Nearly twenty years later, when Guan Zhenjiang saw Shi Deren again, he was deeply saddened, as if he had been separated from another world. Thinking that the serious troubles in his heart had not been eliminated, coupled with the invasion of foreign enemies, the tiger infestation in Shanxi, and the internal and external difficulties, he was helpless. As soon as he saw Guan Zhaoguan leading Shi Deren in, he saw hope as if he was lost in the dark and saw light. He couldn't help but tell the trouble that was troubling him, just like he did twenty years ago, he was polite to the virtuous corporal and asked Shi Deren about his plans.
After Shi Deren heard this, his triangular eyes rolled a few times, and he offered Guan Zhenjiang a "kill two birds with one stone" plan to harm Zhang Shaofei.
"Good plan! Post a list to recruit talents, focus on the Yunwu Mountain area of Qiu County, lure Zhang Shaofei to take the bait, wait for Zhang Shaofei to see the list and go to Shanxi to conquer the tiger, secretly send Huiming, the martial arts instructor of the imperial court, to follow." Guan Zhenjiang said this with a fierce look in his eyes. "The day when the tiger problem is eliminated will be when Zhang Shaofei is no longer alive! Even if the tiger problem cannot be eliminated, it cannot escape the palm of Huiming's hand. It is really a plan to kill two birds with one stone!"
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After the announcement was posted, the compassionate Zhang Shaofei fell into the trap and hurriedly said goodbye to his mother and rushed to Shanxi day and night.
At noon that day, Zhang Shaofei entered Yunxin County in Shanxi Province, thinking: First go to the Yamen to understand the situation, and then make the next step.
Zhang Shaofei came to the Yunxin County Yamen and saw a large group of people gathered in front of the Yamen, pointing and talking loudly.
A burly, muscular man with a hunter's appearance, surnamed Wang and named Tianbao, said to the short man with a mustache next to him: "Tin Tianlei, we brothers are brothers. Since the county magistrate has come forward to invite us, So, how much reward can the county government give?"
Tan Tianlei said loudly: "Five hundred taels of silver!"
"Wow, that's so much! It can last us several years!" Wang Tianbao urged in surprise, "Brother Tianlei, let's pack up and go! Brothers, let's go!"
"Wait a minute!" At this time, a scholar-looking man named Li and Jin Ming, known as Zhi Duoxing, shouted to stop the eager hunters. He turned to the two men who were standing beside him and accompanied them to quell the tiger problem: "These two brothers, you also have hunters in Shanxi, why did you come to Yunxin to find us?"
Those two tolerances were both top martial arts masters in Shanxi. One was named Zhang Qian and the other was named Wang Sheng. They hesitated and glanced at each other. Wang Sheng said: "You are the most outstanding hunters in our area, so the county magistrate sent us to invite you!"
Li Jinming asked casually: "How is Boss Li in your county?"
Wang Sheng blurted out: "What's so good? Let the tiger tear off a thigh and half an arm. How can it be better? He..."
From the solemn faces of the people at the scene, Wang Sheng knew that he had spilled the beans and hurriedly stopped talking.
Li Jinming asked: "He was injured by those evil tigers, right?"
Wang Sheng could only nod his head and said: "There are several hunters in our county who failed to hunt tigers and were killed by tigers instead. No one dared to come forward anymore, so..."
Li Jinming said: "It's just as I expected. Boss Li's skills and methods are even more powerful than my two brothers. He can't do anything to those tigers, and my two brothers have no better way to subdue tigers." It seems extraordinary that a tiger can seriously injure Boss Li!"
"The county magistrate said that if I can't invite you, I will ask you two! This eldest brother..." Seeing Li Jinming's indifference, Zhang Gan turned to Wang Tianbao and Tan Tianlei: "These two uncles, you are very capable, and you will definitely be able to conquer that mountain." Tiger, please..."
Wang Tianbao and Tan Tianlei, who were extremely excited just now, are now wilted and just want to hide behind others.
Zhang Gan said: "If you can go, the reward will be doubled and I will give you one thousand taels of silver. One thousand taels!"
Tan Tianlei murmured in a low voice: "If you risk your life, what's the use of a reward of ten thousand taels of silver?"
The two officers were disappointed and were about to leave. Unexpectedly, a young man with a gentle temperament and talent stood up and said, "Brothers, I'll go!"
Everyone couldn't help but be stunned: "Looking at your gentleness, thin body, and weak hands, how can you subdue that evil tiger in the mountain?"
Wang Sheng said: "Brother, are you making fun of us?"
Li Jinming also said: "Are you kidding me?"
The man looked serious and said solemnly: "It is our unshirkable responsibility to eliminate harm for the people. How could I make a joke?"
Li Jinming looked at the young man and said, "Looking at your appearance, may I ask your surname? Are you from other places?"
The person who came was none other than Zhang Shaofei. He thought to himself: This is not far from Chang'an, and I am afraid that Zhenjiang's eyes and ears are here. To prevent unexpected events, it is not appropriate to tell his real name. So, he bowed his hand to Li Jinming and said: "This brother really has good eyesight and is not expensive. His surname is Zeng and his given name is Acheng. He comes from out of town."
"You're just a tourist. Do you know the basics of hunting? Didn't you hear that the evil tigers in the mountain have injured even experienced hunters? How can you deal with them if you are so gentle?"
Zhang Shaofei patted his chest and said confidently: "I have my own way."
Seeing his firmness, Zhang Qian couldn't help but curiously asked: "Brother Zeng Acheng, must he have practiced some kung fu? Maybe..."
"In my opinion, he may be a scholar who only knows how to recite sutras. However, tigers are not vegetarians!" Li Jinming interjected.
"Buddhism prohibits killing, and you cannot use bows, arrows, poisons, or traps to harm tigers. How can you make tigers change their ways and stop harming people by chanting sutras for a lifetime?" One of the sword bearers said even more disappointedly.
Zhang Shaofei said: "Buddha Sakyamuni said that all sentient beings have the wisdom and virtue of Tathagata. Therefore, I believe that we can find a way to prevent tigers from harming human lives." After saying that, Zhang Shaofei wanted to go out.
Li Jinming grabbed him: "Zeng Acheng, don't be ridiculous! Tigers are not monkeys, why should you risk your life in vain!"
Zhang Shaofei said: "Buddha Sakyamuni once sacrificed his life to feed a tiger. If I were buried in the tiger's mouth for the people, I would be considered a worthy death. Besides, I will not die. I once sat face to face with a tiger for more than an hour, and it didn't even eat. Me. Therefore, I will definitely be able to find a way to quell the tiger problem in Shanxi."
"real?"
Zhang Shaofei nodded.
When the hunters saw how confident the young man was, they no longer stopped him.
Zhang Shaofei followed two businessmen to the Yamen of Yunxin County, Shanxi Province. After Zhang Qian and Wang Sheng reported to the county magistrate Zhang Jianwen, the magistrate Zhang ordered them and Zeng Acheng to help eliminate the tiger problem in the Jiaoshan tiger-infested area.
On the way, Zhang Shaofei tried hard to think about the scenes of dealing with tigresses in Tianlu Mountain and Yunwu Mountain. At that time, humans and tigers were face to face. But if a person has no intention of harming a tiger, then the tiger has no intention of harming anyone.
He once again recalled the story of Sakyamuni Buddha sacrificing his life to feed a tiger, and he immediately thought to himself: Tigers eat people because they are hungry; if there is food in their belly, they will certainly not take the risk of biting people. People often say: A hungry tiger is hard to stop when it pounces on food. The reason why the hungry tiger is cruel is because hunger threatens its life!
At noon, Zhang Shaofei and his entourage came to the foot of Jiao Mountain and observed the mountains where tigers were hurting people. He found that the place was bare and barren for dozens of miles. Rabbits, wild sheep, sika deer and other grass-eating animals ran away from food. The tiger is a beast with a relatively fixed hunting territory. It cannot find any animals to satisfy its hunger within its own territory. When it is hungry, it will naturally attack humans who intrude.
So, he asked Zhang Gan to buy food and put it in places where tigers often hang out. Then he gradually put the food into the uninhabited mountains and old forests.
The heavens and the earth changed, and the group of tigers finally sneaked into the depths of the mountains and disappeared.
In this way, Zhang Shaofei calmed down the tiger problem in Jiaoshan, Shanxi.
Zhang Shaofei was very surprised to see that the mountain was bare, so he took a walk and took a look.
After Zhang Shaofei left, Wang Sheng suddenly found a big deer standing in the mountain col. He quietly took out the bow he was carrying and nocked an arrow, and shot an arrow at the deer with a "whoosh".
"Pa!" The arrow missed and shot into the soil next to the col. However, the deer stood still.
Wang Sheng drew the bow again. Zhang Gan stepped forward to stop him and whispered: "Don't shoot again. Deer's hearing is the best. It will disappear at the slightest sign of disturbance. But this deer didn't move. It's so strange! We must not collide. The mountain god."
Wang Sheng went over quietly and saw a deer on the ground that had been shot to death by a crossbow. The big deer was standing next to the little deer. He jumped over and pushed, and the big deer fell to the ground with a bang. It turns out that it has been dead for a long time. Wang Sheng was so happy that he jumped up and down: "We've made a profit this time. Fu Nu shot a small one to death and hooked up with a big one. We've made a fortune!"
Zhang Gan said: "It's strange, how did this big deer die? There weren't even any wounds on its body. It didn't look like it died of illness. What's even more strange is that it died by itself standing up."
"It doesn't matter how it died, as long as the meat is not bad." Wang Sheng thought for a while and said to Zhang Qian: "Open its belly and take a look."
Zhang Gan cut open the belly of the deer, took a look, and was so frightened that he jumped away.
Wang Sheng asked in surprise: "What's wrong?"
Zhang Gan said with a trembling voice: "It, its heart exploded and its intestines were broken into several pieces..."
The two officers were feeling strange. At this time, Zhang Shaofei came over to inspect. Wang Sheng and Zhang Qian asked at the same time: "Zeng Acheng, what is going on? How could Dalu's heart be broken for no reason?"
Zhang Shaofei had a tigerish expression and remained silent.
Zhang Gan quietly said to Wang Sheng: "The deer that was shot to death on the ground must be the calf of this doe. When the doe saw that her child was shot to death, her blood and blood rushed to her heart, so..."
Wang Sheng yelled angrily: "Stop fucking talking! Bah! Bah! What a damn bad luck, just bury them!"
Wang Sheng and Zhang Gan were dejected and felt heavy in their hearts.
Wang Sheng stood aside and pinched his palms repeatedly with his fingernails. After a long while, he finally broke the silence and said slowly: "I will never do this life-killing job again."
Zhang Qianying said: "I don't want to do it either. I heard that people like us who practice martial arts and kill animals will fall into hell after death, go up to the mountain of knives, go down to the sea of fire, and enter the oil pan. Then they will be reincarnated into beasts and ask others to knife them. Kill them with one knife.”
"I'm afraid it's too late for us to change our profession now. We have killed many humans and beasts, and we will go to hell if we go to hell." Wang Sheng deliberately pretended to be nonchalant.
At this time, Zhang Shaofei said: "Amitabha. Put down your butcher knife and become a Buddha immediately. You, like all living beings in the world, are pure and kind in nature. It is only because you are burdened by desire, do not understand the true purpose of life, and are deluded in your heart that you kill. Now. Now , your hearts have started to become clear from turbidity, and you know that killing is for the sake of wealth and life. The emergence of this thought is enlightenment. The sea of suffering is boundless, and you can turn back to the shore. Coupled with serious repentance, sinful karma will naturally be eliminated."
Wang Sheng said doubtfully: "It's not that cheap, right? We kill a lot of animals, kneel in front of the Buddha statue and repent a few words, and then everything is fine and we don't have to go to hell? Then, doesn't everyone have the right to kill? Anyone can do bad things, as long as they repent later..."
Zhang Shaofei said solemnly: "What you are talking about is not repentance, but prayer. The real repentance is a formless repentance. What is repentance? What is repentance? Repentance is to confess the past mistakes, all the past sins, ignorance, Confess all sins such as arrogance and jealousy. Repentance is to put an end to the mistakes that may occur in the future. For all sinful behaviors that have been awakened now, we will renounce all sins in the future and never commit them again. This is called regret. If you only know how to confess the past mistakes Making a mistake and constantly ruling out possible mistakes in the future is a knowing and deliberate mistake, so how can we atone for it?”
Zhang Shaofei's words moved their hearts. Zhang Gan walked up to Zhang Shaofei and said, "Brother Zeng Acheng, are you a living Bodhisattva? Are you here specifically to save us?"
Zhang Shaofei humbly said: "You are kidding me. I am just a student of Buddhism, and my cultivation is still lacking."
"Anyway, you understand better than us. Like me, I have done many evil things in my life and killed creatures indiscriminately. If my sins were tangible, I'm afraid this house wouldn't be able to accommodate them. Can you help me confess my sins?" Zhang Gan said honestly.
Zhang Shaofei said easily: "It's easy to say, you find out your sins and I will help you confess them."
Zhang Qian scratched his head, rummaged through his pockets, and said sheepishly, "Sin karma is not a tangible thing, so it's hard to find."
Zhang Shaofei smiled: "Since we can't find the sin karma, shouldn't we just repent of it?"
Zhang Gan was stunned for a moment, then said happily: "I understand, I finally got rid of all my sins. Thank you, thank you Master Zeng!"
Zhang Shaofei said: "All the sins and karma of the past are as illusory as the moon in the mirror. As long as you change your past and no longer do evil, it is true repentance!"
