Wandering

Chapter 7

(Inscription: When mentioning goblins fighting against eminent monks, most people think of Fahai and White Snake. In fact, from Fahai’s point of view, he will not admit that there is anything wrong with what he did, because he is safeguarding what he thinks is the way of heaven. So where is the problem? Is the way of heaven supposed to make someone live a happier life, or to protect the peace of the whole world? If white snakes become spirits everywhere in the world, the world may not be peaceful. Therefore, the premise of the story of the white snake is to assume that " Only on the basis of such a white lady" or "The White Lady is a kind fairy". Xu Xian was living a happy life, but Fa Hai's intervention brought him disaster. From this perspective, Fa Hai can't be regarded as righteous Monk. Fahai’s logical error lies in determining good and evil based on his birth. Although this error is easy to find, the same history keeps happening.)
I don't know how long it took me to wake up, and found that the sky was already bright, and I was sleeping under the shrine wrapped in a military coat, with Feng Junzi's travel bag on the back of my head.There was no one around, and Junzi Feng and Xiuxiu didn't know where they were going.I got up and walked outside the temple gate, suddenly froze!The scenery in front of me was unbelievable—the two scorched crabapple trees on the left and right in front of the temple gate were full of flowers overnight!As far as the eye can see, the surrounding wild peach forests that have fallen leaves and branches have become full of vitality. Not only are they green, but they are also full of peach blossoms!

Did I sleep for a long time, from early winter to early spring?No, I looked up at the surrounding mountains, and the mountains ten feet away were still a scene of early winter.I understand a little bit, this is probably done by Feng Junzi, I have personally seen his magical powers with the flick of a finger, so it is not impossible to make winter flowers bloom around the mountain temple, but the scale seems a little too exaggerated!
"Amitabha!" Just as I lost my mind, there was a sudden sound of chanting the Buddha's name not far away, and a monk came from the peach grove.This monk looked to be about forty years old, with a tall and straight figure, good facial features, and twelve ring scars on his shaved forehead were very eye-catching.I saw him approaching, holding a tin stick in his left hand, and saluting with his right hand: "The poor monk passed by here, and saw that the aura in the sky was soaring, there should be a master to do it, so I came here to pay a visit. It's just that I know that the winter flowers are blooming here. It is profound, but everything has its own number of days, and such things that go against the sky are ultimately wrong."

The monk's words and deeds do not give people a kind of grace, but his expression is peaceful but has his own majesty, which can be regarded as a solemn treasure.But I didn't react.Unexpectedly, when I woke up, I found that the winter flowers were blooming, and Feng Junzi had disappeared, but a strange monk came instead.

Seeing that I didn't answer, the monk raised his head and looked intently.His originally peaceful expression suddenly became serious, and he pointed at me and said, "It turned out that it was not an expert, but a monster. Young man, your complexion is gloomy and your expression is weak. It is obvious that the monster has absorbed the essence. The statue behind you If you have a ghost, it should be the source of the trouble. Who are you, how could you be harmed by a monster, listen to me, and leave quickly!" As he spoke, he lifted his tin staff and stepped forward, heading straight for the temple.

broken!This monk is probably also a practitioner, so he seems to have misunderstood it.Seeing this scene, I quickly waved my hand to stop the monk: "Monk, no, master, you misunderstood, it's not what you imagined, this mountain god is not a bad person, you must not harm her..."

"Ignorant and foolish people, who are persecuted by ghosts and are still obsessed with obsessions. What kind of mountain god is this? When I break her body, she will be wiped out of her wits." The monk flicked his sleeves while speaking, and a force came, and I couldn't help it. was pushed aside.

what to do?Seeing the monk approaching the temple gate aggressively, Junzi Feng didn't know where he went.Just as I was at my wit's end, an earth-shattering roar came from the temple.The roar was like thunder exploding in my ears, it made me unable to stand up, and I sat down on the ground.The entire mountain temple was also shaken for a while, and a lot of dust fell on the beams.I saw Xuxiu appearing in front of the statue at some point, squatting there like a little rooster full of fighting spirit, with his back arched and his tail between his legs, staring at the monk with a pair of small eyes.This loud roar was so powerful that the monk was shocked and took a few big steps back before he stabilized his figure.

The monk stabilized his figure, took a deep breath, and said loudly: "No wonder monsters are rampant here. So there is such a beast guardian as you. It is rare to be born with supernatural powers, but it is a pity that no one will teach you to go astray. If you go astray again Standing in front of this seat, I will subdue you together, take it back and discipline it... evil animal..."

While speaking, the monk moved towards Xixiu again.The monk's voice came to my ears word by word, like a sledgehammer hitting my heart every time, making me feel unspeakably uncomfortable.Compared with the roar just now, the monk's voice is even more peculiar, and it seems to have a power that takes people's hearts away.I didn't even have the strength to raise my hand, so I just watched the monk walk over again.As for Xuxiu, she actually raised her front paws to cover her ears like a human being, and she looked very uncomfortable.

"It's lively! It's lively! It's really lively! Monk, do you think it's great to have a loud voice?" At this moment, the sound of clapping came from the Taolin, and Feng Junzi came out.As soon as he appeared, the monk was imposing, and the invisible pressure around me suddenly disappeared, and only then did I realize that my whole body was covered in a layer of cold sweat.

The appearance of Junzi Feng surprised the monk, and he turned to face Junzi Feng: "Who is the benefactor? He can act as if nothing happened under my lion's roar."

Feng Junzi said with a playful smile: "Don't care who I am, I'm just an audience, you continue to act..."

"What your Excellency said, I don't understand!"

"Aren't you playing The Legend of the White Snake?" Feng Junzi pointed to the monk, me sitting on the ground, and the statue in the temple and said, "Fahai, Xu Xian, and Bai Suzhen are all here, huh? There's only one left." ?” While talking, he found Xuxiu in the temple gate, pointed at Xuxiu and said, “There is another Xiaoqing, also here.”

The monk finally heard the sarcasm in Feng Junzi's mouth. It turned out that he was compared to the meddling Fa Hai in the Legend of the White Snake, and he replied: "The poor monk Fa Yuan, the abbot of Jiulin Temple, passed by here and saw ghosts haunting him. The vigor of this benefactor, so he took action to eliminate the harm, who is your Excellency?" He pointed at me while talking.It seems that this monk Fayuan has screwed things up, no wonder, no matter who is an expert, he will inevitably think so when he sees the current situation.

Feng Junzi replied with a smile: "It turned out to be Zen Master Fayuan, and he was indeed in the same group as Haifa, and there was a Dharma character in the name of the dharma. I was just passing by to watch a theater, and I had no background. But master, can you give me To save face, don't meddle in the business here... Last time I went to Jiulin Temple, I put all my money into the merit box... It's quite a face for you old man."

Feng Junzi is thick-skinned enough to be ashamed to mention his affairs in Jiulin Temple. I remember that he stole the futon there.Seeing that Junzi Feng was entangled, Fayuan didn't bother to continue the nonsense with him. He turned around and raised his tin staff to aim at the statue in the temple, bowed his head and began to chant the Buddha's name.

At the sound of the Buddha's voice, Junzi Feng's expression also changed, and he quickly stepped forward to block between the source of Fa and the statue of the mountain god.Seeing Gentleman Feng like this, the monk raised his head and said in a deep voice: "My benefactor, I don't think your background is simple. Since you are a practitioner, why bother to stand up for these foreign demons and evil ways? No more mercy."

I saw Feng Junzi gritted his teeth, as if he had made some secret decision, he pinched his waist and raised his finger and pointed at Monk Fayuan and shouted loudly: "Monk, you are too much! This is a mountain temple, not a monk's temple. Why are you meddling?" The mountain god here is my younger brother, no, little girl, this mountain god temple is under my control, I didn’t recruit you and I didn’t provoke you, what are you doing here!”

Feng Junzi was probably in a hurry, and even said things like accepting younger brothers and smashing the scene, all of which are lines from Hong Kong gangster movies.Fayuan took a look at Feng Junzi, sighed, lowered his head and chanted the Buddha's name, and walked towards the mountain statue step by step, the nine iron rings on the tin staff jingled.Junzi Feng seemed to have nothing to do with him, he stepped back step by step, and had already retreated into the temple gate, hiding behind Junzi Feng was just panting.

Seeing that the monk raised his tin staff and was about to step into the temple gate, a sudden change occurred!Sitting in the open space outside the temple gate, I saw it clearly: a dozen vines flew out of the peach grove a few feet away without sound. solid.Fayuan obviously didn't expect the sudden change, and exclaimed: "There are still monsters..." and suddenly stopped talking.It wasn't that he wanted to shut up, but that the vines entangled him so much that he couldn't speak.With his left hand raised in the air, the monk turned his tin staff upside down to dial those vines.The tree vine seemed to be very afraid of the tin rod in his hand, and flexibly avoided it and wrapped it around his left arm.The monk and the tree vines were deadlocked there.

"Master, I didn't expect Jiang Yao to be subdued by the monster, right? It's your fault too!" Feng Junzi took the opportunity to walk out of the temple gate, looked around curiously, then turned to the monk and said, "Master, don't take Stare at me, I'm not a monster, you should be able to tell... I can discuss with you one thing, I will help you fight off this monster, and you will let the mountain god in this temple go...I promise you , the mountain god here will never do harm to people, and what happened today, no one will say anything..."

Seeing that the monk didn't speak, Junzi Feng said again: "If you don't speak, I will take it as your agreement. If you are a monk, don't go back on your word." Without waiting for the monk to answer, he stretched out his hand and grabbed a leaf on the vine, Shouting to Tao Linzhong: "If you don't let go, I'm going to tear your clothes off!"

Strange to say, those tree vines seemed to be very afraid of Feng Junzi's hand. As soon as Feng Junzi opened his mouth, he immediately let go of Fayuan monk and shrank back, disappearing into the peach blossom forest.Zen Master Fayuan stood there panting with a blushing face, and Junzi Feng looked at him with a half-smile without saying a word.The two men stared at each other for a long time, and finally Fayuan stomped his feet: "The benefactor is a master of Taoism, I hope you will do well for yourself!" Yan Bi turned and left, leaving much faster than when he came.

After the monk left, Feng Junzi clasped his fists at the peach blossom forest, and said loudly: "I don't know who is holy to help, I am very grateful, if it is convenient, please show up and see!"

There was a soft laughter of a woman like a silver bell in the forest, and someone replied: "Young master, thank you, there is no need. Didn't you just say that I am your new younger sister? Big brother is in trouble, little sister." Of course we're going to do it."

What?Not only Feng Junzi, but even me who was sitting on the ground was taken aback!Feng Junzi just said that the mountain god here is his newly adopted younger sister, which is of course nonsense, but the woman in the forest also claims to be Feng Junzi's newly adopted younger sister, which implies that she is the mountain god here!Is there really a land of mountain gods in this world?I looked at Junzi Feng with doubts.Feng Junzi also happened to look back at me and found the doubt in my eyes. He shook his head with a wry smile, and then said to the forest: "Since you call me big brother, then big brother asks you one thing, this mountain temple Regardless of whether it is your dojo or not, I will borrow it for a few days. You have seen what happened just now. That female ghost is really pitiful. Help her if you can... Also, if someone makes trouble, I will trouble you to protect this place clean..."

"You kid, you are really thick-skinned. You know how old I am? You actually agreed to call you big brother! In fact, I came when you practiced it the night before yesterday. I really didn't expect you to have such supernatural powers at such a young age. But you With so much ability, why did you ask me to help you just now?"

Junzi Feng scratched his head in embarrassment: "Well, my situation is a bit special, and I can't fight with that great monk... I understand, you helped me the night before... I just wanted to fight against the surrounding trees. How to do it, I didn't expect that this peach forest would bloom..., I should have thought of it a long time ago, with just that kid's mana, how could he have such great supernatural powers!"

That kid's mana?It turns out that Feng Junzi was talking about me.the night before yesterday?Have I been in a coma for a day and two nights!There are too many things that happened before and after this sleep, and I still need time to digest.Just as I was thinking, the voice in the forest had disappeared, and Junzi Feng also came over to help me up: "Shi Ye, you look like you need to rest for a few days, let's go, the reporter will be here in a while."

"Reporter? Why are there still reporters?"

"You've been sleeping for a day and two nights. Today is Sunday. Guess what I did just now? I went to find a place to call the newspaper office. People from the newspaper office and the TV station will probably arrive in a while. Let's pack up and leave."

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"Feng Junzi, who was the person talking to you just now? From her tone, she claims to be the God of Zhaoting Mountain."

"She trapped Monk Fayuan with trees and vines. It seems that she must be a plant monster who has practiced for thousands of years in Zhaoting Mountain. Maybe that mountain temple was originally her site, but maybe because the incense was cut off, she didn't stay there. It’s there, anyway, when we went there, the statue didn’t have spirituality, otherwise I would have discovered it a long time ago.”

"Spirits and monsters? Are there really monsters in this world?"

"Where there are gods, there are monsters. What's so strange about this! But the word monster is not appropriate. People can practice, but why can't plants and trees gather the aura of mountains and rivers to practice? In fact, it's not just plants and trees. If chance coincides, animals can also cultivate. You can psychic, and you can practice through psychic. Humans are not the only life in the world." As he spoke, Feng Junzi intentionally or unintentionally looked at the puppy lying in my arms.

Hsihhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.Looking at its pitiful puppy appearance, I really couldn't believe that the earth-shattering roar came from such a small body.Feng Junzi said that this dog is not an ordinary dog. Today I finally found out what is unusual about it. Unfortunately, Xixiu can’t speak, so I can only ask Feng Junzi: "Did you hear the roar of Xixiu? The monk also said It is a strange beast, so it can also practice cultivation?"

Feng Junzi looked at Xixiu and smiled: "In theory, this is true, but the practice of animals, plants and trees is different from that of humans. The reason why humans are the spirits of all things is because humans have established a civilized society, have cultural inheritance, and have Taoism passed down from generation to generation. Cheats. Plants, animals, and beasts don’t have these. Their practice is all due to chance and coincidence, which belong to their own epiphany, and they are all enlightened in an unconscious or unconscious situation.

"How is it?"

"Since you raise him as a dog, you should cultivate him into a new socialist dog with knowledge, culture, ideals and discipline... Ishino, don't laugh, I mean you should Teach it to read and write."

"Teach me how to read? Did you make a mistake!"

"Ishino, how will you know if you don't try it? Didn't you find that Xuxiu can understand human language? If you can understand human language, you should be able to learn human affairs."

Although Feng Junzi's proposal is absurd, it is not impossible to think about it carefully. I have experienced enough weirdness, and it doesn't matter if there is more.I was really moved by what he said, and I planned to teach Xuxiu to read and write when I went back.On the way back, I thought of another thing, so I quickly asked Feng Junzi: "Feng Junzi, have you forgotten something? Originally, we were going to find a temple with incense for Yiyi, but the mountain temple was not there. No incense?"

Feng Junzi smiled again, this smile was unpredictable and triumphant: "Incense? There will be some soon, you will know in tomorrow's newspaper."

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The next day, all the major newspapers in Wucheng published the anecdote about the winter flowers blooming in the temple area of ​​Zhaoting Mountain.On the day of the winter solstice, not only the peach blossoms around the mountain temple were in full bloom, but even the two crabapple trees in front of the temple gate that had been dead for many years also bloomed.This anecdote has attracted countless curious people to Zhaoting to see what happened.Some people don't believe it, and want to see is believing, but seeing is believing.So the news spread quickly, there was an endless stream of tourists visiting the mountain temple, and the restaurants and wine shops at the foot of the mountain were also full every day.

The impact of the news was not limited to Wucheng, and the media in surrounding provinces and cities also reprinted it. Several TV stations came here to shoot feature films.The bleak mountain scene on the TV screen is in stark contrast to the vigorous spring around the mountain temple, which has a great visual impact on the audience.Judging from the aerial photography of the helicopter, this peach forest blooming in winter just forms a regular circle, enclosing the mountain temple in the center within a radius of ten feet.

There are also many experts who stand up and try to explain this once-in-a-thousand-year vision.Some people say that it is because of plant gene mutations, some say it is because of the influence of geothermal activity, but the authoritative explanation finally accepted by the government is this: the mountain temple is located in the Zhaoting Valley, surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the sun on one side, the geographical location is very special, and Behind the temple, Xuexi spring water with a constant temperature all year round seeps into the ground, forming this unique local climate anomaly.Such an explanation may not even be justified by the experts who came to this conclusion, but no matter how it is said, this is a unified propaganda caliber set by the Propaganda Department of the Municipal Party Committee, and it has become a scientific explanation widely cited by major mainstream media.

Regardless of the official explanation, most ordinary people and tourists who come to visit only believe in one thing, that is, the spirit of the mountain god.This kind of statement can't be put on the stage, but it is spread among the people. Many people believe it deeply, and some people would rather believe it or not, and some people think it's okay to believe it for a while.I don’t know who took the lead. Someone started to offer incense when visiting the mountain temple, and then more and more people burned incense and kowtowed, and gradually became a scenic spot in Zhaoting Mountain. The prosperity of incense even surpassed that of Jiulin Temple and Millennium Guangjiao Temple, an ancient temple.

Later, a farmer entrepreneur who made a fortune offered to pay for the reconstruction of the mountain temple. This move was strongly supported by the local government and the tourism department.The main hall of the mountain temple was repaired, and the triple courtyard and the east and west side halls were rebuilt, and the Xuexi spring on the stone wall behind the temple was also surrounded in the courtyard.I don't know where the news came out that Xuexi spring water is blessed by the mountain god, drinking it can eliminate disasters and cure diseases, so more and more pilgrims go to the mountain temple.

During the period, some relevant people also criticized the Zhaotingshan Temple incident, but this criticism was refuted by the tourism department.In the end, the Shanshen Temple became a scenic spot under the jurisdiction of the Tourism Bureau, and a tourist shop was opened outside the temple gate, and it was necessary to pay for tickets to visit the temple.Later, the wild peach forest was not called the wild peach forest but the sacred forest, and Xuexi spring was not called Xuexi spring but Shenshui spring. Some people asked famous artists to carve stones and stand there.

All this was expected by Feng Junzi, but there was a small accident: the rich comrade who paid for the reconstruction of the temple thought that the original mountain god statue was too old, and wanted to rebuild a new one.Fortunately, experts from the archaeological department identified this idol as a cultural relic of the Tang Dynasty, which is extremely precious, so it is still preserved on the shrine.Otherwise, Feng Junzi's hard work may be in vain.Of course, these are all things to say later. After Feng Junzi and I return to school, we will soon face the final exam.In the past two months, I have not been doing business with him, and even my homework has fallen behind a lot. During this period of time, I need to study hard.

(End of this chapter)