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"Here, every step is a story, and the steps circling up the whole mountain are stories one by one?" The old monk Huijing felt incredible. Although there are many Buddhist stories, but he wanted to cover the entire mountain. That is still very difficult.

Only Si Fan smiled slightly. There are 10,000 steps in total, connecting all places on the mountain. The main steps are 5301 steps. If you want to climb up the mountain, you have to climb these 5301 steps. As you can imagine, it is very difficult to go up the mountain here.

As for why there are 5301 steps, this is actually some connotation of Buddhism. Buddhist steps are generally 53 steps, the number is odd, because of the theory of yin and yang, odd numbers are yang numbers! If it is a negative number of steps, isn't it going to hell?

Looking at the steps, the old monk Huijing silently saluted Si Fan: "Amitabha."

He didn't say much, and then continued to look at the whole design. The steps circled the mountain and finally connected to the gate of the temple on the mountain, but this temple is not like this. The end of the temple steps is in front of a waterfall. Next to the waterfall is There is a location where there is a small house that looks more like an ancient building.

Huijing looked at the small house and asked suspiciously, "What is this house for?"

He pointed to the building, which seemed to be rather peculiar in decoration, but its overall shape had never been seen in Buddhist classics and standards and asked.

Si Fan smiled awkwardly, pointed to this place and said, this is actually not a Buddhist building, it's just an elevator, for the convenience of tourists going up the mountain directly. "

One sentence made Huijing grasp the point.

"Tourists? Does that mean there are still pilgrims?" Huijing said.

Because the entire design has come here, it has not been displayed, but the entire elevator is displayed, and various places on the mountain are displayed. There are so many steps on both sides to the tourist attractions. This scenic spot looks like It's a bit old fashioned.

One of the places is a stone bridge. This stone bridge has been around for a long time, probably hundreds of years old. It looks very old. The name written on the bridge is Ananda Bridge.

On the opposite side of the bridge, there is no place leading to it, you can directly enter the mountain, and this side of the bridge is the temple, under the bridge is a small river, all the waterways on the mountain are very gentle, only here is the whole The only rapid place on the mountain, if you want to cross the river, you can only cross the bridge.

But in fact, this bridge is useless, because the place it leads to is a forest.

"What kind of place is this?" Huijing asked, pointing to the forest, where it was pure old forest.

Si Fan pointed to this place and said, this place is called Anan Bridge, don't you think this place is suitable for tourists to visit? On the opposite side, I plan to build a love-related accommodation hotel, which can provide a place for overnight stay. There are not so many places for people to stay overnight on the whole mountain.

Huijing was furious immediately. Of course I know the story of Ananqiao, but what I didn't expect was that you actually wanted to use this story to make money.

Si Fan smiled slightly, this story is actually full of Zen.

It was a very tangled story about Venerable Ananda, one of the ten great disciples of the Buddha.

Venerable Ananda is the younger brother of Devadatta and the cousin of the Buddha. He is one of the top ten disciples of the Buddha.

Ananda said to the Buddha: I like a woman.

The Buddha asked Ananda: How much do you like this woman?

Ananda said: I would like to be transformed into a stone bridge, and be exposed to the wind, sun, and rain for five hundred years, just asking her to pass by the bridge.

The Buddha said: "It can be seen how much you like it? But you fall in love at first sight and fall in love for the rest of your life? But you wait without asking for anything in return?

You understand all of this, and you are still willing to suffer from nature only for that encounter. "

"Ananda, how much do you like the woman passing by the bridge, so that you sacrifice your life and accept the suffering of love?"

Afterwards, Venerable Ananda turned into a stone bridge and waited silently for the woman. Five hundred years of wind blew,

Five hundred years of sun and five hundred years of rain, just to let that woman see herself again.

Finally one day, the woman was reincarnated and came to this place again. Walk on the Ananda Bridge.

But she didn't look at Ananda who was transformed into Ananda Bridge. Never thanked the bridge either.

However, when the Buddha asked Ananda again, Ananda finally said something that shocked Si Fan the most, and it was this sentence that made Si Fan decide to keep the bridge as one of the attractions here.

"As long as I wait for her, that's enough. Being able to turn into a bridge and cross her to the other side of the river is enough!"

In one sentence, there is not much Zen meaning, but all the love in the world is transformed into this one sentence.

However, when Si Fan looked up the information, he found that this is not the case in this world. It is just a story depicted on an ordinary bridge in this wild mountain.

The version that is really circulated is that Venerable Ananda is just talking, he didn't turn himself into a bridge, and he didn't wait for this girl. Everything was a debate with the Buddha.

How can such a story make more people feel the same, let alone feel the true meaning of this story from the bottom of their hearts.

Looking at this modified version handed down from ancient times, it is even more miserable and desolate. The story is portrayed on the bridge like this. The Ananda Bridge itself is even more ancient and clumsy. The last hold is left.

Looking at everything, Si Fan felt a sour feeling in his heart.

He felt that he still liked the version recorded on the Ananda Bridge built by the ancients, rather than the version that was handed down.

The old-fashioned Ananda Bridge seems to be crossing the catastrophe of love, waiting for the woman I only want to see after waiting for five hundred years of wind, five hundred years of sun, and five hundred years of rain.

This story is even more touching.

"Master, I want to keep this deviant version, what do you think?" Si Fan asked the old monk beside him.

Huijing nodded and said: "Amitabha, you are a benevolent deed! This bridge was not built by you, and all karma has nothing to do with you. This bridge is here, and no one has come to tear it down for hundreds of years. , it’s because of cause and effect, don’t you think so?”

The old monk played a charade, it seemed that he didn't say anything, and what he said was nonsense, but he took all the responsibilities away from Si Fan.

It is impossible for anyone to trouble him, and it is even more impossible if he wants to demolish it, because Si Fan has already thought of a solution and directly applied for the protection of the historic site.

When the group of monks came, there was nothing they could do.