Chapter 17: Master Tianzhu
In a blink of an eye, all the trees in the Shaowu Palace withered, and it was late autumn.
Weiwei leaned on the couch with a warm pillow, quietly looking at the scenery outside the window, and there was a hand-copied scripture book beside her, which made her have a headache.
"Niangniang, Master Xie Jing Xie is visiting." Laurel came in and passed it on.
"Let him in." Wei Wei immediately sat upright, and after quelling the civil strife, she hadn't seen Master Xie for a while, and she didn't know what he was busy with recently.
Xie Jing walked in quickly, "Say hello to Niangniang!" Master Tianzhu has arrived in Beijing. ”
Vivi hurriedly asked, "What did you tell him?" ”
"Wei Chen just said that he got an ancient scripture here, and he wanted to ask him to help take a look at it, but he didn't say much else."
"Well, then, I'll go with you to see him, I've copied the golden Sanskrit characters on the rubbing, so I'll let him translate them for us."
Saying that, Wei Wei called Yue Gui, informed Emperor Hui, brought two guards, and everyone changed into palace clothes, and the entourage who pretended to be Xie Jing went out of the palace gate.
Out of the palace gate, the carriage went all the way west, gradually leaving the noisy market, and went to the Mituo Temple at the foot of Lushan in the western suburbs, Xie Jing stopped the coachman, and the mermaids jumped out of the carriage.
Mida Temple covers a small area, built around the mountain, the mountain is full of trees, from the outside, I don't know that there is a temple inside.
"This master of Tianzhu is proficient in various languages, according to him, he has traveled to many places and has a wide range of knowledge, and everyone calls him 'Master Guangzhi'." Xie Jing said.
When everyone entered the temple, they found that the temple was really dilapidated, there were no pilgrims, and even the novice was nowhere to be seen.
"Master Xie, how did your people bring the master to such a place?" Wei Wei was puzzled, thinking that this is not a shame on our Chinese compatriots, so she will arrange to go to a temple with a lot of incense and oil!
"Niangniang, this is Master Guangzhi's own meaning, and we don't want to interfere too much."
All right! If you want to come to Buddhism to get a master, you are different from ordinary people.
"Master Guangzhi, Master Guangzhi!" The people were divided and searched in all directions.
"There's someone here!" One of the guards was the first to notice.
Weiwei and the others immediately ran over, it turned out to be the backyard of the temple, the stream that flowed down from the mountain, flowed down to the lower part and accumulated into a shallow pool, the water of the pool was overgrown with grass and trees, and an old man was leaning on a withered willow trunk to catch fish in this pool.
The guards were the first to run to Lao Suo, wanting to inquire about the situation in the temple, and found that he was asleep, and the fishing rod was at his feet, and the movement of everyone back and forth could not wake him up.
Xie Jing stepped forward to take a look, beckoned, lowered his voice and said, "Don't look for it, this is Master Guangzhi." ”
"Huh? This is the Tianzhu monk? It's really different! The guard shouted.
"You guys be quiet, Master Guangzhi should be settled, don't disturb him, let's wait here for a while!"
Although they felt weird, everyone still listened to Lord Xie's words and found a place to rest first.
Wei Wei found a place not far from Master Guangzhi and sat down, and carefully looked at the old man in front of her. It looks no different from the ordinary old man in the Central Plains, the body is actually the dress of a layman, a coarse cloth robe, so shabby that he can't see the original color, his face is darker, probably because of the perennial eating and sleeping in the open, his body is thin and shriveled, his knees are bent and sitting, his hands are on his laps, and his eyes are closed. Wei Wei thought that maybe the more unfathomable a person is, the more ordinary his appearance is!
Everyone waited and waited, and Master Guangzhi had no intention of waking up. The sky is getting darker, and the temple is already in the middle of nowhere, and it is a little uninhabited.
"Are we going to wait like this?" Wei Wei saw that everyone was impatient, and asked Xie Jing, "Master Xie, I heard that some high-ranking monks can enter for a few days and nights." ”
"Isn't it! A ruined temple in the wilderness, the master is not afraid that he will be eaten by wild beasts? "Laurel was a little scared.
"Wild beasts don't, wild dogs can." Xie Jing was also hesitating about what method to use to wake up Guangzhi, the old man opened his eyes and spoke, his Chinese pronunciation was very standard, and he dared to listen to the noise of this big group of people.
Xie Jing hurriedly stepped forward and saluted respectfully, "Master, the student is disturbed!" ”
Guangzhi got up slowly, and Wei Wei saw that his eyes were deep and large, his eyes were black and white, and the bridge of his nose was as firm as an eagle's hook.
"Xie Xiaoyou has been waiting for a long time, please come with me," he said, without looking at everyone, put away the fishing rod, and walked towards the main hall of the temple.
The dust has accumulated on the main hall of Mida Temple for a long time, and the golden body of the Buddha statue is mottled and cracked, but the treasure is solemn, and it still gives people a sense of sacred awe.
Guangzhi lit three sticks of incense in the incense burner in front of the Buddha statue and bowed a few times. Turning around and sitting on the futon on the side of the hall, Xie Jing stepped forward and knelt down together, took out the golden Sanskrit text given by Weiwei, and handed it to Guangzhi.
Guangzhi raised the Sanskrit text in his hand and looked at it carefully, an incredible look appeared on his face, and asked, "Xie Xiaoyou, this should be a manuscript, where is the original picture?" ”
Xie Jing raised his eyes and looked at Wei Wei who was standing on the side, and only said, "Don't hide it from the master, the student is also entrusted by others, so I don't know much about it." Did the Master see what this verse says? ”
"This is an ancient witchcraft term that has been lost for a long time, just like the music of vocal music, if it is deciphered in Chinese characters, it has no special meaning, and it mainly has to be combined with other things, such as pills and the like, to make the spell work." Guang Zhi said, "This is my Tianzhu own, I don't know who passed it to the Central Plains, it is said that this witch spell is too demonic, Xiaoyou also has to tell your friend, don't set yourself on fire." ”
"Can the Master tell me what this spell is for?" Xie Jing asked.
"When I was traveling with Master when I was a teenager, I saw a heretic with a profound and strange way of using this method to resurrect the dead and demonize the living in order to achieve immortality." Guangzhi said, "After demonization, it is invulnerable, and it is not born or destroyed." But this is unusual. ”
When Vivi Xie Jing heard this, she couldn't help but think of the corpses in the valley, which were indeed as the master said.
"If you don't live or die, you don't enter reincarnation, if you are a demon, if you demonize the world, where will there be a pure land?" Guangzhi continued.
"May I ask the master, is there such a demon in this world now?" Vivi couldn't help but ask.
"Yes, naturally!" Guangzhi looked at Vivi, "Otherwise, you wouldn't have gotten this spell, which means that someone knows its origin and wants to use it to do evil." ”
The owner of this spell is the Emperor, could it be that the Emperor wants to pursue the art of immortality?
In this way, there is a high probability that the former emperor is still in the world.
Since he has gained immortality but does not show his face, is it as the master said, he has already demonized?
Wei Wei thought of the long worms coiled in the bellies of the guards in the valley, and it seemed that the price of seeking immortality should not be small, "Master, the so-called immortality is demonization, and the little woman thinks that it is because of the symbiosis between people and that monster that the goal of immortality can be achieved?" In other words, he is no longer a real person, but is controlled by monsters. ”
"That's what it means, but I don't know exactly what the truth is." Guangzhi said, "Is there any reason why you are so interested in this? The person who can get this witch spell must not be simple. ”
"Master, then, let's go back and tell that friend what the master said, and see how he goes. Thank you for your advice this time, if there is something you don't understand later, you may have to trouble the master. Xie Jing shook again and again.
"Don't bother, don't bother, although you come, the poor monk and the monk of this Mida Temple have an old covenant late, waiting for him to return here, there is still more than a month to go, Xie Xiaoyou and everyone can often come to sit."
"Thank you, Master!" Xie Jing said goodbye to the master, and before leaving, he instructed the accompanying guards to buy some rice, grain, and daily necessities regularly and send them to the temple.