Some doubts were solved by the master after I walked into this Buddhist hall; but new knots arose when I walked out of this Buddhist hall. I gently rubbed the string of beads, and a faint fragrance came. I looked carefully, but
It is an exquisite bead carved from small purple-leaf sandalwood. It seems to be really valuable. While walking on the road, I met several monks passing by. When they saw the beads on my wrist, they all looked at me in surprise. It seems that this
Buddha beads are not only precious, they are also personal belongings of Master Xujian. Even now, this Buddhist master with profound wisdom and profound knowledge is still deeply imprinted on my heart. To be honest, what happened a long time later
One thing once really made me think about escaping into Buddhism, and I no longer had any worries.
The only person who can hold me back in this mortal world may be a group of my brothers, but when it comes down to it, she is the only one:
Xiao Luqi.
There is only her. Although she is dead, compared to the various people I met before, she is the most authentic, the most real, and the least modified and disguised one in front of me. She is like a mirror. Looking at her, not only
My eyes felt deep pleasure, and my soul could completely empty itself at that moment, without being stained by a speck of dust.
Thinking of her, I walked under the tree, packed up the bedding, walked out of the Buddhist gate, and looked back deeply. To others, I must look like a homeless vagabond.
In fact, in this mortal world where creation plays tricks on people and where right and wrong are complicated, who is not wandering lonely and helpless?
I took a taxi and I reported an address. The driver shook his head and said he didn't know. I looked and saw that this was a car coming from the city. Maybe the address was too remote and the driver really didn't know.
Helpless, I could only walk along the alley, look for it little by little, ask questions, and finally found the courtyard that looked extremely dilapidated, but I never expected that this old gentleman lived here.
I knocked on the door gently for a long time, but no one answered. Did I arrive by chance? Just when I turned around to leave, an old man with white hair and beard walked slowly over from the other end of the alley.
My eyes lit up. This must be the old gentleman. I quickly stood aside and waited for him to come over.
The old gentleman walked up to me, looked at me, looked at the door, and said: "One basket of food, one pot of drink, in a back alley, where chickens and dogs don't hear. Did the young man come from Master Xujian?"
I thought to myself that this old gentleman must be the one. Since there was a title that could be composed into a poem in seven steps, he must be someone who would not be easily impressed. Then I blurted out and replied: "I have met Mr. Yu, who is from
Come to Master Xujian, could you smell the Buddhist incense on me?"
The old gentleman smiled and said softly: "Exactly. Very good. That's it. Please come in."
I really want to describe to you the residence of this old gentleman. When I entered, I was really surprised and even frightened. But I'm sorry to say that I once had a problem with him about his residence.
I swear, I really can't say more. I'm afraid someone will follow my words and look for me, disturbing the purity of the old man. Please forgive me, readers.
In fact, even the dialogue between me and the old gentleman is not very convenient to talk about. But for the sake of completeness and coherence of this article, I will talk about the key points here, which are the two stories.
Those two stories are like this:
First story:
On the thirty-fifth day of the first lunar month in the twenty-eighth year of Qin Shihuang (219 BC), an arowana swam in from the Qinglong River estuary in Kangcheng and stranded in the river. This huge fish was as long as a seven-bay house.
Its roar was like that of an ox. In the big pool, it used its forked tail as big as two door panels to flap and struggle, splashing waves of muddy water. People from Wolong Pavilion walked all the way to the pool to see it, and everyone who saw it
The sight of its dying struggle was frightening to everyone. Three days later, the dragon fish was dying and unable to show off its power, but people still could not drag its huge body ashore. Among the crowd, there was a butcher named Yu Mingxu, who came up with an idea.
A method of turning a cart with five oxen. He asked another brave butcher named Gan Pu to go into the water and fix the wood on the side of the dragon fish with a thick cable to tie the tail of the fish. The other end was tied to the axle of the cart and he borrowed 5 large oxen.
, pulled the turning wheel, winched the thick cable on the shaft, and led the arowana ashore. Butcher Gan used a ruler to measure the body of the fish. It was nine feet, three feet and five inches long. He also measured from the belly to the back of the fish, and it was about one foot, nine feet and one inch high.
At that time, it was the off-season for fish and salt. When they got this big fish, people said it was "a blessing from heaven" and encouraged the two butchers to kill it to satisfy their hunger. Butcher Gan didn't think twice, took the mountain axe, beheaded the dragon fish and disemboweled it.
, Butcher Yu helped cut up the fish. Everyone took the fish first and followed the shadow with huge fish eyes. After worshiping at the fish altar, they took it home and made a sumptuous dinner. Everyone who tasted the fish praised it.
The fish was extremely delicious. The news quickly spread to the ears of the nearby Haiyan County magistrate and the military commander. They immediately sent their servants to come to get the food. Unexpectedly, the fish meat had already been eaten up, and only the remains of a fish rack were left.
He left in anger. Soon, the government used excuses to punish Gan Pu and Yu Renxu, falsely accusing them of concealing weapons, and beheaded them in Cao City, Wolongting. Their bodies were exposed on the side of the road, which was called "abandoned city".
Second story:
In the second year of Wushen (193 BC), the second year of Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty, Liu Ying, there was a long drought without rain from spring to summer. The mulberry fields in the north of Kangcheng turned white with salt and alkaline, the seedlings withered, and the number of people fleeing famine increased day by day. In midsummer, Kangcheng
A beautiful woman named Feng Keer in Wolongdun gave birth to a baby boy, but he looked nothing like his mother - his body was covered with black hair, his face was like the bottom of a pot, and his round eyes were as fierce as bells.
Humans have claw-like fingers and a tail that keeps wagging. The goddess divined that there would be natural disasters. It just so happened that the weather that had been fine for a long time suddenly suddenly changed. It started raining without end, and it continued until late autumn. Kang
There was a lot of water inside and outside the city, making it almost impossible for humans and animals to stay. The wizard said that Feng Keer's fur baby was the evil one, and forced her to sacrifice her fur baby. After strangling him alive, he put it on the fish altar for sacrifice. It was a pity that the little creature was innocently killed.
, God still didn’t appreciate it, and the rain continued, but it still couldn’t drown the body of the hairy boy on the fish altar. The goddess also said that Feng Keer was sacrificed to the sea. Strangely enough, since then, the rain has stopped.
The cheers of the people had not stopped. Not long after, a huge tsunami came and almost destroyed the prosperous city of Kangcheng! This tsunami, according to the record of "Huang Tingguang Ji of Kangcheng", killed tens of thousands of people.
It was an extremely horrific disaster.
The so-called dragon fish in the first story must be a whale from the description of its body shape, tail shape, etc. However, a whale took the lives of two innocent people, which shows the cruelty of the Qin Dynasty's rule, the rampant evil officials, and the struggle with the people.
They fought for food and failed, and even retaliated with false accusations and persecution. This kind of tyranny has reached the point of being outrageous. The second story, that furry child, is actually an atavistic phenomenon of human beings. The furry child
It still exists now, and Baidu can tell at a glance that he became a pop singer and lived a good life. However, the child in this story was innocently executed, and even his mother suffered the same fate. It can be seen from this that strange power can cause confusion.
Feudal superstition and various theories are not terrible in themselves; what is terrible is that they have a large number of fanatical believers, blind people's eyes, and completely change their outlook on life, which will be a disaster.
After listening to a lot of heavy things, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon when I left Mr. Yu's house to say goodbye. The meal that the old man left me to eat really fulfilled his words when he first met me: "One basket of food, one basket of food."
"Pot Drink" - all vegetarian dishes, I was biting my tongue. After leaving the old man's house, I bought a meat bun on the roadside and ate it while walking to the bank.
When I arrived at the bank door, I hesitated several times and finally walked in. I took out my black card, transferred 400,000 to one of my own bank cards, and then changed the card password to my mother's birthday. Then I went to a nearby post office.
Inside, I asked for a registered envelope, stuffed my bank card and a small piece of paper with my mother's birthday written on it, and filled in the address with trembling hands: Building *, No. ***, Qingnian Road, Taishan District, Tai'an City, Shandong Province**
I collected it in the hotel room without writing the name of the recipient, and stuffed it into the counter. The handsome boy at the counter clicked the postmark on it, and every sound seemed to hit my heart. When he threw the envelope away,
When I entered the waiting basket, I had tears in my eyes.
The reason why I do this is because I already know the location of Xi Shi's tomb. Whether it's because of my previous promise to Mingying or because of my curiosity about the whole thing, I want to see it with my own eyes and dig it up with my own hands.
.But I also know that the risk of this matter is too great, and it could lead to death at every turn.
Dad, my son is unfilial. This 400,000 yuan should be regarded as buying personal accident insurance.
Apart from these, what else can I do for my parents? What else can I leave behind?