After rebirth, I joined forces with my mortal enemy to seek revenge.

At this time, the Samana came from afar. The people have been incited to escort officials from the Ministry of Works to Xuanjing's burial place in Siming Mountain. Also coming with them was Zhou Mancao.

Zhou Mancao glared at the ferocious Buddhist believers. While hinting to the accompanying sergeant to find a way to rescue people, he put his hands on his hips and cursed loudly. She knew that it was useless to deal with these people calmly and rationally, you had to be more aggressive. Let them know how great you are.

"Bah, why do I, the Buddha, be so compassionate? Do you know how much the imperial court's tax is for a year? Do you know how much a meal costs for an ordinary household?" Zhou Mancao spat and muttered: "You sit high in the temple every day, how can you You know where the people are suffering. Now you are still slandering the new policies of the imperial court. I think you are the evil ones."

When she said this, someone immediately retorted, "My Buddhist sect has been passed down for hundreds of years, spreading Buddhism widely and saving people from the sea of ​​suffering. Why can't we be worshiped by laymen, establish ourselves in the world, and attract believers? Aren't these people giant beetles? Why should we just blame others?" We are waiting. Our Buddhist sect is showing mercy today and wishes to save these people to come and pave the way for my Buddha. In order to prove my Buddha’s great kindness.”

"Nonsense." Zhou Mancao scolded angrily.

"Catch her and kill her together!"

someone in the crowd yelled.

There were only a few dozen sergeants who came with Zhou Mancao, and because they were afraid of hurting the people, they could only watch as the people swarmed up and surrounded them.

"I want to see what you can do to me." Zhou Mancao glared at the people around him, then turned around and said, "It doesn't matter. You don't have to worry about me."

By the time Pei Jiaoran and his party arrived at Siming Mountain, Zhou Mancao and others had been driven to Xuanjing's grave. The surroundings were noisy, and Zhou Mancao and two officials from the Ministry of Industry were escorted to kneel in front of Xuanjing's tomb.

The ascetic who incited the people to cause trouble slowly stepped out from the crowd, twirled his prayer beads, and looked at Zhou Mancao and the other three sternly, "I heard that you wanted to abolish the Buddhist temple in order to open up the river. As a result, Master Xuanjing was forced to death."

Hearing this, Zhou Mancao sneered, "You talk so much about benevolence and salvation, but in fact, which one of you is not an evil ghost who knocks your bones and sucks your marrow? Although I am not a great talent, I have read the teachings of Confucius and Mencius, and any Western barbaric language is just empty talk. Our court has its own virtues. There is no need to pray to foreign gods."

"I was trying to save the people. On the contrary, you are stubborn and stubborn, slandering my Dharma, and your karmic sins are unforgivable. Today, I will burn your body with Buddha fire to eliminate your karmic sins. This is really the mercy of our Buddha."

"Karma? Then you lend money to the people in the name of Xiang's accumulated money, and ask them to pay back the money at high interest rates. For those who can't repay the money, you let them use their land or even their family members to pay off the debt. Is this considered mercy?" A gentle female voice sounded from the crowd, A lady in a green robe walked out of the crowd and looked at the Samana, "Buddhism doesn't kill people, so why do you set fire to kill people today?"

"Who are you?" The Samana asked with a frown.

"Yizheng County Magistrate Fang Jianyue." Fang Jianyue looked at the monk fiercely, "You disregard human life and pretend to be compassionate. Buddhism will suffer disaster today, and you are responsible for it."

"you!"

The two sides were in a stalemate when suddenly there was the sound of gongs and drums, and then someone shouted: "Mr. Pei is here."

As soon as he finished speaking, the Samana frowned. He looked at the young monk next to him and ordered his people to keep an eye on Zhou Mancao and others while he went to greet Pei Jiaoran.

Pei Jiaoran, who came here with a crowd, looked at the people who were surrounding the road, and the tip of his lips curled up. He reached out and asked Feng Yuanxian for a bow and arrow, then drove his horse forward.

As she got closer and closer, the people who were surrounding her also consciously gave way. A white-robed monk came towards me.

"The poor monk Daoheng pays homage to Mr. Pei." The white-robed monk was the ascetic who incited the people to cause trouble.

Seeing Dao Heng performing the monk's ritual, Pei Jiaoran smiled and said, "Since you worship me, why don't you kneel down? Who else allows you to call yourself a poor monk. I have the emperor's mandate, and seeing me is like seeing you. This dynasty has a system, and ascetics are not allowed to see you. Even if you call yourself a poor monk, you are not allowed to kneel down."

"Forgive me, Mr. Pei, but Dao Heng has a question. I wonder if I can ask Mr. Pei to answer a question." Dao Heng sensed that Pei Jiaoran's coming was not good, so he softened his tone and said, "I wonder, Mr. Pei, do you have sentient beings in your eyes?"

"Sentient beings? Are you worthy of talking to me about sentient beings?" Pei Jiaoran dismounted from his horse, holding a bow in one hand and pressing the gun with the other, and approached Dao Heng step by step, "You accept Sumeru in Buddhism and treat Sumeru as living beings. But your Where are all the sentient beings, and have they ever truly cared about them?"

As Pei Jiaoran approached step by step, the people around Dao Heng also retreated step by step, and finally dispersed to both sides. Not daring to look at her, only the monks who were encouraged by Dao Heng remained.

The Chunjun sword was unsheathed, and Pei Jiaoran approached Dao Heng step by step with the Chunjun sword in hand. Finally, he put his sword on the other person's neck and said in a cold tone, "All living beings are neither Sumeru nor dust. You use your Dharma to look at all living beings, but you don't know that all living beings have their own Dharma to survive. You use your teachings to I came to teach sentient beings to abandon the rights they were born with, but I didn’t know that sentient beings also have the right to choose. I am not a good person, and I have not learned the Dharma, but I have seen the suffering of the people."

"Some people prayed in front of the Buddha because their family members were seriously ill, but they were coaxed into borrowing money from the Buddhist temple in the name of hoarding money. In the end, because they could not repay the money, they were forced to sacrifice themselves as slaves in the Buddhist temple."

“I’ve seen people starve to death at home because you plundered fertile farmland.”

Pei Jiaoran's voice was soft, and the people who came with her stared at the monks in front of them with indignant expressions. What she said was what they had experienced.

In the name of saving money, I borrowed some money from the Buddhist temple for emergency purposes. But in the end it turned into a loan shark. He kept saying that the principal was a blessing and the interest was a merit, and he asked them for a large amount of money to repay.

Those who couldn't pay back the money sold their children and daughters, and eventually had to mortgage their farmland to Buddhist temples to pay off debts. There were many people who lost their families and died.

"Have you ever seen such sentient beings? Have you ever seen people with their bones exposed in the wild after death? Have you ever seen your mother crying in front of a Buddhist temple? Your sentient beings are only in one corner."

Someone bent down and picked up branches, stones, or broken tiles from the ground, and followed Pei Jiaoran as he approached Dao Heng step by step.

Frightened by this battle, Dao Heng stepped back. However, the Chunjun sword in Pei Jiaoran's hand was always placed on his neck.

Over there, Fang Jianyue saw Pei Jiaoran coming, and the guards in front of the tomb relaxed a little, so she quickly ran over and untied a few people.

She helped Zhou Mancao up, looked around, and stepped aside.

Pei Jiaoran breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Fang Jianyue had successfully rescued the arrested people.

"Ms. Pei, what are you going to do?" Dao Heng scolded when he saw that Pei Jiaoran had forced him to Xuanjing's grave.

When asked, Pei Jiaoran raised his eyebrows and smiled, "What do you think?"

"Xianggong Pei, keep someone under the sword!"

Hearing the voice coming from behind, Pei Jiaoran turned his head. Du Neng and Du Hui were seen standing not far away with anxious expressions, their chests rising and falling, which seemed to prove that they came here.