If anything, the old woman had been telling Li Xiuyuan all winter.
That night, he finally had a peaceful and dreamless sleep, and even Xiaodieer and Crow were quiet.
When there is a glimmer of light in the sky, the sun has not yet jumped out of the sea.
In his dream, Li Xiuyuan was awakened by a gust of cool sea breeze. When he opened his eyes, he was on top of a mountain.
In front of him is the vast blue East China Sea, behind him is a stone wall covered with mountain vines and moss... there are three faint stone gates on the stone wall.
"Sir, you are finally back..."
From next to me, Huanjiao's surprised voice came: "Huanjiao has been waiting all winter, and finally we have arrived sir. Yesterday, we were showered with a spiritual rain here..."
Holding Li Xiuyuan's hand, Huajiao kept talking for a while, as if she wanted to tell her husband everything she had been holding back all winter.
Li Xiuyuan shook his head, looked at the Bodhisattva who had returned to his original appearance, and was dressed in white as snow, and murmured: "I saw the Bodhisattva again, but it was a thousand years later..."
The Bodhisattva looked at him and smiled: "How many years have passed, and you have actually lost your eyes."
Li Xiuyuan sighed, took out two bottles of spiritual wine, handed one to the Bodhisattva, and the other to Huajiao.
Huajiao was confused and sighed: "Huajiao comes and kowtows three times to the Bodhisattva. From now on, you will be her disciple. The master cannot take you away..."
Quietly, Li Xiuyuan explained the reason to Huajiao.
Finally, Huajiao was stunned and said: "Even for Xiaodie'er, I have to find a master who can teach her in the end. Don't blame me for being cruel. The road ahead of me is too difficult."
When Huajiao heard this, she burst into tears.
He took Li Xiuyuan's hand and shouted: "Sir, please don't abandon Huajiao. Huajiao has no relatives anymore."
After her brother's death, Li Xiuyuan was Huajiao's only relative, not to mention Xiaodie'er and Wuyao accompanying her.
Now that she was asked to leave with a strange Bodhisattva, how could she be willing to leave Li Xiuyuan and the others behind?
Li Xiuyuan sighed, took her hand and said: "When you are born in this world, you have to experience birth, old age, illness, death, love, hate and separation, and Bodhisattva can teach you more principles and allow you to see the road to immortality... "
After saying that, he bowed deeply to the Bodhisattva and said, "Bodhisattva, don't blame Huajiao. Her brother was precisely because of Yu Xian'er's willfulness back then..."
The Bodhisattva nodded and replied: "Your path is different from theirs, so let her follow me."
After persuading and persuading, and explaining a lot of reasons, Huajiao finally stopped crying and took out a silk scarf to wipe away the tears on her face.
While asking: "So, will Huajiao ever see you again, sir?"
Li Xiuyuan smiled faintly: "As long as you stay with the Bodhisattva and practice well, we will meet again."
He took out a bunch of space rings and stuffed them into Huajiao's hand, and sighed: "You also know that I am very poor and don't have many treasures on me. I wonder if these things can still be used."
In his opinion, after Huajiao followed the Bodhisattva, how could he use the mortal things in the world?
Even so, he still had to arrange the future life for his precious disciple, and she would live in poverty and suffering.
Huajiao sighed again and again, and finally put away the things given by her husband.
The Bodhisattva said: "I'm leaving, so don't stay too long. After explaining the matter to the old turtle, stay for a few days and then leave."
Li Xiuyuan was startled when he heard this and blurted out: "Do you want this disciple to leave like this?"
Bodhisattva took Huajiao's hand and came to the moss-covered stone wall. He pointed at the three stone gates in front of him and said, "Leave from here."
"Isn't this sect very particular?"
Li Xiuyuan looked at the three stone gates in front of him and wondered if he could choose one and then wonder where he would go next?
The Bodhisattva nodded and replied: "These three gates are the past, present, and future of Buddhism. Have you thought about where you want to go?"
Li Xiuyuan asked: "So, where is the Bodhisattva going?"
When the Bodhisattva stretched out his hand, a ray of light pushed open the stone door in the middle, and smiled faintly: "Where can't I go?"
Li Xiuyuan said "Oh", thinking about it.
Then he asked: "Bodhisattva, please tell me where the three of us, master and disciple, will go on the next journey to heaven. Will we meet any acquaintances?"
The Bodhisattva smiled and said: "It's in your heart. How could I know? Can you guess?"
After saying that, he was about to step forward. When Huajiao saw him, he couldn't help but hugged Li Xiuyuan and cried: "Sir, don't forget Huajiao."
Li Xiuyuan patted her shoulder gently: "If you practice with the Bodhisattva, you must learn to recite and stop reciting."
The Bodhisattva nodded and said quietly: "Let's go, don't miss me anymore if you have nothing to do!"
Huajiao and Li Xiuyuan expressed their gratitude: "Sir, take care, Huajiao is gone."
The moment Bodhisattva held Huajiao's hand and stepped forward, Huajiao suddenly shouted: "Oh my god, Bodhisattva, you still have a little red dragon..."
"I am your senior sister, remember..."
"Buzz..." After a sound, the stone wall slowly closed, and the three Bodhisattvas were no longer in front of Li Xiuyuan.
Looking at the stone wall that had returned to its original appearance, Li Xiuyuan murmured to himself: "It seems that from now on, this Jade Fairy will be your whetstone, Huajiao?"
The sea breeze blew gently, a red sun jumped out of the sea, and it was another new day.
...
Stretching out his hand, Li Xiuyuan finally resisted and pushed away the stone wall in front of him.
There were also Fluttershy, Crow, and the Peacock in the process of transformation at the foot of the mountain. He couldn't leave alone.
Yesterday, there was a spiritual rain on Taiping Island, which made the sky and earth clear today. The flowers that had just begun spring and were supposed to wait for some days to bloom could no longer wait to bloom first.
Looking at the place where Huajiao and Bodhisattva disappeared, Li Xiuyuan moved the corners of his mouth and walked down the mountain.
As he walked, he murmured to himself: "Speaking of Bodhisattva, why did you let the female Bodhisattva come here? Is it possible that you are afraid of her?"
Walking along the mountain of flowers, Li Xiuyuan unknowingly thought of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva in the drum tower of Yunqi Temple.
Aren't such useless things under the control of Bodhisattvas?
Seeing that the Bodhisattva did not say anything to him, Li Xiuyuan continued: "Does it mean that the Bodhisattva only cares about the resentful souls in the abyss, and the evil in the world cannot enter your Dharma eyes?"
After thinking about it for a while, he thought of this, and Li Xiuyuan suddenly felt many complicated emotions.
He murmured: "Logically speaking, I wanted to shoot that evil dragon to death with one arrow, but I didn't expect that the female Bodhisattva in Zizhu showed great mercy and saved her."
Looking at the smoke rising from the wooden house at the foot of the mountain, I wondered if Xiao Die'er would be angry when she couldn't find the peppercorns when she got up.
Thinking that after Huajiao followed Bodhisattva, it would be difficult for master and disciple to meet again, after all, his own path was too difficult.
Thinking of this, Li Xiuyuan complained: "I'm talking about Bodhisattva, what do I want to ask you? Is there a demon dragon or a strange beast under you?"
Before he could continue to babble, a magical scene suddenly appeared in his divine sea.
A rare strange beast appeared in his divine sea. The strange beast had a tiger head, a unicorn, a dog's ears, a dragon's body, a lion's tail, and a unicorn's feet. It had a very unique shape and was staring at him coldly.
Just when he said "Hey!" and wanted to ask where this guy came from, the strange beast disappeared into his divine sea with a whoosh.
Ksitigarbha's voice rang out in his mind: "This is my car. It has a name, and it has the auspicious image of a cluster of beasts... Do you want to take advantage of it?"
Li Xiuyuan was startled and murmured to himself: "It seems that the monster was released by you to cause trouble in the world."
Ksitigarbha did not expect that Li Xiuyuan would become entangled with him because of a red dragon that was so persistent.
So he said softly: "Speaking of which, the Bodhisattva just left. Why didn't you tell her your inner complaints instead of disturbing my peace?"
Li Xiuyuan shook his head: "She has lived with me for more than one winter. Ordinarily she should have told me this a long time ago, instead of making me do another coolie in the mountains."
A flower came from the wind and fell into Li Xiuyuan's hand. He gently put it to his lips and smelled it, quietly feeling the breath of spring.
Li Xiuyuan thought that it was still autumn when he met Bodhisattva at Tianshui Pier.
So he couldn't help but murmur to himself: "This Bodhisattva is the same, and he turns into an old woman to make me happy? Want me to carry her up the high stone steps..."
Unexpectedly, the Bodhisattva in Zizhulin turned into an old mother-in-law, and Li Xiuyuan suddenly burst into laughter.
Then he continued: "Is it possible that the Bodhisattva has pity on me because I have never seen my grandma? Does he want me to be an obedient child? Let me feel the warmth of the human world? It seems that this winter is not bad..."
Thinking about the time when a man transformed into Ksitigarbha in the abyss and practiced Buddhism for hundreds of years, and carved Buddha statues for hundreds of years.
At that time, let alone the Bodhisattva, there was not even a single figure.
But this time, after all, there is a Bodhisattva by my side, listening to myself chattering, and telling myself some truths about entering and leaving the world from time to time.
Ksitigarbha laughed when he heard this and said: "Since you understand this truth in your heart, why bother calling me here? You can carve a winter lotus at the foot of the mountain and then destroy it with your own hands."
"Once you have created something in my eyes, don't destroy it easily. Can you understand this?"
In the eyes of Ksitigarbha, the young man in front of him is a clean and transparent mortal. It is precisely because of this that he, like a child, destroys the temple that he has worked so hard to build with his hands in a fit of rage.
This is clearly a form of acting on behalf of others, exercising the power of heaven in the human world.
Li Xiuyuan shook his head and said, "I don't know, where were you when that evil dragon and I were fighting to the death? My mother-in-law was obviously sitting on a chair, but she wanted to see me make a fool of myself."
"So, I still don't care whether you want to keep this palace or not. Will it be left to an evil dragon and continue to harm people in the future?"
Ksitigarbha was silent for a moment, slowly savoring these words. For a moment, he couldn't answer why the Bodhisattva didn't take action?
I also feel that only monks like Li Xiuyuan who have entered the mortal realm can be unafraid of evil dragons in the world and understand this truth, right?
After a long silence, Ksitigarbha said: "The moon waxes and wanes, and the way of heaven is not perfect. How about you practice Buddhism and become a Bodhisattva in the world?"
However, Li Xiuyuan instantly found that all his entry and exit routes had been blocked by the Bodhisattva's words.
Thinking about it carefully, it turns out that no part of the world he has walked through is perfect, just like the moon above his head. This is something he already understood when he was in Tianshan.
Sighing inwardly, Li Xiuyuan no longer struggled with this issue.
Instead, he asked: "Forget it, I am not a god in this world. Please tell me, Bodhisattva, where will I go after walking into one of the three stone gates on the mountain?"
After saying that, Li Xiuyuan threw the flowers between his fingers to the wood layer at the foot of the mountain. Xiaodieer followed Pianpian and got up and came out to look for the master.
A faint watery meaning, a faint saintly meaning, flew towards the two girls in the mountains with a flower coming from the wind.
Looking at the water-like intention in front of him, and staring at the vague and absent saint's power in the water, Ksitigarbha held the flower and smiled, condensing a ray of divine light towards the flower in the wind.
Gradually, the flowers in the wind turned into two, two into three... and suddenly turned into flying flowers all over the sky.
The spring breeze in March is full of flowers. This is the East China Sea. How can we miss the flowers dancing in the wind?
Gradually, a gust of sea breeze blew the flowers in the wind to the sky above the wooden house, and a rain of petals fell on the heads of the two girls...
Xiao Die'er exclaimed: "Junior sister, come out quickly, it's raining flowers from the sky."
Li Xiuyuan silently watched the scene in front of him and murmured: "Bodhisattva can just torment me, why bother letting my disciples go through the pain of separation in the human world."
Ksitigarbha smiled faintly: "You want her to become a saint. How can she become a saint without suffering?"
