Chapter 14 Chapter Fourteen

Hearing what the old monk Jingyuan said, Zhang Yaoye asked: "That well in Jingwu Temple? Wasn't that well filled by the rebels with stone bodhisattvas smashed in the temple?" The old monk Jingyuan said: "Yes! It is because the well was filled that such strange things happened. Some things seem to be a side door, but in fact they are the main door. The so-called one moment and the other moment, I and You say that these are also playing the piano to the cow. Have you gone down and looked at the tree hole that was split open by lightning?" "We didn't go down to look, how dare we! But I saw something big inside the cave with my own eyes. Zhaofeng and Zhang Zikun went down there. They didn't tell us a word about what happened in the cave."

The old monk Jingyuan laughed and said, "It's not that they don't want to reveal it to you. They are afraid that they will scare you by telling you." "So that tree hole is really a ghost gate?" "It's not true that the gate of hell is closed, but it is true that there are dark things hidden in that tree hole." "What exactly is it?" "Evil!" said the old monk Jingyuan. "Evil thing?" Zhang Yaoye felt that what the old monk Jingyuan said was a bit ambiguous, and said, "What kind of evil thing is it, can't you explain it? Whether it is a demon, a ghost or a monster, you should Explain it to us! If you don't explain it to me, it makes my heart hang, and you are just deceiving people!"

Hearing Zhang Yaoye's words, the old monk Jingyuan laughed and said, "Zhang Weichang, you have also learned the trick of putting a big hat on people at every turn? If I, old monk Jingyuan, confuse people with lies, then it's okay? " Zhang Yaoye said: "I didn't give you a big hat! What you say always makes me confused. Aren't you bewitching people? Since you know that the thing in that hole is a ghost Evil thing, you must know what that yin and evil thing is? Why bother to make me guess!" The old monk Jingyuan looked at Mr. Zhang Yao and then at Zhang Ziheng.

At this moment, Zhang Ziheng looked numb and calm, he seemed to be too lazy to pay attention to what Zhang Yaoye and old monk Jingyuan were talking about, he just put his hands into his sleeves and turned his head to look around.He has never figured out whether the environment he is in now is illusory or real. This question is very tangled. "Do you really want to know what's in the cave?" The old monk Jingyuan asked Zhang Yaoye. "Why don't you want to know!" Zhang Yaoye said resolutely. The old monk Jingyuan stood up and said, "Follow me." "Where are you going?" Master Zhang Yao asked.

"Go and see what you want to know." The old monk Jingyuan said. Hearing what the old monk Jingyuan said, Master Zhang Yao stood up, but he still murmured in his heart, because he didn't know what kind of thing the old monk Jingyuan was going to take him to see. Zhang Ziheng also stood up. The three of them walked out of the back door of this room, and what appeared in front of them was a dark and vast virgin forest. Against the backdrop of the cold and light moonlight, the entire forest was dark and deathly silent. Zhang Yaoye and Zhang Ziheng's hearts tightened immediately.

The old monk Jingyuan, who was walking in front, held a lamp on purpose, and turned on the wick of Doudian to brighten up a little. There was a slight wind swimming in the air, and the flame on the wick flickered. The old monk Jingyuan was worried that the light would be blown out by the night wind, so he held the light with one hand, so that the dim light from the light was blocked, and the surrounding area was as dark as ever. There is a path paved with bluestone slabs extending into the virgin forest.The old monk Jingyuan took Zhang Yaoye and Zhang Ziheng on this mysterious path paved with bluestone slabs.

Zhang Ziheng felt infinite resentment towards Mr. Zhang Yao in his heart. He felt that it was good to stay in the room just now, but he wanted to ask here and there to find out what was going on. The world has gone all the way. Master Zhang Yao didn't speak at this time, and silently followed behind the old monk Jingyuan. Various weird sounds could be heard from the woods and bushes on both sides of the trail from time to time, as if something was watching them from the dark along the way. The more Zhang Ziheng walked, the more chilly he felt at the base of his neck, and he wished he could tuck his head into the collar of his cotton-padded jacket, but suddenly the specific animal of the tortoise popped up in his mind, and he immediately laughed at himself and said, "I am not a tortoise! "He straightened his neck up again.

The sound in the dark still made Zhang Ziheng suspicious, but he still walked and looked around involuntarily.At this time, a miraculous scene appeared in front of his eyes. There are mysterious light spots flickering indistinctly in the forest.At first Zhang Ziheng thought it was a firefly, but he didn't pay attention to it, but when he looked carefully, he realized that the flickering light was not from a firefly.It is impossible for the light emitted by fireflies to illuminate clusters of halos.This green halo wandered among the forests, appearing blurred and illusory. Zhang Ziheng pulled the hem of Master Zhang Yao who was walking in front of him, and whispered, "Master Yao, there is a will-o'-the-wisp."

Master Zhang Yao whispered, "I see." The old monk Jingyuan who was walking in the front said at this time: "Zhang Weichang, you are just lucky to provoke these rare little things to lead us." Zhang Yaoye said: "What is it? How could I provoke it? Isn't this the will-o'-the-wisp that often appears in the graveyard? It is the soul of the unjust dead ghost!" As Master Zhang Yao said this, chills shivered down his spine. The old monk Jingyuan said: "Where is this will-o'-the-wisp? It's a yellow accent. I've been here for so long, and it's rare to meet these little things. It's just once or twice. When you're new here, these things come out. , what did you provoke?"

Zhang Yaoye became more and more confused as he listened, and said impatiently: "Can you speak more simply? What are these things? They don't look like fireflies! The light from the back of the firefly's buttocks is not so big or bright." The old monk Jingyuan said: "This is the Buddha lamp that people often say. It is often seen under the Sheshen Cliff of Jinding Temple in Mount Emei. When I was a young novice in Jinding Temple, I liked to sit alone on the Sheshen Cliff at night. At that time, the aura of Mount Emei was very good. Every night when the moon was bright and the stars were sparse, this kind of green light cluster would float out from the Sacrificial Cliff of Mount Emei, forming thousands of Thousands of points, like the stars in the sky, flicker and jump, erratic in the dark valley. As long as you look at these light spots and concentrate your mind, you will be able to experience a kind of transcendent happiness. It is a kind of great freedom At that time, I was alone on the edge of Sacrifice Cliff and stared at these magical fluorescent lights, just to find a kind of inner freedom and happiness. "Ten Thousand Bright Lamps Facing Pu Xian" refers to this magical phenomenon."

Hearing the old monk Jingyuan's words, Master Zhang Yao felt a little relieved, and said, "Why did the Buddhist lanterns on Mount Emei come here?" The old monk Jingyuan laughed and said: "At first I thought it was a Buddha lamp, and I asked the old abbot, and the old abbot also told me nonsense that it was phosphorous fire, a kind of spiritual energy accumulated by mountains, rivers and earth. Just release it and emit this kind of auspicious light! When I got here, I realized that what I saw on the Sheshen Cliff was not a Buddha lamp, but a happy elf growing freely in the mountains and forests!" "Happy elf?" Master Zhang Yao and Zhang Ziheng didn't believe the old monk Jingyuan's words. The old monk Jingyuan said: "Yes, happy elves, wait for them to fly over in a while, and you will know when you see them with your own eyes. These little things are very sensitive to their surrounding environment, and they will disappear when there is a slight movement. She's as shy as a girl!" The old monk Jingyuan said and blew out the kerosene lamp he was holding all the time. "Why did you blow out the lights?" Zhang Yaoye asked nervously. Zhang Yaoye and Zhang Ziheng already have symptoms of allergies to the dark. "They will not come if there are lights, but will stay away from us," said the old monk Jingyuan. Sure enough, as the old monk Jingyuan said, after the old monk Jingyuan blew out the lights, in a short while, those green light clusters that were mysteriously flashing among the trees floated towards them from all directions. Hundreds of green light clusters appear on this narrow tree-lined path, and the entire path is illuminated by clusters of mysterious green halos like a fairyland. Zhang Ziheng looked at the miraculous scene that appeared before his eyes, and his consciousness was once again lost in this dreamlike state... The old monk Jingyuan stretched out a palm in this dreamlike light and shadow, and said softly: "Come, come, rest in my palm for a while..." Sure enough, a cloud of light and shadow fell on the palm of the old monk Jingyuan, and the hand of the old monk Jingyuan seemed to be shrouded in a ball of Buddha light. Zhang Yaoye and Zhang Ziheng curiously moved up to take a closer look, but the ball of light seemed to be frightened, and flew back into the air in a whiz. The old monk Jingyuan laughed and said: "You scared it. These things are very timid." Zhang Yaoye murmured: "I'm really as shy as a big girl! I finally opened my eyes this time, and I saw something that no one else had seen in their dreams. Even if I died, it was worth it. " The old monk Jingyuan smiled and said: "Zhang Weichang, in such a good weather, you still can't forget the word 'death' in your mind. You ordinary people! You have been trapped by the word 'death' in your whole life, and you will never jump again. I can't come out." "Isn't everyone going to die? Don't you want to die?" Zhang Yaoye said. But the old monk Jingyuan said: "You haven't practiced, so of course you don't know about reincarnation! Let's go, now there is a Buddha lamp to illuminate us, you should go smoothly, right?" The old monk Jingyuan took a step while talking.