in line with the recipe of your big star to keep in shape, and we will try it together later." ”
“…… Good. ”
Wen Liang hesitated for a moment, but still replied softly, in front of me, she never seemed to refuse anything.
This is not a place to chat, the two of us walked side by side, like tourists, we did not communicate during the period, but I knew that she must have something to say, because of her identity, we walked to a small uninhabited pavilion on the mountain behind the temple, I leaned on the railing, condescendingly looked down at the mountain scenery, shook out a cigarette from my bag, lit it, put it in my mouth, and took a deep breath.
He ...... It's gone. ”
Behind him, Wen Liang finally hesitated to speak, his voice muffled.
"Who's missing?"
“…… He Natural. ”
"I'm right here."
I let out a puff of smoke and turned to look at her.
"I ...... I'm talking about another ......"
Wen Liang looked at me, and this sentence was a little difficult to say.
I pretended to realize, "Ah, he's there...... I know, I feel it. ”
"Feelings?"
"Yes, just like the description in "Journey to the West", when Sun Wukong killed the six-eared macaque, it feels exactly the same."
I made an analogy, but Wen Liang was puzzled.
I didn't explain because I knew she was smart and she would eventually understand what I was saying.
"You don't like him?"
This sentence, I know that Wen Liang also asked another He Tianran.
"I don't like myself, you should say."
I corrected, my cool expression darkening.
I held the cigarette up in front of my eyes and watched the smoke slowly puff out of my mouth and nose as the cigarette burned from the flames.
"Actually...... It's not that I don't like it, if you say it separately, he has more courage than me, less regrets than me, knows less than me, and is more ...... than me Believe more. He even interpreted my story very well, saying that dislike is false, jealousy is true, but this kind of jealousy makes me unable to mention the slightest hatred, you say, am I a very contradictory person? ”
I analyzed my emotions, talking and talking, even I was in a trance, this state I rarely showed in front of Wen Liang, but I believe that in this world, only she can understand.
In the small pavilion, there was silence.
When he was a teenager, every boy longed to become the lawless Monkey King, but when he put on a tight hoop and left from the Huaguo Mountain called "Youth", he entered the society and went through those tying up the ninety-nine-eighty-one difficulties, someone became a Buddha, became mature and steady, and he was admired by others, but the words were vicissitudes.
And some people have become demons, in order to completely pry open the tight hoop, they have made themselves covered in bruises, but when they returned to Huaguo Mountain, they found that it had become desolate and dilapidated, and it was no longer what they remembered.
As for most of the people, they have neither the qualifications to become Buddhas nor the courage to enter the demons, and more of them are just wearing tight hoops and running for their lives on the way to the scriptures with no end in sight.
But no matter which of the above Monkey Kings, he did not hesitate at all when killing the six-eared macaque.
Even when the Buddha saw it, he only sighed in vain.
However, it is the aftermath of this long sigh that seems to have passed through countless eternal times, and it echoes in my ears for a long time.
That's how I feel for my other self.
"In the end, there will only be one He Tianran left in this world, and the existence of the boy only proves that no matter how many times he repeats himself, it will happen, that is, he used his disappearance in exchange for a correct future......"
I slowly confided the truth, and the recovered memories swept through my mind again.
"You...... What are you talking about? When Wen Liang heard this, he was at a loss.
"The story is very simple, in fact, thirteen years ago in September, there was another story, I met a girl who was reborn, she turned a prank into a dream, we fell in love, but, she finally left, leaving behind a changed me by her, this is what was not written in that book......"
"The story after that, you know, I was with Cao Aiqing, but the ending didn't end here, I traveled to the future, and saw another self and the one I missed, I don't know how she was reborn from the future, but I know that she paid a heavy price in order to return to the past, I feel sorry for her, and I don't want her to be reborn again......"
"It's just that a person who may disappear at any time after crossing over, what can I do in this black and white world? After thinking about it, I finally came up with a plan - I was going to make everything start all over again, I was going to be another me, so that I could continue to stop her. ”
"I went back to September thirteen years ago, forgetting everything that had happened, all the misfortunes that had begun to repeat themselves in me, I had forgotten my love for her, and all that was left in my heart was the great humiliation...... This kind of hatred made me gradually become yin, resentful, and unwilling, and in the end, I finally became the He Tianran I hated the most. ”
At this point, the cigarette in my hand had burned to the end, and I threw it on the ground and stomped on it twice.
"Over the years, I have continued to use her guilt for me to make her fall in love with me little by little, and the pleasure of revenge once blinded me, until one day, that dusty memory suddenly woke up, and I suddenly remembered it...... I used to love her so much...... I wanted to tell her everything immediately, but the memories of waking up made me feel vaguely uneasy......"
"Soon after, when I was a teenager, I came to this world again, and as before, he thought of everything, and then with the plan that touched 'himself', he resolutely jumped into the fire pit again, and that he, now stands in front of you."
I finished everything with difficulty, and my eyes were already slightly astringent.
Wen Liang could already hear it, and she walked up and slowly hugged me.
Her body was still so soft, and my hands couldn't help but wrap around her back, greedily hoping that this moment would last longer, but in my ears, there was such a sentence-
"But...... You know...... Your plan for this...... It's going to fail, right? ”
“……”
"From the moment you see your teenage self, or the moment your memory comes back to life, you know you're going to fail...... If that girl hadn't turned that prank into a sweet dream, he wouldn't have appeared, and you wouldn't have a memory. ”
I was amazed at how quickly she understood all this, and to the point with a word, and in her arms, she raised her head and stared at me with a glint of water in her eyes, her expression full of apology and regret.
"Natural...... I'm sorry...... I'm really sorry...... Every time I think of the damage I have done to you when I was young and ignorant, I feel ashamed...... Over the years, I've watched you miss out on a better life several times, and my heart is tumbling and cramping...... I know you're approaching me to trick me...... But if you do this, it will make you live more freely, and if you cheat, you will cheat...... Because I owe you all this...... I should have ...... back."
Trying to keep the tears from falling, she smiled, and immediately looked away.
"Naturally, you know, from the time I saw that boy in this world, I knew that he must be you, and I never thought of you as two people...... Because...... I should have made up for what you were missing......"
After Wen Liang finished saying this, her heart seemed to have plucked up courage, she wiped her tears, her eyes were as clear as this verdant mountain, and what was hidden in it was full of affection.
She tilted her head, smiled at me and murmured:
"Natural...... What I love is all of you......"
All of me......
I tried to turn myself into a bad person, thinking that love and hate could be mutually beneficial.
I tried to get the timeline back on the right track and bury all the memories of my awakening in my heart.
I hid in the fog and carefully put away the clues that I had loved her.
But even so, when the fog cleared and I was already devastated, she said to me,
Loved all of me.
I silently felt the warmth of her in my arms, and said softly:
"Ah Liang, if you have the opportunity, let's get acquainted again. However, I don't want it to start like this. ”
"Heavenly ...... Correct? ”
Wen Liang looked at me in surprise, and my hands gradually passed through her body, until I could no longer hold her, and I was like another self, and my body slowly became transparent.
It seems that my time has also come.
Ai Qing's side should have made a decision.
The belated sunlight can't save the withered flowers, so she can only save herself.
This "I" owe Ai Qing too much, she is innocent, and my disappearance means that she has returned to the past and is changing history.
In this world, from beginning to end, there is only one He Tianran.
Wen Liang desperately tried to hold me, like a crying little girl trying to grab the snatched rag doll, she tried many times, but each time it was undoubtedly in vain.
I looked at her with a smile and she looked at me crying.
She seemed to say a lot to me, but I couldn't hear a single one.
I don't know what will happen to her after I disappear, how Ai Qing will live, and what kind of He Tianran will appear in this world.
But I know that it means a new beginning.
Yes, these two women, one is like a noble phoenix, and the other is like a bright moonlight.
In this world, who has ever seen someone raise a phoenix?
Who can restrain the moonlight?
A meteor has its own direction of coming and going,
We, of course, have our place to go.
(End of chapter)