Chapter 456 Chapter Thirty-Five

Madam Ma frowned: "Where is the coffin maker surnamed Li now?" Grandpa said slowly: "That person is the one you and Yao Xiaojuan saw at my house last night." "Li just now?!" Mrs. Ma stared. "Don't rush to conclusions." Grandpa said. Madam Ma's eyes returned to their original size, she looked at her grandfather and said, "Look at Yao Xiaojuan, this appearance is definitely not normal." Grandpa said: "Bitter fruit, bitter fruit, this is the bitter fruit she ate. They are all evils accumulated in previous lives. Hey, if only I could look at their three-life stone."

I heard from the elders that after a person dies, walk through Huangquan Road and reach Naihe Bridge, and you will see the Sansheng Stone.It has been standing beside the Naihe Bridge, looking at those people in the world of mortals who are about to drink Mengpo soup and reincarnate.It is said that the Sansheng Stone can reflect the appearance of people in previous lives.The cause of the previous life, the fruit of this life, the cycle of fate, the origin and extinction of fate, are all engraved on the Sansheng Stone.For thousands of years, it has witnessed the suffering and joy, sorrow and joy, laughter and tears of all living beings.The debt that should be paid, the love that should be repaid, will be written off in front of Sanshengshi.

There is also a legend about the Sansheng stone.It is said that a long time ago, there was a son of a rich family named Li Yuan. Because his father died in an accident, he realized the impermanence of life. He vowed not to be an official, not to marry a wife, and not to eat meat. He donated his home to rebuild Huilin Temple. And live in the temple to practice.The abbot of the temple, Zen Master Yuanze, was very good at managing the temple property and knew music well. Li Yuan and him became good friends, and they often sat and talked for a whole day. No one knew what they were talking about.

One day, they met to visit Mount Qingcheng and Mount Emei in Sichuan. Li Yuan wanted to go up the river from Hubei by water, but Yuanze proposed to enter Sichuan by land through the Xiegu in Chang'an.Li Yuan disagreed.Yuanze had no choice but to follow him, and sighed: "A person's fate is really beyond his control!" So they walked together on the waterway and arrived at Nanpu. To fetch water, Yuanze shed tears when he saw it, and said to Li Yuan, "I don't want to go by water because I'm afraid of seeing her!" Li Yuan asked him why in surprise, and he said, "Her surname is Wang, and I'm destined to do it." Her son, because I refused to come, so she has been pregnant for three years and still can't give birth. Now that I have met, I can no longer escape. Now please use a spell to help me reincarnate quickly. When I take a bath in three days, please You come to see me at Wang's house, and I will prove it with a smile. Thirteen years later, on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, if you come outside the Tianzhu Temple in Hangzhou, I will definitely come to meet you."

On the one hand, Li Yuan grieved and regretted, on the other hand, he bathed and changed his clothes. At dusk, Yuan Ze died, and the woman he saw by the river also gave birth.Three days later, Li Yuan went to see the baby. The baby really smiled when he saw Li Yuan. Li Yuan told the Wang family everything, and the Wang family took money to bury Yuanze at the foot of the mountain.Li Yuan no longer had the intention to go sightseeing in the mountains, so he returned to Huilin Temple, only then did the disciples in the temple tell that Yuanze had already written the suicide note. Thirteen years later, Li Yuan traveled from Luoyang to Tianzhu Temple in West Lake, Hangzhou, for a date in Yuanze. Outside the temple, he suddenly heard a shepherd boy slapping his horns singing from the bank of Ge Hongchuan: "The old spirit on the Sansheng stone is not used for watching the moon and reciting the wind." On this, I am ashamed that my old friend visits me from afar, even though the opposite sex will last forever.” It means that I am the soul of a past person who has passed through three lives, and the past of enjoying the moon and reciting the wind has long been a thing of the past; I am ashamed to let you travel so far to visit me , Although my body has changed, my mind has grown.

After hearing this, Li Yuan knew that he was an old man, so he couldn't bear to ask: "Ze Gong, are you okay?" Try hard to practice not to fall, and there will be a day when we will meet again in the future." Then he sang another song: "There are so many things in front of you and behind you, and you may be heartbroken if you want to talk about the cause and fate. I have searched all over the Wuyue River and Mountain, and I want to go back to Qutang." That is to say, the things in front of and behind are very vague, and I want to tell the cause but I am afraid of feeling sad; I have traveled all over the mountains and rivers of Wuyue, and then turn the bow of the boat to Qutang!

The shepherd boy turned around and left, never knowing where he went. Another three years later, the minister Li Deyu wrote a letter to the emperor, recommending Li Yuan as the son of a loyal minister and very filial, please give him an official position.So the emperor appointed Li Yuan as an admonishing doctor, but at this time Li Yuan had already fully realized, saw through the world, and refused to take office. Later, he died in the temple and lived to be eighty years old. The story of Zen Master Yuanze and Li Yuan has been widely circulated. Today, there is still a big stone outside Tianzhu Temple in West Lake, Hangzhou. It is said that it is the place where they met each other, called "Sansheng Stone".

This legend was told to me by my grandfather himself.When telling this ancient legend, my grandpa and I were sitting under the old jujube tree on the ground to enjoy the shade. Grandpa gently shook the cattail fan with one hand, and looked at the stars in the sky with his eyes out of focus, which made me feel like he wanted to Flying up to the stars made me feel that he wanted to go back to the era of Zen Master Yuanze and Li Yuan. I once asked my grandfather whether there really is a "three-life stone" in the world. But my grandfather read me a poem that I couldn't understand: "If you cut down a tree without exhausting its roots, you will still be born again; if you can't cut down your love without exhausting its roots, you will be born again with pain. It's like making an arrow yourself, but you still hurt yourself; The same is true for arrows, love arrows and hurt all beings."

Of course, I couldn’t understand what he meant, but I just felt that these words were very deep and mysterious. When meeting Li Gangang and Yao Xiaojuan's problems, grandpa actually mentioned the Sansheng Stone, which shows that grandpa is helpless about the matter in front of him, or that grandpa doesn't want to rely on his own calculations to predict their fate, even if he wants to help them, he can only help them. rely on other means.For example, Sansheng stone. If Grandpa was standing next to a young person, maybe that person would have taken Grandpa's words as wind in his ears and passed them by as soon as he blew them away.But the person next to grandpa happens to be Mrs. Ma, who is about the same age as grandpa.Grandpa's words were like a gust of cold wind, which shocked Mrs. Ma.

The old lady Ma's eyes widened again, and she asked her grandpa, "The Three-Life Stone? Why did you mention the Three-Life Stone? Could it be that her husband from the previous life came here? Although I worry about her marriage, I can't let her stay with a ghost." Let's go together!" Mrs. Ma apparently attributed Yao Xiaojuan's state to the entanglement of her husband who had become a ghost in her previous life.Later events proved that Mrs. Ma's guess was not wrong, but it was not entirely correct. Madam Ma looked at her granddaughter in the room with a sad face.

"Come on, suck my blood, and take my body! I'll give you whatever you need." Naked, she waved to the pitch-black clay pot, as if she wanted to pull her beloved lover out of the pot called out. "We need to find her Sansheng Stone." Grandpa said worriedly.