Speaking of the story of the Wang brothers, Tang Erye asked me if I listened to the detailed version, or the abbreviated version,

I thought that since I wanted to listen to the story to find clues, the more detailed the better, so I said, "Be more detailed,"

Tang Erye said "um" and began to tell the story,

The story naturally starts from the late Ming Dynasty, when Xihua County and even several surrounding counties had inexplicable disappearances of girls, and the local government intervened in the investigation, but it was also fruitless.

In addition, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the political situation of the Ming court was not very stable, and soon this matter caused trouble in the local people.

When the court heard about it, it was also very angry, so it asked the local government to investigate carefully.

At the same time, Longquan Temple also discharged several monks, saying that they were working together to solve the case.

This matter was originally done by those monks, and they were involved, so this case was naturally difficult to solve.

But there is no impermeable wall in the world, one day a pilgrim went to Longquan Temple to incense, overheard the temple from the woman's cry, he felt strange and walked a few steps to the meditation room, but soon two warrior monks came to stop him,

The pilgrim asked the monk how could there be a woman's cry in the monk's meditation room.

The warrior monk said: "The donor heard it wrong, it was not a woman crying, but the sound of a wild cat crying spring, and the pilgrim listened to it again, and sure enough, there was no sound behind it, so he believed it."

Coincidentally, a few pilgrims heard the woman's cry later, and all of them were dismissed by the monks in the temple under the pretext of "wild cats".

Once or twice, everyone believed it, but after a long time, this matter spread, and they all said that there were women in Longquan Temple.

The government also sent someone to check, but found nothing.

This is mainly because the temple has a great influence in the local area and is valued by the imperial court, so the search of the government is on the surface, and many places have not been searched.

There is no definite evidence on the government's side, and they dare not search indiscriminately.

Later, there was a market nearby, several monks in Longquan Temple dressed up and down to purchase, they purchased things in the wooden comb accounted for a large proportion, originally those monks were carefully dressed, and some monks in the temple were not common people, and did not attract anyone's attention,

It can be said that the vendor who bought combs there had just gone to Longquan Temple the day before yesterday to make incense, and happened to meet one of the monks who came to buy combs today in the temple.

He was very impressed with the monk, because the monk had a piece on half of his face, birthmarks,

So after the monks bought combs and left, the vendor quietly followed behind, and followed the monks back to Longquan Temple from the back door.

The peddler muttered in his heart, what is going on, why did the monk buy such a comb, could it be that those monks want to continue to be vulgar,

At this time, the peddler remembered some rumors not long ago, and it was rumored that there was crying in this Longquan Temple, so the peddler combined these two things.

The more the peddler thought about it, the more wrong it became, so he went to report the matter to the official.

After the official knew about this, he sent some messengers to sneak into Longquan Temple to inquire about the situation, and this investigation really found that in the backyard of Longquan Temple, there is an underground passage, and there are monks to transport food to it every day, and the amount is very huge, and those purchased combs are also sent to the cave,

The officer went back to report these things, and the county official immediately ordered the official to go to Longquan Temple to carry out a second search, but this time the officer was beaten out by the monk.

Those monks also falsely accused the servants of disturbing the Buddhist practice.

The county magistrate knew that his power was not enough to investigate these things, so he reported the matter to the imperial court again, and the imperial court sent two people to investigate the matter carefully, these two people were the Wang brothers.

Their names are not stated, so they are replaced by Wang Da and Wang Er.

After the two brothers arrived here, they disguised themselves as pilgrims and went to Longquan Temple to offer incense first, and checked the situation in the temple.

Later, the two brothers dressed up as woodcutters, sent firewood to the temple for free, entered the backyard of Longquan Temple, and then confirmed the fact that the county official wrote a letter.

Then the Wang brothers hurried back to the capital and told the emperor about it.

When the emperor heard this, he was furious, so he ordered the two brothers to lead troops to exterminate Longquan Temple, kill the evil monks, and restore Buddhism to a clean place.

The Wang brothers came to copy this Longquan Temple with a holy decree, but unexpectedly, the warrior monks of the Longquan Temple openly resisted, because when they first came, the Wang brothers did not bring many soldiers, so they were beaten away by the warrior monks of Longquan Temple.

On the one hand, the Wang brothers reported the rebellion of Longquan Temple to the imperial court, and on the other hand, they mobilized soldiers and horses from all over to surround Longquan Temple.

This Wang brother, born in Hongquan, and the letter of Taoism, in fact, many people who practice martial arts are adhering to Taoism, and the martial artists of the Buddhist family are in the temple, Zhaoti and Lan Ruo, and there are few warrior monks walking the rivers and lakes.

Because the Wang brothers knew some of the white arts, when they first sent troops to fight Longquan Temple, they found that those warrior monks were a little strange, as if they had fallen into some kind of evil law.

So the second time they sent troops to fight Longquan Temple, they invited two Taoist priests, this fight lasted for ten days, the court soldiers died and wounded more than 100, and the Taoist priest who came to help died for a lifetime, the injured Taoist priest saw that the Wang brothers were extremely brave in the battle to exterminate the evil monks, so they said to them: "The chaos of this temple is not that the monks here are not pure, but because there is a thousand years of evil monks turned into a terrible ghost who has confused all the monks,"

"That's why the monks here dare to be enemies of the imperial court,"

"Now, I have suppressed the ghost of this monk, but because his Dharma is too deep, I can't kill him, so I can only choose to seal it,"

"From today on, I am willing to teach you Taoism, and I hope that you, as well as your apprentices or descendants, can seal the evil monk and ghost once in a while,"

Speaking of this, Second Master Tang stopped, and I was curious: "Is the story gone here?"

Tang Erye said: "Yes, the story came to an abrupt end here, where was the thousand-year-old evil monk sealed, how the Taoist priest taught the Wang brothers, and the whereabouts of the Wang brothers later, there is no more description, and the content behind is the boxing book,"

"Later, during the Ming Chongzhen period, he probably knew the truth of this matter, so he renovated the Longquan Temple, so that the temple could continue to worship the Buddha and bless the party,"

Combined with what Second Master Tang told me before, we can probably guess that the Taoist priest probably brought the evil monk and ghost to Taihang Mountain for sealing, and told the Wang brothers about this location.

It's just that I don't understand one thing, why there is a thing in the Longquan Temple of Taihang Mountain, and there is a bone pit, if this is not the main battlefield of the Wang brothers to pacify the Longquan Temple, where does the bone pit come from?

Could it be that the Wang brothers carried all the dead monks to Taihang Mountain for burial?

Of course, this is my guess, whether this is the real situation or not, we need to investigate further.

I continued to ask Second Master Tang, the content of the second half of the "Biography",

Tang Erye said: "This biography actually does not record the name and deeds of that master, mainly because he once entered the cave to fight with the evil monk, and saw the account of the elixir and talisman left by Zhao Guizhen,"

"A few strokes, but you can see the hardships of his original battle, he said, he went into the cave and fought with the evil monk and ghost for seven days and seven nights before sealing it again,"

"At the same time, he also left such a story at the end of the "Biography", probably saying that he was born in a landlord family, and later the land reform, he was suppressed very badly, and his descendants have no sense of Taoism, and no one is willing to learn their Wang family's skills,"

"So he pleaded for the last time that those who had obtained this book could continue to fulfill their royal duties and seal the evil monks every forty years, and that the elixir and talismans in the cave would be the reward,"

So far, that's all there is to this book.

I was curious to ask Tang Erye, how did he get the "Benji", Tang Erye said: "Coincidentally, we came here not long ago and there was a case, it was a little girl who was haunted by a little ghost, and when we dealt with the case and were about to leave, the girl's family took the initiative to give me the book, and asked me if this book was worth it, and if I wanted to accept it,"

"I picked it up and looked at it a few times, and I thought it was very interesting, and I immediately bought the book for a few hundred dollars,"

I asked Second Master Tang: "That girl is from Longquan Temple,"

Second Master Tang said: "Yes, it's from here, if you want to understand the situation, I can take you to see it tomorrow, that girl's family is also surnamed Wang, and they also said that this book was left by the little girl's grandfather,"

I asked, "That Master Wang, is the predecessor of that family,"

Tang Erye said: "I'm not sure about this, because when I went to investigate, I found that the girl's grandfather was dead, and after we inquired, everyone said that he was just an ordinary old man, and his usual hobby was to play chess, and the chess quality was very poor,"

"But there is one thing, the situation of this girl's family is in line with the description of Master Wang in the biography, the previous generation of this family is indeed a landlord, and it is a local big landowner,"

I suddenly understood whether it would be like this, after the Wang brothers put down the rebellion in Longquan Temple, they settled in this village in Taihang Mountain, they are generals, naturally rich, bought land here, and naturally became landlords,

And then from generation to generation,

It should be so, and I feel that my guess is correct.

There is another question that needs to be solved, that is, what is the relationship between this Longquan Temple and the Longquan Temple in Xihua County, and why was the evil monk finally sealed here,