Summary: Buddhism once said that good and evil have cause and effect. After three reincarnations, I finally understand this principle. In his first life, he was an emperor, with mixed success and failure; in his second life, he was a slave, comparable to a domestic dog; in his third life, he gained enlightenment and accumulated virtues and did good deeds.
(1) The King of Hell’s Bill
During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Northern Qi Kingdom once enjoyed peace.
He was terminally ill. Although he was an emperor, even the best doctors could not save him.
It is human nature to be greedy for life and afraid of death, but the Yang life has expired, and black and white are waiting at the door of the netherworld. If you don't want to go, you have to go!
"You quack doctor...I..." The old emperor lying on the bed was already furious, "...I want to punish you!"
Before leaving, He ordered a group of people to be killed. Among them were civil servants and generals, imperial doctors and servants, and even some ordinary people. Maybe he should ask the King of Hell why he was sentenced to death.
In the netherworld, a long line of people zigzagged forward, extending all the way to the palace of the King of Hell. The strange sounds frightened these wandering souls. But this is the underworld, and it is absolutely impossible to escape!
"In your next life, I promise you to become a rich man and enjoy all the glory and wealth!" The King of Hell looked at the scrawny ghost in front of him and could tell at a glance that he was exploited and starved to the point of being unable to eat white rice for the rest of his life. Dead ghost.
"Thank you...Thank you Lord Yama!" After thanking him, the thin ghost stepped into the door of reincarnation.
Although he is dead, he was still an emperor when he was alive. In this world, only others kneel down to him. How can an emperor kneel down to others? When he met the King of Hell, the emperor's ghost still stood there "grand and majestic", waiting for others to salute him.
"Kneel down!" The escort kid angrily scolded the fat man who didn't understand etiquette. "When you meet the Lord of Hell, unless you are the emperor, everyone must kneel down!"
"I am the emperor!" He widened his eyes and scolded the brat fiercely. "I think back then, you were so disrespectful to me that you even broke my car fifty times!"
"That was all when you were alive!" The King of Hell said, "Now that you are dead, you have to listen to my arrangements!"
He did want to get angry at first, but thinking about his current situation You are already in the underworld, and your thoughts are still those of the emperor. Your body may have been carried into a golden coffin and placed in the mausoleum. It is not clear whether it has been eaten by those microorganisms now... Besides, the Lord of Hell does not care about your identity in the next life. , at least for the sake of the next life, it’s better to learn to behave...
"Well, I'm sorry, Lord Yama!" Suddenly, he changed from his usual arrogant style, bowed his hands to Lord Yama, and said, "Little You are so polite!"
"Ha! Are you good now?" The King of Hell stared in horror, making him sweat.
The Prince of Hell flipped through the "living account book" of the fat man in front of him. He looked at it for a long time, and from time to time he squinted at the fat man in well-dressed clothes...
And he looked at it. I don’t know whether the expression of the King of Hell is joy or sorrow, but he keeps muttering in his heart: Don’t let me become a dog in the next life! After all, I was an emperor once in my previous life. No matter what I say in my next life, I will be a high official! What should I do if the request is too high and the Lord of Hell refuses to agree? Forget it, just be an honest farmer! It seems that I didn’t do many good things in my previous life. Even though carpentry and the like did not have a high status, if I really couldn’t do handicrafts, I would reluctantly accept it. If the King of Hell really looked down on me and asked me to be a businessman to support my family, I wouldn't care about it!
"Ahem!" The King of Hell coughed, and the fat man who was still wandering around was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat. "I think I will arrange you in the next life..."
Sentence When the time came, he was very nervous, thinking repeatedly in his mind: Sir! Farmer! artisan! merchant! It's best to be a high official...
"...You will be reincarnated as a dog in your next life!" The King of Hell stroked his beard and put down his account book.
When he heard this, he was shocked and furious: I have been the emperor for almost twenty years, and I will be a dog in the next life? ! What a joke!
The Lord of Hell is busy with official duties, so he doesn’t care about the complaints of this little ghost. Throw him into the reincarnation gate. If you have any dissatisfaction, let’s talk about it when you report for duty in the next life!
But this damn fat man was sitting on the ground and couldn't get up. How could these little devils drag him?
The King of Hell can’t stand it anymore. Since you want to die, I will help you. The King of Hell picked up the account book and read it out to him one by one:
Gao Yang was born in the second year of Yong'an and died in the tenth year of Tianbao.
In the seventh year of Wuding, he made great achievements in quelling the rebellion. In the eighth year of Wuding, he deposed Emperor Xiaojing and established the Northern Qi Kingdom...
The first few of them seem to be of immeasurable merit, and the last few of them seem to be of immeasurable merit. It is completely describing a tyrant:
In the sixth year of Tianbao, he killed Xue Bin and used her femoral bones to play the pipa and sing to herself.
Tianbao killed more than 700 members of the Yuan clan in ten years...
After spending some time, the King of Hell finally finished reading the long bill and looked at the old man gloomily. Emperor Gao Yang said: "Being a dog in your next life will allow you to enjoy being served first, as a reward for your countless merits in your previous life; then, as a dog, you can experience the consequences yourself. Come on! Send your guests off!"
Fatty Gao Yang still refused to leave. Now the King of Hell became angry and kicked him into the door of reincarnation... turned around and sighed: "What a shameless guy... he is a dog." It’s not necessarily worry-free!”
(2) Reincarnation as a dog
There were times when the King of Hell was confused. When he kicked him in, he didn’t control the strength well. He and Xiang Xiang were reincarnated into the home of a military general...
Time spanned more than 1,200 years, and the prosperous ages of Kangxi and Qianlong were coming to an end.
"He! How do you think I wrote this couplet?" Emperor Qianlong looked at the calligraphy work he had just completed, and he was almost intoxicated by himself.
"The words written by the emperor are unparalleled in the world! Look...this word is broad and magnificent! The emperor is really a god!" This statement is so false. He wanted to vomit, but he knew the emperor liked to hear it. If the emperor likes something, no matter how much he hates it, you still have to create it.
Later, a group of ministers below echoed and said: "My emperor is broad and magnificent! I am deeply honored!"
This is the court of Qianlong, the Qianlong who once worked hard to rule. The old emperor no longer has the energy to waste his energy here. They all say that the world is peaceful and the people live in peace, so just believe it...
Standing aside with a happy face, he said to the ministers I have already reminded him that the emperor treats him as a confidant, and those who are sensible should cooperate with him.
Thinking about it, it is not easy to get famous people around Qianlong.
Back then, He was born into a military family that was not wealthy, but thanks to a good father.
He's father was named Chang Bao. He was an unknown military officer, but he had high hopes for his two sons and educated them with Confucian classics and Manchu and Chinese literature.
He shed tears when he thought about it. How poor his childhood life was, but under such poor conditions, his father gave him the opportunity to study, making him proficient in Manchu, Han, Mongolian and ***. , it is estimated that there were not many such wizards in the entire Qing Dynasty.
He really lived up to expectations. Although he failed in the imperial examination, his talent was unexpectedly noticed by Qianlong and he was promoted to the Military Aircraft Department.
He was lost in thought there when Emperor Qianlong said: "He, I want to hold a banquet for thousands of old people..."
"Yes! Your Majesty!" This man was very good at figuring out the old emperor's thoughts. The emperor is going to hold a banquet for thousands of old people, and he is very busy! He also invented a large fire pot with a chimney, which made the old Emperor Qianlong smile with joy. All these old men who came from afar shouted "The Emperor's grace is great".
However, how much effort does it take to get to the point where "if you want the wind, you will get the wind, and if you want the rain, you will get the rain"!
In the dark night, and secretly feeling sad, Emperor Qianlong liked calligraphy, ancient poetry and so on. He's father is a military attaché, so he doesn't know anything about these things. He can only learn these things by himself.
I have to serve Emperor Qianlong during the day and study calligraphy and ancient poetry at night. I am as tired as a dog...
Being an emperor in my previous life was very majestic; being a slave in this life is also very majestic. prestige. But in my previous life, I had everything I wanted. In this life, I looked glamorous, but in fact I was no different from a dog.
The Lord of Hell is really awesome. He said that he was asked to be reincarnated as a dog in this life, and he really became a "dog".
But this old dog who was loyal to Emperor Qianlong made several of Emperor Qianlong's brothers very unhappy. You are so arrogant, young master. When I become the emperor, I will never let you. This dog sits here every day and controls the wind and rain!
Sure enough, within a few years, the old Emperor Qianlong also reported to the King of Hell at the age of eighty-nine. When Emperor Jiaqing came to the throne, the first thing he wanted to deal with was He.
In the prison, there was a white silk ribbon and a desperate poem. He, who once had the power to make waves, hanged himself from the beam in prison.
He once again returned to the place he had been before in this life. The Lord of Hell had not changed at all. He was still sitting there, accompanied by various ghosts of the dead.
"Hmm!! You did all the bad things in your last life, and I will let you be a cow in the next life to pay off the debt you owed in your previous life!" As they said, a group of little ghosts carried the ghost of a villain who had done all kinds of evil in his previous life. Thrown into the reincarnation gate.
"The next one is... Niu Guluhe!" The King of Hell stared at this name for a long time, and smiled, "What a good boy, you have been greedy for a lot of money! You can enjoy all the glory and wealth in this life. , It’s a pity that the way of death was a bit miserable..."
"King of Hell, I have to thank you for this! You also said that you let me be reincarnated as a dog, but I have enjoyed a lot in this life! "
"Oh? Really?" The King of Hell looked at him suspiciously and said, "Don't you look like a dog serving the emperor all your life? "
He was speechless.
The King of Hell continued: "In your two lives, in the first life you worked hard to govern and made the people of your country live and work in peace and contentment, but later you became cruel and capricious and killed innocent people indiscriminately. Therefore, in the next life, you rose to prominence. This is your reward, and letting you die miserably in prison is your punishment...the so-called karma!"
(3) Three reincarnations
In this life, the King of Hell said nothing more, and he did not want to ask any more questions, and consciously entered the door of reincarnation.
His birth seemed a bit bleak. Not long after he was born, his father became a victim of the Japanese because of the war. His mother was also killed by a Japanese plane when he was eight years old... He became Orphaned.
In order to survive, he worked as a beggar, a newspaper boy, and every job he could do... However, the reality is still very cold. He doesn't have enough to eat, doesn't wear warm clothes, and if he doesn't do his job well, he will be punished. People were beaten severely.
In this way, this unknown little kid struggled in this chaotic era for more than ten years.
When he was in his twenties, it rained heavily, but he walked alone on the muddy path in the countryside, looking for food abandoned by others on the side of the road in the rain.
Because he was kicked out by others, he had not eaten for several days... On this windy and rainy evening, he arrived alone in this place he did not know at all.
Tired and hungry, I finally collapsed there due to exhaustion. Maybe this is karma! I did too many bad things in my previous life, so I can only silently endure the torture of God in this life...
However, the story does not end there. As he was dying, he was found by the abbot of a nearby temple and taken to the temple for treatment. Perhaps this is what is called great fortune and great fortune.
But he did not understand being rescued. When he was a little better, he went to ask the abbot: "I was a very sinful person in my previous life, and this life is just to accept the punishment of God... What do you think?" If you save me, will my life still have any meaning? "
"Your thoughts dominate your body. Your body is not yours, it's just your soul that dominates it." The abbot who was meditating opened his eyes. Open your eyes, smile and say to the immature child in front of you, "Child, no matter what you did wrong in your previous life, as long as you wholeheartedly do good, your body will die, but your soul will receive good results because of the good deeds you have done. "If you do bad things in this life, your soul will get bad consequences..."
It seems that in these three lives, the first life has merits and demerits, so the second life has joys and sorrows, and now the third life is indeed here. To atone for the evil deeds in the second life... Only by doing good deeds can we achieve righteousness in the next life.
After being enlightened by the abbot, he began to study Buddhism with great concentration. He accumulated good deeds throughout his life and became a famous philanthropic monk within a few hundred miles.
After decades, he passed away. Many relics crystallize in the cremated body, which are the crystallization of goodness.
And when his soul came to the netherworld again, the King of Hell saw him and said with a smile: "In the next life, you will be a great master..."
Editor's note "Reincarnation" is a legendary novel composed of three sections, which travels through thousands of years of time and space and tells the story of a soul's three reincarnations. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Emperor Gao Yang of the Northern Qi Kingdom met with the Lord of Hell, and still maintained a condescending attitude. After the Lord of Hell carefully examined his "account books during his lifetime", he read out his merits and crimes, and originally asked him to be a dominion in the next life. A dog can be kicked by mistake and be reincarnated into the home of a military commander. When he grew up, he came to Qianlong's side. He was cowardly, flattering, and greedy. He seemed to have a good appearance, but he was actually a "dog" that could wag his tail. In his third reincarnation, he became an orphan and a beggar. Later, he was rescued by an abbot and became a monk. After being enlightened by the abbot, he began to accumulate good deeds and became a charitable monk. "I was an emperor in my first life, with mixed success and failure; in my second life, I was a slave, comparable to a domestic dog; in my third life, I realized the truth and accumulated virtues and did good deeds." The full text is cleverly conceived, with delicate descriptions of language, details, and demeanor, allegorizing nature, quoting historical materials, and transcending time and space. , bringing the readability and humor of the novel to the highest point. It highlights the theme of "all good and evil will be punished by cause and effect", and also tells readers the principle of "people should do good".