The first volume of the historical novel "Asking the Impermanence of the Demon and the Demon Hand": Doing the Way
Chapter 26: On the Yanggu Mountain (11)
Previous link: Volume I, Chapter 25
At the banquet, Ma Er shouted that he wanted to become a monk. At that time, everyone thought that he was just a drunken talk made by a child who drank too much, but no one expected that the next morning, Ma Er ran to Li Chuanyong and told him that he was going to become a monk and follow Qiu Chuji to practice.
At this time, Li Chuanyong was still a little hangover, and when he heard Ma Er say this, he couldn't help but widen his eyes and look at the child he picked up. The kid looked serious, and he couldn't see that he was joking, and Li Chuanyong couldn't help asking: "Aren't you afraid that you will suffer if you become a monk?"
"Bian Zhihe is about the same age as me, and I don't think he looks like he is suffering!" Ma Er said.
Li Chuanyong pondered silently, and after a long time, he said slowly: "Becoming a monk may be a way out! Being a bandit is not a long way after all!"
"It's better for us to become a monk together!" Hearing Li Chuanyong say this, Ma Er couldn't help but agitate.
Li Chuanyong looked at Ma Er's eager appearance and shook his head gently, "Child, you can become a monk, how can people like me tolerate me?"
Ma Er thought about it in wonder, and couldn't figure out why he could become a monk, but the big boss couldn't.
Li Chuanyong continued: "Since you want to become a monk, you should first ask Daoist Qiu and ask him if he can accept you. People can only take you to go. ”
"I asked Bian Zhihe, and Bian Zhihe said yes!" Ma Er said, "Now I just want to ask what you mean! For so many years, thanks to you as the big boss, I have always been grateful in my heart!"
Hearing Ma Er suddenly thank himself so seriously, Li Chuanyong couldn't help laughing, remembering the scene when he came to the mountain with the skinny Ma Er, it seemed that it hadn't been long before the child had grown into a tall young man.
"Since you have this thought, go with the Taoist!" Li Chuanyong said, and couldn't help but think of his grandson again: The child grows up quickly, how can I give him a good way out?
"Thank you, big boss!" Ma Er didn't run away immediately after speaking, but knelt on the ground, "all of them" kowtowed three times, and then turned around and walked out of Li Chuanyong's door.
Looking at Ma Er's determined appearance, Li Chuanyong couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "Alas, if you can go, let's go one by one!"
What Li Chuanyong didn't expect was that as soon as the news of Ma Er's renunciation spread, several brothers on the mountain wanted to follow him to become a monk, and they all came to ask him for instructions. Li Chuanyong was very uncomfortable for a while, and he wanted to get angry, but recently, he didn't know why, the previous anger had disappeared without a trace, which made Li Chuanyong wonder: "Am I really old?"
Looking at the seven or eight brothers kneeling in front of him, some of them were about the same age as Ma Er, and there were old brothers who were about the same age as him in their forties and fifties, Li Chuanyong waved his hand to make them all stand up, and asked the oldest bandit closest to him: "Old Lu, tell me why you are a monk?"
Lao Lu is about fifty years old, he looks very honest, and when he heard Li Chuanyong ask himself, he couldn't help but smile a little embarrassedly: "I ...... the big boss"
"It's okay, just say whatever you want. Li Chuanyong and Yan Yuese.
"Great boss, I came to the mountain before you did. At that time, when I went up the mountain, I was really forced to have no choice! If there is a bite of food to eat at the bottom of the mountain, who can want to go up the mountain to make a living?" Lao Lu hesitated for a long time, and finally made up his mind to speak, "We are honest people, and we are also bullied and afraid of being bullied at the bottom of the mountain, so we have no choice but to take this road! At that time, I didn't know that there was still a Taoist priest, but now when I see it, I am really envious! At the beginning, I knew that there was such a road, maybe I would have ...... at that time."
"Did you become a monk at that time?" asked Li Chuanyong.
"Hmm. Lao Lu nodded, "Look at those Taoist priests, they look so happy!"
Li Chuanyong nodded, and his eyes swept over the few people: "What about you, why are you monks?"
"We can't be bandits for the rest of our lives!" said a young man.
"Alas. Hearing this, Li Chuanyong couldn't help but sigh in his heart and said: "Since this is the case, you all go and ask, if the Taoist elders take you in, you can go! If you don't take you in, you come back, and I will never say a word more!"
"Thank you, boss!"
"Thank you, boss!"
Watching a few people thank each other one by one, Li Chuanyong's heart was even more unpleasant: "It's only been a few days, and my own people have been taken away by several Taoist priests, if this Dharma continues to be done, how can it be done?" Thinking like this, he couldn't stay in the house anymore, and walked out of the room uneasily, turning around in the mountains, feeling that he couldn't tell anyone what was on his mind, and finally simply walked to Hu Yixiong's side.
As soon as Hu Yixiong heard what Li Chuanyong said, he was so anxious that his two big eyes glared: "Big brother, these boys are trying to rebel? That's right! According to me, all of them!" He gestured with his hand to his neck, "I want to shake the hearts of the people on my mountain! We can't keep them!"
Li Chuanyong saw that Hu Yixiong's face was fierce, and he couldn't help frowning but didn't speak.
"Big brother, if you don't say anything, I'll take your consent!" Hu Yixiong said and was about to call someone in.
Li Chuanyong hurriedly waved his hand: "Brother, let's stop in moderation! There are too many people who have killed people and created evil, not to mention that they are all brothers who have been with us for several years!"
"Then can't you just let them go like this?" Hu Yixiong gritted his teeth and creaked, "This Ma Er, causing so many troubles!" Speaking of this, he couldn't wait to go and pull Ma Er over and beat him up.
"But, how do I think they're all right?" Li Chuanyong said suddenly.
"Big brother!" Hu Yixiong shouted in a deep voice.
At this time, the sound of music sounded outside again, according to the plan handed over by Ding Dali, today is the Dharma that Li Chuanyong did for his family.
Hearing the sound outside, Li Chuanyong's face became even more sad, he stood up, looked out the window, and said after a long time: "Alas, Yixiong, it is only today that I understand that in this world, only life and death are the biggest things! These brothers have followed us for so many years, and they are all earning food on the knife edge, and it is not easy! Now that they have found a new way out, let them go! If you really want to follow us on this mountain, why is it not a dead end!" After saying these words, Li Chuanyong's heart suddenly became much happier.
At this time, the voice on the other side of the festival had changed to the voice of the Taoist priest chanting, and Li Chuanyong continued: "At my age, there is no future at all, and the only thing on my mind now is where my little grandson goes! I hope his grandmother and father will bless him so that this child can have a good future!" After speaking, he didn't care about Hu Yixiong's reaction, he walked out with his hands behind his back.
"Big brother, we still have many good days!" Seeing Li Chuanyong like this, Hu Yixiong felt that he was too pessimistic, so he shouted, but Li Chuanyong had already gone away.
With yesterday's lesson, Hu Yixiong didn't dare to make decisions on his own, and after thinking about it, there were only seven or eight people, so let's go: "Anyway, there are thousands of brothers on this mountain, and a few of them are inconspicuous! When my injury is healed, I have to teach the brothers on the mountain well, the officers and soldiers are at the bottom of the mountain, and there is a big battle to fight, how can I do without fighting spirit?" Lying on the bed, Hu Yixiong could only comfort himself like this.
Listening to the sound outside, Hu Yixiong felt that it was particularly noisy today, so he called someone to find Ding Dali.
After a while, Ding Dali came, and he looked at Hu Yixiong: "Brother Xiong, how is your injury?"
"It's much better faster. Listening to Ding Dali ask about his injury, Hu Yixiong remembered Qiu Chulai, this Taoist priest was enthusiastic about treating his injuries, and he really couldn't bear to do it, but things on the mountain had developed to this extent, and he couldn't help but force him to find a way. So he said, "Dali, do you think these Taoist priests are full of evil nature?"
"What's wrong?" asked Ding Dali.
"It's only been a few days, and Ma Er and several brothers are clamoring to leave home!" Hu Yixiong said angrily.
"A few small fish, can't make any big waves!" Ding Dali said with some indifference.
"I know this, but are you saying that this thing is evil?" Hu Yixiong's face was puzzled.
"Brother Xiong, our brother on the mountain, you have the strongest personality, you can hum their little songs from time to time, you don't even dare to say a word in front of Qiu Daochang, it is reasonable for them to have this change!" Ding Dali said.
"Hey, I'll let you figure it out, I didn't let you be so resigned to fate!" Hu Yixiong rolled his eyes angrily.
"I can't help it. Ding Dali spread his hands and said.
"There's no way to make you think!" Mr. Hu said.
"Brother Xiong, I really can't help it!" Ding Dali looked at Hu Yixiong very sincerely, "You want to say that the official army rushed up, and you asked me to fight with you, I won't say a word! But I can't deal with the strength of this Taoist priest!" Speaking of this, he remembered a sentence he heard them reading the scriptures outside the Taoist priest's window, and couldn't help but mutter: "The softest in the world, the strongest in the world." That's good!"
"What?" Hu Yixiong looked confused.
This seems to be a sentence from the Tao Te Ching. Ding Dali searched his mind for the books he had read before, "It is about the Tao that the Taoist priests believe. ”
"What, you can explain it clearly!" Hu Yixiong had a headache when he heard Ding Dali talk about the things in the book, and he didn't know what he was talking about at all.
"For example," Ding Dali tried his best to think of a simple and understandable example, "You know that the water drops through the stone, and the water is very soft, but every day it falls down little by little, it can penetrate the hard stone. ”
"Well, that's right. Hu Yixiong nodded and said, "What does that have to do with Taoist priests?"
"They are like water, we are stones. Ding Dali said.
"I understand what you say!" Hu Yixiong frowned and thought for a while, "Then if these Taoist priests are allowed to stay on the mountain again, will we all be saved?"
"Very likely!" Ding nodded vigorously, thinking, I don't want to talk about the war anymore now, "Let them sing for a few more days, I guess I want to become a monk!"
"Then let them stop quickly, let's not do it!" Hu Yixiong shouted, thought about it and said: "No, wait a few more days, and stop when my injuries are healed!"
Saying that, Hu Yixiong moved his wrist, which had improved greatly, and just waited for the injury to heal.
(To be continued, welcome to look forward to it)