The war came very suddenly, just when people were still fighting for wealth, for status, for survival, the war began.

Without any harassment from a small army, without any disturbances, the entire Wentian City was suddenly occupied by another army of the Heavenly Desolate Empire, and then started from the Heavenly Desolate City and continued to expand outward.

No one knows why the Heavenly Desolate Empire, which has always been stable, has had such turmoil that has not occurred since the establishment of the empire.

The turmoil in the Heavenly Desolate City was like a ***, which exploded the entire Heavenly Desolate Empire, and several cities were ignited by the smoke of gunpowder.

Then the internal strife of the empire attracted external peeps, and the Tang Dynasty, located in the southern part of the Tianhuang Empire, began to gather troops on the border between the two countries, but did not send troops to the north for a long time.

Under the internal and external troubles, the entire Heavenly Desolate Empire was in turmoil for a while.

If war is a game of chess, then the person in charge of both sides is the chess player, and the many chess pieces on the chessboard can only be made up by ordinary people.

The player will only be punished when he loses the game, and in the process of playing, it is always the chess piece that is captured.

After Wentian City was captured, a large-scale conscription began, countless young and middle-aged people were arrested and filled into the army, and the property of the rich squires was also seized by the army and charged with military salaries.

This army does not care whether the people left behind are dead or alive, as long as they are eaten, used, exchanged for money, and robbed, they will not leave a single thing at all.

No one wants to fight, and no one wants to go to the battlefield to face life and death. Therefore, the people around Wentian City took their families and mouths, brought what they could use, and began to flee.

On a small road, the little monk felt that he and the little girl should also follow a small group of displaced people, mainly women and children.

"How do you feel?" asked Timidly.

Feeling pale, his head was covered with fine beads of sweat, he shook his head and did not speak.

After the war began, he felt that after learning of the atrocities of the army that had just occupied Wentian City, he returned alone and infiltrated the barracks, he wanted to use Buddhism to influence the general and restore the peaceful life of the people.

But I didn't expect that there were cultivators around that general, and before I could find out the general's location, I was discovered.

The difference in strength between the two sides is a bit big, so after a few rounds, I felt that I was seriously injured, and I finally found a chance to escape, and I felt that I fainted when I saw it.

I felt that I had been with this group of homeless people for some days, and everyone had been more or less helped by the feelings, so the group saw that they were injured and came to help.

Not long ago, I felt that I had just woken up under the care of everyone.

When I woke up, I didn't speak, I just walked silently and chanted.

He was a little confused, he felt that the world was not supposed to be like this. He didn't understand why the world was suffering so much when the Dharma was so great.

It is clearly said in Buddhism that Hongyin is everywhere, all evil is eliminated, and the world is full of good people!

The little monk felt that his face was bitter, and his mouth was dry.

After walking for a while, at a junction, the group encountered a larger group of displaced people.

Different from these people, there are many men opposite, although most of them are yellow and thin, but they seem to be much stronger than their group.

The pedestrian may also be tired of walking, so they stopped halfway to rest, and after seeing Chen'er and their team, a figure who might be the leader came over and invited them to join the current and move forward together.

Seeing that there were many men on the other side, the women in the group thought that the confluence would be safer than it was now, and after discussion, they agreed.

The small team has become a big team, and the big team is constantly getting bigger.

In this way, the growing ranks began to flow forward.

Surrounded by green mountains and rivers, everyone in the team had no intention of watching, and when they decided to pack their bags and leave the country, they had no home.

On the other side, four horses pulled a luxurious car slowly on the path, on the carriage, a man and a woman, brother and sister, set up the carriage, listening to the sound of conversation in the car, they couldn't help but laugh.

There were three young men sitting in the car, one was well-dressed and slightly fat, and the other was plainly dressed and thin.

"Ah Da Ah Er, you two are about to break through again?" asked the chubby young man to the other two.

The other two nodded with a look of shame on their faces.

The chubby young man suddenly beat his chest, and said with a look of hatred, "It's only been a few days, and you're going to break through the realm again?"

The two thin men named Ah Da Ah Er lowered their heads, not daring to look at the chubby young man again.

The slightly chubby young man looked at Ah Da Ah Er's demeanor, and said seriously, "Your son-in-law, I don't have any hobbies, I just like to spend money, I am inspirational to be a person who loses his family property." But why can't you help me? I have prepared so many pills for you for cultivation, but you haven't used much, so you tell me that you have reached a bottleneck again and can't eat anymore?"

"Childe, it's useless for us!" said Ah Da Weng angrily.

"Yes, it's useless!" The chubby young man agreed with Ah Da's words, patted his thigh, and said: "When I left you two, it was to see that you had some talent for cultivation, and I thought, it will definitely cost a lot of money to pile up two strong people with resources, so I left you behind." ”

"But you guys are worthy of me! The cultivation speed is so fast, every time the things I prepared are not of much use, young master, you break through the realm, are you helping me spend money or help me save money?"

"The cultivation speed is so fast, Childe, not only did I not lose money, but I also made money! That's it, Childe, when will I lose all my family property? This transaction is a loss!" The slightly chubby young man sighed, and said with a sad face: "You guys are like this, I feel very sorry for Childe!"

"I'm sorry Childe, we will definitely continue to work hard to cultivate!" Ah Er replied angrily.

"Work hard, you can't eat much resources if you don't work hard, no matter how hard you work, don't I be a loser, young master?"

Ah Da raised his eyebrows, scratched his head innocently and said, "I don't understand!"

The chubby young man sighed again, rubbed his face, and shouted out of the car: "Spring equinox, I can't tell these two elm pimple heads, you help Gongzi and I communicate with them." ”

Outside the carriage, the girl who was driving the carriage smiled lightly, turned back to the car and said, "Ah Da Ah Er, our son-in-law is sick! The more you waste, the happier he will be." If you waste less, he will not be happy!"

The chubby young man in the car pursed his lips and shouted outside the car: "Winter Solstice, don't you hurry up and take care of your sister?"

Outside the car, a man named Dong Solstice gently patted his sister's head and said sharply: "How can you talk to your son?

The spring breeze chick nodded like a peck of rice, but he couldn't hold back his laughter.

The chubby young man in the car leaned on the backrest and sighed with a painful face: "I can't live this day, it's too difficult for me, son!"

When Ah Da and Ah Er heard Gongzi say this, they immediately stepped forward and said, "What is so rare about Gongzi, say it, and our brothers will help you share it." ”

The slightly chubby young man looked at Ah Da Ah Er's serious eyes and sighed again: "It's even more difficult!"

But before he could finish his sigh, the carriage creaked to a halt.

"What's going on?" asked the chubby young man with a frown.

"Childe, there are a lot of refugees gathered in front of you, and something seems to have happened. Do you need to get rid of them?" replied the vernal equinox.

The chubby young man shook his head and denied: "They are all people who are running around for life, it's not easy, what to do with them, let's go down and see what's going on." ”

After speaking, he walked out of the carriage, and then lifted the curtain on the door with a helpless face, and when Ah Da Ah Er came down, he sighed again: "I'm really difficult!"

The five of them walked slowly towards the crowd, and a group of refugees saw a few people getting off the luxurious carriage and avoided them in both directions.

A sense of class has been pierced into their bones, and they have a natural fear of the rich.

After watching for a while, the five finally figured out what was going on.

It turned out that the food carried by a group of refugees had been depleted, and in the midst of hunger, the leader snatched a four or five-year-old child from the group of people who thought they were in this group.

As for what to do, everyone knows it. During the war years, during the years of hunger and cold, there were many cases of cannibalism.

If your own children can't do it themselves, then exchange it with others, and there is an idiom that eats easily.

And the leader is obviously hungry, and he has to fill his stomach if he robs someone else's child.

If it is a normal time, it may be forced to survive, and no one will come forward to oppose it. But today is different, because there are still little monks in the team who think.

As a monk, how could he watch a weak life end like this?

So he stepped up!

dragged the seriously injured body, but the body exuded a powerful momentum.

"You...... What are you doing?" The leader looked at the little monk, and was a little timid for a while, but then he thought that he was just a child about ten years old, and he was annoyed by his cowardly behavior just now.

"Get out of the way!" said the leader viciously.

"In troubled times, we should help each other through difficulties, but why can you bear to make such a hurtful move?" the little monk asked sharply.

"Hehe, hehe. The leader smiled hideously: "Why? You ask me why? Lao Tzu is dying of hunger, why do you ask me?"

I felt that after looking at the man in front of me, I folded my hands together, and said the Buddha's name, and said, "Put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha on the spot!"

The man seemed to have heard a big joke, and after laughing wildly for a while, he scolded the little monk a little madly: "Put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha on the spot? Why don't you talk to those soldiers? Why don't you talk to those executioners who kill people without blinking?"

"What's the use of telling me to put down the butcher's knife? How many people can I kill in my life? How many people can they kill in my life?"

"You still become a Buddha on the ground, you become a Buddha first, let's see!"

The little monk's already pale face was even paler, his body shook for a while, and he was a little unsteady on his feet, if he hurriedly stepped forward to help him, he scolded the man: "If you don't want to become a Buddha, you can kill someone?

The words were harsh, but the eyes did not dare to look at the man.

When the man saw a little girl scolding him, his face was a little unbearable, and he glared at Ruo, so he stepped forward and shoved and shouted: "Get out!

If the thin little body didn't know where the strength came from, it didn't take a step back, but the body trembled, obviously frightened.

The man didn't care if anything, but scolded him again: "We are poor, we can't afford to go to incense, we can't afford to worship the Buddha, and the Buddha in your mouth won't protect us poor people!"

"Do you know how many people are starving to death every day? Where is the Buddha when the poor are starving to death? Do you know how many people are being bullied by the rich? Where is the Buddha when the rich are bullying people?"

The little monk felt that his faith was collapsing and his world was being destroyed.

The eyes, nostrils, ears and mouth flowed down the blood, and the body could not hold it anymore and sat down on the ground.

"Only you fake monks will cheat people out of money all day long in the name of Buddha, but how many of you do good deeds?"

The man didn't notice what happened to the little monk at all, and he was still scolding, as if he wanted to vent all the grievances in this life at once.

"You're enough!" he shouted, and quickly squatted down and wiped the blood on the little monk's face with his torn and dirty sleeve.

The man was instantly paused by this roar, and then slapped If.

But halfway through the hand, it stopped.

The little monk grabbed the man's arm with his right hand, stared at the man with a slightly distorted face tightly, his eyes were a little sloppy, but he said calmly: "Let the child go, eat me." ”

The man was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't believe that there would be such a stupid person in this world, but he gritted his teeth and ordered left and right: "Drag this little monk down and slaughter him." ”

Just when a few people were just about to leave, a voice came from the crowd: "Is there a Buddha or not, what this little monk said doesn't count, and what you say doesn't count!"

"You ask where the Buddha was when the poor starved to death, and where was the Buddha when someone was bullied. But do you know that the Buddha is not helping people?"

"Then again, for people like you who want to eat people to satisfy their hunger, why should you question whether there is a Buddha in this world? Why do you say that monks are cheating people out of money?"

"Are you worthy?"

Word by word into the man's heart, the face of the man who was still arrogant just now began to turn a little pale.

Looking at the brightly dressed young man who came from the road where the crowd automatically separated, he unconsciously took two steps back.

The little monk listened to the words of the chubby young man, and gradually gained some brilliance in his lifeless eyes just now.

"What do you rich people know? What do you know?" When the man saw the young man's clothes, he instinctively stopped his backward steps and shouted hysterically: "You have fine clothes and fine food, you are extravagant, you are spending all night, do you know how we poor people live? Why do you say that we are not doing it right?"

Seeing someone taking the lead, the refugees around them suddenly rushed to the middle, although they were a little afraid of those so-called rich people in their lifetime of oppression, but in the same way, hatred was also engraved in their bones.

Maybe they can only hide this hatred in their hearts, but once someone takes the lead, then they will not hesitate to fill the fire.

"Boom!" Dong Zhi on the side gently stomped his right foot on the ground, and a circle of qi waves dispersed, and the refugees who had just surrounded him flew out instantly.

"Cultivate, cultivator. A sharp-eyed refugee pointed to the winter solstice and said in horror.

When the refugees who had just flown out heard this, they didn't have time to get up and crawled out some distance.

"What's the matter? Are you scared when you face a cultivator? Do you know that this little monk in front of you is also a cultivator?" The slightly chubby young man looked at the crowd that was still retreating outward, and there was some disgust in his eyebrows.

As soon as he finished speaking, the man who was scolding just now immediately knelt down and kept kowtowing to the little monk and the slightly chubby young man.

"I was wrong, I shouldn't have provoked the two immortals, I shouldn't have contradicted the little master, no, I shouldn't have contradicted the holy monk. The little one doesn't dare anymore, beg the holy monk to spare his life, beg the gods to spare his life!"

In the end, Ah Da Ah Er supported the little monk and boarded the carriage together.

In the carriage, the slightly chubby young man took out a black elixir, and before the little monk could speak, he stuffed it into his mouth.

"I can help you treat the injuries in your body, but the Dao injuries in your heart can only be suppressed temporarily, and if you don't understand, you can only be like this forever. The chubby young man smiled faintly, and then said: "Don't think about it, saving you is purely because my money is hot, and I don't mean anything else." I'm called the rich man, just call me the rich man. ”

The little monk nodded, struggled to sit up, and bent slightly towards the rich boy with his hands folded, and then said, "Thank you!"

The little monk who had done this action was already out of breath.

Outside the car, the spring equinox brought a basin of water, was taken by Ruo, picked up the towel inside, gently wrung the water, and wiped the blood on his face.

"Yo he. The rich boy raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "You are a monk who is doing well, and there is a little girl to serve?"

The little monk's face turned red, and if he lowered his head, he explained in a low voice: "No, it is the holy monk who is kind to me, and I automatically follow it." ”

"Holy monk?" The rich boy was a little puzzled by this title, such a big little monk was called a holy monk?

I felt that my face was even redder.

"I think it's different from other monks. "If the head is lowered, the voice is quieter.

The rich boy nodded and said, "I can see that this title is a bit big, and it is not beneficial to do it well, but it will hurt you if it is not done well." ”

If you don't understand the meaning of the rich man's words, but the little monk understands what he is saying.

But the little monk didn't defend himself, but said to the rich boy with some embarrassment: "Can you help them?"

The rich boy's smile remained unchanged, and he shouted, "Spring equinox, throw copper coins to them!"

After saying yes to the equinox, he stepped out of the carriage.

"Some people can help, but some people can't! Just as some wealth has to be earned, but some wealth must be dispersed. The rich boy said with an unchanged smile.

The little monk scratched his head, that is, he understood the first half of the sentence, but he didn't understand the second half of the sentence.

The rich boy didn't explain, just pointed out the car window and said, "Look!"

After throwing a few pieces of copper, Chunfeng returned to the carriage, gently flicked the rope that tied the horse, and the carriage moved slowly.

Outside, refugees began to scramble for copper coins scattered all over the ground, and some even fought fiercely.

The little monk looked outside, frowned, and didn't say a word, but instead, his frowning brows stretched, his eyes looked at one place, and said with a smile to the rich man: "But it's not completely fruitless, isn't it?"

Following the little monk's gaze, there, a ragged mother tightly hugged the child saved by the little monk just now, looked at the copper coins scattered on the ground a few times, swallowed her saliva, but did not join the team to grab the money, but bowed and bowed to the carriage.

"But the world is so big, and there are so many people in need, I can't help them. The rich boy lowered the curtain on the car window, and lost the nature of the excitement.

When the curtain fell, the mother was carrying a package on her arm, and suddenly there were more than a dozen copper coins.

"Helping one is a merit. If the world is not peaceful enough, then the accumulation of merit is not enough. The little monk said with a serious face.

The rich man joked: "But the money to help these people is still mine." ”

The little monk's face turned red again.

After a while, the rich boy looked at the little monk's appearance of wanting to speak and stopped, felt a little funny, and explained: "It's not that I can't afford a few copper coins, but I have to help people in moderation and give more, that is not to help her, but to harm their mother and son." ”

At this time, the little monk blushed and said, "I will pay back the money." ”

The rich boy was stunned for a moment, and then laughed and said: "Childe, I am not short of money, and I am not afraid of spending money! What I am afraid of is that the money in my pocket will not be spent cleanly! In the future, you and I might as well go together, and I will help those who you can't pass through the Buddhist scriptures!"