Forty-three           Jigong punishes evil

Jigong, whose original name was Li Xiuyuan, became a monk in Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou, and his Dharma name was Daoji. He wore a broken hat, broken shoes, broken fan, dirty clothes, and looked crazy. He often traveled in Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas. He helped the poor and the poor, eliminated violence and safeguarded the good, and punished evil. He was the reincarnation of a dragon-subduing Arhat, and was a living Buddha.

One afternoon, Jigong traveled to Maoshan, Changzhou Prefecture, Jiangsu Province, and walked to the forest at the foot of the mountain. He saw a middle-aged man dressed in gorgeous clothes trying to hang himself. Jigong was so strange that he slapped his forehead with a fan. The light of his spirit shone brightly. He immediately knew the reason. Jigong wanted to save his life, but he saw him under a big tree, moved his stones and put his waist on the trunk, tied his head into the siding, kicked his feet into the siding, kicked his feet into the trunk of the tree. Seeing this, Jigong was busy doing the trick, using a fan to fan the wind and put it away, and he fell to the ground, climbed up, looked at the belt, suspected that he had not tied it tightly, moved the stones again, put it in the siding, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it up, put it

He wanted to hang him again. Suddenly, he heard a laugh behind him. When he looked back, he saw a monk wearing a patchwork robe, torn hat and shoes, holding a broken fan, and asked, "What is the difficulty of the donor? Did he commit suicide after seeing a short sight?" He replied dejectedly, "What can you do with your poor monk? Don't meddle in other people's business, please leave, don't be indulging in my affairs." Jigong still laughed and said, "You are not wise, if you leave after seeing a short sight, who will support your parents? Wang in the family wants to remarry, who will look for your son?" After hearing this, he was surprised. How could this monk know my difficulties? Could this monk have achieved enlightenment? He hurriedly knelt down and begged him, saying, "How can the holy monk know my difficulties in detail? I have no way out, so I beg him to help him."

The middle-aged man's surname is Ding and his name is Xu. He is from Dingjia Village, Ezhou, Hubei. He has two parents, father Ding Qing, mother Du, and wife Wang, and only son Ding Xi, nickname Xier.

Xier starts to grow up, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, full sky and round forehead, and lively and cute by nature. During the Dragon Boat Festival, the dragon boat race on the river is like a tide. Xier and her neighbors watch it, and they are separated from each other. Who knows that Xier will never return. Ding Xu and his wife searched everywhere without success, lost their son in middle age, and were heartbroken.

Ding Xu and his wife were depressed all day long. In order to find their son, Ding Xu decided to abandon agriculture and do business. One could go out to visit Xier's whereabouts, and the other would make a living. He bid farewell to his family and embarked on the road of business. When he arrived in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, he made a business reselling jewelry and a spy's message. He had not returned for two years, but his whereabouts were silent. One day, Ding Xu rode a horse to Jurong County to do business. When he went to Maoshan, Changzhou, he suddenly encountered a robber. One bandit blocked the road, and the other bandit attacked him, knocked him out with a stick, and robbed him of more than 200 taels of silver and horses. Ding Xu woke up and was penniless. When he was disappointed, he felt that he had no face to see his elders. In desperation, he decided to hang himself and die.

Ding Xu hurriedly knelt down and asked for help. Jigong advised, "Amitabha, this is something that people often encounter in life. How can you not recruit thieves with you? I am as poor as a monk, and the thieves will never rob me and work hard." Ding Xu asked, "Don't make fun of you. I am already at the end of the road. Please help me find the thieves. I want to die together with the thieves!" Jigong praised, "Good! I am a coward who has been looking for a short sight, and it is a husband who is willing to eliminate the thieves! Now that the donor has this courage, I am helping him, can you know where the thieves are going?" Ding Xu said, "I was knocked out by the thieves, how can I know where the thieves are?" Jigong had a hill and valley in his chest, pointed to the horse's hoof seal, and called him, "The donor is here to come."

Following the horse's hoof print, he walked to a mountain village. He lay in the bushes and looked down at an open space at the foot of the mountain. He saw a fat and thin person who was sharing the stolen goods. He tied a horse next to him. Jigong pointed to the horse from a distance and asked Ding Xu, "Can you recognize this horse?" Ding Xu replied, "It's my lost horse, hey! This fat person is a thief who robs my thief. If the thin person is bound to attack my bandits behind him."

The two thieves had finished the silver. The fat man pointed to the horse and said, "This time I made great efforts, this horse should return to me." The thin man retorted, "No, this time I made great efforts, this horse should return to me." The two thieves argued endlessly. When Jigong saw it, he said to Ding Xu, "I asked you to watch a play and have fun." Then he made a move and fanned the two thieves. The two thieves immediately stood up. First, they spoke rudely, insulted each other, then waved their fists and fought together, and the more they beat them, the more intense the fight became. Jigong stood up and laughed, "Please follow me to watch it close to seek happiness."

Ji Duke took Ding Xu to the open space and saw the two thieves fighting in full swing. Ji Duke shouted, "Why are you fighting? Stop!" So he pointed at him with a fan. The two thieves stopped and saw a monk dressed in worn-out clothes and brought the robbed person. He was shocked. Ding Xu saw that the monk was smart in magic and immediately braved and shouted, "You two will return my silver horses quickly, otherwise you will see the official!" Ji Duke shouted, "The bright world is bright, the sky is blue and the sun is blue, and you dare to block the road and rob. What is the crime?" The two thieves looked behind Ji Duke, but they did not see the government, so they boldly pulled out their waist knife. The fat man was scared and said, "You smelly monk, don't meddle in other people's business, get out quickly! Otherwise, eat my sword!" The thin man pointed at Ding Xu and was also scared and said, "

"I spare your life, why don't you get out of here! You dare to ask for it, but you are looking for death!" Ji Duke came forward and advised, "Put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha on the ground. It's not too late to change evil and do good!" The two thieves shouted, "Don't be too long-winded, look at the knife!" Then they waved their swords to slash at Ji Duke. Ji Duke dodged it, cut off the air, and the two thieves raised their swords and slashed them again. Ji Duke quickly turned behind them, itching under their armpits for fun. The two thieves were furious, swung their swords to storm Ji Duke, and slashed them randomly. Ji Duke jumped out of the circle, and used a fan to storm the two thieves. The two thieves suddenly became fighting each other and chopped them. The fat ones cut off the left hand of the thin ones, and the thin ones cut off the right foot of the fat ones, and blood burst out. The two thieves abandoned at the same time.

The knife fell to the ground and wailed. Ding Xu stepped forward and picked up the knife to kill him. Ji Duke stopped him and said, "Wait! Wait until I ask if he wants to repent, and then kill him." Before Ji Duke asked, the two thieves begged, "Saint monk, please spare me, the villain will never dare to do anything wrong again." "I will change my evil and do good, please spare me!" Ji Duke asked, "You should be serious, and you will not do evil again in the future?" The two thieves swore, "If you do evil again, the heaven will thunder and thunder!" Ji Duke saw that the two thieves were indeed repentant, so he picked up the thin person's broken hand and connected it to the wound of the thin person, and said, "Om Mani Pame Hum." Fan it with a fan, the arms were connected, and as intact as before, leaving only a circle of red lines at the interface, and use the same method to turn the fat person into a fat person.

The broken foot is also connected. The fat and thin ones move their hands and feet as flexible as before, and are extremely surprised. Knowing that Ji Duke was a monk, he knelt on the ground and tilted his head like a chicken pecking at the broken rice. He swears again: "Thank you for your re-creation of the monk, and you will be sad in the future. If you disobey your words, you will die without a place to bury yourself!" Ji Duke asked, "Where are you here?" The thin one replied: "We are the locals, because their family is poor and have no way to make a living, so they take risks and do this road blocking and robbing. We wash our hands and become a human being in the future!" Ji Duke said: "In the future, if you have evil thoughts again, your wounds will be hurt immediately. If you do evil, your hands and feet will be cut off from the red line, and you will never heal again!" The two were intimidated and kept saying a word.

The fat and thin ones returned the silver and horses in total. The two were fat and thin. The two were slapped with silver bags and took twenty silver, and said, "I hope you will take this as the basis in the future and run a small business to survive." The two received the silver and left with great gratitude.

Ding Xu knelt down and kowtowed to Jigong, saying, "I am fortunately saved by the holy monk. If not, my life will be over! I dare to ask the holy monk's name, where will he become a monk? I will repay him in the future." Jigong hurriedly helped him up and said, "My monk's name is Daoji, and he became a monk in Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou. Why do you say you will repay him? I saw that the donor has a good face, so I wish to save him. I wish to save him to the end. Now that the donor has not yet found his son, I wish to help him to reunite his father and son." Ding Xu heard this, he was grateful and tearful and kowtowed to the ground, "If my son comes, I wish to spend my family's fortune.

Repaying the great kindness of the holy monk, but now I don’t know where my son is, why do you look for it?" Ji Duke said, "I have a wrongdoing and debt. I will first find the traffickers, and then do the truth." Ji Duke sat cross-legged, pinched his fingers and chanted the mantra, fanned his forehead, and the light of his spirit shone. He immediately understood it, and stood up and said to Ding Xu, saying, "Please get on the horse and go to Zhenjiang more than a hundred miles northwest." Ding Xu said, "Why do you ride a horse? Why do you ride a horse together to go to it?" Ji Duke smiled and said, "Don't worry about where I ride. When the horse arrives, I am also here."

Ding Xu rode a horse, and Ji Duke slapped his horse behind him, galloping like a mad horse. Ji Duke pulled his ponytail lightly and flew into the air. After only one hour, when he was holding the light, he arrived at Weijiazhuang, Zhenjiang. Ji Duke stopped and the horse stopped abruptly. Ji Duke led the way, and Ding Xu walked about a hundred steps to a small hotel. Ji Duke attached himself to Ding Xu to remind him, "You enter the store, and say so." Ding Xu nodded his head and responded.

Ding Xu and Jigong entered the store and saw that there were no customers in the store. The store asked him, "How many rooms should I rent in the distinguished guest?" Ding Xu said, "One of us is enough." The store looked carefully and saw a monk with a torn clothes and hat behind him. He asked, "How can this monk stay in the store with the distinguished guest?" Ding Xu followed the advice of Jigong and explained, "My courtyard has been unhappy recently. I specially asked this monk to exorcise the demons for my humble house. It was late to walk here, so I stayed in the store to rest and wait for it to go tomorrow."

Jigong and Ding Xu were arranged to live in a room. Ding Xu asked Jigong, "What are you here?" Jigong said, "This shop owner is a thief who steals your son." Ding Xu was surprised and couldn't wait to say, "I will immediately sue the official and ask him to return him to my son and be punished." Jigong laughed and said, "Wait, what can you do without evidence? Don't be impatient, it's not too late to report to the official after getting the evidence." As Jigong said, the owner's surname is Wei Di, his wife Lu, and his wife has been stealing and selling infants and young children for many years.

At night, when he heard the baby in the main room crying at night, Ding Xu was tossing and turning, but Ji Duke fell asleep soundly. The next day, the two of them washed up, Ding Xu asked Ji Duke: "You heard that there was a baby in the main room crying at night?" Ji Duke laughed and said, "You haven't heard it? You know it? This is the baby stole by the shop owner and wanted to sell it for huge profits." Ding Xu said, "I'm trying to save this baby, and I must not repeat the mistakes of my son!" Ji Duke said, "Don't be impatient, now you should monitor it closely. When the baby buyers come, you will take it and bring it to the court."

As expected, after breakfast, the purchaser of the baby came, and the purchaser of the baby was a middle-aged woman. Both parties bargained in the main room. Wei Di wanted to sell fifty taels of silver, but the woman insisted on paying thirty taels, and the two sides were in a stalemate. Wei Di said, "This three-year-old baby has the highest price. I have the price for selling unit. The selling of the baby in the past is recorded on the order." After saying that, he opened the lock of the cabinet and took out a order from the cabinet to show it. At this moment, Ji Duke suddenly appeared, Wei Di was shocked, and his wife Lu was shocked and said, "You, the stinky monk dared to break in private.

Why is my room?" Jigong laughed and said, "You are selling theft baby, how are you guilty of? Follow me to see the official!" Wei Di heard this and showed his evil appearance. He went into the inner room, drew his sword, left the inner room, raised his sword and over the top, and wanted to kill Jigong to silence him. Jigong used a fan and shouted, "Stop!" to use a fixed body method to fix Weidi and his wife and the baby buyer. The three of them were like clay sculptures, and did not move at all. Ji Duke called Ding Xu to come and collected the record sheet and the dirty silver. Ji Duke took out the crying baby from the inner room and ordered Ding Xu to report the case quickly to the county government.

The yamen runners went to the hotel and arrested the Weidi and his wife, and brought the infant buyers into the county yamen. The evidence was conclusive, and the Weidi and his wife bowed to their heads and pleaded guilty. After investigation, the Weidi and his wife stole more than 20 infants and young children, and were sentenced to death! The infant buyers were sentenced to be beaten forty, confiscated the money, and expelled from the yamen. According to the record list, they found the whereabouts of the infants and young children one by one, so that they could reunite with their families.

After investigation, the young child Ding Xi was sold to Shaojia Village, Jiangyin County, Jiangsu Province. Ding Xu was assisted by the government and quickly found him to Shaojia Village. The one who bought Ding Xi was Shao Zhe, a rich family in the village. Shao Zhe had no son and only had a young daughter, named Rong'er. When purchasing Xier, he wanted to recruit him in the future. Under the guidance of the donor, Ding Xu and Jigong entered Shaofu. When Ding Xu saw Ding Xi, the father and son gathered together and hugged his head and cried. Ding Xu asked his son, "Can the son be safe here?" Xier replied, "

The Shao family treated me like a parent and child, and I did not suffer any grievance. I played with Rong'er all day long, and life was better than my family." The consent wanted to punish Shao Zhewen with a hundred taels of silver. Ding Xu said, "Shao Yuanwai treated my son like his biological child. I was very grateful. This was not his fault, but Wei Di's crime. I am willing to pay a fine to replace him." Shao Zhe was very grateful to Ding Xu for his sincerity and blocked him, saying, "I bought infants and young people privately and were willing to be punished. How could the victims replace him?" So he took the silver and fought for it.

When he was about to part with Shao Mansion, Xier held Rong'er's hand and refused to let go. Jigong saw it and laughed and said, "It is better to fulfill the wish of the two children because of my opinion. What's wrong with the two families becoming relatives?" Ding Xu and Shao Zhe both had this intention. Following Jigong's intention, they hit it off and decided to make an engagement.

Ding Xu brought his son to the ferry and Duke Ji arrived. Suddenly, he heard the noise of people. It turned out that a passenger ship was in danger and overturned in the middle of the river. The people who fell into the water held the capsized boatmen and called for help. The people on the shore called for help. There was a boatman full of beards standing on the top of the boat's cabin and ordered the boatman to say, "It takes five taels of silver to save one person. If no one pays for it, who dares to save him!" Duke Ji was angry and said to him, "The donor's words are wrong, and saving a life is better than another.

Why did you say this when you build a seven-level pagoda?" The bearded man scolded, "Stinky monk, don't be too long-winded! If you don't see the silver, don't come out to save me, get out quickly!" Ding Xu hurriedly stepped forward and said, "I would like to give out a hundred taels of silver, and beg me to save me." Then he raised the silver bag and wanted to serve him. Jigong stopped him. He used a fan and pointed his beard and shouted, "Fall!" The beard fell down and fell into the water. He also slapped the boatmen, and they all rode the boatmen to the accident site to rescue him. Not long after, the victims were rescued and went ashore.

Those who were rescued in the water thanked each other, and those who knew Jigong shouted: "Those who save our lives are Jigong's living Buddha!" ​​Everyone looked for Jigong, but Jigong was no longer sure where he was going. Everyone was grateful and burst into tears, knocked down on the ground, kowtowed to the sky, thanking Jigong for saving his life!

Among the rescued people, one of them saw Ding Xu and shouted loudly, "Where did my son come from?" Ding Xu looked at him closely, and the caller was his father Ding Qing! He hurriedly called Xier to see his grandfather. The three generations of grandparents and grandchildren were reunited, and they were extremely happy and hugged their heads and cried. Ding Xu asked, "Why did my father come here?" Ding Qing said, "I haven't returned for more than two years, and my father thought about it very much, so he left home to find it here. Alas! How did you find Xier? Why did you come here?" Ding Xu explained his experience in detail and sighed, "Save my whole family is a great compassionate living Buddha of Jigong!" The three grandparents and grandchildren were moved in the five-pointed room, and then knelt down to the sky, and thanked Jigong for saving his life!

Jigong left without saying goodbye, embarked on the road to travel to Jiangnan, and then appeared in a bad place!
Chapter completed!