0116, The Legend of the White Snake (7) (aka: Is the grudge between the White Snake and Fahai a conspiracy of the West?)
"This is the third life of their two meeting! Although White Snake has always been erased from her memory and cultivation, Xu Xuan is now in her third life. They should have a good ending, right?" Su Xiaoxiao asked with some concern.
"Although we met after a chance, but..."
Yaya was silent for a moment, looked at Ye Hua, then at the old storyteller, and said sadly: "Since the storyteller said at the beginning of the story that White Snake was born once every five hundred years, I guess Xu Xuan and White Snake still ended up with a bad ending, hey..."
"Ha, don't you listen to the story? Although you know the ending, don't you want to listen to the process? Moreover, the ending is not as you think!"
The old storyteller put down the teacup, pointed at Su Xiaoxiao again, and said with a smile:
"This little girl was not right just now. Although Xu Xuan and Bai Snake met for the third time, this is not Xu Xuan's third life! His first life was a god in heaven. He truly became a human being. That was his first life. Moreover, Bai Snake only slept twice for five hundred years! When the third five hundred years came, Bai Snake would wake up again, and Xu Xuan would also reincarnate as a human being for the third time! When the two of them met for the third time, hehe..."
The old storyteller smiled strangely, then changed his mind and said:
"However, Xu Xuan and Bai Snake met for the third time, but I don't know when it was. Let's talk about what happened after their second encounter!
"By the way, the White Snake and Xu Xuan had a conversation on the West Lake boat. After they met, you like me and I like you. In addition, with Xiaoqing assisting, the White Snake and Xu Xuan got married within a few days.
"After Xu Xuan got married, he was not convenient to stay at his sister's house and felt that he should set up another door to live. After that, Xu Xuan and Bai Niangzi discussed and moved to Zhenjiang on the south bank of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River with Xiaoqing, and opened a Baohetang Pharmacy there.
"As soon as the pharmacy was opened, the life was so beautiful! The white Snake prescribed and Xu Xuan picked up the medicine. They both prepared many pills, powders, pastes, and elixirs..."
Pills, powders, pastes, and elixirs?
Isn’t that the pills produced in the refining you learned?
Did Snake Bai and Xu Xuan also learn the secrets of refining medicine from Chang'e?
Ye Hua was puzzled, but his face was still calm, and he listened carefully to the old storyteller continuing to tell the story of the White Snake.
"Not only that, Xu Xuan and Bai Snake also hung a sign at the door of Baohetang Pharmacy, which said: Apply medicine for poor and sick people, and don't take any penny!
"In this way, you spread the news of such a great thing, Baohetang Pharmacy quickly became famous. He came to ask for medicine every day when he was sick, and thanked him after he recovered. From morning to night, people came and went, and almost flattened the threshold.
"Baohetang is becoming more and more prosperous, and Xu Xuan and Bai Snake's lives are becoming happier and happier. However, because people's illnesses have been cured by Bai Snake, there are fewer people who go to Jinshan Temple to burn incense and pray to Bodhisattvas. The incense in the temple is not strong. As the abbot of Jinshan Temple, Monk Fahai, naturally, he is not happy. After all, before the opening of Baohetang Pharmacy, as the only temple in Zhenjiang, many people go to Jinshan Temple to burn incense and worship Buddha every day!
"It's interesting to say that Monk Fahai is nothing else, it was the turtle that had snatched the small dumplings with White Snake before. The White Snake had the fate to eat the small dumplings, took the golden elixir and gained five hundred years of cultivation, but the turtle also got the strange fate.
"I don't know when a turtle appeared in the west. It hid under the Buddha's Lotus seat of Tathagata and listened to the sutras every day. The turtle actually had the opportunity to enter the path of practice and learned many magic. That time, the turtle failed to snatch the small dumplings from the White Snake, but returned to the west again, and hid under the Buddha's Lotus seat of Tathagata as if nothing had happened.
"The turtle has been listening to the sutra for several years. It is said that when he was dozing off while the Tathagata Buddha was preaching, he stole three magic weapons, namely the golden bowl, the cassock and the Qinglong Zen Staff, and then ran back to the human world. After the turtle returned to the human world, he turned a pound of money on the ground and turned into a black and strong monk. He felt that he had strong magic and great skills, so he named himself Fahai!"
Using Chinese medicine to cure diseases and save people, which actually caused Fahai's dissatisfaction?
Moreover, the Fahai actually originated from the West and was a turtle under the Tathagata's seat.
Isn’t this the Western Paradise is dissatisfied with Chinese medicine to save people?
As for what he said, he stole the three magic weapons of Tathagata while he was dozing off. Haha, this must be Tathagata's cunning, and asked the monk Fahai of the West to deliberately steal the magic weapons and then harm the people from the Central Plains?
The white snake has an unusual background, and Guanyin's guidance on the white snake. In addition, when the white snake first met Xu Xuan, Xu Xuan was a god in the heaven. Could this be the conspiracy of the Western Heaven against the heavens?
Ye Hua pondered for a moment, but he still didn't know much about this strange world. After all, the current legend of the White Snake is completely different from his original world. He felt that he would continue to listen to the story of the White Snake by the old storyteller.
"After the turtle transformed into a human form and called himself Monk Fahai, he wore three magic weapons stolen from the Tathagata Buddha on his body, draped the robes on his body, and the golden beggar on his hands, and the Azure Dragon Zen Staff was crossed on his shoulders, wandering everywhere.
"One day, Monk Fahai came to Zhenjiang Jinshan Temple on the south bank of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. He saw the magnificent Yangtze River and the majestic mountains of Jinshan and Jiaoshan, so he decided to stay in Jinshan Temple and prepare to live for a long time.
"How could he, an ambitious turtle, be willing to be an ordinary monk all the time? He secretly used a magic trick, killing the old host abbot and the monks who opposed him as abbot, and then he became an abbot himself! Do you think that in this way, Monk Fahai would become an abbot with peace of mind? That would be a big mistake!
"The monk Fahai disliked the incense of Jinshan Temple that was not strong, so he secretly spread plague in Zhenjiang City, just to ask the people in the city to burn incense and make wishes to worship Buddha in Jinshan Temple.
"Unexpectedly, Xu Xuan and the White Snake came to Zhenjiang together and opened a Baohetang Pharmacy. After the opening, the free plague-proof pill delivered by Baohetang Pharmacy was very effective in expelling the epidemic, and the plague could not be spread in Zhenjiang since then.
Chapter completed!