dragon pen

When Shi Kong returned to the Buddhist hall, he was not surprised to see people surrounded inside and outside the Buddhist hall. The people standing outside stretched their necks to look inside the Buddhist hall, all with disturbed and regretful faces... At that time, they probably heard the sound of straw sandals stepping on the snow behind them, and they all turned their heads and saw the little monk approaching from a distance. The "uneasiness" finally turned into "panic"——

"Shi Kong? Why did you come here?"

"Brother Huineng is gone."

"Shi Kong, aren't you guarding the Buddhist hall tonight? Why is it Huineng who is in the Buddhist hall? Where did you go?"

"Did you already know about Huineng - just leave him here!"

The voice of the crowd was getting louder and louder, and the silence was broken in the quiet night. The little monk stopped and stood not far away, looking at his senior brothers who looked at him in panic, paused, and then said lightly: " The Buddhist gate is pure, it’s not good for senior brothers to shout like this in front of the Buddhist hall?"

The monks: "..."

The cold voice of the little monk pierced into the ears of the monks as if wrapped in a cool wind, and everyone shut their mouths subconsciously for a moment, only then did Shi Kong lift his feet and approach step by step—the white and spotless snow left A string of footprints, the soft snow under his feet made a "creak" and "creak" sound. The monks subconsciously gave way to a passage for him, so Shi Kong stepped up the steps in front of the Buddhist hall and stepped over the threshold. Only then did he turn around and look at the people outside the Buddhist hall who were staring blankly at him behind him, and he settled down and said, "I was the one who struck the death knell."

Although more or less guessed that this might be the case, when Shi Kong admitted, everyone still stared slightly in surprise.

"Brother Hui Neng didn't suffer much when he left." Shi Kong circled around the young monk sitting on the futon, "much better than Brother Hui Hai."

"Can it be compared like this?" Someone in the crowd asked, and Shi Kong glanced at him. It was a young brother named Huibei, "Huineng is doing well. He was just infected with the cold, so why did he just leave? Before he left Did I say anything to you?"

"I talked a lot." Shi Kong bent down, put the already cold wooden fish back on the altar, and stretched out his hand gently to hang the Buddhist bead bracelet that was about to slip off Hui Neng's hand in his palm. Without looking up, he said calmly, "But I can't remember a single word."

His words successfully caused a commotion in the crowd.

"madman."

"Shi Kong really lost his mind."

"You can see that he is not sad at all. It is clear that Huineng and Huihai were so kind to him when they were alive. I heard that a few days ago, someone heard that Shi Kong and Huineng had a quarrel, and Huineng was very sad about it."

——Really cold-blooded.

The discussion among the crowd reached Shi Kong's ears with these four words, so he paused for Huineng to straighten the folds of his monk's robe, raised his head and looked outside the Buddhist hall, but it was dark outside. It's not clear who said that at all...

Every face of those people in the distance is so familiar to Shikong. In memory, they are always smiling. They laugh and call him "Junior Brother Shikong" and talk to him about the weather and what they have learned today——

It shouldn't be such suspicion and alienation.

"..."

Shi Kong lowered his eyes, closed his mouth and didn't want to say another word to defend himself.

Not long after, Shi Yuan also came.

As usual, Shi Kong still regarded him as air that did not exist. Seeing him surrounded by monks, he stepped back with his hands tied...Standing in the corner without saying a word, Shi Kong had already put his disdain on his face. When everyone was discussing why Huineng died suddenly, they suddenly made a sound without beginning or end——

"Senior brother Shi Yuan, brother Huineng is dead, are you sad?"

Among the crowd, Shi Yuan was slightly stunned when asked, then he said slowly in a compassionate tone, "Naturally sad."

Shi Kong turned his head and just glanced at Shi Yuan, knowing that he was talking nonsense with his eyes open.It's hard to think that Huineng's body is still kneeling on the futon at this time, not far from him... Shikong can only sigh in his heart, he is not worth it for Huineng.

Then I don't want to talk to or talk to others.

Out of the corner of his eye, he only saw Shi Yi's eyes were red, he looked at Huineng, then at Shi Kong, and finally looked timidly at the Buddha statue in the Buddhist hall under the flickering Buddha lamp, hesitant to speak— —

Shi Kong frowned slightly, as if anticipating what he wanted to say, he shook his head slightly with an almost invisible arc.

It's a pity that Shi Yi didn't understand, under Shi Kong's more and more frowning gaze, he stretched out his hand and tugged at Shi Yuan who was comforting everyone: "Brother Shi Yuan, do you think that Buddha statue is frozen?"

"Huh?" Shi Yuan lowered his head.Looking at Shi Yi who was hugging her leg, "What did you say?"

The surroundings became quiet for a while, only Shi Yi's voice said crisply: "Buddha statue, don't laugh, it seems to be angry."

In a word, the faces of all the monks around changed—because in the Buddhism of Xianzong, Bodhisattvas and Buddhas all appear with benevolent faces, and because they themselves have the world in their hearts and are pure and ascetic, so how could there be "not smiling" What does it look like?If the Buddha doesn't smile, doesn't it mean that he is dissatisfied with the common people in the world, which contradicts his own image, so it is tabooed by disciples of Sutra Buddhism.

But in Tantra it is different.

In Esoteric Buddhism, the Bodhisattva Buddha has a face called the "angry deity", which is often referred to as evil and crooked by people, but in fact——

"The appearance of the 'angry deity' is only because of the great evil that cannot be saved by compassion. The Lord Buddha had to use a fierce face to suppress such evil, make it fear, and make it submit."

Shi Kong, who had been standing in the corner, raised his head, and he looked at Shi Yuan. In the dark corner, his pupils were unusually bright, and those eyes seemed to be fearless because of the great grief: "Because in the temple A vicious demon appeared, so the Buddha also showed his angry appearance, what is there to be surprised about?"

Everyone took a breath.

However, standing among the crowd, Shi Yuan who was stared at by Shi Kong, after a moment of silence, raised the corners of his lips slightly without showing any panic, showing a short smile, "Junior Shi Kong, you are talking nonsense again!" If you refuse to change after repeated admonitions, and refuse to listen to persuasion, you will be punished."

"Punishment is it."

"This time, senior brother will personally teach and punish you, so as to help you get rid of distracting thoughts in your mind as soon as possible."

……

On the second day, the gate of Anle Temple was closed and stopped to welcome pilgrims for a day.

People were locked outside the temple, and they didn't understand what happened, but some people said that they heard a bell ringing from the mountain last night. The monk everyone invited back was dressed in plain snow white monk robes, and it was clear that someone around him had passed away, so they all confirmed their guesses——

It's just that I was a little worried about whether the person who passed away was Monk Yuanhai.

Seeing the pilgrims with baskets dispersed, the monk who came to disperse the crowd closed the door of Anle Temple again, turned around, saw the acacia tree in the backyard from the corner of his eye, and said "huh": I feel like today On the acacia tree.The red fruit is brighter and brighter than yesterday...

Maybe it's an illusion?

He looked away, and saw several monks in the same plain clothes passing by in the front yard behind him. After asking, he realized that they were rushing to recite a mantra for Huineng who passed away last night. To see him off for the last time.

Hearing the words, the young monk thought that although he was not familiar with Hui Neng, but he was also of the same generation with the dharma name "Hui", he also had the idea of ​​sending him off for the last time, so he simply followed a few After the monk went to the place where Huineng's coffin rested——

When they arrived at the place, they found that the gate of the mourning hall was closed, most people were locked outside, kneeling in the snow and chanting scriptures, while the sound of a wooden fish knocking alone came from inside the mourning hall...

"It's Shi Kong, and Senior Brother Shi Yuan is inside."

"I heard that Shi Kong was punished in this way today because of his disrespectful words in front of the deceased brother Huineng yesterday."

"Senior brother Shi Yuan has always been very strict."

"So senior brother Shi Yuan wants to punish Shi Kong in front of senior brother Huineng's coffin? This—ah, I always feel weird."

Everyone whispered to each other, but no one dared to knock on the door of the mourning hall to disturb them, so they went away to find a place where the snow was not so thick, kneel down, and began to recite the mantra of rebirth——

The low sound of chanting sutras involuntarily matched the rhythm with the sound of wooden fish coming from the Buddhist hall.

And this moment.

No one knows what a shocking scene inside the mourning hall——

There is a coffin in the middle of the huge mourning hall, inside the coffin sits Huineng who seems to be sleeping peacefully, the lid of the coffin is half open, his eyes are lowered, as if he is looking at the two people in the mourning hall under the coffin...

I saw a little monk kneeling on the futon in front of the coffin, the monotonous sound of beating the wooden fish came from his hands, he closed his eyes, and recited the incantation of rebirth earnestly word by word—while the other monks in the mourning hall One person, but with a lazy expression, without any sorrow or seriousness as before, he hugged the little monk who was kneeling on the futon from behind, at this time one hand was fixed on his waist, and the other hand was inserted into his waist. Inside the robe...

The bright red lips nibbled and licked gently between the young monk's white neck, leaving red ambiguous traces.

"Shikong, your smell is really good, surpassing Huihai, surpassing Huineng..."

At the same time, his hand also slid like a spirit snake. When it touched the protruding chest of the person in his arms, his hand paused, and then he played with it unscrupulously as if he was very happy-but no matter how he played, the chest in his arms The voice of the people chanting scriptures has always been stable, and even the breath seems to have no change.

Shi Yuan grumbled dissatisfied, and bit Shi Kong's earlobe from behind as a prank, and pulled it between his lips and teeth...

"Don't read it," Shi Yuan said with a smile, "Huineng Gaizong's Esoteric School, if you recite the Pure Land Sect's reincarnation mantra to him, it's just dirtying his path to becoming a Buddha—"

"Becoming a Buddha?"

Shi Kong finally opened his eyes.

In the bronze mirror placed in front of the coffin, he saw that the person behind him was not the so-called "Senior Brother Shi Yuan", he only saw a hideous tree demon wrapped around his body, and the green branches were tightly bound around his waist , on his arms, on his thighs, not so much that he sat on the futon unnecessarily.It's better to say that he was just being manipulated at will according to the posture that the man behind him liked——

Shi Kong's gaze was as calm as water.

However, such a reaction is naturally not satisfying, so Shi Yuan muttered, one hand had already climbed to the little monk's waist to pull off his belt, and the other hand pinched the little monk's chin with cold fingertips , asked him to turn his head, and his red lips bit the opponent's lips—but at this moment, Shi Kong had already recited the last sentence of the mantra of passing away, and in an instant, as if possessing infinite power, he opened his eyes and looked directly at Shi Yuan. , Biting Shi Yuan back like a wolf cub, the next moment Shi Yuan felt the imprint on his waist burn like it was unbearable!

The sound of the wooden fish stopped abruptly.

"Release!"

He roared angrily, but Shi Kong took the opportunity to reach out and push him away fiercely, and stepped back several steps, as if he knew what would happen if he was caught again at this time. Open the door of the mourning hall behind——

All the monks kneeling outside were startled.

The next moment, I saw Shi Kong jumping down the steps of the mourning hall in three steps in two steps, slipped and fell a dog gnawed shit, got up in a panic with his hands and feet, and fled towards the outside of the temple!

Before the monks realized what happened, they saw Shi Yuan walking out with a livid face while covering his bleeding lips with his hand.Announced to everyone: "Shi Kong refuses to punish, his actions are not inferior, and he hurts others. He does not know how to repent, and his crimes are serious. From today, anyone who sees his whereabouts will immediately arrest him and bring him to me. He will not be sheltered. Violators will be severely punished!"