The place where the three pregnant nuns were imprisoned was not in the palace, but in a secluded courtyard not far from the back door.
This courtyard was also specially prepared by Shuntian Prefecture to detain those prisoners who were temporarily inconvenient to be thrown into prison.
At this time, in addition to the three pregnant nuns, a 74-year-old old lady was remanded in custody. The charge was that after an argument with a man, she angrily poisoned and killed a neighbor's family of six.
He said that Sun Shaozong led Jia Baoyu and Miaoyu all the way to the small courtyard, pointed to the five tile-roofed houses lined up in the west wing, and said, "Those nuns will be kept in separate places. Are you going to meet them all, or…”
"Since you're here, naturally we have to see each other one by one."
Miaoyu said, pondered for a moment, and then said again: "Didn't you say last time that they are all a little... a little 'extreme'? Let's look at the most normal."
"Alright."
Sun Shaozong nodded and took the two of them to the first room in the north head.
The three of them stood on their feet in unison, and Miaoyu quickly covered her mouth and nose with her sleeves, and asked in a stern voice, "Didn't your lord say that they were not abused? How can you..."
"You'd better have a good look at it first."
Sun Shaozong interrupted her, and motioned for the two of them to change their angles so that they could see the situation inside.
Miaoyu and Baoyu hurriedly stood over and looked inside, and saw that although the interior was simple, it was not as dirty as they had imagined.
Looking more closely, I saw that on the ebony bed in the middle, there was a nun in a gray robe, her limbs were tightly bound by a few thick hemp ropes, and the stench was coming from her. from.
Isn't this abuse
Miaoyu was annoyed again, and was about to open her mouth to question again, when she saw Baoyu frown and said, "Second brother, does this woman want to commit suicide?"
"Yo~ Brother Bao is very observant recently."
Sun Shaozong boasted casually, and then sighed helplessly: "This woman has been seeking death since she came here. The guards have no choice but to tie her up."
However, Miaoyu was still a little dissatisfied: "Then... Then you can't abuse her like this, at least you should clean up her!"
"Clean up?"
Sun Shaozong snorted: "Do you think it's so easy to clean up a person who is desperately seeking death? Every time I clean her up, I have to gather at least four or five servants and spend a lot of time - it can be done. It's not easy to clean up once every two or three days."
Miaoyu was silent for a while, and hesitated for a while in front of the door. In the end, she still didn't have the courage to go in and speak, so she had to bite the bullet and ask, "The other two are not... are they also so filthy?"
"filthy?"
Sun Shaozong smiled: "It's clean and tight, as for other aspects... Hehe."
Saying that, he immediately walked towards the 'prison' in the middle.
Miaoyu and Jia Baoyu hurriedly followed, only to realize that this room was different from the previous one, but it was locked, and if you sniffed carefully, there was a faint smell of sandalwood in the room.
Smelling the scent of sandalwood, Miaoyu's spirit was in a burst, and Sun Shaozong ordered the female guard who followed him to step forward and open the iron general on the door.
However, after the door opened, she carefully adjusted the angle and observed it outside the door.
I saw that the furnishings in the room were as simple and tidy as before, the only difference being that there was a small Buddhist altar on the north wall and a goose-yellow futon on the ground.
And the nun who was imprisoned here knelt on the futon, folded her hands together and recited the scriptures reverently.
This is like a monk's forgiveness!
Miaoyu couldn't help but secretly glanced at Sun Shaozong, secretly thinking that this 'little belly', Master Sun must have deliberately changed the order, leading herself to see the most abnormal one first, so that she could be worried for nothing.
Thinking like this, she walked in without waiting for Sun Shaozong to greet her.
Seeing this, Baoyu hurriedly followed, but Sun Shaozong didn't stop him, he just held his shoulders at the door, letting them go forward to talk to the nun.
"Amitabha, this... this..."
Miaoyu stepped forward and called out the Buddha's name, but suddenly she didn't know how to address the other party. According to common sense, she should have called 'Senior Sister', but when she thought of what the nun had done, the 'Senior Sister' was not a word anyway. Can't speak.
However, the nun was already alarmed by her. She slowly turned her head and saw that Miaoyu was dressed in a monk's robe and a blue silk shawl. Her eyes brightened a bit, and when she saw the Baoyu behind her, she became more A face full of joy.
Seeing that the nun stretched out her hand to support it on the ground, she stood up with some difficulty, and clasped her palms together and said, "Amitabha, if you can accompany the second master of treasure in person, it must be Layman Miaoyu in front of you, right?"
Seeing that her speech and behavior are no different from ordinary people, Miaoyu also dispelled the last trace of worry in her heart, and nodded: "It's Miaoyu, I came this time to..."
"Don't talk about these vulgar things!"
Who knew that the nun did not wait for her to finish, and then said excitedly: "Since the layman has the fate to travel with the second master Bao, has he ever saved him from the sufferings of the mundane world and reached the realm of infinite joy?"
Not to mention that Jia Baoyu heard this inexplicably, even Miaoyu, who was raised in Buddhism, did not understand it, and hesitated: "I don't know... I don't know that the realm of 'unlimited joy' that Senior Sister said came from that book. classic?"
Seeing that the nun was in her early twenties, with a dignified look on her face, Miaoyu finally called out 'Senior Sister'.
"classic?"
I saw the nun smiled slightly, her eyes were deep and distant, as if she had escaped all the troubles in the world: "The classics are just the sages who recorded their own understandings. Can it be compared to what you get from communicating with Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in person?"
Communicating with the Bodhisattva in person
Miaoyu said half-believingly, "Could it be that Senior Sister has personally communicated with Buddhas and Bodhisattvas?"
"That's natural."
There was a little red tide on the face of the nun, and her voice was a little higher than before: "In the Buddhist hall of the back hall of Shuiyue Temple, the poor nun had several times in a trance, and the soul floated out of the body. I saw the Bodhisattva, he... he was smiling at me!"
As she said that, she couldn't help but stop and gasp for a while, then she held her heart and said intoxicated: "That kind of feeling... It seems that the whole person is filled with the boundless Buddha Dharma."
Hearing what she said about someone with nose and eyes, Jia Baoyu and Miaoyu couldn't help but substitute into it.
"Buddhism?"
At this moment, I heard Sun Shaozong sneer at the door: "I think it's the lewd monk from Tiejian Temple who fills you up!"
fill up
Prostitute
Miaoyu was still a little puzzled, but Jia Baoyu blushed on the side, obviously he had made up the picture described by Sun Shaozong.
"Shut up! You who slander and slander Buddha, what do you know?!"
The nun's face suddenly turned fierce, and she shouted at Sun Shaozong: "If you want to connect with the Western Paradise of Bliss, you must naturally be in a state of bliss, and then you can do it!"
As she said that, she stared at Jia Baoyu with a coveted face: "Second Master Bao is a person with Su Hui, if you can have a good time with him, you will definitely be able to transcend and reach the supreme state together, laymen must not ask for it. Miss this great opportunity!"
"you you… "
No matter how inexperienced Miaoyu is, she already understands it now. She took a half step back in shame and anger, and scolded: "What nonsense are you talking about! This... What kind of Buddhism is this? It's clearly an evil demon!"
"Ah~"
When the nun saw her reaction, she sighed regretfully: "This is a good person to practice Zen, but she is still immersed in the shackles of the world and still doesn't know it. It's really a tyrannical attack."
Immediately, her face turned solemn, Bao Xiang solemnly lifted up the monk's robe, and completely exposed her body, which was no longer covered by anything else, to everyone's eyes, and proclaimed the Buddha's slogan: "Amitabha, it seems that the only way is to let the poor nun go with Bao first. The second master will do some practice before you can find your way back!"
Thanks to the book friend 'Tianmo Xingyao' for the reward.