Scroll of Seven Sorrows

There is a dark red moon in the sky, and the pale pink clouds are like blood-stained lotuses, layer upon layer.

Xie Bi'an stepped on a piece of dead wood and made a "click", which shocked the whole world.The pale pink mist gradually covered the edge of the world. He looked down at the branch that had been broken in two, and then walked towards the place where the mist rose.

Xie Bi'an stopped in front of a bamboo forest that didn't fit in with the Infernal Hell. The bamboo was filled with smoke, and near the soil, a few bamboo shoots poked out their heads stealthily.Looking closely, there is a small courtyard hidden deep in the bamboo forest.At first glance, the small courtyard looks like a temple, exuding an indescribable sense of Zen, but just looking at it from a distance makes people afraid to speak loudly. This is naturally the residence of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva in Fengdu.

Walking to Zhu Hong's door, Xie Bi'an raised his hand and knocked on the door knocker. The next moment, a boy with dog ears came out of the door. The boy saluted Xie Bi'an with a smile.

"White Ghost Envoy, please come with me, the Bodhisattva has been waiting for you for a long time." Di heard.

Xie Bi'an squinted his eyes, looked at him for a moment, and then asked, "Has Qi Wen's matter been resolved?"

"Of course, Bodhisattva is at ease when I do things." Then Di Ting made a gesture of invitation, signaling Xie Bi'an to go in.

Xie Bi'an entered the small courtyard.I thought this courtyard should be the same outside and inside, but I didn't expect to open the door and enter it to be a different world.The yard is full of roses of various colors, somewhat like a European-style garden, and you can see a baroque two-story building through the yard.Xie Bi'an walked into the living room and saw a man sitting on a western-style sofa.

The man has shoulder-length blond hair, slightly curly long hair, three-dimensional facial features and a pair of light blue eyes, but he is not of Asian descent.

"Xie thought the Bodhisattva was from Silla." Xie Bi'an walked up to Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, clasped his hands together and said.

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva did not answer, but raised his eyes and said, "The White Ghost Envoy came earlier than I thought. I didn't want you to know the inside story, but now it seems that I can't hide it."

"If the Bodhisattva really didn't want Xie to know, Xie wouldn't have discovered anything wrong from the very beginning. The reason why Xie was able to discover the inside story was ultimately the Bodhisattva's instruction."

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva chuckled lightly, without comment, just stretched out his hand and said, sit down.

Xie Bi'an nodded and sat on the sofa opposite him.

"When did you discover the problem?" Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva asked.

Without thinking about it, Xie Bi'an opened his mouth and said, "It's in the other courtyard of the Su family in Jinling. The Su family is so big that it doesn't even have a ground-bound spirit. I thought it was Qin Ye who drove the spirit away, but after a few tasks When I came down, I found that not only the Su family’s other courtyard had no ground binding spirits, but also several other places. Of course, not only the ground binding spirits, but also other ghosts could not be found at all.”

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva nodded, motioning for him to continue.

"There is also why every time we walk through the Qianyuan Gate, we can perfectly integrate into another era, and why our mana is basically emptied. If it is really like what Ah Bang said, you want to let us completely resolve the grudges of ghosts But you deliberately sealed our mana, so why didn't you find ordinary ghost messengers to do it? So I speculate that our mana was not sealed by you, but was sucked away by the front door, the purpose of absorbing mana It is to let us integrate into the corresponding era.

Also, I killed Xia Jinghe before everything started, but I failed to prevent her from becoming a ghost.If we did go back in time, it didn't make sense, so I started to speculate that maybe we didn't really go back in time.This conjecture was not confirmed until I discovered that the wooden hairpin that I should have put into the mustard space suddenly disappeared.The appearance of Zhao Mingzheng and Qin Yu's failure to return to the book of life and death also support this conjecture. "

"That's right, you haven't returned to the real past. No one can reverse time, not even the sage who created the world. The front edge gate just put you into an illusion, a place where those obsessions are unresolved. The ghosts' memory and the memory fragments left by the people who lived in that era jointly constructed the illusion. The flesh and mortal body cannot see ghosts, and the illusion of their memories is naturally impossible for ghosts to appear." Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva said faintly said.

"That's really the case... Then, Qin Yu and the others didn't return to reincarnation, where did they go?"

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva stood up, bowed to Xie Bi'an, and said, "This is the poor monk's thanks to the white ghost emissary on behalf of the people."

Xie Bi'an hastily helped the Bodhisattva up and asked, "What does the Bodhisattva mean?"

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva sighed and said: "Actually, I don't care whether I can become a Buddha or not. I swore at the beginning that 'I will not become a Buddha until hell is empty', just to save all living beings. But these years, my ashram has been decreasing day by day, and my mana has been reduced. As a result, I am constantly weakening. But in order to save the undead, I have been overdrawing my mana. A few days ago, I got a glimpse of the destiny, but the time is running out. Right now, to prevent myself from dissipating, the only way I can become a Buddha Let's go. In fact, there is nothing I can do."

"Then... Qin Yu and the others..." Xie Bi'an suddenly had a bad premonition.

Sure enough, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva shook his head and said, "The souls fly away, the souls disperse...they have vanished into the heaven and the earth."

Xie Bi'an smiled and said: "You want to save all living beings, but let them disappear in the dream we built together for them? Don't they count as sentient beings? Don't they deserve you to go to Purdue? Tens of thousands of life is life, the future Wouldn't their four lives count as life?"

"They are not allowed to re-enter the cycle of reincarnation. I let them get rid of their obsessions and then disperse, so as to avoid suffering. Isn't it considered as salvation for them?"

Xie Bi'an looked at the eyes like a calm sea, opened his amber eyes and looked at them: "Forget it. But you shouldn't use our hands to help you accomplish these things."

"Taoism and Buddha depend on each other, and the white ghost messengers shouldn't be so clearly distinguished." Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva lowered his eyes and said, "Their karma will all be on me, and the white ghost messengers don't have to worry too much about being hurt by their souls. Heaven is implicated."

"If those seven ghosts get rid of their obsessions, can you... really become a Buddha?" Xie Bi'an asked.

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva chuckled lightly: "I don't know, I'm actually gambling too."

Xie Bi'an suddenly felt that the Bodhisattva was a little pitiful. He threw himself into hell for many years to save the suffering, but in the end he fell on the people he guarded.The reduction of the dojo, the weakening of mana, and the self-dissipation, even Buddhist Bodhisattvas will experience this kind of thing, let alone the gods all over the sky?

The rabbit died and the fox was sad, Xie Bi'an couldn't help feeling sad.

"Okay, I will help you with this gamble. But I hope you can answer one more question for me." Xie Bi'an said.

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva nodded, signaling him to open his mouth.

"The scroll of the Seven Sufferings is not complete, at least the one that was handed over to me is not complete at all. I don't know who deleted it, please enlighten the Bodhisattva." Xie Bi'an said.

"Actually, I don't know, but the scroll of Seven Sufferings has only been in the hands of me, Di Ting, Wei Pan, Hei Guishi, and you. I also found out that it was inappropriate, so I ordered Di Ting to secretly revise the scroll and go to assist you Yes. As for who deleted it, please ask the ghost to figure it out."

As soon as the call ended, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva did not help Xie Bi'an solve his confusion. Xie Bi'an didn't dare to pester him any longer, so he left in a hurry.

Seeing Xie Bi'an's return, Fan Wujiu hastily asked where Qin Yu went after reincarnation.Knowing Ba Ye's character well, Xie Bi'an did not dare to reveal the truth, fearing that something might happen, so he randomly made up a removal for Qin Yu, and Fan Wujiu didn't doubt it.

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There is a saying that floating life is a big dream.But Zheng Li's dream was a bit too tortuous.

The only son of the powerful Zheng family, Zheng Zezao, married a lady from the Wang family who was famous in the capital.After the couple got married, the piano played harmoniously, and their love increased.After one year of marriage, Miss Wang was pregnant with Liujia, and the already harmonious family was even more happy.

However, before the child was born, the Zheng family was implicated by their colleagues. Mr. Zheng was beheaded, the Zheng family was confiscated, and the whole family was demoted to common people, and the family returned home.Because of this incident, Miss Wang's pregnancy was disturbed, and she died of dystocia, leaving only a baby boy, which was Zheng Li.

After Miss Wang's death, Zheng Zezao continued to marry another Wu family.

Zheng Zezao, who was born in a noble family, could hardly accept the fact that his family had changed.

Zheng Li grew up in an environment where his biological father beat and scolded him, his stepmother mocked him, and his family was poor.His childhood was full of bamboo branches whipped on his body, cloth quilts as cold as iron, and the smell of alcohol in the room.

When he was ten years old, Zheng Li watched his father, who was very drunk, walking towards the river step by step with his fluffy steps.Zheng Li touched the scars that had just formed on his body without saying a word, watching his father walk towards the underworld with cold eyes.After his father died, the Wu family left home, leaving only Zheng Li in that leaky thatched hut.

Zheng Li lives by begging on the side of the road. Even if he can't pick up the next meal, he is still unwilling to be at the bottom all his life. He always sneaks to the door of the private school to listen to the teacher's lectures.As the winter and summer came and went, the masters of the private school found that Zheng Li was a talent to be made, and were willing to let Zheng Li enter the private school to attend classes, and even sponsored Zheng Wen to participate in the imperial examination.Zheng Li passed the provincial examination in one fell swoop, and is preparing to go to Beijing to catch up for the examination.

Mr. Private School believed that Zheng Li would become a great talent, so he concluded a marriage contract with him. If he won the Jinshi, he would betroth his daughter to him.Mr. Private School's daughter's boudoir name is Yun'er, she has some talents and looks, and she is beautiful. Zheng Lizao agreed with her and made a marriage contract happily.

Zheng Li, who was full of confidence, really won the Tanhua in one fell swoop. He was so proud of his horseshoe disease that he saw all the flowers in Chang'an and signed the name of the Wild Goose Pagoda.He who was only waiting for his fame and honor to return to his hometown, never imagined that after only ten days, someone would block the imperial chariot and sue him for bribery of the examiner for cheating in the imperial examination.That person came prepared, with all the witnesses and material evidence, Zheng Li didn't know who wrote it, so he was caught off guard and was unable to refute it.Longyan was furious, he lost his fame for no reason, was demoted to a commoner, and would never be an official in the court.

Disheartened, Zheng Li returned to his hometown, but was told that Yun'er, whom he had been thinking about, was spotted by bandits in the mountains and robbed him to become Mrs. Yazhai.In order to save his beloved, Zheng Li went up to the mountain alone, but was crippled by Sheng Sheng.

If he never got it, Zheng Li wouldn't care.Obviously fame and fame are in front of him, and a beautiful woman is by his side, but he is reduced to nothing.From then on, Zheng Li fell into a slump and was insane all day long, borrowing money to drink everywhere, and even sold the only thatched hut in his family for the wine money.

He was only 35 years old when he died. His life was rough and full of disasters, but he never did evil things.He was placed in the endless hell just because he didn't want to let go of his obsession and reincarnate again, he saw through life and didn't want to suffer the pain of reincarnation again, and had nowhere to go.

"I just want to know the meaning of life." He said to Black and White Impermanence.

The author has something to say:

In the middle of sleeping, I suddenly remembered that I changed the name of the protagonist in this article, and I sat up in shock when I was dying...