Chapter Forty-Nine: The Sitting of High Monks
I had a flashlight in my hand and shone on the wooden coffin more than a foot away, oh no, it should be a snake coffin now! While paying attention to the movement of the snake coffin, he watched the three of them slowly walk over.
When the Seventh Master and the others walked to the other side of the snake coffin, they suddenly said, "Huh? That's not right! These snakes seem to be dead! β
Dead?! I glanced at the cloth bag monk, and before I could ask any questions, I saw that the snake coffin suddenly made a "crackling" sound, and then I saw the snakes from top to bottom, and began to slowly fall down one by one.
Is it really dead?! I saw that the black snakes that had fallen were extremely stiff, and some of them were broken into several pieces as soon as they fell, clearly being dead for many years......
Whewββ
I let out a sigh of relief, and saw that the others were also full of wry smiles: this wooden coffin has been around for thousands of years, how can there be so many black snakes that will survive for thousands of years? We always thought it was an evil thing, so we didn't care about this, at this time, it seems that it was really a snake bite, ten years afraid of the well rope, very funny.
And as the snake coffin was slowly opened, a real wooden coffin inside was exposed to us.
It is more of a life-size sculpture of a Buddha than a wooden coffin lying flat on the ground, which also appears to have been made of black jujube wood and pine oil, and then dried with snow-white grass. Its whole shape is that of a god and Buddha stepping on a lotus throne and holding a jade bottle.
We walked up to take a closer look, and saw that this Buddha coffin was glowing with a faint white light, the shape was exquisite, the carving was outstanding, the Buddha statue was fine, lifelike, and it was definitely an extraordinary peerless work of art. If the toad is here, it is estimated that the Buddha coffin will be taken out if it is killed.
"Look at the face of this Buddha statue." The seventh master suddenly pointed to the head of the Buddha coffin and said, "Is there something wrong?" β
We looked at the head of the Buddha coffin pointed to by the Seventh Master, and found that the face of this Buddha statue was somewhat different from other Buddha statues: this face was not only smiling, but also kind, and even had a wisp of beard on the chin.
"This ......," I smiled wryly, "I don't think there is a Buddha statue with a beard, right?" β
"Hmm." The seventh master nodded with a smile: "If you guess correctly, this face should be the face of Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty." β
This makes sense. I took a closer look and felt that this versatile queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty was still quite handsome.
"Latch structure!" The pig's head, who had been studying the Buddha coffin since just now, suddenly said on the side: "Moreover, it is a live lock." β
"What is a live lock?" I asked, frowning.
"It's a lock that can be opened without a key." Liang Ruoyi gave me a blank look.
I shrugged my shoulders and walked over to the pig's head, and saw a lock on one side of the coffin, the latch structure, which looked like it was made of iron, but there was no keyhole, and it could be opened by pulling the latch out.
"Pig's head, there's no time, open the coffin." The seventh master looked at the brighter and brighter sky outside, the time was already eleven o'clock at noon, looking at the situation in front of him, it was best to go out as soon as possible.
The pig's head waved his hand at me, I was stunned for a moment, and then I understood, looking at the seventh master and they took a few steps back, I stepped forward, stood in front of the pig's head, hesitated, or felt out a piece of blood stone and stuffed it into my mouth.
Seeing that I was ready, the pig's head squatted in front of the Buddha's coffin, took out a pair of dog skin gloves and put them on, grabbed the latch, paused and looked up and asked me: "Gu Rui, you, the back of your head is still cold?" β
My little heart is about to jump out, this bastard is still grinding here!
"Hmm!" I nodded impatiently: "Big brother, hurry up, otherwise the evil thing hasn't come out yet, and I will be scared to death by you first!" β
The pig's head swallowed, snapped his hands, and opened the latch with a "click".
The bastard actually jumped back more than a foot away at the moment the latch was opened, and took advantage of the situation to draw a pig-killing knife and look at the Buddha's coffin as if he were facing a great enemy.
I didn't react at all, and turned around and looked at him with disdain: "You, are you sick?!" This hasn't opened the coffin yet, what are you doing out there?! β
"I ......" the pig's head snorted a few times, put the pig-killing knife back, and walked back slowly, in the dimness, the sunlight outside just shone on the pig's fat face.
After taking two steps, the pig's head suddenly froze and stopped moving forward. I sighed: "Big brother, please hurry up, you don't want me to open the coffin by myself, right?" I don't have that much strength! β
The faint light shone on the pig's face, and I saw that the pig's expression was a little strange, and the small eyes were so small that I couldn't see what he was looking at for a while.
"Xiao, Xiaogu, watch your back!" The seventh master suddenly whispered behind me.
I was stunned, did not turn back immediately, but walked a few steps towards the pig's head, and waited until I stood with the pig's head, then slowly turned my head, and saw that the lid of the Buddha coffin had been opened by the contents inside, and a withered yellow hand was on the edge of the coffin, motionless......
"!" I was scared and said, "W-When was this opened?" How come I didn't hear a sound at all! β
I couldn't see what was in the coffin of the black hole, the seventh master glanced at me, I nodded, bit half of the hundred blood stones, the heavy bloody breath made me almost vomit, stroked my stomach a few times, and then slowly walked towards the Buddha coffin.
The seventh master and Liang Ruoyi on the opposite side also walked over slowly, the pig's head followed behind me, and after a few steps, I returned to the Buddha coffin and saw the withered yellow corpse in the Buddha coffin.
Shriveled - that's the first impression I get from a corpse. But surprisingly, although the corpse was shriveled, the yellow monk's robe and skin on the body were still there, but the flesh and blood were gone.
Liang Ruoyi's flashlight shone into the Buddha coffin, and we clearly saw the face of the corpse: although there was no flesh and blood, but from the face of the face, it was exactly the same as the head of the Buddha coffin, the sparse hair on the top of the head and the few strands of beard left on the chin, as well as the pair of tightly closed Danfeng eyes, all of which were the same as the head of the Buddha coffin.
"He's Li Yu?" I looked at the body of this Southern Tang Dynasty queen, and suddenly felt that I had also experienced a lot of vicissitudes. He could never have imagined that a thousand years after his death, someone would dig up his grave.
After everyone glanced at Li Yu a few times, they began to look for the traces of Han Jia.
But after a few seconds, we all frowned: because the entire Buddha coffin was the size of an adult, there was not much space left after Li Yu's body was placed inside, and when we looked at it, we looked at the entire Buddha coffin, and the result was that there was nothing in the coffin except Li Yu's body!
"How is this possible?!" After seeing that there was no Han Jia in the coffin, the smile on his face suddenly disappeared, and he was about to lean over to look, but he saw that Li Yu's body sat up with a "whoosh", which startled the seventh master, and his body floated out more than a foot away.
We were also frightened, Liang Ruoyi instantly retreated, and I also retreated, but I didn't expect to be pushed by the pig's head behind me, and I almost fell into the Buddha coffin!
Under the gaze of everyone, Li Yu did not move, just sat cross-legged in the Buddha coffin, put his hands together in front of his chest, and did not move.
At this time, Li Yu didn't look like a corpse, let alone a queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, but like a sitting monk.
The back of my head is still chilling, and it seems that this evil thing is Li Yu.
The seventh master on the opposite side waved his hand at me, and just about to speak, I saw the cloth bag monk who had been standing in the distance walking over slowly, bowing to Li Yu three times, and then sitting cross-legged opposite Li Yu, twisting the Buddha beads, and reciting the scriptures in his mouth.
When everyone saw that the Budai monk moved, they didn't want to do it again, and stood aside and waited.
"Seventh Master, what scripture is Master Budai reciting?" I've never seen a monk chanting a sutra for a dead person, and he asked softly, "The Mantra of Death?" β
The seventh master shook his head: "If a senior monk dies, he usually has to recite the "Dizang Sutra", and the Budai master is now reciting the "Dizang Sutra". β
I nodded, stopped talking, and looked at the Budai monk for Li Yu to transcend - a senior monk in the world, who has the opportunity to transcend for a thousand years ago, this kind of time-space dialogue is not something that ordinary monks have the opportunity to get.
Ten minutes later, the old monk finished reciting the scriptures and sat opposite Li Yu with his hands folded.
A few seconds later, Li Yu's body began to slowly dissipate, like a sand sculpture, and began to drift away after drying, just a minute later, Li Yu turned into countless dust, scattered in the Buddha's coffin - Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, his long-cherished wish in his life is not to keep his country, but to be able to become a Buddha on the ground and ascend to bliss.
"Seventh Master! You see! β
After seeing Li Yu disappear completely, the pig's head became bold again, ran to the Buddha's coffin to take a look, pointed to a small hole under Li Yu and shouted: "Jinjing technique?!" β