The Little Officials of the Song Dynasty

Brothers Hui Nai and Hui Bing, one is a cat slave and the other is a dog slave, they are very popular, but Yun Yanhui decided to make them a pair of partners to lecture together after repeated investigations.

This is really painful, they both feel that Yunyan is playing around with a child, isn't it because they demoted his family's bear?

However, Liaoran firmly believed that he should listen to Yunyan's return, and also supported the pairing of Hui Nai and Hui Bing, rehearsing every day, which caused a lot of jokes, and everyone said they were a happy couple.

So until recently, when the time was almost up, the temple contacted the largest tile house in Bianliang, Zhujiaqiao Wazi.

The boss of this tile is also confused, the monk wants to perform?Or a monk from Daxiangguo Temple?Is this an arrangement or not?

According to Daxiangguo Temple, their monks are going to give lectures.

Although it is said that Buddhism was popular in the Song Dynasty, everyone came to Washe for fun. If you talk about Buddhist scriptures there, will anyone really like to listen to it?

Even in the common saying of the Tang Dynasty, the entertainment is not necessarily as high as the gossip in the current washroom. It is easier to invite the gods than to send the gods away. Ruined the reputation of their Washer?

The boss struggled again and again, and boldly made a request to Daxiangguo Temple. He had to watch a performance first, and then judge whether he could accept it.

These days, there is a rule of one line, and Yun Yanhui agreed to the boss's request, not afraid of him leaking the secret.After the boss watched a rehearsal, he felt that the level was above the average, and that it was more unique and novel, so he nodded decisively and agreed that the monks from the Daxiangguo Temple would come to the lavatory to give lectures.

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For the people of Bianliang, this was an ordinary day. Many people had nothing to do, so they went outside the Washe to see today's tricks.The sign will state which people or groups are in Wazi today, and what kind of programs they will perform.

In this way, the people will know it well.

As soon as it opened, Zhujiaqiao Wazi updated its tricks. The first line is the eye-catching Zhu characters, which clearly tells everyone that there is a blockbuster new program today. The performers: monks of Daxiangguo Temple, and the content of the performance: preaching scriptures.

There are more than a dozen balustrades inside the tiles of Zhujiaqiao, which can accommodate up to a thousand people watching the performance at the same time, and it is almost full every day, regardless of rain or shine.

The people of Bianliang have seen many artists of all kinds, and have watched performances with all kinds of characters, but they have never seen monks walk into the shed. I want to tell you a paragraph. fresh enough.

People filed in one after another, and the house was gradually full.

In the golden age, one of the Goulan will usher in the debut of monks from Daxiangguo Temple.

The stage in Wazi is surrounded by railings, so it is called Goulan. It is not much different from the stage seen in modern times. There is a curtain separating the front and backstage, and the upper and lower stages connect the two ends for actors to enter and exit. It is called "the way of ghosts".

In the theater room, that is, the backstage, Hui Nai and Hui Bing stood there flexing their arms and legs, ready to go on stage.In fact, they don't necessarily need two people to play this part, one person can also play it, but Yun Yanhui was afraid that everyone would be nervous for the first time, so they made a pair match.

The two were somewhat nervous, listening to the movement in front of them, Yun Yan suddenly pulled their clothes back, and quickly looked down, "What's wrong, Brother Yan?"

Because he attaches great importance to this matter, Jianran also came, so he sat aside and drank tea.

Yun Yan took a glance back and said in a low voice, "Later, I will change the names of the characters in your opening paragraphs."

"It's changed, what to change it to?" Hui Nai and Hui Bing heard Yun Yan's reply, their eyes slowly widened, and they rubbed their hands and laughed, "This, is this really good?"

"It's all for the sake of spreading the Dharma, the mage will definitely understand." Yun Yan replied.

He told Hui Nai and the two that all the monk characters in the jokes were temporarily replaced by Ran.Before that, he was always staring at the rehearsal, so he never said it, but in his heart, using the name of the clearer would have the best effect!

Knowing that in Bianliang, at least it has a certain reputation, which will allow the audience to feel a sense of substitution and enter the atmosphere of the story faster, which will help newcomers on the stage to get closer to the audience.

But from Hui Nai and Hui Bing's point of view, they only thought that Yun Yanhui was playing a prank, and the two of them happened to be very entertaining, so they didn't mind doing it...

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The gong sounded three times, and two young monks in monk's robes came out from the gate of ghosts one after the other, and saluted everyone, which immediately attracted a burst of applause, and many other spectators in front of the fence also crowded here when they heard the news , I want to see what the monk has to say.

"Dear benefactors, little monk Hui Nai (little monk Hui Bing), from Daxiangguo Temple." Hui Nai greeted everyone generously, but she was not afraid of being watched by so many people, and there are more practitioners in the temple.

"Everyone should know Daxiangguo Temple. It is very famous. There are many masters and eminent monks, like our abbot, and Zen Master Liaoran, our uncle."

The audience nodded one after another, that’s right, everyone knows him, he is a good monk, and his medical skills are also superb. Every time he represents the Daxiangguo Temple, he takes the monks to heal and distribute medicine. Immediately, his face appeared.

When Qingran in the background heard this, he thought it was an example of improvisation.

Hui Bing: "Everyone should have participated in the Lantern Festival at Daxiangguo Temple. At that scene, all the lights were lit up, and the whole capital of Bianjing was illuminated like daylight. But this year, we knew about the Lantern Festival. Very interesting thing."

Hui Nai: "That's right, maybe everyone doesn't know, that day when a female benefactor came to see the lanterns, she met Uncle Ran and stopped him to ask, among the many lanterns in this temple, which one is the brightest."

At this point, the listener has been aroused, thinking in his heart, which light will be on.

Backstage, with a confused face, "???"

Hui Bing: "Who is my uncle? Without blinking, he immediately replied: The lamps in the Buddha Hall are the brightest."

Hui Nai: "The benefactor asked again: Where is the lamp of the Buddha in front of the Buddha?"

Hui Bing: "Understood, Master said: I don't need to look at other lamps, my own spirit will light up first. The sky shines on the earth, and the sky and the earth are both bright."

There were a few applause from the audience, and everyone got a little refreshed after hearing it, not knowing what to do next.

Hui Nai imitated the aggressive tone of the female benefactor: "Can it illuminate the heavens and the earth, can it illuminate the people's surnames? The heavens and the earth are both clear, can everyone understand?"

Everyone held their breaths to listen to the answer, but they heard Hui Bing's loose reply: "Yes, yes, yes." He looked very much like an old monk, and was slightly exaggerated, and suddenly there was a chuckle.

This was also Hui Bing's impromptu play, Hui Nai managed to avoid laughing, and asked again: "How many people have you seen?"

At this point, it has been transformed into an imitation without a trace, and a "Master's answer" should be added in front of it.

Hui Bing: "See one, half."

Hui Nai: "Who is one, and who is half?"

Hui Bing: "One is me, half is you."

Hui Nai: "Borrow my teacher's seat to teach you the Dharma."

Hui Bing raised his hand: "Go and find a man!"

Everyone thought it was a sharp wit in the end, but who knew that Hui Bing said a joke at the end, and it was just right. Thinking that it was said by the monk, he laughed so hard that his stomach would burst.

Even if it's very good and very annoying, how could a monk tell a believer to find a man?It's too unorthodox!

However, many people smiled and felt that this was not a joke, but a wonderful wit, which seemed vulgar, but was actually not half profane.

What monks do is indeed a serious thing. Although it makes you laugh at first, it does contain Zen principles when you think about it carefully.So laughing again at this time is a knowing and admiring smile, and whispering to explain to those who don't understand.

In short, from here, the place can be said to be completely hot.

Yun Yan listened carefully in the background, and felt that the effect was good, at least the audience understood.Just now this paragraph is a classic excerpt from the historical reference book "The Story of the Lotus Girl in the Lantern and Sedan Becoming a Buddha", with a little adaptation.

And the core of this story is actually the story of a Buddhist dragon girl presenting orbs to the Buddha, changing her gender into a man and becoming a Buddha immediately.The earliest Buddhism was gender-discriminatory, and believed that women could not become Buddhas. Later, Mahayana Buddhism had the concept of equality for all beings, but it did not allow women to become Buddhas directly, but women first transformed into men and then became Buddhas.

Therefore, in the dialogue between the Zen master and the woman, the woman is "half", which means that she only has a female body. If she wants to become a Buddha, she needs to "find a man".

If you have a little understanding of Mahayana Buddhism, you will naturally understand the meaning behind these seemingly dirty words.If you don't understand it, you will feel a sense of reversal when you know it afterwards.

The opening was very good, and Hui Nai and Hui Bing told three or two more similar stories one after another, all of which used Qing as the protagonist. Although they all received good responses, they were not as "hot" as the first one.

This first one was specially selected by Yun Yanhui, telling them to be the first one to use.

The story of "Learning" came to the third paragraph, and everyone heard them say, "Tell me about our uncle..." Although they didn't know what was going on, they couldn't help laughing for some reason.

After the two finished talking about the content of the invitation, the audience was still full of ideas. At this time, a new pair should come out to talk about the scriptures, but looking back at the ghostly way, Yun Yan opened the curtain and gestured to them.Because I feel that the atmosphere is right now, and they are also in the state, so I don’t want to stop, and let’s talk about a passage, anyway, I have practiced it.

So Hui Nai and Hui Bing exchanged words and told a story derived from Buddhist scriptures.Compared with the previous jokes that made people laugh or smile, the core of this story is compassion.

The audience who had been expecting to continue laughing was surprised again, but they were also infected by the story, and they shed tears in all likelihood. Fortunately, the ending is that good will be rewarded with good and evil will be rewarded with evil, and the protagonist will become a Buddha immediately and everyone is happy.

"Don't do evil, do good. Purify your mind, that's all Buddhism." After Hui Nai and his wife concluded with Buddhist verses, they performed the same eleven rituals as they did at the beginning, and entered the way of ghosts.

The audience under the fence was silent for a moment, and the applause was loud.