My alternative life

Looking out at the entrance of the temple gate, I can see that the scenery of Zhongnanshan is like jumping out of a painting. The green mountains and green waters are so unreal, which also reflects the dilapidated temple and makes the contrast between the two sides abrupt and eye-catching.

I didn't even find the merit box for tourists to drop coins in the place where they picked up the incense. Under a square brick covered with moss, there were scattered five or ten pieces of old banknotes and some one yuan coins scattered around, which were covered with dust. It explained that the owner who put down the incense money might have only been here a few days ago.

Lan Lan pulled me, "Feng, I'm so nervous. It seems that few people come here!"

Not only did her words not make me panic, on the contrary, my heart was peaceful, and I seemed to feel that this small temple was "quite predestined" with myself.

Sometimes, people's feeling is so mysterious - as a local, even though I have visited Louguantai many times, I have never found such a quiet place! But even though I didn't live in the future, the waves in my heart began to roll uncontrollably as soon as I entered the temple gate, so I felt that this was a hint in the dark.

Along the way, I just looked at the beautiful temples as an ordinary tourist, but I didn't think of them. Suddenly, I felt an impulse to worship them. So, if I didn't have a destiny with this nameless temple, how can I explain it?

When I picked up the square brick, I took out a hundred yuan note and put it on it solemnly. Then I pressed it with the square brick again. Then I took three sticks of incense, dipped it in some sesame oil, lit it with a lighter and put it into the censer.

In this process, Lan Lan always looks at me in a little panic, and then gradually looks solemn, learning from my appearance also pressed a hundred yuan, took three sticks of incense.

"Yes, put it in the censer, and then worship around. You can meditate on the gods and think about some things, including making a wish..."

I said, no longer tube Lan Lan, in accordance with the order of the front left back right around the worship, began to pray for parents, relatives and friends.

But my mind seems to become disordered, there is no order to speak of.

Suddenly, when I think of my grandfather and my parents and sister's suffering in these days, I will suddenly jump to my unforgettable Lin Fen.

In the next second, I can see in my mind what I did in Shashan female prison, and then those friends who accompanied me through my college days, Lao Cai, Sima, Junlin Finally, it was fixed on the images of several women.

But I can't tell who they are, such as Chen Qian, LAN LAN, Yan Ran, Hao Ru, Mo Zhi Wu and Cheng Yaoxin. Their faces are constantly overlapping and splitting. They are constantly changing and in a trance in my heart

Silent for a long time, LAN LAN and I did not ask each other if they had made a wish or what wish they had, but simply stood in the mountain wind which was not clear.

Finally, I said, "the virtuous people are usually far away from the prosperity of the world, and are willing to seek the pure place to practice Let's go into the hall and have a look... "

Pull LAN LAN to walk into the hall directly opposite, inside slightly dim, but with the outside of those broken walls, cold and desolate complement each other.

Judging from the three patriarchs worshipped on the front, I can judge that they should be the holy ancestors of the three Qing Dynasties, namely Lingbao Tianzun, Yuanshi Tianzun and moral Tianzun.

On the right side of daodetianzun (that is, taishanglaojun, the incarnation of Laozi), a few meters away, there is a statue of Yin Xi, which is slightly smaller than the wind tunnel bone of Xiaoxian.

I began to explain, "LAN, louguandao is one of the ancient sects of Taoism, and the founder of the school is Yin Xi. It is said that Yin Xi once stopped Lao Tzu and was granted five thousand words of Tao Te Ching, thus establishing louguandao. "

"Well, this immortal is Yin Xi?"

"Yes, look here..."

I took LAN LAN and came to the left side of the hall. On the wall there was a whole chapter about the history of Louguantai and louguandao.

Lan Lan stares at these already mottled and even incomplete words, murmuring in her mouth, "..." Laozi's moral cultivation is based on self concealment and anonymity. Living in Zhou for a long time, seeing the decline of Zhou, he went away. At this critical juncture, Guan Ling Yin Xi said, "I'm going to be a hermit. I'm going to write books for you." Therefore, Lao Tzu wrote the first and second chapters of the book, saying more than 5000 words about morality. I don't know the end of it. "

Turning to me, she said softly, "I seem to have heard this story. Ever since Guan Ling Yin Xi got this Tao Te Ching, he devoted himself to cultivating and promoting it, and Tao Te 5000 words have become a book written by Lao Tzu for Yin Xi..."

Her hand held me tightly. "Feng, it turns out that Tao Te Ching has such a connection with Zhongnanshan and Louguantai. I didn't expect that..."

I gently buckled Lan Lan's rouyi and responded, "in the 5000 year history of China, Taoism entered the common people's consciousness much earlier than Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and even Confucianism, and wrote down the unique humanistic ideas in the long history of time..."

"Lan Lan, the place we used to pass is the Sutra platform. It is said that Lao Tzu wrote 5000 words of Tao Te Ching there, and built a platform to teach Sutra in Gaogang, lounan..."

It seems that my thoughts are gradually unfolding with the history of Louguantai, and my mind is reshaping the vicissitudes of this historic site for thousands of years according to my own conjecture."Louguantai was founded in the Western Zhou Dynasty and played an important role in the Royal communication in the Wei, Zhou, Sui and Tang Dynasties."

My conversation became more and more interesting, and my mind fell out of my mind about this place. However, when I passed the new and magnificent temples built by later generations, I had no desire to express my words.

"LAN, Louguan road flourished in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, declined in the song and Jin Dynasties, was destroyed in the late Song Dynasty, and flourished today. More than two thousand years ago, Yin Xi, the commander of Hangu pass in the spring and Autumn period, built a thatched building here to observe the celestial phenomena, so it was first called the thatched building temple. "

I don't know if our conversation destroyed the original purity of the temple. I noticed a rickety figure turning out in the wing room on the side.

When I came near, by the dim light, I saw that I was an old Taoist.

The other person is not tall, wearing a white washed robe full of patches, and his face is covered with wrinkles precipitated by the passage of time.

Lao Dao came to me and LAN LAN, and said, "two believers, how many fairies are there in Louguantai? How can I come from this remote place?"

What he said surprised me a little. Didn't the old Taoist like believers to come to pray for good fortune? Along the way, we have seen many pseudo Taoists who have been assimilated by the secular world and are full of the smell of copper. They cheat tourists to donate incense money.

However, since the other party has asked, out of politeness, of course I have to answer, "Taoist priest, louguantaiben is the fairyland of" the crown of the cave, Daolin zhangben ". It's a blessed place everywhere, and all roads are fairyland. How can we talk about remote places?"

Lao Dao was stunned. I guess he didn't expect that my answer would be gentle and full of wisdom.

With a smile, the Taoist priest made a "please move" gesture to us, "since you don't dislike the small temple, please have a talk here!"