Besides, this year, the peach in Yaochi is ripe again, and the Queen Mother of the West invited all the gods and goddesses to participate in the peach festival in Yaochi, and the fairy girl of Paradise Ping, Sister Baihua Fairy was also invited. At the request of Guanyin Bodhisattva, they went to Yaochi to attend the meeting by going to the "Heavenly Avenue" of Guanyin Pavilion.

One day, two peasant women dressed as outsiders went to the Guanyin Pavilion to make incense, but a day or two days passed, but the two outsiders did not come out, people felt strange, so they went to the pavilion to look for it, and looked for it but there was no trace.

Something like this is said to have happened more than once.

As soon as the news spread, people said: "Guanyin Pavilion, you can't get it." This adds to the mystery of the Guanyin Pavilion, but some people speculate that it is the whereabouts of the immortals.

After the end of the peach festival, the Jade Emperor specially left the Gangxian, Baihua Immortal and the Northern Emperor Huaguang to interrogate.

Jade Emperor: "I heard that there are a lot of thieves in the Tiantianping area, is there such a thing?" ”

Baihua Xian: "The minister returned to His Majesty, there is such a thing. ”

Jade Emperor: "As an immortal, why don't you care, do you still have the heart to love the people?" ”

Gangxian: "Your Majesty, there are a little more thieves there, but there is a reason. ”

Jade Emperor: "Tell me why." ”

Gangshan: "Your Majesty Rong Chen." The vast majority of the Li people in Tiantianping District are kind and hardworking, but their lives are very hard. In normal years, two meals a day can only be spent on gruel, so it is called the 'porridge eating area', which is a sarcasm and insult to Tiantianping. The real thieves are just some bad people with bad intentions, most of whom are forced by life. ”

Jade Emperor: "Why? ”

Baihua Xian: "Your Majesty, the land in the Paradise Region is occupied by some bureaucrats, nobles, landlords and bullies, and Li Min has no choice but to lease land from him for cultivation; At the end of the year, in addition to paying rent, there is not much grain left to harvest, and the peasants have no choice but to live on wild vegetables and gruel, and if they encounter a disaster year, it will be even more miserable. There are many droughts in Tiantianping District, and if it does not rain for half a month, it will become a small drought, which will affect the growth of crops and will fail the harvest; If there is no rain for a month, it will become a moderate drought, and many crops will be planted by mistake, and the harvest will be even worse; If it doesn't rain for three months, there will be a miserable scene as mentioned above. In this case, Li Minsheng has no way out, that is, the originally kind people, in order to survive, they also follow some bad people to rob regardless of crime. As far as we know, Tiantianping District encounters at least two such disaster years every ten years, how can there not be many thieves? ”

Jade Emperor: "Why are there so many calamity years?" ”

Gangxian: "Your Majesty, there are roughly two reasons. The first is that the terrain of Heaven Ping is high, and it is like a ridge, and the water pours on both sides, and it cannot be stored, because the land is dry, and if it does not rain, it will become a drought. The second is that the amount of rainfall there is very low......"

Jade Emperor: "Tell me why." ”

Gangshan: "Your Majesty Rong Chen." The vast majority of the Li people in Tiantianping District are kind and hardworking, but their lives are very hard. In normal years, two meals a day can only be spent on gruel, so it is called the 'porridge eating area', which is a sarcasm and insult to Tiantianping. The real thieves are just some bad people with bad intentions, most of whom are forced by life. ”

Jade Emperor: "Why? ”

Baihua Xian: "Your Majesty, the land in the Paradise Region is occupied by some bureaucrats, nobles, landlords and bullies, and Li Min has no choice but to lease land from him for cultivation; At the end of the year, in addition to paying rent, there is not much grain left to harvest, and the peasants have no choice but to live on wild vegetables and gruel, and if they encounter a disaster year, it will be even more miserable. There are many droughts in Tiantianping District, and if it does not rain for half a month, it will become a small drought, which will affect the growth of crops and will fail the harvest; If there is no rain for a month, it will become a moderate drought, and many crops will be planted by mistake, and the harvest will be even worse; If it doesn't rain for three months, there will be a miserable scene as mentioned above. In this case, Li Minsheng has no way out, that is, the originally kind people, in order to survive, they also follow some bad people to rob regardless of crime. As far as we know, Tiantianping District encounters at least two such disaster years every ten years, how can there not be many thieves? ”

Jade Emperor: "Why are there so many calamity years?" ”

Gangxian: "Your Majesty, there are roughly two reasons. The first is that the terrain of Heaven Ping is high, and it is like a ridge, and the water pours on both sides, and it cannot be stored, because the land is dry, and if it does not rain, it will become a drought. The second is that the amount of rainfall there is very low......"

Jade Emperor: "Why is there less rainfall there?" ”

Gangxian: "Then I have to ask the Dragon King of the South China Sea." ”

Jade Emperor: "Ao Guang! ”

Ao Guang: "The minister is here." ”

Jade Emperor: "You should treat your people equally, how did you do it?" ”

Ao Guang: "Your Majesty, in the past, it was because many people there were thieves and wanted to punish them, so the amount of rain was too low. I think it's their own fault. ”

Gangxian: "That's not right. Specific matters should be analyzed on a case-by-case basis. If they are forced to do it, they can be punished lightly or even forgiven. Baihuaxian has just said that most of the people in Tiantianping are good people, and some people are forced to commit crimes in order to survive. Besides, in Tiantianping District, the vast majority of people would rather starve than be thieves! Heaven has the virtue of a good life, and you can't let the people suffer together because of a handful of bad people! ”

The words made Ao Guang, the Dragon King of the South China Sea, speechless.

Jade Emperor: "Northern Emperor Huaguang." ”

Northern Emperor: "The minister is here." ”

Jade Emperor: "Huaguang, although you don't live there for a long time, you also receive that incense, and you always know something, what do you think?" ”

Beidi: "The minister thinks that the Gang Immortal Gu, Sister Baihua Fairy is right, the situation is indeed like this." ”

Jade Emperor: "Too Platinum Star." ”

Taibai: "The minister is here." ”

Jade Emperor: "You give me a decree that the treasure house of Heaven Guanyin Pavilion will be open for three days, so that the people of Heaven Pingzhai can get a little benefit and improve their lives." ”

Jade Emperor: "Hundred Flower Fairy, when you go back, you must make public the secret of planting flowers and teach the people how to grow flowers." As for Ao Guang, you have to act according to the actual situation in the future, and you can't be beaten to death with a stick. ”

The news that the "treasure house of wealth" of Guanyin Pavilion was open for three days spread, and the people in Paradise Pingzhai were boiling.

At this time, bureaucrats, aristocrats, local tyrants, and inferior gentry immediately took action to seek to make a big profit.

They organized manpower, colluded with each other, held meetings and negotiated, divided into several ranks according to the size of their forces, and then distributed the gold and silver treasures in the treasury according to their ranks, and marked the treasures in the vaults and pots, indicating whose they belonged to. And he sent men to guard the gates of the caves, so that the people would not be allowed to enter.

Therefore, the common people only like it emptyly, and they dare to enter the cave only when the wicked people have removed the treasures in the cave and the gatekeepers have withdrawn.

When they entered the cave, they saw that the treasury was empty.

Then they thought, "There is no treasure of gold or silver, and it is not in vain to take some gravel and clods of earth from the cave and go home as a souvenir."

Then again, when the wicked men brought the treasure home, some of them put it in the iron cabinet, and some of them put it in the secret cellar, but after two days of inspection, the treasure was gone, and they were not reconciled, and they wanted to go into the treasury again to plunder it, but the door of the cave was already closed.

As for the gravel, clods and other things that ordinary people took away in the warehouse, when they returned home, they became seeds of various crop species, including vegetables, melons, beans, wheat, corn, etc., as well as red smoke, fruit cane, flowers, fruit trees and other seeds.

The common people are very happy, because these seeds are drought-tolerant, and some can also be planted in winter, and when the rice cannot be planted in a dry day, these crops can be replanted, and the farmland is idle in winter, and winter planting can be carried out, so that the farmland can be harvested from two crops to three crops a year; Fruit trees, flowers, etc. can also be planted in front of the house, behind the house and on the hillside, some crops are very suitable for local soil planting, and later became the special products of Paradise Pingzhai, such as red smoke, fruit cane, radish, garlic, pepper, melon, etc. are all crops, good texture and delicious, won the praise of outsiders, and sold well to distant places.

With the planting of flowers, the people of Paradise Pingzhai have learned more skills to make a living, and in the future, florists at home and abroad are everywhere Paradise Ping people.

After telling the story of Tiantianping, the owner of Longzhai said with emotion: "The people in Tiantianping Village, with these crops planted, the people's lives have been improved since then. Everyone realized that the gift of God should not be obtained for nothing, but should be turned into wealth through diligent hands. ”

After listening to the "Legend of Heaven Ping" by Longzhai, Liang Yaocai gave a thumbs up and praised him, "The master of Longzhai is knowledgeable, the story is vivid and interesting, and fascinating. ”

In the narration of "The Legend of Tiantianping", the peace and modesty shown by the lord of Longzhai and the attitude of creating wealth through hard-working hands made Huineng more willing to contact him and learn more about the people's feelings and social feelings through him, in order to help more sentient beings get rid of suffering and live a better life.

Huineng looked up at the sky and said, "Lord Longzhai, Uncle Yaocai, it's not early, let's go." “

"Okay, turn the corner ahead." The master of Longzhai led the way in front as he spoke.

After walking about half a mile, we came to the bend. What is displayed in front of Huineng's eyes is a flat river, a flat plain, and a series of villages, dotted like dots......

Huineng couldn't help but admire: "That is like being in the deep mountains and old forests? It is really a plain mountain city, a paradise on earth! ”

Walking into the Heavenly Ping Village, the lord of the Dragon Village pointed to the blue brick house nearby with a fixed expression, and said, "This is my ......."

Before the owner of the dragon village could say the word "cold house", he heard a sad voice coming from the house...... Huineng and Liang Yaocai hurriedly followed the master of Longzhai into the courtyard in front of the big house.

The owner of Longzhai entered the hall and saw his father, grandmother, brother-in-law, aunt and other relatives and elderly villagers in the village in the hall, one by one burst into tears, and came to see his baby son for the last time.

Seeing this, Liang Yaocai raised his hands and said loudly: "Uncles and aunts, relatives and friends! Please be quiet, listen to me, you don't have to be sad and sad, today, the lord of Longzhai invited the powerful man who subdued the demon snake, and the boys and girls in your village have been saved! ”

When everyone heard this, they immediately quieted down, and they all turned their eyes to Liang Yaocai.

Liang Yaocai looked at Huineng beside him and said loudly: "Relatives and friends! The man invited by your village master to subdue the dragon and subdue the tiger is right in front of him, and he is a distant relative of my eldest brother Yaocheng's family......"

When everyone heard Liang Yaocai say this, they couldn't help but turn their eyes to Huineng.

Huineng bowed his hand to everyone, and comforted the daughter-in-law of the owner of Longzhai: "Auntie, please don't cry, my name is Ah Neng, go and surrender that demon snake tomorrow, your son won't have to throw himself into the pool, and everyone in this area can live a peaceful life." ”

The family of the owner of Longzhai and the people present saw hope in Huineng's firm, confident and confident eyes, and said in unison: "Thank you Aneng for your great benefactor!" ”

After comforting the daughter-in-law of the owner of Longzhai who was crying like a tearful person, Huineng asked the owner of Longzhai to lead him to comfort the relatives of the virgin's family.

The lord of Longzhai led Huineng and Liang Yaocai to his virgin's house.

This virgin's name is Tian Jinfeng, ranked fifth, with two brothers and two sisters, just turned four years old this year, and her father's name is Tian Gui, and her mother is the prince. When Tian Gui's family listened to the comfort of the master of Longzhai and Huineng, and the golden phoenix could be saved tomorrow, Tian Gui's family immediately stopped the pain of life and death and stopped crying.

Although he has many children, the youngest daughter is the heart of her parents after all, and seeing the arrival of the lord of Longzhai and Huineng, it is like seeing a savior, and she kneels down and thanks her benefactor very gratefully.

……

The next morning, when the clouds were thick and it was about to rain, the local people gathered around Huineng to the waterhole, and the owner of Longzhai raised a jar of wine prepared for them in advance and drank it all.

Huineng said calmly to the lord of the dragon village: "Lord of the dragon village, this time the contemptible people fight with the evil demon snake, I don't know if it succeeds, if the demon snake is successful, even if I do a good thing for you, I don't want you to pay anything; If the demon snake refuses to accept it, or I am buried in the belly of the snake, I am willing. If this is the case, you can mobilize the masses to fill in this deep pool, so that the demon snake will lose its nest from which it can do evil, and build a temple on it as a memorial. ”

Huineng was talking, suddenly his eyes were blazing, and two dazzling beams of light were shot, and the giant python with a body as big as a cylinder stretched out its snake head, opened its bloody mouth, and spewed out a column of water dozens of feet high, which was menacing, making the onlookers tremble and be frightened.

It was too late, it was too fast, Huineng didn't let the demon snake inhale and exert his might, picked up a fist-sized stone casually, and slammed it towards the throat of the demon snake with a "bang".

The demon snake was hit on the head, pounced in the air, shrank violently, and dived into the pool.

Huineng jumped into the pool and chased after him......

The bottomless pool immediately sounded like thunder, stirring the river and the sea, the water splashed everywhere, the usually green and green pool water, suddenly became muddy and turbid, Huineng because of the Zen mantle to protect the body, the demon snake can not get close, in vain to struggle.

And Huineng couldn't bear to kill, and tried to subdue the demon snake with his bare hands.

This demon snake is not an idle person, how can he be caught?

Huineng and the demon snake fought from morning to evening, and still did not distinguish between victory and defeat, and temporarily retreated, seeking another way to kill the demon.

That night, the demon snake ran into an opponent, and after a day of fighting, he also felt exhausted, and did not dare to rashly go out of the pool to do evil.

That night, Huineng and the owner of the Long Village, Liang Yaocai, Long Zhongbiao, Li Yihu and several other well-informed and courageous people gathered in the meeting hall of the village to study the method of eliminating demons.

After Huineng told everyone present about the process of diving into the deep pool and fighting the demon snake today, his eyes swept around the conference hall, and in an inquiring tone, he said: "Lord Longzhai, Uncle Yaocai, Ah Biao, Ah Hu, do you have a plan to subdue the demon snake?" ”

The people present looked at each other when they saw that Hui Neng asked them.

For a long time, I only heard the lord of Longzhai sigh "sigh", and then said helplessly, "Little brother Aneng, your kindness, all of us in the village have it, if even you can't do anything, you will let me endure the pain and cut my love, and throw my precious son into the deep pool." ”

Huineng waved his hand and said in a firm tone: "Lord of Longzhai, how can you give up like this!" It's not that I can't kill it, I just can't bear to kill it, and I just want to submit it! ”

"Brother Aneng, tomorrow I will go to the deep pool with you to help you!" Long Zhongbiao patted his chest and said.

"Brother Aneng, count me in!" Li Yihu also didn't admit it.

At this time, Liang Yaocai, who only heard the gold medal "Speaking of the Ancient King", shook his head in a corner of the hall, looked at a painting in the middle hall on the wall, and recited the couplet: "The dragon was played by crabs in the shallow water, and the tiger was bullied by dogs in Pingyang." ”

When Huineng heard this, he clapped his hands with his hands: "There is!" ”

"What's there?!" The crowd asked.

Therefore, Huineng was inspired by this couplet: it seems that this demon snake was originally a dragon species, and to get rid of it, it must be led away from the deep pool, and if it leaves the water, it will lose its power to use force. I'm also not limited by pools and water, so I can use my kung fu to subdue it. Just now, Uncle Yao Cai recited the couplet, and he broke the key point, and when I fought with the demon snake during the day, I was affected by this environment, so I could not win.

So, Huineng and them agreed on the strategy of subduing the demon snake tomorrow - Huineng feinted defeat to lead the demon snake out of the pool, and the owner of Longzhai mobilized and organized the masses overnight to prepare rice stalks and sulfur and other things, when the demon snake left the pool, he lit the rice stalks around the pool, and removed more sulfur to make it difficult for the demon snake to return to the pool.

In addition, it is necessary to prepare wooden planks, wood, stones, mud and sand, and when the demon snake leaves the pool, immediately close the mouth of the pool to cut off the return route of the demon snake.

Early the next morning, the demon snake was furious because he couldn't defeat Huineng yesterday, and was determined to eat Huineng in today's duel.

Therefore, stick your head out early in the morning and wait for the duel.

This time, Huineng was not in a hurry to attack, let alone enter the pool, holding a wooden stick in his hand, only circling with the demon snake outside the pool, looking timid and tired.

The demon snake thought that Huineng was weak today, and despised him a little, and the more he fought, the more energetic he became, and he was anxious to swallow Huineng in one gulp.

Huineng only dodges, using softness to control rigidity, consuming the physical strength of the demon snake.

In this way, after grinding for more than an hour, seeing that the demon snake's physical strength had gone downhill, Huineng shook his stick and turned around and feigned defeat.

The demon snake thought that the opportunity had come, so he left the pond and chased hard.

When the demon snake is far away from the deep pool, Huineng turned his head and swung the stick to hit, left and right, front and back, making the demon snake dizzy, the dragon village master here saw the demon snake leaving the pool, and commanded the masses to act according to the original plan to burn the burning material and fill the pool.

After another half an hour of the demon confrontation, the demon snake's physical strength gradually ran out, and it was about to turn around and fly back to the pool, but the direction of the smoke covered the sky was blurred, and the thick smell of sulfur made it dizzy, and its swimming was slow.

Besides, when the Heavenly Dusi Wu Bo heard the news, he led the Dusi Wucha Wang Ju and Zhang Fei to the scene, Wang Ju saw the demon snake fleeing to the waterhole on the ground, and couldn't help but pull his bow and arrows, and shot at the demon snake with a "whoosh, whoosh" to the demon snake, and the power of several arrows in the demon snake's body was sharply reduced.

I saw Zhang Fei draw his sword from his waist again, and with a momentum of Mount Tai's topping, he raised his sword and swung it towards the demon snake.

Seeing this, Hui Neng shouted: "Wait! An arrow stepped forward, trying to hold up Zhang Fei's sword-swinging hand, but it was still half a beat slower.

I saw Zhang Fei's sword falling, and the demon snake was immediately beheaded in a different place and was cut into two pieces.

……

The demon snake was removed, and at this time, the cheers of the crowd resounded in the sky, and they ran to tell each other: "The demon snake has been removed." ”

The people flocked to Huineng to return to the village, and some burned incense to welcome Huineng's triumphant return. On behalf of the local people, the Heavenly Metropolitan Division would like to give Huineng a grand reward.

Huineng said, "I told everyone before that I don't want any pay. I want to subdue the demon snake and not kill. But...... At this point, I hope everyone will work together to fill in the deep pool. After that, he said goodbye to the people on the scene.

The owner of Longzhai and the villagers repeatedly retained, asking Hui Neng to live in the village for one more day and celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival.

Huineng said movingly, "Thank you for your kindness!" There are still mothers at home who are worried about my safety, waiting for me to go back for the holidays! After that, he and Liang Yaocai went in the direction of Wenyang Tianzhai.

The people of Paradise Pingzhai surrounded Huineng and Liang Yaocai, and sent them to the bend in the middle of the mountain, before saying goodbye.

After the Dragon Boat Festival, the owner of Longzhai immediately organized hundreds of laborers to fill the deep pool in accordance with Huineng's wishes.

However, after filling for nearly a month, the mud and stones in the pool fell and did not know where to go, and seeing that the summer harvest had arrived again, I had to wait for the summer harvest and summer planting work to be carried out.

After the summer harvest, people braved the scorching sun and wind and rain to continue to fill in the pond, and also increased manpower, and it took more than four months to fill in the deep pool. Later, people called this place Longtan Village (this is a later story).

Longtan was filled in, people do not forget the kindness of Huineng, and prepare to build a temple, everyone has the money to contribute, the power to contribute, choose the place where Huineng subdues the demon, build a temple, named Lide Temple, hope that future generations learn from Huineng to establish the virtue of relieving the suffering of the people.

According to the characteristics of Huineng, he invited skilled craftsmen to carve a statue of Huineng, and set up a shrine for people to worship and commemorate for a long time.

In the future, every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, a grand sacrifice will be carried out, and the people will cut chickens and slaughter geese to the temple to burn incense and worship to commemorate.