Castle Peak Like Jade

It took half a day to climb up to the peak temple.

After offering incense and praying to the Buddha in Daoqing Temple, the master in the temple said that there is a master in the Zen Fragrance Temple who is teaching Buddhism, so Chushuang and Sheng Ting went to listen to Zen.

The centuries-old temples have kept burning incense, and the smell of incense and green oil lamps in the Zen Incense House merges to form a unique and simple fragrance that is reassuring.

It was two hours after I sat cross-legged on the futon and listened to the master's lecture on Buddha.

The houses in the back row of the temple complex are the wing rooms exclusively for Buddhist monks to rest. They lived in and took a rest for a while before Chushuang got up.

"I'll go to a high place to see the scenery, and you can sleep if you're sleepy."

Knowing that she wanted to go shopping alone, Sheng Ting didn't follow her.

The location of Daoqing Temple is the highest. Climbing up the high-rise building and looking down the mountain will give you a glimpse of the small mountains. The top of the mountain is still very cool in early spring.

Chushuang stood on a high place and stared blankly for a while, the bells in the temple were all ringing, it was getting late.

Just as he was about to go downstairs to have a vegetarian meal with Sheng Ting, he suddenly caught sight of a familiar figure.

The woman sitting on the chair outside the Buddhist scriptures pavilion on the opposite side is looking down and turning the pages of the book, as if blending into the solemn and solemn scriptures pavilion.

Sure enough, I read it right yesterday, it was Sister Chaoyu.

How could she come to Guiyun when she was far away in the imperial capital?

Going downstairs to have a vegetarian meal with Sheng Ting, the setting sun slowly faded into the horizon.

In the evening, the two added thick clothes and went for a walk outside.

"I know there is a very steep viewing point here."

Along the dense forest path in the mountains, Chushuang lit a flashlight and told Sheng Ting.

"The slopes in other places are a little bit sloping, but the land is straight up and down. Just looking at it makes your heart beat faster, but the scenery is really good."

"Slower."

Although the path is paved with stone slabs, the mountain path is inevitably scattered. Seeing her, Sheng Ting only spoke softly and reminded her.

Still worried about her, he dragged her along.

Hearing that she was so familiar with this place, he asked, "Do you often come here?"

"Grandma likes to come, and used to accompany her old man to the temple to eat vegetarian meals."

Her grandmother passed away two years ago, and Sheng Ting knew about it.

They were supposed to get married two years ago, but when an elder in her family passed away, the marriage was shelved.

In fact, the filial piety should be kept for three years, but in recent years, people have not paid much attention to it in ancient times, and this marriage was originally arranged by the elders before their death, so they can get married after two years.

Chushuang seems to have thought of this too.

"Speaking of which, didn't you come to Shen's house two years ago?"

She didn't even remember meeting him, if she had, she wouldn't have those oolongs of admitting the wrong person.

Grandma only said it was a child of the Sheng family, but who knew it was that uncle.

The brilliance of the sun disappeared completely, and the vision began to blur, and occasionally the singing of birds and beasts came from the forest.

"Come, all come."

Chushuang paused.

The man's face is not very clear in the black color, but the pronunciation of the words is calm and clear.

"You stayed in the mourning hall all day and didn't come out to see any guests."

Chushuang gathered her clothes, recalled herself at that time, and smiled lightly, "That's right, how could I pay attention to other things at that time."

When she arrived at the viewing place she mentioned, the night wind was blowing, and she looked down the mountain in the dim light, and felt that the high place was extremely cold.The wind roared past the cliffs, and there was a rustling sound in the woods not far away.

Fortunately, a fence has been built here, which gives people a sense of security.

Chushuang took a deep breath of the cool air at night, feeling refreshed throughout his lungs and chest.

She stretched out her hand to look at Xinghuo in the distant city, and said with emotion: "I really like this feeling, being free, watching the world over there as a bystander, it seems to be very close to heaven."

This made the man look sideways at her.

Chushuang paused slightly, bent her lips: "Heaven is the sky, literally."

"Isn't it interesting to watch the scenery on the top of the mountain at night?"

"Yes."

In fact, the mountain is very quiet, even if there is the night wind, birds and beasts, and the whispers of the two of them, all sounds will be swallowed into the darkness.

The night was silent.

Leaning on the railing and staring quietly into the distance, the sky is dotted with a few pitiful stars.

If it is summer, the night sky here will be so beautiful that you will be speechless.

It's a pity that it's only early spring.

In the summer two years ago, Chushuang saw the most beautiful starry sky here, and stayed in the temple that night.

The news said that meteors can be seen at night, and when you swim here at night, the star river hangs over the top, and the weather is myriad.

The vast universe hangs so unobtrusively above the head, so close that it seems that you can touch it with your hand.

Grandma passed away very quietly, without any pain. Everyone said that it is a blessing for the elderly to pass away peacefully at a certain age.

After losing a family member for the first time in eight years, Chushuang is much calmer than when she was young.

When she received the call, she was buying pumpkin cakes in the back street of the school. This cake was her grandmother's favorite, and her grandmother would often make it for her when she was a child.

There is no class in the afternoon, and usually on such a day, I would bask in the sun on the balcony and daze, or go to the library to read a book for a while, but I suddenly had a craving for pumpkin pie that day.

As soon as I bought the pumpkin pie, I received a call from home.

Being calm does not mean that there will be no pain. Once again, seeing the familiar faces of your loved ones close in front of you, you can clearly see and touch them, but you know that you are no longer in the same world, and you can no longer see and talk with each other.

It is even more impossible to give her the things she loves in her life.

Chushuang realized once again that there is nothing heavier than death.

Kneeling in the mourning hall for three days, the old man was buried in the earth on the fourth day, and she climbed up Yunli Mountain the next day.

I always feel that this place is close to the sky and close to grandma.

That night was also here, she stood for a long, long time.

In fact, she didn't do anything special, she just stood quietly, lost in thought, maybe the atmosphere around her was still different, the person who came here to see the scenery at some time saw her and reminded her.

"It's dangerous ahead, don't get too close."

is a young man.

Very few people come here at this point.

Hearing this, Chushuang lowered her eyes and took a step back.

Presumably he came here to watch shooting stars.

But most astronomy enthusiasts will go to another mountain, which is also higher and the vegetation is not as dense as this side, but the road is much easier to walk, and it takes less than half the time to go up this mountain.

Not the best option here.

The man seemed to be just reminding casually, and his voice was not very enthusiastic.

Chushuang looked at the night sky and meditated, while he was silently waiting for the shooting star on the other side.

No one spoke, the night outside the midsummer desolation was too quiet, but strangely harmonious.

When a faint silver light flashed across the night sky, Chushuang raised her head in a daze.

I didn't expect the meteor to be real.

The story books I read when I was a child said that when one person leaves the world, one star will fall.

Even when she was a child, she didn't believe this statement.

At that time, watching the shooting star pass by, the apex of my heart suddenly felt sore, and mist formed in my eyes.

There was a click in the darkness, and the corner of the eye glowed scarlet.

Looking sideways, the man clutched the lighter and wanted to light a cigarette, the flames reflected the contours of his facial features, and the charm inside was as deep as a knife cut.

The flame was about to reach the end of the smoke, and he seemed to remember something, and the fire at his fingertips went out.

All is reduced to darkness.

"Aren't you leaving yet?"

The words were spoken to her.

Chushuang didn't answer for a moment.

Night Breeze brought his deep voice to her ears.

"Buddhist pure land, think twice about everything."

As the starry sky could not fully see his face, Chushuang paused for a while before roughly guessing what he meant.

He thought she was here to commit suicide?

If she falls from here, will it disturb the purity of this Buddhist gate?