Huangjue Temple is located in Fengyang Mountain, under the Jingfeng, surrounded by three mountains connected, a water lingers, and the weather is thousands. As the old saying goes, no matter how poor a monk is, he is not a poor monk, and he is not a bald donkey. The monks of the Great Yuan Dynasty are undoubtedly the happiest monks, they have land, can eat meat and drink wine, can get married, can open a pawnshop when they have money, in recent years, the two Huai are floods again, and there is a drought, but the temple is still not worried about food and clothing, and the monks are chanting all year round, eating, sleeping......

Approaching dusk, the tired bird returns to the nest, the smoke curls from the cooking of every household in the distance, there is no one on the path, only a monk of twenty-five or sixteen carries two buckets of water and walks towards the Huangjue Temple. This monk was dressed in tattered monk's robes like a beggar, his body was not thick, he was a little thin, his face was very long, his forehead bone was raised, his face was covered with large and small dirt spots, he had a sparse beard, his eyes were shining brightly, his eyebrows were thick and thick, the roots of his eyebrows were hanging upward, his nose was very large, his nostrils were upturned, his ears were very long, almost hanging down to his shoulders, his mouth was big and wide, and his chin was much more prominent than his forehead.

Seeing that he arrived at the Huangjue Temple, two oily and slippery monks were wearing robes, picking their teeth, and came leisurely, meeting the ugly monk, and came forward to quip: "Chongba, you are lazy today, the water in the copper tank in the main hall has not been filled yet, and the rice is not to eat." ”

Chongba bowed his head and walked forward, without accosting him, another monk said to him: "Poor and begging for food, if it weren't for the abbot taking pity on you, you would have starved to death a long time ago, and you have a gloomy face all day long, don't you know that your face is ugly?" It's really like a little ghost, what are you pretending to be deep? ”

Chongba still didn't speak, but quickened his pace and carried the water to the main hall, poured the water into the huge copper tank, and didn't take a breath, and hurriedly ran towards the hall, and when he got there, there was only an old monk who swept the floor, and there was no food left, the old monk saw him stunned, sighed and said to him: "Chongba, the prison said, you have been a little lazy recently, a jar of water has to be beaten for a long time, the candles in the Garan Hall were stolen by mice, and it was also because you were lazy, and you were not allowed to eat dinner." He also said that you should go to the Garan Temple to keep watch, and if the candle is stolen by rats again, there will be no food tomorrow. ”

Chonghachi was stunned, after a day's work, his feet have not touched the ground since morning, he is hungry, but he has no food? He was silent, nodded, hummed, did not argue, turned to leave, and arrived at the Garan Palace, the inside of the hall was pitch black, he first picked up the broom to sweep the inside and outside of the hall clean, and then wrung a wet rag to wipe the statue, wiped half of it and felt that his eyes were black, and looked up to look outside, a full moon had already hung in the air.

He was a little dizzy from hunger, carefully walked out of the hall, looking at the bright moon in the sky, he was a farmer's child, to the fourth year of the Huaibei drought, father, mother, brother died successively, had to enter the Huangjue Temple as a child. Less than two months after entering the temple, due to the difficulty of collecting the rent of the temple in the famine year, the temple owner closed the warehouse and dismissed the monks, so he had to leave his hometown as a traveling monk. I wanted to eat for a few years, and I returned to Huangjue Temple as a monk, but I was treated coldly, doing the hardest and most tiring work, eating the least, and wearing the most worn, but now in this year, it would be good to have a mouthful of food, and there can be picks and chooses, but he Zhu Chongba is also a man, is he really willing to die of exhaustion in this temple?

Zhu Chongba stretched out his hand and touched the letter in his arms, and sighed, this letter was sent by his companion Tang He in one of his villages, Tang He participated in the Red Turban Army, mixed with a thousand households, and persuaded himself to join the Righteous Army, but ......

Zhu Chongba sighed, went to the courtyard water tank to drink a full water, felt a little refreshed, returned to the Jialan Hall to continue to wipe the statue, Jialan God is Guan Yu, according to legend, the founder of the Tiantai Sect of the Sui Dynasty Wise Master, once in Jingzhou's Yuquan Mountain into the Ding, Yu Dingzhong heard the air come: "Return my head!" Give me back! It turned out that Guan Yu's head was cut off by the enemy, and he was resentful and looked for his head everywhere. The wise master asked rhetorically: "You have cut off the heads of others countless times in the past, why don't you return the heads of others today?" And he preached the Dharma to him. Guan Yu was ashamed at the moment, and asked the wise master for the three refuges and five precepts, became an official disciple of the Buddha, and vowed to be the protector of Buddhism. Since then, it has been known as the two protector gods of Buddhist monasteries together with Wei Dao Bodhisattva.

Huangjue Temple is not a big temple, the main hall is built magnificently, the others can be simplified, this Garan Hall is not big, and the main hall of the big family is almost the same, the hall is small, the statue of the god will not be big, the shape is about the same size as an ordinary person, but there is an offering platform, or you have to look up. Although the statue is small, it is lifelike, wearing a dark green robe with a wide round neck, and a piece of armor hanging from its chest, showing a gorgeous and magnificent atmosphere. In addition to the dragon pattern on the front of the abdomen and knees, there are also moire patterns that spread the robe, and petal patterns on the sleeves and hem, decorated in red and orange. Add a layer of outer robes. The feet are worn with simple lines embellished with black shoes, and the toes are slightly upward. Holding the Blue Dragon Glaive Knife.

It's really majestic, and you can't force it, but Zhu Chongba's hungry head is dizzy, and the more he wipes his mind, the more disturbed he becomes, it will be late at night again, and the monks are all asleep, so I can't bear it anymore, pop! He threw the rag to the ground, pointed at Jialan Bodhisattva and scolded: "You are the Bodhisattva who protects the temple in the temple, and you receive the incense in the temple. Others respect you as a bodhisattva, but I am not afraid of you. ”

He was not in a better mood, but even more annoyed, and picked up a broom from the wall and hit the butt of the Jialan statue. After hitting it more than a dozen times, I felt that I was still not angry, so I took out the incense ash from the incense burner, and wrote five big characters on the back of the Jialan statue, and distributed three thousand miles!

After doing all this, I felt that my mind was smoother, hehe smiled, looked at his handwriting and was secretly proud, just proud, a fat monk swayed in, Zhu Chongba recognized this welcoming monk, afraid that he would see the words he drew behind the statue, and hurriedly greeted him and said: "Senior brother, what wind blew you here." ”

The welcoming monk squinted at Zhu Chongba, and said lazily: "There is a stinky person looking for you outside, called Zhou Dexing, saying that he grew up with you, Chongba, I can tell you, not everyone can enter the temple, what's the matter, you say outside the temple, don't bring it in, your friend is a thief, and he is not a good person at first glance." ”

Zhu Chongba heard that Zhou Dexing came to him, and his heart was happy, but when he heard the next few words, he was angry, but he was under the eaves, so he had to bow his head, and hurriedly agreed, and confessed to the welcoming monk, and when he went out of the temple gate, he saw Zhou Dexing outside probing his brain and looking inside.

Zhou Dexing saw Zhu Chongba coming out of it and exclaimed, "Ugly eight monsters! Zhu Chongba smiled and shouted: "Stinky virtue!" Strode forward and punched Zhou Dexing on the shoulder, Zhou Dexing punched back, the two laughed, the laughter had not fallen, and the welcoming monk walked to the door and scolded: "The Buddha gate is pure, what does it look like to shout, go farther!" ”

Zhou Dexing followed She Lingdang and the beggar gang, that was used to being poor, where he could stand this, his face changed, he pointed to the welcoming monk, glared and said: "The king of thieves ......" Before the eight characters exited, Zhu Chongba hurriedly dragged him and pulled him far away, Zhou Dexing still didn't do it, and shouted: "What are you dragging me for, look at the bird with a fat head and a fat brain of the king of thieves, Lao Tzu will be angry, Chongba, don't worry about this, I'll beat him up and talk about it......."

Zhu Chongba hurriedly dragged him away and said, "Okay, okay, I haven't seen you for a few years, why are you still so hot-tempered?" You beat him, but you didn't make trouble for me, by the way, what did you come to me for, and you also want to enter the temple to be a monk? ”

Zhou Dexing then remembered what Lin Qi had confessed, and then dragged Zhu Chongba to a no-man's land, looked him up and down and said: "How did you become such a bird, even I am not as good, don't you care about the temple is full?" ”

Zhu Chongba smiled bitterly, but he didn't want to lose face in front of his brother, and said, "Don't worry about me, tell me, what are you doing with me?" ”

"That's the matter, I asked for food a few years ago and joined the beggar gang, and our little gang leader had a brother who came here to do business, so I followed,......" Zhou Dexing didn't hide it, he told everything before and after, Zhu Chongba listened quietly, and frowned and hesitated when he heard that he was going to steal a statue of a god in the temple.

It's no wonder that he hesitated, Zhou Dexing is his brother who played small, he can help, he has absolutely nothing to say, but if he steals the statue of the god in the temple, he has no way to retreat, and he doesn't even have a stable meal. But since Zhou Dexing has found it, how can he say nothing?

Zhu Chongba thought for a while, and suddenly said: "It's okay to want a statue, but you have to ask that Brother Lin to give me a hundred taels of silver!" ”

Zhou Dexing jumped up, pointed at Zhu Chongba's nose and scolded: "Okay, you ugly bastard, when did you become so greedy for money?" There are really a hundred taels of silver, we can buy it directly from the temple, and we still need to come to you? ”

Zhu Chongba said in a deep voice: "The world is so big, have you ever heard that there are Buddha statues sold in the temple?" To tell you the truth, I helped you, I can't stay in Huangjue Temple, I can only go to Tang He to join the army, and I won't hide it from you, the first two Tang He letters, let me go to Haozhou to join Guo Zixing's Red Turban Army, but do you know how his letter is written? ”

"Oh, Tang and that kid have joined the army?"

"That's right, he also got the position of a thousand households, and he is the most promising of our brothers, but do you know how he became a thousand households? Let me tell you, it was he who took a few brothers to rob the silver of two large families at the risk of death, and honored Guo Zixing's son Guo Tianxu, and then became a thousand households, Tang He said, let me get a hundred taels of silver no matter what, in addition to the expenses on the road, the rest of the money will be for me to carry out activities, under him to be a hundred households, the charge will not be at the front, the death will not be so fast, maybe you can fight for a career, Lao Zhou, I can't help it, you tell Brother Nalin, as long as one hundred taels, I will do this for him. ”

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