The wind blew through the bamboo forest, the sunlight poured down from the dense gap, and scattered a piece of broken gold in front of the steps of the bamboo house. Shen Du was sitting in front of the window, looking at the small box that had been opened in front of him. There were two small glass bottles standing inside. The texture was very good and it was very clear. One red lotus seed after another.
He looked at it for a long time, and then suddenly laughed.
But didn't do much, just picked it up and played with it for a while, then put it back, closed the box, and placed it on the wooden cabinet in the corner.
On the simple wooden cabinet, not even the pattern is carved much, but there is a lively firework atmosphere in the simplicity. In addition to the box that had just been put down, there were piles of thick letter paper piled on top of it, piled with piles of ancient books that I did not know where to find, next to a hanging rainbow sword with a rolled edge, and a small A small, boxy box of candy.
Shen Du took the box of candies and walked out the door.
Go down the steps, cross the swirling sea of bamboo, and follow the long road that climbed with moss that day in the back mountain to the mountain.
It was only two steps after entering the temple when he saw a dejected little novice sitting on the steps of the Qianfo Hall in front of him. He looked only eight or nine years old. Although he was not close, he could still hear him muttering.
Shen Du raised his eyebrows and stopped.
He knew this little novice, he was the youngest generation in the Chanyuan right now, the law name was "Hongxin", and his temperament was innocent and lively.
"Being beaten?"
Although he lived at the foot of the Bukong Mountain, and often visited the temple with the eyes of eminent monks, Shen Du was not instilled in any kind of compassion or kindness, and he never spoke human words.
People stood in front of Hongxin and asked him with a smile.
The voice was too familiar, Hong Xin knew who it was as soon as he heard it, he raised his head to look at him with a bulging cheek: "No, I just had a fight with people when I went out with my uncles, and then I was scolded by my master. "
"Don't your master always praise you? What are you arguing with?"
Shen Du knew what kind of temperament Hong Xin was, but he felt that this little boy might not be arguing with others, so he became a little curious and sat down beside him.
One big and one small sat in front of the steps in a row like this.
Hong Xin became aggrieved: "We met a few people in the town, and they were talking about things on the rivers and lakes, but they started to scold you, saying that you are insidious, cunning and scheming, and you are not a good person, anyway, it is too much to say It was ugly. The little monk and the little monk couldn't hold back and told them that it wasn't like that, but they didn't listen. They scolded it even more unpleasantly, and even forced me to ask if I came from the Tianji Temple. The master said that the little monk had a heavy heart and shouldn't talk People are arguing because they have created a karma, and they also say that the little monk should also practice the closed mantra…”
It's okay not to listen, Shen Du laughed when he heard it: "I thought it was such a big deal, what's there to care about? It doesn't matter if others scold me, why can't you help it? Your master , you should be taught a lesson."
"But, but you're not what they say."
Hong Xin's slightly chubby face still had a bit of baby fat on it, and he muttered in the depression that he had failed the theory and was taught a lesson.
Shen Du then said: "What does it matter what they say about me? First, I can't hear it, secondly, I won't care, and thirdly, even if I hear it, I won't change it. I said two days earlier that you are a child. Po child, you are still stubborn, reasoning with people, it takes so much effort! You see that Shanzai is so powerful, will he reason with people?"
"It doesn't seem like..."
Hong Xin was a little dazed, but he still felt that those people were wrong, and it was not wrong for him to go up to correct them.
Of course Shen Du could see his expression, and he laughed immediately: "You are still too stupid. In this world, the most time-wasting thing is to talk to prejudiced people. Don't try to please or persuade those who are not. People who like you or have long-standing prejudices have always heard the story of suspicious neighbors stealing axes , I don't know you, and I don't know the reason. I heard some rumors, and then I have a prejudice against you. The person you really want, you must be friends with this person."
"friend?"
Hong Xin didn't understand it very well, especially why people who were prejudiced against people just listening to those rumors were right, and the look in Shen Du's eyes became more and more puzzled.
But Shen Du wanted to "read the book a hundred times and see for himself", and he had no great reason to talk to the little boy, so he just replied: "There must be my teacher in the three-way trip, the so-called friend must make you better. Good man. Hey, I haven't seen you for two days, how did you guess the riddle that I bet on?"
"what… "
Hong Xin suddenly let out a whimper, forgetting the previous troubles, holding his head with both hands and showing a painful expression.
"Xiao Seng really can't guess it, can you give me some hints?"
A few days ago, I don't know who sent a box of candy to Shen Du. He had given up on sweets for a while, but he still craved a few bites when he saw candy. He didn't expect to be seen by Hongxin, and he wanted to eat it. sugar.
Shen Du had a good relationship with him, so he made fun of him.
He gave him a riddle and asked him to guess who the worst and most terrifying person in Tianji Temple was, and if he guessed right, he would be given candy.
Hong's heart guessed Shen Du first, and was beaten by Shen Du; the second guessed his master, and was beaten again; then he guessed Master Yuanzhi from the Discipline Academy, and the Bodhidharma Academy. The first Fate Master…
Of course not one.
Today, he scratches his head and can't think of who he can guess, and he is not very interested in sugar. He just wants to know who this person is.
Hong Xin looked at Shen Du eagerly.
Shen Du sat lazily on the steps, as if he was sitting on the top of Jiantian Yahanjue in a defiant attitude. After thinking about it, he glanced at the tall Yeta Tower not far away, and he still made a few points. Kindness, reminded him.
"The worst person in the world is the one who lets you choose. Especially when you know that you want both fish and bear's paw, but right now there is only bear's paw, and two or one will definitely choose bear's paw, but also fish The person who is sent to you for you to choose has a very dirty heart."
"The heart is particularly... dirty?"
Hong Xin still couldn't understand what Shen Du said. He just felt that this donor Shen, who lived at the foot of their mountain for no reason, spoke more profoundly than his masters and uncles, but it was precisely because he couldn't understand him that he was more eloquent. Paying attention to Shen Du's expression, he saw where his eyes were looking at almost a glance, and he immediately understood at that moment, and immediately shook his head.
"Master Shanzai is the person with the most profound knowledge of martial arts and Buddhism in the courtyard. How could the bad guy you're talking about be him?"
"what… "
It's really "Xishi in the eyes of a lover, but a holy monk in the eyes of a bald donkey." Ah, it's not bad that a monk can fuck your legs so soft that you can't get out of bed
cough cough cough.
Forget it, forget it, it's wrong, it's better not to let children know about this kind of thing.
Shen Du coughed twice and covered it up: "Forget it, this question is too profound for a seven- or eight-year-old kid like you, come and come, I'll give you some candy, there's not much left. , I'll bring it to you later."
As he spoke, he took out the candy box in his sleeve and opened it.
Hong Xin immediately looked at him with glowing eyes, but he didn't expect that Shen Du stretched out his hand and only picked out a piece of candy from the candy box and put it in his palm.
"You lied, say yes-"
"Hongxin, you slipped out to play again! Have you finished the morning class?!"
He was about to reason with Shen Du that the number of candies was not the same as the one agreed upon, but he didn't expect to hear an angry shout from the left before he finished speaking. Angry.
Hongxin is excited.
Shen Du's back shivered, thinking of Hongxin's heartbroken recitation of the terrifying master who was able to talk to himself for the last day, but now there is no sympathy at all, and he ran away without a trace.
Only Hong Xin was left in place, standing miserably under the saliva of Master.
Shen Du, who was running away, glanced at it from a distance, tsk tsk pity, and then walked directly in the direction of Ye Pagoda.
Zenzai was sentenced to three years in Yetas, and now only a few months have passed.
The worry-free flower in the Zen courtyard has passed its flowering period. At first glance, it looks like a verdant green. The tree under the Yeta Tower is like a green cloud hanging on the edge.
The withered old monk whose name originated from the Dharma was not there. Shen Du pushed the door and wanted to walk in directly, but he didn't expect to go up the stairs when he entered.
The two faced each other.
Shen Du suddenly felt a little uncomfortable, and glanced at the elderly monk in front of him, but he didn't say anything, he only took a step to the side.
"Amitabha."
Abbot Yuanmie didn't chat with him any more, his brows were slightly wrinkled, and he didn't know what was hidden in his heart, so he seemed a little condensed. The exit tower disappeared.
Shen Du suddenly became a little curious, and began to guess what this old bald donkey was going to do. Did he finally have an objection to his behavior of visiting every day? But he didn't say a word in the face-to-face call just now.
Weird.
He thought about it for a while, but he didn't come up with the result. He didn't think about it at all. He went upstairs directly, and when he reached the seventh floor at the top of the tower, he asked, "What did the abbot ask you about?"
"It's just a debate between entering the world and being born."
When Shen Du came in, Shanzai was not copying the scriptures, but just stood in front of the window, looking out, the morning light enveloped him, calm and peaceful.
The wind blew in and blew his snow-white monk robe, and also blew up a page of paper on the desk, and flew to Shen's one foot and fell.
Shen Du glanced down, bent down and picked it up, but said, "Don't you want to tell me that Abbot Yuanmie is now thinking about the birth of the Zen Academy and his involvement in the arena?"
"What should come will always come. Instead of waiting for the knife to be placed on the neck, it is better to hold the knife on the neck of the person. In the world, it is easy to do evil, but it is difficult to do good. Evil. Those who are not good are stronger than people and cannot break this game."
Although Shanzai was punished by the Karma Tower, it was no different from the past.
Although Tianji Temple is detached, it is still in the mundane world, so it has a mind of being free from the mundane, and its body cannot be exempted from the mundane.
Being a good person is harder than being a bad person, so if you want to be a good person, you are both stronger and more ruthless than the bad person.
This truth, Shen Du has personal experience.
He listened and guessed that there was a new change in the rivers and lakes, and the change was likely to be caused by Gu Zhao, but he didn't care much. After all, the monk in front of him dared to let Gu Zhao open, so he would not be afraid of the future. matter.
The paper in his hand was very thin, and the ink on it was dry. Shen Du glanced at the content and felt that it was familiar. It wasn't the scriptures that he had Feng Xiao deciphered from the Buddha beads in the past, but what was it
He was a little surprised.
After looking at it for a long time, I found that there was still more than half of it, so I took it and asked Shanzai: "I forgot to ask, I stole the Buddha beads from the Thousand Buddhas Hall and figured out the meaning of it, but I almost practiced it later. It didn't kill me. What the hell is this thing?"
"It's part of the essence of the Martial Saint's place." Shanzai looked back at him, as if remembering his previous embarrassment, and smiled lightly, "It's just that this part of the content is not very appropriate, I'm afraid it will bring disaster to the world, so Put it in the beads separately, with the hope that one day it will be properly revised and brought to the world."
Not quite right
There is always room for Shanzai to speak. Many very important things are said lightly, as if in his mind the big and small matters are the same, but Shen Du can now judge what is big and what is small, and he thinks of it for a while. I had practiced this exercise in the past, and my back and spine were chilled.
Moreover, he also remembered a certain story.
His eyes flickered, Shen Du said: "So the Martial Saint of that year did not kill people because he wanted to save Lu Feixian, but because he practiced his skills and went crazy?"
"Even if it's not, it's not far off."
Zenzai didn't know more specific things back then, so he wasn't sure, and only gave an ambiguous answer.
Shen Du felt a little complicated: "So now that you have completed this exercise, you should have corrected it properly?"
Zenya nodded.
Shen Du laughed and looked up at him: "It was rumored a long time ago that you have an amazing talent, but I didn't believe it at the time. But then I really saw you, and I fell in love with you. Knowing that there really is such an amazing person in the world who can’t even be jealous, he was born out of nowhere and shines on one side. Monk, how can you be so capable?”
These remarks, in addition to exclamations, are somewhat sarcastic.
It should be noted that there are countless masters in the rivers and lakes, and most of the exercises they practice follow the path opened up by their predecessors. Those who can create their own are the masters who founded the school, and there are very few who have the ability to modify other people's exercises, and there is no need to do so. It is said that it is such a practice that after practicing it, it will go crazy.
But Shanzai did it, and it was done.
Shen Du really felt that there was such a little gap between people.
But he didn't expect that after his remarks, Zenzai was rather silent, because he turned sideways, so the light from the sky only shone on half of his face, and there was a strange interweaving feeling of light and darkness.
He lowered his eyes and asked only, "But I am not."
"No?" Shen Du was startled, "No what?"
"It's not a genius, it's not an amazing person, it's not born out of nowhere, and it can't shine on anyone." Shanzai looked up at the vast number of old scriptures on the eight walls on the top of the tower, and his voice became much fainter, " The world loves to listen to legendary stories. From practicing magic skills overnight in the rivers and lakes, to making huge fortunes in the market, those who make a bang are the most amazing, and those who accumulate a lot of money are often regarded as mediocre. Those who have a reputation are judged for their extraordinary talents. ', displeased, because of his talent, but also because of the accumulation of time, water droplets and stones, and great dedication, so that he is today; he is also displeased when he is criticized for "hanging beams and thorns in the sky". People. There may be people in the world who are gifted with talents, but I am not."
He has been in ascetic all his life, and there has never been any "one-shot" or "one-stop", but when his reputation was not revealed, others did not notice it.
After some words, there is an unspeakable transparency.
Shen Du also remembered the fact that he practiced the Divine Art of Avatar and the accident that happened on the Tiantian Cliff ten years ago. He really felt this way.
I couldn't help sighing for a while: "You see people too clearly."
Good and evil, ignorance and stubbornness, in the eyes of this monk, all seem to be obvious things.
Just stop and think about it, and feel bitter again.
The person in front of him, what should he have done against him in the past half-life to force himself to see so clearly
Sanya looked up at him.
Shen Du also looked back at him. After watching for a while, he couldn't help walking up, remembering something, and said to him, "You close your eyes."
Shanzai didn't know what he was going to do, and was a little puzzled.
Shen Du's temper came up: "If I tell you to close your eyes, just close them."
"… "
There is basically no reason to talk to Shen Du, unless you do something, you won't get any results. But if you do it, the final result is that he wins, so it is meaningless.
Zenzai sighed inwardly and closed his eyes.
It was dark and silent, except for the sound of the wind. The person standing in front of him didn't seem to have moved for a long time, and he didn't know if he was looking at him.
Then I felt a chill on my lips.
Shen Du's voice sounded nearby: "Open your mouth."
Before Zenzai could react, a candy cube entered his mouth, and the slightly cold sweetness immediately melted between his lips and tongue, causing him to frown and open his eyes.
Shen Du in front of him was smiling.
His slightly deserted eyebrows and eyes were bent, and the bottom of his eyes seemed to be filled with a lake of moonlight. It was very good-looking.
sweet
Shanzai couldn't tell what he was feeling at this moment. Seeing Shen Du's appearance, he only pursed his lips, and directly grabbed the man who was standing in front of him with his teeth and claws up, and held his head with one hand. He buried his head and pressed his lips.
Shen Du was dumbfounded.
The monk's slightly cold lips touched him, and before he could react at all, he was already ignorant, and he pried open his lips before he knew it.
Sweetness immediately followed into his mouth.
Before Shen Du could savor the taste carefully, a small piece of sugar that had not melted much was pushed by the tip of the tongue that stuck into his mouth and slipped into his mouth.
A moment later, the lips parted, Zenzai's hand was also withdrawn from the back of his head, his lips were still slightly wet, and he just looked at him quietly.
Shen Du's mind was still buzzing.
But after reacting, he raised his hand to cover his lips and exploded angrily: "Damn bald donkey, you don't eat candy if you don't eat candy! You spit it out on Lao Tzu, is it disgusting?!"
Zenzai suddenly felt very tired and sighed: "Hello."
"Hey what? I have a name and a surname, what do you use—"
When he clamored to come here, Shen Du touched the monk's helpless eyes staring at him, and finally reacted with hindsight. He sighed softly just now, but couldn't find the second word again.
His face turned red all of a sudden.
At this time, all he knew was looking at him, but he couldn't say a word.
It's like choking on candy.
Shanzai stood in front of the window where the breeze blew through, still untouched by fireworks, but when he saw his demeanor, he suddenly burst into laughter: "Why, isn't it sweet?"