Chapter 121 The sound of bodhi under the big locust tree
Jingci Temple is located in the suburbs of the northwest corner of Yunshan Prefecture City. It was built in the previous dynasty and was a long time ago. It is said that a former dynasty official took out a sum of silver to build the Jingci Temple in order to save his mother. The scale is not very large. The main offering is the great compassionate Guanyin Bodhisattva. The golden body of Guanyin Bodhisattva is reshaped and worshipped in the Guanyin Hall, the largest palace in Jingci Temple.
This is a nunnery, which is not as grand as the Great Hall of the Monk Temple, but it is also solemn. There are two small pagodas in front of the temple. The tower body is exquisitely carved and there is a statue of a Buddhist hero on it, which is lifelike. [The latest updates are all in search.]
The suburb of Jingci Temple is located in a relatively remote place in Yunshan Mansion, which is quite a distance from the market. Naturally, it is not as lively as the city, but the picture is quiet.
There are not many buildings in Jingci Temple, but they are all very delicate, with dense pine forests. Banana trees grow sparsely among the pine forests, and there is also a green bamboo forest in the temple. Around the bamboo forest, the Guanyin Hall is.
In the Zen temple, there were many golden bodhi trees, green pine, and strong bamboo. The Bodhi trees were slightly shaking. Most of the time, the Jingci Temple was kept silent, as quiet as the eternal silence of the Pure Land.
Jingci Temple does not receive pilgrims at any time. It only takes three or five days a month to enter the temple to worship Buddha. The visitors are all women and almost never receive male pilgrims.
The black dove eaves with the characteristics of Daqin show an extremely heavy cultural characteristic under the sky. Only from these exquisite attics, the Zen temples emit a sacred smell, and the air is filled with a faint smell of sandalwood. It is indeed a benefit for Buddhist children to practice, quiet and solemn.
After the heavy snow, because it is located in a remote location, there is still snow on the road outside Jingci Temple and it has not been cleaned. Today is the day when Jingci Temple opens its doors to welcome pilgrims. Although there are many pilgrims, there are also many pilgrims coming to worship Buddha, and there are many carriages outside Jingci Temple.
Chu Huan came with Linlang to worship Buddha today. For Linlang, it was only because the Su family was facing great difficulties that he worshiped Buddha and burned incense, praying to the Bodhisattva to bless the Su family to overcome this difficulties.
In addition to Chu Huan, Linlang also brought his maid Cuiping, and two guards in the courtyard. After getting off the carriage, Linlang said to Chu Huan: "Chu Huan, you are waiting here. You are men. It is difficult to enter the temple. Cuiping and I will come out soon!"
Chu Huan nodded and smiled, "Don't worry, big boss, we'll wait here!"
Linlang smiled sweetly and then took Cuiping to Jingci'an.
The carriageman was already smiling and said, "Master Chu, come here to sit!" He went down from the shaft of the carriage and diligently summoned Chu Huan to sit, making a place for Chu Huan.
The servants of the Su Mansion now know that Chu Huan's true identity is the general of the Imperial Guard, which is very important. Everyone also knows that the thousand households of the military guards were cut off by Chu Huan's arm.
Originally, the guards recruited by Linlang were still dissatisfied with Chu Huan as the guards' master, but after what happened last night, everyone was convinced, and the Su family also respected the "Master Chu" in great awe.
Chu Huan was not pretentious. He sat down at the head of the car, looked at Jingci Temple not far away, and asked, "How many years have this nunnery been? I see that the two pagodas have been a bit old, but the courtyard wall looks like a newly built one."
A guard guard in his early thirties next to him had come up and smiled: "Master Chu, when it comes to Jingci Temple, it has been built in some years since the previous dynasty, forty or fifty years."
Chu Huanqi said, "But the courtyard wall outside looks like it has just been built."
"Yes, this Jingci Temple was just renovated last year." The guard laughed and said, "It was renovated from the inside to the outside. It seemed that some great charity paid the money to renovate it, but no one knew who paid the money."
"There are such good people?" Chu Huan laughed and said, "That's the living Lei Feng!"
"Living Lei Feng?" The coachman and the two guards did not understand.
Chu Huan knew that he had missed his mouth and waved his hand, but his eyes looked at Jingci'an not leaving. He had already thought that Master Ru Lian was driven out from here, and he was very confused.
At this moment, I suddenly heard footsteps next to me, and there were even more sobs. Chu Huan turned his head to see a man in coarse cloth clothes holding a five or six-year-old child, and was rushing past the carriage, following a woman wearing a gray turban. The woman sobbed while walking, very sad.
Chu Huan frowned, and a guard next to him saw Chu Huan's doubts. He wanted to please Chu Huan. He chased him and said loudly: "What's wrong with you? Where are you going?"
The man did not look back and walked forward. The lady turned around and looked at him sadly: "The child is about to die. Let's ask the gods to help him..."
The guards thought they were asking for the Bodhisattva's blessing, so they pointed to Jingci Temple: "You have gone the wrong way to ask the Bodhisattva to go there."
The man who was walking quickly turned around and said hatefully, "What kind of Bodhisattva is that? We, husband and wife, worship Buddhas, are like this in the end. Those gods and Buddhas are not respectful." Without saying much, he led his wife to quickly walk away.
Chu Huan could hear it clearly, but felt it was very strange, so he jumped out of the carriage and said, "You guys are waiting here, I'll go and see what's going on."
Several people quickly agreed, and Chu Huan quickly followed the couple and walked forward. After only a while, he turned to a fork and saw a straw shed not far away. Aside from the straw shed, there was a very tall locust tree.
In winter and snowy season, only dead branches remain in the locust tree, and the bare towering sky stood. The couple in front was going to see where the big locust tree was heading.
Chu Huan could see clearly that there were dozens of people under the big locust tree, all sitting on the ground around the big locust tree. Although the snow on the ground was swept away, in such a cold winter, he sat in the snow and ice, but he didn't know why that group of people were like this.
The couple had already stepped forward quickly, and the man had already shouted: "Help the gods, help the gods...!"
Chu Huan frowned and walked forward a few steps. At this time, he finally saw clearly that the group of people were sitting around the big locust tree, and under the big locust tree, there was a man in black robe sitting cross-legged.
The man was covered with black robe, and his nose was even sealed with black cloth, leaving only a pair of eyes exposed. He looked a little thin, just like a black stone under a big locust tree.
The man shouted for help, and the people under the locust tree turned their heads to look at it. Chu Huan also saw clearly at this time that the surroundings of the big locust tree were all ordinary people, including poor people in coarse cloth clothes, but also rich people in brocade clothes. More than 20 people were centered on the black robe, and each of them looked very pious.
The couple suddenly came, obviously alarming the people here. The man in black robe also raised his head. Seeing the man holding the child quickly snatching up. He raised his hand, a commoner stepped forward to take the child in the man's hand. The two of them immediately took off their clothes and placed them on the ground, lying down on the clothes.
Chu Huan was amazed that he was approaching the past at this time, but these people didn't care about his arrival and no one paid attention to him.
The child was placed in front of the man in black robe. The couple had already knelt down on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly: "God saves the child, he is about to die... Please save him..."
Chu Huan went over and imitated those people and sat cross-legged on the ground.
He looked at the man in black and saw that the man in black had gray eyebrows. He was obviously an old man with kind eyebrows and gentle eyes. He seemed to have the intention of seeing through the worldly suffering. His thin body seemed to have indescribable power.
The man in black robe stretched out his hand, flipped over the child's eyelids, then quickly looked at several parts of the child's body, picked up the child's hand, took off his sleeves, and Chu Huan was shocked when he saw it. He saw more than a dozen black poisonous sores on the child's arm, which looked very scary.
Everyone was breathing around. Although several people also showed horror in their eyes, they did not make any noise, as if they were afraid of disturbing the man in black robe.
The man in black robe looked at it for a while, but he held the child's little hand with the somewhat dry hand, closed his eyes, and did not move any other things, but just murmured softly.
Chu Huan had a quick ear. Although he was not very close to the man in black robe, he could hear it very clearly. He vaguely felt that the man in black robe seemed to be reciting Buddhist scriptures.
"As a Buddhist disciple, I always recite the eight great people's awareness day and night: the first enlightenment: the impermanence of the world; the country is in danger and fragile, the four great sufferings and emptiness, the five evils have no self, birth and death are mutated, hypocrisy is the source of evil, and the body is the source of sin, so observe this way, gradually escape from life and death. The second awareness: more desires are suffering; fatigue from life and death arises from greed, less desires are inaction, and the body and mind are free. The third awareness: the mind is insatiable, but only seek more, increase sins; the Bodhisattva does not, always think about contentment, keeping at the poverty and keeping the way, and only wisdom is karma...!"
Although he could only see the eyes of the man in the black robe clearly, he could feel the man in the black robe seemed extremely calm. His voice was low, but he seemed to have magical power. The people around the tree quickly followed him and recited.
For a moment, under the big locust tree, Buddha's name rose everywhere, and the low and solemn sound of Buddha's name seemed to be integrated with the heaven, earth and all things, and everyone was extremely pious.
When Chu Huan heard the chanting of Buddhist scriptures, he felt a sense of ease, as if his body had already merged with a tree and a tree. In his mind, the meridians quickly felt a sense of floating, and his whole body seemed to turn into goose feathers, light and fluttering.
Suddenly, Chu Huan seemed to feel something, and suddenly opened his eyes. His willpower was extremely tough, and he felt something was wrong.
When he fell into that light feeling, there seemed to be only the man in his black robe in his ears to recite scriptures, and the voices of others stopped abruptly. When he tried hard to open his eyes, he found that the people under the big locust tree were chanting in a low voice, and the sound of everyone chanting together was in his ears. This feeling was extremely strange.
Chu Huan looked at the child and saw that the man in black robe was still holding the child's arm, but the poisonous sores on the child's arm began to break, and black blood slowly flowed out of the poisonous sores.
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