Chapter 40 Preparations Before Departure
"Why is this box in your hands!"
The monk was stunned for a moment and said, "This thing is actually a Buddhist treasure." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 But as far as I know, during the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Buddhism had not yet been officially introduced to Middle-earth. So I've always been puzzled, how could this thing appear in the underground palace of the Lu Clan's Divine Tomb? ”
Actually, I've heard of it. It is said that most of the relics placed in the treasure letter are heirloom relics or the bones of eminent monks. There are three types of relics: bone relics, hair relics, and meat relics, and the colors and textures of various relics are also different. And I heard that the relics pagoda of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple enshrines the three ingots of the eminent monk An Xuan.
Could it be that there is also a relic in this treasure letter of the monk?
I looked around and saw that there was no one, so I opened the treasure letter and took a look. But unexpectedly, there were no relics in the treasure letter, only a yellowed brocade cloth, neatly stacked inside.
I was stunned for a moment and asked the monk, "What is this?" ”
Monk Dao, that's why he came to the Temple of Ten Thousand Buddhas. He took the brocade cloth out of the treasure and spread it on the table. You can see that this brocade cloth is not an ordinary brocade cloth, and there are many words written on it in cinnabar. I poked over and saw that it was supposed to be a Buddhist scroll. But I don't even know those words.
The monk looked at me with a puzzled look on his face and said, "These are Sanskrit, of course you don't know them." ”
"Sanskrit?" I muttered and asked, "And what is written on this?" Why is it placed in the dungeon? ”
The monk said: "Although I have been a monk, I only know a little bit of Sanskrit. It's okay to fool people like you in normal times, but if you want to understand what is written on it, I guess you'll have to go back and practice for a few more decades. So, I'm just going to bring my things to the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple. ”
"How did it turn out?"
The monk smiled: "What kind of person am my monk, as long as I go out, there is nothing that can't be done." "Look at his deterioration, I said you don't show off, this is not something you can do by yourself, what is there to show off.
The monk laughed dryly a few times, and then got to the point: "Actually, I originally thought that this was nothing more than some Buddhist scriptures and the like. But a friend at the Temple of Ten Thousand Buddhas told me that it was not a Buddhist scripture, but a reincarnation that happened hundreds of years ago. ”
"Reincarnation? What do you mean? You make it clear. ”
The monk said that he had to sell a pass on this issue first.
"Do you know what those words mean?" The monk asked me, pointing to a few Sanskrit texts.
I shook my head and my heart said how would I know? The monk said, "I asked you only when I knew you didn't understand." These words were repeated in this Sanskrit passage, and my friend told me that it actually meant 'yoro'. ”
As soon as I heard this, I was stunned. The word "Yelang" was also mentioned by Master a few days ago. Is there any connection between this?
"Are you sure you're not mistaken?" I hurriedly asked him.
The monk was dismissive of my words: "What? That's starting to doubt me? Tell you, that's not all, the main event is still to come. ”
The monk turned the **** cloth up and down, and then pointed to a pattern in the lower right corner and asked me: "Look here, do you feel familiar?" Like the pattern you saw in the dungeon? ”
I didn't notice it at first, but when the monk said this, I noticed that it was indeed very similar.
"This is what it looks like after being Buddhaized, but the overall outline of the pattern has been preserved. Want to know what this thing is called? ”
"Zhu Wang Qing?" I said tentatively.
The monk is not calm now. He knocked on the table and asked me incredulously, "I said, how do you know?" ”
I didn't have time to explain, so I asked the monk to explain clearly what was written on the Buddha scroll first.
The monk said: "The whole thing recorded on this can be said to be a witnessing process. The main content of it is the whole process of King Yelang's entry into reincarnation in his underground dormitory. According to my friend's translation, it is written that after a person enters samsara, his physical body disappears, leaving only a shadow on the earth. This shadow will take you through reincarnation, but if you want to be reborn in reincarnation, the key is that kind of 'Bamboo King Qing'. ”
"Unfortunately, the scroll in my hand is incomplete. My friend said that there should be three such Buddhist scrolls, one is to enter samsara, one is to be reborn in samsara, and the last one is to get out of samsara. The volume I have in my hand is supposed to be the first one, and this is just the beginning of the whole thing. And the best part should be on the second and third parts. ”
I understood what the monk meant: "In other words, there are actually three of the same treasure letters?" ”
The monk nodded: "At least three." At that time, I was in the dungeon, and before I met you, I had already got one. There is another one that should have been taken by the guards who saved you. As for the others, I guess it may be in the hands of the guy with the characters engraved on his hands, or it is also possible that it is still somewhere in the dungeon. ”
And as for why this treasure letter appears in the underground palace of Dushan? The monk said that it must have something to do with Liu An. Before Liu An entered the Divine Tomb, King Chu Wen should be the only one who had ever entered the Divine Tomb. Liu An knew this very well, so the later traces of King Chu Wen must be the object of his search. "Bamboo King Qing" was brought out from the tomb by King Wen of Chu, and now that "Bamboo King Qing" has appeared in Yelang again, what should have happened between King Wen of Chu and the royal family of Yelang. And these treasure letters should have been discovered by Liu An when Yelang was investigating.
When the monk said this, he suddenly seemed to think of something, suddenly got up from his chair, and asked me urgently: "At that time, I remember that person gave the treasure letter to your master, is there such a thing?" ”
I nodded and said, "You have a good memory, do you remember this?" ”
The monk hurriedly said, "What about the treasure letter?" Take it out. ”
I shrugged helplessly, shook my head and said, "You're late." A few days ago, my master and Cassia left with the treasure letter. ”
"Gone?"
The monk didn't believe it: "Your master already knows?" Before he finished speaking, he suddenly realized: "No wonder, you will know Zhu Wangqing." ”
"Wait, you mean, your master is gone? That means that your master knows the exact location? ”
I nodded, and based on what the monk said about the Buddha scroll, I was sure that the place on it was the location that Master had mentioned to me.
The monk looked at me and nodded, and his mouth was grinning happily to the root of his ears.
"I said Brother Changshan, you are really my savior. You don't know, I've been dying of worry about this for the past few days. ”
I said don't be happy yet, I can tell you the location, but you have to promise me one condition.
The monk said: "No problem, as long as you tell me the location, I will agree to whatever you say." ”
I poured a glass of wine and handed it to the monk: "The conditions are very simple, bring me with you." ”
As soon as the monk heard this, the wine he had just picked up hung in the air and was placed on the table. I saw that he was embarrassed, so I asked him, "What?" Questions? ”
The monk waved his hand and said, "It's no problem to take you there, but this trip, just to rush will take at least half a month." I am afraid you thin-skinned and tender-fleshed man will not be able to bear it. ”
I had a black line on my face and scolded: "You don't talk nonsense, with or without a word." If you don't take me, I'll leave immediately. ”
When the monk saw that I was leaving, he hurriedly grabbed me: "Look at you, I didn't say I wouldn't take you there, what are you anxious about?" I really don't understand how many of you masters and apprentices are, not people on the road, so you have to join in the fun. ”
I saw that he agreed, and my heart said that it was about the same.
The monk cleaned up the things on the table and said, "In this way, let's go find a few friends on the road first." Otherwise, there will be only two of us on this trip, and it won't be the climate. ”