"Moo~", a scalper let out a long howl. All cattle that walk on the road are raised by people, and wild cattle seem to be rare.

This ox was pulling a cart behind his back, and Li Chen was lying on the ox cart, priing Erlang's feet, looking at the sky comfortably.

"Van, have you ever heard the story of a scalper and a buffalo?" , Li Chen asked. "Haven't you heard of it, what's the story here?"

"Let me ask you first, have you ever seen a buffalo?" "Yes, of course I did. There are also a lot of people who have buffalo.'" "Once upon a time, buffaloes were yellow, but cattle were black." "Obviously...," Li Chen retorted, "It's been a long time ago, if you want to listen to the story, don't interrupt me."

"A long, long time ago, the buffalo was yellow, and the yellow cow was called the black cow. One day, the ox and the buffalo went into the water to swim and took off their skins. As a result, not long after entering the water, I heard it, roar~~" Li Chen pretended, "I heard a tiger roar, this is terrible, what should I do?"

"Of course you have to run." He replied, "By the way, run." But... There was a mistake in the busyness, the scalper went ashore first, picked up a piece of skin, and ran, wearing it as he ran. The buffalo came ashore slowly, and quickly picked up a batch of clothes, which were broken..."

"What's the matter, is the tiger coming?" Lifan asked nervously, "Of course not, if it is, it will not be eaten, it is the wrong clothes, the scalper took away the buffalo's clothes, and the buffalo can only wear the clothes left by the ox." However, the buffalo was big, and the scalper took his clothes, and the clothes were ~wide and ~big, so you saw that the skin of the buffalo seemed to be too loose."

"Listening to Thirteen Lang say this, it seems to be like this. What about a buffalo dressed as a scalper? And what's going on around the buffalo's neck.'" , Li Fan is a good listener, very responsive, Li Chen said very satisfied.

"The buffalo is big, the cattle are small, the buffalo wears the black clothes of the buffalo, but it becomes black, not to mention, it is small and tight, and the clothes are torn in a hurry, and this time it is broken. The tiger is coming.'" "Then leave your clothes alone, run, the tiger is coming." Hurry up.

"Why are you panicking, it's not that you met a tiger. What should you do if you encounter a tiger?' "Good and decent, you don't tell the story, but talk about this again. Thirteen Lang, you love to hang your appetite, and you always tell half the story." "It's good to know, what do you do when you encounter a tiger? Do you give up your life to feed the tiger?'

"Then how can I impress the tiger with the sutras." Li Fan had no choice but to continue Li Chen's words, "Didn't the Buddha say, don't sacrifice your life to feed the tiger? Why don't you listen to the Buddha?' "How can I give up my life to feed the tiger, and the tiger eats me, and I will not go to hell? Killing a novice is a very heavy sin."

Kill a novice and you will go to hell. On that day in the Hall of the Ten Kings, Lifan emphasized this point in particular, and the karma of killing a novice was very heavy. Of course, the Buddha said that the Ten Kings Sutra was broken out by the Buddhists, and of course this point must be particularly emphasized.

Li Chen had no impression of how the concept of Chinese, the Ten Hall Yan King, and the eighteen-layer hell was formed. That day, I saw the Shiwang store and listened to Li Chen, so I probably knew a little about it.

The Ten Halls of Yama plus the Jizo King Bodhisattva is a Buddhist saying. At first, there was only the king of Yama, and later it evolved into these ten halls of Yama, and the ten halls of Yama, one person is in charge of one hell, which is very just.

Among the ten halls of Yama, according to the introduction, only the king of Yama is foreign, and he got it when it came from India, and the other nine halls of Yama were all slowly increased later. Li Chen guessed that the king of the ten halls of Yama was a Buddhist, so the eighteen layers of hell were Taoist teachings.

Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism are the three main ideas of China. Confucianism was the earliest, but it was not pure enough, when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty abolished the hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism, Confucianism was not Confucianism at that time. Dong Zhongshu added too many strange things to it, and Confucianism originally had no point of view.

As for Taoism, it seems to be the same period as Confucianism, or even earlier than Confucianism, and worships Lao Tzu as its ancestor. However, in fact, this is far-fetched, and it is the same as the Taoist saying that it is not advanced during the Warring States period. To be correct, Taoism should be called Taoism, which is not the same as the Taoist ideas preached by Lao Tzu. Of course, this is Li Chen's half-understood opinion.

As for Buddhism, it was introduced to China from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty to the present, and the evolution has been said before, from Theravada Buddhism to Mahayana Buddhism, which has also absorbed a lot of local Chinese things.

For example, many Taoist figures have been absorbed into Buddhism. Like in the list of gods, among the 12 immortals of Kunlun, many of them later became Buddhas. This seems to reflect how Buddhism clings to Taoism, absorbs the essence of Taoism, and eventually surpasses Taoism.

Buddhism absorbs Taoism, and probably also absorbs Confucianism. There are only a few Middle-earth Buddhism, unlike the Indian Buddhism, what prince sacrificed his life to feed the tiger, it is simply inexplicable.

As Fan said, if he sacrificed his life to feed the tiger, wouldn't he have sinned by killing the monk and causing the tiger to fall into hell. Even if you say that the prince was not a monk at that time. If you get used to eating people, won't the person he eats be counted on you?

At that time, is it better to kill the tiger, or not to kill it? Kill, kill. As a result, you become a Buddha, and people kill. Don't kill? When the time comes, the tiger will eat more and more people, and the dead should be poured into the frieze for the tiger to eat? That is, the Brahmins in India have such a strange concept that they only seek to save themselves.

"Killing is very heavy, so Guanyin enlightened the tiger, saved the buffalo, and gave the buffalo a scarf so that the buffalo could cover its torn clothes." Li Chen continued to tell the story, and did not guess, in the end, how the three sects of Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism became one family, what saffron white lotus root and green lotus leaves..., the three religions are originally one family, and only China is like this.

"It's not over yet, the buffalo has to bark like this, but after this incident, the buffalo always shouted, (for Ah, for Ah). The ox wears the buffalo's clothes and is comfortable, so naturally he doesn't want to, and shouts every time."

Li Fan laughed when he heard this, not only did he laugh, but several other monks also laughed, "Ah Huang, you are so bad. If you take someone's cowhide and don't return it, have you taken someone's cowhide?" Lifan smiled, patted the head of the scalper in front of him, the scalper, "Woo~~", and laughed again.

I have to remind me again that there is a gap between the popular Mandarin in China and the official language of the ancient Tang and Song dynasties, and there will be such changes, mainly due to the influence of the century-old Mongolian Yuan. Therefore, the sound of scalpers barking does not sound like nothing in modern times, and in the Tang and Song dynasties, it was still very close in earnest.

"It's almost there." , Li Chen said for a long time, got up to the back of the cow, and looked into the distance, "Really, it's almost here, I used to have to walk for half a day." Lifan also got up and looked like a distant place. "It's still half a day, but today there is a Li tent saying that it is a legend, so time seems to go quickly." A monk errands.

"See, see, the good faith has already packed the grain in a sack." , Fan can not go down the mountain to cruise, in the temple every day is to meditate and chant the scriptures, otherwise it is self-study, the age is about ten years old, formal and lively age to him, the most looking forward is to be able to go out with the monks in the temple.

The ox cart entered a village and drove along a dirt road into the village's barn. In the drying field, there are also grains that are being exposed.

Today, Li Chen followed a group of monks, big and small, to collect the accounts. Autumn received, Changshou Temple has 10,000 hectares of land, these are Changshou Temple industries, no need to tax. However, these fields were rented to peasants, and the tenants naturally demanded rent. Today, the temple of longevity is to collect land and rent.

After getting off the ox cart, he did not load the cart in a hurry, but had to count and weigh it first. The cattle were also tired, and there were farmers who had children, so they unloaded the ox carts and took the cattle to graze and let the cattle rest.

"What have you planted?" Li Chen was curious to look at the grains that were being exposed, in fact, he could have not used them, and when these things were transported back to the temple and put into storage, he was counting. Li Chen was purely curious, and these days, he was also tired, so he took the opportunity to come out to relax.

"Rice." , Li Chen pinched the grains in his hand, these are the crops that are drying in the drying field, and he hasn't had time to put them away, Li Chen grabbed a handful and looked at it carefully. It turned out to be rice.

Li Chen originally wanted to see something else, but he heard his father say that in the past, their hometown used to eat millet, which seemed to be the corn that people used to say.

After taking a look, Li Chen also lost interest. Turn your head to start counting the quantities first. The rice that is rented as land has been packed by farmers and made into rice buckets from straw stalks, which is convenient and environmentally friendly. These farmers are very environmentally conscious.

Li Chen began to count these things and took out a pen. I found a flat place, spread out the ledger, and began to record. Xiao Shami was originally going to play with the peasant children, and saw that Li Chen was vibrating his pen and writing, so he was curious to come over and take a look.

"Thirteen Lang, what are you holding in your hand?" "Oh, charcoal, I'm looking for that little charcoal and roll it up with paper." "Wouldn't it be inconvenient to write like this?" "It's inconvenient, charcoal is easy to break, but it's faster to use this way."

It was very strange to look at Li Chen's record in the account book. I only saw that although Li Chen wrote slowly, he recorded it in a few clicks, and the account book was full of strange symbols that he couldn't understand. Although he had never been a bookkeeper, he also knew that the things that Li Chen wrote were not used by ordinary bookkeepers.

Lifan was also educated in the temple, read books, and read and write. One, ten, hundred, thousand, thousand, thousand. He definitely recognized it, but Li Chen didn't write that. And what is the use of these ghostly symbols, recorded on paper?

He originally wanted to continue asking, but seeing that Li Chen was copying so seriously, he had to turn his head and go to help his senior brothers.