Four Soul Reincarnation·first Life
四魂轮转•第一世
by Wanfang (万芳)
- Status
- Ongoing
- Length
- 11k Words
- Chapters
- 2
- Genre
- Multi-Orientation
- Updated
- 2mo ago
- Source
- JJWXC
Stats
Tags
- ThemePlot-Driven
- POVDual POV
- Age21+
Synopsis
During the heyday of the dynasty, when the late emperor was on the throne, the sea and rivers in the court were clear. Outside there are the disturbances caused by barbarians at the border, while inside there are heavy taxes and poor people's livelihood. The cracks in the prosperous times are hidden under the prosperity. In the Qingshan Taoist Temple, a young boy named Shou Ding fell in love with a tea-picking girl in the mountains. During the Qingming Festival, there was an official dispute. Shouding stood up to argue against the merchants. On his way back, he saw an ancient Buddha standing silently above the waterfall and between the sea of clouds, and made a promise to the next day with Nianqing. On the night of the full moon, the two fell in love with each other under the waterfall, but unexpectedly, this perfect relationship was overturned - the little Taoist boy Achuan was washed away by the sudden rise of the river while searching for him, and drowned at the foot of the waterfall. In grief, Shoujing burned all the scriptures he had recited every day in front of Ah Chuan's grave, and looked up to see the giant moss Buddha that had overlooked everything since the Qingming Festival. The anger that had been accumulated for a long time finally burst out - he scolded the Buddha for being silent and unresponsive, scolded the roaring waterfall for committing murder, and criminalized the ruthlessness of heaven and earth. However, after anger collided with silence, he discovered that he was also a link in the causal chain: if he and Nianqing hadn't returned home late, Achuan would not be alone at home. He confessed his crime personally in front of the grave, and Nianqing knelt beside him, sharing the guilt and pain. The same gust of wind also blew through the hunting ground on the outskirts of Beijing. The prince Zhizhi shot an arrow at the minister's daughter Ruo Shan, who was trying to shield the deer from the arrow. From then on, he felt confused and worried. He broke his bow in the Deer Park and swore that he would never face the living beings like a hunter again. Ruoshan found the broken bow in the ruins of the Deer Park, his eyes became wet and he laughed again. In the court hall, the emperor conferred marriage in public, and the general was a good match for him. The eldest prince Zhiwu stood in the court and watched all this coldly - he was the eldest son of a concubine with great military exploits, and he had been seeking recognition from outside his whole life but could not get it. His father's silence was a knot he could never untie, and he never knew about his last edict hidden under the cushion of the dragon chair until his death. Two pairs of teenagers, two worlds. From the Qingming Festival to the Winter Solstice, from the waterfalls in the mountains to the imperial palaces, the same waxing gibbous moon illuminates love and death, and the same south wind fills the paddy fields and royal roads. The ancient Buddha sat upright in the sea of clouds, carrying the rise and fall of the solar terms of the entire mountain and river in his body, silently watching the joys and sorrows of the world, and only spoke at the end of reincarnation: "I will not ferry you, you can only ferry yourself." The whole book uses the twenty-four solar terms as the temporal framework, with two parallel lines and interlocking cause and effect - the mountains and the imperial city never intersect, but they share the same celestial phenomenon and are pulled by the same cause and effect chain. This is a long classical narrative about obsession and self-transcendence, and it is also a fourfold tragedy on the eve of the overthrow of a prosperous age. Purpose: If you seek salvation from outside, you will fall into ignorance; only by crossing yourself can you see your true heart.