Chapter 245: The Origin of the Scriptures
Chapter 245: The Origin of the Scriptures
Yang Shucheng was so hungry that he couldn't sleep, saying that he was going to catch a hare to roast and eat, and the monk Demin said that he would eat it too.
"Monks also eat meat?" Yang Shucheng didn't understand.
"I'm a fake monk." Monk Na Demin said.
Yang Shucheng sat up all of a sudden, looking at the fake monk.
The fake monk also sat up, crossed his legs, formed a standard prostrate sitting position, and preached to Yang Shucheng:
"My original name was Wang Huaguo."
"Wang ...... Flower...... fruit", such a strange name.
"What's so strange about this, there are flowers, there are fruits, what a good name."
Wang Huaguo said his name and began to talk about how he became a fake monk of Demin.
He was originally a naughty boy near the Shaolin Temple, and his face was a little big, but he couldn't hide that he was a little stupid, and he couldn't do any farm work, so his father had no choice, so he bought two sheep, a male and a female, and let him keep them.
He was very diligent in herding sheep, rain or shine, and after a few years of herding in this way, he bred a flock of sheep.
Wang Huaguo often drove sheep to graze near the Shaolin Temple, where the grass was abundant and tender. He often herded sheep, and gradually became familiar with the monks in the temple. He also often went to the temple to listen to the monks chanting scriptures, and after listening to them for a few years, although he could not read and write, he could also recite a few verses of scriptures.
When the monks saw that Wang Huaguo was naïve, they all liked him very much, and even the elders in the temple did not hate him.
The treasure of martial arts, "The Washing of the Marrow Sutra", has long been lost and has become a legend of the rivers and lakes. But there was an old monk in the temple who vowed to find the "Washing the Marrow Sutra", and he exhausted decades to search inside and outside the Shaolin Temple, but he did not find it.
One day, he had diarrhea and ran into the toilet before he had time to get straw paper. After pulling his stomach and having no straw paper, he was ready to pick out a brick to wipe the fart sound stock.
When I pulled out a brick, I found that there seemed to be a roll of paper inside. He took out the paper and prepared to wipe the stock of fart sounds. He recognized a few words, and when he looked at it, it turned out to be the "Washing the Marrow Sutra" that had been lost for hundreds of years.
It's really hard work, and finally found the "Washing the Marrow Sutra" in the toilet.
As for why the martial arts treasure "Washing the Marrow Sutra" is hidden in the toilet, it is a mystery for the ages.
As soon as the "Washing the Marrow Sutra" came out, the elders in the temple were of course happy, but they were all sad for a while, this scripture came out, it was a disaster or a blessing, and it was bound to cause the competition of the people in the rivers and lakes.
Soon, the news came out, and sure enough, it attracted countless martial arts people to compete. But Shaolin Temple is a century-old famous temple, and there are many masters in the temple, and they work together to protect the "Washing the Marrow Sutra". Although after several fierce battles, he finally protected the "Washing the Marrow Sutra".
Qing troops entered the customs and established the Great Qing State.
The Qing soldiers entered the Central Plains, and the Shaolin Temple was also under its jurisdiction.
I heard that Shaolin Temple has a martial arts treasure "Washing the Marrow Sutra", and the Qing army also knew that this was a treasure, and immediately led troops into Shaolin Temple to fight.
Qing soldiers are not for the monks to talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality, seeing that Shaolin Temple does not hand over the "Washing the Pulp Sutra", they slaughtered the monks of Shaolin Temple, and burned Shaolin Temple clean.
There were dozens of monks with strong martial arts who protected the "Washing the Pulp Sutra" and escaped from the siege.
The Qing soldiers pursued and killed in the rear. Along the way, these monks met Wang Huaguo grazing more than fifty sheep.
Later, the Qing soldiers came to kill, whether you herd sheep or not, if you are obedient or disobedient, you will be killed when you see it.
The monks have a kind heart, although they have their own worries, but they still pull Wang Huaguo and run away, fleeing into the mountains, his sheep can't take care of it, and they are caught by the Qing soldiers who are chasing, and they are roasted and eaten on a big fire.
This group of monks fled into the deep mountains and old forests, and the Qing soldiers searched for several days, but they could not find it, so they set fire to the mountain.
Among this group of monks, there was an elder, who was considered their leader, and it was difficult to escape when he saw that the Qing soldiers set fire to the mountain and the flames soared into the air.
Seeing that the "Washing the Marrow Sutra" was going to be unable to be saved, the elders gathered together to discuss and decided to let Wang Huaguo escape with the "Washing the Pulp Sutra" and hand it over to the Shaolin Temple Branch in Putian, Fujian.
But Wang Huaguo was naïve, and I was afraid that he would not be able to deliver the "Washing the Marrow Sutra" safely, so the elder took a razor, shaved off Wang Huaguo's hair, pretended to be a fake monk, and gave him a legal name, called Monk Demin, and told him thousands of instructions, hoping that he could escape to the south safely.
The elder was also worried that the enemy had snatched the "Washing the Pulp Sutra" from Wang Huaguo's body, so he asked him to recite it day and night.
The "Washing the Marrow Sutra" is not long, only seven or eight pages long, and it is all luck exercises.
The elder read a sentence, let Wang Huaguo memorize a sentence, some sentences do not know what they mean, it is difficult to memorize, the elder also explained to him in detail, although Wang Huaguo is stupid, but under the supervision of the monks, he simply memorized the "Washing the Marrow Sutra" very well.
At this time, the fire in the mountains had been burning for four or five days, and it was about to burn in front of its eyes, and if it stayed any longer, it would be exposed sooner or later.
Fortunately, Wang Huaguo has memorized the "Washing the Marrow Sutra". The elder burned the "Washing the Marrow Sutra", and took a group of monks to protect Wang Huaguo and rushed out.
The Qing soldiers had already surrounded this place, and the monks took advantage of the gap in the encirclement and secretly ran out of the encirclement at night.
When the Qing soldiers entered, they found only a few corpses of monks, and they knew that the other monks had escaped.
Jinguandao Changcheng Tuding led a group of Jianghu masters to unite with the Qing soldiers and track them all the way.
This group of monks are all bald and very conspicuous on the road, so the Jinguan Daoist and his group have been chasing south along the route of the monk's escape.
Chased to the north of Tongbai Mountain, and caught up with these monks, so the golden crown Taoist and the Qing soldiers besieged and killed this group of monks.
This group of monks was surrounded and killed by the enemy, and when they saw that they were going to die here, they surrounded Wang Huaguo in the center, and the monks were killed one by one, piled up into a mountain, and hid Wang Huaguo in the middle, hoping not to be discovered by the enemy.
Just after all the monks died, Tao Ling and Yang Shucheng arrived, killed the enemy, and saved Wang Huaguo out.
After Wang Huaguo finished talking about the experience, Yang Shucheng understood the twists and turns, thinking that if he wanted to protect this Wang Huaguo, there must be huge risks along the way, but since he had promised Tao Ling, he must risk death to protect him to Putian.
After the matter was finished, the monks of Shaolin Temple died generously in order to protect the "Washing the Marrow Sutra", their behavior was touching enough, but they could be moved to move, but they couldn't move the stomach, it was still cooing and screaming, very hungry.
Yang Shucheng stood up and looked around, the sky was dark, and he couldn't see five steps away, but he still had to look for food, so he walked forward.
After walking for a while, I didn't meet a single wild thing, and I was worried about Wang Huaguo's safety, so I walked back again.
When I walked to Wang Huaguo, I looked up, there was a tree around, and I saw a few fruits on it, and when I walked to it, I saw a few wild peaches.
Yang Shucheng flew up the tree and picked these wild peaches.
Jumping off the tree, there were only five in total, handed three to Wang Huaguo, and kept two for himself. When Wang Huaguo saw that he had one more, he handed it to him.
Yang Shucheng was not polite, he took it and ate it with his mouth open, but his mouth was full of jerky, no wonder, the peaches were on the side of the road, and they had not been picked yet, so they must be bitter.
But I was so hungry that I endured and ate the peaches in my hand.
I was still hungry, but I had no other way but to endure hunger and lie down on the grass to sleep.
This time, the two quickly fell asleep.
Before dawn, the two woke up. Yang Shucheng waited for Wang Huaguo to stay where he was, and ran around to chase the hare.
Yang Shucheng ran in the valley and didn't rush back until half an hour.
As soon as he returned, he saw two places of men and horses, with a total of more than 50 people, fighting.
And Wang Huaguo was tied under a peach tree and became a lamb to the slaughter.
Of the two groups of people who were fighting, there were two leaders, one was Jinguandao Changcheng Tuding, and the other was the great eunuch Cao Fengying.
Both of these people are super strong in martial arts, and Yang Shucheng is not their opponent at all.