The morning light passed through the window and fell on the head of the bed. Ouyang Xuan, who was leaning on the bedside, slowly woke up from his dream. He realized enlightenment in one day and one night, which was not comparable to that of ordinary monks.
Although he only broke through the first realm, his understanding of the way of heaven and earth was better than decades of hard training. This was his happiest thing.
Fortunately, he came to Lantian Town. Fortunately, he didn't take action.
Just as Li Xiuyuan said, on the night of the 15th, he held a glass of black bean wine and saw the most beautiful snowy moon deep in the snow-capped mountains.
When the world is silent, you can warm a pot of wine and drink it to the sky.
There is a guy around who can reason with him. On such a snowy night, even the 15th lanterns no longer attract him to go out.
In his opinion, what he gained from this trip was probably even greater than his master taking the elixir from the snow-capped mountains and breaking through in one day.
After going back, he could travel to the ends of the earth with his sword like Li Xiuyuan before him, to see the huge waves that were about to set off in the Xuanwu Land.
You can also stay quietly in the sect to refine your state of mind, and spend more time and thought to understand the way of heaven and earth.
Pushing the door open, he came to the living room and looked at Li Xiuyuan who had gotten up early and smiled: "I'm going home."
Wanting Xiaodie and He to sleep in, Li Xiuyuan stood up and said, "I'll give it to you."
The two of them walked through the small courtyard, and just as they pushed open the courtyard door with a creak, sporadic snowflakes fell in the sky.
Ouyang Xuan looked up at the sky and said with a smile: "It's snow when you come, and it's snow when you go. It's very good."
The two walked all the way through the snow, and Ouyang Xuan found the horse he had fostered. Li Xiuyuan gave him two bags of goat's milk wine bought in the town, saying that he had something to think about when he returned home.
Holding the horses, the two of them walked all the way to the outside of the town where the wind and snow were blowing.
The snow has not yet melted, and the herdsmen in the town will not be in a hurry to go out to graze. There are few pedestrians on the road and it is still quiet. Only Ouyang Xuan is holding the horse on the whole street, as if he is going on a long journey.
Xiaodie'er, who was lying on the bed, shouted to the crow in the next room: "Junior brother, where is the master?"
The crow replied: "Master has gone out to see off the guests. Senior sister, I'm hungry."
"Oh, I'm hungry too."
Xiao Die'er thought that since the master saw off the guests, he didn't invite them to have breakfast before leaving. There was no reason to send the guests away on an empty stomach.
Even though she thought so, she still got out of the quilt.
He shouted loudly: "Junior brother, let's cook a pot of meat porridge and wait for the master to come back for breakfast."
Crow shook his head: "Master is not that fast, there is no need to wait for him."
The two of them came to the outside of the town. There were no more people in sight. The fluttering snowflakes fell in the sky, which was somewhat like the old trees, the westerly wind and the thin horses, and the heartbroken people at the end of the world.
Ouyang Xuan looked very clean in white clothes, with the cold wind gently blowing his clothes. From a distance, he looked more like a scholar in a teahouse than a monk who kills without blinking an eye.
Looking at his old friend who was about to leave, Li Xiuyuan suddenly said: "I hope your future Taoist heart will be as spotless as your clothes."
Ouyang Xuan stroked the horse and sighed: "You are a blind man, but you can still see the color of my clothes. Are there any dust on my clothes?"
Li Xiuyuan walked beside him and said with a smile: "To tell you the truth, I only see black and white in my eyes. Fortunately, you didn't wear colorful clothes to see me."
Ouyang Xuan was shuddered when he heard this, and thought to himself: "You also want to hide your secret skills?" Or are you really a Buddhist monk?
Ouyang Xuan thought for a while and said, "Actually, there are also temples in Yinchuan City..."
Li Xiuyuan nodded and said calmly: "Because of my eyes, I can only see black and white... Just like when you walk in the dark night, you can only see two colors."
When Ouyang Xuan heard this, he turned to look at him and frowned again when he saw the expressionless face in front of him, like a monk preaching to him.
He paused for a moment and asked, "Do you want me to practice Buddhism?"
Looking at Li Xiuyuan's calm face, Ouyang Xuan suddenly asked curiously: "Are you a disciple of Zhufeng, or have you entered Buddhism early? Is it possible that you are still a disciple of Xuefeng Mountain?"
Ouyang Xuan himself was startled when he thought of this.
If the guy in front of him is really a disciple of Xuefeng Mountain, then it would make sense that the master of Meishan cares for him.
In this case, he really wanted to go back and have a good talk with his master. He would rather break the contract with the Snow Mountain elder than provoke this terrible guy.
Li Xiuyuan sighed, as if he was recalling a practice in the Prajna Temple many years ago. It was probably the longest period of hard training in the temple in his life.
In the coming years, I am afraid there will be no such peaceful time.
After a long silence, he said softly: "I have practiced Buddhism for ten years, and I have forgotten it for ten years. Those are memories that I can't get rid of, time that I can't get back..."
Ouyang Xuan looked at him blankly, couldn't help but reach out to his face, and gently pinched the corner of the black cloth. Seeing that Li Xiuyuan was not angry, he gently untied it...
Then, as if struck by lightning, looking at the empty and lifeless eyes in front of him, he instantly covered his mouth with one hand.
He bent down and bowed deeply.
He clasped his hands together and said, "I'm so reckless. Master, please forgive me for my ignorance. Thank you for your enlightenment and teachings..."
After saying that, he said nothing more and gently covered Li Xiuyuan with the black cloth again.
Li Xiuyuan smiled lightly and said: "Buddha said that in addition to the physical eyes, people also have the eyes of the mind, the eye of wisdom, and the eyes of the Buddha... What I lost is just a pair of physical eyes in the human world, and it has nothing to do with you."
Ouyang Xuan sighed softly and said: "You have seen flowers in bloom before. If you could never see them again, would you feel very painful? Or even despair?"
After sighing, Li Xiuyuan was silent for a long time and said, "I also want to see the light again, but he wants me to see more darkness, and I have no choice for the time being."
At this moment, Ouyang Xuan understood the meaning of this sentence.
Just like he is dressed in white, but what he does in a single thought does not necessarily mean that he stands in the sun and represents light.
As for the young man in a black shirt, even if he loses his eyes and is trapped in endless darkness, who can prove that he cannot see the light?
Wanting to understand the reason, Ouyang Xuan suddenly laughed.
Reaching out to catch a snowflake, I imagined that the blazing sun was blocked behind the thick clouds. It would take a few days for the sun to shine again.
So he smiled and said, "How does it feel in the dark?"
With his feet on the thick snow, Li Xiuyuan looked at the rising sun above the clouds, stretched out his hand, and tried to touch the ray of sunlight that was about to pass through the clouds.
After thinking for a while, he said: "If I hadn't been blind, how could I have seen the dark side of the world? Fortunately, I still have a pair of eyes that can look forward to the light."
"You can see the light clearly despite being in the dark. I envy you."
Ouyang Xuan said with emotion: "It seems that after I return to Yinchuan City, I will have to find a great monk to try to practice Buddhism."
Li Xiuyuan couldn't help but sigh as he thought about every friend around him who practiced Buddhism.
He said with a half-smile: "Practice Buddhism is very hard... If you really want to practice Buddhism, then you must first have a strong heart, and then be prepared for the possibility of becoming a demon..." "
The mountain wind blew the snow, making the two people's white and black clothes rustle. Looking at Ouyang Xuan, he was excited for a moment.
As he chewed these words quietly in his mouth, he couldn't help but feel a ray of fear in his heart.
Asked: "If there is a danger of becoming a demon, then I would like to ask you, are the great monks in the temple Buddhas or demons? How should I treat them?"
"This is a very troublesome thing, and it cannot be explained clearly. The bitterness in it is even more bitter than the cup of enlightenment tea you drank. Even I am the same."
Li Xiuyuan thought for a moment and said, "If you don't practice Buddhism because you are afraid of being possessed by demons, it's just like you are afraid of a catastrophe and desperately want to break through it. If so, do you still want to practice Buddhism?"
Ouyang Xuan nodded gently, and after a moment of silence asked, "Can we meet again?"
"Of course, as long as I'm still in this world."
Thinking about some things that were about to happen, Li Xiuyuan said quietly: "Practice to the end is fear, and to practice Buddhism, you must have the determination to live towards death."
Ouyang Xuan bowed his hands and said with a smile: "Well, let me see how you stir up the world with just a wave of your hand."
After saying that, he got on his horse, waved his sleeves and said, "I'll take the first step and try to convince Master... If one day someone from the Snowfield Holy Land comes to trouble you..."
"How?" Li Xiuyuan asked.
Ouyang Xuan took a deep breath and said, "Believe me, that was never my intention. You can kill it easily!"
After saying that, he patted the horses and galloped away into the vast wind and snow ahead.
After hearing this, Li Xiuyuan couldn't help but smile lightly and said loudly: "Cultivating Buddhism is also painful. If you don't suffer, you won't become a Buddha. You have to think about it."
"I know, don't worry about it!"
"Have a nice trip, I miss you."
No one knew that in the winter of this year, the proud man of the Snowfield Holy Land came to Lantian Town and drank several pots of spiritual tea and several bottles of strong liquor with his former life-and-death enemy.
As Ouyang Xuan said, he not only understood the truth but also understood some truths.
As the saying goes, come here with pleasure and return with pleasure, but even Ouyang Chongming would never have thought that the people coming from the snow mountain were old friends from back then.
And his precious disciple has settled his grudges over a glass of wine with his former life-and-death enemy and has become a close friend.
But Li Xiuyuan was thinking, today is a good day. If he completes the casting of two spiritual swords in the afternoon, will he face the catastrophe of the spiritual swords in Lantian Town?
...
Back in the yard, Xiao Die'er had just cooked the meat porridge and brought it to the living room. She obviously didn't expect the master to come back so soon.
The crow cawed in the distance: "Master, that guy didn't trick you, did he?"
Li Xiuyuan sighed and said with a smile: "Many years have passed. As long as we let go of the original hatred, we can still be friends..."
Xiaodie'er snorted and said, "Then next time, Xiaodie'er and junior brother should be more polite when they see him."
"Let's talk about the rest later."
Li Xiuyuan replied quietly: "While no one is looking for trouble, you should practice well and don't be lazy. Have you done your homework today?"
Crow shook his head.
Xiaodie'er shook her head and said with a smile: "Xiaodie'er took a nap and will go after eating."
Li Xiuyuan nodded and said, "We can't stay here for long. When the peach blossoms bloom in the yard, we will set off for Meishan."
"Next winter, my junior brother and I will come back here to visit the old lady." Thinking about the promise to the old lady, Xiaodie'er looked at her master and said seriously.
Crow nodded and said, "Me too."
"Okay, when we leave, I will find a craftsman to renovate this house. I will stay here for a while when I have nothing to do."
Li Xiuyuan didn't know when he would be able to leave here, and he didn't know if Xiaodie'er and Crow Crow could leave together.
Since the two of them liked Lantian Town, he would simply decorate it and at least turn it into a home. It would also be nice to come and live here from time to time.
"Thank you, Master." Xiao Die'er served Li Xiuyuan a bowl of meat porridge and placed it in front of him.
"Just you and junior brother, don't bring anyone else with you." Li Xiuyuan warned.
"Master, don't worry." Crow promised seriously.
Everything happened so fast, so fast that the three of them hadn't had a good look at the town, and so fast that Li Xiuyuan hadn't even taken Xiao Die'er for a gallop on the grassland.
Seeing it, I was about to leave.
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