Fahai travels through Tang Sanzang

Chapter 155 I Can Eat This Vegetable, Why Can't You Eat It?

"Xiao Wang, I thank the holy monk for his life."

Up to now, the Lord of the Wuji Kingdom has been sincerely convinced of the Sanzang Dharma Master. Apart from becoming brothers, worshiping him as a side-by-side national teacher and sharing the country, he actually can't think of a second way.

It is because of the lessons learned from the evil way, but the Wuji King is confident that he has not misjudged this time.

Master Sanzang is a holy monk of the Tang Dynasty, but Quanzhen is a Zhongnan demon.

But just as he was about to speak, the Master Sanzang seemed to have sensed it, and blocked his words first, and said: "Your Majesty, please hurry up, in fact, the poor monk still has some things to ask."

Fahai is good at watching people's hearts, before the ruler of the Wuji Kingdom opened his mouth, he already guessed that the ruler of this kingdom would speak the same words as that of the ruler of Baoxiang Kingdom.

Speaking of me, I am an ordinary monk, but when I go to a country, the monarch will become brothers with me and worship myself as a teacher of the country. It is interesting to say that it seems to be from the king of Tang, but the king of Tang is just The eight obeisances are friends, but I never want to worship myself as the national teacher.

Since Fa Hai blocked the conversation first, the lord of the country put his thoughts back. Maybe after he subdued the demons and expelled the demons, he really regained the throne, and then worshiped the holy monk, which would show his sincerity.

Thinking of this, he bowed and said respectfully: "What the holy monk asks, the little king knows what he will say."

Seeing that he readily agreed, Fahai asked him, "Before the drought in your Wuji country, did anything unusual happen?"

"Unusual?" The Lord of Wuji frowned, and he couldn't figure out what was unusual for a while.

The Great Sage saw that he was struggling, and raised a point: "Or it just happened to you, such as did you offend anyone? Well, this is not an appropriate statement. After all, you are the king of a country, and you should usually be offended by others. You think about it carefully, is there some weird person who bumped into you, and you punished the other person without hesitation, but you didn't take it to heart?"

Hearing the words of the great sage, the Lord of the Wuji Kingdom kept paced in the hall. After he walked back and forth a few times, he suddenly stopped, clapped his hands, and cried out in surprise: "Oh! What the elder said, Xiao Wang But something came to my mind! It's a rude and fake monk!"

"Fake monk who is impolite?" The five masters and apprentices looked at him immediately, and said in their hearts, "Is there really another cause and effect!?"

"Your Majesty, don't be in a hurry, please take a seat." Fa Hai pointed to the futon beside him, but did not urge him, "Your Majesty has thought about this matter carefully, let me listen to you."

The tone is quite relaxed.

Let the country lord calm down first.

"Yes yes yes." The lord listened to Fahai's order. Although he didn't know why Master Sanzang attached great importance to this matter, since it was needed by the holy monk, he should think carefully before speaking.

The lord of the country pondered for a long time, went through the situation that day in his mind first, and after confirming that there was nothing missing, he opened his mouth and said: "This matter also happened six years ago. That day I waited for the monarch and ministers to go out of the city, but in At the gate of the city, I met a traveling monk who stopped the way, and said that he was going to have a fast meal. I saw that he was dressed in rags, so I thought he was a wanderer doing asceticism, so I asked my companion to bring him a fast meal."

"A monk begs for alms, you give alms. What's wrong with that?"

"Little Wang is also surprised." The lord showed a bit of helplessness on his face, "The holy monk doesn't know, the monk has a big temper, and he is probably not a serious monk. At first he thought I was not good at fasting, so he refused to eat. Let Xiao Wang take the good ones to entertain. He also said that Xiao Wang is a hypocrite, seeing that he is a wandering monk, he will use some fast food to pass away at will."

The Great Sage became interested when he heard this, and asked curiously, "How do you speak?"

"Actually, when he refused to eat fast, Xiao Wang thought he was a monk pretending to deceive Xiao Wang. It's not that Xiao Wang was reluctant to have a fast. In fact, if he was in a secluded place, it wouldn't matter if he had an imperial meal. But at the gate of the city, all the people are watching, it really cannot be done in this case."

"Oh?" The Great Sage asked again, "What does this mean?"

"Elder doesn't know, some people are inherently lazy. If they know about this and spread the word, they will all pretend to be this wandering monk to transform the royal meal. How will Xiao Wang deal with them?"

"Amitabha, the Buddha himself advises people to be good, and should not make people lazy." Fa Hai nodded slightly, and said, "Is this why the lord of the country punished this monk?"

"After all, Xiao Wang is the king of a country, so he won't make things difficult for him just because he steals, rapes and plays tricks. He just wants to teach him a truth. It is not easy for the people to get food, and the vegetarian food is not good. You shouldn't give up on Xiao Wang at that time. Take the vegetarian dish and eat it in front of him. Ask him, I can eat this vegetarian dish, why can't you, a monk, eat it?"

Bajie first asked: "Is the vegetarian food delicious?"

"Family meals are enough to satisfy our hunger." The lord sighed again: "My family was poor back then, and I ate even the roots of trees. This meal was bought temporarily by Xiao Wang's followers from a house on the edge of the city. It tastes just ordinary. .”

Fahai nodded secretly when he heard this, he knew that the king had never lied, so he asked again: "What did the monk say?"

"Oh——" the king sneered, and said: "It's also an airing, saying that Xiao Wang is a man who knows suffering, and only digests his royal meal, so he will send Xiao Wang to the Lingshan Mountain to become a golden Arhat and get a real fruit." .”

At this point, Fa Hai and all the disciples looked at each other, and said in unison: This is the key!
The Great Sage hurriedly asked, "What's your answer?"

"This kind of treacherous and cunning person should be punished as an example to others." At this moment, the lord of the country showed some demeanor of a heroic lord of a country, and said in a deep voice: "But the widow also gave him a chance. If you want to eat the vegetarian meal, I will bring another portion for him. If he doesn’t eat it, it’s fine, but he said that Xiao Wang doesn’t know good people, he can’t enter the Western Paradise, and he can’t ascend to the ultimate bliss.”

"Xiao Wang didn't want to argue with him at first, so he was expelled, but he still refused to leave, and said that Xiao Wang would have retribution in the future, again and again, Xiao Wang couldn't bear it, so he ordered the guards to send him away. A piece of rope was tied up and sent in the moat, and I told him, the begging monk, to take a good look at how the people outside the city are working, and how this sack of rice and bean soup come from."

After saying this, the lord of the country hurriedly bowed to Master Sanzang, and explained: "I only said that he is a fake Buddhist monk. Please don't get me wrong. The master is an eminent monk in the Tang Dynasty. Have you ever heard that the monk Hua Zhai disliked him?" Don’t eat? That guy must be dressed as a rascal.”

Case solved.

Fa Hai listened to his narration, pondered for a while, digested in his heart, and then asked: "Your Majesty, have you ever thought that the fake monk you mentioned may really be an emissary from the Lingshan Mountain who wants to convert you?" What about Lingshan?"

"Impossible, absolutely impossible." The lord shook his head first, but when he looked at Master Sanzang, he realized that this was an assumption, and he said, "Even if it is true, I can't give up the whole country. go."

Fahai's eyes lit up, and he asked, "So what?"

"At the beginning of the kingdom, a thousand wastes were waiting to be revived. I worked hard for more than ten years to restore the people's livelihood. If there really was a bodhisattva and a true Buddha who came to save me at that time, I would not be able to go. If I went, although there was a prince, he would Even at a young age, even when he was enthroned, he would not accept the public. If he lost the government, the foundation of the country would be shaken, and there would be turmoil in the court. The people would suffer so much. Wouldn’t Xiao Wang’s ten years of hard work be wasted? It was for the sake of the people of this country, I can't tolerate Xiao Wang's picky ones like this."

"Amitabha, good, good!" Fa Hai got up and bowed to the king, saying: "Although your majesty is not in Lingshan, but with such actions, you can also become Buddhas of thousands of families. Why do you need Lingshan to cross?"

"Wonderful, wonderful." The Great Sage clasped his hands and flapped his hands, "This is fair, my grandson will definitely ask the Tathagata for clarification when he goes to Lingshan."

Fahai thought in his heart, what is the universal salvation of sentient beings? Is it only when the world is converted into Buddhism?

And who is the Purdue sentient beings?

So what about the ruler of the Wuji Kingdom?

After these words, another night was over.

I saw that the abbot, the master of the temple, personally organized the morning meal, and brought his disciples to offer offerings, but when he entered the door, he saw a king wearing a dragon robe talking with the holy monk, so he was shocked .

"The poor monk pays homage to His Majesty."

He felt a little drummed in his heart, yesterday he only saw His Royal Highness going up the mountain, but he never heard when His Majesty came and he entered the temple?When did you enter the meditation hall of Master Tripitaka?

Why didn't you report beforehand?What do the monks guarding the mountain gate eat?
This is a bad thing. He has prepared five servings of this vegetarian dish. How can he serve it?

Seeing the master abbot knelt down to pay homage to His Majesty, the disciples and monks following him also hurriedly knelt down to pay respects.

"Excuse me, excuse me—"

The abbot, the master of the courtyard, stood up tremblingly. The king only glanced at him, and he knew that he was worried. When he was about to open his mouth to make a relief, he saw that Bajie had already taken the lunch boxes from the disciples and began to distribute them, "Your Majesty, let's try How is the fast food in this temple compared to that of the people at the city gate?"

The king saw it clearly, and sure enough, the five fasting meals were in one place for himself, but the big bearded King Kong with a strong figure had nothing in his hands.When he was about to give up the food in front of him, Ba Jie said: "Your Majesty, feel free to eat, this junior brother Lao Zhu doesn't open his mouth, and he doesn't eat every day."

The head of the house, the abbot, said in his heart: This is not right, the fast meals sent in the past were all without a share.
Bajie seemed to know what he was thinking, turned around and said to him: "The extra portion you sent in the past is almost in my stomach, old pig, don't worry if there is no waste."

The lord and the abbot subconsciously looked at his figure and belly, and felt that he was believable.

The master, the abbot, signaled all the disciples to wait outside the meditation hall first, and he alone can serve inside.After a while, seeing that the king had almost eaten, the abbot boldly asked: "How did your Majesty get to the temple? Why didn't you call in advance? I will arrange to pick you up later."

The lord first looked at Master Sanzang, saw the master nodded, and then said: "The lord in the city is pretending to be a monster. I was killed by a monster three years ago. Now I am rescued by a holy monk. I am about to enter the city. He discerns good from evil."

(End of this chapter)