Chapter 97 Awesome Taoist priest!
Lu Ting bought a new car, and Slin was happiest.
He drove a new car, took Tang Xiao and Lu Ting, and walked around Lihe County for a long time. Lu Ting suddenly suggested:
"By the way, Shi Lin, you and Ningning are getting married soon. Since we are out of the city today, why don't we go to Xiangshan Temple to ask for a visa, and we also want auspicious things, right?"
Shi Lin turned his head and said, "Do you go to Xiangshan? Outside Xiangshan Temple, maybe you are going to the market today. The spicy beef stall tastes really great."
Tang Ning was in a bad mood. After hearing what Shi Lin said, she snorted: "You know how to eat in one day, it's true."
Tang Xiao said: "You like to eat it, otherwise why did Shi Lin use the spicy beef stall to tempt you?"
Lu Ting said, "Go, go! I've left the city, I'll just climb the mountain and arrive. It's a bit unreasonable if I don't go here to catch a stick of incense."
Shi Lin said: "No wonder Sister Ting can make a fortune. It's really important to people! Okay, let's go to Xiangshan to post incense sticks. I don't ask for anything else, I just want our family to be safe, happy and healthy, haha..."
The Xiangshan Temple in Lihe is a relatively famous place nearby. On the one hand, there are many people burning incense here, and on the other hand, Xiangshan is very close to the county town. The government has invested a lot of money in this area for tourism development. On weekends and holidays, this place has become the first choice for the county citizens to relax and relax.
In recent years, Li River has advocated special tourism. Xiangshan has its own characteristics, including mountains and water, and Tujia style. Another feature is Xiangshan Gathering. Every five days, vendors from all over the world gather in the huge square outside Xiangshan Temple.
Whenever I go to the market, it is as lively as a temple fair. When I go to the market on the first day or fifteenth day of the day, there are even more crowds of people and no traffic flow.
It happened to be a market in Xiangshan. Although it was not the first day of the 1st and the fifteenth day, it was approaching the end of the year. There were many people going to the market at this time, and there were traffic on Xiangshan Square.
After finding the place and parking, Lu Ting said, "Let's do it, let's go to burn incense first, and then go out to the market to stroll around, okay?"
Tang Ning said: "Brother, are you burning incense?"
Tang Xiao shook his head and said, "You go with Shi Lin, I'll be walking around outside and waiting for you."
The incense burning in the temple is naturally not attractive to Tang Xiao. He only worships Confucius, not Buddha, and no need to worship Guanyin for sending his son.
Lu Ting is the most pious. She found a large shop, bought three pillars of Gaoxiang, and found a basin. She washed her hands clean before she walked into the temple gate with Gaoxiang.
Shi Lin was much more casual. He bought a stick of incense and followed Lu Ting with a smile and said, "We often say that you can burn Gaoxiang. Sister Ting burns Gaoxiang today. According to me, Sister Ting can make money, but Gaoxiang is burned well, right?"
Lu Ting's face turned right and said, "Little bastard, don't talk nonsense, follow me."
Following the abortion, Lu Ting and others entered Xiangshan Temple, while Tang Xiaoze carried his hands on his back and wandered around here casually.
Tang Xiao hasn't been to this place for a long time. He remembered that the last time he came here was in high school. He didn't know anything at that time. It was more than ten years away in a blink of an eye.
In the Li River area, folk customs are the competition between Buddhism and Taoism. Whenever people have happy events, especially happy events, they will find Taoist priests or monks.
Some people say that Taoist priests are powerful, while others believe in Buddhism and think that monks are powerful.
When Tang Xiao was a child, he even saw examples of monks and Taoists fighting for customers. Now when he looked back on those things, he found it funny.
In the mundane world, even Taoist sects and Buddhists, most of them are mediocre people. How few people really practice Taoism and Buddhism? More people may just regard being a monk and a Taoist priest as a living under the guise of Buddhism and Taoism.
Anyway, in Tang Xiao's memory, he had never found anyone who practiced in the Li River area.
Tang Xiao walked around Xiangshan Temple and felt that his mood had been much relaxed. Not to mention anything else, the scenery in this area is indeed good.
Tang Xiao circled around the temple, and before he knew it, he would think of practicing.
Tang Xiao is a Confucian scholar and a practitioner. Since he returned from Lingang, although he has not stopped reading and practicing calligraphy these days, he has forgotten his practice.
After all, this is where he was born and raised. He had not practiced since childhood. If he had not seen a temple today, he would not have even entered the affairs of Confucianism and Taoism.
"Brother, where did you go just now? Let's find it easy!" Suddenly, Tang Ning's scream was heard.
Tang Xiao was slightly stunned and turned his head to find that Tang Ning and the others had come out of the temple. Shi Lin looked proud and said, "Brother, I just drew a ticket, and the ticket said that I would have an unexpected joy these days. Oh, I don't know if it's effective. I'm a little excited!"
Tang Xiao smiled and said, "It's great if you have any surprises. Did Ningning draw too?"
Tang Ning shook his head and said, "I don't believe that thing, it's a waste of money."
Shi Lin stuck out his tongue and smiled embarrassedly: "I just played for a while, and I didn't take it seriously!"
"Hey, where is Sister Ting?" Shi Lin said suddenly. He looked around and saw no one in Lu Ting.
"I'm here, come here!" Not far away, in a crowded place, Lu Ting waved to this side: "Come here, there is a Taoist priest here, there is a good skill!"
"Taoist? There is another Taoist priest outside the monk temple. This is also interesting!" Shi Lin said.
In the Li River area, Buddhism and Taoism competed for the times, monks had temples, but Taoists did not have Taoist temples.
All Taoist priests exist among the people. These people are farmers on weekdays. Once they have something to do, they become Taoist priests. Rural people generally don’t care about this. Anyway, the wedding and white wedding mainly involves joining in the fun.
The Taoist temple was so lively that many people were invited. From this point of view, monks' rituals sometimes seem less popular.
Sure enough, above the square, there was a Taoist priest performing on an open space.
Look at this Taoist priest, who was sloppy, and was about fifty or sixty years old, with white hair and beard. He stood in an open space, whispering and said, "When you walk by, take a look, take a look. You have to take a closer look at my trick, and see clearly. If you see through the trick, you will be rich and noble, and you will be unparalleled in your fortune!"
His left and right hands had many silver coins, and he threw the silver coins into the air. Under the sunlight, the silver shone brightly on his eyes.
When he reached out to catch the silver, everyone saw that his hands were empty and nothing was left.
"Hey, old Taoist priest, then!" Someone threw a dollar coin, and the coin turned into an arc in the air.
The old Taoist priest reached out to take it, his hands were still empty, and there were no coins on the ground, and the coins seemed to have disappeared out of thin air.
The crowds around were very dense, and everyone found it interesting to see this scene. For a moment, many people started to throw money, and at first they threw coins, and later they threw banknotes when the coins were gone.
No matter what money he threw, the money flew to the Taoist priest, and he raised his hand and disappeared.
At first it was one yuan, then five yuan, ten yuan, twenty yuan, and even people threw a hundred yuan bill, and the whole sky was filled with money, but no matter how much it threw, the money seemed to evaporate out of thin air. In a short while, it probably evaporated thousands of yuan.
"Hey, this old Taoist priest has some tricks, it's interesting!" Shi Lin said on the side.
"Hey, old Taoist priest, are you still going to steal money by playing tricks? If you continue to do this, can we still do business?" It was just when everyone was in aroused, and suddenly heard someone shouting. It turned out that the person who set up a stall next to him was impatient.
The old Taoist priest performed here, and everyone joined in the fun to flood several stalls around.
He shouted that this person is big and thick, with thick eyebrows and eyes, and looks very fierce. There are also a group of gangsters with him. I think it should be the few people he just called over, and he is preparing to drive out people!
In the Li River, this situation is called bullying. The old Taoist priest is not a local. If he makes money here, the locals are jealous and gather people to come and find fault. At the least, they drive people away, and at the worst, they have to blackmail some money. This kind of thing is not surprising in this area.
Seeing a bunch of sluts coming, some timid people began to retreat slowly, while some people couldn't help but feel sweat for the old Taoist priest.
Shi Lin lowered his voice and said, "This old Taoist priest is in trouble. He doesn't even look at what this place. The gangster outside Xiangshan Temple is in a sympathy with the monks in the temple. His old Taoist priest makes money outside the temple, so he is not a violation of other people's taboos!"
Tang Xiao looked calm and did not retreat. His eyes were staring at the field.
The old Taoist priest was not panicked. He smiled and bowed to the people and said, "I'll leave immediately. I'll say a few words to the donors before leaving."
"Dear fellow villagers, elders, and donors, today I have arrived at the treasure world and received donors from all the donors. I have no choice but to thank you, so I invite everyone to have a citrus banquet, just like thanks!" The old Taoist priest bowed to all sides, and then took out an orange from his arms with a smile.
He placed the orange on the ground and covered it with a piece of soil.
Then he opened his mouth and blew it gently.
With a "click", a small sapling actually rushed out of the soil.
"Oh my God!" Someone exclaimed in the crowd.
Then, the saplings rose rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, and in just a few breaths, they grew into a big orange tree.
The orange tree blooms and witheres, and then the fruits ripen. After a while, the red and big oranges hang over the treetops.
This scene shocked the people around him. Shi Lin smashed his mouth aside and said, "I|Fuck, what kind of magic is this? It's so fucking awesome. Today I was so eye-opening!"
The old Taoist priest reached out to pick an orange from the tree, threw it to the crowd, and said, "Eat oranges, eat them and pick them yourself!"
"This is a real orange! And it's very sweet!" someone shouted in the crowd. When the crowd rushed forward, everyone reached out to pick oranges, and the oranges all over the tree were snatched up in a short while.
After this turmoil, the square was in chaos. Everyone was going to grab oranges. Who would pay attention to the old Taoist priests? Those gangsters who were preparing to find fault also lost their targets.
Chapter completed!