Shen Shou smiled: "Actually, I prefer the story of Venerable Ananda. It is recorded in the Buddhist scriptures that when Ananda first studied Buddhism with the Buddha of the Western Heavens, his mind was also extremely uncertain. One day he suddenly knelt down in front of the Buddha and asked for a return to the world, and the Buddha asked him why, and he said that he saw a fisherwoman on the North Sea, and he was very fond of her, and he wanted to return to the world and spend his life with her.

The Buddha did not reject him at that time, nor did he promise him, but only asked him how much he loved the woman. He said, 'I would like to be incarnated as a stone bridge, and I will be blown by the wind for five hundred years, the sun for five hundred years, and the rain for five hundred years, and I will only ask her to pass over the bridge.' When the Buddha heard him say this, he knew that it was useless to say anything, so he said to him, 'Don't be vulgar yet, if you want to be with her, I will allow you to be together, but after a hundred years she enters the next reincarnation, and you come back and tell me if you still want to be entangled with her.' Ananda took off his robe with great joy and went to the lower realm.

He turned into an ordinary peasant boy, married the woman, married her, had children, went to sea to fish, and subsidized the family. The Buddha could see that she loved the woman very much. But time passed quickly, and after twenty years, the woman's hair was a little gray, the corners of her eyes were wrinkled, and her originally slender figure gradually became bloated, so Ananda began to go out early and return late, and he went to work all day at sea, and went to drink tea and chat with other people, but he just didn't want to be with her.

Later, ten years later, this woman was already an old woman, with a wrinkled face and a rickety figure, and Ananda was still a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy, Ananda said to the Buddha in private, he saw clearly, his life was endless, and she only had a few decades of life, she would die soon, and he was still young.

The Buddha knew that he had not yet seen through, so he said to him, 'Do things from the beginning to the end, and you can send her off to the end and come back to me.' So Ananda stayed with her for another ten years, and after ten years he sprinkled the last handful of loess on her grave. He cried very sadly, his voice was hoarse, and his liver and intestines were broken. The Buddha knew that he was really seeing through it at this time.

To become a Buddha is not to be ruthless to all things, but to be affectionate to all things. He saw through the essence of the skin, from ruthlessness to sentient beings, from one person to all beings, to all things, this is the Dharma. ”

After carefully saying these few words, Hailing's face was difficult to see. What she said was not a love story, but a process of gradual enlightenment. He was interceding with her, but she was talking to him about the Dharma.

Shen Shou didn't seem to notice the change in his mood, and just asked softly in an almost nightmarish voice, "Hailing, have you ever liked someone else?"

Hailing looked at her and replied, "I don't know what liking is, what love is, I just know that I care about someone very much, I don't want her to suffer, I don't want her to suffer, I don't even want her to endure loneliness alone." Sometimes I want to hug her, but sometimes I think it's better to be there for her. After all, she won't like me. ”

Shen Shou listened to her, and suddenly laughed, and laughed, and a tear ran down her cheek, to her chin, and then to her sleeve, and disappeared. She didn't speak, Hailing didn't speak, and the tower fell silent again.

After a long time, she suddenly moved, and then groped her way towards Hailing. Although she had lived in this tower for thousands of years, even if she couldn't see anything, she was very familiar with the structure inside the tower, but Hailing was still afraid that she would fall, so she reached out and took her hand. In fact, she was very close to him, but only ten feet away. She took Hailing's hand, then slowly came over and sat on his lap. Hailing was stunned for a moment, and she didn't know what she was going to do. After she sat down, she took his hand, stroked it carefully, and then touched his face from his arm, and she touched her face gently, but very carefully, and then pressed her face against his. Hailing was slightly shy, and said softly, "Are you a hooligan?"

Shen Shou shook his head, then reached out and wrapped his arms around his neck, hugged him tightly, and said softly, "You are so warm." Hailing didn't open her mouth when she heard that she seemed to have something else to say, and she continued, "Actually, I don't know what it's like to like someone and love someone. But I know that you should like me if you accompany me so much every day and care about me so much. Listening to what you said, I was so moved that I was about to cry. I also want to respond to you, as written in the excerpt, Lang Qing concubine is infinitely beautiful. But I don't like people by nature. I'll be glad you're here, and I won't miss you if you don't. I'm not going to beg for it like I wrote in the book and get lovesick. I seem to be born like this, unkind. ”

Hailing wanted to reach out and hold her, but when he heard her words, his hand that was halfway stretched out stopped in mid-air, and then hung down weakly.

Shen Shou seemed to know that there was something wrong with him saying this, so he hurriedly said, "I just said it casually, actually, I think I should like you, you see that I am holding you now, and I am also very happy." She didn't know what to say, she just knew that he was upset, she didn't want him to be upset, she wanted to coax him, just like he usually coaxed himself to sleep. Seeing that Hailing still didn't react, she turned her face sideways and kissed him lightly on the lips. The kiss was so light that if he hadn't opened his eyes, he would hardly have noticed that she was kissing him.

She said cautiously, "I gave you the first kiss, don't be upset, okay." ”

Hailing looked at her pure and flawless face, smiled bitterly, touched it with her hand, and said softly, "Shou Shou, it's not early, go to sleep." ”

Shen Shou wanted to say something, but he gagged, "I'm not angry." He wasn't angry, he just felt that everything was lost.

On the second day, he went back to Lanling Palace, and came back in the evening, he looked at the Shen Shou who was standing in the center of the tower, and said in a consistent soft tone, "Shou Shou, the King of Jizo sent a message to say that it was Manjushri, Fuxian and others failed to refine the secret realm of the West Heaven Sealing Abyss in Lingshan, and were eaten by it, and the Buddha was also injured by annailness in Luojia Mountain, so he specially asked me to help him clean up the mess." I may go for about half a month, and in this half month, you will take good care of yourself, and when I come back, I will come to you. ”

Standing cautiously, motionless, he only replied softly, "Okay." ”

Hailing listened to her promise, and then walked out of Haotian Tower, and when she went out, she couldn't help but look back at her. She was dressed in white and had a thin build. A head of black hair that had not been tied up, hung quietly at her side. She just stood in Haotian Tower, with her back to him, and never looked back, standing alone, hanging from each other. He took one last look at her, and then he came out of the tower ruthlessly.

In the tower, Shen Shou put his hands on his waist, gently twisted the belt of his clothes, and muttered, "I won't be able to sleep if you leave." ”

No one answered her, and there was only silence in the tower.