Because of the need to recite the scriptures, Eberxi, the lord of the city of Dadara, also managed humanity, and deliberately left work early. When the western sun fell, the city began to close its doors, and the people of every household gathered in the city after having their meals. On the open space at the door.
Facing the crowded field, Maitreya did not go there for the first time. Instead, he sat in the house and blessed a bowl of clear water with a nectar curse, and waited for the person to tell him that everyone had waited almost before turning around. When people in the city such as Ah Shi, who had lost their family members, followed behind him with a water bowl in his hand.
In the entire venue, in addition to the fire altar piled with firewood, there is also a circle of open spaces. The other people are hiding far away. Inuyasha, Kagome, Hitomi, Kohaku, Hachiemon raccoon and Qibao also avoided. on the other side.
The lord of the city, Mr. Eberxi, with a knife, was surrounded by several guards, standing on a row of wooden wall frames, condescendingly watching the ritual site.
First, Maitreya sat on the futon in the west of the temple, counted the rosary beads, and closed his eyes to recite the secret mantra of the Pure Land. According to his request, Ah Shi and the others held a bowl and sprinkled nectar to cleanse the temple.
When the red sun on the west side was half down, the venue was cleaned, Maitreya got up and chanted the Buddha loudly, let everyone follow him, recite Amitabha, Avalokitesvara, and Da Shizhi Zhizhi together, and bow to the west, which is considered to invite the three Western Saints to enter the venue. After all, this is temporary. If you can't get a Buddha statue or portrait, you should just walk through the scene. After the worship, everyone kneels on the ground, silently bowed their heads, and put their hands together in prayer.
I have invited the Three Sages of the West, Maitreya also asked him to pick up the wooden board with the name written on it, throw it into the rising bonfire, silently recite the curse, and summon the ghosts and ghosts invisible to the naked eye. to.
After waiting for the undead who participated in the ritual, Maitreya sat back on the futon on the west side, straightened his body, and gradually entered meditation during the worship of the people, chanting the mantra, the voice from low to high, shaking the whole audience, and a ball on the top of his head. The golden light, from gold to light, gradually becoming transparent and multicolored, followed his finger and put it into the fire.
Following Maitreya’s fingers, there were also people nearby putting the prepared debris into the fire. In the bonfire, the golden light was like flames. The ghosts were washed by the golden light, all of them appeared comfortable, and after seeing their relatives with nostalgia, they faded and disappeared.
After dark, the golden light on the fire was like fireworks. Everyone was dazzling. When the fire dimmed and still in a dream, Maitreya also got up and asked everyone to recite Amitabha together. Guangxiu Fuhui, life is moving forward, don't miss the dead, live well, so that everyone will feel at ease, in short, it is some spiritual chicken soup.
After filling everyone with chicken soup and chanting the Buddha's name together, the ritual was over. After everyone was grateful, the ceremony began. Maitreya also joined Inuyasha and the others, and it happened to meet Abexi and others who had also come here.
Before and after the female city master came up, she first thanked everyone, and then arranged for everyone to stay at night. Maitreya also thanked herself, but she didn't want to be invited to the side, saying that she had to ask some questions.
Faced with Abexi who always had many problems, Maitreya could not refuse, and could only part with everyone, walking like a walk with the female city lord, walking on the streets of the city of Dadara.
"Haha walker, how did I hear your companions call you Zimi?" As if chatting with friends, Eberxi first asked about the name in a funny way.
"That is my Chinese name, Wang Zi Mi, I also have a name called Maitreya, and another name is Bald Donkey." Maitreya's expression remained unchanged.
"Bald donkey..." Ebsey raised his eyes.
"Well, when I joked with a monk, I chose my own name. In short, these are all me." Maitreya nodded and confessed.
"Forget it, I really don't understand you monks, but speaking of it, I have always been a good thing, Zi Mi, can you answer me?" Eberxi chuckled, and then averted the topic.
"Excuse me."
"Are there really gods and Buddhas in this world?"
"Yes, in people's minds."
"This answer is too slippery." Ebercy was dissatisfied.
"No way, people in this world are also very cunning. For those poor and humble, they hope that there are high gods and Buddhas that can give them warmth and save them, and those high and powerful powers seem to respect the gods and Buddhas. , But I really hope that there are no gods and Buddhas, because then, they are gods and Buddhas aloft."
Eberxi opened her mouth. She had a full stomach, but she couldn't tell Maitreya to say things so bluntly. After a while, she laughed and praised:
"You are really a wise man, I have one thing I want to ask you."
"It can't be done." Maitreya refused directly. Although this Eberxi had no malice towards him, he could not say it was bad or good. The city was very deep and it was a big trouble.
"Don't refuse me in a hurry. Let me have a look before you. By the way, haha, do you hate me?" Eberxi rejected Maitreya outright without being angry, and led him through a sewage ditch. Go to a remote place.
"I don’t hate it, but I don’t like trouble. I still have a lot of things to do. I don’t want to pick up things that I don’t know I can’t do!" He felt a little vomiting blood.
"It's really a reliable person!"
Not daring to talk, Maitreya was silent, but followed Abexi to a secluded corner of the city by the lake, walked past a clean pond and a few vegetable gardens, and came to a few far away from the crowd, very inconspicuous, yet From time to time in front of the cabin where the sound of percussions can be heard.
Abexi pushed the door directly and walked in. Maitreya followed. After entering, I saw that from the outside, in these very inconspicuous huts, there were actually a group of people wrapped in bandages and shaped like mummies. At work, some people use a small hammer to knock the iron mold and iron wire, some people pull the round shaft to wrap the thin iron layer into a tube, and some people are chiseling wood.
Maitreya could not see what these people were making, but when he saw the finished product held by a bandaged man, he realized that the muskets, these people were making arquebuses.
"This is the latest stone rocket." Eberxi asked for the finished matchlock from a worker and tried to carry it on his shoulder. This primitive matchlock is not like a hand-held gun for later generations, but It is carried on the shoulder like a rocket, and the igniter is enclosed on the back of the gun.
"The outside world is called the iron cannon, of course, it is also called the matchlock." Maitreya looked at the guy in Eberxi's hand with a little interest, and nodded slightly.
"Oh, well-informed! However, we still call these things stone rockets, which were developed by the people in our village." Eberxi praised but disapproved.
"Very clever, I have seen it in Tanegashima. There are samurai who are willing to marry their daughters to Nanbans in exchange for this technique, but you can actually make them yourself." Maitreya glanced at the people in the room and did not hesitate to praise her. .
(End of this chapter)