During the Ming Dynasty, a monk came to a certain place and declared to people that he could open the valley. The rich and noble family was always very interested in this kind of thing, so they called the monk to their home to try it.
Sure enough, the monk didn't eat rice for seven or eight days, just asked the master for a bowl of boiling water every two or three days.
So one spread ten, ten spread hundreds, and soon everyone knew that this was a high-ranking monk, so they all competed to give him a lot of money and cloth.
A township official went to the county seat to do business, and accidentally chatted with the county magistrate about this monk, and praised him, saying that he was simply a god.
This county order is a person who understands, and after listening to it, he said disapprovingly: In the world, where can you cut off food, those so-called people who can clear the grain are hidden dry food to coax those ignorant people. No reasonable gentleman would believe these nonsense.
Besides, if there were really people in the world who could open valleys, I am afraid that they would have fled far away from the mountains and forests, lest they would be known, and where would they wander the world and accept people's belongings and other things outside their bodies.
When the county magistrate said this, it seemed as if he believed in evil, so he wanted the county magistrate to believe that it was true that the monk could open the valley, so he proposed to let the county magistrate recruit the monk to give it a try, so as to prove that he was not lying.
The county commander then sent someone to call the monk and asked him to take him first, and found that the monk had nothing but twenty-four Buddhist beads. So they put him in an empty room.
Every day during the day, the county order asked people to open the door to see the monk, and after seeing it, they locked the door. After that, the county magistrate quietly sent people to monitor the monk's movements.
Two days ago, the monk was still doing everything normally, meditating and practicing every day. On the third day, when I opened the door to look at him, I noticed that he was beginning to break out in a cold sweat. At this time, the monk wanted to beg for a bowl of hot water to drink.
The county order sent him a bowl of water, and soon, the person who monitored it came to report that the monk had mixed a Buddhist bead into the water, and after drinking it, his face returned to normal.
Come back, every two days, the monk wants a bowl of hot water to mix a Buddha bead to drink, so after eleven days, the county order released the monk, to see that he is still normal, but the Buddha beads are missing five.
The county order confiscated the monk's Buddhist beads, put him in prison, and instructed the guards not to let any monk and Taoist priest go to see him, and after two days, he will definitely ask you for food, so you ask him how to make the Buddhist beads, and if he teaches you the same effect as his Buddhist beads, I will be rewarded.
The guards remembered the words of the county order, and sure enough, two days later, the monk asked him for food.
The guard asked him for the method of making the beads, but the monk never said, he only said that this medicine was extremely rare, and he was willing to go out and take more silver taels to thank him.
After three days of this, the monk was so hungry that his face turned blue and black, and he couldn't stand steadily.
The county magistrate brought the monk out of his cell for interrogation and asked him to tell him how to make Buddhist beads, but the monk just lay on the ground and pretended to be dead and refused to speak.
At this time, the county magistrate said to the crowd who came to watch: You see, the monk has only been hungry here for three days and is about to starve to death. The reason why he was able to open the valley before was all because of those Buddha beads. And those Buddha beads are actually called child pills. This pill is made from the fetus in the woman's womb, and to make this elixir, the woman needs to be killed and the baby taken out of her belly, and the monk does not know how many lives have been killed and how many sins have been created. How dare he tell me how to make the child pill? Even killing him now is light.
In order to prove that what he said was true, the county commander took out the remaining nineteen Buddha beads, mixed four them in a bowl, and let a few brave people drink them.
After a few brave people drank two sips, they didn't feel hungry for a day.
In the end, the evil monk was ordered to be executed by the county order, avenging the unjust death of the women and children, and the township official never believed in the monk again.
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