old grace

"When did it happen?" Xie Qinghe sat at the same table with the monk, fiddling with the small teacups on the tea table.

His hints were too obvious.The monk had no choice but to put water on the stove, take out the tea pot, and prepare to make tea for him.

When the water sounded, Xie Qinghe felt hungry again, so he ate the snacks in the box first, and made a comment: "There is lard. You little monk... oh, you are a monk now. You monk is not honest."

"I haven't seen you for 11 years. Thank you benefactor is still so outspoken." The monk said.

Xie Qinghe pushed forward the box with some dim sum leftovers: "Is there any lard in it?"

"After Wuxing left, the poor monk has been thinking about the truth that Xie benefactor told the poor monk." The monk said.

Xie Qinghe felt bored, put the empty box behind him, turned his head and went to the tea cabinet in the monk's meditation room to look for something to eat.Trapped in the restaurant for four whole days by the demonic barrier, he never had a bigu, no matter how advanced his cultivation was, he still knew he was hungry.I seem to be more hungry after eating a snack.

"Xie benefactor said that when Buddhism came to the West, Western classics neither forbid meat, nor shave fever. Confucianism talks about monarchs and ministers, father and son, Taoism talks about yin and yang, and monks and temples in the world also advise people to 'do good', threatening the world with hell retribution. Over the years, the poor monk has traveled the world with his master and observed all directions, but he feels more and more that what Xie Benefactor said makes sense."

"The rules of ordinary people often change. For example, when the family and the country are in turmoil, the court wants the husband to be loyal and patriotic. One surname is destroyed and the other surname is revived. Men die in battle, and widows are asked to have children at different festivals to save people's strength. When the world is at peace, they begin to pay attention to the loyalty of their husbands and the festival of women's death."

"Ordinary people are under the control of the imperial power. For 3000 years, they have served the emperor of the nine surnames, and it is difficult to be loyal to the eight dynasties. The rules of Buddhism also follow the will of the emperor. The emperor said that monks should shave their heads and not eat meat. The rules of Buddhism will not be changed in 2000. The emperor said that monks are not allowed to show up in the downtown area, and they must go to the mountains to practice, and those who walk around the streets will become fake monks and go to the bottom of the world."

"The scriptures say that those who slander monks and Taoism will go to hell. The scriptures also say that those who are disloyal and unfilial will go to hell." The monk heard the water on the stove, and reached for the pot: "On the day when the Buddha became Taoist, how can there be loyalty and filial piety?" explain?"

Both Buddhism and Taoism are religions that lead people to be good.

Taoists pay attention to "do no evil, do all good", and monks pay attention to "cherish good fortune and accumulate virtue, and repay karma".

So, what is evil, what is good, what is happiness, and what is virtue?There must always be a standard.

This moral standard has always been in the hands of the court.When the imperial court needs soldiers, fighting to the death is a virtue.When the imperial court needs to surrender, patience is a virtue.When the imperial court needs to replenish the population, it is a virtue to remarry and have more children;

Listen to the court's words and go to heaven after death.He didn't listen to the court's words, and after his death, he went up the knife mountain and down the oil pan, and suffered a lot.

Is the world after death also controlled by the imperial power in life?Ordinary believers don't care much about the authenticity of hell.Since everyone thinks so, and the monks and Taoists in the temple say so, it must be true, and the world after death must be like that.

Monks are different.

The monk is practicing, and the monk wants to know, what is the real hell like?

Xie Qinghe stopped him from making tea: "Wait a minute."

The monk looked at him expectantly.

"Why don't you give me a bowl of noodles?" Xie Qinghe took out the dried noodles from the tea cabinet, dried them and cut them neatly. It was probably a supper prepared by the monk. "Do you have a casserole?"

"..." The monk held his breath and got up to find a casserole for him.

It wasn't until Xie Qinghe ate the casserole noodles boiled in tea soup and drank the green tea brewed by the monk that he said casually: "Buddhas are all self-enlightened, and the Tao is passed down from the gods. It is said that they are all cultivated by themselves, and the master can't teach any dry things. Then Why do you still want to be a teacher?"

"Master, he is the one who can help you when you make mistakes and go crazy." Xie Qinghe said.

The monk's hand holding the teacup froze.

Xie Qinghe lowered his head and took a mouthful of noodles, exhaling steam from his mouth: "How did your master die?"

The monk was silent for a long time.

Xie Qinghe didn't speak, he ate up a bowl of casserole noodles with his head down, and he still remembered to wipe his mouth, picked up the teacup and rinsed his mouth, then raised his sword and said, "I ask you, how did the old monk die?" ?”

"Thank you benefactor, you are a man of wisdom." The monk said to him from left to right. "The emperor made an imperial decree. If he says something is good, the world will go to heaven if he says it is good. If he says something is evil, if the world violates it, he will go to hell. Throughout the ages, Heaven and hell are all within the power of the emperor, so we know that there is no good or evil in the world, only power! Why do you want to be an eagle dog under the power? You can't be free."

"What good and evil did you tell me? Why did I ever ask you if you did good or evil?" Xie Qinghe was also a little depressed.

"At the beginning, I laughed at the scriptures written to scare the world to go to hell to suffer, but I couldn't understand your little monk who got up early and recited scriptures in the dark without any intention. I taught you the way of cultivation, but I only asked the heart and not the rules. You are fine. , Don’t read the serious scriptures, just read crooked scriptures! Don’t tell me what is good and evil, good and evil, if you don’t understand the truth, it will crush you to death! Just tell me, how did your master die?”

The monk clasped his hands together, lightly recited the Buddha's name, and admitted, "Master sits here."

Before Xie Qinghe drew his sword to beat him, he briefly explained what happened before.

"The poor monk told the master that I would like to shave for His Royal Highness. Xie benefactor also knows that there is only room for one master and one disciple in the temple. If the master does not pass away and go west, the poor monk cannot accept disciples. If the poor monk accepts disciples, the master It is necessary to go west. Master asked the poor monk why he wanted to shave His Highness the Fifth Highness."

In other words, a monk's "receiving disciples" and "killing teachers" can be equated.

Xie Qinghe thought of His Highness the Monk talking nonsense in the restaurant.It seems that what the monk wanted to do was finally done.

"I also want to know why you suddenly want to accept disciples?" Xie Qinghe was puzzled.

There was an extremely gentle light in the eyes of the monk, and his voice became soft: "If the benefactor sees Fu Wei, he will also like him very much. He is a very cute and gentle child. How can a poor monk refuse him when he practices the Dharma and understands the way to get rid of the misery in the world?"

Xie Qinghe didn't know what expression to have for a moment.

He also had a relationship with the old monk. The old monk cultivated his nature but not his life. His description was dry and wrinkled, which was not very good-looking.

However, monks are disciples of Buddha!Don't you know that beautiful women, skeletons and skins are all false?

Actually fell into the trap of a beauty, and killed the master casually? !

"Did you dug out that pond by bewitching the emperor?" Xie Qinghe asked.

The monk denied it outright: "No."

"Although the old monk is from the south of Meishan Mountain, his blood is not in the Central Plains. However, I also have a relationship with him. Just looking at his character, he is not a demon monk who condones the reappearance of Fengmogu. It is rumored that the monk in the temple instructed the emperor to dig a big pond. , 'Treating' Longcheng Fengshui, it's not you, could it be the old monk?" Xie Qinghe asked back.

The monk actually nodded.

"Master instructed the emperor to dig the pool of Taiye in the palace, in order to gather demons and suppress them with the emperor's purple energy, so as to eliminate the demons forever." The monk explained.

Xie Qinghe scoffed.

It is true that the emperor in the world can inherit the luck for hundreds of years, but it is definitely not "permanent" evil.

It should be known that as the fleeting years change, the landscape will also change.Large rivers and rivers cannot flow through the same place year after year.Once the dragon's veins change and luck passes, Guozuo will also decline.No number of powerful monks throughout the ages can stop it, so why does the old monk "permanently end" the evil?

If this can be achieved, will the Hanjiang Sword Sect need to seal the demons along the river for thousands of years, and use the bones of previous masters to suppress the demon valley?

The monk nodded and said, "Thank you for your good smile. Master, he was deceived."

The old monk took the treasure map handed down by the elders in the temple, and led his disciples to search around.

While the monk was looking through the classics, looking for loopholes in the apocryphal scriptures written by the ancient eminent monks who adhered to the emperor's restraint, the old monk was looking for the secret treasures of "Taming the Devil".The master and the apprentice walked for many years, the monk realized the evil way, and the old monk found an ancient book that looked very credible, and learned the method of "suppressing demons".

Who knows that the ancient book and the treasure map are a trick designed by the demons from the beginning to the end.

It's only because the old monk's treasure map was hard to come by, and it took a lot of effort to find the treasure secrets. The demon masters even sent the demon cultivators to chase and intercept it, as if they were extremely afraid that the old monk would get the killer's magic weapon - the old monk Then he was convinced that what he got was genuine.

"Before Master went to lobby the emperor to dig the pond, he also tested whether the secret method is effective." The monk said.

"The Demon Venerable deliberately made some monsters, and the demon cultivator came to die. As soon as the master raised his hand, the Great Light Curse fell to the ground, and the demonic energy swept away for hundreds of miles. The Demon Venerable is also very generous for such a generous sacrifice."

The Mozun went around such a big circle and spent a lot of money to deceive the old monk. It would be very difficult for the old monk not to take the bait.The old monk persuaded the emperor to dig out the Taiye Pond in the palace, where the evil energy accumulated, and the end of the evil energy's invasion of the world could not be avoided.

The accumulated demonic energy was transpiring day and night, and many people in Dragon City became demons, even the sons and grandsons of the dragon in the palace could not avoid it.

"Fu Wei fell into a demon first." The monk said.

Xie Qinghe couldn't help sighing: "Do you know that he is possessed?"

The monk nodded: "The poor monk also saw him when he was not enchanted. He was not cute at that time."

"Fu Wei who has been enchanted is cuter, so you think it's okay to be enchanted?" Xie Qinghe asked.

"Good and evil can be decided with one word, how much difference is there between a Buddha and a demon?" The monk was calm and didn't think there was any problem with himself.

"He wants to worship you as his teacher, presumably he wants something?"

"The Son of Heaven is protected by purple energy. The Great Demon Venerable wanted to get the emperor's skin, but he couldn't get close, so he came to ask the poor monk to preach to the emperor."

"The poor monk thinks that the emperor's temperament is shady and moody, and he doesn't know how to cherish the people's livelihood. But the great demon... All the demons praised the great demon as a Daoist king. If he has the emperor's skin, it can't be compared to this real one. The emperor is better." The more the monk said, the more confident he became.

Xie Qinghe put his long sword on the ground.For a moment, he didn't know what to say.

"According to what you know, this... Great Demon Lord, what exactly does he want to do?" Xie Qinghe asked.

There was a trace of confusion in the monk's eyes: "He... just wants to be the emperor?"

"Then why is the weather so abnormal now? You are a monk walking in the countryside. You should know the truth that the farmers say that the auspicious snow is a sign of a good year. The soil freezes in the cold winter, and the eggs of the insects die. There is no delay in the autumn harvest. Don’t talk about the farmers harvesting the crops, the tossing around in the hot days and summer nights and the cold winter, and my little disciples are all going to get sick, don’t you know it’s annoying?” Xie Qinghe asked.

The monk opened his mouth, feeling that Xie Qinghe's focus was a little off.

The current situation is that the demon energy is rising, and the people of Dragon City have become demons one after another, and the monk's prepared response is mainly about this.

The monk made a lot of excuses, intending to use the spear of the son to attack the shield of the son, and made Xie Qinghe dizzy with his eloquence, who knew that Xie Qinghe didn't ask this at all.Xie Qinghe actually asked about the weather!Xie Qinghe actually accused the Great Demon Venerable, do you know that you hate him?

Xie Qinghe leaned on the sword in one hand, and his tone seemed to ask the monk to introduce a friend to have tea: "Why don't you let him come to see me?"

"The benefactor has changed." The monk sighed, "The poor monk still treats the benefactor with the heart of making old friends, but the benefactor no longer cares about the old friendship."

Xie Qinghe rested his palm on the hilt of the sword, and tapped a few fingers around the hilt in turn, without saying a word.

The monk spent a lot of time trying to convince him.However, this monk is a monk who has become a demon.Xie Qinghe didn't want to communicate with him at all.

In terms of nature alone, Xie Qinghe doesn't like to reason with people, and he doesn't want to correct other people's thinking.

The monk still stared at him resolutely, and Xie Qinghe said: "What do you want from me? Do you want to argue with you? You and I are both monks, each has its own way, each has its own fate. Before the last day, we I don't know who is right and who is wrong between you and me. Why fight?"

"If the way of the poor monk blocks the way of the benefactor, the benefactor is not fighting the poor monk, but a sword?" the monk asked.

Xie Qinghe didn't answer directly, just smiled and said: "If I were you, I would be obedient now and let me see the Great Demon Lord."

He held the long sword leaning on the ground in his hand, which was a bright threat.

"The old monk is not dead, I still have a three-pointed love for you. The old monk is dead, and you are no longer a monk I know."

The disciple who kills his teacher will be punished by both heaven and man.