Now that Chen Mengsheng has understood his past and present life, he feels a lot more clear in his heart. He follows Jigong through the streets and alleys, but the more he walks, the stranger it becomes. This is neither walking to Lin'an City nor to the busy city. What he sees is
There are wormwood trees as tall as half a person on both sides of the road and some broken walls, giving off a desolate look everywhere.
Chen Mengsheng asked: "Monk, where are we going?"
Jigong grinned and said, "Of course we are going to eat dog meat to save people. We are almost there."
"Eating dog meat? Can you also save people?" Chen Mengsheng was confused by Jigong's comment. Could it be that the dog wanted to hurt people... Just when Chen Mengsheng was thinking wildly, there was really a pick on the side of the road. Put the pick in front.
There is a small stove, and there is a pot on the stove. The charcoal fire is simmering the dog meat in the pot, and it is simmering. Behind the pick is an open wooden cabinet. In the cabinet, there is a chopping board boning knife on the upper shelf, and a boning knife on the lower shelf.
There are many condiments such as onions, garlic, ginger, etc. There is a red character written on the handle of the picker.
Jigong was not afraid of being burned. He picked up a piece of dog meat with a broken fan handle and put it in his mouth to chew: "Well, it smells good. You can try it too."
Chen Mengsheng has now shed his immortal body, and eating is not necessary. Since it was Jigong who invited him to eat dog meat, he should try it. When he just stepped forward to get the dog meat from the pot, he
Someone among the wormwood smelled loudly and shouted: "What are you doing?" Someone stood up among the wormwood.
Jigong didn't answer. He turned around and ran away. The man in the wormwood picked up his trousers and chased after him. After only a few steps, a thick stone wall nearly one foot high beside the wormwood collapsed.
It hit the wormwood where the person was squatting just now.
The man looked at Jigong and then at the collapsed stone wall behind him and stood there dumbly for a moment. If this crazy monk hadn't picked up my burden of dog meat, I would have been crushed to death under this stone wall for no apparent reason today.
, the cold sweat on his head was dripping down. After a while, he bowed and bowed to Jigong: "Thank you, monk, for saving my life."
Jigong smiled and said to Chen Mengsheng: "Look, look. I'm right. Dog meat can be eaten, and people can be saved."
The dog meat seller was confused when he heard this: "Master, are you here to save me?"
"Hahaha, yes, the poor monk came here specifically to save you Zhu Dachang today, because you are the most kind person in the world today." When Jigong said this, Chen Mengsheng and the dog meat seller were shocked.
Zhu Dachangqi asked: "Monk, what did you say?"
It turns out that outside the northern suburbs of Lin'an City, there lived a family named Zhu Dachang who killed dogs and sold them for meat. His father died early, leaving only a blind old mother in Zhu Dachang's family to depend on.
In the early years, Zhu's mother could still do some washing and sewing work to earn some copper coins to supplement the family income. However, she suffered from eye disease and became blind because she had no money for treatment, which became a drag on Zhu Dachang. Zhu Dachang was already over thirty, but
He was still a bachelor. Zhu Dachang began to drink heavily, and when he returned home, he would scold his mother, who would often live in tears.
Not long after, the family was destitute. Later, Zhu Dachang raised a dozen dogs at home and started a business of butchering dogs and selling their meat. After several years of business, life became a little more comfortable, but Zhu Dachang did not care about him.
The mother was even more unfilial. She even refused to let Zhu's mother eat every day.
Today, as usual, Zhu Dachang slept until noon and ate lunch cooked by his mother. He came to the dog shed and planned to kill the dog and cook meat. Anyone who killed a dog would be too scared to bite the dog.
There were fifteen or sixteen dogs among them, including an old dog that had given birth to a litter of puppies. Zhu Dachang tied the old dog to a bench, poured hot water into the wooden basin, rolled up his sleeves, and prepared to kill the old dog.
The dog. When he touched the stool, the sharp dog-killing knife was missing. The old dog was whining miserably on the stool. Zhu Dachang looked around and saw only a little puppy lying on the ground, shivering.
Half of the knife handle was pressed under the puppy. Zhu Dachang walked over and kicked the puppy away. The puppy was kicked far away with a "ouch", and struggled to crawl away with a limp.
stand up.
Zhu Dachang raised his knife and was about to stab the old dog in the throat when he suddenly felt something pulling down his pants. When he turned around, he saw that the puppy he had just kicked was biting his pants back. pull.
Zhu Dachang was annoyed. He turned around and wanted to trample to death the little puppy that was in the way. The little puppy suddenly jumped up on the stool and lay motionless on the old dog. There were big eyes in its eye sockets. The tears were left on the old dog. The old dog stretched out its tongue to lick the puppy, and pushed the puppy down with its paws tied outside... Zhu Dachang was shocked by the deep love between mother and child in front of him. The puppy was... I want to trade my own life for that of the old dog.
Zhu Dachang has killed countless dogs over the years, but this is the first time that a puppy has sacrificed its own life to save its mother. Animals still understand the kindness of nurturing, but he... Zhu Dachang thought of himself. My mother sewed under the lamplight just to buy some delicious food for herself, often staying up all night long... How can a human being be ruthless like a tree?
Zhu Dachang shouted, "I, Zhu Dachang, am really worse than a beast." The sharp knife used to kill the dog fell to the ground with a clang, and he untied the rope that bound the old dog.
"Mom, I was wrong." Zhu Dachang returned to the house and cried with his mother.
Zhu Dachang vowed to honor his mother in the future and stop killing dogs. After selling the remaining dog meat, he dug a few acres of land in front of the house to live with his mother. So today, the load of dog meat picked by Zhu Dachang came out very late. After selling this pot of dog meat, I will no longer kill dogs and sell meat. Who knows that when I walked halfway down the road, my stomach felt uncomfortable for a while, which is one of the three urgent needs of people. I put the dog meat picker on the roadside and found some for myself. I had just squatted down to get ready by using the wormwood that was half a man tall at the broken wall, when I saw a strong black man and a monk coming from a distance. Unexpectedly, the monk grabbed the dog meat in his pot and ate it.
He shouted in a hurry, but the monk dared to pick up his own burden and run away. Only then did Zhu Dachang endure the pain in his stomach and chase after him...
Jigong smiled and said to Zhu Dachang: "It is a good deed for you to put down your butcher knife and become a Buddha immediately. From then on, it is even better to honor your mother. So you are the most good person in the world today, so this poor monk came to save you."
Zhu Dachang understood that it was because of his changes that the divine monk came to rescue him, but he had nothing valuable to repay the monk, so he was embarrassed for a moment. How could Jigong not understand Zhu Dachang's thoughts: "Okay , go home and serve your mother well. Give this load of dog meat to my monk. Don’t worry, monk, I won’t eat your dog meat for free. When you go home, go out and walk three hundred steps to the right and dig three feet into the ground. You will definitely get something. Live in peace and contentment." Zhu Dachang kowtowed three times to Jigong and left. When he returned home, he picked up the shovel and walked three hundred steps to the right as Jigong said. He started digging. He dug three feet into the ground and found a jar. He opened it. I saw that the jar actually contained five hundred taels of silver.
Besides, Jigong picked up the dog meat and found a flat place. He put down the load and invited Chen Mengsheng to eat dog meat together. Jigong gnawed the dog meat and asked with a smile: "Judge, do you understand what happened today?"
Chen Mengsheng thought for a while and said: "Does the holy monk mean to tell me not to do evil because it is small, and not to do good because it is small?"
Jigong laughed and said: "You can teach me, you can teach me. How can we eat this dog meat without wine?" After saying this, he took out a wine gourd from his arms like a magic trick, took a sip of wine, and put it on the back of his hand.
A touch of that oily mouth. "It's so happy. People cultivate their mouths but not their hearts. Monks cultivate their hearts but not their mouths. Wine and meat pass through the intestines but remain in the heart of the Buddha."
When Chen Mengsheng saw the wine gourd in Jigong's hand, he couldn't help but think of Sun Tianci, who was beaten to pieces by the Devil-Conquering Ruler because of him. If his master Chi Jing hadn't mercifully left his soul behind and been sealed by the Conferring God Platform for a thousand years, maybe he would have also died.
Just like Uncle Sun, he has nothing...
Jigong looked at Chen Mengsheng's sad look and said: "The deceased is gone. Come and eat more. After dark, we will go to meet the heart-eating demon to get back your kind heart."