"Man-made disaster!?"
The meaning contained in this is too broad. I dare not guess randomly, so I asked Master Liu on the phone: "Foster father, what kind of man-made disaster is it?"
Master Liu continued to tell the story.
The influence of the immortals on the centipede demon is getting deeper and deeper, and the centipede demon is also advancing by leaps and bounds under the teachings of the immortals. According to the records of the scholar who wrote this forbidden legend, the centipede demon is only a little short.
But at this time, the people of Baizhuang Village suddenly came up with the idea of immortals. At this time, the people of Baizhuang Village were no longer as simple as they used to be. The centipede demon at the time had the same selfishness, and wanted to take the fairy's golden rooster as his own.
But the villagers of Baizhuang Village are not as bright and upright as the centipede demon and directly go to the immortal to "change", but discuss various tricks in private. One of the people from Baizhuang Village also invited two Taoist priests from outside.
And since the two Taoists promised to help the villagers deal with the immortals, they were naturally not good people. Although these two Taoists were not very good at Taoism, they were full of ghost ideas. Although the immortal has a very high Taoism, he lacks a pair of immortal bones. He has to eat like a normal person every day, so the two Taoist priests gave the villagers an idea: let the villagers bring some food to the immortal, and put it in the meal. Put some poison on it, as long as the immortal dies, the golden rooster can be possessed by the people of Baizhuang Village.
Every villager in Baizhuang Village wants to become an immortal, and they want to have the same high Taoism as immortals. They are blinded by these desires and desires, and one day they also take that step.
On this day, two Taoist priests and two villagers in the village pretended to thank the immortals and brought some meals. The immortals were also very grateful to those people, so they gave each of the four people a string of beads, which is said to be able to ward off misfortunes.
After watching the immortal take a bite of food, the four of them left with confidence, but they did not go far, but hid on a nearby mountain to observe the immortal's situation.
After waiting for the villagers to leave, the immortal went under the big cypress tree and called out both the golden rooster on the tree and the centipede demon under the tree, and he said to the two spirits, "The food I just ate was eaten by someone. Poisoned, it is estimated that he will die soon, so he is ready to die!"
Hearing the immortal say this, both the golden rooster and the centipede demon are very sad, especially the centipede demon will go to the food delivery person to ask them why they want to hurt the immortal, but the immortal stopped the centipede demon and said: "Don't ask, It is caused by the word 'greed' in human nature. I have been neighbors with them and their ancestors for hundreds of years. I gave them blessings and blessings but failed to influence them, but inspired their hearts. The 'greed' thought, this 'evil' was planted by myself, so I should also eat the 'karma' alone, the Buddha said, 'I don't go to hell, who will go to hell', I only hope that I am like this. The disappearance of a body can awaken the conscience in their hearts."
Hearing the immortal's words, both the golden rooster and the centipede demon were heartbroken.
The immortal looked at the two spirits beside him and said again: "Although I am about to sit and transform, my body will disappear from this world, but this is not the end of my life. You don't have to feel sad or sad for me. After that, you have to leave here to continue your cultivation, strive to achieve the right fruit as soon as possible, protect the common people, accumulate great virtues, and do great deeds, and don’t do anything to take revenge for me.”
The golden rooster has followed the immortal for a long time, and the Buddha-nature is high, so it also understands the instructions of the immortal, but the centipede demon is different. Its Buddha-nature is not enough to fully understand the meaning of the immortal, so the seeds of hatred pierce the heart of the centipede demon. Plant.
The immortal and the centipede demon have been together for so long, and naturally they can see what the centipede demon is thinking, so he instructed the golden rooster and said, "If this little centipede demon dares to do something that hurts the heavens and righteousness after I sit down, then you will completely seal it up. Under this cypress tree, until one day its hatred is eliminated and it becomes enlightened."
After the immortal said this, he sat down in front of the golden rooster and the centipede demon.
It is said that when the immortal was sitting, countless colorful rays of light floated in the sky, and then turned into a "fairy robe" and draped it on the immortal's body. , The grass is swaying, the flowers are falling, and the livestock are crying, but those "people" who enjoy the benefits of the immortals are indifferent!
Of course, this may also be because people's wisdom is too developed, which leads us to be too egoistic, thus covering up the truest part of life's perception of nature, so the villagers in Baizhuang Village did not immediately perceive the immortals as other creatures. change.
When I heard the story, I couldn't help but ask Master Liu: "Foster father, are we really the primates of all things, as we think we are?"
Master Liu was silent for a while and then said: "Whether it is or not, human beings are the masters of this world after all, and we hold too much power over life and death, including over ourselves, and even over the world, so whether we are It's not really all primates, we all have to fulfill the duties of all primates and maintain the order of the world. Since God has chosen human beings, what we have to do is not to doubt, but to believe and believe that we can do better. , don't deny yourself because of some human ugliness, there is still more 'good' in the world, otherwise our status would have collapsed in the Great Dao."
After finishing speaking, Master Liu added: "If one day our human's 'evil' really exceeds our own 'good', then at that time, the Dao will elect a new primate to replace us. That's why the saying goes. Teach us, 'But do good deeds, not your future'."
Master Liu and I discussed the Great Dao on the phone, and it was a little too far from the story, so after the last sentence, Master Liu said: "Xiaoyong, remember these eight words, if any cultivator's Dao is Without these eight words, the end point must be the word 'destruction'."
After saying this, Master Liu also brought the topic back to the story again.
After the immortal was transformed, under the bath of colorful fairy lights, the golden rooster and the centipede demon also both crossed the calamity. On that day, the dark clouds covered the sun and the thunderstorms were mixed, as if the gods were weeping for the departure of the immortals.
At this time, the four people who planned to frame the immortal were also terrified. They mistakenly thought that the change in the celestial phenomenon was their punishment, so they ran to the village.
The sky changed suddenly, and the people in the village were also terrified. It was said that the plan to frame the immortal was revealed, and the immortal was angry, so after the four people who went to perform the task of poisoning the immortal returned to the village, they were tied up by Wuhua by the villagers. Get up, they said that they would exchange these four lives for the understanding of the immortals...
The immortal wanted to use his "goodness" to influence these villagers, but the villagers were afraid, which inspired the evil of "killing" in their hearts.
In the end, the four people who were sent to poison the immortals were tied around their necks by the villagers and hung at the entrance of the village to wait to die, while the villagers went home to take refuge.
However, these four people did not all hang to death. One of them had a tree branch cut off by a thunderstorm, so he saved his life. Naturally, he did not dare to stay in the village any longer, so he secretly ran home with his wife, children and children. Escaped during the thunderstorm.
And this person who escaped was the ancestor of the Juren scholar who later returned to the village and recorded the ban legend, but why they returned to the village and the purpose of writing the ban legend is not recorded.
It is said that when the group escaped, in order to prevent the immortal from chasing, they first ran to the immortal's location to beg for mercy. They felt that if they did not get the immortal's forgiveness, they would not end well even if they ran away. As soon as they got close, they saw a scene that surprised them. A huge golden rooster and a huge black centipede were fighting in the thunder and lightning, and the remains of the fairy were nowhere to be seen...
After some earth-shattering fighting, the golden rooster finally won the victory, and sealed the centipede spirit under the big cypress tree, and then the golden rooster rushed into the sky with a golden light, and then disappeared.
Having said that, Master Liu said: "The story ends here, but I still have some clues about the investigation of the Nine Dragons Church. I will tell you about it together."
I made a "hmm" here and continued to listen to Master Liu's story.
According to Jiulongtang's investigation, since the scholar wrote the article about banning the legend, he joined several elders in the village to ban the legend. Because the legend damaged the reputation of their village, they set up clan rules. If anyone dared to tell this story to their descendants, they would be hanged at the entrance of the village immediately.
In fact, Baizhuang Village was not the first or the last to ban bad legends in our village. When we were dealing with the case, we also encountered a situation similar to that of Baizhuang Village. Bad legends banned!
Emperors will erase the bad deeds of themselves and their ancestors in the history books, celebrities will ban the mistakes of their ancestors in the village, but some things cannot be erased. Stories do not lie, only those who tell the story lie.
After the legend of Baizhuang Village was banned, the people of Baizhuang Village suffered a great disaster. That was the Battle of Jingnan in the Ming Dynasty. When King Yan swept the north, Baizhuang Village was ordered by Zhu Di to slaughter the village for supporting the Southern Dynasty. Most of the villagers of Baizhuang Village moved over from Shanxi, but they still used the name of Baizhuang Village. Naturally, these people did not know the legend of Baizhuang Village.
As for the "rooster disease", in fact, there was a precedent in Baizhuang Village during the Ming Dynasty. Later, I heard that a master was sent by the imperial court to solve it.
Then there is the "rooster disease", that is, after the stump of the big cypress tree in Baizhuang Village was dug up, and the incentive is also obvious. It will be leaked once, and then these demonic qi will kill the villagers of Baizhuang Village by "gu".
Sometimes one, sometimes two or three, the number varies.
The victimized villagers first showed symptoms of roosters crowing, and then they ate the centipedes bred by the worms, which showed that the centipede demon not only hated the villagers of Baizhuang Village, but also hated the golden rooster that prevented it from taking revenge. The person who eats the croaking actually wants to eat the golden rooster!
Hearing this, I couldn't help but ask Master Liu: "The demonic energy leaked, did the people from the Nine Dragons Hall have no way to make up the seal?"
Master Liu smiled and said: "They only made up a few times symbolically, but they didn't try their best, and they also deliberately let the seal leak demonic energy once a year. While collecting these demonic energy, they studied the illusion of demonic energy. The Gu worm…”