Izumo Taoist priest stood outside the tent, looking at the people walking out of the tent one by one. He felt that some were excited, some were embarrassed, and some were both excited and embarrassed. From time to time, he lowered his head and glanced at the girl next to him.
The girl was standing next to her, less than half her height, her clothes were clean and tidy, and her eyes were wandering around, looking at the humans on the ground, novel things, and places that made noises. But her face does not have the rich expressions of a normal person. Perhaps she has not yet learned the rich expression ability of human beings after becoming a human being. When encountering something surprising, the most she can do is open her eyes wider.
Brush it.
The tent was opened and a group of Taoists came out.
Priest Izumo couldn't help but look at everyone's expressions.
The one walking at the front was Brother Song Dao. This Taoist brother's expression was the same from beginning to end, as if nothing could scare him, nothing could disgust him, there was nothing special about it.
However, the expressions of the elders and fellow disciples behind him were somewhat different from before.
The elders' faces were filled with embarrassment and embarrassment, while the fellow apprentices' faces were flushed, and some were still muttering something like "unsightly" and "things you should ask before going in."
Both the Taoist and the cat were full of curiosity.
Empress Sanhua tilted her body, stretched her neck, and opened her eyes wide, peeking through the opened curtain.
Taoist priest Izumo walked up to Taoist priest Yingfeng: "Brother, what is inside this tent?"
Daochang Yingfeng's face turned even redder.
"No, nothing..."
"Why this expression."
"Stop asking."
"What is it? It's weird! Your appearance makes me want to know even more!"
Taoist priest Ying Feng hesitated and still couldn't answer.
Even if a cultivator is free and easy, how can he be embarrassed to talk about those things in front of his junior sister these days?
I only heard Daoist Izumo's master reprimanding: "What else can there be? They are all unsightly things! Ask, ask, ask! What is there to ask?"
"oh……"
Priest Izumo couldn't help but shrink his neck.
Thinking of the things in those tents before, the stench of mummies and the grotesque and twisted human bodies, she still felt a little nauseous.
Song You, on the other hand, smiled and said to Taoist Izumo:
"Tao follows nature, why should it be superficial?"
As he said that, he glanced at Sanhua Empress who wanted to get in.
"brush!"
Song You grabbed the collar of her dress and pulled her back. Then he looked at the others, cupped his hands and said, "Fellow Taoists, it's getting late."
"It's time for me to return to Qingxiao Temple."
"Then let's say goodbye."
"See you soon."
"See you later."
Even Empress Sanhua imitated Song You and used her nipple clamps to sound like "I'll see you later." If someone hadn't grabbed the collar behind the clothes, it would have seemed more formal.
The two sides were not on the same road, so they separated.
Taoist priest Izumo looked away with some regret and reluctance:
"Brother Taoist still has strong determination."
The middle-aged Taoist priest was stunned, frowning and thinking hard for a while.
After walking around tonight, Taoist friend Song was indeed much more calm than them. Not only was he more calm than the juniors, he was also more calm than those of them he had seen before. I didn't think it was anything before, but now that I think about it, it's all about cultivation. The phrase "Tao is natural, why bother to act superficially" seems to be just for Izumo and other juniors, but in fact it is to save the face of these older people.
After a long time, he frowned.
"well……"
"Master, why are you sighing? Are you sad?"
"It's not sadness, it's enlightenment."
"Enlightenment of what?"
"I just feel that we have been studying Taoist scriptures and understanding Taoism so hard that we have been immersed in it all day long, but we have forgotten the natural principles of Taoism. In the end, we have to rely on fellow Taoist Song to enlighten us."
"How to say?"
"Everything in this world contains the Tao. If you look at it with a pair of wise eyes, you will gain something. Only limit your eyes to the Tao Sutra, only think hard about the profound meaning of the Tao Sutra, and ignore the other things besides the Tao Sutra. If we only look at everything in the world superficially and don’t think deeply about it, wouldn’t it mean that we have fallen into the lower realms?”
The Taoist priests were not stupid people. They had realized something before. After saying this, they immediately became enlightened. Then they felt ashamed and hurriedly raised their hands in the direction Song You was leaving.
A few words of this advice can be worth ten years of hard work.
"So what's in there?"
When Taoist Izumo put down his hand, he still couldn't help but ask.
…
"Just mortal desires."
"desire?"
Empress Sanhua didn’t quite understand this word.
"It's just like Sanhua Empress. When she's hungry, she wants to eat. When she's thirsty, she wants to drink water. When she's bored and has no energy left, she wants to run around. It's hard to bear when she sees mice passing in front of her and insects flying in front of her eyes. You can't help but reach out and grab them." Song You explained patiently, "Desires are similar to these, and they are normal things. If you can find a way to eliminate them, you will be at ease. If you can't eliminate them, you will have various kinds of hunger and thirst. All kinds of discomfort and how you treat your desires are the things that best reflect your cultivation."
"Can't understand."
"forget about it."
"Isn't it fun in there?"
"Why do you ask?"
"You seemed very happy after you came out."
"Empress Sanhua has a pair of wise eyes."
"Isn't it fun?"
“It’s the joy of harvest.”
"What joy?"
Song You did not answer, but stopped.
After saying goodbye to the Taoist priests of Fuqing Palace, I unknowingly walked back to the most lively place of the temple fair. In addition to those who performed tricks and jugglers during the day, and baked scallion pancakes, there were also opera singers, stilt walkers and dragon dancers. The lion's, and the blacksmith's.
The molten iron with a temperature of 1,600 degrees, like lava, was put into the cave hammer, and then the shirtless man hit it hard.
"Snapped!"
The sky is filled with flying stars, broken fire and flowing fireflies.
It is so beautiful and shocking that future generations of fireworks will be hard to match.
Song You couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
After standing there for a long time, with iron flowers placed on one tree after another, he lowered his head, touched the forehead of the Sanhua Empress next to him who also had her eyes wide open and was fascinated, and said:
"It's like seeing the silver flowers falling at night, feeling something in your heart, and naturally feeling happy."
"It's like a star falling~"
"yes."
"Will this still be available tomorrow?"
"have no idea."
"Miss Sanhua will come to see you tomorrow!"
"good."
"We also want to see the monkey show!"
"good."
"Can you buy me some rat poison?"
"Why?"
"I'll kill all the mice and eat them so I don't have to catch them myself."
"talk later."
Two figures, one large and one small, also slowly walked away.
Returning to the yard, there was another surprise.
The yellow plum blossoms in the yard are blooming.
When I opened the door and entered the hospital, I felt the faint fragrance coming in the night, which was faint and refreshing. There are also illusory figures wandering and singing under the trees, and their voices are also faint and as cold as yellow plum blossoms. The two contrast each other, and there is a kind of pure and pure beauty that is hard to find in the world.
Empress Sanhua said in a thin voice:
"This flower is blooming."
Song You just looked ahead and answered quietly:
"yes."
"This flower is yellow."
"yes."
"You painted it red."
"You still remember."
"I am very smart."
"yes."
"Why did you draw it red?"
"Just draw it."
At this moment, the tent suddenly flickered and the ghost disappeared.
Song You could only shake his head regretfully.
Good things in this world never last long.
Then he went to bring an oil lamp and wanted to hold it to look at the flowers at night.
In fact, the yellow plum is the wax plum in the previous life. The original name is Huangmei. It is said that Su Dongpo and Huang Gushan saw that the petals of Huangmei looked like beeswax, so they named it wax plum. It is also said that Huang Tingjian felt that the petals of wax plum were like a woman twisting wax with her hands, so she later changed the name to wax plum. In any case, it is because its petals are crystal clear and translucent, as beautiful as wax, hence the name.
And because it blooms in the twelfth lunar month, it is often written as winter plum.
Wintersweets are not the same as plum blossoms. Wintersweets mostly bloom in the cold winter months and are often yellow. Plum blossoms mostly bloom in spring and are mostly red. According to later generations, they are classified into one of the waxweed family and the other of the rose family. It is difficult for future generations to know whether the plum blossoms in ancient poems are winter plums or plum blossoms, and which is plum blossom and which is winter plum. Song You has not yet met literati. If you meet literati who write poems, you can at least know one sentence.
In fact, Song You rarely saw plum blossoms in his previous life, but he often saw wintersweet and often smelled the floral fragrance of wintersweet.
The fragrance of wintersweet has a profound memory for people in their previous hometown——
Gardenias in spring, yellow orchid in summer, osmanthus in autumn, and wintersweet in winter are the scents that can be smelled every year. Don’t worry even in the city. As long as the season comes, there will be many old people carrying baskets or pushing carts to sell flower scents on the streets.
The best smell is this wax plum fragrance.
It is sweet and cold, sweeter than osmanthus, but not as greasy as osmanthus. It is refreshing and pleasant. It is the fragrance in long-lasting memories and the fragrance of hometown.
Song You was so happy that he couldn't bear to enter the house.
I couldn't help but pick one off and put it on the head of Empress Sanhua. I couldn't help but pick another one, put it on the tip of my nose and smell it carefully. I couldn't help but stand under the plum tree and hold an oil lamp to watch it carefully. If it weren't for the inconvenience of transportation and mailing these days, I should break a branch and send it to the old man in the temple to express my thoughts. But since it is inconvenient, I have to leave it on the branch and I can't bear to break it.
The oil lamp illuminates the wax flowers, which creates a unique beauty.
The deeper the night gets, the colder it gets in the courtyard, and the wax flowers on the trees bloom one by one in the cold air, becoming more and more beautiful.
Song You felt so peaceful that he didn't want to leave for a while.
If someone is passing by outside, they can also enjoy the fragrance in the courtyard at this moment. If they are willing to stop, they can hear the faint voices in the courtyard.
"It's getting colder, Taoist."
"yes."
"Why don't you go to sleep."
"Reluctant to part with it."
"Pick a branch and go back and look."
"I can't bear to part with it either."
"..."
"..."
"Why are not you talking?"
"Ms. Sanhua didn't say anything either."
"Empress Sanhua is looking at you."
"I'm looking at the flowers."
"what's on your mind?"
"Thinking of old friends."
"Miss you master?"
"How does Sanhua Empress know?"
"I am very smart."
"nature."
Song You was not only thinking of his master at this time.
Since this floral fragrance comes from the depths of memory, it naturally involves things deep in memory. The ancients had the tradition of sending plum blossoms to express their longing, but even if Song You broke off the plum blossoms, he didn't know where to send them.
Fortunately, I have Sanhua Empress as my companion.
It relieved a lot of loneliness.
