The next morning, Liang Shanbo was about to go out after breakfast, and Sijiu came to report that two monks asked to see him, claiming to be the abbot of Qiguang Temple.

Liang Shanbo hurriedly came out to greet him, and saw two monks standing outside the gate, a tall figure in front of him, with a ring scar on his bare head, wearing a robe and holding a staff.

"It turned out to be a branch father, please forgive Uncle Shan for being late."

"Master Liang, the poor monk took the liberty to visit, please don't be surprised." Although Master Zhi Dun is famous, he is actually not very old, around forty years old.

Liang Shanbo hurriedly invited Master Zhi Dun into the living room, and just sat down, he heard the sound of the wooden fish tapping in the distance.

"This is Guanyin Bodhisattva's "Great Compassion Mantra", I don't know who is chanting?" , Master Zhi Dun listened attentively, turned his head and asked Liang Shanbo.

"It's my mother, and there are a group of Buddhist disciples from Ziyun Mountain."

Master Zhi Dun stared at Liang Shanbo for a long time, and suddenly burst out laughing.

What's the situation, why are you looking at me and laughing, do you have flowers on my face? Liang Shanbo was inexplicably laughed and looked at the two monks in a daze.

Zhi Dun hurriedly explained: "Liang Shizhu is a Confucian disciple, Ling Ci is a devout Buddhist, and there is also a master who is respected as an immortal. Now a temple is also being built for the filial maiden. Weird! Weird! ”

What's strange about this, more than 100 years later, Emperor Wu of Liang in the Southern Dynasty put forward the idea of "three religions confluence", and the main hall of many temples enshrined the statues of Confucius, Lao Tzu and Sakyamuni at the same time.

Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism have coexisted for a long time, mutually exclusive, mutually influencing, learning from each other, and constantly merging. For example, Guanyin Bodhisattva, many people say that she is a great Buddhist god, but there are also statues of Guanyin in many Taoist temples.

"Have you ever heard of the 'Three Sects Confluence'?" , Liang Shanbo regretted it immediately after asking, isn't this nonsense?

"Have you ever heard of "Journey to the West"?" , "Journey to the West" is a story told by Liang Shanbo to Zhu Yingtai every night before going to bed, and later Zhu Yingtai told it to Xie Daoyun, and Xie Daoyun passed it on to his younger brother Xie Xuan. In this way, the story of "Journey to the West" slowly spread, but the speed of this word of mouth is very slow. Liang Shanbo didn't know if Zhi Dun had heard of it, so he asked.

"What is "Journey to the West", I have never heard of it."

Zhi Dun has been well-read since childhood, proficient in Lao Zhuang, has high attainments in Buddhism, is good at talking, good at grass, likes BMW, and many celebrities at that time such as Wang Meng, Wang Xizhi, Xie An, Xu Xun, Sun Sui had close contacts, and was a very famous figure at that time.

""Journey to the West" is a long novel, which has just appeared for less than a year, and it is not yet known to everyone. It's better to let Shanbo speak a paragraph for the Taoist, and the Taoist can listen to the book while drinking tea. ”

Then Liang Shanbo told the first few episodes of "Journey to the West", Sun Wukong was born, called Wang Huaguo Mountain, made trouble in the Dragon Palace to obtain divine soldiers, made trouble in the Heavenly Palace, and was suppressed by the Buddha Rulai under the Five Elements Mountain.

Although the master and apprentice of Zhi Dun are people in Buddhism, they abstain from hatred and joy, but they also listen to it with relish, talking about the wonderful places where the eyebrows are flying and dancing, and when they talk about the thrilling places, they open their mouths and are dumbfounded.

When Liang Shanbo finished speaking, the tea cups of the two didn't move, and they listened so engrossed that they forgot to drink it.

"Good, good. The story is wonderful, fascinating, gripping, and it can promote the boundless power and mysteries of my Dharma. The Monkey King made trouble in the Heavenly Palace, and the Heavenly Court was helpless, but he was pressed by one hand of my Buddha under the Five Elements Mountain. My Buddha is amazing! May I ask Lord Leung, who made up this story? ”

"I made it up for my family." Liang Shanbo's face was not red, and he put Wu Chengen's masterpiece on his head without a false heart.

"Since Liang Shizhu is the author, you should know what happened to Sun Wukong?" The little monk behind him didn't speak, and then suddenly spoke.

Zhi Dun smiled apologetically at Liang Shanbo and said, "This is a young apprentice, and the law name is Fa Xian." ”

Five hundred years later, he was rescued by Master Xuanzang, and the four of them traveled all the way to the west, after 14 cold and summer, 9981 difficulties, and sought the true scriptures from the Buddha in the West Tianling Mountain, and purified all sentient beings after returning. Sun Wukong was named the Buddha of Victory. ”

When the little monk heard this, he worshipped it, "Learn scriptures from the west, purify all sentient beings, and finally become a Buddha!" Wonderful! Wonderful! ”

The story is good, and the business must be done. Zhi Dun then discussed with Liang Shanbo how to build the Daxiong Treasure Palace.

The required money, materials and manpower are all responsible for Qiguang Temple, and the future fundraising income belongs to Qiguang Temple. It is equivalent to Liang Shanbo giving up a piece of land for nothing, and he has no benefit at all. I was so happy that I shouted "Amitabha".

In the following days, Master Zhi Dun did not come. But the little monk Fa Xian came to see Liang Shanbo every day, pestering to listen to the story of Journey to the West.

Liang Shanbo asked him why he liked the story of Journey to the West so much. Fa Xian said that he used to study the scriptures, but he always felt that the Buddhist scriptures were incomplete and lacked many important scriptures, and he wanted to learn from Master Xuanzang to learn the scriptures from the west.

Liang Shanbo suddenly remembered that Master Xuanzang of the Tang Dynasty was not the first person to go to the West to learn scriptures, as early as the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was a monk who went to the West Heaven to learn scriptures. In his previous life, he watched a documentary called "The Story of the Buddha", which is about the story of the monk Fa Xian of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and learning scriptures from the West. But that's more than 50 years later!

Could it be that this Fa Xian is the monk who went to the West at the age of 62 to study scriptures, returned to his hometown after nine deaths, and was the first monk in Chinese history to go overseas to seek scriptures.

"Little monk, what is your secular surname, where are you from?" Liang Shanbo didn't believe that things in the world were so coincidental.

"The surname of the little monk is Chen, a native of Xiangyuan, Shangdang County. Master Liang, why are you asking this? Fa Xian is seventeen years old, and his slightly immature face is full of confusion.

"Fa Xian, are you really Fa Xian?"

Liang Shanbo couldn't believe that the immature and young little monk in front of him was Fa Xian, and the Fa Xian in his mind was full of wind and frost, leading a thin horse, walking alone on the road to learn scriptures in the west. It took thirteen years for him to set out at the age of sixty-two, and his companions either died or remained there, and he was the only one who insisted on returning to his homeland despite the age of seventy-five.

"Amitabha, of course the little monk is the Fa manifestation, otherwise you think I am. The little monk will not be like Sun Wukong, who will change seventy-two times. ”

Fa Xian is very obsessed with the story of Journey to the West and is working on compiling it into a book.

"Of the four Tang monks and apprentices, which one do you like the most?" Liang Shanbo looked at Fa Xian playfully.

"Tang Seng master and apprentice, of course the little monk likes Master Xuanzang."

Oh my God, this Journey to the West is really poisonous! Fa Xian's poisoning is already incorrigible! Could it be that the Tang monk who rode a white horse, chattered, did not distinguish between demons and demons, and could only chant scriptures, appeared three hundred years in advance? Why, is it because of my own crossing?

"Aren't you afraid of suffering on the way to learn the scriptures, and you will die for a lifetime?" Liang Shanbo asked again.