different paths

Yue Chentan followed behind Xue Zhanyi and flew up, leaving only the word "You Lao" and an empty wheelchair for Jia Wukai.

Jia Wuhu rubbed his nose, familiar dialogue, familiar scene, even though he changed his face, he still couldn't escape the fate of carrying a wheelchair.However, he is now a small follower of the Iron Shark Gang, so naturally he can't display such a brilliant lightness kung fu.He struggled to carry the wheelchair made of solid wood on his back, looked at the stone wall and sighed for a while, finally raised his head and said to the top of the cave: "You two, my lightness kung fu is really not very good, can you give me a little help?"

With a flash of light in Yue Chentan's eyes, he said to Xue Zhanyi: "Junior brother, I can borrow what is on your item."

Xue Zhanyi felt a chill on his neck, and Yue Chentan had already held the fine velvet that was originally wrapped around his neck, and it hung down into the hole like a thick rope.

"Little brother!" Xue Zhanyi stomped his feet angrily, "It's made of high-quality ferret fur, how can it be used to pull heavy things!" Human beings also cherish the rare treasures that can be seen very much.

This mink velvet scarf was his most proud item to keep out the cold, and now it was used by Yue Chentan as a rope, and it was pulled by the gangster he despised the most, it would be strange if he wasn't angry.

Yue Chentan didn't seem to notice his overwhelming anger, but said calmly: "The mink fur is the strongest, saving people is the most important thing right now, if the younger brother is reluctant, I will pay the younger brother after I go down the mountain."

When Xue Zhanyi heard this, if he agreed, it seemed that he was really caressing about his little brother. God knows he didn't blame his little brother at all, but the fat man at the bottom of the cave who didn't know how to do light work. If he didn't agree, then There was still a breath in his chest, and it was difficult to express it.Between the two phases, he chose silence.

While admiring Xue Zhanyi's shriveled face, Jia Wukai grabbed the drooping mink hair and climbed up.His hands and feet were not idle, nor was his mouth idle: "Brother Xue, this mink fur is really good, it's slippery, soft, and warm."

Xue Zhanyi stared fixedly at his hand holding the sable, biting his lip without saying a word.On the contrary, Yue Chentan watched him climb, and said leisurely: "Brother Wu looks quite relaxed, it seems that he was too modest just now, and lightness kung fu is naturally not bad."

Jia Wujue's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately said, "Brother Yue is too famous. I managed to support myself so that I could barely climb up." After speaking, he knelt down on the ground with one leg first, and then supported the boy on his back with one hand. The wheelchair pressed down hard on the ground with one hand, and finally crawled out from the top of the cave panting heavily.In order to increase the effect, he was panting heavily and coughing at the same time, which seemed a little exhausted.

Seeing him gasping for breath, Xue Zhanyi rolled his eyes and said, "It's really useless."

"Naturally not as good as Brother Xue." Jia Wujue replied with a playful smile, as if he wasn't angry at all.

Seeing his greasy smiling face, Xue Zhanyi felt tired no matter what he looked at, so he simply walked away, leaving this man behind him, out of sight.

At this moment, the sky has completely darkened, and there is another scene outside the cave roof.Among the high mountains, there is actually a large expanse of grassland.A few stars are looming in the twilight, and the moon is rising, hanging obliquely on the branches, exuding a pure light.

In this valley, there are mostly waist-high grass and low shrubs, and tall trees are rare.However, under the gloomy sky, there are rows of straight and tall black shadows standing on the grassland.As the moon rose higher and higher, the three of them finally saw clearly that the rows of black shadows were not pines, cypresses and poplars, but long-burning incense sticks shining with metallic light.

The night was getting darker, and everything was silent.The occasional chirping of birds and beasts makes the night scene here seem more quiet and mysterious.The three of them settled down under a big tree, preparing to spend the night under the shelter of the dense shade.

There are gusts of dry hot wind blowing from time to time in the valley. In winter, the climate here is like midsummer.The bonfire in front of the tree was burning, silently warning the birds and beasts in the valley, and silently waiting for the teammates who escaped from the cave.

It's a pity that when the moon was in the sky, there was still no one except the three of them.

Jia Wuju yawned, and said to the two people by the campfire: "I used to go out with the brothers in the gang, and I was the one who watched the wind during the night. Brother Yue and Brother Xue, if you don't worry, let me watch the night tonight."

After speaking, he walked towards the thick tree trunk, rubbed a few times, and climbed up.The leaves were dense, and his figure would soon be invisible, and he could only be judged by the trembling of the tree body that he was still moving.

After a while, Jia Wujue's voice came from the top of the tree: "Both brothers, sleep at ease, I can see everything from my position, and I can see everything clearly."

"It's still useful at last." Xue Zhanyi let out a light snort, and lazily closed his clothes and leaned against the tree trunk.

Yue Chentan looked up, with an unpredictable expression: "It's cold in the middle of the night, brother Wu should be more careful.",

"Brother Yue, don't worry."

Jia Wuchai's indifferent voice came from above, obviously not taking these words to heart at all.Yue Chentan didn't say any more, his eyes were slightly closed, he sat in lotus position, and soon fell into samadhi.

Jia Wukai was lying on a thick tree trunk, with a leaf in his mouth, crossing his legs, feeling very uncomfortable.A gust of hot wind blew past, the leaves rustled, and a few clouds were also blown by the wind, blocking Haoyue's figure.

It was dark and dark.

The night blurs vision, but sharpens other senses, such as smell.It seems that because of the sudden rise in temperature, the scent was stimulated to diffuse, and the originally imperceptible scent of solitary life was now extremely enthusiastically scrambling to drill into Jia Wukai's nostrils.

He stretched out his hand, took out the piece of "drawing paper" he took from the hole, and looked at it carefully.

Duhuoxiang, containing pungent and bitter, is as its name suggests.Among the people he knows, there is only one person who prefers this fragrance, not only to infect his clothes, but also to leave traces of this fragrance on the utensils he makes.That person once said that in the midst of love and desire, people live and die alone, go and come alone, suffer and enjoy themselves, and there is no substitute.The two characters of solitary living are exactly in line with the true meaning of life, so they are especially loved.

This person is the one who taught him how to make masks, Boss Yan.

But Yan Lao is far away in the valley, so how could he have anything to do with the weird Buddhist paintings in Liufan Mountain?Or maybe the maker of the human skin is an old acquaintance of Boss Yan?

This is quite possible.The people in the valley never asked about their origins or provenance. Once they entered the valley gate, they would completely break with the past. It would not be surprising if Boss Yan made a human skin mask before entering the valley.

Just as he was thinking, a snow-white figure crossed the sky in the night, shuttled through the thick clouds, and after a while, landed silently on Jia Wuchai's chest.

Two sharp claws stepped on Jia Wubai's chest tightly, Xuemo's eyes were sharp, and his sharp beak was raised towards Jia Wubai, as if to signal.Such an arrogant and extravagant appearance is exactly like its owner.

I don't know, where is the senior brother now?However, according to Gu Yiming's skills, there will be no problems anywhere, and Jia Wuchai is not worried at all.

He tentatively touched Xuemo's soft and shiny feathers, but the other party still stared at him condescendingly, without any response.He sighed helplessly, split the "canvas" in his hand into two, stuffed one into his bosom, and tied the other to Xuemo's feet.

"Please." Jia Wujue bowed to Xuemo with his palms folded.

Xuemo shook her wings, turned around, pointed her butt at him, stepped hard on his chest with both claws, and then flew away without giving him any extra eyes.

"It's not easy to keep pets." Jia Wujue said with emotion as he watched the figure that quickly disappeared into the clouds.

Under the shadows of many trees, Yue Chentan's closed eyes moved slightly, and his consciousness was no longer clear.Sitting cross-legged, which allows him to get rid of worldly troubles on weekdays, can no longer make him feel peaceful at this moment.He was sitting on the ground, but his heart was already suspended in the air, every movement above his head fell into his ears exactly.

The heart is not calm and the body is naturally not cool. As the hot night wind blows by, the bean-sized beads of sweat drip down his hair and forehead, one by one, some from the chest, some from the dripping behind.Under the baptism of sweat, the freshly scabbed wound on his back regained its fighting power and became more and more painful.

Such pain made it hard for Yue Chentan to forget why he was punished like this.

There are eight sufferings in human beings: birth, old age, sickness and death, resentment and hatred, separation from love, flaming five Yins, and nothing you can ask for.These eight kinds of bitter fruits are even more painful because of the word love.The Buddha used the torch against the wind as an analogy to love and desire. If a person walks with it, he must suffer from burning hands.Once a person has a heart of love and desire, seeing the Tao is like seeing muddled clear water, and he can no longer see the reflection clearly.

Yue Chentan has been indifferent since he was a child, and the word "like" is unfamiliar to him, let alone the word "love" which makes people toss and turn.He is familiar with the Buddhist scriptures, the heart of love, the desire to be close, for him in the past, was the cause of various crimes and the cause of many disobediences.Love begets hatred, envy, hatred, lust, grievances, injustices and obstacles, and evil ghosts in hell.Only by cutting off greed and eliminating love and thirst can one be freed from life and death and the cycle of reincarnation.

He never thought that the causes of all kinds of crimes would come to him one day.

The master said that his unsteady Dao mind is the cause of wrong one, the reason for delusional thinking is the second, and the attachment to the ordinary mind is the cause of wrong three, a few simple words, but it was like a blow to the head, which surprised him suddenly——

The heart of love and desire that I thought didn't exist in my body at all, unexpectedly started beating quietly at some point.

Is this the "love" that people flock to and cannot give up despite the pain of burning skin and the suspicion of being wrong?For the first time, he had a disagreement with his master, although he didn't say it out loud.

The master said that it is wrong for him to have a desire for love, and it is a delusion if he has a heart, which is a violation of the law and a breach of the precepts.But before the Buddha became a Buddha, he also indulged in frolicking, accepting concubines, and sensuality.The heart of love and desire can only be sparse, not blocked.In his current view, the so-called love is just like the temptations of the devil when the Buddha was enlightened under the bodhi tree.

Since he himself has thought about it, doesn't it mean that he has gone one step further from enlightenment?Sticking to the rules cannot prove the first fruit, only catastrophe can make people break through the cage and cultivate the real fruit.And lust is just a small hurdle on the way to fruition, so why treat it like a scourge and make a fuss about it.

Yue Chentan has a cold heart and a cold personality.How did he know that if it is a word of love, it can be solved so easily, so how can so many people fly to the fire and die, just for the fleeting day and night.There are innumerable disciples of Buddhism, and those who cross the threshold of love are not like a mayfly in the world, or a drop in the ocean.

If he thinks back to his thoughts at this moment in the future, he will definitely find it ridiculous.

As the night passed, the sky turned white.Jia Wuchai slid down the tree trunk, walked to the burnt bonfire, and "peddled" two feet, completely eliminating the potential sparks.

Xue Zhanyi heard the movement, opened his eyes lazily, saw that it was Jia Wuchao, and immediately closed his eyes again, as if he was afraid of getting his eyes dirty.He didn't want to look at Jia Wujue, but Jia Wujue just swayed in front of him, deliberately turned his back to him, blocked his sight with his fat back, and said to Yue Chentan: "Brother Yue, shall we go on the road? This night No one found them, so I figured they might go out from other caves and continue walking up the mountain."

The place where the three were trapped was the front part of the cave. If someone walked back, they would definitely pass by where they were. Right now there is no one, and the most likely reason is that the people who came out continued to move forward.

As soon as Jia Wuhai finished speaking, he felt a very strong hand pushing his back.Xue Zhanyi's impatient voice came from behind: "Fatty, get out of the way."

"Junior brother, speak carefully." Immediately after his impatient words, Yue Chentan opened his mouth coldly.

Jia Wuchai didn't turn his head to look at Xue Zhanyi, but he probably was very angry, as he could hear the stomping of feet behind him.He leaned close to Yue Chentan with a straight face, and said courteously: "Brother Yue, shall I push you away?"

Yue Chentan glanced at him, nodded slightly, and agreed.

Xue Zhanyi walked in front with his head held high and his hands behind his back, Jia Wujue pushed Yue Chentan to follow behind, the three of them were speechless all the way.After walking for about half a stick of incense, Yue Chentan suddenly said: "Brother Wu, do you know that there is a saying in the "Diamond Sutra" that says 'all appearances are false'."

He suddenly said such a sentence, which made Jia Wuchai really puzzled, so he could only answer naively on the top of his head: "Well, it seems to sound familiar. Brother Yue asked me this, is he trying to explain Buddhism to me? "

Xue Zhanyi, who was in front of him, sneered when he heard this, stopped, turned around and said mockingly: "Let my little senior brother teach you the Fa? Who do you think you are? Tell you, little senior brother is telling you You, the reason why he can endure your ugly appearance until now is because he knows that 'everything that has a picture is false', and that everything you see is fake, regardless of beauty or ugliness, and treats you as air. "

"What?" Jia Wujue scratched his head as if he didn't understand, "Then according to Brother Xue's words, in Brother Yue's eyes, we are both fake and air?"

"You—" Xue Zhanyi choked for a moment, glared at him, turned around and hurried on his way sullenly.Jia Wuchai said innocently, "Brother Yue, am I not understanding correctly?"

A smile flashed across Yue Chentan's eyes: "At least it's not wrong."

"I'll just say it." Jia Wujue pushed Yue Chentan to continue walking, "Brother Xue is really difficult to serve. By the way, brother Yue hasn't answered me yet, why are you asking me so?"

"It's nothing." Yue Chentan said lightly, "It just occurred to me that the few Buddhist paintings I saw along the way were quite colorful, unlike ordinary murals. Under the thick ink and heavy colors, what is really hidden?" Said With that, he changed the topic, "I saw that Brother Wu also inspected the murals before, did you find anything?"

Jia Wuchai chuckled: "I'm a rough person, I just look at it strangely, how can I understand these fine things. But, if you say you have discovered it, it's not impossible."

"Oh?"

"The stone walls with Buddhist paintings are slippery. It feels like touching a woman." Jia Wuzhen had a rascal smile on his face.

Yue Chentan said calmly: "Really? It seems that Brother Wu must have touched many women."

"Acceptance, acquiescence." Jia Wuhai replied with a shy face.

"Little brother, listen to his nonsense." Xue Zhanyi turned his head and said, "Touching those hard rocks can feel like touching a woman. I think he has not had many women, but misses women. Think crazy."

"I'm not crazy about women!" Jia Wujue argued, "That feeling is really different from ordinary rocks."

"That's it." Yue Chentan's voice was calm, no emotion could be heard.

Jia Wujue was pushing him at this moment, and he couldn't see the other person's expression clearly. He felt like crying, although he changed his identity, but he didn't want to give Yue Chentan the impression of a pervert.

Just as he was about to open his mouth to explain a few more words, he heard a faint voice coming from ahead——

"Why did someone die again?"

"Oh my God, this is a terrible death."

"It's a crime..."

Yue Chentan's voice sank: "Let's go there quickly."

"It's just what I want." Jia Wujue mustered all his strength, pushed Yue Chentan and ran towards the crowd.