big master, big liar

If he could go back to two years ago, Jue Yuan would definitely stop Qing Kong from taking such a person in the middle of the night.

Ching Kung has never known people clearly all his life.

When he was young, he regarded a sinister villain as a friend, so he left his hometown and became a monk.

Afterwards, he picked up Jueyuan, who had complicated thoughts, and regarded Jueyuan as a kind-hearted, but slightly awkward child.

Finally, on a rainy night, he took in a man with a scar on his face.

It was a man who seemed to have taken his life.

These years are not peaceful, especially in the north, where there are many bandits and criminals running around.

And for these thieves who are facing life-threatening lawsuits, even if they have nowhere to go, there is a final destination: becoming a monk.

Whether it is a Taoist temple or a temple, as long as a document is issued, their past and past events can be separated from themselves, and all life lawsuits are cleared.

This absurd law originated in the later years of Emperor Taizong, and it was carried forward by Jinshang, who believed in the way of gods and Buddhas.

There are a lot of ridiculous things these days, and this one is not bad.

It's just that Wuyun Temple has always been wise and safe, and is unwilling to clean up these criminals.

Jing Kong had complained to him at the beginning: "Even if you put down the butcher knife and become a Buddha immediately, you have to really let go. If you accept this group of people with ulterior motives into the temple, aren't you afraid of angering the Buddha to death?"

But Jingkong made an exception for this man named "Juexing".

He heard from Jingming that this person named Juexing looks very similar to Jingkong's relatives.

Jueyuan knew that Jing Kong was always missing his relatives, although he never mentioned it himself.

Of course, the people in the temple were kinder than Jing Kong. They never felt that there would be any problem in taking in a man with a criminal record.

He also had to follow Jue Yuan. When the old abbot was around, he even saved a vicious killer.

The last sentence must be: "Buddha said to save all living beings, and being good at one's own body is only a small way. To become a great way, one must first live in all living beings to obtain the Tao."

Although even the bald monks themselves may not know the true meaning of these words, they are always inexplicably confident, as if as long as they put their heart into it, they will definitely lead people to good.

Only Jue Yuan didn't believe it.

Because in this temple, only Jue Yuan knows that when people are really evil, they can rot from skin to bones, and even the soul emits a stench.

Years of begging for life under the hands of the beggar boss gave him a natural sense of smell, he can clearly distinguish what kind of people still have a conscience, and what kind of people are just evil spirits in human skin.

This man named "Jue Xing" who bears the name of his junior brother is the latter.

If Jueyuan could speak out, he would be able to persuade Shang Jingkong with a glib tongue for three days and three nights, until Jingkong changed his mind.

But he couldn't, he could only watch as Jingkong shaves Juehing and moves him into Wuyun Temple.

During Jue Xing's first month in the monastery, Jue Yuan was always on guard against him.

The guard was so obvious that even Master Jingming came to tease him, asking him if he was afraid that he would have a master and the master would not love him anymore.

Only Jueyuan knew in his heart that he was afraid of this junior.

Jueyuan gestured, wanted to tell Jingkong to be careful, but in the end he could only gesture some commonly used words, like a child complaining in anger.

In return, Jingkong laughed and teased: "Xiao Jueyuan will be jealous too, but you are a senior brother, you have to take good care of Juexing. In the future, I will depend on you two for my pension."

But Jue Xing has been silent all the time, he is really like a model of reforming evil and returning to righteousness, eating fast and reciting Buddha, carrying water and chanting scriptures in the temple, and has no complaints about the poor life of the temple.Sometimes when faced with Jue Yuan's hostility, he just treats it as a child's anger and endures it silently, without even changing his face.

Such an attitude naturally won the high praise of the whole monastery, and quickly accepted his existence.

Three months after Juexing was ordained, almost everyone has gotten used to this junior.

Even Jueyuan began to doubt his own judgment. He wondered if he had suffered too much and misjudged the person.

But that night.

Jue Yuan realized that he was right.

It's just that Jue Xing is too good at disguising.

Jue Xing was in charge of cooking the dinner that day. He mixed it with drugs, and the only thing that could taste something wrong was Jing Kong, who had already been knocked out in the room by him.

After that, Jueyuan was in a daze, and saw a large number of bandits rushing in from outside the door.

And when Jueyuan opened his eyes again, he saw that all the monks in the temple were imprisoned in a dark and damp cellar—including Qing Kong and himself.

Jing Kong had a wry smile on his face: "I only heard the allusion of luring wolves into the house, but I didn't expect it to come true now."

Jingming persuaded him: "It's just retribution, and patience is also a practice, so don't think too much about it."

Jingkong didn't speak, only Jueyuan who was beside him heard his low voice: "Shit reincarnation reward."

Yeah, shit reincarnation retribution.

Jueyuan dared to pat his conscience and said that there are few people in this world who are as good as Jing Kong and are so stupid. If Jing Kong still suffers such retribution, then probably no one in this world is qualified to be happy.

Kejueyuan's thoughts are useless.

After an unknown number of days they had spent in the cellar, Juexing appeared.

At that time, the monks had not eaten for several days, only occasionally someone would give them water, but they refused to untie the rope for them, and the whole cellar was filled with the smell of excrement.

Jue Xing appeared with a smile, and he called, "Master."

Jingkong slightly raised his eyelids, but he didn't even have the strength to scold him angrily.

Jue Xing used to laugh in the monastery before, when the master deliberately told him jokes, and when he saw his brothers making jokes.

At that time, his smile was honest and warm.

Jueyuan felt that his smile was extremely dazzling now, full of malice and mockery.

"Why are you staring at us?" Qing Kong's voice was weak.

"For money, for women." Jue Xing squatted down. "Over the years, the rumors have gotten closer and closer. It's no way for the brothers to run away. They all have to find a place to stay."

Jue Yuan later found out that Jue Xing and his gang were actually a gang of vicious bandits who were well-known in the Northland.

That's why Juexing, the leader, came up with such a method. He spent three months getting to know the details of the Wuyun Temple. look like.

The reason why these original monks were not killed was because they thought of a better way.

It’s just that Jingkong didn’t know their wishful thinking at that time, and he couldn’t help laughing when he heard Juexing’s words: “You came to the temple to find money? Looking for a woman?”

"That's because Master's eyes are too clean to see these things." After Jue Xing said this, two strong men broke in from the door, forcing the already weak Qing Kong out .

In the cellar, only Jue Yuan still had some strength, and he threw himself on Qing Kong's body, trying to prevent them from taking Qing Kong away.

Those two grabbed his collar and were about to throw him aside, but Jue Xing stopped him with a sneer: "You don't need to stop, let my senior brother watch."

So Jue Xing and Jing Kong were taken out of the cellar together.

At the moment he saw the sun, he heard the soft voice of the sky.

"Sorry, Master didn't believe you."

This is the first time Jing Kong admits that he is his master.

This was also the last sentence Jing Kong said to him.

Because they cut off the tongue of the clearance.

Jueyuan watched helplessly as they washed the clean space, cut off his tongue, bound him to sit cross-legged, and put on a monk's robe soaked in fire oil for him.

They enshrined the clean space on the nine-story earth platform.

Under the platform are his believers, but on the platform is the mechanism for lighting the fire.

Those villains directed and acted in a big show, hoping to use the ascension to become famous and earn more incense money.

So in broad daylight, under the eyes of everyone, flames shot up into the sky.

Jueyuan was tied up in the Buddhist temple, and together with Juexing, he watched the flames burning in the daytime from a distance.

In that flame...is his master.

It was the master who once stretched out his hand to him in the twelfth lunar month of winter and asked him to call him "brother" with a smile.

The people who had been rescued by Jingkong cheered for him below, they clapped their hands: "Master has ascended! Master has ascended!"

But Jing Kong's senior brother was crying loudly in the dark room.

This scene is so absurd.

Jue Xing couldn't help but burst into tears from laughter.

Jue Yuan didn't shed a single tear.

The believers who came that day read scriptures all day long, and the entire temple was shrouded in mysterious and holy scriptures.

And the monks in the darkroom have never read a single word of scriptures since then.