Yin marriage

I kept thinking on the way back, what exactly is my mother going to tell me?What did she discover again?What kind of surprise will it bring me this time?I was as eager as if I had won the lottery to claim the prize.

But from the first time I saw her, I even had a feeling that all of this was nonsense.

How long have I been without this woman who lost her man for 20 years?

Including the fight against Zhao Dakui last time, I rushed back to the Thousand Buddha Caves in a hurry, and I didn't even have time to come back and take a look at her.Do I have to wait until the son wants to be filial and the relative is away, then I know how to let go of what I am looking for and spend more time with this poor woman?

Are the lost people important, or are the living people standing at the door waiting for my return important?

The can't wait in my heart has now turned into smoke, and I don't even want to mention the purpose of my return. I deceived myself and said that I came back because I missed my mother, and it has nothing to do with all the so-called nonsense.

I held her by my arm and said, "Mom, why are you, I don't know the way, so I asked you to pick me up at the door?"

She smiled kindly, and said slowly: I just knew you were coming back, so I couldn't sit still at home, I just wanted to see you sooner, and it happened that I was bored in the room, so I came out to take a look around, who knew that it happened to be you came back.

One sentence almost made me burst into tears again, Mom, you can only lie to yourself by saying this, right?Who knows, how long did you wait outside the door before you "just met me back"

When I got to the house, I never mentioned those words that ruined the warmth of the moment, and forced my mother to the table, and then went to fetch a basin of hot water. My old lady asked me in a daze: "Why are you fetching hot water?"

I smiled naively and said: Let my son wash your feet.

After finishing speaking, he couldn't help but take off her shoes, and washed her feet with all his heart, very hard, more attentive than ever before.The old lady touched my head and said with a smile: When did you become so sensible?

I pretended to say: Since when did your son become ignorant?

After washing her feet, I went to the park with her, and then ate the meal she made by herself, and I helped her. Her mind was more peaceful than ever. By the time the meal was over, it was already dark. I wanted her to go to rest early. , she grabbed me and said with a smile: "Okay, little San, mom already knows what you want. I'm very happy that you can become so sensible, but you don't have to have any psychological burden. Remember, you do it." That's right, just keep doing this, mom is still young, isn't she?Not so pretentious.

Besides, you are also for the early reunion of our family of five.

She pulled me to the table, got up and went to the room to get a stack of papers, then sat across from me, pushed the paper over, I picked it up and saw a monk on it, preaching scriptures, and countless people kneeling down below. The devout believers are exactly the same as the first mural we saw in the Thousand Buddha Caves.

The old lady said: Actually, the first thing you need to understand in the Thousand Buddha Caves is who the monk is. You said in your letter that the last living monk said a lot of incomprehensible words, which seemed to be Buddhist scriptures. , in my opinion, although the other words are incomprehensible, one of them is very important.

I am not Tathagata.

Judging from this sentence, your guess should be wrong. The monk's words should mean literally, he is not Tathagata.

As soon as my mother spoke, it was such a shocking word, my heart suddenly lifted, and I asked: Isn't it the Tathagata?impossible?You haven't seen the formation on the top floor, he is sitting in the middle, surrounded by two rows of Bodhisattvas, Arhats and Vajras, who has such a big show when he comes out of the Tathagata?

My old lady smiled and said: I was thinking about it, ten times it is really not the Tathagata, because Sakyamuni was burned into a relic after his death, this is a sure thing, how many places worship this thing, should There will be no fakes.Besides, I have never heard of him. He came to China to preach. Buddhism really spread to China much later.

After finishing speaking, she took out a paper from the stack, handed it to me, and said, "Look at this."

When I saw it, it was a printed text, and I don’t know where she found the information. For my convenience, I specially printed it out, and it said:

Entrusted by Sakyamuni Buddha, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva took on the important task of educating sentient beings of the six realms in the Buddha-free world after the death of Sakyamuni and before the birth of Maitreya, the future Buddha. His status is equivalent to "agent Buddha". "Ksitigarbha Original Vow Sutra" also said that Sakyamuni Buddha summoned the great master of Ksitigarbha to be the guardian of Youming, so that those who have relatives in the world will be recommended by the ultimate source, and they will go to the world of bliss together. Make a grand vow in front of the Buddha: "Set up expedient methods for the sinful and suffering sentient beings of the six realms, so that they can be liberated, and I myself will become a Buddha." It is called "Great Wish Jizo" to echo the "Great Compassion" of Avalokitesvara, the "Great Wisdom" of Manjusri, and the "Great Action" of Samantabhadra.

My scalp felt numb when I saw it, because I found that I couldn't understand it at all. My old mother saw my embarrassment and smiled and said: Don't you understand?I asked you to read more before, but you didn’t listen. This passage means that after the death of Sakyamuni, he actually gave up the position of the leader of Buddhism to King Ksitigarbha. During that period of time, Ksitigarbha Wang is the leader of Buddhism.Therefore, if the many bodhisattvas and arhats guarding you underground are really Ksitigarbha, it makes sense.

Another point is that the Dharma field of Ksitigarbha is in Mount Jiuhua, which is also the only Buddha who has manifested his dharmakaya in China.

And the most important point is that the Buddhist painting you got at the foot of the rainforest mountain was left by your father. The last time I found Dunhuang because of a Buddhist painting. Now that I think about it, I don’t know what happened. Well, yours is lucky enough.

Think about it, because of the Buddha, you think of the Mogao Grottoes, but if you talk about Buddhism, wouldn't Luoyang have the Longmen Grottoes?Why did you go to Dunhuang at the expense of the near and far?So, the last time was just a coincidence.

I feel that the real intention of your father to keep that painting is to say, the identity of that Buddha is Ksitigarbha?

I nodded. These three pieces of evidence are too strong and absolutely reasonable. First, the Ksitigarbha King, that is, the Silla monk Jin Qiaojue from Mount Jiuhua, did come to China. Moreover, when he passed away, The true body of Ksitigarbha has manifested, whether it is a rumor or not, in short, it can be determined that he is Ksitigarbha.

Second, King Ksitigarbha has been the acting leader of the Buddhist school and has led the Buddhist school, so he can fully enjoy the treatment in the Thousand Buddha Cave.

Thirdly, the Buddhist painting that my father once kept was of Ksitigarbha.Thinking about it now, it was really a fluke last time. If the Buddha painting simply refers to the Mogao Grottoes, any Buddha will do, right?Manjusri Bodhisattva, Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, Fighting Victory Buddha, the envoy of the altar and so on.It happened to be Ksitigarbha, which means something else, not to mention, that Buddhist painting looks very coquettish and weird.

I said: Then, it is certain that the monk in the Thousand Buddha Cave is the Ksitigarbha King?

My old lady shook her head and said: Not necessarily.

When all the evidence points to the fact that the righteous monk who came out of the Thousand-Buddha Cave at the last moment is the Ksitigarbha King, my mother said it was not certain. who?

My old lady smiled and asked me: "Little San, when do you think it started to shave your head?"In other words, have you always thought that only Buddhist monks are shaved and bald?

In front of my mother, I have always been able to hide my ignorance without any scruples. First, I feel that our IQs are not at the same level. Pretending to be smart with her is self-defeating. Second, isn’t this my own mother? ?There is no need to pretend either.He shook his head and said, "Mom, stop teasing me. You don't know what virtue your own son has?"Say it now, say it now.

She took out a piece of paper from the pile of papers again, on it was a black and white painting printed with ink, and it was still a monk. She didn't ask me this time, and said: If you were to guess, you would definitely think that this monk is People in Buddhism, in fact, it is not the case.

This monk, before Buddhism, was the ruling class of ancient India—Brahmans. Let’s put it this way, in fact, there are obvious explanations in history. There were four classes in ancient India, Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas, and Sudras.Brahmins are above all classes, but Brahmins are priests and monks.Therefore, the earliest gradient bald head did not originate from Buddhism.

And the most important point is that the gods of Brahmans are the protectors of Buddhism.

The reason why you say this is because you said that you are at the bottom of the Thousand Buddha Caves, among those murals, the monks in the murals are kneeling down to a woman.The two of them should be affiliated.

This is what made the monk's identity blurred. Buddhism began to prosper under the hands of Sakyamuni. When Sakyamuni was alive, he had already broken the rule of Brahmans. If the monk was the king of Tibet , then he has no reason to bow down to a person.

Speaking of this, my old lady showed suspicion, slapped herself on the forehead, and shouted: Oh, that's it, that monk is indeed the king of Ksitigarbha, and the woman he bowed to should be a Brahman. God!

I kept thinking that there was no need for Buddhism in the period of Ksitigarbha to pay such respect to any force, but I forgot that before Buddhism completely replaced Brahmans, it was subordinate to Brahmins.

That's right, your other question is also readily solved.

Do you still remember that you said in your letter that you didn't understand that the monk was going to bow down to that woman, but the place where they were buried together was named Thousand Buddha Cave?Such words are upside down.

I nodded and said: Right, I have always been unable to understand this, which boss can bear the fact that his younger brother is more famous than himself?

My old lady smiled and said: Now let’s sort it out from the beginning, starting from the murals, step by step.

The monk is subordinate to the woman, and he is introducing a way to rejuvenate the woman.According to the mural, we can understand that the monk said to the woman, look at this Taoist priest, he can change from an old man to a child, why can he change?Because this Taoist waded in a coffin on a mountain.

This mountain is the mountain of the two mysterious ancient characters in the mural.

After the woman witnessed the Taoist priest's rejuvenation process, her heart was moved, so she led her warriors to attack the mountain and got the iron coffin.

After getting the iron coffin, the woman built the so-called Thousand Buddha Cave underground, with the goal of burying herself in the iron coffin in order to rejuvenate her youth.

Here is an important point. When the woman was repairing the underground tomb, the tomb might not be called the Thousand Buddha Cave.

After the woman buried herself, she didn't actually revert to her youth, and something huge happened—she was deceived by the monk and the Taoist priest, so that woman possessed your friend and always wanted to seek revenge from the monk.

After the woman buried herself, Buddhism rose up and took the opportunity to replace Brahmin.

Therefore, the so-called iron coffin that can rejuvenate is just a conspiracy by the monk to kill this woman.

You said in your letter that at the last moment, that monk said to the "ghost" with a straight face possessed by your friend: Floating up and down in the world of mortals, just to save you today.

This sentence is very interesting. It shows that the monk has always expected that there will be a day when a woman will come to seek her revenge. In this way, the monk knows what changes will happen when a woman is buried in an iron coffin, so he holds back.

The monk came to the Thousand Buddha Cave after the woman buried herself in the iron coffin. Doves occupied the magpie's nest and changed the name of the tomb that originally belonged to the woman.

That's why there is a change in respect and inferiority. In your words, the boss and the younger brother are buried together, but they are named after the younger brother. It is just because the name was given by the younger brother after the boss was sealed.

This can better explain the structure of the entire Thousand Buddha Cave, why there is an empty sarcophagus on the second floor, and why there is a bodhi tree on the second floor.

This is a woman's arrangement. According to the concept of superiority and inferiority, the second floor is the position of the monk.

But later, he ran to the fourth floor by himself and made arrangements.

If your father went to the Thousand Buddha Cave because of eternal life, then what attracted them should also be the rejuvenation of the Taoist priest.Like that woman, they were deceived by that Taoist priest.

So, that girl surnamed Bai will tell you: everything is false, and everyone is wrong.

Yes, from the very beginning, the so-called rejuvenation was a trick set up by monks and Taoist priests, and deceived everyone. Didn't it answer the little girl who said, "Everything is fake, everyone is wrong? "

But one thing in particular is that even if the iron coffin cannot be rejuvenated and will mutate, it must not be too bad, because if the fake is too obvious, it will not be able to deceive the woman. The godlike existence of Brahmanism is definitely not so easy to deceive.

I interjected, "Mom, what do you mean is like the Sunflower Book, that you can become invincible in the world, but you have to be from the palace?"That iron coffin must have the effect of immortality or rejuvenation, but the side effects are more serious?

My old lady nodded and said: That's how you can deceive people. It's like a sentence that can't be deceived if it's all lies. Only three parts of the truth and seven parts of the lie are easy to convince people.

Your father may have obtained some secret from that iron coffin, so he continued to pursue it.Perhaps what they wanted was to perfect the iron coffin and eliminate the side effects.

Speaking of this, I was beyond shocked, because all my mother's speculations, in the end, coincided with Zheng Bishan's words.

The purpose of my father and the others is to perfect the longevity method, to accumulate the experience of the predecessors step by step, to learn from each other's strengths and make up for their weaknesses.

From Zheng Bishan's mouth, I learned about the so-called method of obtaining longevity from the tombs of heroes of various generations, and then my father and the others perfected it step by step. I was skeptical at first, because anyway, Zheng Bishan is just an old man I met for the first time. .

If I meet a person and believe anything I say, then I'm a little too naive.

But now I have to be convinced when I say such things from my mother, not only because she is my old mother, there is no need to lie to me, but all her speculations are rings, her conclusions, It stands up to scrutiny.

Four words, the evidence is conclusive.

Speaking of which, my wife and I don’t know what to say anymore. We can understand people’s pursuit of longevity, but people who pursue longevity throughout the ages are not emperors, generals, or high-ranking people from some mountain .Either the bastard's spirit is ancient and modern, Genghis Khan Li Shimin.Liu Bowen, Zhang Sanfeng, Zhuge Liang, and even the headless Li Zhongzhi we met in the Yulin Mountain Tomb was also a court official at the last time.

But what about my dad?

Zhao Jianguo, Zhao Madman?A megalomaniac in several villages, at most a grumpy tomb robber with a reputation in the industry?I never underestimated my father and said that he is not worthy to explore this, because in my impression, my father is a general.

After such a long search process, he understood his step by step and set up countless mysteries step by step. Even Zhang Tianyi sincerely praised: Fortunately, Zhao Jianguo has no intention of official career, otherwise it is really amazing how far he can go with this skill. It's hard to say, a member of the Central Committee in his 50s?Is Zhengguo difficult?

Therefore, Zhao Jianguo, my father, cannot say that he is not qualified to get involved in this thing that no one in China seems to be able to succeed in 5000 years.

However, so many heroes have not succeeded, can he?

Is it worth it to abandon your wife for something illusory?

This is an era where people laugh at the poor but not the prostitutes. If Zhao Jianguo succeeds, fine, he will rise in the daylight, what an awesome character.But what if he fails?Outsiders just laugh at him 2b, it is inevitable that he is not normal.

But because of this, I actually feel that he can do it.

Because he is not a sloppy person, let alone an idealist.Since he did this, he must have his own ideas. According to his personality, at least he must be [-]% sure of realizing it, otherwise he would not take risks.

Thinking of this, I stared at my old lady, and slowly asked: Mom, if, as I said, one day, my father came back and brought back the method of longevity, what would you do?

A question was thrown to her, and the face of her who was always wise and indifferent was slightly changed. She smiled wryly and said: You child, longevity, I really haven’t thought about this question, but now that I think about it, I’ve been living like a monster. What do you mean?It's better to live happily ever after.

I nodded and said with a smile: Actually, I thought so too, after living for such a long time, wouldn't it be exhausting?By the way, Mom, this is the most unbelievable thing. Why did the scenery in the first tomb passage be exactly the same when we went down to the Thousand Buddha Cave for the second time?It's like time-traveling, it's so weird to death.

My old lady shook her head and said, "I have searched a lot about this, but there is no clue at all. It's just my personal guess. Didn't you say that you saw the stele engraved with the Thousand Buddha Cave, and the direction of the woman carrying the stele was completely reversed?"

But here is an institution.

That is to say, it is possible that here is the memory of a certain period of time, and then waited for the direction of the woman carrying the stele to turn around once, and then returned to the time period of that memory.

Of course, my guess is absurd in itself, but I feel that there should be something wrong with this stele. The woman with a straight face on the hunchback stele is not a whole with the stone stele engraved with the words "Thousand Buddha Cave".

If you think about it, if it is a whole, it is impossible that the direction of the stele has not been reversed, but the direction of the woman has changed.

Now let’s go back to the question just now. This Thousand-Buddha Cave is not called the Thousand-Buddha Cave itself, but the tomb that the woman built for herself.

Then, if the speculation is correct, there should be only one woman at the door of the tomb at the beginning.Because no matter what, she couldn't let herself go to the monument.At this time, the stele should not appear.

That is the stele, which was deliberately erected on the woman when Ksitigarbha entered the Thousand-Buddha Cave.

The first is for eternal suppression. This is very common in history. When a person rebelled against the old master, he suppressed the tomb of the old master.

Second, it may be the Ksitigarbha, who already knows the secret that the stone sculpture of the woman with a straight face will rotate. Of course, this possibility is very high, because the person who knows himself best is his enemy. In the past, it was controlled by this woman, so it's normal to know a lot.

Perhaps, a huge stele was placed on top of this stone sculpture to suppress it by weight and prevent it from rotating?But because of your second brother and the others, what mechanism was touched, so it will re-rotate?And re-recorded the memory of your second brother's last visit?

I stared at my old lady with wide eyes, I was embarrassed to look at her, and said angrily: You child, why are you looking at me like that?

I cupped my hands and said, "Don't say anything, Jiang is still old and spicy. Mom, I really admire your brain. Before, I just felt that you and my father were more harmonious. Now I realize that the two of you are a good match. Yes. In terms of IQ, only my dad can match you, and only you can match my dad perfectly.

Hearing my flattering words, my old lady's complexion suddenly changed, and then she sighed and said, "Man, they are all forced out, just like your father, he used to be able to use fists To solve the problem, we must not use our brains, now?Even Zhang Fei can use 36 tricks. Isn't this what he was forced to do?Look at you, weren't you a master who only knows how to eat, drink and have fun?Don't you learn to use your brain now?

After finishing speaking, she continued: "The reason why I mentioned this issue last is because it is too important. I also tried to straighten it out, but found it difficult."

Liu Bowen and Li Zhongzhi, why did they appear in front of that Ksitigarbha King?