Chapter 36: True and False Precepts

"My leg is crippled, so I have to get out, right, young man!"

As the ball slowly opened, an unkempt old man sat in front of Zhao Kuangyin with a smile.

Zhao Kuangyin said in surprise: "Senior——! who are you and why are you ...... here?" !”

"Me, my name is Tan Jie!"

"What?...... you?!" Zhao Kuangyin couldn't believe his ears.

The old man looked at Zhao Kuangyin's surprised expression, a slight bitter smile passed over his face, and he sighed: "Yes, your suspicion is not strange at all, because someone must have replaced me now, and risked my name to be the abbot." If I'm not mistaken, you were also raped to get to this point......, right?!"

"Who is that Tan Ring on it?" Zhao Kuangyin said more and more puzzled.

This sentence seemed to touch the old man's sadness all of a sudden, and his eyes were faintly sad, and he looked at Zhao Kuangyin fixedly for a long time without squeaking.

Shao Lean, seeing Zhao Kuangyin staring at him with a puzzled expression, in order to break the deadlock, he hurriedly followed: "Oh, by the way, young man, I forgot to ask, what's your name?!"

Zhao Kuangyin replied absentmindedly: "Zhao Kuangyin." ”

"Oh——? Zhao Kuangyin...... is Niubi Dao Chang Ziyun your master?" the old man couldn't stop looking him up and down.

"Do you always recognize my master?"

"I've been friends for many years, but I haven't moved around much in recent years. However, I heard that he accepted a good apprentice Zhao Kuangyin, who is often on the rivers and lakes and fights violence and peace, it turned out to be you. The old man is rude!Hehehe......" The old man clenched his fists and arched.

"Master, don't say that, I'm ashamed!" Zhao Kuangyin waved his hand again and again.

"Zhao Daxia, I can tell you that the situation we are in is not optimistic at the moment!" the old man stared at Zhao Kuangyin with a stern expression.

"Since they are all my own family, then I have nothing to hide, wait for the old monk to tell you slowly. Alas——!"

After the old man sighed, he continued: "It was a cold night, the old monk went to the Shaolin Temple, talked with the master of Dezen, and returned after three or five days, and saw a monk who was frozen in front of my temple.

The old monk rescued him and stayed in the temple to recuperate for a few days. After his body slowly recovered, he begged the old monk to keep him in the temple, and the old monk saw that he was sincere, so he agreed.

At the beginning, this person was very diligent and respectful, and he was deeply liked by the monks in the temple. The old monk saw that he was intelligent and intelligent, and he had the heart to cultivate him, and he would give me the mantle in the future. He slowly taught him what he had learned in his life.

"I never thought that this person would slowly infiltrate me, the current emperor is mediocre, and the river festival makes Li Shouzhen loyal and benevolent, virtuous and respectful, with the image of the Son of Heaven, and advises me to conform to the will of heaven, if I help him succeed, I can enjoy glory and wealth in the future.

"The monks have always been compassionate, and they could not bear to see the people of the world struggling to make a living, suffering from war, and trapping the people of Li in fire and water, so they scolded them bitterly and decided to expel them from the mountain gate.

"Why do you ask this man to beg for mercy, saying that he has an evil thought in his heart for a while, and that he will never repeat this thought in the future.

The old monk only said that this person's cultivation is not deep, and his concentration is insufficient, and staying by his side for a long time will definitely be able to expel the demonic obstacles in his heart.

"Unexpectedly, I wanted to raise tigers for trouble, and this thief actually poisoned the food delivered to me while I was in retreat and cultivation in the cave.

"In order to destroy the corpse and destroy the traces, throw the old monk into this crypt. Thanks to the old monk's profound skills, he just passed out for a while, and after he woke up, he slowly exercised his skills and recuperated to pick up a life. It's just that this poison is discharged to the legs, and it can't be discharged anymore, and the legs are wasted. Alas——!"

"Will no one in the temple notice it?" Zhao Kuangyin was a little puzzled.

"Yes, your doubts are not unreasonable. It's just that you are in the temple, have you ever seen that impostor Tan Jie, walking around?" the old man asked, widening his eyes.

"Not really, but in the cave above, I heard the exclamations of the women who had been plundered here. The affairs of the Zen temple are handled by Xuankong. ”

When Zhao Kuangyin said this, the old man was stunned, "Xuankong! This old thief, it turned out that he betrayed me." It seems that the two of them have long colluded with each other and are embarrassed. The impostor only needs to hide in the cave and give orders in my name, how will the monks in the temple notice that something is wrong!"

Zhao Kuangyin then asked, "Then haven't you been here for a long time?"

"Yes——!" the old man replied helplessly.

"What do you live on?"

"Yes, it makes sense, I'm still a little hungry now. As he spoke, the old man's eyes quickly poked around, and a sly smile appeared on his face, and then he pointed and said, "Zhao Daxia, you see it's ......."

Zhao Kuangyin looked up in the direction of his finger, and saw that in the rock crevice above his head, a pair of dark blue and gloomy eyes were secretly peeking at him, and he was shocked!

After rubbing his eyes, he said, "A snake!"

"Hey, hey, hey!" the old man chuckled, "That's a good meal for the old monk!"

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a "whoosh" sound, and a stone had popped out from between his fingers and was hitting the snake's seven inches.

The snake "snapped" and fell to the ground, he grabbed it casually, scratched the snake's belly with his fingernail, and the blood splattered out, and hurriedly sucked it with his mouth.

After a long time, he raised his head and looked at Zhao Kuangyin, who looked puzzled, slightly embarrassed, and said with words in his mouth: "Amitabha! Buddha atonement, Buddha atonement! The disciple violated the Buddhist rules for the sake of his life, and he really had to do it as a last resort!"

"Master, what kind of place is this, how can we get out?!" Zhao Kuangyin looked at the old man anxiously.

"Hehehe, don't be impatient, if I have a way to get out, will you still see me here?!"

"Then we can't sit still!" Zhao Kuangyin said unwillingly.

"It seems that your sharpness and edges have not been dulled!" the old man sighed.

"Master, where are we now?"

"Is this here? Our current location is under the pagoda of the 'Relic Stupa Monastery'. The old man sighed, and continued, "That's a long story!"

"Everything has to start with Emperor Wen of Sui. Yang Jian, the founding emperor of the Sui Dynasty, was born in a nunnery in Shaanxi Province and was brought up by a nun since he was a child, which made him have an indissoluble relationship with Buddhism since he was a child.

"Before Emperor Wen of Sui ascended the throne, an Indian monk made a special trip to his house and gave him a bag of Buddha relics and asked him to make a good offering!"

The old man paused, glanced at Zhao Kuangyin, saw that he was listening attentively, and continued: "Yang Jian asked someone to customize a delicate seven treasure chest and treasure the relics in it. That is, after the throne, he issued an edict to the world and promoted Buddhism.

In a nunnery in Kyoto, he also built a double pagoda of Lianji, and placed relics under the towers to repay the grace of the gods and nuns for raising him.

On the 60th birthday of Emperor Wen of Sui, he specially invited several eminent monks to discuss the way of the Buddha in the Renshou Hall of Renshou Palace.

In the end, he decided to choose 30 states in the country, each of which was a place of high refreshment and purity, and built a relic. To this end, he also personally drafted a very specific and detailed edict, which instructed the world:

"I took refuge in the Three Jewels, revived the Holy Religion, and thought of all the people in the four seas to develop Bodhi and cultivate good karma together......

He went to the secret room and opened the seven treasure chests, respectfully took out 30 relics, put them on the royal table, burned incense and worshipped, and then put the relics into the 30 gold bottles, and then put the gold bottles into the glass bottles, and sealed the lids with incense mud. After being sent to 30 states, copper letters and stone letters were placed in turn.

"The emperor respects the Buddha so much, needless to say, the sincerity and solemnity of the officials under him. This is well documented in ancient books......

"Back then, the 'Relic Pagoda Monastery' built a pagoda to repair the temple in order to store the Buddha's relics. ”