Holy Bone

Chapter 483 Utuk (6k chapter)

The abbot of this temple.

It is a three-fingered old monk named Guru Ban Dian.

Bandian means kind-hearted and broad-minded.

Master Ban Dian is not only a teacher of the orthodox Tubo Esoteric School, but also an ascetic monk. Although he has redeemed his sins because of his early mistakes, he is still willing to continue to redeem his sins with lifelong asceticism. desert.

Half of his foot and seven fingers were damaged by freezing in the snow mountain and Tianshan mountain.

Master Ban Dian was doing asceticism to atone for his sins, preaching Buddhism everywhere, preaching diligently, and had no children. There was only one young novice disciple who was willing to do asceticism with him.

This little novice disciple is named Utuk.

It was a disciple received by Master Ban Dian when he was ascetic in the Western Regions.

That year, Master Ban Dian went to the Western Regions on an ascetic journey. At that time, he took in a poor child, and that child was Little Utuk.

Utuk suffered from eye disease since he was a child and couldn't see clearly. Later, he was taken to a big city-state by his parents and cruelly abandoned.

Utuk, who was only five years old at the time and could not see clearly due to eye disease, was like a frail lamb running around in the dark. He wailed Apa Ata loudly, looking for his way home in the dark. On the road, he fell into the cesspit of the dry toilet and the stinky ditch. Because of the filth and stench all over his body, the adults hated to stay away from this crying child.

Nobody cared what happened to this stinking, filthy five-year-old.

Until he met Master Ban Dian.

Regardless of the stench and filth on his body, Master Ban Dian carefully washed him and found him clean and tidy clothes. Utuk will never forget the sandalwood on the clothes in his life. This is the first time in his life. This is the first time I have worn such clean and smelling clothes.

Although he never met, Master Ban Dian brought him an unprecedented sense of warmth and security.

Because of his eye disease since he was a child, he was coldly looked at and ridiculed, and he was inferior and cowardly. It was also on that day that someone cared about him for the first time, and someone carefully soaked soft naan bread for him.

That day was the first time he met Master Ban Dian, it was also the first time he wore clean and tidy clothes, and it was also the first time he ate goat's milk soaked pancakes, which turned out to be so sweet.

It was only later that he found out that the cassock worn by Master Ban Dian that day was his own cassock, no wonder it smelled so good.

The arrival of little Utuk brought a lot of vitality to the road of asceticism, and Master Ban Dian also liked this sensible child with a sweet voice.

Next, Master Ban Dian took Utuk on the road to find his home, but Utuk had an eye disease since he was a child and couldn't see clearly. Although he was not blind, he was no different from a blind man. Two or three months have been fruitless.

At first Utuk was sad and lost, but after following Master Ban Dian for a long time, he found that he gradually fell in love with Buddhism and chanted scriptures.

Because only when chanting sutras can his mind be peaceful, and he is no longer afraid of darkness and loneliness.

But Master Ban Dian never accepted little Utuk as a disciple. Master Ban Dian said in a kind voice: "Everyone is born extraordinary. You are a smart child. The fate is the parents, and the Buddha fate is only second."

Half a year later, Master Ban Dian finally found little Utuk's home. Utuk's house was completely desolate, and his parents were seriously ill and bedridden. They fell ill in the desert where supplies were scarce. Abandoning Utuk is also a helpless move. Abandoning Utuk in a big city-state may have a chance of survival, and maybe he will be adopted by kind people. If he continues to follow them, he will only die.

Before Utuk's parents died, they entrusted Utuk to Guru Ban Dian, hoping that Guru Ban Dian would accept Utuk as an apprentice. Guru Ban Dian no longer refused this time. Accept Utuk as his official disciple.

After resolving Utuk's concern, Master Ban Dian continued to go deep into the vast desert with his newly recruited disciples. He heard that there was a Buddhist kingdom in the deepest part of the desert, and he planned to go to the Buddhist kingdom on this trip.

But all the nightmares started from this Buddha Kingdom.

After Master Ban Dian came to the Buddhist country, he found that although everyone here respected the Dharma, the Buddha had existed here in name only. In fact, it is a Buddhist heretic, a hell where people cannibalize people.

If all the demons in hell are empty, they must all go to this Buddhist kingdom to fake the mercy of the Buddha and engage in cannibalism!
In the eyes of the Buddha, all things have a good side. Good people are easy to save, and evil people are not easy to save, but they must be saved. The Buddha said: If I don’t go to hell, who will go to hell?The sentient beings in hell are in pain, and they need to be saved even more. Everyone picks the soft persimmons to squeeze, but who will leave the hard ones?Master Ban Dian can use a lifetime of asceticism to atone for the mistakes he committed when he was young, and it can be seen how firm his determination is, so he decided to build a real Buddhist hall in this Buddhist country that embraces Buddhism and heretics, preaching and preaching, Want to save someone.

As an ascetic monk, he naturally didn't have much gold and silver belongings on him. Every brick and every wooden beam in this Buddhist hall was built by Master Ban Dian and little Utuk himself.

Although the Buddhist hall is small and crude, it finally gave the Buddha a shelter from the wind and rain.

In the eyes of little Utuk, this Buddhist hall not only lived in the Buddha, but also lived in him and his mentor, protecting him and protecting his home.

At first, there were not many incenses in the Buddhist hall, and they were so poor that they almost starved to death in the Buddhist kingdom.

But Master Ban Dian, no matter how many obstacles there are in the road ahead, he always has a firm Buddha heart and never gives up his determination to save these Buddhist people. With only three fingers left, he does odd jobs, carries goods for desert merchants, and makes money Subsidize sesame oil and expenses for the Buddhist hall.In the winter and spring when there is little work, I go door-to-door to promote the Dharma. Naturally, I get a lot of cold eyes and cold eyes, but Master Ban Dian will always go to the door to promote the Dharma. His kind face is full of wrinkles and deep grooves. , always smiling kindly, never seeing him get angry at anyone.

And this stay lasted for three years, and little Utuk grew up to be eight years old.

Although the past three years have been very difficult, there is a Buddhist hall sheltered from the wind and rain, where the old and the young are having fun in the bitterness, and they don't feel boring.

During these three years, Master Ban Dian also rescued two people from slave traders. One of them was Ngawang Renci, the son of a serf, and the other was Galu, a child of a nomadic tribe in the north. Human beings were transported to the Buddhist kingdom by slave traders on merchant ships.

The Buddha Kingdom was built in the Great Rift Valley. Every year, a large number of slaves are needed to cut walls, widen the cliff roads, build plank roads, houses, and large stone Buddha statues...so the Buddha Kingdom has a particularly large demand for slaves.

Ngawang Renci and Galu are slaves who escaped secretly. They were accidentally rescued by Master Ban Dian. The Western Regions are too big, and there is only a vast sandy sea in sight. So they all decided to stay temporarily in the Buddhist hall, and do some odd jobs to reduce the expenses of the Buddhist hall, in order to repay Master Ban Dian for saving his life.

Since the addition of Ngawang Renci and Garu to do odd jobs to subsidize the Buddhist hall, and two people to help expand the Buddhist hall, the Buddhist hall has become more and more prosperous.

Rescuing Ngawang Renci and Garu seems to be a good sign. Under the perseverance of Master Ban Dian, the neighbors are no longer so resistant to Master Ban Dian and the newly built Buddhist hall, and they will come occasionally Put a stick of incense and offer some incense money.

All beginnings are hard.

Their persistent kindness...seems to finally be paying off...

Even Utuk, under the patient persuasion of Master Ban Dian, gradually let go of his inner inferiority complex, walked out of the Buddhist hall timidly, and longed to have playmates like normal peers.

call--

The Buddha's light flicked the past again, and it took Jin An a while to fully adapt. This time he was standing in a pitch-black cave.

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In the dark and deep cave, there was the sound of dripping water.

Suddenly, a group of children's voices came from the cave. He stopped to identify the direction of the sound, and then walked towards the source of the sound in the dark cave.

Unexpectedly, this cave is quite intricate, and if you are not careful, you will definitely get lost in it.

He saw an eight or nine-year-old little monk standing in a dark cave at a loss, surrounded by a group of laughing and laughing children of similar age.

Jin An doesn't know the language of the Western Regions, but this time he can understand what these children are saying, which should be related to the spiritual world he is in now.

"Didn't you say that Abumu fell into the cave? We still haven't found anyone after we went so deep into the cave. Why don't we ask adults to help us find it together?" The young novice Utuk spoke first.

The oldest child in this group of children snorted coldly and said: "If we go to ask the adults to help find someone, wouldn't the adults know about Abumu falling into the cave while playing with us? Do you want us to go back to the cave?" Was the family beaten by an adult?"

Little Utuk's voice was timid: "No, no, I didn't mean that, it's because it's too dark here, I can't see anything."

A child on the side smiled and said: "You can't see with your eyes, but you can still move forward by touching the cave with your hands."

Little Utuk groped around in the darkness for a while at a loss, but it was too dark for him to tell the direction. Some children began to call Utuk impatiently that you were stupid.

Utuk, who was born with low self-esteem, apologized anxiously. This place was too dark, which made him completely blind, who was already suffering from a chronic eye disease. He was a little scared, and lowered his head involuntarily. He wanted to go home, to the Buddhist hall , I want to ask adults to help find someone together.

"Utuk, can you really see nothing?"

"How much is this?"

Facing Utuk's bewilderment, these children pretended not to see them, but continued to chat happily. One of the children stretched out his hand in front of Utuk, gestured a few fingers, and asked Utuk to count .

This kid is obviously the Rob who almost strangled himself.

Snapped!
There was a crisp sound in the cave, and it was Utuk who couldn't answer, and was slapped across the face.

This slap made Utuk stand there dumbfounded.

"How much is this?"

Snapped!
"How much is this?"

Snapped!
Rob slapped Utuk several times, and then said to the others, "So he really couldn't see, so he didn't lie to us."

Utuk, who could not see because it was too dark, burst into tears after being slapped several times, crying to go back to the Buddhist hall. This cave scared him.

The other children stopped Utuk and said that they were joking with him just now, because they didn’t know whether Utuk was lying to them on purpose, and now they have been confirmed that Utuk did not lie to them, Utuk had already gained their trust, and since From today onwards, they are also willing to be true friends with Utuk, and will not fight Utuk again in the future.

Utuk bowed his head in inferiority.

dare not say a word.

"Utuk, we all trust you so much, but you don't believe us at all. Is there any friend like you?" The oldest child said impatiently when he saw that Utuk had kept his head down and remained silent.

The other children also booed.

Said that Utuk didn't believe them, didn't take them as true friends, and said that the young monk liked to lie and tell lies, and the old monk in the Buddhist hall must also lie and tell lies, so he told his parents when he went back, saying that Master and Utuk are both liars and shamed the Buddha.

Master Ban Dian is Utuk's most respected master and the only family member he regards as his father. He hurriedly shook his head and said that he was not lying and he was willing to stay.

The oldest child was still dissatisfied and said: "You are obviously crying but not smiling, which means you are lying, and you don't want to stay and continue to be friends with us."

Little Utuk hurriedly shook his head, wiped away his tears with his sleeve, forced a smile, and begged everyone not to go back and say that he and Master Ban Dian were liars, they were not liars, they were not liars.

"Wutuk, don't worry, you regard us as friends, and we and Abumu will definitely regard you as friends. Now that Abumu fell into the cave, do you think we should continue to look for him?" The oldest child let Utuk relax. , with them here, if they really can't find Abumu, they will go back and ask adults for help.

But what Utuk didn't expect was that just as he handed over his trusted back to a group of playmates behind him, his back was pushed hard, and his body fell weightlessly into the vertical hole at his feet.

The group of children ran and laughed.

"That Utuk is really stupid. He believed our words so easily. Let's hurry out of the cave and join Abumu."

"Wasn't that Utuk always pretending to be arrogant, saying that he wants to save those slaves? He fell into such a deep cave and can save himself. We believe that he really wants to save those slaves."

"I was so annoyed when I saw his face. We took him to have fun with good intentions, but he said that it was wrong to throw stones at people, and that those slaves were abducted by human traffickers. Come here to persuade us to be kind to others. Bah, a slave is a slave, as despicable as an animal, and is not worthy of sympathy at all, and he actually preached to us in turn, he treats himself as a good person and makes us a bad person, hypocrisy is dead."

"Yes, it was the same last time. I went to watch the execution of the executioner with him, but he sat down to chant scriptures with a compassionate face. It was so hypocritical. Seeing his compassionate face several times, I couldn't help but want to pick it up." Stones on the side of the road smashed his face."

These children quickly ran out of the dark cave. After meeting Abumu outside, they looked at the sky above them. It was getting late. It was time for dinner at home, and then they ran home laughing and joking.

"If we push him into such a deep hole, will he not be able to crawl out and die in it?" Someone asked worriedly.

"We just bumped into him accidentally, and didn't kill him. Whether we live or die has nothing to do with us. If someone asks, just say we don't know."

After the group of children unified their caliber, they went home to eat, leaving Utuk, who had been afraid of the dark since he was a child, alone in the deep cave.

"Is this your obsession?"

"You treat people with kindness, but in exchange for endless malice."

"When hell is all around you, the only clear stream in the darkness becomes an unforgivable sin..."

Jin'an stood at the entrance of the dark and deep cave where Utuk fell, muttering to himself, vaguely, he saw a little novice huddled up in a ball hugging his knees in despair, fearful of sobbing.

The Buddha's light flicked the scriptures again, and the light and shadow changed. This time, Jin'an was standing in the remote street where the Buddhist hall is located. At this time, the sky outside had turned dark. The old Master Ban Dian stood at the entrance of the Buddhist hall and waited and waited. Seeing that Utuk hadn't come back after dinner time, he began to worry.

He began to look for the children who usually played with Utuk, and asked if anyone had seen Utuk. These children had already unified their caliber, saying that it was almost time for dinner, and they dispersed and went home to eat separately.

Those little ghosts are very cunning, and they still care about asking what's wrong, hasn't Utuk returned to the Buddhist hall yet?
One night passed, but Utuk still didn't come back. Master Ban Dian, who hadn't closed his eyes all night, went to the children again to inquire about the details, and then took Ngawang Tsering and Galu to the place where the children often played to look for Utuk.

It is said that knowing a son is better than a father. Although these children have a unified caliber, they were still discovered by the adults in the family.When they found out that their children had accidentally killed the little monk, instead of blaming them, the parents gathered together to discuss how to deal with the aftermath.

Master Ban Dian, as a master, once this matter becomes a big deal, it will not have good results for the few of them.

After discussing with each other, they finally made a vicious decision. Before Master Ban Dian suspected them, they simply did nothing and kept killing people to silence them.

That night, blood splashed red in the main hall of the Buddhist hall.

It also dyed the Buddha statues in the main hall red.

The grown-ups of these children, under the pretense of having a large number of people, helped to find Utuk together, and went to the door to find Master Ban Dian. Master Ban Dian was not suspicious of these neighbors, but showed gratitude. When he turned around, In front of the clay Buddha statue in the main hall, these parents teamed up to kill Master Ban Dian.

These parents were jealous. After killing Master Ban Dian in a sneak attack, they tricked the unsuspecting Ngawang Tsering and Garu to kill them one by one. Finally, they intentionally caused the lamp oil to fall and caused a fire, burning down the Buddhist hall.

The people living in this Buddha country are dying of terminal illness and there is no cure!

All of this is like watching flowers on horseback, repeating the truth of the year in front of Jin An. Jin An is standing in the burning hall. In the hall at this time, there is a black child who is starving and skinny, with black holes in his eye sockets. Several times he wanted to reach out to pick up the body of Master Ban Dian, who was lying in a pool of blood, but he couldn't hold it no matter what, his hands passed through his body.

A majestic resentment that was as huge as a mountain torrent began to linger over the Buddhist hall, like a dark cloud covering the top, and lingered for a long time.

He took refuge in my Buddha before the Buddha.

He fell into the devil Buddha before the Buddha.

That resentment.

That obsession.

The longing for Master Ban Dian as his father.

It made his thoughts more and more disordered, the yin energy in the air ran wild, and the resentment skyrocketed. A thick black cloud swirled over the Buddhist hall, and the howling wind was like thousands of ghosts crying and howling.

Looking at this tragedy in the world, Jin An felt panicked, and a stagnant air that he didn't know how to vent was stuck in his heart. He wanted to vent his unhappiness fiercely, but there was nowhere to vent it in this Buddha photo. .

Suddenly!

He grabbed a piece of burning wood and rushed out of the Buddhist hall engulfed by the fire. Instead of being an enemy of Utuk who was falling into the demon Buddha, he ran madly all the way to somewhere in the Great Rift Valley.

Although he didn't know exactly which direction the cave group was located in the Great Rift Valley, those children mentioned the approximate location of the cave group when they confessed the truth to their family members.

At this time, the swirling dark clouds over the Buddhist hall are still spreading rapidly, and the Buddha's light that has been seen in the past is gradually dimming. When the Buddha's light completely dissipates, Utuk will completely abandon the Buddha and become a demon. At that time, he can only kill Only Utuk can leave here.

But killing Utuk was not his intention.

Jin'an searched anxiously in the Great Rift Valley, and finally found the group of caves hidden behind the dense grass and vines. He rushed into the cave with a torch in his hand desperately.

"Utuk!"

"Utuk!"

Jin An frantically searched for someone in the labyrinth-like caves, shouting, he knew that Utuk did not die in the first few days when he fell into the cave, the little monk who was only eight years old back then, just needed someone to pull him out courage.

If someone had given him a hand at that time, everything would have been in time, and all tragedies could have been prevented.

"Utuk!"

Jin An shouted anxiously in the caves.

Go deeper and deeper.

He no longer cared about how much Buddha light was left outside, and now he just wanted to find the eight-year-old child who was abandoned alone in the dark cave, and give him a hand.

at last.

He saw familiar rock walls and caves.

Then, relying on his strong memory, he walked another distance in the cave, and saw the vertical cave that pushed Utuk down.

Jin An happily lay down at the entrance of the cave, holding up a torch to shine down: "Wutuk! I'm here to save you!"

Under the dark cave, there was no movement, as calm as stagnant water. Jin An didn't worry too much, and jumped directly from the entrance of the cave. He finally found the little novice monk curled up in fear at the bottom of the cave.

Flame symbolizes hope.

People, implying that the nature of heaven and earth is the most precious.

Trapped deep in the cave, the eight-year-old novice monk slowly raised his head buried deep in his knees, staring at Jin An's caring gaze, dazed.

The black shadow on his body was gradually dispelled by the warm light of the torch, and more and more light from the fire shone on the little novice, and the red face illuminated by the fire gradually returned to blood color from paleness, and the little novice threw himself into Jin Anhuai Weeping loudly.

At this moment, he is not the resentment that lasts for thousands of years.

It's just an eight-year-old novice monk who was scared to cry by the darkness.

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Ps: Originally, I wanted to write more today, but this chapter is not easy to write. I deleted it. I feel that it is not appropriate to write some of the dark side of human nature, because it involves a lot of things. In the end, I deleted too much and didn’t have enough time to code out 6k= . =
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