Chapter 14: Taoist Priests, Monks, and Court Judgments

In Bai Zeqing's thirteen years of life, she has recruited a dog to ride a horse, and this is probably the most bumpy mount she has ever ridden, which is even better than the time she went up the mountain - she was awakened suddenly.

In the sound of wind, rain, thunder and lightning, Bai Zeqing had a splitting headache and his eyes were black.

It's so dark, what the hell is this place?

Am I dead?

Then she smelled the familiar scent of sorrel.

Not dead?!

She wore a Taoist robe over her head, and she silently peeked through the cracks in her clothes at the Taoist priest who was soaked in the rainstorm.

Although this Taoist priest was greedy for money and owed, unreasonable and strong, he disliked her from beginning to end from the inside out, and fooled her into standing in the broken stone in the backyard of the broken Taoist temple in the middle of the night and almost died...... In short, there are a lot of shortcomings -

But now he held her to his chest and draped her over his coat, which, though torn and wet, was genuine in his arms and protected.

I don't know why, Bai Zeqing has only known this unreliable Taoist priest for a day, and has experienced all kinds of bizarre and absurd, but she can feel his straightforwardness and kindness, and has an inexplicable sense of closeness in this absurd thing between life and death.

Bai Zeqing's nose was sour, his eyes were hot, he tasted it carefully for a while, and willingly believed in this Taoist priest, and made up his mind - even if this Taoist priest was full of, he lied to her for three thousand taels, and she forgave her.

Then in this bump and headache, I passed out with peace of mind.

……

Bai Zeqing was woken up by a nightmare.

The clay sculpture that had just opened her eyes and was close at hand was startled, and for a moment she thought that she was in the Yama Palace, and she looked around in shock:

The clay statue in the middle of the main hall is the double-sided Medicine Buddha. I saw that the top of the Buddha's head was a cyan bun, his ears were hanging down his shoulders, he was dressed in gorgeous Buddha clothes, sitting on the lotus platform, his face was charitable, and his demeanor was solemn. On one side, the hand knot method defines the seal, and on the other hand, the hand makes the fearless seal, and there is a cyan vase. The left and right sides of the main hall serve the Sunlight Bodhisattva and the Moonlight Bodhisattva.

This is the Yama Palace, which is clearly a medicine hall.

When Bai Zeqing woke up, she was half-leaning on the futon on the left side of the Medicine King Palace, and the clay sculpture that startled her was the Sunshine Bodhisattva on the left.

At this moment, she was completely unfrightened, and all her attention was attracted by the walls of the Medicine King Palace.

The four walls are all uncommon with a black background, except for one side with a main entrance and double windows, the other three walls are decorated with white, gold, red, blue, and green as the main colors, and are painted with patterns such as herbs, consultations, and healing.

Looking at the outline lines and coloring, they are all thangka drawing methods that Bai Zeqing has been familiar with since he was a child.

She couldn't help but walk to the wall and take a closer look:

On one wall is a mantang (Note (1)), and a mantang is composed of a hundred delicate and complete small patterns. The three walls are composed of more than 400 small pictures, which draw the structure of the human body, meridian acupuncture points, various herbs and usage, looking, palpating, questioning, and even fire moxibustion and bloodletting acupuncture points, as if it is a medicine scripture.

In the Medicine Master Palace, Bai Zeqing looked at the wall and watched it with relish, completely immersed in it.

Outside the Medicine King Palace, on the hundred-step long steps covered by green pines, the Taoist priest took the lead, and the gourd on his waist shook when he walked, and the hole in the Taoist robe was very conspicuous.

Behind him, one left and one right, followed by an old monk in a jade-colored regular robe with a cyan robe, and a middle-aged man in the judge's uniform of the Xuanyu Academy.

The middle-aged man said with a sincere face: "This time it's really thanks to the Immortal Chief!" If it weren't for the immortal chief to break this evil formation in time, I am afraid that the entire Yuanzhou City would become a ghost in the world. The tone was a little high with excitement.

Hearing this voice, the old monk couldn't help but look sideways slightly. However, the Xuanyu Yuan is only an institution under the jurisdiction of the Supervision Yuan under the Heavenly Oracle Division, which registers and manages the cultivation sects in various places, and this Taoist priest is holding the highest-level token of the Heavenly Oracle Division, which is equivalent to the Shangguan of the Liu Yuan, so his attitude is understandable.

"It doesn't matter." The Taoist priest's steps were steady, and his tone was cold.

The old monk said the Buddha's name, and said slowly: "Those evil cultivators cover up the Taoist temple in the place where the mountain top looks at the water and the yin, and they set up such a gathering of evil arrays to practice, which is really a great crime. When the abbot found out about this, he immediately reported it to the Heavenly Oracle Division, and the national teacher also sent several immortal masters to come to eradicate the evil cultivators, set up a formation to cast spells, and let the evil qi not gather, which has also been calm for nearly a hundred years. ”

The Taoist priest frowned.

Liu Yuan's judgement has been in the officialdom for more than ten years, and he has been staring at the Taoist priest's expression and movements, and when he saw him frowning, he hurriedly said: "The pumice stone formation laid by the immortal elders back then could only suppress the evil formation, not directly break the formation. ”

According to the documents of the Xuanyu Academy, after the Heavenly Oracle Division joined forces to kill the evil cultivators, they arranged the pumice stone formation to suppress the evil formation. The rest did not show much, so Liu Yuanju didn't know why he didn't break the formation directly.

The old monk also realized that what he had just said was suspected of questioning the strength of the Heavenly Oracle Division, and hurriedly said, "It's a poor monk who is abrupt. ”

The Taoist priest only nodded, without much expression.

Yuan Liu couldn't help but ask: "The evil array has been suppressed by the immortal masters for a hundred years, it is very calm, and it has to ensure that the feng shui of Yuanzhou is not broken, but I don't know why it is suddenly ...... this time All of a sudden......"

"There are more than 10,000 undead in Ningzhou, and the evil spirit is very heavy."

The Taoist priest's tone was already visibly impatient.

The corners of Liu Yuanju's mouth twitched, and he hurriedly said: "I see, tens of thousands of undead, no wonder they can break through the pumice stone henge." Fortunately, the immortal chief came in time, and he has such a great magical power......"

As he was talking, he caught a glimpse of the old monk shaking his head, panicking in his heart, and forgetting the rest of his words.

As the Xuanmen supervisor of the Yuanzhou Prefecture, the court judgment issued by the Wen Mu, he still knows a little about this Cifa Zen master, this old monk is the abbot's junior brother, the first seat of the Dharma Hall, the subtlety of Buddhism has nothing to say, but the nature is wooden, and he has always spoken straightforwardly, and it is easy to offend people.

At this time, Liu Yuan sentenced him to sweat, for fear that he would say something that he shouldn't say, and he looked at the old monk again and again.

The Zen Master Cifa didn't notice it, and he couldn't help but ask, "The poor monk has a trace of doubts, I don't know how the donor learned that the pumice stone henge was broken, and the poor monk only knew it last night when he saw the demon wind raging......

Liu Yuan's sentence breathed a sigh of relief: It's okay, it's okay.

"The stone is broken." The Taoist priest's voice was flat.

Zen Master Cifa was stunned for a moment before he understood the meaning of this sentence, and couldn't help but muttered in shock: "Donor, did you perceive the shattering of the array stone?" ”

Liu Yuanju's heart was also swaying, his expression became more respectful, and his tone became more excited: "Immortal Elder Divine Power!" No wonder, no wonder! Back then, several immortal masters failed to break the formation, and the immortal chief, you relied on your own strength, and your forehead ......"

He looked at the Medicine Master Hall on the steps, as if he remembered that when this immortal chief came to the Xuanyuan with the Heavenly Oracle Commander card, he was still holding a person in his arms, but he didn't know if that person was also an immortal master of the Heavenly Oracle Division, could it be that he was injured and unconscious because of the broken formation? That's not on your own.

However, he has always been accustomed to patting horses, so he changed the topic very freely after a moment, and said with a smile: "Last night, the matter was urgent, and we were ordered to deal with the aftermath before we had time to entertain the immortal chief, and the lower official has ordered someone to clean and arrange the two wings of the Xuanyuan Courtyard, the immortal chief and the one in the medicine hall...... That immortal master can ...... today."

"Not necessarily." The Taoist priest interrupted his chatter, and last night he refused to rest in the wing room and chose the Medicine Master Hall because the abbot drew the medicine scripture thangka there and the qi left behind was beneficial to stabilizing Bai Zeqing's damaged spirit and the puppet spirit. You don't need to explain this.

Zen Master Tzu Fa also said: "Xiao Shami cleaned two meditation rooms before the morning class, and the donor is not as good as ......."

"Not necessarily." The Taoist priest paused, but said more to the old monk, "The matter in Ningzhou is not settled, and I am afraid of resentment." ”