Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2142 Flower dispute (fifty)

   After midnight, Nick heard someone blowing a flute in the yard.

Even if it was a beautiful tune, it was disturbing to play it so late. He got up from the bed, opened the door and walked into the yard. He remembered that there was only a linden tree in the yard during the day, but at this time it turned into a wisteria. Tree, the tree is full of wisteria flowers.

   There was a beautiful woman under the tree. It was she who was playing the dongxiao. The anger of being woken up disappeared, and Nick stood at the door of his room to enjoy her performance.

   After a while, a monk came over, maybe he was also awakened, and he and Nick enjoyed the woman's performance.

   "Where did the donor come from?" the monk suddenly asked.

   "West," Nick said in unfamiliar Chinese.

   "But the Western Heaven where Daleiyin Temple is located?" the monk asked.

  Nick smiled. The name of Daleiyin Temple in India is Nalanda Temple. In Journey to the West, Tang monks obtained the scriptures from there under the protection of their apprentices. In real history, Xuanzang did indeed study in Nalanda Temple.

   "Yes." Nick replied in a less serious manner, he had indeed been to India.

   "Is the starry sky there the same as here?" the monk asked.

  Nick was stunned for a moment, he thought the monk wanted to ask him if he had seen what the Tathagata looked like.

  He subconsciously raised his head.

"Do you know why the place where the emperor lived is called the Forbidden City?" the monk asked, then pointed to the sky and said, "The ancients divided the stars in the sky into three walls, Taiwei, Tianshi and Ziwei, Ziwei. Weiyuan is located in the center, Tianshiyuan and Taiweiyuan are located on both sides, the north is where the star king is located, and the north pole is the celestial pole. The place where the Emperor of Heaven lives is called 'Purple Palace'. The emperor is the son of Heaven, and his residence on earth should also be called 'Purple Palace'. In addition, the palace where the emperor lives is heavily guarded and has strict palace prohibitions. The 'Purple Palace' has also become a forbidden city, and together it is the Forbidden City. 'Government and virtue, such as Beichen, living quarters, and all the stars are behind it', people believe that the ministers who assist the emperor are all descended from the stars. The champion represents Wenquxing. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, a scholar recorded that there was a snake demon who had been practicing for thousands of years by the West Lake in Hangzhou. After she transformed into a humanoid, she met a scholar named Xu Xian, and then married him. A Zen master named Fa Hai saw that Xu Xian was entangled in evil spirits, so he came to the rescue, put the white snake into the bowl, and suppressed it under the Leifeng Pagoda. Xu Xian saw through the world and was willing to become a monk. He practiced for several years, and he sat in the sect overnight. The monks built a bone tower for him. When he was about to die, Xu Xian left a poem with eight lines to warn the world. The patriarch saved me from the red dust. Transformation, birth, transformation and rebirth. To know form and find form, you must recognize formless but form. Form is emptiness and emptiness is form.

   "What does this have to do with Wenquxing?" Nick asked.

   "In folklore, in order to repay Xu Xian's life-saving grace in his previous life, the white snake had a son after marriage. The child grew up and became the champion, rescued his mother from the Leifeng Pagoda, and reunited with his father as a family."

  Nick realized "That child is Wenquxing."

   "Don't you find it strange?" the monk asked.

"what?"

   "How can a man and a snake have a child?" said the monk.

   "Didn't she turn into a humanoid?" Nick said.

   "But she's still a snake," said the monk.

   "It is impossible for a man to become a snake, and it is impossible for a snake to become a man."

   "Are you sure?" the monk asked.

  Nick did not answer.

   "Look at her." The monk gestured to Nick to look at the woman blowing under the wisteria tree. "Is she beautiful?"

  Nick stared at her, his eyes gradually blurred.

"There is a scholar surnamed Wang in Taiyuan. He is like you. He sees a beautiful woman and doesn't believe that she is a monster. He didn't wake up until one day when he saw the woman's 'dressing', but it was too late, the monster He soon took his life."

  The woman under the tree suddenly turned into Wanning's appearance. Nick was about to argue with the monk, but the monk disappeared.

When he looked at the woman under the wisteria tree again, it was gone. He was about to leave the room to investigate, but one of his feet stepped in the air and fell to the ground. When he got up, he was still in the meditation room, and the man outside the window was still there. The sky was already bright, the monks were doing their morning class, and bursts of Sanskrit sounds came from the Buddhist hall in front.

   And the tree in the yard is still a thousand-year-old bodhi tree, not a thousand-year-old wisteria tree.

  Nick immediately ran to Juren's room, woke him up, and told Juren what he had just seen.

   Juren didn't quite believe what Nick said. This critical literati did not believe that Dai Yupei could ward off evil spirits, but believed that Zhang Gong could ward off evil dragons. He also told Nick how Zhang Gong killed the terrifying monster with a rice ball.

   "There are monks everywhere in this temple. Maybe you really heard the sound of the dongxiao in the middle of the night, and really had a conversation with a monk. It's just that you were drowsy at the time, and you couldn't tell whether it was reality or fantasy."

  Nick felt that what he said was reasonable, so he carefully identified the monks while they were gathering together to recite the scriptures, trying to find the monk, but none of them matched.

  Nick returned to Juren's room, at this time Juren took out a book, saw Nick come back, and gave the book to him.

"Lanruo means 'Temple' in Sanskrit, and Lanruo Temple means 'Temple'. Didn't the monk you just mentioned read a poem? Reincarnation, reincarnation, transformation and rebirth, and that The scholar surnamed King of Taiyuan is also included in this book."

  Nick looked at the title of the book, it was "Strange Tales from a Liaozhai" written by Pu Songling.

   "A story about a scholar surnamed Wang of Taiyuan, whose name is 'Painted Skin'." Juren lowered his voice mysteriously.

  Nick thinks it is incredible after reading the story. It is possible for a person to throw away some utensils, such as a snuff bottle, but it is impossible for him to lose his skin. Where did the ghost get this human skin?

   This was originally a story made up by Mr. Liaozhai. Although it was terrifying, it had been circulated for many years but no one took it seriously. Nick's problem seemed to remind everyone.

   "Pichang Temple!" Juren exclaimed, "It stole the skin of Pichang Temple."

   Then he told a chilling history.

  The Pichang Temple actually existed in the Song Dynasty. The Pichang Temple was a part of the Earth Temple, and was mainly used to peel the skins of livestock there for sacrifice.

  There are similar places in the Temple of Heaven, the Temple of Earth, the Temple of Mountains and Rivers, etc. When the ritual of worshiping the sky begins, a calf must be found and placed on a burnt wood stove and burned to welcome the gods.

  刳, in Shuowenjie, means to break open, hollow out, and clean the middle, which means to burn a calf with its internal organs and skin removed, and only bones and meat left.

  The Temple of the Earth is local, and the skins of livestock can be used to make sacrifices. Later, this kind of temple was used by Zhu Yuanzhang to skin people.

But compared with his son Zhu Di, Zhu Yuanzhang waited for the corrupt officials to slaughter them after he died, while Zhu Di slaughtered them alive, and the "bags" he hung the skinned grass were in Chang'anmen, not in the Temple of the Earth like Zhu Yuanzhang did. worship the land.

  Whether you are riding a horse, riding a car, or sitting in a sedan chair, officials from the upper court will stop at Chang'anmen Square and then walk into the Forbidden City. There is also a dismounting monument in front of the gate, where officials and others must dismount, which means that those high-ranking "ministers" can see the "bag" as soon as they look up.

   The entire Ming Dynasty did not know how many people died of this torture, especially during the reign of Wei Zhongxian, which was widely used.

  The Ming Dynasty also had Jinyiwei, Dongchang, and Xichang. These spies carried out these tortures on behalf of the emperors. After all, the emperor only needed to talk, and ordinary people could not do this kind of thing.

  In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the soldiers were in chaos. Who still remembers how to deal with these human skins? The best way is to burn them. In the late Ming Dynasty, there were many fires in the capital.

   But did it really burn?

   Bonaparte scoffed.

   "You don't believe it?" asked Georgiana.

   "When the fortune-teller wants to eat the chicken used for fortune-telling, you'd better cooperate with him."

  Georgianna did not try to convince him.

   She thought of Nagini, a circus performer who was cursed with blood and was doomed from man to snake.

   She hoped that the serpent that Voldemort finally used to make Horcruxes and was also killed by Neville with the Sword of Gryffindor was not her.

   (end of this chapter)