Chapter 1980 The suffering of the Seven Suns
Although he had already met Daoshan and others outside the Qiyang Temple just now, Xiao Hua still greeted him again according to the so-called Taoist etiquette. After the ceremony, Daoshan's face smiled even more. He walked to the offering table, placed the jade plate on the offering table, and then picked up three long incense sticks from it, and smiled at Xiao Hua: "Senior Xiao, please give Dao ancestors incense!"
"Okay!" Xiao Hua took it, waved his hand, and a ray of fire flashed, and three incense sticks were lit immediately, which made a strange look in the eyes of nearly dozen disciples.
After Xiao Hua respectfully inserted the incense candle into the incense burner, Daoshan was obviously relieved and raised his hand and said, "Thank you, Senior Xiao, please go to the side palace to serve tea!"
As he said that, the Taoist boys holding flutes and other instruments played again. Xiao Hua walked past a yellow curtain under the leadership of Daoshan and came to the side hall. There was a yellow cushion and several tables and chairs. However, before walking to the chair, Daoshan did not sit down immediately, but closed his eyes slightly, which made Xiao Hua a little confused. Looking at Xiao Jian again, they could only follow it. When the sound of silk and bamboo floated into the night sky, Daoshan opened his eyes and raised his hand with a smile and said, "Senior, fellow Taoist, please sit!"
"Fellow Taoist please!" Xiao Hua sat down with a smile, and then Xiao Jian and Daoshan sat down. Liu Yi and Yuanya stood obediently behind the two of them. A beautiful Taoist boy hurried over with a tray with a varnished paint in his hands and delivered three cups of tea. When the Taoist boy went down, he seemed to have something to say, but seeing that Daoshan's attention was on Xiao Hua, he didn't dare to speak, and waved to a slightly older disciple behind Daoshan. Then he went down.
The older disciple glanced at Daoshan who was talking to Xiao Hua, and nodded slightly at Xiao Hua and walked out quietly. Daoshan's ears were not very useful, so he naturally didn't notice it.
"Senior Xiao, where are you practicing? How many disciples are there in your school?" Daoshan asked Xiao Hua to taste a sip of tea, and then asked respectfully.
Xiao Hua took a sip of tea. The tea was very bitter, making the tea a little black. Xiao Hua felt relieved just by smearing his lips. He replied with a smile: "The good tutor knows that Xiao... used to practice overseas, but there are no disciples under his disciples! This Liu Yi is just a boy's call!"
"Overseas?" Daoshan's eyes lit up and he said anxiously. "Is it the East China Sea? When the old Taoist was young, he wanted to go to the East China Sea to see it. But now, he still has no chance to go to the magnificent East China Sea!"
Xiao Hua smiled and shook his head: "Don't ask any overseas master! In short, it's very far... Of course, if the master wants to go, just find some time to check it out in the future!"
"Oh. I am old and can no longer walk!" Daoshan said with a smile. Although it sounded like a lament, there was not much sadness in his tone.
Xiao Hua comforted, "Master is wrong. Master is good at doing things. There will naturally be a master in the way of heaven. I will never let the master go at such an age! There are too few people like Master in this world. Since Master met Xiao, it is the opportunity given to Master Daozu, so that Master will do good deeds in this Seven Yang Temple in the future!"
"Haha, thank you for your good words!" Daoshan knew that Xiao Hua had a cultivation level, but he couldn't believe what Xiao Hua said, and just said with a smile, and Xiao Hua was not in a hurry to take out the Huichun Dan. After all, Daoshan is an ordinary person, and Xiao Hua didn't know whether Daoshan could bear the medicine of Huichun Dan. Since he had come to the Qiyang Temple, he naturally wanted to help the good people in this Dao Sect live for a hundred years.
"Gululu..." Xiao Jian was originally hungry, but now he had a few mouthfuls of tea and became more and more hungry.
"Haha, the old Taoist has forgotten!" Daoshan smiled and turned to instruct, "Disciple, go and serve Uncle Xiao's bowl of porridge!"
A disciple behind Daoshan showed a look of dismay on his face, but he still responded and was about to go out. At this time, the disciple who had just walked out returned to the door of the hall. Hearing this, he hurried to Daoshan and whispered a few words.
"Oh?" Daoshan frowned, with a hint of embarrassment on his face, and then smiled and said to Xiao Jian, "Fellow Daoist Xiao laughed. The white porridge just now has been given away. And today is the Zhongyuan Festival. The old Taoist wants the good masters around to eat more and cook the food in the temple into white porridge. Now there is no food in the Taoist temple. The old Taoist disciples will pick some vegetables from the vegetable field in the backyard, and cook some food. How about tomorrow morning, the old Taoist disciples will take the vegetables to the market to sell them. How about buying some food?"
Xiao Hua heard it clearly from the side and smiled and said, "Master, don't be polite, and the good masters outside the sect don't have to persuade them to disperse. It was the master who used to distribute the porridge, but now it's time for Xiao to give the porridge. Master, please ask the disciples to send Xiao to the place where the food in the common place is served!"
"Oh? Senior Xiao is this..." Daoshan was puzzled, obviously not understanding Taoist magic.
"Senior, Xiao Xianchang is a famous monk in my Taoist sect. He has the ability to sprinkle beans and turn troops into battles! You just need to take Xianchang away!" Xiao Jian said with a smile.
Daoshan naturally would not let his disciple take Xiao Hua with him. After he personally brought Xiao Hua to the hall, he walked through several deserted yards and finally arrived in front of a small yard. Xiao Hua glanced at the wooden door on the left side of the yard. Outside that door, under the moonlight, there were really a lot of vegetables growing. In this yard, there were two strong Taoist priests who were washing the iron pot that had just been taken back from the Taoist temple.
"Inside..." Daoshan raised his hand and was about to speak, but Xiao Hua shook his head and said, "The place here is too small, is there a bigger place?"
Daoshan had no choice but to point to the several rooms opposite the yard and said, "This is where winter vegetables are stored in winter. It's empty now. Could it be that seniors really have magic that makes something out of nothing?"
"Seeing is real, hearing is empty!" Xiao Hua walked to several rooms with great strides, shook his hand a few times, and smiled, "Master, just look at it yourself!"
"Oh?" Daoshan walked to a room with a lantern in his hand and looked at the tightly piled up food, almost all tears were flowing down, "Sure, good, I won't starve to death before my Qiyang Temple this winter!!"
"Sweat..." Xiao Hua couldn't help but sigh. It was just summer, and the old Taoist Daoshan thought of the winter porridge. It seemed... this kindness has penetrated into the bone marrow of the old Taoist!
"Hurry, disciples, cook some porridge first, please invite Senior Xiao to eat. The big iron pot will also cook porridge quickly, so that the Shanzhu outside the view can have a full meal!" Daoshan hurriedly ordered.
The disciples of Daoshan were all crazy. They looked at the rooms and confirmed that they were piled up with mountains of food. Then they carefully took some to the yard opposite to let the Taoist Master of Fireworks cook. Everyone looked at Xiao Hua with awe and respect. This was really no different from the immortal appearance in their hearts!
"Oh, Senior Xiao is indeed a magical skill~" Daoshan accompanied Xiao Hua back to the side hall again, and sighed, "This is something that I would never have imagined in my dreams!"
"What a magical skill!" Xiao Hua waved his hand, "It's just that Xiao has a Qiankun bag on his body, and he has some food in his arms!"
Daoshan really didn't know what the Qiankun Bag was, so Xiao Jian explained it and understood.
"Let's stay tomorrow, Xiao will let you see what a real magical skill is!" Xiao Hua said pretending to be mysterious.
"Okay, I'll wait and see!" Daoshan didn't know what Xiao Hua was going to do, so he just agreed with a smile.
Xiao Hua looked at the main hall and asked again: "Xiao remembers that there should be a golden body for worship in the Taoist temple. Why is the Taoist ancestor not here?"
"Oh, good seniors know!" When talking about this, Daoshan looked sad. "The Copper Pillar Kingdom established the country with Confucianism, and has always rejected my Taoist sect! There was no Taoist temple in Xiluoling. It was a deserted slope a hundred years ago, and all kinds of dirty and messy things in the country were discarded here! Later, the old Taoist master came here and bought the deserted slope with silver, and then built the Seven Yang Temple here! Later, the king of the country asked about this matter and wanted to demolish the Seven Yang Temple. Dao Zu led several disciples to sit on hunger strike and straight for ten days. Seeing that my Taoist disciples were determined and would rather sacrifice their lives than keep the Taoist temple, the king of the country was moved and agreed not to demolish the Seven Yang Temple, but he was not allowed to establish any golden body in the temple! So, Dao Zu placed the spirit cards of his predecessors here to worship, and did not establish any golden body!"
"The faith is in my heart. If I don't believe it, even if I reshape my golden body... I will make wedding dresses for others!" Xiao Hua did not speak, and Xiao Jianxin said with a slight silence.
"Yes, if you have faith, there will be the golden body of the Taoist ancestor everywhere!" Daoshan nodded, "Later, the master and the old Taoist knew that the king did not like the Taoist sect, so he acted in a low-key manner and only did good deeds. Everything in this contemplation should be created by the old Taoist and his disciples, and there was almost no alms in the copper pillar!"
Speaking of this, Daoshan sighed a little again: "Even so, the Qiyang Temple is still a bit difficult. No one cared about this deserted slope, but now there are many people in China and there are few lands. This place is not far from the palace. Many people have turned their attention to the Qiyang Temple again. If it weren't for the fact that there were wars between the Tongzhu Kingdom and the Jiang Kingdom in recent days, the old Taoist would not be so leisurely here!"
As he said that, a Taoist boy brought a few bowls of porridge, so Xiao Hua naturally didn't use it. However, Yuanya and Liu Yi accompanied Xiao Jian to drink a few bowls. To Xiao Hua's surprise, Daoshan actually got a bowl. It turned out that this old Taoist priest who gave porridge was not full at night!
After everyone finished eating, Xiao Hua glanced at Liu Yi and turned to Daoshan and said, "Fellow Taoist, Xiao will be on orders in Qiyang Temple tonight! However, Xiao still has some things to go to Mingyuefang. Fellow Taoist, let's have a rest first. Xiao will go to visit fellow Taoist tomorrow morning!"
"Mingyuefang?" Daoshan frowned when he heard this, and hesitated for a moment, and said strangely, "What should I do in that place for seniors? We outsiders... shouldn't go there!" (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!