Chapter 316: Becoming a Buddha on the Ground

After the magistrate laughed, he then looked at Yao Guangxiao with cold eyes.

And then slowly sat down and continued to look at Yao Guangxiao, saying, “Ridiculous? How absurd?”

Yao Guangxiao said, “I am not a medical household, you naturally know that.”

The magistrate then asked the clerk beside him, “He says he is not a medical household.”

The bookkeeper said in a serious manner, “I have checked, it is really one of those few medical households that fled, it is a Zhang Ye, twenty-seven years old, heard that the county is recruiting medical households, actually fled in the night, the county honors, you see, there is it in the yellow book! Students can go to check, this person has a mole on his face, short beard, tall stature, fortunately rely on the county honors to be clear-sighted, if not, really let him pretend to be a monk to run away.”

The magistrate smiled and said, “How old is this man?”

The magistrate said, “He looks like a twenty-seven year old man, isn’t it him? County Honor, there’s no need to nag him, if he doesn’t admit it again, he will be tortured immediately, he’s a fugitive from the law, what else is there to say? What else is there to say? It’s just like that even if you beat him to death.”

Each of the officers stood aside numbly with their arms crossed, they were already used to such things.

Now the county is under a lot of pressure, but also to levy medical households, but also to levy money and grain, and the plague has been spreading signs, then it can not be eaten.

The magistrate then smiled and looked at Yao Guangxiao and said, “You see, this is not the county alone said, now everyone identifies you as the fleeing medical household Zhang Ye.”

“Zhang Ye, you’re still resisting death until now, it seems like you’re itching all over, come on people ……”

“Don’t fight, don’t fight.” Yao Guangxiao immediately wimped out, he was afraid of being beaten, he folded his hands and said, “Amitabha Buddha, the little monk doesn’t know how to heal.”

“If this county says you can cure, you can cure.” The magistrate whisked his sleeve and stood up, glaring at Yao Guangxiao, then said, “This is just right, it’s finally almost put together, escort the person.”

“Cough ……” Yao Guangxiao coughed violently twice, then said, “I’m sick.”

The officers ignored him and dragged Yao Guangxiao away.

Yao Guangxiao finally raised his voice a few points and said, “You can deceive people, but can heaven be deceived?”

The magistrate obviously turned a deaf ear to this, he even did not bother to continue to talk to Yao Guangxiao, only a wave of the hand, is considered to be cut off this confused case.

Waiting to go to escort away, the magistrate this only then sat down again, then the county lieutenant and the clerk were summoned to the front, said: “Jian Gong side of the difference, is also considered to be completed almost, money and food and medical households are also sufficient, Liu county lieutenant, you tomorrow will escort the medical households and money and food to go to the prefectural government city, oh, yes …… ”

He did remember something at this time, so he stood up again and said to the clerk, “Go fetch a pen and ink.”

The clerk fetched a pen and ink.

County magistrate then take the paperweight pressed against the paper, pen, a little meditation, said: “Jian Gong favorite line of the book, the last time I praised my line of the book is not bad, these days I am more and more diligently practiced, and a few points of growth, Liu County Lieutenant, you to the capital city, I will be this line of the book served, say that I am asking for Jian Gong axe corrections.”

Prefect Liu then piled on the smiles and said, “My humble servant also happens to appreciate Prefectural Honor’s ink treasures.”

The magistrate only smiled, “What should I write?”

The scribe said, “Why don’t you compose a poem, Mr. Prefect?”

“Hey.” The magistrate shook his head and said, “In the heat of the moment, how can I write good poems, instead of making a fool of myself. Poetry is all about the skillful hand, it’s better to learn from the poems of predecessors.”

County Lieutenant Liu and the clerks said yes.

The magistrate thought for a moment, and finally began to put pen to paper and fall, writing a line on the spotless white paper with extreme care.

The scribe, on the other hand, recited, “A grain of corn is planted in the spring and ten thousand seeds are harvested in the fall. There are no idle fields in the four seas, and the farmers still die of hunger.”

Then read again, “The day of hoeing is the day of the harvest, and the sweat drips from the bottom of the soil. Who knows how hard it is to eat on a plate.”

Lieutenant Liu complimented: “This Li Shen’s compassionate farming poems two, passed down so far, although it seems ordinary, in fact, it is full of deep meaning, the next official also love these two poems, did not expect the original County Zun also like.”

The magistrate smiled faintly, seemingly with a few feelings: “Jian Gong love the people like a son, I Ningguo Fu, but also in the governance of the Jian Gong, there have been signs of political harmony, spring plowing in the imminent Well, the county to take this poem to give, one is to Jian Gong show that he would not dare to delay the determination of the agricultural time to urge the county’s farming. On the other hand, it is also to cast Jian Gong’s favor, the people are suffering ah, we are a party to the official, is a land parents, how can we not take it lightly.”

Saying so, he lightly stamped his own small seal, blew the ink treasure, and handed it over to County Lieutenant Liu, saying as he did so, “Don’t frame it beforehand, just send it like this, and if Lord Jian wants to bring any words, write them down without omitting a single word.”

Lieutenant Liu nodded his head and said yes, carefully hiding this ink treasure close to his body.

It was at this moment that an errand boy came in and said, “Elder Zhou Taigong seeks an audience.”

“Aiya.” The magistrate instantly straightened his coat and said, “He is old and senile, it should have been this county personally visiting him, how can I trouble his old man to come personally, sin, sin. Quickly, quickly invite Eunuch Zhou to the light house, serve tea, serve good tea.”

Said he, no longer interested in business, and went on his way as if he had a spring in his step.

…………

Yao Guangxiao felt that it was getting harder and harder to breathe, and even felt that he was already a little out of breath.

He was being held in a shed that seemed to still smell like goat dung, which made you gag.

He was rudely pushed in, and then someone tied him with a rope, which seemed to be strung so that he was next to the others, and as for the old monk, he was nowhere to be found.

He coughed, and in the darkness he couldn’t see things, but he heard many breaths, and someone said with concern, “Are you sick?”

Yao Guangxiao softly said, “Cough …… you are also medical households, right, can see what the little monk is sick?”

The people in the darkness were silent, and half a dozen times, one of them said, “Of those here, where is the doctor’s household, I’m a cook, but I can’t look at the sick.”

Yao Guangxiao: “……”

The other one said, “I …… I picked the shit …… out of a good one …… and got caught.”

The people are talking, but before the cook said: “Hey, I know, this county’s medical households, but all can really cure the disease, which one does not have a few dollars? Even if they don’t open a medical center to sit in the hall, at least, they will be hired. They have money in their hands, how are they willing to enlist? If we stuff a little bit of silver into the county’s police, then the county people will arrest us to fill up the number?”

Said, his voice showed a few points of anxiety, “I …… what should I do? I came out to pick up meat and vegetables for the store, and was caught halfway here, and the proprietor is still waiting for me to go and cook vegetables for the guests.”

Hidden, but someone cried, crying while saying, “I was going to grab medicine for my mother, halfway, see me carrying medicine, said I was a medical household, then I don’t grab to come here.”

Yao Guangxiao opened his mouth, but he felt that his throat was unbearable and subconsciously said, “Water, water ……”

Someone said, “There’s no water here ……”

It is someone’s good intention, this shed is not tightly managed, someone then desperately stretched out a hand to find a way to catch some night dew, and then took his hand and put it into Yao Guangxiao’s mouth, let Yao Guangxiao lick a few mouths.

The man was concerned, “Better?”

Yao Guangxiao only recited the Buddha’s name: “Amitabha Buddha.”

Then someone was surprised and said, “I didn’t expect that the one who came was a monk, monk …… I …… what should we do? You beg the Buddha to bless us with peace.”

Yao Guangxiao sighed and said softly, “Buddha doesn’t ferry people without destiny.”

Then someone said eagerly, “We have a destiny, a destiny; on weekdays, we make offerings to Bodhisattvas and Buddhas.”

Yao Guangxiao did not have indignation, only feel ridiculous, but calmly said, “said not to ferry then not to ferry, it if ferry you, you have today?”

“Maybe we have sinned in our past lives.” Someone said timidly.

Yao Guangxiao didn’t pick up their words again as he began to recite the sutra, only his voice became weaker and weaker.

By the next day.

County Lieutenant Liu then set out with his errand boys to escort them.

The medical tenants, one by one, were like animals, tied into strings with ropes, and the officers pressed the knives at their waists, or held the rulers, and urged them into line.

Yao Guangxiao staggered, since he was captured, he hadn’t eaten anything, and at this time, he was even more starving.

Someone pleadingly said to the official, “Do me a favor and give me a bite to eat, so that I can eat and go on my way.”

The official squinted, “That’s not true. When we arrive at the Prefecture, there will naturally be food; if everyone has to open their mouths, how much rice will this spoil?”

After traveling ten or so miles, someone fell with a poof.

The crowd gasped.

County Lieutenant Liu revealed a displeased look, so the officers were busy trying this person and said, “No pulse, I’m afraid I’m sick and dead.”

So he familiarly untied it, threw the corpse to the side of the road, and went on urging into a row.

On the way, another child-like man, unable to walk, died and refused to go any further.

The police officer then carried a ruler, and severely beaten, the teenager was beaten de all over the body, howling.

Then all the people said, “Forget it, let him go, please let him go.”

That one individual, with pity and pleading in his eyes, but Prefect Liu’s eyes were looking away.

The other officers then said fiercely, “This unruly person is doing this on purpose, so he wants to escape! Let him go? Hmph, if we let him go, we’ll be the ones to suffer.”

So there was another beating and kicking, and finally the teenager howled and wailed, “Don’t fight, don’t fight anymore, I’ll go, I’ll go ……”

One of the officers still not relieved of his hatred, raised the ruler and ruthlessly smashed at his head, the teenager stifled a grunt, and directly lay down, never moving again.

Only then did Liu County Lieutenant hit his horse over, glared at the officer, angrily shouted: “How can you lay such hands on him? Er salary, the people’s fat, this is your food and clothing parents, even if there are ferocious, but also can not harm the life.”

The errand boys then begged for mercy.

Prefect Liu then said faintly, “There must not be a next time.”

In this way, all the medical tenants were honest, even though they were hungry and some of them were sick, they still gritted their teeth and insisted, never daring to slacken off any more.

Along the way, the time to relieve, suddenly there are a few young and strong, violently scampered to the official road not far from the mountain stream. Only a smoke of effort, they all disappeared into the forest, and soon could not see a trace.

It turns out that these people have long quietly untied the rope, waiting for the moment, see the opportunity to prepare to escape it.

The officials hurried after them, apparently unable to catch up in the end, and had to return with angry curses.

County Lieutenant Liu was even more furious, snorted coldly and said, “Turn around and check their details, they can’t run away from the temple.”

The officials also screamed and cursed.

Along the way, a few more people couldn’t support themselves, an old man in his sixties, suddenly covered his heart, his body fell to the ground, convulsing violently.

Seeing him like this, the officials had no choice but to ignore him.

Yao Guangxiao no longer give people super chanting, lowered his head, only desperately along with the people walk. I don’t know how long I walked, a few times to faint, to the time when the sky will be late, finally arrived at the capital city.

That Liu Lieutenant immediately went to the Rizhao mill to do the transfer of documents, leading them, since someone counted.

Once the number was counted, the group of medical households was thirty-nine.

The official who did the transfer of documents looked at this Liu County Lieutenant and said with a smile, “Liu County Lieutenant, you have pinpointed the number, the government wants thirty-nine people, you really sent thirty-nine people, one not more, one not less.”

Liu county lieutenant heart proudly, and strive to put on a modest look said: “the government’s orders, how dare to slack, in fact, when it comes, is forty-seven people, but halfway through the attrition of some, the county honors anticipate things like God, has long guessed that can not be pinched number of delivery, always have to prepare some more, you see, this came in handy.”

The Secretary didn’t ask too many questions and said, “Why do they have food on their faces?”

County Lieutenant Liu said, “Who said there were dishes? It’s clear that they were well-fed along the way, and we came with two stones of rice and twenty pounds of meat.”

The secretary then did not continue to ask more questions, and soon did the transfer of documents, Liu County Lieutenant familiarly sent a piece of broken silver to this secretary, smiling, “Drink tea ah.”

The Secretary only nodded, “Don’t linger in the Prefecture, there have been a few sick people lately, but I don’t know if it’s the bubonic plague or not.”

Lieutenant Liu was violently startled, even his face went white for a few minutes at once, and with a few moments of panic, he said, “There really is a bubonic plague …….”

“What did you expect?”

Lieutenant Liu immediately felt his body creepy up, said, “I thought it was a tricky …… name.”

He didn’t go on with the latter words, and hurriedly took the people and left.

……

“Ahem ……”

When they arrived at the mansion, the situation wasn’t much better, because as usual, they were being held in a woodshed at the back of the Shoumasho.

Yao Guangxiao s condition got heavier and heavier, lying there, motionless, his eyes staring blankly in one direction, seemingly reviewing something.

His life, how magnificent, when the little monk who only seeks to fill his stomach, thereafter famous in the world, how many flirtations under this sky, are in his calculations.

The living beings are the chess pieces, and I am the chess player. Every time I drop a piece, I can teach the world to turn into another mold.

And now that the chess player was old, so old that even breathing, at this point, had become difficult, he touched his parched belly.

Someone begged the messenger outside, “Give some food.”

“That’s not possible.” The officer outside said, “When the county sent you here, they gave you two stones of rice and twenty pounds of meat, how can you eat again? Are you gourmets? Every day you only know how to eat and eat and eat, even if we are on duty, we may not be able to see a few pieces of meat.”

The medical tenants are still trying to explain.

But some people shouted, “If we give you food, then what do we eat? Well, we can’t break the rules; if these rules are broken, we will go hungry; we will be an errand boy, and you will not make things difficult for us.”

Yao Guangxiao shook his head and only felt his consciousness getting more and more blurred.

He muttered under his breath, “Mother …… mother ……”

The healers were huddled in the corner and no one was paying attention to him anymore.

Yao Guangxiao said, “Mother …… mother …… A sister …… A sister …… ”

Yao Guangxiao once thought that he was in his dying days, what he was thinking about, must be the country’s great policy, or what the heaven and earth wonders.

But the only thing that filled his mind at that moment was his mother, who had long since passed away, and his sister, who had long since married far away and could not forgive him.

His cloudy eyes opened desperately, but it was dark, so dark that he couldn’t see.

But just then, it was as if there was a ray of light.

This beam of light was in front of Yao Guangxiao, and it was as if he saw his mother, who was still the same as she was decades ago.

She smiled at Yao Guangxiao, just like when Yao Guangxiao was a child, gently stroking Yao Guangxiao’s back, she opened her mouth, murmuring softly, vaguely saying, “My child, I know that you have suffered a lot of pain, suffered a lot of sins, it doesn’t hurt, it doesn’t hurt.”

Yao Guangxiao revealed a childlike smile at this time, his mouth opened and closed, unable to make a sound, but he knew in his heart that he was saying, “Mother, my body hurts all over, you scratch me.”

He tried desperately to lift his hand, to reach out and touch the light, but it seemed far away, further and further away.

Yao Guangxiao’s pupils contracted, he was inwardly fearful and let out a cry, followed by tears falling like rain from his cloudy eyes.

All at once, he seemed to hit his stride, suddenly feeling no pain in his body, and his hunger disappeared.

He rolled over and sat cross-legged with his hands clasped together and his voice was loud, “Amitabha Buddha, goodness is good.”

He startled the healers around him with this sudden thought.

Yao Guangxiao then smiled.

“Monk, Monk ……”

Someone shook Yao Guangxiao.

However, he found that Yao Guangxiao’s body was stiff.

Someone gently probed his nostrils.

Then he sighed, “The monk is dead.”

“He’s luckier than us, after all, he became a monk and recited the scriptures, he can be reincarnated into a good family in his next life, unlike us who don’t know how much more we’ll have to suffer in our next life.”

No one sighs, but only people are jealous and envious.

Death seems to many people to be a mere rarity.

……

It’s just dawn.

A servant came in and found the dead Yao Guangxiao, the servants cursed the bad luck, and also cursed Liu County Lieutenant for picking this kind of old and weak, and then got someone to carry his corpse, and someone took the opportunity to grope on his body.

One of them, in fact, searched a hard object at Yao Guangxiao’s tied leg.

Like copper and like iron.

The officer was overjoyed, and was busy undoing his bindings, but saw that it was actually an iron plate.

The agent vaguely identify the words on the top, many words he did not recognize, mouth read: “Yongle yuan year September, the emperor gave the monk record division left good Shi Yao Guangxiao Danshu iron coupon to noble, Yao Guangxiao loyalty and righteousness Bingzhi, pure and good will, I swear with you that: in addition to conspiracy and rebellion not subject to the rest of the if you commit a capital crime, exempted from itself once, to reward you for the honor … …”

The more the errand boy reads, the more he struggles, until he reads until this errand boy’s hands are weak and limp, and he clunks his hands and drops this iron scroll to the ground.

The officer sat paralyzed as if he had seen a ghost, and the several officers on the side were all too shocked to speak.

“This …… this is ……”

“The Dan Book ……”

Danshu Iron Coupon …… The person who gets this coupon is not free to establish a world of miraculous achievements.

Not to mention …… that there is a name and a surname on the top, and it is written clearly …… Monk Records Division Zuo Shan Shi Yao Guangxiao.

“Could it be that …… this person stole Yao Gong’s ……”

But when they looked at the white-bearded monk, they couldn’t imagine in any way that this was the Beamer.

And this man’s monkhood, and his age, were indeed not unlike the one in the legend.

At last there was a voice tinged with alarm, saying anxiously, “Quickly, go and report.”

Yet another person said, “Hush, first keep in mind that we must not leak the news, and we must never speak of it, and go first to report to the county.”

“Yeah, yeah.”

Soon after.

Xuancheng County magistrate Wu Zhizhan had rushed to the governor’s office in a state of disbelief.

Xuancheng County is a city county, the Ningguo government office is also located here, the so-called three life misfortune, the governor attached to Guo. The meaning is that the attached Guo County and the governor’s office in the same place, basically, it is tantamount to the angry daughter-in-law, nothing can not reach out, but once encountered to take the blame for the matter, it is guaranteed to be the first is their own.

But this Wu Zhi Zhan since Jian Yi came here, his situation has greatly improved, after all, the governor is the Ministry of Justice, high-powered officials, they live next to him, Jinshui Lou Tai, every now and then go to the instructions and reports, show more face, so that the Jian Gong to remember themselves, the future still worry about not having a future?

But now, Wu Zhi Zhan had no heart at all.

He paled and went to the signing room first.

Signature room master is Jian Yi’s prot茅g茅 Wu Huan, Wu Huan looked up at Wu Zhi Zhan, do not look at him without the official body, but quite a frame, after all, is Jian Yi’s beloved, the lower officials have to buy his account.

But today, Wu Zhizhan did not have the slightest intention of being polite to him, and said, “Where is Lord Jian?”

Wu Huan’s face revealed a look of displeasure and he was just about to speak.

Wu Zhizhan said with an ugly face, “Something big has happened, the sky is falling.”

Wu Huan looked even more displeased and frowned, “When the sky collapses, there is Lord Jian.”

Wu Huan looked at Wu Zhi Zhan disdainfully, showing his anger at Wu Zhi Zhan’s trivialization.

Wu Zhi Zhan became anxious and said, “I want to add Jian Gong now.”

“Wait for my briefing.” Wu Huan said blandly, he intended to hang this Wu Zhizhan out to dry, teaching this guy to see how powerful he was.

Wu Zhi Zhan was able to see Wu Huan’s mind, but he found it laughable and laughed instead, “Where do I allow you to inform? This official goes by himself.”

At that moment, indignantly, he walked out of the signing room, and barged into the public hall.

Wu Huan was busy chasing after him.

Wu Zhizhan, however, did not see Jianyi in the public hall, so he turned to the light house of the government office.

Wu Huan said in annoyance from behind, “Wu Zhizhan, you must not be rude.”

Wu Zhizhan ignored it and finally found Jianyi in the light house, putting pen to paper in a small study.

Jian Yi was not angry, only raised his head and glanced at Wu Zhi Zhan who barged in, and then continued to put pen to paper, saying on one side: “Unexpectedly, there is an uninvited guest.”

After a pause, he then said, “It’s good that you’re here, come and take a look at Liu Wenxin’s running script, his running script has grown again, of course, the growth of running script, after all, is a small art. But his excerpt from Li Shen’s first poem of compassionate farming is just what I want, please sit down and serve tea.”