On a dusk in March, on the shore of the East China Sea, a middle-aged man sat in a restaurant by the sea, drinking pale red bayberry wine while looking at the sparkling waves on the distant sea. Under the sunset, the fishing boats that have returned one after another slowly docked, and then accompanied by the noise and the smell of the sea, baskets of fish, shrimp, crabs and eels were poured on the pier, jumping lively.

This middle-aged man, although his appearance is relatively old, but his eyes are like a child, looking around. At this moment, he was learning from others, pointing to a basket of seafood brought back by the restaurant child, pretending to be, and gesturing and saying, "A squid, two sea crabs, and a pound of white shrimp." After saying that, he pursed his lips, as if he couldn't wait to feast.

After the dishes were served, the middle-aged man ordered another pot of bayberry wine. After a while, the wind swept away, and he ate drunk. Staggered out of the restaurant, came to the beach, faced the wind, leaned on the railing, and vomited against the dark sea. Then, staggering around, seeing a few sailor-looking men walking on the opposite side, he stepped forward and grabbed a person's sleeve and shouted, "Boatman, how to go to Putuo Mountain, how many silver taels?"

Those few people who must have seen too much of such drunken people often pointed at Wuxu with a grin, and chattered and laughed there in the local dialect for a while, and then pushed the middle-aged man who was talking nonsense away.

The middle-aged man, shaking for a while, reached out and grabbed another group of pedestrians.

And so on. In the end, a few people were quite impatient, and as if the middle-aged man was crazy, or came to touch porcelain, they simply pushed him to the ground and walked away.

This middle-aged man is Wuxu.

On the same day, Wuxu and Zhao Tong performed the Heavenly Demon Dance together, and then secretly formed an alliance with Liu Bowen and Xuan Jizi, so he said goodbye to Zhao Tong, left Chuzhou, and rushed to Zhoushan on the coast of the East China Sea day and night, planning to cross the sea to Putuo Mountain. When I arrived at the sea, I thought that I would cross the sea and land on the island tomorrow and visit the Guanyin Bodhisattva Dojo, but I broke the color precept of this life at Zhao Tong, and I was anxious. That's why I got the drunken madness I just had.

An old man who was selling conch at a stall next to him saw Wuxu fall to the ground, motionless, afraid of causing trouble, he brought a bowl of water, walked over, and poured it on Wuxu's face. How do you know the void, suddenly opened his eyes, looked directly at the old man, frightened the old man with a loud bang, dropped the porcelain bowl on the ground, ran to the oil lamp in his stall, and then stopped, pointed to the middle-aged man who was full of people who got up and said, "You are in the next life, you don't know anything, what are you pretending to die in the middle of the night?!"

Wuxu stood there and smiled awkwardly, "I didn't die in the first place, I was just drunk." Thanks to your age, you are well-informed, and you are scared. ”

The old man muttered a few words in a low voice, waved his hand, and signaled Wuxu to go quickly.

At this moment, although Wuxu was drunk, faltering, and his mind was messy, he could see some things clearly and think clearly, walked up to the old man, took out a piece of gold, put it on the stall full of conchs, and said, "I was tired of the old man washing his face with water, and he broke a porcelain bowl." This piece of gold should be counted as repayment and compensation. ”

The old man squinted his eyes and said, "This piece of gold is too valuable, you should pay me a porcelain bowl." ”

Wu Xu, who was also idle, sat on the ground opposite the old man, gently passed the stall with one hand, picked up a conch, put it to his mouth, and blew out a whining sound before putting it down, "Don't say it's a porcelain bowl, it's all the conch on your stall old man, this piece of gold, I'm afraid I can buy it, right?"

The old man opened his eyes, took the conch that had just been blown by Wuxu with his mouth into his arms, carefully wiped it with his sleeve tremblingly, and said, "In your later life, a few stinky money is great? The old porcelain bowl that is now holding water is broken because of you, and you want to pay for a porcelain bowl, can you do it?"

At this moment, it is getting late, and the shop selling porcelain bowls has long been closed. Wuxu couldn't help frowning, habitually touched his head, half a sound, groped all over his body, took out a mutton fat jade bottle, and said, "It's not just a porcelain bowl, this can also hold water." It's better than a porcelain bowl. ”

The old man took the mutton fat jade bottle, and then tremblingly, took out a copper basin from behind him, which was filled with water, and said while scooping it with the jade bottle, "Look at the old decay." ”

This sheep fat jade bottle, after being filled with water, was held in the hand of the old man, and after three breaths, there were cracks and fine lines appeared.

After a few more breaths, in front of Wuxu's big eyes, the mutton fat jade bottle containing the pill that Wuxu took out from the Sumeru ring shattered into countless small pieces with a crisp sound, and fell into the copper basin, without a splash.

Wu Xuan almost stood up, full of spiritual power, and instantly* out of the poison of alcohol, but saw that the old man, still trembling, swept the fragments and water traces from the stall with a rag, and said in a low voice, "I thought it was a good thing? ”

Wuxu released his divine sense, and the old man in front of him was nothing unusual, and he was amazed in his heart, knowing that he had met a master, he stared at the opposite side for a long time, pointed to the basin of water and said, "The little monk is thirsty, can you drink some more water?"

The old man smiled rarely, "You are a descendant, foul language, long hair up to your waist, drinking wine and eating meat, and pretending to be a monk." But if you are drunk and thirsty, bring a bowl and serve it. ”

Wu Xuan smiled and said, "What bowl do you use to drink water?!" While entering the mandala Dharma realm and sitting upright holding the seal, he saw a Buddha head appear in front of his body, opening his mouth slightly.

The old man sat there, motionless, just smiling at the copper plate beside him.

The Buddha opened his mouth and sucked it three times, and the water in the copper plate was not shocked, and Wu Xuan shouted, and directly stretched out his right hand and reached out to the copper plate, intending to scoop out some water with his palm. Who knows, this copper basin seems to be close at hand, but it can't reach it. Even though I saw that my right hand had reached into the copper plate, it felt empty.

Wuxu immediately withdrew his right hand, and at the same time secretly condensed the water droplets with the blue sea pearl, manifested in the palm of his hand, and sent it to his lips while saying, "Such sweet water!" After speaking, his mouth was about to inhale the water droplets in the palm of his hand, but he saw that the palm was empty, and the water droplets manifested by the blue sea pearl did not know where they went. Even the blue sea pearl in the Dharma Realm seems to have lost its senses.

A voice sounded in the air, "Drunk want clear water, break the vows and seek Buddhism, cross the maze of the sea of suffering, and there is no dojo in Putuo." ”

Wu Xuan looked up suddenly, and the old man on the opposite side had disappeared, and the stall seemed to have never appeared. Only the conch that was picked up by Wuxu and put to his mouth was still on the ground, motionless.

The words that seemed to be a song but not a song, and seemed to be a song, kept echoing in my ears. Looking at the night sky, after a period of distraction, Wuxu picked up the conch, the tentacles were slightly cool, the whole body was white, put it to the mouth, gently aspirated, the whining sound sounded, slightly desolate, so that people have the feeling of being in the sea, floating uncertainly.

Who is this mysterious old man? It seems that he is also a Buddhist monk.

Listening to his faint words, he seemed to have expected it for a long time, and even waited for him here, but if he didn't go to the beach, pretended to be drunk with wine, and fell to that ground, he wouldn't have met him at all; and if he really came to himself and waited for himself, why did he suddenly disappear?......

After thinking about it over and over again, Wuxu returned to his residence, puzzled, and worried about the blue sea pearl that had lost his sense before, so he sat down, incarnated into a divine consciousness, and entered the mandala Dharma realm. But before seeing the Buddha shrine in the Dharma Realm Buddha Hall, he couldn't see Bi Haizhu at all, and he sighed in his heart, "It's not good, this Bi Haizhu was smoothed by that old man, I don't know what trick to use?"

This blue sea pearl, since the emergence of the Miaofa Peak, is a rare thing that he has to carry with him. Originally, it was a magic weapon refined by the elders of Hualien Miaofa Sect, and later when it was expelled from Wuxu, it was given to Wuxu, and it was carefully refined by Wuxu in the mandala Dharma Realm, dripping blood to recognize the Lord, and later it was warmed day and night in the mural of Guanyin in the East China Sea in the Dharma Realm, and it was even more powerful, and it could be transformed into a Xinghai Lotus Array.

Once Wuxu was lost at this moment, he was anxious in his heart, so he followed the method of the Hualien Miao Dharma Sect, and silently probed in his heart, for a long time, before he showed a suspicious look on his face, stood up, and looked around the Buddha Hall, while muttering to himself, "It's strange, I just used a spell to explore, Bi Haizhu seems to be thousands of miles away, it is difficult to locate and control, but why do I feel in my heart that it is in this Dharma Realm Buddha Hall?"

Walking down in a circle, finding nothing, Wu Xuan looked around in disappointment, but suddenly found that in the mural on the left, the Guanyin monk sitting on the lotus throne at the end, there seemed to be a purple bracelet on his hand holding the pure bottle, Wu Xuan stepped forward to take a closer look, it was clearly his own blue sea pearl, wrapped into four turns, and hung on the hand of the Guanyin master in the mural.

Wuxu looked at the Guanyin priest in the mural, and the Guanyin monk seemed to be smiling on his lips and looking at him. Startled, taking a few steps back, Wuxu hurriedly clasped his palms and said respectfully, "Tonight, it is the Bodhisattva manifestation." Bowing his head, he waited for a long time, but there was no sound, Wuxu raised his head again, looked at the mural, but saw Guanyin, the wonderful appearance was solemn, and there was no blue sea pearl in his hand.

Wuxu was silent, bowed with his palms together, thought about it, manifested an incense case, placed it in front of the mural on the left, and ingested the conch into the Dharma Realm and enshrined it on the incense case.

Early the next morning, Wuxu deliberately bathed, changed into a plain robe, found a boat on the dock, and headed for Putuo Island.

The boatman got two silver taels, but he also worked hard, dozens of miles by sea, and sent Wuxu to the edge of Putuo Island in half an hour. Wu Xuan thanked him and walked on the skateboard between the boat and the shore, when the boatman suddenly said, "Guest officer, you must come back in half an hour, otherwise you may miss the ship." ”

Wuxu took an arrow step, stepped on Putuo Island, and smiled at the boatman, "No need, I want to hover on the island for a while." ”

The boatman, who was smoking, patted his head with a cigarette stick in annoyance, and said to Wuxu, "Just because the guest officer was in a hurry, the little one was only busy, but he forgot to inform the guest officer." This Putuo Island is very desolate, don't say it's an inn, there is not even a decent temple, the laymen who have always come here, don't burn incense, send firewood, rice, oil and salt, and turn around immediately. ”

Wu Xuan smiled, "I see. Thank you for your kindness. But in the next time, I want to stay for a while. ”

Although the boatman said that he was kind at heart, he was also a businessman, and when he saw Wuxu say this, he didn't say anything, but he turned around and nagged while directing the two men below to turn the bow of the boat.

Wuxu walked forward, looking at the grass and trees on the island, and thought in his heart: "I can't imagine that the Haitian Buddha Kingdom in the future is still a primitive ecology. ”

The boatman, who had turned the bow of the boat, shouted loudly at this moment, "Guest officer, do you really want to stay on the island? I am afraid that there will be strong winds and waves in the last few days, and we will not go to sea. ”

Wuxu, standing on a rock, turned around and waved at the fishing boat that was gradually moving away.

Putuo Island, during the Southern Song Dynasty, is already a dojo dedicated to Guanyin Bodhisattva, and Wutai Mountain, Emei Mountain, Jiuhua Mountain are called the four famous Buddhist mountains in our country. In this case, how can there be no temple as a place for him to live? This boatman must be just talking nonsense for business.

Wu thought humbly, shook his head and smiled, walked four or five miles, and saw that in the green shade in front of him, a golden cornice was exposed, and then around a small hillside, he looked up and saw the plaque of "Baotuo Guanyin Temple" with five big characters.

There was a little joy in his heart, and he was about to step forward quickly, but he didn't know where two monsters popped up and blocked in front of Wuxu. These two monsters, dressed in the clothes of a mortal official, one on the left, holding a machete, and the other on the right, carrying an iron rod, looked Wuxu up and down.

Wuxu looked at these two, "I don't know which way the two of you are under the seat of the Immortal Bodhisattva? ”

The monster with the machete on the left circled the knife and shouted, "Are you here for the first time?

Wuxu Zhengse said, "The little monk is indeed worshipping the island for the first time, I don't know what the rules are?"

The green-haired monster on the right, carrying an iron rod and swaying from side to side in front of Wuxu, ran to Wuxu's approach, sniffed hard, and then heyed, turned his head and said to the accomplice on the left, "This guy, look at his breath, he ate the offspring of Lao Tzu and the two last night, I can't imagine that now people are pretending to be monks like dogs!"

The monster with the machete, when he heard this, jumped up, sniffed hard, and then, at Wuxu, said viciously, "Fuck, I really ate shrimp in the sea last night." If it weren't for the Heavenly Dao Cycle, and Heaven has the virtue of a good life, Lao Tzu would have split you in half and thrown you into the sea to feed the shrimp!"

Wuxu looked at the green-haired monster with a stick, and suddenly realized, oh, no wonder he kept shaking his back from side to side just now, it turned out to be a crab spirit. Last night, I did eat a pound of prawns and two crabs.

"Don't talk nonsense with him!" the green-haired crab essence took out a storage bag and pointed at Wuxu Nunu's mouth, "A hemostatic pill, or equivalent jewelry, isn't it expensive?"

Wuxu, seeing that these two monsters were clearly the rhythm of buying road money, he couldn't help but ask curiously, "When the incense is served, the little monk will naturally have something to offer." Could it be that before the little monk goes to the island to worship the Buddha and offer incense, he also has to pay for the road?"

The shrimp demon slashed the big knife and shouted, "If it weren't for the island owner's three Shen Wu Ling, uncle, I wouldn't just ask you to buy money for the road today!

"Island Master?" asked Wu Xuan, hesitantly, pretending to be submissive.

"We, the East China Sea Alliance, the Great Island Lord, the Great Spiritual Monk, and the Haoran True Monarch, have you heard of it?" The green-haired crab spirit said triumphantly to Wuxu, "Seeing that you are also a monk of the third layer of mortal dust, you can't even hear of his old man's name, right?"

Wu Xu, filled with righteous indignation, "But this is Putuo Island, the dojo of Guanyin Bodhisattva, how can you East Sea Demon Alliance set up a private checkpoint here and collect fees?"

"It's the other way around, a little monk, when you go to sea, you still dare to speak disrespectfully and despise my East China Sea League!" The green-haired crab spirit jumped to his feet in anger, blew his beard and glared at his eyes, crossed his hands on his waist, and said viciously to Wuxu, "I think you want to rebel!"

The shrimp demon scolded angrily, "Damn, if you don't give money, you want to go to the sea to play, and you have to give some benefits when you go to the city to set up a stall!

Wuxu turned to one side, flashed over, stopped his anger, and asked in a deep voice, "The little monk doesn't have a hemostatic pill, there are two night pearls here, I don't know if it's worth it?"

The green-haired crab essence, with a flying step, grabbed the two night pearls, and the shrimp demon next to him also took the big knife, came to the green-haired crab essence, and divided one.

The two of them only cared about fiddling with the mellow and bright night pearl in their hands, and only waved their hands at Wuxu for a while, "Go, go." ”

Wuxu clasped his palms together and asked, "Dare to ask the two of you, if you are an ordinary man and a layman, do you have to pay this fee if you go to the island?"

The two monsters, facing Wuxu in unison, showed a smile that was more ugly than crying, "What do you say?"

This place is already in the East China Sea boundary, Wuxu didn't want to make any extraneous branches, alarmed the people of Dongji Island not far away, and in the face of the blackmail of the two little monsters, he had to swallow his anger, took out two night pearls, and floated away.

While walking towards the Baotuo Guanyin Temple, his heart couldn't help but sink, "In this way, the situation on this Putuo Island doesn't seem to be good." But I don't know what the scene is in the temple? Guanyin Bodhisattva, why did the East China Sea Demon Alliance do such nonsense?"

When I arrived at the mountain gate of Baotuo Guanyin Temple, I saw that the gate was empty, and I pushed the door in, but I didn't see a monk, and the cobwebs were condensed everywhere, and the dust was heavy. Walk to the hall of Daxiong Bao, the oil lamp is extinguished, there are only a few burned incense candles in the copper furnace, go around the three Buddha statues in the front, go to the back, there is a statue of Cihang Pudu, Guanyin Dashi stands on the fish, walk between the blue waves, the air is flying, but unfortunately, the net bottle in the hand, but I don't know whether it is in disrepair, or it has been eaten by rats and the like, and there is already a small hole missing.

Wuxu couldn't help but think of the scene last night, when he scooped the water in the old man's copper basin with a mutton fat jade bottle, and it shattered into pieces after a while.

His heart was full of sadness and pain, and he clasped his palms together and said, "The Bodhisattva is a Bodhisattva without leakage or even without leakage." Why is the dojo so dilapidated, the evil demons are in charge, and the pure bottle is broken, could it be that he wants to show the little monks and even sentient beings with omissions?"

As the so-called body breaks the precept and drunk dreams, the copper basin scoops the water and the blue sea.

Abandon the ship and land on the island to endure the pass, and the Bodhisattva's net bottle shows the leakage.