GBP Chapter 301 Redemption and Transaction
Chapter 301 Redemption and Transaction
Jiang Fengqiao's thoughts went back to a long time ago, when every household in their village and even in the entire Fengze County enshrined the Buddha statue of Master Wuwang and knelt down to worship it three times a day.
When he was still a young child, the words he heard most every day were to express gratitude to Master Wuwang.
Whether it was his grandfather, great-grandfather, grandmother, parents, or all of them, they warned him every day.
But when asked what kind of favor it is, adults are always secretive and only say: You are still young, we will tell you when you grow up.
Children have limited thinking ability and they believe almost everything adults say.
Every day, he diligently followed the adults in kneeling and worshipping three times a day. Even when he was away from home, he would carry a Buddha statue in his bag so that he could kneel and worship at any time.
Logically speaking, with such devout kneeling, everyone’s life should get better and better.
Unfortunately, that was not the case. Everyone was very poor, very poor. Even if the harvest in the fields was good, they still could not get enough to eat.
He once asked curiously: "Master, didn't we just harvest the crops from the fields? Why can't we have enough to eat?"
When I asked this question, my family members didn't get angry. They just smiled and said: It doesn't matter if you can't eat enough, as long as you are healthy.
He thought about it at the time and realized that indeed everyone in his family was in good health.
But he still couldn't figure it out: Could it be that not eating enough would make people healthier?
Perhaps seeing his confusion, his family did not give him the chance to ask more questions, and instead used the words they had said before to shut him up: You are still young, don't think too much, we will tell you the reason when you grow up.
The child was very curious, so he secretly asked other people in the village, and they got the same answer.
He gave up looking for the answer and grew up slowly until he was twelve years old.
In the past few years, his great-grandfather and great-grandmother passed away one after another. He was not very sad, but rather a little happy.
It’s not that he dislikes these two elders, but because life is too hard. His great-grandfather and great-grandmother are still working in the fields every day at the age of eighty.
Even if they are not allowed to go, they will still go, and their parents and grandparents will not stop them.
He was puzzled and even accused his parents and grandparents of being unfilial. Finally, they said something that no one could understand: Qiao'er, if you want to live long, you have to keep working.
He replied: If I don’t work, won’t I die?
Yes, he didn't work, but studied in town.
: Feng'er doesn't have to work, just study hard.
At the age of eight, he returned to the town school to continue his studies with a lot of questions in his mind. One day, he curiously asked the teacher: Sir, has anyone in our school passed the imperial examination?
But I didn't expect that this casual question would cause the gentleman to burst into curses.
However, the one being scolded was not him, but the students he had taught in the past.
: I have tried so hard to teach them, but none of them studied well. They either cheated in the exams or stole.
They are even having an affair with a widow. It's such a waste of my hard work. Don't learn from them, okay?
As a young boy at that time, when he heard the teacher's scolding, he began to despise those seniors in his heart.
But this contempt changed when he was twelve years old because he met a senior who had cheated before.
This senior has lost all the elegance of a student. Instead, he has an untidy beard and looks like an old beggar.
When the senior learned that he was a student and a native of the county, he warned him not to take part in the imperial examination.
Ask why!
He said: Because there will be a lot of bad things waiting.
What's a bad thing?
He replied: The ink will overflow, the paper will get wet, my head will hurt, I will have loose stools, and even something will appear on my body, like cheat sheets.
He just didn't believe it after hearing it. Maybe these things really happened, but they couldn't be absolute. It could only be said that some individuals were unlucky.
Seeing that he didn't believe it, the senior didn't say much.
Although he didn't believe it, he still remembered these words firmly. Two years later, when he was fourteen years old, he went to take the examination for the status of a student.
Because the senior's words were always in his mind, he checked again and again before entering the examination room to make sure everything was in order.
But even so, something went wrong. He broke the inkstone as soon as he entered.
He was shocked and heartbroken, because this inkstone was prepared for him by his family who had saved money.
Who would have thought that an accident really happened? Fortunately, he was prepared and took out another inkstone he bought for copying books.
Nothing unexpected happened during the examination, and he passed the examination as a student as he wished.
Most of the people who took the exam at the same time were eliminated because they experienced various unexpected events.
So he had no choice but to believe what the senior said, but the strange thing was, with so many accidents, it seemed abnormal no matter how you thought about it, but why did no one doubt it?
The next year, he took the examination for the scholar again and made the same full preparations, and sure enough, an accident happened again.
This time it wasn't the inkstone that was broken, but his stomach was always uncomfortable, and his doubts grew deeper.
The food he ate today was made by his mother herself, and he watched it being made with his own eyes, so there was absolutely no problem with the food.
Moreover, he had not felt any physical discomfort the day before, so how could he suddenly have diarrhea?
It seemed as if something was preventing him or other students from passing the exam.
He knew that diarrhea could not be solved by going to the toilet once, so he didn't go and just pooped in his pants.
Smelling the foul odor in the room and feeling the yellow feces on his pants, he managed to finish the test paper crookedly in such an environment.
Although his handwriting was ugly, the content was good. He passed the examination and became a scholar, but also got the title of "shitty scholar".
The title of scholar did not bring him honor, but instead brought him ridicule.
Even family members were ridiculed when they went out, and gradually, there was an additional voice in the house.
That is: Qiao'er! Don't read this book. It's the same if you go home and farm. As long as you work hard, you will not get sick and live a long life.
Hearing this, Jiang Fengqiao’s childhood memories revived. He didn’t understand why everyone thought that as long as they worked hard, they would not get sick and live a long life?
: Dad, why can I live longer just by working? This is illogical. Doing too much heavy work will wear out your body, which is completely the opposite of longevity.
After this question, his family finally told him the truth.
This truth is a redemption and a transaction.
A hundred years ago, the entire Fengze County was infected with plague. The emperor at that time ordered the city to be burned and the massacred. Later, Wuwang asked the emperor to give him ten days. If he could not cure everyone, it would not be too late to massacre the city.
In the end he saved the entire Fengze County.
The method of treatment is to offer sacrifices to him. As long as the sacrifices are offered to him for more than three days, the illness will be cured.
These words gave the desperate people of Fengze County a glimmer of hope, and everyone began to offer him offerings without any hesitation.
The result was that all those who offered sacrifices were healed.
Afterwards, the people asked if they could still worship him.
He said yes, as long as you worship him and live a hardworking life you won't get sick, but you can't tell anyone else about it.