Chapter 225: The Medicine Spring is no longer yesterday, and the dust is in front of the view
The bustling town is full of pedestrians, and the restaurant inn is full of friends and guests. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info looks quite bustling. It's just that this town has no decent specialties, and second, it has no transportation advantages in all directions, and it can rise in just 30 years, and has been thriving for so many years, so naturally there are some opportunities that others do not have.
There is naturally a "fairy spring" on the "Xianquan Town", and it is ordered by the immortals of the world. It is used to save the dead and treat the plague. It's just that the plague has long passed, but the fairy spring has stayed. Although it does not have the miraculous effect of life and death, flesh and bones, it can really cure all kinds of diseases and prolong life.
Don't you see that every day before dawn, there are teams of horse-drawn carriages that deliver water one after another?
Those are all dedicated to the dignitaries and nobles in Guiyang City, a hundred miles away!
With such a miraculous spring, it's hard not to thrive here!
The residents of the town are naturally grateful to the immortals of that year, and are willing to show off to everyone the miracle of the village and the magic of the immortal means.
Thirty years later, the village has become a small town, and the inhabitants have changed a whole generation. Because of the fairy fate, there is an endless stream of people who come here to ask for "spring water" and worship "gods", and it is no wonder that a small town is full of restaurants and inns at a glance.
The dust is here to recover the medicinal spring, and the medicinal spring is something that should not appear in the world, and naturally it cannot be left in the world for a long time. Just like the "Yellow Crane is gone" back then, no matter how deep the legacy of the year is, it is time to reach the end of fate today.
Lichen turned into an ordinary person seeking a spring, looking forward step by step with the surging flow of people. At that time, the water veins that migrated from the dust were not large, and the water that could gush out of the medicinal spring was even smaller. Since it cannot meet everyone's needs, it will definitely become a "scarce" resource. It's not surprising that there will be queues for springs.
In front of the dusty team is a splendid palace, the palace is full of green smoke, and it is obvious that the incense is very strong. The gate opened, and the Taoist priests who maintained order on both sides were quite orderly.
"Buy a bowl! Fulu Shouxi four-color bowl, Xianquan seeks to eliminate all diseases, how to enter empty-handed, and it is in vain to enter Baoshan. Just as the dust was queuing, a hawker came over with a burden, and when he saw the crowd in line, he immediately shouted.
It's just that the poem in the hawker's mouth is not a poem, and the song is not a song, but there is some truth in it. Many people who came to ask for spring water obviously didn't pay attention, and then they woke up, how could they not even prepare a bowl when they arrived at the edge of the fairy spring?
I don't know if the view will provide water bowls and cups or something.
"What. A broken bowl of fifty wen? You can buy ten of them anywhere else, isn't that a trick? "Someone in the front of the crowd was shouting.
"No money, don't buy it! It's okay to drink it yourself! It's just that the Taoist temple doesn't let you drink it in your hand, you don't know! The peddler was not panicked at all, but sneered in a loud voice: "I can't even give up this little money, what kind of fairy spring do you want!" Go home early! ”
The crowd was in an uproar, but some people had to pinch their noses to buy one, it was not easy to queue up, and they couldn't leave the place they had finally occupied, go outside and buy another bowl! You must know that the queue is long, and if you want to leave now, you don't know when you will be re-arranged!
It has to be said that this peddler is quite intelligent, but this behavior is not so pleasing.
Lichen frowned and didn't say anything more. No matter how many things like this have happened in previous lives or future lives, the dust is no longer strange.
"Don't buy this vendor's bowl, it's useless to buy it. Without the blessings of the temple, the bowl cannot hold the fairy spring water. Just as Chenchen frowned and looked at the vendor, a middle-aged man standing behind suddenly put his head up, looked like he had nothing to do, and whispered a warning to Chendao.
"What blessed bowl?" Lichen hurriedly asked.
"Shhhh Don't speak" The middle-aged man in the back suddenly muttered in a small voice, and quickly closed his mouth. It turned out that a Taoist who was maintaining order was walking towards this side.
The flow of people slowly moved forward, and soon arrived in front of the Taoist temple, and after receiving a Taoist sign from a Taoist priest who issued a number plate, Lichen finally stepped into the gate of the Taoist temple. Lichen was just about to continue walking, when a call came from behind: "Brother, brother, wait, wait, wait for me!" Brother Ren, who had just warned Chen, saw that Chen's departure was about to leave, and just got the number plate, and called to Chen.
"Brother Tai, what else do you have to do?" Lichen and this person have no grievances and no hatred, so naturally they don't want to speak ill of each other, but they don't know each other, and it's rare to see such an enthusiastic person. Lichen is not a "chick" who has just gone out, such a person who has nothing to do is either really a sincere person, or he has bad intentions.
And the back one may be much larger than the front.
"Seeing each other is fate, my brother and I are very compatible, why don't we be together, how about together?" Although he stretched out his hand and didn't hit the smiling person, Lichen had to believe that this guy had a ghost so easily, and muttered in his heart: "There is a ghost if there is fate!" Pingshui meeting is also called fate? ”。 But his face was full of smirks and said: "Thank you brother, I'm good alone, it's good." After saying that, he hurried forward without knowing anything, and he didn't mean to make friends at all.
"Hey! Why are you like this? The hot face of the person who came pasted a cold buttocks, made a big fuss and was boring, looked at the dust with a look of not entering, and knew that his abacus had failed, so he could only stomp his feet and leave in a hurry, and after a while, he reappeared in the queue again.
Lichen shook his head with a wry smile, in fact, he didn't want to guess at all, but unfortunately, things are always unsatisfactory, this guy really has a problem!
Lichen temporarily left that guy behind, followed the flow of people and walked directly through the short Shinto, and came to the gate of the palace, there was a small room in front of the palace, and the house was selling incense. A few Taoist priests sat inside, and in front of the door was a large merit box, and every time the pilgrim gave out a sum of silver, the Taoist priest would hand the pilgrim a handful of incense.
But what made Dust frown was that on the left side of the door wall turned out to be a price list.
First-class incense: five hundred taels.
First-class incense: one hundred taels.
Second-class incense, twenty taels.
Third class.
Let's not talk about it, whether this Taoist temple has made the believers' casual incense into a sale, just looking at this price, it makes Chen angry.
How much does it take for ordinary people to work hard in a year, but this Taoist temple really dares to speak!
Lichen frowned and looked at the price list for a long time, and he didn't even have any intention of incense, and continued to walk along the mountain road towards the direction of the medicinal spring, but he didn't expect to be stopped by a few Taoist priests in green clothes and white shoes before he took a few steps.
"Fusheng Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable! Since Shanfushou is here, let's put on the pillar incense first! Incense reaches God, you can get blessings, Tianzun is above, and the bless is sincere! The two Taoist priests bowed, seemingly persuading each other, but they tightly blocked the way of the dust.
"Yes! Enter the house to call people, enter the temple to worship people, this brother, you came to the Taoist temple but did not worship God, this is not right! A "pilgrim" who was "resting" next to the mountain road also followed suit.
I just don't know if this pilgrim who rests here all day and day long, admonishing passers-by?
Lichen pretended to be helpless, walked to the incense room, pulled out a string of copper coins with a buckle and rope, and said with a painful face: "Then help me get a few of the cheapest!" ”
A few Taoists who sold incense didn't look very good in an instant, but so many people looked at it! It's not easy to get angry, so I can only persuade: "Fusheng Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable!" Above the nine heavens, only the Tao is respected, and among the ten thousand laws, incense is the first. Incense is a thing to support the immortals, it is a great merit, and it is better to change it for good fortune and longevity! ”
Lichen touched the money bag and said with a painful face: "But, I really don't have any money!" ”
A few Taoists scolded loudly, but the Taoist demeanor still had to be maintained, so he could only pinch his nose, find a few incense sticks that were not much thicker than a toothpick, and throw them to Chendao: "Go, go!" If the heart is not sincere, how can God bless? ”
Lichen glanced at a few Taoists, sighed, could only take a few toothpicks and incense, and in the contempt of several Taoists and the surrounding crowd, he went straight to the Sanqing Treasure Palace.
As a disciple of the Daomen, of course Lichen didn't dare to take these few toothpicks like bad incense to meet the three ancestors. In the future, you still want to ascend to the Dao, and if you offend the Dao Ancestor, do you still want to have a good time?
Although the old man of Daozu may not care, but Lichen can't care less!
After respectfully burning the incense he had brought out from Kunwu, he came out of the Sanqing Hall and continued to move forward with the flow of people. This time, no one stopped the dust again. Along the bluestone paved road, all the way forward, over the mountain, the medicinal spring is already in sight.
Today's medicinal spring is no longer a wild spring, and all sides of the spring are surrounded by polished white marble fences, and the medicinal spring seems to be guarded day and night. The spring water is left along the waterway made of white marble and flows into a small pond surrounded by white marble.
There is also a large pavilion built next to the pond, and in the middle of the pavilion there is clearly a statue of a god.
The appearance of the statue of the god looks like the dust of himself.
The statue of the god with the peachwood sword on his back stood there, and his right hand was raised, faintly looking at the spring of the medicinal spring.
Nowadays, there are definitely a lot of temples dedicated to dust. But wherever there is incense to worship, the dust can naturally be sensed. But there is actually its own idol worshiped here, but Lichen never knew it.
Then there's only one reason!
The idol was clearly unlit. If you are sincere, how can you not consecrate the idol and invite the spirit?
Are you afraid of the dust and see the merit box at your feet, or you can't get used to the medicinal spring water that only contains a medicinal spring and is clearly priced?
"Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable! Dare to ask this Taoist chief, didn't he hear that the people here have an appointment with the immortals, and the medicinal spring will treat the people of the eight directions, and they will not be allowed to collect money? How can it be sold so expensive? Lichen walked up to a Taoist priest, and after making a gesture, he pointed to the gold, silver, and jade bowls, which were filled with medicinal spring water in front of the statue of the god of dust and asked.
The Taoist priest was stunned for a moment, then looked up and down for a moment, and explained with a smile: "It is true that the immortals had an agreement with the local patriarch back then: when the water of the medicinal spring is used to relieve believers from all directions, no money can be collected. Therefore, the water of the medicinal spring does not cost money. It's just that the people should give back to the eight directions and do more good deeds to repay the immortals, right? Moreover, this bowl of water is decorated with gold and jade, and after the disciples of Benguan worship the gods day and night, chanting the scriptures day and night to bless them, it is naturally not to be lightly given! If you want to get the water of the medicinal spring, you should give up the end of the money, and the whole heart of merit, but the way of heaven is fair, and you should give up and get it, and it should not violate the original intention of the immortals! ”
The Taoist priest is eloquent, and I don't know how much he has explained. It's just that Lichen frowned and looked at the medicinal spring water in front of the divine platform, looked at the Taoist on the side and took away the bowls of medicinal spring water, and then scooped the bowls of medicinal spring water from the medicinal spring, like flowing water. The merit box on the side was also quickly filled with the sound of silver coins colliding. Then a few stout Taoists immediately carried the full merit box away, leaving a new merit box.
"Your Taoist priest is making money every day. but wealth comes from all directions. and go in all directions. I don't know where all this money ends up! Lichen replied angrily.
When the Taoist heard this, his gaze at the dust immediately became unkind. There are many people who come to ask for the spring, and there are many people who give money for medicinal spring water, but it is really rare for someone to dare to speak like this. Occasionally, a few stunned greens, Taoist temples generally directly refuse to give spring water.
"Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable! It seems that Shanfushou is free from illness and disaster, and there is no need for the water of the medicinal spring. The gate is clean, and tourists are not accepted for the time being, so please go back to Shanfushou! After the Taoist finished speaking, he ignored the dust anymore and went straight to greet other pilgrims who asked for the spring.
As soon as Lichen wanted to say something, several stout Taoist temple handymen came over and said to Lichen: "This good fortune letter, please leave!" "It seems that if Lichen refuses to leave, he will be forcibly expelled as a troublemaker.
"There should have been a Huang family ancestral shrine here, why is it gone." Lichen recalled the situation on this mountain back then, and the Huang family had already said that an ancestral hall would be built here. Generally speaking, the ancestral shrine will not be easily moved, after the dust pulled the leylines, anyone can see that this place has become a treasure of feng shui. How could the Huang family move the ancestral hall by themselves?
"Under the whole world, it is not the king's land, such a divine spring, how can the hundreds of people of the Huang family afford it? The Huang family had already moved away with the government's money, and now the palaces here are all built by the government! The handyman replied to Chen, and then pushed Chen's voice and said, "Brother, you should leave."
"Taiyi is immeasurably looking for a voice to save the suffering Tianzun! Yes, it's time for Poor Dao to leave! Lichen suddenly sighed and sighed, his body didn't move, and he changed his appearance.
Tsing Yi Taoist robe, cloud walking Taoist temple, carrying a peach wood magic sword behind his back, it is clearly the appearance of the statue.
"The medicinal spring was originally a house for all people, so how can the government gather money? Since it backfired, Poor Dao took the medicine spring away! The dust didn't bring the surrounding crowd to react, and waved his sleeves. He disappeared into thin air with the idol himself.
"Oh no, no, the medicine spring is dry, it's dry" Several Taoist disciples guarding the medicine spring suddenly exclaimed, and everyone hurriedly looked at the medicine spring.
Sure enough, not only did the medicinal spring no longer gush out of the spring, but even the small pond that stored the spring water was drying up at a rate visible to the naked eye.
The crowd was in an uproar...
After a while, the whole town knew that the immortals were there, but they were not angry about the fact that Gongguan took advantage of this to collect money, and took back his idol and medicinal spring.
"It's over, it's over!" The master of the Taoist temple hurried to the medicine spring with a large group of disciples, and before he could see the medicine spring, he first saw the empty god platform with the statue missing, and suddenly his face was pale and spread on the ground.
For a long time, the Taoist temple only said the myth of "the immortal bestowing the spring", but did not disclose who the immortal was. There are so many palaces in the world. Many of the dust were enshrined. But there are few people who are dressed in green clothes and robes, so please invite the dust to the altar. Therefore, not many of the bosses and people who came to ask for the spring could recognize the "real people who protect the country". It can be seen that the disciples and themselves are very clear.
Back then, in order not to alarm the "real person" with great powers, he deliberately did not turn on the light, because he was afraid that the "real person" would feel it, but he didn't expect that after more than 20 years of calm, he still couldn't escape this experience!