Chapter 49: The Cycle of Life and Death
The jujube red horse was old and strong, and after running sixty miles in one breath, there was white foam at the corner of the mouth, Yun Chu had to change horses, and let the jujube red horse run behind, but without the load of Yun Chu, it felt that it could do it again, and ran to the front again.
Running from Mount Tai to Fanyang, that is, Zhuozhou, there is not a thousand miles, after walking some mountain paths, Yun Chu calculated, at most nine hundred miles.
So, he arrived in Zhuozhou on the morning of the fourth day.
The mountains here are still the same, but the huge north is not visible. Capital.
Zhuozhou is a small city, but there is a big incredible wall, this is the main feature of a military city, there are few people when it is peaceful, once it is wartime, it is overcrowded.
Because of the relationship between Xue Rengui and Hao Chujun in the military camp state, Zhuozhou City is now overcrowded, and the city is full of people and auxiliary soldiers drawn from Hebei and Shandong, as for the real government soldiers, they are all stationed in the city at this time.
If Yun Chu wanted to find Guo to be sealed in this city full of resentment without revealing his identity.
But it doesn't matter, Di Renjie has already found Guo Beifeng's three sons, and these three sons will definitely take Yun Chu to find Guo Beifeng.
So, Yun Chu left Zhuozhou City and went all the way north.
Yun Chu remembered very clearly that there should be a Baihua Mountain in the north of Zhuozhou, which was the only place where he could leave Zhuozhou and go north, and it was also the best place for Di Renjie to snipe Guo Beifeng for him.
The flowers on Baihua Mountain have now withered, only the green pines and cypresses are still there, and when the scattered snow falls, Yunchu stops in front of a dilapidated temple.
Yun Chu took off his armor and was a monk, although the rush along the way made fine hair stubble grow on his head, and when he put on the monk's robe, he still looked like a monk.
In order not to startle the snakes, the twelve cavalrymen took the jujube red horses to the back of the temple and set up camp.
Although the temple is dilapidated, the Garan Hall in the middle is still intact.
Yun Chu paced into the Garan Palace, and when he looked up, he saw Guan Yunchang.
This made Yun Chu think for a long time before he remembered that this should be a temple belonging to the Tiantai Sect, and only the Tiantai Sect would include Guan Yunchang in the scope of the Eighteen Garan Gods.
It was because Guan Yunchang had not had enough time to be carried to the altar that the incense in this temple would wither so much that he could not support the monks in the temple, and he fled to other places to worship the gods who could bring them more food and goods.
This is a helpless thing, you can't just find a historical celebrity and say that he is a god, after all, the people who come to worship God and give money for incense are not all fools.
The old gods always get more incense than the new gods.
According to legend, the founder of the Tiantai Sect of the Sui Dynasty, the wise master, once entered the Yuquan Mountain in Jingzhou, and heard a voice in the air: "Return my head!" Give me back! Screams.
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, Guan Yu and Wei Dao Bodhisattva have called Buddhism the two major protectors of the temple, Jialan Bodhisattva is the right protector, and Wei Dao Bodhisattva is the left protector.
There are many stories in Buddhism that are very beautiful and very alarming.
For example, since the temple has eighteen divine protections, those who live in it should also be self-motivated, and should not be lazy, for fear of retribution.
Yun Chu felt that it was excellent for Guo Zhifeng to accept the current world newspaper here.
I found a small pine tree as a broom, and calmly began to clean this Garan Temple.
After he got water, he cleaned Guan Yunchang, and re-lit the eyes of Guan Yunchang's seated statue with ink, so that Guan Yunchang's eyes could be bright and he could see more clearly.
Although the sitting statue is broken and an arm is missing, in any case, for God, the body can be mutilated, but the eyes cannot be blind.
The cold wind swept scattered snowflakes through the holes in the roof, and the cold was unusually cold, so Yun Chu lit a fire in this Garan Temple, hung the copper kettle on the fire to boil water and drink pots of tea.
The fragrance of tea filled the Jialan Palace, Yun Chu filled a cup of tea with a porcelain cup and offered it to Guan Yunchang in front of his seat, and when he was about to go back to drink tea, he felt a little snub Guan Erye, and put a dry cake and a handful of dried fruits.
Seeing the fragrance of tea, Guan Erye should have felt his sincerity, so he sat on the edge of the fire, pierced a cake with a branch, and drank sweet pots of tea while baking cakes.
Unconsciously, three days had passed since Yun Chu had been with Guan Er Ye in this Garan Palace.
Broken temples, monks, fragrant tea, cold wind, snow, bonfires, and half-scrolls of scriptures have constituted the elements of recruiting all demons and monsters in Yun Chu's opinion, but the first person to push the door in is a woodcutter in rags.
The woodcutter may not be good at words, and he is also a timid person, seeing that Yun Chu, a monk, is in the Garan Temple, Lian Shili prepared to withdraw from the Garan Hall, until he saw the copper kettle hanging on the bonfire, the exquisite teacup in front of Yun Chu, and the not-so-small cowhide backpack behind him, he did not withdraw again, but leaned the firewood against the wall, pretending to be sleepy, and leaning on the offering table to pretend to sleep.
Yun Chu was a monk, so he naturally had a good heart, so he said to the woodcutter: "How about coming over and roasting the fire together?" ”
The woodcutter immediately opened his eyes, rubbed his hands and leaned over and said, "How good is this, how good is this." ”
Yun Chu smiled and handed the woodcutter a dough cake, signaling that he could bake it and eat it.
When the woodcutter saw that it was a white flour cake, he took it tremblingly, and learned from Yun Chu's appearance to bake it on a branch, and after baking it for a while, he devoured the whole white flour cake, and after he licked the dregs in his palm into his mouth, he looked directly at the bread in Yun Chu's hand and said, "Monk, give me your bread too." ”
Yun Chu is a monk, naturally good as a stream, the Buddha has a good act of cutting meat to feed the eagle, Yun Chu naturally will not be stingy with half a piece of bread, so he smiled and gave the remaining half of the cake to the woodcutter.
The woodcutter devoured half of the bread again, and felt thirsty, so he said to Yun Chu, "Give me your water." ”
Yun Chu looked at the woodcutter with a mouth full of yellow teeth, and then looked at his white porcelain tea set, then shook his head and said, "You have a water bladder." ”
When the woodcutter heard this, he was furious, pulled out a firewood knife from his waist, and was about to fiercely slash at Yun Chu's neck.
Just when Yun Chu's fate was hanging by a thread, the dilapidated gate of the Garan Hall was once again violently kicked open, and a roe deer-headed guy stretched his neck to look inside, and found that a woodcutter was about to kill a monk with a firewood knife, so he retracted his head and said to the outside: "There is only one woodcutter, one monk, and the woodcutter is about to kill the monk." ”
Immediately, a group of people rushed in the dilapidated Garan Palace, and Yun Chu looked at the woodcutter with a smile and said, "Do you still want to kill me?" ”
The woodcutter's face was like earth, he knelt in front of Yun Chu with a puff, threw away the firewood knife, and reached out to pump his mouth, he hit it very hard, which made Yun Chu feel unbearable, so he said calmly: "I forgive you." ”
"Hahahaha......" The crowd that rushed into the Garan Hall leaned back and laughed.
Yun Chu waited for these people to finish laughing, and then said calmly: "He just wants to get some goods to go back to honor his mother, what's so ridiculous?" ”
A strong man walked out of the crowd, kicked over the woodcutter, stepped on the woodcutter's face with his foot, looked down at Yun Chu and said: "Monk, you chant the scriptures and are stupid, he wants to kill you, you still forgive him, if it weren't for our brother who happened to come over, you would have died a long time ago." ”
Yun Chu calmly looked at the fierce strong man and said, "He killed me is his sin, if you kill him, it will be your sin." ”
The strong man said in surprise: "You mean, it is right for him to kill you, and it is not right for me to kill him?" ”
Yun Chu clasped his hands together and said: "Amitabha, it is not right to kill, donor, the murderer will always kill him." ”
The strong man kicked the woodcutter away, approached Yun Chu and said: "The monks killed by a certain family are not few, and it is the first time I have met a monk like you who is not afraid of death, and said, what is your conspiracy to come to my Baihua Mountain?" ”
Yun Chu said: "Look at your hideous faces, it's annoying, could it be that you are the king of this Hundred Flowers Mountain?" ”
The strong man patted his chest and said, "That's right, Lao Tzu is Liu Hong, the leopard of Baihua Mountain." ”
Yun Chu said: "The poor monk advised Lord Liu to be kind, and never make himself full of evil. ”
Before Liu Hong, the leopard in the mountain, was about to speak, a feather arrow broke through the window and accurately hit Liu Hong's temple, and the power of this arrow was amazing, piercing Liu Hong's head.
Seeing Liu Hong fall on the fire like a wooden head, and a pair of eyes were still staring at Yun Chu, Yun Chu sighed and said: "The poor monk said that you must not make yourself to the point of being full of evil, you see, this retribution is coming so quickly." ”
Just as Yun Chu was speaking, the sound of feather arrows breaking through the air appeared again, the tallest of the bandits, his neck was pierced by feather arrows, he struggled to pull out the feather arrows, but the feather arrows were pulled out, but there were two more bloody holes in his neck.
The robbers in the hall scattered and took refuge, but no matter how they dodged, a feathered arrow would always find them and kill them one by one.
When the remaining five robbers saw that it was not a matter of hiding for them, they shouted and rushed out, and immediately more feathered arrows flew and pinned them to the ground one by one.
Yun Chu saw that there was not much water in the copper kettle, so he used a wooden spoon to dig a spoonful of water from the bucket next to him and added it to the copper kettle, and continued to drink his own pot of tea under the frightened gaze of the woodcutter.
The next moment, a bearded bearded man walked in from outside, he kicked and flew down to the edge of the fire and kept looking at Yun Chu's dead robber, and then looked at Yun Chu with smoky gray eyes and said, "Where is the master stationed in Xi?" What is the legal number? ”
Yun Chu clasped his hands together and said: "The poor monk comes from Guangfu Temple in Taishan, and his law name is Wukong." ”
Hu Ren nodded, put away the longbow in his hand and said: "Master Wukong, I can see that you are a high-ranking monk, but unfortunately, in this ruined temple today, something big has happened, and a certain family here asks the master to pass away on the spot." ”
(End of chapter)