high official

Chapter 883
Just as the three of them were about to leave the alley, they suddenly heard the sound of a gong beating on the street, and then the street, which was originally lifeless even though there were people coming and going, suddenly exploded!

When he walked out of the alley, Wang Xian saw the crowds who were originally traveling from south to north, all of them rushed in one direction after the sound of the gong.

Wang Xian grabbed a young man and asked, "Dare to ask, what are you doing all this for?"

Seeing him speaking with a foreign accent, the young man glanced at him, and said impatiently, "Xiang is going to preach! Let me go, or I won't be able to line up if it's late!"

"What are you doing in line?" Ling Xiao asked.

"Receive the alms." After the young man finished speaking, he struggled to break free from Wang Xian.But after walking a few steps, he seemed to think of something again, and turned his head to stare at Wang Xian. Wang Xian looked back at him, but the young man quickly turned his head and merged into the crowd.

"Let's go take a look too." Wang Xian didn't care, and followed closely with his second daughter.

"Where did your lord go?!" Zhou Yong and others were still following Wang Xian, but at this time the crowd was surging, and they couldn't find their target immediately.

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Wang Xian followed the crowd and arrived at a courtyard. The courtyard was already crowded with believers who came to listen to the lecture, and there were still people pouring in.

But there is no chaos in the courtyard, one is that there are more than a dozen big men maintaining order, and the second is that on the north platform of the courtyard, the smiling Maitreya Buddha statue seems to have powerful magic power, making believers obediently worship, No one dares to crowd.Of course, the magic power is still possible, coming from the dozens of big baskets on the platform, full of golden pancakes...

Wang Xian and Ling Xiao had the experience of listening to lectures once, and Gu Xiaolian was once the Holy Maiden of the White Lotus...Of course, she is a Holy Maiden from Shanxi, and the believers in Shandong don't know her well.All three of them knew what to do at this time, and they were not conspicuous in the crowd.

When the believers were all in place, a nondescript Shandong man in his 40s, wearing straight gowns and cassocks, stood on the high platform, first incensed the Maitreya Buddha statue, and then led the believers to kowtow to the Buddha statue.Then he began to chant sutras, which were the scriptures of the White Lotus Sect, which was not much different from what Wang Xian heard in Yuncheng last winter.The general idea is that there is a supreme goddess in the world, named "Mother Wusheng", who created the universe and human beings, and at the same time saved the offspring who were sinking in the sea of ​​suffering, and sent Maitreya Buddha to save all living beings.

This is the reason for the 'lifeless mother' on the lintel of those shops.As for the "vacuum hometown", it is the place where the lifeless old mother lives. It is the birthplace and final destination of human beings, which is equivalent to the Western Paradise of Buddhism.The scriptures say that once people return home, they will enjoy the beauty of heaven, without birth or death, safe and happy.But people in the world have lost their way and cannot find their way home, so they will suffer in this world. Only by hurrying to "practice the Dao of Wuwei and understand the great law of vacuum" can they return to their hometown of vacuum under the guidance of Maitreya Buddha!
The scriptures are simple and straightforward, full of temptation, and use a lot of space to exaggerate the beauty of the "vacuum hometown".

When the scriptures were finished, the middle-aged man smiled and accepted everyone's kneeling thanks, and asked: "Dear friends, if you have any doubts about today's Buddhism, just ask this incense master, and we will read it together."

Immediately, someone got up and asked, when will Maitreya appear and lead them to the vacuum hometown? !
"This is a heavenly secret, it shouldn't have been revealed," the incense master said in a deep voice, "but I, Buddha, is merciful, and I ask this incense master to tell everyone that the day of Maitreya's reappearance is not far away!"

"Oh! That's great!" The crowd burst into violent cheers.

"Xiangzhu," when the cheers died down, someone asked again timidly: "I heard that the mother of Buddha has come into the world, is that the case?"

The believers were obviously very concerned about this issue, and immediately everyone echoed: "Yes, Lord Xiang, I heard that the Buddha's mother was preaching in Jiaodong, and she showed her power and burned down the three main halls of the emperor's father!"

"Master Xiang, is the mother of Buddha the old mother of no life?" Another person asked loudly, which caused bursts of exclamation, and all the people blushed with excitement. From what they thought, it must be like this!Mother Buddha came into the world to save them!Will the day when everyone returns to the vacuum hometown be far behind?

The atmosphere in the venue was close to boiling, but the incense master on the stage had an unnatural expression.Wang Xian stared at his expression, seeing his lips move a few times, as if he was engaged in a fierce ideological struggle, he couldn't help being surprised!
Finally, the incense master spoke, and he said in a trembling voice: "That Buddha mother is not the old mother of lifeless..."

With a buzzing sound, everyone was stunned, looking at the incense master in disbelief, and heard him continue to say: "Mother Wusheng has sent Maitreya down to earth, so why go there in person? So the mother of Buddha should not be the old mother of Wusheng. ..."

"No way!" Everyone's disappointment was beyond words, and someone asked loudly: "Mother of the Buddha, isn't she the mother of Buddha Maitreya? Isn't the mother of Buddha Maitreya the mother of inanimate mother?!"

"That's right! The Buddha's mother's magic power is boundless, and she can burn down the three main halls of the emperor. Who is it if she is not Wusheng mother?!"

Faced with doubts from the believers, the incense master's face was livid and sweat was like rain. After all, he didn't dare to speak nonsense anymore, so he could only prevaricate: "I will ask the hall master for this question, and ask the hall master to ask Maitreya Buddha to see how the Buddha is doing." Say!" Then he signaled his subordinates to give alms quickly, and hastily ended the puja!

Seeing the incense master leave in a hurry, although the believers were full of doubts, they could only suppress it temporarily and started queuing up to receive the alms.The so-called charity is the pancakes in those baskets, each person can get one, and leave the venue after receiving it.The three of Wang Xian also lined up to the front of the stage, imitating the way of those believers, first raised one palm and bent two fingers, and the other finger pointed to the chest. The donating man nodded and handed each of them a pancake made of rice noodles.The three of them took pancakes and left the venue.

As soon as they left the venue, Zhou Yong came up to them with anxious faces. Seeing that the three were safe and sound, Zhou Yong screamed and thanked God.I didn't see Wang Xian's shadow for an entire hour, but he was so frightened that his three souls came out of his body and his seven souls had no master.

"Okay, don't be like a woman." Wang Xian looked helplessly at Zhou Yong, who had a nose and tears, and surrendered: "Go back, let's go back and it will be over."

The three got into the carriage and quickly left here under the guard of Zhou Yong and others.

As soon as the group of people left, a group of men with sharp knives and red scarves on their heads rushed over. The leader was Xiangzhu, who was preaching on the stage just now. A picture of a picture, the young man on the picture is about [-]% similar to Wang Xian's appearance.

But until the crowd dispersed, the man painted on the graph was not seen.The incense master was very displeased, and asked the younger generation beside him in a rough voice, "Where are the three people you mentioned?"

That young man was exactly the one Wang Xian asked for directions. He scratched his head and said timidly, "I watched them come in."

"It can't be that you are blinded, right?" The Xiangzhu's subordinates didn't believe it: "How can he be such a big official, wandering around the street alone?"

"I really saw it! He is very much like the man in the portrait!" argued the young man.

"Where's that person? Where did he go?" asked a bystander.

"Maybe we should leave before we come..." The young man muttered in a low voice.

"Forget it!" The incense master put the portrait into his arms. He was worrying about the "Buddha's mother" and "Maitreya" at the moment, and he was not in the mood to delve into this matter. left.If the senior officials of the White Lotus Sect knew that he would change the fate of the White Lotus Sect and even the general situation of the world if he came here a little earlier.

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Back in Xingyuan, Wang Xian immediately asked Zhou Gan to be found, and immediately asked: "The boss of the White Lotus Sect, is it the Buddha's mother or Maitreya?"

Zhou Gan was stunned for a moment, and asked something out of place: "The White Lotus Sect is very tightly organized, and the branches in different places do not belong to each other. Each branch only recognizes its own leader. Originally, the White Lotus Sect in Shandong only recognized Lin San. They have their own plans in their heads, and no one will accept the other. The appearance of the Buddha Mother is to reintegrate the various forces." After a pause, he said: "As for Maitreya... I haven't heard of anyone swaying under the guise of Maitreya. If there is It should be for the same purpose." After speaking, he asked Wang Xiandao: "My lord, where did you learn about it?"

"I heard it myself!" Wang Xian's face was quite ugly, Zhou Yong hurriedly told Zhou Gan about Wang Xian's private visit to the White Lotus Sect meeting.

Only then did Zhou Gan understand where the yellow pancakes Wang Xian had been playing with all this time came from.He couldn't help but feel ashamed and said: "The subordinates are all trying their best to track down the Buddha's mother right now. For Jinan, it's dark under the lights."

"Hmph," Wang Xian snorted, and said angrily, "Jinan City is already under the control of the White Lotus Sect, so you have the nerve to say it's dark under the lights!" Zhou Gan hurriedly knelt down to plead guilty.

Fortunately, Wang Xian didn't intend to deal with him, and said in a deep voice, "Take this matter to heart, and carefully investigate where Maitreya came from?!" His tone softened slightly: "I I feel that there is something wrong between him and the Buddha's mother, if this is true, it will be a great benefit to us!"

"Yes!" Zhou Gan hurriedly responded in a deep voice: "This subordinate will go and investigate now!"

"However, we should put the whereabouts of the Buddha's mother first," Wang Xian thought for a while, and then ordered: "This matter needs to be investigated carefully, but don't be too anxious."

"Yes." Zhou Gan replied again.

"Go." Wang Xian waved his hand, and Zhou Gan resigned.After Zhou Gan left, Wang Xian told Zhou Yong, "Get me Lao Hu, and let him come at night so that no one can see him."

"Yes." Zhou Yong hurriedly responded.Lao Hu is the former Shandong bandit Hu Sandao. This guy is now a thousand households of Jin Yiwei. This time when Wang Xian came to Shandong, he would naturally bring this local snake with him.But Hu Sandao did not enter Jinan with Wang Xian, but quietly led people to follow behind in case of emergency.

(End of this chapter)