The Sixth Ancestor Huineng's eyes were stunned for a moment before he replied: "If the teacher follows Xue Qin into Beijing, goes to the palace to discuss Buddhist matters with the emperor, and explains the Zen machine, he can indeed be famous in the world with this, and he can also put a few more flashy and dazzling halos on his Buddha's robes." However, the ancestors of our Buddhism have all been virtuous and noble, and they have never intended to become emperors to seek any glory and wealth, so as not to defile the pure land of our Buddhism. Take our ancestors, for example. In the seventeenth year of Zhenguan, Tang Taizong issued a holy decree to summon the four ancestors to enter the palace Jiafeng, but the four ancestors resolutely refused and wanted to stay in the Shuangfeng Shandong Zen Temple to promote Buddhism. Tang Taizong sent people to coerce each other by force, but the four ancestors faced the sword and the neck, and would rather die than give in, and still did not change their original intentions. Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty has repeatedly issued a holy decree inviting him to enter the palace to be a national teacher, promising to give him unparalleled fame and fortune, but he was politely rejected by the five ancestors and resolutely stayed between the mountains, rivers, forests and springs. ”

Fahai chimed in: "As the saying goes, a companion is like a tiger. The emperor can change his face anytime and anywhere, and how many guests have become death row prisoners in the blink of an eye. ”

Hui Zhan waved his hand selectively: "Yes, Master, you can't go, you can't go!"

Sixth Ancestor Huineng: "As a teacher, I am determined not to enter Beijing." In addition to the reasons you have mentioned, I think ......"

Disciples: "What do you think?"

Sixth Ancestor Huineng did not answer, but walked to the corner of the wall, suddenly pulled up the daffodil on the sour branch case, hung it in his hand, and shook it.

Hui Zhan hurriedly said, "Master, I understand. “

Sixth Ancestor Huineng: "What do you understand?"

Hui Zhan pointed to the daffodil and said, "This daffodil was originally a noble thing, but now its roots are out of the soil, it cannot absorb water and nutrients, and its time in the world is short." Our 'Epiphany' Zen says ......"

"Exactly!" The Sixth Patriarch Huineng nodded and said affectionately, "My 'Epiphany' Zen is to inherit the ancestors' mountain and forest Buddhism, which should be rooted in the mountains, rivers, forests and springs, and rooted in the vast number of Li people. It is widely spread among the people, so that it can be spread all over the world and continue to be used for generations. If Lao Na and I stay in the palace for a long time, my Cao Xi's Zen bloodline will undergo qualitative changes and lose its true colors. This Zen method becomes a tree without roots, water without a source. will be like the elder brother Shenxiu who is attached to the imperial family, and will transform into a Jingzen and an official Zen who have abandoned the people, and have only become the decorations and decorations of the court. This is also the fundamental reason why the ancestors of my Zen sect are reluctant to appear in the palace. ”

"Yes, Master is right, you can't go, you must not go." The apprentices are unanimous.

Only then did Zhi Chang slowly open his mouth and said: "Master really shouldn't go to Beijing, but Wu Zetian is fierce and tyrannical, and everyone in the world knows it. If you refuse to go, you will deliberately resist the decree, and you will be guilty of contempt for the emperor, which will provoke Long Yan's anger, and bring disaster to Baoling Temple, Master and all the brothers and sisters. He spoke grimly.

Then the disciples felt the seriousness of the matter, you looked at me, I looked at you, and asked each other, "How should this be?"

Sixth Ancestor Huineng pondered for a moment and said, "We must not let the imperial court's attempt to make my Cao Xi line official succeed, but using hard methods to disobey the holy decree is undoubtedly hitting a stone with an egg." There is a technique in martial arts to control rigidity with softness, and this time we can use soft techniques to deal with it!"

Zhichang led his neck and asked, "Master, what method do you have?"

"Listen to me." So, Sixth Ancestor Huineng told the method he had come up with.

When everyone heard this, they praised it in unison.

The sunset retracts the last vestiges of afterglow in the West Mountain, and the twilight flows elegantly in the large and small ravines and streams of Cao Xi.

Qin Cha Xue Jian browsed in the Baolin Temple, and after dinner, he still didn't see the figure of the Sixth Ancestor, and asked Fada who had been accompanying him dissatisfiedly: "What's wrong with your master, after receiving the order, I still can't see him for most of the day, so snub me for this drink that has come from thousands of miles?"

Fada explained, "When Chincha-sama first arrived, he didn't know anything. My master has been plagued by illness recently, and today I heard that you, Lord Qincha, were coming, and you led us to the mountain gate to receive the holy decree by supporting the old and weak and sick body. ”

Xue Jian didn't believe it: "There is such a thing? You're lying to me, aren't you?"

Fada looked genuinely afraid: "Lying to you? Lord Qincha, you are coming south with a decree, and deceiving you is tantamount to deceiving the emperor, and you will be punished for killing your head and destroying the door. Even if I gave a poor monk a water tank to make guts, I would not dare to do it. ”

"It seems that this is also the case." Xue Jian pinched his fat chin, and after pondering, he urged, "It's useless to talk too much, you can take me to see your master right now." His stubborn tone could not be shirked.

"Okay, Lord Chincha, come with me." Fada took Xue Jian through the long corridor, passed through the two side halls, and came to the abbot's room of the Sixth Ancestor Huineng.

The door of the abbot's room was open, and standing at the threshold, Xue Jian saw that the sixth ancestor Huineng was reclining on the bed, with a white cloth soaked in water wrapped in the corner of his forehead, and Zhichang was feeding him porridge with a spoon.

Xue Jian stepped forward and asked with concern, "Master, how are you?"

Sixth Ancestor Hui Neng looked at Xue Jian, did not answer immediately, and choked hard in his throat, as if he was swallowing the porridge choked in his throat hard.

After a while, he pointed to a wooden stool in front of the bed and said, "Lord Qincha, please take a seat." ”

Xue Jian was not polite, sat down on the wooden bench, and asked, "Master, when do you plan to leave for Beijing?"

Sixth Ancestor Huineng covered his chest with his hands, frowned and frowned, and said: "The emperor summoned the old man into Beijing, and the emperor's grace really flattered me. Unfortunately, the old man couldn't make it. ”

When Xue Jian heard that Sixth Ancestor Huineng refused to go to Beijing, his heart tightened, his face was raised, and he said in a warning tone: "Master, aren't you resisting the decree?" You must know that the emperor's opening of Chrysostom is like water that cannot be taken back, and you deliberately resist the decree, what will it mean to Baolin Temple and you. ”

Hui Neng replied weakly: "The old man did not intend to resist the will, but had practical problems. ”

Xue Jian asked, "What are the practical problems?"

Sixth Ancestor Huineng sighed: "The old man has been in the mountains and forests for a long time, invaded by miasma, he has long been over the age of sixteen, his body is weak, his heart is failing, and he has recently contracted a cold disease, his hands and feet are paralyzed, and his movement is very inconvenient."

"This ....." Xue Jian groaned for a while, and came up with an idea, "You can't walk, I can send a sedan chair to carry you to Beijing." ”

Sixth Ancestor Hui Neng gasped as he spoke: "Even if I go to the capital with you in a sedan chair, but the mountains are thousands of miles, there are many poor mountains and bad rivers on the way, the wind and clouds are unpredictable, sometimes cold and sometimes hot, and the rain is sunny. What the old man feared most was ......" He deliberately lengthened the tail note.

Xue Jian asked, "What are you most afraid of?"

Sixth Ancestor Huineng shook his head helplessly: "I'm most afraid that before I arrive in the capital, Lao Qu will die of illness halfway." At that time, how will you go back to the capital to reply to the decree?"

"Ah......" Xue Jian was taken aback, and his face turned pale. He stood stunned for a long time.

Seeing his expression, Sixth Ancestor Hui knew that this was working, and continued: "Besides, Lao Qu is a mountain and wild grass people, a Jedi poor monk, who knows that his appearance is ugly, and his feet are a little disabled, so his movement is not very convenient, and he is not as imposing as Senior Brother Shenxiu, with beautiful eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and his expression is elegant. If you are ordered to follow you into the capital and enter the palace, the people in the capital will see the description of the poor monk, and they will despise the Dharma. The ancestor Hongren has already instructed the poor monk that the old man can only have a relationship with Lingnan in this life, and it is difficult to disobey the teacher's fate!"

After Xue Jian heard this, his eyebrows furrowed, his lips were tightly closed, and he hesitated for a while before he walked to the bed of the sixth ancestor, knelt on the ground with a "plop", and pleaded with a bitter face: "Master, you say that it is difficult to disobey the master's order, you must know that the imperial order of the lower official is even more difficult to violate!" The lower official came by order, flying for thousands of miles, day and night, in order to make a special trip to invite the master to go to Beijing. If you don't go to Beijing under the pretext, how can I go back to pay the decree? The master is compassionate and universalizes all sentient beings. Let's save the next official first. ”

Sixth Ancestor Huineng stepped out of bed and helped Xue Jian up: "Lord Qincha, Lao Wei will not deliberately give you a problem." ”