Chapter 7 Qianling Old Monk 09 Old Monk
Not waiting until dawn at the foot of the mountain, the monk led the two out of the valley, found a farmer, dressed Ren Tianbai and Chai Yingruo as the children of the farmer, and pretended to be a Taoist from the wandering side, leading the two to the west, and they were also stable along the way.
After a few days, three mountains in the distance rose majestically from the flat Kanzhong Plains, the finished glyph towered, a wide Shinto road led straight to the foot of the mountain, along both sides of the Shinto, many tall Weng Zhong, holding wat boards, as if courtiers were on pilgrimage to stand in two rows.
"Isn't that what it is...... "Although Chai Yingruo has lived in Beijing for a long time, he can see that he has a wide range of knowledge, and he knows that he is in Qianzhou in Xifu at the moment, and the scenery in front of him is clearly an imperial mausoleum, the most spectacular of which is the Qianling Tomb where Tang Gaozong and a generation of empress Wu Zetian were buried together, I have only read it in books before, and I am already a little fascinated, and I don't want to see it with my own eyes today!
"Tsk, I didn't expect you to know a lot about this girl!" The monk smiled back, looked at Ren Tianbai and shook his head, "It's a shame that you are still from Guanzhong, but a girl has stolen the limelight, and I don't know if you are rare and unheard, or because of this Qianling feng shui!"
Ren Tianbai looked at the scene in front of him, and he was also a little surprised, he had been in Guanzhong for a long time, and Qianling was a famous spot in Guanzhong, how could he not know?
"It's almost there!" "Approaching the evening, the monk took the two of them to a village at the foot of the mountain, asked for a soup bucket, and instructed each of them to bathe and change their clothes, not to be so unkempt and go up the mountain! Chai Yingruo smiled and said: "I can't imagine that the great monk, you, a monk, are still so respectful to this previous emperor, but it is rare!"
"You girl, you may have come back to your senses in the past two days!" The monk reprimanded and said: "You dare to make fun of the monk, whether it is an emperor or a mortal, you must have a little respect, hurry up and go to the bath and change clothes, rest early, and go up the mountain early tomorrow morning!"
The three of them stayed in the village for one night, and the next day before dawn, the monk drove the two up, went up the mountain in the dark, and when they arrived at the mountain, the sky was already bright, Chai Yingruo suddenly exclaimed, and pointed to a stone tablet that stood alone in the distance and said: "Could it be that the wordless tablet?"
"On the wordless monument...... Is there really not a word?" Ren Tianbai looked in the direction of Chai Yingruo's finger, but he was a little puzzled: "If there is not a word, why do you want to erect a monument?"
"There is no word on the stele, but there are words in the heart!" is not the monk in the past so lazy and procrastinating, the body is clean, spotless, since the mountain, always put his hands together, it looks very pious and solemn, he glanced at the wordless stele from afar and said: "The inscription is engraved on the stone, after all, it is an annihilation! The female emperor tree stele in the world, not engraved a word, but the human heart has its own inscription, this kind of insight, it shows that the female emperor has a deep understanding of the world!"
Chai Yingruo also wanted to go to the wordless monument to take a closer look, but not in the monk but went around the back of the mountain, walked a long way, in a forest, faintly exposed a few houses, there seemed to be someone in it knocking on the chime chanting, the voice was low, not the monk took Ren Tianbai and Chai Yingruo, to the outside of the woods, he stood quietly, and did not dare to interrupt the sound of chanting!
"Come in, what are you doing standing outside?" After about half an hour, the sound of chanting inside stopped abruptly, someone laughed aloud, and the monk who was not in the monk responded respectfully, and turned around to signal Chai Yingruo and Ren Tianbai, and followed them to the woods, the two juniors were full of curiosity, knowing that this was not the fire Zen master who was not in the monk's mouth, but I don't know why the monk was so respectful to this person!
"It's done, you don't want to put on makeup in front of me!" The three of them arrived at a small courtyard in the woods, and an old monk of about sixty years old stood against the door, looking at the monk with a smile and said: "I don't know how unruly you are at the bottom of the mountain, you are clearly a wine jar with a refined spirit, a rice bucket that has attained enlightenment, and you also eat wine and meat, but what rules and precepts do you come to me to observe? I have already prepared them for you!"
"Then thank you Uncle Shi!" was not happy on the monk's face, and pointed to Chai Yingruo, who was surprised behind him, and said to Ren Tianbai: "This one is the ...... Ren Tianbai Ren Gongzi, this girl is Chai Zheng's only daughter, called Chai Yingruo!" and gestured to the two of them to the old monk: "This is the monk and my uncle, who has been called a Zen master in the past few years!"
"In the past few years?" Chai Yingruo and Ren Tianbai were stunned when they heard it, the monk's law name was taken and there was no higher level, such as the bitter bamboo Zen master of Shaolin Temple, even if he sat down one day, it was also a bitter bamboo Zen master, I had never heard that the monk had a law name in the past few years, and another law name in a few years!
"You two don't listen to his nonsense!" The burning monk smiled heartily, and let a few people go to the courtyard and said: "Life is in the world, but it has only been a few years, and the Dharma name is just the name of the monk, what is it called, come on, this way up the mountain, I must be tired, and sit down and rest!"
Chai Yingruo Ren Tianbai and the two hurriedly bowed down to thank each other, sat down at a small table in the courtyard, looked around, and saw that although the courtyard was small, it was also very clean, presumably it was often cleaned, but not in the monk but the nose twitched twice, his face was happy, and he walked into the house quickly, and after a while, he carried a steaming big copper kettle and a few clumsy blue and white bowls out, and before he came to him, Ren Tianbai and Chai Yingruo sniffed a clear aroma of wine!
"You are really similar to your father!" "You are really similar to your father!" The Zen master never took the bowl from the monk's hand, and only placed them in front of the three of them, but it was empty in front of him, staring at Ren Tianbai for a long time and said: "Quite a bit like your father when he was young!" looked at Chai Yingruo again, but said with a smile on his face: "You are a little different from your father, it seems that you follow your mother!"
"Does the Zen master recognize my father?" Ren Tianbai and Chai Yingruo glanced at each other, both a little puzzled, but Ren Tianbai had never heard his father mention the name of the Zen Master of the Fire, so he couldn't help but be a little curious!
"How can you not recognize it?" The Zen master of the fire saw that the monk poured a bowl of wine into each person's bowl, and said with a smile: "But when I met your father, there was no you at that time, if he hadn't sacrificed his life with Chai Zheng and others to save each other, I am afraid that there is only fire in the world today, and there is no monk!"