Chapter 183 - Yunzhongzi, Keen Words & Vimalaki (1/2)
Chapter 183 Yunzhongzi, Keen Words & Vimalaki“Eh?” The Bodhisattva turned around and looked at Liu Shuai who came up, followed by Zhou Yuan. He could not help asking, “Who is this?”
Xiao Hong immediately explained, “Oh, Bodhisattva is a Buddhist, so you may not know about Taoism. This is Yunzhong…”
“Wait, I’ll introduce myself!” Liu Shuai was not polite to Xiao Hong. He patted his chest while running, and shouted in gasping, “I’m the descendant of Yunzhongzi. When you were still in Exposition, you met my master for several times. Do you remember him, Manjusri Bodhisattva? No, I should call you Manjusri Guangfa Primus!”
“Oh, no, this became troublesome,” Xiao Hong said to Hao Ning in a low voice, frowning. “How could I forget this cause and effect?”
With that Xiao Hong quickly stepped back and made the room for Liu Shuai. Liu Shuai was panting after running, and he bent down and took a deep breath. Then he straightened up, put his hands on his waist and asked, “Do you remember?”
D**n, Liu Shuai was going to make a scene. Hao Ning forced a smile. He knew that in Creation of the Gods, the Manjusri Guangfa Primus was originally a man of Exposition. Yunzhongzi also helped a lot in the war of Creation of the Gods. But after the Creation of the Gods, the Manjusri Guangfa Primus suffered through the Nine Curved Yellow River Array, and his power was greatly damaged. No one knew why but he converted to Buddhism and became Manjusri Bodhisattva. As a considerate and warmhearted person, Yunzhongzi couldn’t stand that, so probably Liu Shuai also got this spleen from him.
Hao Ning was just confused. It was not so big a deal. Today it would be just like a job-hopping matter. So many years had it been. As a programmer, Liu Shuai was thinking about job-hopping and raising his salary every day, so why couldn’t he let the Bodhisattva switch the place to stay? Programmers were allowed to set fire, but Bodhisattvas was not allowed even to light a lamp – to poke his nose into others’ business.
Although Hao Ning thought so in his heart, after all, these things had deep causes and effects. Hao Ning, in line with the fine tradition that no research, no comment, also planned to step back with Xiao Hong to see what a scene Liu Shuai was about to make.
Who knew that when Hao Ning hadn’t gone so far yet, Liu Shuai grabbed him and pulled him back? He held his hand tightly and shouted at Hao Ning, “Don’t go, be our judge!”
“Sh*t, you…you are crazy?” Hao Ning was startled, and Liu Shuai really dared to talk about it and force him to judge this kind of historic grievances. No matter what he said, it would be wrong. If Hao Ning said that Liu Shuai was right, this Manjusri Bodhisattva would use Hui sword to take a poke at him. If he said that the Bodhisattva was right, he would not be able to raise his head in front of Liu Shuai in the future. With that, Hao Ning frowned and messed around, “Why do you let me judge? Do you think that I’m the Jade Emperor?”
Hao Ning was about to shake off Liu Shuai’s arm when he saw Liu Shuai blinking at him and felt Liu Shuai holding his hand tightly, which seemed to have other meanings. Hao Ning felt a little strange in his heart, but he stopped and turned to Liu Shuai and said, “How to judge?”
“It’s very simple,” Liu Shuai was talking both to Hao Ning and to the Manjusri, “the Manjusri hasn’t explained to us for thousands of years. Today, he has to say something about it.”
Looking at Liu Shuai’s careless look, Hao Ning was dumbfounded. He turned his head and looked at Xiao Hong again. Now, the Great Saint Infant King, who was in a rush just now, was now lowering his head to count the ants on the ground. The problem was that there were no ants on the ground.
“Amitabha,” Manjusri Bodhisattva laughed brightly, “Five hundred years is one spring, and another five hundred years is one autumn. With two thousand years passed, spring, summer, autumn, and winter are all gone. My good nephew, why do you insist on it?”
“Er? Since you called me your good nephew,” Liu Shuai got a chance, so he decided not to show any mercy to the Bodhisattva, “my master used to tell me to ask three questions for him if I meet Manjusri Bodhisattva, and if the Bodhisattva answers, he will let it go.”
“Please.” Bodhisattva declined to comment but said politely.
“What is the cloud in the sky and the water in the bottle?” Liu Shuai asked with a strange smile.
Hao Ning was stunned. Wasn’t this a sentence that the authors of online novels often used to show off their cultural quality? Hao Ning also searched this sentence, which came from ancient poetry. The whole sentence was “I know nothing else about Tao, but the clouds in the sky and the water in the bottle.” It meant that Tao was about returning to one’s original nature, which was just as usual as the clouds in the sky and the water in the bottle. Everything in the world was reasonable. The problem was that this sentence was not very hard to understand. How could Yunzhongzi not understand, and even need Liu Shuai to ask Manjusri Bodhisattva?
“Well, I know nothing else about Tao. The Tao is in the sky and the Tao is in the bottle.” Manjusri Bodhisattva smiled a little. Hao Ning was also roasting Liu Shuai’s low educational level in the mind. This was the Bodhisattva of wisdom. You asked such a low-class question. Didn’t you feel ashamed?
Who knew that Liu Shuai’s eyebrows moved slightly and didn’t say yes or no. He continued to ask, “What’s the explanation of Huike gets the marrow?”
“Huike gets marrow?” Hao Ning did not understand for a moment, but it was not good to ask Liu Shuai again, so he had to look at the Manjusri.
“Eh?” Manjusri Bodhisattva looked at Liu Shuai at this time. He looked down and did not speak anymore. It seemed that he was staying quietly and meditating.
“Well, Bodhisattva?” When Xiao Hong saw Liu Shuai’s arrogance in asking and that the Manjusri did not reply, he promptly reminded him, “The descendant of Yunzhongzi was asking you a question.”
“Bodhisattva has already answered!” The voice of Zhou Yuan came from their back. Everyone looked back and saw that Zhou Yuan was standing still. Under his feet seemed to have auspicious clouds. The cool breeze slowly dragged Zhou Yuan to float around. Though far less than that of the Manjusri, it was also full of style.
“You are such a dummy to compare with Bodhisattvas?” Hao Ning was amused in his heart, but he did not know why Zhou Yuan appeared at this time.
“Huike gets the marrow,” Zhou Yuan explained. “It was after Bodhidharma finished his lecture and asked the disciples what they got. Every disciple expressed his own view. Bodhidharma commented one by one. First, he said that one of his disciples’ answers got his fur, then what another disciple said got his flesh, and then he commented that the third disciple’s words got his bones. After that, this disciple called Huike did not say anything but stood there without saying a word. The other disciples did not understand and thought that Huike did not understand the meaning of his master, but Bodhidharma praised him highly, “Huike gets the marrow”. It would be needless to say if he got the marrow. When the Bodhisattva heard that Liu Shuai asked about Huike gets the marrow, he didn’t say a word, which answered Liu Shuai’s question with Huike’s behavior. It was so brilliant.”
“I see,” Xiao Hong made a bow to the Manjusri, “Bodhisattva is erudite!”
Hao Ning also understood that the Manjusri did not speak was to tell Liu Shuai by action the meaning of “Huike gets the marrow”. By saying nothing, he said everything.
Hao Ning realized it at that time that it turned out that these people were hitting the keen words! But he didn’t get to know this at all, so it was best for him to say nothing.
“Here comes the last question‒” Liu Shuai wiped the sweat on his forehead. Hao Ning probably guessed that it was Yunzhongzi who wanted Liu Shuai to make trouble for Manjusri Bodhisattva. But as a result, Manjusri Bodhisattva answered the first two questions very well. Liu Shuai did not win Manjusri with so much effort. Of course, he was disgraced.
“I heard the last question from Yunzhongzi,” Zhou Yuan said, pressing Liu Shuai’s shoulder and blinking his eyes. “Let me say it.”
Wasn’t Zhou Yuan learning Tao from Zhang Chi Hang? When did Zhang Quan tell him about this? Hao Ning and Xiao Hong looked at each other and looked at Zhou Yuan suspiciously. Hao Ning was even more puzzled in his heart. When Zhang Quan invited Zhou Yuan to study Taoism with him before, Zhou Yuan tried to turn it down!
But Zhou Yuan ignored them and asked a very long question, “Who is the most powerful person in Vimalakirti Sutra? Sariputra, Mahamoggallana, Kassapa, Subhuti, Punna, Mahqkaccqna, or Aniruddha?”
“Eh?” Zhou Yuan’s voice just came down, let alone the Manjusri, even Hao Ning, Xiao Hong, and Liu Shuai were all staring at Zhou Yuan in shock.
“What’s the hell with this question!” Xiao Hong closed his eyes and passed his mind to Hao Ning with the spirit, “How could there be such long keen words? How could Yunzhongzi ask such a weird question?”
“How can I know!” Hao Ning said in a low voice.
Liu Shuai was also giving Zhou Yuan a strange expression, gnashing the teeth, and said, “Zhang — Yunzhongzi seemed to have asked a different question!”