[Journey to the West] Tucao Emperor who was delayed by Buddhism

When Dragon Girl first came to South China Sea, she was probably the most embarrassing person among all the people who appeared in South China Sea.

Even if other people get hurt, they come in human form, but she is different, when she comes, she is a slippery big fish.

She coveted the beauty of the world in the market, was splashed with water, and turned back into a big fish in an instant, was picked up by the people in the town, brought to the market, put on the cutting board, and was almost slaughtered. Cai came back.

She still remembers how Senior Brother Hui An saw her for the first time.At that time, she was in a state of embarrassment, the master was dressed in spotless white clothes, but he was holding a big slippery fish in his arms, so angry that Brother Hui An almost rolled his eyes to the sky, and immediately shouted: "Master! How many times have I told you, don't pick up these messy things from the side of the road - the children are back!"

When he said the word thing, it happened that the master transformed her back into a human form, and a slippery fish suddenly turned into a human form, which really shocked him.

Master saw that he was not happy, so he coaxed him: "Is it the last time to pick it up? It's the last time."

Hui An said angrily: "You picked it up and you raised it yourself! In the end, didn't you want me to raise them with shit and urine!"

The master said: "Oh, Hui An, it's troublesome enough to raise you as a teacher. You come to raise your younger brothers and sisters to share the worries of the teacher..."

After the master comforted him, he patted Long Nu on the head and said: "From now on, the one who will be sullen all day long will be your senior brother. Don't look at how amazing he is now. In fact, he is very cowardly. If he bullies you in the future , come and tell me, I will beat him for you."

Hui An said, "Have I ever bullied them?"

The master held the dragon girl in his arms, and said: "You will frighten other children if you look like this. Do you think that everyone is as bold as you, and even if they see a green lion, they will bite into their mouths..."

Brother Hui An got angry when he heard the old things, and he simply shouted: "Okay! Just pick it up! Keep what you pick up, just a little, this little girl can keep it, the big ant you picked up Throw the grasshopper out now! Throw it out!"

Long Nu was frightened by his yelling, and hurriedly crawled into Master's arms.

Master seems to always have that neither cold nor hot nor angry appearance, and always speaks in that calm tone, saying: "Is this South China Sea yours or mine, little brat, if you are so big, you can make territory with me ..."

Hui An said angrily: "That big grasshopper almost ate up all the bamboo in the purple bamboo forest! Why did you pick it up!"

The master said slowly: "You don't understand this. Those who are easy to become smart in this world often can't do anything famous. The more difficult it is, the more they always have to do something. I told you before However, like that stone, it is not easy to become a spirit, once it becomes a spirit, it will disturb the peace of the three worlds of Kyushu, how do you know that this grasshopper spirit will not do more in the future?"

Hui An was so angry that he couldn't speak, so he simply rolled back and lay down on the ground, pretending to be dead and not moving.

Seeing that the two of them were quarreling again, Shancai leaned over and whispered to Long Nu: "Master is going to talk about his theory of dog shit becoming fine again."

The Dragon Girl asked in a daze, "What becomes a spirit?"

Shancai said: "Anyway, Master is a man with a lot of crooked ideas. If you stay with him for a long time, you will be led astray, just get used to it."

Dragon girl admits that she doesn't know anyone here, but her father told her that if she can follow the compassionate Avalokitesvara who saves the suffering, she will surely be able to stand out from the crowd.

To succeed……

She didn't know whether she wanted to be as famous as her father said, she was just used to being obedient and being a good child.

Longnu didn't know anything else, but seeing her brother's attitude, she felt that her arrival was probably not that popular.

So, she became more and more frightened.She never knew how to please others, she could only try to be a good child, she would do what the master said, she had no idea of ​​her own, no special desire, and she didn't even know how to be make yourself happy.

Longnu knew that senior brother was the young prince of Li Tianwang's family. Although Shancai never mentioned his family background, she was by no means an idle person. She was the only one who learned magic the slowest, had the lowest understanding, and her family background was even more mediocre, with deep inferiority complex In her heart, the only thing she can do is to be nice to everyone, or in other words, she has nothing but gentleness.She even feels that she is transparent, without a trace of personality, and she will not get angry even if she is reprimanded by others, just like a shadow, constantly imposing other people's standards - she can be kinder, gentler, and considerate A little is never enough.She is also happy when others are happy, and she is also sad when others are sad. She is born with a soft temper like water, deeply pressed by some invisible thing, and no matter how close she is to the light, she cannot shine with it.

Everyone loves her, but no one likes her. Sometimes she also wants to like herself, but finds that she can't even find the difference in herself.

Like water, what kind of container is poured into it is the shape of the container.

It is soft, warm, considerate...and invisible.

Every time Master left Nanhai, he would say: What gift do you want, I will find it for you.

Brother Hui An just wanted to drive away the grasshopper that gnawed on the barren hills. Shancai likes all kinds of candies. When asked about Longnu, she always said: I want Master to come back sooner.

The master said, no, you must have what you want and think about it carefully.

The dragon girl would say, "Just bring me whatever Master likes."

Master still said: No way, think again, and bring back whatever you want.

So she is often afraid when the master leaves, because at this time the master will say: choose something you like.

But the dragon girl didn't like anything.

Sometimes she almost said: I want Master to look at me and do nothing, just look at me.

But she couldn't tell.

No matter where she goes, she will always feel that she is invisible, no one will pay attention to her, and no one will remember her, if there is, she will only remember that she is a disciple of Guanyin, she is gentle and considerate, very cute.

Sometimes the master thinks that she is most like a monk, with a pure heart and few desires, and plain, but sometimes he feels that her state is very different from that of the Buddha. In short, no one can tell, because no one really understands her.

But is she not good enough?How can she become better, to be really good?

For a while, the task of the Dragon Girl in the South China Sea was to take Master's clean bottle and willow sticks and sprinkle water after the big grasshopper had eaten up all the bamboo in the purple bamboo forest, so that the bamboo would grow again, and continue to feed the purple bamboo forest. Grasshoppers eat, day after day, in a constant cycle, just like Hui An who sweeps the leaves of the purple bamboo forest without knowing when it will stop.

Insects don't look good in the first place, and they're a grasshopper the size of a small mountain. It's raised in emerald green, with a pair of guillotine-like mouths and long beards that are extremely sharp and frightening. .

Longnu once asked Master why he wanted to raise this grasshopper. She remembered that Master was still dressed in elegant white clothes, standing by the edge of the lotus pond, looking as delicate as a fairy, and proudly said:

"Because it makes me, Avalokitesvara, very remarkable."

"It's no surprise that others fight, preach, and preach, either riding a green lion or a peacock. My mount, with six limbs and a green armor, is like a guillotine. It's a hero among insects. surprising."

Seeing that Brother Hui An was not there, the master whispered to her: "You don't know. Other people's mounts are injured, and they all leave red blood, which is very monotonous. My grasshopper can bleed green and yellow blood, which is considered an honor." Sacrifice is also a unique and glorious sacrifice..."

Every time the master speaks unreasonable things, Longnu will be very nervous. If the senior brother hears this, he will beat the big grasshopper to a cripple with a cold face, and then ask the master with a sneer; Are you still a hero now?ah?Are heroes no longer heroes?

But this grasshopper is not the same to the dragon girl, the grasshopper is her only friend.

Whenever the master had anything to do, whether it was fighting or preaching, he would only take Hui An and Shan Cai with him. Because Longnu was the youngest, she always stayed in the South China Sea, accompanied by a big grasshopper that could only eat bamboo. Ye Zi saw passing through, and the entire South China Sea was as quiet as a tomb.

The dragon girl leaned her head on the stone next to the big grasshopper and told him her thoughts.

What she said, the big grasshopper would answer her with different sounds of gnawing on bamboo. For example, when she said that she ate three grains of rice for breakfast today, the big grasshopper would say: Kacha Kacha Kacha.

For example, if she said that she ate fifty grains of rice this morning, the big grasshopper would say; Ka Ka Ka Cha.

Dragon Girl always feels that as long as she stays with the big grasshopper long enough, she will memorize enough grasshopper vocabulary and eventually learn the grasshopper's words,

In less than a few years, the Bodhisattva was going to lecture again, and he still took Shancai and Huian to go together, although Shancai and Huian hated this kind of thing the most. But it is an unknown place that she longs for. She often wants to go with Master, but she never dares to mention it to Master.

The only difference this time is that after the big grasshopper gnawed on the bamboo in the South China Sea for nearly decades, the master finally decided to ride it out once. Because of this, the senior brother was so angry that he didn’t eat for several days. Shancai was so excited that he couldn't fall asleep for several days to watch a good show, while Longnu, in order to ask Master to go with him, was so nervous that he didn't feed the big grasshopper for several days.

On the day before leaving, she timidly grabbed the big grasshopper's wings and asked her master, "Shall I take care of it? I feed it every day and know it best. Master, let me go too once."

The master looked at her in surprise: "Since you want to go, why didn't you say it earlier? You don't know, the sermon is really annoying. Not only do you have to listen to the Buddha, but there is also a terrible guy named Jin Chanzi. I always thought you were the most obedient, and I didn't let you go because I was afraid of making you suffer."

When Long Nu heard him say this, she raised her eyes expectantly and asked, "Really?"

The master said: "Why are you lying to me? Every time I take the two troublemakers there, it really annoys me. It's very kind of you to go this time. Both of them can stay in Nanhai—"

Brother Hui An said coldly, "No, I'm going this time. I want to see how you ride a grasshopper."

Shancai also said: "No, Junior Sister Longnu is going, and I will follow. I also want to see how you ride a grasshopper."

Seeing what they were saying, Long Nu thought silently, when will she be able to ask Master so freely?

That was probably her happiest day. Although Master's fallacies are still everywhere, as long as she can be with everyone, even if she is like a fool sitting on a big grasshopper and flying to the west, she is willing.

One day, she hopes that she can become a god with personality and shamelessness like a Bodhisattva.

As one of the most remarkable gods in the world and one of the Buddhas with the largest number of believers in the Western Paradise, he has no burden of being an idol. Face down from the green grasshopper, she can still be so chic, without changing her face, Longnu thought in her heart, what a remarkable person this is.

What made Longnu the happiest that day was that she met a man named Jin Chanzi at the preaching meeting. Longnu felt that he was really the greatest good man in the world, and he was very willing to talk to people, and she talked with Longnu endlessly. She talks all day long and never asks her thoughts, which makes her very happy. She likes to be a listener, which makes her feel warm and calm.

When Jin Chanzi was talking to her, the master and brother Hui An stood aside in horror, and the master even shed tears for her: "Longnu is such a good girl."

Brother Hui An also said emotionally: "This child really suffered."

However, they don't know that Longnu likes to listen to other people's speech, and she likes to understand what other people think, which makes her see a new world that she has never seen before.

But the experience of that day did not end in happiness.

This matter was once a big trouble, but in the end it could only be let go.

Manjushri's green lion fought with Master's big grasshopper and bit off its head.

Alas, the poor big grasshopper, it is just a grasshopper that loves to eat grass, why should it overpower itself to fight with a lion who has practiced for thousands of years?

The green lion of Manjusri Bodhisattva has a deep cultivation level, and the big grasshopper has nothing but its size. Before the struggle between a lion spirit and a big bug lasted for a few minutes, green blood splashed all over the ground.

Manjusri was very scared, he said: "Buddha's hair."

Shancai was also very scared: "It's a bad thing."

Brother Hui An was very happy afterwards: "Thank God."

Only the dragon girl is very sad.

She lost a friend, a loyal friend.She knew that no one in the world liked this ugly bug, but she liked it.But because everyone didn't like it, even if she saw the scene of her friend dying, she could only grit her teeth, for fear that she would cry out because of it.

She wanted to get better and better, so she cut something from herself so that she could heal faster.

Although, even she herself can't tell what is good.

But Master is different, Master has always been very different.

The master squatted on the ground and burst into tears: "Manjusri, give me back my son! Give me back my big grasshopper!"

Hui An stared at the side, and almost laughed out of anger: "Your son?"

Manjusri Bodhisattva was most afraid that the master would be unreasonable, so he was so frightened that he chanted: "Amitabha, last time your disciple got into my lion's belly, you also relied on me, and this time you still rely on me. I have become a vulnerable group even if I raise a lion." ,In the end what you want?"

Master sadly held the head of the big grasshopper, watched it splash the hero's green juice all over the ground, and said sadly: "One life is worth one life, let your murderer give my big green an apology with death."

Manjusri: "???"

Manjusri was stunned: "Is your master unreasonable? When beasts fight each other, you have to die as an apology? Have you seen who provoked whom first? What if your big grasshopper wants to chop off my lion's head?"

Brother Hui An said: "Amitabha, have you ever seen him speak the truth?"

Guanyin of the South China Sea hugged a grasshopper and cried out sadly at the preaching meeting: "I have raised it for ninety years! Do you know how difficult it is for a grasshopper to become a spirit!"

Hui An added next to him: "To be specific, I have raised it for five years, and my younger sister has raised it for 85 years. You are only responsible for riding it today."

At this time, Tathagata walked over and found Guanyin crying on the ground holding a big worm's head. He was shocked and said, "You really rode this grasshopper out?"

The master said: "What do you know? I am Avalokitesvara of the South China Sea. I have the most followers and the widest reputation. If others ride a grasshopper, they will be ridiculed, but I will become a symbol of Avalokitesvara of the South China Sea. After a long time, everyone will I feel that riding a grasshopper has a face. People in the world don't know what they want, and they do whatever the gods do. Pity my big grasshopper..."

Seeing his distress, Manjusri Bodhisattva said, "I'll let you ride my green lion. I'll give you whatever you want. Please don't embarrass yourself by holding that head."

The master whimpered and said, "No. I just want my big green back..."

Manjusri Bodhisattva knelt down to him with a plop: "I beg you, let's go home before we lose face."

The master hugged the grasshopper and said, "I won't go home without the big green."

Manjusri Bodhisattva was told by her, and she shouted in despair: "Forget it, I will send my green lion to go down to the mortal world. Are you satisfied with this? Huh?"

Only then was the master satisfied, and holding the head of the big grasshopper with compassion, he drove back to the South China Sea on a cloud.

Later, because of the big grasshopper that died unexpectedly, the Buddha also held a heavy memorial service for it, publicly recited the Sutra of Crossing the Dead for it, and personally praised its heroic deed - fighting the lion.

Not long after that, everyone put the matter behind them, only Longnu could never forget that scene.

It was the most absurd, grotesque, and ridiculous scene she had ever seen.

But it was also the most fantastic and incredible thing she had ever seen.

The Buddhas of the Western Paradise stood beside a huge coffin, mourning a big grasshopper that had lost its head, and rescued it with flowers and chanting.

At that moment, as if the paint bucket was overturned, red, blue, green, and yellow were all mixed together, what was right, what was wrong, what was evil, what was good, what was good and what was bad ...she didn't know it all.

At the beginning, she suppressed her voice and wanted to cry, and at the end she suppressed her emotions and wanted to laugh.

Sometimes Long Nu thinks that Master is also laughing, or that he already knows something about this absurd world, so when he is bored, he uses the rules of this world to make jokes. He plays freely, has fun, and even conducts Imitate, make yourself laugh, but make others frown.

Longnu found it strange that the master always mocked the world, while the senior brother was struggling to resist the world, good fortune was in chaos, and he didn't care about the world at all.But Dragon Girl is different. She wants to blend into this world because she is afraid of being alone.

So she tried to make herself better and better, but it was not enough, not enough, there was always a place in her chest where the air was leaking.

When is enough?

she does not know.

Stars change, time changes, until that day when she stood above the heaven and watched Senior Brother Hui An stand in front of her, she didn't know where the limit was.

On that day, the Jade Emperor ordered her to be killed, and it was Brother Hui An who broke through the siege, blocked the sword for her, and stopped the order to behead her.

Trapped in her own body, seeing him stand proudly in front of everyone without worry or fear, she knew that there was something in him that she had always lacked.

A shelter from the wind, one that could support her family, but she didn't have one.

That's why she will be slaughtered and have nowhere to escape.

No matter how many times Long Nu heard from her master, how much her senior brother was struggling to escape from that family, but at that moment, she was extremely eager to step into that enclosure.

A family is like a city, people outside want to enter, but those inside want to escape.

Some people want to remove the bones and shave the flesh, and use the scars to remove the inherent brand, but some people want to draw pictures and get a fake tattoo to gain fame.

Senior brother has spent his whole life hoping that he can be forgotten, he hopes that he can become an unknown person; and Longnu knows that he wants to be remembered all his life, he doesn't need a great reputation, he doesn't need many people to admire, Even one person is fine.

The prison that some people want to escape is the paradise that others yearn for.

That day on the edge of heaven, she lost the first person she liked in the world. She didn't like him because he was so beautiful, but because she saw him as she saw herself.

Everyone has his brand, but she doesn't.

Until the moment Xuan Jing disappeared from her hands, she felt that she had lost an arm, but since then, she suddenly felt that this incompleteness made her complete for the first time.

She has finally found her brand, though it's shape is still unclear.

She hugged her head and wept bitterly for the lost arm, but in the end she laughed softly in tears.

She called softly, "Master."

She raised her head above the oppressive mouse-gray sky, and smiled wantonly with tears in her eyes: "My arm is broken."

But what she didn't say was—

I'm finally complete.