Volume 1 Chapter 7 Breaking the Bowl
"Poof-" Looking at the ceramic bowl in the box, Xie Lingyun squirted out a mouthful of saliva, it's really true!
It is rumored that more than 20 years ago, Qixia Temple stole an important treasure, it is a bowl, it is said that it is one of the portable magic vessels of the first ancestor of Qixia Temple thousands of years ago, Master Seng Lang, after the death of Seng Lang, this magic weapon was also put into the relics pagoda, passed down from generation to generation, until it was suddenly stolen.
At that time, the monks of Qixia Temple were extremely angry, and searched for many times but there were no clues, and because of this, they scolded all the cultivators in Jinling City, which almost caused a big conflict.
Who would have thought that this heavy treasure of the Three Treatises Ancestral Court was actually stolen by a group of rats who had no Taoism and no magic power......
"Back then, it was placed in the relics pagoda in the temple, and I once accidentally ate a little oil in it, and as a result, I was able to become a sperm, and then I was worried about it, which rat you said would be enlightened in the future, and it would also become a sperm! So I looked for a dark and windy night, called a dozen rats, and quietly stole it together. We were afraid of being discovered, so the whole clan moved to Yecheng Mountain. ”
Lao Xi couldn't help but laugh a few times as he spoke, and then he was proud, and then continued: "Later, whoever opened the spirit drank a little bit, and sure enough, they could successfully become sperm." After drinking for 20 years, there are more than 300 rat spirits still alive, and there are tens of thousands of enlightened ones. ”
"This is good karma. Xie Lingyun was very emotional, but he remembered some historical materials about Master Seng Lang.
According to records, Master Seng Lang had a monkey and a dog, both of which were large and yellow-haired, and followed him every day from morning till night without harming others.
And because Buddhism has a precept: "Early morning is the time of eclipse of the heavens, noon is the time of the Buddha's food, the evening is the time of animal food, and the night is the time of the ghosts and gods." ”
Regardless of the sect, the monks eat once a day and do not eat after noon, and the same is true of Master Seng Lang, but his monkey dogs also eat at the same time and with the same instrument, and when the master eats with a bowl, the leftovers in the bowl are given to them. When they had eaten, the monkey would take the bowl and put it on, and then ride on the dog's back and walk in front, and if anyone tried to take it away, the monkey would shout angrily, and the dog would run wildly, and Master Sanglang would let them play with it.
In this way, the monkey dog followed the master all his life until he passed away and attained nirvana, which was a beautiful talk at the time and has been handed down.
If that's right, the bowl that the master and the monkey dog used to eat is right in front of you......
"King, there isn't much oil left, and this broken bowl is a bit shabby, but it's something from the relics pagoda, so you can take it!"
Xie Lingyun looked at the rat spirits around him, and suddenly had a hint of enlightenment, presumably Master Seng Lang was very happy to see that his bowl could help so many rats to become essences, and this treasure could be stolen by them, maybe it was a kind of master's degree, rather than being placed in the relics pagoda for worship, it was better to be stolen by a group of rats, the Buddha's heart is merciful!
He couldn't help but say: "I don't want it, you can keep it for yourself, and whoever wants to become a sperm in the future will continue to drink oil." ”
"No, no, no! There is no oil, there is only a little left, give it to the king and give it to the king......" Lao Xi cried and said anxiously: "Our clan has enough rat spirits, but we lack the method of cultivation, we can only count on you to teach it, this is our gift, you can't not accept it! This is the rule of our rat clan, if you don't accept it, it means that you won't teach us, you won't cover us, then our whole clan is frightened all day long, there is no more happy life, I am afraid that I will be scared to death, bitter!"
Xie Lingyun wanted to say something, all the 100,000 mice squeaked when they saw this, it seemed that he didn't accept the gift but was unkind, Lao Xi screamed again: "King, follow the customs!" ”
"Squeak!" the mice, including Lao Xi, suddenly cheered.
He suddenly thought of something wrong, and asked suspiciously: "It doesn't make sense, you have eaten oil for more than 20 years, but the pound that Guang Laoxi eats, this bowl can't hold it?"
Lao Xi scratched his head when he heard this, and he didn't understand, and said: "We also had a long time to figure it out, but then we didn't think about it, anyway, we can pour it out." ”
Xie Lingyun bent over to look at the box, only then did he see clearly that the bowl was empty, how could there be half a drop of oil, he picked up the bowl, the heavy feeling was far heavier than its appearance, he reached into the bowl to explore, it seemed to be grabbing a handful of void, and he couldn't touch the bottom of the bowl at all...... He immediately thought of a possibility, yes, Nasumeru is a mustard seed!
"Sumeru" refers to Mount Meru, the largest mountain in the center of the world described in Buddhist scriptures, and mustard seed refers to a small grain of mustard and rapeseed.
The Bodhisattva put a Mount Meru into a mustard seed without adding or subtracting from it, thus revealing the vastness of the Dharma. In the past, there was a Confucian who doubted the theory of mustard seeds in Sumeru, and a Zen master asked him, "Then where are all the ten thousand books you have read hidden?"
It is no wonder that when some masters practice all over the world, a bamboo cane and a bowl are sufficient, and the scriptures and books are all in it. Moreover, it is really effortless to exert this kind of "supernatural power" on the people, and how many people can be converted to our Buddha by showing their hands? If it is genuine, it is not difficult to understand why Qixia Temple is so angry......
This is a treasure!
"Is it true, try it and you'll know!"
Xie Lingyun fumbled the bowl around for a while, then asked the rats not to make noise, he closed his eyes and calmed down, trying to establish a sense of communication with it.
He didn't recite any mantras, and he couldn't either, and he couldn't babble a few words, "If you come to the Buddha, you are as anxious as a law," but if you don't do anything, it's as if you have hit a hard stone, and you can't open the door. He simply recited a few words silently, "Mustard seeds open the door", and then thought about the mystery of Sumeru mustard seeds, and gradually his mind seemed to go farther and farther, and he saw another space in front of him, the space in the bowl!
Although he had expected it, he still couldn't help but be frightened, the bowl was the size of a side room, of course, it was not a problem to load tens of thousands of catties of oil, but now there were only three or four taels left floating in the corner......
"The king is here?" The mice were all quiet, but they looked at each other from time to time, Lao Xi was also puzzled, twisted his beard and was about to ask, when he saw him suddenly open his eyes and shouted "Take!", and pointed the bowl with both hands at the pile of medicinal herbs, and the bowl immediately burst out with a pale golden light-
A strong wind arose between the heavens and the earth, and whizzed over, and the rats felt a little unsteady under their feet, and the wind seemed to blow them up and sweep them away, and they immediately grasped the ground with their claws in horror, and squeaked and screamed. Lao Xi trembled with fear, his fat hands and feet spread out and clung to the ground, crying: "The king spares his life!"
But apparently the target of the sudden wind was not them, and the plants and trees on the ground were blown up, aconite, earth ginseng, ...... The few Polygonum multiflori also flew up, and all of them were swept into the bowl with the wind, and in a few moments, all the medicinal herbs that were originally piled up on the hillside had disappeared, and not even a single leaf was left......
Xie Lingyun blessed the bowl with both palms in his heart, and after it was forced, it quickly shrank and deformed silently, and turned into a ceramic bracelet of primary color!
The Rat King Lao Xi was stunned, and it wasn't until Xie Lingyun exhaled lightly that the fat under its feet was stabbed, and he jumped up suddenly, raised his arms and shouted: "The king's mana is boundless!!Long live the king!!"
"Squeak squeak!" 100,000 rats also boiled, and they raised their paws to worship him, and the excitement was more enthusiastic than stealing ten catties of rice, and they kept calling and worshipping, except for Yuanyuan, who was hiding in the grass in the distance, and quietly poked out to see.
"Uh......" Xie Lingyun was embarrassed, it was not his mana at all, but this magic weapon itself was so powerful, as long as the sense was established, ordinary people could activate it.
He naturally put the bracelet on his left wrist, and it turns out that the historical records record that after they finished eating, the monkey "took the bowl and wore it", and these four words mean this......
After a burst of joy and play, they gradually stopped, and the old man said happily: "We really sent the right person this time, otherwise the pearl will still be covered in dust." ”
Xie Lingyun smiled, instead of putting it in a box or a relics pagoda, it is indeed better for him to use it, maybe one day, he can also be like Shiyun "A bowl of thousands of meals, traveling thousands of miles alone." Seeing few people's blue eyes, ask for directions. ”
Seeing that the rats were getting more and more elated, he didn't forget to say: "I won't be investigated before, but don't steal things in the future, this is not in line with the door rules." ”
"Don't worry, the king is a moral rat, we have never stolen the rich and the rich, not the poor, this is called robbing the rich and helping the poor-" Lao Xi had an awe-inspiring posture, patted his fat hand on his chest, and said: "In the future, we will do whatever the king tells us to do." "All the rats around squeaked.
Xie Lingyun nodded, and when it came to theft, he remembered another important thing, and said: "You should know that the Chaotian Palace is in urgent need of money, because it was implicated in the recent theft of the tax pill in the city, and the treasury of the Daolu Division is still sealed, and it is not open for people to check, but I heard that they can't find any clues." Anyway, you can help contact the rats in the city, and find out the news for me, the situation on the night of the crime, the current clues and rumors...... Inquire about it, okay?"
"No problem!" Lao Xi patted his chest more vigorously, the whole Jinling City is the most familiar, as early as more than ten years ago, it is okay to go to Qinhuaihe famous prostitute to steal a belly pocket, and it is okay to go to the official master's house to steal a black gauze hat, what's the problem?
It stopped coughing until it lost its voice, and gasped: "Give it to the mouse, I will personally go down the mountain today to inquire about the news." ”
"Well, be careful, and don't reveal my existence yet, do you know the way?"
Lao Xi agreed, Xie Lingyun continued to tell some points, and then asked him to take the rats home, the rats were busy all night, tired enough.
Soon, he was the only one standing on the hillside, and it was very quiet.
With an increasingly inseparable sense, Xie Lingyun took a look at the medicinal herbs in the bowl, or bracelet, they were stacked in an orderly manner, and there was no increase or decrease.
He looked at the blue sky where the rising sun rose, and let the beautiful scenery of such a good day calm the excitement in his heart, and the Chaotian Palace came to run, first "Ten Thousand Laws Return to the Sect", and then the monk Lang bowl...... Later, Uncle Shi and Hengbao saw these medicinal materials, and they didn't know what to be surprised about, if he said that he picked it all by himself last night, would anyone believe it?
Eyes are sly.
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