Without being in this era when carriages are slow, it is difficult to understand the pain of 'going from excess to want'.

In the past few days since Ouyang Rong woke up, he has lived an extremely 'self-disciplined' life:

After eating in the evening, I sat in the room in a daze, scrutinizing the Meritorious Pagoda, and there was nothing in the room except for a few Buddhist scriptures borrowed from Xiufa.

Pushing open the west window, there is a dark wind outside, and only on the Futu Tower in the distance, there are a few Buddha lamps.

There is only one definite thing to do: sleep.

He almost couldn't help but call Ban Xiao over, and then challenge his weakness.

And at this point, if you put it in the previous life, the wonderful nightlife has just begun, and the graduate school entrance examination friends of the righteous and gentleman group have not yet raced.

Of course, if Luoyang and Chang'an, which are in the heart of the Great Zhou Empire, life may be richer.

If you can empathize with this, then you can be regarded as one percent of the reason why you can understand Ouyang Rong's homesickness.

So right now, in the middle of the night, Ouyang Rong couldn't sleep horizontally and went out......

Ouyang Rong went to the right wing room first, turned out a string of ropes and a fire fold to take away, and even brought some pastries and fruits, and carried them in a cloth bag.

However, when he came to the Beitian Nursing Home again along the memory, he groped his way to the well, but found that the rope was a little redundant.

Because there is a bunch of soft rope ladders placed next to the wellhead.

Ouyang Rong put down the rope ladder and entered the dungeon again.

It's a familiar location, it's a familiar time, and it's a familiar moonlight.

It's just that there is no longer a slender mute girl and a crane Qiu Lao Dao figure in the dungeon. But it's not surprising that the two should be patients from the Beitian Hospital, and they were rescued, and he didn't come to catch up.

The moonlight is a little dim tonight.

Whew~

A spark suddenly rose out of thin air, illuminating Ouyang Rong's emaciated face.

"Good evening, I don't know the master."

The withered monk who was drowsy and nodding in the darkness woke up suddenly, sang a Buddha in his mouth, and said sincerely: "Donor, this place is the Lotus Pure Land, and above it is the Infernal Hell!" ”

The monk is again in a familiar gesture of compassion pointing to the ground and pointing to the sky.

Ouyang Rong thought for a moment and nodded, "The master is the one who has always told the truth, I misunderstood it before." ”

He walked over, placed the cakes and fruits in front of the monk Xiuzhen, and then walked around the underground palace with a fire fold, and began to look at the place carefully.

This underground palace is a square-like space, about the size of half a football field, the circular lotus seat in the center of the underground palace, and the well hole directly above, I don't know whether it represents the builder's concept of a round heaven and a round place.

Ouyang Rong walked around the wall of the dungeon, and this time he saw clearly the murals that he had been ignoring before.

The four walls are painted with heavy pigments, but they are in disrepair, and they are often in a dark underground palace, and the murals have fallen off a lot, but they are still recognized by Ouyang Rong.

The four murals correspond to the four stories of the Buddha's Bunsheng, namely "Prince Sata sacrificed his body to feed the tiger", "The corpse of the king cut the meat and traded pigeons", "The fast-eyed king gave up his eyes" and "The moonlight king Shi Shou" Bunsheng.

The so-called story of the Buddha's birth, in fact, is about the experience of Sakyamuni's good karma and merits in his previous life before he became a Buddha, the most familiar of which should be the first "sacrifice to feed the tiger", and the other three fables want to express the connotation is also the same, all emphasize the Buddha's compassion, the previous life of the endurance and sacrifice of humiliation, salvation and salvation, and finally become a Buddha.

Ouyang Rong thought for a moment, turned around and walked towards the girdle in the center of the underground palace.

If Master Shandao hadn't lied to him, then the Buddha who had become a Buddha in the flesh was sitting in this position...... Ascension to the Pure Land.

"After accumulating merits, can you really ascend to the Pure Land here? If I am cured of the flood or if I do other great meritorious deeds, can I also ascend to the Pure Land? ”

"Also, where is the Pure Land, is it really going to the Western Heavens, or is it that everyone goes to a different place, and if I want to, I can return to my hometown?"

Ouyang Rong muttered, lowered his head and pondered.

"In addition, since the physical body has become a Buddha and the soul has soared, I would like to take a look at the lifelike physical body left behind...... Forehead. Halfway through speaking, someone seemed to remember something, and glanced at the half-cut lotus golden lamp not far away, and the strange oval beads scattered all over the place.

Originally, this lotus golden lamp was originally taken out by Ouyang Rong from an eightfold treasure letter, which was originally placed on the lotus pedestal, and he woke up next to it.

And the eightfold treasure letter is very large, like a matryoshka doll, with eight layers of boxes, and the innermost one is this lotus golden lamp.

It's just that when he threw it as a handful object, he didn't expect that even this lotus golden lamp was just a storage container, which contained more valuable Buddha treasures, and then he was in a hurry to go out, so he didn't care about these beads on the ground.

Ahem, it shouldn't be the relics of Master Zhenma or other eminent monks, it is equivalent to ashes, so the lotus golden lamp is someone's urn...... Hey, it's a bit of a sin, I see that your merit is deducted like this.

Ouyang Rong sighed, lowered his eyes and looked at the relics on the ground again:

There were about seventeen pieces, the smallest being marbles, the largest being pigeon eggs, all of which were colorful, and there was even one that was round and clear, like a white diamond...... Doesn't it mean that the relics are actually kidney stones, do you call them kidney stones?

As a monk, you can really burn anything when you go to the stove, just like opening a blind box...... No, you can't laugh when you stop.

Ouyang Rong took out the level of a senior expression management master, bent down casually, and picked up the relics on the ground one by one, but doing this did not increase merit.

However, Ouyang Rong now has figured out a little bit of the rules of the merit tower: it is okay to be a fun person, but he can only "think", not "act".

Listening to hell jokes and smiling on your face is a kind of "walk", and the Buddha will give you a quack and a light.

However, when he picked up the round and clear relic, he found that this relic could slowly shine in the moonlight, like a night pearl, he suddenly felt a little strange, thought about it, sighed and put it into his sleeve, can not be placed in this underground palace dust, he kept it for the monks.

Maybe someone is sincere, maybe these relics are really ownerless things that have been forgotten by everyone now, and they don't even deduct their merits......

Then Ouyang Rong glanced at a line of words.

It was discovered when the fire fold shone on the relics.

It is located at the foot of this stone girdle on the rosette, on the southeast side of the rosette, which is obscured by the shadow of the rosette. It's carved into the floor tiles, and it's no wonder it hasn't been found until then – it's always in the blind spot of daylight and moonlight at the wellhead.

"Coming back?"

Ouyang Rong squatted down and took a look, and immediately remembered something.

Isn't this what Master Shandao mentioned, the words left by his uncle before he "ascended to the Pure Land"? It was still here...... I thought it was ink or blood or something, but it had already been cleaned.

As for the meaning of this four-character idiom, it is also very simple: go back!

Ouyang Rong's eyes were slightly acute, and the marble bricks under his feet were already cold and solid, but the four block characters of "Return to Come" were divided into three points, as if they were carved with a sharp cone that sharpened iron like clay.

Subconsciously stretched out his hand to touch this yin moment, and in an instant, he trembled, not with his fingertips being electrocuted, but faintly hearing the shocking bell ringing behind his ears.

Before Ouyang Rong's brain could react, his consciousness was slammed into the merit pagoda located on the clouds.

"It's ......"

Ouyang Rong staggered to the ground, and saw the originally eternal silence of the Blessing Bell above, which was trembling slightly at the moment, and purple qi was surging in the body of the bell.

It's like an old man fishing alone in the cold river, getting up and shaking off a snowflake.

It was as if the car had been ignited.

At the same time, the blue-gold font on the line on the small wooden fish that recorded the merit value was brilliant, and finally turned into a cluster of light, like a living thing, and the shape resembled a "swimming carp" in a pond.

It suddenly rushed towards the Blessing Bell!

And then...... It was bounced back after being hit, returned to the wooden fish, and turned into a line of green and gold font: [Merit: One Hundred]

And the blessing bell is still trembling slightly, safe and sound, no change, as if the "one tail swimming carp" just now is too weak to shake at all, not to mention ringing.

Witnessing this scene, Ouyang Rong was stunned, and slowly digested the shock, "Isn't the merit enough......?"

The "Swimming Carp" that Ouyang Rong had accumulated just now seemed to have some kind of connection with him, and after being knocked back to his original state, there was also a mysterious piece of information that came to his mind and was laughed at.

"It takes 10,000 merits to ring the bronze bell and get good fortune...... And I'm only a hundred points now, and I'm nine thousand nine hundred points short, grass. ”

Ouyang Rong fell into deep thought.

In reality, because his hand has been removed from the four-character inscription, the Blessing Bell has already regained its silence, and the Meritorious Pagoda has once again disappeared into the clouds.

There is no doubt that this four-character inscription and lotus pedestal hide a hidden blessing.

And this blessing is obviously not small, and it requires such a huge amount of merit, which is estimated...... It's enough for him to watch hell jokes for a lifetime.

Ouyang Rong lowered his head and stared at the four-character inscription in the shadows.

"Pure Land Palace...... The story of the Buddha's birth...... A monk who has ascended to the Tao...... Returning to the blessed ...... Are these coincidences, or are they true... The way home. ”

The light on his face flickered on and off.

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