The majestic bells of the Dufo Temple can be heard clearly when the boat gets off the boat. Two stone couplets are engraved on the front of the mountain gate: "Evening drums and morning bells wake up the famous and wealthy people in the world, and the sound of the Buddha's name calls back the charming dream of the sea of bitterness." The main building in the temple is centered on the facing Great Buddha Hall, and is arranged in turn on the central axis facing the temple gate. The scale is majestic and uniform.
The hundred-foot-wide platform square of the Great Buddha Hall is made of white stone, and a bell tower over two feet high is erected on the left and right, and an ancient bell weighing a thousand catties is placed. . In addition to the exit of the four stone steps, there are five hundred arhats made of gold and copper, with their eyes open and their foreheads protruding, and their eyes are downcast. They have different expressions and are lifelike. A large incense burner is placed in the center of the square, and the sandalwood incense continues throughout the year, permeating the entire Buddhist temple, making people feel like they have passed away when they walk here, and their hearts are naturally peaceful. The other halls are centered on the Great Buddha Hall and the square, distributed in all directions in an orderly manner, separated by forest roads, and have a solemn and solemn atmosphere.
In the west, an octagonal nine-story pagoda is built of large bluestones, standing tall and straight above the mountains and forests, almost piercing the blue sky. Walking along the green pagoda, there are gradually monks' houses hidden among the mountains and forests. The stone road winds and narrows gradually. The cliffs on both sides are carved into statues of sitting Buddhas according to the mountain situation. On the rocky cliff.
As you go higher and higher, the road divides into two. One side leads to the "Qianmin Temple" of the Tianjia Forbidden Court. A green tile palace dotted halfway up the mountain is not only a place for concubines who failed to have children in the past dynasties to become monks, but also a place where royal families were imprisoned for crimes. The place of the clan. On the one hand, along the road, there is an abbot's courtyard built on the edge of the cliff, where Buddhism and Taoism are exhausted, but the eyes suddenly open up.
Green pines and verdant cypresses adorn the rock formations, the Buddhist temple is peaceful and the bodhisattva is shaded green.
In the Huangzhu Mountain House, a moon-white plain dress gently covered the futon. The outer cover was covered with plain silver gauze with a few fine lines flowing down the sleeves. And quiet.
Holding the cup in his hand, Qing Chensu took a sip of the "Qi Xin" tea unique to Dufo Temple, and couldn't help but flick his slender eyebrows slightly. The sweetness that first touches the lips and teeth, a wisp of it is sent into the throat and turns into a growing sorrow that lingers for a long time, and there is still some sourness between the teeth, and after tasting it again, it is still lingering.
All kinds of flavors are entangled, soaking people's heart and soul, and they don't know how to drink again for half a day. I really don't know what kind of tea is made, but it takes up all the emotions and desires.
Abbot Jingjie is nearly ninety years old, with long eyebrows, and sitting quietly opposite Qing Chen, if it weren't for the deep smile in his eyes when he looked at her, he would almost be regarded as a fossil, "Every time the princess drinks this I almost frown on tea, but why do I have to drink it every time?"
Qing Chen put down the rough wooden teacup, the water in the cup was so clear, if not for a few dead leaves floated up with each flag and shot, he would just feel that it was empty in front of his eyes. She smiled: "The abbot knows that this tea is surprisingly bitter, but why did he make it?"
Abbot Jingjie said: "Looking at Wangfei's expression, this tea is more than just bitter."
The corners of Qing Chen's lips twitched slightly: "It has all five flavors, this tea is beyond description."
Abbot Jingjie showed his face and said: "This tea is made for those who know its taste. It's a pity that people often feel bitter when they touch their lips. Even if they drink it, they are reluctant to drink it. Over the years, the princess is the second one who has drunk it. Those who would like to drink again after this tea."
Qing Chen was curious for a moment, and said: "Dare to ask the abbot, who is the first person?"
Respect Abbot Heshi: "People who are predestined."
Qing Chen understood, and stopped asking, just said: "The taste of tea, all the worlds in the world, if all living beings can understand the truth, how can there be a Buddha in the world?"
Abbot Jingjie said: "All living beings are Buddhas, and Buddhas are Buddhas."
Qing Chen said: "There is an entrance in the Buddha, and there is a blue sky beyond the clouds."
Master Jingjie said lightly: "The Dharma is boundless."
Qing Chen raised his head with a smile, and the ponytail tied behind his neck sank steadily, and his soft black hair was as silky as ink, moving with her smile: "I don't talk about Buddhism with the abbot. Asking for trouble, I am not a Buddhist believer, and if I say anything else, I will blaspheme the Buddha."
Abbot Jingjie looked at the brocade box on the table in front of him, and said: "The princess does not believe in Buddhism but does the good deeds of Buddha, and supports countless living people in Buddhist temples. So what does it matter if you believe it or not?"
At this time, Bi Yao came in from the outside, saluted Master Jing Jie respectfully, and whispered in Qing Chen's ear: "Princess, the letter has been given to Zi Yuan, she said she wanted to see you."
Qing Chen nodded, with a quiet gleam in his eyes, he said to Abbot Jingjie: "Abbot Jingjie said so, I am really ashamed of it, I am not a good person, whether I am saving people or harming others, I only rely on My own good and evil. Just like that day when I asked the abbot to dismiss some of the people, and not to raise some lazy people who are not doing their jobs in the charity hall, the abbot may not take it seriously."
"Amitabha!" Abbot Jingjie whispered the Buddha's name: "The Buddha saves all living beings, the so-called those who survive are gone, how to judge right and wrong?"
Qing Chen smiled and stood up: "I have to leave for bothering the abbot Qingxiu. Next time I come again, I will bother a cup of the abbot's heart tea."
Abbot Jingjie smiled peacefully and saw off the guests.
Qing Chen stepped into the seldom-occupied side hall on the back mountain of Dufo Temple. Ziyuan was kneeling in front of the Buddha, bowing her head and drooping her eyes, praying devoutly. She was dressed in a pale blue silk dress against her slim figure, slender and soft.
Qing Chen didn't disturb her, walked to her side softly, closed his eyes slightly, and the peaceful breath of incense lingered around him, quietly. Ziyuan looked up at the tall and solemn Buddha statue, praying with her eyes, when she suddenly saw Qing Chen standing beside her, she was startled: "Princess!"
Qing Chen said with a faint smile: "Seeing that you are so sincere in worshiping the Buddha, I can't bear to call you out. What wish did you make?"
Zi Yuan said in a low voice: "I pray to the Buddha to bless the Princess and the Fourth Highness, peace and joy, and a long life."
Qing Chen said, "Thank you very much."
There was a little melancholy in Ziyuan's smile, she lowered her eyes, but stopped talking. Qing Chen saw it in his eyes and said: "If you have anything to say, just tell me, why are you so hesitant?"
Zi Yuan bit her lip lightly, then suddenly knelt down and begged: "Princess, can you... let His Highness Jiu die?"
Qing Chen looked at her lightly, did not answer immediately, turned around and looked at the Buddha sitting on a golden lotus in the temple, with a solemn treasure, pointing at the place where he smiled, his expression was compassion that saw through the world, all living beings were caught in this smile, passing by like smoke.
She turned around and asked slowly, "Ziyuan, do you hate me for asking you to do these things?"
"No!" Ziyuan immediately shook her head: "The princess saved the queen mother, saved me, and saved the lives of our whole family. I will only pray for the princess, how can I have any resentment?"
"Even if I want you to harm someone?"
Zi Yuan raised her eyes and said, "The Princess will not harm anyone."
Qing Chen sighed softly and asked, "Is he treating you well?"
Faced with this question, Ziyuan looked confused: "If he wants to be nice to people, he can turn them all into pieces, but he is moody, and he turns into another person in a blink of an eye. He is more terrifying than Shura from hell. I have never I don't know what kind of person he is, but I can see that apart from Princess Ming, no one can catch his eyes. Although there are many women in the palace, he is just acting on occasion. He is usually so flamboyant in front of people , but I often see him alone in the mansion, but I feel that he is very lonely and pitiful."
Qing Chen raised his hand and lit the incense, quietly worshiped in front of the Buddha, and said: "The poor man must have something to hate. I don't want to tell you what he has done. Knowing too much is not good for you. Some things, since you do If you do it, you will have to bear the consequences, what you sow and what you reap are all caused by him, which may be his karma. What I want you to do has its own reasons, do you understand?"
Zi Yuan was silent for a while, then whispered: "I understand."
"would you like?"
Zi Yuan nodded in reply.
The dark color in Qing Chen's eyes was like a moonlit night on an autumn lake, and the brilliance was light: "Ziyuan, raise your head, do you really want to?"
Zi Yuan looked up at Qing Chen, her eyes were a little sad, but she couldn't hide her affirmative look: "I can do anything for the Princess, and I beg the Princess to spare his life, just because I have been watching him these days. I can't bear the pain, after all... After all, he is my husband. But if he is not good to the princess and His Royal Highness, then he is my enemy."
Qing Chen was not delighted by her words, frowned lightly, and said: "I didn't want his life, it's just because his life is already worse than death. You go back, if you are willing, then do as I said, If not, I won't blame you either."
Zi Yuan leaned over and said, "Princess, please rest assured."
After Ziyuan left, Qing Chen stood alone in front of the Buddha for a while before walking down the mountain.
Before reaching the mountain gate, she accidentally looked up and saw a person among the pilgrims passing by.
A person, dressed in jet-black samurai uniform, has a well-proportioned and slender figure like a sword, but the sword is in the box, and the edge is flat.
Different from the reckless galloping horses on the long street in the past, he walked along the bluestone steps step by step alone, with a strange and quiet expression.
Qing Chen couldn't help but stop, and stopped in front of the main hall not far away.
Ye Tianming was looking at the ups and downs of the blue sky above the main hall and slowly walked forward, but suddenly turned his head as if feeling something.
Qing Chen didn't avoid those eyes this time, she saw him and he saw her through the people coming and going, surrounded by green smoke.
All living beings, passing by in the dust, bustling and bustling, passing by, like scenes of silent pictures, reincarnation.
Can't hear the turmoil and noise, half of the world of mortals, and a vast cloud of smoke.
A pair of charming and calm eyes, a pair of pure and sharp pupils.
In the depths of the green hills, the sound of the majestic bell sounded far away, and Ye Tianming seemed to wake up suddenly, suddenly raised his eyebrows, and that kind of seductive luster shot out of the darkness in an instant, dazzling and dazzling. He walked towards the main hall, passed through the crowd, and arrived in front of Qing Chen almost instantly, his dimly lit eyes drooped, "Fourth sister-in-law." His tone was slightly long.
With the warm breath approaching in front of his eyes, Qing Chen's eyelashes fluttered lightly, and he took a step back quietly, "I don't think His Highness will go up the mountain to worship Buddha."
Ye Tianming stared at her: "I didn't expect Sisao to be someone who eats vegetarian food and recites Buddhism."
Qing Chen smiled: "I can't do eating fast and reciting Buddha's name, but I just go up the mountain to disturb Master Abbot for a cup of tea."
Ye Tianming looked at her sideways with his hands behind his back, "Master Abbot? He only cares about bitter tea."
Qing Chen thought of the tea drinker mentioned by Master Jingjie just now, his heart moved, and he said, "Why do you bother?"
Ye Tianming narrowed his slender eyes, with a faint light floating: "His heart is bitter."
Qing Chen said: "Good and evil have their own hearts, sadness and joy have their hearts, joys and sorrows have their hearts, right and wrong have their hearts, and their hearts have all kinds of tastes. How can there be only one bitterness?"
Ye Tianming said: "All flavors are the same, and his heart is suffering."
Qing Chen said: "His Royal Highness's tea is too full, the cup is full of tea, and the taste is difficult to taste, so it is uniquely bitter."
The corner of Ye Tianming's lips curled into a smile that seemed bright and dark: "Looking at all situations, it is as if it is quiet, as if it is not a thing, as if it is joyful or disgusting. Suffering is full of emptiness, you can see your nature with a clear heart, and you will become a Buddha when you see your nature. "
Qing Chen said in a low voice, "Da Wu is speechless."
Ye Tianming said: "Greatly sad without tears."
Qing Chen glanced at him intently, and saw a strange thing flashing past his expression like a feather, but he leaned forward and whispered in her ear: "This king only loves this smell. , always thinking about it.”
Qing Chen squinted his eyes slightly, and the two were close at hand: "Your Highness has read scriptures and Zen, and I must have heard that when there are no delusions, one mind is one Buddha country; when there are delusions, one mind is one hell. The mind is born, so it is always in the hell. Bodhisattvas observe false thoughts, and do not use the mind to generate the mind, so they are always in the Buddha's country."
Ye Tianming suddenly raised his head and laughed, with an arrogant expression, causing many people around to look this way: "What about the Buddha country, what about hell? Is this king still afraid of him? A relationship is born from the heart, and life is from the heart." I stand!"
Just as Qing Chen was about to speak, he suddenly looked away from his face and looked to the side. It turned out that it was Zi Yuan who was descending the steps from the main hall of the Dufo Temple.
Ziyuan didn't see the two of them at the beginning, she just walked slowly with her head down, when she got close to Ye Tianming, she was really surprised, she stopped and hurriedly said, "Your Highness!"
Ye Tianming turned around, "Why are you here?"
Ziyuan replied softly: "Seeing that His Highness has been very upset these days, I want to come here to worship incense and Buddha, and pray for auspiciousness, but I don't know His Highness is here."
Ye Tianming looked at her soft and timid appearance, raised his hand and brought her to his side, his words sounded very gentle: "I don't know you have this kind of heart, have you forgotten that you should have met the princess?"
Being held by Ye Tianming, Ziyuan raised her head to look at Qing Chen in a little panic, her heart jumped wildly, "Ziyuan...has seen the princess!"
Suddenly, the heat was blowing around her, and Ye Tianming's charming eyes fell in front of her, and he pulled her closer with his hands slightly, and leaned close to her ear and said, "You are trembling."
Ziyuan had something in her mind, she didn't dare to look at him, she just said softly: "Your Highness..."
"What are you afraid of?" Ye Tianming continued to ask, with a gloomy expression: "Are you afraid of me?"
Ziyuan has always been aware of his uncertain temperament, so she replied calmly: "How could Ziyuan be afraid of His Highness, she just feels that His Highness's hands are cold, the mountain is high and the wind is cold, His Highness should add some clothes when he goes out of the house, such a single piece of clothing How can it work?"
The mountain wind was blowing, it was indeed a bit cool, the dark color of prey in Ye Tianming's eyes slowly subsided, and he didn't say anything more.
At this time Qing Chen suddenly smiled at him and said: "I haven't seen Zi Yuan for a long time, if Your Highness doesn't mind, why don't you let Zi Yuan take my boat back to Tiandu, we can talk along the way."
Ye Tianming heard the words, the smile in his deep eyes was seductive, and there was a kind of seductive beauty against that perfect face: "Then there will be my fourth sister-in-law, please invite fourth brother and fourth sister-in-law to my house for a banquet some other day , I also hope that the fourth sister-in-law will appreciate it."
Qing Chen said quietly: "Thank you, Your Highness."
Ziyuan secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and when Ye Tianming turned to leave, Qing Chen had already reached out to shake her hand, her palm was covered in cold sweat, "Princess!"
Qing Chen said: "I have wronged you."
Ziyuan shook her head slowly, looked at Ye Tianming's back, and said, "In the rest of my life, I would like to copy the scriptures and praise the Buddha for him, and I only hope that if I can redeem the accidental karma, I will be content."
The Buddhist bell was chanting, and the mountain temple was getting farther and farther away. Qing Chen and Zi Yuan walked slowly all the way, stepped out of the mountain gate, where the world of Buddhism and the world meet, she stopped and turned her head to look at the high steps of the temple. The good guests who climbed the mountain to pray for blessings climbed step by step, bowed their heads and lowered their bodies, with different expressions. The huge statue of Sakyamuni in the Great Buddha Hall can still be seen faintly, the gold-plated and heavy-colored statue is solemn and solemn, and the deep eaves flying above and below are lingering behind the green smoke.
She smiled and closed her lapel, and went down the mountain. The Buddha saves all living beings, but how many samsara are difficult to understand. It is better to seek the Buddha than to seek the self. However, the world is suffering and persistent, and it is no wonder that the Buddha always looks down and smiles quietly. .