This witch is a boy

After Ashikaga Yoshimitsu unified the Southern and Northern Dynasties, he wanted to do something against the Imperial Family. Because Fujiwara Teruko’s parents were loyal to the Southern Dynasty, and the Muromachi Shogunate supported the Northern Dynasty, the officials and the Emperor in the South were characterized as rebellious.

Just insist that Fujiwara Teruko has Nanzhi, a spy of the Southern Dynasty, who hides a dagger every day, and prepares to assassinate the emperor.Originally, the emperor didn't believe it, but when the general said it, many ministers followed suit. Everyone said so, and the emperor suddenly lost his mind.

So in the fourth year of Mingde, the emperor used "You Nanzhi" as an excuse to issue an imperial decree to drive Iyoju Fujiwara Teruko, who had been pregnant for several months, out of the palace.

Literally speaking, Nanzhi has the ambition to restore the Southern Dynasty. The Northern Dynasty supported by the Muromachi Shogunate had the last laugh, but unfortunately, Emperor Komatsu belonged to the Northern Dynasty.

Emperor Go-Daigo, who wanted to rejuvenate the imperial court, was characterized as treason, so there is Nan Zhi, to put it plainly, you tm still want to shake the sky.

So Fujiwara Teruko had to leave the palace with a big belly and gave birth to a child, and this child was named "Senjumaru".

But after all, he is the descendant of the Empress who was born with the remnants of the Southern Dynasty. As the first son of Emperor Gokomatsu, if there is no accident, he will definitely become the Emperor in the future, but Ashikaga Yoshimitsu made a mess, and he is living among the people. When he was five or six years old, he was ordered by the shogunate to be sent directly to a temple as a monk.

However, this still does not reassure Ashikaga Yoshimitsu. When the little monk Ikkyu was still practicing in Anguo Temple, one day Ashikaga Yoshimitsu called Ikkyu to the famous Flower Palace, pointed to the screen at the entrance and said, "This portrait The tiger here is really too ferocious, you practiced with the eminent monks of Anguo Temple and are proficient in Buddhism, you go and tie this tiger to me."

I really can't understand, what is the relationship between the profundity of Buddhism and the tiger in the portrait, but since the general said so, then there is only tie.

If you say you can't tie it, then it's over, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu clearly wants to deal with Ikkyu.

But the little monk Yixiu rolled up his sleeves without panic, tied his turban, held the rope in his hand and said, "No problem, general, I'm ready, please drive the tiger out."

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was dumbfounded, so he let Ikkyu go, which also made him take a high look at Ikkyu.

It has been passed down to later generations because of the battle of wits and courage between Ikkyu and the general, so a cartoon "Smart Ikkyu" was filmed in the time and space of Hikaru Takashi.

The two protagonists are the general Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and the young monk Ikkyu, but the monk Ikkyu in real history is an out-and-out eminent monk, crazy monk and obscene monk.

"Everything in the world is like a dream, why bother to be persistent."

Monk Yixiu shook his head, looked at the witch who stepped directly into the water, and the buoyancy of the water actually bears the weight directly, he couldn't help but said, "Your practice should have reached the state of being as good as water, why can't you see through it."

The witch didn't answer, but looked at the baby in her arms with complicated emotions. If he wasn't a child of the Ashikaga family, she would have adopted him directly, but he happened to be a child of the enemy's family.

I suddenly felt uncomfortable in my heart, and a bead hanging on my chest was also undergoing a mutation.

"Witch, no matter what you do, always keep your heart like a mirror and your body upright."

Monk Yixiu looked at the confused witch and shouted loudly.

The witch suddenly woke up, and she looked ashamed when she saw the small bead on her chest. It was the "Jade of the Four Souls" that her master gave her and she kept.

The Jade of the Four Souls, which can only be purified by the maiden's pure heart, has become like this because of the evil thoughts that appeared in her heart just now.

"It's because I'm too persistent."

The witch showed a bitter smile, looked at Ikkyu and said, "My father has always followed Emperor Go-Daigo and was an important minister in the Southern Dynasty. Since Ashikaga Yoshimitsu ruled the world, my family has been persecuted..."

"The jade of the four souls, do I need to use Buddhism to suppress it?"

Ikyu looked at the Jade of the Four Souls on the chest of the witch and asked. The Jade of the Four Souls, which inherited the will of the priestess Cuizi and the demons in the Heian era, is really too famous.

"No need, suppression is not the solution. This is a struggle between Cuizi and demons, a competition between good thoughts and evil thoughts. Although I have reached the state of being as good as water, I am not upright now, so in the future I will find someone who can Instead of my witch, give her the Jade of the Four Souls, and she will purify it."

The witch shook her head with a look of guilt. The murderous intent that emerged in her heart just now made her feel scared, and there was a hole in her heart.

If this flaw cannot be made up through practice, then the evil thoughts of the Jade of the Four Souls may continue to affect her heart and make her do wrong things.

The witch handed the baby to Monk Yixiu, and said half-jokingly, "Master, this child's talent as a witch is really good, but it's a pity that he's a boy."

"Huiming, Minghui, you two take this child away. Well, I think the talent of being a nun is quite good."

Yixiu called two monks, and the two young monks took the baby away, also joking casually.

The witch just smiled, not happy in her heart, a haze appeared in her heart, as expected, she couldn't purify the jade of four souls by herself.

Yixiu looked at the witch who was about to turn around and leave, and said, "Girl, what about the marriage between the two of us that I just said."

"..." The witch almost fell to the ground, and said awkwardly, "Since I, Aju, has been a teacher, this is the first time I have met such a thick-skinned person as the master."

"If you can't hold back anymore, remember to come to the old monk."

Yixiu said this, there was no frivolity in the words, only seriousness.

The jade of the four souls is not something that can be dealt with easily, because it itself represents the human heart.

Chapter 88 How to grow up

Ying Siguang was a little depressed, very depressed.

He seemed to have a dream last night. He dreamed of a beautiful woman who was crying in the dream. She was probably not as old as before he crossed over, about thirteen or fourteen years old.

Crying by the river, crying to the priests around him not to put their children into the river, who knew that he was roughly pushed to the ground by the warriors around him, and then he was placed on a raft and drifted in the water, and was directly killed by his family. Abandoned.

It was obviously a very clear memory for me, but it was so vague, like a dream.

It seems that I said a word when I was born, and then my family members regarded me as a monster who harmed my parents, and I was thrown into a raft and drifted in the river.

He could have eaten and drank quietly as a baby, but he was caught by this nasty monk Huiming and asked him to pretend to be the legendary future Buddha.

In other words, I don't know where Huiming went. Although the milk that the monk brought over every day was tasteless and tasted very strong, I couldn't help myself and couldn't eat other things.

Stomach growls, and I feel hungry all of a sudden.

"Are you hungry? If you're hungry, call me Master. If you do, I'll give it to you."

There was a bowl of milk in the old monk's bowl, and the fragrance emanating from it made people salivate, even the baby Ying Siguang could feel the tangy fragrance.

I really want to eat, I really want to eat, but I can't accept this temptation. If I accept it, I will become a monk.

"Humph"

Ying Siguang turned his head away in disdain, his head could be bleeding and he couldn't live without his hair.

Asking a monk to be a master doesn't mean that he also wants to be a monk, which is absolutely impossible.

Ying Siguang shook his head. Japanese monks seem to be able to drink alcohol, eat meat, and even marry wives and have children. When he was forced by the shrine to become a witch, he also thought about whether to become a monk.

But this old monk is not the same as the modern monk. It can be said that this monk is not that monk.

Monks can drink alcohol, eat meat, marry wives and have children, and even keep their hair. But this is only limited to the Pure Land sect. Of course, because of the popularity of this sect, it has become a Japanese monk. representative.

This old monk was born in the Zen sect of Tiantai Mountain, and he must abide by the precepts to the letter. Let him be a monk, not to mention drinking and eating meat in the future, and he is not even allowed to marry a wife.

It is estimated that he was dragged out by his sister and beaten to death before he became a monk.

No, she was drowned by her own sister's tears first.Ying Siguang misses his sister a little bit, although his sister is not a kind of majestic and reassuring sister like a mother, she always cries every time she is naughty, but she really doesn't hate it at all, thinking The feeling of protecting my sister is particularly strong, and the dependence on her is getting deeper and deeper.

In the shrine, because of the cruel training under the fast palace, I didn’t think much about my sister for a while. After I went to Kyoto, I was made dizzy by the filth of the underworld. I didn’t expect that after timetraveling, I would miss myself even more. sister.

The important thing is that once you get used to the person you cherish by your side, you will take it for granted, but once you really leave, you will feel precious instead.

When Ying Siguang thought of his sister, tears were about to fall. Seeing the crying baby, the old monk showed helplessness, and handed over the bowl of milk and said, "Come here, drink milk, drink milk, don't cry gone."

The old monk was helpless. Although he called himself "Kuang Yunzi", if he directly said that he wanted to take an apprentice, then at least a monk who was equivalent to his apprentice could line up a company. Unexpectedly, it would not work if he met this child.

"Master Yixiu, you really treat me like a child."

Ying Siguang was a little helpless, seeing the other party like this, he couldn't help being a little funny in his helplessness.

"In my eyes, you are still just a child, regardless of your heart or your behavior, you are still a child."

After monk Yixiu finished speaking, Ying Siguang was silent, as he said, he had never grown up.

"So, how should I grow up?"

Ying Siguang asked in a deep voice, the old monk in front of him is Huiming's master, his name is Yixiu, and his full name is Yixiu Zongchun.

A practitioner of Zen Buddhism is an eminent monk of the Rinzai sect of Zen. It is said that he had already enlightened Taoism at the age of 25. He is also known as Japan's "Three Miraculous Monks" along with Kukai and Master Saicheng.

Kukai and Saisumi are both giants in the history of Buddhism. One built the base camp on Mount Koya and spread Mahayana Esotericism, and the other built the base camp on Mount Hiei to spread Zen. Basically, the main schools of Buddhism were established by these two people.

Being able to line up with the above two founders is enough to see the status of Monk Yixiu.

However, Ying Siguang didn't care about Monk Ikkyu's historical status in Buddhism. He was more concerned about whether Master Ikkyu had a childhood sweetheart named Xiao Yezi, and whether he had a samurai brother named Shinyuemon.

"You're asking Zen." Ikxiu looked at Ying Siguang and couldn't help asking.

Ying Siguang nodded, wanting to know how he should grow up.

"When you want to grow up, you will grow up naturally. Just like this bowl, what is contained in it is water. The water changes its shape because of the shape of the container. People will also change because of their responsibilities and status. Change, when you grow little by little and take responsibility and grow."

Monk Yixiu picked up the bowl in his hand to do what he needed to do. Seeing the dazed Ying Siguang on his face, he said, "You are always you, no matter what is the difference between you in the past and you in the past, you under different names just belong to you. One of my titles, you are still you, just like water no matter how it changes its shape, but its essence has never changed.”

"Why do you want to accept me as an apprentice, the master should know that I am not some future Buddha."

Ying Siguang nodded and asked again.Although he made a gesture imitating the Tathagata Buddha's appearance, in the final analysis it was a helpless move to protect his own safety.

Except for his own little baby body, which has a soul from another world, there is nothing special about him, and Yixiu is the most clear about this.

"Whether you are the future Buddha or not has nothing to do with me. I want to accept you as an apprentice, but you are the only one."

Yixiu said amusedly, "My apprentice Huiming's thoughts are too superficial. Although he is my apprentice, he has a hot fight with Lianru's apprentices..."

Yixiu didn't finish his sentence, Ying Siguang understood what he meant.

Lianru, Lianru of Hongan Temple is a good friend of Master Ikkyu. It is a sect founded by the monk Shinran of the Pure Land Sect in the Kamakura period.

It means that it is more authentic than other Pure Land sects, so naturally other Pure Land sects are fake and shoddy products.

Although the Pure Land School in China is also based on reciting Amitabha Buddha, there are still twelve gates of contemplation. Only by practicing the twelve contemplation methods and observing the clear rules and precepts can one successfully ascend to the Pure Land.

However, the Pure Land Shinzong even omits this. You only need to believe in this sect and sing Amitabha to be able to ascend to the Pure Land.

You meditate for thousands of days and practice thousands of meditations, but you are not as good as I recite a sentence of Amitabha Buddha. This makes eminent monks who have worked hard to practice and abide by various precepts to become a Buddha.

In particular, all religions have a special feature, that is, "good people go to heaven, and bad people go to hell." The purpose is also to make people live in this world and try to do good deeds.

The saying of Hongan Temple is that the pure land is very broad, good people can be accommodated, and bad people can also be accommodated naturally. No matter how bad you are, as long as you are willing to recite Amitabha Buddha, you can still go to heaven and reach bliss.

In the end, it is not believing in Buddhism, but believing in our Yixiang sect to become a Buddha and enter the Pure Land.

This set of sayings has had such a great influence that Pure Land Shinzong has another famous name "Yixiangzong", which means that it is devoted to Buddha.

Moreover, "regarding Buddha's name as righteousness and other behaviors" directly knocked down other sects with a stick.

You talk about all kinds of wonderful methods, such as my Amitabha Buddha, even if I can't argue with you, I can still send monks to set fire to the mountain to threaten your believers.

This is the strength of Yixiangzong, because Buddhist scriptures are rare items, so only Gongqing and Wujia are qualified to talk about Zen and Dharma with monks, because they are the only ones who can read.

It is no problem for ordinary people of the lower class to come to temples to pray to gods and worship Buddha, but there is no way to ask eminent monks to teach you the Dharma.

Of course, if someone plans to buy a Buddhist scripture and study it by himself, it is not impossible. The key is that you have to know the words on it, which are all written in Chinese characters.

Therefore, what the monks of the Yixiang sect said, the common people would naturally have to believe, and the beliefs of the lower class people were directly monopolized by them.

If you say that you can go to heaven by chanting Amitabha Buddha, you can go to heaven. If you say that you can overthrow the local daimyo, you can overthrow the local daimyo.

Yixiangzong is really very influential. If he is captured by the monks of Yixiangzong, maybe he will be picked up by those monks as the reincarnation of the future Buddha to rebel.

Ikkyu was the one who picked him up, it was really great, Ying Siguang couldn't help but rejoice in his heart.

"Now Kyoto is really not safe at all. The war is so fierce that it seems to have returned to the Heian era all of a sudden, and all kinds of ghosts and monsters have come out."

Yixiu sighed suddenly, from the prosperity of the three generations of general Yoshimitsu to today's defeat, he couldn't help but feel the changes in the world.

"Because of the evil thoughts of war and death, human beings will lead to the birth of monsters. That's why in the Heian era, many witches surrendered to monsters. The general seems to have given Hosokawa Katsumoto's handwriting that he would rather destroy the entire capital than drive away the Yamanashi. .”

Monk Yixiu said slowly, turned his head to Ying Siguang who had no expression on his face, and said something irrelevant, "The capital is very dangerous recently, all ghosts and snakes have appeared, the general's concubine Yao Ji Madame suddenly fell out of favor and was sent to become a monk at Kiyomizu-in. There seemed to be Ashikaga Yoshinaka and the undead of Jin Canju wandering there. Maybe there will be revenge."

Ying Siguang didn't understand what Yixiu meant by this sentence. In Yixiu's sight, a shining girl was reflected in a mirror beside him.

Sure enough, the child's weirdness came from the girl.

Chapter 89

Qingshuiyuan is a small temple. Mrs. Yaoji, the general's concubine, knelt in the lobby and recited the scriptures of the "Pharmacist Liuliguang Tathagata Original Vow Merit Sutra".

Even now that she is forced to become a monk, she always believes that her child is not dead and must still be alive in this world. This is also the motivation for him to persist until now.

The maids in the room kept whispering, even though the front was in front of the Buddha, the maids didn't feel at ease at all, all because the rumors about the current participation in the bureau became more and more serious.

Kinsenju was originally the nurse of the general Ashikaga Yoshimasa, and later became a concubine, helping Yoshimasa's mother Hino Shigeko with various affairs.

According to the legend, she was even more capable of driving ghosts and gods. Because of her special ability, she was strongly jealous of Tomiko Hino, so she forced Yizheng to send Jin Canju to the army and killed him halfway.

Therefore, he was favored alone, but it also left a curse, that is, the reason why General Ashikaga Yoshimasa and Hino Tomiko could not have children is because the ghosts who participated in the game today cast their spells.

This is also why Ashikaga Yoshimasa was so generous that he was going to give up the position of general to his younger brother, because he didn't feel that he could still have children at all.

Fuzi, who was troubled by the rumors of Jinsanju, had no choice but to send someone to ask the priests to suppress the spirits of Jinsanju's undead in the Buddhist hall of Qingshuiyuan.

Ying Siguang looked at the bright Buddha light appearing in the small Qingshuiyuan, and the bright and pure divine light spread all over the Buddhist hall. This kind of scene is rarely seen in modern times, but it is a very common scene in the middle ages.

God's light and Buddha's light coexist, and God and Buddha are in harmony.