Chapter 1604 The Buddha’s Eyes
The abbot stopped when he said this, but anyone could notice that his mood was not calm at the moment.
"Hanged himself to death..." A scene flashed through Jiang Cheng's mind. It was in the lustful Hall of Merit. Huiqing took the initiative to reach out and took Monk Huicong's hand and put it on her.
Huiqing... she did it voluntarily, and so did those women like Huiqing!
After thinking about this, Jiang Cheng's breathing became rapid. He suddenly began to understand those women, and this understanding made him feel scared.
"It's tragic. More than a dozen lives were lost. I have never been so angry since I became the abbot. I...I rushed out of the temple gate, found the village chief sitting on the stone steps smoking a pipe, and asked Why did he do this?"
"But do you know his answer?" The abbot laughed miserably, "You should have guessed it, the village chief squinted. Eyes knocked his pipe pot with the sole of his shoe, and said nonchalantly that it was the stone girls who hung themselves, and it had nothing to do with him. Those stone girls cried outside the door last night, and some of them were cursing before hanging, but they were not cursed. My husband is not scolding the village chief who sent them here, but us... we monks who are unwilling to save us!"
"It's us who eat! The monks who meditate on the Buddha have harmed them! What they say about saving all sentient beings is all fake! Even these poor stone girls don’t want to cross, they don’t dare to cross, and they can’t cross!”
“ After the village chief finished speaking, he patted his ass and left without collecting the body. Because the stone girl was not buried in the village cemetery, they thought it was unlucky. It was said that the ancestral graves of the family would be affected if the stone girl's body was buried. As a result, the family will no longer be able to have a male to carry on the family line, or even have no offspring."
The abbot's tone became more intense when he said this, "I couldn't stand it, so I sent him after all the villagers came down the mountain. He went to the temple to remove the bodies of the stone girls, then found a place and chose a good day to bury them.”
"But...who would have known that on the day of the burial, not long after the body was buried and before we finished the rituals, a lot of people came cheering."
"They were all women from the village, too. I don’t know where they got the news from, but all the eldest girls and young wives from each family came, and they were very aggressive. , also brought various farm tools, came up and pushed the tombstone, and then began to dig up the soil while cursing. "Do you know what they said?" The abbot took a deep breath, "They were cursing." , scolding us monks like dogs, rats, and meddling in other people’s business. These stone girls deserve to die. They were the ones who were born in the previous life. Those who have committed evil deeds must not be put to rest in the grave. They must be dragged out and exposed. Otherwise, their luck will be hindered. What will happen if they cannot give birth to children? "
“My disciple was a pure and kind boy, so he knelt down before them and said that he must not do it. These people are all miserable people. Why bother women?”
“Haha, but it’s useless. These women dragged the bodies with ropes to the edge of the cliff and threw them down, saying that we wouldn’t be able to find them. There are wolves under the cliff, and even if they are found, they will only be a few rotten bones.”
"My disciple knelt on the edge of the cliff in shock all night. He was carried back the next day and fell seriously ill. When he was at the worst of his illness, he held my hand and asked me in a daze. He asked me where I was. Did we do something wrong? If we had opened the door and let those stone girls in, wouldn't someone have died?"
"Me? I told him not to think nonsense and to rest in peace, but I didn’t expect that incident to have such a great impact on him. After he recovered, he seemed to be a different person. "
The abbot sighed with difficulty. He took a breath and said, "Although my disciple is young, he is extremely talented. He has almost no opponents in the temple debate, but who would have thought, who would have thought of him... He actually..."
"He has changed. He no longer listens to my words. He sneaks out every day and does not meditate in front of the Buddha. At first, I only thought he had a child's mind, and he didn't He was too restrained, but later on, there were more and more rumors about him, and they became more and more excessive."
"At first. Stealing wine, then eating meat, and finally...even evolved into..." The abbot paused, and finally sighed after a moment, "One night, I was meditating, and suddenly a disciple ran away in a panic. Come in and tell me loudly that Huicong has been tied up and is being held by a group of people outside the temple gate.”
"When I rushed outside the temple gate, I saw that Huicong had been tied up tightly, and his whole body was covered with injuries. It was obvious that he had been beaten."
"But before I could ask any questions, I saw a man rushing up to me in a menacing manner. Only then did I realize that there were two other women receiving the same treatment as Huicong. Man, the woman was young, she was stripped naked, tied to a wooden donkey, and carried up the mountain."
"Later I found out that it was Huicong who broke the sexual precept and had sex with that person at the bottom of the mountain. Two women... were caught in the act, and the angry man was the husband of one of the women."
< br>"Such a thing has completely ruined the face and reputation of our temple. We interceded and took out some money, and then we saved Huicong. We were worried that the two women would be imprisoned in a pig cage when they returned. I had no choice but to find a few lay disciples whom I could trust and sent them down the mountain overnight. In a remote and unfamiliar village, I left some money and reluctantly allowed them to live anonymously."
"When I returned to the temple, I was furious and violated the precepts. I beat Huicong dozens of times with a cane. He didn’t give up until he was pulled away by his disciples in tears.”
"I hate it. I hate Hui Cong for ruining the reputation that the temple has accumulated over the past century. I hate it even more. I hate that iron cannot become steel. Hui Cong was once my most proud disciple."
"I don't know...I don't know why he It will look like this.”
“But no matter how you fight, No matter how I asked, Huicong refused to say a word. He just looked at me quietly. Under his gaze, I didn't dare to ask any more questions..." The abbot became frightened when he said this, " There was an aura of compassion in his eyes, that was... that was the look of a Buddha."
"Just two months later, those villagers came again. I thought they were here to cause trouble for Huicong, but I was wrong. They actually came to thank Huicong. I have seen the man who led them. The husband of one of the women brought generous gifts and said happily that his woman He came home with joy!"
"He has worked hard all his life and finally has a wife. He can't live in a haze in the future. He plans to build a new house for the woman to live in and raise the child. A sheep was killed to replenish the body of the woman.”
"The man took the wedding invitation and insisted on donating money for incense to the temple." (End of Chapter)