messenger from the wasteland

Chapter 40

In the Buddhist hall, the old monk held the letter and sat on the soft bed to read it.

Birds chirped outside, and in the Buddhist hall, smoke from burning incense slowly drifted away.

The letter is short, only one page, a few sentences.But it is also very long, long enough for the old monk to look back on his life.From being reckless when I was young, to being confused in middle age, and now.So the old monk looked at it for a long time, with memories in his eyes, reminiscing about his life in the handwriting on the letter.

"Fifty-nine years ago, people killed people and robbed them of wealth, and entered the world as a crime."

It was really a distant memory 59 years ago, when he was a 12-year-old kid.If he remembered correctly, it was a time of famine, and his parents had starved to death on the road.He walked alone, far, far away, until he had no strength at all. Finally, he met the first person on the road.

He begged the man to give him something to eat, but the man didn't agree with him seeing his ragged clothes and desolate appearance. He even saw him as a child and took pleasure in beating and scolding him.

The old monk couldn't remember how many times he was hit by that person. He only remembered that at that time, that person cursed him, saying that he was a son of a bitch without parents. There was a great resentment.

So he pulled out the hatchet from the man's waist and cut off the man's throat.One cut, one cut, another cut.

He has parents, and it is because his parents gave him the last bite that he can survive.

I didn't count how many times I was hacked, I only know that the man's neck was completely cut off by him.

He took all the money and provisions of the man, and ran into the world.

But since then, he no longer believes in the world.

Entering the world is an evil, this is true, he entered the world, but became an evildoer.

"Forty-five years ago, he called himself a Henggui, causing chaos everywhere and stirring up the world."

Henggui, that was the name he gave himself after he killed the third person.

At that time, he saw that widows could only do flesh and blood business in order to feed their children, and the place was full of ghosts and ghosts.

He has seen murderers take people's money to eliminate disasters, and human life seems to be worth less than those few copper coins.

He has seen vendors selling women and children along the street, which seems to be no different from selling pork.

He has seen beggars being beaten and scolded to death and no one cares about them, and he has seen grassroots people being run over by noble carriages and still needing to pay.

He has seen too much.

He thought, since everyone in this world looks like a monster, why can't he.Therefore, he gave himself a name called Henggui, he didn't want to die, and only did what he wanted to do.

When he wants to kill, he kills.When he wants to indulge in flesh and blood, he will go to the fireworks and willow alley.

At that time, he thought that this was what a person should look like, and that a more vicious and surly person would be able to enjoy bliss in this world.

"40 years ago, people killed people like hemp, and they should fall into Shura forever."

In the five years he claimed to be a Henggui, he really killed people like hemp, especially when he found that he seemed to be more powerful than ordinary people.When you meet someone who entangles him, kill him; when you meet someone who blocks his way, kill him; when you meet someone who makes him unhappy, kill him.As long as there is a little bit of murder in his heart, he will pull out the knife at his waist without hesitation.

When you fall into Shura forever, you are probably talking about people like him.He really should fall into the Asura forever, fall into the Avici Hell forever and endure the endless suffering of hell.

But on the letter paper, there was nothing to say about what happened next.

The things that turned him from ghost to human.

38 years ago, because he had killed too many people and made enemies everywhere, he was finally wanted everywhere.Countless people wanted to kill him, they formed a team to encircle and suppress him, and wanted to cut him into pieces.

He escaped, broke through the siege, and finally fled into a remote mountain village.That small mountain village is called Shanju Village. It was a rainy night, and he fell down in front of the only temple in this small village covered in blood.

It was very cold on the ground, he was lying on the ground, the blood mixed with the rain soaked his cheeks, he thought he would die here, in front of the gate of a temple.

But at this time the door was opened, and the abbot of the temple came out.

The old abbot helped him, a cross ghost, into the temple without asking about his origin, life experience, or even his name.Gave him food, gave him dry clothes, and healed his wounds.

He told the old abbot that he would repay his kindness.

So, the old abbot asked him the first sentence.

Why are you hurt like this.

He replied that he killed a lot of people and provoked the enemies to come to him. That's why he became like this. When he returns, he will kill all the enemies.

The old abbot looked at him for a long time, shook his head at him, and tapped his forehead with his fingers.

"Obsession, you should put it down, put down the butcher knife."

From then on, the old abbot often recited Buddhist scriptures and explained Buddhist principles to him when he was recovering from his injuries, saying that the world is suffering and he should let it go.

Finally, he couldn't bear the noise of the old abbot, so he decided to kill him.

Didn't it mean that the world is suffering, so he will let the old abbot reach bliss early, and this will be his repayment.

He drew out his knife and slashed at the old abbot, but what he didn't expect was that the old abbot held his knife with one hand.

Blood flowed from the palm of the abbot, and the abbot sighed and knocked him out.

When he woke up, he had been tied to a pillar, and the old abbot was sitting in front of him.

He smiled wryly, thinking he was unlucky, and said to the old host, kill me.

But the old abbot didn't kill him, he just made him hungry and recited Buddhist scriptures for him.

For three whole days and three nights, neither the old abbot nor he had a drop of rice.

He thought that the old abbot was trying to torture himself to death, but he was never afraid of any torture. He waited silently, without saying a word, waiting for himself to be starved to death.

On the third night, he felt so hungry that he was about to pass out.

At this time, the old abbot stood up and walked in front of him.

To finish me off, he thought.

However, the old monk didn't do anything, just showed a weak smile, stretched out a finger, and tapped on his forehead.

"Fool, this time, it's time to let go."

After that, he put a rice ball into his mouth.

He was stunned because at the age of 12, the year he no longer believed in the world.His mother, just smiling, stuffed the last rice ball into his mouth.

His mother was the last person he had ever seen.After that, he never saw a single person in this world.

Until the old abbot gave him the rice ball, he couldn't make a sound, he swallowed the rice instinctively, his eyes were red, and tears flowed.

Trapped on a pillar, he understood that this was a human world.

After entering the world as an evil, becoming a ghost, and falling into Abi forever, he saw the appearance of the world again, the appearance of kindness that a person should have.

"sand."

In the Buddhist hall, the old monk put away the letter paper. In front of him, the incense burnt out and the ashes fell.

He didn't know if the person who sent the letter was his enemy, or which one of his enemies.

But he understood that the person who sent the letter was here to kill him.Maybe this is what the Buddha said about karma.

The old monk raised his head and smiled slightly at the Buddhist hall without Buddha statues.

"Just make it, it's a practice."

　Some readers said that this volume is almost finished, um, in fact, it is still a while, haha, not so fast.

　　
　
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