Under the dim light, the scars on Ye Erniang's face that were criss-crossed like bamboo branches were horrifying, and such a pale-faced woman of unknown origin suddenly appeared in the middle of the night, Xu Zhu was a little panicked at first. However, after the short-term fear,
, I don’t know why, under the woman’s tearful explanation, Xu Zhu felt a bit of sadness, a bit of pity, and a bit of closeness in his heart.
Xu Zhu couldn't help but be startled: he was very sure that this was indeed the first time he saw this woman, but for some reason it felt like he had known her a long time ago.
Xu Zhu said: "The female benefactor visited Shaolin late at night, but why is she looking for the young monk?"
Ye Erniang's nose was sore, tears welled up in her eyes, she bent her knees slightly and bowed: "Young master, I atone for my sins. I didn't mean to disturb you late at night, but there is a confusion that has been lingering in my heart for many years, and I still can't solve it."
.Little Master Wanwang is compassionate and helps me to resolve my doubts.”
The woman couldn't help but come from a strange place, and her words were even stranger. Xu Zhu's doubts deepened: "The young monk's practice is still shallow, and his understanding of Buddhism is far less than that of the other masters and uncles. How can he solve the confusion of the female donor?
The female donor is afraid that she will go away disappointed."
Ye Erniang shook her head repeatedly: "No, little master. My confusion in the world can only be solved by my little master, and it has nothing to do with whether the Dharma is profound or not. Please don't refuse, little master." At the end of the sentence, Ye Erniang's
His voice was already crying.
Xu Zhu remembered that Master Huilun had repeatedly taught him the principle of compassion for monks. The Buddha sacrificed his body to feed tigers and cut his flesh to feed eagles. If he could use his useless body to relieve the suffering of all sentient beings, why not even if he gave it up?
Xu Zhu hesitated for a moment, then nodded firmly: "Female donor, tell me, this poor monk will do his best."
Ye Erniang was blessed and said, "Thank you so much, little master."
Ye Erniang said: "My story is very long, little master, please listen to me and tell it slowly. Once upon a time, there was a peasant girl who lived at the foot of the mountain. At that time, she was twenty-eight years old, and she lived with her parents. Although she was a small family,
She was a poor girl from a poor family, but she was regarded as the apple of her eye by her parents and was ignorant of worldly affairs. One year, a plague broke out, and many people in the village fell ill and died. Unfortunately, the girl's parents were also infected with the plague, and they spent all their money.
at home
After all the savings, she still could not save her mother. After the girl's mother was buried, the girl's father was seriously ill in bed and was dying. In a short period of time, she faced the tragic situation of the death of both her flesh and blood relatives. The girl felt that the sky was dark and the earth was dark, and all her thoughts were lost.
Then, the girl came up with an idea, which was to sell the body that her parents gave birth to for a few taels of silver, and even if she became a slave to others, she would save her father no matter what."
Xu Zhu sighed repeatedly when he heard this: "This woman's life is too miserable."
Ye Erniang said: "Yes, this woman's life is too bitter."
Xu Zhu asked with concern: "What happened next? What happened to the woman afterwards?"
Ye Erniang wiped away the tears on her face, swallowed her cries, and continued: "That day, the woman put on the last bright clothes she had left, and took her old father to her on a wicker chair.
.I put a straw mark on my head and knelt on the long street waiting for the buyer. However, in the year of the disaster, every household had patients, and how many people had extra money? Although some people sympathized and dropped a few coins, but
No one can help the woman save her father."
"The woman knelt for two days in a row, watching her father's breath getting weaker and weaker, but she was helpless. Until the third day, a group of people came and wanted to kidnap the woman and sell her to a prostitute."
Xu Zhu got angry and cursed: "How can there be such heartless evil people in the world? Not only do they not sympathize with the hardships of others, but they push people into the pit of fire? This is simply unreasonable and completely unconscionable."
"Ah, it's my fault, it's my disciple's unintentional mistake. I hope Buddha won't blame my disciple."
After realizing that he had violated the precept of bad words, Xu Zhu quickly recited a few Buddha's names and confessed to the Buddha.
After reading a few sentences, he realized that he had interrupted the woman in front of him and apologized hastily: "I'm sorry, the young monk didn't check for a moment and interrupted the female donor. What happened next? What happened to the woman? Why did those people do this?
To embarrass that woman?"
Ye Erniang smiled and shook her head: "It doesn't matter. That group is a group of loan sharks in the local gambling house. After spending all the family savings in order to treat the woman's mother, the woman's father borrowed money from the local gambling house.
Debt. That group of people tried to collect the debt several times but failed, so they came up with this idea."
Xu Zhu said: "Sin, sin. What happened next?"
Ye Erniang said: "How can that group of people be reasonable if that woman can say a few words to each other? She can't even say a few words before forcibly coming to rob someone."
Xu Zhu said: "Isn't this reasonable? Isn't there someone on the street who can take care of something like this in broad daylight?"
Ye Erniang said: "That group of people is used to being domineering in the local area, and they have colluded with the government. Who dares to take care of it?"
Xu Zhu was silent.
Ye Erniang continued: "Just when the woman was desperate, a man of great status appeared. He paid off the debt of the woman's family, used medical skills to cure the disease of the woman's father, and left a sum of money and asked
The woman took good care of her father and raised him well. Later, she continued to take care of her father until the old man fully recovered."
Xu Zhu put his hands together and recited the Buddha's name: "This benefactor really has the mind to save all sentient beings and be compassionate. He should be of service to those in my Buddhist sect."
Ye Erniang was startled, then slowly said: "Yes, if it were not a virtuous eminent monk in Buddhism, how could he have such a compassionate heart?"
Xu Zhu said: "It turned out to be the senior master. What happened next?"
When Ye Erniang said this, her face turned slightly red and she said: "Later, the woman was grateful to her benefactor for saving her life. A poor girl had nothing to repay. All she had was this innocent body, so she gave her
The body was given to that master."
When Xu Zhu heard this, he couldn't help but said "ah".
Ye Erniang said: "Little Master, tell me, is that woman guilty?"
Xu Zhu hesitated for a moment and said: "That woman was also grateful for her kindness and repaid her kindness, but her method was a little wrong. It was not a big mistake. It was just that the eminent monk, as a member of the Buddhist sect, violated the sexual precept.
This sin is not a small one."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! After hearing this, Ye Erniang gave a wry smile and continued: "It was a one-night stand. Unexpectedly, the woman actually had a dark knot in her fetus. She was pregnant for ten months and gave birth once. In a cave.
, the woman gave birth to a baby boy.”
Xu Zhu sighed, feeling complicated.
"The woman regards her child as a treasure, takes great care of her, and never leaves her side for a moment. I don't want to think that one night, the woman will put the child to sleep in the cradle next to her, and when the woman wakes up, the child will be gone."
Xu Zhu's heart was lifted up, as if he had touched something in the dark, but he couldn't describe the feeling.
"The woman disappeared and acted like crazy. She even suspected that the father of the child had taken the child away from the woman for fear of being exposed, so she went to the father of the child in private to cry. However, the father of the child repeatedly promised that he was not responsible for taking the child.
The child was taken away. After that, the woman went crazy looking for her own flesh and blood. For ten years, she searched all over the Song Dynasty, Liao Dynasty, Xixia, Dali, and Tubo, but found nothing."
"After that, the woman went crazy. She missed her child so much that she went crazy. Gradually, her mind became distorted. Whenever she saw other couples holding their own children and enjoying family happiness, she thought of her own children, and her heart felt like a knife. So she felt a knife-like pain in her heart.
Everywhere he went, he would steal local children and raise them as if he were his own. After a while, when he got tired of it, he would kill him. After going back and forth for more than ten years, he got the nickname of doing all kinds of evil."
Xu Zhu said "Ah" and sat up: "Are you doing all kinds of evil, Ye Erniang?"
Ye Erniang had a smile on her lips and tears in her eyes: "Yes, do all kinds of evil, Ye Erniang."
Xu Zhu chanted to Buddha in a low voice: "Sin, sin. Those babies you killed were so innocent. You, how could you, alas!"
Ye Erniang cried: "Little Master, have I done all the bad things and become unforgivable?"
Xu Zhu hesitated for a moment, then sighed: "Buddha said, put down the butcher knife and become a Buddha immediately. Even if he is a heinous evil person, a monk should use compassionate Dharma to persuade him to do good. The female donor has committed sins in the past, and she will only be sincere in the future.
Change your ways and do good with all your heart. Buddha will forgive you."
Ye Erniang burst into tears: "Thank you so much, little master. Ye Erniang must be devoted to good deeds and change her past mistakes."
"However, after listening to the female donor's story, the young monk really didn't know what he could do to help the female donor. The young monk was just a junior disciple of the Shaolin Temple, with low skills. He was not allowed to go down the mountain without the instructions of his elder master, uncle, and uncle. Even if he wanted to help the female donor
It’s hard to find a lost child.”
Ye Erniang's eyes were full of tears and she looked at Xu Zhu: "I dare ask my little master, but I have been a monk in the Shaolin Temple since I was a child. When I was still in my infancy, I was picked up by the monks of the Shaolin Temple in the vegetable garden. This year, there are four out of twenty, and the Dharma name is
Xu Zhu."
Xu Zhu said: "Exactly, how did the female donor know?"
"ah!?"
No matter how slow Ren Xuzhu reacted, he had to think of a possibility at this time.
"You mean, you, you, you..."
It was like a thunder exploded in his mind, panic, excitement, anxiety, hesitation, all kinds of emotions hit Xu Zhu's heart like waves.
Ye Erniang was already sobbing and choked up intermittently: "There are nine incense scars on your back. There are three lines in total, three in each line. Your mother used incense to burn your back with incense when you were born.
"
Xu Zhu's hands trembled like chaff sieves. Only a few close brothers and uncles knew about the nine fragrant scars on his back. He had also quietly asked the master who brought him up in private.
As for the origin of the scar, Hui Lun only said that it was there when she picked him up, and could not tell anything else.
"You, you, me, me"
Seeing Xu Zhu's reaction, Ye Erniang was already convinced nine out of ten. She only waited for the last confirmation, and stretched out her hand tremblingly to untie Xu Zhu's monk's robe.
Normally, Xu Zhu would have blushed and retreated, but now he was completely stunned and allowed Ye Erniang to untie his monk's robe and expose his upper body.
The oil lamp was dim, but the nine eye-catching scars were extremely clear.
Ye Erniang's trembling hands caressed the fragrant scars, and suddenly shouted "Ah", like a wounded she-wolf, with tears streaming down her face, crying loudly: "My son, my miserable son. Why?"
Mom has been looking for you for twenty-four years!"
At this moment, Xu Zhu was also bursting into tears. In the past, there had been countless nights when the Green Lantern Ancient Buddha could not sleep. Xu Zhu thought hard, thinking about his biological father and mother who he had never met. He did not want to meet but today: "Mom, you
Is she really my mother? Mother, my child misses you so much."
The mother and son held each other's hands and cried, as if they wanted to express all the pain of separation for more than twenty years.
With a "clang", the door was pushed open, and Gong Yeqian strode in: "Come on, the Shaolin night-watch monks have been alarmed. The Xuanji group of old monks are leading a group of Shaolin disciples towards here."
Saying that, he came up and took Ye Erniang's hand.
Ye Erniang shouted: "No, don't take my child away!" She started struggling desperately.
Xu Zhu stepped forward to pull his mother, Gong Yeqian used a clever move to throw Xu Zhu away: "Do you want to kill your mother?"
Xu Zhu couldn't help but be stunned.
Ye Erniang struggled violently, Gong Yeqian snorted coldly, pointed at the other's acupuncture points with two fingers to make him fall asleep, and then supported Ye Erniang's body and climbed over the wall.
"Mother, mother!"
When Xuanji's group of monks arrived, Xu Zhu was the only one who shed tears silently and stared blankly at the direction the two of them were leaving.