Chapter 8 The Truth of Humanity and Ghosts Is Difficult to Understand
The little girl was pitiful, pitiful. When the little girl pulled Zhou Cheng's arm and cried and asked Zhou Cheng for a mother, Zhou Cheng (divided) didn't know how to comfort him.
Dust to dust, dust to dust. Yin and yang are separated, and people and ghosts have different paths. From the moment the little girl died, the little girl had no chance of returning to her parents.
The little girl should go to the gloomy underworld, instead of continuing to stay in the world to find her parents.
But Zhou Cheng didn't know how to tell the little girl the truth.
The truth is too cruel, the little girl is ignorant, empathy is one thing, infinite sympathy is another, the rules of heaven and the right and rational choice are another.
Zhou Cheng is not a good person, a living bodhisattva. Zhou Cheng at least wouldn't want to "purify all sentient beings" for no reason, and the reason why Zhou Cheng sympathized with this little girl so much was purely because of fate in the dark and related to his own experience. (When Zhou Cheng saw the little girl, he remembered what his sister looked like when he left). If it was not a child but an adult who had just met, Zhou Cheng would have either turned a blind eye or gave him a few verses and forcibly sent him to death. As for what will happen when he arrives in the underworld, Zhou Cheng will not care.
It has nothing to do with whether or not to cultivate the Tao, and it has nothing to do with daily education. There are only a few days in the dark, and the Buddha of that year needed to cut his own meat and feed the eagle in order to save a pigeon, in order not to save one and kill one. Merit is good, but there is also an inseparable negative cause and effect.
This is true of the Buddha, and so is the Tao.
Zhou Cheng took a lot of effort to finally make the little girl stop crying, and when Zhou Cheng picked up the little girl and was about to leave, a bright light shone in the distance.
Zhou Cheng hurriedly picked up the little girl (ghost) and flashed to the side. But when the car passed, the little girl disappeared from Zhou Cheng's arms out of thin air.
When the car drove by, and the little girl slowly got up from the road where the car was driving, Zhou Cheng suddenly felt cold all over her body.
Zhou Cheng knew that he couldn't take the little girl away.
Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs. Zhou Cheng looked at the little girl's casual appearance, and for the first time felt a deep sadness and fear, and for the first time understood why so many people would do everything to cultivate and seek immortals, and pursue transcendence.
There are many ghosts in the world, there are wandering spirits and wild ghosts, and naturally there are also earthbound spirits that are inseparable from a small square area. And the little girl is obviously a type of earthbound spirit now. Unless you help him find another soul as a stand-in, the little girl will never be able to leave this short stretch of road.
"Big brother, let's go!" the little girl got up from the ground, but it didn't look like anything serious. After all, it is impossible to die again after dying once. Only Zhou Cheng knew that if she hadn't been hit by a passing car once, the little girl was one step closer to the resentful spirit.
At that time, her memories will disappear, and her sanity will be extinguished, until she has gathered enough stand-ins, and then she will be taken to the underworld by the ghost pawns of the underworld to start her life in another world.
But how can there be a happy afterlife after the death of the evil spirit? Your hands are stained with blood, and you can still hope that you will have a better future in the six realms of reincarnation.
Maybe it's not fair, but the rules of heaven are like this, and there has never been absolute fairness. The way of heaven is fair, but it is said to all things in heaven and earth, and it is aimed at the general trend. For individuals, it is not necessarily friendly.
Zhou Cheng picked up the little girl again, but this time he didn't answer the little girl again. For the first time, Zhou Cheng felt that his Taoism was still too shallow, and if the old man was here, he should be able to leave with the little girl!
"Brother, why don't you leave! You can't hold me, right, you're tired, let Xinxin go by herself!" I don't know why the little girl became so trusting of Zhou Cheng. But Zhou Cheng had to live up to this trust.
"Xinxin, you stay here first, and wait for your brother to come back, okay!" Zhou Cheng was silent for a while before he said with difficulty. I thought of 10,000 reasons in my heart, how to coax the little girl's tears, but I held back such the most lame paragraph.
The little girl was silent, unborn, but tears lingered.
But the more she was like this, the more uncomfortable Zhou Cheng's heart became. Although she has no relatives and no reason, Zhou Cheng regards her as a shadow of his sister.
Among Zhou Cheng's countless family members, the little girl who sat at the door of the house with a small stool and waited for her to come back and bring delicious food was a concern that Zhou Cheng could never forget in his life.
When I left, my sister was as big as the little girl in front of me! I don't know what my sister has grown into after such a long time, do you still remember that there was a brother who loved her.
"Xinxin, you are waiting for my brother here, my brother will come back soon and will bring your parents to see you, okay. Zhou Cheng comforted the little girl with the greatest sincerity. It's just that although the little girl nodded slowly, the tears never stopped.
Zhou Cheng knew that the little girl was scared, afraid that Zhou Cheng was lying to him. Zhou Chengshi has been looking at her for so long, and he is the only person who can see her, talk to him, and coax her. The little girl didn't want to leave Zhou Cheng, but she knew that she couldn't keep Zhou Cheng.
That's why he agreed to Zhou Cheng aggrievedly, and didn't cry and didn't let Zhou Cheng leave.
What a sensible, what a poor little one.
Zhou Cheng felt even more uncomfortable. But he had to pretend to be smiling and said to the little girl: "Xinxin don't be afraid, the little brother can help Xinxin find a few children to play with Xinxin." My brother promises you that you will come back as soon as possible. Okay?"
Zhou Cheng took out a few pieces of yellow paper from his body. Originally, it was used to practice writing talismans, but Zhou Cheng folded it into the shape of a villain three times and two times. Zhou Cheng bit his middle finger in front of the little girl, drew a few uncomplicated patterns on the villain, and then blew lightly, and the paper villain floated to the ground and turned into several children in yellow clothes.
Xinxin's eyes widened, she looked at Zhou Cheng incredulously, she forgot to shed tears when she blinked her big eyes, and looked at Zhou Cheng with admiration and asked, "Big brother is so powerful, are you the apprentice of Monkey King?"
I have to say that the Journey to the West in this era is too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but Xinxin's words made Zhou Cheng have a black line.
"The ghost is the monkey's apprentice?" Zhou Cheng muttered in his heart, Zhou Cheng didn't like Sun Monkey very much, and he didn't know why he didn't like it from beginning to end. Even if I didn't like it before I had an intersection with Daomen. Especially when the monkey asked for help three times and twice, Zhou Cheng was even more disdainful.
The rebellion is powerful, and it is not good to do the right thing. Isn't this typical of not enough success, more than failure?
"Brother is not the monkey's apprentice!" Zhou Cheng felt that he must not be able to explain clearly to a little girl, so he could only shift his eyes and point to the three children behind Xinxin and said, "Xinxin, go and play over there!" They will always accompany you until your brother brings your parents to find you!"
Shin Shin is very lonely, and it is good to have a few playmates. Zhou Cheng took out a talisman and buried it in the middle of the road. The talisman can be used as a substitute for Shin Shin, and within a few days, Shin Shin will not be hit and crushed by the car.
And there is only so much Zhou Cheng can do. What is needed now is to find Shin Shin's parents and find the hit-and-run driver. When Xinxin is obsessed, Zhou Cheng can send Xinxin to where she should go, and she no longer has to suffer endless pain on this lonely highway.
"You shoot one, I shoot one, two children on a plane... Zhou Cheng said goodbye to Xinxin for the time being and continued to move forward. Under the gentle watery moonlight, there were bursts of clear bell-like children's voices behind him.
Zhou Cheng heard the laughter that was gradually fading away, but he was not happy at all, but his heart was heavier.
Do you think that no one will be able to find you if you run away?" Zhou Cheng smiled coldly and strode towards the evil direction of the county seat.