As the downfall of the Republic of China, there was a Taoist priest named Uncle Jiu

After a long while, Wuxin asked again: "Do you know why living people are used to make the body Buddha?"

"why?"

"The person who is selected to make the body Buddha must go on a hunger strike ten days in advance. In fact, it is to expel the water in the body to the greatest extent. At the same time, he must drink a special medicinal soup. This medicinal soup is actually a preservative! After drinking After that, it will be immersed in the limbs, internal organs, and internal organs of the human body, and after reaching a certain density, the corpse will not rot!"

"Is this the key to making a flesh Buddha?"

"Yes. In this way, internal and external factors work together, and a living person becomes a Buddha in the flesh!"

"Is this the key to making a flesh Buddha?"

"Yes. In this way, internal and external factors work together, and a living person becomes a Buddha in the flesh. During that time, many monks from Lingci Temple disappeared, and it is very likely that they also captured many living people from the outside world for experimentation."

Gu Zhou remained silent.

So three years ago, the first body Buddha in Lingci Temple was born.

As soon as the news spread, the effect was immediate, attracting the attention of the world, making people worship, and causing the incense to flourish again for a while.

The pilgrims don't know that the body Buddha in Lingci Temple is a man-made scam, and it is extremely bloody and cruel!

They only know that the body Buddha is a great virtuous monk!

So I came to worship and offer incense.

Three years later, Wutong and others wanted to make Lingci Temple a higher level, so they began to make a second body Buddha.

At this time, Yuanjue, who was devoted to practicing retreat, accidentally discovered the crimes in Lingci Temple, so he naturally would not join forces and wanted to expose them.

So Wutong, Yuanshang and the others dealt with Wuxin the same way they used to deal with him. First, they cried bitterly and asked Yuanjue to give them a chance to put down the butcher knife.

Yuanjue couldn't bear it, but was poisoned and paralyzed directly. During the paralysis, he was made into the second Buddha in the body of Lingci Temple.

"Actually, they chose my master."

A monk about 30 years old walked in.

"Your master?"

The young monk nodded: "In the beginning, the temple was going to persuade the old monk, and under normal circumstances, the old monk would agree. Because there is no other way if you disagree, everyone will force it to be made into a body Buddha. But at that time, there was no one in the temple except Yuan There are no old monks among the three masters and uncles. When the host made this suggestion, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, and no one was willing to stand up..."

"So the temple began to draw lots."

Gu Zhou said: "Finally your master caught it?"

The young monk sneered: "If it was a fair lottery, it would be a resignation. But the lottery is not fair at all. My master is honest and devoted himself to studying Buddhism, so they ganged up to bully the honest people and cheated to choose my master. If it wasn't for Master Yuanjue, maybe The one who has been turned into a flesh Buddha is my master."

Gu Zhou sized up the young monk, and saw a clever look on his brows and eyes: "How many people in the temple are not in the same boat?"

The young monk said silently: "If you don't want to join forces with others, you have been arrested long ago as a specimen for experimenting with the body Buddha. I have always remembered that there were 23 monks, and the beggars they captured from outside were more than 0 refugees, and their bones were all buried. In the back hill [-]..."

"You've been secretly investigating?"

"That's right, I was one of the aggrieved people at first, but later I found out that the people who didn't want to join forces disappeared one by one, so I immediately pretended to be in the same boat, and persuaded some people who didn't want to join forces to hide with me."

Gu Zhou praised: "This is the method of a smart person. What's your name? If that's the case, you should also remember those monks who are the confidantes of Wutong and others who committed the most crimes."

"Well, remember, my Dharma name is Wuxin."

"You will leave it to him later."

Wu Xin was a little anxious: "Why don't you follow me to get the list now, I'm afraid they will run away."

"No need, a formation has been arranged inside Lingci Temple long ago, and no one can get out without my consent. Right, big brother."

Gu Zhou looked at Wuxiang.

Wu Xiang proudly said, "Without your and my consent, even the Heavenly King and I can't get out."

"This is……"

"Don't change your name if you're going or sit down! I don't have a face!"

The corners of Gu Zhou's eyes suddenly twitched, and it didn't seem like a good idea for Wuxiang and Wuxin to meet each other.

Wuxin wanted to smash the stone Buddha to death, but Wuxiang was deeply involved with the stone Buddha.

5.2

If Wuxiang is really the Buddha who destroys the world, then the stone Buddha should be Wuxiang himself.

Of course, it is not ruled out that the stone Buddha incident was done by devout believers without a phase.

"Thank you."

Wu Xin's body outline has recovered very clearly, and she cupped her hands at Wu Xiang.

Wu Xiang waved his hand, as if I don't care about your thanks.

Gu Zhou smiled secretly, he is such a proud and charming man.

After Wuxin regained his ability to move, he got the list recorded by the young monks.

It spanned five years before and after, and that was the time when Wutong began to experiment with the flesh Buddha.

There are more than 300 people in the entire Lingci Temple, 250 of them are co-conspirators, and there are more than 20 people who are unwilling to give in like Wu Xin but pretend to be co-conspirators. There are more than 30 people who, like Master Wu Xin, devote themselves to practicing Buddhism and ignore the troubles.

Chapter 170

There were more than 50 people who really committed the most heinous crimes. After Gu Zhou helped Wuxin take it down, he left Lingci Temple. How to deal with it later was left to Wuxin.

The incident of the flesh Buddha in Lingci Temple is just a microcosm, and Gu Zhou can conclude that more than one temple is full of filth.

He remembered a book he had read. More than 100 years ago, Yuan Mei's collection of strange essays "Zi Bu Yu" recorded a sinful past of creating a "flesh Buddha".

In the early Qing Dynasty, a scholar passed by a temple and heard someone wailing in the temple, saying repeatedly: "I don't want to be a Buddha, I don't want to be a Buddha."

So the scholar climbed up a tree and secretly looked at a courtyard in the temple. He saw a group of monks chanting scriptures and making a salute around a monk, wishing the surrounded monk an early birth to the Western Paradise with his hands together.

The monk surrounded by him kept saying "I don't want to be a Buddha".Next to it is an iron bar about three or four feet long.

The scholar was puzzled and left. The next day, a story spread throughout the county. It turned out that a living Buddha would ascend to heaven on the spot in this temple, and all believers were invited to burn incense and worship.

There are many believers who come to burn incense in the temple. There are more than 06 people. There are huge crowds of people, including scholars. I saw that the living Buddha who is about to ascend to heaven is the monk who said "I don't want to be a Buddha" last night. He has been carried to the incense platform. On the lotus pedestal, the posture is correct, with a painful expression.

Xiucai felt something was wrong, so he reported to the official, and the official immediately came to the scene for inspection. The "living Buddha" on the lotus pedestal was dead, and his body was removed. Nailed his body, from the bottom to his head, the image is too horrible to look at.

The government quickly arrested other monks for interrogation. It turned out that the main purpose of this evil tragedy of the Living Buddha's ascension to heaven was to defraud incense money.

The reason why the poor monk was nailed to an iron bar is that if the iron bar is not nailed, the head will be crooked as soon as the person dies. After the iron bar is nailed, the head will not be crooked after death, and it will be more like a living Buddha. .

It's like Dabai, the believers are scattered.

Yuan Mei also mentioned the immeasurable life Buddha in Yongzhou, Guangxi, with a fleshy body and a straight head. He was very suspicious. After visiting, he learned some methods of making a fleshy Buddha.

Choose a sick monk or an old monk who has lost the ability to take care of himself, strangle or poison him to death with a rope, and then use a 2-foot steel bar or bamboo pole to pierce the monk to make his body stand upright and confuse the believers.

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Gu Zhou didn't know how many other ways to make a flesh Buddha, but this kind of crime, as long as there is a phenomenon of flesh Buddha being worshiped by believers, the crime will not stop.

Because a Buddha in the flesh can greatly benefit a temple, and monks are also lay people, so they cannot be exempted from lay people.

"Is there a body Buddha in Wuxiang Temple?"

Gu Zhou asked Wuxiang at the side, if he was really a disciple of the Buddha of Wuxiang Temple, wouldn't it be because he discovered the crimes of the flesh Buddha in Wuxiang Temple, so he destroyed Wuxiang Temple, right?

Wu Xiang shook his head without hesitation: "No. A real big temple does not need a flesh Buddha to increase its popularity. Big temples such as the Jokhang Temple are extremely popular. If there is a flesh Buddha born, it is probably true."

Gu Zhou suddenly wanted to ask whether Wuxiang Temple was destroyed by him, but he swallowed the words.

"Come on, I'll buy you a drink!"

"Brother, you've run out of money, why are you asking me?"

"Haha, no money, I have wine!"

Wu Xiang flipped his hand, and two jugs of wine appeared in his hand.

Gu Zhou took a sip from the spout, and felt a strong aroma of wine filled his mouth and nose, and the pores of his body stretched out after drinking.

Wu Xiang raised his head and took a big sip, then said with a smile, "This is the wine I brewed myself, it's called Drunken Buddha, and it's a rare wine that can make me drunk!"

"Good wine!"

Gu Zhou doesn't like to drink alcohol, but this Drunken Buddha is really good wine, the color is like amber, like a line of fire passing through his throat, and then exploded in his stomach, a slight burning sensation broke through his whole body, and his blood boiled for a while .

After drinking half a jug of wine, Gu Zhou didn't try to resist his drunkenness, he was half drunk and half drunk.

But Wuxiang, but everyone is drunk when they are not drunk, drinking and crying loudly: "I lost her! I lost her!"

On that day that year, he held an umbrella and looked at her in the rain, and that look was eternity.

"Master, wait until I get the big fan to dance for you!"

"Master~ accompany me to put up lanterns, don't let me go!"

"Master, this girl is tired, you carry me back, you must carry me back!"

He didn't speak, just squatted down silently.Her slender fingers stroked his cheek lightly, and he grabbed it silently without speaking.

"Grandmaster……"

"Ok?"

Her red clothes are like fire, and she is as gorgeous as peach blossoms.

"I'm getting married."

For some reason, the beads were scattered all over the place.

"Amitabha."

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"Vald donkey, go back to vulgarity. If you want to marry a girl who is not as beautiful as me, you must agree."

He held her cold body in his arms and choked up: "I don't want to!"

"How could I lose her... woo woo woo woo..."

Gu Zhou stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder: "Brother, the boy won't bleed..."

Pfft!

Before the words fell, he fell to the ground.

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I don't know how long I've been sleeping for 600 days. When the sun shines down again, Gu Zhou wakes up in a daze, jumping up in a jerk.

What the hell!

I was actually drunk!

Get drunk in front of a person who doesn't know the truth!

Gu Zhou looked around for a week, Wuxiang had disappeared, checked his belongings, found nothing was missing, looked back at Lingci Temple, and set off on his way home.

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As soon as he returned to Qingshan Town, good news came from Zhang Muzhi that Goose City had been captured, that is to say, both Daxiang County and Goose County belonged to Gu Zhou's territory.

Gu Dahai's face was full of joy: "Now that the two counties have been acquired, the plan to annex other counties can be put on the agenda. At that time, at that time, only Guangzhou in Guangdong belongs to the military government, and Gu Zhou has the final say on other places. "

"Or, what the governor, Hu Hanmin did, you Gu Zhou can do too!"

Gu Zhou smiled and waved his hands: "Third Master, we have only won two counties, so don't be too ambitious."

"If a person has no dreams, what's the difference between him and a salted fish?" Gu Hai raised his eyebrows brightly.

"Maybe at that time, I, Gu Dahai, will also have the opportunity to be famous in history, and I will die without regret."

Gu Zhou looked at Daxiang County and Goose County on the map, and tapped Daxiang County with his fingers: "Third Master, are you interested in becoming the county magistrate of Daxiang County?".

Chapter 171 Expand the army by one division again!

"I?"

Gu Dahai shook his head vigorously: "I can't do a good job as the mayor of the town. How can the county magistrate do it well? If you don't do it or don't do it, you can replace it with someone else."

Gu Zhou persuaded: "Third Master, although the development of Qingshan Town is not good, it really has nothing to do with you. The main reason is that the town is too remote. In fact, there is really no big difference between being the county magistrate and the mayor of the town. The difference, anyway, you just remember one sentence, leave professional things to professional people to do."

Gu Dahai pondered for a moment, paced back and forth, still embarrassed: "You should find someone else, let me manage 20 people, I always feel guilty."