Before the darkness swallowed up the last rays of the setting sun, Wang Lin finally returned to the stone-paved streets of Wumeng Township.

However, today's streets are a bit unusual, not a single shop or door is open, and it seems unusually quiet and deserted. Usually, it's time for the shops to close and the houses are lit up, but there are still some shops that are open wide.

"Strange, what's going on today, did everyone go to bed so early? or something happened......" With full of doubts, Wang Lin drove the ox and hastened the pace of going home.

After turning a few alleys, when he was about to come to the Su family on the other side of the street, the disappeared people finally appeared in front of Wang Lin. There are hundreds of people standing or sitting in front of the gate of the Su family, and the Su family covers a large area and is just at the edge of the street, and the open space in front of the door is large, otherwise I am afraid that so many people will not be able to sit.

Although there were many people in front of the Su family, they were all quiet, and no one made noise at will. Wang Lin couldn't see what was happening in front of the crowd, and only occasionally heard a few sounds of calm and calm in the middle of the voice. What kind of "merit, merit" or something like that?

Because of the cattle, Wang Lin didn't dare to stop and listen carefully when he came to the back of the crowd, so he had to drive the cattle to the cattle pen behind the courtyard first.

After settling the cows, Wang Lin pushed open the small door in the backyard, walked through the path and flower hall, washed his hands in the lotus pond, and then rushed to the front of the hall.

Due to the crowd in front of the door, he couldn't see anything and couldn't hear anything clearly, so Wang Lin decided to go behind the door wall to see what was going on.

Came to the back of the door wall, through the wide open door obliquely looked out, there were two people sitting side by side on the wide steps in front of the door, an old yellowed robe middle-aged thin monk, a crane-haired boy with a sword on his back and a Taoist holding a dust. Behind the Taoist is Su Luolan, whom Wang Lin rescued two years ago, looking from the side, her beautiful face revealed excitement, but there was regret in her eyes......

Seven small incense burners are placed on the table in front of the monks and Taoists on both sides, and there are three incense sticks in each furnace.

There were seven or eight people in the first row under the steps, and they were Su Jin, the head of the Su family, Su Luolan's mother Li, Wumeng Township Xiangzheng, and quite faceable figures in the township. They all sat on their stools, and behind them were ordinary villagers, small traders, and so on, some of them sat with stools, some sat on the ground, and some knelt directly on the ground, with a pious face.

Back on the stage, it was the middle-aged monk who was speaking at this time.

Because he came relatively late, Wang Lin didn't know what he said earlier. I only heard the monk preach the Dharma: "Su Bodhi, everywhere, if there is this sutra, all the world's heavens, people, and asura locks should be offered, and you should know that this is the tower, and you should respectfully worship and surround it, and scatter it with all kinds of incense." ”

The scriptures were obscure, and Wang Lin listened to them in a fog, his brows were furrowed, and he didn't know what the monk was talking about.

The monk has a kind face, although he looks only middle-aged, but it gives people a feeling that he has already transcended everything in the world. He continued, "This is the last sentence of the Diamond Sutra explaining the merits of sutra-holding, and the Buddha tells Subodhi that no matter when, where, and where the world is, as long as there is this sutra, all the gods, human beings, and asuras should make offerings devoutly. It should be known that the place where this sutra appears is the place where the stupa stands, and the beings who see it should respectfully bow around it, scattering all kinds of fragrant flowers and fine incense around it, and make respectful and reverent offerings. ”

At the end, the monk did not forget to say, "Amitabha." ”

The monk's calm words make people can't help but feel a deep sense of identity, as if what he said was the truth, as if he was talking about the Great Dao. What's even more amazing is that as the monk's words are finished, the surrounding void actually emits a dazzling light, shining on the monk, and the otherworldly temperament is even more eye-catching. Those who were already kneeling became more religious, and many people who were originally standing also knelt down and hurriedly said, "Amitabha." ”

After a few breaths, the light faded, and golden lotus flowers evolved in the void, some disintegrated and dissipated, some fell into the crowd, and some went away with the wind, not knowing where they fell. Seeing the lotus flower born from the void, some of the people who were sitting on errands also got up and knelt down, and even those who did not get up respectfully folded their hands and said, "My Buddha is compassionate." ”

The monk, who had already closed his eyes and recuperated, sighed lightly, narrowed his eyes slightly, quietly glanced sideways and looked back, and then closed his eyes again, the difference was that there was a smile on his face in addition to compassion.

Behind the door wall that people couldn't see, Wang Lin was a little confused after hearing the monk's explanation: "I used to hear my husband say that Buddhism is more compassionate and takes it as its responsibility to purify all sentient beings. Why does he say that where a sutra is there, people should make respectful offerings and be surrounded by the fragrance of flower petals? According to Buddhism, all living beings are equal. How does he know that the petals of a flower have no life? Isn't a plant one of the living beings?"

The more he thought about it, the deeper Wang Lin's brows wrinkled, and he wanted to go out to ask the monks for advice, but the timing was obviously not suitable, which made him even more entangled.

When the golden light shone, Wang Lin was also illuminated, and for a moment, he felt that his thinking seemed to be much clearer, and the flowers he had seen before appeared in his mind, and then the plants and rhizomes of the flowers appeared behind the flowers. It was as if he understood something all at once.

After the lotus void was born, half of them flew over the door wall, and the vast majority of these golden lotus flowers fell on Wang Lin's eyebrows. Just like Wang Lin is the lord of a hundred flowers, many indistinguishable kinds of flowers are floating towards him, surrounding, and permeating ......

As the petals fell into his eyebrows, Wang Lin's body trembled for a moment, and then he sat cross-legged and motionless.

After the lotus flower flew away, the kind Taoist priest sitting next to the monk also spoke some scriptures.

But because Wang Lin had already fallen into the mysterious realm, he didn't hear anything and remembered nothing without any perception of his surroundings.

I don't know how long it took, the sky was completely dark, the preaching of the Buddha and the Tao had ended, and the people all returned safely after respectful gestures.

Su Jin and the Li family respectfully welcomed the two respected old immortals into the Su Mansion, and when they were about to rest, Su Jin saw Wang Lin sitting cross-legged behind the door. "Hey, why is this kid asleep here, and in such a strange position. As he spoke, he was about to wake him up, but the middle-aged monk immediately stretched out his right hand to stop him when he saw Su Jin's movements. "Master Su Shi, this little brother is in the mysterious realm at this time, don't disturb him, when he wakes up naturally, he must have benefited a lot. ”

Su Jin gave up when he heard this, but a trace of unhappiness flashed in Li's eyes, and Su Mingde, the eldest brother of Su Luolan who was following behind him, was also unhappy. Only Su Luolan's face was full of doubts, and she asked the old Taoist priest in a low voice, "Master, what's wrong with Brother Lin, it's so strange, is he okay?"

When the old Taoist priest heard this, he glanced at Wang Lin who was sitting on the ground, and then looked at Su Luolan, and said kindly, "Luolan, your brother Lin's blessing is not shallow, and he can hear the Tao for the first time. ”

When Su Luolan heard this, her eyes were shining, and the joy in her heart was indescribable.

That night, Wang Lin dreamed that he came to a golden world, the difference is that in the dream he is not a human, but a plant that constantly changes its form, from the duckweed floating in the water to the humble wildflowers on the roadside, to the precious narcissus in the garden, the revered four gentlemen of Meilan, bamboo and chrysanthemum, and even to the legendary Tianshan Snow Lotus and Jiuzhi Mountain Fairy Grass, he has experienced them one by one.

From seed germination to growth and development, from flowering and fruiting to falling away.

But he doesn't have a consciousness of his own, he doesn't know what the meaning of his existence is, and he can't think. All actions follow the way of heaven in the underworld, and what they will look like when they come.

He is like a passer-by of heaven and earth, in the midst of a hundred grasses, only looking at the surrounding scenery. There is no thinking, no feelings, not even judgment.

From the germination of the seed to the time it fell into the mud, he just watched, without the joy of life and the sorrow of withering.

Even plantain was put into the pot, ginseng was dried and ground by people, and fairy grass was alchemized......

Spring goes to autumn, and the same thing grows in the same place every year. He didn't know where he was the source of life, and he didn't know whether it was himself who withered in autumn or who broke out of the ground again in the spring.

In this way, he experienced a life that he shouldn't have over and over again. He was reincarnated again and again in the golden dream.

It wasn't until the last time that he finally became a human and had the consciousness of "me" that he suddenly woke up.