Chapter 0019 Becoming acquainted with the old mage See you in the Lingguang Temple

In the late 70s and early 80s, the Dragon Kingdom had already ended a decade-long campaign, held a significant meeting, and began to shift the focus of the country's work to economic construction.

When he was a child, Cui Ning didn't have a deep understanding of what Jiang Lao was doing, and of course, he also saw that the people he met with Jiang Lao were some characters he had seen on TV, so he was used to it. Moreover, in that era, TV was also extremely rare, but Jiang Lao's world was never an ordinary world.

Cui Ning, who was a teenager, followed Jiang Lao from the north to the south, and put himself in a super luxurious hotel of that era, and later Cui Ning learned that it was the first five-star hotel in the Dragon Kingdom, the Swan Hotel, which had just opened, and it was not something that ordinary people could afford to live in, nor was it something that ordinary people were qualified to live in.

Cui Ning sat quietly in the hotel, watched TV, saw some big people he had seen appear on TV, and then by chance a shot, he also saw Jiang Lao, who was inconspicuous in the crowd, participating in an important meeting.

After the meeting, Jiang Lao was very happy and said an unfamiliar name, as if he was called "Bu Xinsheng" or "Mr. Bu".

However, Cui Ning also knew later that this was a very shining name in the early days of reform and opening up, and it was also a role model for the Dragon Kingdom that year, which once represented the great achievements of reform and opening up.

Of course, Mr. Bu, like many factory managers, quickly disappeared in the trend of the times because he did not really understand the rules and secrets of business management, and was replaced by a group of truly thoughtful and courageous entrepreneurs represented by Yu Jinlong.

I remember that Jiang Lao asked himself at that time, "How is this place?"

Children who are just in their teens have no concept of brands and markets at all, and the books they read are only the traditional culture and masterpieces of the Dragon Kingdom, as well as school textbooks. But Cui Ning still replied with a sentence that impressed Jiang Laodu:

"This place is so good, I hope to bring my parents to see it in the future" Cui Ning said, "The place with parents is the best place, Grandpa Jiang, don't you say?"

Jiang Lao smiled, "You were alone in the room just now, and you missed your parents again?"

"I kind of think about it, but I think it's good to be alone, you can watch TV, I saw you on TV just now," Cui Ning said innocently.

"Really?" Jiang Lao nodded, "I also have a job, and I have some tasks to complete."

"The teacher said, everyone has their own things to do" Xiao Cui Ning is very well-behaved, "Grandpa Jiang's work must be very great"

"Everyone is great," Jiang Lao thought for a moment, "I'll take you to a temple to have a look, okay?"

"Okay, okay, I like the temple, I like the wise grandfather there," Cui Ning nodded.

The hotel's special car sent Jiang Lao and Cui Ning not far from the temple, and when the two of them walked to the temple gate, it was a large-scale ritual and rain prayer activity.

A few years ago, many of the so-called "feudal superstition" activities were strictly forbidden during that movement, and Lingguang Temple was also affected.

But with the progress of the times, as well as people's conscious beliefs, some activities have flourished again, especially in the south, Hong Kong Island, Bay Island and other areas of the rich most of them were born in Chaoshan, as well as other areas of Lingnan, ancestral hall culture, Hakka culture has been inherited for thousands of years and has a strong vitality, one of the important is the reverence for heaven and earth.

This rain prayer activity is initiated spontaneously by the people, and several respected old people apply to the abbot of the temple, and then collectively raise donations, fast for three days, and pray for rain to the sky.

The rain prayer ceremony is generally three days, although many ceremonies have been interrupted for many years due to the times, but the abbot of Lingguang Temple, Master Zonghui, is over eighty years old, and knows many rituals and rituals in his mind, and has great wisdom. He is a monk who has practiced the Tao for many years.

On the fifth day of the second month of the second month of the year when he was 19 years old, he became a monk at Lingguang Monastery and was shaved under the seat of Master Ruixiang.

At the age of twenty-five, he received full ordination at the abbot of Kaiyuan Temple in Chaocheng, and returned to Lingguang Temple for 20 years.

In 1941, he became the abbot of the meditation room for ten years.

In 1951, he returned to Lingguang Temple and lived until the 16th day of the ninth lunar month in 1966.

During the movement, the monks were disbanded, and the old monk did not return to his lay home, but lived in the homes of believers in Nanfu Shabei Village, where he lived a hard life for 14 years. Insist on chanting sutras and reciting Buddha and purifying practice, and not be moved by the world.

By August 1980, when the government implemented the religious policy, the Meicheng Religious Bureau invited him to return to Lingguang Temple to live. Restore the life of the monks, drum and morning bell at dusk, chant Buddha without stopping, and rest in peace.

This time, Venerable Zong Hui was also wished by the believers and the public to pray for rain and peace in the world.

When Jiang Lao and Xiao Cui Ning arrived at Lingguang Temple, it was around two o'clock in the afternoon, the hottest time of the day and the most poisonous time of the southern sun.

Under the scorching sun, the monks and a group of believers knelt down on the lawn and open space in front of the temple, and the dozens of meters high life and death trees withered and flourished, which was very strange.

Master Zong Hui, who was kneeling in the crowd, was also very happy when he saw Jiang Lao coming, shouting "Timely rain is coming", and welcomed Jiang Lao and Cui Ning to the abbot's room.

"Jiang Lao, I haven't seen you for a long time, my face is as good as before, and I came to this temple, this is to know that the people pray for rain and send rain?" Master Zong Hui is very kind, he looks much older than Jiang Lao's age, but he is called a junior.

"Master Zonghui, it is rare to be successful in cultivation" Jiang Lao introduced Xiao Cui Ning to Master Zong Hui, "This is my little friend, Cui Ning's donor, come and send rain"

Master Zong Hui looked at Cui Ning seriously, nodded while looking, and then shook his head again, and said:

"The benefactor is extraordinary, please forgive Zong for being clumsy and unable to see through the donor's life"

"Hehe, auspiciousness has its own heavenly appearance, needless to say, in a thought, there is a sense between heaven and earth" Jiang Lao said to Cui Ning, "Do you think the people begging for rain outside the temple gate are hot?"

"It's hot, isn't it?!" Cui Ning said, "but those two trees are really amazing, I've seen them in books, this is the first time I've seen them."

"Well, there is a great terror between life and death, in fact, it is nothing more than the word Kurong" Master Zong Hui said, "Since Cui Ning Xiaoyou came to send timely rain, but it was arranged by Jiang Lao"

"Does Drum Tower care?" asked Jiang Lao.

"The drum tower was destroyed in the drum movement, and now the drum skin is re-covered, and the drum stand is still made in the Ming Dynasty, which can be regarded as a spiritual object," said Master Zong Hui.

"Alright, Mage, do you want heavy rain for one day or three days?" asked Jiang Lao with a smile.

"One day is enough, too much" Master Zong Hui also laughed, "Rain is the creation between heaven and earth, not controlled by mortals, unless there are people with great opportunities and great energy"

Jiang Lao nodded and said to Cui Ning: "Do you want it to rain heavily here?"

"Yes, of course I thought about it" Cui Ning quickly replied, "The teacher said, good rain knows the season, when spring happens"

"Okay, let's go to the drum tower, you beat the big drum," Jiang Lao said.

The drum of the drum tower is 1.48 meters and the height is 1.67 meters. There is a couplet engraved on the drum tower: "The leather drum knocks on the empty space, the ancient and the present are empty, and the present and the ancient are all from the void; Cui Ning, who is in his teens, is obviously not high in front of the drum.

"Relax, recite the mantra I taught you, think about heavy rain, heavy rain for a day, and then just beat the drum hard," Jiang Lao said to little Cui Ning.

Xiao Cui Ning nodded seriously, closed his eyes, and entered a super relaxed state of body and mind, thinking about the scene of heavy rain, raised the drumstick, and knocked it on the big drum.

The big drum is really loud, and it has a long echo, so Cui Ning doesn't beat it fast, but controls the drum beat.

Of course, what Master Zong Hui didn't know was that Cui Ning, according to Jiang Lao's quiet instructions, secretly dripped two drops of his blood on the drumstick through the secret method, one drumstick and one drop of blood.

Cui Ning mastered this secret method when he was seven years old, and in addition to this secret method, it was almost impossible to collect Cui Ning's blood or cause a little damage to Cui Ning.

With Cui Ning's drumming and the torrential rain in his mind, a strong wind suddenly blew over the entire temple and the mountainous area, and in an instant, the clouds were thick and the rain was pouring down.

The people who begged for rain outside the temple gate did not avoid the heavy rain, but were overjoyed and bowed their heads to chant the Buddha.

The heavy rain fell for a day and a night, almost a nationwide heavy rain, which was also rare in the history of the Dragon Kingdom, and Cui Ning also practiced in the Daxiong Treasure Hall for a day and a night.

In order to ensure that Cui Ning was not disturbed, the Daxiong Treasure Hall was temporarily closed, and the people who begged for rain had already made arrangements, or went home together, and worshiped Lingguang Temple and Master Zonghui even more, and the saying of Lingguang Temple asking for rain was even more sung.

Of course, the aura of heaven and earth contained in this rain was absorbed by many people, including later Chairman Yu Jinlong of Hailan, ideal Liu Chuanzhi and other entrepreneurs, who suddenly became enlightened and started their own business in 1984, as well as some of the opportunities of heaven and earth with Cui Ning, which Cui Ning did not understand at that time.

After the practice, Jiang Lao, Xiao Cui Ning and Master Zong Hui took a circle around Lingguang Temple, walked along the stone steps again to the right side of the Daxiong Treasure Hall, and walked in the direction of the guest hall. Due to the relatively high position of Shijie, you can see that there is not a single fallen leaf on the green tile of the Daxiong Treasure Hall, and the green trees on the mountain are like trees, and the wind and rain should have blown off a lot of leaves, and there are traces of fallen leaves on the ground.

"This is a must of Lingguang Temple, there are no leaves on the tiles, and it is spotless," said Venerable Zong Hui, "all living beings are amazed by it"

"Do you understand why you were allowed to cultivate here?" asked Elder Jiang.

"This place is somewhat similar to my physique, when I meditate, I feel that the whole person is spotless, bright and comfortable," Cui Ning replied very innocently.

"Cui Ning's donor has an innocent body," Jiang Lao said to Master Zong Hui, "When studying heaven and man, through the changes of the past and the present, extraordinary people must have extraordinary missions."

Cui Ning seemed to understand on the side, looking at the Daxiong Treasure Palace, there was a strange and familiar feeling.