Folk Tale: Night Tour of Hundred Ghosts

Beijing.

"Uncle Master." Dao Yuan stood at the other end of the peach blossom forest and called Sui Yuan from afar.

He turned his head, and his long hair fell to the ground. He was no longer the monk in the bamboo forest in his year.He holds two children in his arms.Daoyuan recognized that it was Jin Qun's child.

"Who is this child?" Daoyuan asked a little puzzled.

Suiyuan replied to him: "After you left, the sage ordered him to accompany the army on the expedition. After all, he did not escape this catastrophe and died on the battlefield." Suiyuan said: "Jin Que, he...".

"Master, you..."

"Her wife hanged herself when she heard the news of his death, leaving only these two children."

"Uncle Yun, when will my father and mother come back?" the little boy asked Sui Yuan.

"Yes, yes, when will you be back?" His sister followed suit.

Suiyuan touched the child's head, and replied: "When the peach blossoms bloom and bear fruit, they will come back."

"En." The child seemed to hear a satisfactory answer and happily bounced away.

Only Daoyuan and Suiyuan were left.Daoyuan looked at the withered peach forest, with tears in his eyes, and asked, "Why is this tree withered?"

"Since he died, it has stopped blooming and bearing fruit." Replied to him according to the situation.

Daoyuan asked him: "Do you regret it later?"

Suiyuan asked him back: "What do you regret?"

"Together with Xing Ye."

Sui Yuan shook his head after hearing this, and said: "The admiration when I was young is different from the real friendship."

"But he died in battle, I still feel sad. You know, your friends, the objects of your admiration, are no longer in this world, and you always feel that something is missing in your life, and it becomes incomplete."

"Uncle Master...".

"Daoyuan, what are you going to do next?" Suiyuan asked Daoyuan's most perplexing question.

"I……".He hesitated for a while, and replied: "Go back to Yunshan Temple to clean up."

"How to clean up?" Sui Yuan asked.

"Master once said that there is a temple in Yunshan Temple, which is specially prepared for the ascetic monks. Where do I want to go to practice."

"You know how hard it is."

Daoyuan nodded.

"Why are you doing this?" Suiyuan asked.

Daoyuan replied: "It's because I don't know the answer, so I went to me."

"What if you and I don't come out?" Sui Yuan asked him.

"If I don't come out for three years, I'll wait for five years. If I don't come out for five years, I'll wait for eight years. If I don't come out for eight years, I'll be my whole life."

"Why do you bother, Daoyuan." Suiyuan said: "If you don't come out in this life? Then what's the point of doing this?"

"Uncle, what I pursue in Qingxiu is not meaning, but inner peace."

"Why is your heart restless, don't you know?" Suiyuan said to Daoyuan: "Since your heart is restless, why don't you go to the person who makes you restless?"

"Will it be useful if you find that person?" Dao Yuan asked Sui Yuan.

Suiyuan replied: "Maybe it will be useful, maybe it won't."

"Then why look for it?"

Suiyuan said: "Because I am looking for an answer."

Daoyuan replied: "I don't want to know the answer."

Suiyuan listened and said: "Then your heart will not be peaceful in this life."

Suiyuan said: "I have read such a story in a book. Someone once killed the only person who made his mood fluctuate for the sake of peace of mind. Since the death of that person, his heart is no longer fluctuating, but for this reason. The price to pay is a life. One thought becomes a Buddha and one thought becomes a demon, and only he knows what he has become in the end. I don’t want you to embark on that road, you know, it’s a long way.”

Daoyuan remained silent, and soon heard someone behind him calling Suiyuan's name again.

"Uncle Yun, come quickly, Uncle Xing helped me and my sister make toys."

"Okay, here we come." Sui Yuan said and ran towards Xing Ye.Daoyuan looked back at them, only to see that the two were walking back with a child in their arms, talking and laughing.

Daoyuan looked forward but found that there was no one in front of him.He didn't know who to run to, which direction to go.

"Where are you going?" Ah Wu appeared out of nowhere.

Daoyuan was used to his elusiveness, so he was not surprised, and replied: "Go back to Yunshan Temple."

"What are you doing back home? Come travel with me." Ah Wu urged.

Daoyuan glanced at him and smiled, and said, "No, I want to retreat and practice."

Seeing his serious expression, Ah Wu asked a little unwillingly: "No one will let you go out of the mountain?"

Dao Yuan shook his head.

Only then did Ah Wu give up, and said, "Then I won't force you, I'll leave now, and we will meet again in the future. It's just...".

"Just what?" Dao Yuan asked after seeing him stammering.

Ah Wu looked back at the boy and said, "I'm just afraid that you are no longer alive."

Daoyuan didn't care when he heard that, he put his hands together and whispered: "Amitabha." Then he said: "Almsgiver, there must be some time in your life, and there is no time in your life. Don't force it. We will meet if we are destined."

After Ah Wu heard that, Yang Tian burst out laughing.

Dao Yuan asked him, "What are you laughing at?"

Ah Wu said: "I didn't expect that the first time I felt that your words were a little Zen, it turned out to be the time to say goodbye."

After Ah Wu finished speaking, she disappeared, only hearing his words in the air. "See you again, little monk."

Yunshan Temple.

"Master".When Daoyuan saw Master Huiguang, he knelt on the ground and cried bitterly.

Huiguang walked up to him without saying a word.

Daoyuan sobbed in a low voice and said, "Master, I made a big mistake."

"What's wrong?"

"I killed people."

"Why kill?"

"Because he's going to kill...kill my friend...".

"Since he made the mistake first, why should you worry about it?"

"But didn't Master tell us not to kill?"

"All things are living beings. The Buddha can give up his life to feed the eagle. He has seen through the common people and realized it. It is normal for you to be like this, so don't worry about it."

"But master... I...".

"Come, Daoyuan, I will shave you for my master." Master Huiguang said and walked into the hall, and his brothers all knelt on the ground and recited scriptures.

He knelt on the bright yellow futon in the front, and the master picked up the razor, and strands of hair fell from his hair.

He had been away for a year and his hair had grown.

The light in front of the Buddha was flickering, and there were tears in his eyes.

Master shaved his scars, and the brothers in the hall began to chant scriptures, and after evening class, they dispersed.

He was the only one standing in the courtyard.

"Brother."

Daoyuan heard someone calling him and looked back. "Hui Wu." The little novice at that time had also grown up a lot.

"Brother, you are back."

"kindness."

"I heard... Uncle Suiyuan...has returned to vulgarity." Huiwu said hesitantly.

"kindness."

"I thought my brother wouldn't come back either."

"Huiwu." Daoyuan stopped him from continuing.

"I heard that Master Uncle has found a man... who is still in power...".

"What do you want to say, that your uncle has found someone in power to sell himself? Then you underestimate him too much. Huiwu, when you grow up, you will think of some adults before you can think about things. Thinking is That's right, but don't be too stubborn, many things don't look on the surface."

"Brother, you will go to the mountain to practice penance tomorrow, and I will deliver meals for you from now on."

"Yes."

"Brother, what if one day Master asks me to go down the mountain and I also like someone?"

"Think about it when you meet it. Don't think about unknown things, and don't be confused by things you don't know."

"Brother."

"kindness?"

"Are you at the foot of the mountain, have you been deluded again?"

Daoyuan listened to Huiwu's question and stopped answering, as if he was avoiding something.He only said to the little monk: "It's late at night, go to sleep."

Huiwu couldn't ask any more questions, so he said goodbye in a hurry and went back to the house to rest.

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