The Eight Winds of Rebirth

Gu Xiangtan followed An Yin and Su Xi to the courtyard next door when he was stopped by a tall young guard.

Su Xi immediately raised his eyebrows, put his hips on his hips and shouted, "We are here to see your young master, is this how you treat guests!"

The young man was only thirteen or fourteen years old, but he already had a calm aura. He was not confused by Su Xi's domineering appearance, and asked himself, "Who are you?"

Just as Su Xi was about to reveal Gu Xiangtan's identity, he was interrupted.

Gu Xiangtan said with a smile, "I am Layman Fu's apprentice. I came to look for my master. I heard the news along the way and wanted to visit your young master."

Hearing Fu Yalian's name, the young man really restrained his aura, but he didn't put away his defensive attitude immediately, he still looked up and down, left, right, left, and right with a pair of deep eyebrows, Gu Xiangtan, as if he wanted to see him He is ugly and average in stature.

Gu Xiangtan has a good temper, always smiling lightly.

After a long time, the boy looked away and nodded.

"I'll take you in."

The three of them followed behind him all the way, Su Xi couldn't help but whispered, "What a big air, it's never been so difficult for us to enter the palace before."

The next moment, An Yin glared at her.

Gu Xiangtan quietly looked at the scenery here, there are pavilions, ponds, flowers, grass, and fish, which are much more detailed than his own, and even more strange in this wilderness.

Xu heard some movement outside, the door curtain opened and two people came out, it was Fu Yalian and Master Guanyun.

Seeing that Gu Xiangtan came here without authorization, Fu Yalian was very surprised, and then looked at Su Xi and An Yin unhappily.

Su Xi hurriedly lowered his head and dared not speak, An Yin also showed an attitude of knowing his mistake, Gu Xiangtan could only say, "Master, I heard that a young master here is ill, so I want to come and see."

Fu Yalian frowned slightly, "This matter has nothing to do with you, and you can't interfere, go back, I will check your homework at night."

Gu Xiangtan had always listened to his words in the past, but this time he didn't move. Instead, he looked at Master Guan Yun and argued, "But...the outside world has said that Ling Buddha can bring the dead back to life. Maybe I can save him?"

As soon as these words came out, Fu Yalian immediately changed his face, and without waiting for him to speak, he rushed over to the young man they had brought and shouted, "Are you a Lingfo?"

Gu Xiangtan was taken aback by him, but still nodded in a daze. The next moment, the boy's knees gave way, he knelt down, and kowtowed heavily.

"Pray to Lingfo to save our young master's life! Mou Fei is willing to be a cow or a horse in return for his kindness."

Hearing the sound of his forehead touching the ground, Gu Xiangtan rushed to help someone, but the young man named Mou Fei didn't get up, saying that unless Gu Xiangtan agreed to him.

Gu Xiangtan looked at Fu Yalian helplessly, Fu Yalian looked away gloomyly, Gu Xiangtan went to look at Guanyun again, Master Guanyun sighed helplessly, and did not speak.

Gu Xiangtan could only ask, "Can I meet your young master first?"

Mou Fei got up in a hurry and led Gu Xiangtan into the room.

Passing through the thick curtain, the smell of medicine came to the nostrils. Gu Xiangtan followed his master and read a lot of medical books this year. He moved his nose and found that there were a lot of medicines mixed with them to remove blood stasis. Detoxification curative effect.

But when he got closer and saw the person lying on the bed, Gu Xiangtan confirmed his guess even more.

That was only a child of eleven or twelve years old, but now his face was blue and gray, his lips were purple, and his hands exposed outside the blanket were swollen like carrots.

Where is this serious disease?It is simply a sign of poisoning!

"This……"

Gu Xiangtan looked blankly at his master and Master Guanyun, asking questions with his eyes, while Su Xi and An Yin beside him were already too shocked to speak.

It was still Mou Fei, unlike those two people who had scruples, for him, as long as he could save the young master, he would pay any price, so he said to Gu Xiangtan, "The young master accidentally ate the yellow grass ten days ago, since then Then I couldn’t wake up.”

"Talking about yellow grass?" Gu Xiangtan didn't know about it.

Guan Yun said, "Tianhuangcao is a blind medicine of the Southern Man. The rhizome can be used as medicine, but the fruit it bears is highly poisonous, and is colorless and tasteless. Once it enters the body accidentally...the medicine stone has no cure." Now it has passed It's been ten days, and this child is just holding his breath in vain, and he may die anytime, anywhere.

Gu Xiangtan listened and slowly walked up to him, and when he looked closely, he could find that the person on the bed had exquisite eyebrows, indistinguishable beauty, but was firmly bound by the darkness, and the breath seemed to be absent, and the whole person was enveloped in a haze. The face of dying.

Gu Xiangtan looked at it and couldn't help his heart fluttering, and blurted out, "I want to save him..."

Fu Yalian immediately shouted, "Xiangtan!"

But Gu Xiangtan turned his head and said again sincerely, "Master, I want to save him..."

Fu Yalian clenched her fists tightly, her heart seemed to be struggling extremely, she took a long breath for a moment, bowed her head and said nothing more.

Gu Xiangtan went to ask Guan Yun again, "Zen Master, can I save him?" He remembered reading more than once in the book that the previous generations of spiritual Buddhas had the merits of curing diseases and saving lives, and some of them could even bewitch souls, which was very miraculous. , he didn't know if he could do it, but he was willing to give it a try.

Guan Yun sighed "Amitabha", and said lightly, "Ling Buddha has the power to save the common people, but...heaven, reincarnation and causal cycle, wake up, if you want to break, you must pay the price."

Gu Xiangtan was not intimidated by these words, but asked curiously, "What price?"

Guan Yun paused, "Life and death are balanced, yin and yang alternate, come and go, return and return."

Gu Xiangtan was taken aback for a moment.

Fu Yalian thought he didn't understand, so she couldn't help but said in a deep voice, "It's just to exchange your life for his life, your lifespan for his lifespan!"

As soon as these words came out, there was a dead silence in the inner room, and even Mou Fei couldn't say any more words to beg Ling Buddha to save people.

Gu Xiangtan frowned in thought, and suddenly realized, "It turns out that the lifespan of each generation of spiritual Buddhas is so short, because of this?" To distribute his life span to others?

Neither Guan Yun nor Fu Yalian answered, but Gu Xiangtan knew he had guessed right.

No wonder the master was obviously worried about the child on the bed, but he still prevented himself from letting go. He must have been very painful and entangled in his heart these days.

Gu Xiangtan thought for a while, stepped forward and gently held Fu Yalian's hand, bent his eyes and said, "Master, the Buddha said: I will save you when you are about to die, and heaven will save me when you are about to die. Since it is a cycle of cause and effect, I will save you today." Planting blessings on him, even if I die in the future, God will have other reincarnations to help me attain the Tao.”

Fu Yalian and Guan Yun were stunned by these words.

After a while, Guan Yun proclaimed the Buddha's name, shook his head and said, "We ordinary children, after all, can't see more clearly than Ling Buddha, Amitabha."

Fu Yalian couldn't help being shocked, he grabbed Gu Xiangtan's hand with his backhand, leaned over and said solemnly, "Xiangtan, have you thought it through?"

Gu Xiangtan could feel that the master's hands were trembling faintly, but he nodded calmly, his eyes were as clear as water, clear and bright.

"Zen Master, you just need to tell me how to do it."

……

For a period of time thereafter, Gu Xiangtan temporarily lived in the small courtyard.

Zen Master Guanyun told him that the method of saving people came from Buddhist Tantric Buddhism, but he only knew the general idea, and Gu Xiangtan had to figure out the specific meaning.

Gu Xiangtan recited scriptures for the young master for an hour in the morning, noon and evening each according to the Tantric mantra, and then shared the bed with him, ate and treated each other intimately.

At first it didn't have any effect, people were still angry and half-dead, Gu Xiangtan himself was not sure, but Mou Fei and another guard, Bi Fu, became anxious, thinking that Xu Shiling Buddha might not be as the outside world said as wonderful.However, after three or four days, everyone miraculously discovered that the blackness on the young master's face began to recede slowly, and on the seventh or eighth day, the swollen hands and feet gradually disappeared, and his breath returned to calm.

Ten days later, the young master actually woke up!

It was the middle of the night that day, and Zhao Yuan felt that she had been walking on a long, dark road for a long, long time. After struggling for a long time, Qiu Qu finally escaped from the sea of ​​suffering and returned to the world, and the first thing he saw was the face that was so close .

It was a face that was still childish, with clear features and delicate features, the face glowed pink and white under the dim candlelight, and the fleshy lips were slightly parted, making Zhao Yuan, who was a bit empty in his stomach, think of a steamed stuffed bun for no reason.

Although unable to move or speak, Zhao Yuan can vaguely feel what happened around this period of time, especially after the child appeared, the depression that was originally pent up in the heart, and the pain that filled the limbs and bones were slowly slowed down. Slowly, along with the soft and slow reciting sound, the blocked throat can be eaten when he feeds it, and the twitching body can sleep well when accompanied by him. Such a miracle, if In the past, Zhao Yuan would not believe whoever told him.

But right now...he couldn't help but believe it.

Just as he was thinking wildly, the child in front of him moved slightly and opened his eyes.

Xu didn't expect the person who had been sleeping all this time to suddenly wake up, and Gu Xiangtan froze for a while.

On the other hand, Zhao Yuan silently met those big black and white eyes, and saw that the emotions in them changed from hidden confusion to clear and bright, and then burst out a halo of surprise, which was extremely bright in an instant, and when he When she raised the corners of her lips and smiled warmly towards herself, Zhao Yuan almost heard the crackling sound of her long-frozen heart.

He watched Gu Xiangtan get up slowly, first carefully tucked in the quilt for himself, then reached out and touched his forehead, the palm of his hand was soft and warm, very comfortable.

"It's not burning..." Gu Xiangtan said to himself.

Then she put on her clothes, crept down from the bed, poured a glass of water, and handed it to Zhao Yuan.

"Drink some first, you must be thirsty."

Zhao Yuan wanted to pick it up, but her outstretched hand kept shaking.

Gu Xiangtan hurriedly held the cup steady, approached him and said, "Let me help you."

So a pair of thin arms hugged Zhao Yuan reluctantly from behind, and helped him halfway up, Zhao Yuan felt herself leaning on a thin chest, and immediately a distant sandalwood scent wafted from the tip of her nose, It is the smell that lingers all over the body for a period of time to dispel the sickness.

Feeling the warm and cool tea slowly flow into his stomach along his lips, moistening his dry throat a little bit, Zhao Yuan couldn't help but suck her nose hard.

After feeding the water, Gu Xiangtan climbed back to the bed the same way, and continued to lie down next to Zhao Yuan.

It was late autumn now, and although the stove was lit in the house, Gu Xiangtan, who had run around in only his unlined clothes, was still carrying the cold air all over his body, as if he was afraid of infecting Zhao Yuan, he even tried his best to step back, waiting for confirmation When they were far enough away, they smiled at him.

"It's late today, Zen master Guanyun and the master are both asleep, tell them you are awake tomorrow morning."

Looking at his face through the flickering candlelight, Zhao Yuan asked, "You saved me?" Although his voice was weak and hoarse, it was still very clear and pleasant, but it was a little cold.

Gu Xiangtan yawned indifferently, "That's right."

Zhao Yuan asked again, "What's your name?"

Gu Xiangtan's eyelids were a bit heavy, but he still said carefully, "Well... Gu Xiangtan, you can also call me to wake up, Zen masters call me like that." He raised his eyes as much as he said, "What about you?"

Zhao Yuan paused, and unconsciously stretched out her hand to tuck the quilt for him.

"Zhao Yuanqing..."