Black Myth: You and I are both destined

Sure enough, two days later, the imperial envoy arrived at Jinshan Temple.

Wei Wuxian, the Minister of Personnel of the Secretariat, brought the Governor of Jiangzhou and the imperial edict of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty to go directly to Tang Seng.

The governor of Jiangzhou was a local official, and the fact that he personally handled the matter of recruiting monks showed the importance of the matter, but no one dared to think that even the assistant minister of the Ministry of Personnel would come along.

After Wei Wuxian accepted the courtesy of the monks of Jinshan Temple, he explained his purpose to Tang Seng in public.

"I am the Minister of Personnel of the Imperial Court. Today I have come to invite you to participate in the Water and Land Assembly. This assembly is intended to save all sentient beings and spread the Dharma. You are the one with the highest virtue.

I also have a close relationship with the master. My teacher's teacher is the master's maternal grandfather, Yin Kaishan. I have been influenced by his legacy since I was a child.

I am also related to Lord Wei Zheng and I know his loyalty very well.”

Wei WuXian's three sentences immediately made TianMing, who was eating melon nearby, spit out what he had just eaten.

"I was wondering why the Minister of Personnel of the Ministry of Personnel, who is in charge of the examination for appointment of officials, would be here. It turns out to be a family recognition meeting!"

"Wei Wuxian's teacher was a student of Tang Seng's grandfather Yin Kaishan, and he himself was a relative of Wei Zheng."

"The Tang Dynasty really promotes the virtuous regardless of their relationship with them!"

Tianming didn't want to see them complimenting each other here, and he knew what would happen next.

With their relationship, Tang Seng could easily become the head monk by simply writing an article "My Prime Minister Grandfather" and then be named "The Great Monk of the World".

So he made an excuse, saying that he wanted to go down the mountain to see the tenants, and asked Tang Seng to finish other things and then go down the mountain to find him and set off together.

……

The mountain path greets the morning clouds and the flying birds, and the shadows disappear in an instant with the breeze.

Although Tianming walked, he soon arrived at the foot of the mountain.

Instead of listening to them talk about family affairs in the mountains, it is better to see whether the daughter of the tenant who plants and waters the land is pretty.

Tianming walked into a house at random and as soon as he opened the door, he saw an old man sitting on the ground with his upper body naked.

His head was slightly lowered, his silver-white hair was disheveled, with a few strands sticking to his forehead. His skin was dark brown and covered with fine wrinkles, especially around the corners of his eyes and mouth.

Tianming looked up and down and found that the old tenant's eyes were cloudy, with only a glimmer of light.

"Old man, are you the only one at home?"

The old tenant had no strength at all and could only look up reluctantly when he heard the voice.

"That's the 'seed' for next year. We dare not touch it. Masters, please don't take it away again."

It turned out that he mistook Tianming for a monk who came to collect grain.

Looking in the direction of his finger, behind him was an earthen wall with a tattered bamboo basket hanging on the wall, and in the basket was a shriveled rag bag.

"I'm asking where your family went?"

It was not until Tianming asked the second time that he could barely make it out.

"We were mistaken. Our daughter went up the mountain. The sorcerer said that there was an evil spirit possessing her, so he wanted to give her white pulp blessed water to keep her safe."

At dawn, I suddenly felt my throat dry and itchy.

"What a bullshit white pulp blessing water, disgusting! You bald donkeys just chant sutras, pretending to collect some money, if you really want to exorcise the demon, aren't the Taoist priests next door who specialize in science a million times better than you?"

"Okay, what about your wife?"

"The wizard said that our mother was also attacked by evil spirits, so he asked her to go up the mountain with her daughter."

After hearing what the old tenant said, Tianming's eyelids and mouth corners began to twitch.

He hesitated to speak, and after holding it in for a long time, he couldn't help but say another sentence.

"We have to eat, is there anything else at home?"

"Yes, yes!"

The old tenant stood up and ran his hands across his tattered clothes.

There's dirt all over my clothes and mud between my fingers. How can I wipe them clean?

But he simply packed up and came to the stove.

The fire under the stove was still warm and there was a little water boiling in the pot.

The old tenant poured the finger-thick noodles from the stove into the pot, then took them out after they were briefly boiled.

Tianming didn't expect that there was so much food in his house. He walked closer and found that the "noodles" were clearly mud strips!

The old tenant has been farming all his life, but he is still eating dirt!

"You're going to eat this?"

The old tenant was obviously a little embarrassed and hurried to explain.

"It is Guanyin soil. Guanyin is extremely compassionate. Eating more is good for your health and will help you accumulate blessings."

Looking at the smile on the old tenant's face, Tianming became furious.

"You are eating dirt and saving blessings here, and sending all the food to the mountain. What are the monks doing?"

Tears glistened in the old tenant's eyes.

"The mages are still so young, and they have to support so many of us tenants. It must be very hard for them..."

"I've been thinking that if we plant more crops and work harder, we can make the mages happier."

Tianming was so angry that he was fuming, but several generations of brainwashing could not be reversed by just a few words from him.

He simply took out his anger on the old tenant.

"Row!"

"You can eat as much as you want!!"

"You're already eating dirt, why do you need to cross the water? If you cross the water, you'll just drink mud!"

"No, it won't fall apart if you eat it too quickly." The old tenant had eaten it many times before.

“We…we…”

"We should at least look like we are eating..."

Hearing this, Tianming was speechless for a moment and swallowed back all the words that were about to come out of his mouth.

He really had no way of saying to the old tenant, "There must be something hateful about every pitiful person," or any big words like "I pity their misfortune and feel angry at their lack of resistance."

The old tenant was still talking to himself.

"When we farm, we need to eat the sky, because God gives us dew; we need to eat the land, because seeds grow on the ground; monks need to eat even more, because they ask for rain for us and rent the land to us."

"If we eat one bite less and he eats one bite more, it's almost the same, almost the same..."

Only then did Tianming realize that the most devout Buddhist on the mountain was this old tenant.

He knew that he would leave alone, but he came with full sincerity.

Tianming thought he was in a God's perspective, and when he came to the old tenant he could say to him, 'There is no such thing as accumulating virtues and doing good deeds to enter reincarnation. Your emperor has returned from your noble ways. The so-called reincarnation rules are nothing more than a means for the upper class to change at will.'

But he only realized now that there are some things that cannot be said or done before the break.

Some people can live like ants, but please don't laugh at them, and don't discard the things they hold in high esteem.

At this moment, Tianming noticed some movement outside the house, and it seemed that Tang Seng was almost there.

"Old man, I saw that they have tamarind in Jinshan Temple, and the monks don't want to eat it. You can ask your daughter to pick some for you."

"You'd better not eat this soil. It's indigestible and too alkaline. The pH value in your body has long been unbalanced. Eat some tamarind to neutralize it."

Although the old tenant didn't understand what "acid-base neutralization" and "PH value" meant, he could feel that Tianming was thinking about him, so he said yes and wrote it all down.

Then Tianming pushed open the door and shouted to Tang Seng who was coming down from above.

"Hello--!"

"Holy monk, I'm here!"