Chapter 215, Bodhisattva listens to storytelling and rewards, half of the gospel of the altar

Zhang Guo got up first, helped Xingyun up, coughed and lowered his head and said, "Xingyun, Xiantong is very clear, what are your plans? If you stay in Qingyi Sanshan..."

Xingyun interrupted him: "I want to pay tribute to my parents, and I want to pay tribute to Mr. Chu Henan." She has changed her words to call Chu Suiliang Chu Henan, so the parents mentioned in her words refer to Liu Hong and Yin. Liu Hong died in prison and didn't even know where the tombs were. Yin committed suicide in Chang'an, and Chu Suiliang died in Lingnan. Xingyun wanted to pay tribute to memorial service, and I was afraid that it would take a long way to go.

Zhang Guo: "I really want to go with you, but the young master punished me to be a gardener in Tingsongju for half a year and to build a cave garden."

Xingyun: "There is no rush to do this for half a year. Since you and I are Taoist couples, I will accompany you to build a cave garden here. After half a year, you will ask Zhenyi for a long journey, okay?"

When the two were talking, they were about one foot away from each other, but they both lowered their heads and looked at each other's toes. Xingyun's tone was very light and light, and it was shocking to Zhang Guo's ears, because of the words "You and I are Taoist couples." Zhang Guo's wish was actually a fait accompliment. Of course, he wanted to agree to Xingyun's request. He almost jumped up happily, wanted to hug Xingyun and cheered loudly, but he just replied softly: "Okay."

Xingyun and Zhang Guo were drilled and built the Cave Heaven Garden. After half a year, they were going to travel far to pay homage to Xingyun's parents and Chu Suiliang. Mei Zhenyi was of course happy and called Zhang Guo to congratulate him and asked him to do something. He asked Mei Yi to get a marching album from Guanzhong area and pointed to a place and said to Zhang Guo: "Old Zhang, if you pass by the south bank of the Yellow River, go here by the way, I ask you to buy this place and cultivate the countryside."

Where did Mei Zhenyi buy? It was Chuxi, the valley where Zuxi flowed into the Meigong River, which was the original place of the Mei family before crossing. In the Tang Dynasty, it was still a wilderness with trees. Zhang Guo was a loyal family member of the Mei family. He nodded without asking a single extra word and would do it seriously.

Mei Zhenyi also explained that all the costs of building a pastoral land were withdrawn, and asked Master Xingyun to design it. After talking less, Xingyun and Zhang Guoxing traveled around and returned to Qingyi Sanshan, they did not live in Tingsongju, which was the guests. Instead, they lived in the Baifu thatched House where Zhang Guo usually practiced. Xingyun had a separate courtyard. After Master Xingyun came back, he had already accumulated long hair - she was reborn.

Mei Zhenyi wanted to buy the wilderness in the Meigong Valley, but it didn't cost much. It was mainly the cost of building gardens and reclaiming fields, but it was far less expensive than the construction of Qingyi Sanshan. Mei Zhenyi's purpose in doing this was to have a special relationship with his hometown in one thousand and three hundred years later, and on the other hand, she also wanted to give Zhang Guo and Master Xingyun a gift. These two people have taken care of his elders since childhood.

Both Zhang Guo and Xingyun have the ability to fly and have experienced the sea of ​​suffering. It is also very easy to supervise the construction of the pastoral land. After the pastoral land is completed, Mei Zhenyi went to see it. At this time, the scene of the Mei family land passing through the Mei family land was not visible. Master Xingyun designed it according to the layout of a private manor. There are houses on a small hill surrounded by black plum forests, and there are gardens, farmlands, and fish ponds in the fields between two streams. Many tenants and servants have lived in it, forming a small village.

The location of the owner's house in the Wumei Forest is exactly where Mei Taigong's courtyard was located. Mei Zhenyi sighed inwardly and said nothing. Zhang Guo said, "Young Master. The pastoral scale here has become larger. It is another industry outside Wuzhou. Who should the young master send to manage it?"

Mei Zhenyi smiled and said, "Old Zhang, I can tell you today that this property is a gift for you and Xingyun. Don't refuse. My parents were not around since childhood, and you grew up with me. Xingyun is my enlightenment master. This is nothing."

Of course, Zhang Guo refused. Mei Zhenyi insisted that he accept it. Finally, he gave an order in the tone of the young master. Zhang Guo had to obey. Mei Zhenyi said again: "This place was built by An Xingyun's meaning. I think you will be satisfied. If you stay in Qingyi Mountains in the future, you can still go to your own countryside to relax, and I can also come to visit."

Zhang Guo and Xingyun got a pastoral property. They planned and built it by themselves. Naturally, they were overjoyed. Zhang Guo didn't often ask for personal favors with the young master. He transferred Mei Wuzhong to be the butler here, and Mei Zhenyi agreed. This place is also considered to be a peripheral foundation of the Mei family, and the owner is Zhang Guo.

By the first year of Wanshou Tongtian, Emperor Wu appointed Di Renjie as the governor of Weizhou. The Pengze area had already calmed down, and Liu Hai also came to Qingyi Sanshan as promised to pay homage to Mei Zhenyi to return the Golden Crow Xuanmu Sword. Mei Zhenyi smiled when she saw him: "Zuo Youxian should have explained to you that I want to accept you as my disciple. If you are willing to take the ordination and worship me, this Golden Crow Xuanmu Sword will be considered as a gift for your master."

Of course Liu Hai was willing to kneel down on the spot with the teacher's ceremony. A few days later, the ceremony was officially held to start the ceremony, and the disciples under Mei Zhenyi were seated at Wuhu Villa. Liu Hai asked the master for the key points of cultivation. Over the past few years, his cultivation has become more and more profound, but he always felt it was difficult to go further. Mei Zhenyi did not pass on the alchemy technique, but taught him to refine the Toad Light Scatter, and used the Toad Light Scatter to lead the Bang Hai into the false realm.

After several outgoings in the false realm, Liu Hai also broke the false realm. Mei Zhenyi taught him the Twenty-Four Cave Heavenly Pills from scratch to confirm the gains and losses with his previous practice. He was very satisfied with this disciple. Zuo Youxian was practicing in the Kunlun Fairyland. He came every three years to come to see him for a visit to show his etiquette. Mei Zhenyi also gave him many magic medicines.

During this period, another incident happened in Wuzhou, that is, the Nestorians wanted to set up a temple, called Jingfu Temple.

In the Tang Dynasty, various religions were popular all over the world, and Wuzhou was also lively. First, Cuiting Temple entered the city, and then Jiulin Zen Temple built a temple. Now even Nestorians have come. The name of building this temple is said to be an imperial edict, but the government has only set a clearing of a piece of open space in the city, allowing the believers to build the temple on their own without allocating money and grain.

Nestorianism is a branch of Christianity, which is somewhat different from the three major sects later called Earth Catholicism, Orthodoxism and Protestantism. It is even called heretics by traditional Christians. It was not until 1994 AD that the Catholic Church officially revoked its heretics.

The founder of this sect was the Archbishop of Constantinople during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. He advocated that Christ had the "two in one's two natures of man and God". The most distinctive explanation of traditional Christian doctrine is about Jesus' mother Mary. Ristori believed that the Jesus born to Mary was just a mortal body, Mary was just the biological mother of Jesus but not the Holy Mother. Jesus was inspired by the earth of God and guided by the way to heaven, awakening the power and virtue of the gods in his heart. He became Christ.

This explanation is interesting and can be regarded as an ancient religious reform. Then this idea explains the doctrine - everyone can accept God's inspiration with piety, want to respond to the call of Christ, awaken the power in their hearts, open the door to heaven and earth, and obtain eternal life.

This is actually no substantial difference from the fundamental doctrines of various Christian denominations, but his explanation of the duality of the two natures of Christ, man and God, was denounced as heresy by other denominations.

Ristol was dismissed from the post of archbishop, but this sect spread to ancient Persia and was then introduced to the Tang Dynasty. During the Zhenguan period, a Nestorian monk Alaben brought Nestorian scriptures to Chang'an to present to Li Shimin. Taizong was very happy with this "Four Barbarians' Suit" act and ordered the construction of the Huguo Nestorian Temple in Chang'an, which was later called Daqin Temple.

At that time, Chang'an was definitely the world's largest metropolis and the center of the integration of economy and culture. Many people from the Western Regions were doing business or living in Chang'an City, and many of them were Nestorians.

During the reign of Wu Zetian, the Wu family worshipped Buddhism, and there were many disputes among various religions, and Nestorianism was also affected. At this time, a Nestorian monk was also a wealthy businessman in the Western Regions. He raised huge sums of money to build a sutra pagoda in Luoyang City, engraved gospels on it, and engraved various praises such as "The Destiny of Heaven Returns to the Great Zhou". It was called "The Great Zhou Song of the Destiny of Heaven". At the same time, he worshipped the ancestors of the Wu family whom the Wu family posthumously conferred on it in the Nestorian temple.

The Emperor Wu Yan was very happy and issued an edict to affirm the legal status of Nestorianism and allowed it to build temples in the places of the prefectures of various states.

The Empress Wu worshipped Buddhism and knew that Nestorians wanted to gain political status, and many doctrines were packaged and preached in a subtle way. For example, it did not oppose believers worshiping ancestors. You should know that in a powerful country with filial piety first, if they could only worship God but not ancestors, they might not be killed by a group of villagers when preaching in the countryside, and the government might not care.

On the other hand, the biggest change of Nestorianism is to make Buddhist packaging. For example, Nestorian monks also call themselves "monks" and eat vegetarian food like monks. The temple they practice is not called churches but “monks”. The translated scriptures also absorb many traditional Chinese philosophical terms, and also borrow Taoist scriptures circulating at that time, such as the name "God" is "Araha Great Heavenly Lord".

Regarding the teachings of Nestorianism and how to become "heretics". Modern people can do various research. However, the people of the Tang Dynasty did not know these, but only knew that this was a kind of Hu religion that was passed down from the Western Regions. They promoted the Great Heavenly Lord of Arha and the Christ of Suffering Suffering, believed that it could be redeemed and went to the Kingdom of Light. The so-called "Scenery" means light in Chinese.

This change in packaging and missionary methods was a contingency in the situation at that time. People who didn't know many words and had never heard of Christ must preach in a way that they could understand and accept.

However, from the perspective of bystanders, although the Nestorian school is different from the current Catholic sect, its doctrine core has not changed. It is still that God is the only God. Those who believe in me will receive eternal life, obey the inspiration of Christ and receive redemption, and those who are sinners will be punished by hell. At least in the eyes of "God", there is no substantial difference in their faith.

During the Zhouwu period, Nestorians set up temples in various states, so naturally came to Wuzhou. Not only did they have to have land but also money to build temples. Monks could beg for alms, but Nestorian monks would raise funds. If the people believed in them and were willing to pay, they would first preach and preach, and they would follow the customs of the countryside. During this period, the Nestorians' Dharma Assembly in Wuzhou was very lively. Many people went to see the strange things. There were also many small vendors carrying loads and pushing carts to do business nearby.

Among these small vendors, there are also fruit sellers, including a beautiful and dignified Miss Guan.

The Jingfu Temple Taoist temple is located in the northwest corner of Wuzhou City, on a high slope open space. On that day, Mei Zhenyi and Zhiyan also changed into casual clothes and mixed with the people to watch the Nestorian Dharma Assembly. They saw Ms. Guan, who set up a stall to sell fruits outside the venue. A young man stood behind the fruit stall, looking calmly as he temporarily set up a podium.

This young man is the fairy boy Qingfeng. He didn't say anything, but he could guess that he might be communicating with Miss Guan in private with divine thoughts. Mei Zhenyi was a little surprised to see them. The Golden Immortal and the Bodhisattva also had leisure to join in the fun? It's normal to think about it. Are Mei Zhenyi and Zhiyan also coming? Besides, this is just like the "competition for the pan" of the people in the martial arts world. It is impossible for Guanzi Bodhisattva, who set up a temple in Wuzhou, to see who the other party is.

There was also a big man wearing coarse cloth clothes standing in the crowd. It turned out to be the boatman Wei Tan. Looking around carefully, Mei Zhenyi found that there were several other people who could not easily peek at by his spiritual sense. He had never seen them before. It seemed that many masters from all walks of life came.

So many masters came to attend a not-so-conspicuous ritual ceremony. It seems that the person who came to the altar to speak should be quite amazing. Maybe he had earth-shaking cultivation and supernatural powers. Mei Zhenyi was thinking secretly and heard the sound of gongs and drums on the stage. This was a signal that the ritual was about to begin. The people below were quiet. Some people were still making a gesture of bowing together.

"If there is no desire or movement, then there is no seeking or doing; if there is no seeking or doing, then it can be clear and purified; if there is purity or purity, then it can be enlightened and conscious; if there is enlightenment or proof, then it can be illuminated and conscious; if there is enlightenment or proof, then it can be illuminated and conscious; if there is lightning and conscious, then it is a peaceful and happy event." There are more than ten Nescent scholars around the podium and began to recite scriptures and follow the ceremony of the Dharma Assembly. This is the custody scripture to welcome the preachers to the altar.

Mei Zhenyi was a little confused after hearing this. She remembered the funny "spell" of "Go to Dongfang Shuo, West to Xifang Shuo" when He Xiangu climbed to the altar.

The passage of scripture that the Nestorians recited at this time has nothing to do with the Bible that Mei Zhenyi knew and the related Christian meanings. The words and sentences are somewhat like the Taoist Tao Te Ching, and some seem to be borrowed from the Buddhist Diamond Sutra and the Great Light Sutra. After thinking for a moment, he felt relieved and smiled.

This is not a real serious scripture, it is just a means of martial arts. When editing such a scripture, it seems to integrate the meanings of Buddhist and Taoist schools. Ordinary people usually hear something but don’t understand it. They can fool people, and the atmosphere seems unfathomable, making people feel awe-inspiring. - Jianghu means are just baskets, and everything can be put into it.

In a mysterious and solemn atmosphere, the preacher took the stage to preach. This was a man in his forties, with a national face, facial features, Zhou Zheng, and a tall figure. He was wearing a long robe with a beautiful silk ribbon hanging on his chest, and he looked a bit arrogant. Mei Zhenyi was slightly surprised when she saw this person and couldn't help but look at Zhiyan.

It is nothing strange if they don't know this person. The key is that this person cannot see any strangeness in his spiritual consciousness, which is different from the feeling of seeing the golden immortals and Bodhisattvas like Qingfeng and Guanzi. Mei Zhenyi's spiritual consciousness cannot peek at Qingfeng. As long as the Qingfeng restrains his spiritual energy, he cannot even sense the existence of Qingfeng. Seeing this person, he cannot detect the fluctuations of his spiritual energy.

But the man on the stage, Mei Zhenyi's spiritual sense could sweep him. The other party was standing there, you could not see anything different from ordinary people, and could not detect any special things or flaws. If you meet him elsewhere, it would not cause you to pay special attention and alertness. Is this person's cultivation higher than Qingfeng, and he has reached the state of thoroughly following nature? Even his own can't detect any abnormalities?

Looking at Zhiyan's eyes, she had the same reaction as Mei Zhenyi, and she didn't see any abnormalities in the people on the stage.

At this time, Ti slipped around and came over from the crowd and said with a divine thought: "Mr. Mei, I found out that the person who was the main lecturer of the Dharma Assembly today was actually a local from Wuzhou. His surname was Jiang..."

The man on the stage is Jiang Quanju. He is 37 years old and from Nanji County, Wuzhou. He has followed his father from Shangshang since he was a child to the area outside Yumen Pass. He mainly does business with the people of the Western Regions and also believes in Nestorians. Nestorians wanted to set up a temple in Wuzhou, so he volunteered to return to his hometown to preside over the matter. With the smell of the merchant, he felt that it was profitable.

I found out a lot of things, such as the first group of "believers" developed by Jiang Quanju in Wuzhou were relatives such as his hometown, including his relatives, the aunts, six wives, seven wives, and eighth uncles. He brought these people to Wuzhou city to hold a ceremony to recruit money and preach while raising funds. Jiang Quanju recently took several concubines, saying that he would defect to Arhat's Great Heavenly Lord.

He whispered for a long time, and after that, he wanted to inquire again. Mei Zhenyi secretly stopped and said, "There are many experts in the fairy family who come to the venue today. You can't spy on it at will. You should stay here honestly and listen to Mr. Jiang's speech."

When he was talking around, Jiang Quanju had already started speaking on stage. Today he talked about two "scriptures", one was "Touching the King of the West to the Wild" and the other was "The Gospel of Saving Suffering Suffering". If Mei Zhenyi remembered it correctly, these should be the "Exodus" in the Old Testament of the Bible and the "God of Matthew" in the New Testament.

But Jiang Quanju speaks well! His eloquence is full of excitement, with a slight and slight silence in the style of storytelling. No wonder so many ordinary people are willing to watch the excitement. It is more popular than monks to preach the scriptures, and it doesn’t take any effort to understand the stories. After speaking the scriptures, Jiang Quanju called out emotionally on the stage: "What are you giving to you, Alaha Great Heavenly Lord!"

Then someone started to round the field with a small bamboo basket, and the people also paid for it. Wuzhou was rich and the people were simple, and the stories on the stage were told so wonderfully. Even if you listen to storytelling, you would be embarrassed not to give rewards, not to mention that it was in the name of "Araha Great Heavenly Lord".

There were several people who collected money with the small bamboo basket. One of them was in a big circle and walked towards Miss Guan’s fruit stall. Qingfeng didn’t know what she said to Miss Guan in secret. Miss Guan smiled slightly and took out half of the copper coins and gave it to Qingfeng half. When the collector came over, they each put down two hundred and fifty cents.

These two people gave a lot. The aunt who collected the money stopped and said excitedly: "Practical and loyal person, Alaha will bless you!... As long as each of them worships 500 words, they can receive the baptism of holy water and be bathed in the glory of heaven. It is more effective than the pure bottle of nectar of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva."

Guan Xiaomei's face had not changed and she could not tell her happiness or anger. Qingfeng's eyes were facing the sky, and she waved her sleeves with a calm face. The meaning was clearly saying: "I have finished the reward, don't talk anymore."

When the person who was holding the basket and collecting the money left, Qingfeng took out a gold ingot and threw it to Miss Guan. Mei Zhenyi saw this scene. It turned out that Qingfeng borrowed change from Miss Guan to give her a reward, and then gave her a gold ingot. Where did Qingfeng get the money? I remember that Mei Zhenyi found Wei Tan to thank him and left three hundred taels of gold on Jingting Mountain.

This fairy boy also learned to spend money in the city, but it is rare for him to spend money like him. He was unwilling to put the gold ingot in the basket and exchanged it for Ms. Guan for a reward of 250 cents of copper coins. The gold ingot was worth at least 25,000 cents, and Ms. Guan took it without saying anything. Mei Zhenyi was thinking about the two masters that the Dharma Assembly there was not over yet, and the climax was once again at the opening of the show - the summoning miracle!

Jiang Quanju took the stage again, reviewing the various miraculous deeds of Christ in the "God of Marx and Dafa King Saying Saves the Gospel of Suffering Suffering", and finally said: "Friends, as long as you awaken your piety and loyalty to the Great Heavenly Lord in your heart, there is no miracle that cannot be created, and no suffering that cannot be overcome. If you do not do it, you can only say that our sincerity is not firm enough... Please open your eyes and witness the miracles together!"
Chapter completed!