The man raised his eyes and tapped her forehead with his pen, "It's Prajnaparamita. Read, bo, re, not bo, luo. If you come again, if you can't learn this sentence, you are not allowed to eat."
She pursed her lips, "Okay, okay what?"
"Xing, Shen, Prajna, Ruo, Bo, Luo, Mi..."
She read it correctly this time, and then asked: "Brother, what does this mean? It's so convoluted."
The man said in a gentle and patient voice, "Prajna means discerning wisdom. Practicing deep Prajna Paramita for a long time means practicing deeply with wisdom..."
Then he taught her the next sentence, "Seeing that all five aggregates are empty, you can survive all hardships."
She read along, "What does this mean?"
"The five aggregates refer to form, feeling, thinking, action, and consciousness. In short, they are what we come into contact with, what we feel, what we think about, as well as our cognition and behavior of the world. In other words To put it simply, it’s every bit of our lives.”
"The meaning of the whole sentence, from my point of view, is that when you use wisdom to practice deeply, you will find that all the troubles, entanglements, and disasters in life are illusions. As long as you can look at it correctly, you can get through life. All the suffering there is.”
She curled her lips and said, "Then can I understand that some things in the world that seem real may be fake and not good for you. If you don't care, there will be no suffering."
The man paused and smiled, "You are smart. But if you just care about love, for example, sometimes you will feel that you have changed your appearance, and you will be confused and scared. But once you have love, It’s hard to say that you don’t care if you don’t care.”
"It's easy. Just let it go. It's all fake anyway."
After she finished speaking, the man stared into her eyes and smiled softly, "Then you think your relationship with your brother is true or false?"
She looked at him too.
After a few seconds, she reached out and poked his jaw hard, feeling his strong mandible.
"It's true." She narrowed her eyes, "My brother and I are true."
He also raised his hand and pinched her cheek hard, "Then according to what you said, if you don't care about me anymore, you won't care anymore."
These words made her feel shy for some reason.
She snorted, "Yeah!"
After the duplicity, she glanced at him quietly again.
Seeing that his expression was indifferent and showed no change, she lowered her eyes again, stared at the scripture in his hand, read it carefully, pointed to one sentence and said: "Brother, do these four words mean that all five aggregates are empty?"
He nodded, "Recognize it?"
She grinned, "I recognize the words '五' and 'empty'!"
Looking at her proud look, the man frowned and said, "Niao Niao, go and learn some knowledge systematically. You just follow me to read the words, but you don't know everything."
"No, I won't see you when I go to school."
"I visit you every week."
"No, I don't want to be locked up. What's the difference between this and a bird with its wings clipped!"
She said that she straightened up, walked around behind him, hugged him from behind, put her arms around his neck, and pressed her face against his, "Brother, you don't mind being so uneducated. I know now, I can help you work very well, just let me be your assistant for the rest of my life."
"You study medicine, I help you dig up herbs, you do archaeology, I hand you brushes, you read, I..."
The man looked back and looked at her gentle smile, "You?"
"I sleep."
The man raised his hand and scraped her nose hard, "You."
She still hugged him and smiled, "I don't want to go to school anyway, I don't want to be a bird in a cage."
The man exhaled slowly and suddenly put his hand into his pocket.
After a few seconds, he took out an open silver bracelet.
It is very delicate, with patterns like clouds and smoke carved on it, and a red rope is wrapped around the opening.
"You studied well today, so I'll give you a small gift." He said.
