Infinite Throne

"It's okay if it's not clean. I'll boil water tomorrow and give you a hot bath." Ma's wife sighed and looked at Ma Ergou with disgust. She was willing to forgive Ma Ergou, but her tone sounded very strange, as if Ma Ergou was a pig tied up and ready to be slaughtered, and he could be choked directly after being scalded with hot water.

"..." Ma Ergou was lying on the bed, making it even more inconvenient to make a sound. When he spoke, his throat was choked by saliva, but his eyes were very frightened, staring at the place behind Ma's wife. There was a blood-red eye, just behind the crack of the door, staring in this direction.

"Boss, don't be afraid, I will cut quickly and will never make you uncomfortable." Ma's wife thought that Ma Ergou was looking at her, and comforted him again.

Ma Ergou's eyes became more frightened.

[A Mistake Made in the Melon Field]: Miserable

[Little Apple]: Her knife is not as sharp as our cub's. If our cub had used the knife himself, Ma Ergou would only have one leg left

"Go to sleep. I'll boil water for you to take a bath tomorrow." Ma's wife rolled up the soiled quilt and rolled Wang Ergou into a caterpillar that couldn't move.

Ma's wife and Ma Zhaodi slept in another quilt. Only at this time did the mother and daughter show some intimacy.

Ma's wife put the kitchen knife under the bed. She was ready to escape at any time to prevent Ma Ergou from recovering suddenly.

Nothing strange happened at night, so Lin Yebai stopped paying attention. Occasionally, he would close his eyes to rest to avoid looking too sleepy the next day.

The sound of the wooden fish sounded directly from the bottom of his heart. Lin Yebai couldn't hear the sound at first, but the sound of the wooden fish followed him like a shadow, with a sense of rhythm.

Whenever Lin Yebai thought it wouldn't ring, the wooden fish would suddenly ring, and Lin Yebai began to pay attention to the frequency and interval of the wooden fish.

Whenever Lin Yebai felt that he had found the pattern and it was time for the wooden fish to ring, the wooden fish would stop and appear successfully when Lin Yebai was least expecting it.

Lin Yebai asked the audience in the live broadcast room, and they didn't hear the wooden fish. They guessed that Lin Yebai might have some hallucinations, or the wooden fish sound was only effective for him.

From the perspective of physical senses, Lin Yebai couldn't hear any sound. The wooden fish in his heart was ringing, as if it was caused by his thinking, because he felt that he heard it, so he could hear the sound...

This feeling was a bit strange. After dawn, Lin Yebai couldn't hear the sound anymore, so he decided to try to divert his attention tonight to see if the wooden fish could ring as usual... or find the location of the wooden fish.

"Come on, give me a hand."

The next morning, after Ma's wife finished making breakfast, she boiled water in a big pot and asked Lin Yebai to help pour the water into the wooden basin so that she could wash Ma Ergou's body.

Ma's wife was a woman with bound feet, and she looked unsteady when she walked.

Ma Zhaodi did not bind her feet, probably because she was born with a disability, and her marriage was not going well anyway. Binding her feet would only make her worse and completely lose her ability to move, so she gave up binding her feet.

"Zhaodi's feet will make it difficult for her to get married in the future." Seeing that Lin Yebai seemed to be a little concerned about this, Ma's wife sighed slightly.

Ma Zhaodi then shrank her feet and tried to hide them all under her skirt. The skirt was a little short to begin with, and no matter how she tried to hide, her natural feet were still exposed.

Girls of this age already have self-esteem, and Ma Zhaodi seemed a little timid because of her legs that were different from ordinary people.

"People outside no longer bind their feet, and you are normal like this." Lin Yebai said casually.

"Really?" Ma Zhaodi's voice was very soft and timid, and her eyes were like a clear spring.

"Yeah." When Ma Zhaodi lowered her head and looked at her feet again, she no longer felt that they were ugly.

Women with bound feet are not suitable for heavy work. Lin Yebai helped Ma Saozi to fetch water and threw Ma Ergou in. Ma Saozi took off his clothes.

Lin Yebai wanted to go around the village. Ma Zhaodi led the way for him. Sometimes she took him to see the wild flowers blooming in a secluded place, and sometimes she took him to see the puppies born by the pastoral dog Dahuang.

"Can you tell me why people in the village like to worship Buddha?" Lin Yebai sat casually on a curved tree trunk and pulled Ma Zhaodi up and put her aside. The seven or eight-year-old girl was thin and didn't feel heavy at all. She looked like a reed stick.

Below was a quiet stream. Ma Zhaodi was holding a bamboo basket with freshly picked mulberries in it, which exuded a sweet fragrance. She wanted to share it with Lin Yebai, but he refused.

Ma Zhaodi turned her head and looked at Lin Yebai. The seven or eight-year-old child, thinking of the Buddha, showed a very complicated expression, resistance, fear, panic, and some piety.

"Because as long as you worship the Buddha, the Buddha will fulfill your wishes."

"Do you have to pay a price?" Lin Yebai asked.

Ma Zhaodi was silent, looking like she wanted to speak but didn't dare.

Maybe she has some restrictions?

"Then I'll ask, you just nod or shake your head." Lin Yebai thought of a roundabout way, and his voice was very light: "The Buddha statue needs a certain price to fulfill the wish."

Ma Zhaodi nodded.

"The price is a part of your own limbs, arms or legs. You can also use someone close to you instead."

From what Ma's wife said to Ma Ergou, it can be inferred that Ma Ergou's old mother should have tried it, and ended up asking Ma Zhaodi for help.

Ma Zhaodi continued to nod.

"It's not just the birth of a son that can be fulfilled." Lin Yebai continued to analyze. Because Ma Zhaodi is also a product of worshipping Buddha, she is a girl, which means that worshipping Buddha may not necessarily bring a son. Since you can pray for a son, you should also be able to pray for wealth, longevity or other things.

Ma Zhaodi nodded again.

"Why do you believe in such a Buddha?" Lin Yebai asked.

"Everyone believes."

This reason is very powerful and convincing.

People follow the crowd, they are born to believe, so it's natural.

"Has anyone died because of this?"

Ma Zhaodi was stunned, neither nodding nor shaking her head, as if she thought this question was difficult to answer. Finally, under Lin Yebai's gaze, he bowed his head and said:

"It's not death, it's going to paradise."

"All the sufferings we have endured in our lives are the sins we committed in our previous lives. As long as we believe in the Buddha and sacrifice our lives for the Buddha, we can redeem our sins and gain rebirth."

"We are always walking on the road to paradise, some people walk fast, some walk slowly."

When Ma Zhaodi said these words, she was a little afraid, and a little strangely pious, her eyes were dull, staring at the water in the distance, in a trance.

"As long as you believe in the Buddha, you can redeem your sins."

"As long as you worship the Buddha, you can realize your wishes." Lin Yebai repeated Ma Zhaodi's words, she nodded seriously, and asked back:

"Cousin, do people outside also believe in the Buddha?"

Lin Yebai called Ma Ergou his uncle, so Ma Zhaodi called Lin Yebai his cousin.

"People outside believe in themselves. Everything we have gained is obtained by ourselves, and has nothing to do with gods and Buddhas."

Lin Yebai was not talking about the outside world of this era, but the main god space where he was. Reincarnators never believe in the main god, and only see the main god space as a way to gain power.

It was the first time that Ma Zhaodi heard such an argument. Her clear and bright black eyes showed some novelty, and she felt that it made sense, and prayed:\u0026lt;

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"Can you tell me about the outside world?"

"The adults said that it is very dangerous outside the village. There are wars everywhere. Cannons fell from the sky, and a large number of people died."

"Our village can exist because of the blessing of Buddha. If we only believe in ourselves, how can we survive?"

Lin Yebai explained: "Because the village is too remote, there is no war. If you want to enter the village, you have to cross mountains and ridges. It is not worth it for them to come in."

"Everyone says it is because of Buddha, you say it differently." Ma Zhaodi rarely uses her brain to think. She usually thinks about where the pig grass grows well and should go to cut it, rather than doubting her faith.

"Does everyone in the village believe in Buddha?" Lin Yebai asked.

Ma Zhaodi nodded and turned to another matter: "You must never say such things again. Cousin, you are an outsider. It's okay to live here for a few days. If you stay here all the time and don't believe in Buddha, you will be killed by evil spirits."

"In the past, Dr. Xia in the village said that Buddha was unreliable, and then he died. Villagers drink incense ash water when they are sick. Some can get better, and some can't." Ma Zhaodi mentioned Dr. Xia, and there was a bit of fear in her eyes.

"How did he die?"

"I don't know. When everyone found him, he was already dead. His eyes were wide open, his mouth was wide open, but his tongue was gone. It should have been cut off and taken away. Anyway, it was not in the house." Ma Zhaodi still remembered the horrible scene she saw when she went to Dr. Xia's house that day. There was blood everywhere, as if all the blood in his body had been drained. His expression was also extremely terrified, as if he had seen some horrible scene.

"Everyone in the village said that because he was not sincere in his faith and was not blessed by the Buddha, he was killed by the evil ghost."

"So that's how it is." Lin Yebai has determined that the strange things in the village are all related to the Buddha statue. Perhaps the opportunity for him to leave this dungeon world is also on the Buddha statue. Since the villagers like to worship Buddha statues at home, is there a temple that worships the Buddha statue?

"Let's go back quickly. If we don't go back, my father's legs..." Ma Zhaodi's tone was a little hesitant. In fact, she and her cousin were able to go out for a walk because Ma's wife wanted to get them out of the way so that they could cut off their legs.

If she went back early, there would still be a chance to stop it. If she went back late, Ma Ergou's legs might have been cut off.

Her father and mother both wanted a son. Before, the two of them said to exchange Ma Zhaodi. But if she stopped her mother, she would die.

Ma Zhaodi walked slower and slower, and her face turned pale when she thought of the possible consequences. She wished that this road could continue forever, and she would never go home, and face such a choice.

She wanted to tell her parents that they didn't want a son, and that the three of them could live well together, and that no one's legs should be cut off.

But she still arrived at the door of her house. Ma's wife came out with a kitchen knife, and smiled as she asked Ma Zhaodi to go in and help hold down Ma Ergou.

"I'm busy right now, can you help me chop some pig grass for today?" Ma's wife assigned a task to Lin Yebai, and when she said it, she felt a strange pressure in her heart, always thinking that this cousin shouldn't do the kind of work of chopping pig grass. There were not many things that could get him out of the way, and carrying manure and pulling weeds were even worse.

"Okay." Lin Yebai found the basin where Ma's wife often chopped pig grass, and there was a rusty kitchen knife in it. This knife was so rusty that it could never cut meat, and even cutting pig grass was barely enough.

Ma's wife heard the sound of chopping pig grass outside, which was neat and rhythmic, and she was relieved. She carefully tied a straw to Ma Ergou's disobedient third leg, so that she wouldn't worry that Ma Ergou would get scared and pee again and get his leg dirty.

Ma Ergou's eyes were about to burst, and he winked at his daughter Ma Zhaodi, trying to persuade her to persuade Sister-in-law Ma. At this moment, Ma Ergou suddenly no longer wanted a son.

"Mom, which one should I cut?" Ma Zhaodi received the look and thought of what she overheard, pretending that she didn't see it. When he was sleeping at night, he also heard Ma Ergou telling Sister-in-law Ma that he would sacrifice her to the Buddha in exchange for his younger brother. Although the Elysian World was very nice, she instinctively felt a sense of fear when she thought about going there.

"I also thought about it for a while, and I felt that any one of them would work. But I couldn't think of anything, so I decided to cut off both."

"One leg makes a wish to give you a younger brother."

"On the other leg, make a wish that your leg will get better and you will never walk with a limp again."

"Mom, you are so kind." Ma Zhaodi completely gave up the idea of ​​saving Ma Ergou.

"If my father loses his legs, what will happen to him in the fields?" Ma Zhaodi asked.

Ma Ergou thought to himself that he was the only strong worker in the family, so he must not lose his two legs, otherwise there would be no one to do the farm work in the family.

"What do you think of your Uncle Shuanzi?" Sister-in-law Ma asked in a low voice.

"Very, very good." Ma Zhaodi really didn't expect it to be like this.

Shuanzi is a widower in the village. His wife is dead. He has a large blue brick house with tiles at home. It is very grand and does not leak at all on rainy days. He has not remarried and has no children. If Sister-in-law Ma gets married, they will form a family, which is just right.

Ma Ergou was so angry that his face was livid, he never expected that his wife would get along well with Shuanzi! If he hadn't been beaten like this by the devil who lived in his home, he doesn't know when he would have known these things.

"Should we chop now or do it at night?"

"Let's cut him off now. By the time we have Zhao Di at night, he will no longer be a little cripple."

Lin Yebai was standing at the door, and the audience in the live broadcast room listened to the entire conversation.

In the yard, a big goose hung on a wooden frame, its mouth tied with straw. A rusty kitchen knife hung from the goose's paw. With a flutter, the kitchen knife hit the chopping board, and the sound of chopping pigweed could be heard intermittently.

Listening to the sound, Sister-in-law Ma just thought that her cousin, a scholar, was not used to farm work, so she didn't take it seriously. She soon found that the sound of chopping pigweed became regular again, and she felt more at ease.

After Lin Yebai listened, he put the goose down, pulled out the straw that tied the goose's mouth, sent the goose into the room, and continued to chop the pigweed.

[Soft Cat Ears]: Plain and simple is the way to go

[Garlic Eggplant]: Shown

The big goose had a look of hatred in his eyes. He originally wanted to eat, but under the influence of inertia, he rushed into the room. When he saw the familiar straw, he pecked it as soon as he entered.

Ma Ergou convulsed silently in pain, unable to speak, and his saliva drooled: "Ah..."

Sister-in-law Ma was startled. She dropped the kitchen knife and accidentally cut her foot. No bones were hurt, but there was a cut. The blood flowed fiercely.

"Mom, are you okay?" Ma Zhaodi hurriedly helped Sister-in-law Ma sit up, picked up the kitchen knife and put it aside.

When Ma Ergou found out that Sister-in-law Ma was injured, he couldn't help but show a happy expression. He must be devout in faith, and the Buddha didn't want him to be harmed by the adulterers, so he interrupted her actions several times. As long as he can get well again, he will definitely take revenge on this woman!

"I'm fine... I'd better let your Uncle Shuanzi chop it tonight." Sister-in-law Ma injured her foot and walked with a limp. Ma Zhaodi was born with a disability and walked with a limp. Under the instigation of Sister-in-law Ma, she carried a few eggs to Uncle Shuanzi's house.

Lin Yebai helped move Ma Ergou to the bed and chopped the pig grass. Sister-in-law Ma stared at Lin Yebai several times. It would be good to have a man at home.

She and Lin Yebai were not the right age, and she worked too hard, making her look like a woman in her forties. Zhao Di is not bad, she is a beautiful girl, but she has lost some weight. She will be able to marry in a few years.

Lin Yebai felt a sense of crisis inexplicably as she was staring at her. Could it be that she wanted to kill me too? Or do you want to wait until the bolt comes in the evening and kill me together?

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[Mistakes were made in the melon field]: Isn’t this the way the mother-in-law looks at her son-in-law?

[Super Rich Orange]: It’s true that the more you watch, the more satisfied you become. I think Zaizai is the same way.

[Male plus man]: Mom will never allow Zaizai to be with this Zhaodi!

[Three Juice Stewed Pot]: I Knock on the Sword CP

[Ordinary me]: I heard that Zaizai lives next door to the Dragon King, so I kowtow to the dragon

[Huangfu Qiangzi]: You are so evil, I will eat Zaizai and myself!

[Sui Sui]: I told my dad to go

Ma Zhaodi will come back soon after delivering the eggs.

"Cousin, Uncle Shuanzi is coming to visit tonight, let's go play outside."

"Mom gave me some sweet potatoes. We can go collect firewood and roast the sweet potatoes. It would be better if we could find a few bird eggs and bake them together..."

Sister-in-law Ma sent Ma Zhaodi and Lin Yebai out together. Firstly, she did not want them to stay at home and get in the way, and secondly, she hoped to create some opportunities for them to get along.

At this time, girls could get married at the age of fifteen or sixteen, and even younger girls could get married at the age of thirteen or fourteen. Ma Zhaodi is eight years old and will be able to get married in a few years, so she is about to start looking for someone.

"Does Doctor Xia have any relatives?" Lin Yebai continued to ask the unfinished questions before.

"Of course I have relatives, namely Uncle Shuanzi. Doctor Xia's sister married Uncle Shuanzi. Later she fell ill and couldn't get out of bed. She kept coughing and drank a lot of fragrant ash water."

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"Later, Doctor Xia's sister died of illness. They had a quarrel and never contacted each other again."

"Why didn't Shuanzi ask Buddha to cure his wife?" Lin Yebai asked.

Ma Zhaodi suddenly felt that Uncle Shuanzi was not a good match. If his mother was sick, Uncle Shuanzi also asked her to drink incense ash water, what's the use?

"What disease did his wife have? Have you seen it?"

"It seems that she has been lying in bed covered with a quilt and always coughing." Ma Zhaodi recalled that Doctor Xia's sister used to be a smart and capable person. After she got sick, her face was gray and scary.

"Did she lose her legs?"

"..." Ma Zhaodi was shocked.

"Has his family suddenly become rich? Has anything changed?" Lin Yebai continued to ask.

Ma Zhaodi thought of the blue brick and tile house in Uncle Shuanzi's house. This is the place she envied the most. It is magnificent and beautiful. It is said that Uncle Shuanzi dug up a jar of silver coins in the yard, which should be left by his ancestors.

Later, during that period, someone went to dig in Shuanzi's yard every night. The whole yard was turned over and no one found it, and no one found half a tael of silver.

Ma Zhaodi explained the matter and asked: "Did his family get the big tile house by relying on Buddha..."

"His wife and his brother-in-law are all dead, only he is alive and well." Lin Yebai has seen the difference between Ma Saozi today and yesterday. The target to be chopped has changed from one leg to two legs, so he asked: "Has your mother seen him today?"

Ma Zhaodi nodded. Her mother said that Shuanzi uncle came to the house while she and her cousin were out to talk about the marriage proposal, saying that the two sides just made do. Otherwise, their family's Ma Ergou has been broken like this, and there will be no strong labor in the future, and it will be difficult to live.

"Cousin, let's go back now, I'm worried about my mother..." Ma Zhaodi was afraid that Ma Saozi would encounter something unexpected.

"Even if he wants to do it, he won't do it tonight."

"Don't worry, it should be your father who dies tonight." Lin Yebai comforted.

Ma Zhaodi burst into tears, but she didn't feel comforted. Although Ma Ergou had always hoped to have a son, he was indifferent to her, the eldest daughter, and even had some disgust. Ma Zhaodi didn't want her biological father to die.

"What's the place in front?" Lin Yebai pointed to a red-painted temple. Many temples paint their exterior walls red, and this temple is no exception. It was already a little dark. From a distance, the red paint outside the temple looked like human blood, so red that it was dazzling. The open temple door was like a big mouth, waiting for people to take the initiative to enter.

"This is the Ci'en Temple in the village. Come here to offer sacrifices." Ma Zhaodi explained.

"Can I go to offer sacrifices?" Lin Yebai asked.

"Yes, but you have to bring offerings. If you come empty-handed, it is disrespectful to the Buddha."

Lin Yebai picked up a stone and walked in.

"How can stones be used as offerings? This is disrespectful to the Buddha. Cousin, please come out quickly. If you want to pay tribute, we can go to the river to find a fish..."

"It's okay. Didn't you bring a few sweet potatoes?" Lin Yebai mainly wanted to see if the Buddha statue could be dismantled.

Ma Zhaodi couldn't persuade him, so she had to limp and follow him, feeling a little tired. I hope the Buddha will not be angry with my cousin...

There was no one in Ci'en Temple, and an oil lamp was burning slowly. When standing at the door and looking inside, the Buddha statue actually grew many arms and thighs, which looked a bit like the legendary Thousand-armed Guanyin, but there was no beauty at all.

The Buddha lowered his eyebrows, and his expression was indeed compassionate.

There were incense burners and sandalwood on the altar. Lin Yebai took three sandalwood sticks, lit them with the flames of the oil lamp, and then put them in the incense burner.

The familiar sandalwood smell came, which smelled exactly the same as the sandalwood smell that lingered in the village. At this close contact, there was a very faint smell of blood in the fragrance.

Even if this Buddha is really spiritual, he is definitely an evil Buddha.

In the floating smoke, Lin Yebai looked up and found that the Buddha was looking at a scale placed on his knees. Among the many arms of the Buddha, one hand was cutting meat from his thigh and placing it on the scale, as if weighing the weight.

Lin Yebai remembered a Buddhist story, cutting meat to feed an eagle.

The Buddha saw the eagle hunting for blood and couldn't bear it, hoping to influence the eagle and let the prey go.

The eagle said, your mercy is to let my prey not die. If I let it go, I will die without food.

The Buddha then cut meat from his body until the weight was equal to the eagle's prey.

The Buddha is compassionate, and can sacrifice himself to save all living beings. ,Please remember:,