Chapter 281 Little Monk, Do I Look Like a Human? (Two in One)
"Meow, what's your wish? Meow." A tabby cat sat on a tree, looking at the people under the tree. It wagged its tail, tilted its head, and spoke in human language.
"Monster!!!" The man under the tree ran away without even having time to pull up his pants. He even tripped and fell, leaving a bruised face and nose.
The tabby cat shook its head.
The request for the title failed again.
There are many ways for a raccoon cat to become an adult or a god. There is a southern way in the south and a northern way in the north.
Some just try to transform themselves into human appearance, and then go find someone and ask, what do you think I look like.
If the person answers that he sounds like a human, then she will succeed in her request for the title. Although she will lose some of her demonic power, she will be able to transform into a human. If the other party answers that he sounds like a god, although her cultivation will increase, the person who answers may not be able to bear such a blessing and may have physical problems.
Therefore, when it comes to such requests for titles, many people choose to ignore them and leave in a hurry. It has seen animals with bad tempers that follow the person for several months just to wait for him to speak.
Some people simply ask, "Do you think I look like a human?" If the other person answers yes, then the request is successful. All that is needed is to satisfy the person's wish to end the cause and effect.
But it is rather unlucky, as it has learned the way of using the body of a cat to help fulfill wishes. However, if it helps others fulfill their wishes, it will lose 10% of its magic power, and then it will have to practice again and ask for a title again, and the cycle will repeat itself.
Other cats said that this was because their cultivation method was fast, so they had to hold back here. Once they succeeded in getting the title, they would not need any magic power to maintain their human form.
But there are also more cats who say that this method was a mistake from the beginning and that no cat can cultivate into a human form using this method.
The tabby cat looked at the person who disappeared from its sight, sighed, and jumped onto the tree and made a scratch.
Looking at the many vertical lines on the tree, some are big and some are small. Among the pile of small scratches, there are occasionally a few big ones.
The tabby cat held the branch and sharpened its nails.
The biggest one is the number of times it successfully fulfilled other people's wishes, lost magic power, and then cultivated it back.
The small one is a sign that it scares people away as soon as it opens its mouth.
After sharpening its front paws, the tabby cat began to sharpen its hind paws. After sharpening, it looked at the pile of paw prints left on the tree trunk it used to record. The cat's face was silent for a moment...
Forget it, it can’t count anyway, so let there be more small scratches.
People don’t necessarily know how to count, so why ask so much of themselves?
After a comfortable nap on the tree, the tabby cat went to ask for a title again with full energy.
"Meow, please, meow, what do you have..."
"A monster!"
"Meow, meow, please tell me..."
“Help!”
"Meow, may I ask you..."
“Ghost!!!”
"Do you have any wishes?"
"Peace to the world, the war is over."
"Meow, bye, meow."
......
It seemed that after asking so many people with scratches on their claws, the tabby cat finally found someone who was willing to answer its question.
When the tabby cat saw the greed in the other's eyes, it understood that the other just wanted those few things.
Money, power, sex.
Sure enough, the man spoke.
"I want lots and lots of money to buy a house, land, servants, and become a master!"
"Okay, meow."
The tabby cat jumped down from the tree and jumped onto the man's shoulder. It was very good at dealing with such things. In fact, it had fulfilled such wishes many times.
"Meow, let's go to the gambling house." said the tabby cat.
Although it doesn't know how to count, it can understand the size of the dice.
It knows what a leopard is, what a big opening is, and what a small opening is. It does the same as every time before. If the point is big, it will tap twice. If the point is small, it will tap the person on the shoulder once.
It's very simple.
So, the tabby cat watched him win the property, buy servants, and become a master, and it fulfilled his wish.
But it knows that when it is gone in the future, that person will definitely go to the gambling house again and lose everything he has now. His future days will be even more miserable than his previous ones. It has seen such an ending many times.
It had lost 10% of its cultivation and had to go back to continue practicing. It practiced very quickly and had walked this path many times.
When the tabby cat was washing its face by the river, it was thinking whether God did not want the demon to achieve its goal, so he came up with this method to torture it. It was like the bait people use when fishing. They know it might be a trap, but for the sake of hope, they keep repeating it.
The tabby cat looked at its own reflection in the water and dived into the water with a "plop". Sometimes it really wanted to be as brainless as a fish, so that it wouldn't have to think so much. Just like now, it had completed its cultivation again and began to wonder whether it should ask someone for the title.
At this moment, the tabby cat felt its neck tighten, and someone pulled it out of the water. It meowed and waved its claws, and saw a young monk who was only in his teens.
"Meow?"
The little monk also tilted his head, wiped the cat's fur with his clothes, and put it on a big rock. "Why are you so naughty? If I hadn't seen you, you would have been washed away by the water. Be careful next time and don't play near the water."
The tabby cat standing on the stone said directly: "Meow, do you have any wishes? I can help you fulfill one wish."
The little monk took several steps back in fear, "You, you can speak?!"
"Meow, I can talk. I can help you fulfill a wish. What wish do you want?" The tabby cat jumped on the little monk. "You only have this one chance. Hurry up and tell me."
"Wish?" The little monk quickly calmed down and said, "I don't have any wish. If I really need one, then I just wish that all living beings in the world will no longer suffer."
Cihuamao: "..."
"Change it."
The little monk shook his head and said, "I only have this one wish in this life. I want to chant as many scriptures as possible and pray for the lives of all living beings."
"Meow, I don't understand. Tell me a more practical wish." The tabby cat patted the little monk's cheek with its paw, hoping that he could say something that the cat could understand.
"You must tell me one?" the little monk asked, "Then I hope you can fulfill one of your wishes."
After hearing these words, the tabby cat's eyes widened instantly, and the eyes, which originally had vertical pupils, suddenly became dark and blank.
It meowed for a long time before it remembered that it had forgotten to use human language. It quickly said, "Are you really willing to make such a wish? You don't want money? You don't want power? You don't want beauties around you? I can do all of these."
The little monk shook his head, took the cat off his back, and put it on a big rock. "You don't need to do that. I am an ascetic monk. I am willing to suffer alone in exchange for the happiness of others. My wish is that you can fulfill a wish of your own. Go and do what you want to do quickly, and don't waste your time on me."
"Meow, my wish is to be reborn as a human."
As the tabby cat's voice fell, its entire body quickly grew larger, and finally a girl with a cat's face and a human body appeared on the big rock.
The little monk was stunned. He quickly took off his clothes and put them on her naked body. He said, "Can't you change your clothes? You need to change your clothes. Alas, you are a girl. How can you change in front of me?"
So the young monk quickly turned around and chanted: "Form is not different from emptiness, emptiness is not different from form, form is emptiness, emptiness is form."
Everything is empty, everything will disappear, and what is in front of you is either eternal or empty.
The next moment, a tabby cat appeared in the little monk's arms. It meowed and nestled in his arms. "This is my first time to become a human. I'm not used to it yet. Maybe the fur can be transformed into clothes. I didn't change my face just now. Little monk, what kind of face do you think I would look good in?"
"You make your own destiny, and your appearance is determined by your heart. Everything in the world is a transformation. If your heart does not move, everything will not move. If your heart does not change, everything will not change." The little monk hugged the cat awkwardly, "So no matter how you look, it has nothing to do with your true heart. As long as your heart is pure, you will look good no matter how you look.
"Oh my, please stop saying things I don't understand. I need to think carefully about what I want to become." The tabby cat said irritably, covering his ears.
The little monk smiled but didn't say anything. He wanted to touch its fur, but when he thought of the changes that had just taken place in its body, his hand stopped.
"Touch it, meow, why don't you touch it anymore? Chin, I want more chin." The tabby cat raised its chin proudly and let the little monk scratch it.
The little monk couldn't make a fuss, so he could only carefully scratch her all over.
"Little monk, I have nowhere to go. Can I follow you today?" said the tabby cat.
"Of course you can, but you can't become a human being," said the little monk.
"Okay, okay, meow meow meow." The tabby cat called out excitedly a few times, and then fell asleep in the other's arms. It had consumed too much energy.
Later, the tabby cat finally understood what the ascetic monk meant, the broken mat, the rotten bowl, the dry lamp, and the endless sutras to recite.
He would often go out to beg for food, and people were happy to give him food, but he would always only take enough to fill himself and never ask for anything more.
In addition to these, he kept reciting scriptures, reciting scriptures while sitting, reciting scriptures while lying down, reciting scriptures in front of the Buddha, and reciting scriptures on a broken mat.
What made the tabby cat most upset was that there were many people like the little monk. They all chanted scriptures in this dilapidated temple every day.
The tabby cat had never figured out what it would look like. It was very cautious about this, so even though it could become a human, it kept dragging its feet and didn't make a complete change. This dragged on for six or seven years.
There are some abilities that you are very obsessed with when you don't have them, but once you have them, you don't care about them so much, just like now, after it has the ability to transform into a human, it doesn't care so much.
You can't run away anyway.
The little monk laughed at her for being unable to see things clearly, so he gave her the name Bubble, saying that it came from the Diamond Sutra: "All conditioned phenomena are like dreams, illusions, bubbles, and shadows; like dew drops and lightning; so view them in this way."
The tabby cat didn't like this name. Unlike humans, the little monk's Buddhist name was Wende, but it named itself Ruguan. The little monk laughed at her and said she was naming things randomly, so she just liked to call it Paopao, but she insisted that her name was Ruguan.
Finally one day, after the tabby cat transformed into a human form, it also gained a face.
After following the little monk for a long time, she also learned the rules of humans, used her own fur as lining, and then knew to put on clothes before coming out.
The clothes were begged for by the little monk a long time ago. Although they were ugly, they were washed very clean by him.
After changing into clothes, Ruguan patted the little monk's shoulder gently, put his face close to his eyes and shook it happily, "Look, does it look good?"
"Your face...how did it become like this?" The little monk widened his eyes.
"Isn't it pretty?" Ru Guan touched his face. "I changed into the appearance of the woman in the portrait you drew before. Haven't you been drawing her recently? Don't draw her anymore. Just look at me when I become like that."
The young monk sighed, "That's the Guanyin statue we want to collect."
"Avalokitesvara statue? Is Guanyin so beautiful? You always talk about Buddha, what is Guanyin?"
The little monk opened the Guanyin statue, then closed it again and said with a smile, "Your ability to transform is a little different. It is very different from what I drew."
"The person in your portrait is too dignified and has a compassionate face. I don't like it. I don't like to see people with compassion, so I slightly changed the eyebrows and eyes. You can clearly see that I changed according to your painting, and you actually said that I am not capable enough."
The little monk smiled and said nothing.
If Guanyin looked like you, how could I still look at Guanyin with peace of mind?
Ruguan had been waiting for the Guanyin statue to land, but after waiting for a long time, she saw a Luohan statue. She jumped into the little monk's meditation room with her cat body, and then turned into a human body. She said angrily: "Why don't you build the person in your painting? Why did you build the Luohan statue? Don't you have enough money? I will go to beg for alms for you. Can you build the person in the painting?"
“No.” The young monk closed his eyes and chanted.
Days passed one after another, and Ruguan accompanied the little monk every day. She would sit on his shoulders and follow him to beg for alms. When he had free time, the little monk would also teach her to read and count.
Every time she wanted to mess with the little monk, he would say, "Come back to me when you have counted the hairs on your body."
She knew she couldn't count, but sometimes she still wanted to play with him, so she counted until she fell asleep. When she woke up, the little monk would play with her.
Ten years passed in the blink of an eye, and twenty years passed in the blink of an eye.
For a few years it was particularly difficult to get food, but gradually the dirt road changed and became a very hard road with four-wheeled vehicles running on it. The little monk, no, the big monk said that those were vehicles, and with vehicles one could go to far places, and people wouldn't have to walk so hard.
Although he said this, he still walked step by step across the country, reciting scriptures sentence by sentence, and praying for the world.
He always said that some suffering needs to be endured by others. If he endures more suffering, others will suffer less.
Ru Guan didn't understand, but she would always stay with him. At first she thought she was the only one who couldn't figure it out, but later she found out that there were many other people who couldn't figure it out either.
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