Red Mansion Reader

Chapter 66 Three Questions
Xin Suzhao saw that there was still a while to toss, so she led Monk Kongkong back to his seat. The three 'Master and Apprentice' calmed down, waiting for each other to make moves like martial arts masters.

The little teacher seemed to be afraid that the three of them would run wildly, so she simply stayed where she was.After pondering for a moment, Chen Heng slowed down his breathing and collected his thoughts before asking: "Is there a Buddha in the world? If there is a Buddha in the world, why is there no reward for good and evil? If there is reward for good and evil, what evil do children who die early have?"

Chen Heng's heart skipped a beat, and he couldn't help but look back at the monk and the teacher with their eyes closed.He was clever, thinking of the monk's life that Xin Suzhao said before, he already knew the origin of the problem to some extent.

"Master, how do disciples know whether they are right or wrong?" Chen Heng was worried that they would cheat.

"Right is right, wrong is wrong. How can right be wrong?" Unexpectedly, the teacher closed her eyes and said coldly, "If you answer correctly, I am satisfied, and I will go with your master to see your family members who are seriously ill."

Hey, don't you just hate the old monk.Chen Heng nodded, knowing that the most important thing is to satisfy the teacher.

Since he wanted to play the set of free heart proof, Chen Heng couldn't help frowning and striding forward. From time to time, he looked up at the green hills, and from time to time he looked at the rushing river.

As time passed quietly, everyone in the gazebo reacted differently.Xin Suzhao doesn't care the most, after all, this kind of topic is not what he is good at.

Monk Kong Kong was the same as his wife, with his eyes closed and silent, only his left hand hanging on his knee, twirling the prayer beads little by little.

Chen Heng didn't have time to care about them, he just thought about the way to solve the problem in his heart.

These three questions are difficult and difficult, and neither difficult nor difficult.The first difficulty is that the three questions must be answered coherently, and the second difficulty is that the teacher must be too satisfied with the answers, which also involves her and Kong Kong's child who died young.

Desperately recalling all the knowledge in his mind, Chen Heng didn't even let go of the memories of his previous life, only hoping to think of something useful.After a long time, he answered out loud.

"There is no Buddha in the world, but there is a Buddha in the heart."

"What's the explanation?" The little teacher named Miaoyu asked back with a blink of an eye.

"There is compassion in the human heart, and compassion is the Buddha."

"Yes." The teacher nodded, the question she really wanted to ask was not on this, "What about the next question?"

"My disciples think that good and evil will be rewarded in the end. If there is no reward for good and evil, there must be selfishness in the universe. I think of a story I have heard," Chen Heng said when he was surfing in his previous life, and read an anecdote in an ancient book. "It is about a merchant in the previous dynasty..."

This story tells about a businessman surnamed Xu, who was charitable, friendly with his neighbors, and very famous in the countryside.Once he took his fellow villagers out to deliver goods, and when he was about to cross a ferry, he happened to meet an old fortune-teller on the side of the road and stopped him.

"I see that Ni Yintang has turned black, I'm afraid you will be killed."

Those who are away from home are the most taboo about this, and the villagers who are traveling with him are about to smash his stall in anger.Merchant Xu held the other party back, and went up to chat with him for a few words. The fortune-teller only talked about the face he saw, and didn't give a solution.

Xu Shang saw that he didn't seem to want to extort money from others, so he simply left a few taels of silver for him, and dragged his fellow villagers to the ferry.

Unexpectedly, when the two of them arrived at the ferry, the boat had already reached the middle of the river.The fellow villagers were about to complain, complaining about the old fortune-teller, blaming him for delaying their trip.

Suddenly, a big hole broke out from the bottom of the ship, and the people on one ship cried and shouted for days, but when a wave hit, all the people disappeared.

The speed was so fast that even the people on the shore didn't have time to surround it.

Merchant Xu and his fellow villagers felt terrified when they saw this, and didn't know what to say for a moment.

Behind them, the fortune-teller passed by with a banner, shaking his head and saying: I don't know if I am accurate or not.

"Master, do you think this businessman surnamed Xu deserves to die or not?"

Everyone was silent for a long time after listening, even his apprentice Miaoyu couldn't help but turned to look at her.After a long time, the teacher closed her eyes and replied, "Yes."

Hearing these words, Chen Heng was very excited, and his thoughts became more active, as if by divine help.He hurriedly paced with his hands behind his back, preparing to solve the last question, but he also found it tricky when it involved children.

If you don't answer this question well, then all the goodwill accumulated in the past will be in vain.

After thinking for a long time, Chen Hengcai answered: "Fate is impermanent, life and death have their own definite number."

"Since you said it was a deal, why did the businessman in your story escape unharmed?" The teacher asked back as expected, grasping the loophole.

Chen Heng cleared his throat, he knew that the other party would ask this question, and replied directly.

"There is permanence and impermanence, and impermanence conceives permanence. If there is only a definite number of things in the world, people's hearts will naturally be lazy. Good people are tired, and evil people are tired, and the world will be in chaos. Only when impermanence and permanence accompany each other, and the Buddha's heart is in the heart, can the dust be wiped away. This is the so-called putting down the butcher knife and becoming a Buddha immediately."

"Then why can't my child be what you call You Chang? Is it my fault, or his fault?" The teacher asked sharply, pointing at Monk Kong Kong.

"It's not anyone's fault, and it's not anyone's fault. Apart from murder, birth, old age, sickness and death are things of reincarnation. Just as the disciple came here this time because someone in his family was sick, the disciple also knew that if he couldn't get a famous doctor, he would have to die. I don't know if the master can cure him.

But I know that Master is in Hanshan Temple, so I have to come and see him, to look for him.If you can save it, you will save it. This is perpetual.If I can't be saved, I can also ask for a clear conscience and calmly face the impermanence of life.

I dare to ask my wife, is it possible that you have not done similar things like your disciples?Since you have already done it, why bother holding on to yourself? "

Chen Heng's words sounded like a loud bell, knocking on the teacher's ears.At this time, no one has heard of this kind of truth, and no one knows.

It's just that Monk Kong Kong has always been ashamed of the other party, and his mouth has already weakened by three points.As for the teacher, when she thought of her own child, she fell into self-blame and couldn't extricate herself, and couldn't listen to thousands of words.

The cool wind blows into the pavilion slowly, and everyone has different expressions.The teacher was still about to speak, but Monk Kongkong said softly: "Fumei, put it down. For these years, you are the one who never forgets Qi'er."

"Is it me? But that is my child, can I let it go?" The teacher's face was full of emotion. Before she became a monk, she was never the mother of two children.

"Dong dong dong."

Outside the gazebo, the bells of the temple suddenly sounded, and the bells of the two temples sounded together, beating the heartstrings of everyone like a wave, and soothing the injustice in the heart like the voice of the Buddha in the ears.

Suddenly a blue bird flew into the gazebo. It didn't know when to build its nest on the beam. Because it came back, two or three young birds came out and squeaked at their mother.Like a couple of people in the complaint booth yelled at them.

That female bird was also bold, and had to run when it saw everyone, flying around their heads.They yelled loudly, as if they wanted to drive them out.

Teacher Tai just stared at it blankly, and finally let out a sigh of relief, "Miaoyu, let them go."

"Yes, Master."

(End of this chapter)