Chapter 840 The old abbot asked King Liang, and the governor Cai was hiding the world.
The old spy carefully hung the sword on his waist.
The old pawn wears a new sword.
The old man said in a deep voice: “Just let me, an old man, hang a cold knife for ten miles!”
Xu Fengnian and his group came to the foot of the mountain. There are 1,08 levels of mountaineering steps. After getting off the horse, Zhang Longjing introduced that this incense-burning road has the saying of “worry-free road”. No matter how many worries the pilgrims have, they will have no worries after walking this mountain road. However, Zhang Longjing smiled and added: “If you want me to see, you are tired and you can’t take care of it even if you have any worries.”
After hearing this, Xu Fengnian smiled slightly. Zhang Longjing then sighed: “Get from Yang to destroy Buddhism, it is a thousand-year-old ancient temple with a long history. Now it has been occupied by a Taoist priest who is very close to the government. At this time, all the monks in the temple have run away. At that time, the Taoist priest led the officers and soldiers to seal the temple, but the monks in the temple were unable to take away an ancient book. The county magistrates in our county did not originally admire Huang Lao, and even the alias was related to Buddhism in their early years. The poems and lyrics of Wenlin are all signed by the “Old Man Escape from Zen”. This time, the court ordered him to become a devout and believer, and his alias was changed to “Pure Old Man”. It is said that he had successfully established a relationship with Wu Lingsu, a great man in the capital. Last year, he was able to get a unique “top” in the political performance evaluation of Lord Governor’s side. Soon there were rumors that he would go to the Ministry of Rites in the capital to be a high-ranking official.”
Xu Fengnian, who was walking with a horse, frowned and said, “Is there a stone yard in front of the mountain gate? The inscription is engraved with ‘Buddha’s present'”
Zhang Longjing nodded and smiled, “The prince is really knowledgeable. There was indeed a stone yard in front of him, and the inscription and couplets were even more from the hands of the great sage of calligraphy in the previous dynasty. It was a first-class good thing. Unfortunately, the Taoist priest occupied the territory this time, and he didn’t know who was the reason for it. He pushed down the stone yard. The prince couldn’t see it this time.”
Xu Fengnian sighed and said helplessly: “Xu Xiao had some stories here back then. This time he passed by Wucai County, and he happened to be on the way. He thought about whether he could try his luck and see the old monk who once asked Xu Xiao to ‘put down the butcher’s knife’. Forget it, let’s go back.”
Zhang Longjing sighed, “It’s a pity that there is such a thing. I had known that I would have added tens of thousands of taels of spice and oil to Hanshan Temple back then.”
Xu Fengnian laughed it off and returned on the same road after getting on the horse. However, there were vague lights swaying on the side of the small road in the distance, which was a scene that was not seen when I passed by. The old spy Song Shanshui was instinctive and immediately became alert, but he was relieved soon. Not to mention that the prince is one of the four great masters of martial arts standing at the top of the rivers and lakes. Who dares to provoke these two masters to take them out even if they are single, your court will probably have no shame to come and say hello if you don’t come out. Xu Fengnian has always had the talent to remember. He glanced at him before. The lights were swaying. There was a dilapidated land temple at the forks of the road. He slowed down the horse’s hooves. He saw a shirt.The shabby old man wearing a hat was standing by the roadside, holding an oil lamp in his hand, and a sleepy child was next to him, and he also wore a worthless fur hat. Yuan Zuozong felt relieved. He originally thought he was a hidden paradise. Now, looking at the aura carefully, he was just an ordinary old man in the evening, but his body was slightly stronger than his peers.
Xu Fengnian did not dismount, leaned forward, and asked in a gentle tone: “Is there anything wrong with this father-in-law?”
The old man was old after all, his eyes were not very good, and it was in the darkness of the night, so he raised the oil lamp high and smiled: “Young Master is the surname Xu.”
Xu Fengnian was stunned for a moment and asked back, “The father-in-law is an old man from Hanshan Temple.”
The old man smiled and nodded.
Xu Fengnian quickly dismounted in the surprise of Zhang Longjing and Song Shanshui, came to the old man and child, took out a Buddhist scripture carefully wrapped in silk cloth from his arms, and said, “The master lent this Buddhist scripture to my father, and now he has borrowed it for nearly twenty years, and it is time to return it to the original owner.”
The old man was not polite, took the Buddhist scripture, and then said a common saying that disappointed Zhang Longjing. The old man held a lantern in one hand and touched the hat of the child beside him with the other, and asked with a smile: “Can donor Xu give me a few taels of silver? Today, there are no grains of rice in the rice jar today.”
Xu Fengnian was suddenly in a dilemma. The Iron Cavalry of Beiliang went south and lacked nothing, but this irrelevant yellow and white thing. Zhang Longjing, the God of Wealth in Wucai County, was even more stunned. He was not the kind of nouveau riche who wanted to go out and hung up all over the house. Even if he played with jade pieces, he would not be worth a thousand taels of silver. Of course, he would not carry gold and silver when he was traveling in the night. Fortunately, the old spy took out a few taels of silver from his body. After Xu Fengnian took it, he handed it over to the old monk Hanshan Temple who had a leather hat on his head to keep warm. To be precise, the old abbot of the famous temple in Jiangnan was Monk Faxian. The old monk did not have the kind of concern that ordinary monks would not touch money with both hands. They were so arrogant that they could put them in their sleeves with some unconcealed smiles. The young monk beside the old man smiled even more. With silver, there was firewood, rice, oil and salt, so he could not go hungry. How could he not be happy?
After the old monk put away the silver, he sighed: “The court has an order. Temples and monks are not allowed in all parts of the Central Plains, and Hanshan Temple is no exception. Some people have returned to secular places and travel far away. I also thought that I went to the northwest to beg for alms, but I was too old and had this newly acquired disciple around me. I was really young and had weak feet like me, so I delayed it. Later, I thought that it didn’t matter whether I went to Beiliang or not. When I arrived in Beiliang, it was just an old monk who had a place to settle down. If I didn’t go to Beiliang, I might meet a few more destined people and get a place to rest.”
Xu Fengnian said sincerely: “Master, I can send someone to send your master and disciple to Beiliang. When the world is more peaceful, as long as the master wants to return to the Central Plains at that time, Beiliang will definitely escort the master to travel.”
The old monk smiled and shook his head, “Don’t need to go through such a lot of trouble. Where is the Buddha’s fateThat is, don’t force it. “
Xu Fengnian did not force it, and knew that it would not be possible to force it, so he could only smile and said, “My father often mentions the master and says that the master is a monk who has truly achieved enlightenment with great Buddhist teachings. He admires it very much. “
The old monk laughed: “The donor Xu is lying. Although he only has one chance, how can I not know that the donor Xu’s temper can be used to not scold me as an ignorant old bald donkey. ”
Xu Fengnian was speechless, not saying what he thought, Xu Xiao did indeed mention this old monk in Hanshan Temple, and he would call him an old bald donkey, and privately gave the old abbot the nickname “Bullshit Monk”. The general story of that incident that year, Xu Fengnian heard his mother talk about it when he was young. Monk Faxian was born in a wealthy family and served as a member of the Ministry of Personnel in Western Chu. After resigning from his official position and hanging seals, he entered the Taoist sect first. However, he did not practice in the famous mountain temple, but chose a remote hill to live in seclusion for many years. Later, for some reason, he converted to Buddhism. It is said that he had a debate with the abbot of Hanshan Temple, and inexplicably climbed in one step in the eyes of the world. Heaven became the abbot. When the Xu family’s iron cavalry galloped across the Central Plains, the horse’s hooves passed by, and the war continued. Not to mention that the people were afraid of the Liaodong tiger from the northeast, even the generals of the army in the Central Plains would be afraid of the tiger. Only Monk Faxian ran to the Xu family’s military camp alone with a Buddhist scripture, asking the people who were at the peak of the sky to slap Xu Xiao lowered his butcher. If it weren’t for Wu Su’s stopping, the monk would have to wait for him without saying that the head fell to the ground. With a wife staring at him, Xu Xiao had to pinch his nose and take the Buddhist scripture, talked absent-mindedly to the monk and talk to the chicken and duck, and then he would send him out of the camp.
Zhang Longjing could be regarded as the “Shoufu Zhang” of Wucai County. He was a wealthy man in a state. He was so slick. He said with a chance: “Master, there are many people in my family who eat vegetarian food and chant Buddha’s name. I need to do a few Buddhist rituals recently…”
Waiting patiently until Zhang Longjing finished speaking without leaking the words, the old monk slowly said: “The donor is kind, I appreciate it. It’s a pity that what I did at the donor’s house is not Buddhist rituals. “
Just when Zhang Longjing thought this matter was completely ruined, the old monk turned his mind and said with a smile: “If you don’t go, you still have to go. What if you meet someone with fate?”
Yuan Zuozong and Xu Yanbing looked at each other.
Xu Fengnian did not look surprised at this, and said sincerely: “The reason for the destruction of Buddhism in the court this time is complicated. I won’t talk about such a bad thing, but I really hope that the master can teach more people Buddhism. “
The old monk who struggled to carry the lantern changed his hand and held the oil lamp and said calmly: “It is one thing for me to say whether I talk about Buddhism or not, but it is another thing for me to say it to many people. How many people listen to Buddhism’s principles is another thing. In this world, there are Buddhist temples, Buddha statues, Buddhist scriptures, monks, even Buddhas, and Western heavens, which are actually not the most important. “
The old monk paused for a moment and looked in front of himThe young man: “Just only look at the hearts of sentient beings, and whether there is a small amount of land to put aside the Dharma. The Dharma is there, the temple is there, the monk is there, and the Buddha is there. Without the Dharma, even if all sentient beings in the world are monks, what’s the benefit?”