Gushi Jiuhua Mountain, you can see the bamboo forest everywhere, lush and green, dancing with the wind, a tree on the mountain red maple, cochinus and fir, tea tree set off with each other, embellished into nine colors spread all over the mountains. The Liumeng River runs through the canyon throughout, and it is spring at this time, and the empty valley orchid quietly opens, and the fragrance is overflowing.

At the foot of the mountain, a young monk in a silk coat walked up, followed closely by a white dog behind him. This man was about twenty-four or five years old, with a peculiar appearance, a parietal bone towering, and an object about three feet long inserted into his waist, which was four-edged, slightly smaller at the upper end, and had a round handle at the lower end.

The monk looked up and saw that the mountain peak was like a lotus flower, the peaks and peaks were stacked, beautiful and strange, so in this mountain no one's place, dwelling in a cave, thirsty to drink stream water, hungry for white soil, although often stung by poisonous insects, also sat upright without thinking, put it calmly.

One day, the monk stood on the top of the peak and sighed: "Now that the sun is gone, who will have dreams?" The nine-colored lotus opens, and the green bamboo and red maple are opened. He threw the shovel into the river and drifted away.

This person is the Silla Kingdom (57 BC-935 is the kingdom of the Korean Peninsula and Goguryeo and Baekje) royal family Kim Qiao Jue, 24 years old lost his hair as a monk, sailed to the Central Plains, and then meditated hard in Qingyang Jiuhua Mountain, 75 years later, at the age of 99 after the death, his body was placed in the tank for three years, "open the letter to see it, the color is like life, the bones are moving, if the gold lock is shaken." "The disciples regarded him as the reincarnation of the Jizo King Bodhisattva and respected him as the Jizo Bodhisattva.

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More than 600 years later, in the thirty-first year of Hongwu (1398), Zhu Yuanzhang died, and Zhu Yunwen became the emperor, following the advice of the ministers Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng, and decided to cut the titles of several weaker princes first, and then attack the strongest Yan King Zhu Di, and the internal contradictions within the imperial family quickly intensified. Emperor Jianwen ordered his generals to monitor Zhu Di and wanted to take the opportunity to arrest him, but Zhu Di was forced to be helpless and immediately booby-trapped the generals who came to carry out the monitoring and arrest mission.

"Emperor Ming Zu Xun" said: "There are no ministers in the court, and there are treacherous people in it, so they will raise troops to punish them, and they will clear the side of the monarch." Zhu Di used this as a reason to accuse Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng of being traitors, and he must be punished, and called his actions "Jing Nan", that is, the meaning of Jing disaster, and raised troops to rebel against the imperial court in July of the first year of Jianwen (1399), which is known as the "Battle of Jing Nan".

At the end of the year, the war was still raging, and the people were struggling to make a living. On the second day of the winter month, in the Myoko Zen Temple in Jiuhua Mountain, Gushi, Henan, the main hall of the Jizo Palace's palace suddenly shook. Jiuhua Mountain is the Jizo King Bodhisattva Dojo, divided into East Jiuhua and West Jiuhua, East Jiuhua Mountain is located in Qingyang, Anhui Province, and West Jiuhua Mountain is Gushi, Henan. Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang was born as a monk, and attached great importance to Buddhism, and in the third year of Hongwu (1370), East Jiuhua and West Jiuhua jointly established Jiuhua Sect, which was called East Sect and West Sect.

When the monks saw the Tibetan palace in the temple suddenly shake, they thought it was an earthquake, but they saw that there was no movement in the other halls, and they were very strange. After a while, a disciple of the temple came to report, the direction of the Liumeng River Valley under the mountain was golden and the second elder Guangze led people to rush there, only to see a person crawling out of the lake, holding a thing in his arms and escaping quickly. Guangze chased after him, fighting and killing all the way, killing and injuring many people, but after more than 20 days, he let the man escape in Luzhou.

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"The sky and the water are connected, and the boats are endless. Who can shrink the earth, and who has the skill to divide the wind? The dew contains deep ink, and the morning sun baths in tender red. The four mountains are thousands of miles away, and it is difficult to get the same with the sunshine. This is the poem of the Song Dynasty Liu Chu, chanting Chaohu Lake surrounded by mountains, jagged and contrasting, beautiful scenery, thousands of postures, but there is another mystery in it, this is the next word.

At this time, Chaohu Lake was shrouded in heavy snow, and the sky and the earth were misty. Today is the second day of the lunar month, but a village named "Bian Wang" by the lake is full of lights, and the sound of firecrackers is endless, which is obviously a festive thing.

The rain and snow darkened early, and the lights came up in the evening, and the lights were even brighter in the Wang's house. Wang Yuan is nearly fifty years old, the eldest of six brothers and sisters in the family, and four daughters under his knees. As he gets older, his desire for his son fades. However, at the beginning of the year, his wife Wang Li was unexpectedly pregnant and gave birth to a son on the second day of the winter month. When he was old, Wang Yuanwai climbed to the mountain behind the village, facing Chaohu Lake, sometimes bent his knees and bowed his hands, sometimes raised his head and beat his chest, and he was already in tears.

Today's child is full moon, Wang Yuanwai set down three tables early, all the heads of the village gathered, congratulations and firecrackers are endless, more lively than the New Year. The wine was hot, and the king raised the wine glass and said loudly: "Fellow villagers, I have six brothers and sisters, five men and one woman, and they are prosperous. However, after us, there were more girls and fewer boys, and I didn't have a son until today, which is really insulting to my ancestors. With that, he drank the wine in his glass.

Everyone also raised their wine glasses, and someone responded loudly: "Big brother, you are highly respected in this neighborhood and village, and now you have a big fat boy, and you have also fulfilled everyone's wishes." ”

Wang Yuanwai laughed: "Don't dare to be, don't dare to be...... Today, the villagers are carrying love, and everyone is drunk happily. The crowd responded.

At this moment, the door was suddenly slammed open, and a cold wind swept the snowflakes into the room. Everyone stopped their cups and chopsticks in amazement and stared at each other. I saw a man fall to the ground, this person was only wrapped in a shabby cotton jacket and a ball of wraps in his arms.

Wang Yuanwai stepped forward to take a closer look and couldn't help but be surprised, it turned out that the upper corner of the package revealed the face of a baby, and through the light, it could be seen that the baby's face was red, his eyes were closed, and he was silent. The man leaned sideways, his face was blue, and he tried his best to protect the package, and there was a shaped object next to him, about three feet long, wrapped in a strip of blue cloth, and he didn't know what it was.

"Save ...... The kid ......" the man moved, *. Wang Yuanwai hurriedly beckoned everyone to come forward, and someone picked up the child and carefully inspected it under the light. The baby was about seven or eight months old, and his breathing was weak, but fortunately he was wrapped in a very thick quilt and his close-fitting cotton clothes were not wet. The man was lifted up, put him back in his chair, and held the stove close to him.

Someone brought a bowl of steaming fish soup, carefully fed the child with chopsticks, the child instinctively sucked, and after a while, the red face receded slightly, and everyone relaxed slightly. It's just that the man leaned on the chair, clinging to the stove, no matter how everyone moved, his eyes were still closed, and he seemed to faint.

At this time, Wang Yuanwai's third brother frowned, stretched out his right hand and two fingers on the man's wrist for a moment, and said: "Big brother, this person may be too tired, let him rest for a night, and talk about it tomorrow." ”

Bianwang Village is located near the mountain and lake, the location is remote, the village is not large, there are only more than 30 households, and there are few outsiders in ordinary times. The residents of the village are half farming and half fishing, the people are simple, what has happened tonight, they are a little at a loss, after listening to the words of the third brother, everyone nodded yes. Wang Yuanwai said: "The empty room in my backyard, everyone helped clean up and carry him over." The child will be taken care of by the third brother tonight, and will be sent over after dawn. ”

Everyone started to clean up the empty room in the backyard a little, set up the bed and bedding, and moved the man along with the stove. At this time, it was almost sun, and the snow was falling densely, and it hurt badly on my face.

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The snow stopped at some point, and the sun came out from the east. From afar, I saw that the mountains were covered with snow, undulating and undulating, and the lake was empty of sails, and the ice and snow shimmered with dazzling light under the sunlight. In the village, the ground, haystacks and roofs are covered with a layer of snow, and the bare black locust trees, with bunches of white flowers on their branches, are blown by the wind and fall, and a few magpies chirp to welcome the new day.

In the backyard outside the king, the man was lying on the bed and still not moving, his worn cotton jacket resting on the back of the chair, and the snow water in the cotton jacket was steaming from the stove. Wang Yuanwai and the third brother sat on the edge of the bed, staring at the man without saying a word. After a long time, the third brother called softly: "Brother, brother......"

The man's eyes suddenly opened: "What about Ping'er?" Where is this? ......" Wang Yuanwai hurriedly said: "Brother, this is my home, you fainted last night, and the child is now being taken care of." The man struggled for a moment, but snorted in pain, and finally closed his eyes weakly, and fell asleep again.

Three days later, the man was able to sit up, his face returned to normal, and he thanked Wang Yuanwai: "Thank you for saving your life, I can't bow down, please don't blame." Wang Yuanwai waved his hand again and again: "Where is the benevolence, the villagers here call me Big Brother, brother, if you don't dislike it, call me Brother Wang." ”

It turned out that this man's name is Zhu Zhi, a native of Zhujia Village, Gushi, Henan, a month ago, Zhu Zhi was chased and killed by the enemy, three people in the family died, he desperately escaped, all the way south, poor only six months old son, was held in his arms, but also bumpy all the way, sleeping in the open.

Seven days ago, Zhu Zhi finally got rid of the enemy in Luzhou, stood on the edge of Chaohu Lake, looked at the vast lake, and didn't know where to go for a while. I wanted to hire a boat to continue south, so that I could avoid the enemy and recover from my injuries, but I couldn't see any boats along the way, and after inquiring, I learned that there was no ferry to the south. In desperation, I had to find a cave, recuperate for two days, wait for my body to improve slightly, identify the direction, and continue to bury my head south along the lakeside.

Unexpectedly, for several days, there was not a single house to be seen on the road, and it snowed heavily the day before yesterday, and the white snow became more and more difficult to distinguish. The dry food on his body has been eaten, and there are only a few drops left in the child's goat milk bottle, and after covering it closely, he barely makes the child cry less. Knowing that he couldn't stay, Zhu Zhi could only grit his teeth and move forward, and finally saw Bian Wang Village, who collapsed at the door outside Wang Yuan at the moment of exhaustion.

Wang Yuanwai listened to Zhu Zhi's account and sighed: "Brother Zhu, don't think about it, it's a blessing to be able to escape." As the saying goes, 'Stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of running out of firewood.'" What matters now is to heal your wounds and raise your children. Zhu Zhi bowed down, buried his head in the quilt, and his shoulders twitched from time to time.