roccoschili Chapter 142 The Monk and the Vixen
Chapter 142 The Monk and the Vixen
It is said that during the Eastern Han Dynasty, Fei Changfang was from Runan (now Shangcai County, Henan Province). He once went to the mountains to practice immortality, but failed to achieve enlightenment and immortality.
However, he learned medical skills and could treat serious illnesses; he also learned Taoism and could use spells to whip and punish various ghosts.
Later, for unknown reasons, he lost the charm and was eventually killed by those ghosts.
Coincidentally! There is not only one such figure in history!
Let's talk about the Tang Dynasty. There was a man named Ming Jing and Chongyan. He was from Yanshi, Luozhou (now Yanshi District, Luoyang City, Henan Province). He had studied witchcraft, physiognomy and medicine since he was a child.
Even so, when he died, he was killed by a sharp knife being inserted into his chest.
However, he failed to predict in advance that someone was coming to assassinate him!
I don’t even know where the murder weapon to assassinate him came from!
However, some people speculate that this may be because Ming Chongyan likes to use witchcraft to drive and punish ghosts, and he is very mean to those ghosts and shows no mercy. This made the ghosts hold a grudge, and eventually the ghosts assassinated him.
Therefore, those who rely on magic will eventually fail because of magic!
There are actually many such situations!
During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Liu Xiangwan, the cousin of Ji Xiaolan, a scholar, told two stories, both about monks and vixens. They were similar to the two stories mentioned above.
It is said that once upon a time, there was a monk who was good at reciting incantations to drive away and punish monsters.
Those monsters and monsters were grudged against him and always wanted to take revenge on him.
One day, he was lured to a secluded place in the wilderness by a vixen.
What he didn't know was that there were thousands of vixens who had been ambushing him here in advance, trying to murder him.
Seeing that the monk had been attracted, all the vixens immediately rushed out, surrounded the monk, and yelled and bit him.
The monk showed no fear, waved his golden pestle, knocked down an old fox that had transformed into a human form, broke through the encirclement, and escaped.
Shortly thereafter, the monk accidentally met the old fox again on his way out.
As soon as the old fox saw the monk, he immediately knelt on the ground, worshiped, and said respectfully: "Thank you very much for not killing me before! I also feel very sorry for what happened before! Now, I am willing to convert to Buddhism and accept Follow the five precepts (the five Buddhist precepts, which means not to kill, not to steal, not to engage in sexual misconduct, not to lie, and not to drink alcohol) and become a monk.”
The monk was compassionate and agreed to the old fox.
He recited the Buddha's name and said: "The sea of suffering is boundless, but when we turn around, we will reach the shore! Put down the butcher knife and become a Buddha immediately!"
The monk was about to reach out and touch the old fox's head. The old fox suddenly threw an unknown object at the monk's face, and then immediately transformed and ran away.
The monk was startled and quickly touched his face, wondering what the old fox had thrown.
He felt that this thing was thin, neither silk nor leather. The color looked like amber, and it was sticky like glue or paint. It stuck firmly to my face and couldn't be peeled off.
The monk was blinded by the thing and could not see anything.
The thing was very hot and stuffy when it was attached to my face, which was really unbearable.
At this time, pedestrians on the road gradually gathered.
The monk asked everyone to find a way to remove the things on his face.
As a result, the thing was so firmly adhered that even the skin on the face was peeled off under everyone's hard tearing.
The monk was in unbearable pain and almost fainted!
Later, scabs formed on his face, and when they fell off, he looked very hideous and terrifying, no longer human-like!
This is one of the stories about a monk who was unprepared and was plotted by a vixen.
Another story is almost like this:
It is said that there was a monk who lived all over the world. Everywhere he went, he posted a notice on the door of his residence with two big characters: "Drive away foxes!"
It means that you can help others drive away vixens.
Once, a vixen came to seduce him, but the monk saw through it.
The monk rang the bell in his hand and recited the mantra. The vixen was so frightened that he ran away.
About a month later, an old lady came to the door and said that her home was near a cemetery and that there was a vixen at work in the cemetery.
Their family was harassed by vixens every day and they were very distressed, so they came to invite monks to punish the vixens.
The monk was worried that another vixen would come to seduce him. He took out a small mirror (probably the legendary demon mirror) and looked at the old lady. Discovered that what was revealed in the mirror was indeed a human being.
So the monk agreed to follow the old lady back to drive away the vixen.
When the old lady took the monk to an embankment, she suddenly snatched the monk's book bag and threw it into the river.
The talismans, magical instruments and other objects contained in the book bag all sank into the water.
While the monk was still trying to salvage his book bag from the river, the old lady hurried to a nearby crop field and hid.
When the monk came to his senses and wanted to chase him, he was nowhere to be found.
When the monk was feeling upset, he suddenly discovered that countless broken bricks and tiles were coming at him from all directions, causing his head to bleed immediately.
Fortunately, the monk knew that it was a vixen who was causing trouble, and he immediately recited a spell to defend himself.
The vixens were afraid of his spell and did not dare to approach, so the monk was able to escape back in embarrassment.
After the monk returned home, he remembered that he had put up a sign that said "Kill the Fox", but he was injured by the vixen! I suddenly felt ashamed and annoyed, and I no longer had the face to stay here.
The next day, the monk packed up his things and ran away in shame!
Later, after a long time, people knew the truth of the matter.
It turned out that the old lady was a local. After her daughter was seduced by the vixen, she and the vixen lived like husband and wife, and their relationship was very close.
The vixen took advantage of the woman's relationship and bribed the old lady with money to steal the monk's charm.
And the old lady actually did it for a little profit!
The world sighed: These are people with magic, enough to defeat the vixen, but in the end they were defeated by the vixen's tricks!
How sad!
But, having said that, although the vixen had a plan, the monk was unprepared; the vixen had accomplices, but the monk had no helpers.
However, this is enough to show that those monks' spells are not very good, and they may not be able to defeat the vixens!
I don’t know, how could they dare to fight those monsters and monsters so easily if they were not completely sure!
As the saying goes, if you don’t have diamonds, don’t do porcelain work!