"Let's go, let's go to the incense. ”

Ye Rongrong smiled and walked towards the temple above with the third daughter.

"Don't touch the threshold, make sure you stride over it. ”

Walking to the door of the temple, Ye Rongrong solemnly explained. You can't step on the threshold to go to the temple to offer incense, otherwise it will be unlucky.

You have to step over with your feet up, which is what people call "crossing the threshold", which means that you have crossed a threshold in life.

Once you step on the threshold, or touch the threshold, it means that you will have an extra threshold in your life, which is very unlucky.

"Brother Glory, we are not children, we know this truth. Marlene said. After all, you can't touch the threshold when you go to the temple, and modern young people still know this truth.

After all, young people often travel with tour groups, and the places where they play in China are inseparable from the temple.

Entering the temple, there were a lot of people inside, and there were at least hundreds of people in the small temple, Ye Rongrong led the three girls to the place where the incense pillar was bought.

Every year on Chinese New Year's Eve, the temple buys incense pillars for the best business, and there is no big problem in earning 100,000 yuan a night.

There are two kinds of incense pillars bought at this temple in Yanshan Village, one is fifty yuan and the other is thirty yuan, and there are six red candles, ten incense sticks, and one talisman. The difference between the 50 and 30 pillars of incense is that the red candle of the 50 pillars of incense is larger, and the others are exactly the same.

If it is at cost, it will not exceed ten yuan, but tonight, no one will bargain in the temple, let alone be too expensive.

After all, today is to incense the Buddha and the Bodhisattva, everyone is sincere, who will be disgusted. Who dares to think that this incense pillar is too expensive, doesn't that mean that his sincerity is insufficient.

When buying incense sticks in the temple, you can't say "buy", you have to say "please".

"You wait here, I'll go in and ask for incense. ”

Ye Rongrong saw that the place where he bought the incense pillar was crowded with people, so he explained to the three daughters of Liu Jingqing. After all, the three girls are so beautiful, so many people are crowded around. It's easy for some well-intentioned people to take advantage of it.

Whoever goes to incense must pay for incense by himself, and generally cannot let others pay for it, this matter, Ye Rongrong has already explained to the three daughters before entering the temple, so the money for the incense, Ye Shuting and the three daughters have already paid for Ye Rongrong.

So it's not Ye Rongrong's payment, but it doesn't matter.

"Give me four sets of incense sticks for thirty dollars. ”

Ye Rongrong handed over two hundred yuan and said to the person who sold the incense pillar. These people who sell incense pillars have some connections, otherwise it would not be their turn to sell incense pillars. However, no matter how much income is, half of it will be given to the temple, and the rest will be divided between the individual and the Yanshan Village Committee, as for how to divide it, Ye Rongrong is not clear.

Soon, Ye Rongrong took over four boxes of incense sticks, each of which contained six red candles and ten incense sticks, as well as a talisman. This is put by a special person, and there will be no less. Of course, after taking it, everyone will check it, after all, less is not good.

"Okay, one box for everyone. ”

Ye Rongrong said with a smile to the three girls standing behind him.

"Husband, how do you get this?"

Liu Jingqing asked. Liu Jingqing has never been incense on the New Year, and she saw red candles in the box. It's incense and spells, and I don't know how to do it.

"It's very simple, you follow me, how do I do it. You can just do it. Ye Rongrong said.

Since Ye Rongrong was eighteen years old, every New Year, he would go to the temple with his father to make wishes and offer incense, and this process is still relatively familiar.

"Hmm. ”

The third girl nodded and responded, after all, it was Ye Shuting who went to the temple for the first time to offer incense on the New Year, and she didn't know how to do it.

"Let's clean our hands first. Ye Rongrong said to the third daughter.

"What do you mean by 'clean hands'?" asked Liu Jingqing with some curiosity.

"That's what it means to wash your hands. ”

Ye Rongrong explained. Wash your hands before putting on the incense, mainly to show your sincerity and wash your red heart.

"Oh. ”

Liu Jingqing responded. Liu Jingqing knows that he has to wash his hands when he goes to the temple to offer incense, but he doesn't know this handwashing, and there is a professional term called "clean hands"

On a table on the side of the temple, there is a basin with the water of the basin. Everyone washes their hands here before putting on the incense, and it is not considered to be washing their hands, just soak their hands in the water, indicating that they have washed off the dust.

After Ye Rongrong washed his hands in the basin, he picked up the towel on the side to dry his hands, and the three daughters of Liu Jingqing also learned Ye Rongrong's movements and did it again.

"Brother Glory, what should I do next?" asked Marin.

"Light this talisman and circle around your body before it burns, just like I did. ”

Ye Rongrong took out the talisman in the box, lit it with the flame of the candle on the table, and after quickly circling his body with his left hand, he let it burn naturally.

"Brother Glory, what is this for?" asked Ma Lin curiously.

"This spell is used to burn away all the unclean and ominous things on one's body. Ye Rongrong explained to the third daughter.

"So you can burn everything unclean and ominous on your body?" Marlene asked in disbelief.

"In the words of the Buddhist scriptures, there are believers and non-believers, so you should do it again according to what I just did. Ye Rongrong said with a smile.

Waiting for the three girls to burn the charm around their bodies in the way they just did, Ye Rongrong took the three girls to the outside of the house, and there were three lamp stands in front of the temple, which were specially used for good men and women to light the lamps.

The lampstand is divided into five layers, the bottom layer has the largest diameter, and the more needle tips that can be inserted into candles, the smaller the diameter is higher up, and the fewer needle tips that can be inserted into candles.

Buddhism attaches great importance to "offerings", lighting lamps is a kind of offerings, belonging to "lamp offerings", is one of the ten kinds of offerings of Buddhism, Buddhist scriptures say, lighting lamps can obtain many good rewards, so lighting lamps has become a Buddhist custom.

In Buddhism, the "lamp" is a symbol of light and wisdom, and the lamp is offered to the Buddha, indicating the meaning of the Buddha's wisdom and boundless power.

Ye Rongrong took the three girls to the lampstand on the left, at this time there were many people lighting the lamp, and the needle tip on the lampstand was definitely not enough, so the temple arranged someone to put out the lamp, that is to say, as soon as your lamp was put up, someone immediately used a small hammer to extinguish your lamp and took it down.

This makes everyone's meaning of lighting the lamp completely lost, and it stands to reason that it will be extinguished naturally, but so many people in the temple lit the lamp tonight, and the lit lamp was not extinguished immediately, and the people behind had no place to put candles and light the lamp.

"Follow me, on this light stand, let's light two lights. ”

Ye Rongrong said to the third girl, then took out a candle and lit it with the candle that had been lit on the lampstand, and when the candle was lit, he found an empty needle tip and inserted the candle.

The second candle was also inserted in the same way as the first candle, but when Ye Rongrong's second candle was inserted, the first candle was extinguished and was still on the ground.

But now that everyone is like this, they can only shake their heads helplessly, anyway, the people who do this kind of extinguishing other people's lights are the people in the temple.

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The fourth watch has not yet come out, so you don't have to wait, it may not come out until three o'clock. (To be continued.) )