Chapter 29: "The Peach Conference Becomes a Feast, and the Banquet Makes Regrets"
Not long after, the Pan Tao Conference was held again in Yaochi, and the immortals received invitations, some came alone, and some brought their followers.
If he is newly promoted to the commander of the four major continents, he has also received an invitation for the first time.
If you know that this is a grand gathering of all the immortals of heaven and earth, because it is the first time that Buddhism participates in this grand event, it will definitely show the vast momentum of Buddhism's continuous operation over the years, so he led the Bodhisattva, Arhats, and the majority of holy monks to come to the meeting together.
There are no less than 100 people, and the momentum is quite large, and when they just come to the Nantian Gate, they make the immortals impressed.
All the immortals who participated in the meeting, including the Buddha Gate Rulai, all arrived at the Tiangong Yao Pond one after another, and entered in order under the guidance of the ceremonial officials.
The first to enter was the Sanqing gods, Yuan Shi Tianzun, Lingbao Tianzun, Taishang Laojun drove in turn, the Jade Emperor and Queen Mother saw that Sanqing arrived, and hurriedly got up out of the Yao Pond to greet them, and took the three gods to their seats, and then sat down to see the other gods enter the Yao Pond.
Next is the Four Emperors, followed by the arrival of the Five Elders. There are a large number of five elders, and the more eye-catching ones are the Western Buddha and a group of immortals who attended the peach festival for the first time.
I saw that the front was the canonized Western Buddha Rulai, who sat on the lotus flower, backed by Huacai, and had a golden light on his head, which can be described as full of spirit and magnificent.
He was followed by two bodhisattvas, Manjushri and Puxian, each riding on their own mounts, a mighty green lion and a white elephant full of fairy statues.
When the gods and immortals saw it, they couldn't help but be amazed, the mounts of these two Bodhisattvas were so majestic. There is also the Guanyin Bodhisattva with a lotus flower under his feet, holding a net bottle, sitting down and roaring with golden retrievers, and coming majestically.
At the same time, there are also holy monks and Arhats, who are also mighty and magnificent.
Immediately after the arrival of the immortals of each pole and the immortal island, the middle eight holes, the lower eight holes, the five buckets, the six divisions, the seven yuan, the eight poles, the nine yao, and the ten were also entered separately, and they sat down for a while.
After the gods from the outside of the Heavenly Palace arrived, the immortals registered in the Heavenly Palace were also in place, and everyone also met each other and saluted.
When the immortals entered, the Jade Emperor Queen Mother chatted with the Sanqing who had arrived, and greeted the immortals who came in, and everyone met each other in turn, with a group of joy.
Seeing that everyone had arrived, the Jade Emperor motioned for everyone to be quiet, and said: "This time, I took the opportunity of the Queen Mother's birthday to hold a peach event. ”
Then the Jade Emperor asked the new immortals in the immortal class to introduce themselves, and the most eye-catching of them was, of course, the Western Buddha.
The Jade Emperor first introduced: "This Buddha is in Xiniu Hezhou to practice the Tao, save the suffering of all beings in the lower realm, and is now ranked among the Buddhas of the Western Elysium, and live in the West Niu Hezhou Lingshan in charge of the four continents. ”
The gods and immortals have heard of it for a long time, and now they have to see it, it is really extraordinary, everyone gives a salute, and they also get up to return the salute.
After the introduction of Rulai and, the immortals also introduced themselves one by one, the Jade Emperor announced the start of the banquet, for a time, the fairy music played in unison, the fairies danced together, it was not lively, the leading fairy was beautiful, it was the Chang'e fairy of the Moon Palace.
I saw all the immortals holding up the immortal wine, wishing the queen mother her birthday and saying joy to the Jade Emperor.
The sound of congratulations is endless, and it is needless to say that it is lively.
Sanqing and Rulai meet each other, and they have to talk more.
For example, since he attained the Dao, he has gone through hard work and practice, and now he has ascended to the Nine Heavens for the first time, and he can't help but admire the majesty and vastness of this heavenly court again and again, but he feels that there is no Bodhi alone.
The fairy wine ate three rounds, the delicacies were all five flavors, the fairy music sang together, the fairies danced, the immortals were happy, laughed again and again, and then the protagonist of the banquet appeared, what is the protagonist, of course, it is the fairy fruit peach named this banquet.
I saw a group of fairies holding the fairy plate, and the fairy plate was filled with the strange fairy fruit peach, pink and white, and the fairy leaves set off, which was really extraordinary.
The immortals who have eaten it know that the effect is delicious, and they have long been looking forward to it, and when they put it in front of them, they first smell the fairy breath of the fairy peach is already refreshing.
Not long after, the fairy peach has been distributed to all the fairy tables, everyone looked, the peach in front of the gods on the last few roads has not changed, and the number of peaches in front of the gods with a slightly lower position is obviously a little less than last time, the outside of the palace is good to say, not very obvious, especially the number of peaches in front of the Tiangong Immortal Class is a lot less, only about half of the last time, one by one look at each other, I don't know what to say, but I have some ideas in my heart.
The Queen Mother saw the reaction of the immortals in the Heavenly Palace, so she said to the immortals, "The number of people participating in this peach feast is more than the previous one, the number of peaches is limited, and the growth of this immortal peach is slow, so the immortals in the Heavenly Palace will give less to each immortal, so that every immortal can taste it, and everyone will be happy together." ”
When the gods and immortals heard this, they all nodded frequently, praising and saying, "The queen mother arranged well, thought it out properly, etc., and it was another compliment, and so on." It's just that the immortals of the Heavenly Palace have some deficiencies in their hearts. ”
Regrets are regrets, it does not affect the joyful atmosphere of the whole peach feast, and it is a festive whole day, after the banquet, the gods and goddesses bid farewell to the Jade Emperor and Queen Mother, and bid farewell to each other, and went separately.
At the end of the second peach event, the number of participating members expanded, and the number of peaches shrank, of course, it was only a shrunken version of the peach banquet in the eyes of the immortals in the Heavenly Palace, so it could not help but cause a lot of discussion.
Heavenly Court Wenchen military generals, the stars are on duty, there are a large number of people, usually nothing is to get together to chat, the peach will pass for many days, and this topic still does not bypass the peach banquet.
The four heavenly kings, the twenty-eight constellations usually gather together to chat, and this day is close, so they talk together about the topic of the peach banquet that has just opened.
What did the kings say, they were directly dissatisfied with the reduction in the number of peaches allocated, one is because he is the king of heaven, and his status should be higher, at least higher than those who look at the stars, but this time he did not escape the shrinkage of the number of peaches.
The Growth Heavenly King Mo Liqing said: "Brothers, is it possible that this Jade Emperor is prejudiced when he sees that you and I have come to the Heavenly Palace from the Earth Realm?"
The Wide-eyed Heavenly King Mo Lihong said: "Where, you didn't look at the immortals from the realm, they originally belonged to your and my territory, but they didn't see the peach missing, but we were angry when we went to the sky." ”
Demon Lishou, the Heavenly King of the Holding Country, said: "Yes, it's really depressing, the Jade Emperor treats you and me as favors." ”
The stars on the side also responded: "That's it, forget about our stars, the king of heaven has fewer peaches, it really shouldn't be." ”
After some discussion, there is always no topic of shrinking this peach banquet.
While they were talking, all the immortals saw that Tai Bai Xing was coming, so they all stopped talking and greeted Jin Xing.
Seeing a large group of people discussing something there, Tai Bai Xing turned a corner and went around to take a look. When he saw that it was all of them, he asked, "What are you discussing?"
The immortals saw that it was Venus, and they often discussed all kinds of affairs together, and they did not shy away from it, and one of the stars said: "We are all talking about the fact that the number of peaches in this peach banquet is too small, and the Jade Emperor is stingy with the immortals of the Heavenly Palace such as me." ”
The other stars also followed suit and said, "Yes, even this Heavenly King has been reduced in share. ”
When Tai Bai Xing heard this, he smiled and said: "Oh, it turned out to be this matter, that peach has been blooming and bearing fruit for thousands of years, and it has to hold a banquet every year to invite these many immortals, the Jade Emperor saw that everyone was the immortal of the Heavenly Palace, and he could understand the other immortals who came from afar, so he first reduced everyone's share and allocated it to some newly added immortals." ”
Hearing this, the Heavenly King Mo Lihai said, "Since I am waiting in the Heavenly Palace, which is the closest to the peach, and the peach will eat less, why don't we go and get a few on weekdays." ”
Jin Xing said: "The king of heaven can't, this queen mother stipulates that if you don't open a peach feast, you can't pick them without authorization on weekdays." ”
The king of heaven said: "Is there still someone guarding this peach orchard?"
Jin Xing said: "There are no guards, only some wrestlers who sprinkle water and prune branches and leaves, the Jade Emperor has not let me arrange someone to guard, I think everyone is a god, and there is no need to guard." ”
The Nakshatras said, "Exactly, exactly." ”
Sent away the Tai Bai Xing, this cadre of immortals gathered together again to discuss, some people said, that peach was obtained by that Dongfang Shuo, how can we not get it?
It turned out that Dongfang Shuo, the boy of Emperor Donghua, had stolen the peach three times, and everyone knew about it.