Chapter 226: Martyrdom
By dawn, only Hong Youde's D group had found nothing, and their hearts were very heavy when they heard the cries of Hong Fafu's mother, wife and relatives. This is different from ordinary funerals, where the remains of the deceased are placed in the mourning hall for the living to mourn or something, and now there is only Hong Fafu's half-amputated thigh with a foot attached, and then a pair of bloodstained gloves he wears, and nothing else.
Hong Youde saw that Boss Hong was sad and heartbroken, and walked around the entrance of the village after coming down the mountain, as if he had no claim, so he said to him, uncle, although there is no body, the coffin still needs to be prepared. Boss Hong didn't answer, only nodded. Suddenly, he wiped a handful of tears and said, it's not good if the coffin is empty.
Hong Youde moved his eyes and said I have thought of a way, is this okay? Find a carver to carve a statue of Fa Fu and put it in the coffin. Boss Hong still nodded. Hong Youde also said that there are wood carvings and stone carvings for statues, wood carvings are more expensive, and stone carvings are cheaper, which material do you think is used? Boss Hong spit out the word "stone", and Hong Youde turned around and shouted that a group of people were busy.
Hong Fafu's funeral has not yet been completed, and his spirit has already been sent to the palace of King Qin Guang in the underworld for trial.
Hong Fafu kept shouting injustice, saying that his death was not worth it, and he died a miserable death, and begged the king to send Yin soldiers to shoot the white-fronted tiger that bit him to death.
King Qin Guang and all the palace officials laughed, and some shook their heads while laughing. Hong Fafu cried and said, what are you laughing at, am I wrong?
King Qin Guang didn't laugh out loud, but said calmly, you are a delusion, it is impossible to do it. A palace official said, even if your king of the yang world is bitten to death by a tiger, and asks the underworld to send Yin soldiers to take revenge, it is in vain.
Hong Fafu immediately knelt down and kept bowing to King Qin Guang. King Qin Guang said, I don't need you to bow, what else do you have to say? Hong Fafu no longer bowed, just knelt and muttered, "King, that won't work, it's okay." Let me grow up again and become a hunter, and shoot that white-fronted tiger with a shotgun.
King Qin Guang said, your idea is also wrong, even if you take 10,000 steps back, according to your meaning, let you reincarnate and become a hunter when you grow up, have you thought about it, you have grown up, that white-fronted tiger with hanging eyes has already died of old age, even if it does not die of old age, it may be killed by other hunters, so it will not be successful. You don't talk about this, just go with the flow!
Hong Fafu said, King, I also ask one more thing, the yang and the underworld believe in cause and effect, what cause and effect does it belong to when I was bitten to death by the white-fronted tiger with hanging eyes? King Qin Guang said, yes, let you understand a period of cause and effect, so as not to keep complaining.
At that moment, King Qin Guang asked an official to bring a yin-yang mirror. The palace official walked in front of Hong Fafu and recited a spell to him with the yin-yang mirror, and immediately a thrilling scene appeared on the yin-yang mirror, only to see a lioness with a group of young lions in a dense forest, and an old male lion was tearing the skin and flesh of a dead hare and feeding it to the young lion little by little.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a young male lion sprang out, and the old male lion felt threatened and fought with him for a while, but instead of winning, he was bitten and had to flee in the wilderness, never daring to come back.
After the young male lion drove away the old male lion, he not only took possession of his wife, the lioness, but also killed all of their sons, several cubs, and then bred with the lioness to have children of his own.
Hong Fafu saw this, and the palace official accepted the yin and yang mirror. King Qin Guang asked him if he understood, but Hong Fafu said he didn't understand. King Qin Guang then signaled the palace official to explain:
In a long past life, you were either a human body, or a young male lion, and not only did you drive away the old male lion, but you also took his wife, and bit their cubs to death, and one of the cubs that was bitten to death hated you very much, and put a poisonous curse on you, and if you had the opportunity in the future, you would take revenge.
Now the opportunity has come, the lion cub that was bitten to death by you has been reincarnated into a white-fronted tiger with hanging eyes after many lifetimes, and you have been reincarnated as a human body, and when you went up the mountain to cut bamboo, you happened to meet it, and naturally it was bitten to death and eaten. This is the situation, what grievances you shout, what grievances you call, you have leveled each other.
Hong Fafu pondered for a moment, and his heart seemed to be really balanced, but he still didn't understand a little, so he asked again:
My lord, when I was living in the Yang world, I heard the monks in the monastery say that carnivorous animals will be reincarnated in the animal path endlessly, and they will never recover. In this case, I was a young lion in a long past life, and it should be said that the negative karma I created was too much to write, but how I was reincarnated and became a human being. I know that it is very difficult for an animal to be reincarnated as a human being, and it is impossible to do it without considerable merit.
King Qin Guang smiled slightly, and then signaled the palace officials to let Hong Fafu understand. The palace official shook the yin-yang mirror in front of Hong Fafu again, and then recited the incantation a few times, and immediately a group of live shots appeared again like a yin-yang mirror TV screen:
In a year of famine, the hungry people outside the forest starved to death, and some of them ventured into the forest to pick wild fruits, but they were afraid when they saw the lions in the forest.
At that time, a hungry man happened to be spotted by several lions, and he turned around and fled from the forest. How can the speed of a lion run as a human being be attainable? But the hungry man escaped.
It turned out to be a large lion with a fat body that was king among the lions, and the mighty and mighty man stopped the attacks of other lions.
And not only that, but the lion king came out of the forest, and came to a steep cliff, and under the steep cliff was a ravine, and he saw many hungry people standing there in rows on the other side of the ravine, wailing, and knew that they were going to starve to death.
The lion king suddenly felt compassion and suddenly jumped from a cliff to the bottom of a valley several hundred meters deep and fell to his death. When the hungry people heard a dull bang, they found the lion king's body, skinned and dismembered it, and cut it off piece by piece to take home to cook until the day came when the government distributed relief food.
Those hungry people felt that the lion king was martyred, so after the famine year, they specially erected a stone tablet for the lion king, and burned incense to worship. As soon as the lion king died, the god of beasts immediately recorded it in the book and reported to the wheel king to let it reincarnate and become a human.
The picture on the yin-yang mirror disappears here. The palace official asked Hong Fafu if he understood? Hong Fafu didn't speak, and King Qin Guang opened his mouth to explain, that lion king is your past life, and the reason why you were reincarnated from a beast to a human is because you were martyred and saved many victims, and your contribution is indispensable.
Hong Fafu suddenly raised his head and asked, "King, I still don't understand, how can a lion have such a high consciousness?" In other words, how could I have such a high consciousness as a lion king at that time? To be honest, I don't have that much consciousness right now.
King Qin Guang smiled slightly and said, you asked well. The reason why you have such a high level of consciousness is because the master Buddha of the lower world appeared in the forest to give lectures to you lions in order to save the sentient beings of the animal path, and most of the other lions did not listen to it, and you have a high level of understanding, and you have heard it in your heart, so you have compassion, and from then on not only do not eat other weak animals, but also shelter them, so it is reasonable for you to dare to be martyred. The reason why you don't have such a high level of consciousness now is because you have been reincarnated for several samsaric periods and have hardly been exposed to the Dharma, and the enlightenment of your past lives has been obscured by unclean delusions such as greed, hatred, and ignorance in your present lives.
Hong Fafu said, I understand, thank you for your teaching.