Chapter 267
, do not compete for the skillful gain, and the more you can be with others
Mei Yingxing said generously: "You don't have to thank you. I live in Jingwu Villa outside Wuzhou City. I can just come to you for fun... Can you slut out fish?"
Yingning: "My sister is not as good as yours, but she can watch you touch her on the shore, and can also help you grill fish."
Yingning stayed and lived on a camphor tree opposite the Jushui River outside the outskirts of Wuzhou. The tree had a tall trunk and lush crown. Yingning built a small house among the dense branches and leaves to make her a place for her to live and practice. Although Wuzhou in the Tang Dynasty was prosperous, it was not as crowded as modern times. There were almost no people in the suburbs of the city, and even standing under the trees, you could not see the small house hidden in the canopy of the sky.
As Mei Yingxing's identity, she could invite Yingning to live in Jingwu Villa. There are some places, and the quiet rooms suitable for cultivation are also very easy to arrange. The young master invited a friend to go home, and the servants would not say much. But Yingning didn't have this idea and had always lived in the trees in the suburbs. On the one hand, she didn't want the monks in Qingyi Sanshan to be suspicious, and on the other hand, Mei Yingxing would find it more fun and interesting.
Compared to ordinary people in the city, she is also a stranger. There is a beggar master in the mountains to guide her in practicing, and there is a beautiful sister on the tree who often plays with him. Mei Yingxing's childhood was very comfortable.
A truly wealthy family may not deliberately show off luxury, but nobleness is in the bones and subtly influenced. A true immortal family may not deliberately show off their profoundness, but the mystery lies in the ordinary state of life. And the young master Mei Yingxing in Jingwu Villa is in such an environment.
To give a simple example, in ancient times, wealthy families would take out the ice cubes stored in winter cellars and make cold drinks such as iced sour plum soup to relieve heat; while ordinary well-off families would cook mung bean soup to relieve heat; some families who pay attention to health would use summer dry grass, wild chrysanthemum and other medicinal materials to make herbal tea that clears heat and toxins when it is particularly hot.
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, ordinary people and villagers from ordinary families would use dried corn squid to cook herbal tea. This kind of thing does not cost money and is simple to make, but it also has the effect of clearing heat and relieving heat.
In Jingwu Mountain Villa in the Tang Dynasty, herbal tea was also made with a kind of grain ears and beards in midsummer. The long beards native to Kunlun Fairyland Kongsangshan Fairy Valley Ears and golden rice dumplings were used. The name Xiangu Zhe was made of plum Zhenyi, and later transplanted to Qingyi Sanshan. A medicinal field was specially opened for cultivation. The fruit was like a small corn with one finger, and the fine golden brown ears at the tip were more than one foot long. If they grew to two feet, it would be rare. It was also a kind of treasure for making magic tools.
By tempering the pure with mild fire, and then using the combination of body and mind, it can replace ordinary ponytails to make magic whisks. The whisks are golden yellow. Almost all the younger disciples under Liu Hai are Taoist priests, holding such a golden whisk in their hands. It is a very fulfilling thing to imitate the ancestor Zhong Li Quan.
Liu Hai occasionally reaches out to help a group of disciples, but most of the whisks still need to be refined by their disciples themselves. The whisk's handle is made of a short staff of Kongsangyu. If it is successfully refined, it means that the master's skill in refining has a very basic foundation.
In Jingwu Mountain Villa, cooking herbal tea with short ears that are not enough for refining tools is an ordinary drink in summer to relieve heat. It has the effect of moisturizing and clearing fire and relieving kidney qi. Its attribute is cool and peaceful, and it is also effective in assisting practice.
The "Bishan Han Lu" specialty of Bishan Pond in Kunlun Fairyland also has this effect, and its effect is much stronger than this herbal tea. It is a gift from Bishan Pond to worship the mountain. However, Bishan Han Lu is a precious spiritual medicine. Only in specific practices will the master give it to his disciples. Jingwu Mountain Villa Dixian Guzhe Tea is herbal tea, and you can drink it casually when you quench your thirst. Sometimes you can bring a big gourd with you when you go out to play, and both Tieguai Li and Yingning love to drink it.
In autumn, Mei Yingxing also likes to eat a snack, similar to the current popcorn. Today's popcorn is mostly made of corn kernels, and glutinous rice is also used in the south to make fried rice fields, which is the same as popcorn. The snack that Mei Yingxing eats looks like fried rice, but the ingredients are the magic medicine of immortals and squid seeds.
Baiguzhi is also a medicine in the Nine-Turn Purple Gold Pill. It is not particularly rare. But the so-called rare here is relative to the masters like Mei Zhenyi. It only grows where the fairy earth energy is full. Lilan transplants from Tailao Ling Realm to Qingyi Sanshan. It did not specifically open up medicinal fields, but scattered into the mountains and fields, growing in mixed with auspicious soft grass.
In my spare time, I also guided a few young disciples. Every autumn, I lead a group of younger disciples to perform their body movements and collect mature cherry seeds all over the mountains and fields to enjoy this.
Put the seeds of Baishuicao in the palm of your palm and use the weapon to refine the fire to carefully burst into rice. Remove the dry air in the medicinal properties. Taking it can nourish the spleen and stomach, and stop the damage to the earth's energy when casting spells. This is of course a good thing, and ordinary people cannot see it. Plum should be eaten as snacks in autumn, just like popcorn eaten by modern children.
These "popcorns" are made with magic power, and Aban also likes them. Tieguai Li naturally won't be greedy for snacks from children, but Yingning likes them very much. Every time Mei Yingxing holds a bag of squid-squid-grass rice and sits with her by the river to eat snacks. Yingning's smile is like a flower.
Whether in Qingyi Sanshan or Jingwu Villa, Mei Yingxing is a young master who is loved by many people. It is of course beneficial to make friends with him. Not only do they have nourishing things in spring, summer, autumn and winter to assist in their practice, Yingning can also get some good things that are hard to see elsewhere, such as wandering dew, five-color drink, and arizona. Mei Yingxing occasionally has some magic medicines and gifts made of treasures from heaven and earth.
When it comes to Mei Yingxing’s interactions with Yingning, whether it is Zhiyan in the mountains or Li in the subway outside the city, the elders know it well. However, the immortal masters have their own moral character. As long as Yingning is not bad and Xing'er is willing to play with others, they don’t care about these things.
Yingning also learned her lessons and knew very well that with her two tricks, it was impossible to play tricks in front of the elders of the Mei family. She never deliberately beat Mei Yingxing's idea, just to play with him. She never took the initiative to ask Mei Yingxing what she wanted, nor did she specifically ask about various things in Qingyi's three mountains. Mei Yingxing was willing to chat with her, so she listened carefully, and she praised her from time to time with her eyes wide open. She was very grateful to accept what Mei Yingxing was willing to give her.
Even so, Yingning gained a lot in Wuzhou. In just a short period of time, it was no less than in several years in Bishantan. The realm of Yijin and Marrow Cleansing is perfect and unobstructed. It is only a ray of success without breaking the delusion, and its magic power is improved quickly.
The Supreme Master of Taoism once said: "A saint does not accumulate, and he thinks that the more he has, the more he has with others, the more he has. The way of heaven is profitable but not harm; the way of saints is to do but not fight."
With Yingning's cultivation and enlightenment, she is still far from talking about the way of heaven, but what she did in Wuzhou is somewhat incompatible with the cleverness of "doing but not fighting, taking naturally". She is a smart woman, very clear about what she wants, what she can do but can't do.
Not to mention Yingning's affairs, just two days after she left Qingyi Sanshan, another "distinguished guest" came to the mountain. Yun Piaomiao, the head of the Qingcheng Sword Sect, arrived and joined Hu Longteng, the envoy from Liu Hai. Yun Piaomiao has a cheerful personality and is willing to make friends with fellow practitioners. When Hu Longteng came to Qingcheng Sword Sect to tell his purpose, Yun Piaomiao reported to his master and happily came to Qingyi Sanshan.
Liu Hai was very enthusiastic in reception and was listening to Songju's arrangement for a separate quiet courtyard. Other disciples in the mountains were willing to come and go with Yun Piaomiao. He was very comfortable here, just like Zhang Xiu at the time, and he was reluctant to leave for a moment.
A few days later, Hu Qiushui also came back. He returned to Liu Hai. The head of Gu Yunchuan, Zhu Guichen, was very grateful to Qingyi Sanshan for his kindness. Shui Wuhen was in seclusion and practicing swordsmanship. He will visit Qingyi Sanshan next month. This couple in his previous life and enemies in this life are finally going to meet!
When Qingfeng returned to Wuming Villa from Longkong Mountain, no one was alarmed, and even Mei Zhenyi on Liyu Linglong Tower did not notice it. Mei Zhenyi entered the state of meditation to observe the method. She repeatedly deduced Qingfeng and Gabriel's battle with Lingtaichung. The view suddenly changed. Qingfeng's key to fate in his hand became a golden hit, and the place for the practice also turned into an unknown place.
Some experts were also using the deduction skills of the spiritual platform, but disturbing Mei Zhenyi's spiritual consciousness, which is unlikely to happen.
Mei Zhenyi then realized that the hibiscus jade pedestals on these ten high towers formed an independent invisible barrier, and the spiritual senses were interoperable. The design was very mysterious. It was originally the ten demon kings who were quarreling for nothing and were preparing for the mysterious Taoism. At this time, one of them came to the pedestal of another Linglong Tower and was also sitting in the Xuan Xuan. The scene of the spiritual platform was unblocked but not avoiding Mei Zhenyi, who was Qingfeng Xiantong himself.
Mei Zhenyi gathered her mind, came out of deep silence, expanded her spiritual consciousness and extended it into the invisible Dharma throne barrier. She found that it was not only Qingfeng, except for King Zhang and King Xu, the other eight demon kings of Longkong Mountain came one after another, quietly climbed the ground Dharma throne on the Liyu Linglong Tower, and entered the "He Mind and Meaning View".
These demon kings who are usually very noisy are quiet at this moment, and they are afraid to disturb Qingfeng. They have not yet become immortals and have no chance to see the masters like Qingfeng and Gabriel performing techniques in the fairy world. At this moment, watching Qingfeng’s spiritual platform deduction, no matter how many they can understand and prove it, they are a blessing that is hard to come by.
This kind of scene is very rare. Qingfeng usually does this very dangerously, because he unfolded the spiritual platform and did not avoid the speculation of bystanders. He may be disturbed by Mei Zhenyi and other demon kings at any time. Qingfeng predicted that there would be no danger on Liyu Linglong Tower, and the rest of the people would not disturb him, so there would be no taboos.
This is equivalent to a silent Golden Immortal Dharma Assembly. Qingfeng did not talk about any magic tricks, but was only demonstrating Xuantong. Mei Zhenyi even regretted it. It would be great if Zhiyan was brought too. A golden immortal personally deduced the mystery in Lingtaichung, and unavoidably unfolded to others. He was unprecedented.
However, Mei Zhenyi did not see the final result of the Qingfeng Spirit Platform deduction. She was suddenly disturbed in the wonderful place, and the light and shadow disappeared from the state of concentration. Who was so unconsciously disturbing the fairy child's performance and interrupting this rare fortune of the immortal family? Mei Zhenyi was about to ask, but she sensed that the eight demon kings on the other tower were also thinking - they did not do it, and the disturbance came from Qingfeng Fairy Child himself.
"If you have something to do in Wuzhou, I need to go back as soon as possible. Mei Zhenyi, you go back too... Eight little demons, please stay on the tower and go into seclusion." Qingfeng opened his mind and said something, then soared from the tower and soared into the sky.
Before leaving, Qingfeng had not forgotten to give orders to the eight demon kings. They "listened" to the Golden Immortal Dharma Assembly for half the time. Each of them had gained something from the mysterious realm and needed to be retouched and digested and verified.
Something happened outside Jingting Mountain, something big happened! The one who caused the trouble was Jingting Mountain Shenluxue, and the miserable was Qingjiao Temple. The root cause was Qingfeng's explanation.
Gabriel broke through the mountain gate, but Luxue did not block it, which alarmed Qingfeng out of seclusion, which led to the later battle of the Earth and Heaven. Qingfeng left the mountain and explained to Luxue - "I'm going to come out of seclusion. You protect this place, I will give you the Sun-Sighting Magpie temporarily. In the future, when you meet an expert with great magic power, you don't have to show up and fight. You gather the power of the mountain god on the throne of the temple and shoot it at the bow."
Nothing else happened in the past year. Shan Wuwei left Wuzhou and returned to Chang'an ten years ago, and Qingjiao Temple was also built. The abbot of Qingjiao Temple was Shan Wuwei's disciple Shan Wuzhi.
Building temples is different from ordinary houses. They can’t be used after they are built. Of course, there is no difference between ordinary people who can burn incense and worship Buddha. But in the eyes of practitioners, they are not necessarily real temples. Even lonely ghosts may be on the altar, just like the lust temples in Pengze back then. Or just an ordinary civil and architectural building that enshrines a bunch of clay sculptures.
After the statue of the Great Vairocana Buddha is completed, there is also a consecration ceremony, which will welcome the appearance of the Dharma Body of the Infinite Light to be seated for worship by believers and Buddhist disciples. Only then can this place be truly a place of practice. This kind of ceremony is generally not held immediately after the statue is completed, and requires various opportunities and preparations, especially for Tantric temples.
The temple of Qingjiao Temple has made a lot of preparations. For example, the pivotal energy of the earth, the placement of the Dharma seat, the abbot recited 84,000 mantras and verses to bless the divine power, the monks of the temple kowtowed 100,000, etc. In short, it took ten years to finally welcome the Buddha Da Vairocana and hold a consecration ceremony.
The site of Qingjiao Temple is located within the edge of Jingting Mountain Shinto Temple. It occupies ten feet of land, and all the activities of Green Snow are clear, but she ignored it when she made an appointment with Shan Wuwei.
The incident happened on the day when the Buddha statue of Great Vairocana was consecrated. This was a grand ceremony. Eminent monks from all over the world gathered here, and many of them came from afar, and the farthest even came from Lingnan. The moment the Buddha statue was consecrated, it was equivalent to the appearance of the Dharma body of the infinite light sitting on the earth. The monks chanted the scriptures in unison, let alone Jingting Mountain. Even the three mountains of Qingyi hundreds of miles away, the earth energy trembled.
There was no malicious intention, and the moment passed was over. Zhiyan was very clear in the mountains and he would not care about it. If Qingfeng himself was in the mountains, he would not have caused any trouble. But he was not here. Mingyue Fairy Child had not left seclusion, and the only one who guarded the Jingting Temple was Shan Shen Luxue.
The consecration of the Buddha statue of Great Vairocana did disturb the energy of Jingting Mountain. At that moment, the gateway to the Cave Heaven disappeared. Except for the central temple where Mingyue was retreating, the entire outer temple of Jingting Mountain was displayed. In the eyes of mortals, it was only a moment, with only a flash of eyes, but the reaction was completely different for the mountain god.
The Qingfeng said, "Shoot it." So the green snow opened and looked at the sun magpie, gathering the power of the mountain god on the throne of the temple. Before the gate of the cave heaven was closed, it was an arrow in the direction of the disturbance.
What is the result of condensing the power of light and flames, and with the power of a whole mountain and river, hitting a statue? Green snow shot down from the mountains, a flame shot on the eaves of the main hall of Qingjiao Temple. The tiles turned into ashes and opened a big hole. The arrow shot behind the Buddha statue of Vairocana.
Don’t forget that Green Snow is also a mountain god, but it can activate the earth energy of this temple and at the same time, it will take the earth energy spirit of the Buddha statue. Shan Wuzhi was leading the monks to kneel down and recite scriptures. Suddenly, a flame of light shot through the roof of the hall like an arrow. The statue of the Buddha of Vairocana shattered in a dazzling light, the wood turned into ashes, and the clay was shaped into a glass-like crystal, and the ground was scattered.
Shan Wuzhi was stunned and forgot to use his magical power to protect his body. He was smashed by a tiles falling from the roof, and his bald blood flowed. Apart from that, the arrow did not hurt anyone else, but all the monks present were shocked. No one expected that this would happen. He bowed to the ground and couldn't stand up. He didn't know what to do?
Zhang Zongyue, the governor of Wuzhou who was present, was so scared that he almost urinated his pants. It was not only because the scene was terrifying, but because the consequences of this situation were too serious and his small governor of Wuzhou could not afford it.
Modern people may not understand the influence of religion on secular life and even secular politics at that time. Building a temple was a big event in the Tang Dynasty, and demolishing a temple was even more serious. For example, when eminent monks gathered in the world, the statue suddenly collapsed when it was consecrated, which was a disaster. In ancient times, there was not only the "auspiciousness" but also the "disaster prophecy".
Such a thing is the most serious "disaster prophecy". Even if Wuzhou Prefecture does not report it, the censor will definitely impeach the person who will report it. If you take a step back, even if the censor does not speak, will the Buddhist believers in the world and the national teachers who are worshipped in the court be investigated?
Mei Zhenyi was not in Wuzhou at the time of the incident, and even if he was there, he could not cover up the incident.
Why did something happen? Most people don’t know that although Shan Wuzhi and other monks had a response, they could not lock up the Luxue to Wuzhou Prefecture. Wuzhou Prefecture took the initiative to report this incident. Zhang Zongyue explained the cause of the incident: "I suspect that the mountain god was angry, causing the Buddha statue to collapse. The mountain god Jingting was enfeoffed by Empress Wu, and I am afraid that I will be dissatisfied with the change of Zhou and the return of the Tang Dynasty and the establishment of a temple to promote the sacred rule. Wuzhou Prefecture has always been in trouble, and now I report in panic."
You can't say that in order to shirk responsibility, the governor of Wuzhou asked the words of gods and monsters to secretly match the facts, except that the reason was nonsense.
The official documents were sent to Chang'an, and Shan Wuzhi also went to Chang'an to apologize to his master. Without any reply to the news, Qingfeng had already rushed back to Wuzhou, and Mei Zhenyi arrived later.
Chapter completed!