Chapter 48 The common eye only recognizes money, but the discerning eye can recognize pearls
Wangwu Mountain is at the water's edge.
The dashing and capable Li Bai only used a few swordsmanship to shock the scene, and skillfully broke the first move of the green-robed monks to fish in troubled waters, and the problem still came to the side of the bald donkeys.
It doesn't make sense, and it can't be beaten. The green-robed monk is a little nerve-wracking, seeing that the high hat can't be worn, it seems that they can only play Lai, but if you want to talk about Lai, they know this very well. They can't remember the truth of the Buddhist scriptures, but the pit is abducted and deceitful, after all, the former is the golden body of dressing, and the latter is the capital of life, but not all monks are moral Zen monks.
The crowd of onlookers was still impressed by Li Bai's brilliant swordsmanship, they exchanged heads and gossip, and some people even learned from Li Bai's appearance and made casual gestures, as if they were also a swordsmanship master like Li Bai. Some half-grown children are born with no resistance to the long and straight branches, and at this moment they are in groups of three or five, picking up some branches at will, and comparing them according to Li Bai's appearance, which makes the people around laugh and reprimand, and the whole ferry is more lively than the temple fair.
Seeing that a plan could not be achieved, the great monk turned his mind and made another plan, he took advantage of the high interest of the crowd in the audience, announced a legal name, and gave the disciple a look, the disciple understood, and ordered the porters and servants to quickly sort out the goods, with a posture of leaving, and the green-robed monk had already stepped forward, trying to leave the scene quickly under the cover of the noise.
Although Li Bai seemed to be praised by everyone, his eyes were all staring at the big monk, and at this moment, seeing that a few of them were about to take advantage of the chaos to escape, he naturally didn't allow it, only to see him shout in the direction of the green-robed big monk:
"Master, what are you going to do?"
Afraid of something, the green-robed monk heard Li Bai's question, as if he had heard a clarion call. He paused, stiffened, and his face turned the color of pig's liver. Everyone's eyes were on Li Bai's side, and when they suddenly heard Li Bai shouting like this, they naturally looked in the direction. When everyone saw that the monks were preparing to apply oil on the soles of their feet, they immediately pointed and pointed. The monks had no choice but to pretend to be stupid, turned around and replied to Li Bai:
"This benefactor, the poor monk's trip is the Wangwu Sacred Mountain, because there are important things to bond, so he will retire first, and after a long delay for fear of missing the two important things of Buddhism and Taoism!"
The monk, his face is not red or panting, and he is the crown with big things to do, just this cheeky kung fu, Li Bai is afraid that he will not be able to compare with another hundred years of practice.
"Ao, it turns out that the master has something important to do, so I won't ask for advice!"
After saying this, Li Bai deliberately stopped, and stretched out his hand to salute. The monk was a little overwhelmed by Li Bai's actions. That's it? Is this person having brain cramps or is he stupid? It's good to be stupid, he can just borrow a bald donkey from the slope, and he can't manage so much, so he also returned the salute and prepared to turn around and run away.
How could Li Bai do what he wanted, deliberately say something half-cut, just to tease, he deliberately coughed, and continued without saltiness:
"Is it just that the master is gone?"
The onlookers also lost their reverence for those monks, and wherever the wind blew, they fell in whichever way, and immediately began to make a noise.
"Yes, I want to leave before I give the gambling money!"
I don't know who shouted, and the rest of the people became more energetic and shouted one after another
"Give money, give money!"
The big monk knew that he was played by Li Bai, and he was so angry that one Buddha ascended to heaven and two Buddhas went out of his body, but it was not good to have a seizure, so he had to pestle there again, and several little monks were also so anxious that they scratched their ears and cheeks, trying to find a good way to break the siege. The great monk didn't expect those straw bales to come up with any good ideas, he regretted it in his heart, why did he lose his mind about money, and he had to gamble with others. In fact, he doesn't blame him, it's a person who faces such a situation, and he will still gamble if he comes 10,000 times, how can there be a reason to send money to his eyes and not reach out.
The great monk was reluctant to give up the lame gold, so he naturally had to pay for his pearls. To say that those pearls are not very distressing in his opinion, just that quality, they will never be sold for a gold or two, but that is the senior brother of the head of the family personally instructed him, he really can't lose that to others. I can't hide, how can I turn around, I just hope that the lame man is easy to speak. After making up his mind, he didn't pay attention to Li Bai anymore, but looked directly at the man on crutches, and said in a sincere tone:
"This donor, the gambling contract was just a joke, can not be counted, the poor monk was reckless for a while, today it is considered to be broken, I don't know if the donor can raise his noble hand, reveal this matter, the poor monk is grateful, and so back to the Huguo Temple, the poor monk will set up a longevity lamp for the donor, reciting the blessing scriptures!"
The great monk is still dying, trying to use those vain things to fool him around. The man on crutches didn't speak when he heard this, and seemed to be a little moved, and the great monk saw this, and couldn't help but rejoice in his heart, hey, there is a door, and when he was about to increase the heat to blow a rainbow fart, the man on crutches shook his head slightly:
"Although Li has great respect for Zen Buddhism, he has always been shallow in Buddhahood, as for this skin, he has long been disgusted with it for many years, early death and early liberation, and a long life of 100 years is not a good thing for me!"
After saying these words, he seemed to remember some sad past, shook his head and sighed, and then continued:
"It's a moment to be happy!"
The great monk was obedient and obedient, and only then did he slowly come back to his senses, no matter what he spoke or behaved, there was a weirdness everywhere, and he just wanted to make money, but he forgot to look at his opponent. At that moment, he quietly operated the method of observing qi and looking at luck, his eyes glowing with a faint golden light, and he looked towards the lame man. But after watching it for a long time, the luck on the lame man's body is like an ordinary mortal, there is no luck around, and the trend of rise and fall is also clear at a glance, could it be that the other party is really an ordinary person? Everyone is watching, and it is the land of the ancestral court of Taoism, the situation is like this, and he has no good way, so he can only follow the other party's words at the moment.
"The donor's words are bad, the body hair and skin is the parents of the gift, how can there be a reason to dislike, the Buddhist family has clouds, the past life because of the fruits of this life, the donor still has to open his heart, put aside the mundane things, concentrate on goodness, the next life will have a great creation and great wealth, and the abundance of the gods and handsome bearing is extraordinary!"
Look at how powerful this monk's mouth is, while persuading people not to drill into money, he draws cakes for others, so that others are open-minded, but he is reluctant to lose money, and he is really a good player who can sophistry.
But the man on crutches didn't seem to be moved by the handsome gods of the next life, and still insisted on the point of view of this life:
"The master is reasonable, but it's a pity that Li's skin can't be faded, it's just that, I'm just a vulgar person, the next life is too slim, or pearls are better, I haven't seen it yet!"
After all, the topic still returned to the "pearl", Li Bai Dufu Gao Shi and the onlookers also looked at the monk at the moment, with a posture of asking him to pay the gambling contract. The great monk can't help it, the other party doesn't get in the oil and salt, and he can't do it himself, so many people are watching, and if he doesn't handle it well, if he passes it to the [Huguo Temple], his future will be completely ruined. He is still in the prime of life, and it is the time for the torrent to move forward, and he can't lose the big because of the small. While scolding the other party in his heart, he said:
"The donor is determined, the poor monk admires, but the gambling pearl is very involved, I don't know if it can be exchanged for something else, the donor and rest assured, the value of the substitute is definitely not cheap to these pearls, if the donor still has doubts, the poor monk is willing to pay 30,000 yuan to pay!"
Look at this monk and many chicken thieves, one tael of gold is sixteen taels of silver, it is one hundred and six thousand dollars, and thirty thousand yuan is not enough even two taels of gold, not to mention that if it is really exchanged for gold, it will only be exchanged for more money, this monk really dares to speak, the abacus in his stomach is really black, and the onlookers heard this, and they laughed and ridiculed.
Seeing that the people were angry, the great monk had no choice but to raise his voice and hurriedly shouted:
"If it's not enough, the poor monk will add another 10,000, can you?"
Everyone saw that this monk was really magnificent, and they added 10,000 yuan at a time, and the coaxing was even more vigorous, and they shouted one after another
"Not enough, not enough!"
The great monk couldn't wait to push all these people into the water at this moment, but he made a gambling contract by himself, and it was too late to regret it, so he had to bleed profusely and shouted again:
"Amitabha, I also begged the donor to raise his noble hand, the poor monk only has a maximum of 50,000 yuan, and this 50,000 money is enough to buy five pearls!"
The man on crutches was about to cry when he saw that the green-robed monk was anxious, but he still shook his head. Don't say 50,000 yuan, it's 500,000 yuan, 5 million yuan, 50,000 yuan, he Li can't look down on it, the pearl in the monk's Shu brocade purse, he is going to decide, today is the Bodhisattva is coming, and he won't let it.
Others don't know, but he Li is lame very clearly, don't look at those pearls in the Shu brocade purse has never appeared, but he has already run Xuangong and saw those pearls clearly. It is precisely because he knows the details of those pearls that he is interested in gambling with the green-robed bald donkeys, firstly, to punish those arrogant monks who see wealth, and secondly, he also intends to befriend Li Bai, Dufu and Gao Shi, and has the intention to give the three of them some opportunities for creation, if it weren't for these, with his skill realm, those pearls would not be able to enter his eyes, and the things in his gourd would be tens of millions of times better than those pearls. Today, he has this mood to play the world, and if he has to get those pearls, it is all for the sake of Li Bai and the others.
Those five pearls are so rare and precious, but in fact, at least in the eyes of secular people, no matter how big or small they are, these pearls are not a rare thing. Even if an ordinary wealthy family buys a pearl to inherit the family, they will not want such a dim and dull material. Datang is rich, powerful all over the world, those yellow-haired and white-faced hairs, which one of the coral pearls that come to Datang to trade and exchange is not the top, they have crossed the mountains and seas all their lives, and even lost their lives to transport these treasures to Chang'an City.
The people of Datang are supported by the national fortune, and their vision is naturally high, they look at those foreign devils who drink blood, and they are all contemptuous in their hearts. Although they are despised for being ugly and poor, the treasures that these foreign devils have fished up from the deep sea are not bad, far better than those produced in the local rivers. These pearls in the arms of the great monk, from the outside, are properly things that come out of the river, and this point of vision can be seen, the great monk still has it.
It's just that he only knows the surface but doesn't know the inside, his kung fu has not yet reached home, and the monk thinks that those pearls are just mussel beads in the river and the like, but Li Cripple won't tell him that it's not, he won't be so kind.
In fact, these pearls are not ordinary, it is true that they are produced in rivers, but they are by no means produced by ordinary pinctada shellfish, but they have a great origin.
Of these five beads, one is a shark bead, one is a whale bead, one is a fish bead, one is a mole bead, and the largest of them is a Jiaozhu. The five beads are all produced by the water spirit monster who has been cultivated into the essence for many years, looking at the essence conceived in it, it should be killed before it has been transformed, as for whether it was killed by the demon or beheaded by people, it is unknown, although the other pillars have essence, but they really can't enter the eyes of Li Cripple, but the largest Jiaozhu among them, Li Cripple can vaguely know some of the origins, if he guessed correctly, this Jiaozhu is from the dragon that was removed by the surrounding place.
Speaking of the Zhou who slashed the dragon, it is not very famous. He was a native of Yixing Yangxian in the Jin Dynasty, and he was also a family of gate lords, and his grandfather Zhou Bin joined the army for the consultative adviser of the Three Kingdoms of the Three Kingdoms in the late Han Dynasty, and later transferred to Guangping Taishou. His father, Zhou Yi, was a famous general of Eastern Wu, served as the Taishou of Poyang, and was given the title of Marquis of Guannei. Because of his illustrious family background, his grandfather and father were military generals, he practiced martial arts since he was a child, and because of his talent, he was favored by some talented people and taught him many skills that were different from ordinary people. As the son of an official eunuch, Zhou was pampered, and he was much taller and braver than his peers since he was a child, and later because of his father's early death, the whole family pitied him and loved him, and no one was willing to discipline him, especially his grandmother, who wanted the wind to the wind and the rain to the rain.
In this way, Zhou grew up little by little, he was burly, his arm strength was outstanding, and his martial arts were strong. Good gallop field hunting, do not cultivate meticulous practice, indulge in wanton desires, and run rampant in the countryside. Because he has been lawless since he was a child, he has a strong atmosphere, and his arrogant and arrogant character is becoming more and more uncontrollable, often fighting with people and making trouble, bullying men and women can be said to be all evil, and the locals even made up a folk song to sing:
"Xiao Zhou, strong physical strength, knives and bows day and guns at night. Punching Li and kicking Zhang, like a tiger pounced on a flock of sheep. ”
The people are miserable, but the family background is strong, where can ordinary people fight, if they get into trouble, they either spend some money, or directly use the strong force, even the current regime is covering their family, and the people can only walk around him, and no one dares to talk about the short and long with him, for fear of getting into trouble.
At that time, there was a white-fronted tiger in Nanshan who came out to eat people, and there was a dragon under the long bridge in Xijiu that the water was evil, and all of them were violent to the people, therefore, people privately put the dragon and the evil tiger together with the Zhou, and called it "Yangxian Sanheng", and among the "three horizontals", the most headache for the people was that Zhou.
Later, someone thought of a good idea, he deliberately talked in front of people that although the surroundings were fierce, they were not as good as the tigers and Jiao, don't look at the surroundings, beating us like chickens, but he didn't say that he encountered the Jiao in the Yixing River, that is, the tiger in Nanshan, and he had to escape with his tail between his legs when he saw it everywhere. The person who came up with the idea of "driving the tiger and devouring the wolf" is likely to come from Cao Wei's side, because this plan was the first person under Cao Cao's account, Xun Yu, which means to order one to attack the other and kill each other, so that the third party can take advantage of the fisherman.
The intention of this plan is to provoke him to kill the tiger and kill the Jiao, no matter which side wins, there will always be one less harm. Later, the saying that this Zhou is not as good as Hu Jiao spread to Zhou Zhi, this seven-foot man who is "less lonely, no cultivation, and suffering in the state" immediately went to the head, and his blood surged straight to the heavenly spirit, and his reason was covered by impulse, and he didn't know that his family would go straight to Nanshan with a hard bow and blade.
After entering the South Mountain, he used the skills taught by the masters, and found the tiger's cave with the breath of the mountain, he did not choose to venture into the tiger's den, don't look at his fierce temperament, but he is delicate, and he will never let himself be in unknown danger. He searched for a long time, and finally found and ambushed at the mouth of the cave where the tiger traveled, from mid-day to sunset, the tiger really came out to forage for food as usual, and looked around for the right time, stretched out his bow and arrow, the tiger was also spiritual, inexplicably felt the crisis, twisted his body and jumped out. But the arrows around him were as fast as lightning, and although it was too far over the forehead, the chest was still shot by the arrow. The arrow was so powerful that it went straight into the flesh, and the arrow came out of the body, and the tiger was in pain, so he was about to turn around and flee back to the hole, how could he let him get his wish, and with a loud shout, he jumped down with a steel knife and ran towards the tiger.
When the tiger saw that it was flying towards him, he had to stand up all the hairs on his body, and his whole body was much thicker than before, with steel teeth exposed in his mouth, and the yellow light in his eyes shining straight to the periphery. The beast pressed his two front paws on the ground, kicked his hind paws, jumped five or six feet high, and went towards the periphery, and the bloody mouth was aimed at the circumferential neck.
Seeing that the tiger pounced, he knew that the knife could not be successful, so he had to put away the knife and control the body to kick the beast's forehead, and the body flashed to the side by this force, and the tiger also brushed past from the side of the claw, and its claws and mouth were only an inch away from the flesh around it. After Zhou Shi landed on the ground, he hurriedly stabilized his body, and the tiger also turned around, one person and one tiger were only four feet away, and Zhou Shi held a steel knife in his hand, and half squatted and took two steps back. The tiger's two eyes looked straight around, and some of his spiritual intelligence was activated, the human being who invaded in front of him was not a good person, and the humans he usually ate were not as tall as this person, and today this person was definitely scheming, first an arrow injured it, and then it was a confrontation with a sharp blade, but he had to deal with it carefully. The tiger, which was no longer mortal, suddenly roared, and the fire turned again. There was another flash around him, and the tiger passed by him and landed in the clearing, and before it could turn around, it shot to the side. The corner of his eye swept over, and the tiger really flew over, but unfortunately when it pounced, it had already jumped out of the circle again. In this way, the tiger was obviously not supported, the arrow wound on the body was huge, it gradually had a retreat in its heart, squatted down slightly towards the periphery, its paws were draped in the white hair on its chest, its two eyes looked directly at the periphery, the mouth was gluttonous, the tip of the tongue was spit out of the tongue, and the tail was similar to a brocade rope, swinging back and forth.
Zhou understood the animal's intentions, but any tiger who had eaten human flesh would never give up easily. It's just that this tiger has eaten countless people, and has accidentally eaten some hundred-year-old Ganoderma lucidum in the mountains, and has opened some spiritual wisdom, which is already different from ordinary beasts, otherwise it can't be a disaster for many years, and the officials can't take it for more than ten years. The tiger knew that it had encountered a hard stubble today, and it knew that it would not stop if it didn't kill itself, so it deliberately showed weakness, and took advantage of the injury to become weaker, waiting for Zhou to relax and be careless, and then it waited for the opportunity to move and knock the man down.
A man and a tiger confronted each other for a long time, and the sky was getting darker and darker, and he saw that the tiger had fallen to the ground, panting in his mouth, so he picked up a stone on the ground and threw it at the tiger, and the tiger watched the stone fly towards him, and did not get up, but turned his head to dodge. kept smashing around, but the tiger was still hiding, and there were many wounds on his body that were smashed by stones, and the blood was drenched in blood. Zhou Shi seemed to feel that the tiger was already at the end of his crossbow, and he stood up and moved towards the tiger with a steel knife. The tiger still didn't get up, but just opened its mouth and roared, trying to use its own might to drink back from the periphery.
Zhou Di got closer and closer, until he stopped ten paces away, picked up the stone and threw it, the tiger still only responded with a low roar of teeth, Zhou Di seemed to be relieved, he shouted and took a step and raised the steel knife and slashed towards the tiger's head. The tiger was waiting for this moment, it looked at the surrounding rush, its hair trembled, and it jumped three feet high, and the thick and powerful tiger claws went straight to the door around the door. The fishy wind brought by the tiger's claws rushed straight to the door of the surrounding area, and the tiger was already imagining the scene of Zhou being slapped to death by his own claws and burying himself in the belly of the tiger.
But what he was waiting for was this, he predicted the tiger's prediction, and saw the tiger jumping up hard, he used an iron plate bridge to lie down in the air, and the face of the door was able to avoid the tiger's claws, and the body just drilled under the tiger's belly, and the steel knife in his hand scraped under the tiger's belly. The tiger not only pounced, but was also disemboweled by a knife around the place, and his internal organs flowed to the ground, and now he really lay on the ground and couldn't get up, roaring in his mouth, and his paws desperately planed on the ground, plowing the soil and stones around his body out of deep grooves.
He stood up, patted the grass and dirt on his body, thrust his steel knife into the ground, found a stone and sat down, and watched the tiger die and struggle. The tiger finally lost its breath, and the blood flowed into a small river, so he walked around and cut off the tiger's head, and then lit a torch, and went to the tiger's hole, where he wanted to see if there were any tiger cubs, so that he could cut the grass and eradicate the roots. When they arrived in the cave, they did not see any tiger cubs, only human heads and bones everywhere, and sighed everywhere, turned around and walked out. He came to the outside of the cave, put down the steel knife torch, took out a purse from his arms, and took out a black pill the size of a walnut from it, he put the black pill in the palm of his hand, silently recited the mantra in his mouth, and dragged his own qi into the black pill, after a while, he shot the black pill into the hole, turned around and exited for a zhang, and after three breaths, the hole exploded, the fire soared into the sky, and the mountain rock was blown up and collapsed, burying the tiger hole. Looking at the cave that looked like it had been after an earthquake, he muttered to himself:
"I don't know how many lives this evil animal has harmed, but pity these people, if you meet it, you will have a place to bury! It's just a pity for my earth fire bead! That's it! ”
After saying this, Zhou Zhi did not hesitate any longer, he carried the steel knife behind him, held a torch in one hand and a tiger's head in the other, and strode down the mountain.
The evil tiger on the mountain has been ambushed, and the dragon in the water is rampant!