Suzaku

Chinese New Year

The feeling of happiness can always shorten time into fragments.

The happy life in Gaoyang County passed quickly, and it was the day before the Lunar New Year in the blink of an eye. During this period, Yi Tianxing went to the manor by the river, and had a long and fruitless debate with the two ancient foxes on the method of practicing in the world. In addition, the young couple joined hands to attend several gatherings of former high school classmates in a fair manner. Under the envious eyes of others, Yi Tian used the ability of wine barrels to drink those jealous boys to a fiasco.

One time in the Three Five Hotel, he abruptly made Hu Yun, who was always staring at Leilei, drunk like a drunk shrimp. That night, Hu Yun squatted at the door of the hotel, counting his own money, with red eye circles, smelled of alcohol, and muttered inarticulately: “If you drink too much fucking urine, you will have too much wine.” .”

The New Year’s Eve in 1995 happened to be January 30th. After eating the New Year’s dinner at noon on this day, the young couple Yi Tianxing and Zou Leilei dragged the fat director and Teacher Zou downstairs and set off a few firecrackers. Here, the atmosphere of the Spring Festival suddenly appeared. After patting off the red confetti on his body and smelling the smell of bacon coming from everywhere in the residential building, Yi Tianxing suddenly thought of an important matter and couldn’t help but sighed.

Tomorrow is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and Director Pan in the provincial capital will take some unknown personage to Guiyuan Temple to light incense. He turned to Lei Lei and said, “I have to go today.”

“Ah” Lei Lei opened her big eyes, full of surprise.

“Master is still alone in Guiyuan Temple. Today is the big day, so I have to show my filial piety.” Yi Tianxing suddenly thought of the lonely back of the old monkey in the hut, and his filial piety began to overflow.

Lei Lei did not put on a mournful expression like ordinary women, but smiled very refreshingly: “Go.” After a while, she remembered something, and said sadly: “It’s already two o’clock in the afternoon, where is there a car?” , let’s talk about how it came”

“Don’t be afraid.” Yi Tianxing said: “Your little Yi can run.”

So Xiao Yi started running again, and while he was working hard and bored, he couldn’t help thinking of the last time he and Qin Zi’er ran to Wudang Mountain. It’s just that now that the heart of Dao has been planted in his body, his cultivation level is getting deeper and deeper, and he is no longer the reckless and barbaric look of the past. He walks through the mountains lightly, and he really feels a little swaying.

His physique is evil, and his true energy seems to be inexhaustible, which is why he can support this long-distance journey. If he were any monk in the human sect, he would have been tired and paralyzed halfway. In just over two hours, the gray outline of the provincial capital appeared in the distant sky.

After getting off the barren mountain, I stopped a car on the highway and entered the city, and then took a taxi at a high price to Guiyuan Temple.

It’s snowing again in the provincial capital, and the snow on the ground is like a layer of pure white felt outside the Guiyuan Temple. The red temple walls, yellow eaves, and Chu-colored vertical plaques are in stark contrast to the overwhelming whiteness. . Outside the temple, the bare trees that had lost all their leaves were trembling in the cold wind, and a few clouds in the sky were slowly floating feebly.

Yi Tianxing walked towards the mountain gate while patting the snow, and smiled at the monk who greeted him: “It’s New Year’s Eve today, and there is no preparation in the temple to see it’s really coldclear. ”

“Monks, don’t talk about New Year’s Eve.” The monk replied with a smile.

“Brother Ye Xiangna is still playing advanced games in the meditation room,” Yi Tianxing said with a joke.

The monk Heshi replied: “The master said, the big brother had a great fortune a few days ago, and now is the time to meditate and experience it, so don’t let us disturb it.”

Jin Binku Master Ku said hello to the surprised old monk, and then picked up the phone to call Xiao Jinsong. Yuan Ye has returned to Gaoyang County to accompany the old man these few days, and the matters of Pengfei’s industry and trade will be handed over to Xiao Jinsong first. Xiao and Zhou Xiaomei took care of it. On the phone, I asked him to help buy some new year’s goods, and asked him to deliver them earlier, then he took a breath, turned around and said to Binku: “Master, how do you prepare for tomorrow’s event?”

Master Binku knew that he was talking about the head stick incense, his eyelids drooped slightly, and he didn’t know what he was thinking: “Lighting incense and worshiping Buddha is something we do every day, so there is no need to prepare anything.”

Yi Tianxing thought for a while, and said, “That person has a noble status, and I’m afraid it’s not good to be too negligent.”

“It doesn’t matter.” Bin Ku shook his head, “Everyone in the world has a problem. If you value him too much, he won’t care about it. Sincerity leads to success, this is the way it is.”

“Gao Ming.” Yi Tianxing nodded: “No wonder you can be the vice chairman, the boy can only mess around in the wind and rain.”

Leaving the meditation room, he went to the back garden covered with white snow, entered the arched door of the back garden that was stained black by the snow, and walked through the temporary prison where the provincial capital’s gangsters were imprisoned, but heard the sound coming from inside. There were some extremely strange sounds, as if something hard had fallen to the ground.

Yi Tianxing stopped in his tracks, listened attentively, and after listening for a while, suddenly sighed quietly: “The coffin is actually willing to drop on the ground.”

As soon as he opened the door, he saw a piece of mahjong jumping non-stop on the bluestone floor, and stopped after a while.

The four people around the mahjong table were all paying attention to this card. When they heard the voice, they raised their heads and saw the boy’s ordinary face that seemed to be smiling.

The four of them jumped in unison, shaking their hands, and the mahjong pieces with green and lovely bamboo backs rolled all over the table.

Yi Tianxing stepped into the threshold with one foot, looked at the four well-known figures in the provincial capital, and finally said in a daze for a long time: “You guys are living a happier life than me.”

At first, he once made a joke, saying that the arrest of four people happened to be a mahjong table in Guiyuan Temple. Who knew that these four prison monks who were supposed to repent in the meditation room were really playing mahjong today.

“Don’t scare them. I ordered the little novice to do this. These four people are too pitiful.” A somewhat compassionate voice came from outside the door.

No need to look back, Yi Tianxing also knew who it was, and shook his head with a wry smile: “This is not how mercy is sent after the retreat is over, you have to know how much blood these four characters have on their hands.”

After being locked up for many days, the four mafia gangsters who have already faded out of their mouths suddenly played mahjong today. They thought it was a Spring Festival benefit, but how did they know that the “Buddha son” in front of him didn’t know about it? The monk thought of the consequences and Yi Tianxing’s methods, and the four of them couldn’t help but look at each other in blank dismay. The expressions on their faces were filled with fear, expectation, and dodge. It was extremely wonderful.

Ye Xiangseng was standing at the door in a coarse cloth monk’s robe, and the faint sunlight in winter shone on him, as if he had been coated with a holy halo.

Yi Tianxing looked back at him, squinted his eyes slightly, and was a little surprised to find that there were some inexplicable changes in the monk’s body now, and a faint Buddha breath shrouded him.

“You guys keep playing, just don’t drop the eight tubes on the ground. It’s not auspicious for the coffin to fall to the ground on the 30th day.” After Yi Tianxing said this, he left the house, closed the door with his backhand, and was in the back garden with Ye Xiangseng, who was smiling all over his face. side by side.

“Why bother scaring them?”

“To deal with evil people, only scaring is useful.” Yi Tianxing raised his eyebrows, and then asked wonderingly: “What’s going on with your retreat this time, it seems like you got a lot of money.”

Ye Xiangseng clasped his hands together, and bowed to the west: “Brother Yi, with blessings, Ye Xiang saw the statue of Manjusri Wisdom Bodhisattva in the Lecture Hall of Wenshu Monastery. I felt something in my heart, and I meditated for half a month, and I got a little enlightenment.”

“The Treasure Statue of Manjusri Bodhisattva” Yi Tianxing squinted at him twice, he didn’t believe that the Bodhisattva’s avatar would appear in the human world, and thought that this kid was made into an idiot by Elder Qingjingtian’s God-Traveling Dafa that day. But Ye Xiang’s state at this time was obviously different from usual, with a faint Buddha’s breath covering his whole body, making it impossible for people to see what state he had reached.

“Come on, tell me, brother, what have you enlightened to?” He moved to a place very close to Ye Xiangseng and asked, and suddenly realized that this monk should be quite old, but his appearance was inexplicably Lichen Qingjun .

Today’s Ye Xiangseng looked much calmer, and when he closed his eyes, he had a gentle smile like a snow lotus on his face: “The world is suffering, and we should use compassion to overcome it.”

“So you started to grow old and good, and started to play mahjong for those wicked people in the eyes of the world.” Yi Tianxing said unceremoniously: “Manjusri Bodhisattva holds the Qinglian in one hand and holds the Vajra Prajna Sutra, which is wisdom. All the troubles in the world, this is the true compassion. Your compassion makes me very troubled, and my level is lower.”

But Ye Xiangseng didn’t quarrel with him, instead he grinned, and a childish and pure meaning came to his face: “Senior brother just joked.”

Yi Tianxing shook his head with a smile, There is really nothing to do with this Qingjun monk who suddenly stopped talking.

“The image of Manjusri Bodhisattva enters the heart, Ye Xiang, you want to transform the world with great compassion, what are you going to do?”

“Follow senior brother and do it with you.” Ye Xiangseng replied as a matter of course.

Yi Tianxing was furious, and waved his hands again and again: “I don’t have that big ambition. If you go to practice hard, I won’t accompany you.” After saying this, he ran to the lake.

Unexpectedly, Ye Xiangseng never left or left, and followed him to that side. I didn’t see how hard he was, and his speed was not slow.

“Senior brother, you are a person of great wisdom. Ye Xiangseng, I only know compassion, but I don’t know how to convert it. The Bodhisattva teaches the Dharma to the little monk, so that the little monk will follow the senior brother to save the world.” Ye Xiangseng chattered behind him, and Yi Tianxing was in front Cover your ears: “If you don’t listen, don’t listen, Prajnaparamita shut up”

“Senior brother is brilliant, but the Heart Sutra only cultivates one’s own body, Prajna Paramita reaches the other shore with supreme wisdom, and the little monk has no such wisdom”

“Oh”

Yi Tianxing ran three laps along the lake in the back garden, but he didn’t expect the monk behind him to follow up easily. After hearing the nagging, he finally couldn’t help it. Statement: “You monk is so unreasonable, so wordy, what exactly do you want?”

In this anxiety, even the singing came out.

Ye Xiangseng stood in front of him, and said with a sweet smile: “Brother, let’s let those four poor people go. My Buddha is merciful, how can I bear to see the separation of flesh and blood in the world?”

“s” Yi Tianxing opened his eyes wide, “I dare you to toss for a long time just for this matter”

Ye Xiangseng smiled and said, “This is the first thing.”

“What should I do if I don’t agree?” Yi Tianxing began to play a rogue.

“Senior brother has already agreed in his heart.” Ye Xiangseng hehe, bowed down and saluted him.

Yi Tianxing was taken aback for a moment, and then he remembered that he was already ready to release people in his heart.

After all, it is impossible for the provincial capital to be occupied by the Gu family alone, which is a very taboo thing, not to mention that Lei Lei had already persuaded her to return to the provincial capital to release the four black monks. It’s just that he was easily pointed out by the monk in front of him, but he didn’t feel good about it. He groaned for a long time before saying: “For your face, don’t make an example.”

Ye Xiangseng’s face was filled with compassion: “Brother is the truly compassionate virtuous man.”

“That’s it. It’s okay, you can go and let him go. He is still waiting to go home to see his son and grandson.” Yi Tianxing was a little afraid of this fellow.

“There is one more thing.” Ye Xiangseng heheed.

“what’s the matter”

“The Bodhisattva suggested that from now on, Ye Xiang will practice Buddhism, so that he can enter the world, and I will ask my senior brother for more guidance.”

Yi Tianxing tasted the meaning of these words, and was dumbfounded for a while, and then murmured after a while: “Are you going to tell me that you want to return to vulgarity and play in society with me?”

“Why do you want to return to vulgarity?” Ye Xiangseng opened his big innocent eyes, “But wherever senior brother is going in the future, I will naturally go there.”

“Do you want me to bring a great monk to open a bookstore?” Yi Tianxing’s eyes at this time could burn the entire provincial capital.

“Yes.” Ye Xiangseng’s face was serene, his whole body was holy.

“Heaven, earth, my Manjusri Bodhisattva.” Yi Tianxing jumped up and cursed at the winter sky of the provincial capital: “Look at what you have done to this child!”

After the snow washes, the sky is blue. Occasionally, a few white clouds float slowly. When they gather, at a certain moment, they will cover the faint sun. The sunlight seeps out from the gaps in the clouds, like the light of Buddha. The sunlight outlined an outline for the white clouds. If someone looked up at this moment, they would surely find that it looked like a compassionate face looking down on the world.

Humans are always more adaptable than they think. Within an hour, Yi Tianxing got used to the fact that he had an extra tail. Fortunately, Ye Xiangseng was only smiling at this time and didn’t say much. Outside the gate of the temple, he picked up the new year’s goods sent by Xiao Jinsong, which was a big cardboard box like last time, and carried the box into Guiyuan Temple by himself.

Enter the back garden and enter the cell of the four “poor people”.

“Let’s all go.”

The four gangsters froze in place for a moment, not knowing how to respond. After all, Lao Xing would have to stay for one more day, so he thought about it for a while and said, “Please tell me what you have to say.”

“For those who celebrate the new year, let you go back to have a reunion dinner.” Yi Tianxing was still lazily standing at the door with the big cardboard box in his arms, as if he didn’t take this matter to heart at all.

When Lao Xing heard this, he almost burst into tears. The life in Monk Temple is really difficult. What we eat is white water and green vegetables, and there is no possibility of sauna massage. The most important thing is that the four people living in this house do not know how much hatred they have on weekdays. , even if you sleep, you can’t sleep at ease, for fear of being murdered, it’s really harder than life in prison, and it’s not an exaggeration to live like a year.

“It’s not that simple.” The most sinister of the four said, “What on earth do you want?”

Yi Tianxing looked at him with a small eye: “You are the third one I caught. Your surname is Shu. You were too drunk that day. You were messing around with your mistress on the bed. You didn’t bring bodyguards, so you are not convinced.”

In fact, after hearing what happened to the other three people, this person was already chilled, but he still insisted: “Gu San is powerful, I know it.”

“You don’t know how powerful I amroad. “Yi Tianxing snorted coldly, the Dao Heart in the True Fire Life Wheel swelled slightly, tried the Shangqing Thunder Technique peeked from the six places, and turned his mind into a momentum and pressed on the man.

The man surnamed Shu turned pale, and opened his mouth to speak, but he couldn’t say a word, he covered his throat with his hands, and hehe.

The other three mafia bosses were expressionless, but they were actually gloating.

“Amitabha.” Ye Xiangseng was about to start chanting the Bliss Mantra as if he was in the Dharma hall to save this person.

Now Yi Tianxing was distracted: “You are so merciful, why don’t you stop me?”

He loosened the control of his mind, the hooligan leader surnamed Shu regained his strength, a sharp pain in his chest, he opened his mouth and spit out a lump of something, but he was quite frightened when he looked closely, it turned out to be a lump of blood.

Ye Xiangseng smiled and said, “Senior brother has great wisdom, maybe you are the real compassion.”

Yi Tianxing glanced at the four people again: “Do you still think this matter is not simple?”

“It’s simple and simple, young master Gu is highly virtuous and righteous, we accept it.”

“Be more honest when you go out in the future, and do less bad things. Of course, it is impossible for you to stop doing them at all. But when you do bad things, think about the sky more, understand?”

These four have been brainwashed by Ye Xiangseng. Deep in their hearts, they have long been afraid of the existence of unnamed gods and Buddhas. Of course, what they are most afraid of is Yi Tianxing’s ghostly skills and momentum, and the so-called Buddha. Lao Lin interjected: “Mr. Yi, we are wrong this time, what compensation do you need?”

People in the Jianghu want face, even if they are already scared to death deep in their hearts, they still have a memorial archway on their face indifferently.

Yi Tianxing glanced at him, and said quietly: “Let’s tell the truth, really try to be a good person, in this world, good people usually have good rewards.”

Rough words are not rough, reason is rough and fists are not rough.

What he said, those four could only listen.

“From now on, I will come to Guiyuan Temple to report once a week. If I don’t come, I’m sorry.” Yi Tianxing threatened lightly, spitting out a sky fire from his palm, and slowly floated there in front of the staring four people. On the neatly arranged emerald green mahjong table.

With a soft chirp, the wooden table was not damaged at all, and those extremely refractory mahjong pieces turned into a puff of pungent smoke in an instant.

Yi Tianxing’s eyelashes drooped slightly, and with a stroke of luck, the pungent smoke slowly condensed into a very scary black skull in the air

“Don’t try to escape, the Nine Nether Heads can find you at any time.” Yi Tianxing began to talk nonsense habitually.

The four bold mafia leaders were frightened badly by this hand, their faces turned pale, and their eight legs shook like sifting chaff.

Some people in the world are not necessarily afraid of death, but they are definitely afraid of strange existences that they do not understand. This is human nature. Just like a person who wants to commit suicide by jumping off a building, if he suddenly sees a ghost, his first reaction may be to call his mother’s name and run away crying, instead of thinking that he is the one who was going to become a ghost.

Somewhat satisfied with the reactions of these people, Yi Tianxing turned his body sideways and made way for the door.

As the night gradually fell, Yi Tianxing carried the only 29-inch Philips color TV set in Guiyuan Temple to the backyard, dragged the long wires, and placed it directly opposite the hut.

“Master, how can I see it from this position?” He turned his head and shouted to the hut.

“Ok.”

After adjusting the antenna for a long time, the snowflake TV finally came out with pictures, which was the auspicious and festive big news broadcast.

“Today, people all over the country celebrate New Year’s Eve. The Songhua River in the north is full of pine trees, and the flower market in Guangzhou is in the south.”

In the boring background sound, Yi Tianxing dragged the cardboard box over, moved it out one by one from the inside, and installed a big armchair for himself, finally packed everything up, and prepared to go to the front yard to shout A familiar monk came in to have fun together, but unexpectedly, including Master Bin Ku and Ye Xiangseng, no one gave face and refused to come.

He returned to the back garden with some interest, took a bottle of wine and some fruits from the table and threw them into the hut, then sat down on the recliner, ate a chicken leg first, lit the alcohol stove, and started Stewed spicy hot pot, boiled slippery duck intestines and pig brains in the boiling red oil soup, ran to the front hall to ask for a big bucket of rice, and began to eat deliciously.

No wonder the monks refused to come in.

Yi Tianxing wiped his greasy mouth, and began to be filial when he was full.

He unscrewed the cap of the wine bottle, filled the small white porcelain cup in front of him, turned around and knelt down on the ground respectfully, and bowed his head towards the hut: “I wish the master good fortune like the East Sea, and a long life like the South Mountain.”

“Don’t make a fuss, my old monkey who has lived for thousands of years doesn’t like to hear this, so come up with something new.” The ancestor’s voice was buzzing.

Yi Tianxing knelt on the ground and scratched his head bitterly. After a long time, he choked out a sentence: “Then I wish the master to get out of trouble as soon as possible, and marry the apprentice.”

“It will take some time to get out of this broken garden. It’s too early to say, but it’s also a joy, it’s up to you.”

As soon as Yi Tianxing heard this, he turned his wrist and drank the wine in the glass. He stood up with a smile on his face. Just as his buttocks were about to land on the recliner, he heard a very disturbing noise coming from the hut behind him. Screaming: “What kind of broken wine did this bird give to my family?”

Then there was a painful sound of tongue sticking out and lip pursing.

The young man froze for a moment,He ran outside the hut, leaned against the soft sofa-like Vajra crouching ring, turned his head sideways and asked, “Master, this is the best Moutai today. I don’t like drinking it.”

“How can there be such a spicy wine, you are not hd.”

Yi Tianxing stuck out his tongue, only to remember that what this old man drank was fruit wine and rice wine. When baijiu came out, his old man had already been locked up in Guiyuan Temple, and suddenly thought of something: “Master, That bitter monk, and this monk’s masters and ancestors, what kind of wine do you honor you?”

“It’s sour and moist, but I don’t know the name.” The ancestors in the hut seemed to be a little worried.

Fortunately, the one who prepared the new year’s goods for him, I don’t know whether it was Xiao Xiao or Xiao Xiao’s new recruit who was good at flattering Wei Zi. The cardboard box looked ordinary, but the goods inside were excellent. Yi Tianxing turned around and found a bottle of wine.

He leaned in front of him to look carefully, and shouted in surprise: “Master, this thing is good, you can continue.” He threw the wine bottle into the hut with a wave of his hand.

The old ancestor took two sips in the hut, smacked his lips twice, and then stopped talking, looking quite satisfied, after a while.

“That’s the taste, drink more in the future.”

“This is a dry red from the Great Wall of China.” Yi Tianxing was speechless, “It’s a little bit more fortunate that what I’m drinking today is not the 1978 Montash.”

The hot pot is still tumbling, and the spicy aroma fills the whole backyard. He is watching TV with his legs crossed. The opening dance of the Spring Festival Gala has already begun. At this time, there was a blur in front of my eyes, and the hot pot disappeared

He turned around subconsciously, and heard the sound of the old grandson in the hut shouting spicy and chewing.

“Master, save some for my apprentice.” Yi Tianxing was very distressed. If he had known that his old man not only loves fruits, he should have prepared two pots.

Being an apprentice has been a bitter life since ancient times. Drifting monks have to carry burdens, monkeys have to fight goblins, and Bajie does nothing, but they are often put in steamers and baked by steam for appetizers. It is also hard work that makes the boy helpless. With a flat mouth, he took out peanuts and melon seeds and gnawed slowly, gnawed the chicken leg snacks slowly, drank the Moutai wine slowly, and looked at the TV screen with great aggrieved eyes.

On the TV, a cute fat man surnamed Guo is performing a sketch. The character he is playing is wearing a military coat and going to the train station to queue up for his colleagues to buy tickets. As he walks down the stage, he greets the audience: “You have something to say”

Yi Tianxing was a little sleepy for some reason, maybe the life in the past six months made him a little tired, but on this New Year’s Eve, during this reunion, staying with his master made him feel very relaxed and very Safety.

“Master, talk to me if you have something to do.” He yelled to the back, tilted his head, fell asleep on the recliner, and the melon seeds in his hand fell to the ground.

After a while, the stars all over the sky came out from the clouds and sprinkled a faint light in the back garden. There was no moon in the sky. The wooden door of the hut was pushed open with a creak, and a black figure in an old cassock came out slowly, and sat on the stone steps beside the door.

There seemed to be a sense in the air outside the hut, and the light blue crimson circle gradually appeared.

Outside the black and shabby cassock was a pair of furry palms, with a light movement of those furry palms, the melon seeds that Yi Tianxing fell on the ground flew over lightly. Heiying grinned and gnawed melon seeds while saying, “You kid is not afraid of the cold, so I won’t add clothes to you.”: