Dong Pai didn't care to stick the torn corner of the paper with the sticky side to restore it. He really didn't care. He immediately helped Li Yu who was at the door into the room and sat on the wooden stool in the main room, mouthing something. He kept asking, Madam, what’s wrong with you? What happened to you? Li Yu held her head in both hands, clearly having a headache. Dong Pai panicked and asked, Madam, I will carry you out to see the doctor.
No! No! Someone knocked outside the house... Li Yu couldn't continue talking at this point, looking painful.
When Dong Pai heard this, someone outside the house knocked on the wooden fish. He then asked, did someone knock on the wooden fish to make you unhappy?
Li Yu nodded repeatedly and said in a very small voice, "It must be some monk who is harming me. Dong Lang, please go out and have a look. See which monk it is and drive him away quickly."
When Dong Pai heard it, he was stunned. He understood a little bit. I thought: It's probably the old monk from the temple in the mountains behind the house. This morning he picked up a load of firewood and went to thank him, saying that I was bewitched and that he would have to deal with the carp spirit sooner or later. Dong Paigang said hello to Li Yu and was about to go out to follow the sound to find an argument with the old monk, but the sound of the wooden fish became more rapid.
Li Yu then reached out and grabbed him and whispered, "Hold on, I can't survive. Please quickly scoop a basin of water in front of me and put a towel in it." Then you go out and drive away the monk knocking on the wooden fish.
Dong Pai followed the instructions one by one, and was a little confused because of panic. When I was using a ladle to scoop water out of the tub, I actually poured a ladle of water onto the edge of the tub without pouring it into the basin. When I was getting a towel, I used too much force and pulled the rope hanging the towel "bang". broken.
After that, he carefully put a basin of water with a towel in front of Li Yu, who was turning blue. Li Yu left her seat, reached out and stirred the basin with a towel, and the water splashed, so she jumped into the water. In the basin, make a sinking movement with difficulty.
In the blink of an eye, Dong Pai disappeared, and only a red-tailed carp was seen swinging in the basin; in the next blink of an eye, the red-tailed carp was also gone. At this time, the knocking sound of wooden fish outside the house also stopped.
Dong Pai ran out of the door angrily, shouting at the dusk outside, who was the one who knocked the wooden fish so wickedly that he drove away the bride I just invited into the house.
Is it the donor Dong Pai? A voice came from behind the house.
Dong Pai looked around and saw that the old monk he was familiar with came out of the bushes on the mountainside, holding a shiny wooden fish in his hand, but he didn't knock it. He went up to him and said in a low voice, "Monk, how have I offended you?" My newly married wife was knocked away by you knocking on the wooden fish, please return my wife as soon as possible.
Seeing that he was not polite, the old monk no longer called him master, but monk. He put his hands together, closed his eyes slightly and recited Amitabha Buddha, and then slowly said that all living beings have deep evil obstacles and difficulties. Then he opened his eyes, looked at Dong Pai and said, Donor, in order to save you, I left the temple and climbed several mountains, spreading righteousness with the sound of wooden fish to drive away the carp spirit. It's dangerous for you to fall in love with a carp spirit and marry her! The carp spirit you married is a phantom, transformed from the sorcery she performed. If you get along with her as a human being and are bewitched, once your yang energy is sucked out by the carp spirit, your life will be in danger!
Monk, isn’t my Dong Pai good? Dong Pai still didn't believe what the old monk said, and still thought about Li Yu's benefits.
I think you will suffer a loss if you persist in your ignorance. The old monk said, shrugging off his monk's robe and walking away in the dusk.
Dong Pai stood stupidly at the door. The mountain gods, tree gods and grass gods who had already come to watch the excitement started talking when the old monk left. Dong Pai could not see or hear their figures and discussions. Less than. At this moment, the tree god and the grass god asked the mountain god why the monk wanted to play against the carp spirit. Was he really trying to rescue the ignorant Dong Pai?
A little bit, not entirely. According to my feeling, the monk who knocks the wooden fish and the carp spirit have an unresolved grudge. The mountain god with destiny knowledge pinched his fingers and rolled his eyes and said that in the past life, there was a frog squatting on the lotus leaves of a lotus pond like meditating, listening motionlessly to the sound of wooden fish coming from a nearby temple.
Just then, a heron descended from the sky, pounced on the frog, took it in its mouth, and ate it as a delicious meal. When the guardian god in the temple found out, he created a toxin in the frog's corpse, causing the heron to be poisoned and die.
Why does the protector help the frog take revenge? There is a saying among the people that thunder will not hit the eaters, and ghosts will not harm the practitioners. As a bystander, the frog can listen attentively to the knocking of wooden fish in the temple, which is equivalent to hearing the sound of Sanskrit chanting, which has the merit of spiritual practice. Therefore, the heron should not eat it. If it eats it, it will be a capital crime, so it died of poisoning.
After death, they are reborn as fish and are eaten by other water birds. Later, it was reborn as a little carp and practiced for hundreds of years before becoming a carp spirit. It could change this or that, but the changes were all illusory bodies. Naturally, because the frog heard the sound of the wooden fish in the temple and had great merit, the King of the Underworld granted him the reward of being reincarnated into a human being. Because of the good relationship, he became a monk and lived in the temple and devoted himself to spiritual practice.
After hearing this, the tree god and the grass god suddenly realized. They said that it was no wonder that the monk was rude to the carp spirit. It turned out that there was a murderous grudge between them in the past lives.
After Li Yu jumped into a basin filled with water and escaped, he rested for a while at his home at the bottom of the river around the city to regain his strength, then jumped out of the water and went directly to the City God Temple to complain to the City God. She shook the red-faced marriage certificate issued by this place in her hand and said, City God, this thing doesn't work. Dong Pai and I had just returned to his home in Ma'anshan when we were separated by a monk who ran out of the mountains.
The City God, who was sitting in the hall, denied that it was impossible. The monk was a monk, so how could he care about worldly affairs? Li Yu said angrily that the smelly monk was more than just a supervisor. He was beating the wooden fish outside the house desperately. Every time he beat, my head hurt. When he beat hard, I really couldn't bear the pain. I asked my Dong Lang to scoop a basin of water to save me. I jumped into the basin and escaped. Otherwise, I would die of pain.
The City God said, Oh, so that’s what happened. Doesn’t this mean that the marriage certificate issued by our office is invalid? Li Yu looked aggrieved. She said, City God, but I can’t get along with my Dong Lang now. Is there anything you can do to help me? The city god said, I am in charge of the affairs of the underworld in Jinse City, but I have no control over the affairs of the earth.
So what does I need this marriage certificate for? Give it back to you, I don’t want it anymore. Li Yu threw the marriage certificate on the table in front of the palace and shouted angrily.
There were other shady things in the palace. The city god felt that Li Yu's behavior was a sign of contempt for his city god. He said unhappily, "Please take the marriage certificate and I will find a way to resolve the relationship between you and the monk who knocked the wooden fish." . Cheng Huang touched the back of his head and finally came up with a solution.
He waved to the Yin Chai who whispered for a while, and the Yin Chai left the hall. After a while, a Yin official with a Chinese character in official robes was brought in. He bowed his hands and saluted the City God and all the Yin Chai in his hall, but did not pay any attention to the one with long braids on his head and a The girl in a crimson dress saluted, because she smelled a fishy smell emanating from her body, and frowned in disgust.
At this time, the city god stood up and pointed at the dignified Yin official and introduced that this was Pei Shi'en, the newly appointed Earth Immortal who came to Jinse City. All the Yinchai applauded together and said in unison, congratulations to Pei Dixian on his new appointment! Pei Shien raised his hands to greet everyone, and then returned to silence.
The city god pointed his finger at Li Yu, who was standing in the hall and was upset, and said to Pei Shi'en that this woman was originally a carp spirit in the river around the city. Due to hundreds of years of practice, she could appear as a human being. Yesterday she received the spirit from here. When she received the marriage certificate for her marriage to a young man from Yangshi, a monk struck a wooden fish against her, causing her unbearable pain and forced her to escape.
Now I ask you to do me a favor. Although you are a Yin official, you can transform into a Yang person and coordinate things between the Yin and Yang realms. Can you transform into a Yang person now, find that monk to coordinate, and tell him not to hit the wooden fish against this woman?
That won't work. There must be a reason for that monk to be against the carp spirit. Even if I transform into a Yangren and go to the temple to find him, how can I convince him? Pei Shienpiao walked up and down the hall and gave some reasons for his rejection plausibly.
Li Yu immediately came to kneel down in front of Pei Shi'en, and she burst into tears telling how Dong Pai had saved her life. In order to repay her kindness, she agreed to marry Dong Pai. However, the monk caused trouble and asked Pei Shi'en to mediate. The city god smiled and said, "Pei Dixian, for the sake of my city god, please come forward and mediate!"
