It's no wonder that we exclaimed, because we had met him not so long ago, and it was he who brought us here and guided us into this new city.

That's right, it's the old man who ferried, I always suspected that he was a big monk, but I didn't expect him to be really a monk, although now his image is different from his image outside, without that big beard, the monk's robe is not full of patches, tattered appearance, but there is always nothing wrong between the eyebrows.

"Why are you here?" It was Hui Gen'er who opened his mouth to ask, obviously he had no way to connect these two images, one was indifferent and saw through the red dust, and the other was full of compassion and compassion.

As for why he didn't make it clear to us at the ferry, how did he get here, it was not the key to Hui Gen'er asking this question at all, he just wanted to prove once again whether these two people were the same person?

Faced with Hui Gen'er's question, Master Hongren just looked at Hui Gen'er with a smile, with a deep meaning in his eyes, but how could Hui Gen'er know? It's just that I became more and more confused, scratching my ears and cheeks anxiously, but I saw a little difference in my smile, that is, there was a scar in the corner of the old man's eye outside, like a serious wound, and Master Hongren didn't.

The scar is not big, it is the size of a small fingernail, I didn't see it by chance, and I wouldn't have noticed it, but I didn't expect it to give me an answer now, I blurted out: "You're not the ferryman outside, because you don't have that scar!" ”

Excited, I pointed to the corner of my eye, maybe I was the only one who noticed this detail, so after I said it, everyone looked at me a little inexplicably.

However, Master Hongren smiled again and said, "Amitabha, you have discovered it." Outside the ferry is my younger brother, who is also my guardian monk, he is Hongye, Hongren is me. ”

"Ah" Hui Gen'er suddenly reacted violently, and she didn't care about politely pointing at Master Hongren, except for the shocked sound coming from her throat, she couldn't speak.

I saw that Hui Gen'er was holding back, and gently hit Hui Gen'er on the back a few times before Hui Gen'er was relieved.

Master Hongren seems to have a childlike heart, seeing Hui Gen'er like this, he showed a smile, different from the ferryman Hongye Monk's somewhat cold smile, his smile has a trace of unpretentious innocence, he said: "A big dream, I don't know if it's a dream is also a kind of pain, how can the real soul have the feeling of choking on words in the yang body, are you right?" ”

It's a big dream

But Hui Gen'er didn't care about that much, and bowed his head to Master Hongren, looking like he was about to kowtow, but was grabbed by Master Hongren and asked in a low voice: "Is that little monk okay with Huijue?" ”

Uncle Hui? I inexplicably mentioned Uncle Hui, at this moment it is not Hui Gen'er who is excited, but all of us except Lu Shan and Tao Bai, I am even more excited and my whole body can't help but tremble, just because Uncle Hui is always with my master, and now there is a person who calls Uncle Hui with the title of little monk, I am like seeing a relative, how can I not be excited?

And after Hui Gen'er was pulled up by Master Hongren, she was already about to cry, but her soul state, unless she suddenly felt a big feeling like Jueyuan, it was impossible to really shed tears, but this did not prevent Hui Gen'er from crying: "I haven't seen my master for many years, seven years, or eight years." ”

Hui Gen'er didn't say the specific reason, maybe at this time, it was when a thousand words were impossible to say, but he didn't want Master Hongren to sigh and said: "It must be with Li Chun'er's idiot to find Kunlun, Kunlun is Li Chun'er's obsession, and Huijue and his friendship, how can it not be Huijue's obsession?" Everyone has an obsession, just like me, I want to live here is also an obsession, and I won't stop until I die. ”

After saying this, Master Hongren sang a Buddha name, and finally said quietly: "Whether there is an obsession in the heart is the difference between mortals and Buddhas." ”

I don't understand this obsession, just like I don't understand, how can the pursuit of goodness become an obsession, maybe I haven't reached that level of height, in the emotion of Master Hongnin, I only noticed one sentence, I won't stop until I die? Don't

Master Hongnin sensed my thoughts and said to me, "I died ten years ago, and my soul stayed here just to continue to transform these thousands of struggling and suffering souls, Amitabha. ”

When he said this, Master Hongren looked calm, talking about his life and death, as if he was talking about eating today, there is no such simple thing, but we are not calm at all, what kind of feelings is this? No matter according to Taoism or Buddhism, a soul like Master Hongren can be completely transcended, and even getting rid of the suffering of reincarnation is not necessarily, he actually stayed in this hell?

But about this matter, Master Hongren was reluctant to talk about it, just as he was unwilling to comment more on the behavior of my master and Uncle Hui, but Hui Gen'er finally shed tears, and he couldn't care about Master Hongren's opposition, so he knelt down again, bowed his head and bowed, kowtowed three times, and said with his hands together: "The master is in front of me, I didn't know it, and now the master is in front of me, how can I kneel down and worship first, and then go back and kowtow to the ancestor." ”

Uncle Shi? Shizu? The shock caused by these two titles in my heart was like a tsunami, according to Hui Gen'er, the ferryman we saw turned out to be Uncle Hui's master, and this one in front of me turned out to be

As soon as Hui Gen'er's words fell, Jueyuan also knelt down, and he was about to kowtow regardless of it, but he was stopped by Master Hongren, and he said: "He worships me, or it is excusable, but you worship me, but you can't stand it, because strictly speaking, I and my junior brother (younger brother) are the same thing, and I don't belong to your lineage, you can't worship it." ”

Jueyuan didn't know what to say, so he could only sigh, stood up, and made a Buddhist salute to Master Hongren, saying: "Although the master does not belong to our lineage, he is the most outstanding person in the way of our lineage in the past hundred years. ”

Master Hongren shook his head and smiled: "Living to my point, all the etiquette in the world is no longer important, respect in the heart is really respect, if the heart is disrespectful, what is the use of holding a Buddha's foot temporarily, doing a full set of etiquette?" That's it, I can't be the best first person, is he okay? He was the first person back then, and he really did a great thing when he came here with Lao Li of Taoism. ”

I heard the news of the ancestor again, it turned out that Jueyuan's predecessor who entered the Lake of Ten Thousand Ghosts was powerful, and his name was Fazhao, he was the one who entered the Lake of Ten Thousand Ghosts with my ancestor?

Faced with Master Hongren's question, Jueyuan hurriedly replied respectfully: "After Uncle Shi entered the Lake of Ten Thousand Ghosts, he was exhausted, and soon after, he passed away. ”

Master Hongren sighed when he heard this, and then said: "He is also complete, and Lao Li has done that great thing, I can only follow in his footsteps, come here with my junior brother, and guard all this for him, you have arrived, and the opportunity has come." ”

Speaking of this, he suddenly added: "Back then, I thought it should be the little monk Li Chun'er and Huijue who came to trigger this opportunity, but I didn't expect that the grandchildren who came, hehe"

Master Hongnin smiled like a child again.

But I was thinking, should it have been my master who came in the first place? It seems that there are still a lot of secrets in this, but Master Hongren seems to be a little anxious and unwilling to explain too much, and under my puzzled eyes, he only said one sentence: "However, it shouldn't be them, because after I came here, I learned a statement from Lao Li, saying that the apprentices of his generation can't trigger this opportunity, and they have to wait for the juniors." ”

I see, it seems that this matter is the fate of the underworld, which led us to this place, and the master and they deliberately avoided this place, so does Uncle Hui know that his master is here? In fact, Uncle Hui never mentioned his master in front of me once

Master Hongren's words made the thoughts in my mind turn back and forth, but there was no answer to each one, everything pointed to my god-like ancestor, who arranged all this and calculated every node of fate

"I don't have much time, and this time I made an exception, and it cost me, which one is Li Chun'er's apprentice." Master Hongren suddenly asked.

It turned out that there was really not much time, which confirmed my guess, Master Hongren can do all this here, who said that it was not a price, although I had doubts in my heart, but Master Hongren asked, where did I dare to slack off, and quickly stood up and responded: "I am!" ”