empty mirror

"Let's go." Yuan Qing greeted the young monk when he walked around.

"Where are you going?" the young man asked confusedly.

"Go to a safe place."

"This world is about to be destroyed. Is there any place that can be called safe?" The young man laughed at himself.

"Of course there are." Yuan Qing replied without hesitation.

"Really?"

"real."

"So, can I ask you something?"

"what?"

"I have a master, he is in the temple not far ahead, may I ask you?"

"No." Yuan Qing refused without thinking.

"Why? You said that you are a friend of that god, and you can find a safe place; since you can choose to save me, why can't you save one more?"

"I will save you because you are the person I find pleasing to the eye. As for your master, heh—"

"you!"

Hearing such unkind words at first, the young man's cheeks flushed with anger in an instant, and coughed violently in the next moment.

Yuan Qing was startled when he saw this, and hurriedly put him down and sat against the tree. He was about to give him a smooth hand, but the young man slapped him away.

"You don't need to pretend to be kind." He said bitterly.

Yuan Qing looked at his cheeks that were flushed from anger, and forgot to speak for a while.

half an hour.

"Sorry, I didn't pay attention to it, so I didn't know that your body—"

"Don't worry about it!" The young man said with his back turned to him.

a while.

"Let's go. I agreed to the previous request." Yuan Qing sighed and compromised.

This time, the young man didn't refuse, but he just walked ahead stubbornly, ignoring Yuan Qing's plan.

After a while, the two came to a simple temple.

As soon as he walked to the gate, an old man with the appearance of an old monk came out of the gate.

The old monk looked at the young man and then at Yuan Qing, and asked suspiciously, "Tian Yi, why did you come back so early today? Also, who is this benefactor?"

After Yuan Qing made an action for the young man to explain, he walked to the side alone, thought for a while, and then stepped back a dozen steps until he was sure that the entire temple was estimated to be within the prediction range——

He stopped and took out a pen from his pocket——

After silently saying "Chaabi will help me", he took the pen that started to emit golden light and drew a circle in the air.

In the next second, the circle slowly grew until it could accommodate the size of the mountain.

Then he said 'Go', and the circle of light landed and covered the mountain and the temple.

After finishing all this, he came to the young man and the old monk whose conversation had come to an end.

"I'm leaving," he said.

"Is it so fast?" The young man obviously didn't expect him to propose to leave like this, and the obvious look of surprise on his face has not faded.

"Yeah!" Yuan Qing glanced at the faintly visible golden figure in the distance, then turned his gaze back and said:

"I still have some things to deal with now. Oh, I forgot to mention that this temple of yours has been included in my pure land space. The time inside is almost static, so ah," he blinked mischievously Finally, he continued, "Don't think about me too much, maybe it's only a matter of time for you to drink a cup of tea, and I'll be back."

Suddenly hearing such frivolous words, the young man suddenly changed his face and chased people away: "Who, who would think! Go, go!"

"Hey! Then I'm really leaving!" Yuan Qing said, and disappeared in front of the two of them in the next second.

***

Yuan Qing who disappeared had a thought, and the next moment he came to the top of the entire planet.

After looking at the progress of the life development below his eyes, he closed his eyes and counted the time in his heart.After the estimated time was about the same, he opened his eyes and looked down——

It was a group of young people traveling in the mountains.

Just looking at the situation, this group of people has encountered difficulties now—they wanted to go down the mountain while the sky was still bright, but they lost their way.

Not only that, they were going in the wrong direction, and all mobile phones lost signal.

The sky gradually darkened. In desperation, the leading young man divided everyone into two groups to find water and firewood. They made an appointment to meet in half an hour, cook dinner and allocate tents for accommodation.

After watching the meeting, Yuan Qing chose a tall tree with nothing to do, leaned against the back of the tree and fell asleep - he was waiting for an opportunity that only he knew.

Suddenly, he moved!Flew down from the tree suddenly.

After landing, he smiled and clapped his hands, changed his attire according to the clothes of the two girls in front of him, and immediately strode over there.

"Well, are you lost?" He suddenly asked when he was about ten steps away from the two girls.

"Oh!" "Yeah!"

Perhaps because of being startled by the sudden voice, the two girls near the edge of the forest let out gasps one after another.

"Ah, I'm sorry, I've scared you!" Yuan Qing explained apologetically, "I'm from the neighborhood, my name is Yuan Qing! People often get lost in this place, so my family often asks me to come around."

The girl who was closer to Yuan Qing reacted first, took a few steps closer and said with a smile: "No, it's okay. We were just looking for drinking water, and we will see if we can find the way down the mountain. Yuan Qing, you came just in time! Thank you very much! By the way, my name is Li Li, and she is my good friend A Zhen!"

"You are looking for water, I know, you come with me." Yuan Qing took the lead and walked in one direction.

After walking a few steps away, he heard a few conversations behind him: "Ah Zhen, come here quickly, why are you standing still?"

It was Li Li's voice.

"Oh, it's okay, just my feet are a little numb!" A quiet and timid voice replied.

"You, you've been like this since you were a child! You panic when something happens! Come on, give me your hand, and I'll rub it for you. You'll be fine after a while."

"okay!"

"It's much better! It's much better, let's catch up quickly. It's rare to meet someone who knows the way now. Maybe, we don't have to spend the night here tonight."

"Ok!"

Soon, two girls followed.

Yuan Qing smiled and didn't look back.

Ten minutes later, Yuan Qing took the two of them to fetch water, and walked towards the place where their large troops gathered in the same way.

"Ah, we're here! I saw them!" Li Li shouted first, "Hey! Team leader! Zhang Yang! We're back!"

As soon as the words fell, a tall boy ran over from the main force——

As soon as the visitor came over, he rushed to the girl named A Zhen, looked up and down, and then looked at Li Li, "Where have you been? Do you know that I am dying of anxiety! I am really afraid that something will happen to you If the team leader hadn't said to wait a few more minutes, I would have gone to find you a long time ago!"

"Oh! We got lost!" Li Li patted her forehead with a smile, begging for mercy, "Okay! I know you are worried about your A-Zhen! Didn't I bring her back intact!"

"En!" Zhang Yang nodded, then looked in Yuan Qing's direction, "Who is this?"

"Oh, I forgot to introduce, this is Yuan Qing who lives in the local area, he knows the way, he is the one who sent us back!" Li Li replied.

"That's great!" Zhang Yang's eyes lit up when he heard that, "Then let's go and talk to the team leader! Just now, many girls said they were bitten by mosquitoes, and they were clamoring to drive down the mountain overnight! The team leader is already going crazy ! Now that we have a guide, we can be saved!"

"You guys go over! My feet are a little sore, I'll take a rest here!" The female voice called Ah Zhen said.

Zhang Yang was stunned for a moment, and then said back to God, "That's fine, Ah Zhen, you can rest here, Li Li, come with me!"

"This—" Li Li looked at A Zhen, a little hesitant.

"Don't worry, I'll stay here too. After you've discussed it, come back." Seeing this, Yuan Qing persuaded.

"Okay then." Li Li reluctantly opened her mouth, shook A Zhen's hand and said, "A Zhen, let's go back as soon as we go."

"it is good!"

Zhang Yang and Li Li walked away quickly.

"Hey!" Seeing them walking away, Ah Zhen suddenly sighed.

"What? Can't bear to part with them?" Yuan Qing joked upon seeing this.

"No, I, I just suddenly don't understand a lot of things." She lowered her head and said in bewilderment.

"Why don't you understand the law?"

"That's right, how should I put it, it's as if the whole world has suddenly changed. The details that I haven't noticed before, and the expressions of people who haven't seen it clearly, suddenly become clear. It's like, time has suddenly been enlarged countless times. , and I just stopped in the gap. I, I can't explain why." She shook her head, squatted down and buried her cheeks in her knees.

"Isn't that good?" Yuan Qing looked at her with a smile, "Isn't it good to see through the truth and people's hearts?"

"I don't know, it's just that I suddenly feel terrible!" There was some fear and sadness in her voice, "I, I used to live in a rich and happy family, and my parents seem to love each other very much. I, an only child, wanted to I don’t need to ask for anything, they bought it for me. Li Li is my best friend. Although her family is not as rich as ours, she is beautiful, lively and generous, and she is willing to work hard. I don’t know how many boys around her. After going to college, she was equally dazzling, and even joined the student union—I always thought we could go on like this. Just half a year ago, I suddenly discovered the big secret of the family. It turned out that my father I had a son who was about my age outside very early on. He didn't care at all when I found out about it, saying that marriage is like this, or that my mother actually raised many lovers outside, but I don't know. The ideal loving parents and happy family I was proud of were shattered in an instant. During that time, I was in a bad mood and almost fell ill several times. The person who accompanied me through those painful days was Zhang Yang—he was The vice chairman of the student union, people like him shouldn’t pay attention to people like me who are so quiet and have no sense of presence. Just kidding, but, after going through the incident just now—”

"Which one?" Yuan Qing elongated his voice and said slowly, "Do you mean that if I hadn't called out to stop you, you would have been pushed down by her?"

"Sure enough! Did you see it too!" She raised her face from her knees, looked at Yuan Qing with red eyes, and said, "I was just a little skeptical at first, but seeing that she was still asking her questions like before, I gave up. Until, just now, when Zhang Yang came over, I saw that her expression changed—I never knew that such a thing that one person only sees another person can happen to Li Li, because , she looks like a phoenix, and others have always surrounded her - I watched her eyes full of affection to meet Zhang Yang, and then when Zhang Yang left her and rushed back towards me, I saw her Her face was distorted in an instant. At that moment, I was finally sure that she really wanted to kill me before. But, but, why on earth! She likes to be public, so you can tell me, I don’t have to be public, I just have a spiritual support for the time being because of my parents - I may not even marry anyone - we are the best sisters, ten years of friendship, can't it be worth getting along with Zhang Yang for more than half a year? !?"

"Well! There are many reasons! It may be because of self-esteem, girls, they always want to prove that what they have is the best - didn't you tell her about your parents? The second is that the situation has changed Well! In the past, you were young, and Li Li was also young. No matter how big the interests are, it would not endanger your life. Just like your parents took care of you when you were young and knew how to pretend. When you are older, they think you are an adult. I am qualified to stand on the opposite side of them. I feel that even if you find out, you can understand, and they don’t pretend so hard—after all, pretending is a very tiring job. And Li Li, she used to be empty in her heart , is a bottomless pit, no amount of envy and admiration can fill and affect her heart - and now she has Zhang Yang in her heart, she wants to get him, but Zhang Yang chooses you who she never thought was competitive, she can't ask for it, She is jealous, she is in pain, so she officially regards you as an enemy, and she is the kind who wants to kill you quickly-so don't talk to this kind of person about friendship and why she doesn't communicate with you-she didn't treat you in the first place As a friend, in her eyes, you are just a useless little follower with some money at home, a little character who doesn't even have the qualifications to be her enemy. So, what are you going to do?"

"How to do it? How to do what?" She raised her head in confusion, and looked at Yuan Qing out of focus.

"You don't think this is the end of the matter, do you?" Yuan Qing nodded her nose funny.

"Otherwise? I'll make it clear to her that I won't associate with Zhang Yang again, so it's fine to let the two of them develop freely?"

"You are so naive! You are worthy of being a good man of the ten generations!"

"What do you mean?"

"Do you think that she can be with Zhang Yang just because you said that? What excuse do you use to refuse Zhang Yang? Will Zhang Yang believe it? Even if they are really together, do you think Li Li will rest assured that you, a Ding-time- who knows her secrets? Bomb continues to live by her side?"

"Then, what should I do? Do you want me to suspend my studies and go abroad?" She asked a little at a loss.

"It's useless," Yuan Qing pointed his finger at his lips, approached her, and said mysteriously, "Let me tell you this, you were actually destined to be pushed off the cliff by Li Li to die not long ago. So, even if I Even if I save you once, you will still die in Li Li's hands."

"Why, how could it be?" She shook her head violently, and said in disbelief, "This, this is impossible! What evidence do you have!"

"Evidence?" Yuan Qing thought for two seconds, then drew a circle in the air with his right hand, "Well, you should see for yourself!"

Following Yuan Qing's gesture, a rectangle like a movie screen appeared in the air out of thin air, with ripples like water waves on the edge of the rectangle, and what happened after Li Li pushed Wang Zhen behind was playing in it:

Li Li shone the light down, called Wang Zhen a few times, but when she received no response, she immediately ran back to the camp pretending to be in a panic.

The team leader and Zhang Yang were shocked, and took everyone to the accident site to search for people.

As a result, those who went down to investigate came up and said that Wang Zhen was hopeless.

Everyone was frightened, but Zhang Yang, who was going down together, suddenly beat the ground with his hands, and said with grief and self-blame that he should not have left Wang Zhen. With him by his side, maybe Wang Zhen would be fine.

At this time Li Li knelt down and slapped herself, saying that it was all her fault, that Wang Zhen should not have been allowed to walk in front, and that she should have fallen if she were to fall.

Because everyone knew that Li Li and Wang Zhen were the best sisters, and Li Li was always taking care of Wang Zhen, so when they saw her like this, everyone hurriedly helped her up and told her not to be sad. No one would want such a thing to happen.

Zhang Yang also stood up at this time, saying that he didn't blame Li Li, what happened just now was just feeling uncomfortable and uncomfortable, just to vent his emotions.

The team leader said at this time, everyone go back to the fire and stay by the fire. Since the person is dead, it will be useless to stay here now. When the day breaks and you find the way down the mountain, call the police immediately.

When this kind of thing happened, most people had no sleep all night, and they didn't sleep for a few hours until dawn.

At this time, the team leader woke everyone up. After everyone had breakfast with some bread and boiled water, they counted the number of people and prepared to go down the mountain.

Perhaps because of the bright sky, they quickly found the way they came, went down the mountain smoothly, and called the police.

Soon, the police and Wang Zhen's parents came.

The police and several students went to the accident site and brought Wang Zhen's body up.

Take pictures and take statements.After doing a preliminary investigation, the students were sent back.

The team leaders, Zhang Yang and Li Li took the initiative to stay with Wang Zhen's parents.

This investigation lasted for three days.After collecting evidence and investigating, the police finally informed the family that the death was accidental.

A week later, Wang Zhen's classmates attended her funeral.

Half a year later, Wang Zhen's parents divorced, and soon each had a new family.

Three years later, Li Li and Zhang Yang graduated and got married.

Thirty years later, Zhang Yang accidentally discovered the truth about Li Li's killing of Wang Zhen, but faced with Li Li's pleading, he chose to remain silent after seeing the house where he had worked so hard for half his life and the smiles of the children.

50 years later, Li Li passed away first.

Before she died, Wang Zhen asked her obsessively in the world, won't you feel guilty if you do this, and won't you be afraid of going to hell?

Li Li's face with a breathing tube showed a smile for a moment:

"People don't kill themselves. There is only one Zhang Yang, and only one piece of happiness. If I give it to you, I will lose it. What is wrong with me wanting my happiness? Hell! Even if there is hell, so what, I am not afraid! The big deal Stay underground for a while, I'll come out again! Look at you, you're not my opponent when you're alive, and even more useless when you're dead! In this world, kindness has a fart, it's the funniest joke! Hahahaha! "

Li Li passed away with a smile on her face.

Some elderly people in the hospital saw her and said that she was a blessed person, and that they would be blessed if their grandchildren paid homage to her!

At this time, Wang Zhen's obsession also dissipated with the wind.

***

"Okay, it's over." Yuan Qing tapped his finger, and the screen disappeared, "How do you feel?"

"Could it be that there is no karma in this world?" Wang Zhen asked.

"Of course there are." Yuan Qing nodded.

"That--"

"But that's only for good people like you."

"I don't know."

"That is to say, the karmic retribution you mentioned actually exists in everyone - it's just that it's just a good person like you, or a weak person like you. For you, going to the eighteenth level of hell is probably the greatest punishment in the world, but how do you know that for those extremely evil people, the eighteenth level of hell is just a dojo for her to practice and make her stronger It is not an exaggeration to say that it is their paradise. On the other hand, Wang Zhen, although you have been a good person for ten generations, you will be rewarded with blessings in every life. Kind and weak, too considerate of others, always live a very tiring life, if you are unlucky enough to meet a reincarnation of evil spirits like Li Li, you will lose your life - of course, you are a good person in the tenth life, your next life The place of reincarnation will definitely have more blessings, maybe it will directly promote the celestial beings of the Three Realms and Six Realms of Reincarnation, Tianlong Babu, etc., that is, angels in western countries, or go to the unexpected three continents of Nanzhan Buzhou to enjoy a thousand years of life. When you run out of rewards, you will reincarnate here. So, look, this person can be kind, but at the same time, you have to understand that everything in this world is false and unreasonable. Your relatives in this world may be strangers or even strangers in the future. Enemy—so, in many cases, just do what you want, you don’t need to be confused or think too much, there is nothing you can’t do, just do whatever you want.”

"I understand." Wang Zhen nodded and stood up, "May I ask what is your purpose of saving me? If I can do it, can you do me a favor and take me out of here temporarily, I need to find a quiet place place, think about it.”

"Not bad, I understood it so quickly. I also learned to bargain." Yuan Qing showed a bright smile of approval, "Don't worry. What I want you to do has something to do with what you ask for. I will tell you later Send you down the mountain, pack some luggage when you get home, well, it’s best to leave a letter to explain the situation, and then come down the mountain early tomorrow morning. I will pick you up."

"Then Li Li?"

"She has just done it, and she won't do it again so soon. After tomorrow, if you come to me, she will never have another chance."

"Okay! I promise you."

Yuan Qing waved his hand with a smile, and a barrier that blocked the sound of the screen broke.

"Ah, I found it!" The man named Zhang Yang ran over panting, "Where are you going? The team leader has gathered everyone to go down the mountain."

"I wanted to relieve myself just now, and I was a little scared. So I asked Yuan Qing to take me to a nearby place." Wang Zhen apologized.

"Oh, that's it." Hearing this, Zhang Yang looked at Yuan Qing twice more, perhaps not aware of any ambiguous atmosphere, so he thanked him sincerely, "Thank you for taking care of Zhen like this."

"It's okay, since everyone is here, I'll lead the way." Yuan Qing nodded towards Wang Zhen, blinked secretly, and strode to the front of the line.

***

After 20 minutes, after watching the group of students leave, Yuan Qing jumped to the top of the tree where he was staying before.

He lay on his back, looking at the bright moon and a few stars in the sky like a big bright disc.

"It still looks good like this," he thought.

"In the future, I will run to the sun and the moon without curiosity. When I couldn't see it before, I was full of infinite yearning. I felt that the moon must be in the cold heavenly palace. The beautiful Chang'e hugged a snow-white jade rabbit and looked at the crowd below, lonely. Sigh. Who knows, the moon is the same as the sun, in fact, there are a whole planet full of life, the same needs to eat, drink, practice, believe in Christ, believe in Taoism, believe in Buddhism, open various ashrams, churches - except for a little weird shape, It’s no different from the earth! Hey! There’s no sense of beauty or mystery at all!”

***

Wang Zhen came very early the next day. When the sky was getting dark, Yuan Qing sensed her trail, so she teleported over with a thought, just blocking a few steps in front of her.

"It's pretty early, didn't you sleep all night?" Yuan Qing took one of her bags and asked with a smile.

"Yeah! I really opened my eyes and thought about countless things. I thought I couldn't make up my mind to give up all of this, but I couldn't help but feel refreshed and started to pack my luggage around three o'clock in the morning!" Speaking of this, Wang Zhen felt a little confused. Embarrassed, he looked at the two small bags on the left and right wrists, "Actually, there are not many things, but these are the only things I usually go to school and go shopping. If the big bags and suitcases are in the parents' room, I'm afraid of alarming them, so-- "

"Really completely let go? Including your parents?"

"Yes! Since they can still live as usual even if I pass away, why should I be tied up among them and increase the pain? At most, I will read more Buddhist scriptures in the future and pray for them every day."

"You can have this!" Yuan Qing laughed, "If you want to recite scriptures, I will take you to the place where you are satisfied! By the way, did you bring your mobile phone and that tablet computer?"

"Yes, just in case. If you don't need it in the future, you can still think about it! What's wrong?" Wang Zhen asked strangely.

"It's nothing." Yuan Qing smiled, "Maybe I can use them to spread some common sense of this era to someone in the future!"

In this way, the two of Yuan Qing asked and answered, and soon came to a slope in the depths of the mountain forest.

"It's here." Yuan Qing said.

"There is nothing here." Wang Zhen looked at the wild grass in front of her in doubt.

"Close your eyes and don't think about anything." Yuan Qing ordered.

"okay."

After Wang Zhen closed her eyes, Yuan Qing took her hand, closed her eyes as well, with a force on her hand, she led Wang Zhen through a certain familiar barrier——

Before Wang Zhen could open her eyes, she heard a "plop", like the sound of something falling to the ground.

"Oh, little monk, I know we haven't seen each other for a long time! But you don't want to be so excited that you even dropped the water scoop!"

Yuan Qing laughed and let go of Wang Zhen's hand, took a few steps forward, bent down, picked up the water ladle that the young man had shaken to the distance, and handed it back to him.