This Damned Thirst for Survival

Jiang Luo took a baseball bat and smashed the car that Chi You sent. After feeling good, he contacted the second-hand car market and sold the million-dollar car for 10 yuan.

He took the money to buy a new mobile phone and a second-hand car, and took Ge Zhu straight to the Jokhang Temple the next day.

The Jokhang Temple did not refuse pilgrims to visit during the Chinese New Year, because many people have the habit of burning incense and worshiping Buddha during the annual holiday.Ge Zhu familiarly took Jiang Luo to see Master Chengde, who was chatting with the abbot watering the flowers.

One of them is the abbot of the Jokhang Temple, and the other is a respected elder of the Jokhang Temple.After seeing Ge Zhu, both benevolent and benevolent faces revealed pleasant surprises. Master Chengde recited "Amitabha" and said happily, "Ge Zhu, I didn't expect to see you during the Chinese New Year."

Ge Zhu was in a daze from the moment he entered the Jokhang Temple. Hearing this, he forced a smile, "How is Master Chengde and Master Abbot doing this year?"

"It's been a good life," the two old people laughed together, "Auspicious snow heralds a good year, and this year's fortune is very good."

Jiang Luo listened to them talking a few words, Master Cheng De looked at him: "Brother, look, this is the benefactor Jiang Luo I told you about."

Hearing the words, the elderly abbot also looked over with vigour, "Hahahaha, he is a good boy."

Jiang Luo said humbly: "I wanted to visit the Jokhang Temple before, but I came so late, this junior is rude."

"Then why is there no disrespect?" The abbot cheerfully, his eyes hidden and shrewd, turned his head and told Master Chengde, "You take Master Jiang Luo for a stroll around our Jokhang Temple, Ge Zhu, you stay with me, Uncle Shi hasn't seen you for a long time, you talk to Uncle Shi."

Ge Zhu's eyes instantly turned red, "Yes."

The Jokhang Temple occupies the entire hilltop, towering and majestic, with solemn treasures. Jiang Luo and Master Chengde visited a few temples and chatted casually.Master Chengde was full of patience, Jiang Luo asked him what to say, and he knew everything.Under his guidance, Jiang Luo worshiped the Buddha and walked to several closed temples that only Buddhist disciples could step into.

Jiang Luo sighed: "The Jokhang Temple is majestic. After walking around for a while, I feel much better. It is worthy of being a holy place in Buddhism."

Master Chengde smiled, "The Jokhang Temple didn't look like this before. It took many years to build it brick by brick. Even now, there are still places in the Jokhang Temple that haven't been repaired. I'll take you to have a look."

He brought Jiang Luo to a ruin, pointed at the ruin and said, "This place has never been repaired."

The ruins were so burned that the houses collapsed, the wooden beams were black, and there were scars everywhere.But from some of the remnants, it is not difficult to see how beautiful the building was before it was burned down.

Jiang Luo's heart skipped a beat, "This is?"

"This is the Sutra Pavilion of the Jokhang Temple," Master Chengde sighed, "It's not a secret anymore, you can find out after a little inquiring. We have such an inhuman villain in a hundred years of Buddhism, The last time I heard the name of the bad Buddha Wuchen, I was angry. When Ge Wuchen betrayed Buddhism, he took a fire and burned the Buddhist scriptures pavilion. They are all in the Sutra Pavilion! As a result, he killed three elders in a flash!"

Master Chengde said, his chest was heaving violently with anger, "He burned down the Buddhist scriptures pavilion, and killed a few brothers who were of his same generation. After that, he didn't know where he went. He did evil things. However, it was his younger brother who suffered the crime! Ge Zhu is a sensitive and slender child. After this happened, he didn’t say anything but felt guilty. Not long after, he left the Jokhang Temple with a few brothers and sisters who followed him. .”

"If I see that evil disciple again, I will definitely press him down and kowtow in front of my senior brother's grave to admit his mistake." Master Cheng De was already choked up slightly as he said.

Jiang Luo listened quietly, he had heard about this matter from Ge Zhu a long time ago, and when he heard it again, he only had one feeling that there must be something hidden in it.

Master Chengde wiped away his tears and asked, "Why does Benefactor Jiang think of me, the Jokhang Temple?"

Jiang Luo asked in a curious tone: "I heard Ge Zhu say a lot about the Jokhang Temple before. I heard that the Jokhang Temple used to be called the Bailu Temple?"

"Yes," said Master Chengde, "but that was 200 years ago."

Master Chengde glanced at the tall pine tree from the corner of his eye, and suddenly his eyes flashed, his expression became painful, "Benefactor Jiang, there are three urgencies in people, the old monk goes to the toilet first, you wait here for me."

Before Jiang Luo could speak, he clutched his stomach and ran away quickly.

Jiang Luo: "...Master, walk slowly."

Jiang Luo was also happy when Master Chengde was not around.He walked to the ruins and squatted down, picked up a piece of wood and looked at it.As soon as the wood was touched, it was stained with black ash, and the snow covering the wood had already turned into water, dripping from the cracks to the ground.

"It's been a few years since the Sutra Pavilion was burned down." Jiang Luo said to himself.

"Five years."

Jiang Luo got up quickly and turned his head, only to see Ge Wuchen walking out from behind the pine tree.

Ge Wuchen was dressed in simple monk clothes. He stood in the snow with his palms folded, bowed to Jiang Luo, and said with a smile, "Amitabha, Lord Jiang, we meet again."

Jiang Luo patted the dirty ashes on his hands, squinted at the bald monk, "I didn't expect to see Buddha here."

Ge Wuchen smiled slightly. Under the white snow, his pretty face seemed like an immortal. He walked up to Jiang Luo's side, "Jiang Benefactor, I came here specially to find you."

"I can tell," Jiang Luo said calmly, "You came to me because of Ge Zhu?"

Ge Wuchen said: "No, it's for my master."

Jiang Luo didn't hold back, his face contorted for a moment.

Ge Wuchen pretended he didn't see it, he had a Buddhist bead in his hand, his eyes were sincere, and his tone was sincere, "Jiang Benefactor, please be sure to stay with my master."

Jiang Luo sneered, almost wanting to turn his face, "What if I don't."

Ge Wuchen sighed, "I sincerely came to match you and Master. Believe it or not, no one in this world wishes you to be together more than me."

"Sincerely?" Jiang Luo deliberately went off topic, "Ge Zhu is also your real younger brother, you almost beat him to death. Your master and uncle are also your real elders, and I didn't see you softening your heart when you set fire to them." Pass."

"Amitabha," Ge Wuchen's smile remained unchanged, "Benefactor Jiang, do you know your position in Master's heart?"

Jiang Luo gritted his teeth, "I don't want to know at all."

Ge Wuchen was full of sincerity, "You are very important to the master. I have never seen the master treat another person so special. He has changed a lot because of you. If it were you, you would definitely be able to stop him and tie the master successfully. In your hands."

Jiang Luo didn't answer his words, and changed the subject: "It's your idea to pull my friend into the dream, right?"

After speaking, he directly waved his fist.Ge Wuchen is a poisonous snake, he would never be beaten in a daze, and after beating him back and forth for a while, the two of them knew that neither could bear the other unless they used other means, so they both stopped in unison.

The two stood beside the ruins, and Ge Wuchen actually took out a cigarette and handed it to Jiang Luo.Jiang Luo felt that this was magical enough. He squatted and smoked with a monk in the monk's nest in winter.

Ge Wuchen shook the soot on the ruins, "Do you know how much it cost to build this scripture pavilion?"

Jiang Luo: "Not interested."

"Three thousand," Ge Wuchen only felt that Jiang Luo was like a slippery loach, and he would not get into the trap no matter what, he continued patiently, "3000 taels of silver, 200 taels of 3000 years ago. More than 100 years ago It was expanded again, and it cost more than 50 yuan. Think about it, what was the concept of more than 100 yuan more than 50 years ago."

Jiang Luo shook the soot and looked up at the blue sky and white clouds.

"..." Ge Wuchen, "But the most valuable thing is not the house, but the books inside. The books in the Sutra Pavilion are things that cannot be bought with money. There are countless Buddhist books handed down from ancient times. One copy was worth so much money that it made Ge Zhu tongue-tied, but I set it on fire."

Jiang Luo finally gave him a stingy look, "Why are you burning?"

"Because my master and my uncle asked me to light this fire."

If Ge Wuchen wanted to act, he definitely had the guts to act.His eyes were dim, and he stood the cigarette with his hands behind the ruins, as if offering incense.

"My master was the previous abbot of the Jokhang Temple and the adoptive father of me and Ge Zhu. I know why you asked about the Bailu Temple, because the fateful person walked out of the Bailu Temple. Before he became a fateful person, He is just a little monk in Bailu Temple."

"A monk who is born with a predestined relationship with the Buddha and can easily comprehend the meaning of the Buddha."

As if he knew what Jiang Luo wanted to hear, Ge Wuchen didn't make a fuss, "Fate is an orphan, and no one knows who his parents are. 200 years ago, he was carried back from the outside by the abbot of Bailu Temple at that time. Fate People have a high level of comprehension, and he stays in the Buddhist scriptures pavilion all year round. There are so many books in the Buddhist scriptures pavilion, [-] to [-]% of them are obtained by him."

"But I don't know why, but one year, he left the Bailu Temple. After the Bailu Temple became the Jokhang Temple, he also became the man of destiny on Changbai Mountain, and even used the same face as 200 years ago."

Jiang Luo listened, keeping these unrealistic words in his heart, and did not forget to think about why Ge Wuchen said these words to him.

Ge Wuchen finally made the point, and he said calmly: "Benefactor Jiang, you should also know that the fateful person once gave a prophecy that the divination was the future of the entire metaphysics world. When the culprit of the disaster was locked in Chi You When I was in the body, several high-level leaders in the metaphysics circle discussed whether they should kill Chi You directly. My master was also among them. He was kind-hearted and didn't want to commit murder, so he supported and supported Chi You and guided Chi You to be good. "

Jiang Luo sneered, and said in his heart that you guys have guided you well, you destroyed the world in your dream, and you still know how to masturbate and play hooligans in the middle of the night.

"But five years ago, Master discovered something was wrong. He and my two senior uncles prepared for five days, and spent a night in divination in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, and the divination revealed the future of the metaphysics world," Ge Wuchen said calmly, "wait After they finished the divination, they realized that the fateful man had told a big lie. What the fateful man predicted was his own prophecy. In his prophecy, Chi You would kill him in the future instead of destroying the metaphysics world. He didn't want to kill Therefore, I changed the content of the prophecy and wanted others to kill Chi You. In the divination of my master and uncles, Chi You was tortured to the point of destroying humanity because of one of his lies, which would actually destroy the world of metaphysics .”

Jiang Luo stubbed out the cigarette and looked at him in surprise.

Ge Wuchen said: "After my master and uncle finished the divination, their vitality was seriously injured, their lifespan was shortened, and they couldn't live for a few days. That day, before dawn after the divination, my master pulled my Hand, let me find Chi You, try my best to make up for him, and try my best to persuade Chi You to avoid the final bad result."

"But they were also afraid that the Buddhism's refuge in Chi You would arouse the wrath of the fateful people, and they were afraid that the fateful people would kill themselves if they knew that they had peeped into the real future. So in order to prevent the fateful people from finding out that something was wrong, they asked me to I set fire to the Sutra Pavilion, and burned the three old guys who knew the truth to death by the way. Let the world think that I have betrayed Buddhism, so that even if I go to help Chi You, I will not drag Buddhism to be hated by fate, let alone It will let the fateful people find out the clues of my master and uncle's death."

The monk with a pretty face looked at the upside-down cigarette, with the light of the cigarette butt reflected in his eyes.The fire swayed, as if it had become the extinguishing fire that day.

He seemed a little too deep into the drama, and even remembered the memories of that day.

His master, who was also his adoptive father's Master Cheng Wen, tightly held Ge Wuchen's hand with his old hand, his hand was dry and warm, full of calluses and wrinkles.Master used so much force that his fingers trembled and the veins on the back of his hands tensed up.

"Ge Wuchen," Master Chengwen scolded him sternly with tears in his eyes, "you burn this place on fire, and run outside after burning, don't look back!"

Back then, Ge Wuchen was wrapped in fear and panic, he was like a lonely boat in the waves, his whole body was cold, and he shivered: "Master..."

The two senior uncles behind him have already lost their eyes because of divination, and his always grumpy second senior uncle held his other hand, "Not enough, this is not enough! Everyone here can't stay, you You want to kill them in front of other people, kill them for others, kill them for fate, do you know?!"

"Uncle, I'm afraid..."

In the Sutra Pavilion, there were three other juniors who came with him to bring the vegetarian meal.

They were about the same age as Ge Zhu, several years younger than Ge Wuchen, and the youngest one was just thirteen.After hearing this, they wiped away their tears, handed the dagger to Ge Wuchen's hand, turned around and ran outside, "Senior brother, come on! Let's run to where there are people!"

The fire was hot and dazzling.Ge Wuchen's fire burned down, but he still didn't listen to his master's words, and turned his head back at the last moment.

At this moment, he saw the three masters, masters and uncles watching him firmly in the flames. Ge Wuchen will never forget this scene.

"My three younger brothers are going to run in front of other people in the Jokhang Temple, so that others can see that I killed the people in the Jokhang Temple and defected to Buddhism." Ge Wuchen laughed instead, "My three younger brothers, unexpectedly He ran in front of Ge Zhu and the others."

When Ge Wuchen killed someone in front of his younger brother, the youngest junior fell into his ear and said, "Senior brother, I'm sorry..."

When they were killed by Ge Wuchen, their tone was relieved and guilty.

Sorry to make you do this.

Sorry to let Ge Zhu see it.

……

I'm sorry, brother, you will go on alone in the future.

Ge Wuchen suppressed these memories, and said bluntly: "Do you know why Master asked me to burn down the Buddhist scriptures pavilion?"

Jiang Luo looked at him complicatedly, "Why?"

Ge Wuchen smiled coldly, "Because the method of destiny to become a god is obtained from a certain book in the Cangjing Pavilion."