"Sure enough, it's just as I guessed. Monk and Taoist are couples and complement each other. Do you two want to practice both Buddhism and Taoism?"
Taoist Master Jin put down the tea cup and waved his hand to everyone: "No, no, Taoist Yuanwuqiu is obsessed with Buddhism and has no interest in Taoism. He is willing to live in Ci'en Temple all the time because I want to listen to his Buddhist scriptures." Teaching helps eliminate evil karma."
"Taoist karma? Taoist Master Jin is enthusiastic about the ancient path and has never done any evil things. There is no need to eliminate karma."
Sun Daqiao looked at the old Taoist priest. His kind eyes showed his righteousness, and he was by no means an evil and hypocritical person on the surface.
"That was now. If it had been said when Taoist Master Jin was young, he would have had a lot of lives on his hands."
Monk Hua intervened and talked about Taoist Master Jin's past.
Daochang Jin, whose real name is Jin Shouxuan, was born in the Baiyue land in the south of Lingnan when he was young. The people here are fierce and passionate, and there are martial arts practitioners in every household. Because Baiyue is a remote and remote area, there are many thieves and bandits, and there are many conflicts between the major villages and families. They often gather in villages and form settlements and are extremely united.
There are advantages and disadvantages to hugging together for warmth, good and evil.
If a group of people stick together to keep warm and defend themselves against the enemy, this is righteousness. If a group of people work together to bully men and dominate women, this is evil.
Daochang Jin's family lived in Lingnan. Over the past hundreds of years, the family has grown increasingly prosperous. The Jin family has already built a round earth building with strict barriers. The clan members work at sunrise and rest at sundown. Although they are not rich or noble, they are still considered Enjoy an exclusive pastoral home.
Such a life, if placed in a peaceful era, would be perfect. Unfortunately, it was already the last years of the previous dynasty and coincided with the troubled times. After the Taiping rebellion in Lingnan and Guangxi, it quickly spread to the south of the Yangtze River and went straight to Jinling. Jin Shouxuan's entire life He spent his childhood in the struggle between the Taiping Army and the government army.
Civilians are often victims of war. The Jin family was first plundered several times by the Taiping Army. When the Taiping Army retreated from Lingnan, the government troops followed suit and plundered again. The bandits passed by like a comb and the soldiers passed by like a grate. Although the Jin family After struggling desperately, after several plunders by the Taiping Army, government troops, bandits, and thieves, they were already in ruins.
The clan members suffered numerous casualties and were no longer able to protect these children. They were either sent to the clan's relatives' homes for foster care, or were directly sold into slavery and disappeared.
Jin Shouxuan was unwilling to bear the fate that could be seen at the end, so he went up the mountain with a baggage dagger and became a Taoist priest. Within ten years, he trained his muscles, bones and skin in one breath, learned boxing and kick martial arts, and mysterious Taoist techniques. After ten years, he was able to pull his black hair into a bun. , it was time for him to go down the mountain.
Before leaving, the master inserted a Dao hairpin for him and obeyed his instructions: "This trip down the mountain, although it is a mortal experience, you must not draw a sword to hurt anyone if you have to. If the evil force is deep and the Tao karma is accumulated, it will be difficult to return, and it will be difficult to achieve positive results."
Although Jin Shouxuan promised not to draw the sword easily, he made up his mind in his heart. He had been practicing kung fu for ten years in order to act chivalrously and kill all the evildoers in the world.
This ambition had been established as early as when I went up the mountain. As my martial arts improved over the past ten years, my obsession became more and more determined.
After that, Jin Shouxuan walked in the mountains and countryside. Whenever he met someone who was doing something unfair and doing something evil, he would definitely draw his sword against him. Bullying men and women could be killed, robbing homes and houses could be killed, bandits and thieves, being greedy and treacherous, bullying women and children, and greedy people. Good people can be killed if they take advantage of their merits, and people can be killed if the government forces the people to rebel... until the end of the fight, the handle of the knife weeps blood, and the blade weeps. As long as the knife is used, the wild beasts from hundreds of miles away will be curious and timid, and hesitate to move forward.
Along the way, he killed a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. Although he killed all treacherous and evil people, the lives in his hands were all karma. The more he killed, the more hatred he accumulated. Gradually, there were already Strangers came to the house looking for revenge, saying they wanted to avenge the family.
One day, he chased the bandits who had done all kinds of evil to the top of the mountain, and happened to meet Monk Hua meditating in the mountain. He wanted to kill these bandits who had done all kinds of evil, but the monk stopped him.
Jin Shouxuan was confused and asked Monk Hua why he stopped him. Shouldn't the bandits deserve death for committing evil?
He originally thought that Monk Hua was trying to persuade him with the Buddhist saying of boundless sea of suffering, turning around, putting down the butcher knife, and becoming a Buddha immediately. Unexpectedly, Yuan Wuqi found another way and asked the bandits to lead them into the village.
Jin Shouxuan originally thought that the village was full of thieves and bandits who were taking advantage of the land and squandering money, but unexpectedly they were all old, weak, women, children, and disadvantaged people. These people who could not survive in the troubled times were all raised by these bandits in the village. Give them a chance to survive,
After some questioning, it turned out that the bandits had a hidden agenda for their evil deeds. They were originally agents of the county government office. After the rebel army crossed the border, the county government office was breached and the county magistrate was missing. They saw that the old, weak, women and children in the county were miserable, so they decided to take action. The bandits set up a stronghold and robbed passers-by.
Jin Shouxuan looked at the frightened women, children, old and young, and thought of his family when he was a child. He immediately felt a mouthful of blood in his throat. If he killed these bandits, wouldn't he be the same as the evil-doing government and army bandits? If this is the case, then what he calls chivalry is nothing more than a lone thief who commits crimes by force. What is the chivalrous act?
When is the time for retribution!
Only then did he understand why his master didn't let him draw the sword easily. As long as he drew the sword, there was no turning back. In this way, he had been doing chivalry and righteousness for many years, but he didn't see any progress in his Taoism and enlightenment.
At this moment, Jin Shouxuan put down the butcher knife, no more murderous intention in his heart.
Monk Hua said bluntly that it was indeed wrong for bandits to block roads and rob houses, but they did not have what they wanted when they became bandits. They were just messing with people. They also had a small high hall to support in their bandit village. If it were not for the government's exploitation and the gentry's harm to others, , these people may become good citizens.
Seeing that the bandits were really pitiful, he had no choice but to promise that as long as they stopped robbing ordinary people, he would no longer cause trouble to them. If they did it again in the future, he would not be spared lightly.
After this incident, Jin Xuanshou discovered that his practice began to progress rapidly. After much thought, the monk's words cleared up his doubts and taught him that cause and effect come first and retribution comes later.
From then on, every time he had thoughts of killing, he would think that all living beings were suffering, and he could only suppress his murderous thoughts through self-transcendence. Instead, he began to understand the opportunity of Taoism. Since the two could work together, he simply found Monk Hua and practiced with Monk Hua to save the world. Cien Guan of Kamakura Mountain stayed temporarily and became a good teacher and helpful friend through the friendship of monks and Taoists.
When Yue Qingshan led his gang up to Kamakura Mountain, Jin Shouxuan deliberately used being chased by wild beasts as bait. He wanted to kill these thieves who were digging graves, but it was not until he saw the totems on their bodies that he realized that they were robbing the rich and giving to the poor. The Golden Rat Club.
He remembered what Monk Hua said about all living beings suffering, and decided to give them a hand and do a fortune telling for them. This is how the Golden Rat came to the Cien Temple to recuperate. Otherwise, all of these people would have died about thirty years ago. The tomb of the ancient Chu prince who died.
Yue Qingshan looked at Taoist Master Jin, no wonder he had changed so much in the past thirty years. In the past, the young Taoist priests were sharp-edged and jealous of evil. After taking a break from Buddhism and Taoism, he became kind-hearted as he got older, and he had the feeling of a compassionate deity and a bodhisattva.
After Monk Hua finished speaking, Taoist Master Jin raised the dust and said "Infinite Heavenly Lord": "I was lonely and weak when I was young. After I entered Taoism through martial arts, I developed inner demons. I spent half my life in bloodthirsty killings. For This wasted Taoist mind and only increased karma, leaving only countless grievances and causing endless harm. In the rest of my life, I will no longer have the slightest intention to kill, and I will save people in trouble as my career. Although I have gained a false reputation, in the end, it is too late to make amends. I hope that the cause and effect will be slightly reduced and the evil force will be eliminated, and I will have no other wish in this life."
"Taoist Master Jin, are you not curious at all when the totem of the Golden Rat Society appears on these corpses? The Rat Immortal has built a temple, so why don't you go down the mountain to do chivalry?"
Yue Guanchao interjected and asked, although this old Taoist priest has cultivated Buddhism, at least his eyesight is still there. He has known the guise of the Golden Rat Society since he was young, and he probably knows the purpose of their coming.
Taoist Jin took a deep breath and explained: "The Golden Rat Society was at its peak decades ago, and the hatred it accumulated must be considerable. Since there are people who bring trouble to the countryside in the name of the Golden Rat Society, it was the Golden Rat Society that caused it. Karmic cause and effect, chance and coincidence, cycle of cause and effect, everything has its destiny, and it is not something that you people can handle. If you want to force your hands to cross your arms, new cause and effect will inevitably be attached. You have just been freed from karmic debt, and you really have to do it again. Stained with new karma?”
Although these words were not explicitly mentioned, Yue Guanchao could feel that Taoist Master Jin was talking about the broken tiger talisman. The last words seemed to hit Yue Qingshan.
"Taoist Priest Jin, since Taoist Priest Jin doesn't want to say more, we won't interrupt you and take our leave."
Yue Qingshan saw that Jin Laodao had long lost his youthful loyalty, and he had no choice but to take these people and bid farewell to Ci'en Temple.
On the way back, Yue Guanchao couldn't help but ask: "Jin Laodao has probably figured out what's going on. Judging from his intentions, he doesn't want us to be involved in this matter at all. Second uncle, are you really not planning to cross your arms? "
"You boy, Jin Laodao's meaning is very clear. Whether we interfere in the Golden Rat Club's affairs is entirely up to us, but if we interfere, we must be prepared to cause endless harm. I guess the behind-the-scenes of this matter is not that simple. It involves There will be no less cause and effect.”
"Second uncle, are you afraid?"
Yue Qingshan's deliberately teasing words made Lao Yuetou turn around and glare at him: "You're so scared. If you're scared, why would you come to Yueyang? Why don't you just stay in Maodong, Northeast China?"
"Let's just wait for the full moon night. I want to see what kind of monsters are in this Rat Fairy Temple."
After going down the mountain and rushing back to Yueyang City, Yue Guanchao thought it was still early and took Song Siyuan to the dock, planning to rent a boat to Junshan Island at night in three days. Unexpectedly, when all the fishing boats heard that they were sailing at night, they started to panic like a cat seeing a mouse. Although they didn't say it explicitly, Yue Guanchao also understood what they were afraid of. The news that the Rat Immortal had taken his life was finally revealed.
"Sister~"
While they were distressed, a deep voice sounded in the distance. They looked back and saw that Zhu Fushun and Ma Yanghua were standing on the board of the boat collecting fishing nets.
"Sister-in-law Yanghua, why are you here?"
Under Song Siyuan's inquiry, Ma Yanghua touched her apron: "We have heard what you said. I don't think they will sail your ship. They must have encountered some difficulty. Where are you going?"
"On a full moon night, go to Broken Island in Junshan Lake."
"Hey, then don't ask around. Those who dare to approach Junshan Island at night are foreign fishing boats. We small fishermen have all been killed by rat fairies. They are afraid and don't dare to go. "
Some people died, but not completely...
