Chapter 11 Chapter nine
Xie Huiren drank the last sip of tea, put the cup on the tea table, pushed it forward, and said regretfully, "I'm sorry, Mr. Cheng, I have to leave."
"Please come." Cheng Bi stretched out his hand and held Xie Huiren tightly, "It's an honor to meet you, please come and sit down when you are free."
Xie Huiren finally smiled, and the soft lines on his face became much more vivid.Cheng Bi thought, this is really a handsome man, his smile is a bit like the smile of a Buddha statue, generous, pure and dignified, and full of the mystery of a smile.
After letting go, Cheng Bi hesitated for a moment and said, "Mr. Xie, I think you should go through the special passage. There must be many reporters waiting for you at the main entrance." He turned his head to Sally and ordered: "Please Give it to Mr. Xie."
"Okay." At this moment, Sally also stood up. The ecstatic look when she looked at Xie Huiren just now has disappeared, and now she has professionally transformed into a hospitality smile. She is polite, neither humble nor overbearing. She nodded at Xie Huiren , said softly, "Mr. Xie, please follow me."
They walked out the door and down the hallway across the patio to the hallway at the other end.Xie Huiren saw that the house numbers were almost full of words such as archives and showrooms. It seemed that this was not a conventional office area.Sally looked back, and after confirming that there was no one there, she said softly, "Mr. Xie, we have to go to Japan."
"Ok".Xie Huiren was still expressionless.
Sally looked at him in surprise, "Why, you know you're going to Japan?"
"No, my client said, I want to go with you. As for where, I don't care, because they are the final buyers who pay the money."
Sally curled her lips, it seems that this is a calm man, he will not be flattered or humiliated by what you say.She said flatly, "Let's go now."
"Now?" Xie Huiren stopped suddenly, why now?He rushed from Shenzhen to Hong Kong early in the morning, but someone told him at noon that he was going to a foreign country immediately? "How is this possible? I have to go home and prepare, and it will be in the afternoon at the earliest."
"There's no time." Sally's tone was always unquestionable, "You just said that your client asked you to listen to me."
"But going to Japan is not as simple as coming to Hong Kong. My passport..."
"You don't need to worry about this. Let's talk about it at the airport first. If it goes well, I think I will find a solution." Sally thought to herself, someone will prepare for all of this. It is not you or me who are worried, but someone else others.
"But I have to eat something first, right?"
"There is food on the plane." Before she finished speaking, Sally's figure had already walked a long way.
this woman.Xie Huiren has never seen such a decisive woman.It sounds nice to say decisive, but self-willed?opinionated?It seems that they are not accurate. In short, Xie Huiren feels that it is not a good choice to work with this woman.Helpless, he had to go with her now, at least, he had to leave the building first.
Xie Huiren followed Sally and got on the elevator at the end of the corridor.
He saw the light in the elevator flicker on the basement floor, and the elevator door opened. "This is the internal parking lot." Sally walked forward as she introduced, "You can go directly through the VIP passage and go straight to the back door of the company."
The two stopped in front of a silver-white Audi car. Sally opened the door and let Xie Huiren sit in.This is a right-hand drive car of Hong Kong General Motors. Xie Huiren is sitting on the left, which feels weird.
Sally started the car.Xie Huiren looked ahead, he saw the car turning around in the maze-like road, and finally came to an exit.Sally took out her badge and inserted it into a machine, and the door opened.
The car was driving on the way to Kai Tak Airport, Xie Huiren was no longer in the mood to appreciate the scenery of Hong Kong, he felt his head was a little heavy, since he received that inexplicable call last night and the photo with temples and silver bracelet patterns, he He was restless, and he couldn't get rid of the picture in his mind even by reciting the scriptures silently. Many times, he felt that he was almost able to fully remember the pattern of the silver bracelet. clear.But as soon as he opened his eyes, when he picked up the pen, those patterns disappeared completely.
He used to be very confident in his memory, especially for things that others thought were messy, and he also found that he always remembered things faster than others.I remember that at school, a colleague once joked that without sufficient knowledge of ancient Chinese and the basic concepts of Buddhism, to an ordinary person, the Buddhist scriptures are no different from heavenly scriptures, which are probably similar to a bunch of unconnected word arrangements. together.As he said that, the colleague gave a test to the people around him. He found a booklet, turned to a page at random, read a few words, and then turned a few pages, and read another paragraph.
He closed the book with a smile, "Do you understand, what are you talking about?"
All the people in the room laughed and said, "I don't understand this at all. Maybe I can almost understand it if I see the words."
"You may not really understand the words when you see the words." The colleague smiled slyly, his eyes scanned the crowd, and finally settled on Xie Huiren, "Hui Ren, I heard that you have a lot of research on Buddhism, I can tell ?”
Xie Huiren smiled, and replied: "The first paragraph is "The Holy Infinite Life Determines the Bright King Dharani" in the 'Ten Small Curses', which is one of Amitabha's teachings; the latter paragraph is really difficult to understand. If I make a mistake, it is in "Mengshan Shishi Ritual."
"Hehe, okay, Huiren." The colleague was surprised, "Have you read this too?"
"I seldom read it, I just heard it." Xie Huiren said modestly, "These two passages are mantras, which are necessary for daily recitation in temples."
"Then I won't tell you. You are an expert. I'll tell them another paragraph. You can't interrupt." The colleague smiled and read other scriptures to everyone.
Xie Huiren ignored them and fell into childhood memories alone.He had heard those two scriptures when he was very young. Although thirty years had passed, he could even recite them as soon as he heard the beginning.In fact, when he was a child, he did not really hear what the abbot of the temple was chanting. Many years later, after he had studied the daily recitation of Chinese Buddhism in depth, when he read those scriptures again, the voice of the abbot and master suddenly sounded in his ears. , At that time, he was sure that what he heard in his childhood was these chanting scriptures.
What his colleague said also has a certain truth. Even if you read the words of these mantras, you may not understand the meaning of these words together—for example, the "Mengshan Food Ritual"—Xie Huiren thought of this scripture, Can't help but smile.This is to be recited in the evening class of the temple.It is stipulated in the temple that monks should take out some rice grains during the fast at noon every day, and give them to hungry ghosts at night. When doing this homework, they must read this mantra.Xie Huiren remembers that he almost laughed out loud when he saw the information about "Mengshan Shishi Ritual". According to legend, this mantra was compiled by Master Ganlu in Mengshan in Ya'an, Sichuan, but the fact is that its real author did not understand the principles of the Shingon sect. It's just that some mantras were randomly selected from the classics and gathered together in an incoherent manner.But that is how it has been passed down from generation to generation.
As for those "ten little mantras", he was indeed used to hearing them.At that time, every morning, after he finished cleaning the main hall, the abbot master would lead the disciples to recite these, together with the "Ten Small Mantras", there was also the "Great Compassion Mantra", which was also Xie Huiren's favorite Mantra, when he was reading, this scripture was often displayed on the computer.
Xie Huiren still remembers that at that time, the master said that the combination of the "Ten Small Mantras" and the "Great Compassion Mantra" is a homework, and he will be taught to recite it in the future.It is a pity that there were fewer and fewer monks in the temple, and the voices of chanting no longer had pleasant praises and majestic momentum. Later, before the abbot master had time to teach him, he left the temple.
Thinking of the temple where he lived when he was a child, Xie Huiren felt an unspeakable feeling in his heart.He seemed to see his childhood self looking around at the gate of the temple, waiting for the little girl from the neighbor’s house. They made an appointment the day before to play on the tower behind the temple, where they could see many houses in the village, and creek and green hills.
He leaned on the side of the mountain gate and looked at the two vajra statues at the gate. They held a strange thing in their hands. The old abbot said that it was called a vajra, which was the strongest weapon in ancient India.However, Buddhism forbids killing, so what do you need weapons for?He was thinking blankly, leaning against the mountain gate, gradually getting a little sleepy.At this time, the cry of the little girl next door suddenly sounded in his ears.
"What, fell asleep?"
"Yeah." Xie Huiren supported in a daze, and as soon as he moved his body, he realized that it was in reality.Sally had stopped the car.Xie Huiren looked out the car window, they were already at the airport.
"Sit still and don't move. I'll go down and go through the formalities. Give me your ID card and passport."
Xie Huiren didn't move, he stared blankly ahead.Not far away, the two Japanese who had just participated in the auction also happened to get out of the car.
Sally obviously noticed them too, and said to herself, "Why did we meet here?"
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