In the meditation room of Jingai Temple, Xue Huaiyi was meditating on the futon, and the surroundings were silent, so quiet that a needle could be heard falling to the ground. Xue Huaiyi eliminated selfish distractions, breathed evenly, and gradually settled down.

Hui Yan Dade quietly walked over with a silver flower double wheel and twelve rings tin staff, gently woke up Xue Huaiyi, and invited him to the Hui Ri Nei Dojo to do things with Zhu Dade.

Xue Huaiyi stood up, put on a seven-robed robe, and carried a nine-ring tin staff. Walk out of the meditation room with a heroic face.

The great virtues chanted the Buddha in the Huiri dojo, some knocked on the wooden fish, and some rotated the prayer wheel, circling the field. The arhats blew up the big conch, and the sound of the snail was loud and loud outside the field, attracting the Empress Wu and his party to visit.

He also struck the Dafa drum 300 times, and the bang was deafening. Among the great virtues in robes, Xue Huaiyi was the youngest, the most handsome, tall and eye-catching.

After Hui Yan Dade explained a passage of "Huayan Sutra", Xue Huaiyi led the monks to sing "Great Compassion Mantra". The ritual came to an end, and Empress Wu ordered Guanglu Temple to provide fasting meals to accumulate merit.

Xue Huaiyi was holding a purple gold bowl, eating green vegetables and trouser noodles, and was eating, when the White Horse Temple sat on the throne and shouted, "Master Xue." Xue Huaiyi agreed: "Only, what's the matter?" Master Prism. ”

Lingxing Dade approached and said: "There is no Amitabha Buddha in the south, the old man has stayed in the inner dojo for a long time, and the White Horse Temple has been unattended, resulting in varying degrees of damage to the temple's halls and pavilions, and the courtyard walls have also collapsed. Need to be renovated wow! ”

Xue Huaiyi said: "Then why don't you go back to repair it quickly?" The poor monk can help you ask for leave! ”

Lingxing Dade sighed and said: "Hey, the old man is shy in his pocket, and he has no money in his hands!" ”

Xue Huaiyi pulled a few times with chopsticks, finished eating the green vegetable trouser belt noodles, stuffed the purple gold bowl into Ling Xing's hand, and said: "This bowl is a treasure, from the Three Realms, it can get rid of troubles and gain wisdom." If you take it out and make a fortune, you will soon become a rich man! ”

Ling Xing Dade was dumbfounded, and secretly thought: Hongchen trivial things have already been cut off, goodbye stupid heart is not confused. Xue Huaiyi saw him in a daze, and said with a smile: "Go, Master Lingxing, the poor monk also has a purple gold bowl!" ”

He replied, "Oh, be quiet! Xue Huaiyi said: "Hey, now is not the time to meditate quietly, the White Horse Temple is in trouble, as a seated person, hurry up and save it!" ”

Lingxing Dade was still standstill, Xue Huaiyi said: "Hey, Master Lingxing, you know everything, but you don't want to do it!" Maybe the poor monk will go to the fate for you! After speaking, he took back the purple gold bowl.

Ling Xing Dade asked curiously, "Where does Master Xue plan to go to make a fate?" Xue Huaiyi smiled and said, "It's around here!" ”

Lingxing Dade was overjoyed and said: "As long as Master Xue is willing to make a move, there is nothing that can't be done!" ”

Xue Huaiyi said: "I heard that the White Horse Temple has a temple master, and then you can recommend the poor monk on the table!" "That's certain, certain! There is no Amitabha Buddha in the south. Lingxing Dade put his hands together and said.

After the meeting of the great virtues, Xue Huaiyi went to the Shanzhai Courtyard to meet the Empress Wu, and after some greetings, Xue Huaiyi said: "I heard that the White Horse Temple is in disrepair and the pavilion has collapsed, please ask Your Majesty to allocate a sum of money and send the minister to preside over the rebuilding work!" ”

Empress Wu was surprised: "Ah Shi can also engage in architecture? Xue Huaiyi said: "The minister has learned carpentry from his uncle, and has built all kinds of mansion compounds, red walls and green tiles, pavilions and pavilions, and the minister will do it!" ”

Empress Wu nodded and said, "I didn't expect my male pet to be able to do the job of construction engineering director, what a talent!" Does Master know the origin of the White Horse Temple? ”

Xue Huaiyi said: "I know, the White Horse Temple is twenty miles northeast of Jingai Temple, founded in the Yongping period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and is the first ancient temple in China, known as Shiyuan!" Tianzhu monks took Mo Teng, Zhu Falan with a white horse to carry the scriptures, came to Luoyang, so the temple was named White Horse Temple. ”

Empress Wu praised and said: "Well, it's very good, Ah Shi has mixed with the great masters and learned a lot of things!" I loved Buddhism at a young age, and when I was young, I took refuge in the Three Jewels, and I can be regarded as a lay disciple of Buddhism. If Garan is in trouble, of course the disciple can't see death without saving him, and besides, if he helps to cultivate Garan, he can accumulate great merits, so why not do it? ”

Therefore, Empress Wu appointed Xue Huaiyi as the director of the construction and maintenance project of the White Horse Temple, and dispatched skilled craftsmen who would be the supervisor, the Shaofu supervisor, and the Shang Fang supervisor for him to drive.

Xue Huaiyi was diligent and sent an envoy to invite his uncle Miao Daxing. Miao Daxing was making a dresser for the rich, and when he heard that his nephew was rich, he was surprised and said, "This kid hasn't learned carpentry well, can he still make a fortune?" I don't believe it! ”

The inner envoy said, "Hearing is false, but seeing is believing." Believe it or not, check it out! ”

Miao Daxing followed the envoy to Jingai Temple, and saw Xue Huaiyi wearing a seven-robed robe and carrying a nine-ring tin cane, and said in shock: "Xiaobaowow, I haven't seen you for half a year, why did you become a monk?" Hey, there is a saying in "The Book of Filial Piety": The body is skinned, and the parents who receive it dare not destroy it, and the beginning of filial piety is also. You shaved your head for unfilial piety! ”

The envoy reminded him: "He should be called Master Xue!" Xue Huaiyi said: "Others call him Master Xue, only he can be an exception, his name is Er Xiaobao, it sounds very kind!" ”

Miao Daxing said: "Hey, your name has also been changed to Luo, who will the carpentry skills be passed on?" Xue Huaiyi said proudly: "Uncle, do you know who the master is?" ”

Miao Daxing said: "It doesn't matter who your master is, it hurts you like this!" ”

Xue Huaiyi said: "The master of the forehead is Her Majesty the current Queen Mother!" The emperor is her son, and the forehead is her male concubine, haha! Even the prime minister nodded when he saw him. ”

Miao Daxing was shocked, dancing with his hands and saying: "Oh, the nephew is so powerful, is it under one person and above ten thousand?" ”

The envoy said, "Master Xue is exactly this social status. ”

Xue Huaiyi said proudly: "Uncle, I invite you here today, just because you have the blessings to share and the difficulties to share." You have been appointed as the supervisor of the White Horse Temple, and you will be specifically responsible for the maintenance of the White Horse Temple! A monthly salary of 10,000 copper coins! ”

Miao Da said happily: "Overseer? Is it that all the craftsmen are in charge? Xue Huaiyi nodded and said, "Exactly!" The envoy took out a set of precious silk uniforms and put them on for Miao Daxing.

Miao Daxing danced happily and said: "From now on, I believe that Xiaobao is a real nobleman!" Haha, even the forehead is rich! With a monthly salary of 10,000 yuan, oh my God, I'm going to wake up laughing from my dreams! ”

Xue Huaiyi took his uncle's hand and said, "Let the red dust be your companion and live a chic life; galloping horses and sharing the prosperity of the world; Sing to the wine and sing the joy of the heart; Vigorous, grasp the youth! ”

Subsequently, Xue Huaiyi and Miao Daxing led the contractor to the White Horse Temple in the northeast to inspect.

Walked about 20 miles, came to the front of the mountain gate of the White Horse Temple, saw that the mountain gate was tall and majestic, it was a stone archway type of one door and three holes style, indicating three liberation gates. As soon as you enter this door, you are empty, formless, and non-doing.

After entering the mountain gate, there are the tombs of the two monks of Morteng and Zhu Falan on the east and west sides, go forward, there are the palace of the king of heaven, the hall of the Buddha, the hall of the great majesty, the hall of the introduction and the hall of Pilu.

The temple looks a little dilapidated, there is a backlog of dust inside, and there are even cobwebs, and an old monk sits in the corner and meditates without sweeping the floor. Xue Huaiyi shook his head and sighed: "The ancestral court of Shijiao, the ancient temple of the Eastern Han Dynasty, is so dilapidated!" ”

I also inspected the Qingliang Terrace, the inscription, the Qiyun Pagoda, the dining hall, the guest hall, the meditation room and other buildings, all of which were in disrepair and no one cleaned and scrubbed.

After Miao Daxing inspected the temple, he held a meeting in the guest hall and discussed the maintenance plan with the contractor, and Xue Huaiyi led the household department and the Ministry of Industry to raise funds and decoration materials.

The next day, Xue Huaiyi and Miao Daxing organized craftsmen to transport various high-end decoration materials to the White Horse Temple Square and stacked them. Then the construction began according to the maintenance plan, and Miao Daxing was stationed at the White Horse Temple to supervise the maintenance.

Because the decoration materials are complete, the money is sufficient, and the daily settlement is settled, and the wages of the craftsmen are never in arrears.

After just over a month, the magnificent White Horse Temple was rebuilt. Xue Huaiyi sent all the old and weak monks out to wander around the world, leaving only a few young, strong and good-looking monks to maintain the image of the temple.

Xue Huaiyi and Ling Xingdade invited Empress Wu to visit the White Horse Temple, and Empress Wu readily agreed.

The autumn is high and cool, the wind and the sun are beautiful, and the queen of martial arts, accompanied by Hui Yan and a great virtue, takes Luan Yu to the White Horse Temple. Empress Wu saw that the whole temple was magnificent and solemn, renovated, red walls and green tiles, antique, very satisfied, and praised the master again and again!

Lingxing Dade took the opportunity to recommend Xue Huaiyi to be the head of the White Horse Temple and preside over the overall work of the temple, and the Empress Wu immediately agreed.

The head of Jingai Temple, Hui Yan Dade, was envious after visiting various places in the White Horse Temple, and also asked Xue Huaiyi to help repair and expand Jingai Temple. As a lay disciple of the Buddha Sect, Empress Wu naturally agrees with these things about sowing blessings and accumulating merits.

Xue Huaiyi was impassioned, and summoned Miao Daxing and the contractor to repair the original team of the White Horse Temple, and came to the Jingai Temple in the Jianchun Gate in Luoyang East City, and continued to carry out the renovation and expansion project.

The Buddha statues and railings in the temple were repainted, and the new leading hall and the Pilu hall were built behind the Daxiong Treasure Hall, and the auspicious cloud pagoda was built on the high part of the temple. Create new wooden racks, barrels, stoves and other utensils.

A month later, the renovation and expansion project of Jingai Temple was completed. Ancestral Hall Langzhong and Hui Yan Dade inspected and accepted the project and expressed great satisfaction.

Empress Wu came to visit the Buddha in her free time, and renamed the Jingai Temple as the Buddha Conferral Temple.

The successful completion of two consecutive construction projects added a lot of points to Xue Shi, and Empress Wu was very satisfied, saying: "Although Ah Shi has little reading, shallow foundation, ugly conversation, and vulgar manners, he is completely different from the elegant people who read poetry and books and are good at ink and words, but he also has his own unique advantages!" ”

The owner of the White Horse Temple, Xue Huaiyi, has received a lot of rewards, asking for money and money, asking for people, and having power, so he is not at ease, and it is inevitable that he will act rashly.

He asked for a lot of degrees in the ancestral hall, and filled in the name, place of origin, ethnicity, age, address and other information of the monks, and shaved a lot of small instigations who had similar interests with him.

He appointed the able-bodied young monk Hongli as Vena, Honghai as the throne, Gengen Yuan as the governor, Genlin as the managing governor, and Wu as the hall master.

Xue Huaiyi went out from the temple, and the strong young monks guarded the left and right, hugging each other in front of him, very majestic. Some young monks bullied others and oppressed the people, which caused dissatisfaction among the government.

One day, a lantern festival was held in Luoyang City, and the lights were displayed everywhere and were full of joy. During the day, vendors from all walks of life come to the market, which is very lively.

Xue Huaiyi was originally worshipping the Buddha and chanting scriptures in the White Horse Temple, but suddenly heard the sound of gongs and drums in the distance, and couldn't bear the loneliness, so he beckoned the monks from each hall to go out of the temple to play together.

He rode a tall horse and led a group of monks to Luoyang City, shouting and rampaging on the streets. Pedestrians on the road dodged one after another, and some people did not hide in time, so they were immediately beaten by them, thrown on the side of the road, and walked away.

Wherever Xue Huaiyi rode a horse, the crowd gathered immediately dissipated, and baskets and stalls were scattered all over the place. He was so unhappy that he thought that he was a hero in doing so, like a wolf entering a flock, and everywhere he went, it was like entering a no-man's land.

The carriage of Feng Siqiao, the supervisor of the imperial history on the right, came over, and a monk shouted to Xue Huaiyi: "Master Xue, it is this official who has arrested a few monks from our White Horse Temple. ”

Xue Huaiyi said angrily: "What? How dare this dog official touch the labor-management people? The little ones, stop Ben Da Wet, let him touch a nail, and know that Ben Da Shi is amazing! ”

The monks immediately stood in several rows on the street and blocked the way of Feng Siqiao's convoy. Xue Huaiyi rode a tall horse across the center, glaring angrily.

Feng Siqiao's carriage had to stop, and the official and the coachman stepped forward to judge. Hongli and Honghai led several tall monks to knock the officials and coachmen to the ground, and then rushed over to pull Feng Siqiao out of the car, and beat him with a fist.

Feng Siqiao covered his face and shouted: "Ouch, in broad daylight, the monk dared to beat the officials of the imperial court, you, you have eaten the gall of the leopard!" ”

Xue Huaiyi sneered: "Labor and management ate tiger gall today, so I beat you, what's the matter?" So saying, he whipped it with his horsewhip.

Feng Siqiao waved his hand and hugged his head, and there were a few stalks on his hand, and he screamed in pain: "Oh, the Buddha said, don't do all evil, practice all good, and purify your will, it is all Buddhism." If you don't listen to the teachings, stop the evil and promote the good, but instead do murder and hurt others, will the Buddha bless you? ”。

Xue Huaiyi said angrily: "You are so bold that you dare to arrest the monks of labor and capital, and the Buddha sent you to punish you, and you will be beaten and ”

Poor Feng Siqiao was a young man, and he was beaten by Xue Huaiyi, but fortunately he was not killed.

Xue Huaiyi saw that he was angry enough, so he took the monks and left laughing.

On the way back to the White Horse Temple, Xue Huaiyi saw a Taoist priest from a distance, wearing a Xuan crown and a blue brown and yellow veil, so he quickly chased after him to block the way.

The monks rushed from behind, took off the Taoist priest's crown, and shaved his head.

The Taoist priest touched his bald head, cried and scolded: "The monks and Taoists were originally well water and did not interfere with river water, and they were both cultivators, so why bother to violate them like this?" You evil monks will be rewarded in the future! ”

Xue Huaiyi smiled: "Can't the two monks and Taoists become one?" Today, I want you to become a monk and join the empty door! ”

The Taoist priest was anxious when he heard this: "No, don't, the poor Tao is the Lord of Hongshouguan." There are still many disciples in Hongshouguan waiting for me to go back and teach the "Yellow Emperor Yin Fu Sutra"! ”

Xue Huaiyi laughed and said: "You are a bald head, you have already joined the empty gate of the forehead, what else do you learn from the Yellow Emperor Yin Fu Sutra?" Let's go back to learn the "Lengyan Sutra" with this big wet! Oh fire. ”

The monks twisted Hou Zun all the way to the White Horse Temple and forced him to become a monk.

Another day, in the spring of March, Empress Wu announced that Xue Huaiyi entered the palace. Xue Huaiyi took a carriage to Luoyang Palace.

Xue Huaiyi hadn't seen Empress Wu for many days, so he was anxious to enter the palace quickly, and he didn't want to go around in circles to enter the palace from Yuanbi City in the north, but from the Mingde Gate in the south.

When he arrived at the Mingde Gate, Xue Huaiyi changed his shoulder to enter the palace, and it happened that Su Liangsi, the left minister of Wenchang, also came to the Mingde Gate. Xue Huaiyi thought that Wu Chengsi nodded to him, and other prime ministers should do the same, so he didn't take Su Liangsi seriously.

He got out of the sedan chair and rushed into the Mingde Gate, without making way for Su Lianghe. Su Liangsi ordered the Nanya forbidden army guarding the door to stop the monk, pull him to the side of the road, and slap his mouth with the sole of his shoe twenty times.

The guards guarding the gate had long seen that he was not pleasing to the eye, and beat him hard, but poor Xue Huaiyi was beaten to the point that his nose was blue and his face was swollen, his mouth was bleeding, and he was driven out by the guards.

Xue Huaiyi had no choice but to go back in a big circle and enter the Taichu Palace from Yuanbi City.

Seeing the martial queen, Xue Huaiyi was so aggrieved that he cried bitterly, and said: "The minister is anxious to come to see Your Majesty as soon as possible, so he took a shortcut to enter the palace from the south gate, but he didn't want to be beaten by Su Liangsi, woo woo woo!" ”

Empress Wu was also taken aback when she saw him like this.

After Empress Wu asked the reason, she looked at the swollen face of the master of the temple and comforted him: "It doesn't matter, just apply the medicine." The master should enter and exit from the north gate, and the south ya, which is the place where the prime minister governs, don't invade it! ”

After speaking, he asked Shen Nanxuan, the imperial doctor who had just entered the Shang Pharmacy, to treat the master of Xue Temple, and after comforting him for a while, he let the master of Xue Temple go back to White Horse Temple to recuperate.

Although Su Liangsi slapped the master of the temple in legal theory, his behavior of beating the dog without looking at the master was actually a disguised color for the Empress Wu, so the Empress Wu had a grudge in her heart from then on and had an opinion on Su Liangsi.

A month later, Empress Wu found an excuse to transfer Su Liangsi to stay in Xijing Chang'an, not to let him stay in Luoyang, so as not to be upset when he was seen by the master of the temple!