Chapter 6: The Adventure of the Hidden Valley
I couldn't understand what the old monks had been chanting, and when it was over, they were all a little red and out of breath, as if they had done a pretty hard job.
At this time, the old mage who had helped me Zhang Luo came over and told me that the transcendence was over, and I could go back with peace of mind, and in the next two years, they would put Jiang Hong's spiritual position and documents in the transcendence hall to continue to surpass the transcendence, and after three years of transcendence, the underworld should consider pardoning Jiang Hong's sins and accepting her.
Seeing that beads of sweat appeared on the old monk's hard forehead, I couldn't help but fold my hands and bow in thanks, and some intuition told me that this old monk must have spent a great deal of energy. Just when I didn't know how to pay my respects, I just saw that the old mage smiled faintly and nodded, and then turned around and left.
I hope Jiang Hong can take care of her as soon as possible, it seems that the purpose of this trip has been achieved. It was all dark, I looked at my watch, it was already nine o'clock in the evening, fortunately in the afternoon in the commercial tourism area "Jiuhua Street" in the middle of the mountain to book a hotel, it will not take long to walk over.
When I turned on the flashlight, I noticed that there were other scattered people descending the mountain on the mountain path, and I thought that they might have just finished the transcendent rituals from various Zen monasteries.
After walking a few more steps, a fork in the road appeared in front of me, and to my surprise, there was a monk standing at this dark fork in the road, looking at me, as if he had come to wait for me.
Sure enough, when I approached the monk, I only heard her say to me, "Donor, please stay, Xiao Ni has something to say to the donor." Listening to this voice, it turned out to be a woman, so I looked at her carefully, and saw a phoenix-eyed cherry blossom goose egg face, and a pretty woman.
Judging from her face, she may be about the same age as me, that is, about twenty years old, but there are six ordination scars faintly visible on her bare head.
"What's the matter? I asked.
"Donor, Xiao Ni's master had a relationship with the donor in the Moon Body Treasure Hall fifteen years ago, and gave the donor a string of Buddhist beads. A few days ago, the master foresaw that the donor would go to Ganlu Temple today, so he sent me to wait here, and the master said that he wanted to ask the donor to come over and talk about it. The nun said.
After hearing this, I immediately remembered the old monk I saw in the past with two white eyebrows, but after so many years, how could he have foreseen that I would come to Jiuhua Mountain Ganlu Temple today, I was really a little unbelievable. However, this nun can still talk about the events of the year, could it be that it was told to the old master of Ganlu Temple in the afternoon and then reached her ears?
I was thinking about it, as if seeing my hesitation, the little nun said, "Donor, if you want to come, follow me, and the little nun will go first." After speaking, he didn't wait for me to ask, and turned around and walked away along the fork in the road.
I hesitated for a moment in my mind, but I still followed the little nun to a fork in the road under an inexplicable inspiration, I should have a feeling that if it was really the old monk who called me over, then there must be a mystery inside.
I followed this little nun for a long time, and because I was in a hurry along the way, I only cared about turning on the flashlight and hurrying slowly and didn't bother to talk to her more. During this, I followed her down the fork in the road, and after reaching the bottom of the mountain, I walked around for a long time.
The deep valley mountain wind at night is cold, I shiver when it blows, I don't know which deep stream in Jiuhua Mountain I walked into, only to hear a stream on the side of the water, the grass and trees on both sides of the valley are dense, and the top of the head on both sides is a black and pressed cliff.
After walking for about two hours, we were still surrounded by deep valleys, and the stream that accompanied us was nowhere to go. The valley in the middle of the night is lonely, and the moon shadow is lonely, as if you have come to a dark and uninhabited world.
After turning another corner, I didn't know how long I would have to walk, but not far away I saw two thatched huts with lights on. It's really amazing, and I don't know who would live at the bottom of such a deep valley.
Entering a thatched hut, the nun said, "Donor, I'll go and call the master, please rest for a while." ”
After the little nun walked out, I looked at the thatched hut by the help of an oil lamp in the house, and in addition to a table and two small wooden beds, there were a few Buddhist scriptures on the table and two futons on the ground, which was really simple enough.
As he was watching, the gray curtain of the thatched hut was lifted, and an old monk came in. After taking a closer look, I immediately recognized that it was the old monk with long eyebrows. In the past ten years, the old monk's appearance has not changed much, except that his eyebrows seem to be whiter and longer, and his face is still red and his eyes are blazing.
I hurriedly stood up to show politeness, only to see the old monk smile slightly and said to me: "I haven't seen it for many years, the donor has come out of the water hibiscus like this, it is really a rush of time, a hurry of time." After saying that, he motioned for me to sit down, and then sat down on another wooden bed and continued: "It is really abrupt to ask the donor to come here late at night, and please don't be surprised. ”
Seeing that the old monk was so polite, I hurriedly said that it didn't matter, and as I was talking, the little nun had already brought two cups of fragrant tea in, and the old monk hurriedly asked me to drink saliva first.
After taking a sip, it was a rare good tea, and I didn't know what kind of tea it was, but I felt that a strange fragrance deeply penetrated the 36,000 pores of the whole body, which was really comfortable and had a deep tea rhyme.
"Donor, you might as well get straight to the point, please come here today, in fact, here's the thing: three days ago, after the old man meditated in the evening, a person from the heavenly realm came to look for him. Later, after the old man had a spiritual sympathy with the person in the heavenly realm, she realized that she had actually made a special trip to the lower realm to have something for the old man to convey to you. The old monk said kindly.
"What! Celestial Man!" I wondered for a moment if I had misheard.
"Yes, when I was meditating on myself in the meditation, I saw a piece of purple qi falling through the colorful fairy light, because the old man has cultivated the eye of heaven, can recognize the light and color, and identify people and evidence, judging from the immortal energy around her, it is indeed the unique colorful fairy light in the heavenly realm. The old monk recalled.
"Oh, what does she look like, what's the matter with you?" I was still a little surprised.
For some reason, the people in this heavenly realm released a spiritual light to cover their faces, as if they did not want the old man to see his true face, and judging from her bell-like voice, it seemed to be a young woman. She told Lao Qu with spiritual sympathy that she had secretly used the Yuan Shen doppelganger to go to the lower realm for a former immortal sister, who was now demoted to the human world for violating the rules of heaven in the heavenly realm, and said that Lao Ge had a relationship with this sister of hers fifteen years ago and gave her a string of 'Prajna Buddha beads'. Lao Ke thought at the time, this was indeed the case before the past years, because the string of 'Prajna Buddha Beads' was a Dharma weapon I gave to others back then, and it seemed that the people in this heavenly realm did not speak falsely, so Lao Ge continued to listen to her. "The old monk told me about his interactions with the people in the Heavenly Realm that day.
According to the people in this heavenly realm, her sister surnamed Lin Mingyu, who is now suffering in the human world, is twenty years old, and her memory and immortal law have been erased by the heavenly realm, and the remaining immortal roots are almost gone. Not long ago, she asked someone to use the "Heavenly Immortal Great Evolution Technique" to occupy a trace of heavenly opportunity, it turned out that her sister spent twenty years old in the world after the calamity is coming, there are many crises, the relationship between them is deep, the sister's kindness, because she can't intervene in it with her true body, otherwise it is a violation of the rules of heaven, so she specially came to ask the old man to take care of it, a little bit of it, so that she can have a guard against being harmed by the evil demons in the future.
In fact, when Lao Wei first saw the donor more than ten years ago, he saw the colorful fairy light around the donor, but because the donor was young and ignorant, he didn't say it, and most of the people who suffered in the lower world like the donor were often unclear about their identity.
As far as he knows, suffering immortals are often ordained by heaven and have to go through the test of demons, from ancient times to the present, only some of the suffering immortals can return to the heavenly realm through difficult training, and the other part has completely fallen into the six realms of reincarnation and become ordinary people because they have not survived the tribulation.
Although the Heavenly Realm Immortals have fallen into the human world, they are still respected and have a special status for the cultivators in the human world, and if the cultivators can have the fate to help these people return to the Heavenly Realm, they will not only be able to accumulate great merits, but may also be of great help to their future cultivation. Legend has it that after a practitioner helped a celestial immortal who had been relegated to the lower realm to return to heaven, the celestial immortal gave the practitioner a divine skill to help him cultivate because of his gratitude, and finally made the practitioner become an immortal and ascend to the sky.
When I saw the donor's fairy light looming, I guessed some general clues, since I was touched by the old man, it was fate in the underworld, so the old man gave the donor a 'Buddha bead' in the hope of protecting the donor safe and sound, but my Buddhist people have always emphasized doing good deeds and accumulating virtue without asking for anything in return.
Hehe, I really didn't expect that fifteen years later, I would meet the donor again under this kind of cause and effect, what a number of days!" The old monk said, and couldn't help but sigh at this invisible number of lives.
"In my previous life, I was a person in the heavenly realm, and I was demoted to the lower realm for violating the rules of ...... heaven. Hearing this, I was shocked in my heart, and I was blindfolded for a while and couldn't react, in addition, what kind of rules did I commit, who was the person who called myself a good sister, and what kind of calamity was coming after the age of twenty, I was momentarily frightened, frightened, uncertain, and flustered, and sat on the bed, and I was stunned for a moment.
I sat on the bed for a while, and by the time I came to my senses, the elder monk had already left, leaving only the nun standing aside. Seeing that I finally reacted, the nun said: "Donor, the master said that it is late tonight, please rest first, tomorrow he still has something to say to the master, if there is anything, the donor can call me, the little Nifa is called 'fixed thoughts', there is an eye pool behind the house, you can wash." ”
Following the determination to the back of the house, I saw a clear pool on a platform by the faint moonlight. I just looked at the steaming water on the surface of this clear pond, and touched it with my hand, but I didn't expect it to be a hot spring.
Watching Dingnian sit by the pool and wash her hands and face, and then put her feet into the smaller hole by the pool to soak her feet, I followed her example and sat on the edge of the pool and soaked my feet.
"Donor, I heard that the master said that you are twenty years old, the same year as me, and I don't know what to call when you were born?" said to me while soaking his feet.
After telling her my date of birth and name, I said again: "I am two months younger than the donor, I don't know if I can call the donor Sister Lin." I said of course.
"Except for the master, I haven't spoken to outsiders for a long time. He looked at his feet soaked in the fountain and said.
"Ahh
"Yes, it's been about ten years. Fixedness said.
After all, he is a young man, and although he has been ordained and practiced in the deep mountains and valleys, he still has some desire to communicate with others. Thinking that she hadn't spoken to outsiders for nearly ten years, and that she could stay in this simple thatched hut all day long to chant and meditate in her flowery youth, I couldn't help but feel a deep admiration in my heart.
"Then how have you spent the past ten years, and you haven't gone out of the valley and met people?" I asked.
"This is a hidden valley in Jiuhua Mountain, it is difficult to find it if you don't know the road, and it is also a secret realm for monks to live in seclusion and cultivate. In the past ten years, the master has asked the Zen monastery on the mountain to send some simple food and clothes every once in a while, and I will pick you up at the fork before I go to pick you up, except for sometimes saying hello to the little monk who is responsible for delivering things, I have not spoken to others, and you are still the first outsider I have met. "I was a little distracted when I looked at the white air that came out of the hot springs.
Seriously, I especially admire this kind of person who can endure loneliness and is dedicated to self-cultivation, and she is such a beautiful girl in her early twenties. I don't know what happened to make her come here to isolate everything, and leave the red dust and lonely to practice.
"Oh, do you feel good about practicing here?" I asked.
"It's good, I don't have to think about anything, I'm carefree, no one bullies me anymore, and the master is very good to me. Fixedness said.
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