National teacher help

As soon as Yu Chigong walked up, everyone's eyes were focused on him immediately, Lu Zhongming also forgot to chat with King Kong Zhi, looked at Yu Chigong, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Yu Chigong waved his hand, and asked King Kong Zhi: "Since there are six reincarnations, you can accumulate virtue and do good in this life, and enjoy blessings in the next life, but after reincarnation, you forget the things in this life. It stands to reason that you will become a completely different person after reincarnation. Now, what is the difference between this and doing good deeds by yourself and giving blessings to others?"

King Kong Zhi replied: "General, this is a joke. A person is a person. Could it be that his parents and brothers would not recognize him if he forgot what happened in the past?"

"It depends on what everyone thinks." Seeing that a helper finally came, Lu Zhongming said with a smile: "For example, if a king has accumulated good karma in this life and blessed all the people, then in the next life, Master Vajra Wisdom thinks that he can still be a good king." King? Even if he lived the same life as before, would he still be him?"

These words were clearly setting a trap for Vajra Wisdom, and Vajra Wisdom answered yes and no, so he could only reply: "The blessings are profound, and since I will return to the heavenly realm, there will be no suffering in the realm of desire. "

"If there is no pain, is happiness still happiness?" Yu Chigong smiled slightly.

Lu Zhongming vaguely noticed that there was something in Yu Chigong's words, but he couldn't ask clearly, so he said to Li Yuan: "Your Majesty, when I saw you for the first time, I said that the wind will never end, and the rain will never end. towards."

Li Yuan smiled and replied: "The world cannot last long, let alone human beings?"

Yu Chigong said earnestly: "Forgive me for speaking bluntly, National Teacher, Master Vajra Wisdom, I, Yu Chigong, am a rough old man, and I don't know anything about what happened before life and what happens after death."

"As a mortal, killing is inevitable. Even killing people." Yuchi Gong said towards the audience: "The Buddha said to cut meat and feed eagles, but I can't do it."

"For example, if someone comes to kill my family members, I can't send myself to be killed. The Buddha has the power of mana, and the flesh can grow back after cutting it. I can't."

There was another burst of laughter from the audience.

Farang smiled and said, "What General Yuchi said is true, even the Buddha must have a time to subdue demons and protect the Dharma."

Yu Chigong said again: "For example, when two armies are at war and blood flows like rivers, who can judge whether what they are defending is good or evil? Usually no one can tell what is good and what is evil, and each sentence is just for its own sake."

"Discern the original mind." King Kong Zhi said: "General Yuchi only needs to follow the inner guidance."

Yu Chigong sighed, and said again: "That's what I said, but I couldn't bear it, and I had to go to battle to kill the enemy. I killed the enemy and defended my own country. It is good. Killing the enemy is evil to the other party's wife, children and mother. It can be seen that good and evil are not clearly distinguished."

"As a soldier, I, Wei Chigong, feel that if you do evil or do good, you will be liquidated when this life is over. As the national teacher said, life is the transformation of Tao, and death is the return of Tao to heaven and earth." Heaven' is true. This life is happy, and the next life is suffering. Death is the most equal thing in the world. Whether you are an emperor or a beggar, glory and wealth, life does not bring it, and death does not take it away. Put everything to an end. Why stay In the next life, stay in the next life?"

"You Buddhists say not to kill, because if you kill too much, you will fall into the animal realm in your next life, and you will be slaughtered by mermaids." Yu Chigong said seriously: "However, creatures such as flowers, birds, insects and fish are born without knowing what they were like in the previous life. Being slaughtered, why should he be blamed?"

King Kong Zhi replied: "That's why you need to practice and devote your heart to the Buddha. Only by becoming a Buddha can you escape from the Three Realms and not be in the cycle of reincarnation. Is it better to practice Taoism?"

"No." Lu Zhongming answered, shook his head with a smile, and said, "Master Vajra Wisdom has misunderstood. Just as Buddhism does not burn incense to worship Buddha, Taoism does not seek to soar in the sun and eat mercury to refine elixir."

With a bang, the people in the audience were in an uproar, and Lu Zhongming said: "The realm of Taoism lies in seeing the heaven and the earth, and through 'enlightenment', to achieve the unity of heaven and man."

"Then what's the use of the unity of man and nature?" King Kong Zhi finally caught Lu Zhongming's loophole, and said with a smile at the corner of his mouth: "Cultivating Buddhism can relieve human suffering, but what can enlightenment do?"

"It's useless." Lu Zhongming shook his fingers and said with a smile: "Being useful is worse than being useless. 'Usage' is Confucianism, and you should pursue usefulness in everything you do. Is practicing Buddhism just to become a Buddha? Have you attained Buddhahood?"

King Kong Zhi was at a loss for words for a moment, and finally Lu Zhongming went in. Lu Zhongming said that he knew enough here, and he said to Li Yuan: "Your Majesty, some people are born poor, and some people are born rich. I don’t think it’s fair for a person to give the cause of the previous life.”

"You guys from poor families, do you think it's because you committed crimes in your previous life that you were reincarnated into a poor family in this life?" Yu Chigong asked the people in the audience, and said seriously: "Anyway, this general thinks that this has nothing to do with my previous life, and it doesn't matter. I feel that if I do good deeds in this life, I will have hope in the next life, because in the next life, I will forget all about it, and I will no longer be the person I am now, and nothing will matter.”

After saying this, everyone was silent, and Yu Chigong, as an ordinary person, strongly refuted King Kong Zhi's theory of reincarnation.Even Lu Zhongming couldn't help applauding secretly.

Lu Zhongming saw that King Kong Zhi no longer threw the burden over, so he concluded: "However, it is possible to practice kind thoughts and follow the nature. Do good things in everything and let nature take its course. This is what is said in Taoism and Buddha. Goodness, Confucianism, Taoism, law and ink, all the ancient and modern times, the talk of scholars is unmatched, but it is a commonplace talk, Master Vajra Wisdom, offend."

The two sides were quiet for a while, Lu Zhongming made a calculation, two wins in three battles, no need to say any more, he handed over to Jingangzhi, Jingangzhi's face was unspeakably ugly, but he had to put his hands together, Lu Zhongming turned and stepped down.

Li Yuan was still amiable that day. After visiting the Daxingshan Temple, the officials dispersed. However, after the debate, everyone was a little absent-minded, thinking about what the two sides said.Especially the last few words of Lu Zhongming touched the hearts of many people.

"Death is the most equal thing in the world." Li Shimin smiled helplessly: "If you don't bring life, you don't take death. When the deadline comes, everything will be completely settled. Jingde, why do you suddenly think so?"

"It's just a sudden feeling." Yuchi said with a smile, stretched out his hand carelessly, and put it on Lu Zhongming's shoulder.

Lu Zhongming poured tea for Li Shimin, then glanced at Yu Chigong, and the three of them drank tea and chatted in Yuchigong's mansion. It was almost dusk, and the lights all over the city began to hang out.

"I haven't mentioned you yet." Lu Zhongming frowned and said, "The battle at the front line is urgent, why did you come back?"

Yu Chigong said: "I miss you, Shimin will send troops soon anyway, and it just happens to follow to fight Luoyang."

Li Shimin looked at the two with a look of death, but Lu Zhongming was worried about the situation on the front line. Yu Chigong comforted him: "Maybe the military report will come tonight, it's okay."

This reminded Li Shimin, and Li Shimin said: "Father hasn't recovered yet today, you'd better go to the palace as soon as possible."

"Let's talk about it after visiting the Lantern Market." Yu Chigong said: "I have already thought about it. When I came back last night, I went to the palace to meet your father, and brought Yuan Ji back to Jinyang. The news of the victory in the first battle, Qin Qiong and Luo Shixin have already gone. After chasing Yuan Ji, your father only thought that I came back in person to intercede for Yuan Ji."

Li Shimin said: "But Wei Zheng won't let you go, and you won't escape if you are punished for leaving your post without authorization."

Yuchi Gong said indifferently: "When the time comes, punish me as a general to make up for my mistakes, and let me lead the army to go out."

Lu Zhongming thought to himself that this fellow is really courageous, because Li Yuan is in the middle of employing someone, no one dares to punish him, and even the commander-in-chief can run away.

Saying this is exactly what Li Shimin wanted, so he nodded, got up and left, Yu Chigong said to Lu Zhongming again: "When the time comes, His Majesty wants to punish me, at most it will be just pretending, remember to take what Wei Zheng said."

"Why." Lu Zhongming said, "I'm not going to help you against Wei Zheng, I'm going to push you against yourself...uh..."

When he was about to protest, he was hugged by Yu Chigong and pressed on the couch.

"Miss me?" Yu Chigong looked into Lu Zhongming's eyes and asked.

Lu Zhongming took off Yu Chigong's collar, looked at him, and asked, "Did you say those words today for me?"

"Half and half." Speaking of this, Yu Chigong calmed down, and pressed Lu Zhongming's nose, and said, "It's also for me to hear."

Lu Zhongming looked at Yu Chigong, and unconsciously put himself into a role waiting for his lover to return, as if he couldn't get enough of him, his eyebrows, nose, lips, bronze skin, rough and masculine His handsome face... made it difficult for him to control himself.

"Come on, get up." Yuchi said with a smile.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, he picked up Lu Zhongming and said, "Let's go to the Lantern Festival on the Lantern Festival, and we will go out with Zhongming in a few days, so we won't be able to hug you."

Lu Zhongming didn't want to do it either, and said with a smile, "Okay."

Yu Chigong took the clothes and changed them for him, the two of them sat sideways on the couch, Yu Chigong arranged Lu Zhongming's outer robe, the clothes they wore today were similar in style, Lu Zhongming wore a light white robe, Yu Chigong was still his The dark blue that is often worn, the high-quality satin fabric, obviously was made a long time ago.

Lu Zhongming stood in the courtyard, summoning Lu Bu with dragon scales, and saw that Luoyang was also decorated with lanterns and festoons for the Lantern Festival. Lu Bu was pushing a cart, and Qilin was sitting on the handlebar. He said with a smile, "Little baby, it's the festival!"

"Are you selling Lantern Festival!" Lu Zhongming drooled when he saw it, and Lu Bu was dressed as a sophomore, wearing a bag, and said, "What, want to eat?"

Lu Zhongming looked into the light screen and saw that there was a big pot on the wooden cart. The color of the pot was different from that of ordinary Lantern Festival, and it was a little gray. He asked, "Could it be that they are all clay balls, made by magic?"

"The glutinous rice has some medicinal ingredients found a few days ago." Qilin said, "How about you?"

"Attack Luoyang on the second day of February." Yu Chigong said, "It will be over in half a month."

Qilin said: "Luoyang is an empty shell. Li Mi has incurred Yu Wenhua's attack. He lost more than [-] people at the foot of Mang Mountain ten days ago. It was a miserable victory. You must hurry up."

Yu Chigong nodded, held Lu Zhongming's hand, and said, "Let's go shopping."

Qilin waved his hand and said, "Have fun, Dad is selling glutinous rice balls, little baby, 886."

"88~" Lu Zhongming laughed, looking at Lu Bu's serious expression, he felt that his two fathers had a great time in Luoyang.

The curfew was lifted tonight, and the sky was full of a bright moon again. Every time it was a full moon night, Lu Zhongming always felt indescribably at ease, as if the day when Yu Chigong confessed to him was the night of a full moon.And when they meet again, it also coincides with the full moon.

The streets of Chang'an followed the old customs. Although it was wartime, the doorways of every house were covered with lanterns. The two came out wearing wooden clogs, making a clattering sound. .

On the two streets of the East Market, there are many sellers of Lantern Festivals and lanterns, as well as people making Tang people, drinking tea, storytelling, and juggling.After Li Yuan ascended the throne and established Chang'an as his capital, businessmen from all over the world flocked in. Although the world was uncertain, Chang'an was full of prosperity.

Yu Chigong stood by the street, watching the fire-breathing barbarians juggling, but Lu Zhongming was very curious about the merchant who was leading slaves for sale not far away. He saw that the sold slave had dark skin and was even bigger than Yu Chigong. Asked: "What is that?"

"Kunlun slave." Yu Chigong said: "Finally met someone darker than me."

Lu Zhongming didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he stood on tiptoe to watch, Yu Chigong said seriously: "Why? I see, so you like dark-faced people, what kind of preference is this?"

Lu Zhongming said frantically, "No!"

While talking, there was noise from a distance, Lu Zhongming jumped to look, but couldn't see it, Yu Chigong leaned over to let him come up, so Lu Zhongming rode on Yuchi Gong's neck, and the two looked into the distance, Lu Zhongming suddenly remembered the time when he was a child I often ride on my father's shoulders like this, and I feel a burst of warmth in my heart.

He stretched out his hand and touched Yu Chigong's ear with his cold little finger, Yu Chigong's face turned red immediately, and he asked, "What's the matter?"

"No." Lu Zhongming said: "Go over there and have a look, drive!"

Yu Chigong took a step forward and led Lv Zhongming away, seeing the place where the crowd gathered, it was Gongsun's family playing the piano upstairs, the part facing the street in Pingkangli was crowded, the sound of the pipa was light and slow, like a stream of water Sudden trickle, flowing in the night sky.

"What did Luo Shixin say last time?" Yu Chigong asked, looking up at Lu Zhongming who was riding on his shoulders.

"It didn't work, I don't know." Lu Zhongming said.

After the song is over, the sound of the pipa stops, and the whole street is silent.

"Ten days later, Gongsun will wait for the good news from all the young masters in Danfeng Building." After saying this, Gongsun put down the curtain and left the second floor.

Immediately, the crowd broke into a commotion, whispering and discussing, Lu Zhongming hurriedly asked the people around: "What what? What did she say?"

Some good people even explained with gestures, and Lu Zhongming knew that Gongsun made a promise that if someone could pay a lot of money in ten days, he would take off her veil and marry that man.

"But..." Lu Zhongming was about to explode, didn't she like Luo Shixin!

"Let's talk later!" Yu Chigong carried Lu Zhongming on his shoulders, and said loudly, "How long are you going to ride on me! Everyone is gone!"

The people on the street dispersed, and Lu Zhongming was still riding on Yu Chigong's neck, thinking about things. Hearing this, he got down immediately and saw Gongsun's family at the second floor window, looking at them.

"Let's go, worship God." Yuchi said with a smile, "Make a wish for a happy full moon."

The two held hands and walked across the long street. Lu Zhongming said, "Where do you go to burn incense and make a wish? Is it Daxingshan Temple?"

When Yu Chigong was reminded like this, he also remembered it. He just had a verbal fight with three Bodhisattvas at noon, and if he went to burn incense to the Bodhisattvas now, wouldn't his marriage be broken... If you want to burn incense, you should also burn to Taoist immortals.However, there is no Taoist temple in Chang'an city at all, and the only one is a temple, which is the holy place where Laojun wrote "Tao Te Ching", but it is in Zhouzhi County, nearly a hundred miles away from Chang'an.

"Otherwise, what should we do?" Yu Chigong looked into the distance and said, "Go to worship the tree?"

"Don't be stupid!" Lu Zhongming said frantically, "How can I worship stones and trees?"

Yuchi said with a smile, "Treat yourself as a mortal."

Lu Zhongming suddenly saw a familiar figure at the corner inside and outside Pingkang, and hurriedly said: "Go over there! Follow me, follow me!"

There are many incense sellers in the city of Chang’an. Although Li Yuan has established Taoism as the state religion, the custom was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people during the reign of Yang Guang and Yang Jian in the previous dynasty. Therefore, all good men and women prayed to Daxingshan Temple—after all, the national teacher did not build a Taoist temple. I want to burn incense to the Taoist gods, but there is no place to burn it.

Lu Zhongming bought incense at the corner of the street, and rushed to the end of the East Market, where he saw three young men chatting together. The one with the upper body naked was the Master Tongtian, the one in the black robe was the real Nanhua, and the other was wearing a cloak. Wearing a cloak is a burning lamp.

"Grandpa Patriarch! I finally found you!" Lu Zhongming said with tears in his eyes.

Yu Chigong also saluted, and when the three immortals were chatting, they suddenly saw Lu Zhongming coming over, and Master Nanhua smiled and said: "You said it well at noon today."

"Congratulations." Lu Zhongming hurriedly said, "Come on, three great immortals, please stand up and line up..."

"Do you want to take a picture?" The leader said, "Let me take a camera, let's take a photo together?"

Lu Zhongming waved his hands and said, "No, no... You stand in order first, the rankings are not in particular order..." He introduced to Yu Chigong, "This is my grandfather, Lingbao Tianzun."

"We need to come first, please." The Master Tongtian said to Lu Yaqian: "Master, please first."

Lu Ya waved his hands and said, "It's no good, the waves behind you in the Yangtze River push forward the waves ahead, let's go to Xiao Ran Deng."

Burning Lamp: "..."

The three immortals pushed back and forth, and finally Lu Ya was divided into respects and stood in the middle.

The Master of Tongtian Sect nodded to Yuchigong, and Yuchigong hurriedly returned the gift. Lu Zhongming introduced Nanhua Zhenren Zhuangzi again, and said, "This is..."

"The name of the poor Taoist is Luya." Zhuangzi said with a smile.

"Mr. Lu Ya, um, that's right. This is Mr. Zarathustra..."

Burning Lamp: "..."

Ran Deng looked indifferently, looked at Lu Zhongming, and Lu Zhongming said again: "It is the leader of Zoroastrianism."

"Hello, three leaders." Yu Chigong wiped off his cold sweat and said.

Lu Zhongming asked the three of them to stand upright, took a few steps back, and said, "Come on, offer incense to the three of them, and bless us...we will grow old together."

Yuchigong thought for a while, and said: "It makes sense, it is better to ask for our own than to pray for the Buddha. Yuchi respectfully begged the three true immortals, bless me and Zhong Mingming to grow old together, and raise our eyebrows together."

Lu Zhongming and Yu Chigong each took three sticks of incense and bowed three times to the three people standing together. Lu Zhongming took Yuchigong's incense again, put it on the ground in front of Daoist Lu Ya in the middle, and said, "Okay!" , let's go."

Tongtian Sect Master: "..."

Daoist Lu Ya: "..."

Daoist Burning Lamp: "..."

There was a drop of cold sweat on Daoist Lu's forehead, he nodded in appreciation and said, "Sure enough, he is the son of Feng Xian, which is unusual."

Master Tongtian said seriously: "Let's continue talking..."

Lu Zhongming suddenly turned back and asked, "Grandpa Patriarch! What are you going to do next?"

"See you in Luoyang." The leader of Tongtian made a rushing gesture and said, "Go and play."

After the two worshiped the three great immortals, Yu Chigong couldn't laugh or cry and said, "Can they really protect us?"

"It should be." Lu Zhongming said: "Or call some Bodhisattvas and Zhantan Gongde Buddha from Daxingshan Temple to worship?"

"Forget it, forget it..." Yuchi Gong hurriedly waved his hands.

At this moment, a person from afar rushed forward with a whip and shouted: "It's not good! The national teacher! General Yuchi rushed into the palace! The two generals Luo Shixin and Qin Qiong are back! Jinyang fell! It was taken by the Turks!"

Lu Zhongming was startled immediately, he didn't care about going shopping anymore, he hurriedly borrowed a horse from Yu Chigong, and galloped to the palace.