Chapter 223: Famine
In the content recorded in the book, at that time, a phantom of the Buddha as tall as a mountain suddenly appeared on the horizon, and hundreds of people knelt down to worship the Buddha.
The Buddha closed his eyes with his palms closed, as if he was reciting a scripture, and after a while, he slowly stretched out his right palm to face the position of the Buddha's home. He saw his soul fly into the palm of his hand, as if it was faintly blooming with a faint golden light, and there was a sign of Buddhahood.
Subsequently, the phantom slowly dissipated with the soul, but it was precisely because of this that people who began to believe in Buddhism began to spontaneously build temples and Buddha statues of Ezu Buddha, which further helped each other to achieve true Buddhahood.
It's just that for some reason, this scene, which should have been witnessed by countless people, disappeared from various versions of rumors and legends for no reason, and it has evolved into the current version, and only the records of ghosts and monsters can vaguely see the scene of the birth of a myth.
Of course, no one knows the specific process of the other person's Buddhahood. And in the book, it records the three times when the other party revealed his true body after becoming a Buddha.
Once when his biological father and mother died, he once took on the appearance of a mortal before his death and went to the grave to worship in person. Although his parents were not good to him before his death, and even had a very bad attitude, he never hated him. It wasn't until his identity was revealed that he caused a sensation in the city and countless people wanted to watch it, that Ezu Buddha had to step on the auspicious clouds and leave quickly.
This is also a strong proof of his Buddhahood.
Once when there was a flood in a certain place, there was a dragon rebellion, and countless people died unexpectedly, and they were angry. But this Jiaolong Dao is profound, and many master monks can't help it, so they ask the true Buddha to move, and the Buddha personally surrenders with a palm.
The last time was also the time of the disaster, when the demons were haunted, the lives were devastated, and there were many immortal Buddhas who personally went down to the earth to subdue demons and subdue demons, and Ezu Buddha was also one of them, this time there was no too detailed record. It is estimated that maybe the demons who recorded these things at that time only cared about running away from these immortal Buddhas, and they didn't have the leisure to record them.
When he saw this, Du Bai felt that this last time was likely to be the one he heard and saw when he dreamed of the Buddha's bones before, and the big Buddha he saw was also the master of the Ezu Buddha, Nantian Hongyun Buddha!
But even the last time it appeared was more than two thousand years ago, not to mention himself, even the Dragon King was only about this age.
It is difficult to explain such a distant thing now, and we can only vaguely see the grand occasion of the appearance of the immortal Buddha from these ancient books.
"This ancestral Buddha is really a bit special......
Du Bai closed the book, and his eyes showed a bit of thought.
Judging from these lives, the other party's character belongs to the extremely kind kind, he can't see others suffering, and he is willing to sacrifice himself, even after becoming a Buddha, which can be seen from his confrontation with the master in order to save people.
Although Du Bai himself can't do this, he still admires such a character, and it's no wonder that he can become a true Buddha.
In this way, he doesn't have to worry about whether such a character will leave any traps in his Buddha bones to harm others, and he can use it boldly and confidently in the future.
It's a little pity that this time there are still not too many effective clues to deduce the real reason for the disappearance of the immortal Buddha, which shows that the haze above his head has not dissipated.
Later, when he returned the book to the Zelkova Spirit, he remembered another thing, something that had just been mentioned in the book.
"Is there a lot of famine today?"
This is an issue that he has been ignoring all along.
It was about a good day in modern times that he didn't have to worry about food and drink, and after crossing over to this era, he lived in the Su Mansion of a wealthy businessman, and there was no shortage of money on weekdays, and he had money to buy whatever he wanted. And on the ghost town of the Dragon King, it is even more exaggerated, there is no need to eat at all, and there is no such trouble as eating with demons and monsters under his hands.
Habitual experience has led him to completely ignore some of the calamities that may exist in this era.
This includes famine......
For example, the great famine experienced by the Ancestor Buddha before he became a Buddha, although the legend is only a passing touch, but from that few words, the tragic situation of the year can already be seen, which makes people subconsciously feel a lot more frightened.
Hunger is everywhere......
Easy to eat......
Even when the hungry people at that time offered to sacrifice their flesh and bones to the people, they did not object, but celebrated and grateful......
This kind of scary scene is creepy just by imagining!
Du Bai immediately thought of this layer, frowned, and asked the beech tree spirit to find the famine records of recent years to himself.
This kind of information is obviously much easier to find than those mysterious immortals and Buddhas, and the records of time and place are also much more detailed.
Soon, the beech tree spirit listed the relevant information in front of Du Bai, and the content of this made Du Bai secretly frightened.
"From time to time, a certain country is in a state where the monarch favors corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and the people are not able to make a living, so a fire falls from the sky to show punishment, and the land dries up for hundreds of miles, the canal is cut off, and the whole country has no grain harvest for a year......"
"Thousands of dead and wounded, countless people have been displaced, and the specifics are impossible to count......"
"There was a drought in a certain prefecture for three consecutive years, and more than 10,000 people starved to death......
"From time to time, the harvest in a certain area was not good, and many families lived on eating bark and grass roots, and had to sell their children in exchange for a mouthful of food, during which more than tens of thousands of people starved to death......
Such records almost abound in these files, and you can see some shocking records when you flip through them, which also makes Du Bai's heart sink slowly.
If war or something like that might be avoided, it can't be avoided. Whether it is a major drought or a flood, it will directly or indirectly lead to the outbreak of famine.
For example, the Holy Dynasty has a history of thousands of years, and it has been even more powerful for more than 300 years in recent years. However, in reality, every few years, a large number of people from the northwest still migrate to places such as the south of the Yangtze River where the grain harvest is better.
And these are normal phenomena in the eyes of people in this era.
There was no other reason, and there was another famine.
In this ancient era, there was no special cultivation like modern times, and it was also limited by the backwardness of cultivation technology, and the yield of rice was actually very low, and two or three hundred catties per mu could already be regarded as God's favor, and the harvest was good.
Under this premise, there is no need for even a major disaster, a little wind and rain, or the sun is blazing, the yield per mu may plummet, and the resulting food shortage is very serious.
The reason why those victims chose to leave their homes in a desperate attempt may not be the Beipiao family fighting for a better life as in modern times, but may just be to fight for a pitiful chance to live for their families and children.
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