Chapter 107: The True Wish
Chapter 107: The True Wish
Giving up his original naΓ―ve ideas, Li Shaobai decided that he wanted to go deep into this era and first investigate the actual situation of various strata. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
He came to a savage village more than twenty miles away from Yongcheng. It is said to be a savage village, which means that the people who live in the village are savages. But this savage is not the same as the savage we know. In this era of this world, people can be divided into three classes: nobles, commoners, and slaves according to class. According to the area of residence, it can be divided into Chinese people and savages, Chinese people refer to urban people, and wild people refer to rural people, especially people in remote areas.
The world is especially large, and it is not uncommon for cities to be hundreds of miles apart from each other. The population is also very sparse, with only a few dozen households in a village and only a dozen or so households in a village. Because of the sparse population, there are wastelands everywhere. And because of the underdevelopment of productive forces, people starve to death and freeze to death every year.
Li Shaobai came to this village, which is a small village with only 11 families, plus less than 100 elderly and children. No one else in the village usually came, and Li Shaobai, who was wearing strips of cloth, entered the village. The children all ran home, and the adults also stared at Li Shaobai with vigilance, as if they were defending against devils entering the village.
After a while, I don't know who called the elder in charge of this small village. Li Shaobai looked at the old man in front of him who was full of white hair, wrinkled face, hunched over, and hobbled with a cane, and couldn't help but think of his grandfather in the countryside. His eyes were a little moist.
The old man asked, "This lord, is he here to collect taxes, or is he still going to be served?" β
Behind the old man was a row of middle-aged men and women, there were not many people, but there were about twenty people, and everyone stood numbly. The clothes on their bodies were shabby, they were made of broken animal skins and ragged linen clothes with coarse twine, and the clothes on their bodies only covered key parts, and they didn't need to be pretended by Li Shaobai's beggars at all. Perhaps they had adapted, but these people were red from the cold, and their skin was cracked, revealing bright red flesh and deep black blood. But in the cold wind, they stood like statues, like animals waiting to be slaughtered.
Li Shaobai couldn't help but feel a little sad, he didn't expect ordinary people in ancient times to live so miserably. There was a growing urge in his heart to destroy this sinful world.
He moistened his eyes and couldn't hold back his tears, he adjusted his emotions and said, "Old man, you misunderstood. I'm just a passing ranger, not an adult who collects taxes and has to work hard. β
Hearing him like this, the old man often breathed a sigh of relief, and there was also a glimmer of divine light in the eyes of the other numb people.
The old man then said, "Everyone, let's all disperse! He is a chivalrous man, not a dog-legged rat." β
When I heard the elders say that they had dispersed, these people also dispersed.
Li Shaobai thought to himself, these ancients are too pure-minded, aren't they afraid that I am a noble lackey in disguise. In fact, this is not the case, the nobles and their subordinates in this world are arrogant, they have to drag people away if they want them, and they take things away if they want them, and they don't need to disguise them at all.
The old man staggered back on crutches.
Li Shaobai beckoned and stopped him: "The old man stops." β
The old man turned around slowly, and a weak old voice said, "Young man, is there something wrong?"
"I, I ......" Li Shaobai, who rarely communicates with people, couldn't help but stutter a little, and it took a long time to hold back a sentence, "Can I send you home?"
Fortunately, Li Shaobai held back, otherwise he would have said that sentence again, and it would not be beautiful.
The old man looked at Li Shaobai carefully from top to bottom and from bottom to top.
Li Shaobai felt that this old man who had experienced the vicissitudes of time, his cloudy old eyes were about to see through him.
The old man was weak and said slowly, "Yes, young man." β
Li Shaobai hurriedly went up to help the old man, and sent the old man home in the direction of the old man's finger.
The old man's house was made of mud and plaster, and the mud walls were also open with cracks. The roof is thatched, and the roof is leaking. is such a house, along the way, Li Shaobai found that it can be regarded as the best house in this village. This is in stark contrast to the antique high-rise buildings in Yongcheng that were built like skyscrapers before. Li Shaobai felt that he was really about to hold back the anger that burned the world in his heart.
The old man's house is very simple, as soon as he enters the door, he sees a large uneven wooden pier with a diameter of more than one meter, on which is a rough pottery bowl, and a small pottery bucket used to hold water is placed in the corner of the wall. Li Shaobai didn't find a single bed, but there were some things like beds and human-shaped indentations piled up with wheat straw and thatch on the side of the pottery bucket.
Li Shaobai couldn't hold back any longer, he ran out of the old man's house and ran to a hill behind the village. He yelled and screamed, the cold wind blew on him, he didn't feel cold, it was the whole world that was cold, and tears flowed in his eyes.
He pointed to the sky with his right hand and made an oath, and he roared out loudly: "Heaven and earth witness, I, Li Shaobai, made a vow: I do not seek eternity in this life, but seek harmony in the world." The world is not the same every day, and I, Li Shaobai, do not preach for a day!"
"Click" a lightning thunderclap, and the heavens and the earth seemed to witness his vow.
This lightning was so shining that the entire wilderness, the three worlds of heaven, earth and man saw this lightning and heard this thunder.
Lightning illuminates the eternal darkness of Hell, where the demons howl at the sound of thunder and lightning.
Above the heavenly realm, the Jade Emperor hurriedly sent clairvoyant Shunfeng to check the reason, and summoned the immortals and gods to come to the Jinluan Palace to discuss the matter.
On the West Heaven Sumeru Ling Mountain, Duobao Rulai is speaking for all Bodhisattvas and Arhats. Suddenly thunder was heard, and lightning shone brightly.
The arhats were talking, and the bodhisattvas were indeed sitting upright.
Venerable Kasa asked, "My Buddha, I don't know what is happening?"
Duobao Rulai pinched the thumb and middle finger of his right hand, smiled and said to the Bodhisattvas and Arhats: "In the eastern land of the world, there is a benevolent person who has a great wish, and only when there are sentient beings in the world and everyone is happy, can he preach the Tao. This is exactly the person I am destined to teach. β
Guanyin asked, "My Buddha, will this hinder my plan to teach the East?"
Duobao Rulai said: "Guanyin Bodhisattva, what you say is reasonable. The poor monk had just calculated, and the heavens were in chaos. Bodhisattva, first go to meet the ancestor of Fangcun Mountain, and say that the sky has changed, and the plan is ahead. β
Guanyin got the order, so he drove the white lotus to the three-star cave of the oblique moon.
Duo Baoru said: "Golden cicada, out of the ranks." β
As soon as the words fell, a handsome young monk came out.
The handsome monk said: "Golden Cicada, meet the world-honored Rulai." β
Duobao Rulai said sternly: "The golden cicada neglects the Dharma and enters the reincarnation of the tenth life in the world. β
As he spoke, Duobao Rulai hit the air, and a reincarnation channel of black and white circulation was formed.
"Ahh