Zongwu: Our Rivers and Lakes

Chapter 75
Twilight.

Hundreds of monks stood densely outside Dafanyin Temple, and the group of monks sat down together, chanting scriptures at the same time with the sound of gongs and drums in their hands.

The morning is dim, and the sound of orderly chanting is continuous, and the scene is grand and solemn.

Long Penghe stands on the top of the cliff, looking down at the foot of the mountain, "Guan Zi Zai Bodhisattva, who walks the deep Prajna Paramita for a long time, sees that the five aggregates are empty, and overcomes all hardships."

"Mr. Long also knows Buddhism?" Wu Xin asked.

"I can only read a little bit."

Long Peng sighed, "Master Wangyou is an eminent monk, I hope he will reach the other side soon and escape from this world of suffering."

Lei Wujie leaned over and wondered, "The sea of ​​suffering in the world? Why do you say that, isn't the world bad?"

Long Peng glanced at him and said slowly, "Okay, not good."

"Some people grow up rich and well-clothed and have no worries. For such people, this world is naturally good.

But there are also people who don't even know what it's like to be full, Lei Wujie, do you think they will think this world is good? "

Lei Wujie froze for a moment, blushed a little, and glanced at Xiao Se.

Xiao Se stood up with his chest folded, "What do you think I am doing? I didn't steal it, but I robbed it. What's wrong with being upright?"

"Cough cough..."

Lei Wujie coughed twice, with an embarrassed expression on his face, seeing the people running from afar, he immediately said, "Look."

But behind those chanting monks, there was a tall monk standing abruptly with a knife.

The knife-carrying monk stared forward with piercing eyes,

There are nine steeds there, and several monks are sitting on the steeds, and they are also running towards this side.

"It's... the grandson of the king."

Xiao Se narrowed his eyes, and looked sideways at Wu Xin, "He doesn't seem to back away as agreed with you. This time, he seems to have made a different decision from 12 years ago."

"Let's go into the temple."

Wuxin was originally smiling, but upon hearing the words and looking around, the smile on her face subsided, and her expression turned cold, she turned around and walked back to the ruined temple behind her, without saying anything else.

Inside the broken temple.

Wuxin looked at the broken Buddha statue in front of her eyes, took out a package from her arms quite solemnly, opened the package carefully, and placed it on the Buddhist altar.

Leaning on the door frame, Long Peng looked at the faintly glowing relic on the Buddhist altar, and said softly, "The appearance of this relic... It seems that Master Wangyou's Dharma practice was not low during his lifetime... "

"Shelly?"

Lei Wujie was puzzled, and looked back, "Do you recognize Mr. Long?"

"Naturally recognize it, even if you don't recognize it, you can still perceive the Zen meaning on it."

Long Peng nodded slightly, and said lightly, "Let Boss Xiao explain it to you, I'm not in the mood to waste my words."

"Xiao Se..."

Lei Wujie looked over eagerly.

Xiao Se put his arms around his chest, turned his head away, and said coldly, "I don't want to talk anymore, don't bother me."

"This……"

Lei Wujie had an innocent expression, wondering why Xiao Se lost his temper again, but fortunately he has a big heart, and he has long been used to it, "Oh... Wuxin, why don't you explain? I'm really curious."

"After some eminent monks sat down and burned, there are still pearl-like objects that are not melted and indestructible, which are called relics."

Wuxin put the relic on the Buddhist altar, "Everyone said that the old monk's body disappeared instantly after his death. In fact, there is still this relic left in the ashes."

"I thought, the old monk couldn't come back here when he was alive, but he should come back after death."

Long Peng nodded and sighed, "Falling leaves return to their roots..."

"Indeed, fallen leaves return to their roots, and souls return to their hometown..."

Words fall.

Wuxin sat down, closed her eyes, twirled the Buddhist beads lightly in her hand, and recited scriptures together with the group of monks down the mountain.

Accompanied by the sound of scriptures.

The relics emitted bursts of golden light, and an illusory figure seemed to appear on the Buddhist altar...

"Xiao Se, this..."

Lei Wujie was shocked and couldn't help asking, but Xiao Se stopped him with his hand, Xiao Se shook his head lightly, "Don't talk."

The figure on the Buddhist altar became more and more real with the sound of chanting.

An old monk in a gray robe with white eyebrows and benevolent eyes.The old monk walked down from the Buddhist altar, looked at Wu Xin who was sitting on the ground, bent down, and gently stroked his head: "My child..."

"Master!" Wuxin had been referring to Master Wangyou as "old monk", but finally called out the word "Master" at this moment.

He knelt down on the ground, tears gushed out of his eyes, and he was no longer in the dusty state of the past.

"This is... Yuanshen..."

The dragon peng phoenix eyes slightly closed, "If you swallow it, I'm afraid it will be fine..."

"wrong!"

Long Peng's eyes flickered, he took the silver needle from his cuff, and stuck it on his acupoints such as "Shenmen", "Fengchi", and "Taiyang", calming his mind.

As soon as Lei Wujie was pulled out by Xiao Se, he saw Long Peng injecting himself with needles, and wondered, "Mr. Long, why did you tie yourself up like a hedgehog?"

Xiao Se's face changed in shock, and he took Lei Wujie's hand, "Don't go there."

"what happened?"

"Didn't you see that he was in a bad state?"

Lei Wujie was stunned for a moment, seeing that Long Peng's eyes were turning red, he couldn't help but think of him who killed everyone that night, swallowed, "This... Xiao Se, what should I do..."

"do not know."

Xiao Se shook his head with a solemn expression.

"Little benefactor outside the door, come in, don't be afraid of hurting the old monk, you will hurt yourself if you are so hard."

A gentle and kind voice came from inside the temple.

Long Peng was slightly taken aback, hesitated for a while, stepped into the temple, and saw Master Wuyou, who was supported by Wuxin, smiling at him.

"Junior, meet Master Wangyou."

Wangyou stared at Long Peng for a moment, then slowly said, "Three souls in one body, really strange, no...it should be said that one is divided into three."

"Little benefactor, you are suffering."

"Three souls?"

The two Xiao Se outside the door looked at each other in surprise.

"The master said three souls? What do you mean? Where is the last soul?"

Master Wangyou was full of kindness, and lightly tapped Longpeng's forehead.

"In the heart of the little benefactor, he is also the kindness of the little benefactor, he is a very cute child..."

Long Peng suddenly felt the warmth between his forehead, his body relaxed, and the blood in his eyes dissipated. He was silent for a while, touched his heart, "Thank you, Master."

"It's okay, I didn't expect that the old monk will be able to do a good deed, which can be regarded as consummation."

Long Peng glanced at Wuxin, and said slowly, "With the master's primordial spirit, if you don't want to perish, there should be a way, right?"

"Little benefactor, you are very smart, but I can't do that..."

Long Peng pursed his lips, and after hesitating for a while, he concentrated his energy and just raised his hand when Wang You pressed it down again.

Wangyou shook his head, caressing the corners of his eyes that were weeping unintentionally.

"You don't have to do this, little benefactor. This old monk should have returned to the dust long ago. It is a blessing to be able to meet Wuxin. It is against the law of heaven to stay by force, and there will be great disasters. It is not worth it for that momentary gathering."

"Master..."

"Silly boy, don't cry anymore. You can only go on by yourself in the future. You just need to remember one sentence and don't look back."

Master Wangyou had a smile on his lips, and he didn't turn his head. He walked forward step by step, and his figure disappeared bit by bit.

"Wuxin follows Master's decree!" Wuxin kowtowed vigorously.

"Ugh……"

Long Peng sighed, with a complicated expression, "Those who do good will be rewarded with blessings; those who do wrong will be rewarded with disaster. This sentence has always been a lie..."

(End of this chapter)