It has been nearly five years since Wei Wencheng entered the disciple of the monk Defalang, and this year is the third year of Emperor Chen Wendi's Tianjia. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info Fa Lang said that I was invited by the first emperor to go to Beijing to preach Buddhism, temporarily live in Xinghuang Temple, and I have gained a lot in the past five years, but the resistance I have encountered is not small, because many philistine monks and other factions have come to attack me - I really don't leave you aside, I really can't spare time.

However, with your wisdom, I believe that even if you study by yourself, you will definitely be able to read through the three treatises, and if you go further, you should study the Buddhist scriptures. Originally, I was going to recommend you to go to Mt. Setshan to ask my brother Huibu for benefits, but he also said that he was in retreat and had no time to teach......

Wei Wencheng frowned when he heard this, and said in his heart that you still left me alone.

I heard Farang say again: "Prajna wisdom, seek from the world, do not see the world, and become enlightened?" I have long had the idea of letting you go out and travel, and go through many experiences instead of doing it behind closed doors, which is very beneficial to the gain of the Dharma. However, I was worried that you were young and afraid of danger when you walked the rivers and lakes, but now that you are ...... Glancing at the book next to you—I guess you won't just taste the ruts, you must have stolen a few spells, and you shouldn't be afraid to go on the road alone.

Put your hands together and say, "Amitabha, this must be blessed by the Buddha." ”

Wei Wencheng said in his heart that it was clearly a Taoist spell, but you said that it was the blessing of the Buddha, and this Buddha was good at "saving the country with curves"?

Farang held up two fingers and said that I have been sitting in meditation recently, and I always feel restless, and I feel that there is a demonic atmosphere gathering in the northland, and I don't know if it is a real demon, or the appearance of a large-scale invasion by the north. So I hope you will go to the north for a trip, and if you have any things to see, you will come back to Jiankang to report to me. The second thing, Senior Brother Hui Bu said, Master Bei, he admires one person alone, and once asked the other party for Buddhism, this monk is called Hui Ke, you can take my letter and go to Hui Ke to study Buddhist scriptures.

Wei Wencheng's eyebrows twisted slightly, and he said in his heart, Hui Ke, why does this name sound so familiar?

I listened to Fa Lang introduced: "Hui Ke Luoyang people also, under the Tianzhu monk Bodhidharma, under his mantle, especially good at "Huayan", this is also the compulsory classic of this school......"

Wei Wencheng suddenly realized, it turned out to be a disciple of Bodhidharma, no wonder I think this name is familiar...... Hui Ke, isn't that the second ancestor of Zen Buddhism? He immediately agreed, saying that I would pack up and go to Songshan.

Farang said what are you doing in Songshan?" "Although Bodhidharma sat in the small room, Master Hui Ke was not in Songshan. You can go to Handan, there is Guangfu Temple thirty miles outside the city, its name is the same as the small nunnery, and the abbot of Hui Keshi is also. ”

Monk Farang spent a whole day and a night to give a good indication of Wei Wencheng's Buddhist scriptures and the purpose of the three treatises, and then the next day he flew away and returned to Jiankang. Wei Wencheng stayed for another day, packed up his things, prepared some dry food, and then carried a burden on his back, and immediately embarked on the road to the north.

Running from Jiangsu to Hebei can be described as a thousand miles, the problem is not GPS, and even a detailed map is not enough, Wei Wencheng feels like a fly with no head...... Fortunately, I studied Chinese geography in school in my previous life, and if this is really an ancient commoner, I have never crossed the Yangtze River to the north in my life, and it is estimated that I will have a fight with Columbus to discover America - it is completely lucky, and finding a place is accidental, and it is inevitable that I can't find it......

Farang left Wei Wencheng a document, which was a letter of introduction written by him to Hui Ke, and Wei Wencheng relied on this letter of introduction. This is mainly because the name of the monk Fa Lang is too loud - he is the abbot of Xinghuang Temple, not to mention far away, this Nanxu, Nanyu ...... Well, the Southern Dynasty set up a lot of Qiaozhou and Qiao County, Wei Wencheng also remembered it clearly, in the southern Jiangsu region of later generations, its name was almost known to women and children.

Wei Wencheng sometimes feels that he has not gone back 1,500 years, but only 30 or 40 years, and has to rely on a letter of introduction from the unit to prove his identity......

But after crossing the Yangtze River and entering the boundary of the Northern Qi Dynasty, the situation is different, the people of the Northern Qi Dynasty do not recognize the name of Fa Lang - in fact, it is not necessarily that they have not heard of it, the problem is that the royal monk of the Southern Dynasty, no matter how much he offends, he will not kill the Yangtze River, why should I sell his face? When I passed the customs, there was a pawn who almost tore up the letter of introduction, but fortunately, his movements were not resolute, and while he was gesturing to tear, he also raised his thumb and two fingers to draw a circle......

Wei Wencheng understands that this is asking for money, but how can I have money for you, especially your money from Northern Qi! Fortunately, he learned a little of the spell contained in the Book of Heaven, and immediately recited the spell silently, and the letter of introduction was withdrawn from the other party's hand to his own hand as soon as he "whew", and then took advantage of the opportunity of the little pawn to be stunned, and quickly turned around and fled.

From then on, I had to avoid towns and passes, climb mountains and mountains, and make detours, so I delayed the trip before I reached the boundary of West Chuzhou, and I ate all the little dry food I carried. Fortunately, Wei Wencheng was sensitive enough, and there were many temples in Northern Qi, so he went to a mountain temple and turned into a fate - in fact, it was begging - and the monks gave up their heads for the sake of the letter of introduction.

Wei Wencheng thanked him a thousand times, and the other party said, I haven't heard of the monk Falang on your letter, but the recipient of the letter, Master Hui Ke, is very famous in my country. It's just that no matter how famous you are, it's only within the sect, and ordinary people may not have heard of it, you have a long way ahead, and it is very difficult and dangerous to reach Handan - why don't I give you an idea.

Wei Wencheng sincerely asked for advice, and the monk said, since you have entered my Buddhism, why don't you shave your degree? It is better to lose your hair in this temple, go on the road in the form of a monk, and go all the way to the fate - even if you are a guard at the pass, you will not be unable to get along with a monk under normal circumstances.

Wei Wencheng pondered for a long time, and deliberately ran to the water tank in the temple to take a photo, and saw a long black and bright hair tied up on the top of his head - it is said that his hair in his previous life was withered and yellow, and there were a lot of white hairs, so he was not so beautiful and supple in this life, and he was really reluctant to shave......

But the road ahead is vast, it is not easy to enter, it is not easy to retreat, and at present, only the idea of the monk is more reliable, and he must give it up if he is reluctant. So I discussed with the monk and said that you should not shave my head, just cut my hair short. The monk promised to shave Wei Wencheng's dog-like hair on the spot, and when he was done, he took out an old monk's robe full of patches and asked him to change it.

Wei Wencheng originally wore a Taoist robe made when he was a Taoist priest in Linwuguan, and the shape was not much different from that worn by ordinary scholars, both of them were tops and bottoms. Because Lin Wuguan had the financial resources at that time, the texture of the clothes was not bad, purely fine linen weaving, although it was several years apart, but because there was no replacement, so he cherished it more, and there were not many patches. After being forced to change into a rough old monk's robe, the monk naturally put away his original set of clothes - Wei Wencheng said in his heart, I said why are you so kind, it turns out that you have taken a fancy to my clothes!

But since he has received favors, it is not good to ask for his clothes back.

Thus the monk took the form of a monk. He said in his heart that it was fortunate that it was this era, and if it was a few hundred years later, it was estimated that even if he made up as a monk, it would still be difficult to move an inch...... A monk in later generations has to burn incense scars, not a shaved head is believed - besides, he has not been completely shaved, pretending to have traveled a long way, and has no time to cut his hair-the second is that the regular monks and nuns in later generations have to be issued by the government to the degree, and they can only take up their posts with certificates......

Wei Wencheng said in his heart that since I am pretending to be a monk, let's pretend to be a little more like. On the way, I found a bamboo forest, and used a small knife that I carried with me - both to cut vegetables and defend myself - to cut a few bamboos, put them together into a small bookshelf, and rubbed two hemp ropes as a belt, carried them behind me, and put my luggage on the shelf. This is a bit of the posture of the statue of Master Xuanzang, but it is a pity that the dress is much sloppy than Xuanzang, and there is still a dust whisk in his hand......

Just hold the bowl, anyway, you have to beg...... Oh no, it's fateful.

Continue to the northwest direction, this day crossed the Suishui, estimated to come to the vicinity of Shangqiu, when the line, suddenly heard someone behind him shouting, turned his head to see, He, the bald head of this water, so dazzling......

I saw that there must be at least a reinforced platoon of monks on the dirt road behind him, inside and out, surrounded by three layers, with clear hierarchies. The outermost monk is dressed more simply, just a gray cloth monk's robe - of course, it is much more decent than Wei Wencheng, at least the clothes are neat and tidy; the middle layer is wearing a yellow robe, the placket is also long, the sleeves are also wide, the texture of the clothing is obviously a grade higher than that of the outer monks, and they are not empty-handed, either holding a bowl, or holding a bottle, or holding a dust, or holding a wish, and the most unfortunate is also a string of prayer beads hanging on the wrist.

There are only five monks in the innermost layer, four of them carry a chariot, and an old monk sits on the chariot, with a yellow cloth robe, covered with a big red robe, and wears a Pilu hat, and the hat is even trimmed with gold thread, inlaid with eight pearls...... Wei Wencheng couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, and said in his heart, you look at this monk...... It's really better to compare people than to death, and goods to be thrown away. In any case, Lao Tzu's mentor is also Gao Zeng, the abbot of a temple, why did he just leave me a letter and leave? You don't have a Dharma robe, Dharma crown or anything? If you are like this great virtue, then taking a bead from the Dharma crown is enough for me to pay for this journey!

The Three Treatises Sect does not pay attention to asceticism, but still opposes extravagance, so in Wei Wencheng's impression, the monk should be poor, at least poorer than the original Taoist priest in Linwuguan, so he did not pull the placket of Fa Lang's clothes to ask for entanglement. Now that I have seen this monk of the Northern Qi Dynasty, I know that the special monks are not engaged in farming and weaving, and eat widely in all directions, and they are not all like the mountain monks who are greedy for their own clothes, and there should be many people with huge family wealth!

Looking at this line of monks approaching, a few horizontal eyebrows in the outer circle glared, scolding Wei Wencheng and asking him to make way. Wei Wencheng was too lazy to meet them in general, smiled and retreated to the side of the road, then grabbed a monk and asked, "Where is the senior brother going?"

The monk glanced at him, threw off his sleeves, and looked down on him. It was still the one behind him who looked more kind, and replied casually: "You, a foot monk, are lucky today--there is a great way to meet the monk ten miles ahead." When Wei Wencheng heard this, he couldn't help but smile. But I heard a middle-level monk scolding and shouting: "If you want to follow, you will follow, and then you will be farther away, you will be poor, and you will not defile my teacher!"

Wei Wencheng said with a smile: "But I heard that the monk has compassion and Bodhi ambition, but I haven't heard of poverty." He said so, but he was still honestly half a stone's throw behind, far behind this group of people. He estimated that with his current ability, it would not be a problem for one person to beat half of their platoon, but why should he cause more trouble? Wouldn't it be a pity if he delayed the "fasting monks"? Besides, what would happen if there was an extra half platoon......

Sure enough, I couldn't walk ten miles, and I saw a large village courtyard in front of me, and a famous housekeeper greeted him at the door, first nodded and let the group of rich monks in, and then his back was instantly straightened, his neck was stalked, his head was held high, and a pair of small eyes were shining and glanced at Wei Wencheng against the lower edge of his eye sockets: "Who are you? Where are you from?"

Wei Wencheng said that I am a walking monk from the north of Nanchen, and my legal name is ...... Wen Cheng, I heard that the monks of your family were fasting, so he came to turn his fate before. The housekeeper pouted: "My lord is a monk who is a monk, not a monk." Wei Wencheng was anxious when he heard this, and immediately retorted: "Cows, horses, cats, and dogs, there are domestic and wild, and monks have to be wild?

The housekeeper sneered, stretched out his hand to block him, and refused to let him in, Wei Wencheng was about to break in, and was making noise, when he heard someone in the village door coughing and coughing, and said: "The owner of the village is a monk, how can you talk about rich and poor? "Listening to the tone, it doesn't look like it's from this family.

But the butler was half a cut short on the spot, quickly turned around, and bowed his hand respectfully: "The pawn is reproached." Immediately, I saw a person walking out of the door, with a pale golden face, a short beard, wearing a scholar's attire, looking Wei Wencheng up and down a few times, and asked him: "But if you are a monk, you can fast, I don't know if it is a real monk or a fake monk?

Wei Wencheng said in his heart that Your Excellency is really as wise as a torch, and I really can't be regarded as a true monk...... As for chanting sutras, I don't know if the sutras count, so I immediately put my hands together, recite the Buddha's name, and then casually recite a short passage from the "Treatise on the Twelve Gates": "There are two kinds of dharma that arise from all causes, one is inside and the other is outside. There are also two kinds of fate, one inside and the other outside. External causes, such as the mud ball to the rope potter, etc., are combined, so there is a bottle birth, and such as the harmony of the rope machine, the rope machine, the master and so on, so there is a superimposed birth......"

The scholar raised his hand, his palm lit up, meaning Wei Wencheng, you can stop talking: "The treatise is also the same scripture, you can recite it, or you can be a true monk - you can enter and eat fast." Wei Wencheng was overjoyed, and hurriedly followed this person into the door. While leading the way, the man asked him where he came from and where he was going, Wei Wencheng probably said it, and asked the person's name, and the other party replied: "A certain surname is Gu, and he is a pawn in the state, and the owner of the village here is surnamed Hu, and my friend is also." ”

Entered the courtyard, made a few turns, and came to the main hall before Wei Wencheng took a look and drank, I heard that the monks were fast, and there were really a lot of monks and wild monks running from everywhere, not just the previous reinforced platoon. The boss of the reinforced platoon had already stepped down and sat down in the hall, and the rest of the monks were all under the hall, sitting on the table, sweeping over at a glance, almost enough for a company, and some of them had already begun to shake off their cheeks and chew desperately.

Gu Dianqi pointed to a position in the corner, Wei Wencheng thanked him, walked over to remove the back frame, and sat down cross-legged. In a short time, a little servant came over with a short-legged food table and placed it in front of him. Wei Wencheng's eyes widened and there was a bowl of brown rice, a bowl of clear soup with a few vegetable leaves floating on it, and a plate of pickles, and - a chicken wing!

The monks of the Southern Dynasty were influenced by Xiao Yan's old thief, and most of them changed to vegetarianism, and they couldn't imagine that the monks in the Northern Qi Dynasty had not been contaminated with such bad habits. Wei Wencheng couldn't help but be overjoyed, and when he lifted the chopsticks, he was about to send the chicken wings to his mouth, and suddenly heard a series of crisp sounds not far from him, and turned his head to take a look, it turned out that there was a monk who kicked the food table over, standing there with a pestle, raising his eyebrows, and screaming loudly:

"He is on the top and I am sitting down, he ** Liang and I am rough, his meal is anointed and I chew the skin and bones, the same Shamen, the same Buddha, how to treat the difference?

I saw that this monk was in his forties, with a height of 1.8 meters, and was born with long hands and feet, a Chinese face, two curved eyebrows, a straight nose and a wide mouth, and two ears and shoulders...... Let's put it this way, if you say what the Buddha and Bodhisattva should look like, according to the appearance of this monk, no one will say that it is not like it......

It's a pity that a solemn face of a treasure is not equipped with a robe and a crown, this monk is dressed more decently than Wei Wencheng, and it is estimated that it is for this reason that he was driven to eat fast in a corner of the courtyard. But when the monk saw the meal, he jumped up, and made a noise on the spot, almost every sentence hit Wei Wencheng's heart - oh, only one point, Wei Wencheng didn't think that chicken wings were inferior to chicken legs or chicken breasts, and only those who would eat wings would eat them. Duck butt has the most oil, but is it really delicious?

It seems that the monk's words not only made Wei Wencheng nod, but also resonated with many "wild monks" and "poor monks", and immediately jumped up several times, echoing and cheering. The servants who served the food next to him were all dumbfounded, but the Gu Dianqi reacted the fastest, came down from the hall first, pointed to the calling monk and asked, "Who are you?"

The monk glared and replied loudly: "Shu monk Yuan Song." ”

Gu Dianshi said with a smile: "The monks are vain and happy, and they are angry, how can they be yes?"

Monk Yuan Song sneered: "But I know that all living beings are equal, and monks should be more equal. ”

At this time, the owner of the village also came out of the hall, a little old man who looked like he was in his fifties, and arched his hand towards Yuan Song and several other noisy monks, explaining that I didn't deliberately divide the monks into three, six, nine, etc., but I really had something to ask a few monks to help, so I let them go to the hall to facilitate their talking.

Wei Wencheng said in his heart that the hall was so far away, and I couldn't see what the old monks in robes were eating, but this Yuan Song had good eyesight.

Seeing Yuan Song, he pouted: "What can he do? All the chanting, teaching, and Dharma affairs, how can I say that I can't?"

Several old monks in the hall also came out to see the excitement, and one of the monks pointed at the halberd and asked: "Exorcise evil spirits and eliminate filth, chase demons and destroy monsters, can you do it?!"

Yuan Song couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, frowned and asked, "There are monsters in Guizhuang?" and then looked up to the sky and laughed: "You are wrapped in golden clothes, the scriptures are familiar, and you can subdue demons and subdue demons......?"