Chapter 39 Chapter Thirty-Eighth: Guo Xiaozi Meets a Tiger in the Deep Mountains

It is said that Du Shaoqing left Guo Xiaozi to have wine and dinner in the river room, and went to Dr. Yu's office with Wu Shu. He said that such a person asked the teacher for a letter to go to Xi'an.Dr. Yu listened carefully, and said, "Why don't I write this book? But it's not just about writing books. Naturally, it's difficult for him to travel thousands of miles. I'll take ten taels of silver here, Shaoqing, you go and send it With him, needless to say it's mine." He hurriedly wrote the book, and took out the money and handed it to Du Shaoqing.Du Shaoqing picked it up and brought it to the river room with Wu Shu.Du Shaoqing pawned four taels of silver for his own clothes, and Wu Shu also went home to pawn two taels of silver, and stayed with Guo Xiaozi for a day.When Zhuang Zhengjun heard about this person, he also wrote a letter and sent it to Du Shaoqing with four taels of silver.On the third day, Du Shaoqing prepared breakfast to eat with Guo Xiaozi, and Wu Shu also came to accompany him. After eating, he tied up his luggage for him, took the twenty taels of silver and two books, and handed them to Guo Xiaozi.Guo Xiaozi refused to accept it.Du Shaoqing said: "this money belongs to us Jiangnan people. It's not something stolen from Zhi. If you want to serve me, sir?" Guo Xiaozi just accepted it.Du Shaoqing and Wu Shu were sent outside Hanxi Gate before returning.

Guo Xiaozi stayed overnight in Xiaoxing and came all the way to Shaanxi. Mr. You was the magistrate of Tongguan County, so he had to go to Tongguan to meet him.This Mr. You, whose name is Fulai and whose name is Ruiting, is also an old celebrity in Nanjing. He only came to Tongguan County last year. When he took office, he did a good deed.It was a person from Guangdong who came to the border of Shaanxi with a wife who was a military wife.I didn't want this man to die halfway, and his wife was crying on the road.People didn't understand each other when they talked to him, so they had to lead him to the county hall.Seeing that the woman meant to go back to her hometown, Mr. You couldn't bear it, so he took a salary of fifty taels, and sent an elderly messenger to take a piece of white silk for himself, and painstakingly wrote an article, which he wrote in his own hand. His own name, You Fulai, used a seal of the same official and county, and ordered the messenger: "You take this woman, take this silk of mine, and send it to other local officials to see in Yuzhou and County. You need to use a seal. You go to his place to get a reply and come to see me." The messenger promised.The woman thanked her and led her away.Nearly a year later, the messenger came back and said: "Masters along the way, seeing the articles written by the master, all of them are sad about this woman. There are also ten taels, eight taels, and six taels. This woman also has more than two hundred taels when she arrives home." Silver. The young one sent him to his home in Guangdong. There were hundreds of relatives and relatives in his family. It's the master's kindness." You Gong was overjoyed, rewarded him with a few taels of silver, and sent someone out.

When the post came in, it was Guo Xiaozi who came in to worship with Dr. Yu's book.You Gong opened the book and read these words, he really admired them.Please come in, salute, sit down, and set out the meal immediately.Just as we were talking, the door came in: "Please go to the countryside for an inspection, sir." You Gong said: "Sir, I have to go on this business, and I will come back in the day after tomorrow. But I have to stay with Mr. Qu for three days. When I come back, there will be some I would like to ask you a few words. Mr. Kuang is going to Chengdu. I have an old friend in Chengdu, and I have to take a letter with me. You must not refuse, sir." Guo Xiaozi said: "The old man said so, how can I refuse? It's just cheap You can't live in the Yamen in the mountains. If there is any nunnery in Guizhi, send me to live there for two days." You Gong said: "Although there is a nunnery, it is narrow. I have a Haiyue Zen Forest here, and the monk is a good teacher. Go and live there, sir." Then he ordered the yamen: "Take Master Guo's luggage and send it to Haiyue Zen Forest. You worship the monk and say that I sent it." The yamen servant promised to serve.Guo Xiaozi farewell.Yougong sent it straight to the gate before entering.

Guo Xiaozi went to the living room of Haiyue Zen Forest with the yamen servant. The intellectual went in and said, and the old monk came out to ask questions. Please sit down and serve tea.The yamen servant went back by himself.Guo Xiaozi asked the old monk: "Have you always been the abbot here?" So I live here. Your surname is Guo, but what are you doing in Chengdu now?" Guo Xiaozi saw the old monk's clear face and compassionate complexion, and said, "It's not good to say this to others. You might as well say it in front of the old monk." So I had to talk hard about finding my father.The old monk wept and sighed, so he stayed in the abbot's house and prepared his evening fast.Guo Xiaozi gave away the two pears he bought on the road.The old monk accepted it, thanked Guo Xiaozi, and asked the Taoist Huogong to carry two jars in Danchi. A pear was placed in a jar, and a few loads of water were carried in each jar. The cloud board was handed down to more than two hundred monks, and each of them ate a bowl of water.Seeing this, Guo Xiaozi nodded and sighed.

On the third day, Duke You came back and prepared another banquet for Guo Xiaozi.After eating wine, he took out fifty taels of silver and a book, and said, "Sir, I should have stayed with you for a while, but because you are looking for your father, you dare not stay with me. The fifty taels of silver are worth the money. Disposal fee. Sir, when you go to Chengdu, take my book to find Mr. Xiao Haoxuan. This is an ancient Taoist. His family lives twenty miles away from Chengdu, and the place name is Dongshan. Sir, go and look for him, and you can discuss everything." That dutiful son Seeing that Mr. You was very sincere, it was hard to resign, so I had to thank him, collected the money and books, and resigned.I went to Haiyue Zen Forest to bid farewell to the old monk.The old monk put his palms together and said: "The layman went to Chengdu to find his lord, so he must send a letter to the poor monk. The poor monk of the rabbit is looking forward to it," Guo Xiaozi promised.The old monk sent him out of the Zen forest and just returned.

Guo Xiaozi carried his luggage on his back and walked for a few more days. The road was mostly rugged and bird tracks, and Guo Xiaozi was afraid of taking a step when he took a step.When I went to a place that day, it was getting late and I couldn't see a village.Guo Xiaozi walked for a while, forcing a man.Guo Xiaozi bowed and asked, "Excuse me, father, how far is it to the hotel?" The man said: "There are still more than ten miles. Customer, you should hurry up. There are tigers on the road at night, so be careful." Guo The filial son heard this and hurried forward.The sky is completely dark, but a moon is pushed out from the valley of Xishan Mountain. It is the moonlight of the 14th Five-Year Plan, and when it rises to the sky, it will be very bright.Guo Xiaozi took advantage of the moonlight to walk into a forest, only to see a gust of wind blowing against him, blowing the fallen leaves on the tree with a strange whistling sound.As the wind passed by, a tiger jumped out. Guo Xiaozi yelled: "It's not good!" and fell to the ground.The tiger grabbed the dutiful son and sat him under his buttocks.After sitting for a while, seeing Guo Xiaozi closed his eyes, he thought he was dead, so he threw Guo Xiaozi away, dug a hole in the ground, lifted Guo Xiaozi into the hole, and covered it with many fallen leaves with his claws. He, the tiger went. Guo Xiaozi watched the tiger walk a few miles from the pit, and turned his red eyes to look at the top of the mountain.

Guo Xiaozi picked himself up from the pit and thought to himself: "Although this karmic obstacle is gone, he must come back to eat me, what's the matter?" He had no idea for a while.Seeing a big tree in front of him, Guo Xiaozi climbed up the tree.He was anxious again: "If he roars and shakes again, don't I want to be frightened?" With a plan, he untied the bound feet and tied himself to the tree.After the end of the third watch, the moonlight was very bright, and I saw the tiger walking forward, and bringing another thing behind.The thing was all white, with one horn on its head and two eyes like two bright red lanterns, walking straight.Guo Xiaozi didn't know what it was.Seeing that thing approaching, he sat down.The tiger hurriedly went to the pit to look for people.Seeing that there was no one there, the tiger panicked.The thing was furious, stretched out its claws, knocked off the tiger's head with one palm, and the tiger died on the ground.The thing brushed its hair up and became aggressive. When it looked back, it saw a person on the branch illuminated by the moon, and it threw itself on the branch fiercely.Pu was reckless, fell down, and jumped up as hard as he could, only one foot away from Guo Xiaozi.Guo Xiaozi said: "I'm taking a rest now!" I don't want a withered tree on the tree to be right on the belly of the thing.The force of the subsequent pounce was too strong, the withered body pierced into the belly with a depth of more than a foot.That thing was in a hurry, and the dryness shook and poked deeper and deeper.The thing tried its best, and after midnight, it hung on a tree and died.

At dawn, several hunters came with shotguns and sticks in their hands.When I saw these two things, I was shocked.Guo Xiaozi shouted from the tree, and all the hunters picked him up and asked him his name.Guo Xiaozi said: "I'm a passer-by. I'm sorry to see you. I have to save my life. I'm going on my way. You can take these two things to the place and ask for rewards." All the hunters took out some dry food, and the deer, The venison made Guo Xiaozi full.All the hunters took the luggage for Guo Xiaozi and sent him five or six miles.The hunters bid farewell and went back.

Guo Xiaozi carried his luggage on his own, walked for a few days, and stayed in a small nunnery in the valley.The monk in the nunnery asked about the origin, took out vegetarian rice, and sat in front of the window with Guo Xiaozi to eat.In the middle of eating, I saw a red light, as if it was on fire.Guo Xiaozi threw away his job in a hurry, and said: "Not good! It's a fire!" The old monk smiled and said, "Please sit down, Layman, don't panic. This is my Daoist Xue." After eating, put away the bowls and go, Pushing open the window, he pointed to Guo Xiaozi and said, "Layman, look at it!" Guo Xiaozi raised his eyes and saw a strange beast squatting on the mountain in front of him. rear.The name of that strange beast is "罴九", if you freeze it several feet thick, it will shatter immediately with a loud sound.The monk said: "This is brother Xue Dao." That night, there was a lot of snow, and a heavy snow fell.The snow fell all night and one day, and it was more than three feet thick.Guo Xiaozi couldn't leave, so he stayed for another day.

On the third day, the snow cleared.Guo Xiaozi bid farewell to the old monk and set off again, looking for the mountain road, slipping step by step, there are ravines on both sides, and the frozen branches are like swords.Guo Xiaozi walked slowly, it was late, and the snow was shining, and he could see a red thing hanging in the woods from a distance.Half a mile away, I saw a person walking, walked in front of the thing, and fell into the ravine.Guo Xiaozi stood on his feet, wondering in his heart: "Why did this man fall into the ravine when he saw this red thing?" Looking closely, he saw a person coming out from under the red thing, and took his luggage. Drilled down again.Guo Xiaozi made some guesses in his heart, so he hurriedly stepped forward to have a look.It was a woman hanging from the tree, her hair was loose, she was wearing a red shirt, her mouth was dragged by a piece of orangutan felt, a vat was buried under her feet, and there was a person sitting in the vat.Seeing Guo Xiaozi approaching, the man jumped up from the tank.Seeing Guo Xiaozi's majesty, he didn't dare to make a move, so he crossed his hands and said, "guest, you just go your own way, what do you care about me?" Guo Xiaozi said, "I already know what you do. Don't be annoyed, I can help you. Who are you who hangs the ghost with this makeup?" The man said: "It's the villain's wife." Guo Xiaozi said: "You untie him. Where does your family live? I I'll go to your house and talk to you." The man untied a beaded rope on the back of my wife's head and let it down.The woman tied up her hair, removed the false tongue tied to her mouth, removed a piece of iron that tied the rope around her neck, and took off her red blouse.The man pointed to two thatched huts beside the road, and said, "This is my home."

Now the husband and wife followed Guo Xiaozi to his house, asked Guo Xiaozi to sit down, and cooked a pot of tea.Guo Xiaozi said: "You are just short-circuiting to make a living, why do you do so many evil things? You scare and kill people, but this is against the law of nature. Although I am a miserable person, seeing you and your husband come to this field, I am more and more pitiful and ruthless." .I have ten taels of silver here, and you and your husband and wife, you are a small business, don't do it next time. What's your surname?" After hearing this, the man kowtowed to Guo Xiaozi and said : "Thank you for your generosity. The villain's surname is Mu Nai. They are husband and wife. They were originally children of a good family. Recently, they were cold and hungry, so they did such a thing. Now thank you for your money and money, and I will change it from now on. May I ask your benefactor's name?" Guo Xiaozi said: "My surname is Guo, from Huguang, and now I am going to Chengdu." Then, his wife also came out to thank him, packed up the meal and left Guo Xiaozi.Guo Xiaozi was eating, and said to him: "Since you have the guts to short-circuit, you naturally have some martial arts. I'm afraid you are not good at martial arts, and you will not be able to do great things in the future. I have some sword skills and boxing skills. I will pass them on to you." Nam Nai Huanxi stayed with Guo Xiaozi for two days.Guo Xiaozi taught him the knife and boxing in detail, and he worshiped Guo Xiaozi as his master.On the third day, Guo Xiaozi insisted on doing it. He prepared some dry food and roast meat, put them in his luggage, carried the luggage for Guo Xiaozi, and sent it thirty miles away before leaving. Guo Xiaozi took the luggage and walked for a few more days. The weather was very cold that day, facing the northwest wind, the mountain road was as cold as white wax, hard and slippery.Guo Xiaozi went to Tianwan, only to hear a roar from the cave, and another tiger jumped out.Guo Xiaozi said: "My life is really doomed!" He fell to the ground and fell unconscious.It turns out that tigers eat people, and they have to wait for people to be afraid.Seeing that Guo Xiaozi was frozen on the ground, he didn't dare to eat him, so he closed his mouth to smell him.A beard stuck into Guo Xiaozi's nostril, causing a big sneeze. The tiger was taken aback, turned around quickly, jumped over a hill in front, and fell into a ravine. The ravine was so deep that it was caught The icicles with edges like swords were blocking them, and they froze to death.Guo Xiaozi picked it up, but the tiger was nowhere to be seen. He said, "I'm ashamed! I've gone through this again!" Carrying the luggage on his back, he left. Walking to Chengdu Mansion, I found my father who was a monk in a nunnery forty miles away.Visiting Zhizhi, go to the nunnery and knock on the door.The old monk opened the door and was startled when he saw it was his son.Seeing that it was his father, Guo Xiaozi knelt on the ground and wept bitterly.The old monk said: "Benefactor, please get up. I don't have a son. You think you have made a mistake." Guo Xiaozi said: "My son has traveled thousands of miles to find his father. Why doesn't he recognize me?" The old monk said: " As I said just now, a poor monk has no son. Donor, you have a father, so you can find it yourself, why look at the poor monk and cry?" Guo Xiaozi said: "Although the father has not been seen for decades, can the son not recognize him? " Kneeling and refusing to get up.The old monk said: "My poor monk has been a monk since I was a child. Where did this son come from?" , Said: "Where are you a bachelor, dare to come and trouble us? Get out! I want to close the mountain gate!" Guo Xiaozi knelt on the ground and cried, refusing to go out.The monk said: "If you don't go out, I will kill you with a knife!" Guo Xiaozi lay down on the ground and cried: "The father will kill the son, and the son will not go out!" The old monk was furious, and pulled Guo Xiaozi with both hands. Get up, hold Guo Xiaozi by the collar, push and push all the way out the door, then close the door and go in, no more yelling. Guo Xiaozi cried and cried outside the door, but he didn't dare to knock on the door.Seeing that it was getting late, I thought to myself: "Come on! Come on! My father will not recognize me!" Looking up, this nunnery is called Zhushan nunnery.I had to rent a house half a mile away to live in.The next morning, I saw a Taoist coming out at the gate of the nunnery. He bought the Taoist and carried firewood and rice every day to support his father.In less than half a year, the money around me was used up, and I thought about going to Dongshan to look for Xiao Haoxuan, but I was afraid I couldn't find it, which delayed my father's meal.I had to be close to other people's helpers, who picked soil and firewood for them, and found some money every day to support my father. When I met a neighbor who lived in Shaanxi, he wrote a book about finding his father in detail, and took it with him. An old monk at Haiyue Zen Forest. After reading the book, the old monk was delighted and admired him.A few days later, a monk who placed an order came to the Zen Forest.That monk is Zhao Da, the leader of the thieves, with draped hair, two strange eyes, and his fierce appearance has not changed.The old monk was merciful and allowed him to stay.I don't want this evil monk to drink, commit murder, beat people, and do everything in the Zen forest.The chief led a group of monks to tell the old monk, "If this person stays in the Zen forest, he must break the rules. I beg the old monk to drive him out." The old monk taught him to go, but he refused to go. He said: "The old monk told you to go, if you don't go, the old monk said: If you don't go again, according to the rules of the Zen forest, you will be carried to the back yard, and you will be burned!" Holding a grudge, he did not say goodbye to the old monk. The next day, he packed up his clothes and went.The old monk lived for another half a year, thinking about going to Mount Emei, and going to Chengdu to meet Guo Xiaozi.Resigning from everyone, carrying luggage and mantle, eating and sleeping in the open, all the way to Sichuan. It was more than a hundred miles away from Chengdu, and the old monk left the shop early that day, and the old monk went out to see the mountain scenery, and went to the tea shed to drink tea.There was a monk sitting in the shed first.The old monk forgot and couldn't recognize him, but the monk recognized the old monk, so he went up and asked, "Monk, the tea here is not good, and there is a small nunnery just a few steps ahead. Please go to the small nunnery to eat." A cup of tea?" The old monk happily said: "It's the best." The monk led the old monk and walked for seven or eight miles in a zigzag way before arriving at a nunnery.As soon as the nunnery entered three rooms, there was a statue of Jialan Bodhisattva in front.After entering the three halls, there is no Bodhisattva, and a couch is placed in the middle.The monk and the old monk walked into the gate of the nunnery and said, "Old monk! Do you recognize me?" The old monk just remembered that it was an evil monk who was driven out of the Shan forest. He was taken aback and said, "I just forgot by accident, but now I recognize it." The evil monk went to the bed and sat down, opened his eyes and said: "Since you come to me today, I am not afraid that you will fly to the sky! I have a gourd here, you take it, and it is on the hill half a mile away. In a hotel run by an old woman, fetch a gourd of wine for me. Go quickly!" The old monk didn't dare to disobey, so he went out with a gourd in his hand and found an old woman selling wine on the hill.The old monk handed him the gourd.The woman took the gourd and looked at the old monk up and down. She couldn't stop the tears from her eyes, so she wanted to use the gourd to make wine.The old monk was startled, so he asked, "Old Bodhisattva, why did you feel so sad when you saw the poor monk? What's the reason?" The woman said with tears in her eyes, "I just saw Master You have a compassionate face, you shouldn't have to suffer this kind of trouble!" The old monk was startled and said, "What kind of trouble did the poor monk suffer?" The old woman said kindly, "Master, you came from that nunnery half a mile away?" The old monk said: "It's the poor monk. How do you know?" The old woman said: "I recognize his gourd. Whenever he wants to eat people's brains, he uses this gourd to beat the medicinal wine in my shop. Master, you Once you drink the wine, you will die!" The old monk heard this, his soul flew into the sky, and he panicked: "What's the matter? I'm leaving now!" The old woman said: "How did you get away? These four days Within ten miles, there are all his old thieves. One person walked away from his nunnery, and when the clapper rang, someone tied you up and sent you to the nunnery." The old monk cried and knelt on the ground. "Please help the old Bodhisattva!" The old woman said: "How can I save you? If I tell you the truth, my life will not be saved. But seeing your teacher and father being merciful and dying pitifully, I will show you a way to find someone "The old monk said: "Old Bodhisattva, you point me to find that person?" The old woman slowly named this person.Because of this, there are different teachings: