Legend has it that on Mount Emei in Sichuan, there once was a small peak that could fly. Sometimes it flies east and sometimes west. Wherever it flies, it collapses many houses and kills many people.
At that time, there was a monk in Lingyin Temple in West Lake. Because he was crazy all day long and did not abide by the Buddhist rules, people called him a crazy monk. One day, the crazy monk learned that at noon, the strange flying mountain would fly down to the village in front of Lingyin Temple. He was worried that the mountain would crush many people to death, so he got up at five o'clock in the morning, ran into the village, and told every house: "A mountain is going to fly to this village at noon today. Everyone needs to move quickly. If you are late, it will be too late." La!"
The old man shook his head after hearing this: "Crazy monk, you are here to have fun again. Mountains are heavy things. Who has ever seen a flying mountain?"
When the family heard this, they sighed: "Where can we poor tenants move to? If a mountain really falls, we will have no choice but to complain about our lives if we are crushed to death!"
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The young man snorted after hearing this: "Don't make up lies to scare people! If the mountain comes down, use your shoulders to support it. We are not afraid!"
The little boys followed him happily, gesticulating and watching the fun.
The crazy monk came and went from one house to another, and hundreds of households in the village took care of him. He spoke until his lips were broken and his saliva was dry, but no one believed him, and no one in his family was ready to move.
The sun was rising higher and higher, and noon was about to arrive. The crazy monk was anxious and anxious. At this time, he suddenly heard the sound of " beating , beating" the suona, and hurriedly followed the sound. At first glance, OK, it turned out that there was a family getting married, and people were coming in and out, and it was very lively. The mad monk scratched his scalp and thought for a moment, then pushed away the crowd and got into the front of the hall. Regardless of the circumstances, he put the bride on his shoulders, snatched the bride out of the gate and ran out of the village.
Before the red shawl was taken off the bride's head, she suddenly asked someone to carry her on her back in a daze and ran away. She didn't know what happened, but she screamed in fright. A crazy monk steals a bride, this is a big deal! People grabbed hold of the door latch, swung the pole, swung the hoe, raked the rake, desperately trying to catch up. While chasing, he shouted:
"Catch the crazy monk!"
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"Stop him quickly, don't let him escape!"
This time, everything was stirred up. No matter whether they were relatives or not, friends or not, men, women, old or young, the whole village chased them. Only the wealthy family in the east of the village did not move. Instead, he stood in front of the door and watched the excitement, making sarcastic remarks:
"It's really a new thing for a monk to steal a new wife, hehe!"
The crazy monk carried the bride on his back and ran forward. He ran so fast! Everyone chased him for more than ten miles, but still couldn't catch up with him. When the sun was shining, the crazy monk stood still and stopped running. He put the bride down from his back, sat down on the ground, and fanned her to cool her down. People rushed to him and were about to grab him and beat him, but suddenly the sky became dark and the ground became dark, and they could not see their fingers, and the strong wind blew loudly. Suddenly there was a "bang" and everyone was shaken down. When everyone got up and saw that the wind had stopped and the clouds had dispersed, and the sun had just shined above their heads, they saw a mountain peak just falling on their village. Only then did people realize: the crazy monk snatched the bride to save everyone's lives.
The village was crushed under the mountain and everyone was homeless. Some people were so anxious that they beat their chests and feet and burst into tears. The crazy monk said: "Why are you crying! You don't know that the rich man in the village has been crushed to death at the foot of the mountain. From now on, you will each cultivate your own fields, and you are afraid that you will not be able to build a house!"
People were happy after being told this and were about to disperse happily. The crazy monk spoke again: "Don't go, don't go. Everyone, listen to me. Since this mountain peak can fly from elsewhere, it will also fly away from here." "If it flies to other places, it will kill many people. If we carve it into five hundred stone arhats on the mountain, we can stabilize the mountain and prevent it from flying to other places to harm people. Do you think so?"
After hearing this, everyone agreed together and immediately started to hammer and chisel. After a busy night of "ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding". Only the body of the Arhat was chiseled, but there was no time to chisel out the eyebrows and eyes. The crazy monk said: "I have a way, let me do it!" Instead of hammering or chiseling, he only used his long fingernails to scratch the stone Arhat's face. In a long time, all five hundred stone arhats were installed with eyebrows and eyes.