Chapter 165 Chapter 18 Avalokitesvara

Raindrops kept hitting the roof of the dilapidated wing house. The strong wind kept blowing. This is a mountain village, and in autumn, it may rain until dawn. A Tong didn't know what he was thinking, he hadn't undressed yet, he just sat there blankly. Just now Jotaro seemed unable to fall asleep, tossing and turning in the blanket, now Jotaro has fallen asleep. Tick ​​tick... there was the sound of rain leaking.The strong wind and rain rattled the windows. "Chengtai." Atong called out. "Wake up, Chengtai." After calling several times, Jotaro did not wake up.Seeing him sleeping soundly, A-Tong couldn't bear to wake him up.

She wanted to wake up Jotaro, mainly because she wanted to ask about Ashanpo. Just now at the riverside, Jotaro told the old woman's accomplices, and heard about his punishment of the old woman on the way. On such a stormy night, Jotaro's actions were too cruel.The old woman is too poor. You're bound to get wet from the wind and rain.It must be freezing cold.Ashanpo is too old, maybe she will be out of breath tomorrow morning.Even if she is still alive, if no one pays attention to her in a few days, she will starve to death! This worrying personality may be innate to Ah Tong.Now she only cares about Ashanpo's body, and there is no hatred or hatred in her heart.The sound of wind and rain outside made Atong even more worried.

Old women are not bad people. A Tong faced the world and thought of the old woman. "If I treat her sincerely, I will touch her one day... By the way, Jotaro may be angry afterwards, but I have to hurry over now." With that said, Atong had already opened the door and went out. The sky and the earth were dark, and the rainwater hit the ground and stirred up a vast expanse of white mist. A Tong put on straw sandals and a bamboo hat, and lifted the hem of his skirt. Then put on the coir raincoat—— swipe... She marched through the rain.It's not too far to walk from here.There is a mountain next to the inn, and there is a section of stone steps leading to the Shanshen Hall.

In the evening, Atong and Wanbingwei of Asaya walked through this stone step, and now it is full of rainwater.Atong climbed to the top and heard the cedar forest blowing violently.The wind and rain here are stronger than the inn street below the mountain. "Where is the old woman?" She didn't ask Jotaro about the detailed location.I only heard him say that the old woman was locked up in the vicinity. "Is it there?" Ah Tong peeped inside the temple, then looked under the floor, calling for Grandma. No one answered.There was no sign of grandma either. She went behind the temple and stood in the stormy woods.

"Hey, come here!...Is anyone here?...Ouch!" Moans and calls came intermittently amidst the wind and rain. "Ah, that must be Ashanpo. Grandma, grandma." Atong yelled against the wind and rain. The voice of the call was covered by the wind and rain, and disappeared into the darkness. Maybe her heart had already sensed the hearts of the people in the darkness. "Oh, oh, who is there? Come and save me! Here, I am here! Help!" The old woman's voice seemed to be calling for help from A-Tong, intermittently... The cedar forest, like raging waves, is whistling under the strong wind and rain.Although Grandma's voice was intermittent, Atong could imagine that she must be screaming desperately.

A Tong looked for the sound and shouted: "...Where are you? Where are you? Grandma, grandma." Atong searched around the temple. Finally—about twenty steps away from the cedar tree in the temple, on the cliff near the trailhead in the backyard, I found a cave. "Ah...is this here?" Taking a closer look, the old woman's voice was indeed coming from the cave. But the entrance of the cave was blocked by three or four big rocks that Atong could not move. "Who are you?...Who is that outside? Is it the incarnation of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva that my old lady usually worships? Hurry up and save me——I'm alone, and I've fallen to this point, have pity on me!"

The old woman was overjoyed to see the figure outside from the crack of the rock, and kept screaming. The old woman cried and said that she had hallucinations in the dark place where life and death were at stake, thinking that she saw the Avalokitesvara of ordinary belief and gave birth to a glimmer of life. "I'm so happy, so happy. Did you see me devoutly worshiping the Buddha on weekdays, so you turned into an incarnation to save me? The Great Merciful and Great Compassionate City Wu Guanyin Bodhisattva—Namo Guanshiyin Bodhisattva." Sudden-- Grandma's voice disappeared.

As the head of the family and a mother, Grandma always thought that all her actions were good deeds and she did not owe others.She has done so well, if the gods do not bless her, it is the fault of the gods, because she considers herself the embodiment of goodness. Therefore, on this stormy night, Guan Yin Bodhisattva came to save her, she took it for granted, nothing incredible. But the old woman found that it was not an illusion, because there was really a person standing at the entrance of the cave.The old woman was startled and almost fainted. "...?" Atong, who was standing outside the cave, heard the old woman's yelling suddenly stop, and was very worried whether she had lost her breath.So she desperately wanted to open the hole quickly, but with her strength, she couldn't push a rock at all.The strap of the bamboo hat was blown off, and her black hair was blown against the coir raincoat by the wind and rain.

How did Jotaro move such a huge rock by himself? A Tong tried to use his body and push hard with both hands, but the hole didn't open an inch. Atong was exhausted. Jotaro is too cruel! She kind of blames him. Atong originally thought that he could solve the problem when he came, but he didn't expect that the old woman would definitely die inside if things went on like this.Moreover, her voice suddenly stopped just now, and she might have fallen into a coma. "Grandma, wait a minute, wait a minute! Take heart, I'm here to save you now." A-Tong put his face close to the crevice of the rock and spoke into it, but he couldn't hear the answer.

Of course, it was pitch black in the cave, and there was no sign of the old woman. Only a faint sound was heard. The old woman recited the Guanyin Sutra inside.She didn't see Atong, nor could she hear his voice.The only thing you can see is Avalokitesvara, and the only thing you can hear is the voice of Bodhisattva. The old woman held palms in both hands, with a serene expression, tears streaming down her face, as she recited the Avalokitesvara Sutra from her trembling lips. However, Atong has no supernatural power at all.There are three overlapping rocks, none of which can be pushed.The rain didn't stop, the wind didn't stop, her coir raincoat was worn off, and her whole body was covered with rainwater and mud.

Probably the old woman also felt puzzled, so she looked out from a crack in the rock. "Who? Who are you?" In the wind and rain, A Tong shrank her body, she was exhausted. "Ah! Grandma—I'm Atong. Your voice still sounds very energetic." "what?" The old woman couldn't believe it. "Are you Atong?" "yes." "..." After a while, I asked again. "Are you really Atong?" "Yes... I am really Atong." At first the old woman was quite stunned, as if she had been greatly shocked and woke up from her hallucinations. "You, why are you here?...Ah! Did that kid Jotaro come after you?" "I'm here to save you, grandma, please forgive Cheng Tai for the matter." "Are you here to save me?" "That's right." "You... want to save me?" "Grandma, let the past things go to waste, forget it! I was taken care of by you when I was young. Although you hate me, I have never blamed you. There are many things, but also because I am too old. Willful." "So, are you willing to change your past, change your past, and come back to be the daughter-in-law of your original Tian family?" "no no." "So, what are you doing here?" "I just think you are so pitiful, grandma." "You want to sell favors and ask me to write off the past?" "..." "Impossible, who asked you to save me. If you think that you can redeem your sins by saving me and cancel the previous grievances, then you are very wrong. Even if you are in danger, my old woman will not do it for you. Go out of your way and change your original intention.” "But, grandma. You are very old, how can I bear to see you suffer?" "Your mouth is so sweet. Aren't you and Mrs. Cheng in the same group? So you agreed to harm me, an old woman. I swear, I will avenge you when I get out of this cave." "One day in the future, you will definitely understand my heart. In any case, if you stay in it all the time, you will definitely get sick." "Thank you for your kindness, hum! You must make an agreement with Jotaro that you will come and laugh at me." "No, no. Please wait and see. I have come to beg you with all sincerity." Atong stood up, crying and pushing the rock. The rock, which was absolutely impossible to push with Atong's strength, seemed to be moved by her tears at this moment.One of the three rocks fell to the ground. Then the second rock was easily pushed away by A-Tong, and the hole finally opened. It's not just her tears and strength because the crone is pushing hard in it too.As soon as the hole opened, the old woman happily walked out of the hole, thinking that she broke through the difficulty with her own strength. Sincerely moved the world. The rock was pushed away. so happy! A Tong staggered a few times as he slid down the rock, but he cheered for it in his heart. However-- The old woman dashed out of the hole, but grabbed Atong by the collar, as if she was the first target of revenge after her rebirth. "Oh! Granny." "Whispering." "Why, why?" "You should have known." The old woman pressed A Tong to the ground hard. That's right.Should have known.But Atong never expected such a result.As long as you treat people with sincerity, you will get sincere rewards. A Tong, who holds this belief in everyone and has never doubted others, must be quite surprised by this result. "Hey! Come here!" The old woman grabbed Atong by the collar and dragged her into the rain. Although the rain was light, it still kept hitting the old woman's white hair, shedding glistening drops of water.A Tong was dragged to the ground, put his hands together, and prayed: "Grandma, grandma, please forgive me. I can accept how you beat and scold me, but if you are exposed to the rain like this, you will definitely get sick." "What are you talking about? Don't pretend to be merciful. Do you think that shedding a few tears can soften my heart?" "I will never run away, no matter where I go, I will follow you, please let go... Ah! It hurts..." "Of course it hurts." "Please let go, oops..." Atong was so choked up that he couldn't speak. Unconsciously, she shook off the old woman's hand and was about to get up. "Want to escape?" The old woman grabbed Atong's black hair with one hand. Atong was caught by the hair, her whole face was thrown back, the rain kept hitting her fair face, and Atong closed her eyes. "For you, how many years have I suffered, do you know?" The old woman kept scolding, no matter what A Tong said, it was useless.Now grabbing A Tong's black hair, punching and kicking her. After beating for a while, the old woman felt that something was wrong, so she let go quickly, only to see Atong fell to the ground, dying. The old woman looked a little embarrassed. "A-Tong, A-Tong!" The old woman looked at her fair face and kept screaming.The face washed by the rain was as cold as a dead fish. "……do you died?" The old woman was a little flustered, talking to herself blankly.She didn't intend to kill Atong, and although she didn't forgive her, she didn't intend to punish her to this extent. "By the way, I'll go home first." The old woman was about to leave, but turned back and dragged A Tong's cold body into the cave. Although the entrance is narrow, the inside is extremely wide.It may be a cave where seekers sat in meditation a long time ago. "Oh! It's raining so hard..." The old woman wanted to climb out of the cave again, but unexpectedly, the rain outside the cave was like a waterfall, and even splashed into the cave. Now I can freely enter and exit the cave, so I don't have to force myself to go out in the rain. "It's daylight too!" Thinking so, the old woman stayed in the cave and waited for the storm to pass. The old woman felt a little scared to be with Atong's cold body in the dark. She felt that Atong's white and cold face seemed to be blaming herself all the time. "These are all predestined. If you become a Buddha...don't blame me!" The old woman closed her eyes and chanted sutras in a low voice.While reading the scriptures, I forgot to criticize and fear.This continued for a long time. Chirp chirp chirp—the sound of a bird came from my ears. The old woman opened her eyes. Sunlight comes in obliquely from the outside, and you can see the situation inside the cave clearly. When it was almost dawn, the wind and rain stopped.The golden morning sun shone brightly on the entrance of the cave. "what is that?" The old woman stood up and saw the words in front of her.It was an article carved on the wall. The walls have been weathered several times, and there are several places that cannot be seen clearly and cannot be read.The astronomical Yonglu era was a distant era for the old woman. At that time, Yingtian or Zangan, as well as the prefectures of Shengtian in the vicinity of the township, were invaded by the Nizi clan, and the Urakami clan retreated steadily from their cities.The old woman still retains some memories when she was young.At that time, the black smoke from burning the city day and night made the sky dark, and the corpses of soldiers and horses were everywhere in the fields or roads and near the farmhouses, and they were even abandoned for several days. Sending his sixteen-year-old son, Jin Zuo, to his mother, whom he had never seen since joining the war. Twenty-one years later, he still could not forget the grief of losing his son. He visited various temples, praying for his son's reincarnation, and not forgetting to support the dead son . "...That's what being a mother is all about!" The old woman also has a son and eight, so she can understand the mood of being a mother very well. "Nan Wu..." Facing the writing on the rock wall, the old woman clasped her palms together and chanted sutras, weeping constantly, almost crying loudly.In the end, the old woman was tired from crying and regained consciousness, and saw A Tong's face with her hands clasped together.Atong couldn't see the rising sun of this world, and lay on the ground cold. "A Tong... I'm really sorry, the old woman made a mistake, please forgive me, please forgive me..." What does the old woman think? She suddenly hugged A Tong's body, shouted loudly, with a look of regret on her face. "It's terrible, it's terrible! A mother's love is blind. I always think that my own children are cute, and other people's children are annoying... Ah Tong! You also have parents. In the eyes of your parents, I, an old woman, are them Rakshasa, the child's enemy... oh! They might even treat me like a yaksha!" Her voice echoed in the cave and returned to her ears. There is no one else here, and no eyes of the world. There is only darkness here, only the light of enlightenment. "Although my old woman is like a Rakshayasha, for a long time you not only did not hate me, but even wanted to save my life... Your heart is full of kindness and innocence, but I distort the facts and repay kindness with hatred. These are my It's all my fault that the old woman is mean, please forgive me, Ah Tong." Finally, the old woman picked up A-Tong and leaned her face against hers. "Such a gentle girl, just like my child... Ah Tong! Please open your eyes again and accept the old woman's apology. Please speak again, just call me this old woman, Ah Tong!" She kept confessing to Atong, thinking of what she had done in the past, she regretted it too much. "Please forgive me, please forgive me." The old woman was leaning on Atong, weeping constantly, as if she was going to die with her. "No, I can't just sigh, I have to save her quickly, maybe there is still a glimmer of life. If she is saved, Atong still has a long spring." The old woman put down Atong's body and staggered out of the cave. "what!" The rising sun made her eyes hurt, so she had to cover her eyes with her hands. "People in the village!" She called out. Staggered all the way. "People in the village, people in the village! Hurry up!" Voices came from the other side of the cedar grove, and finally, someone shouted. "There, the old woman is all right, just there." They are members of the original Tian family who are closer to the old woman, and there are about ten of them. Last night by the Zuoyongchuan River, the wounded villager fled back to report.Everyone braved the heavy rain all night to look for the old woman everywhere. Although they were wearing coir raincoats and bamboo hats, everyone was soaked like a drowned rat. "Well! Old woman." "You are fine!" Everyone is relieved now.Everyone is so concerned, but the old woman is not happy at all. "It's not me. I'm fine. Hurry up and save the woman in the cave... She's been in a coma for a while, and it's too late if you don't save her... Hurry up and give her medicine..." The old woman stammered and pointed in the direction of the cave, with a sad look and tears streaming down her face.