Nie Jun is very willful in teaching the children, and as soon as the old friend comes, the rest of the day is all self-study.

Mountain Temple Primary School enrolls students every two years, and it doesn't matter what the legal age is, anyway, if you don't sign up for the first grade this year, then you have to wait another two years to study.

More than 30 children were divided into two classes, one in second grade and one in fourth grade. Wait until next year, the fourth-grade students will go to the town to study, and then the students taught by Nie Jun will become the first and third grades - although the leaders of the Education Bureau have specially approved that the Shanshenmiao Primary School does not need to merge schools, it is stipulated that students in the fifth grade and above must go to the town center school.

Nie Jun expressed his support for this, because he couldn't teach too many children, and it was enough for one person to teach two classes.

The school doesn't even have a formal class schedule, and it is up to Nie Jun to decide what to teach in each class, and it is up to him to decide when to leave school. If Nie Jun has something to do on one day, he can declare the whole school on holiday, and if Nie Jun is okay on that day, he can go to class until dark. Anyway, parents won't come to urge, and if they fall on the way out of school after dark, they won't trouble the teacher, and the parents will only say one sentence: "Teacher Nie, if the child is disobedient, he will be beaten to death!"

Every time a child was beaten by Nie Jun at school, he didn't dare to sue when he returned home, because the result of the complaint was to be beaten by his parents again.

Even the crops inside and outside the walls of the mountain temple were planted by the students with the help of Nie Jun, which is known as the "labor practice class". One day, Nie Daxian felt that it was time to weed and fertilize the ground, so he said in the classroom: "Tomorrow morning, remember to bring a sickle, hoe, and dung scoop to school!"

Song Weiyang was quite interested in those cultivated lands and asked, "Are they all temple properties?"

Nie Jun nodded and said: "It's all temple property, with a total of two acres of cultivated land, and you have to pay agricultural taxes according to the regulations, but you don't need to pay the retention money." ”

New China granted legal protection to the property of temples and Taoist temples, including arable land. Take Shaolin Temple as an example, when New China was founded, there were 21 temples and fields, and after the land reform, 28 acres of land were allowed to be left by the monks, and the monks should pay 376 catties of wheat to the government every year.

As for the retention money mentioned by Nie Jun, it is commonly known as "three mentions and five unifications".

The retention money is collected by the village, and the village needs to carry out public projects or collective management expenses, all of which are borne by the retention money paid by the peasants.

The pooled funds are collected by the townships and towns, and the roads in the villages, the militia are trained, and the orphans and widows are all paid by the peasants. Even the salaries of teachers at Shanshenmiao Primary School and the purchase of chalk are also paid in the pooled funds, but the town government is often in arrears.

In the 90s, China's peasants had a hard time, not because they needed to pay too much agricultural tax, but because they had a heavy burden of "three mentions and five reunifications." There are clear regulations on the upper limit of the levy of this thing, but at the village and town level, there are not so many of them, and they have set up a variety of tricks to retain and coordinate the funds.

Nie Daochang's small life is good, he is not a villager, but a Taoist priest with Taoist nationality, he only needs to pay the agricultural tax of the temple field, and does not need to pay the retention money.

Zhou Zhengyu said: "You kid, why are you silent? Lao Song, Lao Ding, and Lao Peng are all rich people now, and if they are asked to donate some money, the situation in the village will improve all of a sudden. ”

Nie Jun said with a smile: "People must help themselves and God will help them, donating money to help for a while, can they help for a lifetime? There are no mineral resources here, and local products are not popular, so they can only honestly farm or go out to work." To tell the truth, the peasants' lives have been much better in the past two years, and the central government's policy of reducing agricultural taxes has spread to this side at the beginning of this year. Not only have the agricultural taxes become smaller, but they also dare not levy them indiscriminately, and the peasants' burdens are no longer so great. There is a TV in the temple, and I usually watch the news, and it is estimated that it will not take two years to completely abolish the agricultural tax. ”

Nie Jun led everyone around the temple, and said as he walked: "Before the reduction of agricultural taxes, the villagers definitely did not agree to build roads, they were too busy to farm every day, and they had to go down the mountain to do odd jobs during the slack time. But now that the burden on the peasants has been lightened, they have the energy to build roads together. I pondered, when the road is repaired and the four-wheeled vehicles can come in, life will definitely get better day by day. ”

The wall has been torn down, and corn is planted inside and outside the wall, and it is harvest time, leaving only corn stalks and stakes.

Across the cornfield, you can see villagers leading horses and camels carrying grain. This kind of Yunnan horse is very short in stature, similar to a donkey at first glance, and it is not good to use it as a war horse to fight, but it is very powerful for transporting goods in the mountains.

Lin Zhuoyun always had a small posture on her, she looked at the horses in the distance and said: "If you put aside the material conditions, this place is a bit like a paradise." The fields are strange, the people are simple, and there are not so many troubles in the city. ”

Nie Jun suddenly laughed: "There is a saying called 'Cang Liao is honest and knows etiquette', and there is also a saying called 'Poor mountains and bad waters come out of the people'." You must not think that there are any simple villages, here are full of people, each one is more headache than the other. If you want to do anything serious in the village, you have to be more cunning than the peasants. Their 'Diao' is a 'Diao' that is short-sighted, and they can break their heads for a little profit. If I were honest substitute teachers, they would definitely think it should be after a long time. So I forced them to build roads, and if they couldn't repair them within two years, I would leave. I also asked the students to help me farm the land, and asked the students to do this and that, just to make them think that I was not easy to talk to. The more I did this, the harder I was to speak, and the more they respected me. ”

"Is there such a thing?" Lin Zhuoyun felt refreshed, although she was smart and knowledgeable, she had no understanding of the real countryside.

Nie Jun pointed to the cornfield in front of him: "Take this field as an example, next to a land called Zhang Daming in the village. When the old abbot was not sick, there was no, and as soon as the old abbot was admitted to the hospital, I came to take over the mountain temple, and Zhang Daming immediately messed up. He took the whole family to move away the stones overnight, and moved the broken stones that were used as the boundary markers of the cultivated land directly towards the temple field by more than two meters, blatantly encroaching on Lao Tzu's land!"

Li Yaolin's wife seemed to like gossip very much, and hurriedly asked, "Then how did you solve the problem? Call the police, or find the village cadres?"

"What's the need to report to the official," Nie Jun said aggressively, "Lao Tzu carried a flat pole and went directly to the door to ask for an explanation." Zhang Daming was very horizontal in the village, pulling his son and brother to beat me, but I was beaten seven or eight times with a flat pole. I took it in the morning, and in the afternoon, they honestly moved the rocks back for me!"

"Awesome, awesome!" Ding Ming gave a thumbs up.

Li Yaolin said: "There is no land, you can beat people." ”

Nie Jun said: "The nature is different, if it is my own land, they can mess around as they want, and the things they grow can be worth a few dollars? But this is a temple field, which was entrusted to me by the old abbot, and it can't become less and less in my hands." ”

Peng Shengli was so hot that he took off his suit, and couldn't help but ask: "Isn't it a monk's temple, a Taoist temple? Why is it that Taoism is also called a temple, and the person in charge is called the abbot? I remember calling it a temple zhu, right?"

This is Nie Jun's major when he was a graduate student, and he popularized science on the spot: "'Temple' originally referred to a place used to worship ancestors, so there is the word 'Zongmiao'. During the Qin and Han dynasties, primitive shrines were gradually called 'temples', such as land temples or something, which were inherited by Taoism. ”

"'Temple' is a place dedicated to the worship of ghosts and gods, not a special religious place, the Temple of Confucius, the Temple of Guandi, the Temple of Caishen, are all used to worship the dead sages and celebrities. Take the Zhengyi faction of Taoism as an example, the northern base camp is the Dongyue Temple in the capital, and the Shenghai base camp is the Shenghai City God Temple. ”

"The station of Buddhism should be called 'temple', and the monk temple is just a common name. However, with the development of time, it is not particular, for example, there are many 'Guanyin Temples' in the country, and they are edited by the official department. ”

"As for the temple blessings, it is the temple that specializes in the management of incense. Some temple zhu are regular Taoist priests, and some temple zhu are just lay people who have not become monks. ”

Peng Shengli was quite studious and asked, "What about the abbot?" I remember that there are also abbots in Buddhist temples. But there is an abbot in the Buddhist temple, what is the relationship between the abbot and the abbot?"

Nie Jun explained: "Abbots and abbots may have been dedicated to Buddhism or Taoism in the past, but they have long been mixed, Buddhist temples can have abbots, and Taoist temples can also have abbots. You can understand it this way, the abbot belongs to the general manager, and the abbot belongs to the store manager. An abbot can manage several temples, but an abbot can only manage one temple. Even as long as he is highly respected and does not care about the family of Buddhism, even if he is just an elder in the courtyard, he can be called an abbot, and to put it bluntly, he is a spiritual leader. Some temples have neither an abbot nor an abbot, but a prison is in charge. Where the abbot, the abbot and the prison coexist at the same time, you can refer to the French government, the abbot or abbot is the president, the prison is the prime minister, but it is the prime minister who is really in charge. It is also possible that the abbot was the president and the abbot was the prime minister, but there was no prison in place. ”

"It's complicated. Peng Shengli smiled.

Nie Jun said: "It is indeed very complicated, and all sects are different across the country. ”

"You studied these for a master's degree at Peking University?" Zhou Zhengyu asked.

"These are just the basics. Nie Jun said.

Nie Jun led everyone to continue the visit, pointed to a side hall and said: "That's where I live, I used to live with the old abbot, and after the old abbot was sick and hospitalized, I was left alone." Zhengyi can marry and have children, and the old abbot's father is also an abbot, and he is a guerrilla who was wounded in the Anti-Japanese War. After the old man was injured and disabled for 44 years, he stayed in the village to marry a wife and have children. Later, the mountain temple was recognized as an authentic Taoist temple by New China, and the temple field was still left during the land reform, but the village cadres could no longer be abbots, so the old man became a naturalized Taoist priest, managed the mountain temple, and passed the mountain temple to his son. ”

Lin Zhuoyun asked: "Does the previous generation of abbots have no descendants?"

Nie Jun smiled: "Yes." The old abbot's wife died more than ten years ago, giving birth to a son and three daughters. The daughters are married, and the sons work on the coast, and they don't want to go back to the village to take over the mountain temple, after all, this broken temple doesn't even have incense. It is the grandson of the old abbot, who is now in the fourth grade at the Mountain Temple Elementary School. ”

"Do you want to help?" asked Song Weiyang.

"No," Nie Jun shook his head, "If there were conditions to build a factory here, or if there were any good local products, I would have asked you for help a long time ago." But there's nothing here, and you can donate at most if you help, and I don't want the people in the village to become waste who live on donations. They are self-reliant, but they are poorer, much better off than those really poor mountain villages. I won't be able to stay here for a few years, and when the village repairs the road down the mountain, you can donate a minibus to take the children to the town to study, and then the mountain temple primary school will be abandoned directly. ”

Song Weiyang asked, "Then what are you going to do after you leave here?"

Nie Jun said: "Go and enjoy the world of flowers." You can pull my brother and get me a compilation of a resident Taoist priest in Shenghai City God's Temple. There is a lot of incense and oil, and I go to the temple every day to check in, and I can go home to accompany my wife and children after work. Of course, the premise is to find a woman to marry first. Ha ha. ”

Approaching the end of school, Nie Jun returned to the classroom and threw a few bills to a student: "Let your dad catch a chicken and a duck for me, and by the way, you can help me kill and clean up." ”

After taking over the teacher's errand, the student was quite happy and ran home with his schoolbag on his back.

Nie Jun personally cooked, in addition to chickens and ducks, he also fried a few plates of side dishes, and even took out a jar of wine from under the bed, and said with a smile: "The old wine left by the old abbot, he is reluctant to drink, and I have taken it away." If you come half a year late, you won't have a chance to enjoy this jar of wine. ”

Taoist priests of the righteous sect can marry wives, eat meat, and drink alcohol, but in principle, they are not advocated.

Nie Jun is really not hard, this guy often opens meat and beats tooth sacrifices, and drinks a little wine in the mountains alone. As for money, his parents and grandparents were all soldiers, and his mother often sent money over, and she would come to the mountains to see him two or three times a year, and the main purpose of each time was to urge him to get married, so that he could quickly go down the mountain to find a girlfriend.

This guy has even moved his computer into the mountain, and is currently writing a paper on traditional Taoist temples, explaining the development and changes of primitive shrines in China, focusing on the phenomenon of pretending to be gods and worshipping ancestors like the mountain temple in this village.