Chapter 157, the dervish game Hongchen
The poem says:
The world is accustomed to the heart, and the red dust wants to be free. Floating life is like a game, and the stacked peaks are higher than the high and the sky is lost. The sky is higher than human desire, and the time is stacked and piercing the sky. The dervish moves occasionally, but it is very enjoyable to travel here.
- A little poem. It is said that Li Shijian followed his master Guan Mingjing, got rid of the attack of the Southern Wilderness Demon Bat, and went all the way to the north, and by dawn, he was already above the northern edge of the Southern Wilderness Plateau.
The Nine Elders stopped the Wind Chasing Spirit Boat, swept over it with his divine sense, examined it, and sighed, "The Southern Wilderness Demon Bat is really powerful. Shijian, look!"
When Li Shijian looked at it, he saw that the hull of the Wind Chasing Spirit Ship was dotted with small holes that had been burned, and the good thing was that these small holes had not yet penetrated the hull, only the stern of the boat, there was a hole the size of a fist, which was of course done by the demon bat that made a strange "squeak" cry last night.
Li Shijian said: "Master, this demon bat is actually so powerful!"
The Ninth Elder said: "We first chose to fly over the Southern Wilderness Plateau during the day, originally to avoid this kind of demon cultivation. This kind of demon bat, which reproduces quickly and has a huge population, does not know whether it is dead or alive when it encounters an enemy, and attacks like a moth to a fire, which makes people unguardable!"
Li Shijian asked again, "Master, how can we find the three elders of that Yan San?"
The Ninth Elder smiled, "Wait for me to rest for a while, and then fly back, and go to the place where I met the Winged Hand Flying Ape yesterday, and I should be able to find it." ”
Not to mention that the Nine Elders drove the Wind Chasing Spirit Boat, the two masters and apprentices flew south again to find the Third Elder Yan of the Confucian Sect.
Besides, the dervishes monk Mingchen, driving the black bowl, all the way north, the more he walked, the more he felt that something was wrong, he could clearly feel that the black bowl was twice as fast, and he should have been able to catch up with the Nine Elders and Li Shijian a long time ago, right, how could he not see the shadow of their wind-chasing spirit ship?
The dervish took control of the black bowl, landed in the dust, and then the dervishes in his hand and walked with a cane—a great city ahead.
I saw this city, the city wall is extremely high, there are a hundred zhang, it seems to be extremely thick and solid, the city gate watchtower, it is the pillar painted red, the bucket arch is painted gold, the eaves are obliquely extended, the golden bell hangs: the gold is brilliant, beautiful, but I don't know what kind of place this is.
At that time, the dervishes came to the vicinity of the gate of the city, only to see that above the city, there was a big golden character written: Leyou City.
The dervishes smiled and said, "The name of this big city is not bad, Leyou City, the old man might as well go in and have fun." ”
The dervishes walked with a cane, hiding the breath of a sixth-order immortal cultivator of his own spiritual path, just like a mortal old monk, walking slowly, and the city gate guards had already shouted: "That monk, take out your degree!"
The dervish took out the dumu, the guards at the city gate took it, only glanced at it, then raised his hand and threw it away, and at the same time shouted: "Where did you get this dumu? It's obviously a fake Xibei goods!"
The dervish monk bent down, calmly picked it up, put it away, and then said:
"In this world, it is very beautiful to be a monk, and everyone is rushing to become a monk?
In this world, there are all unscrupulous businessmen, corrupt officials and corrupt officials, these people still burn incense and worship Buddha all day long, but they have not seen anyone who has become a monk, why is my monk still worth impersonating?"
When the city gate guards heard this, they couldn't help but say angrily: "Where did such a long-winded monk come from?
Lao Tzu is just a routine business, say a word to him, look at him, hey! He actually told Lao Tzu a lot of nonsense! You have the ability, why did you go to become a monk who has cut off his children and grandchildren? Why don't you punish the unscrupulous businessmen and corrupt officials in the world? Get out! Get out of the way!"
The captain of the city guard squad next to him said: "Huh, you monk, you look like just a mortal old monk, why do you look exactly the same as the thief monk Mingchen who is wanted by the empire, and the dress is exactly the same?"
As he spoke, the captain stepped forward to arrest the dervishes.
In fact, this squad leader, although he said exactly the same on his lips, was treated "in two ways" in his heart. In his opinion, maybe the monk in front of him is pretending to be a wanted criminal and defrauding everywhere!
The team leader couldn't have imagined that this mortal old monk in front of him was actually a sixth-order spiritual path!
At that time, the captain shouted: "I see that you are not a thief monk himself, or you want to pretend to be a thief monk and deceive everywhere! Today, if you bump into my hands, don't leave anywhere, follow Lao Tzu to see the official, and go to the city lord's mansion prison to stay!"
The squad leader shouted like this, and all the guards at the city gate shouted: "Yes! He really looks exactly like the wanted thief monk! Catch him, send him to ask for merit, and let the city lord reward us with wine and food!"
These city gate guards are not at a high level of cultivation. That squad leader is only a sixth-order true path.
The dervish laughed and said, "Because you don't respect the elderly, you should be beaten in the ass." However, you are all immortal cultivators, and the old man can't fight if he wants to, so just spare you. ”
Several city gate guards giggled, seeing that the team leader came to catch the dervishes, they really didn't believe that this mortal old monk was really the wanted criminal, and there was a guard next to him who said to the team leader, "Lao Zhao, be careful not to hurt the old monk, your dog's paws have always been very heavy!"
Another guard laughed and said, "This old monk is probably crazy, and he actually pretends to be a wanted criminal, aren't you looking for charcoal in the nest - looking for the frieze?"
When the dervish heard this, he said in his heart, "Let him take it, and tease him again when I go to the city."
So the dervishes pretended to be panicked and shouted, "Slow, slow! Light, you light! I, old arm and leg, can't bear to toss you!"
The team leader grabbed the dervishes, handed it to his two subordinates, and ordered: "Don't tie him up, you two, just take him to the city lord's mansion." ”
The two guards asked, "Captain, we arrived at the City Lord's Mansion, if the above asked, what would we say?"
"It's stupid, you just say that if you catch a liar monk who pretends to be a wanted criminal, won't it be over? As for how to punish it, that's not our business!"
So the two city guards really didn't tie up the dervishes, and dragged them to the city lord's mansion. The two city guards walked fast, but the dervishes were like an old dragon clock, walking with difficulty, walking and walking, and couldn't help but stumble, and quickly stretched out the cane in his hand to support it, not wanting this one, the cane obliquely blocked the calf of a city guard, and tripped him!
The dervish monk was one step ahead of the city guard and exclaimed: Ouch!
Another city guard said, "Old immortal, what about your eyes, how can you stretch out your crutches to trip people?" while scolding, he stretched out his hand to push, not wanting to push this one, but the dervishes did not fall, but he stumbled, and the city guard who pushed him also tripped up!
There were quite a few pedestrians on the street, and many people laughed when they saw it, and the laughter made the two city guard soldiers very angry.
When the two guards got up, they saw the dervishes walking forward on their own, with their canes and bowls, and as they went, they were still muttering something. When the two city guards rushed forward, they saw the dervish monk walking faster and faster, and after a while, he disappeared into the flow of people!
The dervish monk played tricks on the two city guards, and he was very happy in his heart, and laughed. When I turned the corner, I found that there was a guest house in front of me, so I entered with a cane, and Xiao Er had already come forward: "Does the master want to stay or eat?"
The dervish said, "Eat!"
Xiao Er said: "Okay!" and sang upstairs: "There is a Zen master, come to eat, please sit on the second floor——"
This singing, the sound was full of anger, but it shocked many people in the store, and everyone secretly wondered: Zen monks, there are still people who openly come to eat in the guest house?
I heard the sound of a cane hitting the stairs, and an old monk with a cane came up to the second floor.
Behind the old monk, there are two people, one is dressed as a Confucian student, although he is old, but he knows at a glance that he is a person who has achieved immortal cultivation, and he should have the cultivation of the second and third orders of the spiritual path. The other is a young woman, with the posture of a middle-aged person, and she is also a second- and third-order cultivation of the spiritual path - it turned out that the dervishes asked Li Wenshan and Lu Sanya to come out to eat and drink together.
The people on the second floor couldn't help but look at the three dervishes, but the dervishes didn't care about everyone's eyes, and chose a single table with no one on his own, sat down, and said:
"What kind of seat do you want? That's just right, the old man is just eating a drink, is it worth spending more money on that seat? Li Daoyou, Sanya, all come and sit. ”
When Xiao Er stepped forward again, he couldn't help but say in surprise: "It turns out that the master still has guests! Master, you said that where you sit is good, then naturally you are good to sit." Do you always have a vegetarian or ——??"
The dervishes said: "Wine, pick the best of you here for ten catties, what about the vegetables, it doesn't matter, give me three plates of dog meat!"
When the little second heard this, he sang angrily: "No. 6 single table on the second floor, three guests, ten catties of amber wine, three plates of dog meat!"
Before Xiao Er could sing, there was a sudden sound of slapping the table in the seat, "popping", very loud, and then there was another angry snort.
Another voice said lazily: "Meng Fei, go and see, which bold and reckless monk actually came here to ask for wine and meat?"
When the dervish heard this, he realized that the sound of slapping the table just now, and the angry snort, were actually directed at him!
Sure enough, the next moment, a middle-aged man, with a green face and frost, came to the dervishes table, and said in a harsh voice: "Hey, which mountain gate are you a monk who ran out of the mountain? Don't you think you have ruined the reputation of Zen Buddhism?"
Before he finished speaking, this man named Meng Fei screamed softly-
It turned out that this Meng Fei also saw that the monk in front of him actually looked exactly like the wanted criminal of the Neng Empire, but he didn't cultivate. That wanted criminal, but the fourth order of the spiritual path, quite fierce, where is it like the old monk in front of him, with a lazy smell?
The dervishes didn't care what he thought, but lazily asked, "Who are you? Why do you care about the old man's private affairs? What is in the way of the old man eating a drink?"
Meng Fei saw that the monk in front of him was not a cultivator, although he had doubts in his heart, his tone became louder, and he said:
"I was originally an outer disciple of Master Jingyue, the master of the Zen Dharma Hall, and Meng Fei of the Meng family, the first family in Leyou City, I just can't get used to seeing you as a monk, but you came here to ask for wine and meat, ruining the reputation of Zen Buddhism!"
When the dervishes heard this, he laughed: "Zen Qingyu cares about my? Tell you, although I am a monk, I want a wife and a wife, a concubine and a concubine, a lover and a lover, and a son and a son.
Li Wenshan didn't say anything, but it was Lu Sanya, when he heard the dervishes say, "My son is as old as you", he knew that the dervishes were interested in this Meng Fei, so he couldn't help laughing at that time, and also said:
"Hey, don't be nosy, don't disturb my Abba's drinking, or I'll be rude to you!"
When Meng Fei heard this, he only thought that Lu Sanya was the daughter of the dervishes, and thought to himself: He even has a daughter, and it seems that the matter of having a wife, a concubine, and a lover is also true, not to mention that he is shouting here, and he wants to eat wine and meat! When did we have such a monk in Zen Buddhism?
Look at his daughter's speech, very domineering, and then look at this monk's speech, he still wants to take advantage of me in his words! Annoying and hateful! When did I, Meng Fei, suffer this embarrassment?
The more Meng Fei thought about it, the more angry he became, and for a while, Nameless Karma hit his head on fire, so he shouted angrily: "Bastard!"
I didn't want to shout before I spoke, and someone sent a message: "Ah Fei, don't get angry!"
At the same time, I heard a Buddha shouting: "There is no Amitabha Buddha in the south!"
Another monk appeared! I saw this monk with big ears, a face like bronze, a nose like a hanging gall, and a big mouth -- just looking at this big mouth, it was a life that fought the autumn wind and ate all directions.
The monk stepped forward, gently pulled Meng Fei over, and saluted the dervishes: "Fellow Daoist is invited!"
The dervish monk said: "You are a monk, and I am also a monk, what kind of Taoist friend? ”
So the monk changed his words and said, "Senior brother, please!"
When the dervish monk heard this, he stood up, folded his hands, and said, "Amitabha!
The monk said: "Senior brother, the poor monk is the master of this sect Dharma Hall, Jingyue, I can't bear to see that the senior brother violates the rules of Zen Buddhism, destroys the Tao, and falls into the six realms of reincarnation. ”
The dervishes said: "It turned out to be Senior Brother Jingyue! Senior Brother said with a smile, Lao Ge, I just eat wine every day and eat meat every day, and I can't destroy the Tao and fall into the six realms of reincarnation." Anyway, you're just in the middle of the private seat, where did you get any vegetarian food in this guest house?"
Jingyue said: "Otherwise, the poor monk I routinely inspected here, my apprentice invited me here, specially entrusted this guest chef to make a table of fasting meals, the wine is vegetarian wine, the dish is vegetarian dishes, since the senior brother has the fate to catch up, please also enter the elegant seat." ”
Lu Sanya said: "Abba, what good can you do with the vegetarian wine? Don't go, right?"
When the dervish monk heard this, he said, "Thank you, Senior Brother, for your good intentions!
At that time, Meng Fei was very dissatisfied in his heart, and secretly asked with his divine sense: "Master, this old monk is very presumptuous, why should you be polite to him? Just blast him out of here!"
Jingyue also used her divine sense to send a message to her apprentice, "Ah Fei, what do you think he looks like?"
Meng Fei said: "Master, he is just dressed like the Imperial Wanted Dervishes, but that Dervishes is said to be the fourth order of the Spiritual Dao, although this person in front of him is like, but he is just a mortal old monk, what are you afraid of him? It is the old rotten Confucian beside him is only the second order of the Spiritual Dao, and his daughter is only the second order of the Spiritual Dao, these two, the disciples can deal with them! Master, what are we afraid of him? Why let him?"
Jingyue said: "Stupid! You don't think about it! What if he hides his breath and deliberately pretends to be a mortal old monk? Don't you understand—just tell you for the teacher, he is the dervish wanted by the Empire!"
Meng Fei was shocked and unbelievable.
At this moment, there was a shout outside the guest stack: "Don't move!"