Chapter Forty-Eight: A Long Dream
This is the most common tacit understanding between Xiuyuan and unswerving, whenever I miss each other, I always feel that the weather reflects my mood, as before, as now.
The sky floated a light rain that I don't know what to say, it was very light, and the unswerving eyelids that were originally closed were awakened by the rain, she slowly opened her eyes and watched the broken rain falling from the sky, the rain poured into her body, clothes, hair, eyes, along her face, and finally into her heart.
Xiuyuan, where is your heart, is it also floating like me at this time?
Unswerving from exhaustion, until she finally closed her eyes, she was tired and just wanted to rest.
And at this time, Xiu Yuan did react, he had a long dream, it didn't seem to be a dream, he felt that he had traveled far away with his soul, left the Li family, left Tiantai Town, and left Unswerving.
His body did not obey the call, and kept walking, first to the sand dunes, then to the bamboo forest, and finally to the quiet place of the Buddha Gate, and stopped.
Xiu Yuan listened to the morning bell and dusk drum, and he was still in the meditative sound, a peace that had never been felt before.
"Are you okay?" When Xiu Yuan sat down with his eyes closed, he heard such a voice, so calm and pleasant, as if he was from the Holy Land.
Xiu Yuan opened his eyes and turned around, it was an old man with crane hair, looking at Xiu Yuan.
Xiu Yuan politely saluted the old man, and the old man also nodded to him and walked over slowly.
"Are you talking to me?" Xiu Yuan looked at the old man, and he smiled peacefully.
"I'm glad you're here. The old man stood beside Xiu Yuan, and Xiu Yuan felt a breath from him, it was not from the human world, it was from the fairy world, "We haven't seen each other for too long, Venerable." ”
He called himself Venerable, and Xiu Yuan understood that this was a person who had a fate with his previous life.
"Y-know me?" Xiu Yuan asked.
The old man still had that soft smile, he looked at Xiu Yuan, as if he could penetrate his eyes, Xiu Yuan didn't feel that this gaze made people unable to look directly, but he felt a rare peace in his heart.
"I've known His Holiness for a long time," the old man looked at Xiu Yuan, "but I haven't seen him for a long time, are you here to make an appointment instead of him?"
Xiu Yuan looked at him puzzled, he shook his head, "Go to the appointment?"
The crane-haired old man still has a long beard like silver threads, and he is beside Xiuyuan, slowly brushing his long beard, "His Holiness once had an agreement with me, and we met here, but then he was condemned by the Buddha, and I thought he would not come again." ”
Xiu Yuan seemed to understand something, "Then am I here to make an appointment for His Holiness and you?"
"You are the Venerable," the old man smiled faintly, "you are his reincarnation." ”
"So do you have any agreement with His Holiness?"
Amid the sound of bells and drums, the old man walked towards the hall that loomed in the mist, "Follow me, Venerable." ”
Xiu Yuan followed the old man to go, it was a fairyland-like hall, and groups of monks were meditating on both sides, "Where is this?" Xiu Yuan couldn't help but look stupid, the Elysium mentioned in the book is nothing more than that.
The old man slowly walked in front of Xiu Yuan, and Xiu Yuan slowly walked up the steps with him, "This is where I often come with you. “
"It's like a wonderland. Xiu Yuan couldn't help but sigh.
The old man smiled faintly, "His Holiness comes here most often, and here we sit here for a few days, and the Venerable One who has seen everything in the world is different from other arhats, he can always have some transcendent enlightenment. ”
Xiu Yuan looked at the old man incomprehensibly, "What kind of enlightenment is it?"
He doesn't divide everything in such detail, for example, people, gods, demons, and Venerable Beings have no dignity in their eyes, which is his view all along, although many people disagree. ”
"Do you agree?" Xiu Yuan looked at the old man, and the old man smiled faintly and didn't say much.
"His Holiness was punished five hundred years ago, do you know?"
"That's something that everyone in the fairy world knows. The old man sighed, "Venerable's calamity is inevitable, maybe everything is fate, whether it is a human, a god, or a demon, they all have their fate, and Venerable is an outlier in the fairy world." ”
But you agree with him. Xiu Yuan seemed to get to the point all of a sudden, and the old man looked at him and still smiled slightly.
"Let's go sit up there. ”
Xiu Yuan followed the old man to a higher place, where there were endless white jade steps, shrouded in immortal mist.
"Have you never seen His Holiness since?"
The old man shook his head, they stood on the high place of the building, the old man looked down, Xiu Yuan followed him, this is a place close to the sky, you can see the mirror-like lake below, the white clouds are swirling around, Xiu Yuan listened to the chanting of the monks, he looked at the old man.
"His Holiness is destined for this calamity, maybe he does not belong to the immortal realm, there is no place in this world where he can be imprisoned, and there is no place suitable for him to live forever. ”
Xiu Yuan didn't understand, and the old man let out a long breath, "The time is not right, do you like it here?"
Xiu Yuan nodded, "It's nice and peaceful here. ”
"You'll come back later, and we'll see you soon. The old man said this sentence that made Xiu Yuan very puzzled, and he looked at the old man.
"You still have a lot of earthly affairs that you can't let go, and you came to me this time, I think His Holiness probably asked me to enlighten you. ”
"Enlighten me?" Xiu Yuan looked at the old man.
He stretched out his hand, a spider crawled out of his cuff in the palm of his hand, the old man did not move, the spider did not move, the old man turned over his hand, the spider climbed up to the back of his hand, Xiu Yuan did not understand, the old man put the spider down, but the spider refused to go, and did not move on the back of the old man's hand.
The old man flicked it, and the spider bit him, and then climbed down from the old man's hand and crawled into the distance.
Xiu Yuan looked puzzled, and a red envelope appeared on the back of the old man's hand where he was bitten by a spider.
"The best thing is not to be accompanied, but to expel them. His gaze moved from the spider in the distance and finally landed on Xiu Yuan, who frowned at him.
"The Venerable saved the fox demon and committed a crime, but the fox demon misunderstood the Venerable, and the layer that you can't understand, the Venerable has already understood it. ”
Xiu Yuan still didn't understand, he frowned and looked at the old man.
"You will understand, and when you have great compassion, you will understand it thoroughly. ”
After finishing speaking, the old man disappeared, Xiu Yuan was stunned, and there was no trace of the old man except for the fairy mist and thin clouds around.
It's this long dream, Xiu Yuan feels that this is not a dream, everything is around him, in front of him, what he sees, and what he hears is so real.
Xiu Yuan slowly opened his eyes, and the first thing he saw was Mo Chou.
Mo Chou saw Xiu Yuan wake up, she was very excited, she clenched Xiu Yuan's hand, "You woke up Xiu Yuan!"
Xiu Yuan's face is very stiff, it is not suitable for a few days, he wants to sit up, Mo Chou supports him, Xiu Yuan feels that his body is very light, and it seems that he is still in that fairyland, but if he looks at it, he can be sure.
This is home, not that fairyland, although the old man's words are still lingering in his ears, the best thing is not to accompany, but to expel him.
What does this mean exactly?
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