Day and night tour

Chapter 90 Demon
Lady Lotus was also silent.

When Zhou Xuan's storytelling started with the part about a master taking a fish demon in as his apprentice, she felt that "the storyteller's book is wonderful, but the ending is inevitably vulgar."

She would meditate on Buddha in the temple day and night, and people around her would also tell her stories from Buddhist scriptures. Usually, they were about a certain disciple being accepted as a disciple by a master, who would pass on the scriptures and teach him Buddhist teachings.

In such stories, only the masters are focused, but no one ever cares about what the disciples are thinking, let alone their confusion and inner demons.

She thought that Zhou Xuan's story of "Water Buddha" was originally like this, but unexpectedly, in the last part of the story, the fish demon felt that he was not worthy of becoming a Buddha - he even recounted the fish demon's inner demons one by one, and the monk answered them one by one.

One question and one answer, is it predestined?

Every sip and every bite has a reason.

"Young Master is an expert! This fish demon is similar to my inner demon, but it is always a little different from me."

Lady Lianhua suddenly had a bold idea. She wanted to tell Zhou Xuan about her true inner demons, hoping that Zhou Xuan could answer her years of confusion.

However, it was not in accordance with the rules to ask questions before the storyteller stepped off the stage.

But she really couldn't wait any longer, so she simply broke the rules.

"The young master's lecture has violated the rules, which shows that he is a free-spirited person. Since he is free-spirited, why should I be so rigid?"

Lady Lotus' eyes suddenly turned red, and she was using her perception to send a message to Zhou Xuan.

"Young sir, I am Lotus. If you can hear my voice transmission, please nod your head."

Zhou Xuan had a very strong sense of perception, so of course he could hear it. He nodded slightly to indicate that he could hear it.

As expected of the storyteller of Four Sticks of Incense, he had amazing perception. He could sense what was asked just by using his perception.

After secretly praising Zhou Xuan, Lady Lotus transmitted a message, "I have all these tumors because I was cursed when I was born. I was born with this strange appearance, and every day I feel unbearable pain all over my body. Moreover, the number of tumors increases a lot every day. I can only remove hundreds of tumors every day to prevent the number of tumors from becoming too many.

During the drought, the victims were pitiful and they actually picked up the tumors I discarded and ate them. It was not because I was compassionate by nature and took the initiative to save them.
More than ten years passed like this, and after experiencing seven droughts, I heard a Buddhist bell in my heart. From then on, the medicine I took would have some benefits for my tumors, some made me strong, and some made me wiser... My Buddha name became more and more famous, but I never heard the second Buddhist bell!

I have reflected on this for many years and always felt that it was because I had never truly saved people and did not have the true heart of the Buddha to save people from suffering, which led to my Buddha nature being unable to advance any further. I pondered over this every day and it became a demon in my heart instead. "

After listening carefully, Zhou Xuan realized that Lady Lotus was being too stubborn and not open-minded.

Since there are deeds of saving lives, does it still matter whether one has the heart to save lives?

He reached out his hand again, smoothed the tablecloth, stood up straight, opened his folding fan, smiled slightly and said: "As the saying goes, a gentleman judges by deeds rather than by heart. I think the Buddha and Bodhisattva are the same!"

Lady Lotus was stunned, and the confusion in her eyes quickly faded away.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The sound of three Buddhist bells rang in her heart.

Lady Lianhua quickly asked Huang Jiu to help her up, and she knelt down towards Zhou Xuan like a believer.

Zhou Xuan smiled without saying a word, gently waving the folding fan in his hand...

……

The guests at the banquet had left, and Zhou Xuan also said goodbye to Lady Lianhua and was about to return to the Zhou family troupe.

"Master, I'll see you off."

Because of Zhou Xuan, the Buddhist voice of Goddess Lotus was heard again after decades. In the hearts of the monks in the Buddhist temple, this was the feeling of salvation, and calling him "master" was reasonable and logical.

"Okay." Zhou Xuan agreed.

Lady Lotus was too big to sit in a common sedan chair with a lid, so she sat in a sedan chair without a roof. Zhou Xuan also chose a bamboo sedan chair.

"Mr. Storyteller, you must come to my birthday party next time."

The little yellow-skinned people were reluctant to leave Zhou Xuan, and their hearts were still burning with anxiety. They followed him trotted to book tickets for Zhou Xuan's next show.

"Go away, you little brats, you have no manners. Call our teacher grandpa!" Lady Lotus scolded her great-grandchildren.

“……”Zhou Xuan.

This is a book that has made us grow in seniority.

When the sedan chair left the temple, Lady Lotus waved her hand and said to Huang Tianfeng, "Butler Huang, I will escort you all the way. You are so rash and I am afraid you will not be able to serve your mentor well."

Huang Tianfeng: “…”

My lady, you praised me for my sense of propriety a few days ago.

Huang Tianfeng felt very aggrieved, but he still had to do his job. He signaled the sedan bearer to put down the sedan first, and then he stood on tiptoe and whispered something to Goddess Lotus who was sitting in the sedan.

"Is there such a thing?"

Goddess Lianhua frowned and asked Huang Tianfeng to go back to the temple first.

When the sedan chair was moving smoothly, Lady Lotus said to Zhou Xuan, "Master, I'm afraid someone is causing trouble in the Zhou family class."

"Who?"

"I don't know, but Huang Tianfeng smelled a scent in the Zhou family class, the scent of our kind."

"The Zhou family also hides members of the Huang family?"

"The same kind refers to our demon race, not just the yellow-skinned ones. I'll go there later and I'll know once I smell it."

"Thank you very much, Your Majesty." Zhou Xuan clasped his fists and thanked.

"I dare not thank you. Master has helped me so much. For so many years, I have never heard the sound of the Buddha bell, but today it rang three times in a row."

I don’t know either, who would have known that by telling you some inspirational stories, you could actually sound the Buddha’s voice.

"My benefactor, please tell me how I should practice in the future to further advance Buddhism."

Ha ha,

This question touches upon my blind spot in knowledge!
Zhou Xuan had a hard time collecting incense and offerings for himself, so how could he know how to practice Buddhism?

But I can't not answer, otherwise I won't disappoint the Queen.
As a small leader in his previous life, Zhou Xuan had a lot of experience in dealing with questions that he couldn't answer - less is more.

If I can say one word, I would never say two words. As for the rest... you will figure the rest out slowly.

Zhou Xuan said calmly: "It will be the same in the future as it was before!"

After listening to this, Lady Lotus immediately understood. Although she was able to ring the three bells today with the help of Zhou Xuan's words, her decades of practice and the power of vows she gained from doing good deeds were not in vain.

And this sentence also has another meaning, warning her not to be too ambitious just because the bell rang again, but still need to practice down to earth - this is what Lady Lotus thought.

What a good saying. "I understand. Thank you, Master." Lady Lotus was excited again.

Zhou Xuan breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I like people like you who have high comprehension. I will be responsible for starting the song, and you can finish the rest of the song by yourself!"
Lady Lianhua was so excited that she felt that today's gift was too light. She took off the white jade ring on her thumb and handed it to Zhou Xuan: "I have worn this ring for many years. Within the four prefectures, the Huang family sees it as if they see me. Please accept it, benefactor. If you get into trouble in the future, just come to us, Huangmen."

"I'm so sorry." Zhou Xuan said this, but his hand took it quickly.

……

Zhou Xuan's sedan chair arrived at the Zhou Family Troupe, and Yu Zhengyuan was still waiting. What he wanted to know most was the result of Zhou Xuan's storytelling today, after all, it was related to the future business of the Zhou Family Troupe.

As a result, he saw Zhou Xuan coming back in an uncovered bamboo sedan chair and had a bad feeling.

When he went there, he took a large sedan chair with eight carriages, and when he came back, he took a bamboo sedan chair carried by two people. They were not of the same quality.

However, since it was not going to work, it was not going to work. Yu Zhengyuan adjusted his mood and wanted to help Zhou Xuan get off the sedan chair: "Xuanzi, thank you for your hard work. Let's go to the eldest brother's room and have a drink to relieve your fatigue..."

"Big Brother, you are blocking the sedan chair, please look behind you."

Yu Zhengyuan turned his head and saw that the huge Lotus Lady was standing at the door of Zhou's class. Her sedan chair was blocked by Zhou Xuan's sedan chair and she could not get in.

"Ouch?!"

Yu Zhengyuan even suspected that he had seen it wrong - Huang Tianfeng picked him up when he left, and Lady Lianhua sent him off when he came back.

What are you talking about?

This is not even on the same level!
Yu Zhengyuan quickly made way, and Zhou Xuan and Lady Lianhua walked towards the corner of the outer courtyard.

Only the eldest brother was left standing there in a daze.

"Mrs. Lotus personally sent it. What a great honor! In the future, the business of the Zhou family..."

"Old Yu, what are you still doing here?" Xu Li ran over happily: "Let's go to Luoying Hall!"

"What are you doing there so late at night?"

"The phone is ringing off the hook! They're all big bosses from Pingshui Prefecture who want to chat with us. I'm not good enough to handle it, so my second senior brother is answering the phone, but he can't handle it any longer. You should go quickly, you should go quickly..."

"Oh, oh," Yu Zhengyuan ran to Luoying Hall in a hurry and didn't even notice that one of his shoes was missing.

……

The sedan chairs of Lady Lianhua and Zhou Xuan swayed twice in the corner of the outer courtyard.

"Master, there is the scent of a demon, but it is too faint to locate."

"Then why didn't I smell it?" Zhou Xuan wondered.

"The smell of demons is the most familiar to demons. Humans don't know that much about demons, but I feel that this demon is not a pure demon. It is a White Walker."

"White Walkers, do they also have a demonic smell?"

"Some White Walkers do. The bloodline of White Walkers is very complex, but there is one main bloodline. If this bloodline is a demon, it will have a very strong demonic flavor."

"We demons have some means of hiding our auras, which are even more powerful than the influence of incense sticks. It may only last for three or four incense sticks, but even gods and ghosts with seven or eight incense sticks will not be able to discover it.
Therefore, our demon bodies are always taken away by some people with great powers to be used as forbidden tools and magical instruments. Hey, it’s getting late, Master, I will go back to the temple first. I will come to listen to you talk about Buddhism when you have time another day.”

"Okay, okay." Zhou Xuan nodded.

"Oh, right... I will never forget your kindness. According to the rules of Duyin..." Lady Lotus took out a knife, cut off a small part of the golden tumor on her chest, and handed it to Zhou Xuan: "Here is the Buddha nature I cultivated. Although Master does not need it, please accept it."

Zhou Xuan really accepted it and took the golden tumor with a smile.

Lady Lotus took out another Bodhi bracelet and put it on Zhou Xuan.

It is also the rule of the cross-examination to personally hand over the Buddhist instruments that one uses for worship to the person being led to cross-examination.

……

Zhou Lingyi's boudoir.

After Xu Li called Yu Zhengyuan, he found Zhou Lingyi and told her about the happy event in the team.

As soon as Zhou Xuan entered his sister's room, Zhou Lingyi congratulated him.

"Congratulations, brother. It's your first time on stage and you got a standing ovation. Oh, Lady Lotus even gave you half of the Buddha's tumor? This is a good thing. It has pure Buddha power, which is stronger than the Buddha power of ten fingers."

Although Shizhi is a strange ghost, he has just been born into the world after all. Naturally, his Buddha power cannot compare to that of the Lotus Goddess who has practiced Buddhism for many years.

"It's also a bit of luck. I feel a little embarrassed when my sister praises me like that."

Zhou Xuan said to Zhou Lingyi, "Sister, the Queen just smelled the smell of a demon in our yard, and that demon seemed to be a strange ghost."

"Really? No wonder I couldn't find his energy. I understand. Brother, you should go to sleep first. It must be tiring to read for such a long time."

"Ah."

Zhou Xuan left with the golden Buddha tumor.

Zhou Lingyi bit her finger and drew a bloody symbol on the table with her blood.

She stroked her palm over the blood talisman, and it began to burn.

"There are demons lurking in the Zhou family, please kill Xiao Youshen and join the game!"

There is a division of labor in the Youshen Division, and everyone has their own expertise. Zhan Xiao Youshen is the one who knows the nature of the demons and monsters best.

……

Zhou Xuan checked his incense sticks and found that they had burned past nine inches. Although the audience for this storytelling session was not as large as the Zhou family's storytelling sessions, the incense sticks were increasing faster. He thought that it might be because the Lotus Goddess was too pious to him and her wish power was too pure.

"This Buddha tumor, if you eat it, I'm afraid you'll have to burn two incense sticks! Let it sit for a day, and then take a good look at the scenery of the Zhou family tomorrow, and then eat it tomorrow night."

Zhou Xuan is nostalgic for the Zhou Clan...

Zhou Xuan placed the Buddha's tumor on the table, and lay down to sleep.

When he was sleeping soundly, the Buddha tumor melted like ice cream, and the melted part turned into wisps of golden gas, flowing towards Zhou Xuan's eyebrows.

As more golden energy entered, the incense in Zhou Xuan's secret realm burned faster.

Nine inches two, nine inches five, nine inches eight...

ps: My good brothers, I have updated 10,000 words today, mua, and I will try to update at 8 o'clock in the evening in the future.

I would like to recommend a new history book written by a good friend of mine, "The Water Margin Begins as a Captain in Yanggu County". The book is super good and those who love history must read it.

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