Chapter 5 Fahai
The water is shining and sunny, and the mountains are empty and rainy.
If you want to compare West Lake to Xizi, light makeup is always appropriate.
Su Shi's poem "Drinking the Lake After the First Sunny Day and the Rain" is a famous poem written by him when he first came to Hangzhou to serve as the general judge of Hangzhou, and the short four lines of the poem are written to write the natural beauty and charming charm of the West Lake, so that many people have not been to Hangzhou, and they have learned the beauty of the West Lake from this poem.
Su Jianxia has only seen Hangzhou, which is full of high-rise buildings, and is full of products of rapid economic development.
The verdant green lotus leaves in the West Lake are endless, seemingly connected with the blue sky, and the slim lotus flowers also look particularly delicate and bright red under the glow of the sun. Coupled with the pedestrians and tourists coming and going on the famous broken bridge of the West Lake, the talented and beautiful women who chant poetry are not a beautiful scenery.
"No wonder the ancient people were so good at writing poems, looking at these scenery every day, I can write a few poems after a long time." Su Jianxia glanced left and right a few times, and took advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention to him, secretly took out his mobile phone and took more than a dozen photos of West Lake from different angles in a row.
"Accustomed to the days of watching dramas and playing games in class, it really makes you come over and live a life without electronic devices, or you won't be able to stick to it in a few days." Wei Zi Qi debunked.
Su Jianxia glared and retorted: "You underestimate me too much, the main thing is to cultivate sentiment and relax, I haven't seen so many great mountains and rivers, I can stay here for a lifetime!" ”
Wei Ziqi nodded in agreement, "Then you can live here after this matter is over, I will leave you some money, and you can cultivate your sentiments here." ”
"How can that work, I'm afraid I'm not by your side, it's easy for you to live at your age and can't take care of yourself." Su Jianxia quickly retorted.
"Uh-huh, you're right." Wei Ziqi perfunctorily walked to a vendor with sugar gourds on his back by the broken bridge and bought two strings of sugar gourds.
"Let's go, I'll take you to the next place." Wei Ziqi stretched out his hand and handed Su Jianxia a string of sugar gourds, pointing to a tall tower in front of the two, "Well, it's the tower in front." ”
Su Jianxia squinted, looking at it was an ancient tower that was a little old, and if he looked closely, he would also find that the tower body was a little tilted, as if it was inserted into the ground crookedly.
"Can there still be people living in this tower? It feels like it's going to collapse at any moment. Su Jianxia said curiously.
"It was originally a very majestic tower, but it has only become what it is now because of some changes." Wei Ziqi pulled the girl next to him and walked forward, "Let's go, you'll know when you get there." ”
Su Jianxia nodded, and followed forward while eating the sugar gourd.
In the early summer, the breeze on the shore of the lake blows gently, and the hair in the girl's ears also blows lightly with the wind.
The tower and the West Lake are not very far away, the two walked for less than half an hour to the periphery of the tower, and looked at the three big characters of "Jinshan Temple" written on the plaque hanging crookedly on the outer gate, Su Jianxia found that this is actually a dilapidated temple, it looks like there is no incense for a long time, and there are no monks in the temple to continue to stay here.
"Jinshan Temple? How it feels like I've heard it somewhere. Su Jianxia looked at the plaque and began to search for the memories in his mind, obviously feeling that it was a very familiar place, but he couldn't remember it.
"The temple looks like it's been abandoned for a long time." Su Jianxia looked at the interior of the temple, and the ground was full of thick fallen leaves and all kinds of garbage, indicating that no one had come to clean this temple for a long time.
"About 80 years ago, this temple was the most incense in Hangzhou, a temple with the most believers, and the pilgrims who came to burn incense and worship the Buddha every day lined up from under the tower to the door." Wei Ziqi looked at the tower not far away, "It was only later because of one incident that this temple ended up in the end that no one cares about it now." ”
"Huh? What is it? ”
Wei Ziqi didn't answer, and walked straight forward, until he came to the bottom of the magnificent tower.
The tower looked more dilapidated than it looked from afar, and the tiles in many places were broken apart from the tower and fell to the ground, and a handful of unknown weeds grew in the vacant tiles, enveloping the once glorious tower.
"It's ,...... Leifeng Tower? Su Jianxia's eyes widened, and he tried his best to look at the three big characters engraved on the stone tablet next to the tower, "Isn't this the tower that Fahai used to suppress Bai Suzhen in the legend?" ”
"That's right, it's the Leifeng Pagoda you've heard of." Wei Ziqi nodded in the affirmative.
Su Jianxia suddenly reacted, "So, uncle, the old friend you mentioned is the legendary Fahai?" ”
"It's a clever one." Wei Ziqi walked to the gate of the tower and knocked lightly on the door twice, "Come here now, you can see him for the last time." ”
"Huh? What's the last side? Su Jianxia was stunned.
"Please come in." There was a somewhat vicissitudes of voice from inside the tower, which seemed to be a little weak.
Wei Ziqi stretched out his hand to push the door open, and some of the rotten stone doors made a rustling sound, and the sand on the door also spilled on the ground.
Su Jianxia was secretly surprised in his heart, it seemed that the high monk Fahai had been living in this Leifeng Pagoda all these years, and he had never left, and he didn't know how to solve his problem of eating and drinking.
Entering the interior of Leifeng Tower, Su Jianxia secretly took out his mobile phone and started recording. There are about 100 golden-bodied Buddha statues starting from one floor, and each layer surrounds the body of the pagoda and progresses layer by layer. These golden-bodied Buddha statues have a bright shine on their bodies, and it looks as if they are often wiped down regularly without being contaminated with dust.
Every few steps inside the tower, a few large candles and a few floor-to-ceiling fuel lamps provide light in the tower, but there is nothing else in the empty and wide tower.
"Ahh Su Jianxia suddenly exclaimed, took a few steps back, and the mobile phone in his hand almost fell to the ground.
The visual range of candles and fuel lamps is still much worse than that of modern LED lights, and Su Jianxia looked back and forth, and suddenly found a dull yellow withered corpse sitting in front of him, which was inevitably startled.
"It's also someone who has seen a big scene, and this can be scared." Wei Ziqi stretched out his hand behind him to support Su Jianxia's waist to prevent her from falling backwards if she didn't stand firmly.
Su Jianxia took a deep breath, "What's the matter, I'm not prepared, it's too sudden." ”
"I really can't blame this girl for being too timid, the way the old man is now, even I don't want to see it, let alone that this girl is still so young." The "dry corpse" not far away suddenly spoke.
"You're alive?" Su Jianxia was stunned for a moment, but quickly reacted again, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't have a brain to speak, you are the master of the Fahai Sea, right?" ”
The "dry corpse" barely opened his cloudy eyes, and was silent for a while before replying: "The name of Fahai, the old man has not heard of it for a long time, and I can't imagine that the girl does not belong to this era, and she can still hear the name of the old man." ”
"Can the guru see that I am not from this era?"
"Haha, naturally I can't see it. Lao Ke has only been practicing for a hundred years, and although he can barely be regarded as a Buddha in the eyes of the world, compared with the real enlightened masters, it is like the gap between the light of the fireflies and the bright sun. Fahai pulled his dry skin and laughed a few times, and looked past Su Jianxia to look at Wei Ziqi behind her, "The reason why Lao Wei knows that the girl is not here is just because he saw you and the immortal coming together." Except for the first meeting, every time Lao Wei saw the immortals, they came from another time and space. ”
"Long time no see." Wei Ziqi looked at Fahai and said softly: "After today, you can also be liberated from now on." ”
"Is it really possible to be free?" Fahai smiled bitterly.
"The things of this life are here, and besides, it took you eighty years to repent, and a person's life is only eighty years, and she will not resent you anymore."
"It's been 80 years." Fahai muttered in a low voice, "Amitabha, although I know that asking this question is a matter of revealing the heavenly secrets, but the old man still wants to ask the immortal more, I in the next life, and I in this life, do I still have to cut off the reason and mess up?" ”
Wei Ziqi was silent for a while, but still spoke: "In the next life, you will be born in a family of bureaucrats and ministers, enjoy glory and wealth since childhood, and successfully obtain fame after the crown year, and make a career in the court, and have a young and beautiful virtuous wife, full of children and grandchildren, until the end of your life." ”
Fahai shook his head, "Lao Qu's hands are covered with blood all his life, how can he be worthy of such a perfect life." ”
"Meritorious deeds are ultimately judged by the way of heaven." Weizi paused and continued: "Besides, in your life, you have not done a bad job of subduing demons and eliminating demons. ”
Fahai bowed his head and said nothing, just sighed deeply.
There was another long silence, and just when Su Jianxia couldn't help but break the silence, Fahai suddenly asked, "Dare to ask Shangxian, ...... How's it going? ”
"She's doing pretty well since you last met, oh yes, she met her future husband today, and he's the one she likes."
"Amitabha, if that's the case, then it couldn't be better." Fahai's voice was low, but it still revealed a trace of loneliness, "Lao Qu is here in this life, and he has no regrets." ”
"Master, ...... you" Su Jianxia was stunned for a moment, although he didn't understand the dialogue in the middle, but the last sentence seemed to be the last words of this Fahai master himself?
"He is already more than 100 years old, and the life expectancy of ancient people can be considered long if they can exceed 60, if it were not for the practice of Buddhism, he would not be alive now." Wei Ziqi explained, "I came to see him because today is the last day of his life. ”
"Do you have any other wishes?" Wei Ziqi looked at the old monk sitting on the lotus platform.
Fahai shook his head and closed his eyes, but soon seemed to remember something, "That white girl is still under this Leifeng Tower, and now that the old man has run out of oil, she can no longer be rescued from this tower, and this matter may still need to trouble the immortals." ”
Wei Ziqi nodded, and Fahai was speechless, sitting motionless, as if he was in a state of flux.
"That's what he ...... Passed away? Su Jianxia's eyes widened.
"The death of a monk is generally silent, and most of the people you see who want to die or live before dying are ordinary people." Wei Ziqi clasped his hands together and paid a little respect to this monk who had been subduing demons and eliminating demons all his life.
"The white girl he just talked about is Bai Suzhen?" Su Jianxia said curiously, "After all this time, is she still suppressed under this tower?" And the 'she' he mentioned, wouldn't it be the Miss Cen he met today? ”
"That's right." Wei Ziqi nodded, looking around the hall on the first floor, finally locking his gaze on a large raised disc in the center of the ground.
"Standing behind me." The neutron beckons.
Su Jianxia hurriedly trotted behind Wei Ziqi and looked at the disc on the ground curiously.
Wei Ziqi raised his right hand, his fingers pressed down slightly, and the disc on the ground began to sink as if it was subjected to gravity, and at the same time, with the disc as the center, the dark green light patterns began to scatter crookedly in all directions, and after a while, it covered the ground of the entire hall.
"Broken." Wei Ziqi said softly.
The patterns that covered the ground fell as Wei Ziqi spoke, first slowly rising and floating in the air, then crumbling, and the dark green light also dispersed in the main hall, which was filled with dim kerosene lights.
The huge disc in front of the two of them had already sunk into the ground at this time, but soon with the sound of what seemed to be the rubbing between the mountains and rocks, a lotus pedestal rose from the ground, and a woman dressed in white was meditating on the pedestal, as if she had not noticed that she was already in the main hall, and seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep and had not yet woken up.
Su Jianxia stretched out her head and looked up and down, and found that this woman's outfit was exactly the same as the white dress Cen Biqing she was wearing during the day, both in color and style, and the appearance of the two was somewhat similar, but Cen Biqing's eyebrows and eyes were cold, and although this white lady closed her eyes tightly and her face was expressionless, she could also see that she must have been a peerless beauty with all kinds of charms before.
"Bai Suzhen, your catastrophe is over." Wei Ziqi's voice was not loud, but it seemed that her voice echoed throughout the Leifeng Pagoda.
Hearing the man's voice, Bai Suzhen's body sitting on the lotus pedestal suddenly began to tremble slightly, as if she had just woken up from a big dream, slowly opened her eyes, and looked at the world she was in.
When he saw the dilapidated interior of Leifeng Pagoda and the old monk sitting like a dead tree in the distance, the light in Bai Suzhen's eyes dimmed a little, but he quickly reined in his mood, got up and came to Weiziqi and fell to the ground.
"Little demon Bai Suzhen see the immortals." Bai Suzhen lowered her head, not daring to look directly at the person in front of her.
As a great demon who has cultivated for thousands of years, she is naturally clear about the terrifying things about the man in front of her, and in his eyes, she is afraid that she can be trampled to death at will like an ant.
"Fahai is a mortal after all, and a hundred years old is already his limit." Weizi Kai looked straight ahead, "He has already gone to the next life, and he didn't forget to release you before leaving." In this life, he feels guilty about you, but he has also sat alone in this tower for eighty years, and has never stepped out of the main hall, so the grudge between you will end. ”
"I don't hold a grudge against him, after all, it's a shemale. I have also thought about it in the years that I have been suppressed under the tower, maybe the relationship between me and Xu Xian will not end well. Bai Suzhen's voice was very calm, "It is his duty to subdue demons and eliminate demons, he has nothing to feel guilty about me, if he is guilty, it should also be for Xiaoqing." ”
Wei Ziqi looked down at the woman whose face was as calm as her tone, "Your sister, that green snake, has embarked on the same path as you, and she has also fallen in love with a mortal. ”
Bai Suzhen trembled, looked up at the condescending man, opened her mouth to say something, but quickly calmed down and looked at Fahai's body, "Maybe the demon clan wants to cultivate the upper realm of immortals, which is not allowed by the Heavenly Dao, so arrange for me and Xiaoqing to have this catastrophe in our lives." ”
"What the Green Snake has suffered now and in the future will only be worse than yours, don't you persuade her?"
"When I fell in love with Xu Xian, Xiaoqing also tried to persuade me by all means, but I couldn't listen to a word." Bai Suzhen smiled bitterly: "When you fall in love with your beloved, how can you give up easily because of other people's words." ”
Wei Ziqi nodded, "The seal that suppressed you has been broken, and no one will restrict your freedom in the future, whether you continue to cultivate to get a chance to ascend to the upper realm, or live incognito in the world, it depends on your own choice." ”
"Meditating under this Leifeng Pagoda for decades, it is better than hundreds of years in the world before, and please ask the immortal to allow the little demon to continue to practice under this Leifeng Pagoda, not to seek the Tao to ascend to the immortal, only to calm down and discipline yourself."
"It's your own business." Wei Ziqi patted Su Jianxia, who was in a daze behind him, "Don't be in a daze, let's go." ”
"Thank you." Bai Suzhen changed direction and made a big salute in front of Wei Ziqi's back.
Walking out of the gate of Leifeng Pagoda, Su Jianxia, who was shining in the dazzling sunlight outside, couldn't open his eyes a little, blocked the sun with his hand, squinted and asked, "Uncle, is Cen Biqing Bai Suzhen's sister?" That Xiaoqing, who cultivated with her to become an adult? ”
"That's when I guessed." Wei Ziqi stretched out his hand and pulled Su Jianxia to the side where there was no sunlight, "After Bai Suzhen was suppressed under the Leifeng Pagoda, Cen Biqing was like a different person, wearing the same white dress as Bai Suzhen, and her words and deeds also learned Bai Suzhen gradually became calm, although she was still wandering in the world, she was always careful to avoid contact with the world, for fear of being contaminated with cause and effect that she shouldn't have, until she met Li You. ”
"That question that Master Fahai asked before he passed away, could it be that he and Miss Cen also ......" Su Jianxia was a little surprised, "Didn't you say that the family would not be emotional?" Especially a monk like Fahai. ”
"After Fahai descended the mountain, he thought that his duty was only to subdue demons and eliminate demons and guard the world. But there were too many temptations in the world, and Fahai's mental cultivation was a little bit worse, so he caught the green snake to hone his character. ”
Originally, in his plan, after refining the qualitative character, he would kill the green snake and break off love. But he didn't expect that in this process, he had feelings with Green Snake that he shouldn't have.
Fahai knew that he shouldn't have this kind of emotion, which would affect his decisiveness in killing, but he couldn't kill the green snake anymore. Green Snake also knew that the identity gap between the two would not be tolerated by the world and the way of heaven, so he quietly left Fahai, and the two never met again.
Although the two have not seen each other for nearly a hundred years, they have actually been thinking about each other in their hearts, if it weren't for Li You's sudden insertion, in Fahai's next life, with his merits in this life, he and Green Snake might have a complete love. ”
"It's a pity." Su Jianxia sighed, "I didn't expect the feelings between these people to be so complicated. ”
Wei Ziqi reached out and touched the head of the girl next to him, "Feelings are originally a very complicated thing, and when you grow up, you will have the opportunity to experience it yourself." ”
"First of all, I'm already an adult, and in two months I'll be nineteen." Su Jianxia said dissatisfied: "And didn't you say that you wanted to marry me, do you want to regret it now!" ”
Wei Ziqi was stunned for a moment, "Isn't that just joking?" ”
"Then I don't care, I'll take it seriously anyway." Su saw Xia Leng snorted, "I'll just rely here, and other women won't have a chance to get close to you, and I can only be by your side." ”
Weizi opened her mouth, a little unsure of how to respond.
"Hey, Qingtuan!" Su Jianxia suddenly saw a vendor not far from the temple who was pushing a cart and slowly going to the direction of West Lake, and hurriedly rushed over, "Uncle, wait a minute, bring me two youth leagues!" ”
Wei Ziqi looked at the young and lively figure of the girl in the sun, sighed, and smiled a little helplessly.