It is good when the water is shining and clear, but the mountains are also strange when they are empty and covered with rain.
If you want to compare the West Lake to the West, it is always better to put on light makeup and heavy makeup.
Su Shi's "Drinking from the First Sunny and Later the Rain on the Lake" is an eternally famous poem written when he first came to Hangzhou to serve as the general magistrate of Hangzhou. In just four lines, it describes the natural beauty and charm of the West Lake. The charm has made many people understand the beauty of West Lake from this poem before they have ever been to Hangzhou.
Su Jianxia had only seen Hangzhou, a city full of high-rise buildings, which was the product of rapid economic development. Now, standing by the West Lake in the late Northern Song Dynasty, he had a personal experience of what it means to "hold the sky, the lotus leaves are infinitely green, and the lotus flowers reflect the sun." A different kind of red."
The green lotus leaves in the West Lake stretch as far as the eye can see, seeming to be connected to the blue sky. The graceful lotus flowers look particularly delicate and bright red under the sunlight. Coupled with the pedestrians and tourists coming and going on the famous broken bridge in West Lake, and the talented and beautiful women reciting poems, it is a special scenery.
"No wonder people in ancient times were so good at writing poems. Looking at these scenery every day, I can write a few poems over time." Su Jianxia looked around for a few times, and secretly took out his mobile phone when no one was paying attention. I took more than a dozen photos of the West Lake from different angles. After I felt it was not enough, I circled around and recorded a video. It wasn’t until someone came over curiously that I put away my phone.
"You are used to watching TV shows in class and playing games in the end. If you come here to live a life without electronic devices, you won't be able to carry on in a few days." Wei Ziqi revealed.
Su Jianxia glared and retorted: "You underestimate me too much. The main thing is to cultivate one's sentiments and relax one's mind. I haven't seen so many great mountains and rivers yet. I can stay here for the rest of my life!"
Wei Ziqi nodded in approval, "Then after this matter is over, you can live here. I will leave you some money, and you can cultivate your sentiment here."
"How can that be done? I'm afraid that if I'm not by your side, it's easy for you to be unable to take care of yourself at your age." Su Jianxia quickly retorted.
"Yeah, you're right." Wei Ziqi said perfunctorily, walked to a vendor carrying candied haws on his back by the broken bridge, and bought two bunches of candied haws.
"Let's go, I'll take you to the next place." Wei Ziqi reached out and handed Su Jianxia a bunch of candied haws, pointing to a tall tower in front of the two of them, "Here, it's the tower in front."
Su Jianxia squinted his eyes and saw that it was an old ancient tower. If he looked carefully, he would also find that the tower was a little tilted, as if it was inserted into the ground crookedly.
"Can anyone still live in this tower? It feels like it will collapse at any time." Su Jianxia asked curiously.
"It was originally a very majestic and majestic tower, but it became what it is now because of some changes." Wei Ziqi pulled the girl beside him and walked forward, "Let's go, you will know when we get there soon."
Su Jianxia nodded and walked forward while eating the candied haws.
In early summer, the breeze by the lake blew gently, and the hair around the girl's ears also fluttered gently in the wind.
The tower and the West Lake are not very far away. The two of them arrived at the outskirts of the tower in less than half an hour. They saw the three characters "Jinshan Temple" written on the crooked plaque hanging on the outer gate. Su Jianxia Only then did I realize that this was actually a dilapidated temple. It looked like the incense had long since disappeared, and there were no monks left in the temple.
"Jinshan Temple? Why do I feel like I've heard it somewhere before?" Su Jianxia looked at the plaque and began to search for memories in his mind. It felt like it was a very familiar place, but he couldn't remember it.
"This temple looks like it has been abandoned for a long time." Su Jianxia looked around the inside of the temple. There were thick fallen leaves and various garbage everywhere on the ground, indicating that no one had cleaned the temple for a long time.
"A long time of prosperity will inevitably lead to decline. About eighty years ago, this temple was the temple with the most incense and the most believers in Hangzhou. The pilgrims who came to burn incense and worship Buddha every day lined up from the bottom of the tower to the door." Wei Ziqi looked at it. Looking at the tall tower not far away, "It was only because of one incident that this temple ended up in the state where no one cares about it."
"Huh? What is it?"
Wei Ziqi didn't answer and walked straight forward until he reached the foot of the magnificent tower.
Under the erosion of the years, this high tower became more dilapidated than it looked from a distance. In many places, the tiles were detached from the tower and fell to the ground. Unknown weeds engulf this once glorious tower.
"This is,...Leifeng Pagoda?" Su Jianxia's eyes widened, and he moved closer to see the three big characters engraved on the stone tablet next to the tower, "Isn't this the legendary method used by Fahai to suppress Bai Suzhen?" That tower?”
"That's right, it's the Leifeng Tower you've heard of." Wei Ziqi nodded in confirmation.
Su Jianxia suddenly reacted, "So, uncle, the old friend you are talking about is the legendary Fa Hai?"
"That's a smart move." Wei Ziqi walked to the door of the tower and knocked twice, "Come here now so you can see him one last time."
"Huh? What last time?" Su Jianxia was stunned.
"Please come in." A somewhat vicissitudes of voice came from the tower, which seemed to be a little weak.
Wei Ziqi reached out and pushed open the door. The rotten stone door made a rustling sound, and the sand on the door also fell to the ground.
Su Jianxia was secretly surprised. It seemed that the eminent monk Fahai had been living in this Leifeng Pagoda all these years and had never left. He didn't know how to solve his problem of eating and drinking.
Entering the interior of Leifeng Pagoda, Su Jianxia secretly took out her mobile phone and started recording. There are about hundreds of golden Buddha statues starting from the first floor, and each floor surrounds the tower body, advancing layer by layer. These golden Buddha statues have a bright luster and look like they have been wiped regularly to prevent them from being contaminated by dust.
Every few steps inside the tower, there are several huge candles and several floor-standing fuel lamps placed to provide lighting in this tower that is not exposed to the sun. Other than that, there are no other objects in this empty and wide tower. .
"Ah!" Su Jianxia suddenly exclaimed, took a few steps back, and almost dropped the phone in his hand to the ground.
The visual range of candles and fuel lamps is still much worse than that of modern LED lights. In addition, Su Jianxia looked around and suddenly found a dark yellow and haggard mummy sitting in front of him, which inevitably shocked him.
"I've been to people who have seen big scenes, and I can be scared by this." Wei Ziqi stretched out his hand behind Su Jianxia's waist to prevent her from falling backwards.
Su Jianxia took a deep breath, "No way, I was not prepared, it was too sudden."
"You really can't blame this girl for being too timid. Even I don't want to see the old man in his current state, not to mention that this girl is still so young." The "mummy" not far away suddenly said.
"Are you actually alive?" Su Jianxia was stunned for a moment, but quickly came to his senses, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I was talking without thinking. Are you Master Fahai?"
The "mummy" reluctantly opened his cloudy eyes and was silent for a long time before replying: "I haven't heard anyone mention the name Fahai for a long time. I never thought that a girl who doesn't belong to this era can still hear about me. name."
"Can Master see that I am not from this era?"
"Haha, of course you can't tell. I have only been practicing for a hundred years. Although I can barely be regarded as a Buddhist in the eyes of the world, compared with the real masters, it is like the light of fireflies and the bright sun. There is a gap between us." Fahai pulled his dry face and laughed a few times, looking past Su Jianxia to Wei Ziqi behind her, "The reason why I know that the girl is not from this place is just because I saw you and the Immortal together. Come. Except for the first meeting, every time I saw the immortal after that, they came from another time and space."
"Long time no see." Wei Ziqi looked at Fahai and said softly: "After today, you can be free from now on."
"Can we really be freed from this?" Fahai smiled bitterly.
"What happened in this life is done in this life. Besides, it took you eighty years to repent. There is only one eighty year in a person's life. She will no longer resent you."
"Eighty years have passed." Fahai murmured in a low voice, "Amitabha, although I know that asking like this is revealing heaven's secrets, I still want to ask the immortal one more question, will I be able to return to this life in the next life? Is there anything that can’t be dealt with and turns into chaos?”
Wei Ziqi was silent for a while, and then said: "In the next life, you will be born into a noble family of bureaucrats and ministers. You will enjoy wealth and splendor from an early age. When you reach your prime, you will successfully obtain fame and make a career in the court. He also had a young, beautiful and virtuous wife, with a family full of children and grandchildren, until he finally passed away."
Fahai shook his head, "My hands have been stained with blood all my life. How can I deserve such a perfect life?"
"The merits and demerits will ultimately be judged by the law of heaven." Wei Ziqi paused for a moment, then continued: "Besides, you haven't done a bad job in subduing demons and slaying demons in your life."
Fahai lowered his head and said nothing, just sighed deeply.
There was another long silence. Just when Su Jianxia couldn't help but break the silence, Fahai suddenly asked: "May I ask the immortal, how is she... living now?"
"After the last time you met, she was doing pretty well. Oh, by the way, she also met her future husband today, who she likes."
"Amitabha, if that's the case, it couldn't be better." Fahai's voice was low, but still revealed a hint of loneliness, "I have no regrets in this life."
"Master, you..." Su Jianxia was stunned for a moment. Although he didn't understand the conversation in the middle, the last words seemed to be Master Fahai's own last words?
"He is already over a hundred years old. In ancient times, people who lived over sixty were considered longevity. If he had not practiced Buddhism, he would not be alive now." Wei Ziqi explained, "I came to see him because, Today is his last day in this life.”
"Do you have any unfulfilled wishes?" Wei Ziqi looked at the old monk sitting on the lotus platform.
Fahai shook his head and closed his eyes, but soon he seemed to remember something, "That Bai girl is still under the Leifeng Pagoda. Now I have exhausted all my energy and can no longer remove her from the world." We were rescued from this tower, but we may still need to trouble the immortals about this matter."
Wei Ziqi nodded, and Fa Hai was speechless. He sat motionless, as if he was in trance.
"He... died right now?" Su Jianxia's eyes widened.
"The death of an enlightened monk is usually silent. Most of the people you see struggling to survive before death are ordinary people." Wei Ziqi clasped his hands and said to this man who spent his life fighting demons. The eminent monk showed some respect.
"Is the white girl he just mentioned Bai Suzhen?" Su Jianxia asked curiously, "After all this time, is she still suppressed under this tower? And the 'she' he mentioned, can't it be Is it Miss Cen that I met today?"
"That's all right." Wei Ziqi nodded, looking around the hall on the first floor, and finally fixed his gaze on a huge raised disk in the center of the ground.
"Come and stand behind me." Wei Ziqi waved.
Su Jianxia hurriedly ran up behind Wei Ziqi and looked at the disc on the ground curiously.
Wei Ziqi raised his right hand and pressed down gently with his fingers. The disk on the ground began to sink as if it was under the weight of a thousand pounds. At the same time, with the disk as the center, dark green light patterns began to spread out crookedly in all directions, and soon spread out. It filled the entire hall floor.
"Broken." Wei Ziqi muttered softly.
The patterns covering the ground fell with Wei Ziqi's words, first rising slowly and floating in the air, and then shattered. The dark green light also dispersed in the hall, which was illuminated by dim kerosene lights. full of.
The huge disk in front of the two people had already sunk deep into the ground at this time, but soon there was a sound that seemed to be the friction between rocks, and a lotus pedestal rose up from the ground. On the pedestal, there was a person wearing white clothes. The woman was meditating and didn't seem to notice that she was already in the main hall, and she seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep and not yet woken up.
Su Jianxia stretched out her head and looked up and down, and found that the woman's attire was exactly the same as the white dress worn by Cen Biqing that she met during the day, both in color and style. The two people's appearance was somewhat similar, but Cen Biqing's eyebrows were cold. , and although this white lady closed her eyes tightly and had no expression on her face, she could still tell that she must have been an extremely charming woman.
"Bai Suzhen, your calamity is over." Wei Ziqi's voice was not loud, but her voice seemed to echo throughout the entire Leifeng Tower.
Hearing the man's voice, Bai Suzhen's body sitting on the lotus seat suddenly began to tremble slightly, as if waking up from a big dream. She slowly opened her eyes and looked at the world where she was.
When she saw the dilapidated interior of Leifeng Pagoda and the old monk sitting like a dead tree in the distance, the light in Bai Suzhen's eyes dimmed a bit, but she quickly calmed down, stood up, and knelt before Wei Ziqi. On the ground.
"Little demon Bai Suzhen meets the Immortal." Bai Suzhen lowered her head, not daring to look directly at the person in front of her.
As a great demon who has practiced for thousands of years, she is naturally aware of the terrifying aspects of the man in front of her. In his eyes, she is like an ant who can be trampled to death at will.
"Fahai is a mortal after all, and one hundred years old is his limit." Wei Ziqi looked straight ahead, "He has already gone to the next life, and he has not forgotten to release you before leaving. In this life, he has You feel guilty, but he has also been sitting alone in this tower for eighty years without ever stepping out of the hall. Let the grudge between you end here."
"I don't hold a grudge against him. After all, he is a human and a monster. During the years I was suppressed under the tower, I also thought that maybe the relationship between me and Xu Xian would not have a good outcome." Bai Suzhen's voice was very calm. , "It is his duty to conquer demons. He has nothing to feel guilty about me. If he feels guilty, it should be towards Xiao Qing."
Wei Ziqi looked down at the woman whose face was as calm as her tone, "Your sister, that green snake, has followed the same path as you, and she also fell in love with a mortal."
Bai Suzhen trembled all over, looked up at the condescending man, opened her mouth to say something, but quickly calmed down and looked at Fahai's body, "Maybe the demon clan's desire to cultivate to the upper realm of immortality is something that is not allowed by heaven. Well, so arrange for me and Xiaoqing to have this calamity in our lives."
"Whatever Green Snake will suffer now and in the future will only be worse than yours. Why don't you try to persuade her?"
"When I fell in love with Xu Xian, Xiaoqing also tried every means to persuade me, but I couldn't listen to a word." Bai Suzhen said with a bitter smile: "When you fall in love with the person you love, how can you be disturbed by other people's words? Give up easily."
Wei Ziqi nodded, "The seal that suppressed you has been broken. No one will restrict your freedom in the future. It depends on you whether you want to continue practicing and get a chance of ascending to the upper realm of immortality, or just hide your name and live in seclusion in the world. chosen."
"It is better to meditate under this Leifeng Pagoda for decades than to live in ignorance for hundreds of years in the human world. I also ask the immortal to allow the little demon to continue to practice under this Leifeng Pagoda. I do not seek to achieve enlightenment or immortality, but only seek to be calm and discipline myself." "
"This is your own business." Wei Ziqi patted Su Jianxia who was in a daze behind him, "Stop being dazed and let's go."
"Thank you, Immortal." Bai Suzhen changed direction, facing Wei Ziqi's back and saluted.
After walking out of the gate of Leifeng Pagoda, Su Jianxia couldn't open his eyes due to the dazzling sunlight outside. He blocked the sun with his hands and asked with squinted eyes: "Uncle, is Cen Biqing Bai Suzhen's sister? The one who practices with her Adult Xiaoqing?"
"I guessed it only at this time." Wei Ziqi reached out and pulled Su Jianxia to the side without sunlight. "After Bai Suzhen was suppressed under the Leifeng Pagoda, Cen Biqing seemed to have changed. She put on the same clothes as Bai Suzhen. Wearing the same white dress, her words and deeds also imitated Bai Suzhen's and gradually became calmer. Although she was still wandering around the world, she always carefully avoided contact with the world for fear of being contaminated by undue karma, until she met Li You."
"As for the question that Master Fahai asked before his death, could it be that he and Miss Cen also..." Su Jianxia was a little surprised, "Didn't it mean that family members would not be emotional? Especially an eminent monk like Fahai. "
"After Fahai came down from the mountain, he thought that his duty was only to slay demons and protect the world. But there were too many temptations in the world, and Fahai's xinxing cultivation was not ready enough, so he caught a green snake to train him. qualitative."
"Originally, in his plan, after tempering his determination, he would kill the Green Snake and cut off their love. But he didn't expect that in the process, he would develop feelings for the Green Snake that he shouldn't have.
Fahai knew that he shouldn't have such emotions, which would affect his decisiveness in killing, but he could no longer kill the green snake. Green Snake also knew that the identity gap between the two would not be tolerated by the world and heaven, so he quietly left Fahai, and the two never saw each other again.
Although these two people have not seen each other for nearly a hundred years, they have always been thinking about each other in their hearts. If it were not for Li You's sudden intervention, in Fahai's next life, with his merits in this life, he and Qing She might have a perfect love. . "
"What a pity." Su Jianxia sighed, "I didn't expect the feelings between these people to be so complicated."
Wei Ziqi reached out and touched the head of the girl next to him, "Emotions are a very complicated thing. When you grow up, you can experience it yourself if you have the opportunity."
"First of all, I am already an adult. I will be nineteen years old in two months." Su Jianxia said dissatisfiedly: "And didn't you agree to marry me? Are you going to regret it now?"
Wei Ziqi was stunned, "Isn't that just a joke?"
"Then I don't care, I take it seriously anyway." Su Jianxia snorted coldly, "I'll just stay here, and other women won't have the chance to get close to you. In the end, you can only have me by your side."
Wei Ziqi opened his mouth, not knowing how to respond.
"Hey, Qingtuan!" Su Jianxia suddenly spotted a vendor pushing a cart slowly toward the West Lake not far from the temple, and quickly jumped over and rushed over, "Uncle, wait a minute, give it to me. Come on, two Youth League members!"
Wei Ziqi looked at the young and lively figure of the girl in the sun, sighed, and smiled helplessly.
