Poor Ghost Up and Down 2000

"I won't send you off when I'm outside the pass."

"Boom..." The hand knocking on the wooden fish stopped, making the wooden fish's voice also stop.

Xuanzang opened his eyes and looked at Gu Nan.

After a while, he lightly put down the wooden stick in his hand, clasped his hands together, and bowed down slowly.

"This way, thank you benefactor."

"It's nothing." Gu Nan smiled and waved his hand: "It's just on the way."

Xuanzang stopped talking and just continued to chant the scriptures, or what he wanted to say was in the scriptures he could read.

Later on, it started to rain again, probably because of the season, as it always rains non-stop during this period.

In the rain, the weeds on both sides of the wilderness path became more green, and the color of the grass seemed to be blurred, which was quite beautiful.

Raindrops dripped down the tile eaves of the ruined temple, and fell to the ground with a ticking sound.

Xuanzang didn't know when he stopped, and he didn't meditate in meditation, but watched the rain in a trance.

This should be regarded as a rare time when he did not practice Buddhism, the Zen stick beside him was rattled by the breeze, Xuanzang turned his head and said to Gu Nan.

"Speaking of it, benefactor, I don't know what the benefactor's name is, so I don't know if I can tell you."

It's just a name, there's nothing to say.

Gu Nan was about to tell Xuanzang his name, but suddenly he became playful and said with a smile.

"You stretch out your hand, and I will write my name on your hand. If you guess it, I will tell you."

Xuanzang was stunned for a moment, and stretched out his hand in front of Gu Nan.

He felt his hand being held, and then a finger touched his palm.

His fingertips were a little cold, and he slid across his palm lightly, writing two words stroke by stroke.

After finishing writing, Gu Nan raised his head and asked with a smile, "Did you guess it?"

Xuanzang stared at her blankly for a while, then lowered his head slightly, stopped looking at her, and said with a faint smile.

"Little monk, take note. Gu benefactor."

Gu Nan didn't see Xuanzang's strangeness, she guessed it once she saw him, shrugged her shoulders, and let go of his hand boringly.

Leaning casually by the door, resting his hands on the back of his head, looking at the rain outside the door, he sighed.

"It's unlucky to live in the wilderness, and it rains at night on the road."

And Xuanzang sat quietly, for a while, turned his head to look at the Buddha statue in the temple, closed his eyes, and said a few words lightly.

"Good, good."

This is good, it is the words of the Buddhist confession, and I don't know why he is making the confession at this time.

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The journey in four or five days is not long. Using Gu Nan's footsteps, if it is slower, it can be reached in half a day.

It is desolate outside the pass, and sometimes there is not a single human being for several miles.On the road, Xuanzang stood in front of Gu Nan in cassock.

Gu Nan pointed at a place with Wuge and said: "I used to come to the outside of the pass, and when I walked there, I could meet a few villages on the way, so it was convenient for alms."

Xuanzang looked back at the direction Gu Nan was pointing at, and turned around.

"That's it, thank you benefactor Gu."

Gu Nan put down her hands: "You don't have to thank me, let's just say goodbye and just be careful on our way."

This monk was a bit dumbfounded, but he was a good monk, he shouldn't have met with disaster in this kind of place.

She turned around to leave.

Xuanzang stopped her.

"Benefactor, I have one more thing to do."

"Huh?" Gu Nan turned around suspiciously: "What's the matter?"

I saw Xuanzang walking slowly in front of her, holding on to the sleeve of the monk's robe, raised a hand, and tapped lightly on her forehead.

Gu Nan took a step back: "Monk, what are you doing knocking on me?"

Xuanzang smiled, and said with a slight sigh: "A reward is a reward, so the karma between me and the benefactor is over."

When the karma is over, the entanglement between the two is over.

"You Buddhists always have some strange rules."

Gu Nan went to think about Xuanzang's meaning, touched his forehead, waved goodbye, and walked towards the distance on the path.

But when she walked a long way, Xuanzang's voice suddenly came from behind her.

"Almsgiver, I am going to the Western Paradise. If the little monk can ask the Buddha's heart, I will ask me why the Buddha killed the evil for the benefactor. I will go to the bewilderment of the benefactor."

Gu Nan smiled and replied from a distance.

"Then I'll wait for you to tell me."

Just like this, it is another cause and effect.

The people gradually walked away, and there were no more people at the ends of the road. Xuanzang stood on the road, carrying his luggage.

He sighed, put his hands together, and said softly.

"Good."

After speaking, go west.

From now on, he is going to ask about the Buddha's heart, ask about the Buddha's will, ask about the seven emotions and six desires, ask about karma and retribution, and ask about a word of Buddha in his heart.

Tang Monk Xuanzang went to the West to learn Buddhist scriptures. Later, there was a gossip, saying that he was not alone on the journey, but that there were three people who walked with him one after another. Those three people were named Wukong, Wuneng, and Wujing.This story was written into a novel by later generations and spread widely.

When Gu Nan knew that Wukong was a monkey, he remembered the story of Journey to the West, and regretted accepting this title, but maybe this is cause and effect.

Long after the two parted, Tang Seng came back to learn the scriptures and preach Buddhism.

The incense in the temple is endless, but pilgrims are not allowed to enter the back mountain, because it is the place where the master meditates.