Folk Tale Nun Filthy Guanyin Nunnery
Gu'an, a quiet county town, gathers people from all walks of life: monks, Taoist priests, beggars, **, merchants, shopkeepers, ......However, there was a shortage of nuns in this small county.
However, this ordinary county town welcomed a unique nun named Jingding. Her arrival injects a new element into the place and also triggers an unexpected story.
Jing Ding was originally the daughter of the Wang family, named Wang. Due to the family's financial constraints, in order to make ends meet, the Wang family became the maidservant of a wealthy family. However, this matter is not really a purchase of labor, but out of appreciation for Wang's appearance. The rich man was fascinated by her beauty and decided to take her as a concubine. Although the rich man already had a wife and three concubines, he was particularly fond of the Wang family.
However, after the death of the wealthy man, the Wang family decided not to remarry. She proposed to her mistress to shave her hair as a nun, and she was willing to pray for the rich man to repay his kindness. In fact, her heart longed to escape from this place. When the mistress heard this, she was very happy and built a luxurious nunnery for her and named it Kannon-an, because the statue of Kannon was enshrined in the nunnery.
Wang's shaved home, and the law name was quiet. Guanyin Nunnery became the first nunnery in Gu'an, and Jingding was also popular for its appearance. The incense in the nunnery is flourishing, attracting many middle-aged and elderly women to come to pay homage to Kannon. With the passage of time, Jingding also adopted some female apprentices, claiming to expand the scale of nuns, but in fact, it was to relieve loneliness.
The existence of Kannon-an attracted the attention of the monks in Hoshoji Temple. These monks frequently find excuses to go to the temple to ask for advice, but they are actually attracted by the beauty of tranquility. As events progressed, the temple gradually closed to the outside world, and was only open to men in their prime.
However, life in the nunnery is not as quiet as it seems. The poor mother-in-law is responsible for purchasing daily necessities in the nunnery, while Jingding and the female apprentices live a bleak life. Although the outside world admires the state of tranquility, in fact, the nunnery is covered with a dirty shadow.
Half a year later, a scholar named Wang Bingduo in Jinling became the county magistrate of Gu'an.
On the first day of Wang Bingduo's tenure, he drove a horse to visit a small county town. When he found out that Guanyin Nunnery and Fashoji Temple were only half a mile apart, doubts arose in his heart. According to the general layout of temples and nunnery, they should be kept away from each other, so that nuns and monks can practice in peace, avoid right and wrong, and also prevent gossip.
Wang Bingduo, who was quite puzzled by this, decided to ask the local elders and celebrities for advice. The answer was unanimous, Jing Ding was originally the concubine of a rich family, and after the death of the rich family, she voluntarily became a nun, and rarely opened the door of the nunnery, and was a very compassionate and noble nun with high morals.
Although hearing this explanation, Wang Bingduo still had some doubts in his heart. Therefore, he chose not to delve into it, pretending to understand it on the surface, and went straight back to the county office.
After returning to the county government, Wang Bingduo selected a shrewd and capable official and arranged for him to disguise himself as an ordinary person, quietly approach Guanyin Nunnery every day, inquire about the inside story, and be sure to keep it a secret.
The officials conscientiously fulfilled their tasks with a sense of responsibility, and carefully stepped on the spot near the Kannon Nunnery every day. However, after more than ten days, everything in the nunnery seemed to be in order, except for an old woman who occasionally went out shopping, no one else went in and out.
On this day, the street patrol patrols roamed around the neighborhood as usual, and when they felt tired, they chose to rest for a while.
At this time, a mason named Xu Er, because of the high spirits of wine, lay down in front of the temple gate, shouting unabashedly, with vulgar and ugly words, every sentence pointed directly to Jingding's name. Strangely, Jing Ding didn't open the door to deal with it, nor did he send someone out to stop Xu Er's noise.
The patrol felt that something was wrong, but it was not enough to cause a sensation, so he pondered a clever solution.
The next day, the patrol pretended to be ordered by the county to gather all the local plasterers, saying that they needed to choose a suitable person to do a big thing. He looked left and right, pretending to have a strong interest in Xu Er, leaving Xu Er, and then letting everyone else leave.
For Xu Er, the patrol took special care of each other, bought wine and treated each other every day, and soon the two became confidants.
One day at noon, the patrol drank wine with Xu Er again, this time he kept persuading Xu Er to drink more, and drunk Xu Er, and then asked skillfully: "Yesterday I passed by Guanyin Nunnery, and saw a person who was drunk like mud, as if he was scolding, I don't know if it's you?"I didn't see it clearly. ”
Xu Er came up because of the strength of the wine, so he said frankly: "It's me, the woman with the water-based poplar flower, who promised to give me five yuan a day, but I went to ask for it, but she didn't give it back, so I insulted her angrily!."”
The patrol pretended to be surprised and said, "Master Jingding has always been upright and upright, why does she give you money every day?"You've drunk too much, haven't you?”
Xu Er was furious and roared: "Jing Ding is just a bald prostitute, what is the high level?."I know all about what she's doing, huh!She built the nunnery just to get close to the monks in the temple so that she could have an affair with them!In order not to be discovered by the main entrance, she told me to dig a tunnel, claiming that she would pay five times a day. The tunnel stretches from a nearby grave to the nunnery, which is 40 zhang long, and is called a 'convenient door' by her. Every New Moon Day, she leads the female disciples to the temple and frolicks to their heart's content, which is really amazing!After digging the tunnel, she also promised me an extra reward so that I would not leak it to outsiders. However, this bald prostitute did not keep her word and did not give me any extra money, so angry that I scolded her while she was drinking. ”
After the county magistrate learned the news, he pretended to believe and nodded slightly.
Not long after, the county order informed Wang Bingduo, which caused him to be extremely angry. Wang Bingduo immediately summoned Xu Er and inquired in detail about the situation in Guanyin Nunnery and Faxiang Temple. Xu Er was not afraid and explained everything clearly without reservation.
Wang Bingduo decided to take action, hoping to catch the current situation. So, in the early morning of Wangri three days later, he got up on the fifth watch day and went straight to Faxiang Temple, saying that he wanted to worship the Buddha with incense. Because they came too early, the monks in the temple had not yet made preparations, and He Jingding and her female disciples, who were arranging their daily practice, also hurriedly interrupted to welcome the arrival of the prefectural order.
When Wang Bingduo saw the monks coming to greet him, he asked, "How many masters are there in your temple?"Tell me that I'm going to send something to the temple. The monk in charge of the temple didn't have time to think about it, and hurriedly answered the number of monks, but because of his haste, two monks were missed. Wang Bingduo counted carefully and deliberately became angry: "You dare to deceive me!."There are only 30 people, why do you say there are 32 people?Are you flouting your own officials?Are those two monks still asleep?Someone, search me!”
The officials who had been prepared in advance quickly dispersed to various rooms to search, and sure enough, two of the several female disciples who were in He Jingding were still in the dormitory. In a hurry, they quickly covered their bodies with sheets and clothes and were taken out.
Wang Bingduo smiled and said, "Oh, it is inevitable to disturb the cultivation time of the masters, am I making you feel unhappy?"But, have you ever wondered about it?How unhappy the Buddhas, the World-Honored Ones, and the Bodhisattvas may be with you!”
The monk who presided over the affairs kowtowed like pounding garlic, his forehead was broken, and the rest of the monks also knelt on the ground and kowtowed, chanting the words "adults spare their lives".
There was no figure of He Jingding in this group of nuns, and Wang Bingduo asked the monk where she was. The monk was hesitant, claiming that He Jingding was sick and had never left the temple.
Wang Bingduo noticed that the monk's reaction was unusual, and realized that things might not be as simple as they seemed. He immediately sent his men to the nunnery to find out the situation. It didn't take long for Jing Ding to be brought over. It turned out that she was not sick, but was taking care of a child!To be exact, she was already pregnant and gave birth to a child, and the presiding monk had only recently become a father.
After Jingding was arrested, she resolutely refused to admit the crime. Later, Wang Bingduo summoned Xu Er and asked them to have a face-to-face questioning. Under Xu Er's questioning, Jing Ding could no longer deny it, so he had to admit his crime!
However, what is even more shocking is that when Wang Bingduo searched the tunnel, he found a large pit hidden next to it. When I opened it, I saw the bodies of two monks lying inside. It turned out that the two monks were jealous and led to a fierce conflict, and eventually beat each other to death.
Eventually, Wang Bingduo decided to exile all thirty-one monks and seven female nuns to Lingnan. For the monk and Jingding, who are in charge, he has taken quite extreme measures!
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Subsequently, they were convicted of serious crimes, the monks and nuns were exiled to Lingnan, and the monks and Jingding, who were in charge, were punished even more harshly. They were stripped of their robes and then wrapped together and placed in large coffins. Then, a large coffin was piled with firewood and a fire was lit. It was a very harsh punishment that made the two hug each other tightly in the fire and be cremated on the spot.
At the time, cremation of monks and nuns was seen as an honor, but it was an irony for the monks who were still in charge of the work. As for the child, there is no specific explanation in the article, so he may have been raised by the government.