It is said that Xiaotang left Hejia Village and went to the avenue to go to Sizhou. Helplessly exhausted, it was difficult to walk, and when he was hesitating, he suddenly saw a wooden fish on the side of the road, pasting a post, and the small pond went forward to pick it up, and saw that the post read:
When visiting the Tao, why do you need to dress, and Confucian books can also make fasting food.
The Buddhist temple in Sizhou City has its own humble mysterious recipe. Xiao Tang finished reading the Cambodian post in his sleeve, and thought in his heart that this was the guidance of the old ancestor, since he told me to study and study, I thought that the "University" was the Bible, so I read this "University", the idea was already decided, and the letter walked up to a village. When he saw that there was a school, he sat outside the door, tapped the wooden fish with his hand, and read "University" again. Xiao Tang was reading it, and a student who came out of it clapped his hands and laughed, saying, "This show is poor and broken." Just as he was laughing, a few students came out of it, laughing into a circle, and there was a man with the surname Ding, named Ding Kun, who walked up to Xiao Tang and said, "Mr. Huayuan, I am called BowangDian here, I do more evil, less good, I still have thirty-six copper coins to buy pen and paper to give, and Mr. Go elsewhere to make it." "Hand the money to the small pond and go away." Xiao Tang took the money, collected the wooden fish, went to the hotel to buy something to eat, and then pounced on the avenue, walked forward, and was hungry along the way to study and fast, and stayed in the ancient temple late.
Walking that day, I saw a city, it was late, I couldn't go forward, I walked to a broken temple, but I saw that the walls were all down, the bricks and stones were all on the ground, and I was going to go inside the main hall, the plaque read the main hall of the three religions, Xiao Tang worshiped the god statue, walked to the back, saw two grass houses, which revealed the lights, went forward and knocked on the door twice, Xiao Shami asked who it was. Xiao Tang said, "Master, I am a person who goes out, only because I missed the storeway, I came to spend the night." Little Shami heard this and opened the door. Xiao Tang and Xiao Shami entered the grass hut, saw a half-old monk roasting a fire there, and hurriedly approached with trepidation and smiled: "Master, the student is polite." The monk saw that Xiao Tang's body was in tatters, and only half of the interrogation was returned, and he was not angry, and said to Xiao Shami: "In the middle of the night, don't ask Zhang San, Li Si, just let him in, if it is a miscreant, you don't care?" When Xiao Tang saw this situation, he was afraid that he would not want to stay with himself, so he took out a small silver bag, about four pieces of silver, held it with both hands, and said: "Teacher Father, don't be angry with the disciples, the students have no place to stay, come to alarm, hoping to beg for a night." This is four pieces of silver, please burn a few good incense. ”
When the old monk saw the silver, he changed his face at that time and said, "Xiang Gong, not a poor monk who is a cruel disciple, only because our temple is desolate, there are often friends who come and go, only then do they speak recklessly, Xiang Gong is strange, he wants to stay, how dare he not stay, why should he give incense money." Although he said this, he had already taken the silver into his hand and said, "Disciple, Xianggong wants to come and has not yet eaten, so hurry up and get fasting." "The little monk took the order and brought the meal in a short time. Xiao Tang did not hesitate, and immediately ate and said, "Teacher Father, what kind of city is opposite this?" "The monk said that this is the Fengyang Mansion in Nanjing, and the name of the temple is Sizhou, and my temple is called the Three Sects Temple." Xiao Tang listened to his heart and thought: Lao Zu Cambodia said clearly, told me to go to Sizhou City to visit the gods, and said that the three religions are one, and now that I have arrived here, I am just practicing. I wanted to stop talking and said, "Dare to ask the teacher Father Andy?" The monk said, "The name of the poor monk's Dharma is as it is, my temple originally had six doors, and there were more than five hundred monks, but later the monastery withered, and the masses scattered everywhere, leaving only the two masters and apprentices to suffer here." Xiao Tang said: "There are many rich families in Sizhou for a long time, so why not rebuild the monastery with some money and grain." Ru Ben said: "Xiang Gong does not know, the people here are not good, and it is a year of drought, who is willing to give alms." Xiao Tang said, "Elder rest assured, wait for me to rebuild the treasure brake with you." Ru Ben said: "Xiang Gonghui will joke, you see that although this monastery is small, you also have to pay thirty or twenty thousand silver wages, you are not a monk, you can't raise ten parties, how to rebuild the monastery." It's late at night, please rest. "Say goodbye and go to bed. The next day, Xiao Tang got up and finished freshening up, and Xiao Shami brought tea to him, accompanied by Ben. The monk thought in his heart: Last night he said something big, he wanted to believe it, and he was afraid that he had some history, so when I asked him a question, he said: "Xiang Gong, last night I only cared about small talk, and I lost my question about your surname and honorific name, where is the Immortal Fang?" Xiao Tang said: "The student's ancestral home is Shenyang in Guandong, I am in Huangmen, and now I am moving to Beijing, my surname is Ji Dengke, and my name is Xiao Tang." "Ru Ben listened to what he said in his belly: I went to Beijing to raise money the year before, and I heard that there was a Ji Xiaotang, but it was the rich man Xiucai, who turned out to be this person, and he didn't dare to say big words. Thinking about it, he said, "Ji Xianggong, the poor monk has been famous for a long time, and he went out today, why did he do such an act?" Xiao Tang said, "Don't hide from the elders, only because you have repeatedly failed to do so, you have broken through the red dust, you have visited the Tao, and you have traveled the world." I had to be taught by strangers, so I promised to rebuild the monastery last night, but I don't know if there is a secluded place? Ru ben said: "There is a vegetable garden in the back but it is very secluded, I don't know what to use?" ”
Xiao Tang said, "Since this is the case, you can prepare seven high tables, five black bowls, one black basin, half a pound of sesame oil, a piece of yellow paper, and a pen and cinnabar, and send them to Laiyuan." These few things are the cost of building a temple with you. When Ruben heard this, he wondered in his heart: How can these few things be the cost of repairing the temple? Just give him the pieces and see how he uses them.
So he asked Xiao Shami to find seven broken offering tables, and the rest of the things were complete, sent to the garden, and led XiaoTang to the garden. Xiao Tang took a look at it, and sure enough, he was secluded, and said, "Elder, don't let idle people come in, and you masters and disciples must not come to see it privately." "The words will be sent out as the master and disciple, turn over and close the door, put the seven offering tables in one place, all the application objects, the decorations stop, and at dusk, remove the Confucian crown, open the hair, put on the high table, hold the gourd in his hand, knock the wu pot three times, only to see a black gas rush out, the ghost howls, reach out together, and xiaotang is deadly. Although Xiao Tang was afraid, with Lü Zu's spell, he kept his heart in his heart and was busy reciting the incantation, and the five ghosts heard the Fa and took a few steps back, but they still cried out. Xiao Tang lifted the black pot, exposed the light, and looked down, only to see five evil ghosts with strange appearances, and quickly drew a spirit rune, and the lamp burned. Only to hear a thunderclap in the air, the five ghosts fell to their knees together and said, "Master stops his anger, I am waiting for the conversion to the Orthodox Church." Xiao Tang said, "Since this is the case, take my rune water." The five ghosts took the order, each of them went to the front of a bowl of water, drank it in the abdomen, Xiao Tang said: "Listen to my command, Er and others are the five ghosts of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, but they must obey the orders one by one." He put the five ghosts into the gourd, stuffed them into the plugs, put them into his arms, stepped out of the garden, entered the grass hut, and when he saw Himen, he said, "Elder, tomorrow I want you to go out to raise money, but I don't know who is the head of the rich family in the city?" Ru Ben said: "There is a Zhao gentry eunuch in this city, who has been a political envoy in Zhejiang, and is worthy of being the first rich man, but this person slandered the monks and did not respect the Ming King." Ji Xiaotang said, "The elder is assured, and he should be called a leader of the Book of Fortunes." "Without saying a word, he went back to the vegetable garden, took the gourd out of his arms, pulled the plug, called out the ghost head He Long, and so on, and the ghost leader led the order. Xiao Tang came out of the garden to see Ru Ben. He said, "Elder, you take the Book of Fortune to the head of the eunuch Zhao and so on, and call him the Book of Origins." "If it should never have been uncertain.
It is said that the ghost head He Long arrived at Zhao Gentry's eunuch's house with a gust of wind, and this gentleman's name was Zhao Wanbi, who was sitting idly in the study, listening only to the curtains, asking a few questions, and no one answered. The gentleman said, "Good slave, is it not dumb?" The bastard ghost heard that the curtain was pulled down with a bang and appeared in its original form. When the eunuch saw it, he shouted, and was busy taking a bow from the wall to take the arrow as a string, shooting three arrows in a row according to the mixed-element ghost, and the mixed-element ghost rushed out of the room with a flash of fire, and suddenly a maid ran in a panic and said: "The old man is not good, the old lady burned incense in the Buddhist hall, and suddenly the arrow was hit in the throat, and she died of despair." The gentleman heard that the real souls were all emerging, and ran to the Buddhist hall to take a look, and sure enough, it was his mother. At the moment of panic and grief, another yahuan ran and said, "No, the wife is playing upstairs with her husband, and suddenly two arrows are shot from the window, killing both the mother and son." When the eunuch heard this, he hurried upstairs and fixed his eyes on it, and if his wife was killed, he had not finished crying, and the doorkeeper reported again: "Lord Qicha, misfortune descended from heaven, and the second grandmother hung naked on the locust tree in front of the door." When the gentleman heard this, gollum ran outside again, and ran outside to look up, only to see his second lady hanging from a tree, like an a white sheep. The gentleman saw that it was painful and burning, and he was only anxious to jump like thunder. Just as the eunuch was busy and overheard the wooden fish loudly, the monk read aloud:
Give up, the great creation, the non-giving, the uncreated; the love of the association hanging, the mother dead wife without children and dead, the beloved beautiful concubine hanging high. Hugh will cry, don't be afraid, and advise the king to give up now. If you can open my book, you will be told to talk.
Zhao Shenyi looked up and recognized the monks in the Three Sects Temple. He couldn't help but feel angry in his heart, and said, "Good bald slave, my family has suffered this great calamity, and he is still screaming here, obviously teasing the old master." The servants are not open with me yet! When Ru Ben heard this, he said in a loud voice, "Gentleman, your family has this calamity, and you have not turned back to be kind, if you are willing to be a leader of the book with me, you will be called dead and alive, and you will cry and laugh." Zhao Shen eunuch listened to this where he believed it, but just drank the family Ding Kuai. One of the family members said, "Old Master is angry, this monk has spoken big words, there must be some history, why not open a book with him and ask him to save our dead people!" Eunuch Zhao thought about it for a moment, but had no choice but to say, "Monk, if you have the ability to save my family of four, I will be the leader of the Book of Open Books with you." ”
As Ben said, "Gentleman, if you open the book of fate, you are guaranteed to live." The eunuch said, "How much silver can be opened?" As Ben said, "Only a thousand." The eunuch said, "Well, I'll drive a thousand, and if you don't have the skill, I'll talk about it later." "After taking the book of fate, he personally wrote zhao wanbi shiyin one thousand taels, as if he saw that Zhao Sheng's eunuch opened the book of fate, he secretly read the spiritual text, and the dead bodies were restored." After Zhao Shenyi finished writing the fate book, she looked up and was surprised.