The dialogue between Ye Xiang and the old monkey continued, and the other party used some sour words from time to time, deflecting and damaging Lord Shizun, damaging Mount Meru, and damaging the face of the Buddha, making Ye Xiang have a headache, and he couldn't talk about human feelings with this natural stone monkey, and he knew that he could explain it clearly, so he began to feel that his buttocks were soaked in the red oil hot pot soup full of red peppers and peppercorns, which was not uncomfortable, slippery, greasy and numb.

Finally, he couldn't help it, and put his hands together and said, "Amitabha, the Great Sage ......"

Before he finished speaking, the old ancestor's wild laughter rang out again: "Shu, this is the first time in your life that you have chosen to pay tribute to Amitabha Buddha, I think this Guiyuan Temple is not the Pure Land Sect, you are not Guanyin Bodhisattva, the Western Pure Land is the sworn enemy of Mount Meru...... Amitabha? ”

Ye Xiang was embarrassed and said, "So what?" Immediately, his eyes rolled and he smiled: "The Great Sage really wants the little monk to recognize the dignity of the Bodhisattva?"

The ancestor said: "No matter what it is, you must always understand who you are, so that you can stand on your own position and make the choice that is most suitable for your own interests." Yes, I'm just going to force you to admit that you're ...... It's a special thing!"

"It's forced. Ye Xiang smiled and said, "If I am Shu, I will call you a monkey." ”

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There was a little silence in the hut, and the fire scolding of the old ancestor finally came out: "You little monk is disrespectful. ”

Ye Xiangzhi said innocently: "About the memory of the Bodhisattva. For seven or eight hundred years on Mount Meru, the Bodhisattva has been calling you a monkey. I was going to call you to fight to defeat the Buddha, but you said that the Buddha position was fake, which didn't mean much. It's better to call you a monkey according to the old rules. ”

The old ancestor was speechless, when Ye Xiang was still the first great Bodhisattva, although the two of them talked about intimacy, but after all, they had a little friendship, the old monkey and the old monkey, as a great Bodhisattva, also shouted...... It's just that 500 years have passed, and now the Bodhisattva of this world is a young monk who has grown up watching the old monkey grow up from a young age, and he wants to spit out the word old monkey from the mouth of this young monk. I have to be happy to be born myself, this taste. It's really not authentic.

Therefore, the old ancestor coughed twice, determined to bluff this case of title justice, and shouted with a grin: "My family said, Ye Xiang, you don't go to heaven, are you going to stay in the provincial capital for the rest of your life? And now you obviously have the great bodhisattva supernatural powers, but you ignore it, this ...... I'm afraid that some can't be justified. ”

The old ancestor was just worried about whether Yi Tianxing and Xiao Yi Zhu would live or die or not, so every word and sentence tempted Ye Xiangseng to go to heaven to help fight.

Ye Xiangseng smiled bitterly and said: "Ancestor, I have also served you in this temple for more than 20 years, why aren't you afraid that after I go to heaven, I will suffer even worse?" This is the truth, Ye Xiang, as the first heir to the Buddha, is now the dominant Buddha realm in the Pure Land of the West. There is no doubt that he is the most wanted criminal in the Pure Land, and if he rashly goes to the sky, he will snipe and kill the Bodhisattva of the Great Trend for dozens of lifetimes. How could he be let go so easily.

The old ancestor was silent for a while, as if he was thinking about something, and after a while, he said quietly: "You are the first one on Mount Meru, and if you don't bravely bear the many reasons after the disappearance of the Buddha, who will bear it?" A few years ago, you and my apprentice watched Fuxian sit down with your own eyes, and he has been responsible for five hundred years, can't you bear it?"

Ye Xiang was also silent for a while, and said: "It's not that I can't bear it, it's not that I can't afford it, it's just that I don't know how to go, and I still have great doubts about a dustless heart." He raised his eyes containing clear light, looked at the lonely figure of the old monkey on the stone steps, suddenly felt sour, and sighed: "Tuas threw the boy to the lower realm, it was to explain the matter to you, what did she say at that time?"

The old ancestor stood up, and the Vajra Demon Circle on the periphery was buzzing, as if he was very afraid. He said lightly: "Trapped in the world for hundreds of years, I have tried several times to break the heavenly robe and the Buddha's light array, but every time there is a little difference, there is still a slight gap between me and the Buddha's ability." ”

Perhaps, this is the life of an old monkey, and it is rare to admit that he can't compare to someone.

He went on to say: "Then one rì, Guanyin Bodhisattva descended from the sky, saying that he wanted to send a boy to the next world to help me get out of trouble, at that time I was worried about the life and death of the master, I don't know what he has suffered in the past hundreds of years, so I promised the Bodhisattva that I would take the boy into the house and help him practice. At that time, his mind was naturally selfish, and if the boy of the heart can help me get out of trouble, what does it matter if I teach him a little?"

The old monkey smiled slightly, and the monkey hair outside the collar of the light pink sè tight underwear trembled slightly: "Later, Yi Tianxing, a fool, was lured into Guiyuan Temple by me, and then fought back and forth with those monks in the world, in my opinion, I am afraid that these are all tempering arranged for him by Guanyin Bodhisattva." ”

"It was also after Yi Tianxing entered Guiyuan Temple that he had a quarrel with that little girl from Qin. Old ancestor yīnyīn said: "That time was the closest I was to getting out of trouble. It is precisely because of this that I believed in the words of Guanyin Bodhisattva, and it seems that the birth of the boy may really help me get out of trouble. But I never expected that things would become more and more complicated later, I was very worried about Yi Tianxing from the beginning, for fear that he would be mixed into the Buddha's land, that chūnrì dream, you led the Buddha of Mount Meru to find the Buddha with a wild shout, I had to hurry into his consciousness and disperse you, I was afraid of this. ”

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"That's the dream, the boy's dream has me, and my dream has dozens of golden-bodied Arhats...... I had a dream, but I slowly woke up. Ye Xiangseng, who was sitting on the wall, sighed.

"In this life, the boy hates others the most to control his own life, and he has a sparse face, but in fact he has a delicate mind, I am afraid that he has already understood these things, but he deliberately does not break them. I think that countless years ago, the Buddha returned from ancient times and brought back a fire, and the fire gradually cultivated the ** form. He was reborn as a prince. The Buddha ordered me, Fuxian, Guanyin, elders, monks, laymen, and night gods to participate in the Dharma with the boys. At that time, the people of Mount Meru had questions, what kind of creation will this boy have in the future? Why does the Buddha need to pay so much attention to it? Unexpectedly, after the fifty-three visits, the Buddha still asked Guanyin Bodhisattva to travel around with the boy. And there was no explanation. ”

"It wasn't until the present life after the disappearance of the Buddha that the boy reappeared in the world, and it seemed that there was a faint connection between this escape, so I people in Mount Meru put the heavy responsibility of finding the Buddha's whereabouts on the shoulders of the boy. ”

The old ancestor laughed at himself: "Even my family, it seems that the matter of getting out of trouble will be all put on this poor apprentice." ”

Ye Xiangseng smiled and said: "The great sage and the boy have a deep relationship with the master and apprentice, even if there is no secret plan of Guanyin Bodhisattva, I am afraid that he will not be able to see you suffer in the grass house." When

The old ancestor was silent for a while. Suddenly, he said coldly: "I'm afraid, I'm afraid, this master-apprentice relationship." It is also the secret design of Guanyin Bodhisattva, if ...... If this is the case, this situation is inevitably a little dangerous, my family I hate others to use these two words the most, if it is really Guanyin Bodhisattva has very dangerous thoughts, my family ...... I ......" he suddenly stopped. Because I found that even if I was being used by that bodhisattva, it seemed that I couldn't be ruthless.

After all, on the way to learn scriptures more than a thousand years ago, he had already been "willingly" used by her once.

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"There is no Buddha in the south. Ye Xiangsheng respectfully praised: "There are fifty-three ginseng in the front, and there are fifty-three ginseng in the back, such a huge and complicated thing, it must be designed by the Buddha himself, the great sage does not need to worry too much, just look at the situation with the little monk." ”

"I don't look at it. The old monkey gently pinched his fingers. The bottle of green fruit wine was subconsciously turned into a pale white powder by him, "Wait a few more months, if there is no news in the sky." I'm going to try again. ”

"It's okay, if I'm in the provincial city at that time, I'll come to live in this robe. Ye Xiangseng raised his head and glanced at the green sè light and shadow robe that had been floating in the sky, which obviously had the ability to clear the heart and calm the qi, but made people extremely troubled.

To put it mildly, a monkey and a bodhisattva set the earth-shattering event a few months later.

"If you are in the provincial capital?" the old ancestor shrugged his forehead, and snorted: "You don't go to heaven, and you dare to run around?" ”

Ye Xiangseng smiled and said: "The boy is alone in the sky, I have to do something." Although I don't go up, I can always lure some people down. ”

I took the train from the provincial capital to Taiyuan, and then found the noisy bus station, and sat on an Iveco outside the station, Ye Xiangseng was wearing a windbreaker and a mask, looking like a traveler with a cold.

Now that the world is hot and cold, the tourists on the side will not cast superfluous attention, but show a feeling of disgust and avoidance on their faces. Instead, the attendant on the bus asked him a few words and poured him a glass of boiled water.

Ye Xiangseng thanked him busily, and then sat quietly next to the car and looked at the scenery outside the window. But knowing why, he seemed to care about this trip very much, deliberately with the secular crowd, sitting on secular transportation, looking at the secular scenery.

It's like saying goodbye to this world where I've lived for many years.

It was only at this time that he deeply understood why Yi Tianxing had been stubbornly and persistently embedding himself in worldly life, and he would never let go until the end.

The worldly is also interesting.

Look at the wild flowers on both sides of the road, the dusty ash trees are weak, and occasionally passers-by with different faces are sitting or walking, or driving donkeys, walking on the road that is not wide, busy for specific things in life, the road is sprinkled with some grains that Ye Xiangsheng does not know the name of, he is a little surprised, it is May now, is it the harvest season?

Above the world, there is the same way of thinking. Buddhism has always paid attention to the transformation of the world, because they feel that the world lives in the present, but they cannot detach themselves and see the essence of things clearly. And what is the essence of things? Ye Xiangseng asked himself like this -- he is a master bodhisattva under the Buddha's throne, known as the wisest person -- and then things have developed to this day, and he seems to be a little confused, what is the essence of life?

If we live in the present moment and say that we are only happy and happy on the surface, but we do not see the countless sufferings of samsara, then why should we wake up these people who are busy or leisurely?

Ye Xiangseng sighed softly, the climate in the north was cold, and a cloud of white mist spit out of his mouth and condensed on the car window. He stretched out his finger and carefully wrote a few words on the water.

It was at this time that he thought of the two old men, Chen Sanxing, Liang Siniu, and after the people from the heavenly realm were all sniped by the forces of the world, these two old men went back to Woniu Mountain to Xun bacon.

"If people think that death is the end, that's not necessarily a bad thing. Ye Xiangseng thought with a smile and took his finger back from the car window.

The moisture on the car window was smeared by the thin fingers into a strangely shaped face, and the face had facial features, but he couldn't see the appearance clearly, and he didn't know what he had written earlier.

Coming to Wutai Mountain, this place that Ye Xiangsheng is very familiar with, he walked slowly to the mountain, only heard the bells along the road, burning incense everywhere, he couldn't help but sniff, almost sneezed, and said with a wry smile: "I haven't been here for many years, why has the air become much worse, and the aroma of these incense burnings is really evil." ”

Today's Wutai Mountain, there are still all kinds of treasures of Bodhisattvas enshrined on the five peaks - Dongtai Wanghai Temple for Wisdom Shu, South Taiwan Puji Temple for Wisdom Shu, West Tai Falei Temple for Lion Shu, North Tai Lingying Temple for Wujishu, Taiyanjiao Temple for Rutong Shu - but when Ye Xiang came here again after hundreds of years, he was a little confused.

This mountain is dedicated to oneself, why is his feeling so strange, so excluded? It seems that this mountain, this water, this temple, and all these fragrances want to expel themselves from these five peaks.

Ye Xiang didn't understand, Wutai Mountain had already become a tourist attraction, and the monks on the mountain were still worshipping, but it was Brother Kong Fang who worshipped, and this breath was naturally not very good. He looked at the weaving tourists, shook his head, and walked to the Yanjiao Temple, his current realm is the Rutongshu, and it is natural to go to the Yanjiao Temple.

But when entering the mountain, there was a big obstacle.

That obstacle is: tickets.

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May is the peak season, the ticket to enter the mountain costs ten yuan, and listen to the "black guides" next to them said that after entering the mountain, every big temple or something, you have to charge another ticket to enter. Before coming, Ye Xiangseng only took a total of five hundred from the counter of the small bookstore, except for the expenses on the road, he calculated carefully, and he was actually a little stretched.

He stood at the gate of the mountain, looking at the smoke-covered peaks above, and smiled bitterly.

Shu Bodhisattva returned home for the first time in 500 years, and it seemed that he had to evade the ticket.