In the evening, the sun slowly put away the last rays of afterglow.

The vast twilight haze flowed among the mountains.

"Kid, what are you doing here?" Xiao Huineng, who was picking the fruits of Minoru on the grass on the hillside, looked up and saw an old man with long gray hair standing in front of him.

The old man's thin face was stained with a thin layer of yellow dust, and he looked tired and weak.

He wore a faded and worn black gown, and carried a simple bag, revealing elegance in Luotuo.

Xiao Huineng raised his head, his two big eyes flickered, like in a blue sky, flashing two black and oily gems: "Grandpa, you are a passer-by, do you want to stay here?"

"Heh, how do you know?" The old man was a little surprised.

"There is no one in the nearby village wearing your clothes." Xiao Huineng looked at the old man standing in front, guessed, and said, What's more, there are barren mountains and mountains everywhere within a radius of ten miles here, and there is no village in front of you and no shop in the back. The sun had just gone down. At this time, the outsiders who came were all staying overnight. Although Huineng is young, his answer is quite reasonable.

"You're so smart!" The old man stretched out the thumb of his right hand and complimented, "What's your name?"

Xiao Huineng took out a few ripe purple mountain nuts from his coat pocket and handed them to the old man, and then said, "My name is Huineng." ”

The old man chewed the fruit of the mountain in his mouth, and when he heard the word "Huineng", he couldn't help but be stunned, "This seems to be the Dharma name of a person in Buddhism, how did you come up with this name?"

"I don't know, that's what people in my village call me that."

"Where is your home?"

Xiao Huineng pointed to the south: "It's at the foot of the mountain over there." ”

Old man: "If you don't dislike it, can you please take me to your house?"

Xiao Huineng agreed: "Okay." ”

After Xiao Huineng finished speaking, he walked in front and led the old man towards home.

The old man walked and walked with a larger pace than a six-year-old child, and the old man was walking ahead before he knew it.

Suddenly, the old man heard Xiao Huineng shout crisply: "Don't move!"

The old man stopped, twisted his head, and asked, "What's the matter?"

Xiao Huineng pointed to the ground: "Look at it." ”

The old man squinted his presbyopia eyes and looked down, but he didn't find anything on the ground, so he shook his head and said, "I don't see anything?!" ”

Xiao Huineng stepped forward, squatted down, pointed to the place in front of the old man about two feet away, and said, "Look, aren't the ants moving?"

The old man looked at Xiao Huineng, and sure enough, he saw a few rows of ants lining up on the mountain road in front of him, so he breathed a sigh of relief: "The drink you just now scared me." I thought something big had happened, but you meant the ants were moving. ”

Xiao Hui Neng pleaded reasonably: "I don't remind you. You're going to step on this swarm of ants. Your feet are so big, how many ants will you trample to death!"

Hearing Xiao Huineng say this, the old man's heart surged with a heat wave that had not been seen for a long time, and he stroked Xiao Huineng's round head with his hand, and said with emotion: "Ah, in this chaotic world, materialism is rampant, and I am cheating, fighting for your life and death." The old man hasn't seen such a kind person as you in many years......"

Xiao Huineng disagreed: "In life, the greatest sin is killing. Ants are also small spiritual creatures, they work all day long, and it is extremely difficult to find two meals. ”．

The old man asked curiously, "Ah, how can you speak like an adult when you are so young?" ”

Xiao Huineng replied seriously: "This is what my mother taught me since I was a child. ”

The old man became interested and asked, "What else did your mother teach you?"

Xiao Huineng: "My mother told me that Buddhism regards 'killing' as the first of the ten evils. ”

The old man deliberately followed Xiao Huineng's words and wanted to test him: "Do you know what the Ten Evils are?"

"Of course I do." Xiao Huineng closed his eyes slightly, shook his head lightly, and recited, "Among the ten evils, one is killing, the second is stealing, the third is adultery, the fourth is lying words, the fifth is gossip, the sixth is two tongues, the seventh is evil mouth, the eighth is greed, the ninth is anger, and the tenth is evil opinion." ”

The old man was so surprised that his two yellow eyes widened as big as a copper bell: "Ah, your memory is so good." ”

Xiao Huineng: "I have all the teachings of my mother in my heart. ”

The old man asked again, "What is the opposite of the ten evils?"

Xiao Huineng replied, "Ten Virtues." If you don't commit the ten evils, you are the ten good. ”

Old man: "Does your mother often recite Buddhist scriptures?"

"Well, she used to memorize the scriptures with her and taught me to read." Xiao Huineng nodded, "Ah, it's getting late, let's go home quickly." ”

Xiao Huineng led the old man back to the front of the house, opened his small mouth, and shouted loudly: "A-Niang, a guest is here!" The crisp and immature children's voice is like a yellow warbler chirping in the valley at dusk.

In a moment, a middle-aged woman walked out of the house.

The old gentleman looked around: the woman was wearing a dark blue blouse, the fabric was coarse, apparently worn for many years, and a little faded.

She wore no shoes and socks, and her broad feet were not wrapped in cloth like the rich lady, but were covered with mud. She is Xiao Huineng's mother-in-law, the Li family.

Li came back from the field, just put down the hoe, heard the cry of Xiao Huineng, hurriedly walked out of the house, and after meeting the old gentleman, he bowed his body and said, "You have come from afar, and you have worked hard." ”

The old gentleman waved his hand: "We are like idle clouds and wild cranes, things are drifting, and there is no hard work at all." ”

"Old man, if you don't think the humble house is shabby, please go inside and drink tea." Lee's kind invitation.

The old gentleman entered the house, and as soon as he sat down on the pine bench, Li handed over the freshly brewed camellia.

The old gentleman took a sip, felt mellow and sweet, and exclaimed, "Good tea!" The old gentleman, who had been running all day, drank openly.

Seeing that this old gentleman was extraordinary, Li asked, "Where did the gentleman come from and where do you want to go?"

The old man stroked his long hair and sighed: "In this mountainous and wild place, I am not afraid to say everything plainly. The old man was originally the national teacher of the dynasty......"

It turned out that this old gentleman's surname was Li, his name was Chunfeng, and he was a famous national teacher in the Tang Dynasty.

Li Chunfeng, the national teacher of the Tang Dynasty, was also a famous astronomer and calculus in the Tang Dynasty, a native of Yongzhou in Qizhou, and a former Taishi Ling in the early Tang Dynasty, and was an ancient Chinese scientist and historical and cultural celebrity. He was intelligent and studious from an early age, and was well-read, especially proficient in astronomy, calendar, mathematics, yin and yang, etc.

Li Chunfeng's father, Li Bo, served as a local official in the Sui Dynasty, "because of his humble rank, he abandoned his official position and became a Taoist priest." "Li Bo" is quite knowledgeable, self-named Huang Guanzi, annotated "Lao Tzu", wrote ten volumes of Fang Zhi Picture and Essay Collection, "and did "Astronomical Elephant Fu".

Li Chunfeng, who was known as a "prodigy" since he was a child, under the influence of his father, read a lot of books, especially loved astronomy, geography, Taoism, yin and yang, and went to Nantuo Mountain in Henan Province at the age of 9 to worship Yuan Daochang as a teacher. At the age of 17, he returned to his hometown, and was recommended by Li Shimin's friend Liu Wenjing to become Li Shimin's adviser and participated in the anti-Sui Xingtang uprising.

In 618, Li Yuan proclaimed the emperor Li Shimin as the king of Qin, and Li Chunfeng became the secretary of the palace of the king of Qin to join the army.

The calendar used in the early Tang Dynasty was the "Wuyin Yuan Calendar" compiled by Fu Renjun, which had certain defects, Li Chunfeng made a detailed study of it, put forward suggestions for revision, and Tang Taizong sent people to investigate and adopt some of his suggestions.

In ancient times, the compilation of the calendar was a specialized science, and it was difficult for ordinary scholars to ask about it, and Li Chunfeng was only in his twenties when he proposed the revision of the "Wuyin Yuan Calendar", which naturally attracted people's attention, and was therefore praised, and was awarded the general Shilang and entered the Taishi Bureau. Li Chunfeng is like a fish in water, fully demonstrating his intelligence.

In 618, Li Yuan proclaimed the emperor Li Shimin as the king of Qin, and Li Chunfeng became the secretary of the palace of the king of Qin to join the army.

Li Chunfeng attracted the jealousy and framing of traitors because of his extreme intelligence and intelligence, and was expelled from the court.

Li Chunfeng watched the sky at night on a clear moonlit night, and suddenly found that a white auspicious light rushed straight into the universe from the direction of Lingnan, shining brightly and not dissipating for a long time.

He was both excited and confused: because this auspicious omen was a once-in-a-lifetime and once-in-a-lifetime auspicious omen, indicating that a great man who would go down in history was about to be born.

Li Chunfeng watched the sky again at night, puzzled, and thought: The Tang Dynasty is in its heyday, and Emperor Taizong Li Shimin is the first emperor through the ages, is there still a huge variable brewing between heaven and earth? With apprehension, he disguised himself as a feng shui gentleman and quietly sneaked to Lingnan.

Li Chunfeng followed the Pearl River estuary where the Bodhidharma Patriarch arrived in China, traced the river upstream, to Zhaoqing, and traced the river up the Xinxing River, a tributary that rushed from the southwest.

In the middle and upper reaches of the Xinxing River, a column of mountains twists and turns, the peaks are towering, the rock walls are steep, winding for more than 300 miles, like a dragon, lying on the riverside. Therefore, the locals call it Yongsan.

Beneath the peaks of the dragon's head, like a jewel carefully hidden by a giant dragon under its palate, there quietly exists a village.

Wolong leaps, soars into the blue sky and pours nectar, neon seven colors fly in the clouds; The jewel was born, the glory shines on Kyushu, and the charm is eternal.

Li Chunfeng climbed the mountain to look for dragons during the day, and stayed at the home of Huang Leitian, a wealthy man in Xialu Village, at the foot of Longshan Mountain. Through many days of mountaineering and dragon observation, he discovered: Longshan Canglong Cave is like a Mani pearl; Millions of years of gestation, a thousand rays of light.

This feng shui, this dragon vein, is clearly the place where the emperor was born; However, this ruiqi, this colorful cloud, is so serene, so soft, there is no emperor that dominates the world, the charm here is more graceful than the king, and more free and easy than Wenqu Xing.

Li Chunfeng fell into deep thought: What kind of auspicious omen is this? What kind of character is it, inspired by the earth and the sky?

At this time, it was the darkest hour before dawn, the heavens and the earth were in chaos, and the heavy morning mist filled all the space, making people feel heavy, oppressive, and inexplicably disturbed.

The black mountain range, like a dead dragon and snake, crawled in the wilderness......

When he arrived, suddenly, a terrible scream came from the village under the peak of the dragon's head, and with a loud newborn cry, like a thunderbolt piercing the clear sky, it shook the night sky of the mountains and fields, and shook the whole world.

Then, a red light flew up from the inner room, through the window lattice, and rushed up to the vast and confused sky, reflecting the nearby red, and then, attracting a thousand Cairui. At dawn, I saw two monks come to congratulate......

Li Chunfeng searched for the dragon for thousands of miles, and when he saw all this, the confusion in his heart was suddenly relieved, his hands were folded, and he muttered to himself: Amitabha, it turns out that this Ruixiang should be in the Buddha's door......

Li Chunfeng counted on his fingers: this day is the eighth day of the second month of the 22nd year of Tang Zhenguan (638 AD).

On this day, it has been exactly a century since Patriarch Bodhidharma passed on the most incredible wisdom in the universe - Zen to the second ancestor Hui Ke, exactly one century - a full hundred years.

On this day, the sixth generation of Zen Buddhism passed away.

……

Coincidentally, a few years later, Li Chunfeng left the prosperous place of the Shengxiao Orchestra, chased along the dragon vein of the Lingnan Mountains, and came to the vicinity of Longshan in Xinzhou......

Li Shi listened to the national teacher's confession, and also scolded angrily: "The government and the opposition are tilted, Geng Geng is loyal to the ministers, and there is no way to serve the country!" My husband is also a clear proof of this. ”

The national teacher's heart moved, and he asked, "Who is your husband?" ”

"My husband was originally the same as you, and he was both a fallen person at the end of the world." Li also told Lu Xingyu about it.

After hearing this, the national teacher sighed: "When I was in the imperial court, I also heard about it. But the emperor is mediocre, alas......"

Li went to the kitchen and slaughtered the only old hen that laid eggs in the family and used it to entertain the national teacher.

At night, the national teacher slept on a makeshift hard bed made of pine planks in the living room.

Underground was a muddy ground with uneven potholes, with only three of the four feet of the bed touching the ground.

As soon as the national teacher turned around, the bed board "creaked" like a shaking wooden horse.

Outside the window, the moon was covered tightly by thick black clouds, and the stars that usually blinked mischievously did not dare to show their faces in the inky black night sky, and the earth was pitch black.

The national teacher felt nostalgic for his life experience, recalling that the traitorous ministers in the court were successful and the loyal ministers were killed, and he couldn't help but feel sad.

However, during the day, he waded and climbed the mountain, walked too much, and was very tired all over, thinking and thinking, and fell asleep unconsciously.

The national teacher tossed and turned a few times on the bed, and in the haze, as if he heard a slight sound, he suddenly opened his eyes and looked around.

Night, there was nothing unusual in the dark night, and the stars outside the window blinked their weak eyes, flashing a faint cold light.

"It's your own delusion, isn't it?" The national teacher was a little suspicious of himself, but in this lonely night in the mountains, there was indeed a slight sound.

"Where did this slight sound come from?" The national teacher squinted his eyes again and listened intently: Heh, I heard it, this slight sound came from under the bed.

The old man put his head out of the mosquito net, which had been blackened with potatoes, and saw a black thing crawling on the ground. He was startled and hurriedly lit the small oil lamp placed at the head of the bed.

The dark hall was immediately filled with flickering yellow light.

The old man looked fixedly: it turned out that there was a child crouching under his bed, and the small palm of his right hand was reaching into the foot of the bed, which could not reach the ground.

"Ahh The old man immediately jumped out of bed, pulled out his right palm from the foot of the bed for Xiao Huineng, and said in a reproachful tone, "It's late at night, you don't sleep in bed, lie on the ground, what are you doing?"

Xiao Huineng rubbed the palm of Xiao Huineng's aching hand and said, "I saw that you couldn't sleep after tossing and turning, and I knew that this bed was uneven, and one of the beds couldn't reach the ground." ”

The old man didn't care: "If the foot of the bed is not flat, it will not be flat." ”

Xiao Hui Neng said in a serious tone: "You can't sleep, I see it in my eyes, I will think about this matter all night long, and I can't sleep." You have been in constant haste for days, and the soles of your feet have almost worn out; And to get up early tomorrow morning, I have to drive away the mountain road, which is too hard. I thought, this night, rather than me and you can't sleep, it's better for me to work hard and let you get a good night's sleep first. ”

The old man said a little angrily, "You don't have to use the palm of your hand to get up at the foot of the bed, you can go find a stone." ”

Xiao Huineng explained: "It is so dark, it is not easy to find a stone with the right height and size. Besides......"

Old man: "Besides, what?"

Xiao Huineng hesitated for a while before replying: "Besides, I'm afraid that when I go to look for stones, the slightest sound will also wake you up." ”

Old man: "So, you put your palm under the foot of the bed and flatten the foot of the bed?"

Xiao Huineng nodded: "Hmm." ”

"Your palms don't hurt?"

"It hurts, of course it hurts! But the thought that you can sleep soundly makes me do my best to hold back. ”

Hearing Xiao Huineng say this, the nameless national teacher felt a wave of heat surging from the bottom of his heart, rolling, and rushing to his throat, his nose felt unbearable sourness, and as soon as he gasped, two lines of old tears poured down from his dry eyes. He hugged Xiao Huineng tightly and praised from the bottom of his heart: "You, a six-year-old child, have such a perfect and sincere understanding, you are really the Buddha in the world!"