Judgement

Chapter 18 The Way of Good and Evil

Now that Chen Mengsheng has understood his past and present lives, he has a lot of clarity in his heart.Follow Jigong all the way through the streets and alleys, but the more you walk, the more strange it becomes. This is neither going to Lin'an City, nor to the downtown.What catches the eye is the wormwood on both sides of the road, which is as tall as half a person, and some ruined walls, revealing a desolate look everywhere.

Chen Mengsheng asked: "God monk, where are we going?"

Jigong bared his teeth and said with a smile: "Of course we are going to eat dog meat to save people, and we are almost there."

"Eating dog meat? Can it also save people?" Chen Mengsheng was confused by Jigong's words, could it be that the dog wanted to hurt people..., just when Chen Mengsheng was thinking wildly, there was really a picky person on the roadside.There is a small stove in front of the picker, and a pot is placed on the stove, and the dog meat in the pot is simmering with charcoal fire, gurgling and bubbling.Behind the pick is an open wooden cabinet, in which there is a chopping board boning knife on the upper shelf, and onion, garlic, ginger and many other seasonings on the lower shelf.There is a Zhu character written on the shoulder of the picker.

Jigong was not afraid of being scalded, so he picked up a piece of dog meat with a broken fan handle and chewed it in his mouth: "Well, it's delicious, come and taste it too."

Chen Mengsheng is now a fairy body out of the mortal body, and eating is also dispensable.Since Jigong invited him to eat dog meat, let's try it.As soon as he stepped forward to get the dog meat from the pot, he heard someone from among the wormwood shouting: "What are you doing?" A person stood up from among the wormwood.

Jigong didn't answer, he turned around and ran with his shoulders lifted, and the man in the wormwood chased after him with his trousers up.After running for a few steps, a thick stone wall nearly one foot high by the side of the wormwood crashed down, hitting the wormwood that the person was squatting on just now.

The man looked at Jigong, then at the collapsed stone wall behind him, and stood there for a while.If this crazy monk hadn't picked up my burden of dog meat, I would have been crushed to death under this stone wall for no apparent reason today, with cold sweat dripping down my head.After a while, he bowed to Jigong and said, "Thank you monk for saving your life."

Jigong smiled and said to Chen Mengsheng: "Look, look. I'm not wrong, some dog meat is eaten, and people are saved."

The dog meat seller was puzzled when he heard this: "Master, did you come here specially to save me?"

"Hahaha, yes, the poor monk is here to save you Zhu Dachang today, because you are the most benevolent person in the world today." Chen Mengsheng and the dog meat seller were shocked when Jigong said this.

Zhu Dachangqi asked: "Monk, what did you say?"

It turned out that outside the northern suburb of Lin'an City lived a family named Zhu Dachang who killed dogs and sold meat.His father died early, leaving only a blind old mother in Zhu Dachang's family.

In the early years, Zhu's mother could still do some starch washing and sewing work to earn some copper coins to supplement the family.However, he suffered from an eye disease and became blind due to lack of money for medical treatment, which became a drag on Zhu Dachang.Everyone in Zhu Da is over thirty, but he is still a bachelor.Zhu Dachang began to drink heavily, and when he got home, he would speak harshly to his mother. Her mother often lived in tears.

It didn't take long before the poor family became destitute. Later, Zhu Dachang raised a dozen dogs at home and started a business of slaughtering dogs and selling meat.After doing business for several years, life has just become a little better, but Zhu Dachang is even more unfilial to his mother, and he doesn't even let Zhu's mother have enough food every day.

Today Zhu Dachang was just like usual, sleeping until noon and getting up to eat lunch made by his mother.Come to the dog shed and plan to kill dogs and cook meat. Anyone who kills dogs, the dogs will be afraid to bite them.There are fifteen or sixteen dogs in the kennel, among them an old dog gave birth to a litter of puppies.Zhu Dachang tied the old dog to a bench, poured hot water into the tub, rolled up his sleeves and prepared to kill the old dog.I touched the dog-killing knife on the stool but it disappeared, and the old dog whined miserably on the stool.Zhu Dachang looked around, only to see a puppy lying on the ground trembling all over, half of the handle of the knife was pressing under the puppy.Zhu Dachang walked over and kicked the puppy away.The little pup was kicked far away with a loud "owoo", struggled and limped up.

Zhu Dachang raised his knife and was about to stab the old dog's throat when he suddenly felt something pulling his pants. Turning around, he saw that the puppy who was kicked by him just now was biting his pants desperately. pull.

Zhu Dachang was annoyed, he turned around and wanted to trample the obstructive puppy to death, but the puppy jumped up onto the stool with a whoosh, and lay motionless on the old dog, with big lumps in its eye sockets. Tears fell on the old dog, and the old dog stuck out its tongue and licked the puppy, while pushing the puppy down with its bound paws...Zhu Dachang was shocked by the deep love between mother and child in front of him, the puppy wanted to exchange his own life for the old dog's.

Zhu Dachang has killed countless dogs over the years, but this is the first time that a puppy is willing to sacrifice his own life to save his mother. Animals still understand the grace of nurturing, but he himself..., Zhu Dachang thought of himself My mother sews under the lights just to buy some delicious food for herself, and often stays up all night... Humans are not ruthless.

Zhu Dachang yelled, "I, Zhu Dachang, am really not as good as an animal." With a bang, the sharp knife that killed the dog fell to the ground, and he untied the rope that bound the old dog.

"Mother, my son was wrong." Zhu Dachang went back to the house and hugged his mother and cried.

Zhu Dachang vowed to honor his mother well in the future, and would not kill dogs any more. After selling the remaining dog meat, he would dig a few acres of land in front of the house to live with Zhu's mother.So today Zhu Dachang's burden of dog meat came out very late, and after selling this pot of dog meat, he would never kill dogs for meat again.How could I know that when I just walked halfway, I felt uncomfortable in my stomach, there are three urgencies for people.Putting the dog meat sticks on the side of the road, I found a broken wall and borrowed the wormwood that was half a person's height. I just squatted down and prepared for convenience, when I saw a black and strong man and a monk coming from a distance.Unexpectedly, the monk grabbed the dog meat from his pot and ate it.

In a hurry, he yelled, and the monk dared to provoke his own burden of dog meat and ran away. Zhu Dachang fought back with his stomach pain and chased him out...

Jigong smiled and said to Zhu Dachang: "It is a good thing for you to put down the butcher knife and become a Buddha immediately. From then on, it is even more good to honor your mother. So you are the most virtuous person in the world today, so the poor monk came to save you."

Zhu Dachang understood that it was because of his change that the divine monk came to rescue him, but he didn't have anything of value to repay the monk, so he stood there in embarrassment for a while.How could Ji Gong not understand Zhu Dachang's thoughts: "Okay, go home and serve your old mother well, this load of dog meat can be considered as a monk for me, don't worry, monk, I won't eat your dog meat for nothing, after you go home, go out and walk three hundred Digging the ground three feet at a time will surely bring you something, and you will live a peaceful life in the future.” Zhu Dachang kowtowed three times to Ji Gong and left, returned home, picked up the shovel, walked 500 steps to the right as Ji Gong said, and started digging , Digging three feet into the ground, a jar was found.When I opened it, I saw that there were [-] taels of silver in the jar.

Besides, that Jigong found a flat place with the burden of dog meat, put down the burden and called Chen Mengsheng to eat dog meat together.Ji Gong gnawed on the dog meat and asked with a smile: "Judge, do you understand what happened today?"

Chen Mengsheng thought for a while and said: "Does the monk mean to tell me not to do evil when it is small, and not to do good when it is small?"

Jigong laughed and said: "You can teach, you can teach, how can we eat this dog meat without wine?" After speaking, he took out a wine gourd from his arms like a magic trick, took a sip of the wine, and put it on the back of his hand. A touch of that shiny mouth. "Happy, people cultivate their mouths but not their minds, and monks cultivate their minds but not their mouths. Wine and meat pass through the intestines, but the Buddha keeps them in his heart."

When Chen Mengsheng saw the wine gourd in Jigong's hand, he couldn't help thinking of Sun Tianci, who was beaten to death by the magic ruler because of himself.Back then, if his master Chi Jingzi hadn't been merciful and left behind his soul and been sealed by the Conferred God Stage for a thousand years, maybe he would have lost everything like Uncle Sun...

Jigong looked at Chen Mengsheng's dejected look and said: "The deceased is dead, come and eat more. After dark, we will go to meet the heart eater and get back your kind heart."