Let's put aside the hardships of the journey of the two coachmen for the time being. Besides, the father and daughter of King Miaozhuang walked together, and they had already arrived at the ferry pier in less than a meal.

A large ship with three masts, two oars and one oars was moored close to the wharf, and there was not a single pilgrim on board except for a dozen lazy boatmen, but the oil pot made of three large stones was surrounded by people.

King Miaozhuang took Manjushri and Fuxian separately and came to the oil pot to take a look, "Oops!" I saw that the fire under the pot was blazing, the hot oil in the pot was boiling, and the smoke was billowing all around.

Manjushri and Fuxian looked at each other, their tongues sticking out more than an inch long......

King Miaozhuang didn't care whether his two daughters were afraid, and jumped into the oil pot as soon as he closed his eyes and "plopped......

Manjushri and Fugen were so frightened that they quickly closed their eyes.

When they opened their eyes again, King Myaozhuang was already standing on the ferry and waving to them!

Manjushri really regretted it, if he didn't close his eyes just now, he knew how to jump, Fuxian seemed to understand his sister's thoughts, she said: "Sister, don't worry, don't you have the heart of a butcher there?"

"What if there is?"

"People's hearts are full of flesh, you first throw the heart of the butcher into the oil pot, if the heart is not scorched, it means that it is really a bodhisattva manifestation, a super sincere worshipper; If that heart burns, you and I will wait a few days before we pass it, so as not to lose our lives in vain. "

Manjushri felt that his sister was reasonable, so he took out the lotus leaf bag from his sleeve. When they opened it, the two sisters were stunned: after a year, the heart was still bright red, just like when it was first taken out of the heart.

Manjushri was so frightened that his hand trembled, and his heart fell into the oil pot with the lotus leaves.

As soon as the pot fell out of the pot and heard a "whoosh" sound, a person came out of the pot, stepped on the lotus leaf and slowly went up, the sisters fixed their eyes to see that it was Hu butcher who was standing on the lotus leaf, only to see him holding his fists with both hands, and said to them with a smile: "Thank you two senior sisters for sending me on the road, Xiao Ke can take a step first, two senior sisters, there will be a period later." After speaking, I saw wisps of black smoke turning into auspicious clouds, holding lotus leaves and Hu butchers and drifting towards Putuo Mountain.

Manjushri and Fuxian were so frightened that they retreated again and again, thinking that it was the soul of the Hu butcher who came to ask them for their lives.

Later, seeing him ride the auspicious clouds, he believed that it was really Guanyin Bodhisattva's manifestation, and immediately stood firm, slowly walked to the pot, handed each other a look, and jumped into the oil pot at the same time.

At first, it was like a fritter, but then it became more and more burnt, and the waist was bent, the legs were also fried, and the waist was fried, like a twist.

Later, someone scooped up the "twist flower", and as soon as it was put on the ground, the "twist" was scattered. Until now, there are still people in the Jiangnan area who call the twist "Sanzi", which has been handed down since that time.

When people were feeling sorry for the two nuns who lost their lives in vain, they suddenly saw a heron bird flying from the direction of Putuo Mountain, and it flew westward with the "scattered son" in its mouth, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Legend has it that the heron bird was appointed by the Buddha to fly from the West Tianling Mountain, and the two nuns who were not sincere and insincere went to Leiyin Temple to practice again. Later, the two sisters really lived up to the kindness of the Buddha, and both achieved positive results, becoming one of the four great bodhisattvas of Chinese Buddhism. The eldest sister Miaoqing became the Great Shan Manjushri Bodhisattva, and was the left attendant of the Buddha, the god of wisdom, whose Dharma dojo was in present-day Wutai Mountain, Shanxi;

The second sister Miaoyuan became the great good and the Bodhisattva, and was the left attendant of the Buddha - the god of virtue, and its dojo was in Emei Mountain, Sichuan. This is an afterword, and it does not need to be elaborated.

When the king of Miaozhuang saw that his two daughters had died unexpectedly, he was overwhelmed with grief and wept, and if it had not been for the men on the ship who had not been quick to hold him steady, he might have plunged into the vast sea.

Some of the onlookers who were eager to try it saw this place and left silently, some of the kind-hearted people also wiped their tears and scattered, and some of the gloating people kept shouting: "There is a kind of jump, let us feast our eyes again!"

Some people who think they are smart say: "Many stupid things are often done by smart people, and big living people will ascend to heaven if they jump into the oil pot and don't die!"

There are people who are stable and steady: "I can't eat hot porridge in a hurry, and when he can't fall for three, five, ten days, and half a month, why bother to fight for a day's time, and care about the speed of one day and one night."

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In the face of this situation, King Miaozhuang finally realized a truth: the most painful thing in the world is not the loss of his mother at an early age, the loss of a husband in middle age, the loss of a son in old age, nor the oil pot in the sea of fire on the knife mountain, let alone the death of Huangquan, but not being understood.

Seeing that the people were leaving, Elder Puji estimated that no one would get off the oil pot today, so he had to order the boat to sail. The elder saw that on the Bodhisattva's birthday today, only King Miaozhuang went to Putuo Mountain to worship, and this person was an extraordinary person who dared to jump into the oil pot and out of the oil pot, so he made up his mind to personally send him across the sea.

King Miao Zhuang was very grateful to see that the elder was so important to him.

Unexpectedly, not long after the big ship went offshore, the sea breeze blew.

The South China Sea has always been known for "no wind and three feet of waves", this strong wind together, is a huge wave, usually the boat is full of people and the bumps are not bad, today, a huge ship only sat two guests, no different from an empty ship, the bumps and ups and downs are even more powerful.

The boat was sometimes pushed to the crest, sometimes to the bottom, sometimes to the front, sometimes to spin in place......

The old shipwrights who often go to sea feel that today's wind and waves are abnormal, and the king of Miaozhuang vomits more than once, first soup, then rice, and later, there is nothing in the stomach, so he spits yellow water one after another.

King Miaozhuang was almost old, his temples were white, his body was thin, and he was tired from the journey for several days, and he couldn't get up after vomiting a few times.

Elder Puji was worried that his weak constitution would not be able to withstand the storm, so he dissuaded him from going another day.

The men on the ship were not willing to suffer so much and take such a big risk for a pilgrim, and when Elder Puji said this, they also struck while the iron was hot.

King Miao Zhuang is a strong heart today, he faintly feels that today's oil pot is no matter how stormy it is, as well as the departure of the coachmen, the death of the two daughters, including the persuasion of the elders and the boat guys, in fact, they are all coming for themselves, as long as he shakes a little, these nine years of hard work will be in vain.

He felt that if he could speak these thoughts, Elder Puji and the shipwrights might not continue to dissuade them.

However, at this moment, every word has to pay great hardship, not to mention the strong wind and waves, if you don't desperately shout others, you can't hear clearly, however, for a long time desperately shouting, for the already exhausted King Miaozhuang, it is impossible to do it anyway.

He thought about it again and again, so he had to condense all his thoughts into one sentence and shouted: "I'm dead...... Finish...... Corpse...... Also be shipped today...... Arrive...... General...... ......"

As soon as the words fell, the wind was calm.

Elder Puji and the men on the ship were all amazed and asked what was going on with King Miaozhuang.

In fact, King Miaozhuang himself couldn't say clearly, so he had to say vaguely: "Although no one knows about the virtue, God knows the sincerity." Thinking of today's miracles, people all nodded in admiration.

After a moment of silence, Elder Puji first broke the silence and began to inquire about King Miaozhuang's life story bit by bit.

In return, Elder Puji also told King Miaozhuang some details about Putuo Mountain.

Putuo Mountain is also known as Zhoushan (one of the Zhoushan Islands), is one of the four famous mountains of Buddhism, located in the territory of Yue Kingdom (now Putuo County, Zhejiang Province), 20 miles long from north to south, more than eight miles wide from east to west, there are Baihua, Buddha Ding, Jinping, big snow waves, small snow waves in the mountains, Guangxi, Elephant King, Meiling, Bodhidharma, Zhengqu and other strange peaks, there are more Chaoyin, Langa and Sanskrit sound and other secluded caves, as well as Puji, Fayu, Huiji and other famous temples, Putuo, Pantuo and other different stones, as for those Danqing masters are also difficult to draw and describe the strange pine, purple bamboo, ancient cypress; The cliffs and dangerous peaks that are not even thought of chopping and forging are even more numerous, and the list goes on.

King Miaozhuang originally had no intention of visiting the mountains and rivers, and he was eager to meet the Bodhisattva, so the first thing he did after the ferry docked was to ask Elder Puji to take him to Chaoyin Cave to meet Guanyin.

The elder didn't know what was going on, but he just thought he was really a devout disciple, and he happily agreed.

Unexpectedly, when King Miaozhuang saw that it was indeed the Third Emperor Gu Miaoyin sitting on the lotus platform, he had already left the elders around him behind, and jumped up with emotion, "Wow, my good daughter ......" and cried.

Elder Puji found that when King Miaozhuang saw that Guanyin Bodhisattva did not use incense paper, nor did he light candles and whips, nor did he bow down and kowtow, but rushed up to hold the Bodhisattva in his arms, crying "Heart and liver baby, my good daughter", he was already frightened.

Elder Puji has been a monk for decades, and he has never heard of such an offense against a Bodhisattva, let alone a male pilgrim holding a female Bodhisattva? It's really "swallowing melon seeds and sucking out bed bugs - everyone (benevolence) has wow!"

Elder Puji didn't even dare to look at it and was scared away, as if the Bodhisattva would definitely ask him about the sin of introduction if he stayed a little longer.