Becoming a God from a Water Monkey

Chapter 350 Listen to the Great Compassion Mantra and Be a Compassionate Otter

"I don't know how to explain it to you."

Fan Xinglai scratched his temples.

"What's so hard to explain?" Lin Songbao put down the wooden box. "Just tell me what you want to say. Could it be that you did it?"

Fan Xinglai hurriedly shook his head to deny: "It's not me."

"That's good. It wasn't you who did it. Can Brother Shui blame you?"

"Stop keeping me in suspense. If you don't tell me, I'll deduct your salary for September!"

“No, no, no!” Fan Xinglai hurriedly said, laughing, “Actually, it’s the nest of mice you raised in your pond…”

Rat?

Lin Songbao glanced sideways.

Liang Qu's face darkened: "What kind of rat is that? The one with a flat tail is a beaver, and the one with a thin tail is an otter. Are you from Pingyang?"

Fan Xinglai thought for a while and said, "Those are river otters. They were quite well behaved a few days after you left, but in September, a lot of river otters suddenly appeared, more than ten in total!

I think it looks like a different litter. The leader has a scar on his face, his hair is ruffled, and he looks very fierce.

The two nests of river otters started fighting as soon as they met. The fight was so fierce! Even the one with the flat tail got beaten up. My lord, you didn’t see that the pond was full of… river otter blood!

The smell of blood wafted around and people thought we were slaughtering a pig!

I was afraid something might happen, like a river otter dying, so I hurried to the west wing to ask for the master..."

Fan Xinglai stopped talking halfway, and Lin Songbao asked, "Then what? Was it resolved?"

"The matter has definitely been resolved, but the solution is rather strange. Hmm... Sir, please go and have a look yourself. They are all in the west wing listening to the sutra today."

Listen to the sutra?

Liang Qu heard a very abrupt word from Fan Xinglai. He put down the Wulong and walked through the corridor.

Fan Xinglai and Chishan came to the jujube tree in the courtyard to watch, while Lin Songbao stayed where he was and waited.

The black dragon that fell to the ground raised its tail and followed closely.

The door to the west wing was wide open, without any obstruction to the view.

Liang Qu leaned sideways from the corridor and looked inside along the doorpost. His eye twitched and he suddenly understood what Fan Xing was talking about.

The room is bright and clean.

Pens, inks, papers and inkstones are placed separately, a teak bookshelf is placed by the window, and smoke curls from an iron incense burner.

An old monk in a patchwork robe sat cross-legged behind a desk, turning his rosary beads and chanting scriptures silently.

So far, everything is working fine.

But when the eyes crossed the long table, twelve cattail balls were neatly arranged in three rows and four columns, and a group of strange river otters that had never been seen before jumped into the sight.

The leader was a scarred river otter, sitting upright on a cushion in the center of the front row. He had picked up half a yellow cloth robe from somewhere and wrapped half of his body with it. A few brown hairs squeezed out from the gaps.

It has its eyes tightly closed, its paws clasped together, and it does not move at all. Anyone who comes by would have to describe its appearance as majestic and precious.

From the scar-faced row onwards, the size of the otters gradually becomes smaller.

The fourth row was filled with a few little brats who had no intention of maintaining a solemn manner. They were fighting and rolling around on the cushions.

Wulong lay on Liangqu's feet, scratching his neck with his hind legs, and the garlic hairs on his body surged like waves.

Liang Qu looked back at Fan Xinglai who was standing under the jujube tree, and Fan Xinglai scratched his head.

In the west wing, the sound of chanting suddenly stopped.

The old monk opened his eyes.

"Let's go."

The scarred river otter seemed to really understand what was said. It stood up and bowed, and several large river otters around it followed closely.

Only the little river otters in the last row were unaware of the situation and continued to fight and bite each other, making low growls in their throats.

The big river otter behind Scarface leaped out and pounced on the little otter. After being beaten, the little otter immediately became obedient and joined the team. Then, the twelve river otters, led by Scarface, lined up in a long line and stepped out of the threshold of the wing room one by one.

Scarfaced River Otter saw Liang Qu standing in the corridor and saluted with his paws clasped together.

The big otter followed suit. The little otter shook its paws, accidentally tripped over the threshold, rolled over twice, and hurriedly caught up with the group.

Lin Songbao, who was a disciple of the Chuihua Sect, was stunned and suspected that he had not woken up yet.

what's the situation?
Are you hallucinating in the middle of the day?

What did you see?

Not to mention Lin Songbao, Liang Qu himself couldn't figure out what was going on. He had never seen those otters before and didn't know where they came from.

Liang Qu knocked on the door: "Master?"

"Please come in, benefactor."

Liang Qu stepped in, looked around, moved a stool from the side and sat in front of the old monk, jokingly.

"Master, what's going on? Have those river otters converted to Buddhism?"

The old monk took out some tea from the bookshelf and made a cup of tea for Liang Qu.

Liang Qu hurriedly stood up and took it, listening to the old monk sitting down and speaking.

"That day, Xing came to me and told me that there was a group of mice fighting in the pond. I went over to take a look and saw that they were two groups of river otters. I recited a passage of the Great Compassion Mantra to them.

The leading river otter was quite intelligent, and his killing intent was gone. From then on, he put on a yellow robe, brought his family to listen to the sutras every day, and even learned a set of "Arhat Fist". I modified it and changed it into "Arhat Claw".

Liang Qu's mouth twitched when he heard this.

Grandmaster Zhenxiang recited the Great Compassion Mantra to a spirit with an undeveloped mind and taught it the Arhat Claw...

River otters are inherently vicious creatures, river hooligans, so this is the right remedy for their condition and it really works.

I wonder how the nest in your own pond is doing?
"The donor is returning from flood control? Calculating the time, it is earlier than expected."

Liang Qu put down his teacup and said, "It wasn't too serious. It was a flood, but there was almost no plague. With proper management and control of the source, the flood began to recede in early September.

For the next half month, the Hebo Office was mostly busy settling the victims, mobilizing supplies, and building dams. The cause of the dam breach was... No, it should be said that the process of catching the criminal was quite bizarre. "

"Good, good." The old monk put his hands together and then asked, "I wonder what the strange reason is?"

Cheng Chong's case must be tried and beheaded in public to vent public anger. Liang Qu had nothing to hide, so he told the whole story, as well as the physical evidence found on the dam.

"With Cheng Chong's own admission, and the evidence from the accounts, and the plant roots growing in the embankment stones, it can be said that this is a foregone conclusion."

Unexpectedly, the old monk frowned and remained silent.

Liang Qu was confused and asked, "Master, why are you frowning? What's wrong? I am a novice and I am doing many things for the first time. If there are any mistakes, I hope you can correct me."

The old monk is not only powerful in martial arts, but also a successful candidate in the previous dynasty. Liang Qu dare not be careless.

"It's not that I'm teaching you anything, and there's nothing wrong with that." The old monk shook his head, "It's just that based on what you said and the cause and effect, I remembered a few old friends..."

"Old friend?" Liang Qu didn't know much about the old monk's past. The only old friend he knew was the Taoist priest of Louguantai. But seeing that the old monk didn't show any nostalgia when he spoke, with a calm face, he boldly guessed, "The evil monk that the master mentioned before?"

"Exactly."

"The dam collapse was caused by the evil monk!?"

Liang Qu always thought that Cheng Chong's behavior was rather abnormal.

However, the Three Law Courts could not find out the reason. The Three Law Courts had no way to do anything, and he was even more powerless. He did not expect that the old monk would have a turning point.

Unexpectedly, the old monk shook his head.

"I have never seen the dam collapse with my own eyes, and I have no evidence, so how can I infer the real culprit?

I just think that man-made dike destruction is against nature and is extremely rare except for the destruction of a country. Such behavior appears in a prosperous era, which is quite similar to the usual method used by the Snow Mountain Cult to collect bad luck and disaster energy. "

"Bad luck, disaster energy?"

(End of this chapter)