Chapter 7 The Monks of Dongdu
After the demonization, Zhao Yige used a blade of the ghost blade to kill the gluttony who entered the Haotian realm in seconds. The height is cold, the winner is lonely, and he doesn't even look at the loser and turns away. Demon Sword Po Sao's heart only has the strongest enemy, the evil god, Zhao Yige took the knife, jumped into the sky, and flew in the direction of Kyoto. Ghost Shili didn't rush to follow, he silently walked to the side of Gluttony, and saw that the person who claimed to be a precept was actually a monk. He touched the gluttonous corpse with his hand, and the gluttonous and stolen souls floated out of the corpse.
The two undead were unconscious, just floating in front of Ghost Shili's eyes. When they saw the corpses on the ground, they had an urge to go back to their bodies, but it was useless, and they couldn't go back. Ghost Shili waved his sleeves and collected the two souls into his sleeves, instead of choosing to put them in the dragon. If there are more evil ghosts in the spirits, I am afraid that the two of them will also degenerate into ghosts, and there is no possibility of reincarnation.
Gluttonous wall pillars, a bald head, and an eight-point mole on his head, he looks like a Buddhist. However, as far as Ghost Shili knows, Buddhism is still a new sect here, and its origin is still in the mainland. Due to the lack of communication between the mainland and Laiguo, it is difficult to see bald monks here. In the past, any general, because he had to wear a helmet, would shave off a piece of hair above his forehead, but he would still keep his hair. It is rare for a monk to shave his hair like this. Like the traditional concept in the mainland, filial piety is deeply ingrained in the hearts of the people of Lai, and shaving one's hair means cutting off ties with one's family. There is a saying that the parents of the body hair and skin are the loneliest people in the world if they shave the hair off their bodies.
Because the ancestors of the Yagyu Shibei family had signed a contract with the Jiaoren, occasionally ships would be able to depart from Laiguo and reach the other side of the Misty Sea. The distant and intimate world was like another continent, and the caravans of the Lai Kingdom were like comets, coming over only once every few years. Until one time, when the caravan returned, stood at the bow of the ship a figure who had never appeared in the country of Lai - a monk without hair.
The monk's name is Fa Yuan, who is from the Great Compassion Temple of Qi Kingdom, and came with the merchant ship to introduce Buddhism here.
The appearance of the monk here caused an immediate sensation. Many people came to see this unfilial man with shaved hair. Fa Yuan only brought some scriptures, and he was penniless, and he didn't even have a place to stay, so he temporarily lived in a ruined temple, and would go to the town to chant scriptures whenever he had time. At that time, the place where he stayed was called Kumamoto, in the north of Edo.
The people of the Dharma Yuan Nian didn't know anything about it, and they weren't interested, they were just curious about how bold this man was to shave his own hair. He also answered day after day: leaving behind the past and starting over is the reason for shaving hair. It's a pity that how can life be said to start all over again, and the people care more about living in the present.
No one paid attention to him, and his Dharma was unheard, and from time to time a samurai or someone from the government would expel him and tell him to go back to the mainland and not tarnish people's minds. As long as Fa Yuan is driven away, he will be back in a few days. Being able to comprehend the mysteries of the Dharma is not a matter of one or two days, and the Dharma Yuan will naturally persevere.
Kumamoto is a barren place, with mountains and rivers towering, and there is no extra farmland to cultivate, so many people have become bandits and bandits in the mountains in order to avoid military service. And the monsters are also the favorite places that are dark and uninhabited, and there are often monsters wandering outside the broken temple where Fa Yuan lives, but every time I hear the scriptures recited by Fa Yuan, I can't bear the influence of the scriptures, and they stay away. His ruined temple has become a haven.
There is a cemetery on the hill where many locals bury their loved ones. On that day, a woman riding a donkey was led by her husband to the mountains to worship her parents. Unexpectedly, he met a mountain bandit in the mountains, and her husband was injured by the mountain bandits. The group of thieves were like wolves and tigers, trying to despise the woman, and the woman desperately broke free and rolled down the cliff. After seeing the woman fall off the cliff, the bandits gave up and did not go down the mountain to look for her. However, the woman who fell off the cliff did not die, she survived.
When she woke up, it was late at night, and the woman had multiple sprains on her body, but fortunately she was still able to move. Looking around, it was pitch black in the woods, and from time to time there was the sound of wild beasts and the rubbing of leaves, which made people shudder. At this time, a pair of eyes glowing green appeared, making the woman break out in a cold sweat. I thought that those green eyes were jackals and beasts, but those eyes made an unbelievable sound. I heard that there are man-eating monsters in this mountain, and they specialize in eating people who go up the mountain alone, and I thought to myself that I was afraid that I had encountered something unclean.
The woman ran wildly through the woods, and her green eyes followed like death, waiting for the woman to run until she was exhausted. The only sound in the woods was the breaking of the branches as they ran and the wheezing of women, which looked very miserable in the quiet of the night.
The woman gradually lost her ability to run, and slowed down, but the eyes behind her actually laughed when they saw that she couldn't run. The grim laughter made the woman run out of the woods with all her strength. When the youkai chased to the end of the woods, it seemed to have encountered something to be afraid of, and disappeared in the woods without revealing its true face.
The woman could finally catch her breath, but she was still out of danger. At this time, she felt a sharp pain in her abdomen, and blood actually flowed out of her lower body! She touched her stomach and endured the severe pain, it turned out that she was pregnant, and she was afraid that the fetus in her womb would not be able to withstand the toss when she fell off the cliff, and she was afraid that she might die young. She looked around, and there was a ruined temple outside the woods, and there seemed to be candlelight in the ruined temple. Locals know that there is a ruined temple here, and a monk from the mainland lives in the ruined temple, which is incompatible with the social customs here. The woman thought to herself, although she didn't like the monk's formal approach either, but after all, the other party was still a human being, and he was not a bad person, and he should be able to survive until the day if he stayed there all night. As long as it was daylight, she could go to the town and call for help.
The woman dragged her bloody legs to the ruined temple, which used to be dedicated to the god of the land, because the bandits were rampant and monsters were rampant, and people no longer believed in the god of the land. The door of the ruined temple had long since decayed, and the door was wide open, and the woman walked towards the candlelight in the temple. As soon as she walked up the steps, she noticed a pair of straw sandals in front of her, and when she looked up again, she saw the monk standing in front of her as if she had known that she was coming. The woman was startled at this time, but she lost too much blood and suddenly fell down, and Fa Yuan caught her at once and helped her to the temple.
The woman's vision began to blur, and the blood in her lower body never stopped. Through the woman's clothes and bulging belly, Fa Yuan knew that the woman was pregnant and might have miscarried. Fa Yuan said to the woman: "You have miscarried, I must take out the fetus in your womb so that your blood can stop, otherwise you will definitely die." ”
The woman was not at ease, she, like all the other Lai people, did not believe in this foreign victim who dared to shave his head and tell some incomprehensible truths and stories every day, she said with a puzzled tone: "You really know how to practice medicine?
"Good, saving a life is better than building a seventh-level floating slaughter, this is the duty of a person in my Buddhism. If the benefactor believes in the poor monk, the poor monk will do everything in her power to save your life. ”
"You care so much about life and death, why do you shave your hair? That's what your parents gave you. ”
"The poor monk only has the common people in his heart, and his parents are just one of thousands of people in my eyes. I have already told Kumamoto Castle about the reason for shaving my hair, but do I want to talk to the donor again? I am afraid that there is not enough time, and it will affect the life of the donor. ”
Listening to the monk's tone, he doesn't look like a wicked person, and the woman can only surrender her life to him. Fa Yuan was about to take out the fetus in the woman's womb that might die, so he first took a piece of cloth and blindfolded himself. The woman was puzzled and said what kind of action the monk was. He replied that the six roots of Buddhism are pure, and it is already a violation of the precepts to contact with the opposite sex, and if you look at the private place of women, you will be confused and ashamed of Buddhism, so blindfolding, on the one hand, to show respect for the female benefactor, on the other hand, it is also a way to reduce your sins. After Fa Yuan was blindfolded, he reached under the woman's legs.
Fa Yuan's eyes couldn't see, but it seemed that everything was under control. He asked the woman to control her breathing, and he pressed the palm of his hand on the woman's belly, using his own breath to help the child in her womb come out of the placenta. After Fa Yuan injected qi into the woman's belly, Fa Yuan suddenly discovered: the fetus in the woman's womb was still alive, but it was dying. Perhaps this is good news, and if you can save the lives of two people at the same time, it will be a great merit.
Accompanied by the flickering candle flames, and the painful cries of women, a faint cry spread through the ruined temple.
Fa Yuan held the baby in his hand with blood, which was only the size of a palm, and still did not take off the covering cloth. The woman was exhausted, and she only saw Fa Yuan holding a bloody piece of flesh in her hand, and she didn't know whether her child was alive or dead. The smell of blood from the ruined temple made the monsters in the forest restless, and they couldn't suppress their greedy desires, and began to rush to the ruined temple, surrounding the ruined temple. The monsters knew very well that the aura that had always been a deterrent in this ruined temple had become weak today, and it was a good opportunity for them to attack. There were three people in it, enough for them to eat for a day. Fa Yuan, who was in the ruined temple, also knew that there were a lot of monsters gathered outside, and at this time the woman was unconscious due to exertion, and he held the dying child in his hand, walked to his suitcase, took out a robe from it, and wrapped the child. After that, he walked out of the ruined temple.
In the darkness of the night, the woman was sleeping in the ruined temple, and the baby was still trying to see the world with her own eyelids. Outside the walls of the ruined temple, there was the sound of Fa Yuan fighting with monsters. The impact of the air waves continued to hit the dilapidated walls of the ruined temple, but even this ruined temple still did not fall under such impact. Perhaps the god of the land that people have never seen before may have appeared at this moment.
The sun rose, and the fighting outside stopped. Fa Yuan walked back to the ruined temple with bruises all over his body.
The woman hasn't woken up yet, and the child, I'm afraid, will never have a chance to wake up again.
The child's breathing was already very weak, and without the robe, he would not have survived the dawn. Fa Yuan knelt down in front of the baby, folded his hands, and silently recited the scriptures in his heart.
Later, the child's mother finally woke up. She didn't know what had happened last night and the morning, and when she opened her eyes, she found the monk kneeling in the corner, with his back to her. The woman got up and walked over, greeted the monk like a monk but did not respond, and when she walked in, she found that the monk was out of breath. Looking in front of the monk again, a baby was wrapped in a robe, with a ruddy face, as if he knew that his mother was coming, and suddenly cried. The woman picked up her son in distress, she had thought that her child would leave him last night, but she did not expect him to survive. Looking at Fa Yuan with her eyes closed, the woman thought to herself: Could it be that this high monk did something last night to give his son a new life?
The woman didn't know, but she was grateful to Fa Yuan, and held the child in front of him and kowtowed. After that, he hurried back to town with his children.
After returning to the town, a group of government officials and ordinary people came to fight the bandits under the leadership of women, and at the same time, they also wanted to build a tombstone for the monk who saved people's lives, so that he could be buried in the ground. It's just that when the woman took everyone to the broken temple where she spent the night last night, the broken temple had been razed to the ground by monsters, and no matter how she searched, she didn't see Fa Yuan's body in the broken temple. Only a box used by Fa Yuan and a woman to take away the robe that held the child were the only memories of him.
This Dongdu monk, with his own ideas, began to spread ideals in this world.
When the child in the daughter's hand grew up, the woman showed him the belongings left behind by his former savior. Inside that box was a bunch of books she couldn't read, after all, she couldn't read. She thought that her son had been reading for a few years and should be able to understand it. As a result, her son glanced at the scriptures, and was out of control, and locked the door without eating or drinking for a month. When he came out, he shaved his hair. The first Lai Guoren to shave his hair was the pillar of the wall.