Chapter 2142 The Fight of Flowers (Fifty)

After midnight, Nick heard someone playing a flute in the yard.

Even the beautiful tune was very disturbing to the people even when it was blown so late. He got up from the bed, opened the door and walked into the yard. He remembered that there was only one Bodhi tree in the yard during the day, but it turned into a wisteria tree, and the trees were full of wisteria flowers.

There was a beautiful woman under the tree. It was her who was playing the flute. The anger of being woken up suddenly disappeared. Nick stood at the door of her room and admired her performance.

After a while, a monk came over, and maybe he was awakened, and he and Nick watched the woman's performance together.

"Where is the donor coming from?" the monk asked suddenly.

"Western." Nick said in unfamiliar Chinese.

"But the West Heaven where the Great Leiyin Temple is located?" the monk asked.

Nick smiled. The name of Da Leiyin Temple in India is Nalanda Temple. In Journey to the West, Tang Monk obtained the true scriptures from it under the protection of his disciples. Xuanzang in real history did study abroad in Nalanda Temple.

"Yes." Nick answered not very seriously. He has indeed been to India.

"Is the starry sky there the same as what is here?" asked the monk.

Nick was stunned for a moment, and he thought the monk wanted to ask him if he had seen what the Tathagata looked like.

He subconsciously raised his head.

"Do you know why the place where the emperor lives is called the Forbidden City?" asked the monk, and then pointed to the sky and said, "The ancients divided the stars in the sky into three walls, Taiwei Wall, Tianshi Wall and Ziwei Wall. Ziwei Wall lived in the center for a long time. Tianshi Wall and Taiwei Wall live on both sides. The north is the place where the Star King is located, and the North Pole is the Heavenly Pigeon. All the souls in the three worlds and ten realms are under the command of the North Pole, so it is regarded as the "Supreme". The place where the Emperor lives is called the "Purple Palace". The Emperor is the son of heaven. His residence on the earth should also be called the "Purple Palace". In addition, the palace where the emperor lives is strictly guarded and there are strict palace bans. Therefore, the "Purple Palace" on the earth becomes a forbidden city, and together it is the Forbidden City. "For governance and virtue, like the North Chen, where the living is located, and the stars are arched," people believe in the nobles who assist the emperor.

The appearances are all stars descending to the earth, and the top scholar represents the Wenqu Star. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, a scholar recorded that there was a snake demon who had been practicing for thousands of years on the bank of West Lake in Hangzhou. After she turned into a human form, she met a scholar named Xu Xian, and then married him. At that time, a Zen master named Fahai saw Xu Xian being entangled by evil spirits and rescued him, put the white snake into the bowl and suppressed it under the Leifeng Pagoda. Xu Xian saw through the world and was willing to become a monk. He worshipped the Zen master as his master. He was slandered at Leifeng Pagoda and became a monk. He practiced for several years and sat overnight. The monks built a bone tower for him. When he was about to die, Xu Xian left eight poems to alert the world. The ancestor saved me from the world, and the iron tree blossomed and began to see spring. The transformation and reincarnation reincarnation reincarnation, and reincarnation reincarnation reincarnation and reincarnation. To know that there is color and color, you must know that there is invisible but tangible. Color is empty and color, and color must be clear."

"What does this have to do with Wenquxing?" Nick asked.

"In folk legend, in order to repay Xu Xian's life-saving grace, they had a son after marriage. When the child grew up, he passed the exam and rescued his mother from under the Leifeng Tower and reunite with his father's family."

Nick realized that "that child is Wenquxing."

"Don't you think it's strange?" asked the monk.

"What?"

"How can humans and snakes give birth to children?" said the monk.

"Didn't she become a human form?" Nick said.

"But she is still a snake." said the monk.

"It is impossible for a man to become a snake, and it is impossible for a snake to become a human."

"Are you sure?" asked the monk.

Nick didn't answer.

"Look at her." The monk motioned Nick to look at the woman playing the flute under the wisteria tree. "Is she beautiful?"

Nick stared at her, his eyes gradually faded and dazed.

"There is a scholar named Wang in Taiyuan. He is like you. He doesn't believe that she is a monster when he sees a beautiful woman. It was not until one day that he woke up when he saw the woman 'changing'. Unfortunately, it was too late, and the monster quickly took his life."

The woman under the tree suddenly turned into Wanning's appearance. Nick was about to debate with the monk, but the monk disappeared.

When he looked at the woman under the wisteria tree, it was gone. He was about to leave the room to find out, but he stepped on the air and fell to the ground. When he got up, he was still in the meditation room. It was already dawn outside the window, and the monks were doing morning classes. The sounds of Sanskrit came from the Buddhist temple in front.

The tree in the yard is still a thousand-year-old Bodhi, and has not become a thousand-year-old wisteria tree.

Nick immediately ran to Juren's room, woke him up, and told Juren what he had just seen.

The juren didn't believe what Nick said. This critical literati did not believe that wearing jade pendants could ward off evil spirits, but he believed that Zhang Gong eliminated evil dragons. He also told Nick how Zhang Gong killed the terrible monster with a rice ball.

"There are monks everywhere in this temple. Maybe you really heard the sound of a flute in the middle of the night and had a conversation with a monk. But you were confused at that time and couldn't tell whether it was reality or dream."

Nick felt that he was right, so he carefully identified the monks while they were gathered together to recite scriptures, and wanted to find the monk, but none of them matched it.

Nick returned to Juren's room. At this time, Juren took out a book, saw Nick come back, and gave it to him.

"Lan Ruo means 'monk' in Sanskrit, and Lan Ruo Temple is 'monk'. Didn't the monk you just said read a poem? The transformation and reincarnation reincarnation reincarnation, and the scholar surnamed Wang in Taiyuan also contains it in this book."

Nick looked at the title of the book, which was written by Pu Songling.

"The story about the scholar named Wang from Taiyuan is called 'painted skin'." The juren said in a mysterious voice.

After reading the story, Nick found it incredible that people might throw away some objects, such as snuff bottles, but they could not lose their skin. Where did that ghost get this human skin?

This was originally a story made up by Mr. Liaozhai. Although it was horrible, it had been circulated for many years but no one took it seriously. Nick's question seemed to be a reminder to the juren.

"Pichang Temple!" said the juren loudly, "it stole the human skin of Pichang Temple."

Then he told a creepy history.

Pichang Temple actually existed in the Song Dynasty. Pichang Temple is part of the Land Temple and is mainly used to peel livestock for sacrifice.

There are similar places in the Temple of Heaven, Earth, Mountain and Rivers, etc. When the ceremony of sacrifice begins, you must first find a calf in the pure earth to place it on the burning wood stove and burn it to welcome the gods.

The meaning of the word "文" is to break the middle, hollow it out, and clean it, which means burning a calf with the internal organs and skin removed and bones and meat left.

The land temple is a local one, and it can be sacrificed by livestock skins. Later, this kind of skin temple was used by Zhu Yuanzhang to peel human skins.

But compared with his son Zhu Di, Zhu Yuanzhang was stripped after the corrupt criminal died, and Zhu Di stripped alive. Moreover, he hung the "bags" of peeling solid grass in Chang'an Gate, not in the land temple to sacrifice the land like Zhu Yuanzhang.

Whether it is a horse riding, a carriage, a sedan chair, or a court official, they must stop at Chang'an Gate and then walk into the Forbidden City. There is also a horse-drawn monument in front of the gate, and officials and others must dismount there, which means that those "members" with high power can see the "bag" as soon as they look up.

I don’t know how many people died of this torture in the entire Ming Dynasty, especially during the reign of Wei Zhongxian, which was used in large quantities.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were also Jinyiwei, East Factory, and West Factory. These spies performed these tortures on behalf of the emperors. After all, the emperor only needed to speak, and ordinary people could not do such things.

In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, there were chaos in the war. Who still remembers how these human skins were dealt with? The best way is to burn them. In the late Ming Dynasty, there were many fires in the capital.

But is it really burning?

Bonaparte scoffed.

"Don't you believe it?" George Anna asked.

"When the fortune teller asks to eat the chicken used for fortune telling, you'd better cooperate with him."

George Anna didn't try to convince him.

She remembered Nagini, a circus actor who was conquered by the blood curse and was destined to turn from a human to a snake.

She hoped that Voldemort would use it to make the Horcrux in the end, and that the snake that Neville destroyed with the Sword of Gryffindor was not her.

(End of this chapter)
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