I'm often asked a question, and I'm constantly thinking about it.

As we all know, there are many religions in the world, and the mainstream religions have their own gods. Each religion also depicts its own religious believer ascending to another world ruled by his god after death. To put it simply, Christians believe that after death they ascend to heaven or hell, a world of light ruled by God and a world of darkness ruled by demons.

In Taoism, the problem is much simpler, they believe that when people die, they enter the netherworld, and that is a world that everyone reaches after death. There will be someone who will judge your life, such as virtue, merit, right and wrong, and then deal with the next life of this deceased soul by the results. Perhaps he needs to be punished by the underworld, the eighteen layers of hell have their own merits, and those who are innocent can enter reincarnation early if they are sheltered, and they will get more than others in the next life.

From both point of view, they both tell that there will be a standard after death, which is a summary of this life of a person. Not only that, but Buddhism and Islam also have such a posthumous world standard, which more or less allows people in the world to have certain restrictions on their behavior when they are still alive, and this constraint is spontaneous and a kind of spiritual judgment, and the so-called believers have a bottom line, which is probably a kind of progress that religion brings to people in the spiritual world.

However, Christian people go to see God after they die, so Taoism goes to see Hades after they die, a foreigner monk who died on the border of China, does he go to see Hades or God after he dies?

As a religious believer, Cha Wenbin naturally believes that there will be another world after death, whether you are a Chinese or a foreigner, he only believes that evil cannot prevail over good! If he is really as Xuan Muzi said, and he can't subdue that foreign missionary, then it can only be said that his cultivation is not enough.

Taoism has a saying that the Tao is one foot high, the magic is one foot high, and the unjust karma is with you, and you must pay off the debt in the end. Many people have heard this sentence, but its real meaning is that it is not about the size of the form and gods, and whether the devil is strong or not, the ruler of the Tao must be pressed on the devil, saying that the evil is invincible, and the struggle for justice is bound to be under great pressure from the reactionary forces. A true Taoist priest has the courage to face demons that are much stronger than himself, which can always be seen in Cha Wenbin.

The wind continued, the thunder never stopped, the thunder shook the glass, and the teachers only felt a sense of depression in the air. Some began to regret it, especially those who participated in the digging in the afternoon, digging with all the heat in their heads, and when they calmed down, they feared retribution. People are so capricious, and people are always so contradictory. Drifting with the tide will eventually be abandoned by the waves, and only those who have the most persistent beliefs on the ship that sail to the other side can reach the last shore.

"What time is it?" Cha Wenbin asked the drowsy fat man, who was already leaning against the corner and snoring slightly.

Raised his hand indiscriminately, wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth, and the fat man said, "It's half past ten, shouldn't this be coming?" ”

The doors and windows of the classroom are pasted with talismans, and no matter how the glass shakes, these talismans are like the gods guarding them. The villagers huddled together on the ground all hung their heads, and only the half-grown children would gather together to play a game quietly, but the slightest disturbance would be immediately reprimanded by their parents.

"You look here, there's a mess elsewhere, if you want to go to the toilet, it's better for them to find a curtain to block it, and the door should be safe inside."

"What about you? Do you want to go out for a walk? ”

He smiled and said: "When is the time for retribution, someone always has to come to make this bridge, Qiu'er, you come with me." ”

Let Ye Qiu go, the fat man probably has no opinion, what he admires the most is naturally Cha Wenbin, then the second is Ye Qiu. He suddenly became a temporary housekeeper, so he could only start patrolling back and forth from room to room, telling those who were not very "obedient" to be more peaceful.

There are naturally people who are not afraid, but when Cha Wenbin walked on the road, he saw a figure shaking in front of the window of a house.

"Why hasn't anyone come out?" He hesitated for a moment, then went to check with Ye Qiu, knocked on the door, there were several young people inside, there was a pot with hot soup boiling in front of the table, a pile of wreckage in front of everyone, and the wine bottle fell to the ground.

"Yo, isn't this the Taoist priest invited from the village? Would you like to come over for a drink or two? ”

Suddenly, the remaining young people burst into laughter......

"Don't drink too much, be careful with candles." Cha Wenbin pointed to the fire on the table and said, "If it's okay, just rest early, there are a lot of people over there, and it's lively." ”

"What are you supposed to do, god-to-god, you really take yourself seriously, joke!" Young people do not like him, Taoist priests are no different from superstition in their eyes, and in the mid-eighties, a large number of foreign cultures have spread through various means, and their generation believes more in freedom and science.

Cha Wenbin did not argue with them, where to go is indeed freedom, walking on the path of this village, the wind blows his thin human body, and it is a little difficult to walk. When I looked back, the shadows from the window were still making fists, and their hearty laughter could be heard very well outside the house, shrugged their shoulders, and said to themselves.

Before he reached the church, Cha Wenbin heard a scream behind him, a hysterical cry with great fear. The young man frantically escaped from the house and ran in the direction of the school, and tonight it was probably the sixth wave......

Those people were just like them, and there were some old people who were not afraid, and without exception, they all felt scared in the end. Have you ever seen a man in a priest's garb with a faceless face standing next to you? They said that the pastor had been there that night everywhere there was activity, except for the classroom, but strangely enough, so many people had seen it and he didn't hurt anyone, not a single one.

Despite this, he is still scary, no matter how cowardly the dead are, but in the subconscious, they are all "ghosts". As long as it is a "ghost", it is scary, this is nature, it is the nature of people to have a fear of death.

"Will he come?" Ye Qiu asked.

In the church, Cha Wenbin sat on the ground, no swords, no incense and candles, no runes, and only his own self with his eyes closed.

"It will come," Cha Wenbin said, "After all, this is his home, since the house has been broken into by strangers, why can't he come?" ”

Time passed minute by minute, waiting in this kind of place is actually a torment, Cha Wenbin recited the "Tao Te Ching" over and over again. Decades ago, in the same position, a pastor was holding a Bible in his hand every day to provide spiritual comfort to those who were suffering.

I don't know how long it took, the wind outside began to get stronger again, and the door was blown back and forth, and Cha Wenbin never closed the door from beginning to end.

A gust of fallen leaves swept in with a strong wind, and the strange sound of "whine" was accompanied by a low commotion. A black shadow slowly stretched longer and longer on the ground, Cha Wenbin did not move, Ye Qiu naturally did not move.

"Since you're here, you don't have to stand in the back, I want to talk to you." Cha Wenbin pointed to the wall on which Christ Jesus used to be hung, and he said: "You used to be so holy, with the essence of Western doctrine to influence the poor outcasts here, but now your hands are stained with sin, don't you want to be accepted by your priest and become an upright and bright person again?" ”

The dark shadow said, "No, I am the devil, I have been abandoned by God, and I want those who blaspheme the gods to pay the price of blood, including you." ”

"Obviously, you've fought with me before." Cha Wenbin remembered this shadow, the last time he was in prison, he escaped, he said: "You are not abandoned by God, but you yourself have abandoned yourself." All prayers are based on fear, people are afraid now, their love for God is based on fear of the devil, your good is measured by evil, God needs both the devil and the priest. There is an old Chinese saying that if you don't go into the tiger's den, you will get the tiger's son, and it is you who have become the devil and told them what is called fear, and now that they are harmed, you can still be the priest who redeems them. ”

Cha Wenbin continued: "God needs you! Without you, all churches would go out of business, no one would go to worship, and people wouldn't find a religious person if you weren't there. You tempted them, and through your temptation, they became saints, and have you ever heard of a saint who has not been tempted by the devil? Your Jesus, your Zarathustra, your Buddha - all of them have been tempted by the devil! It is the devil who makes them saints, and if you want to become a saint, you must first be tempted by the devil, and only if you have withstood the temptation can you truly tell them the right path, so come back! There will be a new priest in this church in the future, and you can watch him continue your work in Heaven. ”

"No, I'm a devil, but what you said makes sense, without my existence, you wouldn't have come, right, Taoist?"

"You're just going astray," Cha Wenbin said, "No matter how great your sin is, as long as you want to, you will be forgiven, and benevolence is the most powerful force." ”

"They didn't forgive me," said the dark shadow, "they were angry because they were afraid, they burned everything that was innocent, and they were the ones who went astray." ”