I was pulling trees in Daming, and Lao Zhu begged me to come out of retirement

Chapter 62 You will be punished!
"You will be punished by the Buddha for doing this!"

On a big tree in front of the Buddhist temple, several fat and big-eared monks were hanging on the branches, screaming and dangling from side to side.

Below them, a dozen monks knelt on the ground respectfully, turning a blind eye to the tragic fate of their abbot.

To explain why,
Of course, it was because of the shining arrows next to their heads.

Zhu Chongba put his hands behind his back and walked back and forth in front of the monks like a leader inspecting them. He sighed with a sad expression on his face:
"I just want to be a monk, but you insist on giving me the position of abbot. I feel ashamed of it."

"Bah! Who wants to give you the position of abbot?"

Phew~!

"Ouch!!!!"

An arrow pierced through the body of the yelling fat monk and went straight into the tree where they were hung.

Blood gushed out from the monk's abdomen and he screamed loudly. The other monks began to tremble with fear.

Zhu Chongba put down the crossbow in his hand and asked the monks below in an annoyed manner:
"Where was I talking about?"

The monk who was asked immediately understood and flattered: "I am ashamed to accept it, I am ashamed to accept it~"

A slap in the face.

Zhu Chongba glared at the monk and said angrily:
"Bullshit! Who deserves this? I clearly said that you guys must give me the hosting position!"

The monk nodded repeatedly with a sad face: "Oh, yes, yes, yes, I remembered it wrong! I remembered it wrong!"

Zhu Chongba smiled innocently: "Since all the masters are so kind to me, I can't be too modest. I will gladly accept the position of host."

The monks were so anxious that their hearts were racing, but their heads were like praying mantises, never stopping. They were afraid that if they were slow, the crossbow would make a hole in their stomachs.

Zhu Chongba nodded with satisfaction: "In this case, brothers, please ask the masters to preside over the abdication ceremony for us."

With a whoosh,
Hundreds of militiamen rushed into Huangjue Temple and prepared to surround the monks.

The monks trembled all over.
Damn, there are so many people on the other side. If this big guy had been hurt, would his temple have been destroyed?

A group of people came to the main hall.

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand, and several people behind him took out several huge portraits from the box.

In the portrait made up of several pictures, Tianyu is wearing diamond chain mail and standing tall with a bright silver iron spear in his hand.

Several people deftly hung Tianyu's portrait in front of the Buddha statue to form a huge figure.

The monks trembled as they looked at the huge portrait that looked exactly like the real person.

Are these guys some kind of demons? They actually imprisoned a living person in a painting. Is this some kind of living sacrifice?
Zhu Chongba pointed to the sky and said loudly to the monks:
"From now on, this is the Buddha, do you understand?"

Monk: "???"

Zhu Chongba snorted coldly and said:

"This is the original spirit statue of Lord Tianyu! Vairocana Tathagata is the future Buddha. He was originally the incarnation of Duobao Daoist, one of Lord Tianyu's three corpses. From now on, you just need to worship Lord Tianyu."

The monks curled their lips, not daring to refute and nodded in agreement.

You have the bigger fist and you have the final say. Even if you say that Guanyin Bodhisattva is a man, we will believe it.

Since being introduced to China, Guanyin Bodhisattva has evolved through many dynasties and has long since become a typical lady image. Today's monks have no idea that the earliest Guanyin Bodhisattva was an Aladdin with a mustache.

Zhu Chongba looked at the well-behaved monks and nodded with satisfaction.
"Where is the abbot? Shouldn't he give up his position?"

The monks swallowed their saliva and no one said anything.

Zhu Chongba was furious when he saw this: "Do you want to end up like that fat pig outside?" The yellow-robed abbots trembled all over, kowtowed repeatedly, and said with sad faces:

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, no, sir, the one hanging outside is the abbot."

Zhu Chongba paused when he heard this, touched his newly shaved round head and muttered, "Oh my god, is this such a coincidence?"

He looked at the abbot who had rolled his eyes, and felt that it was obviously impossible for him to hand over the work to him.

"Quick! Hurry up and bury the abbot properly. It's really cold, and he's already stiff. Who, yes, you, come and help us take over."

He first ordered the militia to take down the cooled abbot and bury him in a pit dug with a stone, and then he pointed to the second-richest man and asked him to appoint him.

Er Fei said with a sad face: "Well, my king, we don't have any rules."

The handover of the position of abbot requires the former abbot to hand over the ritual implements or seals that symbolize the leadership of the temple to the new abbot, marking the formal transfer of power.

At the same time, monks and believers will express their respect and welcome to the new abbot to show their support and recognition for the new leader.

The staff was easy to find, as it was in the meditation room, but the seals were placed there by the abbot himself, and even he didn't know where the abbot had hidden them.

The reason why these monks are able to go around asking for... um... alms is because they have official documents issued by the temple abbot.

Only if you have a temple seal will the gatekeepers in various places recognize you as a legitimate beggar.

If you don't have this seal, you are a vagrant and need to be caught and beaten.

Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to obtain legal status through the temple just for this temple seal.

Now you tell me, have you? Zhu Chongba immediately rubbed his brows with a look of shame on his face.

"Search for me! Dig deep into the ground to find the seal!"

Er Fei lowered his head and showed a hint of sarcasm at the corner of his mouth.
If it were so easy to find, I would have become the abbot long ago.

He raised his head, wanting to see the frantic expressions of these idiots after they couldn't find the seal.
However, what Er Fei did not expect was that

This group of people took out dozens of stone pickaxes, stone axes and stone sledgehammers from a box that was only one meter square and began the large-scale demolition of Huangjue Temple.

In Er Fei's stunned eyes,
In less than an hour,

The entire Huangjue Temple has completely become a ruin.
All the buildings, Buddha statues and land were smashed to pieces by the violent demolition militia.

The foundation of the entire Huangjue Temple was actually three feet shorter.

"found it!"

In a hollow,

A militia substitute shouted excitedly while holding up a temple seal wrapped in golden silk.

Zhu Chongba was delighted: "Damn it, this piece of junk is buried so deep."

A temple seal engraved with an image of turning the Dharma wheel and images of kneeling deer on both sides was handed to Zhu Chongba.

Zhu Chongba took out a piece of white paper and stamped it with the temple seal.
Suddenly, the four big characters "Huangjue Temple Seal" appeared clearly on the white paper.

Zhu Chongba's face suddenly widened as he looked at the seal.

He put the temple seal into the arms of the fat monk and said excitedly:

"Quick, quick, hand over the position of abbot to me! I will also be an abbot in the future."

Erfei glanced blankly at the Huangjue Temple where there was no grass growing all around, then looked at the huge statue of Tianyu standing in the wilderness, and couldn't help crying.

(End of this chapter)