Nightmare Attack

The abbot stopped here, but anyone could tell that his mood was not calm at the moment.

"Hanged himself to death..." A scene flashed through Jiang Cheng's mind. It was in the obscene Merit Hall. Huiqing took the initiative to reach out and took Monk Huicong's hand and put it on her body.

Huiqing... did it voluntarily, and so did women like Huiqing!

After thinking about this, Jiang Cheng's breathing became rapid. He suddenly began to understand those women, and this understanding made him feel scared.

"It's tragic. More than a dozen lives were lost. I have never been so angry since I became the abbot. I...I rushed out of the temple gate, found the village chief sitting on the stone steps smoking a pipe, and asked Why would he do this?"

"But do you know his answer?" The abbot let out a miserable laugh, "You should have guessed it. The village chief squinted his eyes and knocked his pipe pot on the sole of his shoe. He casually said that the stone girls hanged themselves. It has nothing to do with him. Those stone girls cried all night outside the door last night. Some of them were cursing before hanging themselves, but they were not cursing their husbands or the village chief who sent them here, but us... we who don't care about death. Save the monk!"

"It's said that we monks who eat fast and chant Buddha have harmed them! They say that all sentient beings are saved, it's all lies, it's all lies! Even these poor stone girls don't want to cross, they don't dare to cross, they can't cross!"

"After the village chief finished speaking, he patted his ass and left without collecting the body. Because the stone girl was not buried in the village cemetery, they thought it was unlucky. It is said that the ancestral grave of the family would be affected if the stone girl's body was buried. There will be no male children to continue the family line, and there will even be no offspring.

The abbot's tone became more intense when he said this, "I couldn't stand it, so after all the villagers came down the mountain, I sent disciples from the temple to remove the bodies of the stone girls, then I found a place and chose a good day. Plan to bury them."

"But... but who would have known that on the day of the burial, not long after the body was buried and before we finished the rituals, many people came to cheer for us."

"They were all women in the village. I don't know where they got the news. The eldest girls and young wives from each family came. They were very aggressive and brought various farm tools. They came up and pushed the tombstone, and then started cursing. Digging up the earth and digging up the corpse.”

"Do you know what they said?" The abbot took a deep breath. "They were scolding us monks for meddling in our own business. These stone girls deserve to die. They committed evil in their previous lives and were punished by God. Such people must not They must be dragged out and exposed before they are buried, otherwise their fortunes will be hindered. What will happen if they cannot have children? There are still many unmarried women.

"My disciples, who are pure in nature, knelt down before them and said that they must not do it. These people are all miserable people. Why bother women?"

"Haha, but it was no use. These women dragged the body with a rope to the edge of the cliff and threw it down, saying that we would not be able to find it. There were wolves under the cliff, and even if we found it, it would only be a few rotten bones."

"My disciple knelt on the edge of the cliff all night in a daze. He was carried back the next day and fell seriously ill. When he was at the worst of his illness, he held my hand and asked me in a dream, "Who am I?" Did we do something wrong? If we had opened the door and let those stone girls in, wouldn't someone have died? "

"I told him not to think blindly and to rest in peace and recuperate, but I didn't expect that the incident had touched him so much. After he recovered, he seemed like a different person."

The abbot sighed with difficulty, "Although my disciple is young, he is extremely talented. There are almost no opponents in the temple debate, but who would have thought, who would have thought of him...he actually..."

"He has changed. He no longer listens to my words. He sneaks out every day and does not meditate in front of the Buddha. At first, I just regarded him as a child and did not restrain him too much. But later, there was something about him. There are more and more rumors, and they are getting more and more excessive.”

"It started with stealing wine, then eating meat, and finally...even evolved into..." the abbot paused, and finally sighed after a moment, "One night, I was meditating, and suddenly a disciple panicked Zhang ran in and told me loudly that Huicong was tied up and a group of people were holding him outside the temple gate. "

"When I rushed outside the temple gate, I saw that Huicong had been tied up tightly, and his whole body was covered with injuries. It was obvious that he had been severely beaten."

"But before I could ask any questions, I saw a man rushing up to me in a menacing manner. Only then did I realize that there were two women who were treated the same as Huicong. The women were not very old. They were stripped naked and tied to wooden donkeys. He was just carried up the mountain."

"Later I found out that Huicong broke the sexual precept and was caught with the two women at the foot of the mountain. The angry man was the husband of one of the women."

"This kind of thing has simply ruined the face and reputation of our temple. We interceded and took out some money, and then we saved Huicong. I was worried that the two women would be soaked in a pig cage when they went back. I didn't The solution was to find a few trustworthy lay disciples and send them down the mountain overnight to a remote and unfamiliar village, leaving some money and reluctantly allowing them to live anonymously. "

"When I returned to the temple, I was furious and violated the precepts. I hit Huicong dozens of times with a cane. I didn't stop until the disciples pulled him away in tears."

"I hate it. I hate Hui Cong for ruining the reputation that the temple has built up over the past century. I hate it even more. I hate that iron cannot become steel. Hui Cong was once my most proud disciple."

"I don't know...I don't know why he became like this."

"But no matter how he beat me or asked me questions, Huicong refused to say a word. He just looked at me, quietly. Under his eyes, I didn't dare to beat or ask any more questions..." the abbot said. There was actually fear here, "There was an aura of compassion in his eyes. That was... those were the eyes of a Buddha."

"Just two months later, those villagers came again. I thought they were here to cause trouble for Huicong, but I was wrong. They actually came to thank Huicong. I saw the man leading the way, and she was one of the women. The husband brought rich gifts and said happily that his woman was back home, and she brought happiness! "

"After he worked hard all his life and finally got married, he can't live in a haze in the future. He plans to build a new house for the woman to live in. He also killed a goat he raised to replenish the woman's body."

"The man took the wedding invitation and insisted on donating money for incense to the temple."