Suddenly, one day, eighteen ringing horses came, ready to rob her son-in-law's house. It just so happened that the son-in-law tied the donkey to the river to graze. When the robbers came to the river, they dismounted and discussed how to rob, and the donkeys listened to and remembered them. After a while, the son-in-law came and brought the donkey back.

When it was dark, the girl lit the lamp and was doing needlework in the house, and heard someone shouting outside: "Girl!" The girl was startled, "Oh! My mother has been dead for several years, why is this my mother's voice? The girl quickly opened the door and went out to see, and saw that there was nothing! So the girl came into the house.

She hadn't even stood on her heels when she came in, and she heard someone shouting, "Girl, girl!" Come out, I have something for you. The girl ran out again the second time, and there was no one else? It was a donkey, standing at the foot of the wall, and said to her, "Girl, I am your mother." ”

"Yo, why don't I know?" said the donkey, "well, you don't know. I borrowed your grain in my previous life, and I borrowed it in my last life, and I repaid it in the back, and I owe you too much! Girl, there are eighteen ringing horses tonight, and they are going to steal you, and you must wake up at night. ”

The girl asked, "Mother, how do you know?" and the donkey replied, "While I was grazing by the river, many robbers and eighteen horses came from afar and consulted that they would steal you in the evening."

When the son-in-law came back, the eldest girl told him all about these experiences. So he came up with a plan, went out and invited a cook, and prepared three tables of banquets and placed them in the courtyard! Lanterns were hung all over the courtyard, and the courtyard was lit up at once.

He brought out the ingots again, and the three square tables were full. The son-in-law calculated in his heart, he robbed these things, don't hurt people, as the saying goes: "Open fire reduces wealth, and wealth does not hurt the Lord!"

About midnight came, eighteen robbers and eighteen ringing horses came. Looking at this place from a distance, how can it still be bright? The courtyard door is also wide open! There are food and drink, and there are white ingots. What was there to be afraid of as a robber? So he walked straight in.

When the son-in-law saw it, he hurriedly came out and stood at the door. One of the robbers asked, "What's wrong with you?" and the son-in-law said, "I'll take you." When the robber heard this, he found it strange and asked, "Who told you that?" The son-in-law did not answer them directly, but said, "Go and eat first, and then you will talk about it when you have finished eating." ”

So the robbers went in and sat down, and the son-in-law said, "Don't be too little, for I have prepared these for you, and eat them first." The more the robbers heard this, the more strange they became, and they kept asking, "Well, tell us first, how did you know we were coming?" ”

At this time, the son-in-law felt that he couldn't hide it, so he said: "Alas, whether you believe it or not, that's the case anyway." I have a donkey, and yesterday afternoon I tied it to the river to graze, and when you passed by to discuss robbery, he listened to all of them, and when he came back, he told my daughter-in-law, "This donkey is my mother-in-law."

In the previous life, I borrowed my grain, and I borrowed the basket to repay it! In this life, I turned into a donkey and came to repay our debts!" "Ouch! When the horses heard this, the mother-in-law would be guilty of eating her son-in-law's? Everyone died and still came to pay it back! I thought to myself, we are already human dogs and horses in this life, and if we continue to commit such robbery, I wonder what kind of unformed animals will become in the next life to repay the debt?

Then one of the robbers went in and brought out a basin of water, and all eighteen robbers came and stuffed their hands and feet into it and washed them carefully. Later, they all went up the mountain to practice together, cultivated into eighteen arhats, and finally achieved the right result!

Xie Bi'an paused for a moment and then said, "And there is also a legend about the "five hundred bhikshus", that is, the "five hundred arhats".

According to legend, every year on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, a drop of "Jade Emperor Water" will fall, "Jade Emperor Water" is a magical treasure in the sky, dropping on the stone will drop stone into gold, drop in the water in the fish will become essence, and drop on all kinds of creatures will prolong life.

After the deer ate the "Jade Emperor Water", its belly gradually grew larger, but when the doe was full moon, she gave birth to a baby girl, and the boss was shocked, thinking that it was not a good omen and ready to throw it away.

At this time, the abbot of Guoqing Temple came to say that this woman could bring blessings to Tongshou Medicine Hall in the future, so the master and the clerks were very attentive to feed her porridge, soup, and deer, and the child also survived, and later everyone named her "Deer Girl"!

The deer girl grew up under everyone's care, she was smart and diligent, and helped everyone with laundry and cooking every day. On the night of the 10th birthday of the deer girl, the abbot of Guoqing Temple had a strange dream, in which Guanyin Bodhisattva said to him: "There will be 500 people escorted by the mountain gate of your temple tomorrow, you must save each other, and you must not be negligent." ”

How dare the abbot be lazy, he waited at Fenggan Bridge before dawn, waited, waited, waited, The abbot hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Old man, what is in the fish basket?" and the farmer replied, "It's a snail." ”

The abbot asked the farmer, "Can you sell this basket of snails?" and the farmer said, "Since the abbot needs it, the old man will give it to you." The abbot said, "Good, good, thank you, sir!" The abbot took the fish basket and poured out the snails, exactly 500 grains, and the abbot said: "Amitabha, there is salvation." Then he hurriedly poured it into the release pond.

Just when the abbot poured snails into the release pond, the deer girl lit a fire for everyone in the pharmacy to cook dinner, and suddenly a gust of wind blew out the fire, and the deer girl hurriedly ran to the temple to borrow fire from the monk.

The presiding monk in the temple knows the origin of this deer girl, it turns out that this deer girl was a deer boy who served the queen mother, only because she stole a thousand years of peaches to be beaten down to the mortal world to suffer, and it happened that "Jade Emperor Water" saved her life.

So, the host wanted to use the function of the deer girl to save the five hundred arhats, and the host said to the deer girl: "It is not difficult to borrow fire, but you have to promise me one thing." The deer girl said, "Master, please speak." The host said, "You only need to walk 500 steps in the temple, and every step you take will shout that there are lotus flowers under your feet, but you just have to go forward and not look back." ”

The deer girl said: "Please rest assured, the master will just do it." The deer girl shouted "lotus flowers under her feet" every step she took, and as soon as her words fell, a lotus flower would break through the ground, and after walking five hundred steps, five hundred lotus flowers had been connected.

The host looked at the miracle that appeared, closed his eyes and palmed his mouth, and read: "Amitabha, five hundred arhats have been saved!" At this time, I saw a very small person sitting in the middle of each lotus flower, and the villain gradually became bigger after a burst of fragrant wind, and suddenly heard a sound of "swish" Five hundred people jumped off the lotus at the same time,

In the blink of an eye, all the lotus flowers disappeared again, and five hundred people hurriedly thanked the deer girl and the presiding monk.

These 500 people are the reincarnation of 500 Arhats, and then they are monks in Guoqing Temple, and finally they all achieve positive results, and the descendants set up 500 Arhat Hall to commemorate the many good things they have done in the mortal world, and the deer girl has also returned to heaven because of the full virtue!