Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Star Monarch Manifests the Holy Buddha and Makes Offerings to the Buddha's Country
The person who saved a city, Zhang Xuan was famous in Yuhua Prefecture, and someone built a temple for him and offered incense.
It's a pity that these incense wishes are not pure at all.
And the two monks of Zhu Bajiesha happily watched the craftsmen sculpt their statues, and also lowered a little true spirit to come out, and occasionally showed their spirits.
Entering Tianzhu, the speed is not fast, and it can't even catch up with the speed of action in the wild barren mountains, everywhere he goes, Tang Sanzang has to go around well.
Forget about other places, but this Tianzhu, the terminal station of learning scriptures, if you don't know the customs in detail, it's not easy to brag when you go back.
Zhang Xuan doesn't care, anyway, more than ten years have passed, and it's not bad for this month.
In this place of Tianzhu, not everyone is looking to the Buddha, and there are not too many monks.
Why is this happening? In fact, it's still money.
Offering to the Buddha and offering to the Buddha, offering this word is very revealing.
This is not for children to study, it is an educational investment, and the Buddha can only ask for a vague next life.
And offering to the Buddha, not only to burn incense, but also to light candles, in addition to lighting candles, but also to burn lamp oil, only heard of monks stealing lamp oil in the temple, I have not heard of other places stealing lamp oil.
This lamp oil is not cheap.
The lantern festival of the Buddha in Jinping Mansion is colorful, with all kinds of lanterns everywhere, but the most powerful thing is the three golden lanterns for the Buddha!
The lamp is the size of a water tank, and there are two layers of pagodas woven with pearls and jade gold wires, and the lamp oil in it is supplied by Mintian County, Jinping Mansion.
There are a total of 240 large households to support, this two lamp oil is worth two taels of silver, and a tank has 500 catties of lamp oil.
Therefore, it was three cylinders of lamp oil, a total of 1,500 catties of oil, and the oil cost was 48,000 taels.
After spending so much money, I can only light it for three days, and the rest of the lantern oil is counted separately.
Listening to the introduction of the monks of Ciyun Temple, Tang Sanzang only felt that it was quite a drain on the people's fat and people's ointment, but he was also a disciple of Buddhism, and the government was so supportive of Buddhism, it was not easy to say anything.
I heard that this was the Buddha's request, and every year he would appear and take away some lamp oil to enjoy, so Tang Sanzang put his heart and liver treasure, the brocade robe, on his body, and waited for the Buddha to come together with everyone.
Zhang Xuan smiled: "For such a long time, you don't even know which Buddha this Buddha is, and you still have the courage to worship, do I mean you are stupid, or do you have commendable courage?" ”
Zhu Bajie shook his head and said: "Senior brother, you are wrong, the three Buddhas of the West, there are countless enlightened people, how can you know them all!" Moreover, many bodhisattvas do good deeds without leaving a name! ”
The two were talking, only to see a burst of auspicious light descending from the sky, there were three Buddha bodies in it, Tang Sanzang and others saw it, and immediately bowed to Mobai and recited the Buddha's name.
But the sincere worship was exchanged for a demonic wind, and Tang Sanzang, who was the most eye-catching in the crowd, was swept away, and he didn't even take away the sesame oil.
Monk Sha frowned and said: "I can't imagine that in Tianzhu, there are still demons and evil spirits, pretending to be the name of the Buddha, doing such a despicable villain's thing, I really don't know whether to live or die!" ”
Zhang Xuan smiled: "Maybe the Buddha can't control it!" Okay, without further ado, let's go and save the master! ”
At that moment, the three of them rose up from the clouds and went to the north two.
But in a moment, the three of them came to Qinglong Mountain, and in front of them was a demon cloud burst, presumably one of them was the three goblins that dispelled the cold, the heat, and the dust.
These three monsters can fight with Sun Wukong for hundreds and fifty times, and their strength is also very strong.
The three rhinoceros essences are not ordinary, because he has astronomical phenomena and enlightenment.
To put it simply, when they were born, the stars in the sky rained down some starlight, which made them receive the Heaven and Earth Zhongxiu, and the rhinoceros horns carried a noble spirit.
You must know that the stars in the sky are circulating, not to mention that the stars of the four seasons are different, even the stars in the morning and evening are not fixed, and it is not so easy to bathe in the starlight at the same time.
And these three rhinoceros spirits, in addition to their own strength is not weak, they will also use formations, and a group of bull demons under their hands can take down Zhu Bajie and Monk Sha with the formation.
But all things are mutually reinforcing, and the three rhinoceros essences, although they are so powerful, only four Jupiters are needed to restrain them, that is, the horned wood Jiao, the fighting wood hedgehog, the Kui wood wolf, and the golden wood rhino.
The reason why these four people were called was not because Zhang Xuan couldn't defeat these three rhinoceros spirits, but because he wanted Heavenly Court to show his might in the Tianzhu Kingdom and intensify the struggle.
It's just that these four Jupiters are not doing very well, Zhang Xuan said that they were caught alive, but the three monsters were eaten by the four Jupiters, supplementing the star power of Yuanchen, leaving only a few big cowhides and rhinoceros horns.
Taking Tang Sanzang back to Jinping Mansion, the Four Jupiter Monarchs took rhinoceros skins and rhinoceros horns and shouted in the city:
"It is these three monsters who worship the lamp oil, and their cave mansion is in the Yunying Cave of Qinglong Mountain, which has been destroyed by the four Jupiter Monarchs of our party, and they are not allowed to set up golden lamps in the future, and they are exempted from the lamp oil conscription!"
"Hehe, the Jade Emperor's hand is really powerful, he prepared it thousands of years ago! Let the three monsters succeed in cultivation, and then make trouble, Xingjun will recover the power of the stars again, and no fat and water will flow out! Zhang Xuan laughed.
When the four Jupiter Monarchs saw the people in Jinping Mansion, they all saw their appearances, and then they rose into the clouds, but Kui Timber Wolf was invisible and came to Zhang Xuan's side.
"Great Sage, there were a lot of people just now, I was embarrassed to ask!"
Kui Mu Wolf arched his hand and said, "I don't know what happened to my two sons in Huaguo Mountain?" Are you okay? ”
"The two of them have already become small commanders, supervising the affairs of the show, which is very good!"
Zhang Xuan smiled: "If you are free, you can go and see for yourself, the child has no father and no mother, and it is pitiful!" ”
"Alas, the laws of the Heavenly Court are strict, and there is no way to go down without the will of the Jade Emperor!" Kui Wood Wolf shook his head and said,
Zhang Xuan said with a smile: "If you miss them, when you finish learning the scriptures, I will send them to heaven and take care of Qi Tianfu for me, and you can also enjoy some family fun!" ”
"Thank you Great Sage, thank you Great Sage!"
Kui Mu Wolf immediately knelt down, Zhang Xuan waved his hand and sent him to the sky.
The people of Jinping Mansion made statues of the four Jupiter kings, and then they made statues of the twenty-eight stars.
Zhang Xuan didn't think that this group of mortals was ignorant, if the immortals couldn't manifest their spirits and went to worship their faith, then they were called ignorance.
In this world, there are gods and monsters, and mortals can only protect themselves by kneeling down and worshiping them one by one.
To a certain extent, people in this world are very pitiful, unable to protect themselves, and unable to even decide what to believe.
Of course, people in later generations will not have the ability to decide what they think is right.
If you don't get married without a diamond ring, you don't love you, you can't use Prada, what's the point of your life? You don't even have a mechanical keyboard, and you still say you can play on the computer?
In the overwhelming flow of information, people have been brainwashed for many years, and all standards have been materialized, even abstract things such as emotional standards.
You are different, you want to get tattoos, dye your hair, you are depressed, you are free, you will quit your job to travel, you eat and drink, you have an adventurous spirit, wingsuit flying fire deep sea diving, do you love patriotism? See if you use a daisy phone.
Whether you have cultural connotation, whether you wear Hanfu and Tang costumes, whether you have love, whether you walk the dog on a leash or not, whether you are a high civilization, whether you don't eat dog meat, but you can eat foie gras caviar.
Although the appearance of the world is changing, the connotation mechanism has never changed, but the means for the strong to dominate the weak have become more hidden.
So, even in the Western Elysium, where everyone is equal, the Buddha is sitting, the other bodhisattvas are standing, and the devotees are kneeling.