"Amitabha Buddha ......"

I rubbed my eyes, the sun was blocked by the old monk, and the residual light was still dazzling.

"Who are you?" I half-raised my head and looked at the old monk who gave the salute with one hand, and I felt a sense of peace in my heart.

"Since he is a destined person, the old man's name is 'Changming'." After speaking, the old monk half-bent down and picked me up.

I fell into his arms, watched the green cypress in the middle of the mountain, heard the wooden fish, and the Sanskrit sound was clear. I know that he is a monk in the earthen temple, but last night there was such a big fire in front of the mountain gate and no one came out, so why did he still look like no one was there this morning, and he didn't look at it.

The old monk carried me to the temple gate, looked at the three comfortable seal characters on the door - Wuliang Temple, did not wait for him to open the door, a little monk in his early twenties came out of the door, saw me stunned at first, and then his eyes became anxious, and said: "Master, why did you carry him back, this ......"

"Don't say much, open the courtyard door quickly." Changming said to the little monk.

The little monk shook his head and sighed bitterly, glanced at me, took me from Changming again, picked me up and ran towards a hut. I looked at this temple, counting the person who carried me, there were three little monks, but without exception, they all looked anxious when they saw me. One by one, they stopped chanting, stood up and watched me enter the hut.

The little monk put me on a bed, shook his head, and walked out. I don't understand why everyone wants to see me like a plague god, I don't know if this temple doesn't want to take in outsiders, or if it doesn't want to take me in.

was secretly wondering, but saw Changming push the door into the house, closed the door with his backhand, sat at the head of the bed, smiled, and said to me slowly: "Don't care, the little donor, that's the poor monk's inferior ...... who holds the precepts."

"Where is this?" I asked Changming.

"Tianping Mountain, Wuliang Temple." Changming replied slowly.

I was horrified inexplicably, I didn't expect that I ran to Tianping Mountain unconsciously, and hurriedly asked Changming: "How far is this from Taihu Lake?" ”

"Half a day." Changming replied.

"Oh?" Before I could think about it, I saw that Changming had already stood up, pressed my thighs with both hands, and lifted them up sharply, a crisp sound came, and I screamed in pain, and half sat up.

I suddenly reacted, my thigh actually felt pain, I slowly lifted my right leg, and sure enough, there was no such numbness. Secretly scolding Qiu Chengliang, this kid is really ruthless, he must have unloaded my leg bones, if it wasn't for this old monk to help me pick it up in time, I'm afraid I would have to rely on crutches for the rest of my life.

Thinking of this, I hurriedly thanked him, but seeing that he was rich and plump, with a wide forehead and a positive face, if he was born with such a face, if he was a monk, he would be the person in power in the great temple, how could he succumb to this immeasurable temple?

But what puzzled me even more was that last night the giant python was attached to everyone, how could he ignore it when he hissed, these six roots can be poured clean, so he asked: "Master Changming, you didn't see the giant python last night?" How do you act like you're nobody? ”

Chang Ming smiled and said to me: "It's all cause and effect, and it was because of this python that Lao Wei lived here and built this Wuliang Temple." ”

Changming led me outside the monastery, but there was no trace of his apprentices. He pointed to a cave in the back mountain and talked about the python.

On an early summer morning, this small village near the mountains was unusually quiet, and most of the people had not yet risen, but they heard the shouting of a little boy, who took a branch in his hand, rubbed his eyes, and drove the old ox up the hill in boredom.

He was thirteen years old, but he had been herding cattle for five years, and he knew every tree on the mountain, knew where the grass was fertilized, and knew which dung was pulled by his own oxen. But every time before going out to herd cattle, his mother would tell him not to go near the cave on the cradle slope of the back mountain, because people and domestic animals often disappeared there, and gradually the people of the village regarded it as a forbidden place.

But the little boy didn't care, because only the grass there was the fattest, and the terrain was the flattest, and if he was lucky, he could fly there for a while.

On this day, the little boy, as usual, drove the oxen there, and lay down on the grass and thought to himself, "If only I could fly a little longer!" It's similar to the gods. ”

But what has always puzzled the boy is that his own cattle eat fat grass every day, why don't they grow two catties, he looked at the old scalper with a scalp and shook his head.

A cool breeze blew, and the little boy screamed and stood up, knowing that every time such a wind blew, he would fly far away.

The old scalper suddenly raised his head, his hooves parted, and he snorted twice. Suddenly, a huge suction force sucked the little boy into the air, and slowly drifted towards the cave of the half-stone cliff, but every time he floated to the entrance of the cave, he would fall for no reason, he wanted to climb in several times to see what was going on, but the cave was too high, and several attempts were unsuccessful.

In the evening, the little boy hummed a little song and drove the cattle home. But the child's mother frowned, looking at the child who was getting thinner day by day, and her heart became more and more anxious.

The mother asked the reason, and the little boy did not hide it, saying that he was a fairy every day, and he was beautiful, so how could he suddenly lose weight.

The child's mother was taken aback when she heard this, she didn't expect her own child to go there every day to herd cattle, this is still good, I have long heard of the goblin, this child must have been sucked by the goblin, so he will be so thin.

Early the next morning, the child's mother went to the village chief's house and asked the village chief to give him an idea. The village chief was also surprised when he heard this, and asked her to go to the town to find a Mr. Yin and Yang to see if she could get rid of the snake spirit.

She didn't dare to delay, and found the very famous Mr. Yin and Yang in the town that day, hoping that he could save his child, but before Mr. Yin and Yang could finish speaking, he only heard the words "Cradle Slope" and shook his head hurriedly.

Coincidentally, just in time for Changming to go down the mountain, passing by here, I saw a woman hiding her face and crying bitterly on the street corner, so she stepped forward to ask. The child's mother will definitely be able to save her child if she sees that she is a monk.

"Master, save my child...... "The child's mother knelt on the ground and cried bitterly.

Changming went down the mountain to promote Buddhism, but when he heard that this person was in trouble, he hurriedly helped her up and asked, "What is it that makes the donor so sad?" ”

After hearing this, the child's mother immediately stopped crying, wiped her tears, and said to Changming: "My child is like this, and it is like this...... In the past two days, I have been obsessed, my eyes are dark, and I am about to die. ”

Changming was also shocked after hearing this, listening to her narration, the python's cultivation was extremely high, and it could actually suck people's essence and blood in the air, but now he can't worry a lot, saving people's lives is better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter. He recited the Buddha's name and followed the woman into the village.

When Changming arrived at the woman's house, he saw a child sitting on a wooden bench, looking into the distance stupidly. Changming was shocked after reading it, seeing that the child's eyes were deep-set, and his face was dark, obviously he was sucked most of the essence blood by the python, if there were two more times, I am afraid that even the physical body would be sucked into the hole by the python essence.

Changming saw that the child's life was in danger, so he didn't dare to delay, so he went to Cradle Slope with a bold middle-aged man in the village to check out. So as to come up with a way to get rid of the evil python as soon as possible.

Although Taoism and Buddhism are widely spread among the people, the methods that can drive away evil are very different, Taoism mainly uses charms and five elements to use strong means to achieve the purpose of suppressing evil spirits. Buddhism is based on the universality of the truth, stressing goodness, and being able to do so, even if it can't be done, it will not be good at killing.

Changming was so kind-hearted at the beginning, which made the giant python more and more fierce and stirred up the lives of the people.

In the middle of the moon, the mountain road is cloudy and windy, and Changming looks up from time to time to watch the stars. Although there is no way to observe the wind in the Buddhist laws, after Buddhism was introduced to the Central Plains, in order to cater to the Central Plains folk idea of seeking benefits and avoiding disadvantages, a set of stargazing methods were created, called - Longzhong stargazing, which is not different from the Taoist crape myrtle stargazing method, which is a supreme and mysterious prediction method.

There was nothing unusual at the beginning of walking on the mountain road, but the closer to the cradle slope, the more dim the stars in the sky became, and the full moon was also covered with two layers of halo, so I guessed that the python spirit was absorbing the light of the stars and moon. If there are a few more days, I am afraid that the Arhat will not be able to descend into the world.

Thinking of this, Changming couldn't help but speed up his pace, but the man who had been leading the way for him was trembling with fright, unwilling to go any further, pointed to the cave in front of him, and said, "Master, you go by yourself, you can go back if you take a look, I'll go first." ”

The man was about to run away after speaking, but before Changming could react, he saw a giant python poking its head out of the cave in the middle of the mountain, and saw that the python's head was like Peng Gai, and its eyes were red. The blood-basin-like mouth suddenly opened.

Changming only felt that his body was unstable on his feet, and he was about to be sucked into the air by the big snake, and the wind swept the fallen leaves, and they were sucked into the mouth of the big snake.

Changming hung the rosary around his neck, relying on his martial arts, and grabbed a small tree in the chaos so as not to be sucked by the python essence. But as soon as he stabilized his body, he saw the man who had already run away, all the way backwards, screaming that he was swept up in the air by the wind.

He was anxious, and jumped to his feet, trying to grab the man, but only touched his shoes, and saw that the man was not in the python's mouth.

He somersaulted in the air, staggered to the ground, grabbed the weeds on the ground, but his feet were already in the air, and he saw the weeds in his hands break one by one, and some of them were even uprooted.

With a snort, Changming was swept into the air, and he was about to fall into the mouth of the python spirit, he was horrified in his heart, he had traveled so many immortal caves, but he had never seen such a powerful goblin.

I didn't dare to delay at the moment, hurriedly took off the rosary swaying around my neck, and torn it off fiercely, and one hundred and eight rosaries were scattered in an instant, leaving only a dozen or so in both hands.

Chang Ming snorted, followed the huge suction of the python, and threw the rosary in his hand with all his might. That string of prayer beads is the immeasurable samadhi blessed by several generations of monks in Hanshan Temple with Buddhism, which can be regarded as the treasure of the temple, but Changming can't take care of it at this time, and it is a trivial matter that he lost his life, and it is a big deal to ascend to bliss early. But the child's life may not be saved in a few days.

I saw that after the prayer beads were thrown, with the huge adsorption force of the python, the python's letter was penetrated in a blink of an eye, and the blood instantly filled the python's big mouth.

I saw that the python spirit looked up to the sky and hissed, then retracted his head into the hole, Changming also fell heavily to the ground, and when he landed, he felt the blood in the cavity surging endlessly, spit out a mouthful of blood, and returned to the village in embarrassment.

Although he did not surrender the python spirit this time, he thought of a way to deal with it, which could make the python spirit's path completely ruined, and he could no longer rise in the wind and waves.

In the early morning of the second day, the boy drove the ox to the cradle slope as usual, but there was an extra straw man the same size as him on the back of the ox, and the straw man was pierced by Changming so that the child's mother pierced it overnight, and put on the child's clothes, and sewed a large cloth pocket in the lining of the clothes, which was filled with fire and salt.

Fire nitrate is stone nitrate, also known as Beidi Xuanzhu, can produce high temperature when encountering water, and can also be used as medicine after processing, and the ancient alchemy is also indispensable to this thing, but the fire nitrate of Changming is not to reduce inflammation for the wound of the python essence.

The boy tied the ox to an old tree with a crooked neck, and saw that the branches of the old tree did not stretch out towards the sun, but in the direction of the cave.

With a stick of grass in his mouth, the boy sat on the ground and looked at the dark cave between the cliffs. A cool breeze blew, and the boy's expression changed suddenly, and he hurriedly lay on the ground, grabbing the weeds on the ground with both hands.

The old scalper, as usual, let out a muffled snort, split its hooves, and steadied itself. But the scarecrow on its back was not so peaceful, and its body kept shaking.

The cool breeze just now instantly turned into a roaring wind, sweeping up everything that could be swept away on the ground. The ox took a few steps backwards, and the boy was also freed by the vigorous sucking feet, clutching at the weeds on the ground.

But the scarecrow would not struggle, and his body was extremely brisk, and in an instant he broke away from the old ox's back, was sucked into the air by the python essence, and then submerged into the snake's mouth.

I saw that the moment the python swallowed the scarecrow, it suddenly closed its bloody mouth, screamed in pain, and its huge body churned in the cave, stirring up the cliff wall and flying the gravel.

The boy hurriedly protected his head and led the cow to run to Changming's side. Chang Ming recited the Buddha's name, and then saw the python spirit struggling out of the hole, churning on the ground, and he pounced out of a depression all over his body, and the soil was turned all over the sky.

The villagers who followed Changming were all shocked, they just heard the old man say about the python essence, and they also knew that the cradle slope was very evil, but they had never seen it with their own eyes, looking at the python struggling on the ground, the villagers changed color, and couldn't help but admire Changming's clever methods.

However, Changming attributed it to the Dharma. He said to the people, "Dharma is the condensation of wisdom, the source of all wisdom, and the home of all wisdom. There are many kinds of laws, but wisdom is needed to open them. ”

Everyone seemed to understand what they didn't understand, but they couldn't stop nodding. I just feel that what the master said makes sense.