Chapter 666: The Confused Scripture Foursome
Time has passed, and it has been twenty years in the blink of an eye.
In the past 20 years, Daomen has been extremely prosperous in Chechi Country, and they all respect the Taoist Ancestral View of Chechi Country and regard the Taoist Ancestral Temple as a holy place!
Hundreds of Taoist temples make a pilgrimage to the ancestral temple of Chechi State every year, and occasionally Ye Zhen will pass down some small spells to subdue demons and eliminate demons.
As for the monks, monks... It is really a lot of virtue, and the number of people who build roads and bridges in Chechi Country has changed from less than 3,000 people to nearly 10,000 now, scattered all over Chechi Country and guarded by soldiers.
At the beginning, it was okay, there were many disasters in Che Chi Country, but later, Che Chi Guo was smooth and peaceful, and even small disasters and small disasters rarely happened.
This made the soldiers who wanted to take credit lose their heads, and when they heard that there were small disasters and small disasters, where the bridges were washed away, and where the people were in difficulty, they rushed over, and the monks who worked every day complained about their misery.
But these soldiers have the orders of the king of Zhenguo, they don't beat or scold them, they make mistakes and are lazy, they just close a small black house, and they are called meditating and practicing meditation.
But none of them survived seven days and cried for their father and mother to come out to work.
Some people want to die, but they can't die at all, but this situation makes the people of Chi Kingdom envious, thinking how good it would be if the king of Zhenguo gave him an immortal charm.
Only those monks have suffering that they can't say.
Today, the capital of Chechi Kingdom was dry again, and the soldiers who heard the news nearby hurriedly rushed to the farmland outside the capital with all the muscular and strong monks who had been trained by their subordinates, waiting to help the people cultivate the paddy fields.
Don't look at the drought now, I'm afraid that it will rain heavily in a few days, and if I go back then, I'm afraid that the land has already been robbed.
It is worth mentioning that it is not only the monks who work, but also the soldiers.
It's just that today is different, when this group of monks was hurrying, there were four strange people on the nearby mountain, who was not the foursome who learned from the scriptures.
"Stop!"
Suddenly, Tang Seng, who was riding a white horse, said loudly and listened attentively, Tang Seng looked puzzled, "I seem to have heard someone shouting horses."
Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie just didn't pay attention to it before, and when they heard Tang Seng say this, they really listened carefully.
At this time, Sun Wukong, a pair of smart monkey eyes, the original ferociousness almost completely disappeared, it seems that following Tang Seng along the way was brainwashed a lot.
"Master, it can't be that there are monsters waiting to eat us in front of you, right?" Zhu Bajie clasped his big nostrils and said without heart and lungs.
"Second Senior Brother, are you a bit of a soldier," Monk Sha put down his burden and smirked.
"Go, go!" Zhu Bajie rolled his eyes directly.
"Don't say it, let's go and have a look," Tang Seng said.
In this way, the four of them walked in the direction from which the voice came, climbed over the small hill in front of them, and took in all the soldiers and monks who were hurrying.
"Senior brother, the monks in front of me are so strong, they are almost comparable to my old pig, it seems that the food in this car Chiguo Temple is good" Zhu Bajie still has no heart and no lungs, but to be honest, I don't know how many temples I have passed along the way.
I don't know how many monks have seen, they have seen tall and thin, short and chubby, but this is the first time I have seen such a strong one.
And every monk also carried a lot of farm tools and baskets on his back.
"Why are these monks... Why did those Taoist priests whip them to do such menial work? Tang Seng was stunned for a moment, and then subconsciously said.
"Master, I heard that there is a place on the West Heaven Road to worship and destroy monks, isn't it here" Sun Wukong looked funny, but he was embarrassed to laugh in front of his master.
"Oh, just ask, just ask," Zhu Bajie said indifferently.
"Can they tell the truth?" Sha Seng wondered.
"What's so hard about that!" Sun Wukong slapped his legs and smiled, and the next moment he went to a monkey hair, turning into a Taoist priest with a beard, but he still jumped and jumped when he walked, and he didn't look like a person.
"Hurry up, hurry up!" One of the two young Taoist priests who oversaw the work said in a loud voice.
They are Huli's apprentices, the monks outside the capital of Che Chi are doing good and enlightening the Buddha at the feet of the Son of Heaven, which is related to the face of King Che Chi, in order to prevent accidents, each team is led by two disciples of the Taoist Ancestor Temple.
"The two Taoist masters, the poor Taoist is the head" Sun Wukong said to the two Dao Ancestor disciples in a decent manner.
As soon as it seemed that the person was also a Taoist priest, the two disciples thought that they were the senior brothers of other Taoist temples in Che Chi Kingdom, so they hurriedly returned the salute.
"The poor road is passing by here, I don't know which street in this city is a good and virtuous?" Sun Wukong asked.
"This Taoist chief doesn't seem to be from my Chechi country, you just need to enter the city, just ask casually to know where the ancestral temple is, enter the temple, there will be someone to receive it, and wrap the dry food for everyone passing by" The little Taoist priest smiled at Sun Wukong.
"Oh? And such a good thing? Oh yes, what's going on with these monks, are they committing something? Sun Wukong changed his words and pulled the problem onto these monks.
"It's pretty much the same, but it started twenty years ago."
As soon as he heard the opportunity to preach the merits of his ancestor twenty years ago, the little Taoist priest hurriedly said, "Twenty years ago, my Chechi country still respected the Buddha, but there was a great drought that was rare in the past hundred years, and the fields could not be cultivated, and the consequence was naturally to starve hundreds of people to death."
"Yes, yes," Sun Wukong nodded.
"The king was anxious, so he posted a notice, seeking to get the monks to pray for rain to the sky, but the monks came in hundreds, and eating and drinking every day was only half a month's consumption, which was worth a small city's relief money and food for a month."
"If this rain can come down, it will be fine, but there is not half a drop of rain for half a month, it turns out that these monks who have received a reward of silver will not ask for rain at all, but just sit there and recite the Diamond Sutra for half a month."
"Fooling the king like this and making the lives of the people of Li a child's play, Your Majesty was furious at that time and wanted to cut off the heads of all the monks, but my ancestor suddenly appeared, and with just one finger, he solved the drought in the entire Chechi country, and then pleaded for these monks who should have been executed."
"Your monks still intercede for these monks? Since they have all pleaded, why are they still doing hard labor here? Sun Wukong laughed.
"If you don't know it, I'll talk about it"
Another little Taoist priest said, "These monks should be executed for such a big crime, my ancestor is merciful, so he begged for mercy for these monks and let them go, after all, there are some kind-hearted monks among them, but they were fascinated by His Majesty's high reward for a while."
"The country has national laws, the family has family rules, after all, these monks have made mistakes, my patriarch will discuss with His Majesty, let these monks build bridges and pave roads for the people of Chechi, plough the fields for the people, do good deeds, do good deeds, and repay their sins, even if they go down to the earth, they will not be ashamed of the Western Buddha."
"Second, there is great wisdom and great creation in this suffering, if you can understand the mystery in charity and know what true charity is, it is an opportunity for others and yourself, it is better than sitting in the temple all day and accepting alms from the world."
"Although all the temples in the territory of my Chechi country have been destroyed, cutting off the thoughts of those monks, but the gold, silver, rice and grain obtained after the destruction can really be sworn to the sky, not a single one, not a single one! All for the relief of the poor people who are homeless and have no food to eat"
"As for being in such a hurry, but before the rain it rains, I want to go to the people's homes to help the people plow the fields and do things, but these monks are tired and don't want to do things, they just want money and food to fall from the sky, you must know that even we and those soldiers also want to work together for the people."
"No one is higher than the other, but whether you are willing to seek pleasure in this suffering and find the way in the difficulty" The words fell, and the little Taoist priest showed disdain for these monks at the moment.
Sun Wukong could see at a glance that the two little Taoist priests in front of him were just the beginning of cultivation, the realm of refining qi, and he could also calculate that these little Taoist priests were telling the truth.
Although I feel that something is wrong, with Sun Wukong's temperament, he will not and does not want to think about it, but after learning what happened, Sun Wukong also showed disdain for the monks in front of him.
......
"Master, this is how things happened" Sun Wukong told the truth of the matter.
However, Sun Wukong was just halfway through his words, and Zhu Bajie, who was lying on the side, was stunned, and then his expression was a little strange, and then he couldn't help laughing, but in the end he couldn't help it, and instantly grew the pig's mouth, and the tears of laughter flowed out, and he pounded the boulder under him hard while laughing.
"Hahahaah.... Hahahaha....."
"Idiot! What are you laughing at! Hearing this piercing laughter, Sun Wukong came up and pinched Zhu Bajie's ear.
"No... There is no Brother Monkey, I just feel that at the moment, these monks are sloppy and sloppy under the sun, just like the barbarians in Beiju Luzhou, hahahaha" Even though his ears were pinched and stinged, he still couldn't help laughing.
There were five masters and apprentices present, Sun Wukong was impetuous, Sha Seng was stupid, Bailong Ma was unruly, Tang Seng was simple, only Marshal Zhu Bajie, who once belonged to Taoism, was mixed in Heaven all the year round, but he could see the Tao at a glance.
This principle is such a reason, but sometimes reason and human nature are completely opposite things, so what the king of Zhenguo did is indeed a rare person of great virtue and wisdom in the world.
For the sake of the people of Chechi, all he did was some great good deeds, and by the way, he took pity on these monks and led everyone to do good deeds.
If you want to say force, people themselves are doing the same thing as these monks.
This trick... It's really poisonous enough, although he has never been masked, but thinking of being able to make this move, Zhu Bajie is a little impressed by Che Chiguo's so-called Zhenguo Heavenly King, and his eyes are a little happy.
After all, he still belongs to the Taoist sect in his bones, and another one, ordinary cultivators respect Sanqing, just like the monks all over the world respect Rulai, but this Zhenguo Heavenly King respects the Taoist ancestor alone, and he is definitely a person with a great background.
"Che Chiguo's difficulty, I'm afraid it's really difficult," Zhu Bajie thought gloatingly.
And hearing Sun Wukong's story, as Zhu Bajie thought in his heart, this simple Tang monk's expression was immediately solemn, and he didn't have the slightest evil feeling about these monks being treated like this.
"This Che Chi Guo's Zhenguo Heavenly King, is really a great benevolent man, a great wisdom, I really hope to be able to visit the city and talk to him" Tang Seng clasped his hands, and his mood was still a little excited.
"Yes, yes, I have long heard that Che Chi Guo has always been a country and a peaceful country, and he does not close his door at night, and the people have enough food and clothing, and they all love to do that good thing, and the king of the town is indeed a great virtue," Sha Seng also sighed.
Hearing this, Zhu Bajie almost couldn't help laughing again, but it was really uncomfortable.
"Master, in this way, will those monks save or not?" Sun Wukong scratched his ears and cheeks.
"What is the salvation, now there is no worry about life, and there is no suffering from flesh and skin, they almost made a big mistake, the king of the town not only did not punish, but also pointed out to them the opportunity to comprehend the true meaning of the Dharma in doing good almsgiving, is it possible that we still have to stop them from doing good" Tang Seng shook his head and said.
"Disciples, let's go into the city quickly," Tang Seng urged, but he really couldn't wait to enter the city to enjoy the demeanor of the king of the town.
However, looking at the mountains and running dead horses, even if it is dark, there is still a long distance from the capital, but the night has no effect on Sun Wukong.
"Brother Monkey, what are you stunned about?" Zhu Bajie yawned.
"There is a temple in the distance, it stands to reason that all the temples in the territory of this Chechi country should be demolished," Sun Wukong wondered, but when he checked with his fiery eyes, he did not find any demonic energy.
Speaking of this fiery eye Ye Zhen felt a little pity, it was the monkey's unawakened natal supernatural power, and when the awakening day the eye rushed to the golden light to shoot Beidou, the heavenly eye of the Erlang God could not be compared.
It is not a problem to have insight into the heavenly machine, and it is a great magical power that can hurt the enemy, and it is enough to be able to hurt the enemy, but the insight into the heavenly machine cannot be there, otherwise how can the plan of Journey to the West escape?
On the bright side, Sun Wukong was a chance to be trained in the gossip furnace, but in fact, Taishang Laojun deliberately obliterated Sun Wukong's spiritual eyes and became a fiery thing.
It seems to be majestic, but whoever is in the air can't stand the tears.
"Master, wait a minute, wait for my grandson to investigate," Sun Wukong said, and turned over and entered the temple.
Not long after, Sun Wukong came out with a group of monks, and these monks worshiped as soon as they saw Tang Seng.
This temple was built by the first emperor of Che Chi Kingdom, although there are also some monks who can't withstand the temptation of high bounties to pray for rain, but their identity is special after all, so they were spared, but they are not allowed to let pilgrims in.
In the temple, the candles are bright, the sandalwood is fluttering, and the white-bearded host finally looks forward to the legendary Tang monk who came from the Tang Dynasty in the east and went to the west to seek the true scriptures.
But after listening to the words of the host, Tang Seng was surprised and said, "Dare to ask the abbot, as far as the poor monk knows, everything has cause and effect, the cause at this time is that my Buddhist people are not strong enough to deceive King Chechi, and disregard the lives of the people first, Tang Wang is merciful, not only not to be held accountable, but to give these disciples such a good opportunity to do good and accumulate virtue, besides, the Taoist ancestor and the officers and soldiers are doing the same thing, the Taoist priest can do it, the officers and soldiers can do it, why can't we make mistakes The disciples can't do it?" ”
"You.... You! ”
Hearing Tang Seng's words, the old monk was stunned for a moment, and then his face turned from worship to black, and then from black to purple, and he raised his hand to point at Tang Seng, who was full of doubts, but he was speechless.
Aggrieved in his heart, the old monk almost fainted, and wanted to scold, but thinking of Tang Seng's three terrifying-looking apprentices, he also held back the words of scolding, and finally left with his hands.
On the other side, Sun Wukong, who was upset by Zhu Bajie's snoring and the sound of saliva falling to the ground, directly woke up his two junior brothers, and the three of them were ready to go to the Taoist Temple to explore him first.