"Wei Dao Tianzun Bodhisattva. www.biquge.info An Ruoxi glanced at Yang Guang, raised his voice and continued to ask the old boatman, "Old man, but I don't know how much money the Bodhisattva wants you to pay to the Buddha before he is willing to bless your six sons to return home safely?" Have you saved enough money? ”

The old boatman shook his head with a bitter face, and replied: "The Bodhisattva only said that those who can give money to reshape their golden bodies can reunite their families, and those who give more than ten hangings can keep their lives safe." The old man is worried that my family has a large population, so I have to give ten dollars anyway. Living Bodhisattva, you don't know, even for more than half a month, I have been guarding this small ferry by myself, and I have saved less than half a penny, which is still far from the number of ten hangings. ”

An Ruoxi heard him say this, and knew that this old boatman was not anyone's money to be scolded, otherwise he would not have saved less than half a penny in half a month, thinking of this, he couldn't help but turn around and look at Yang Guang and the others who were traveling with him, and saw that they were dressed in the coarse cloth short brown that ordinary people were used to, holding a high-headed horse in their hands, Yu Xiaoren, Li Hun, and Zhang Xutuo were wearing swords around their waists, and they looked at their appearances alone, most of them didn't look like kind people, and then they suddenly realized why the old boatman wanted the lion to open his mouth, Asking for such a high ferry fee from his group of six people.

"Old man, we are all well-behaved traders and horse sellers, and these horses were originally going to be sold to the Hebei area and sold to the official family." An Ruoxi picked up the old boatman with both hands, and Wen Yan explained to him, "It's not easy for us to earn a few hard-earned money, and I won't tell you the truth, it's really embarrassing for us to come up with a dozen hangs of money to cross the river." You see if this will work, it is getting late today, so I bother you to find another place for us to stay, rest for the night, and tomorrow when the water is calm, we will work you to cross the river, we can get together, and we can make up a seven or eight hanging money, and the right to use it as a ferry. ”

The old boatman decided that An Ruoxi was also a living Bodhisattva who rescued the suffering, and how dare he disobey her words, so he nodded again and again: "If the two Bodhisattvas meet in the future, please ask the living Bodhisattva to intercede for Lao Er, and let my youngest son go home to accompany his father earlier." I will take you to the village to rest. ”

Sophisticated people like Jiang Tuozi failed to persuade the old boatman, but as a female streamer, as soon as the young An Ruoxi came out, everything was solved, Yang Guang couldn't help but recall that when he strayed into the thief's den in the deep mountains a few days ago, Zhao Cai, the bandit leader who seemed to be ranked eighth Arhat, was also very polite to An Ruoxi, and a flash of thought flashed in his heart, but he didn't show it at the moment, but followed the old boatman with Li Hun and others to leave the Mengjin ferry and came to a small village two or three miles away to settle down temporarily.

As the old boatman said, in addition to the Ding Zhuang men who were recruited by the imperial court to serve on the border, even the old and young women and children were all recruited by the so-called 36 to worship the Buddha devoutly.

Several men led their mounts and followed the old boatman from the east end of the village to the west end, but they did not even see a single figure.

The old boatman took Yang Guang and An Ruoxi to a land temple in the west of the village, stopped, turned back to An Ruoxi and said: "The villagers are not at home, and the old man can't lead you to break in, so I have to grieve the living Bodhisattva to spend one night in this small temple tonight." This fish can be regarded as a little bit of Lao'er's filial piety to the living Bodhisattva, please live the Bodhisattva must accept it. ”

From the old boatman's words, Yang Guang was even more sure that the old boatman was not an unscrupulous person, he was not willing to accept An Ruoxi's money in vain, and he was unwilling to settle his party in the villagers' vacant homes, and his previous performance of extorting money at the ferry was like a betrayal.

Comparing the two completely different performances of the old boatman before and after in his heart, Yang Guang couldn't help but sigh: The power of Buddhism to educate the world is really immeasurable!

Somehow, he saw that the old boatman was so reverent and honest with An Ruoxi, and suddenly remembered that nearly half a year ago, when he had just crossed back to the Sui Dynasty, his father, queen and mother secretly instructed someone to poison the late emperor Yuwen Xian, and through the mouth of the Buddhist monk Huizhen Master, the murderer of Yu Wenxian was identified as a demon from Nan Chen, so as to achieve the purpose of blaming others and arousing the old ministers of the previous dynasty to hate Nan Chen.

And this time he left Beijing for a private trip, and within ten days, he encountered two very similar strange things in Guanzhong and Kanto one after another: some people pretended to be in the name of the Bodhisattva, and instigated among the people, one was for the purpose of provoking the hatred of the Han people for the Hu people, and the other was in the name of blessing the soldiers Ding Zhuang to be safe and sound, and he was actually collecting money.

Thinking like this, Yang Guang entered the land temple with his companions, and several people ate the grilled fish sent by the old boatman, and fed the donkeys and horses and the "black general", Yu Xiaoren, Li Hun, and Zhang Xutuo sank their heads, and fell asleep after lying down on the spot for a while.

Jiang Tuozi was old and young, and when he saw Yang Guang and An Ruoxi entering the temple, they both looked worried, so he took the initiative to approach the two and asked, "Does the prince think that the old boatman he met at the Mengjin ferry today behaved a little strangely?" ”

Yang Guang nodded at him, turned to look at An Ruoxi, who was sitting not far away, and saw that she was also worried, so he asked her: "Ruoxi, what do you think of from the old boatman, you might as well say it in front of the old master Jiang and see if we think of a place?" ”

"Lord Wang," An Ruoxi stared at Jiang Tuozi, hesitated for a moment, and replied, "How do I think that when I accompanied Lord Wang all the way, I met some strange people and strange things, as for how strange and strange, I haven't thought too clearly." ”

Yang Guang was amused by her use of three strange words to describe the people and things she met along the way, knowing that she was unwilling to speak out about the doubts in her heart, most of them were due to Jiang Tuozi's presence, so she took the lead in saying the incomprehension in her heart: "I have been thinking, will the two Bodhisattvas in this pass and Kanto be the same Bodhisattva?" What is the intention of the Bodhisattva to collect arhats and expose disciples among the people? Ruoxi, the strange people and strange things you are talking about, are you trying to talk about these things? ”

An Ruoxi saw Yang Guang in front of Jiang Tuozi, without concealment, and lost the two of them in the mountains and strayed into the den of thieves, and later learned from Yang Shangxi, the hussar general of the Tongguan Sect, that there was a Bodhisattva who was secretly colluding, and he wanted to do something about the eighteen Arhats joining the village to kill Hu also said, and he no longer had scruples in his heart at the moment, nodded, and replied: "That's true." Lord Wang, do you still remember, that day we were on the mountain road to escape from the 'killing Hu Village', as soon as Zhao Cai saw me, he called me 'Little Master', and on the day we were forced to stay in the cottage by them, Zhao Cai seemed to be a little more respectful when he saw me than when he saw you, Lord Wang. ”

"Exactly, exactly. Ruoxi, the two of us really thought of a place. Yang Guang saw that An Ruoxi also thought of Zhao Cai's courtesy to her from the reaction of the old boatman saluting her today, and he became excited, his eyes glowed with excitement, and he echoed one after another.