Chapter 66 is for the tiger

Ji Sheng, the ghost, replied: "I am now Miao Sheng's ghost, and it is so hard to serve him! I must let him kill another scholar in order to replace me." Three days later, a man dressed in Confucian clothes will be bitten to death by a tiger, but he must be bitten to death under the Canglong Ridge, and that will be my place. On that day, you invited a few more scholars to come here, which was for the sake of old friends. ”

Ji Sheng confessed, Jin Sheng was bitter in his heart, and it was difficult to make a choice for a while, he knew that the people who were eaten by the tiger in the road would become ghosts after death, and the ghosts would be the slaves of the tigers, and they would work hard for the tigers and help the tigers hurt people. So he didn't dare to argue in front of the ghost, so he respectfully agreed and said goodbye. Back at the residence, he pondered for a whole **, and he didn't know what to do after turning over and over.

After thinking about it, I only felt that I was in a dilemma, and I had no choice but to endure the bitterness in my heart and break the promise, and let the ghosts punish it!

Life is like this, there are too many choices, too much suffering, many people think that Buddhism is very negative, thinking that life is all bitter is ridiculous, but people who enjoy it every day, how can they know that for some people, life is just a mouthful, but also to swallow the coptis chinensis, the pain of life is like poking, it has been painful.

At this time, a cousin, Jiang Sheng, happened to come, and Jin Sheng told him about the strange things he had encountered. Jiang Sheng is a well-known scholar, but there is a scholar named Ma Zheng in the county, who loves to travel in the mountains and rivers in his life, but his exam ranking is ahead of him, and he is very jealous in his heart. At this time, when he heard Jin Sheng's words, he had bad thoughts and secretly wanted to frame Ma Zheng. After arriving home, he wrote a letter inviting Ma Zheng to visit Canglongling, but he planned not to go.

On this day, Ma Zheng took this servant to Canglongling, because the scenery of Canglongling is beautiful, Ma Zheng forgot about the landscape, wandered around in the pine forest, and unconsciously reached dusk, it seems that he can't get out of the night this night.

Ma Zheng was in a hurry, and suddenly saw a shack set up on the big tree in front of him, and a hunter on it was signaling to him. As soon as Ma Zheng lowered his head, he saw a trap set by the hunter not far in front of him, and he had just almost stepped into it.

The hunter jumped down from the tree, looked at Ma Zheng and the others, and asked, "Who are you? Why are you still wandering around the forest when it's dark?"

Ma Zheng told the hunter about his greed for mountains and rivers and forgetting time. The hunter said, "There are many wild beasts here, and they are very dangerous, so don't go any further, just pass by me!" said the hunter, and as he walked to the trap, set up the trap for catching the beasts, and then led the horse and the servant to the hut of the tree. Ma Zheng thanked him vigorously.

In the middle of the night, Ma Zheng woke up from his sleep and suddenly heard many people chattering under the tree, and the voices were getting closer and closer. Ma Zheng became alert, and by the moonlight, he saw a large group of people walking in front of him, including men and women, old and young, and there were dozens of people in total. When these men approached the big tree where Ma Zheng and the hunter lived, suddenly the man walking in front of them found the trap and cried out angrily: "Look, who has set up a trap here to murder our king!

After the group left, Ma Zheng quickly woke up the hunter and told the hunter what had just happened. The hunter said, "Those guys are called 'ghosts,' and they were originally people who were eaten by tigers, but when they became ghosts, they served the tigers with all their hearts, and at night they came out to patrol and guard for the tigers, and if they met people, they lured them over and ate them to the tigers." ”

Ma Zheng understood after hearing this, but this Ma Zheng was quite chivalrous, so he said to the hunter: "Then the king they just talked about must be a tiger, since there are tigers harming people here, why don't we set up the mechanism and get rid of our tiger?"

When the hunter heard this, he hurriedly said: "Don't go down, this tiger may become a sperm, I can hunt tigers, but I can't fight against tiger spirits." "The Tiger Spirit is not a stupid thing, but the trap is of no use to him.

Ma Zheng said unwillingly when he heard this: "Do you just look at him as harmful?" He was indignant when he said this, but he was unwilling to stand idly by.

The hunter said: "It is said that there is an Elder Fuhu in the mountain temple of Canglong Ridge and Zhurong Peak, maybe he has a way." ”

Ma Zheng said: "Then when it is dawn, I will go and ask the elder to help." ”

Sure enough, the next day, he took a child servant and went up the mountain to visit the elder.

He climbed Zhurong Peak and saw a Buddhist temple, and sure enough, there was an old monk with white hair. The old monk was very enthusiastic and had to leave Ma Zheng to eat, but the oil and salt in the kitchen happened to run out. Ma Zheng told the boy servant to go down the mountain to buy oil and salt. The old monk escorted him out of the temple gate, and Ma Zheng stood alone at the edge of the temple to enjoy the mountain scenery.

It happened that a monk came down from the mountain, but this monk was Zen. Seeing Ma Zheng, Zen was very surprised and said, "You have evil spirits in you, what have you encountered?"

Ma Zheng was stunned for a moment, and said suspiciously: "No, I just came here to visit an elder." ”

Liao Chan frowned, Ma Zheng looked at the Buddhist temple behind him and said, "Is this the temple?"

Ma Zheng said: "Yes, there is a monk in this temple who can subdue the tiger and come to visit. ”

Zen exhaled deeply, his expression was solemn, and he muttered in a low voice, "This is not a good place!"

The voice was very small, as thin as a mosquito's language, Ma Zheng didn't hear it, so he asked Zen Dao: "This little master, but I don't know why Lu Dao came here?"

Zen explained the reason, but it turned out that he came because he heard about an incident: it was said that there was an old man at the foot of this mountain, and his eldest son, daughter-in-law, and wife were eaten by tigers one after another, and at this time, his youngest son dreamed that his mother gave him a dream, saying that there was gold hidden under a certain tree on a certain mountain, and he could not eat it.

When the child woke up, he cried and told the old man about the scene in the dream. And he wanted to rush to the tree on the mountain at the appointed time to get the gold, and he told the old man about himself.

But the old man and the old woman have been with him for decades, and he is very puzzled about these golds, and since the death of his wife, the eldest son and daughter-in-law have also been buried in the tiger's mouth, so he dissuaded him and said: "I have lived with your mother for decades, and I know her very well, and now I want you to dream after death, as if I don't have a good heart." In my opinion, it's better not to see it!"

The child cried and did not believe his father's words.

The old man said: "I didn't mean to stop you, the things of ghosts and gods can't be measured by common sense, I'm afraid that you will be hurt like your brother and wife." If you must go, please go where in advance, but don't touch anything under the tree, hide in the tree first, don't come down, and see the situation, if you can, you can come down again. ”

The child hid in the tree according to the hero's words, and after a while, another tiger came and circled around the tree a few times, as if looking for something, so frightened that the child held his breath and did not dare to move. It wasn't until a long time later that the tiger seemed to be waiting impatiently, roared for a while, and walked away.

The child could see clearly in the trees, cold sweat flowed from head to heels, and he didn't dare to come out. It wasn't until the tiger had gone that he got down from the tree and fled back to his house in embarrassment.

When he went home and told the old man, he realized that his mother had become a ghost after her death, and wanted to lure his son to the tiger to eat, and the old man was so angry that he scolded the old woman.

That's why I went through Zen, and I came to take a look at it, wanting to eliminate harm for the people.

When Ma Zheng heard this, he said very excitedly: "Exactly, I also came because of those ghosts, and when my servants and elders come back, we will bring the tiger spirit out of the dragon together." ”

When Zen heard this, he was surprised: "Your servant, when I went up the mountain, I only saw the corpse of a servant dressed as a servant, and I never met any monks or servants. ”

Ma Zheng was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly asked the person's age, appearance, and clothing, and Zen answered all of them without any difference, and exclaimed: "That's my child servant!"

As soon as these words came out, Ma Zheng was like being drunk, looking at the temple, he realized that this is the tiger's den!

At that moment, I panicked, and hurriedly knelt down and begged Zen for help.

Zen helped Ma Zheng up and said: "You don't have to be like this, I came here to get rid of this evil. ”