The ancient temple in the spring rain, the air is very fresh, and the huge cliffs that crushed the back temple into ruins give birth to a sense of dilapidation, so the drizzle also becomes miserable.

Because of Sangsang's identity, the monks who watched the sea did not dare to let the monks in the temple accompany him, so he accompanied Ning Que and the two to walk in the rain, and when they arrived at the Tianyin Palace, there were monks who hurried to report it.

"The cavalry of the Xiling Temple has arrived in front of the town under the mountain. ”

The monk's face was a little pale, he didn't know what was going on, why did the cavalry of the Xiling Temple suddenly appear in front of the Ranke Temple?

Guanhai Monk guessed that the cavalry of the Xiling Temple was related to Ning Que and the others, but he misthought about the cause and effect, and his expression became a little solemn and nervous.

Ning Que said: "Don't worry, they won't enter the temple." ”

That being said, where can the monks of Guanhai really rest assured, the Rotten Ke Temple is besieged by cavalry, no matter how you look at it, it is a precursor to the destruction of the temple, and the other party must hand over to others.

"They're not here to catch fugitives. ”

Ning Que was a little embarrassed and said, "You imagine these cavalrymen as her bodyguards. ”

The monk who watched the sea came to his senses, and his heart turned out to be like this.

Ning Que saw that he was still a little uneasy, so he asked him to go to the front temple to deal with affairs.

The monk said: "The distinguished guests are coming from afar, and I, as the abbot of the temple, of course I have to accompany them. ”

Ning Que said: "The two couples are walking in the rain, and a big bald head is clubbing beside them, what is this called?"

The monk said: "The back temple is dilapidated, and some are not easy to walk. ”

Ning Que said: "I'm starting to tell jokes again." ”

Guanhai Monk laughed, thinking that his words were indeed very unreasonable, how could there be any difficulties and obstacles in the world that could stop Ning Que, not to mention that Haotian was by his side.

The big black umbrella resembles a black lotus flower, blooming in the light rain.

The big dark horse doesn't have an umbrella. Some wolves who were drenched in the rain were naturally resentful.

Where would Ning Que care about its feelings, holding an umbrella and walking freely in the temple with Sangsang.

In the autumn of that year, they had lived here for a long time, and they were very familiar with the qiē in the ancient temple, and although the smoke and rain were misty, they would not go in the wrong direction.

Ning Que went to Tallinn first, stood quietly in front of the moss-covered tomb for a while, and said to the dancing girl in the tomb who had completely changed the pattern of the cultivation world, long time no see.

He then walked through the rain corridor. I came to the meditation room where I used to live, and then went to the side hall, meditated on the statues of the stone venerables, and then walked to the dilapidated halls of the back temple.

The main hall of the Rotten Kehou Temple has long since completely collapsed. Moss has grown on the cliffs, and broken Buddha statues can occasionally be seen between the stones, and the feeling of vicissitudes of life rises spontaneously.

Standing in front of the dilapidated old temple, looking at the mountains of boulders, Ning Que was silent.

After entering the Ranke Temple, Sangsang has never spoken, whether it is in front of the tomb. Still in front of the temple, or in front of the tomb-like hall at this time.

Rotten Ke Temple changed the fate of Ke Haoran and Liansheng, and also changed the fate of Ning Que and Sangsang.

That autumn a few years ago. He took Sangsang to heal here and learn Buddhism here, and Sangsang was revealed to be the daughter of the king of Hades, who wanted to be killed by the whole world.

From here they began to flee. Pass the Guò Buddha chessboard and escape to the Hanging Temple. Escaped to the moon wheel, then fled to the Eastern Wilderness, met the master, went to sea by boat, and returned here again today.

Over the years, too many things had happened, and Ning Que looked at the ruined temple and recalled what he had done here at that time, and his feelings became very complicated.

The former thousands of miles of escape, living and dying together, are actually all fake, just a bureau of Haotian, this bureau deceived him, hid from the master, and topped the red dust, even she didn't know it.

Standing in front of the rain hall, Ning Que remembered the conversation with Master Qishan, subconsciously looked at Sang Sang beside him, and said silently in his heart: Heaven's will is really unpredictable.

Following the gap in the boulder, they left the apse, walked through the broken temple wall of the Rotten Ke Temple, came to the depths of the tile mountain, followed the mountain road they had once walked, crossed the chessboard under the tree, crossed the bridge over the stream, looked at the trees in the rain, and came to the small courtyard of the Zen room on the mountainside.

The furnishings in the small courtyard are still the same, simple and clean, and the cotton mattress on the couch is still so soft. There are fan-shaped stone windows on the garden wall, and standing in front of the window, you can see the scenery of the tile mountain in the smoke and rain.

At that time, Sangsang was seriously ill and dying, coughing on the couch, saying a lot to him, confessing many last words, and he stood in silence in front of the stone window for a long time.

He stood in front of the stone window, as if it were yesterday.

Sangsang walked up to him and coughed lightly.

Ning Que turned to look at her and said, "Do you want to scald your feet with hot water?" ”

Sangsang was silent.

It's not that the love of the year brings confusion today, but that she is really sick.

This condition is called weakness.

When she came to the human world, from the moment she woke up in the broken peak, she kept getting weaker, her body became heavier and heavier, and her divine power became less and less.

This is a world full of red dust, not an objective and cold kingdom of God, and the longer she spends in the world, the weaker she will become.

She is still very strong, stronger than all the cultivators in the world combined, but compared to her in the Kingdom of God, she has become much weaker, and because she is weak, she has begun to be sentimental.

Leave the courtyard and come to the summit of Washan Mountain.

The stone statue of the Buddha that was once towering into the clouds is now only a small half of the body left, and the traces of the flowing clouds of the robe can be faintly seen, most of which have been cut into stubborn stones by Jun Mo's sword.

Sangsang carried it on his back

Hands quietly looking at the sky.

There used to be the compassionate and calm face of the Buddha, but now there is nothing but rain.

But she still looked at it quietly, as if looking at the face of the Buddha, not knowing what she was thinking.

Ning Que was a little uneasy and asked, "What are you looking at?"

Sangsang looked at the empty face of the Buddha in the rainy sky and said, "I have seen him. ”

Ning Que thought to himself, the Buddha is one of the strongest beings in countless reincarnations, since you are Haotian, you will naturally leave a relatively deep impression on him, just like you have seen a teacher before.

Sang Sang knew what he was thinking and said, "No, I've seen him. ”

Ning Que was a little puzzled and said, "When the Buddha was alive, you naturally saw him. ”

Sangsang said, "No, when the Buddha was alive. I've never dared to see it. ”

Ning Que frowned slightly and asked, "Then when did you see him?"

Sangsang said: "It was at that moment before. ”

Ning Que was silent for a long time and said, "When you saw this broken Buddha statue?"

"I saw him before I looked up at him," Sangsang said. ”

Ning Que didn't understand the meaning of this sentence, but he vaguely deduced a very shocking fact from this sentence: "You mean...... The Buddha didn't really attain Nirvana, and he was still alive?"

"He's dead, but he's alive," Sangsang said. ”

Ning Que felt that what he said was too profound.

Sangsang retracted his gaze, looked at him and said, "Or, he is alive at the same time, and dead." ”

Ning Que looked at the mutilated stone statue of the Buddha. Look at the place where there is nothing in the rainy sky.

The big black umbrella tilted backwards because of his movements, and the rain fell on his face, which was slightly wet and slightly cool, and he seemed to see the Buddha smiling in the rain, and his compassionate face was full of tears.

"I still don't understand," he said. ”

Sangsang walked towards the back of the Buddha rosette. said, "It's the cat you talked about." ”

Ning Que remembered that many years ago, when she was in Minshan, there was a night that was too boring, and she refused to sleep, so he told her a terrible story.

The protagonist of that story is a cat surnamed Xue.

For him, the cat that lives and dies is just a little puzzling, but for a little girl who is more than three years old. I didn't understand it, so I naturally felt terrible.

Ning Que looked at the Buddha statue that did not exist in the rainy sky, and suddenly became afraid.

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This spring rain became unexpectedly heavier, and the mountain road was waterlogged. It became slippery and difficult to walk, Ning Que took Sangsang into the cave in the back mountain and rested for a while.

"This rain came at the right time. ”

Ning Que put away the big black umbrella and sat on the futon next to the stone table. Looking at the crackling vines above his head that were hit by the rain, he said, "I was going to take you here to see." ”

The cave house is the residence of Master Qishan. He and Sangsang once played a game of chess here, using the Buddha's chessboard, and a sunspot fell, and there were countless calamities in the game.

"What exactly did you want to do when you brought me to the Ranke Temple?" asked Sangsang.

Ning Que said: "I want to show you this old temple and relieve some worries." ”

Sangsang sat down at the table and said, "Go on." ”

Ning Que said: "On the shore of the South China Sea, you have some feelings, which makes me nervous, because I can't imagine how to clean up this situation if you are disappointed and angry with the entire human race. ”

Sangsang said: "When human beings need me, they serve me as a god, and when they don't need me, they abandon me like grass, if you stand in my place, what kind of emotions will you have?"

"I don't know, because I'm not Haotian after all, I haven't suffered countless billions of years of incense in the world, and naturally I can't understand the anger of being betrayed. ”

Ning Que said: "What I want to tell you is that human beings are not as indifferent and ruthless as you think, and you still have countless devout believers in the world. ”

Sangsang said: "That's because believing in me is good for those human beings. ”

Ning Que said: "Not all human beings are only from the perspective of interests, we will also be affected by many other things, we are not inherently evil, we still retain a kindness to ourselves and the world we live in, I brought you to the Rotten Ke Temple, just to see that kindness." ”

Sangsang said, "What do you think I see in kindness?"

Ning Que said: "Master Qishan is the simplest and cleanest ray of kindness of human beings. ”

Master Qishan, who is the most virtuous and respected great virtue of Buddhism, has spent his life cultivating in exchange for the health of the people in the surging flood, he once took in Liansheng, and also wanted to cure Sangsang.

In terms of virtue, the master was the most impeccable person, and for Ning Que and Sangsang back then, he was a loving teacher, whether it was Buddhism or other aspects.

Sangsang acknowledged Ning Que's view, but she disagreed with Ning Que's statement.

"Kiyama is good, but the starting point of his kindness is still the interests of mankind, whether it is to take in Lotus Sheng, or to use the Buddha's chessboard to help the daughter of Hades escape from the world. ”

Ning Que said, "Isn't this the great good?"

Sangsang quietly looked at the peak and said, "The Buddha wants to benefit all sentient beings, and the disciples of the Buddhist family are all practicing like this, but I am not among all sentient beings, how can the Dharma save me?"

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(It's a good story, and again, while I may not have written it very well, in my mind, it should be eighty minutes past the night, and the next chapter will be late, around midnight.) ）