Under the constant suppression of the imperial power, although most of the monks and nuns have returned to the laity, there are still some faithful followers of Buddhism who have wandered to various places under the jurisdiction of the Later Zhou Dynasty to continue to preach secretly, and even more, some monks and nuns have begun to rebuild temples in the deep mountains and old forests. At that time, in order to deal with these people www.biquge.info some strange punishments were also created. Among them, the capital punishment is the bell punishment.

Because during the Five Dynasties period, the status of the monks was transcendent, and there were few punishments for monks such as monks, and the Later Zhou did not dare to do too much, so the officials in charge of punishment at that time came up with a capital punishment for monks and nuns. When destroying the ritual weapon, a huge bronze bell was left behind as a torture instrument. After that, whenever the monks and nuns who fled and refused to return to the laity were caught, they were escorted to Beijing. And he tied it and stuffed it into the bell, and struck it ninety-nine times with a hammer on all sides. The monks and nuns inside were basically shocked to death in about fifty strokes.

From the beginning of the bell punishment until half a year later, when Emperor Chai Rong of Zhou Shizong fell ill and died, when this punishment was abolished, 1,019 monks and nuns had already died under the bronze bell. Soon after, Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, usurped the world of the Later Zhou Dynasty, and Buddhism flourished again. Song Taizu regarded this bronze bell as a big ominous thing. It was sent to the Great Xiangguo Temple of Kaifeng Prefecture to be sealed.

Until the period of Song Zhenzong, the Tianzhu monk Xiao Koye preached to the national capital Kaifeng. Borrowed to live in the Great Xiangguo Temple. I don't know if it's because the Buddha didn't bless him, the meditation room where he lived that afternoon caught fire, but fortunately it was found that the fire was not big early, but in this way, the meditation room could not live in people. Shokoye was temporarily placed in the storeroom.

The first half of the night was fine, but in the second half of the night something finally happened, and when Shokoye was sleeping in a daze, he was awakened by a strange sound. When he opened his eyes, he was almost so frightened by the scene that he fainted again, and the storeroom that was originally his only one was filled with countless people at some point

These men, men and women, were in the same position, kneeling on the ground with their hands folded, chanting to a huge bronze bell in the corner of the storeroom. Looking at the backs of these people, they are all dressed as monks and nuns. Xiao Koye's Chinese was still in its infancy, and although it was not clear what they were talking about, he could faintly hear a few Buddha horns. Xiao Koye's Taoism is still shallow, but in this way, he can also see that the monks and nuns kneeling on the ground are not alive, he can only watch and watch, and he doesn't even dare to come out.

Until the fish belly was lit up outside the window, and the sound of a bell ringing sounded in the temple, and just when Xiao Koye was stunned, the room full of monks and nuns disappeared in an instant. Even if it was bright, Shawkoye would not dare to stay in this storeroom any longer. He rushed out of the storeroom in a few steps. It was only when he ran to the Daxiong Treasure Hall that he was relieved and collapsed on the floor on the spot.

I heard that the treasury was a ghost monk, and it scared foreign monks. Several great monks from Xiangguo Temple also arrived. There were a few broken mouths, and between the gossip, the incident was brought up again, and this matter also alarmed the abbot of the Great Xiangguo Temple. He personally took the monks of the whole temple to make a hundred days of exceedance for the bronze bell. At the same time, suppress the dead ghosts inside the bronze bell. At that time, this bronze bell was also given a name - Soul Pressing Bell.

After being overspent for 100 days, the bronze bell has never been haunted. Later, because of the war, the Soul Suppressor Bell was almost different, but I didn't expect it to be on a ghost ship when it appeared again.

After Tie Lao Dao and them arrived just now, they saw the origin of this soul suppression bell, and at the same time, they also found that someone had added a new layer of prohibition to the bronze bell, and it was this prohibition that covered the eyes of everyone on the ship.

After Tie Lao Dao finished speaking, I thought of another question: "Lao Tie, the eyes of all of us are covered. Why didn't Wang Dazhong have any influence at all?

This question made Tie Laodao scratch his head and couldn't figure it out, he looked at Wang Dazhong and said, "Tall, when you were with Xiao San'er just now, you didn't encounter anything, right?" ”

Wang Dazhong looked up and thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "I haven't encountered anything special...... Zhang, can you help me think about it, is there anything wrong? ”

I also helped him recall, from the time he got on the boat to the present, Wang Dazhong has almost always acted with me, even if something happened on the way, it is impossible for me not to know. It's just that Wang Dazhong and I think about it, and I really can't think of anything special.

"Iron Advisor, the public's affairs have a chance to talk about it, let's look at the present."

When Tie Lao Dao was telling the origin of the Soul Suppression Bell just now, Hao Renyi didn't speak, he circled around the Soul Suppression Bell a few times from a distance, and his face became more and more solemn: "That opening is getting bigger and bigger, and the dead air is rushing out, it's not that I said, I'm afraid that the Soul Suppression Bell won't be able to support it for a while." ”

Hao Renyi's tone was very serious, just now I patronized to listen to Tie Lao Dao tell the origin of the soul suppression bell, but the real soul bell was negligent, after he reminded him, when he looked at the past, a layer of purple-black mist floated out of the gap, already shrouded in the soul bell, from my eyes, the soul bell has begun to tremble slightly, it seems that there is a powerful energy in the bell to break out of the bell.

"Old Hao, isn't this bell going to explode?"

I said to Hao Renyi.

Hao Renyi's eyes stared at the Soul Suppression Bell, and replied: "Not yet, but the Soul Suppressor Bell has a gap, I'm afraid it won't be able to hold on for a while." ”

As he spoke, he turned his face to Ti Lao Dao and said, "Iron Advisor, make a plan early, if something really happens to the Soul Crushing Bell, no one on this ship, whether it is a person or a ghost, will not be able to escape." ”

"Withdraw, you can't stay here...... Tall, what's on your neck? ”

When Tie Lao Dao was halfway through his words, he accidentally saw a red rope hanging from Wang Dazhong's neck, and a white jade plaque was exposed. This jade Tie Lao Dao looked a little familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it.

Tie Lao Dao couldn't remember the origin of the jade plaque, but I could see it clearly, I had seen this jade plaque not long ago, and I had kept it for a while. It was the piece that Tan Lei gave to the girl, but I remember that the girl had already received the jade card, and it had only been a few days, how did the jade card get into Wang Dazhong's hands again?

"A small card is not a good thing!"

Wang Dazhong didn't mean to show the jade card, but tucked the jade card into his clothes.

Tie Lao Dao ignored this stubble, he was not in a hurry to leave, stretched out his hand to Wang Zhongzhong, and said, "Take it off and I'll take a look!" ”

Tie Lao Dao stretched out his hand, and Wang Dazhong had no choice but to reluctantly take off the jade plate, hand it to Tie Lao Dao, and said: "Old Tie Master, just take a look, be careful, don't fall to the ground." So what...... Give me back when you're done! (To be continued.) )