Chapter 73 The Hungry Ghost
The Five Tongshen is a god worshipped here in Jiangnan. There are many stories about the origin of the Five Tongshen. However, in "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", the Five Tongshen is a little out of the way.
The "Five Directions" in a Chinese Studio explains the story of the Five Directions Gods, saying that there are many fox demons in the north, while there are Five Directions Gods in the south. These Five Directions Gods can occupy the beautiful women in the people's homes at will. However, people in the people's homes can hardly complain. One is a Wansheng. He is strong and brave, and is proficient in archery. He saw that the Five Directions Gods harmed his sister-in-law in the family and drew his sword to kill each other. Four of the Five Directions Gods died, two horses, two pigs, and the remaining one escaped seriously.
Another article "Another" also talks about the five-directed gods, which describes that there are five-directed gods in Suzhou, which fascinates a woman. This woman is Jin Sheng's niece. The woman who has a good appearance in Jin Sheng is the daughter of the King of the River God Jinlong. The daughter's maid grabbed the five-directed gods and castrated them. It can be said that the five-directed gods are four dead and one disabled, and cannot be harmed.
Then this brave man can kill the fourth Five Gods of the Gods, and a maid next to the daughter of the Golden Dragon King can castrate the Five Gods of the Gods. Can they pose a threat to Su Yang?
Mei Xiang, the maid beside Jinse, was enough to sweep away these five gods.
"What kind of cultivation is your disciple?"
Su Yang looked at the ghost fox and asked
The ghost fox was entrenched in Su Yang's hands and laughed at Su Yang: "The key to doing us is not how high your cultivation is, but how high your cultivation is. My disciple is extremely handsome and talented, and it is very certain to climb to a high branch..."
I am not strong, but I am strong in blowing the wind in my ears...
Su Yang shook his head repeatedly, looking at the ghost fox and laughed: "Men and women live in the room, which is the great marriage between husband and wife; dryness and dampness are the right orifices of yin and yang. When waiting for the wind and the moon, there is still a ridicule of swaying and checking; breaking the sleeves and splitting peaches, it is inevitable that the nose will be covered. People must be strong, and the birds dare to open; the cave is not a peach land, so how could the fishing pole be mistaken? Now someone is from the undercurrent and forgets to return, and leaves the right path but cannot help. Before the clouds and rains rise, they will always be up and down; Yin and Yang are backwards, and they are actually traitors in the outside and inside.
Huachi set up a useless land, which was falsely said that the old monk entered into meditation; the Man Cave was a barren land, so the general called the general. He was tied to the red rabbit at the gate, like shooting a halberd; he explored the big bow in the national treasury, and wanted to cut the pass. Or the yellow selves in the prison and visited the magistrates last night; he clearly identified the king's family and found a burial to report to the next life. The black pine forest came suddenly, and the troops were safe; if the tide of the Huanglong Mansion suddenly arrived, how could he control it? It is better to cut off the roots of the drilling and thorns and block the way to welcome and see off."
This passage is entirely the original story of the Chinese Studio, which is attached to the "Huang Jiulang" chapter, and is considered to be Pu Songling's own annotation. On the annotation, he also laughed and said that the words written were written completely with a game mentality, so he criticized them. The whole text is dirty and funny, and the broken root of the drilling and thorn blocks the road to welcoming and seeing off makes people laugh.
"If your disciple wants to achieve the right result, he should know that he is not right. If he goes on the same path as you, he will only have the same result as you."
Su Yang took the token of the Wheel King's Mansion, slapped his hand and sent the ghost fox into the underworld. As for whether opening the door of the underworld in Hangzhou will alarm the Rakshasa Ghost King, Su Yang didn't care. Shocking the snake would also be a kind of tactic.
In the room, Jinse laughed and said, "You are not afraid of the wind beside you."
She was in the room from beginning to end, and naturally she heard what Su Yang said outside. Seeing that the ghost was gone, Jinse smiled in the room.
Su Yang smiled naturally, looked up at the stars in the sky, and said with a smile: "I am naturally not afraid of the wind blowing to others on my pillow. If it is blown in my ears, then it is inevitable to obey the rules."
Su Yang's body flipped in the air, and the man turned over from the roof and fell. When he reached the window, his feet stepped in the void, and the man had already shuttled into the house.
Jinse was sitting in the room, and the light was bright under the light. When she saw Su Yang crawling into the room, she smiled at him, and seemed to be a bleak red color, making Su Yang feel blurred in front of her eyes, and her heart shaking, so she naturally hugged Jinse in her arms.
"Do you want to blow the wind beside me?"
Su Yang hugged Jinse and said with a smile.
Jinsefeng glanced lightly and said, "No."
Jinse and Su Yang made the most progress earlier, but since Su Yang and Yan Ruyu got in touch, Jinse refused to give Su Yang. Although the two lived together here, they had never been polite.
"whee……"
Mei Xiang laughed from the side. Seeing Su Yang like this, she laughed boldly: "My son-in-law is still talking about Buddhism with ghosts. When he comes to the lady, he forgets all the Buddhist precepts."
Su Yang hugged Jinse, kissed Jinse gently in front of Mei Xiang, and said to Mei Xiang: "The monk is a hungry ghost in the lust, don't you know?"
Mei Xiang was puzzled and asked Su Yang: "Who said this?"
"What Zhu Bajie said."
Jinse phoenix eyes were filled with anger and said to Su Yang.
This sentence really appeared in Journey to the West, and it was really said by Zhu Bajie.
"Son-in-law, can you really become a Buddha like this?"
Mei Xiang asked Su Yang, her face full of smiles.
Su Yang nodded and said to Mei Xiang: "Actually, it is easier for me to practice Buddhism than to practice Taoism. If you say that practicing Taoism is a process of hard practice, in which the vitality is circulating and the heaven and earth are united. It is like you enter the house, and what you know is always limited. Today you see the floor and tomorrow you will see the gables. This is how gradually you understand Taoism, but Buddhism is different from Taoism."
Mei Xiang and Jin Se both looked at Su Yang and heard what Su Yang had to do.
"In Buddhism, the Buddha Tathagata has written down all his wisdom and made me know it."
Su Yang said to Jinse: "But that is the way for Sakyamuni to succeed, and that does not belong to me. If you want to become a Buddha or a Bodhisattva, you still need to practice and realize it yourself."
Taoist practice starts from the perspective of Tao giving birth to one, one giving birth to two, two giving birth to three, and three giving birth to all things. The final goal is Tao, while Buddhist practice is the result. You already know all the things of the Tathagata Buddha. Next, you have to practice and verify slowly by yourself. When you have practiced all these and realized one by one, you will become a Bodhisattva Buddha.
Just like when Su Yang opened his eye consciousness, he understood the truth, but Su Yang was not a Buddha. The abilities between the two people were still very different. Only by practicing one by one and utilizing his eight consciousnesses can Su Yang gradually transform into a role like Buddha.
The Buddhist path is inspired by Guanyin Bodhisattva and the Buddha, and it is already bright. In Taoism, even if Laojun gave the scriptures, Su Yang cannot say that he has fully understood the scriptures in the Xuanzhen scriptures, and he can only speak them while practicing.
However, if we talk about the ability of these two families, Su Yang realized that the Xuanzhen Sutra of Yuanshi King was a little higher. After all, he was the lord of the world who created the world and distributed the divine powers.
"Just learn Buddhism, don't indulge."
Jinse looked at Su Yang seriously.
Many people read Buddhist scriptures, but their relatives and friends couldn't persuade them, and their parents and children at home ignored them, gave up their conversion and focused on learning Buddhism.
"Don't worry."
Su Yang hugged Jinse and smiled, "What I learned is not to bear it or indulge it."
While the two were joking, they were also fiddling with the building blocks on the table. Su Yang looked at the building blocks made by Jinse on the table. Under her construction, the model of the back garden of the Zhuanghuang Palace had been built. After careful look, he said: "I have never noticed in the past. When you fiddled with it, the construction of the Zhuanghuang Palace was quite in the style of the Northern Song Dynasty."
The architectural style of the Northern Song Dynasty inherited the Tang Dynasty, but it was different from the architectural style of the Tang Dynasty. He arranged groups along the axis to compare the buildings of the Tang Dynasty, which strengthened the depth. In addition, the buildings of the Northern Song Dynasty often used several low courtyards to set off a tall building.
In the past, Su Yang walked directly into the Wheel Palace and saw exquisite buildings made by various craftsmen. Now Su Yang has a broad vision. From another perspective, he can see the extraordinaryness of this Wheel Palace.
"The Wheel-Running Palace was built at that time. What's so strange about this?"
Jinse didn't care and added up the building blocks in his hand.
The two of them were talking here, and there was already movement outside the house.
"It's Miss Dong who came to report."
Mei Xiang walked forward and saw Dong Hongcha standing outside the courtyard. She turned around and said to Su Yang.
Su Yang signaled Mei Xiang to open the door, and saw Dong Hongcha wearing a ponytail, wearing a black dress, a red belt, a brocade boots around her waist, and a dragon-patterned sword in her hand. He walked in heroically, saluted Su Yang and Jinse, and reported to Su Yang what happened today.
"The fox in Longyang Temple has been killed, and the demon pills have been broken by me. His disciples have been killed and captured. Only one of them has escaped in a hurry after one move with me. I only cut off one of his tail."
Dong Hongcha held the fox's tail in his hand and went to Su Yang to report his life.
“Excellent, excellent.”
Su Yang praised Dong Hong Tea Ceremony. He took the fox's tail in his hand and felt the breath, so he naturally knew where the fox had escaped. He closed his eyes slightly and felt it. Using the illusion body yoga of the six methods of Luo's method, Su Yang had already made the fox's position and current overview clearly.
"Jiuan, tomorrow I will ask the White Lotus Sect people to search for the east of the city and I will definitely be able to find it."
When Dong Hongcha heard Su Yang praise her, he felt ashamed and quickly promised.
“No need.”
Su Yang smiled at Dong Hongcha and said, "I'll go get him tomorrow!"
"Why bother the Lord of the Education Lord to take action..."
Dong Hongcha hurriedly said, "That little fox's cultivation is insignificant. As long as the sect master tells him, I can kill him immediately."
Su Yang shook his head and said to Dong Hongcha: "The family he escaped was at the home of my neighbor, Weng Liang's son. It is easy to kill this fox, but there is another thing in Weng Liang's home that I need to resolve it myself."
When Dong Hongcha heard Su Yang say this, he stopped forcing him.
"But the son of Old Man Liang who wants the imperial examination?"
Mei Xiang asked. She joined Su Yang in the literary meeting on West Lake and knew about the Liang family.
Su Yang nodded and smiled at Dong Hongcha, saying, "You can go back even if you want. When it's dawn tomorrow, Old Man Liang will come to me for help."
Chapter completed!