Yiwu's return to the north was indeed a great thing for the promotion and widespread dissemination of Buddhism, so he did not intervene to stop it.

Yiwu gave Ding Yiguang the manuscripts of Rujue's "Absolute Views" and "Heart Inscriptions" when he was leaving, and said affectionately: "These scriptures are my painstaking efforts for many years. Now I leave it to you that the meditation experience of the ancestors is good for you. I don't know your past though I don't know; But when I talk to you about Zen and Taoism, I have a vague premonition that you will have an extraordinary future. ”

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Guanghuai is known as 100,000 mountains, the peaks and peaks are stacked on top of each other, and the vast mountains have a unique geographical environment: it is the junction of the two Guangzhou, which is closed by the heavy mountains, and the inconvenience of transportation makes it a pure land that few outsiders set foot in.

It is characterized by high mountains, dense forests, and sparsely populated people, which is easy to hide and escape, and can advance or retreat. In other words, this is a wild place where "the mountains are high and the emperor is far away".

The Jizui Rock where Ding Yiguang lives is on the top of the high mountain, there are dripping water from mountain springs that do not dry up all year round, and there are countless wild fruits that can satisfy hunger in the endless mountains.

It also has a unique cultural environment: it is a place where Yao and Han people live together, friendly and kind, the people are simple, and people live in harmony with each other.

The mountain people here are not as deeply rooted in traditional Buddhist thought as in the southern Guangdong region, but are more receptive to the epiphany Zen ideas advocated by Ding Yiguang.

Ding Yiguang is upright, kind, helpful, does not seek luxury and glory, only seeks to be indifferent, frugal life, and gets along very well with the woodcutters, hunters, and medicine farmers around him.

The villagers and mountain people came up to the mountain to find this "Ding Langzhong" when they were sick, and Ding Yiguang responded to their needs day and night, when it was windy and rainy, and often collected medicine to treat people.

One day, Ding Yiguang came down from Jizui Rock and walked to the village with Wang Erxiao, a hunter, to meet the villagers.

Suddenly, I saw four strangers at the entrance of the village, all of them looking fierce and evil, and they were talking to the villagers.

Although Ding Yiguang was more than ten zhang away from them, from the sound of the mountain wind, he could vaguely hear that they were speaking with a northern accent. The villager who was questioned pointed to his ear for a while, and then waved his hand violently, indicating that he did not understand.

Ding Yiguang seemed to understand what these strangers said and gestured. "Ah, are they?" A bad omen immediately grabbed Ding Yiguang's heart.

Ding Yiguang, who was particularly vigilant, immediately took a cloth scarf from the hunter Wang Erxiao next to him, put it on the top of his head, and used the hunting equipment, and then pulled the hunter Wang Erxiao next to him with his hand, and said: "Those who come are not good, and those who are good are not coming." It seems that the group of people is coming violently, as if they are chasing someone, and we still want to dodge. ”

Wang Erxiao nodded after hearing this, and walked briskly towards the other side of the mountain col with Ding Yiguang, as if a hunter was chasing his prey.

Those strangers were hired to chase Ding Yiguang everywhere when Ding Yiguang's chicken industry company owed Ni Feibao, a feed merchant, 8 million yuan for feed.

When the debt collector sent by Ni Feibao found that Ding Yiguang and Wang Erxiao, who were not far away, turned around and walked towards the other side of the mountain pass, they shouted and chased after them from behind.

It didn't take long for Ding Yiguang and Wang Erxiao to catch up at the mountain pass, and the four debt collectors raised their daggers and surrounded Ding Yiguang and Wang Erxiao.

The man in the lead was three or five thick, and he was called a ghost, and his eyes were as big as copper bells, and he shouted, "Why did you run away when you saw us?" ”

Although Wang Erxiao couldn't understand the words of the ghost who spoke with a northern accent, he could already deduce the content of the other party's question from their angry eyes, so he said: "We are not running away, but we have found that there are foxes in the barren grass on this side of the mountain pass, and we are chasing foxes. ”

When Wang Erxiao replied, his words were in the local dialect of Guanghuai, and the four people from the north blinked after hearing this, some scratched their heads, and some waved their hands back and forth, indicating that they did not understand, but they put on a menacing look.

There was a person who also shook the seven songs in front of Ding Yiguang and Wang Erxiao. They were gossiping, shouting, gesticulating, and questioning.

Ding Yiguang is a native of Lingnan, doing business from south to north, and has come into contact with a lot of people, not only can he understand what they say, but also learn to speak a few words.

Now, from the words of these northerners, Ding Yiguang knows their intentions: now I ask, have you seen a person named Ding Yiguang come here. These northerners claimed that if they told the clues and let them catch Ding Yiguang, they would be rewarded with money.

In the face of the debt collectors who came at him, Ding Yiguang was calm, but his face was at a loss, and he answered them in the local dialect of Guanghuai.

The 4 debt collectors just heard Wang Erxiao and Ding Yiguang's full of "chirping" answers, and the questions and answers between the two sides were simply playing the piano to the cow. They came thousands of miles to hunt down Ding Yiguang, but now they don't know each other in front of them.

The people who came to search for debt collectors had never met Ding Yiguang, they just came with money. In their impression, the boss is not exposed to the sun and rain, eats and drinks well, so the skin must be fair, red, and long-bellied.

And now the person in front of them was dark and thin, far from the boss they imagined.

Ding Yiguang has been working with the mountain people for a long time, going up the mountains and going to the water together, and plowing the fields and cultivating the land together, so whether it is his living habits or skin color, he has almost assimilated.

Those debt collectors never dreamed that in front of everyone, the thin black "dirtyman" in front of them turned out to be the person they had to pursue after trekking through mountains and rivers and going through hardships.

The language difference between the two sides is too great to communicate.

This group of people listened to the local dialect of Guanghuai, like a chicken and a duck, and they couldn't understand it. You look at me, I look at you, everyone is shaking their heads and sighing, with a helpless face.

The shrewd Ding Yiguang clearly understood their words, but he was pretending that he didn't understand, and made gestures from time to time to signal to them: they are locals, they are uncles and nephews, and now they are going to go up the mountains to hunt. I've never seen any big boss Ding Yiguang they want to hunt down."

Wang Erxiao also made a gesture in understanding, indicating that he and Ding Yiguang were uncles and nephews with the same surname.

Indeed, Ding Yiguang is dressed today, and his behavior and speech are indeed like local natives. In this way, it was easy to get the 4 debt collectors sent by Ni Feibao.

The ghost was sorrowful, and there was no way to dig out the slightest useful clue in the mouth of Ding Yiguang and the mountain people, and the other people stared at it to no avail, so they had to leave Shangjizuiyan and walk along the mountain road to Guangxi.

Witnessing the figures of those debt collectors disappearing into the mountains in the distance, Wang Erxiao murmured to Ding Yiguang: "These people are really weird, why did Ding Yiguang, the big boss who was looking for come to us." ”

And Ding Yiguang secretly sighed in his heart, "This time not only God helps me, but also the villagers help me!" ”

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There are 10 villages in the Guanghuailing area, including two large villages, one is Dingjia Village and one is Chenjia Village.

Most of the villagers in Dingjia Village are surnamed Ding, and they regard Ding Yiguang as the same clan and clan 500 years ago, and they care more about him like a brother, and everyone is like a brother.

Ding Yiguang went up the mountain with the people in Dingjia Village to collect firewood and dig medicinal materials. Therefore, everyone liked him to come and help out.

During the day, he went down the mountain to help the villagers, and in the evening, with sweat on his body, he climbed back to the top of the mountain. The cold winter is hot, rain or shine, and it never stops.

Ding Yiguang took the Jizui Rock Room as his residence, traveled between the mountains of Guanghuai, and worked with the mountain people to farm the land, collect medicine, watch the scenery of the mountains and forests, listen to the deep valley and springs, appreciate the wild interest of nature, and cultivate his own mind.

On weekdays, Ding Yiguang continued to practice meditation on his own and comprehend the true meaning of Buddhist scriptures.