Chapter 269: Looking at the void and tired of the tangible
Next to the Guanghua Temple in Chong'an County, there is a small shop owned by Wu's Medicine Hall. Although the shop is small, the Wu family in Nancheng relies on the business of Chinese medicinal materials. It also has medicine shops in Chong'an County and Xiameiguang. It is said that it has also cooperated with
The Fuzhou Hui Chun Tang of the cloth merchant Wu's Cuisine has a lot to do with it.
At this time, Tian Qingwen reluctantly pulled the small stone and was about to find the master brother of the Jingli Sect. Zhao Erguan put down his fishing rod and followed the two of them step by step. However, he did not expect the majesty of the soap-robed and green-booted man holding the token last night.
The character, who is usually just a doctor in a pharmacy, is twisting a silver needle in his hand and checking someone's pulse with a frown on his face.
He heard a group of people coming noisily outside, and then he slowly raised his head, revealing a kind-hearted look with a broad forehead. He was wearing a thick cotton suit, and his appearance was no different from ordinary people in the market.
"Junior Sister Tian, hey, what are you causing trouble?"
Qiu Jiuzhang, the master of the Jingji Sect, was looking at her with a headache, and then ordered his apprentice to take the patient to get medicine first, and then opened the door of the shop to allow a few people to file in.
Tian Qingwen said bluntly: "Brother, I want to rescue people from the hands of Hanban! I want to ask you for a solution!"
Qiu Jiuzhang glanced at Xiao Shitou and saw Erguan Zhao who was panicking last night. He already had some understanding in his heart. But when he heard what Tian Qingwen said, he could only sigh.
"Junior sister Tian, do you know what I do, senior brother?"
Tian Qingwen said loudly: "Mr. Zhong."
"What about Second Senior Brother and Third Senior Brother?"
"They look like the butcher and the accounting clerk. What's wrong?"
"You see that there is no field behind the Zhaopin Temple, no piers in the fields, and no more than ten giant trees under the piers. It looks like a ghost. Maybe there are no clues here?"
"According to the "Shuowen", "Han" is also a drought ghost. And the "Shen Yi Jing" records that the country where the drought demon saw was Xiaohan, and the red land was thousands of miles away, and there was a drought mother. In that world, wind and thunder came together, and water and fire stimulated each other.
It stands to reason that the Drought Demon is a natural sign of extreme fire, and it can naturally cause trouble far and wide."
Therefore, before he came to Chong'an County to open a religion and accept disciples, the old leader also established some rules. He only said that all those who joined the religion were close or distant, and there were many men, women and old people. They were all called "brothers and sisters" and helped each other in trouble.
Helping the poor and doing good deeds. However, since the old leader passed away a few years ago, the Jingji Sect has no one to make decisions. It can only be managed by eight senior brothers who have the support of the villagers.
"Hmm... you see, the name of the Jinghui Sect given by the old leader Zhang really knows what it means."
Erguan Zhao twirled his beard and said in a refined manner, "As a doctor, I can naturally read and write, and I am keeping these anecdotes and classics left behind by the old leader when he passed away, so I am even more familiar with these mysterious anecdotes."
Zhao Erguan smiled warmly: "What you hear is false, and what you see is true. We young people have come to collude with the government. It can be as big as ordering the monks to use the drums of Siqiao Tower, or as small as..."
"So they saw that since the old Buddha was an "algae light", also known as "Bingkou", he could naturally use water to defeat fire. This is the principle of the unity of all things. Ordinary people seek to understand it, but they know that there is no reason for it.
, but people can know their ears.”
Qiu Jiuzhang suddenly felt like he had found a treasure. He grabbed the big stone and even said hello, and ran to the medicine shop. Tian Qingwen followed closely behind him. Only his junior brother Zhao Erguan was still shaking his head in place, completely unaware that the eight people were still there.
Didn't run out.
Junior Brother Zhao Erguan's words also made Qiu Jiuzhang quite discouraged. The older doctor in front of him even more naggingly told Jingluo's disciples the truth and falsehoods, and from then on
Judging from Qiu Jiuzhang's bored and annoyed expression, it was not the first time he had been nagging.
"After the death of the "Kou Bing Lao Buddha", he pointed out the location of the Hongmeng Fire Cave for the predecessors, which is also the lifeblood of the Drought Demon. He also left a map of "Conquering Fire with Water".
Removing the fire essence will naturally break the drought and disaster."
All eight people shook their heads.
"Fortunately, there was no reincarnation of the ancient Pratyekabuddha in our area at that time. I lit the fire holes to drive away the drought demons, and that was how I saved the people of the city. Do they know the name of the ancient Pratyekabuddha? My method
The name is "Algae Light". He once bathed in ice in the cold weather and snow, so it is also called the "Old Buddha on Ice" in your place."
"Since the old leader of our Jingji Sect passed away, we have been looking for someone who understands magic and knows Yin and Yang. There is no one in the sect who can beat him in boxing and kicking skills. Let's talk about him. Who among those people
Can you help him? As long as he asks, you will send someone to him!"
That incident was something that the old leader saw with his own eyes. I keep talking about it all day long, saying that as the saying goes, "Eight years of plain rice, pick up the incense burner and go to the west." Lower-class practitioners ginseng and worship Buddha, but we ordinary people fast and chant sutras, keep our minds pure and have few desires.
, this is the best thing in the world to accumulate blessings.
"It is said that at the end of the Tang Dynasty, our Chong'an County was still called Chong'an Chang, and there was a natural fire hole left by the early creation of Hongmeng. There was also a corpse in it, which disappeared over time.
The deep bones were transformed, and eventually they were transformed into spirit monsters, turning into Drought Demons and causing mischief in seven places."
Speaking of that, Erguan Zhao took another handful of medicinal powder, carefully gathered it into a bunch, put it into a medicine bowl and pounded it.
Erguan Zhao leaned under the table and said with great regret, "The resident monk Lao Bing was forty-seven years old, and the Dharmakaya Relic Pagoda suppressed Han Ba for a hundred years. However, when County Magistrate Zhao took office, Han Ba was not there yet."
I am ready to make a move. When I arrived in Chong'an County, according to the county annals, "The desolation has not yet been over, and there has not been enough peace and security. Although the land of Guo Pingkuang is attached to the land, the people are suffering from drought and the land is abandoned."..."
As Mr. Zhao finished speaking, everyone's eyes drifted towards the quiet canal passing through the city. They never thought that such a large river with an astonishing appearance would have such a unique story behind it.
The Jingji sect has a weird name, and its practice only involves fasting and chanting sutras. This is all because the old leader said that in the early years, he was not a long-term worker and was bullied by the master's family. He relied on green vegetables and whole grains to satisfy his hunger every day, and he had to work as a cow or a horse every day to get a rest. But
By chance, it happened that those eight years of hard life with a pure heart and few desires allowed him to pay off his long-lasting career, complete his merits, and go to the Western Paradise to become a Buddha and become an ancestor.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Hey, it's useful for him to make noise there. Ask him, do they know how the Drought Demon came?"
As Zhao Erguan talked further and further, Qiu Jiuzhang shook his head and remembered the purpose of his trip, and quickly interrupted.
Zhao Erguan told everyone that after finishing the work, the Xiaochun County magistrate thought that Chong'an County was located in a mountainous area, and the soil was low and the water could be irrigated due to drought, so he started to dig a canal for irrigation. , supernatural things often happened in the city. Fires often broke out in the dry fields late at night, and flames flew all over the bodies of non-human beings. They burned down the houses and the streets, and even burned down the city of Chong'an.
"Junior Sister Tian, Senior Brother, you made an exception and included him in the sect because you saw how good he was in martial arts. Now people are in panic because of the drought. Is there anything you can do?"
Qiu Jiuzhang said in disbelief.
The Confucian scholars of the Song Dynasty prided themselves on studying the principles of nature, but whenever the principles could be understood, they assumed that there was something wrong. However, knowing what is and is not in the world is the real "principle". Based on such clues and the inspiration of villagers' rumors, I finally guessed that there must be no drought demons at work.
"You know he still asks!"
Erguan Zhao slapped the table, puffed his beard and poked his finger directly under his nose, and said decisively.
"They can't go to Zhaopin Temple by themselves. See if we have a group of temple-protecting monks who only look after the famous tea fields every day——"
"That's right, that's right, Junior Brother, you're here to ask him where he went to find Hanbao, and how did he get involved with the monk?"
Xiao Chunjiao was targeted in turn, and she said quite convinced: "This... let's go to the "Old Buddha of the Ice" to lend a helping hand! As long as a few people burn incense outside the temple, you just believe that I am a compassionate monk, and you can still see death. Is it a rescue?"
Zhao Erguan glanced at the big stone and thought that a small child could eat a lot. He was just a little bothered by Qiu Jiuzhang's nonsense. He expected that there would be a way to improve it today, so he could only patiently explain to a few people.
Zhao Erguan was also a little disgusted and said: "His appearance of talking about things and claiming to be poor at the foundation of yin and yang has nothing to do with the Confucianism of the Song Dynasty. There is also an older child who is stupid! Let's talk about where the drought demon is going. Searching everywhere, just saying that the "ordinary water" in the ditches and roads is inferior to the "pure water" of the incarnation of Pratyekabuddha, and rushing down hastily, is nothing more than a drop in the bucket."
At this moment, Da Shitou woke up from his dream. He seemed to remember his own experience of stewing in an iron pot, and suddenly said: "That's right. When water meets fire, it can also be boiled."
"Furthermore, last night the Doha's kung fu was high and low. He shouldn't be worried about it - even I was spared from the ordeal last night. What can he do if my junior sister is gone?"
Erguan Zhao coughed and spoke to us in a high voice.
Then I thought about it for a long time, and finally decided to put the medicine bowl in the way.
Erguan Zhao earnestly explained this bit about the Jingji sect's background, and then I pushed away the medicine bowl and paper under the desk, spread my hands out to show my ability, and even tried to persuade Qiu Jiuzhang.
"Hey, as he said, Rui Yan, the magistrate of Chong'an County in the first year of Kangding in the later Song Dynasty, also thought about it."
But Qiu Jiuzhang is also a person who gives up when things are difficult. When you see the other party, you open your mouth and simply stay where you are to stop the quarrel. It means that if my junior brother makes up his mind today, you will take a few people to live and eat outside.
At that time, Xiao Chun naturally found the Zhao Pin Temple in the city. However, at this time, the temple left by the "Kuaibing Lao Buddha" was in ruins. The monks in the temple didn't know anything about it. This shows that Pacceka Buddha It is a person who is alone in enlightenment, standing alone in the world like a lin horn. His true body has long since drifted away, and the remaining Taoism has faded away. No wonder the drought demon will secretly grow.
"All things are born according to reason. Although the Drought Demon is born with magical powers and can control rain, it is still a kind of Yin ghost after all. The small air circulates in the earth, and the water and soil are both transformed by Yin Qi. The Drought Demon is afraid of water, so it must be hidden in the daytime. On the ground.”
Xiao Chunjiao laughed dumbly: "Haha, Senior Brother, you are indeed a bit verbose, but you also want these children to die."
"The prefect of Ruiyan is very happy, but the monks in the temple have been occupying the mountain land for many years, secretly raising tenants, and even swallowing up some monk soldiers. In order to seize the fertile land in the city and protect our own monk property, we secretly smeared the river records They tampered with it and changed the river that originally surrounded the city to pass through the city. Although this plan was temporarily solved, it was not able to truly resolve the disaster."
Erguan Zhao told everyone that the Jingji Sect came to Chong'an County in the late Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. In fact, it was a branch of the refugee sect in Jiangxi and Fujian. Except for the old leader Zhang who traveled all over the country in his early years to learn some spells and talismans, the rest followed him. The people were formerly displaced paper mill workers and indigo farmers in shacks, and the various people recruited into the church were all wealthy people from outside Chong'an County.
"Four years later, this group of monks bewitched the county magistrate Yin Yingyin, recruited monks from Huangshan Mountain to make tea using the pine basket method, and wanted the county magistrate to convert all the rice fields in the city into tea fields. If the old leader Zhang threatened to self-immolate, he would fight to the death , can these tea leaves be used as food? We will starve to death in the wars and famines in the next few years?"
Xiao Chunjiao changed the topic and suddenly got into some topics.
Among them, the younger brother Zhao Erguan is the "Zhang Ling", responsible for organizing believers to chant scriptures every month and hold candlelight gatherings to pray for people; the seventh brother Chen Guiheng is the "Zhang Qi". He butchers pigs and sells meat on weekdays, and the boys and old men bully him. He is responsible for resolving grievances and lawsuits and upholding justice for everyone in the Jingji sect. Zhu Min, the eighth master, has cultivated the title of "Palm Seal". Because he has no mental arithmetic ability, he is responsible for arranging the small and large expenses and property of the sect every ten days, and registering them in categories.
Qiu Jiuzhang listened with only a half-understanding, and feared that the other party would go off topic and asked quickly: "Little brother, since water can overcome fire, why did you lure the drought demon into the water and drown it?"
"Since ancient times, heaven has been respected and principles have been the source. All things in the sky are born according to principles. It should be renamed Tianli Jiao..."
"Ah? How can these monks be so cunning and rampant?"