Chapter 19: The One-Horned Ghost King

In the middle of drinking, the Monkey King suddenly stopped his cup, looked around at everyone, scratched the back of his hand, and asked everyone with a smile: "Everyone, what is the official title of my 'Bi Ma Wen'?" Everyone stopped the chopsticks and wine glasses in their hands and replied, "The official name is it." The Monkey King let out a long "oh" sound, picked up a chopstick dish and put it in his mouth, chewed it a few times, swallowed it in his stomach, took another sip of wine, and then asked, "How many grades is this official?" Everyone then replied: "There is no quality." After hearing this, the Monkey King didn't understand what it meant, and hurriedly asked, "Oh?! Then the people stopped talking. Seeing that everyone was not talking, the monkey king hurriedly put down his chopsticks and raised his glass to drink with everyone. After three glasses of wine, the monkey stuck out his tongue and asked, "Why don't you speak, presumably this official is the covetousness of many people?" The deputy glanced at the book, shook his head, and then kicked the prisoner with his foot, giving the prisoner a look. The supervisor gave the deputy a shudder and glared at the deputy jail. Seeing that Jian Cheng suddenly trembled, the Monkey King asked, "Well, what's wrong with you, is there something uncomfortable?" Jian Cheng grinned and said, "It's nothing, thank you for your concern." Then, the prisoner stepped on the prison deputy again, and the prison deputy grinned in pain.

The Monkey King asked repeatedly: "Is my official position big or not?" The eunuch said at this time: "It's not big, it's not big, it's just called 'not in the stream'." The Monkey King immediately put down the dish that he put to his mouth, and hurriedly asked, "How do you call it 'not in the stream'?" At this time, it was the turn of the prisoner to gently touch the prison deputy with his elbow and give the prison deputy a look. Seeing this, the deputy supervisor had no choice but to say in a very low voice: "Wait." Such an official, the lowest and the smallest, can only watch the horse with him. After the arrival of the Emperor, he was so attentive that he was fed with the horse, and he only got the word 'good'; if he was a little thin, he would be punished, and if he was very injured, he would be punished and interrogated. ”

When the monkey king heard this, his heart was on fire, and the wine glass in his hand fell to the ground, gritted his teeth and said angrily: "What, so despise the old grandson! The old grandson is in that Huaguo Mountain, calling the king and the ancestor, how can you coax me to raise horses for him? The horse breeder is a junior in the future, how can he treat me? Don't be him! Don't be him! I will go!" The Tianding knew that he had received the immortal urn, but he was a Bi Ma Wen, so he didn't dare to stop him, so he let him go out of the gate of heaven. The Captain looked at the angry Monkey King and the Ruyi Golden Hoop in my hand from the gatehouse, his eyes narrowed, as if he had discovered some secret, but he seemed to be very puzzled in his eyes, as if that thing should not have appeared on a monkey.

After a moment, the Monkey King pressed the clouds and returned to Huaguo Mountain. I saw the four strong generals and the demon kings of the caves, where they were playing soldiers. The monkey king shouted loudly: "Little ones, my grandson is back!" A group of monkeys came to kowtow to welcome them into the depths of the cave, and invited the monkey king to ascend the throne and drink wine to catch the wind. Du said: "Congratulations to the king, the upper realm has been going for more than ten years, and you must be proud to return?" The monkey king said: "I have only been more than half a month, and there are more than ten years there?" The monkeys said: "The king, you are in the sky, and you don't know the hour." One day in heaven is a year in the lower realm. Hearing this, the Monkey King whispered to himself, "No wonder the day and night are so long every time. It turned out that half a year was day, and half a year was night. ”

At this time, the four warriors asked the Monkey King: "May I ask the king, what is your official residence in the heavenly court?" When the Monkey King heard this, he was angry, waved his hand, sighed, and said: "It's hard to say! It's hard to say! The Jade Emperor doesn't know how to use people, he saw my grandson like this, and he named me what 'Bi Ma Wen', it turned out that he raised horses with him, and he didn't have a miscarriage of goods. I didn't know it when I first arrived, and I was only playing in the Imperial Horse Prison. And today he asked me to live with Liao, and he knew that it was such a lowliness. Lao Sun was so annoyed in his heart that he pushed down the table and did not accept the official rank, so he walked down. When they heard this, the monkeys cried out, "Come well, come well! The king is king in this blessed place, and how much respect and happiness are there, how can you be willing to be a groom with him?" Then the four warriors shouted, "Little ones, come and drink and relieve your boredom with the king." ”

As soon as the Monkey King returned to Huaguo Mountain, Na Di Ting ran to the Bodhisattva of the Jizo King, who was reciting sutras with his eyes closed, and replied: "Bodhisattva, the stone monkey you told me to listen to gave up his official position in the heavenly court and returned to Huaguo Mountain without permission. ”

"Oh?" King Jizo Bodhisattva stopped the rosary in his hand, opened his eyes, looked at Di Ting, and asked, "That monkey abandoned the heavenly official?"

Di Ting replied: "It is the monkey who dislikes the official position of 'Bi Ma Wen' who breeds horses too little. ”

Hearing this reason, King Jizo Bodhisattva unconsciously laughed. After a while, the Jizo King Bodhisattva came to his senses and said, "This Monkey King is really interesting, others who have cultivated for tens of thousands of years may not be able to become an official in the Heavenly Court. And he is a beast, he can go to heaven and become an official after only a few hundred years of cultivation, and he is not satisfied. I really laughed at it. Alright, you go down first. ”

"Yes. After speaking, Di Ting slowly withdrew from the meditation room of the Jizo King Bodhisattva.

King Jizo Bodhisattva meditated alone in this meditation room: "How should this monkey made by the golden cicada be used so that the plan of my Buddhism's eastward expansion can be accelerated?" After thinking for a long time, he suddenly laughed and said to himself: "Golden cicada, I will borrow this monkey of yours to use it." After saying that, he got up and went down to the Infernal Hell, the lowest level of the underworld.

This Infernal Hell is a dark space with no fingers visible, and it is divided into various cells, large and small, to facilitate the detention of those ferocious ghosts. Most of the imprisoned people are human ghosts, after all, the best thing in the world is people.

These ghosts who are imprisoned here are impaled through their bodies and nailed to copper pillars by the Jizo King Bodhisattva with a demon-slaying pestle, and are scorched every day by the surging Buddha power on the demon-slaying pestle. And every once in a while, King Jizo Bodhisattva would come here and ask the ghosts if they would like to take refuge in Buddhism. If the ghosts are willing to take refuge in Buddhism, the Jizo King will take the pestle, give them a headband that can control them, and arrange for them to do things as needed.

This time, the Jizo King Bodhisattva wandered in the Infernal Hell for a long time, and finally stood in front of the cell of a pair of twin one-horned ghost kings. The Jizo King Bodhisattva looked at the two one-horned ghost kings who had been tortured to death, recited a Buddha name in a low voice, and asked, "Have you awakened and are you willing to take refuge in my Buddha?" The older one-horned ghost king weakly opened his eyes and looked at the Jizo King Bodhisattva and closed his eyes again, while the smaller one-horned ghost king "snorted" and did not speak.

King Jizo Bodhisattva recited the Buddha's name again and said, "How can you be liberated from such attachment and sinking into the sea of suffering? If you are willing to let go of the attachment in your heart and take refuge in our Buddha, you will be able to get rid of the sea of suffering and save yourself." ”

The big one-horned ghost king snorted and said, "We don't care to be in the same league with you guys. ”

When the Bodhisattva of the King of the Earth heard this, he did not get angry, and said, "My Buddhism is compassionate, and I cross people through fire and water. What do we have that is hypocritical?"

The little one-horned ghost king no longer wanted to listen to a lot of nonsense from the King of the Earth, so he snorted and said directly: "If you really want to save the people of the world, why do you always wait until those people are tortured to the point that they are no longer human? Why do you always ask others to promise to build temples and mold your golden body before you take action? Why do most of those good people not save them, but those criminals have been taken over and over again by your Buddhism? And if you can't reason with others, you say that others are using strong words and false words to confuse the public, and then you will use your fists against others. When you can't stand alone, let's go together. You so-called compassionate Buddhas are almost like those ruffians and hooligans, but you have put on a good skin. ”

When the Jizo King Bodhisattva heard this, he was not annoyed and said, "We and the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Arhats, Vajras, Bhikshunis, and so on, are fundamentally human beings, and as long as we are human beings, we can't do anything, so we can only save as many people as possible." And people never value things that you can get without paying, and if we don't ask them for anything, they will take it for granted that others are good to them. ”

"Bah, bullshit! Strong words!" the big one-horned ghost king couldn't help himself, and said, "If you are human, then do you still have human nature? I think you are a bunch of brutes in human skin." You have kept more animals there than men. ”

"Then what do you think people are like?" asked the Jizo King Bodhisattva rhetorically.

The big one-horned ghost king said: "Everyone knows that human life is more important than the life of animals, and now you have abandoned people and raised a lot of animals in your Great Leiyin Temple, and what kind of person in power recognizes a female animal as a mother and a male animal as an uncle, it is really ridiculous." And what is said that all beings are equal, and now that animals are higher than humans, they are equal fart. ”

King Jizo Bodhisattva smiled, and after a while, said, "Then what do you think is dignity and humility, and what is nobility and humility? Human beings are naturally nobler than birds and beasts?"

The little one-horned ghost king said, "Man is the spirit of all things, and his innate foundation is better than that of animals. How is it that man is not nobler than animals?"

King Jizo Bodhisattva recited a Buddha name and said: "As you said, human beings are more spiritual than birds and animals, but why do they do those unethical things that even birds and beasts will not do? Lambs kneel and crows feed back, but human beings? Some people only know how to ask for money from their elders, and if they don't, they turn against their families; as the so-called tiger poison does not eat children, and some people buy their wives and daughters into green houses and their sons to others as slaves in order to solve their own problems; moreover, people nowadays are greedy for money, what means? Tricks are all in the making...... This is also the place where man is nobler than birds and beasts?"

At this time, the two one-horned ghost kings stopped talking, because what the Jizo King Bodhisattva said was the truth.

When the Bodhisattva saw that they were silent, he continued, "People have joys, sorrows, and sorrows, but are there no birds ......and beasts?"

"That's enough!" the big one-horned ghost king was afraid that he would be fooled by the words of the Jizo King Bodhisattva, so he immediately interrupted the words of the Jizo King Bodhisattva and said, "What do you want to do here? It is impossible for us to take refuge in you hypocrites......

The Bodhisattva of Jizo was not annoyed by them interrupting his words, and said, "Originally, I came to persuade you to put down your butcher's knife and become a Buddha on the ground and take refuge in my Buddha. But if you don't want to, then we can make a deal. As long as you agree, I will let you out. ”

"What deal?" asked the little one-horned ghost king, "what the hell are you up to?"

The big one-horned ghost king also looked at the Jizo King Bodhisattva very vigilantly. These people in Buddhism are very good at their oral skills, and they can go around any topic and take people around.

Jizo King Bodhisattva looked at the expressions of the two one-horned ghost kings, showed a very helpless expression, and said: "I think you have the value of making a deal, so I will say this to you, since you don't want to hear it, then forget it......" After speaking, Jizo King Bodhisattva turned his head and walked out.

"Wait!" At this time, the big one-horned ghost king stopped the Jizo King Bodhisattva and said, "What do you want to make a deal with us?" The big one-horned ghost king thought to himself: Anyway, it is already miserable to be imprisoned here, is it even worse to make a deal with the Jizo King Bodhisattva?

The Jizo King Bodhisattva turned around, stared at the big one-horned ghost king with wide eyes for a while, smiled, and said, "You are not stupid, you know to ask, and you are willing to make a judgment only if you ask clearly." My business is simple: all you need is to find a youkai and give him a reminder. ”

"What kind of youkai???," asked the little one-horned ghost king.

"He is the cave master of the Dongsheng Shenzhou Aolai National Huaguo Mountain Water Curtain Cave, a stone monkey conceived by Nuwa Mending Heaven Relic Stone, I don't know where to learn the ability to enter the heavens and the earth and live forever, and also robbed the Dinghai God Zhen Iron of the Dragon Palace, and forcibly sold the book of life and death in the underworld, and then was awarded the title of Bi Ma Wen by the Heavenly Court, but because the official was too small, he went down to the Heavenly Court, and now he is in the Huaguo Mountain Water Curtain Cave. ”

"What do you want us to do?" asked the Great One-Horned Ghost King.

"As long as you find a way to make the monkeys there turn against the Heavenly Court, I will let you go. Jizo King Bodhisattva said.

Hearing the words of the Jizo King Bodhisattva, the big one-horned ghost king showed a strange smile.

The little one-horned ghost king on the side said, "What are you doing this for? You let the two of us instigate that monkey to rebel against the heavenly court, don't you just want us to die?!"

When the Jizo King Bodhisattva heard this, he chuckled lightly and said, "Since that's the case, then you can continue to stay here." I went to someone else to work with. ”

"Wait!" shouted the Great One-Horned Ghost King, "we can agree with you. What do you want us to do?"

The little one-horned ghost king on the side of the "big brother ?......" listened to the words of the big one-horned ghost king, and was taken aback in his heart, and looked at the big one-horned ghost king dumbfounded.

When the Bodhisattva of the Earth King heard what the big one-horned ghost king said, he was not surprised, because he knew that these two one-horned ghost kings had now fallen to the point where they were not human and ghosts, and they were completely harmed by the Heavenly Court, and they hated the Heavenly Court very much in their hearts, but because of their own strength, they could not retaliate against the Heavenly Court, so they could only swallow their anger. But if they were given a chance to find someone to argue with Heavenly Court, they would be very happy. King Jizo asked, "Have you really thought about it?"

The big one-horned ghost king said, "What's the point of me lying to you? Anyway, aren't you all all the way to us?"

When the Bodhisattva of the King of the Earth heard this, he was not annoyed, he recited a Buddha name, and then while chanting the sutras, he made a series of handprints, put in the few demon pestles, and went to get two sets of clothes for the ghosts, and then said, "Change these clothes." I'll take you out, and after that, you'd better do what we agreed. ”

The big one-horned ghost king said, "Don't worry, we came out as agreed." I thought, "If we take the wrong step, you're going to kill us......, right?"

When the Jizo King Bodhisattva heard this, he just smiled, did not deny it, and said, "Go, I'll take you out." Then he walked out on his own. And after the two one-horned ghost kings changed their clothes, they had to follow behind, otherwise they really wouldn't be able to leave the damn Infernal Hell.

Along the way, King Jizo Bodhisattva and them probably put together several sets of plans that could be used......