dhibooks Chapter 18
Chapter 18
Guan Zen was locked in a confinement room, and the moonlight printed the shadow of the window sill on the wooden floor.One of the guarding disciples recognized the young monk and made an exception to allow the young monk to go in and talk to Guan Chan. "The time can't be very long." He warned, "Master said that tomorrow he will be able to deal with paying off Osuke and Brother Guanchan."
The little monk nodded his thanks, opened the door and entered the house.
There is no light in the room, and there is still thin moonlight anyway. Guan Zen is dressed in a blue monk's robe, kneeling, and his back is as straight as a green pine.As cold as moonlight and snow, the light-colored shadow of Guanzen is cast on the ground, like a wisp of smoke. The shadow twists a string of Buddhist beads, turning them one by one, chanting sutras silently.When they were talking at the door, their voices were not low, and it was impossible for Guan Zen not to hear them.But he didn't look back, just silently recited the scriptures, the little monk leaned on the door library with his arms tied, indifferently watched for a while, and then called out: "Brother."
The movement of the shadow turning the prayer beads stopped.
The young monk turned his head stiffly and slowly - a beam of moonlight slanted, and the faint light reflected on his face; it seemed that he had never slept in the meditation, and he was so haggard that he did not look like a human being.The little monk approached him, the eyeballs of Guan Zen were covered with bloodshot eyes, his eyes were black and white, and stubble had appeared on his chin.The little monk sat down beside him, followed him with the eyes of Guan Chan, and almost swallowed him alive, he sneered: "Now I will drag you to hell with me, brother, tell me, can the guy outside the door stop it?"
The little monk raised his chin and said gently, "You can try."
Guan Zen's eyes are dark and prey, like a rope that is strangled into the young monk's neck.The rope hung around the young monk's neck for a long while, but he did not attack in the end.He said: "You want to laugh at me. But you were given the name of a mere 'God's Son'. When you were picked up by Master back then, no one was better. Why didn't Master let you die of cold in the snow."
The little monk said: "I came here just to laugh at you, I'm not that boring."
"Then what are you doing here?! The outcome is already decided, and you think I'm ridiculous? Who dares to compete with you for the qualification to go to Enryakuji Temple in Mt. Gaining karma to lead the powerful monks, standing in the world, gaining both fame and fortune, even the princes and princes have to flatter you, and the emperor after entering the Tao can be equal to you, and enjoy the glory and wealth. You can kill the nobles who offend you Fangshi', no one with the best background in the world dares to disobey you. But what are you?! When others call you 'Son of God', you really regard yourself as a god? I don't think you are happy, Echiko Everyone in the temple is unhappy with you! I lost this game, but at least I have fought hard, knowing that this fate cannot accommodate me; as for you, junior brother, you put on this face of Ling Ran sentient beings every day, and sooner or later you will have to roll down Stay with me!"
The little monk said: "If it wasn't for your brother raising demons, how could this world not tolerate you."
Guan Chan laughed out loud as if hearing a very funny joke.Maybe it's because I know it's hard to get up, or maybe it's because there's no one around, and the object of the most resentment and jealousy is standing in front of me, or maybe it's something else, even if I say it, it's ridiculous; humans want to curse them, To raise your voice and curse, to regain the past, all you need is a fleeting thought that you can't even catch.After Guan Chan finished laughing, he calmed down a lot. He said, "Let me ask you, is my brother certain to die?"
The little monk said, "You know the answer."
Guan Chan laughed again, but couldn't make a sound anymore.He tossed the beads back, the beads broke, and the sandalwood beads rolled all over the ground. He laughed violently and trembled, leaned on his forehead, covered his eyes with his hands, and tears came out of his grin: "This is the way of the world." We couldn’t be tolerated. I couldn’t tolerate all ordinary people without rights. If I want to climb up, I have to be ordained and become a monk. The first thing I read is not Buddhist scriptures. , as soon as you come in, you study and learn calligraphy and martial arts. I deserve it for sweeping snow with bare feet, watering the vegetable garden, and washing the smelly monk's robes in the whole temple. If you call "senior brother", you have to pave the way for your future everywhere .My brother should be born to be a human sandbag for noble children and raise dogs for them, ha! He showed half of his bloodshot eyes from between his fingers, "Did you listen to it very well?" !The 'Master Shenzi' who was too lucky? "
The little monk said calmly: "I heard that 20 years ago, evil spirits made trouble here, and the whole village was annihilated in the fire. I thought, brother, you entered Echigo Temple because you hated monsters."
He laid a trap.
The little monk is not sure whether the Fu Xia brothers are really related to the disaster that happened on this land 20 years ago.It's just that the timing just happened to fit; so does a certain part of the rumor.But the coincidence can't explain anything. In this era of coexistence between humans and ghosts, people die due to accidents almost every second, and disasters happen everywhere at any time.Vipassana should have been heard quickly, but it didn't.Maybe he's mentally unstable, maybe he doesn't care anymore; there are so many possibilities, and human emotions are as unpredictable as catastrophes.
Vipassana seemed to be unaware, biting the bait that the little monk had dropped.
"What monster? What fire?" Guan Chan sneered, "Not even robbers. There were only two teams of nobles and boys who came that day. They circled our village to play archery. Whoever hunted the most prey in the competition. Prey? Naturally people."
Guan Zen was dug out of the corpse pile by his brother.
The flames that day were like the most magnificent sunset, it was so gorgeous that it was so dazzling that it was hard to keep your eyes open.Guan Chan failed to remember the faces of his parents who disappeared in the blood and flames, he only remembered the sunset glow, and the end of the magnificent warm red, and the black spot where the small group held the power of life and death.
Guan Chan gritted his teeth and said: "I was brought up by my elder brother himself, and my elder brother is like a father, but my elder brother is still there-so I swear, I will kill the dignitaries who block my way one by one sooner or later-including yours. , Junior Brother. The morals of the world do not allow me, if it is not because of you, I will definitely get the job, let you bastards who are rotten in the bones taste what it is like to be hopeless."
The little monk smiled: "Brother, don't you know what the courtyard your elder brother paid for the osuke is for? There are also many people who were killed by him and killed by dogs."
"Those people are worthy of being called human beings?" Guan Chan said contemptuously, "They are lowly and vulgar, they don't know how to fight, and they fight for a little profit. Brother and they are talking about business, business, you I wish, how can I blame my elder brother?"
The little monk said: "It seems that you know it. Then do you know how Fuxia Osuke raised the dog god?"
"Why, when did Junior Brother be so merciful, even killing a dog?"
"Your brother told me that he sacrificed the dog god to kill me. I don't know him... It's not that I forgot. He came to the mountain to see you a year ago. I just glanced at it. Besides, we There is no more intersection. It is impossible for a person to sacrifice so much just to kill a stranger for no reason?... Well, looking at the expression on the senior brother, you are very confused. The senior brother must not know how much your brother loves you and has paid for you What." The little monk told him with a smile, "Brother, do you know Abu?"
The man, so depressed and haggard to the point of nervousness, obviously thought of something. This imagination was extremely terrifying. He was extremely astonished, inserted his fingers into his hair, and murmured messily: "How is it possible... I have met Abu, and my brother often wrote about him in his letters home." .He is very good. Impossible, my sister-in-law will stop my brother. They all love him. Abu is still so young. He is the hope of our family. Impossible."
"It's just as you imagined. Brother." The little monk said softly, "Brother, you have seen him before, you just need to think about it for a while and you can remember it. The moment you rushed in and saw Inugami, you ran to Fuxia Osuke At that moment, you should have seen it. The white son next to the dog god is Abu. Why did your elder brother sacrifice his own son to the dog god? You must be clear, brother."
"To shut up!"
"Because he wanted the dog god to kill me. Originally, I thought that he wanted to imprison the dog god and make him serve his bloodline. But then I suddenly remembered that he even killed his only son, so why would he care about the bloodline? Now I finally know," said the little monk, "because Inugami is going to kill me, and my whereabouts are probably always the same as yours. If Abu becomes Bai Zi, as long as Inugami lives, he will never harm your bloodline .You are of the same blood as him. He is afraid that the dog god will hurt you when he kills me."
"--To shut up!!"
"By the way, I just learned about one more thing. When the sun rises, the temple will sentence you and Fuxia Osuke. Your life will not be in danger, but Fuxia will definitely die." The little monk said in a tone He said briskly, "Maybe you can save him at the last moment, who knows?"
It was as if the spine was pulled out in an instant in Guan Zen, and the upper body - limp and paralyzed on the ground.He propped his elbows on the ground, grabbed his hair and ears tightly, and screamed hoarsely: "He is my brother, what else can I do, I only have him as a family—"
The little monk sat aside, watching him coldly.
The burst of insight meditation is almost instantaneous.His movements were so fast that he didn't look like a weak, broken human being.Like a hunting dog, he jumped up and took out a short dagger out of nowhere and was about to stab the little monk: "You are satisfied with what you hear, little beast, even if my brother and I can't live , I want to take you to be buried with me——!!!"
Of course it failed, Guan Chan's wrist was twisted by the young monk, and the tip of the dagger was pressed against Guan Chan's own nose.The young monk's fingers were cracked, and a bead of sweat oozed from his forehead. Just as he was about to fight the young monk, he heard the faint voice of the child who was more terrifying than all the ghosts.
"By the way, there is one thing I forgot to tell you." The little monk said, "Master asked me once before going down the mountain, and said that the qualification to go to Hieienli Temple this time should be handed over to the senior brother for meditation. Because the master thinks that I am too old. Small, it is still too early to go to a big temple for further study or travel. He said that you have been steadfast and diligent since you were a child, and you will not shirk any dirty work. You also have a good relationship with the brothers and sisters in the temple. So the master entrusted you with the position of abbot and manager of this lecture, let me practice with you, and after the lecture is over and returns to the mountain, I will prepare luggage for you to see you off."
The dagger fell to the ground.
Human beings are very interesting when they are emotionally aroused, just like the expressions that only stand still on the eve of death; when they are excited, their expressions are alive, like spreading vines that pull out their branches.When the body couldn't bear it, the vines broke through the wall and became ghost horns that drilled out of the skin on the human forehead.They looked funny back then, too, terribly hideous, like an old cracked house, full of traumatic rips.
There is another kind, the death of the living.
Still breathing, the vines have withered and died.His time was stuck at the moment before he heard the news, but an earthquake, a volcanic eruption, a tsunami or a hurricane burst out in slow motion in his eyes.The grandiose is like the silent destruction of a world.
The little monk turned his head and left here.Turning his head away from the house behind him mottled with white and gray, collapsed bricks and tiles, instantly decayed.
When the sun rose, they began to collect their luggage and prepare to return to Mount Ibuki.In the morning, Ibaraki was idle and bored, so he asked: "The person in charge here is dead, and when you leave, will this place be abandoned?"
The little monk said: "What do you expect it to go to waste, to be the lair of monsters?"
Ibaraki smiled: "I think the scenery is not bad."
"It can't be abandoned. Paying Osuke is just a steward. He is dead. The nobles who hold this place can just find another steward. There are always a lot of people." The little monk said coolly, "The dog will still be raised at that time. Beast fighting and gambling will still be done, and people will still die. Nothing that happens here will change much."
Ibaraki was a little bored, so he went out.He came back at noon and told the little monk, "They are dead."
The little monk raised his head slightly.
"Originally, I was just planning to deal with the person who kept the dog, but suddenly the monk rushed up like crazy and said that he ordered the dog god to be sacrificed, and the method of sacrifice was given to that guy by the monk. Your abbot—the old monk sent a lot Big fire."
"and then?"
"Then prepare to throw them into Lake Biwa and drown them. This kind of death is really not easy, it might as well let me kill them-but it's no different now."
"No difference?"
It is said that when he was about to push Guanzen and Fuxiaosuke into the lake, suddenly there was a strong gust of evil wind.Out of the reeds came out a female ghost dressed in red with blood and tears on her face. This female ghost was not afraid of attack, even death, and walked straight towards the two brothers in front of the mages.The abbot heard the chaotic "Abu" in her mouth, and beckoned the mage to step aside.
"All deeds are permanent, and nothing is right." The abbot bowed his head and recited a Buddhist gatha, and led the monastery's mage and officials who assisted in the implementation to turn around and leave.
As expected, the female ghost didn't chase after them, she just walked towards the two men, and ate them alive one by one, leaving no bones and scum, only a big puddle of blood left by the river, no matter how much it was washed, it couldn't be washed away.The female ghost disappeared, and there was a strong wind that night, as if a woman was crying, or as if a mother was telling her, "Remember to eat well."
A little messy tip that you can watch or not:
1. "You were promoted to be a lecturer of the 'Three Associations', and you got the job to lead the monks of the powerful family. During the period when a few clans controlled and monopolized the central government, the only way out for the children of other aristocrats was to become a monk in Buddhism, so the competition for the monk's position was almost like the competition for the official position.
2. "After entering the Tao, the emperor can sit on an equal footing with you." The emperor will definitely not sit on an equal footing with you!It almost refers to the beginning when Emperor Shomu of Nara called himself "Slave of the Three Treasures" in front of the famous Todaiji Lushana Buddha. In peacetime, 33 generations of emperors became monks, as many as 16, and queens, princes, ministers, and ministers also followed. It is called "Entrance".In short, there are really a lot of them, "The emperor's son, Prince Ryohito, and the following 13 monks are all monks"; is it really popular to be a monk? !
3. "You can 'release the nobles' who offend you"" "Release the family" is a matter of the Yuanzheng period. Mikoto went to Kyoto to appeal, and Japanese history books called it "forced complaint" or "awful complaint".In particular, every time the monks of Kofuku Temple went to Beijing to complain, the Fujiwara clan did not dare to enter the court to handle official affairs, which almost stopped the functioning of government departments.If the people of the Fujiwara family ignore this or do anything that is not conducive to the Kofuku Temple, the monks of the Kofuku Temple will hold a ceremony in front of the sacred tree to announce that the person will be expelled from the Fujiwara family.People who have been declared "Fangshi" will no longer be able to serve as officials in the imperial court until the monks of Xingfu Temple express their absolution.This is called "the principle of mountain steps", and even the imperial court is helpless. ]... I feel that the monk at that time was super awesome (.)
4. They are all copied and pasted from the thesis, just want to complain that the monk is really a good job!By the way, I can also see that the time line in this article is actually super chaotic, and the Onmyoji era is also chaotic, so let them fly freely.I probably refer to the vicinity of the Heian era, and the reference is very casual!Just plan to the extent that it doesn’t look too disobedient at first glance_(:з」∠)_