Chapter 481: Miaoya Qiya (10)
The strange thing is that when the two countries of broken leaves and cheap gold, they took a brocade car again, and they were shining the gold-lettered signboard of "King Xinglin", and no one bought it at all.
As soon as King Miaozhuang and his entourage stepped into the territory of the fish basket country, they immediately attracted the attention of many people.
Some people are surprised, some people whisper, some people point fingers.
When you enter a foreign country, these things are commonplace. King Miaozhuang and the others had already seen the surprise, and they only cared about hurrying away, and had no intention of looking left and right.
But after a while, those who pointed and whispered came up noisily.
At first, Li Chefu thought that they had taken a fancy to the fish basket, and praised King Miaozhuang in his heart for being like a god. Miaoqing and Miaoyuan also felt the same way, and turned around and smiled heartily at King Miaozhuang and Li Chefu. However, when they looked back, they were all stunned. It turned out that dozens of civilians had already knelt down in front of them.
Miaoqing and Miaoyuan were wondering, and they saw those people kowtowing and shouting: "The Bodhisattva is coming, there is a long way to welcome, and I hope to forgive my sins!"
Miaoqing and Miaoyuan were originally princesses of golden branches and jade leaves, not to mention walking on the road with a basket when they were in Xinglin Kingdom, but to take a sedan chair in a car, and they thought that the cushion was too hard and the bumps were too bad. With the tempering of the past two years, especially the hardships they endured when passing through the Jin Kingdom, they have already tortured the arrogance unique to the imperial aunts and the squeamishness unique to the princesses and nobles, and they have not been prepared to be worshipped. Even in Xinglin, there has never been a person who calls them bodhisattvas.
Faced with this situation, they were so flustered that they didn't even know where to put their hands, so they had to bow their heads and fiddle with the small fish basket in their hands.
Miaoqing is the eldest princess after all, she has eaten a few more packets of salt than Miaoyuan, and has seen more of the world, although she is also a little surprised, but she has not panicked.
After saying a blessing to the kneeling people, she explained that they were not bodhisattvas, but ordinary pilgrims who went to the South China Sea for pilgrimage, and I hope you will not misunderstand. Unexpectedly, after explaining two or three times in a row, people still knelt in place and continued to "forgive sins of the Bodhisattva of All Hopes".
Seeing this, King Miao Zhuang hurriedly jumped out of the car, and while asking the two coachmen to put down their burdens and lift up the kneeling people one by one, he explained to them the identities of himself, his daughter, and the coachman.
As soon as the people who were helped up by the coachman heard that the people standing in front of them were the two daughters of King Miaozhuang of Xinglin Kingdom and King Miaozhuang, they all knelt down again and said, "Knock, knock, knock" and said, "Sure enough, the Bodhisattva and the King of Heaven have arrived, how can we miss ...... in person?"
This time, King Miaozhuang also panicked, he really didn't understand, when did he become the king of heaven? When did the two unfilial daughters become bodhisattvas?
After thinking about it, he felt that there must be a reason for this incident, and it could never be an ordinary misunderstanding or misidentification, and when he helped the old man with the loudest head knock to the side and asked the reason, he realized that this was the case.
Three years ago, in the southernmost part of the fish basket country called Shihe County, a young woman with a fish basket in her hand, a dignified and fairy-like woman came. She claimed to be a native of Xinglin and was named Sister Yulan. Just because he didn't want to sit in Xinglin Country and enjoy the blessings of Qingfu, he left his hometown, said goodbye to his parents, and went to Shihe County, the country of fish baskets, to cultivate himself.
As soon as the young men in Shihe County heard this, they proposed to Sister Yulan one after another. The eldest sister of the fish basket took out a scripture of the famous Japanese "Pumen Pin" from the small fish basket and said to the young men who proposed marriage: "Whoever can memorize this scripture overnight, I will marry whomever I want." "
Before the words fell, I heard one after another";
"I want it too, insurance will be reversed overnight".
With wave after wave of shouts, there were more and more onlookers.
In less than a meal, the number of people has skyrocketed from dozens to more than 1,000. There are less than ten small fish baskets, and in the face of this situation of "more porridge and fewer monks", those young men who are eager to love and know some words are all stripped and squeezed forward.
In their opinion, the book "Zeng Gate" is no less than a love token.
Some illiterate young people are not far behind, and they each play their own "little ninety-nine" in their hearts: "Blind people can't hear drum books and sing mountain songs, so we can't ......."
Those elderly young men are even more urgent: "My second boy doesn't have a daughter-in-law yet, if he ......"
Sister Yulan seemed to have guessed people's psychology, only to see her take two steps back from a high place, and took the only ten copies of "Pumen Pin" in the basket in her hand and said: "Sincerity, gold and stone are open." You don't have to scramble, the little girl guarantees that everyone has a copy. After speaking, he threw "Pumen Pin" into the air.
After the "Pumen Pin" was released, one turned into ten, ten into hundred, and one hundred into thousands, and they all floated down like snowflakes, and everyone just got a copy.
Sister Yulan said: "Listen to the ranks, anyone who can memorize word for word overnight will have an interview under this big maple tree early tomorrow morning." "
When they heard this, they did not dare to stay long. Immediately dispersed as if the theater had dispersed.
Sister Yulan was about to leave, when she suddenly found an old woman kneeling in front of her, and kept saying, "Eldest sister is fine." "
Sister Yulan hurriedly helped the old woman up and asked her why. The old woman said, "Among the more than 1,000 onlookers, I was the only one who didn't get the Pumen Pin." I am a widow, known as Ma, because my family is poor, and my son Ma Lang is in his twenties, and he has neither studied nor married. Ma Lang is a fisherman, and when I was asked to sell fish on the street early this morning, he brought a fish basket home to load fish. Before leaving, he repeatedly reminded, 'That fish basket should be small and clever, don't be afraid of expensive!' After I finished selling the fish, I saw the small and delicate basket in the hands of the eldest sister of the fish basket from afar. I was about to ask her if she was selling, when I heard the self-confession of the eldest sister of the fish basket and what happened later......"
Ma thinks that he is more sincere than anyone else, but he didn't expect to miss her, in order not to miss the opportunity, Ma waited for everyone to disperse, and then knelt in front of the eldest sister of Yulan, begging the eldest sister to reward a copy of "Pumen Pin", and let her bring it to her son Ma Lang. The eldest sister of the fish basket listened to Ma's cry, and didn't say a word, only to see her stuff the empty fish basket into Ma's hand, turn around and leave.
When Ma came back to his senses and chased her, Sister Magnolia had already disappeared into the flow of people.
Early the next morning, 300 people came to take the exam, and 50 of them were able to recite the "Pumen Pin" from beginning to end without missing a word.
Sister Yulan was very embarrassed and said, "There is a way that one woman is not allowed to have two husbands, not to mention that there are fifty of you." If there are those who are not afraid of hardship and trouble, I still have a few copies of the "Diamond Sutra" here, you might as well take it back and try it, and come back early tomorrow morning. "
The boys who were lucky enough to make it through the first hurdle were all eager to try.
They heard that they had to memorize the "Diamond Sutra" again, and although most of them had difficulties on their faces, none of them gave up.
Although the eldest sister of the fish basket did not mention the fish basket today, she still conjured up fifty copies of the "Diamond Sutra" as if she was doing a trick, and each person was given one copy.
Early the next morning, only 30 of the 50 young men came, and at the end of the interview, there were still 10 people who had memorized the Diamond Sutra.
Sister Yulan was so shocked that she didn't know what to say for a long time. In the end, it was the same person who took the initiative to offer: "You might as well memorize a few more copies." "
Sister Yulan felt reasonable, and hurriedly took out ten sets of seven-volume scriptures and handed them to ten people, and asked them to interview in the old place three days later.
On the morning of the fourth day, only three people came to take the exam, and Sister Yulan curiously asked about the family background and life experience of the three people one by one.
Two of the three were born in scholarly families, ten years of books, one of them read for eight years and four months, and strangely enough, one claimed to be illiterate.
The eldest sister of the fish basket asked him suspiciously, who his surname was, where he lived, and who else was in the family.