As Shen Shou got older day by day, Hailing saw him more often. At first, he just took her to the world every spring, but later, he went every month, every day, sometimes sending her seasonal vegetables, sometimes sending her a few books, and after Manager Dai came over, he simply abandoned the affairs of the demon world and moved directly to Haotian Tower.

The first time he saw Mr. Dai, he felt that he was a good helper. So he rescued him in the Forest of Living Beings, and then signed a contract with him to use him for his own purposes in this life. After arranging the affairs, Hailing went to the Hehaotian Tower with confidence, and rarely came out after that.

He worked so hard, not because he wanted Shen Shou to like him, but because he was afraid that he, like the previous spirit girls, would not be able to stand the loneliness and loneliness of this Haotian Tower, and would die prematurely. So when I have time, I will accompany her and accompany her as much as possible.

As Shen Shou got older, she talked less and less, and the things she came into contact with changed from the chaos at the beginning to the boring practice of the formation diagram, and sometimes she was by her side, and she couldn't even talk to her for a day. She sat there, her eyes closed, a book in her hand, stroking quietly, not knowing whether she was reading or thinking. Hailing didn't dare to force her to be more enthusiastic about herself, after all, she was already very satisfied if she could be by her side, take a look at her, sometimes explain the mysteries in the book for her, and sometimes talk to her about the Dharma.

I remember that she asked herself before her death, she said, "Hailing, I would like to be incarnated as a stone bridge, subject to 500 years of wind blowing, 500 years of sun, 500 years of rain, where did it come from?"

Hailing didn't think about it, so he replied, "Stone Bridge Zen." ”

Shen Shou cautiously asked, "What kind of allusion is this?"

Hailing put down the Lotus Sutra in his hand and patiently replied, "Then I will tell you a story." According to the book, it is rumored that there was a young and beautiful girl, who was born in a wealthy family and was versatile, and the threshold of her family was about to be broken by the matchmaker, and she still didn't want to get married, because she was always looking forward to the appearance of Ruyi Langjun.

One day, she went to the temple fair to relax, and in the crowd of thousands of heads, she caught a glimpse of a young man, and knew in her heart that it was the person she was waiting for, but the scene was so crowded that she could not get close to the person anyway, and finally watched her sweetheart disappear into the crowd. After that, the girl looked around for the man, but the young man seemed to have evaporated from the world and never appeared again. Lonely and lonely, she only prayed to the Buddha every morning and dusk, hoping to see that man again. Her sincerity touched the heart of the Buddha, so she appeared to fulfill her wish.

The Buddha asked her, "Do you want to see that man again?"

"Yes, even if you see it!"

"What if you want to give up everything you have, including loving your family and a happy life?"

"I am willing to give up" the girl is persistent for love.

"You have to cultivate for five hundred years before you can see her, you won't regret it, right?"

"I don't regret it" is categorical.

So the girl turned into a big rock, lying in the wilderness, four hundred and ninety-nine years of wind and sun, the girl did not think it was bitter, but the uncomfortable thing was that she had not seen a person for more than four hundred years, and she could not see a little hope, so that she faced collapse. In the last year, a quarrying team came to her and took a liking to her, chiseled her into stones, and brought her into the city, where a stone bridge was being built, so the girl became the guardrail of the stone bridge. On the very first day of the completion of the stone bridge, the maiden saw the man who had been waiting for five hundred years! He walked quickly across the stone bridge, and of course the man did not notice that a stone was looking at him intently. The man was gone again.

The Buddha's voice reappeared: "Are you satisfied?"

"No, why am I the guardrail of the bridge, if I am laid in the middle of the bridge, I can touch him and touch him!"

"If you want to touch him, then you still have to cultivate for five hundred years!"

"I do!"

"Don't you regret such a hard work?"

"No regrets!"

This time, the woman turned into a big tree, standing on an official road where people came and went, and many people passed by every day, and the woman watched every day, but this was even more uncomfortable, because countless hopes were exchanged for countless hopes. If it weren't for the cultivation of the first five hundred years, the woman would have collapsed long ago! As the days passed, the woman's heart gradually calmed down, and she knew that he would not appear until the last day. Another five hundred years, and on the last day, the woman knew that he would come, but her heart was no longer excited. He was at last! still in her favorite white gown, and her face was still so handsome, and the woman looked at him infatuatedly. This time, he didn't rush by, because it was too hot. He noticed a big tree on the side of the road, and he took a break, he thought. He came to the bottom of the tree, leaned against the roots, closed his eyes, and fell asleep. The girl touched him, and he was close to her! But she could not tell him about the thousand years of lovesickness. Only try to gather the shade of the trees to shield him from the scorching sun. The man only took a short nap, because he still had something to do, he patted the dust on his robe, and a moment before leaving, he looked back, stroked the trunk of the tree lightly, and then walked away without looking back!

The moment the man faded away, the Buddha reappeared.

"If you want to be his wife, you still have to cultivate. ”

The woman calmly interrupted the Buddha's words: "I really want to, but I don't have to. ”

The Buddha smiled but did not speak.

The woman continued, "That's good, I like him, I love him, but I don't have to be his wife. ”

The Buddha still smiled and did not speak.

"Has his current wife suffered as much as I did?" the woman thought.

The Buddha nodded slightly.

The woman smiled slightly: "I can do it, but I don't have to." ”

At this moment, the woman seemed to notice that the Buddha sighed slightly,

The woman was a little surprised: "The Buddha is also disturbed by mundane things?"

The Buddha shook his head and replied with a smile, "I just thought, it's okay for you to be like this, there is a man who has been waiting for you for at least a thousand years, and in order to take a look at you, he has been cultivating for two thousand years. The Buddha looked at her and said word by word (this story comes from the Internet). ”

After Hailing finished speaking, there was a brief silence in the Haotian Tower. After a long time, he still opened his mouth first, "I didn't expect you to believe in this kind of folklore." ”

Hailing lowered his eyes, and there was a loneliness in his eyes that could not be concealed, "The right is a story, and it is good to listen to it and relieve the fatigue." Unconsciously, he clenched his sleeves, because of the excessive force, the knuckles were slightly white. I told her this with other thoughts, and she really responded like this, did she really not understand or falsely did not understand? Hailing thought of the four bitter empty words she had said, smiled bitterly, and let go of her sleeves, too, whether she understands or doesn't understand, she will not have feelings for herself, why is she embarrassed by such a hint.