Chapter 70: Searching the Temple
Coming down from Ciyun Temple, Zhao Kuangyin complained with a stomach, "You actually treat us as thieves, are we like thieves, Miss Ming, do you say we are like thieves?"
Mingyue said with a smile: "A few of us just looked around, and we did look a bit like thieves, and it is reasonable to be misunderstood by others." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Shu Lianyi said: "That's it, especially you, and Brother Zheng, the thief and the thief, it's strange if I don't catch you!"
Zheng Yu said: "Miss Shu, I didn't provoke you, it's like him, why did you pull me in!"
Zhao Kuangyin quipped: "You see that you don't shave your beard, you look like a good person." ”
Zheng Yu said: "What do you know, so that you can have a manly taste." ”
Zhao Kuangyin said: "Tut-tut, it's still manly, I have goosebumps." "Although I didn't get anything, the group was not bored when they were fighting.
In the past month or so, Jing Xining and his entourage have visited all the temples large and small according to the information they had collected before, and even the nunnery let Mingyue and Shu Lianyi take a look, but there was no clue. On this day, everyone came down from the Inspiration Temple, and Chai Rong said: "Big brother, we have searched all the temples within a radius of hundreds of miles in Chang'an City in the past month or so, but there are no clues, what should we do next?"
Jing Xining also worried, "In addition to the monks in these temples, there are also many pilgrims who come and go every day, so it is not very convenient to find, so it is easy for them to suspect it so blatantly, so there are many places that have not been carefully inspected, maybe we have ignored something." ”
Mingyue said: "This does make it more difficult for us, but this kind of thing can only be found secretly, or those places that we haven't looked at carefully will be quietly going to look at it at night?"
Jing Xining said: "Now it can only be like this, without further ado, let's start investigating it tonight!" everyone nodded in agreement.
At this moment, an elderly peasant woman limped over with an old man in her arms, only to hear the peasant woman complain: "Why are you so careless, carrying firewood and breaking your foot." ”
The old man said: "I slipped under my feet just now, and I accidentally stepped on the air, so I fell." ”
The peasant woman said, "You go home first and rest, and tomorrow I will go to the temple and bring back all the firewood you chopped." ”
The old man said: "Don't go, all the firewood is in the temple, and the rain can't get wet, just wait for a day to rest and my feet are healed before going." ”
Jing Xining heard the conversation between the two, and hurriedly stopped them and asked, "Please slow down, you two mentioned a temple just now, are you talking about the Temple of Inspiration? ”
The woman said, "Of course, we are not talking about the Temple of Inspiration, how can we put the firewood cut from the mountain in the Temple of Inspiration." ”
Jing Xining suddenly came to his senses and asked, "Since it's not the Inspiration Temple, but I haven't heard of other temples around here, what are you talking about?"
The woman said, "Who said that there is no temple near here, there is one up there, but it has been dilapidated for many years, and no one has gone there." The woman pointed in the direction of the ruined temple.
"Broken temple?" Jing Xining asked.
The woman said: "Yes, it has long been a broken temple, if it weren't for the local people who don't know it, but I heard the old people of the previous generation say that the incense in that temple used to be quite prosperous, but then a group of officers and soldiers came to the mountain, and the temple was occupied and garrisoned, and finally after being broken by the officers and soldiers under the mountain, the temple was destroyed, what a pity!"
Jing Xining suddenly realized: "I see, thank you very much!"
The woman said: "Childe is polite, the accent of a few people should not be local, did you go to the Inspiration Temple to offer incense?"
Jing Xining said: "A few of us passed by here, and I heard that there is an inspiration temple here, which is very spiritual, so we went there specially." ”
The woman said, "If the boy is all right, we will go first." Jing Xining politely conceded: "Please!"
After the couple left, Mingyue asked, "Xining, you just asked them about the ruined temple, do you want to go and see it?"
Jing Xining said: "That's right, since I overheard it, let's go and take a look." The people walked in the direction that the woman had just pointed out, and although it seemed that they were not far apart, they still walked for a long time, and went up the mountain road, which was almost covered with weeds, and only occasionally the surrounding farmers went up the mountain, leaving a small mark. Walking up the path, we soon came to the mountain, and suddenly a dilapidated temple appeared in front of everyone. Although this temple looks dilapidated, and the destruction is not far from ten, but in terms of scale, it should still be not small before. The walls of the front yard had collapsed, and there was rubble and weeds everywhere, as well as fallen door beams, and the uncollapsed place in front of the door was the firewood that the woman had just chopped on the mountain. Jing Xining and everyone walked in slowly, Chai Rong sighed with emotion: "If this place is not destroyed by the officers and soldiers, there must have been a lot of pilgrims before, and it is estimated that it is not much worse than the Inspiration Temple opposite, it is a pity." ”
Shu Lianyi said: "This place is in tatters, will the treasure of the Yellow King be hidden here?"
Jing Xining said: "As long as there is a slight possibility, we can't let it go, let's go in and have a good look." ”
Everyone looked at the front yard several times, but found no difference, and went into the backyard together, the backyard was originally a place where monks and pilgrims lived, and it was also dilapidated, but there was a wall in the backyard that was carved against the mountain, and it was very hard, but it was not damaged. There is nothing strange about this wall, it is just that it is built more cleverly, but some of the Buddha statues carved on this wall attract everyone's attention. This wall is carved with all Buddha statues, all lifelike, there are some residual incense things under the stone wall, Zhao Kuangyin said: "The people who repair this temple are really good at settling accounts, the Buddha statues are carved on the stone wall, there is no need to make Buddha statues in addition, this stone wall can be used as a backyard stone wall, fine like this, it is really powerful." ”
Chai Rong said: "Third brother, don't talk nonsense here. ”
Jing Xining touched the Buddha statues on the stone wall, looking carefully one by one, Shu Lianyi asked curiously, "Xining, what are you doing?"
Jing Xining said: "It's nothing, I just think that the Buddha statues on the stone wall are really well carved, even the same Buddha statue can give birth to a variety of different expressions, and there are really many Buddha statues on it, I don't know what to call it." ”
Shu Lianyi said: "It doesn't matter if you don't know, since we are destined to come here, let's worship the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas!" Shu Lianyi said and stood there with his hands folded and bent down to worship the Buddha statue in front of him, and said in his mouth: "The Buddhas bless us to find the treasure of the Yellow King as soon as possible, and the little woman is grateful." Zhao Kuangyin looked at it from the side and shook his head helplessly.
Jing Xining looked at Shu Lianyi, her mouth smiled slightly, and suddenly the whole person was stunned, as if she was thinking about something, Mingyue Yu saw this and walked up and asked, "Xining, what's wrong with you?" Shu Lianyi, who was worshipping the Buddha next to her, tilted her head and looked at Jing Xining, and also asked: "Xining, what are you thinking?" Jing Xining came back to his senses and said, "Do you still remember the poem on the treasure map?" Shu Lianyi shrugged his shoulders and shook his head: "I don't remember." ”
Mingyue said: "What is written on it is 'Sincere, I am as I wish.'" There are 100,000 soldiers in your chest, and there are thousands of plans in your heart', Brother Jing, why did you suddenly ask this? Does this poem have anything to do with this?"
Jing Xining read the poem twice more and said: "Yes, I always feel that there is an inexplicable relationship between what the poem says and here, wait, let me think about it." Jing Xining held his hand against the wall, still chanting, and suddenly asked Mingyue Yu, "Miss Ming, do you know what Buddha in Buddhism represents wisdom?"
Mingyue said, "As far as I know, Manjushri Bodhisattva represents wisdom, why did you suddenly ask about this?"
Jing Xining said, "Then can you find out which one is Manjushri Bodhisattva on this stone wall?"
Mingyue said: "The image of Manjushri Bodhisattva is changeable, there is one character Manjushri, five characters Manjushri, six characters Manjushri, and eight characters Manjushri, but the most common is the five-haired Manjushri, let me give it a try!"
Mingyue Yu looked for it from one side, and after looking for it, he went to the other side, and looked at one Buddha statue after another, and suddenly stopped in front of a Buddha statue and looked at it carefully. Jing Xining walked over, only to see that the Buddha statue was holding a sword in his right hand, holding a lotus flower in his left hand, and a sutra was placed on the lotus, and a lion was seated, extremely brave. Jing Xining asked, "Is this it?"
Mingyue said: "This Bodhisattva has five buns tied to the top of his head, these five buns represent five kinds of wisdom, namely the Dharma Realm Body Wisdom, the Great Circle Mirror Wisdom, the Equality Wisdom, the Wisdom of Wonderful Observation, and the Wisdom of Success, the right hand is the wisdom sword, which means to cut off the knots of troubles and all kinds of stupidity in the world, the lion under the seat is brave, invincible, invincible, the lotus symbolizes purity and unstained, and the lotus flower is placed on the Prajna Sutra, which is the wisdom of thinking, yes, this is Manjushri Bodhisattva. Shu Lianyi listened to Mingyue's rumor on the side, and she was still unfinished speaking, clapping her hands and saying, "Sister Ming, you are too powerful!" Jing Xining couldn't help but praise: "Miss Ming is really knowledgeable!" Mingyueyu smiled slightly and said, "I just heard Master talk about it before." ”
Jing Xining carefully looked at the Buddha statue on the stone wall and looked up and down, and Mingyue said, "Xining, what are you looking for, why did you suddenly mention Manjushri Bodhisattva?"
Jing Xining said: "I just thought of a sentence in the poem, 'The heart has a thousand ways', is it just smart and wise?"
Mingyue said: "The wisdom of Manjushri Bodhisattva is great wisdom, not the small wisdom in the poem, and it is not the intrigue of the world. ”
Jing Xining silently recited the poem again, when he read again 'sincerity three feet to the ground, my Buddha as he wishes', suddenly stopped, the whole person was immersed in his own world, desperately thinking, suddenly plopped and knelt in front of the stone statue of Manjushri Bodhisattva, and then kowtowed desperately, his head hit the ground covered with mud and dust, and after a while, his forehead was bloody, everyone was puzzled, Zhao Kuangyin asked: "Big brother, what are you doing? You respect Manjushri Bodhisattva and don't have to kowtow here all the time, you see your forehead is bleeding." Zhao Kuangyin said that he was going to help Jing Xining, Jing Xining still knocked on the ground vigorously, Zhao Kuangyin was a little worried, "Big brother can't be evil, right?"