Of course, there is more than one person who saved Liu Xiu for the legend of Grandma Xishan, and what else saved Zhu Yuanzhang and the like, but they are not as influential as Liu Xiu, so Liu Xiu said that it is genuine for the time being.

Regardless of whether this story is true or not, there is no doubt that the Xishan Grandma Temple has survived for a long time. After expert research, it is shown that a well in the Xishan Grandma Temple has a history of at least 1,800 years, and now it is pushed forward 1,800 years, it is the period of the Two Jin Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms after the Han Dynasty, the East and West Jin Dynasty after the Three Kingdoms, and the two Jin Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty are not far away, so the legend of the Grandma Temple is still relatively reliable. In addition, in the local chronicles of Qingyang, the existence record of the grandmother temple was first seen in the Tang Dynasty, which shows that at least in the Tang Dynasty, the grandmother temple already had a high reputation, otherwise it would not have been recorded in the historical records.

The wheel of history has turned to today, the Xishan Grandma Temple has a threefold meaning: the first is simply to refer to the grandmother temple on the top of the West Mountain; the second heavy, with the increasing prosperity of the incense of the Grandma Temple for thousands of years, the believers have built dozens of temples of all sizes as a foil on the road from the foot of the West Mountain to the top of the mountain, there are simple to dig a hole in the mountain wall for an incense burner, there are also flat ground to cover the south and back of several large temples, the big temples and small temples emerge in endlessly, it can be said that it is a small temple in ten steps, a big temple in a hundred steps, visitors can burn incense and worship God in it。 These temples are also included in the category of the grandmother's temple; the last one is the "grandmother's arrival" ceremony held in the grandmother's temple on the fifteenth day of the fourth lunar month every year, the believers and pilgrims of nearby provinces and cities will come to worship the grandmother, and at the same time, the vendors from all over the country will also bring the special food utensils and daily necessities from all over the country to set up stalls along the mountain road, which artificially forms a folk temple fair in the traditional sense.

Speaking of which, Ding Yijing and Li Rui went to the grandmother temple to burn incense today, and they had to passively visit the temple fair on the way up the mountain, and then they could burn incense and worship God when they arrived at the grandmother temple on the top of the mountain.

On the way, Li Rui asked Ding Yijing to stop temporarily, and went down to find an incense shop to buy two large bundles of incense. After all, it's to burn incense and worship God, and it's okay to don't bring incense with you? There are also incense sellers at the temple fair where Grandma's Temple is located, but it is expensive there.

Originally, it would have taken about 30 minutes to drive from the city to Nishiyama. However, it is now the day of the grandmother's temple fair on April 15, and hundreds of thousands of pilgrims and temple fairs go to Xishan every day to join in the fun, there are too many cars entering the mountain, and the road is too narrow, so it took Li Rui and the two to rush over for almost an hour.

In the wasteland at the foot of Xishan Mountain, there is a temporary parking lot set aside by local villagers, and you can park it for as long as you want for five yuan. Li Rui was afraid of meeting any acquaintances at the temple fair, so he deliberately put Ding Yijing's sunglasses in the car on his face.

The entrance to the temple fair is at the intersection of the road uphill, and the road is lined with stalls and shops made up of makeshift tents, and on both sides are the houses of local villages. At this time, the afternoon sun is excellent, it is the time when tourists are weaving, and the road into the mountain is crowded with people, rubbing shoulders, and there are more people than the most lively shopping mall. Li Rui was afraid that he would be separated from Ding Yijing, so he took her hand.

Ding Yijing's face was slightly red, and she quickly shook it off, muttering: "How old are you, and you are still holding hands, you are not ashamed, I am still ashamed." Li Rui laughed and said, "How old are you?

As soon as he finished speaking, two men and a woman squeezed out of the crowd and walked face to face. Li Rui could see it clearly, there were two people in it who knew each other, and they were both old acquaintances and old friends, one was his godbrother Li Ming, and the other was his sister-in-law Lin Yali, who met him here, he was surprised and delighted, and he couldn't care about Ding Yijing, so he stepped forward and greeted: "Brother, sister-in-law!"

When Li Ming and Lin Yali saw that it was him, they were also surprised and happy, and hurriedly stepped forward to meet him.

After the three of them finished greetings, Li Ming beckoned to the man who was accompanying him and said, "Xingwang, come, let me introduce you, this is the godbrother I always mention to you, Li Rui! Oh, he is amazing, now the number one celebrity in the city, I am far from being able to compare with him, haha." ”

The man was in his forties, not tall, slightly fat, dressed very ordinarily, always with a smile on his face, like a friendly and kind big brother next door, he smiled and stretched out his hands to Li Rui, and said: "Hello Director Li, contemptible Guo Xingwang, I have admired your name for a long time, and I have always wanted to find an opportunity to get acquainted with you, but I didn't expect to meet here today, speaking of which, we are really fated." ”

Li Rui shook hands with him and said with a smile: "Hello Brother Guo, hehe, let's meet outside, so we don't need to be called official, just call me brother." ”

These words are not only to give Guo Xingwang face, but also to Li Ming's face, both of them are very happy to hear it, and Guo Xingwang is even more secretly provocative.

After introducing the two to each other, Li Ming asked curiously: "Brother, are you also going up the mountain to burn incense?" Li Rui smiled: "Yes." As he spoke, he showed him the incense he was carrying. Li Ming whispered: "Mayor Yu is also here, and when I came down, he was still in the temple." ”

Li Rui was taken aback, he didn't know whether to say that Qingyang was too small or something else, but think about it, this is also reasonable, today is the fifteenth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, the day of Grandma's Temple, which is also the largest and most influential large-scale folk activity in Qingyang City, and the old fox Yu Heping has always been very superstitious, so it is not surprising that he picked the right day to burn incense, and said with a smile: "I hope I don't bump into him, or I have to say hello." ”

Li Ming shook his head and said, "If you want me to say, don't go to the temple to burn incense, as long as you have a god in your heart, it will be the same wherever you burn it." You just find a place near where no one is there and burn the incense, it's enough to get your mind there, hurry up and finish it, burn it and come with me, let's go and see the house......"

Before he finished speaking, Lin Yali next to him snorted: "Xiao Rui, don't listen to your brother, he is talking nonsense, what does it mean that it is the same wherever it is burned? If it is the same wherever it is burned, why do you still build this grandmother temple? Why do people from four provinces and eight places rush to our Qingyang? Even the pilgrims from Beijing have come over? It must be different! You have to pick a random place to burn the incense, the incense doesn't know which fairy to enjoy, it may be the land lord, or it may be the stove king, the grandmother can't enjoy it, she not only doesn't accept your affection, but also blames you for being perfunctory. ”

Li Ming frowned and reprimanded: "As far as you know? I didn't come up with this idea because Xiao Rui said by himself that he didn't want to run into Mayor Yu?"

Lin Yali sneered: "Xiao Rui is wearing sunglasses, and if he deliberately observes it, he will definitely not be able to touch it." ”

Li Ming said to Li Rui: "Don't pay attention to your sister-in-law, she only believes in these ghosts and gods, if I hadn't been invited by Xingwang to come to see the house today, I wouldn't have accompanied her to burn incense." Hurry up, burn the incense, and then let's go to see the house. ”

Li Ruiqi said: "Look at the house, what kind of room to see?"

Li Ming raised his finger and pointed at Guo Xingwang, and said with a smile: "Xingwang is engaged in real estate development, last year he developed a high-end villa community in Songgezhuang Reservoir, which sold very well, he reserved a few sets of big houses, gave me a set, and today is to take me over to see the house......"

When he said this, he suddenly thought of something, and said to Guo Xingwang: "Xingwang, do you still have a house, give a set to Xiao Ruibei?"

When Li Rui heard this, his face changed greatly, and he hurriedly said: "Don't, don't, don't give it to me, I don't want it!"

Guo Xingwang ignored him, and said to Li Ming: "There are two more sets, one is near the water, and the other is in the forest, I don't know which one Brother Xiaorui likes, so let him go by himself and watch and pick it after a while." Li Ming was very satisfied with his answer and said, "Okay, then let's go over." ”

Li Rui couldn't cry or laugh, these two can really do it, they said that they would give the house away, and they didn't consider the opinions of their recipients at all, how could there be such a thing......? Saying this, there are actually some intentions in my heart, I have long thought that it would be good if I could have a house of my own, and I can take my lovers over to have fun and vacation when I have leisure, and now there is such a set of landscape villas sent to me, I really don't want to refuse, but I can't refuse, because this will bring political risks.

Lin Yali didn't wait for Li Ming to speak, and first persuaded him: "Why don't I know that you have a lot of houses? How many houses do you have now? Besides, who else thinks there are many houses? Xingwang is not an outsider, and your brother is an iron buddy, which is equivalent to your brother, what is unacceptable for a brother to give his brother a house?"

Guo Xingwang said with a smile: "What my brother and sister said is yes, Brother Xiaorui, don't be polite to me." To put it mildly, brother, you think that a villa is millions of dollars, and the value is expensive, and you will owe me a favor if you accept it, but in the eyes of real estate developers like me, the cost of this villa is only a few hundred thousand, and I feel embarrassed to give it away, hehe. I wanted to make friends with your brother for a long time, and if you meet today, you will take the house as a gift to your little brother, you are welcome. ”

Li Ming said: "Yes, in fact, the cost price of a villa is not much, or I don't dare to accept it, brother, you can accept it, rest assured, they are all their own people, and no outsiders will know about this." ”

Li Rui thought to himself, Guo Xingwang will definitely not give away his villa for nothing, even if he can't use himself now, he may ask for his own head in the future, when the day comes, will he help or not? Help, he will definitely violate the rules and disciplines; if he doesn't help, I'm sorry for him, isn't that even more embarrassing? It's better to grit my teeth now and not agree, thinking of this, I shook my head and said: "I thank Brother Guo for his kindness, but I really don't lack a house, I already have three sets now, not counting the one at home, I can't live in it at all, and it's ......a waste to ask for a villa again."