The little monk returns to the vulgar

Chapter 288

In the south of the capital, here are the residences of many officials of the dynasty.

It is interesting to say that many officials' mansions are set according to the rules of their official positions.The first rank, the second rank and the third rank all have fixed numbers.

Officials choose their residences according to their grades. If they are promoted or demoted, they have to move and change houses.

There was once a miracle in which an official was promoted three times in one month and moved three times.However, this happened many years ago. The official who was promoted to three ranks now does not live in the south of the city, but has moved to the other side, and has a hereditary title and an exclusive mansion.

That's right, this person is Grand Master Pang.

But today Taishi Pang was not in his own mansion, but was invited to the south of the city, to the mansion of Chen Shimei, the servant of the Ministry of punishment.

This Chen Shimei was the number one scholar in the previous session, and now she has become the minister of the Ministry of punishment. If she continues to endure, she will become the minister of the Ministry of punishment.

Just because, when Chen Shimei took the imperial examination, Grand Master Pang was the chief invigilator.According to the rules, all the scholars admitted that year became Taishi Pang's disciples, and Chen Shimei was the number one scholar who was selected by Taishi Pang himself.

Heaven, Earth, Monarch, Parent and Teacher, the teacher is one of the five permanent members, and the relationship between master and student is not much different from the relationship between father and son.

Therefore, the invigilators are all court officials, and they are definitely the emperor's confidantes, so they will use this legal and reasonable method to "form a party".

As the number one scholar at the time, Chen Shimei was naturally Taishi Pang's most valued student, and these years paved the way for him to rise to the top.Although it is not as exaggerated as moving three times in January, it has also moved twice in a few years.

Chen Shimei also knows how to respect teachers, and has always been Taishi Pang's favorite disciple.Therefore, when Grand Master Pang came to Shi Lang's mansion as a guest, others would not think there was any problem.

But now both people in the mansion understand that today is not an ordinary teacher and apprentice reminiscing about the old days, but Grand Master Pang came here specially.

Grand Master Pang sat in front of Chen Shimei with a serious face, and said angrily: "I told you earlier, how can you sweep the world if you don't sweep a house? Back then, I told me that all the hands and tails have been cleaned. Why did Bao Zheng find out now?" clue?"

Chen Shimei panicked after being reprimanded by Grand Master Pang.

Chen Shimei was originally a scholar from a small village in the countryside, so she was extremely talented and deserved to be the number one scholar, otherwise she would not have been valued by Taishi Pang.

The only problem is that Chen Shimei was already married when she went to Beijing to rush for the exam, and she has a wife and children in the countryside.But after becoming the number one scholar, he naturally couldn't escape the tradition of arresting son-in-law under the list, and the number one scholar was favored by the princess of the court.

In Dazhou, there was no rule that a son-in-law should not be an official. On the contrary, Chai Xihui, as the founding king, was full of confidence in his control and didn't mind his relatives being officials at all.And Chen Shimei is really talented, so after marrying the princess, she was able to rise to the top.

Between the poor wife and the future, Chen Shimei decisively chose the latter.

Marrying a princess is not difficult, but what is difficult is how to deal with the first wife at home.

Chen Shimei was a decisive person. He spent money and hired a killer to kill his wife Qin Xianglian, even the children.And in order to ensure that the news would not leak out, he even asked someone to pretend to be a bandit and slaughtered the entire village.

In this way, everyone who knew his details would be dead, and Chen Shimei would be able to be the son-in-law with peace of mind.

With the identity of a foreign relative and the help of Grand Master Pang, Chen Shimei has already touched the back of the chair of the Ministry of Justice, and will soon be able to sit in this position.

Just at this time, news came from Kaifeng Mansion that someone wanted to investigate the massacre of the village that year.It stands to reason that this case did not originate in Kaifeng, and the Kaifeng government had no reason to use the file.

However, Bao Zheng connected several wanted Jiangyang thieves with the massacre of the village that year, so the Kaifeng government had a reason to check the files.

Although Chen Shimei felt that she did it without anyone noticing it, but he was a guilty conscience and he was very concerned about this case. When he heard that Bao Zheng had retrieved the file of this case, he realized that he was in trouble.

Bao Zheng is also the No. [-] Scholar, so there has naturally been communication between the old and the new No. [-] Scholar.Chen Shimei could see that Bao Zheng was a really talented and ambitious person. What made him even more disturbed was that Bao Zheng not only did a good job in writing, but also had unparalleled skills in handling cases.

Such a person wanted to dig up his old accounts, how could Chen Shimei sit still, so she notified Grand Master Pang, ready to come to ask for help.

Who would have thought that Grand Master Pang would come to the door by himself in such a hurry.

"Teacher, the students have indeed done a clean job. Qin Xianglian's body has long been gone, and even the original village has been looted by bandits and all died. The students also don't understand why Bao Heizi suddenly started investigating. This kind of old case is still found on my head, which is completely unreasonable."

Hearing Chen Shimei's explanation, Grand Master Pang slapped the table and cursed loudly: "It's really not enough to succeed."

Chen Shimei didn't dare to refute, she quickly knelt down in front of Grand Master Pang and said, "Master, please calm down."

Although Grand Master Pang was angry, after venting, he understood that it was Chen Shimei's fault.He knew the general idea of ​​what Chen Shimei did at the beginning, and now it sounds like he did it very well and absolutely should not leave any traces.

How could Bao Zheng suddenly want to investigate this old case when no one reported it?This is a very unreasonable thing.Now is not the time to blame Chen Shimei, Bao Zheng needs to be solved first.

"How are you going to deal with it?" Grand Master Pang asked.

Chen Shimei said: "The methods in the officialdom are nothing more than coercion and temptation. Although Bao Zheng is said to be unselfish, I don't think he is a fool. As long as he is given enough benefits and some pressure, he should be able to Let him stop checking."

Taishi Pang sneered and said, "You, after being an official for so many years, not only have you not made any progress, but even your vision has regressed. Then Bao Zheng can be suppressed? Even the emperor knows his name, and he was appointed to be in charge of the Kaifeng mansion. Just relying on you as the servant of the Ministry of Punishment, can you suppress him?"

"Can't you help the students, teacher? As long as the teacher takes action..."

Chen Shimei's words were interrupted by Taishi Pang: "As a teacher, why do you want to pressure you? At the beginning, you were the number one candidate because there were no talented candidates. But Bao Zheng's class has countless talented people. Like that The one named Su Shi didn’t even make the top ten, but he is ten times higher than you in terms of his talent and learning. And Bao Zheng is able to overwhelm the crowd, and he is a well-deserved champion. How can you compare with him? In another ten years, he will be successful. Only taller than you."

Chen Shimei was speechless by Grand Master Pang's words, and then he remembered that Grand Master Pang was still the chief examiner in Bao Zheng's class.

This is the first imperial examination for the new emperor, and it may be the last one. It has a very special meaning, so the important minister Pang Taishi was asked to invigilate the examination.

That is to say, the relationship between Bao Zheng and Grand Master Pang is actually no more distant than that of Chen Shimei.It's just that Chen Shimei has been with Taishi Pang for too long, so the relationship is deeper.

Thinking of this, Chen Shimei suddenly broke out in sweat.

If Grand Master Pang doesn't help, I'm afraid I can only find a solution with my wife. I'm talking about my current wife, His Royal Highness Princess Xinyang.

However, this princess is unruly and willful, and he really doesn't want to beg her unless it is absolutely necessary.

Just as he was meditating, a housekeeper knocked on the door suddenly, and reported through the door: "Master, sir, there is a monk outside the door asking to see you."

Chen Shimei said impatiently: "See you, see you, give him some money and let him go."

However, the butler then said, "Master, he said his name is Daoran."

In less than half an hour, Daoran left the servant's mansion.

Chen Shimei and Pang Taishi were still sitting opposite each other, but they were completely lost in thought.

Chen Shimei couldn't help asking: "Teacher, why do you think this monk came to me?"

Grand Master Pang pondered and said nothing, because he couldn't understand either.

Daoran came to visit suddenly, without mentioning anything else, he just said that he came to pray for Chen Shimei.

Chen Shimei wanted to refuse, but Grand Master Pang stopped him.

Is this student crazy? Dao Ran is a person who dares to kill even the emperor. If he refuses his request, isn't he afraid that the whole Shi Lang's mansion will be razed to the ground?Taishi Pang's current attitude towards Dao Ran is to keep him at arm's length. As long as he doesn't show up, he will be invisible and will never provoke him.

Now that Daoran came to him, Grand Master Pang could only avoid it.

In the end, Chen Shimei welcomed Daoran in respectfully, and then listened to him recite a section of Buddhist scriptures.

Then there is no more then.

Although the chanting is really nice, it makes him feel comfortable physically and mentally.

But this monk came to chant sutras and didn't take money. What was it for?

Chen Shimei couldn't figure it out, even Taishi Pang was puzzled.

In the end, there was no result of the discussion. Grand Master Pang was frightened by Daoran and went home early, leaving Chen Shimei to think about how to ask his wife for help.

In the dead of night, Chen Shimei finally thought up her speech, and was going to satisfy the princess first, and then talk about her own plight.

However, just when he was about to get up, his eyes suddenly went dark, and he fainted immediately.

In the room, Tirodado and Yelu Longming appeared.

"What is the use of this person?" Yelu Longming asked.

Tirodado shook his head and said, "I don't know?"

Yelu Longming said strangely: "I don't know? Then what's the use of you knocking him out?"

Tirodado said affirmatively: "Daoran has looked for him, he must be of some use."

Yelu Longming frowned and said: "I think you are too suspicious, he may not have any abilities, maybe he just came to climb the dragon and become the phoenix, taking advantage of the power of the court."

"Hehe, he is the demon among the demons that my lord values ​​most. If you underestimate him, you will lose badly." Tirodado said.

"Since you are so afraid of him, why don't you just attack, let alone you are not his opponent. Just kill him, and it will be over soon?" Yelu Longming said.

He walked all the way with Tirodado, and the most he couldn't understand was that he had such mana, but he couldn't let go of things at all.If it had been him, he would have directly wiped out the Great Zhou, promulgated a decree, and could do as much as he wanted, and it would be easy to destroy the Buddha in the world, so why bother.

Tiroda shook his head and said: "This is against the rules. If I fight against Daoran, the Buddhist sect will naturally have Bodhisattvas such as Avalokitesvara and Samantabhadra to help. In the end, it will become a battle that will never tell the winner."

"This sounds like a game? It's too childish to be so timid in a life-and-death struggle?"

"The battle between the Buddha and the devil is not a game, but if you only talk about the mortal world, it's not much different." Tirodado said.

Yelu Longming said disdainfully: "If it is so easy to say, why does the Buddhist sect need to spend so much energy spreading the Dharma? What impact will the Dharma-ending era have on Lingshan?"

In Yelu Longming's view, mortal beliefs are of great use to all gods and Buddhas, that's why Buddhism works so hard to maintain mortal beliefs and maintain the orthodoxy of Buddhism.

Tirodado shook his head and said, "If you say there is no influence, then it won't be, but if it has much influence, you can't say it. Do you think that if no one burns incense and worships Buddha, the Buddha will be nirvana?"

Yelu Longming frowned, starting to feel a little conflicted.

In his heart, he believed that the mortal world was very important to all gods and Buddhas, but it seemed a little unreasonable to say that the Buddhas were all maintained by the power of incense.

"After all, you are just a mortal, and your vision is not enough. Among the gods and Buddhas of the heavens, those who really rely on incense to maintain themselves are some small gods who are not popular. Whether it is the gods of heaven or the Buddhas of Lingshan, without the mortal world, for them, it is really Not much effect.

"It's the same with my demon sect. My lord Da Zi Zai Tian doesn't care about the life and death of mortals at all. His opponent will always be Lingshan."

"Then what is the mortal world to the gods?" Yelu Longming asked with a frown.

Tirodado showed a cruel smile, and said to Yelu Longming: "In the mortal world, the sages see mortals as pitiful, and leave you a place to stay. It is a shelter for all kinds of filth in the Three Realms. a good place to go.

"Heaven cares about the mortal world, because the duty of the Jade Emperor is to manage the mortal world for the saints. At the beginning of the tentative appointment of the heavens, no gods wanted to do this, and the saints had to launch a battle of conferring gods, so that the heavens could join forces. Enough of the gods. Those who lost the battle were doing real jobs, and they worked hard day and night without daring to neglect them;

"As for Buddhism caring about the mortal world, it is because the Buddha is merciful. It will be very difficult for him to watch others suffer."

"Buddha is merciful?"

Yelu Longming seemed to have heard some big joke. Buddhism only cares about the life and death of ordinary people because of compassion?

"What's so strange, it's not just the Buddha who is merciful. If the sages were not merciful, they would have crushed the mortal world. The six reincarnations are all created by the sages. Do you think the merits of the mortal world are useful to them?

"Whether it's Buddhism or Taoism, heaven or Lingshan, or the big caves. Most of them are compassionate, and they always have some compassion for mortals. It's just that there are not many who like Buddhism to meddle in their own business, and they prefer to be in the cave. Clean up inside. If it weren't for compassion, do you think that gods can only rely on mortals for fun, and you mortals can't even imagine the fun of gods."

Seeing Yelu Longming's expression changing, Tirodada said in a cold tone: "Because you are little bugs who are constantly struggling in the cycle of birth, old age, sickness and death, they pity you, so they created the mortal world and spread it to you. The cultivation method will leave all kinds of trials, I hope you can jump out of samsara, come out of this filthy cage, and truly be at ease."

Yelu Longming retorted: "If the gods are merciful, how difficult is it to create a perfect place with their magical power? Why are there so many tragedies in the world, birth, old age, sickness and death?"

Tiradada didn't need to think at all, and blurted out: "Because in the eyes of the gods, there is no liberation, and it is a sea of ​​suffering. You think that a long life is a good thing, but in the eyes of the gods, dying young and dying And in the end, it’s all the same, and we still have to continue to reincarnate.”

Yelu Longming said disdainfully: "Hehe, the layout is really big enough? But if you ask ordinary people, they will probably choose wealth, glory and longevity."

"Look at you, you still can't get rid of the eyes of ordinary people. Your cultivation level didn't come out of thin air. In the process of cultivation, you have suffered a lot, right? Now I will exchange it with you for wealth, wealth and longevity. You willing?"

Tirodado's question made Yelu Longming silent.

In order to cultivate this body of mana, Yelu Longming naturally suffered a lot, and even lost his family because of it.He has seen countless tragedies in the world, so he chooses to bring the tragedies to others, and at the same time he can understand the darkness of people's hearts.

But he is not willing to throw away these things in exchange for a plain and rich life.

Yelu Longming said frankly: "I am now expected to live forever, how can I change?"

"That's right, the reincarnation of a hundred generations is only for longevity. In the eyes of the gods and Buddhas, it is a worthwhile ordeal."

Tirodada did not hesitate to spend so much time talking about Yelu Longming, just hoping that he could set his sights higher.If you still maintain the vision of a mortal, you will lose the upper hand on the chessboard of this catastrophe.

Yelu Longming couldn't digest such complicated information at once, so he threw it aside without thinking about it, and said to Tirodado: "If you want to dig out the secret from him, then I suggest not to take the torment away. Maybe, let's go along with it." If you do it according to Daoran's intentions, you will know his secrets. Didn't Daoran come to save him to be good, we will let him become a monk, maybe there will be other gains."

(End of this chapter)