Chapter 916 (2/2)
The poor girl in Guanyin's incarnation was dressed in plain linen clothes. She was as young as 28 and was full of body. She worshipped Chen ang and said, ”I have a compassionate heart. I'd like to redeem this divine bird and release it to heaven and earth.”
Chen Ang's face immediately changed and sneered, ”how much is a pound of compassion?”
”I have one heart, weighing eight or twenty-seven baht, but I can accommodate thousands of worlds, and can hold countless sentient beings... I am only willing to exchange one heart for one heart, and my heart for another.” the poor woman Yingying worshipped and said, ”compassion has boundless merits and virtues, and tens of thousands of merits and virtues can be exchanged for one kilogram.”
Chen ang scoffed and said, ”don't change! Compassion is his character. Others are not worth my money. Even if there are countless blessings, it's better to fill your stomach with Nang. You've never taken it only in this life. Why ask the next life?”
The ascetic monk transformed by the Samantabhadra also came and said, ”this is very good. I'd like to exchange it for the land of a country.”
”Monk!” Chen ang said faintly, ”you are poor and have nothing. Where did you come from?”
The Yiqu nobleman who offered thousands of gold also came back and said angrily, ”where are the beggars? Make trouble for me here.” he turned to Chen ang and said, ”you can't go back on what you said. What do these random bidders do? If no one gives higher than me, you should drop the hammer!”
”What the noble man said is!” Chen ang turned his head and asked, ”monk, is your land worth thousands of gold?”
The Puxian Bodhisattva said, ”there are thirty-six cities and 290000 people in our country. It is invaluable. You can be a vassal if you get it.”
The nobleman sneered, ”where do beggars talk nonsense here? Where can you change the land of a country?”
Bodhisattva Samantabhadra said, ”it's from fortune. The king of the great Huai kingdom is kind and generous. He heard that I wanted to fortune some property to release the bird, so he gave me a place of cassock.”
”A land of cassocks?” the nobleman laughed, ”if someone allows you a land of cassocks, you claim to have a country? And where is the great locust country? Where is your land of cassocks?”
The Puxian Bodhisattva took off the cassock and threw it aside. The cassock fluttered and fell under a big locust tree, covering the root. The Puxian Bodhisattva pointed there and said, ”that's the land of cassock promised by the great locust country, a country that gives alms to me.”
The aristocrat of the Yiqu country nearby said angrily, ”this is the Yiqu country. An inch of land in the Yiqu city is also from our Yiqu country. The great Huai country from there seals your land? And even if this land is yours, it is not worth a thousand gold.”
Puxian Bodhisattva put his hands together and picked up the cassock. He pointed his right hand down on the ground. After a while, he raised his finger and put it in front of the people and said, ”this is the Lord of the great Huai state. It has lived here for 39 generations and passed on from generation to generation. It was still before your Yiqu state, so this place should belong to the great Huai state.”
The people clearly saw that there was nothing in his hand. When they looked carefully, they saw that there was a big mole ant with a big belly on the finger of the Puxian Bodhisattva. It was an ant queen. Looking at the place covered by the cassock, there were countless black spots crawling around, and you could see the mouths of several ant nests.
Listen to the sages: ”the great locust country was founded under the great locust tree for dozens of generations, with 36 cities and 290000 people. It is already a huge country. Its Lord has compassion. He is willing to exchange the great locust country with me and the businessman for the life of the divine bird. This great locust country is worth thousands of gold?”