Chapter Fifty-Eight: The True Body of the Medicine King
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The bones in the statue of the Medicine King are real, especially the appearance of the flesh Buddha stretching his hands forward and holding "things", which makes me think about it.
However, after all, the photo is a long-range photo, and it is still black and white, and it is not clear what the statue of the Medicine King is holding in his hand, only that the thing he is holding in his hand is similar to a gourd-like container, and other than that, he is at a loss.
But even so, I thought of a lot of extras.
This trip to Guizhou, except for meeting Lao Nineteen on the train, everything else went well, until in this bloody village, he inexplicably met the group of bastards who pretended to be gods and ghosts in the "God Buddhism". They pretended to be ghosts, and they also named the "Yaowang Temple" that wanted to demolish the biggest clue about the "Goddess Flower" and "74 Project", and we can't sit idly by no matter what.
But, is this just a coincidence?! I don't feel it.
I know that the ancient cults used to talk about nothing more than two things: "money" and "power."
They don't have to think about it, they are powerful in a village, at best, they are at the level of the village head, and they also risk killing people, so they can't do it.
It is also difficult to collect money, God Buddhism does not even let the believers own the money with their heads printed, and it will not be long before this village will return to the primitive society, except for agricultural products, there will be nothing, and it is not realistic to rely on one or two hundred people to collect money in a poor ravine.
By this reasoning, perhaps the purpose of their coming has something to do with this rare incarnate Buddha.
With this thought, I immediately asked Hyun Hongye and said, "Yezi, this flesh body Buddha...... Is it a cultural relic?! ā
Momiji immediately nodded and said: "Count, and it is very valuable, these flesh Buddhas are called 'Oriental Mummies', which are specimens for studying ancient culture and ancient biological embalming technology, and they are very marketable in the West." When I was in school, I came across a case where a Buddha in the flesh had been sold for a whopping $20 million in Europe. ā
When the red leaves came and went, I moved.
A plan took shape in my head.
Then, I didn't pick out anything, but turned around and asked Selyopa, "Mother-in-law, do you know the origin of the flesh Buddha in this Medicine King Temple?!" ā
After seeing the photo, Selyopa looked very wrong, and my question made her nervous quickly. She stared at us for a long time, then asked, "Who the hell are you?!" ā
Selyupa's words obviously have an element of distrust towards us, and judging from his and her expressions, there is also a deep taboo against Yaowang Temple.
But I know that now that things have come to this point, I don't know the inside story, and I can't solve any problems for her, but to understand the inside story, we must first eliminate the estrangement between the two sides.
So, with the consent of Lin Shaosong and Xiao Yezi, I told us in detail about our plan, the matter of finding Grandpa Hongye, and the "allusions" of the goddess flower of Miaojiang.
In the end, I promised: "We can follow this clue all the way here, it is a kind of fate in the dark, you can rest assured, we are different from those cults, we will never do anything that you are not allowed, we just want to find the truth." ā
My words made Selyuba think for a moment, but I knew that she would agree to our request.
Between us and God's Buddhism, she has to rely on one side, otherwise, she will not be able to protect herself.
Sure enough, in the next moment, Selyupa nodded and told us what he knew about this Yaowang Temple.
Selyupa first told us that Li Shizhen was enshrined in this Yaowang Temple, but in fact, the "flesh Buddha" inside was not Li Shizhen, this person was just enjoying the incense of the villagers through Li's fame.
As for his real name, Xuerongzhai has not been preserved, so when everyone talks about this person's deeds, they all refer to him as the "King of Medicine".
When he was, he did make a contribution to the village worthy of enjoying the incense, and then he was enshrined by everyone.
It is said that this man, known as the "King of Medicine", is an outsider, and the story of his rescue is similar to that of most of the northwest of Guizhou.
Legend has it that hundreds of years ago, Xuerong Village was a place where the wind and rain were smooth, peaceful and healthy, where there was no war, no famine, everyone lived and worked in peace and contentment, and every household sang and danced.
But later, a woman who fled the famine came to Xuerong Village, and the appearance of this woman changed everything in the cottage.
According to the description of the older generation, this woman called herself Xuerong, she was very beautiful, although she was in tattered clothes, hungry, and poor, but she could not hide her charming temperament.
The appearance of the woman made the men of Xuerong Village excited, and those young men sent food one after another, just to see the beauty of Xuerong, and they even took the initiative to build a house for the woman, just to keep her for a few more days.
Later, the woman's heart was touched by these enthusiastic young men, and she made a request to live in the cottage permanently, and specified that she would find a single and strongest man to be her husband.
The woman's "recruitment post" naturally attracted the fierce bees and butterflies, and in the end, the village selected the most qualified young man in a competitive way similar to a sports competition. And the woman also married this young man according to the previous agreement.
Then, the two of them lived happily, and soon the woman became pregnant.
But what no one expected was that just as the woman was about to give birth, the young man suddenly died violently, leaving only orphans and widows to survive in this world.
The young man's death attracted more sympathy from the villagers. Because the people in Xuerong Village get along very well, everyone ran over to comfort this unfortunate woman, and many young men recalled the "passionate years" of chasing women, and wanted to form a new family with this woman.
Later, because the woman did not have a maiden family and could not stand the diligence of those young men, she used the previous method to recruit a man and form a complete family from scratch.
But what is strange is that just when this new family was formed and the woman became pregnant again, the new husband fell seriously ill again, and the child died violently as soon as the child was born. All they left behind was a dilapidated home.
In this way, Xuerong was widowed again, and then she was comforted by the people in the village, and she couldn't resist the "temptation" of those young men, and formed a new family......
And so things went on and on, and the young woman had eight husbands and eight children.