Tang Dynasty good doctor

Chapter 455 The Prime Minister and the Eminent Monk

A robber stepped forward and took out the cloth that was stuck in Fang Xuanling's mouth, and at the same time unblocked Wang Wendu's mouth.

As soon as Wang Wendu could speak freely, he immediately cursed.After being silenced for so long, it was inevitable that his mouth would be parched and he could not speak clearly, but he was full of vigor in cursing, and even swearing in dialect.

The big man with the yellow beard waved his hand and said: "There's so much nonsense. Although this guy is a general of the Weifu, he may not be worth much. Take him down and hang him up!"

Xiaoluo promised, then gagged Wang Wendu's mouth again, and dragged him out of the big cave.

The big man with the yellow beard smiled at Fang Xuanling: "Mr. Fang, you see, a rough man is a rough man. He has been tied up for such a long time and walked such a long way. He is still so energetic. It really is Rough-skinned, thick-skinned, stupid, black-and-thick thing!"

He licked his lips, and laughed again: "It's not like Fang Xiangye, who has thin skin and tender flesh. He is quite old, and he still looks like a child."

Fang Xuanling only felt his scalp tingling, his throat surged vigorously, and he struggled to get some saliva to moisten his mouth.He said: "This good man, although the old man is the prime minister, he has no permanent property in his family. He can't afford much money. Even if he has some savings, he can't send it to you from Chang'an. Apart from catastrophe, there will be no benefit!"

The big man with the yellow beard laughed dryly, and said: "You Tang people are the most stingy. I tied up a monk a few days ago. It is said that he is the envoy sent by the Tang Dynasty to Tianzhu. I thought I could knock the emperor Lao Tzu for a sum of money, but you actually I don’t have to pay a big son, so it costs me a lot to raise that bald donkey for nothing.”

He stood up, walked in front of Fang Xuanling, squatted down, and said, "That monk, I wanted... well, now I want [-] guan, if I don't give it, I will steam him and eat him. As for you, Mr. Fang, I think you are worth a hundred thousand crowns no matter what? After finishing your business this time, I plan to turn my back on evil and become a Buddha immediately!"

The young men in the cave laughed in unison, and they all shouted: "I will become a Buddha immediately, I will become a Buddha immediately!"

Fang Xuanling sensed that the man with the yellow beard was making fun of himself, but he was not angry, at least he was not as angry as Wang Wendu.

Fang Xuanling asked: "Hero, who are you from Qu Zhisheng?"

The big man with the yellow beard changed his face, straightened up, snorted, and said loudly: "Grandpa will not change his name when he is going, and he will not change his surname when he is sitting. My surname is Qu, and my surname is Qu Zhimao. Qu Zhisheng is my half-brother!"

Fang Xuanling listened, closed his eyes, and stopped talking, it was useless to talk, what good results could be achieved if he fell into the hands of this kind of Gaochang shabby.Gaochang was destroyed by the Tang Dynasty at the beginning, and the battle plan was planned by him himself.

Qu Zhimao waved his hand and said: "Want to pretend to be deaf and dumb? Well, it's up to you, you will ask me one day, and you may not be able to live through today. Little ones, hang him up and raise him!"

The young men stepped forward and brought Fang Xuanling down laughingly.

After leaving the big cave and entering the tunnel, there is nothing else in this empty mountain. The mountain is full of caves, I don’t know how many there are, and all the caves are connected.After walking for a long time, they came to an even bigger cave.

As soon as Fang Xuanling entered this cave, Fang Xuanling felt a gust of wind blowing. There was a very strange smell in this wind. Of course it was unpleasant, but more importantly, it would make people feel a sense of fear !

The young men put Fang Xuanling down, and said with a smile: "Master Fang, looking at you, you are quite difficult to raise. I guess you will have to complain in just one day, begging for mercy from our lord!"

A few young people walked in the cave, and said with a smile: "It was brought here so soon, we just hung that general up."

These young people looked at Fang Xuanling, and said: "He is the prime minister? He doesn't look like that, but he looks like a teacher."

A young man said: "Well, it looks like. When I was young, life was going well, and my family could afford me to go to a private school. The teacher looked similar to him, and he always had a face. There are several strands of beard!"

Another little boy came from behind, who seemed to be a little leader.The little leader said: "Stop talking nonsense, put him in the basket quickly!"

The young men agreed in unison, and pushed Fang Xuanling to the side of the cave. There was a huge thick log on the wall of the cave on this side, the kind for two people to embrace. The thick wood was fixed on the cave wall, which was very Firm, spread out sideways, and stretch out to the middle of the cave!

Fang Xuanling looked at the other side of the thick wood, saw it, and complained in his heart.He saw several big ropes tied to the rough wood, and each rope hung a big basket, and he knew the person in one of the baskets!

Who else could it be? Wang Wendu!
And under the basket, there was a bottomless abyss, a hole with a radius of seven or eight feet, it was pitch black, and the bottom could not be seen at a glance, and there was a constant wind blowing from the hole, which was quite terrifying.These robbers put the captives in baskets and hung them above the holes in the ground!
This method of detaining captives is very creative. Not only do the captives dare not escape, but even if someone comes to rescue them, it will take a lot of effort. If it is not done properly, the rescued person will fall into this bottomless black hole, leaving no bones left. !

The little boss said to Fang Xuanling: "Mr. Fang, I have heard of your name. You are amazing. When I was an ordinary citizen, let alone a prime minister, even if I saw a yamen servant, I would have to Walk around, so as not to block the way of the official and get beaten and scolded!"

He pointed at the black hole and said with a smile: "This hole is called the bottomless pit, and it goes straight to the center of the earth. No one knows how deep it is. Anyway, you can't hear the sound when you throw a stone. I'll hang you on it." , let the wind blow you, and defeat the flames for you. Well, don’t tie him up, let him loose, the prime minister will give you preferential treatment!”

The young men laughed together and said: "Master Guan is very angry, and he beats people at every turn. This bottomless pit is just suitable for people like you!"

They brought a big basket, a very big and strong one, with several thick ropes tied to it, and forced Fang Xuanling into the big basket. The young men carried him and hung him on the rough wood. Pulling the winch of the wooden wheel, Fang Xuanling was moved to the middle of the thick wood, which is also the center of the bottomless pit!
Fang Xuanling can't go up to the sky, can't go down to the ground, even though he is well-informed, but this is the first time he's heard of this kind of prison cell, he couldn't help but his face changed color, and he couldn't speak.

The young men stood on the wall of the cave, giggling, and wanted to see Fang Xuanling beg for mercy, but Fang Xuanling's prime minister was not so arrogant, even though he was trembling in the basket, he didn't say a word of begging for mercy.

After watching for a while, I felt quite bored, and the young men dispersed, but no one stayed behind, and I don't know why.

Fang Xuanling saw that the young men had left, so he began to look at the cave. Logically speaking, such a cave should have no light at all, but what is strange is that there is a little light on the cave wall. Although the light is weak, there is no problem in seeing the entire cave clearly. It is probably some kind of ore that can emit light, but it cannot be verified.

There were several large baskets beside him, and the one closest to him was of course filled with Wang Wendu.Wang Wendu tilted his head and was fainting.

And in a few baskets a little further away, there are people in each basket, unkempt and unknowable, only one is fairly tidy, although it is also very dirty, but it is sitting upright in the basket, looking It looked like he was meditating.

Fang Xuanling whispered: "General Wang, General Wang, wake up, wake up!"

Don't look at Wang Wendu yelling energetically in front of Qu Zhimao, but when he was hanged on the top of the bottomless pit, his spirituality immediately flew to the sky, and it is more likely that his spirituality fell into the bottomless pit, anyway He couldn't find it at all, and he was so frightened that he passed out!

Fang Xuanling yelled several times, but seeing that Wang Wendu didn't respond, he could only look at the others.Others, except for the meditating one, were silent and looked at him dully.

In this situation, Fang Xuanling really didn't know what to say, but he didn't dare to move, so he could only sit obediently in the basket.

After a while, the meditator opened his eyes and looked at Fang Xuanling and Wang Wendu. Suddenly, the man asked, "Benefactor, are you Fang Xuanling, Fang benefactor?" He spoke in Central Plains dialect.

Fang Xuanling groaned, he never thought that he would meet someone who knew him here.He squinted his eyes and looked at this man, and saw that this man's hair was not too long, only a few inches, much shorter than ordinary people from the Central Plains, he was less than fifty years old, and had a good appearance, but unfortunately his beard was too messy. It has never been repaired, and in his impression, he doesn't seem to recognize this person.

"This old man is Fang Xuanling, may I ask your Excellency?" Fang Xuanling asked.

The man clasped his palms together, recited the Buddha's name, and after reciting Amitabha Buddha, he said: "The poor monk Xuanzang once had a relationship with the benefactor in Chang'an for more than ten years, but the benefactor did not see many old people. what!"

Fang Xuanling was taken aback, and said, "Xuanzang? Are you the monk who pretended to be an envoy from the Tang Dynasty and went to Tianzhu to fetch Buddhist scriptures?"

Of course he knew something about Xuanzang, but for the prime minister of a country, he didn't care much about Tang Xuanzang's personal problems. He considered things from the perspective of national affairs, and for a monk who sneaked out of the customs , It would be strange if he was interested, but he didn't expect to meet this monk here!
Fang Xuanling said: "Just now that Qu Zhimao said that he arrested a monk, he suspected it was you as an old man, but because he couldn't protect himself, and he couldn't pursue it, I don't want you to be locked up here."

Seeing Tang Xuanzang clasping his palms together, he asked again, "Why aren't you tied up?"

Tang Xuanzang said: "Because the poor monk did not embarrass the benefactor Qu, so the benefactor Qu did not embarrass the poor monk." The tone was calm, as if he was talking about other people's affairs.

Fang Xuanling wondered: "You have been hanged here by him, how can you make things difficult for him?"

Tang Xuanzang recited Amitabha again, and said: "He asked the poor monk to admit that he was the king of Gaochang, and the poor monk recognized him as the king of Gaochang. What he asked for was nothing more than the misty and illusory things in the world. What did the poor monk give him?" Disaster?"

Fang Xuanling's face darkened, and said: "It's unreasonable, Gaochang has already destroyed the country, why did the King of Gaochang say it, not to mention that he is just a robber, how can he deserve to call himself the King of Gaochang!"

As soon as he got angry, the prime minister put on airs and even reprimanded Tang Xuanzang.

Tang Xuanzang said: "What is the difference between King Gaochang and ants, and what is the difference between robbers and ants? But they are all things in the world. All things in the world exist equally, so why not treat them equally?"

In the Tang Dynasty, or the entire ancient times, Tang Xuanzang was a leading debater.He does not argue against one person alone, but he alone can argue against a group of people.Moreover, the number of people in this area cannot be counted in hundreds, but in thousands, and it must be several thousand!

When Tang Xuanzang was in Tianzhu, he debated the Boiling method with Buddhist disciples, and he was able to calm down all the Buddhist disciples in Tianzhu. No one dared to argue with him. It was so powerful.

Tang Seng in the novel "Journey to the West" is a person who doesn't like to talk. In fact, he is very wrong. It is just an artistic description.The real Tang Xuanzang was quite able to speak, and he spoke clearly and eloquently, with unparalleled eloquence.

Monks, if you want to promote Buddhism and persuade others to convert to Buddha, how can you do it without saying?Not only must you be able to speak, but you must be able to speak very, very well, so that you can't convince others!

Uh, Fang Xuanling thought to himself: "Monks are very talkative, so I don't want to argue with him." He asked, "Then why didn't you run away?"

Tang Xuanzang asked again: "Why do you want to escape? What is the difference between a poor monk and an ant? What is the difference between a poor monk practicing in a monastery and sitting on this bottomless pit?"

Fang Xuanling said angrily: "The bottom is a bottomless pit, if you fall down, you will die!"

"It's just another reincarnation!" Tang Xuanzang said.

Fang Xuanling thought to himself: "No wonder you are not afraid, your thinking is different from ours!" Shaking his head, he stopped talking. In fact, he had nothing to say to Tang Xuanzang, and he couldn't ask anything. Instead, he was asked a lot. What are you talking about!
But Tang Xuanzang didn't let him go, and he said: "Benefactor Fang, the poor monk sees that you have a hostile face, and there must be some injustice in your heart. Can you tell the poor monk? Maybe the poor monk can clarify your doubts." .”

Fang Xuanling has lived such an old age, and has never seen such a talkative person. He said angrily: "I was caught by the robbers and hung on the bottomless pit, how can I be peaceful? Where did the peace come from?"

"What's the difference between this bottomless pit and that luxurious mansion?" Tang Xuanzang stretched out his arms, drew a big circle, and said, "Even if the benefactor of the house has a magnificent mansion, the land you occupy is nothing more than the extension of your arms. It's just so big..."

Fang Xuanling chuckled twice, and said, "This basket is much smaller than spreading out your arms."

"No, no. What the benefactor Fang said is wrong, let me listen to the poor monk tell you an allusion!" Tang Xuanzang obviously held back for too long, and no one listened to him. Finally, a benefactor Fang came, how could he If you let it go, you have to give Fang Xuanling a lecture on the scriptures.

Fang Xuanling sighed, no wonder the young men didn't stay in the cave... This time I knew the reason, facing this great monk, it was already a miracle that they didn't jump directly into the bottomless pit!

(End of this chapter)