Huineng returned to Shimen, and the east had already revealed the whiteness of the fish's belly.

Before Li got up, Huineng and Yi fell asleep. That night, it was as if nothing had happened.

Everything seems to be back to normal.

……

There is a small hill pier at the intersection of Shimen Valley and Chanlong Canyon next to the ancient post road at the northern foot of Tianlu Mountain, and the locals call it Fozidun.

Huineng lives in seclusion in the stone gate of Tianlu Mountain, he has a special preference for plum blossoms, thinking that the green calyx plum blossoms here have a petal of ice and jade, like a Zen heart, dusty, ethereal and flawless, and look at the past to make people distracted thoughts disappear.

Huineng especially took a fancy to the confluence of these two waters, and came here to plant plum trees whenever he had free time every day.

The land is fertile, the water is abundant, and the light is excellent, so those plum trees grow fast and well.

The mountain people of Tianlu Mountain love the plum tree very much, and they believe that the plum tree is the plum kernel left by the immortals such as Tie Guan Li when they came to Tianlu Mountain to hold the Hundred Fruit Banquet and absorbed the aura of heaven and earth.

Under the demonstration of Huineng, the mountain people planted plum trees in a large area on the mountain, and it didn't take long for the plum trees on Tianlu Mountain to be all over the mountain.

In the season of plum blossoms, up and down the mountain, a piece of white is boundless, like white clouds falling to the earth. The mountain breeze blows, the fragrance of plum blossoms ripples, intoxicating, it can be said that the mountain people are living in the sea of flowers, the world of incense, and they are at ease. On the other hand, when the plum blossoms fall and the plum trees bear fruit, countless green plums hang on the branches, and the fruits bend the branches. The harvested plums can be soaked in wine or sold as preserved fruits. In this way, the plum tree has brought them a lot of tangible benefits.

On this day, the vast sky was blue and blue, like a huge curtain that had been filtered out of variegation. A few snow-white clouds, blown by the wind like a boat in the sea, floated gently.

Huineng had just planted more than a dozen plum trees, came to the stream, and watered them with a bucket, and was about to leave, but was stopped by a pair of middle-aged men and women not far from the stream.

The man was from Gangjiao Village at the foot of Tianlu Mountain, his name was Xie Daoben, and the woman standing next to him was his wife Ah Fang. Judging from her depressed face, she had encountered something unsatisfactory.

Xie Daoben waved to Huineng and shouted, "Little brother, please come over for a while." ”

Huineng put down the bucket, waded across the stream, and asked, "Uncle, is there something wrong?" ”

Xie Daoben was about to speak, but when he saw his wife standing next to him, his face was blushing, and he immediately said nothing, and pulled Huineng to the big banyan tree a few feet away.

Xie Daoben blushed, lowered his voice and told Huineng the crux of his heart: he has been married for more than ten years, but his wife has not been able to give birth to children. His father and mother urged them again and again, and they also used to find some Langzhong, but after taking many medicines, they did not see his wife pregnant. The more anxious they are, the less effective they become. His parents had a lot of opinions about his wife and often accused her for no reason. Fortunately, his wife had a good temper and swallowed her anger and did not quarrel with the old man. But Xie Daoben is not easy to be a man in the middle.

There is a way, there are thoughts in the day, and dreams in the night. Last night, Xie Daoben had a dream, saying that there was a living Buddha on Tianlu Mountain who could solve problems and relieve difficulties. When he woke up in the morning, he took his wife to the top of the mountain, Tianlu Temple. After listening to his appeal, the abbot admitted frankly that he was only a Buddhist monk, and he had no ability to guide and send children, and everything in life could only be fate.

Xie Daoben was not discouraged, and he and his wife climbed high and low, went up the hill, waded through streams, entered the woods, went down to the ravines, and searched everywhere, but they couldn't find the living Buddha.

Seeing that Hui Neng was carrying water by the stream to plant plums, in desperation, Xie Daoben had no choice but to ask Hui Neng for help and asked, "Little brother, do you know where the living Buddha is in the mountains?" ”

Although his voice was small, but at this time there was silence in the mountains, Ah Fang still heard it, and said to himself ashamedly: "Alas, it's all my fault for not being angry." ”

Xie Daoben continued to say to Huineng: "Some people persuaded me to divorce my wife and remarry. But I think that one day husband and wife for a hundred days, we become husband and wife, this is God's arrangement. My wife is hardworking and capable, and she is very filial to my parents. How can I divorce my wife and marry another? ”

Huineng praised: "Uncle, you are really a good man. ”

Xie Daoben told Hui Neng the bitterness in his heart: "But you should also know that in our rural area, there is such a custom, what is said is not filial piety, there are three, and no queen is the greatest." If you don't have descendants, you will be despised by others, and your family business will not be inherited in the future. So we burn incense and worship God at home every day, and meditate on it every night. Alas, I have been so sincere in worshiping the Buddha and have done so much hard work, but I have not seen my wife happy. My wife and I are both almost forty years old, and if my wife can't have children in the past few years, then it will be even more slim in the future. So my wife and I went up the mountain, hoping that the Living Buddha would give us guidance so that we could continue the incense lamp. ”

The hill is surrounded by irises that symbolize love and good fortune, and among the green grass, the purple-blue flowers bloom like flocks of butterflies. There is a large stone under the big banyan tree in the center of the hill. After planting plums, Huineng often relied on this big stone to practice enlightenment.

Huineng had an epiphany and said, "Uncle, you don't have to work so hard to find other places in the mountains." I ask you, what is that? ”

Xie Daoben followed Huineng's point, saw a big stone, and replied casually: "Little brother, the question you asked is too simple, this is obviously a very ordinary big stone." ”

Huineng's words were subtle: "Yes, you say it's a big rock, it's a big stone, but what if you think it's not just a big stone, but something else?" You might as well use your brain to imagine it."

"This ......" Xie Daoben walked up the small hill, pinched the short beard of his chin, looked left and right at the big stone, and looked at the middle for a while: the bottom of this big stone is wider, triangular and oblique upward, and the top is round, a bit like a human brain, and then beckoned to his wife, "Ah Fang, come and see, what does this look like?" ”

After Ah Fang answered, he walked under the big banyan tree, looked at the big stone carefully for a while, and then said, "Husband, I see this stone like a person. ”

Xie Daoben asked, "Who are you like?" ”

Ah Fang pointed to the big stone and said, "The upper part of this big stone looks like a human head, and the lower bulge looks like a person's big belly. ”

Xie Daoben slapped his thigh and shouted: "Yes, it is indeed like Maitreya laughing Buddha!" Wife, your vision is sharper than mine. ”

Huineng laughed when he heard the couple say this: "Just now you replied that this is a very ordinary big stone, why do you now say that it is Maitreya Laughing Buddha?" ”

Xie Daoben pointed to the big stone and asked Huineng: "Little brother, why did I feel completely different just now than I do now?" ”

Hui Neng said loudly: "Uncle, uncle, if you believe in it, you are a Buddha, and if you don't believe in it, it is still a stone." ”

Xie Daoben seemed to be enlightened, and said seriously: "Now it is a Buddha in front of my eyes, and it is a Maitreya Buddha who sent a son." ”

Huineng nodded: "Uncle, that's what I said just now." ”

There is nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get them.

Hui Neng saw that the gloomy clouds on the faces of Xie Daoben and his wife were swept away, and he became radiant, pointing to his heart: "The Bodhi nature in the world is originally pure, but with this heart, you can become a Buddha when you see nature." ”

Xie Daoben pondered the meaning of this sentence: "Seeing nature to become a Buddha? ”

Hui Neng further nodded at him: "Uncle, in fact, the living Buddha you are looking for is in your own heart. ”

"The Living Buddha is in my own heart?" Xie Daoben waved his hand, "No." I, a man of the mountains and wilderness, how can the living Buddha be in my heart? Little brother, don't scold me! ”

"I didn't tell you," Huineng said with a serious face, "You must know that everyone in the world has Buddha nature. ”

Xie Daoben felt that Huineng's words were incredible, and said: "Little brother, I really can't believe what you say, I, an ordinary man, will also have Buddha nature?" ”

Huineng's tone was conclusive: "Yes! I'm telling the truth. Walking, sitting, and lying down are all places of enlightenment, and everyone can become a Buddha."

"Everyone can become a Buddha?" Xie Daoben pondered this sentence and seemed to have some understanding, "Little brother, no one has ever said such a thing to me. ”

"I think that in addition to finding the Buddha here, you will continue to find a good man to prescribe some medicine when you go back from the mountain. I think you'll be able to do it soon. Huineng looked at Merlin over there and continued, "Here, I would like to tell you that everything is in accordance with the way of heaven, the plan is in the people, and the success is in the sky!" ”

Xie Daoben clapped his hands in surprise: "Yo! Little brother, what you say is the Tao. This time, I really convinced you. Today you are here to show me the maze and make me less stupid. ”

Huineng waved his hand: "You don't have to thank me, this is a virtue that you have cultivated yourself." ”

Xie Daoben and his wife happily went down the mountain and went home.

The next day, Xie Daoben bought incense and candle offerings, and his wife Ah Fang came to the small mound of Tianlu Mountain again, burned incense and lit candles on the big stone under the big banyan tree that he identified as the "Maitreya Laughing Buddha", bowed and worshipped, prayed and made wishes.

At this time, a young man and woman happened to come to Tianlu Mountain to play, and when they saw Xie Daoben and his wife kneeling and worshiping the big stone, they were very strange, so they asked: "Uncle, why do you bow down to this stone so reverently?" ”

Xie Daoben looked serious: "You are young, I don't know the inside story, I don't worship the big stone, but the Buddha." ”

The man's name was Ah Can, and he was even more strange when he heard this: "Uncle, I obviously saw that this is a big stone, how can it be a Buddha?" ”

The woman who came with her was named Ah Qin, and she chimed in: "Yes, this is just an ordinary big stone." ”

"Your words are exactly the same as what I thought when I first came here yesterday," Xie Daoben pointed to the big stone and said, "Look at its head, and this big belly, does it look like a sitting Maitreya Laughing Buddha?" ”

Ah Chan looked at the big stone and said to Xie Daoben: "After you say this, the more I look at it, the more it looks like a Maitreya Laughing Buddha!" Then he turned to the young woman and asked, "What do you see, Aqin?" ”

Ah Qin pointed to the big stone and nodded: "Listening to you say this, the more I look at it, the more it looks like Maitreya Laughing Buddha!" ”

Ah Chan said: "Maitreya Laughing Buddha is the Buddha who sends his son!" ”

Xie Daoben: "Exactly! ”

Ah Can suddenly realized and said to Xie Daoben: "Ah, uncle, it turns out that you are asking for an heir. ”

Xie Daoben lowered his voice slightly: "Yes, there are only four of us here, I might as well explain to you that we are at this age, and this time we are indeed asking for an heir." ”

Ah Chan said to the woman: "Ah Qin, they bow down to this Buddha statue and pray for the birth of a noble son." We'll come and worship later. ”

Ah Qin blushed with shame: "We haven't gotten married yet, so we came to ask for an heir?" ”

Ah Can: "It's a matter of time, and we'll learn from this uncle and sister-in-law." ”

Ah Qin put his mouth next to Ah Can's ear and whispered, "Ah Can, just do as you say." But we won't come to worship until the uncle and aunt have finished praying and leaving. ”

Ah Can: "Ah Qin, you are always so shy, okay, I will obey you this time, and we will come back after the uncle and aunt leave after they finish worshipping." ”

So, after the young man and woman Ah Chan and Ah Qin had left Xie Daoben and his wife, they also knelt down on the big stone and prayed and made a wish.

It is a coincidence, and the boulder has a spirit. After thanking Daoben to worship the Buddha, his mood was no longer so irritable, and the couple lived more and more harmoniously, and went to take medicine and drink soup according to Langzhong's instructions.

Soon, his wife Ah Fang was pregnant with Liujia, and after she became pregnant in October, she gave birth to a pair of twin boys.

Xie Daoben said that the Maitreya laughing Buddha on Tianlu Mountain was really effective, and he went to ask for a son and got what he wanted. Later, he took his pair of twin boys to the small hill mound, offered fruits in front of the big stone, burned incense and lit candles, knelt down and worshipped, and promised to repay their vows.

After the young man and woman Ah Chan and Ah Qin got married, they soon had a noble son.

Over time, the people around Tianlu Mountain called the big stone shaped like a Buddha on the small hill mound as the Maitreya Laughing Buddha Stone for sending the child, and called the small hill mound "Buddha Zidun".

The years are long, and the vicissitudes of life.

Many things in the world are no longer things and people. Strange to say, after more than 1,300 years, now, there are two big banyan trees growing in the aura of the Buddha. The two big banyan trees are about three feet apart, and their branches are vigorous and vigorous, and the dense leaves are green and dripping. The thick horizontal branches of the two trees stretch out to each other, intersecting and connecting to form a hug, and the crossed trunks of the two trees form a "heart" shape in the sky, which makes people sigh that the heavens have created things, which is incredible.

At that time, people used to call these two large banyan trees that were connected to each other as marriage trees.

The banyan tree has a different characteristic from other trees, its aerial roots extend down into the soil of the ground, gradually growing larger and thicker, and becoming a new trunk. There are such spectacles everywhere.

On the left and right sides of the magical marriage tree of Tianlu Mountain, there are two thick trunks generated by aerial roots, which have become two small trees. Locals say that these are the two young trees born from the marriage tree.

If you look closely at the growth of these two young trees, they resemble a pair of twin trees.

What is amazing is that the tree, which is called "Dazai", grows in the south, and the long thick roots stretch downward, and the fibrous roots are upside down near the ground, and there is an upside-down golden hook, and a large stone is tightly wrapped, as if a juggler is playing with the big stone, and the peculiar posture makes people laugh. People call it "naughty boy".

And the "fine boy" tree grows on the north side, the trunk grows straight and upright, and honestly uses his body to support the thick trunk that falls, like a man shouldering a heavy burden, standing up to the sky, without regrets. People respectfully call it "Honest Boy".

Seeing the strong contrast between the different shapes of these two young trees, and hearing the stories of the locals, it really makes people hold their stomachs and laugh.

The folk have passed down the moving legend about the marriage tree for generations. The story of the marriage tree of the Buddha Mound of Tianlu Mountain and the Maitreya Buddha stone sending children is widely spread, and there is an endless stream of believers who come to pray for a good marriage and heirs.