"A long time ago, probably in the ancient times, there was a very beautiful little fairy named Epiphyllum. She was the daughter of the Emperor of Heaven."
"Master, you can enlighten me. What stories are you telling me? I am not a three-year-old child, and I still want to listen to stories to lull me to sleep." Zhang Yunji, a little Taoist boy, was dissatisfied and interrupted. He wondered if there was something wrong with Master. Why did he start telling a story for no reason, "Master, is your story funny? Why are you so difficult to name the protagonist?"
After all, they are still children at heart, and they still judge whether a story is fun or not.
The thin Taoist priest who called himself Sanfeng ignored him and looked up at his disciple. He moved his butt back and leaned against the stone wall.
"Fairy Epiphyllum Epiphyllum is a flower god who is in charge of thousands of flowers in the world. She blooms in whatever month she asks, and blooms in whatever time she asks. Her power is quite powerful. This makes Qingqing The emperor was jealous. The Qing Emperor was the god of spring, and flowers bloomed most in spring. This made the Qing Emperor feel that his duties were no different from those of night-blooming night-blooming night-blooming night-blooms.
Later, Epiphyllum fell in love with a young mortal who watered her and weeded her every day. This was just like when you couldn't sleep and thought wildly when you had nothing to do. You always felt that you didn't look good here and you couldn't deal with it there, so she kept blooming all the time. , just want to let that young mortal see his most beautiful appearance.
Later, the Qing Emperor came to know about this matter. The old boy of the Qing Emperor was not honest. He reported it to the Emperor of Heaven and said that the Epiphyllum Fairy did not keep the flowering period. It's not surprising that the place where the moon rises at sunset and the thickness of clouds after rain are all laws of heaven, and no one can change them. The Emperor of Heaven was furious and locked Epiphyllum in the Kunlun Yaochi under the control of the Queen Mother of the West. He decreed that she could only bloom once a year, and only for a moment at a time. This would be a beating, and she would never see her little lover again in this life. ah. "
"Master, your story-telling skills are not good. I almost fell asleep listening to it."
The thin Taoist priest still ignored his apprentice.
"In fact, that young mortal can't forget Epiphyllum. After all, a man has no resistance when he sees a beauty, especially a beauty who takes the initiative to throw himself into his arms. He immediately found out the whereabouts of Epiphyllum, and went through mountains and rivers, overcoming thorns and thorns, and went through thousands of difficulties. Wan Xian finally met Epiphyllum Epiphyllum in Yaochi, but Epiphyllum Epiphyllum felt that she was too ugly if she did not blossom, and could not show her most beautiful appearance to her little lover, so Epiphyllum Epiphyllum did not see this young mortal who had traveled thousands of miles to find her, and asked him to leave quickly. The young mortal did not give up, saying that he would wait until she changed her mind and agreed to see him.
Do you know what this mortal said? He said, there are countless flowers blooming in Yaochi, with thousands of colorful flowers, but he only likes hers.
There are countless flowers in bloom, but I only broke one.
Unexpectedly, he did not wait for Epiphyllum to change his mind, but was discovered by the Queen Mother of the West and reported it to the Emperor of Heaven. The Emperor of Heaven was so angry that he directly banned all memories of the young man and sent him to become a monk under the Buddha in Lingjiu Mountain. He gave him the name Wei Tuo so that he could forget his past life and the God of Flowers.
Many years passed, and Monk Wei Tuo really forgot about the God of Flowers. He concentrated on meditating on the Buddha, gradually achieved success, and was awarded the title of Bodhisattva. But this love is a consensual thing. Although the young mortal who has become a Bodhisattva has forgotten it, Epiphyllum can never forget the young mortal who once took care of her.
Until one year, the Queen Mother of the West held a banquet in Yaochi to entertain all the gods and Buddhas in the world, and Veda Bodhisattva was also invited. By chance, the night-blooming cereus that had been waiting for decades bloomed in an instant when it saw Wei Tuo, awakening the memories that Wei Tuo had banned.
Wei Tuo once said that the Buddha talks about cause and effect, but he also talks about giving up. The Buddha saves fate but does not save sentient beings. In anger, he took off his cassock and returned to the secular world, making a big fuss in Yaochi. He single-handedly destroyed the merits accumulated over thousands of years in Yaochi. "
"Master, what does Veda Bodhisattva mean by that sentence?" The little Taoist boy, who was gradually becoming entranced, couldn't help but interrupt the less than stellar story told by his master.
"You don't understand." This thin Taoist priest who loved his disciple so much that he even risked his life to get beaten put his hands on the quilt that was leaking because of his dishonesty. "To give up is to let go, and to let go is to end it. How can there be cause and effect? Buddha? Crossing is fate, and the marriage between lovers is not fate? He can't even cross himself, and he can't even bear the fruits he planted, so how can he talk about becoming a Buddha?"
"The Bodhisattva is indeed a Bodhisattva, and everything he says is so learned. He is much better than those two great monks, who open their mouths and keep their mouth shut." The little Taoist boy did not forget to ridicule the two great monks who he used as an excuse to get in touch with the people in his heart. Monk.
"The Emperor of Heaven is completely annoyed this time. The merits in this world are all accumulated over time. How can it be that he has destroyed so much? Although Epiphyllum is the culprit, after all, Epiphyllum is also the daughter of the Emperor of Heaven, and the Emperor of Heaven is reluctant to take it away. As for Epiphyllum, they put all the sins on Veda Bodhisattva, took away his Buddha title, and demoted him to hell and reincarnation forever. He was tortured for thousands of lives and tasted all the pain in the world in order to forget Epiphyllum.
After all, this mortal who has achieved enlightenment has wisdom. In this life of reincarnation, due to the coincidence of causes and conditions, he has cultivated the Tao.
He has a Taoist heart, but by chance, he becomes one with Taixuan, the 82nd incarnation of Emperor Zhenwu. He becomes a Bodhisattva by practicing Zen and asking about Buddha, and he becomes Taixuan by cultivating his mind and asking questions. Do you think it's funny? "
I guess Xiao Daotong listened attentively, but he didn't answer.
"After he ascended to immortality, the Emperor of Heaven thought of his merits and noticed that he had forgotten the evil destiny that had cause and effect, so he returned to Wudang to frighten the demons in the world and continue to practice.
But this long-distance marriage is tied by a thin thread. I think this is what Yue Lao is doing. He is so bored that he insists on making something happen. Epiphyllum, which was far away in Yaochi, knew about this, and actually used up its own merits to transform into a clone and arrived at the foot of Wudang Mountain, waiting hard.
She knew that in mid-spring every year, Taixuan would always go down the mountain to pick morning dew and cook new tea. So at that moment, Epiphyllum bloomed the essence that had been gathered for a whole year at that moment. She hoped that Taixuan would look back at her and remember her.
But thousands of years have passed, Taixuan went down the mountain to collect morning dew every year, and epiphyllum bloomed every year, but Taixuan never remembered her. "
The Sanfeng Taoist, who was caught up in the story he was telling, lowered his head to look at the entranced disciple. He didn't know what the disciple who was looking intently at the sky outside the cliff was thinking about.
"One day, a skinny man came from outside the mountain and walked past Epiphyllum. Seeing Epiphyllum's melancholy and loneliness, he stopped and asked Epiphyllum: "Why are you sad? "
Epiphyllum was surprised because mortals could not see the true form of gods.
Epiphyllum hesitated for a moment and just replied: "You can't help me."
The skinny man left silently without saying a word.
Twenty years later, the skinny man walked past Epiphyllum and repeated the same question he asked twenty years ago: "Why are you sad?"
Epiphyllum hesitated for a moment again and still replied: "You can't help me."
The skinny man smiled and left.
Twenty years later, a skinny old man appeared again in Epiphyllum. The skinny old man looked even more dying. The man back then has become an old man, but he still asked the same question as he did forty years ago: "Why are you sad?"
This time Epiphyllum did not act like before, but replied: "Thank you, a mortal. You have asked me three times in your life, but you are a mortal after all, and you are dying now, how can you help me?"
The old man just smiled and said, "Why can't I help you?" How could Epiphyllum believe a mortal's words, and then ignore the old man again. "
"Master, who is this old man?" The little Taoist boy, who was staring intently at the vast gray endless void, finally interrupted. His voice seemed to come from the Nine Netherworld, murmuring like a dream.
"He is Jujiu, a god who dares to accept the punishment of heaven and earth for love. He said that he has come to end the fruitless love relationship in thousands of lives. He also gave a message to Epiphyllum, "Destiny arises, destiny ends, destiny ends. After all, the flowers bloom and fall and return to dust. "After saying this, the old man Jujiu closed his eyes and sat down. In the blink of an eye, the sun and dusk changed, and the old man grabbed the flower god and went to the mountain together, where he saw Taixuan, whom she had been thinking about day and night. When the old man returned to the light, he tried his best His last bit of merit broke the seal on Taixuan, and finally reminded Taixuan of the fate of his previous life. The Emperor of Heaven was touched by Jujiu's sacrifice, and after knowing it, Taixuan and Epiphyllum descended from the gods to the mortal world to end their unresolved love. This epiphyllum idiot has been waiting for thousands of years. After all, it is admirable to be able to stay together in this life."
Silence fell in the cave. After all, it was the little Taoist boy who broke the silence first and asked: "Master, where is Ju Jiu?"
"Because Jujiu violated the rules of heaven, he wandered from life to life. He accepted the punishment of heaven and never reincarnated."
"Oh. Master, what happened next?"
"There will be no later ones. After reincarnation, I will still be an epiphyllum and a supreme being."
“I don’t want to know each other and stay together for the rest of my life, I just want to grow old together once in a lifetime.”
Taoist San Feng felt that these words seemed reasonable to come from the mouth of his only twelve-year-old disciple.
Just like when he returned to the mountains with this baby who was called a demon at birth, his master who had scolded him all the way to Tianzhu Peak refused to let him set up an altar and accept disciples. He felt that this was reasonable.
After all, he felt it was too unkind for a child who had lost his parents just after birth to become a disciple before he had received three letters.
Just like these years, this half-grown child has been wandering around the seventy-three hills in the mountain all day long. He always speaks humbly and well to his disciples and grandchildren who are several generations younger than him, and sometimes shares some of his experiences with others. He realized that the opportunity was not consistent with his age, and he felt that this was reasonable.
After all, being arrogant based on favor is a taboo.
It was also like when he fought with the leopard in the mountains, which was said to be the subordinate of Lu Zu, for more than ten days with no outcome, which made him doubt the authenticity of his master's statement that he was the so-called "reincarnation of Lu Zu". As soon as this child showed up, the leopard, which jumped eight feet and had a ferocious face and a violent temper, became extremely docile in an instant. The so-called "one thing brings down another thing" is nothing more than this, and he thought it was reasonable.
After all, this child quite meets the conditions for the reincarnation of the Zhenwu Emperor according to his master.
It was more like the time when he was stuck on a stone cliff after his master was released from reincarnation. At that time, he secretly kept his young child with him for more than a few months. With the vague words of "your master is gone, my master is still here", he was suddenly enlightened. I think it's reasonable.
After all, as a teacher, he has the responsibility to take good care of this child.
The most similar thing is his vague words at the moment, he seems to be telling stories in a nonsensical way, and he seems to treat his apprentice as a grown-up child who needs to be coaxed to sleep by telling stories. In fact, the secret behind it can only be revealed once. thing.
But this Taoist, who has been called crazy three times, always likes to pretend to be profound, see through things without revealing them, and beat around the bush to keep his disciples guessing.
After all, explaining it clearly is not as good as understanding it yourself. This is your own understanding.
This is even more reasonable.
"are you asleep?"
"Fell asleep."
There are three thousand beautiful plants in the world,
How to take a ladle of weak water?
Hundreds of flowers enchant the eyes,
A flash in the pan appears as Taixuan.
The Taoist priest Zhang Sanfeng, who had been teased three times by his juniors and went crazy, felt that his apprentice, who was born a demon, had fully realized what he was doing.
At such a young age, it was unexpected.
There are eighty true warrior statues on the cliff, filled with purple energy that reaches the nine heavens.
At such an age, it makes sense.
[I want a ticket. 】
