The next day, the Sixth Patriarch Huineng recounted yesterday's dream to Zen Master Xuanqing.

Xuanqing Zen Master: "It seems that this is the dream of the Dragon Mother, why doesn't the ancestor give it a try according to the law?"

Sixth Ancestor Huineng nodded and led the crowd to the dry well.

The monks clasped their hands together and prayed to the heavens: "Buddha bless me and help me succeed." ”

The Sixth Patriarch Hui Neng muttered: "If there is a spirit in the heavens, and it intends to relieve the plight of our monks, a sweet spring will gush out from under the cane. With that, he raised the tin staff high and thrust it into the dry well.

The sound of "snort", although it was not the thunder of the heavenly drum, it was like Huang Zhong Dalu, and everyone felt the eardrums ring.

The tin rod had the power to crack the stone and open the monument, and pierced the stubborn stone that blocked the spring.

The Sixth Patriarch Huineng pulled the tin staff up, and a clear spring gushed out from the hole, attracting onlookers to cheer in unison! The gushing water was so clear that it soon filled the dry well.

Zen Master Xuanqing used a melon scoop to pour the water in the well, put it to his mouth, tasted it, it was very sweet, and it was like a good wine, so he was so excited that he hit the knots and praised: "Good, good!"

The monks of the nunnery rushed to taste the well water, feeling like a clear spring brewing, extremely sweet, and one by one they were overjoyed and smiling.

Zen Master Xuanqing said to the sixth ancestor Huineng: "The ancestor is coming, under a stick, attracting Ganlin, it is really boundless Buddhism, this is the blessing of our Buddhism!"

The sixth ancestor Huineng said: "The land of Buddhism is happy with sweet springs." It's all up to you to do good deeds and generosity on weekdays, and to benefit all sentient beings, which can be said to be the first bloom of good fruits. ”

Zen Master Xuanqing looked at the Sixth Patriarch Huineng gratefully and said, "The Patriarch said well, do good deeds and be generous to all sentient beings, this is what we should do." ”

Sixth Ancestor Huineng said: "This hill was originally fertile soil, but due to the lack of water in the past, the grass and trees did not grow, and it was too barren. Now that there is a sweet spring gushing out of the well, let's plant some flowers and trees on this hill. ”

"Okay!" A smile bloomed on the old face of Zen Master Xuanqing, "But what kind of flowers and trees should I plant?"

Sixth Ancestor Huineng: "Three friends of the cold year, headed by Mei." I think this soil is the most suitable for growing plum blossoms. ”

Zen Master Xuanqing: "I also think so. ”

After hearing this, all the monks said that it was best to plant plum blossoms on this hill.

The sixth ancestor Huineng personally planted plum blossoms around the nunnery.

Strange to say, the plum trees watered with well water are like being sprinkled with rain, standing tall and full of vitality.

Since then, this nunnery is surrounded by plum blossoms, and every winter, the plum blossoms are in full bloom in full bloom in the wind, and they are a little red and gorgeous, which is a spectacle.

There is a record that in the second year of Qianhe in the Southern Han Dynasty (944 AD), the monk Zhiyuan of Lianjiang traveled to Zhaoqing, in order to commemorate the six ancestors Huineng had planted plum trees in the west of the city, and expanded the small nunnery and created the plum nunnery. Whether this matter is confirmed or not, but the story of the sixth ancestor Huineng to lead water with a tin rod and insert plum as the mark has been widely spread in the Xijiang River Basin, and the descendants named it "plum hermitage" in the small nunnery of the small hill marked by the six ancestors Huineng.

Since then, there has been a sweet spring gushing out of the dry well in the plum hermitage, which has not dried up for thousands of years, and has been praised as the "six ancestral wells" by the world.

Later, with its extraordinary architectural style and the legend that the six ancestors Huineng once lived here, the plum nunnery became a famous Buddhist holy place all over the world.

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The next morning, when the sun had just risen in the east, the Sixth Patriarch Hui Neng carried the water and took a small monk to plant a plum tree on the hill as a mark.

Zen Master Xuanqing led all the monks of Xiao'an to the Xijiang River to see off the six ancestors Huineng.

The light boat that the six ancestors Huineng and they took crossed the Xijiang River, when the north wind blew strongly, and the wooden boat raised its sails and went up the Xinxing River.

On both sides of the way, the mountains are stacked in the distance, and the clouds come out of Xiu; Nearby, phoenix bamboos are swaying, and flowers are clustered.

The sixth ancestor Huineng stood on the bow of the boat, but he had no intention of watching the beautiful scenery, but he was like an arrow, looking forward to his hometown under the white clouds.

The area of Lingnan Xinzhou, far away from the northern power center and located on the shore of the Xijiang River, although the current situation is turbulent, it can finally avoid the war and be in a corner of peace.

In Xinzhou County, to which Guangzhou belongs, there is a major river - Xinjiang. The river runs through the city, so the people of the city call it the new river. However, the residents of the county town neither called it Xinzhou River nor County River, but proudly called it "Danan River".

The mountain is not high, and there is a fairy name; The water is not deep, and if there is a dragon, it will be spiritual. The water of the Dongmen River in the county seat is not deep, not to mention the spirit, but there is a dragon - legend has it that Ao Ya, the ninth son of the Dragon King of the East China Sea, was deeply favored by his father, and the old Dragon King was reluctant to let him stay away, so he sealed him in Xinjiang.

Xinjiang is only a short river of more than 300 miles, so Ao Ya can ride the waves and return to the Dragon Palace of the East China Sea in the blink of an eye.

Because there are dragons living in the river, it is natural that the mountain on the bank of the Luxi River, which flows into the Xinzhou River, is called Longshan.

However, there must be advantages and disadvantages, after all, Longshan is too short, and the water flow of the Luxi River is too shallow, so Long Ziao has to send a big flood every autumn, so that he can go to sea by the flood peak to visit his old father.

"Peach blossom water in the Qixi Festival, where is the river bank not red" - this is the romantic new river autumn water; "The sunrise river flowers are red like fire, and the autumn river water is yellow like gold" - this is the passionate new river autumn water. Maybe it's because of that legend that the Xinjiang Autumn Flood is neither romantic nor bright, always flooding and turbidity rolling.

The sixth ancestor Huineng returned to his hometown in the early autumn of this year, and Xinjiang was no exception, before the Qixi Festival arrived, the river water rose, floating duckweed, floating foam, and flowed from the upper reaches of the Luxi River to the direction of the county......

In the early morning of this day, the boat that the Sixth Ancestor Huineng was taking had just entered the Chegang section of Xinjiang, when he suddenly heard the sound of water in the river and the roaring waves.

Sixth Ancestor Huineng subconsciously raised his head and found that the rolling river was like a giant dragon with teeth and claws, roaring and rushing away, with an unstoppable momentum.

Sixth Ancestor Huineng has lived in Xinzhou for more than 20 years, and is accustomed to seeing the turbid waves of the autumn flood. However, what made him feel strange was that in the low sound of the waves like a bull's roar and trembling like thunder, there seemed to be a wisp of fairy music coming from the depths of Gao Miao's universe and echoing between the waves......

As a result, Sixth Ancestor Huineng was even more surprised to see that in the turbid river water, there was actually a golden lotus floating that he had never seen before.

It was huge, golden, and seemed to radiate a wonderful light; It is slim and elegant, rotten as if in full bloom, as if exuding a faint fragrance; The most unbelievable thing is that a long-lost wisp of familiar girl's incense drifted to the side of the sixth ancestor Huineng......

"Ah, Jin Lian, Sister Ah Lian!" Touching the scene, the sixth ancestor Hui Neng shouted in his heart, he couldn't help it, he couldn't help himself......

The curtain of memory slowly opened, pushing him back to the unforgettable years he spent there on his mother's back on the Tianlu Mountain......

Once, he was driven by compassion and released the sika deer, causing a dispute and fight between the two villages, and then under his mediation, he turned the war into a jade silk, after the public left with relief, he felt dry lips, and saw the Pinghu Lake next to the Buddha pier, and Liang Jinlian walked over with a smile.