Chapter 172 The Little Baldhead and the Little Taoist Priest
The mountain road paved with blue bricks is full of tourists and bustling with people.
Most of the people walking up the mountain road are pilgrims, especially old people with gray hair. There are also many monks in hemp clothes walking up the mountain road, kowtowing every three steps and bowing every nine steps. They are extremely pious.
At the end of the mountain road, dotted with greenery, there is a stretching temple located here. It has red walls and yellow tiles. Although it is simple at first glance, but if you look closely, you can find that this stretching temple faintly reveals a sense of heaviness and grandeur.
, the top is golden and brilliant.
A pure gold Buddha statue stands in the square in front of the temple. The Buddha is holding flowers and smiling, with a golden body and a compassionate face, overlooking all the living beings all the way up the mountain.
This continuous temple is called Tianri Temple, and it is one of the most prestigious Buddhist temples in the entire Great Xia. It is extremely popular and has countless eminent monks who are admired by the world.
At this moment, in the central temple of Tianri Temple, a little bald man was holding a mobile phone and looking at the screen on the mobile phone without blinking.
The little bald man had a ring scar on his head, and his face was calm and focused, as if he was watching some profound Buddhist teachings.
What he was watching was the live broadcast of the ladder to heaven.
The fragrance of Sanskrit lingers in the air, and in an ancient temple with nearly a thousand years of history, it feels a little out of place for this little bald man to be using such modern equipment.
As he watched, a look of displeasure gradually appeared on the little bald man's face.
"Immortal of his grandma, is this guy the one who robbed me of my top spot in the college entrance examination?"
The little bald man's face was full of dissatisfaction, and he stared at the screen on the screen, where Wang Jin stood on the ladder like a god patrolling, attracting everyone's attention, and his eyes almost burst out of fire.
"No, no, I have to calm down. As the Buddha said, failure is success. Losing to this kid is not a bad thing..."
The little bald man quickly realized his gaffe. As the most outstanding young monk of the generation in Tianri Temple, he should not have such a gaffe, especially in such a sacred place at the feet of the Buddha.
After taking several deep breaths in succession, he suppressed the anger rising in his heart, and his mind became calm again, with a face full of peace and tranquility.
"Buddha also said, don't be arrogant in victory and don't be discouraged in defeat. A false reputation is like a floating cloud to me. The name of a mere top scorer in the college entrance examination is nothing more than an external thing. I don't need to care..."
The little bald man comforted himself in this way, and his eyes suddenly opened wide.
Because he saw that on the ladder, that damn boy actually received a bonus of 10 million!
A full bonus of 10 million!
The little bald man's eyes began to tremble, and he took a deep breath quickly, trying to calm himself down.
"They are just things outside of me. Things outside of me are like floating clouds to me. Things outside of me...things outside of me belong to your grandma! These ten million should have been mine, the god of immeasurable grandma. It doesn't matter that this boy is so handsome, but...
He stole my college entrance examination
The number one scholar even robbed me of my 10 million bonus! Young Master and he and I are inseparable from each other! Immeasurable Heavenly Lord is above! The Buddha said that I can’t bear it anymore, don’t let me meet you, let me meet you, I have to
Let you understand that the Buddha can save all sentient beings and can also achieve physical salvation!"
He crushed the cell phone in his hand to pieces, jumped on the red carpet, and kept swearing.
But before he finished swearing the poisonous oath, he felt a hard blow on his head. He screamed in pain and knew who the person who hit him was without turning around.
In the entire Tianri Temple, there was only one person who dared to beat him like this.
Brother Abbot.
"Brother Abbot, you hit me again!"
The little bald man jumped and turned around. Behind him stood an old man with a white beard wearing a cassock.
The little bald man was about to attack the white-bearded old man to accuse him, but when he saw a bag of things in the white-bearded old man's hand, his arrogance suddenly dropped.
The white-bearded abbot raised the belt in his hand expressionlessly. Through the translucent bag, you could vaguely see that there was a large pile of photos inside, all of which were young, beautiful and sexy girls.
"Explain to me what's going on with these things in your room?"
"Brother Abbot, you also know that I am a person with profound Buddha nature. This is a profound Buddhist method that I have studied. I can observe the appearance of all living beings in the world and eventually achieve the state of non-appearance."
The little bald man had a stern expression on his face, clasped his hands together, and pretended to say Amitabha.
"Then why are there only pictures of female donors?"
"Well...everything must be done step by step. I will observe the appearances of the female Bodhisattvas first, and when I see the female Bodhisattvas..."
The little bald man still wanted to quibble, but the abbot senior brother raised his hand to stop him from quibbling.
"Don't mention this in advance. Just now, what did you say to the Infinite Heavenly Lord at the feet of the Buddha?"
"Forehead……"
Cold sweat suddenly rolled down the forehead of the little bald man: "Abbott, just now I accidentally said something rude and insulted the Buddhist style, so I pretended to be the Immeasurable Heavenly Lord and lied that I was a disciple of the Infinite Heavenly Lord. In this way, I did not offend the Buddha.
,I am not witty..."
The white-bearded host did not answer, but slowly raised the staff in his hand.
Suddenly, screams like slaughtering pigs sounded in the temple.
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After a long time, the little bald man knelt down in front of the white-bearded abbot with a bruised nose and a swollen face.
The white-bearded abbot rebuked the young junior disciple in front of him bitterly: "You said that you were born with profound Buddha nature, but you just don't do your job properly and touch these things that you shouldn't touch every day. If you practice Buddhism in a down-to-earth manner, you will not pass this year's college entrance examination.
Can't you even get the No. 1 pick? You..."
The little bald man lowered his head and listened with one ear to the other. Although he did not hear the abbot's reprimand at all, in order to show that he had been convinced, he still nodded perfunctorily. In fact, his eyes were peeking all the time.
The picture of the beautiful woman holding the bag in the hands of the white-bearded abbot.
After reprimanding for a long time, the abbot finally finished his reprimand. Only then did he notice that his junior brother in front of him was still peeking at the picture of a beautiful woman in his hand. He suddenly became angry again, raised his staff and pressed him again.
It's a beating.
He really hates the fact that iron cannot become steel.
When my little junior brother first entered the temple, his master saw him. He exclaimed at that time that this son has a profound Buddha nature and is a rare natural born Buddha.
So, the boy who could be his grandson at this age took the master as his disciple and became his little junior brother.
And my little junior brother has indeed lived up to the evaluation of his master. He is extremely intelligent. In the first year after entering the temple, he could already recite Buddhist scriptures. In the second year, he began to defeat many monks in the temple one by one. Until now, he can sit down and discuss Buddhism with this kid in the temple.
There are very few of them, even those famous monks have suffered a lot at the hands of this kid.
Originally, if this boy had practiced Buddhism in a down-to-earth manner, the position of abbot of Tianri Temple would have been passed to him long ago.
But since this boy entered puberty, he has completely changed. He spends three days fishing and two days drying nets. He often goes to the villages near the foot of the mountain to steal chickens and dogs. He even often drags several young monks of the same age in the temple to spy on female pilgrims.
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After beating the boy for a while, the abbot was also tired from the beating and was breathing heavily.
"Master said before his death that there will be a great catastrophe in the future, and you will be the hope to revitalize our Buddhism."
The abbot looked at him with hatred: "How can you be a leader in Buddhism in the future if you look like this? Logically speaking, we Buddhist disciples should not take the college entrance examination. The reason why I made an exception this time to allow you to take part is to allow you to enter the world of mortals.
It’s also to hone your out-of-the-box mentality. If you are still like this after four years of college, you will be a huge disappointment to the master!"
The little bald head was joking and trying to say something glib, then he heard the abbot say again: "Okay, from now on until the university starts, you will be put in solitary confinement and copy the Buddhist scriptures a hundred times. You will not be allowed to go out until you finish copying!"
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The little fat man's face suddenly fell.
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In a deep mountain and old forest that no one cares about.
"You didn't get the top spot in the college entrance examination, so you still have the nerve to call me master?"
A loud roar shook the forest, startling countless birds.
Accompanied by this loud roar, a young man wearing a Taoist robe full of patches escaped from a dilapidated Taoist temple in embarrassment, and said weakly towards the Taoist temple behind him: "Master, don't let me go."
Why do you take these false reputations so seriously? The Buddha even said that victory or defeat is a common matter for military strategists..."
"I believe in the Infinite Heavenly Lord. Why don't you tell me about the Buddha?"
Behind him, a middle-aged man wearing a patchwork Taoist robe rushed out from the Taoist temple. He angrily held a stick of dust and pretended to catch up with the young man and say, "I have to go up the mountain every day for your college entrance examination."
go give
You collect medicines, you sleep later than dogs and wake up earlier than chickens every day, and you take so many old medicines, but you didn’t help me win the top spot in the college entrance examination? Do you know how much that is? A bonus of 10 million,
Do you know how much money this is?"
"Master, don't you always say that money is nothing but dirt? It is an external thing that will not be taken with you in life or death. There is no need to worry about it too much..."
The young Taoist priest tried to refute, but the middle-aged Taoist priest became very angry when he heard this: "I am saying this because I have no money! If I had that ten million, I would not live in a Taoist temple, and I would have gone to the city to go to the city to go to the city."
Che and Bao Bao are hugging each other! No, boy, come over here. I won’t let you down until I give you a good beating today... Immeasurable... No, Amitabha Buddha, this disciple will break the precept today!
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"Master, I'm going to collect medicine for you!"
When the little Taoist priest heard this, he immediately shrank his head and ran away like a rabbit.
The little Taoist priest ran like a leopard and disappeared into the dense forest in the blink of an eye. However, he did not startle a single bird or even a hare grazing on the roadside.
"You unlucky boy..."
The middle-aged Taoist priest angrily looked at the direction in which the little Taoist priest disappeared: "Can this kid hold up the backbone of my true view? The prophecy left by the master before he emerged is not false, right?"
After taking a moment to catch his breath, he picked up the dust and angrily returned to the ruined Taoist temple.
It seems that no one has been to the Taoist temple for a long time. The vermilion paint on the door is peeling off, and a shaky plaque hangs diagonally on it. It seems that it may fall down at any time, and it is covered with spider webs.
There are three big characters written on it.
A true view.
It is obvious that this Taoist temple is a dilapidated scene, but no matter who it is, once they see the three words on the crooked plaque, they will instantly feel that the entire Taoist temple lights up in an instant, and there will no longer be the previous feeling of dilapidation.
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However, looking at this poor place where he had lived for decades, the middle-aged Taoist felt more and more heartbroken about the ten million he had missed. He angrily put the dust on his lap and sat down on the dusty steps.
In the distant mountains and forests, frightened birds flew up.
"Help the world and save people. How can I help the world and save people when I can't even put food on the table?"
The Taoist thought angrily: "If Master hadn't said before he emerged that there would be a catastrophe in the future, and this boy was the only hope for the future, I would have gone out to live happily.
Could this bad old man have tricked the Taoist Master into keeping me here to guard the Taoist temple, right?"