Chapter 126 Donor, Have You Heard of Liberation Buddhism?
The Tubo warriors took up arms and returned to their hometown.
Bawu is the lowest-ranking Gui in the front army of Shang Qixin'er's army.
Gui means warrior and is also the lowest noble in Tubo.
Bawu's father was a Wenmo, that is, a humble slave.
Through brave fighting, my father got rid of his status as a slave and became a glorious "Gui".
Bawu's father died of old age on his hospital bed, making Bawu's family the laughing stock of all nearby samurai families.
When the host Da Lun Shang Qi'er lit up the aniseed collection and summoned his warriors to bring their own weapons and dry food to attack the Tang Dynasty, Ba Wu excitedly took two slaves and the family's cattle and sheep to participate in the northern expedition.
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However, this battle gave Ba Wu an unforgettable scene. Tang Jun did not know what evil method was used. After a terrible loud noise, his comrades around him were beaten to a bloody pulp by the terrible iron filings.
The banner of the former general was also broken by the Tang people's magic. The collapse of the Tibetan front army spread to the central army, and Ba Wu managed to escape with great difficulty.
Bawu immediately asked to see his great host, Da Lun. He told Da Lun all about what he had seen and heard on the front line, and the great Da Lun praised his contribution.
But Bawu was not happy for long, and the great master asked: "Bawu, you are a warrior in the vanguard, why did you appear in the rear? Why didn't you die on the battlefield with your comrades?"
This time Ba Wu was stunned.
Shang Qixin'er continued: "I remember you. Before the war, I made a judgment for your dead Wen Mo. You can't even take care of your subordinate Wen Mo. You don't have the courage to die with your companions. You know your sin."
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Ba Wu was so frightened that he knelt down and repeatedly begged Shang Qixin'er for mercy.
Shang Qi Xin'er then said: "According to the law of the great Zanpu, you have committed the death penalty of fleeing in battle, but Zanpu will naturally forgive the criminal people. You are the lowest-level Gui, and you can just pay twenty silver
Atoned for."
Bawu immediately took out the silver cake from his arms and placed the silver cake on the ground.
All the slaves Bawu brought with him died on the battlefield, and all the cattle and sheep he brought with him were captured by the Tang army.
These twenty pieces of silver cake were compensated by the officer who trampled his slave to death, and now they were all handed over to atone for his sin.
He returned to his manor without finding anything. At least he saved Gui's identity and life, right?
But when Bawu returned to his manor, he found that the originally prosperous manor had changed.
The younger brothers and sisters kept crying, and when they asked, they found out that their old mother was dying.
Bawu rushed into his mother's bedroom. When he was dying, his mother looked back and said:
"The castle owner's tax collector came to the manor after you went on an expedition. I told him that you took away the cattle and sheep from the manor. The tax collector said that we hid the cattle, and the tax collector asked us to make up for the foot tax on twenty cows."
Bawu said angrily: "Our Bawu family doesn't have twenty cows at most. Each cow has to pay a quarter of the cow leg tax. Twenty cows have to pay five cows! Our family has never had so many cows."
Sheep!"
Bawu's mother said: "The tax collector said this was the intention of the Lord of the Castle. I sold off the trophies left by your father and emptied the last barley grains in the family's warehouse. Only then did I pay the cow leg tax."
Ba Wu's eyes were already red. The castle owner was a great warrior, and it must have been the hateful tax collector who framed his family.
Bawu's mother continued: "I thought this matter was over, but a few days ago there was another order from the castle owner, which required that every seventh household should have a Buddhist temple. Our manor has a population of exactly seven households.
A Buddhist temple also needs to be built.”
Bawu immediately became furious: "There are seven families in our manor!"
Bawu's mother said: "We need money to build the Buddhist temple, but there is not a grain of highland barley in the manor's warehouse. The castle owner's herald requires that it must be completed before summer, otherwise our family's 'Gui' family will be abolished."
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At this time, Bawu became frightened. Bawu's mother took her son's hand and said, "I am going to heaven to see your father. Your father worked hard to change from Wenmo to Gui. You must not lose the family."
Glory!"
Then Bawu's mother exhausted her last bit of strength and died.
Bawu had just buried his mother when he received news from his fiancée's brother.
The news that Ba Wu escaped from battle and used silver cakes to forgive his sins had spread among the samurai. The fiancée's family was unwilling to marry such a coward and withdrew the marriage.
Bawu was devastated and confused for several days. At this time, a bald man came to his manor.
This bald man claimed to be the monk next to Da Lun and wanted to promote Buddhism on Ba Wu's manor.
Before the construction of the temple is completed in the summer, the bald man will live in Bawu's home and preach Buddhism to Bawu's family.
Bawu was quite disapproving of this sudden appearance of a bald head.
The Tibetan people always ask Bon priests to preside over their weddings and funerals. These Buddhists must have been confused by the theory.
Bawu also wanted to build a temple for this bald man. When he thought about this, Bawu became very angry.
The bald man didn't care about Bawu's attitude at all. After he arrived at Bawu's manor, he ran around all the places near the manor wearing straw sandals.
Then he talked to the tenant farmers one by one and communicated with them from house to house.
Bawu didn't know what the monk was going to do, but as long as the monk didn't bother him, Bawu had no restrictions on him.
Then the monk not only wandered around the Batwu family's manor, but also wandered around nearby manors.
However, several nearby samurai families had received orders from above to treat these bald monks with courtesy, so this monk had no problem and gradually gained fame in the neighborhood.
Bawu didn't know what the monk was doing. When he came back from doing farm work that day, he saw the monk also opening the door and coming in.
Bawu originally didn't want to pay attention to this monk, but he didn't expect that this time he took the initiative and said:
"Dear owner of the manor, I want to talk to you."
Bawu was a little wary. He had seen these bald heads at the castle owner's party.
They always talk about Buddhist scriptures that they don't understand, talking about the wonderful afterlife and the Western Paradise.
Bawu was not interested in any of this. He was going to reject this monk.
But the monk insisted: "This time we will not talk about the Buddhist Kingdom in the West, nor will we talk about observing the precepts and practicing practice."
Bawu is a little strange. If this monk doesn't talk about these things, then what on earth is he going to talk about?
I only saw this monk saying: "Owner of the manor, have you ever thought about the reason for the suffering you have suffered, and are you deserved for it?"
"Is it natural for the castle owner to take away your cattle and sheep and your food?"
Ba Wu looked at the monk warily and asked, "What exactly are you going to say?"
The monk clasped his hands and said, "Donor, have you ever heard of 'Liberating Buddhism'?"