Chapter 17: The Old Man and the White Snake

There is a Pufo Temple on Pufo Mountain. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

There is Pufo Village at the foot of Pufo Mountain.

Villagers believe in Buddhism and gods, every year on the Buddha's birthday, almost every household of the villagers will bring their wives and sons to the Buddha Temple to incense to the Buddha. This custom has been around since the temple was founded and has been maintained for almost 90 years.

The idea of worshipping the Buddha has long been an instinct of the villagers. At this time, the villagers have smiles and devotion on their faces, hoping that the Buddha will bless them with good weather and good crops next year, and a good day in the coming year.

This is naturally the idea of adults, but for children, although they do not have the same thoughts of adults at this time of year, this day is indeed the most lively day.

There is a fine house not far from the Pufo Temple, and there is an old monk who does not know how long he has lived. Many children have heard their parents mention this unattractive old monk, who according to their parents has stayed there when they were children, and at least thirty or forty years have passed since then, but the old monk's expression and appearance have not changed in the slightest.

The word "living immortal" naturally came out of the mouths of the villagers, and finally entered the ears of the children, who were very curious and wanted to meet the old monk.

However, every year, the old monk can only be seen on the Buddha's birthday, and at other times, the old monk may be at home or may have left a certain house.

What kind of legend the old monk has, whether it is a fairy or not, these are not important to children, they want to meet this old monk for only one purpose, they can hear many bizarre and absurd stories from the old monk's mouth.

Therefore, every time it comes to the Buddha's birthday, children seem to be very happy, and recent years are no exception.

After the adults put the incense on it, they sent the children to the ashram where the old monks lived to help take care of them. This kind of thing is commonplace for both the old monk and the villagers, all these years but all the children who are taken care of by the old monk have never had an accident, although the villagers do not know whether the monk is a god or not, and do not know the origin of the old monk, but they still trust the old monk very much.

Just after noon, the deserted house began to be lively, and a dozen children asked questions and chattered like birds.

The old monk's temper and patience are excellent, but he tries his best to give these innocent children an accurate answer to everything he knows, and he definitely does not deliberately fool the children because of their age.

However, although there are many problems with children, the things that each child mentions the most will indeed be stories, some bizarre and legendary stories.

The old monk smiled kindly, looked calm, and did not refuse the request of the innocent children.

The monk thinks that he has done nothing in his life and has not done anything earth-shattering, but he still has some experience in telling stories to children, at least the stories he tells can definitely make children addicted.

Today he also told a story, a story that children had heard before, but not before—the Legend of the White Snake.

Before he could begin to speak, a little girl with pigtails raised her hand high, her eyes sparkling, and said in a childish voice: "Old man, do you want to tell the story of the White Lady?" ”

The old monk patted the little girl's little head with a smile and said, "Yes, little girl, have you heard this story?"

The little girl nodded vigorously: "I heard my mother say, is the white lady a white snake that has cultivated for thousands of years?"

The old monk smiled, he shook his head and said, "The white lady I will will be is not a thousand-year-old white lady that Xiao Nannan has heard of, but a martial arts master with extremely powerful martial arts. ”

The little girl closed her mouth, and she looked at the old monk with the same curiosity as everyone else.

The group of children who had been chattering non-stop just now had fallen silent at this moment, and it was obvious that they naturally wanted to hear the story of the monk Jiang Bai Niangniang.

The old monk smiled kinder and more pleasantly, he led the children to the courtyard, he sat on a piece of bluestone, and began to tell the story of the white lady.

"Bai Niangniang's surname is Bai, her name is Bai Suzhen, she is an extremely powerful female master of martial arts, she can overturn a wall as soon as she stretches out her hand, and she can jump up more than ten feet with a stomp...... "The old monk said while gesturing, and soon the children made a sound, and their eyes were full of yearning and fantasy.

The old monk was concentrating on telling the legend of the white lady Bai Suzhen, and the children listened quietly, completely unaware that a plainly dressed man in a green shirt was already standing outside the courtyard and was also quietly listening to the story told by the old monk, and also fell into deep thought.

Nearly an hour passed, when the old monk said that the old monk named Fahai was ordered to punish Bai Suzhen and finally imprisoned Bai Suzhen for eternity, a group of children couldn't help crying, and one of the still strong boys looked at the old monk with red eyes and said, "Grandpa, why did Bai Suzhen's father punish Bai Niangniang?"

The monk smiled, he was just about to speak, but when he saw the middle-aged man in Tsing Yi at the door, he closed the words that he was about to speak, he patted the child's head lightly and said, "I also heard this story from other places, so I don't know." ”

The child frowned, obviously not satisfied with this answer, but he also gave up asking, but at this time, the middle-aged man in Tsing Yi standing at the door spoke, and he said: "Probably the father of the white lady thinks that the man that the white lady likes is not worthy of the white lady's like, that man is a man who forgets his interests, he doesn't want the white lady to be hurt, so he prevents the white lady from being with Xu Xian." ”

A very bright light flashed in the child's eyes, and they all turned their heads to look at the middle-aged man who gave them the answer, and the child who closed his mouth spoke again: "That Xu Xian is indeed not a good person, he actually found another wife after Bai Niangniang left, but Bai Niangniang's father took Bai Niangniang away, didn't he let Bai Niangniang also be hurt?"

The middle-aged man in Tsing Yi smiled and nodded, he walked up to the child, squatted down, and sighed softly: "Yes, it's probably because Bai Niangniang's father is so stupid that he is not as smart as you, so he did what such a stupid person would do." ”

A group of children nodded one after another, they completely agreed with the words of the middle-aged man in Tsing Yi, Bai Niangniang's father was really a fool.

The old monk stood on one side, looked at the middle-aged man in the green shirt, and then at the child who was still innocent and ignorant of the world, and sighed secretly in his heart, he wanted to say something, but after all, he still didn't say a word.

The red sun is already the setting sun.

The children were satisfied to be taken home by their parents, they couldn't help but be happy, they not only listened to the old monk tell a story about the white lady, but also listened to the strange uncle also told a story about the white lady, although the two white ladies are called Bai Suzhen, but the content of the story is different, probably the only thing that is the same is that the two white ladies are martial arts masters.

The middle-aged man in the green shirt stood in the courtyard, staring blankly at the sunset in the sky, he sighed softly, and said, "Fahai, what kind of person do you say is a real smart person?"

There are only two people in the courtyard, except for the middle-aged man in the green shirt, there is only the old monk, and the old monk is Fahai, who punishes Bai Suzhen in the story.

Fahai was silent for a moment before he said: "I don't know, I only know one thing: no matter how smart a person is, he can't be smart forever and never make mistakes, even if he is the supreme god, you." ”

The middle-aged man in the green shirt sighed, he was very indifferent to the words he didn't want to listen to and didn't want to listen to in the past, he sighed softly: "Yes, at least I shouldn't have punished my son at the beginning, even if I wanted to punish him, I would have killed Xu Xian!"

Fahai thought so, he sighed softly and said, "At the beginning, you didn't expect Xu Xian to be so ruthless and unjust, and finally raided the goddess in order to become rich and noble. ”

The man in the green shirt smiled coldly and said, "Mourning is greater than dying, how can Xu Xian, who is only powerless, sneak attack Su Zhen, who has cultivated the Heaven Shifting Divine Technique and the Immortal Demon Body? When she was attacked by Xu Xian, she didn't want to live, so she finally died in Xu Xian's hands." ”

He glanced back at Fahai and said lightly: "You have been repentant about this matter for nearly a hundred years, it is enough, this matter has nothing to do with you, if you want to blame it, blame this seat for not ordering you to break Xu Xian's body into ten thousand pieces before this incident happened." ”

Fahai smiled, he stretched out his folded hands, and muttered to himself: "Fahai rarely kills people in his life, and he hates killing, but the only thing he regrets is that he didn't kill Xu Xian." ”

"Why do you have to do this matter, although the demon broke off his relationship with me, but Su Zhen is his daughter after all, and he wants the demon to cross all beings, it is naturally difficult for people like Xu Xian to escape his punishment, Xu Xian has been punished many years ago. ”

Fahai didn't speak, he looked at the man who no longer had the ambition to reign in the world in the past, and he said, "God, do you think Chu Feng can invite the demon to come to Pufoshan?"

The man in the green shirt stood with his hands in his hands, silent.

It seemed that after thinking for a long time before giving an answer, he said: "I have claimed to be a god all these years, but I can't help but admit that I am not worthy of being a god, God cannot have seven emotions and six desires, and there are only all living beings in the world in my heart, but there is still a person in my heart all these years, that woman." ”

Fahai stopped talking, and he was speechless.

That woman, apart from the demon, apart from the demon named Bai Suzhen, how could there be other women in God's heart?

Fahai was speechless, gods and demons can be regarded as amazing and brilliant people in this world, these two people are too smart and proud, it is precisely because of their intelligence and their pride that this person finally parted ways.

There are still demons in the hearts of gods, but what about demons? Is there still a god in the heart of the demons who have been pure in heart and have few desires all these years and have spared no effort to plan for the demon to cross sentient beings? Is it that many years ago, there was no god in the heart of the devil, and there was no one in the world.