Collection of strange powers and chaotic gods

Legend has it that at some time in the Ming Dynasty, the monks in Huashan Temple in Ninghai, Zhejiang Province (there are many temples named Huashan in the land of China. Painting Tigers into Cats believes that Mr. Yuan Mei is from Zhejiang, and this article should refer to Ninghai, Zhejiang Province) raised A pig can live for a long time.

All the hair on this pig's body has fallen out, and it is also very humane. It can actually fast and not eat dirty things.

When it hears the monks chanting sutras, it will kowtow as if to worship.

Seeing it like this, the monks in the temple no longer thought it was a pig, but called it "Taoist".

One night, the elderly Zhu Taoist lay down due to serious illness. He looked dying, as if he was about to die.

The abbot of Huashan Temple, monk Zhanyi, has a profound spiritual practice.

That night, because he had been invited in advance, he was going to give lectures elsewhere.

Seeing that Pig Taoist was about to die soon, he called his apprentice before leaving and said: "If Pig Taoist dies, he must be cut into small pieces, and then his meat should be distributed to the neighbors around the temple. .”

Although the monks agreed, they didn't think so in their hearts.

Not long after, Taoist Zhu died. But the monks did not share its meat with the people around them, but carried it out and buried it quietly.

Some days later, Zhan Yi, who had gone out to give lectures, came back. He saw that the pig Taoist was gone and knew that it was dead.

He called his disciples over and asked Taoist Zhu what he did after his death.

The monks told the truth.

And he said plausibly: "We monks follow the Buddha's law and observe the precepts! We can't break the prohibition on killing and divide it, so we buried it."

Monk Zhan Yi was so shocked that he had no time to blame his disciples and immediately rushed to the place where Zhu Taoist was buried.

When he got there, he hit the ground with his Zen staff and cried, "I'm sorry for you! I failed you!"

The monks didn't know why, they knew they didn't follow the master's instructions and made mistakes on their own initiative. Just ask why.

Monk Zhan Yi said: "You don't know something: Thirty years from now, there will be an upright and honest official in a certain village who will be innocently affected and suffer the death penalty. That official will be the afterlife of this pig.

This pig was an official in his previous life. Because he had done something wrong, he knew that his sins were serious and that he was doomed. Therefore, he was reincarnated as an animal to seek salvation for himself so that he could be reborn in the next life.

I specifically wanted to use the knife method to eliminate disasters and increase happiness for him. I never thought about it, but I was delayed by mediocre people like you who made your own decisions and delayed it by mistake.

But this also just shows that this is his doomed fate. Even though I have thought of a way to crack it, I am still unable to escape! "

Thirty years later, during the Chongzhen period, an Hanlin scholar named Zheng Yan (a famous writer and politician, later known as "the most talented man in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty") came out of a certain village. It is said that "Jia Jia" in "A Dream of Red Mansions" The task of "Baoyu" was actually created by him), who has always been of good conduct and upright as an official. He is a member of the Donglin Party (a bureaucratic political group dominated by Jiangnan scholar-bureaucrats in the late Ming Dynasty. It lasted for about 40 years).

Later, because he supported his father's concubinage and teased his mother who disagreed with her husband's concubinage, he was falsely accused by his uncle, beat his mother with a stick, and was persecuted by political opponents, and was eventually sentenced to death!

Everyone in the world knows that this is an unjust case, and they all cry out for him!

At this time, Monk Zhanyi of Huashan Temple had passed away.

The monks in the temple then remembered that they had predicted the occurrence of this case thirty years ago! I can't help but admire him even more for his ability to understand cause and effect!