Chapter 6 Chapter 5 It's easier said than done
Chen Changqing said: "The distance is not that far──"
I added: "In recent years, there has been a Tibetan lama traveling around teaching the Dharma with a blond American girl. This little girl was born in the United States, but when she reached the age to speak, what she said was totally unheard of. Understood, it was she who asked her parents to find her 'familiar' Tibetan lamas, and she was the reincarnation of one of them, from Tibet to the United States, far enough!"
Chen Changqing murmured: "It seems that the soul can be controlled freely when it returns after leaving the body, while the situation of reincarnation is more complicated and cannot be controlled by the heart."
I nodded in agreement: "The body will corrupt, but the soul will not. Even if it is an uncontrollable reincarnation, it is close to eternal life."
Chen Changqing exclaimed: "How unbelievable."
I walked back and forth a few steps and asked, "Did you see the old man Tianchi later?"
Chen Changqing shook his head: "No, the situation in the future is—"
Chen Changqing only felt that the little girl was getting weirder the more she looked at her, so he laughed along with him: "It's because you don't understand, that's why you came here to ask for advice. You didn't even tell me, how did you tell me? I must not understand." ?” At this time, the sky was rapidly darkening, and the little girl's eyes, seen in the darkness, were even more radiant, looking strange and inexplicable. Chen Changqing was waiting for her to speak. The little girl looked at him for a long time before she smiled: "You are interesting, okay, let me ask you first, what does it mean to be unmoved?" Chen Changqing said: "I understand." The little girl said: "Okay, can you not be tempted?" Chen Changqing hesitated, the word "not to be tempted" sounds very simple, and the meaning is not difficult at all, everyone understands it, but it is really not easy to be indifferent. People are always people. How can someone not be indifferent to their emotions, emotions, joys, anger, sorrows and joys? Chen Changqing had no choice but to smile wryly: "I...Of course I can't. If I really can't be tempted, it's already in the realm of Arhat Bodhisattva." The little girl said: "No matter what state you are in, as long as you want to enter another state, you have to start from being indifferent." Chen Changqing said: "Isn't this very contradictory? Wanting to enter another realm is already tempting." The little girl laughed: "It's true, if you don't want to be tempted, you will be tempted, and if you are tempted, you will start from not being tempted." As soon as he heard the little girl fighting with him full of Zen, Chen Changqing couldn't help but smiled wryly, and said: "Yes, if you are tempted, you are not tempted, and if you are not tempted, you are tempted." The little girl laughed "haha", and the childish voice made such a laugh, which sounded even weirder: "Let's go on." Chen Changqing said: "It's the same if you only move your mind and don't move your mind." The little girl clapped her hands: "It's interesting." The girl was going to Tibet suddenly. Chen Changqing suddenly fell into deep thought. He stood leaning against the rock, motionless. After a long time, he suddenly noticed that the sky was already dark, and under the moonlight, his shadow looked slender. And strangely, it was a motionless figure. He was suddenly overjoyed, and cried out: "I can also stay still." He turned his head away, but the little girl was no longer there.Chen Changqing called a few times, but did not answer, so he had to go back to the hotel that night, thinking wildly, and spent the night. Early the next morning, he went to look for the little girl. "The granddaughter of the old man Tianchi" is very famous on this small island. Before noon, some people said that she was by the sea, and Chen Changqing found her. As she approached, she said, "You're here again." Chen Changqing said: "Yes, here I am again. How long did I stand there last night?" The little girl laughed: "You don't move, it's just your body that doesn't move, not your heart or thoughts." Chen Changqing nodded and admitted: "Yes, it's not just that the mind doesn't stay still, but also all kinds of miscellaneous thoughts come one after another, unstoppable." The little girl pointed to the sea. At this moment, there happened to be a huge wave rolling towards the shore. The little girl said: "No matter how high the wave is, there is always a time and a place to dissipate." Chen Changqing let out a long sigh: "One wave disappears, another wave regenerates, so what?" The little girl looked over at him with piercing eyes, a half-smile, and said, "Let it fend for itself." Chen Changqing frowned, and was lost in thought again, before he knew it, his body froze again, and when he regained his composure, the little girl was no longer by his side. In this way, for more than two months, he was able to find the granddaughter of the old man Tianchi in different places on the island every day, and have three, five to dozens of sentences full of Zen-like conversations with her. The little girl's words have a very strange power that can lead people into contemplation, but after thinking about it, they can't catch the real gist. Until that day, when he found the little girl, he found that the little girl With a young man, the young man burst out laughing as soon as he saw Chen Changqing and glanced at him. Chen Changqing smiled annoyed at him, but the young man reached out and patted his shoulder: "Go back." Chen Changqing said: "These days, I feel that I have made great progress." The little girl also said: "Really, he has a point." The young man shook his head: "Don't delay him." Then he said to Chen Changqing: "We are leaving here, can you go to Tibet with us?" If you ask this question now, Chen Changqing will naturally not think about it for half a second, and immediately agrees.But at that time, he was stunned, unable to answer for a long time. Firstly, it was because of that little girl, he didn't know much about the supernatural powers of the old man Tianchi at that time.Secondly, it is impossible to go to Tibet immediately, so it is totally difficult for him to make a decision. Just when he didn't know how to answer, the young man and the little girl laughed together and walked away hand in hand. Chen Changqing stayed there and didn't even know how to chase them. When he regained his composure, he had already left without a trace, and he stayed on the island for three days. He never saw the young man and the little girl again, so he had no choice but to return in a state of depression.After he came back, he was still thinking about the idea of "unmovable", so he was forced to care about others and what happened to the outside world, thinking that it had nothing to do with him at all. He did so successfully, and when I first saw him, I was taken aback by his indifference. Of course, everyone knows what the result will be. I planned to tell him the story, which made him "destroyed once a thousand years of Taoism", but what I never expected was that he took the "skinny" handle The key to explore, but it is closely related to his encounter, and know more secrets of the old man Tianchi, those secrets involve life and death, body and soul and other major events, it is extremely astonishing. After Chen Changqing finished talking about his experience, I smiled wryly: "You performed worse than Bupin, and you don't even know how to answer." Chen Changqing let out a long sigh: "Yes, that's why I said that I failed. If I go to find someone else, they don't need me. Now, the old man's residence on Nalu Island has the exact location. I see... I see ..." I waved my hand and cut him off. I know what he's trying to say, he means, he's doing too badly, there's no hope, and he wants me to try. From the point of view of the whole matter, if you follow the old man Tianchi, it may be a short period of time, or it may be an extremely long period. After some kind of training, you can live and die freely, and you can be reincarnated after natural death comes and the body is damaged ( Originally, the phenomenon of reincarnation exists, but the reincarnation that cannot remember the previous life at all is completely different from the reincarnation where the soul has changed a body and the memory of the previous life is still there.) Moreover, the supernatural powers of the old man also include the ability of the soul to go out of the body and "wander" at any time. All these are really the pinnacle of supernatural abilities that human beings can achieve. This, for anyone, is a temptation that cannot be any greater, I am afraid that no one can refuse such a temptation. The key left by the "thin man" turned out to be the lock of the mystery of life and death.This is something I never expected when I first saw this key. Chen Changqing looked at me, several times he wanted to speak, but I stopped him with a wave of my hand, my thoughts were extremely confused, after a while, I said: "Changqing, you are more suitable than me." When we usually talk, we rarely call each other by name, except under special circumstances, like this time. Chen Changqing said: "But... I have failed." I raised my voice: "That's a failure, you didn't even see the old man Tianchi, you only saw a little girl." All kinds of magical powers are similar to Chen Changqing shaking his head: "That's not a little girl, she is a person full of wisdom, and the age of several lifetimes adds up, she may be more than a thousand years old." I said: "She is willing to meet with you every day, talk to you, and likes you very much, saying that you are reasonable, but you just can't make a decision at the last moment, how can you give up the chance to try again?" After hearing this, Chen Changqing was stunned for a while: "Can you resist the temptation of such abnormal abilities?" I said: "Of course not, but I have thought about it. With my personality, it is impossible to be 'unmoved'. I know it is futile, so why waste my life?" Chen Changqing disagreed: "As you said, I haven't even seen the old man, so how do I know if the so-called 'unmoved' is a kind of high concentration of will? Your ability has always been stronger than ordinary people, so how do you know that you must do it?" Less than what he asked for?" His words made my heart skip a beat, and I hurried back and forth a few steps before I said, "Can we go together?" Chen Changqing immediately said: "That's exactly what I mean." I sighed: "Look, if I want to go, I have to discuss it with Bai Su first, the first step can't just go, the next countless steps may not even have a chance to start." Chen Changqing looked depressed: "Just now I also thought of at least telling Wen Baoyu, it's not the same." I said: "There is no need to tell Xiaobao to him, this kind of important matter related to the mystery of life and death is beyond the comprehension of a young man—" As soon as I said this, I saw Bai Su walk into the study, raised her eyebrows, and looked at me with puzzled eyes. She obviously heard the seriousness of my words, so she asked me why. I told her all briefly, and put forward our ideas. Bai Su listened attentively, and after listening, she breathed a sigh of relief: "I agree with your speculation, the old man Tianchi does have incredible supernatural powers, and the powers he possesses are similar to Taoism's practice of 'primordial spirit' and Buddhism's All kinds of supernatural powers are somewhat similar." I spread my hands: "Whether it's Taoism, Buddhism, or immortals, if you want to have this kind of supernatural ability, it seems that you have to start with quiet practice. Do you think I can do it?" Bai Su shook her head slowly, and suddenly laughed, she was clearly imagining the absurdity of a person with an active personality like me, sitting cross-legged in a mountain valley suddenly, playing dry meditation situation. At the same time, she looked at Chen Changqing and smiled even more.Both Chen Changqing and I couldn't help laughing at her very embarrassingly. Bai Su stopped laughing: "No matter what the situation is, since the old man Tianchi is such a strange person, he should go to see him, at least, it would be good to learn about the mysteries of life from him." As soon as I heard it, I quickly asked her with winks if she would go with me. $——Bai Su thought about all her worries for a while, and usually, her decision on whether she wanted to participate in an event came very quickly, and it would never take more than three seconds.But now this matter is so weird and inexplicable, it is something that everyone wants to know the answer to, so even Bai Su thought about it for two or three minutes. Then, she said: "I'm not going, to be honest, I think it's best for a person to accept nature's arrangements for life, old age, sickness and death, and deliberately pursue something, let alone not being able to catch it, even if it is, it may not be a good thing." Chen Changqing protested loudly: "The ability mastered by the old man Tianchi is of course a kind of natural force." Bai Su smiled slightly: "If there is a chance, ordinary people can also master this ability, let you learn it first, and then teach me, it's the same." Chen Changqing said: "It may take a long time, ten years, twenty years, or even thirty years." Bai Su shook his head: "Actually, I am more unsuitable than you, ten years, let me spend ten years sitting quietly in a cave In the middle, then I said that I tortured myself to death, and I said nothing else." Chen Changqing hummed: "Everyone knows that you waited for Wesley to come back and waited for six years beside that small temple in Nepal." Bai Su and I looked at each other, and held each other's hands involuntarily. Bai Su sighed, "That's different. During those six years, I have been thinking about him. Can I sit quietly and miss myself at the same time?" husband?" Chen Changqing had nothing to say, and stretched out his hands to scratch his head. I smiled: "This kind of ability is naturally not something that can be learned by theory. With the mood of wanting to understand its content, there will be no loss when I go to meet the old man of Tianchi. , It’s just a hypothesis, it hasn’t been confirmed, if you can confirm it with the old man’s real ability, you can naturally have a better understanding.” Chen Changqing had a bitter face: "You are more open-minded than me. I am... I really hope that I can master this kind of ability. I can live and die with my heart. I have a key that can unlock the lock of life and death and lead to eternal life." He said, blushing again because of excitement, I patted his shoulder: "If we get to Nalu Island, the old man Tianchi is not here──" Chen Changqing hurriedly said, "I'll wait." I thought for a while: "I will wait, but I have to set a deadline." Chen Changqing didn't even think about it: "I will wait forever, and if I don't see him, I will die in peace." I had no choice but to smile bitterly: "I can only say that I will try my best to wait and test my patience." Bai Su laughed from the side: "I guess your patience is three days." I said loudly, "No, four days." We all laughed, but Chen Changqing was in a trance, leaving while saying: "See you at the airport tomorrow." After he left, Bai Su sighed: "People's pursuits are endless. Like Chen Changqing, life is so carefree, but once you have desires, you become disoriented. It seems that all the pain and troubles of people are all I found it myself." The shape of the stone house on the shore was peculiar. I laughed and said, "Why are there so many exclamations of being out of this world all of a sudden? I think that if people don't have desires, they won't make progress." Bai Su raised his eyebrows and didn't say anything more.
The next day I arrived at the airport a little late, and Chen Changqing was already jumping with anxiety.Last night, I thought about everything in detail for a long time, so when I saw his situation, I said: "Don't have too much hope for this trip, even if you meet the old man Tianchi, is he planning to take you in? It's up to him to decide, not you." Chen Changqing pretended not to care: "It doesn't matter, you have the experience of failure last time, and it's nothing if you fail again." I snorted: "It's really like this, don't say what you mean, and look for trouble." He didn't say anything more. After boarding the plane, the topic naturally couldn't be separated from the old man and his abilities. Chen Changqing said: "Last night, I referred to some secret books that were not easy to find. It said that there is a type of warlock in Tibet who has the instinct to revive people. Can bring back the soul of the dead. I think most of Tianchi old man is that kind of sorcerer. This kind of sorcerer is different from practicing lamas and hermits. Lamas and hermits mostly practice in theory, while warlocks have real practice of some ability." Chen Changqing's analysis is naturally very reasonable. This kind of warlock must have mastered some kind of secret technique. When we arrived at Nalu Island, as soon as we got settled in the hotel according to what "Skinny Man" wrote, we rented a car and drove straight to the west coast of the island. I looked at the stone house with "odd shape, you can tell it at a glance". The stone house is built on a huge stone protruding from the coast. Its shape is indeed very strange. If it is expressed in a plan view, it is a connection between a square and a circle. The connection between the square and the circle is the corner of the square. The square part of the stone house has two floors, and the round part has only one floor, but has a slightly convex dome. As we approached, many people on the beach looked at us with very surprised expressions.When we came to the closest part of the big reef, a middle-aged man ran over panting and shouted, "Sir, are you tourists?" I nodded, and the middle-aged man said again: "Don't go any further." Chen Changqing smiled: "If you don't move forward, how can you get to that stone house?" When the middle-aged man heard this, his expression was extremely panicked, he took a step back abruptly, and said: "I'm sorry, I didn't know you were friends with the old man Tianchi." I saw that his expression was different. Originally, he rushed over in such a hurry, obviously to stop us, and I immediately remembered that on that day, Chen Changqing couldn't get the homeless boy to take him to the old man's residence in Tianchi. It was a bit strange, so I said: "No, we are not his friends, we just came to see him." The expression of the middle-aged man was still uncertain, and Chen Changqing also saw that something was wrong, and asked: "What's weird about that house? Is it not allowed to approach casually? Please tell us." The middle-aged man who was reincarnated and became friends after death smiled awkwardly: "Yes... so, the government has issued an order that... the big reef near the sea belongs to the old man in Tianchi privately. Anyone who comes close to... or Climb aboard, and no one is responsible for any accidents." I said "Oh": "There must have been some accidents. May I ask what the accident was?" The middle-aged man looked very embarrassed. Originally, he was kind enough to tell us that we shouldn’t embarrass him too much, but at this point, he naturally insisted on telling us. The middle-aged man faltered for a while before saying: "Not long after the house was built, the old man adopted a little girl who was very strange since she was a child. Everyone on the island knew that she was weird as his granddaughter. The little girl's family is very strange. Poor, the old man gave them a lot of money, told the little girl's family not to look for the little girl, and said a lot of weird things." Chen Changqing and I looked at each other, we were both happy to get the unexpected information. Chen Changqing said: "Go on, go on." In order to encourage the middle-aged man to continue speaking, he took off the watch on his wrist and handed it over: "This is for you." The middle-aged man was overjoyed, and he said thank you for several minutes, which made Chen Changqing very impatient. Finally, after the middle-aged man put on the watch, he continued: "The old man said that the little girl is not a little girl at all, but a friend of his who was reincarnated after death. The girl's parents knew that their daughter It's strange, it will say things that no one can understand, and naturally I believe it, but mothers always have a mother-daughter relationship, so one night, this mother sneaked here, wanting to see her daughter── " When the middle-aged man spoke up to this point, Chen Changqing shouted loudly and interrupted him: "No, that little girl can wander around, and her mother can see her every day, so why come here?" The middle-aged man said: "That was now. At that time, the little girl was even younger. It was about five years ago. Once the old man took her to the stone house, no one saw her again. After about half a year, the mother couldn't bear it." I can't help but want to see my daughter." Chen Changqing nodded, motioning for him to continue.The middle-aged man said: "The mother went up the stone steps, climbed up another window, and looked into the stone house. No one knew what she saw at that time, but someone heard her utter a shock that could be heard far away. People who were on the beach and under the boulders could hear the shouting, and everyone looked up and saw her tumble and fall from the reef..." The middle-aged man took a few breaths: "Sir, if you turn your heads, you can see that the stone steps up to the reef are very steep. When she rolled down, she was already dying of injuries." Chen Changqing was a little annoyed: "No one came out from the stone house?" The middle-aged man said: "Yes, the people who were at the beach gathered around, and the old man, the little girl, and a few people from the stone house also drove out." The middle-aged man with mysterious power in the old man's stone house said again: "The mother gave out a lot of breath and took in a lot of breath, and she seemed to be dying, but the little girl was not sad at all, instead she blamed her and told you not to come, why did you come?" Chen Changqing frowned and looked at me: "Even if it is a reincarnation, it seems to be too cold and heartless." I felt the same way, so I nodded. The middle-aged man said: "The mother's expression is extremely frightening. She must have seen a very frightening situation when she climbed the window to look. That's why she was like this. At this time, the father also rushed over. The wife was so injured that she was naturally shocked and angry, and wanted to fight the old man Tianchi, but the mother struggled, not letting his husband do anything, just said: Trust them, trust them... I get hurt... It's none of their business, it's I fell by myself." Chen Changqing said: "No one has seen what happened on the reef, and it doesn't necessarily have nothing to do with them." The middle-aged man said again: "She pointed at the little girl and said: She is really not our daughter, really not... Then, she asked her husband to take her home. At that time, several people who were with the old man in Tianchi The young man found a plank, carried the mother to the road, and then sent her to the hospital, where she died the next day." When the middle-aged man said this, he showed a very frightened expression. I took a breath: "Where's her husband?" The middle-aged man sighed: "After burying his wife, the husband left Nalu Island and went somewhere. Therefore, the people on the island dare not go near this house. The ones who... are like, like..." He showed a terrified expression again and did not continue. Although he didn't go on, the meaning was very obvious. He and the people on the island felt that the old man and this stone house must have a very mysterious power.This feeling must be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so even the homeless teenagers dare not come here.Even the local government treated Tianchi old man differently, admitting that he has a special status. The middle-aged man paused for a while: "Actually, they haven't done anything, and they rarely interact with people—" He looked embarrassed, as if he was afraid that he might offend those people by saying those few words just now. At this time, he hurriedly wanted to make a correction, and while speaking, he backed away again and again.Withdrew a few steps, turned around and walked away hastily. After he left, Chen Changqing said: "Guess what did the woman see when she climbed on the window of the stone house and looked in?" I said, "Of course it's some very strange phenomenon?" Chen Changqing had an extremely fascinated expression: "Could it happen that she saw the moment when the soul left the body?" I said: "Who knows, according to your description, that little girl once displayed the ability of 'fugue travel' in front of you. At that time, did you see any strange-shaped things leaving her body, or a ray of light, shot from the top of her head into the sky?" Chen Changqing said: "No." I knocked hard on the door and no one responded. I drove the car and continued to drive forward. After turning around the big reef, I saw the stone steps leading to the top of the reef. The stone steps were carved out of the reef at an angle of almost seventy degrees. Steep up and down, it looks very scary, there are at least a hundred levels. If a person can save his life by rolling down the stone steps like this, then he must have extraordinary skills. The stone steps are not very wide enough for two people to walk up side by side, and there are no handrails on both sides.The rock beside the first few steps, flattened a bit, bears a rather large lettering, warning: private residence, no trespassing. Chen Changqing and I looked up and could only see the upper half of the square part of the stone house. Chen Changqing said: "It seems that there is no one in the stone house. Are we just uninvited guests?" I thought about it for a while: "Since the old man uses this as his permanent contact address, he is naturally ready for someone to come at any time, so go up and have a look before talking." Chen Changqing naturally agreed with my proposal. I was at the front and he was at the back. We walked up together. There were hundreds of stone steps, and we arrived in one step. The top of the big reef was quite flat. It was a large stone flat with an area of about 2,000 square kilometers. feet, the house occupies only about one-third of it, and the house is built in the central part of the stone terrace. Standing on the top of the reef, looking towards the ocean, we can see the vastness of the ocean more and more. We didn't care to enjoy the scenery, so we came to the door. Chen Changqing patted on the door vigorously, but after a long while, no one answered. The door was made of very rough wood, with a carved wooden handle, and there was no lock at all. I held the handle and pushed it lightly, and the door was pushed open. At this time, it was dusk, although the sky outside was still quite bright, but inside the stone house was extremely dark, so after pushing the door open, for a short time, I couldn't see what was going on in the house at all. After closing his eyes for a while, and then opening them again, he could see the situation in the room clearly. The stone house is composed of two parts, a square and a circle. The door is in the circle part, so what I see is a rather spacious circular hall. The diameter of the circular hall is, It was twenty meters long, and what made it even more spacious was that there was no furnishings in the entire lobby, it was completely empty. It has six windows, all of which are not very large and cannot be opened. They are inlaid with glass that is close to dark gray. In imagination, when the little girl's mother was peeping in from the window, in the lobby, The lights must be bright, otherwise, she would not be able to see anything at all. When I thought about it, I naturally looked up.The top is a circular dome. On that dome, there are many small round holes with a diameter of only ten centimeters. Obviously, the purpose is not to obtain light, because those small round holes are still inlaid with dark gray glass, and there is no lighting. equipment on top. On the left side of the hall is another door, which of course leads to the square part.We walked in together, walked to the center of the lobby, paused for a while, Chen Changqing and I asked at the same time: "Is anyone there?" The circular design of the sound wave refracts our voice and it is not very loud, but when we opened our mouth, we were startled. In the circular lobby, there was an unexpectedly loud echo, and it was continuous, with seven As many as eight.It seems that the circular shape of the lobby is designed to cause repeated refraction of sound waves. Chen Changqing and I looked at each other, and both felt the same in our hearts, and also felt that there was an indescribable strangeness in this stone house. We didn't ask a second time, the door was still closed, and we walked forward together, Chen Changqing wanted to reach out and knock on the door, but changed his mind temporarily, and just knocked on the door with his fingers. But even so, the sound caused a lot of echoes, as if Chen Changqing was knocking on the door continuously.Ordinary echoes are mostly not very clear, and have a sense of bang, but the echoes in this circular hall are extremely clear. After a while, there was no response, Chen Changqing grabbed the handle of the door and pushed it, and the door was pushed open again. At this time, it was already dark, but our eyes can also adapt to the darkness, so we can see the situation inside clearly. The square part has two floors. Below is a hall with some tables and chairs. Let’s take a closer look. Look, all the tables and chairs are made of very thick wood, and the workmanship is also very rough. There is a staircase made of stones, leading to the second floor. Chen Changqing was at the stairs, raised his head and asked, "Is anyone there?" Even though he uttered the question in the square part, there was still an echo in the circular hall. There was no answer from the upper floor. There was no one in the stone house. I was sure. I walked up first. There was a corridor upstairs, and there were two doors on each side of the corridor. It was evident that the upper floor was divided into four rooms, with all four doors closed. The light in the corridor was even darker. Chen Changqing followed me and asked in a low voice beside me: "How is it?" I also lowered my voice──In the dark environment, the atmosphere inside the stone house is even more eerie, making people involuntarily lower their voice when speaking: "Look at these rooms, and then, go back to the hotel." Chen Changqing hesitated for a moment before nodding. The corridor is quite wide, and he and I walked forward side by side. Four doors were facing each other. He and I opened two doors first, and saw two empty rooms. We closed the door and walked forward, still on one side, and pushed open the two doors. When the two of us walked forward, we walked side by side. When we came to the door and were about to open it, we naturally had to turn around halfway. Therefore, when we pushed the door at the same time, we were back to back. I pushed open the door and looked inside, it was still an empty room, but just as I was about to turn around, there was a sound like sobbing, and at the same time, someone's back hit me hard ! That was of course the result of Chen Changqing's sudden, rapid retreat.
Chen Changqing only felt that the little girl was getting weirder the more she looked at her, so he laughed along with him: "It's because you don't understand, that's why you came here to ask for advice. You didn't even tell me, how did you tell me? I must not understand." ?” At this time, the sky was rapidly darkening, and the little girl's eyes, seen in the darkness, were even more radiant, looking strange and inexplicable. Chen Changqing was waiting for her to speak. The little girl looked at him for a long time before she smiled: "You are interesting, okay, let me ask you first, what does it mean to be unmoved?" Chen Changqing said: "I understand." The little girl said: "Okay, can you not be tempted?" Chen Changqing hesitated, the word "not to be tempted" sounds very simple, and the meaning is not difficult at all, everyone understands it, but it is really not easy to be indifferent. People are always people. How can someone not be indifferent to their emotions, emotions, joys, anger, sorrows and joys? Chen Changqing had no choice but to smile wryly: "I...Of course I can't. If I really can't be tempted, it's already in the realm of Arhat Bodhisattva." The little girl said: "No matter what state you are in, as long as you want to enter another state, you have to start from being indifferent." Chen Changqing said: "Isn't this very contradictory? Wanting to enter another realm is already tempting." The little girl laughed: "It's true, if you don't want to be tempted, you will be tempted, and if you are tempted, you will start from not being tempted." As soon as he heard the little girl fighting with him full of Zen, Chen Changqing couldn't help but smiled wryly, and said: "Yes, if you are tempted, you are not tempted, and if you are not tempted, you are tempted." The little girl laughed "haha", and the childish voice made such a laugh, which sounded even weirder: "Let's go on." Chen Changqing said: "It's the same if you only move your mind and don't move your mind." The little girl clapped her hands: "It's interesting." The girl was going to Tibet suddenly. Chen Changqing suddenly fell into deep thought. He stood leaning against the rock, motionless. After a long time, he suddenly noticed that the sky was already dark, and under the moonlight, his shadow looked slender. And strangely, it was a motionless figure. He was suddenly overjoyed, and cried out: "I can also stay still." He turned his head away, but the little girl was no longer there.Chen Changqing called a few times, but did not answer, so he had to go back to the hotel that night, thinking wildly, and spent the night. Early the next morning, he went to look for the little girl. "The granddaughter of the old man Tianchi" is very famous on this small island. Before noon, some people said that she was by the sea, and Chen Changqing found her. As she approached, she said, "You're here again." Chen Changqing said: "Yes, here I am again. How long did I stand there last night?" The little girl laughed: "You don't move, it's just your body that doesn't move, not your heart or thoughts." Chen Changqing nodded and admitted: "Yes, it's not just that the mind doesn't stay still, but also all kinds of miscellaneous thoughts come one after another, unstoppable." The little girl pointed to the sea. At this moment, there happened to be a huge wave rolling towards the shore. The little girl said: "No matter how high the wave is, there is always a time and a place to dissipate." Chen Changqing let out a long sigh: "One wave disappears, another wave regenerates, so what?" The little girl looked over at him with piercing eyes, a half-smile, and said, "Let it fend for itself." Chen Changqing frowned, and was lost in thought again, before he knew it, his body froze again, and when he regained his composure, the little girl was no longer by his side. In this way, for more than two months, he was able to find the granddaughter of the old man Tianchi in different places on the island every day, and have three, five to dozens of sentences full of Zen-like conversations with her. The little girl's words have a very strange power that can lead people into contemplation, but after thinking about it, they can't catch the real gist. Until that day, when he found the little girl, he found that the little girl With a young man, the young man burst out laughing as soon as he saw Chen Changqing and glanced at him. Chen Changqing smiled annoyed at him, but the young man reached out and patted his shoulder: "Go back." Chen Changqing said: "These days, I feel that I have made great progress." The little girl also said: "Really, he has a point." The young man shook his head: "Don't delay him." Then he said to Chen Changqing: "We are leaving here, can you go to Tibet with us?" If you ask this question now, Chen Changqing will naturally not think about it for half a second, and immediately agrees.But at that time, he was stunned, unable to answer for a long time. Firstly, it was because of that little girl, he didn't know much about the supernatural powers of the old man Tianchi at that time.Secondly, it is impossible to go to Tibet immediately, so it is totally difficult for him to make a decision. Just when he didn't know how to answer, the young man and the little girl laughed together and walked away hand in hand. Chen Changqing stayed there and didn't even know how to chase them. When he regained his composure, he had already left without a trace, and he stayed on the island for three days. He never saw the young man and the little girl again, so he had no choice but to return in a state of depression.After he came back, he was still thinking about the idea of "unmovable", so he was forced to care about others and what happened to the outside world, thinking that it had nothing to do with him at all. He did so successfully, and when I first saw him, I was taken aback by his indifference. Of course, everyone knows what the result will be. I planned to tell him the story, which made him "destroyed once a thousand years of Taoism", but what I never expected was that he took the "skinny" handle The key to explore, but it is closely related to his encounter, and know more secrets of the old man Tianchi, those secrets involve life and death, body and soul and other major events, it is extremely astonishing. After Chen Changqing finished talking about his experience, I smiled wryly: "You performed worse than Bupin, and you don't even know how to answer." Chen Changqing let out a long sigh: "Yes, that's why I said that I failed. If I go to find someone else, they don't need me. Now, the old man's residence on Nalu Island has the exact location. I see... I see ..." I waved my hand and cut him off. I know what he's trying to say, he means, he's doing too badly, there's no hope, and he wants me to try. From the point of view of the whole matter, if you follow the old man Tianchi, it may be a short period of time, or it may be an extremely long period. After some kind of training, you can live and die freely, and you can be reincarnated after natural death comes and the body is damaged ( Originally, the phenomenon of reincarnation exists, but the reincarnation that cannot remember the previous life at all is completely different from the reincarnation where the soul has changed a body and the memory of the previous life is still there.) Moreover, the supernatural powers of the old man also include the ability of the soul to go out of the body and "wander" at any time. All these are really the pinnacle of supernatural abilities that human beings can achieve. This, for anyone, is a temptation that cannot be any greater, I am afraid that no one can refuse such a temptation. The key left by the "thin man" turned out to be the lock of the mystery of life and death.This is something I never expected when I first saw this key. Chen Changqing looked at me, several times he wanted to speak, but I stopped him with a wave of my hand, my thoughts were extremely confused, after a while, I said: "Changqing, you are more suitable than me." When we usually talk, we rarely call each other by name, except under special circumstances, like this time. Chen Changqing said: "But... I have failed." I raised my voice: "That's a failure, you didn't even see the old man Tianchi, you only saw a little girl." All kinds of magical powers are similar to Chen Changqing shaking his head: "That's not a little girl, she is a person full of wisdom, and the age of several lifetimes adds up, she may be more than a thousand years old." I said: "She is willing to meet with you every day, talk to you, and likes you very much, saying that you are reasonable, but you just can't make a decision at the last moment, how can you give up the chance to try again?" After hearing this, Chen Changqing was stunned for a while: "Can you resist the temptation of such abnormal abilities?" I said: "Of course not, but I have thought about it. With my personality, it is impossible to be 'unmoved'. I know it is futile, so why waste my life?" Chen Changqing disagreed: "As you said, I haven't even seen the old man, so how do I know if the so-called 'unmoved' is a kind of high concentration of will? Your ability has always been stronger than ordinary people, so how do you know that you must do it?" Less than what he asked for?" His words made my heart skip a beat, and I hurried back and forth a few steps before I said, "Can we go together?" Chen Changqing immediately said: "That's exactly what I mean." I sighed: "Look, if I want to go, I have to discuss it with Bai Su first, the first step can't just go, the next countless steps may not even have a chance to start." Chen Changqing looked depressed: "Just now I also thought of at least telling Wen Baoyu, it's not the same." I said: "There is no need to tell Xiaobao to him, this kind of important matter related to the mystery of life and death is beyond the comprehension of a young man—" As soon as I said this, I saw Bai Su walk into the study, raised her eyebrows, and looked at me with puzzled eyes. She obviously heard the seriousness of my words, so she asked me why. I told her all briefly, and put forward our ideas. Bai Su listened attentively, and after listening, she breathed a sigh of relief: "I agree with your speculation, the old man Tianchi does have incredible supernatural powers, and the powers he possesses are similar to Taoism's practice of 'primordial spirit' and Buddhism's All kinds of supernatural powers are somewhat similar." I spread my hands: "Whether it's Taoism, Buddhism, or immortals, if you want to have this kind of supernatural ability, it seems that you have to start with quiet practice. Do you think I can do it?" Bai Su shook her head slowly, and suddenly laughed, she was clearly imagining the absurdity of a person with an active personality like me, sitting cross-legged in a mountain valley suddenly, playing dry meditation situation. At the same time, she looked at Chen Changqing and smiled even more.Both Chen Changqing and I couldn't help laughing at her very embarrassingly. Bai Su stopped laughing: "No matter what the situation is, since the old man Tianchi is such a strange person, he should go to see him, at least, it would be good to learn about the mysteries of life from him." As soon as I heard it, I quickly asked her with winks if she would go with me. $——Bai Su thought about all her worries for a while, and usually, her decision on whether she wanted to participate in an event came very quickly, and it would never take more than three seconds.But now this matter is so weird and inexplicable, it is something that everyone wants to know the answer to, so even Bai Su thought about it for two or three minutes. Then, she said: "I'm not going, to be honest, I think it's best for a person to accept nature's arrangements for life, old age, sickness and death, and deliberately pursue something, let alone not being able to catch it, even if it is, it may not be a good thing." Chen Changqing protested loudly: "The ability mastered by the old man Tianchi is of course a kind of natural force." Bai Su smiled slightly: "If there is a chance, ordinary people can also master this ability, let you learn it first, and then teach me, it's the same." Chen Changqing said: "It may take a long time, ten years, twenty years, or even thirty years." Bai Su shook his head: "Actually, I am more unsuitable than you, ten years, let me spend ten years sitting quietly in a cave In the middle, then I said that I tortured myself to death, and I said nothing else." Chen Changqing hummed: "Everyone knows that you waited for Wesley to come back and waited for six years beside that small temple in Nepal." Bai Su and I looked at each other, and held each other's hands involuntarily. Bai Su sighed, "That's different. During those six years, I have been thinking about him. Can I sit quietly and miss myself at the same time?" husband?" Chen Changqing had nothing to say, and stretched out his hands to scratch his head. I smiled: "This kind of ability is naturally not something that can be learned by theory. With the mood of wanting to understand its content, there will be no loss when I go to meet the old man of Tianchi. , It’s just a hypothesis, it hasn’t been confirmed, if you can confirm it with the old man’s real ability, you can naturally have a better understanding.” Chen Changqing had a bitter face: "You are more open-minded than me. I am... I really hope that I can master this kind of ability. I can live and die with my heart. I have a key that can unlock the lock of life and death and lead to eternal life." He said, blushing again because of excitement, I patted his shoulder: "If we get to Nalu Island, the old man Tianchi is not here──" Chen Changqing hurriedly said, "I'll wait." I thought for a while: "I will wait, but I have to set a deadline." Chen Changqing didn't even think about it: "I will wait forever, and if I don't see him, I will die in peace." I had no choice but to smile bitterly: "I can only say that I will try my best to wait and test my patience." Bai Su laughed from the side: "I guess your patience is three days." I said loudly, "No, four days." We all laughed, but Chen Changqing was in a trance, leaving while saying: "See you at the airport tomorrow." After he left, Bai Su sighed: "People's pursuits are endless. Like Chen Changqing, life is so carefree, but once you have desires, you become disoriented. It seems that all the pain and troubles of people are all I found it myself." The shape of the stone house on the shore was peculiar. I laughed and said, "Why are there so many exclamations of being out of this world all of a sudden? I think that if people don't have desires, they won't make progress." Bai Su raised his eyebrows and didn't say anything more.
The next day I arrived at the airport a little late, and Chen Changqing was already jumping with anxiety.Last night, I thought about everything in detail for a long time, so when I saw his situation, I said: "Don't have too much hope for this trip, even if you meet the old man Tianchi, is he planning to take you in? It's up to him to decide, not you." Chen Changqing pretended not to care: "It doesn't matter, you have the experience of failure last time, and it's nothing if you fail again." I snorted: "It's really like this, don't say what you mean, and look for trouble." He didn't say anything more. After boarding the plane, the topic naturally couldn't be separated from the old man and his abilities. Chen Changqing said: "Last night, I referred to some secret books that were not easy to find. It said that there is a type of warlock in Tibet who has the instinct to revive people. Can bring back the soul of the dead. I think most of Tianchi old man is that kind of sorcerer. This kind of sorcerer is different from practicing lamas and hermits. Lamas and hermits mostly practice in theory, while warlocks have real practice of some ability." Chen Changqing's analysis is naturally very reasonable. This kind of warlock must have mastered some kind of secret technique. When we arrived at Nalu Island, as soon as we got settled in the hotel according to what "Skinny Man" wrote, we rented a car and drove straight to the west coast of the island. I looked at the stone house with "odd shape, you can tell it at a glance". The stone house is built on a huge stone protruding from the coast. Its shape is indeed very strange. If it is expressed in a plan view, it is a connection between a square and a circle. The connection between the square and the circle is the corner of the square. The square part of the stone house has two floors, and the round part has only one floor, but has a slightly convex dome. As we approached, many people on the beach looked at us with very surprised expressions.When we came to the closest part of the big reef, a middle-aged man ran over panting and shouted, "Sir, are you tourists?" I nodded, and the middle-aged man said again: "Don't go any further." Chen Changqing smiled: "If you don't move forward, how can you get to that stone house?" When the middle-aged man heard this, his expression was extremely panicked, he took a step back abruptly, and said: "I'm sorry, I didn't know you were friends with the old man Tianchi." I saw that his expression was different. Originally, he rushed over in such a hurry, obviously to stop us, and I immediately remembered that on that day, Chen Changqing couldn't get the homeless boy to take him to the old man's residence in Tianchi. It was a bit strange, so I said: "No, we are not his friends, we just came to see him." The expression of the middle-aged man was still uncertain, and Chen Changqing also saw that something was wrong, and asked: "What's weird about that house? Is it not allowed to approach casually? Please tell us." The middle-aged man who was reincarnated and became friends after death smiled awkwardly: "Yes... so, the government has issued an order that... the big reef near the sea belongs to the old man in Tianchi privately. Anyone who comes close to... or Climb aboard, and no one is responsible for any accidents." I said "Oh": "There must have been some accidents. May I ask what the accident was?" The middle-aged man looked very embarrassed. Originally, he was kind enough to tell us that we shouldn’t embarrass him too much, but at this point, he naturally insisted on telling us. The middle-aged man faltered for a while before saying: "Not long after the house was built, the old man adopted a little girl who was very strange since she was a child. Everyone on the island knew that she was weird as his granddaughter. The little girl's family is very strange. Poor, the old man gave them a lot of money, told the little girl's family not to look for the little girl, and said a lot of weird things." Chen Changqing and I looked at each other, we were both happy to get the unexpected information. Chen Changqing said: "Go on, go on." In order to encourage the middle-aged man to continue speaking, he took off the watch on his wrist and handed it over: "This is for you." The middle-aged man was overjoyed, and he said thank you for several minutes, which made Chen Changqing very impatient. Finally, after the middle-aged man put on the watch, he continued: "The old man said that the little girl is not a little girl at all, but a friend of his who was reincarnated after death. The girl's parents knew that their daughter It's strange, it will say things that no one can understand, and naturally I believe it, but mothers always have a mother-daughter relationship, so one night, this mother sneaked here, wanting to see her daughter── " When the middle-aged man spoke up to this point, Chen Changqing shouted loudly and interrupted him: "No, that little girl can wander around, and her mother can see her every day, so why come here?" The middle-aged man said: "That was now. At that time, the little girl was even younger. It was about five years ago. Once the old man took her to the stone house, no one saw her again. After about half a year, the mother couldn't bear it." I can't help but want to see my daughter." Chen Changqing nodded, motioning for him to continue.The middle-aged man said: "The mother went up the stone steps, climbed up another window, and looked into the stone house. No one knew what she saw at that time, but someone heard her utter a shock that could be heard far away. People who were on the beach and under the boulders could hear the shouting, and everyone looked up and saw her tumble and fall from the reef..." The middle-aged man took a few breaths: "Sir, if you turn your heads, you can see that the stone steps up to the reef are very steep. When she rolled down, she was already dying of injuries." Chen Changqing was a little annoyed: "No one came out from the stone house?" The middle-aged man said: "Yes, the people who were at the beach gathered around, and the old man, the little girl, and a few people from the stone house also drove out." The middle-aged man with mysterious power in the old man's stone house said again: "The mother gave out a lot of breath and took in a lot of breath, and she seemed to be dying, but the little girl was not sad at all, instead she blamed her and told you not to come, why did you come?" Chen Changqing frowned and looked at me: "Even if it is a reincarnation, it seems to be too cold and heartless." I felt the same way, so I nodded. The middle-aged man said: "The mother's expression is extremely frightening. She must have seen a very frightening situation when she climbed the window to look. That's why she was like this. At this time, the father also rushed over. The wife was so injured that she was naturally shocked and angry, and wanted to fight the old man Tianchi, but the mother struggled, not letting his husband do anything, just said: Trust them, trust them... I get hurt... It's none of their business, it's I fell by myself." Chen Changqing said: "No one has seen what happened on the reef, and it doesn't necessarily have nothing to do with them." The middle-aged man said again: "She pointed at the little girl and said: She is really not our daughter, really not... Then, she asked her husband to take her home. At that time, several people who were with the old man in Tianchi The young man found a plank, carried the mother to the road, and then sent her to the hospital, where she died the next day." When the middle-aged man said this, he showed a very frightened expression. I took a breath: "Where's her husband?" The middle-aged man sighed: "After burying his wife, the husband left Nalu Island and went somewhere. Therefore, the people on the island dare not go near this house. The ones who... are like, like..." He showed a terrified expression again and did not continue. Although he didn't go on, the meaning was very obvious. He and the people on the island felt that the old man and this stone house must have a very mysterious power.This feeling must be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so even the homeless teenagers dare not come here.Even the local government treated Tianchi old man differently, admitting that he has a special status. The middle-aged man paused for a while: "Actually, they haven't done anything, and they rarely interact with people—" He looked embarrassed, as if he was afraid that he might offend those people by saying those few words just now. At this time, he hurriedly wanted to make a correction, and while speaking, he backed away again and again.Withdrew a few steps, turned around and walked away hastily. After he left, Chen Changqing said: "Guess what did the woman see when she climbed on the window of the stone house and looked in?" I said, "Of course it's some very strange phenomenon?" Chen Changqing had an extremely fascinated expression: "Could it happen that she saw the moment when the soul left the body?" I said: "Who knows, according to your description, that little girl once displayed the ability of 'fugue travel' in front of you. At that time, did you see any strange-shaped things leaving her body, or a ray of light, shot from the top of her head into the sky?" Chen Changqing said: "No." I knocked hard on the door and no one responded. I drove the car and continued to drive forward. After turning around the big reef, I saw the stone steps leading to the top of the reef. The stone steps were carved out of the reef at an angle of almost seventy degrees. Steep up and down, it looks very scary, there are at least a hundred levels. If a person can save his life by rolling down the stone steps like this, then he must have extraordinary skills. The stone steps are not very wide enough for two people to walk up side by side, and there are no handrails on both sides.The rock beside the first few steps, flattened a bit, bears a rather large lettering, warning: private residence, no trespassing. Chen Changqing and I looked up and could only see the upper half of the square part of the stone house. Chen Changqing said: "It seems that there is no one in the stone house. Are we just uninvited guests?" I thought about it for a while: "Since the old man uses this as his permanent contact address, he is naturally ready for someone to come at any time, so go up and have a look before talking." Chen Changqing naturally agreed with my proposal. I was at the front and he was at the back. We walked up together. There were hundreds of stone steps, and we arrived in one step. The top of the big reef was quite flat. It was a large stone flat with an area of about 2,000 square kilometers. feet, the house occupies only about one-third of it, and the house is built in the central part of the stone terrace. Standing on the top of the reef, looking towards the ocean, we can see the vastness of the ocean more and more. We didn't care to enjoy the scenery, so we came to the door. Chen Changqing patted on the door vigorously, but after a long while, no one answered. The door was made of very rough wood, with a carved wooden handle, and there was no lock at all. I held the handle and pushed it lightly, and the door was pushed open. At this time, it was dusk, although the sky outside was still quite bright, but inside the stone house was extremely dark, so after pushing the door open, for a short time, I couldn't see what was going on in the house at all. After closing his eyes for a while, and then opening them again, he could see the situation in the room clearly. The stone house is composed of two parts, a square and a circle. The door is in the circle part, so what I see is a rather spacious circular hall. The diameter of the circular hall is, It was twenty meters long, and what made it even more spacious was that there was no furnishings in the entire lobby, it was completely empty. It has six windows, all of which are not very large and cannot be opened. They are inlaid with glass that is close to dark gray. In imagination, when the little girl's mother was peeping in from the window, in the lobby, The lights must be bright, otherwise, she would not be able to see anything at all. When I thought about it, I naturally looked up.The top is a circular dome. On that dome, there are many small round holes with a diameter of only ten centimeters. Obviously, the purpose is not to obtain light, because those small round holes are still inlaid with dark gray glass, and there is no lighting. equipment on top. On the left side of the hall is another door, which of course leads to the square part.We walked in together, walked to the center of the lobby, paused for a while, Chen Changqing and I asked at the same time: "Is anyone there?" The circular design of the sound wave refracts our voice and it is not very loud, but when we opened our mouth, we were startled. In the circular lobby, there was an unexpectedly loud echo, and it was continuous, with seven As many as eight.It seems that the circular shape of the lobby is designed to cause repeated refraction of sound waves. Chen Changqing and I looked at each other, and both felt the same in our hearts, and also felt that there was an indescribable strangeness in this stone house. We didn't ask a second time, the door was still closed, and we walked forward together, Chen Changqing wanted to reach out and knock on the door, but changed his mind temporarily, and just knocked on the door with his fingers. But even so, the sound caused a lot of echoes, as if Chen Changqing was knocking on the door continuously.Ordinary echoes are mostly not very clear, and have a sense of bang, but the echoes in this circular hall are extremely clear. After a while, there was no response, Chen Changqing grabbed the handle of the door and pushed it, and the door was pushed open again. At this time, it was already dark, but our eyes can also adapt to the darkness, so we can see the situation inside clearly. The square part has two floors. Below is a hall with some tables and chairs. Let’s take a closer look. Look, all the tables and chairs are made of very thick wood, and the workmanship is also very rough. There is a staircase made of stones, leading to the second floor. Chen Changqing was at the stairs, raised his head and asked, "Is anyone there?" Even though he uttered the question in the square part, there was still an echo in the circular hall. There was no answer from the upper floor. There was no one in the stone house. I was sure. I walked up first. There was a corridor upstairs, and there were two doors on each side of the corridor. It was evident that the upper floor was divided into four rooms, with all four doors closed. The light in the corridor was even darker. Chen Changqing followed me and asked in a low voice beside me: "How is it?" I also lowered my voice──In the dark environment, the atmosphere inside the stone house is even more eerie, making people involuntarily lower their voice when speaking: "Look at these rooms, and then, go back to the hotel." Chen Changqing hesitated for a moment before nodding. The corridor is quite wide, and he and I walked forward side by side. Four doors were facing each other. He and I opened two doors first, and saw two empty rooms. We closed the door and walked forward, still on one side, and pushed open the two doors. When the two of us walked forward, we walked side by side. When we came to the door and were about to open it, we naturally had to turn around halfway. Therefore, when we pushed the door at the same time, we were back to back. I pushed open the door and looked inside, it was still an empty room, but just as I was about to turn around, there was a sound like sobbing, and at the same time, someone's back hit me hard ! That was of course the result of Chen Changqing's sudden, rapid retreat.