Chapter 480 Ruins
The whole room is very simple. The tea set on the short table is the common coarse pottery in the countryside, which is of little value.
However, a piece of bamboo paper letterhead pressed under the wooden fish caught Zhou Zhi's attention.
There is a small poem written on the letterhead:
Sitting on the Lotus Peak for Forty Autumn,
His life is uncertain.
It is difficult to keep the pure precepts and live in Abi,
to let down the monk Long Jingdu.
Heng Fa didn’t understand poetry, but the word "Dragon Sutra" in the last sentence of the poem made his heart beat wildly: "This... is this talking about the Dragon Sutra?"
"The meaning of this poem is that I have been practicing on the Lotus Peak for forty years. This life is about to end, but I have not yet understood what the next life will be like."
"The world is already like Abi Hell. It is difficult for people to stick to the rules and precepts. They can only live up to the Dragon Sutra's enlightenment for me as a monk."
After interpreting the poem, Zhou Zhiyou couldn't help but wonder: "So Lotus Peak is just a Borrowing a reference? It refers to the monk’s place of practice, or his state of mind, rather than the actual place name?”
"If this is the case, then the Dragon Tibetan Sutra will be useless." Hengfa looked at the dilapidated bamboo house: "This is the lowest part of the basin. Places suitable for bamboo growth are generally humid and hot, unlike Guanyin Cliff and Yaoshi Cave. It is a place where scriptures can be stored..."
"There are also words under the wooden fish!" When the two of them were interpreting the poem, Mr. Qiao had already picked up the wooden fish and looked through it.
The wooden fish is made of logs, carved from a large lump of oak. I don’t know how many hammers were broken before the top of such a hard wooden fish can be hammered into a flat surface.
The pattern of the oak knots is very beautiful. Zhou Zhi’s family has a slingshot embryo snatched from Lao Mu’s house. It is similar to this one, and has been coated with a layer of varnish like patina.
Turn over the wooden fish, and there is an incised word "show" on the bottom.
Hengfa joined forces again: "This is the relic of my great power Yuanxiu!"
"Then your guess can be confirmed to be correct!" Master Qiao shouted: "Monk Wu is Zen Master Yuanxiu! The Longzang Sutra was hidden for him!"
"But where is it hidden?" Zhou Zhi was a little crazy: "If this is the place where Yuanxiu occasionally secretly came to chant sutras and recite Buddhism after he became a bandit leader, if he really hid the "Dragon Hidden Sutra" with the intention of Dongfang and Yuanyin. Get up, the scripture should be not far from here!”
"But look at the surrounding environment, does this look like a place where books are stored? If it is really hidden here..." After speaking, he used a bamboo stick to poke the rotten place on the floor: "Look! Bamboo can't even hold it!"
“So this place has been proven to be the practice of Zen Master Yuanxiu It also proves that our journey of seeking scriptures is completely over!”
“But this lacquer coffee table and wooden fish are still good...” Mr. Qiao was also a little stubborn: “Then there are us! I think it's great to be able to prove the correctness of the speculation. That's amazing."
"Yes, yes, no matter what, it is also a great gain to be able to find Yuan Xiu's practice place and his relics." Hengfa said: "These things are still there. I want to take it back to the temple..."
" Let's continue searching. Anyway, after we finish searching here, we can go to Shudu and have an explanation with Teacher Yuan." Zhou Zhi sighed: "My godfather is right, success is accidental, failure is normal and ordinary. Treat it with heart.”
"Brother, you are right. Being able to find this place shows that our method of scouring and speculating in massive amounts of data was correct. Being able to find the relics of Zen Master Yuanxiu means that this trip was not in vain."
"That's the truth." Master Hengfa already felt that this trip was worth a thousand dollars: "Then it's still the old rule. If something happens, blow the whistle. Let's finish exploring this small basin." So the three of them went again. According to the original plan again, each began to continue exploring.
Because this time Hengfa's search had to cross the wetland in the center of the basin, and the speed was not as fast as Zhou Zhi and Master Qiao.
Not long after, Master Qiao’s whistle sounded high in the basin.
Zhou Zhi hurriedly walked through the pine forest he was searching and ran quickly up the slope. He saw Master Qiao's back in the distance, standing in a daze beside a huge rock outside the pine forest.
"What did you find in your sworn brother?" Zhou Zhi shouted as he ran.
Master Qiao just waved: "Come up quickly, you will know when you come up and take a look!"
When Zhou Zhi ran through the pine forest and came to Master Qiao, he couldn't help but feel stupid: "Damn, how could I put us on the edge of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau? I forgot about this..."
After living in the mountains for so long, Zhou Zhi has almost forgotten how he and Mr. Qiao came to Fawang Temple. It was when the two of them climbed fifteen consecutive climbs. After walking uphill, we arrived at my god-grandfather’s house.
After that, the scope of activities of the two people was actually on a huge slope of the plateau. Even Guanyin Cliff was actually a small highland on the slope of the plateau.
But in daily life, people often ignore the concept of absolute height. After a few days of activities in and around Fawang Temple, Zhou Zhi subconsciously forgot that he was in the mountains, because Fawang Temple The place where Wang Temple is located is on a hill on a large platform. The platform feels similar to the hilly area in the suburbs of Jiachuan.
The scenery now displayed in front of them reminded Zhou Zhi and Mr. Qiao that they were indeed in a hilly area, but in a hilly area whose altitude was nearly a thousand meters higher than that of Jiachuan. !
Where Zhou Zhi is now, a few steps forward is an abyss!
They came to the edge of the huge platform where Howangji Temple is located!
This is an extremely magnificent scene. Below the cliff is a huge basin surrounded by surrounding mountains. At the bottom of the basin are hills of various sizes, as small as chess pieces and as large as nests. Between the hills, there are Countless woods, rice fields and vegetable fields.
Some larger plains, in the center of rice fields and vegetable fields, are small residential areas, and those are towns.
All of these are connected by lines of different thicknesses. The initial lines snake toward the northeast along several thin luminous ribbons.
These lines are the roads, and the thin strips of light are the Red Water River.
The Hongshui River is incredibly winding, similar to the Jiuqu Yellow River on the Norgai grassland, but Norgai is a plain, and here are hills and mountains.
The Hongshui River meanders toward the northeast, and eventually a smaller meandering confluence merges with it from the northwest. That is the largest tributary of the Hongshui River, the Xishui River.
The section between Xishui River and Chuanchuan is called Gaodong River. The water of Gaodong River is green even in the wet season. After it merges into the Hongshui River, which is now yellow, it flows for a short distance. Then we entered a yellower water belt - the Yangtze River.
The land surrounded by the three water belts of Xishui River, Hongshui River and Yangtze River is Majie Town.
On the other side of Majie Town, the hills surrounded by the Yangtze River and Mount Anle, which are tall and low like a penholder in the distance, are Jiachuan County.
The administrative area of Jiachuan County is very large, but the county government is not large. Starting from the mouth of the Hongshui River into the Yangtze River, like a awning boat, a large group of buildings are placed on the edge of the Yangtze River. That's Jiachuan County.
Looking at Jiachuan from this position, Jiachuan is about the size of a matchbox, and the White Tower standing across the Yangtze River is about the same as the top of a small toothpick.
(End of this chapter)