Chapter 7: Chen Chujie obtained the Four Treasures of the Heavenly Book Bodhisattva Throne

The second section of the fate of the "Book of Heaven"

The loess shop town at the foot of Taizifeng in Wulong Mountain is located at the junction of Qiyang County and Shaoyang County, more than 200 miles away from Qiyang County, and the nearest village to Shaoyang is only a dozen miles. In the era when transportation was inconvenient, the Qiyang County Decree set up a "special zone" in this loess shop with more than 100 households, the administrative agency was called the "Township Office", the chief executive was called the director, and the office was located in the ancestral hall of the Zhou family. The current director's surname is Zhou, his name is Nanshan, and his nickname is "Zhou Qingtian". Zhou Nanshan is in his fifties, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, a round body and round shoulders, and a big man of 1 or 8 meters. There is a custom of loess paving, the first, fourth and seventh days of the lunar calendar every month; xi, xiv, xii; Twenty-one, twenty-four, and twenty-seven are the days of the polder. Zhou Nanshan has developed a habit for many years, and every time he catches up on a polder day, he has to get up half an hour early. This day is the fourth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, the sky is just hazy, Zhou Nanshan has just opened the two main doors of the ancestral hall more than 2 meters high and more than one meter wide, and from the streets of the polder city, there are 20 or 30 people in the "patio" of the ancestral hall at once. One of them also put a load of dates filled with two baskets in the front row under the stage of the ancestral hall. Seeing this scene, Zhou Qingshan summoned ten baoding, including Chen Chujie, Zhang San, Li Si, and Wang Wu, to come to the stage and quickly "ascend to the court" to try this emergency.

"Okay", Zhou Nanshan stood in the middle of the stage and said in his long-practiced judge's voice: "Don't argue first, you plaintiffs and defendants will speak one by one."

"I'll talk first". A middle-aged man standing at the bottom of the stage, facing the left side of the stage, spoke first. "My name is Peng Shengmin, and I live in Pengjiachong. I have five date trees in my house. This year's date harvest is huge. Yesterday afternoon, my wife and I picked a load of dates together and put them in the kitchen, ready to pick up the loess shop this morning. Who knows, I got up at five o'clock and saw that there was no one in the two baskets of dates. I think there must have been a thief who stole dates and sold them in the polder. So, I called a few uncles and brothers and hurried to the loess shop. Sure enough, at the fork in the road south of the city, we saw this pair of dogs and men standing next to my family's load of dates. Lord Qingtian, you have to be the master for me. You see, on this basket is the name of my Peng Provincial People. I didn't steal this load of dates from them, could it be said that the dates themselves would fly five or six miles from Pengjiachong to the loess shop? ”

"Okay, Lao Peng's situation has been made clear. Now let's talk about what you two are doing. Zhou Nanshan gestured to a man and a woman in the audience to speak with his eyes.

"Lord Qingtian, we are really wronged!" The man under the stage spoke first: "My name is Zou Qiaoyuan, and I am from Zou Jiawu Village. She is my wife, named Wu Zhi'e. We have been married for 8 years and have not yet had children. Six days ago, we went to Qiyang County to see a Chinese doctor, and we just arrived home last night. This morning, the two of us came to catch a few pairs of Chinese medicine and buy a live soft-shelled turtle. When we walked to the fork in the south of the city, we saw two men shouting in a low voice, 'Sell sweet dates', so we walked up to look at the dates. At that time, I grabbed two round jujubes with my hands and said to my wife, 'Zhi'e, look, these two elephants are not like the two balls last night'. Actually, I was joking with my wife and comparing dates to testicles. However, as soon as the "chirp" effort, the two men who had whispered to sell sweet dates ran away, and soon disappeared without a trace. We were wondering, looking around for the two men, and more than a dozen of them rushed over. He didn't allow us to say anything separately, so he took us here as thieves. What I said is true, and if I say half a lie, I will be killed by heaven and thunder. Lord Qingtian, you said that we were wronged or not. ”

"Alright". Zhou Nanshan spoke on the stage: "Both of you have made it clear, and the director of this department has also understood. Lao Peng's loss of jujube is true; It is also true that Lao Zou and his wife did not steal dates. But it is impossible for the dates of the old Peng family to run to the loess shop by themselves. The director of this office will find out the two jujube thieves on the spot today and show them to you. ”

(B) Authenticity of the handprint

It is said that after Zhou Nanshan listened to the statements of Peng Xingmin, Zou Qiaoyuan, and Wu Zhi'e, he saw that the "patio" under the stage was densely packed with more than 100 people. He thought that the two thieves who stole dates must have mixed in the crowd to watch the heat close. So, he had the idea of catching the thief on the spot. Zhou Nanshan first sent Bao Ding Zhang San to close the two gates of the ancestral hall; He also sent Bao Ding Li Si to lead Zou Qiaoyuan and Wu Zhi'e to the wing room on the left side of the stage. He sent Bao Ding Wang Wu to move a table and place it under the right tilt of the stage, and placed a printing table on the table; He sent "head catcher" Chen Chujie to move a table and put it under the left side of the stage, and spread a large white paper on the table. After everything was arranged, Zhou Nanshan implemented his thief capture action step by step.

Zhou Nanshan stood in the middle of the stage and said loudly to the crowd: "Okay, please be quiet." From now on, the entire ancestral hall will be subject to interrogation. Everyone saw that Zhang Sanji closed the door well, and no one could get out. I concluded that the two people who stole Lao Peng's dates must have been mixed in the crowd to watch the excitement. There are two ways for me to examine: one is to press my fingerprint and keep it for future fingerprints; The second is that Zou Qiaoyuan and Wu Zhi'e have the special ability to see people and things clearly in the dark, so that they can identify them in the wing. Now ask the men to stand on my right hand; The ladies all stood on my left hand side. The men lined up, one by one to the right table, printed the ink with their right index finger, then walked to the left, pressed their handprints on the white paper on the table, and then stood in the back line. ”

After Zhou Nanshan finished speaking, the men under the stage began to press their handprints one by one. When more than 20 people pressed their handprints, and there were two tall and one short men in the audience pressing their handprints on the big white paper at the same time, when they just wanted to turn around and go to the back row, Zhou Nanshan shouted, "You two stand still." Raise your right hand and let everyone see if there are any traces of mud on the index finger and thumb finger of their right hand. Men who have pressed mudras also look for traces of mud on their right fingers. At this time, there was a commotion in the audience, and everyone checked each other to see if there were any traces of mud on the index finger and thumb finger of the right hand.

[Long shot, close view, stunt] "Alright, please be quiet. Zhou Nanshan continued: "Everyone is optimistic, these two people have traces of mud on their right index finger and finger, while the men who have pressed the handprint only have traces of mud on their index fingers. This is because the men who did not steal the dates wanted to print their fingerprints clearly in case we were wronged in the future. So, after you put the ink on your index finger, you want to keep the ink on your index finger not messy. Moreover, the fingerprints on the paper are all clear. The two of them are different. Because they are thieves, they are afraid of leaving us clear fingerprints from the bottom of their hearts. So, after pressing down on the ink with their index fingers, they secretly rubbed the ink on their index fingers on the way to the table on the left. As you can see, the two of them have a very blurry fingerprint on the paper. From their actions, it can be concluded that the dates of the old Peng family must have been picked up from the Peng family to the loess shop with their help."

Zhou Nanshan said this, staring at the two men under the stage, one tall and one short, with his eyes, and then said in a very majestic tone: "Now I give you two choices, one is to confess the truth and take the initiative to admit your mistakes." The dates of the old Peng family have not been damaged, and I will give you two a light blow. If you two don't admit it and want to deny it, I will punish you two severely after I let Zou Qiaoyuan and Wu Zhi'e identify them in the dark. In the worst case, cut off one finger each; Lightly, cut the yin and yang heads (yin and yang heads, that is, use scissors to push a knife from the middle of the head from front to back, and the hair on both sides does not move, so that the hair forms a groove. This is a special head shape for punishing thieves in the local area, and when others see this head shape, they know that this person has been caught as a thief). It's up to you both to choose where you go. As soon as Zhou Nanshan said this, two men, one tall and one short, knelt on the ground: "Plop, plop" both knelt on the ground: "Lord Qingtian, we know our mistakes, we confess, we confess." Please be merciful, sir, and let us be lightly punished, and we will never do such a shameful and conspicuous stupid thing again. ”

(C) "Balls" are right and wrong

When Zhou Nanshan asked the two of them to stand up and say, the tall man in it told the whole process of stealing dates. He said: His name is Zeng Wenqiu, nicknamed "Daqiu", and he is 22 years old this year. The short man's name is Zeng Fuqiu, nicknamed "Xiaoqiu", and he is 17 years old this year. Both of them are from Shaoyang, they have been orphans since they were children, and they have ganged up to make a living by "holding sheep by hand" more than ten years ago. The locals refer to them as "two bastards". A few days ago, when we heard that Zou Qiaoyuan and Wu Zhi'e went to Qiyang County to see a doctor, we thought of finding something valuable at their house and selling it at the market for some food. In the middle of last night, we came to their house, and as soon as we entered the kitchen, we heard his wife whispering on the bed in the hall (bedroom): "Husband, two balls, it must be two balls." Although she spoke in a small voice, we could hear it clearly in the dead of night. At the time, we were terrified. This woman is a "night vision eye". I thought, since the husband and wife have returned, and now that his wife has found out, let's leave this place quickly and make a fortune elsewhere. We stood outside for a while, and "Little Ball" didn't give up, letting me out of the air, and he went into the kitchen for the second time. At this time, we both heard her wife's voice: "Husband, a ball is out of the blue; There is also one inside (referring to the scrotum). Hearing this, this time we completely believed that his wife was a "night vision". After the "little ball" came out of the kitchen, we just ran away. When the two of us ran to Pengjiachong in one go, it would take a while to see that it was dawn, and it was the best time for us to take the sheep by hand. So the two of us wanted to make a fortune in Peng's house. As soon as I entered the first house, I saw a load of fresh dates in the kitchen. The two of us first moved out of the house lightly, and then walked quickly to the polder market with dates. At the fork in the road, when I saw the husband and wife coming, I wanted to sell them at a low price and leave quickly; It turned out to be our nemesis. When the man held two dates in his hand and asked his wife: "Zhi'e, look, these two elephants are not like the two balls last night!" When we heard this, we thought they had recognized us, so we threw down the dates and ran away. When we ran into the alley to avoid their sight, we saw more than a dozen people running from the family that lost the dates, and when they saw the couple and the dates, they couldn't help but distinguish between them, so they twisted the couple to the township office. We were curious, and we also wanted to see what this woman with night vision looked like, so we poured into the ancestral hall with the lively flow of people. As a result, I was caught by you, the master.

This is the end of the story, and it should have ended a long time ago. But there is still one doubt left, is Zou Qiaoyuan's wife Wu Zhi'e really a night vision eye? The answer is no. What the two thieves heard was a pure coincidence. It turned out that Zou Qiaoyuan and Wu Zhi'e had been married for eight years and failed to have children, and they were diagnosed by the old Chinese medicine doctor in Qiyang County, and the problem was Mr. Zou. Zou Qiaoyuan has congenital testicular (ball-egg) swimming syndrome. That is to say, Mr. Zou's two "ball eggs" do not have many opportunities in the scrotum at the same time, usually most of the time one "ball egg" is in the scrotum, and one "ball egg" enters the lower abdomen, therefore, the quality of the sperm produced by Mr. Zou is not high, and the chance of the wife's egg being fertilized and conceived is small. This time, the old Chinese medicine doctor helped them find the cause of the disease and prescribed traditional Chinese medicine to treat "ball egg" swimming syndrome. It is said that the young couple walked home from Qiyang County that day, and worked hard all the way to get a good night's sleep in the middle of the night. In the second half of the night, my wife woke up and thought, I have been married to my husband for so many years, and when the two of them usually contact each other, I always see his "ball egg outhouse" bulging, but I don't know that the ball egg in him is a "wandering criminal". She remembered that the old Chinese medicine doctor had privately told her to touch her husband's scrotum more when she slept at night, and cooperate with medication to let the two "ball balls" "stay" in the "ball egg outhouse" for a long time. Thinking of this, she probed her husband's scrotum with both hands. When she explored her husband's scrotum for the first time, she happened to encounter two "balls" in the scrotum, so she happily called "Husband, two balls, it must be two balls". At this time, just in time for the "two bastards" thieves to enter the kitchen, they thought that the woman had night vision and saw them in the dark. When they went out for a while, when the "little ball" entered the kitchen for the second time, Wu Zhi'e touched Mr. Zou's scrotum and found that there was only one "ball egg" left in the bag, and one of the "ball eggs" went into the lower abdomen. She finally understood that the old Chinese medicine doctor was accurate in seeing patients. So, she also told her husband without reservation: "Husband, a ball is out; There is also one inside (referring to the scrotum). The two "bastard thieves" happened to be inside the house and the other outside, and they were convinced that the women of the family had night vision and could see people and things clearly in the dark. When Mr. Zou joked with his wife and used dates as a metaphor for "balls" (testicles), the two "bastard thieves" heard Mr. Zou say for the third time: "Zhi'e, look, these two elephants are not like the two balls last night, so that everyone will think that the couple has recognized them, can they run away without throwing down the dates and scattering their legs!"

(D) Those who are destined to receive the "Book of Heaven"

[Long shot, close view, stunt plus close-up] After Zhou Nanshan finished hearing this ridiculous case, he ordered Chen Chujie to send the two balls back to Shaoyang to the boundary of Shaoyang. Chen Chujie is 1, 78 meters tall, with a Chinese face, has practiced martial arts since elementary school, and is an outstanding pride among his local peers.

Before Chen Chujie sent the two balls away from the loess paving boundary, the big ball and the small ball retrieved a burden hidden in the straw stack in advance in Gemaochong. Chen Chujie asked him to open his baggage and accidentally found the "bluestone flying pigeon". According to the "big ball" confession, half a month ago, the two of them were "stepping on points" in the area near Xianren Mountain, and once took the opportunity to sneak into the room of the host of the nunnery, and when they rummaged through valuable things, they saw this stone wrapped in red cloth. We both think this stone must be worth a lot! Otherwise, why is the host wrapped in red cloth so well? Immediately, the two of us took the red cloth and the stone together and hid them in the haystack.

Chen Chujie saw that this stone resembled a flying pigeon, took it in his hand and observed it carefully, and completely entered the realm of concentration. Seeing that the "headcatcher" ignored them at all, the two "balls" took the opportunity to roll up the package and quietly slipped away.

[Long view, close view] Chen Chujie spent a long time, concentrating on repeatedly observing the stone shaped like a flying pigeon, and when he came back to his senses, the two thieves were gone. Chen Chujie's brain was blank at that time, and his hands that were holding "stones shaped like flying pigeons" were released under unconscious control, and the stones shaped like flying pigeons fell to the bluestone blocks under Chen Chujie's feet. Chen Chujie only bent down to watch after hearing the sound of "bar", and the base shaped like a flying pigeon stone shattered and separated from his body. After the base shaped like a flying pigeon stone was shattered, the "Book of Heaven" left by Tang Seng was revealed. Its content is: Tianzigang, the holy land of the dragon vein, such as the Buddha and Guanyin Bodhisattva to point the younger generations of masters and apprentices left "red stone golden carp", "blue porcelain grass", "jade bottle holy water", "scoop dragon saliva". The fate holds the four holy relics of "fish, grass, water, and wine" to accompany the burial of the deceased in the Son of Heaven Tomb. The sun turns and the stars move, and one day, the mound protects the fish, the fish jumps into the dragon gate array, enters the cave along the river, and the golden carp turns into a dragon. He has been the founding emperor of the country for 300 years. Heaven cannot be leaked, God gives people who are destined. Tang Chen Xuanzang book.

Chen Chujie is a person who has read "private acquaintance", and after reading the true scripture of "Book of Heaven", he immediately hid it in his "heart". Later, Chen Chujie sent the stone that looked like a flying pigeon without a base back to the Meitang Hall. Since that day, Chen Chujie has secretly collected "fish, grass, water, and wine" from generation to generation in accordance with the content shown in Tang Seng's "Secrets of Heavenly Books" and hid them at home.

If you want to know more about the auspiciousness of collecting "fish, grass, water, and wine", please read on

It is said that Guanyin Bodhisattva first reported to the Buddha and the gods the auspicious process of Chen Chujie, the descendant of the Chen clan, who obtained the Book of Heaven. Immediately after that, Guanyin Bodhisattva reported to the Buddha and the gods the whole process of Chen Chujie's learning of the Book of Heaven to the search for the four holy relics and the establishment of the tomb site.

Guanyin Bodhisattva said: After Chen Chujie learned about the Book of Heaven, he knew that he was the one who discovered the Dragon Vein Holy Land of Tianzigang. Chen Chujie is a very scheming person. He thought, now that I am the only one on the earth who knows this heavenly opportunity, as long as I don't tell the second person, everything I do, others will not think that it is the content of this heavenly book, I must keep this secret! Therefore, after Chen Chujie learned about the Book of Heaven, he did not tell anyone, including his parents, wife, and children. He was alone looking for the four holy relics to accompany the burial. During this period, Chen Chujie also openly and secretly did a good deed for the Tianzigang Dragon Vein Holy Land!

Guanyin Bodhisattva said: After Chen Chujie learned that Tianzigang was the holy land of dragon veins, he knew that in the future, Tianzigang would not bury his deceased parents; It is to bury the ancestors who died in their early years! Whether it is to bury the deceased or move the deceased, it is necessary to build a road from Chenjiayuan to Tianzigang, so that when the ancestors are buried in Tianzigang, everyone will carry the coffin smoothly. From the courtyard of the Chen family to Tianzigang, the shortcut distance is about 2,000 meters. On the way, we passed by Zhujiayuan (Bay) and Yanjiayuan. Between Zhujiayuan (Bay) and Yanjiayuan is a river. This river is the confluence of two upstream tributary rivers. A branch river upstream is called the Wenming River, Wukong built a civilization bridge in the Wenming River, and Wujing built a new weir in the Wenming River. Chenjiayuan is located on the edge of the Wenming River. A branch river upstream is called the Luo River. At the confluence of the two branches, there lived a family surnamed Yan, and people called this section of the river Yanjiajiang at that time. The Yanjia River flows for more than 30 miles, and the entire river flows into the world-famous Xiangjiang River! Because the Yanjia River merges the water sources of the two branch rivers, the river surface is wide and the water flow is continuous all year round! Chen Chujie thought, if I don't repair the bridge in Yanjiajiang at the time, I won't be able to carry the coffin to Tianzigang in the future! thereupon

Chen Chujie suggested to his father to donate money for the official road from Qiyang to Baoqing (Shaoyang). Chen Chujie's father, Chen Daocai, was a well-known wealthy man in Qiyang County and a well-known local philanthropist who donated money to run a school. Chen Daocai saw that his son in his thirties was very frugal when he was dedicated to his errands, and now Kang Kai's family wealth was going to build roads, so he was naturally happy in his heart. Chen Daocai poured all his family property and immediately donated 10,000 taels of silver to the Qiyang County Commander to build the only cross-river bridge in the official road from Qiyang to Baoqing (Shaoyang) - Yanjia (River) Bridge.

The official road from Qiyang to Baoqing (Shaoyang) is about 150 miles long, of which the Qiyang section is more than 80 miles; The Baoqing (Shaoyang) section is more than 70 miles. Yanjia Bridge is located about 50 miles away from Qiyang County. The official road from Qiyang to Baoqing (Shaoyang) is about 150 miles long, of which 60 miles belong to the hilly terrain of red rocks, and more than 90 miles belong to the hilly (mountain) landform of cyan rocks. In that year, the official road from Qiyang to Baoqing (Shaoyang) was built, and the road surface was paved with blue and blue rocks. The stone required for paving the road is all mined from the cyan rock mountains in the Shaoyang section. The blue rocks used for paving are about three feet long and 2 to 3 feet wide, and are all about 15 centimeters thick. Before the 70s of the last century, there were still a few people in our father's generation who occasionally walked this ancient official road. Since the 80s of the last century, with the development of rural roads, few locals today have taken this official road paved with bluestone plates. This is a later story, so let's not mention it for now!

Guanyin Bodhisattva continued: After Chen Chujie's proposal to donate money to build the road, and after receiving the support of his father, he resigned from his position as a fast catcher in the Loess Pu Township Office, and concentrated on organizing personnel to build the Yanjia Bridge. Chen Chujie was ingenious in repairing the Yanjia Bridge, and he used the local stone resources to first build a red rock arch bridge.

"Red rocks are very easy to weather, how can Chen Chujie use red rocks to build arch bridges?" So said the Buddha.

Chen Chujie hired Xiao Wenqiu, the most famous local stonemason and sculptor, as the chief engineer of the bridge, and hired 50 young and middle-aged farmers to build the bridge full-time with high salaries. Chen Chujie decided to build a 40-meter-long red rock arch bridge in the shallow water area on the north bank of the Yanjia River. As soon as this decision was introduced, it was immediately opposed by the Qiyang County Order. The Qiyang County Commander said to Chen Chujie, although you are using your father's donation to build bridges and roads, you must also spend the money in the right place. You use red rocks to build bridges, this is not clear that you are taking money as a child's play! The red rock is very easy to weather, and the bridge you built will collapse in a few years, won't it cost you your life and money!

Chen Chujie's father, Chen Daocai, also did not understand his son's move to build an arch bridge with red rocks. His father said to Chen Chujie, I have grown so big, I have only seen others use cyan rocks to build bridges and pave roads, and I have never heard of using red rocks to build arch bridges. Avalokiteshvara said.

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