Dou Mu, also known as the Queen of Sainthood, is the mother of the Big Dipper stars, and one of the Taoist gods in the mortal world. Because she had given birth to sons and gods, she was revered by mortals as the mother of reproduction, blessed with many sons and blessings.

Jia Mei is now pregnant with a child, and she is about to go to Doumu Temple to make a wish to keep their mother and son safe.

Doumu Temple is not far from Jinling Nanshan Qixingpo, occupies a small area, but the incense is perennial, it is a good place for the ladies and daughters of each family to come to worship on incense.

Jia Mei went to the main hall to burn incense and pray, praying for the safety of the mother and son. Wei Qian took the red toon to the side hall on the right side and prayed in a low voice: "Please bless your mother to give birth to her little brother safely." ”

Hongchun stood aside, this time she came to offer incense, Wei Qian only brought her, and Huang Yang, another personal maid, stayed by the old lady in the house for questioning.

After all, the boxwood was given by Mrs. Wei, and the red toon is Jia Mei's person, and the closeness to Wei Qian is naturally different.

Hongchun is also a little girl's mentality, a little complacent in her heart, and she doesn't look down on Huang Yang's approach: although we are inferior, but first of all, the people around the young lady, although Sister Huang Yang is thoughtful and calm, but her personality is rigid, and she regards herself as a servant of the Wei Mansion and does not regard herself as a young lady's henchman. Although the young lady is young, who is good to her and can't feel it?

Some people say that five generations are not a family, and three generations are not nobles. In the same way, as a servant, you can only truly be a confidant if you pass it on from generation to generation.

The maid Huang Yang is the son of the Wei Mansion, her parents and grandparents are servants in the Wei Mansion, in her eyes, serving Wei Qian is just her duty, and it is not Wei Qian who is really loyal, but Wei Fu. Even if Wei Qian was cold, he didn't care, and when the time came, he was sent to other places and still worked in the Wei Mansion.

And Hongchun is different, she is a girl that Jia Mei bought from Wei Qian for Wei Qian, and she has taken care of Wei Qian since she was a child.

If Wei Qian decided to flee because of this marriage, then Huang Yang would definitely report to Wei Yan to stop him, for the sake of Wei Fu's reputation, and Hong Chun would help him.

Different attitudes determine Wei Qian's affection for the two.

"Tsubaki." The contemplative red toon was awakened by the voice, and saw Wei Qian stretch out his hand and hurriedly handed over three sticks of incense.

Burning incense and praying, Wei Qian worshiped devoutly, and then remembered something: "After enlightening the Dao, the disciple is now burdened by the red dust, and the father is drunk and messed with the mandarin duck score, and I am afraid that he will not be a good person in the future." My mother quarreled with my father about this, and asked my mother to appear to protect the harmony of my family, as for the marriage contract...... If something happens to him in the future, I would like to practice and always be under the green light. ”

After speaking, he kowtowed to the statue of the Daohou God with kind eyebrows and kind eyes above.

This temple is dedicated to worshipping Dou Mu, although the three central halls are all dedicated to Dou Mu, but the statues of the gods in the three halls are different. The central hall respects the true body of Dou Mu, with three eyes, four heads, and eight arms, which is very rare among many sacred sacrifices in Taoism. And the left and right side halls enshrined Dou Mu, one name is "Mori Zhitian", and the other name is "Holy Virtue Queen", symbolizing the revered status of Dou Mu in the two schools of Buddhism and Taoism. Mori Zhitian, translated as "Great Wisdom and Light" in Buddhism, is one of the Bodhisattvas of Buddhism. And the Queen of Shengde comes from Taoism, also known as Doumu Yuanjun.

After worshipping, Wei Qian saluted Kun Dao, who was guarding the incense next to him: "Senior sister, can you take it to meet Master Lingguan." ”

Na Kun Dao's gray robe was knotted, about forty years old, and he was also very familiar with Wei Qian, so he nodded directly: "I still have something to do, you can go to Tongguang Courtyard by yourself." ”

The presiding officer of this temple is a female cultivator, and legend has it that it was built by a very Taoist female cultivator in Nanshan several decades ago. Two years ago, Wei Qian came here with her mother to burn incense and worship, and accidentally saw the legendary Lingguan master. According to his age, that Lingguan master should be seventy or eighty years old, and he is a person of the □□ era. But in Wei Qian's eyes, she is still as old as a forty-year-old woman. And I got lost in Nanshan that day, and I happened to see her collecting qi in Nanshan, with a purple gas treasure wheel behind her head, and the fairy light was shining, and she was the appearance of Taoism.

Since then, Wei Qian often came to the Dou Mu Temple to go around, and it took two years, selling cuteness from time to time, and finally getting acquainted with the Kun Dao female cultivators of the Dou Mu Temple. I also mixed in with the crowd to listen to Lingguan's preaching.

However, the Tao Sutra is obscure, and Wei Qian only learned a few books of enlightenment because of Wei Yan's relationship. Wei Yan believes that a woman's lack of talent is virtue, in addition to the most basic literacy, that is, the classics in the "Book of Filial Piety" and "The Book of Women" are taught by Jia Mei, and other advanced words are not allowed to be learned at all.

Therefore, facing the Tao Sutra*, it sounds very difficult, and for two years you have gained nothing from cultivating the Tao.

Wei Qian took Hongchun to Tongguang Courtyard, only to see a beautiful and mature woman doing lunch class with four gray-robed female cultivators beside her.

This temple was built by Master Lingguan decades ago, when she took in many lonely and widowed women and practiced together in the temple.

Wei Qian didn't bother, she carefully sat next to the nun on the left, stretched out her ears and listened to the half-sound, and after hearing the scriptures they were reciting, she also chanted them in a low voice.

In two years, no matter how unreasonable those Taoist scriptures are, they can memorize them.

Hong Chun knelt next to Wei Qian, and also recited the scriptures with his own young lady, but compared to Wei Qian's familiarity, it was a step behind.

After a long time, Master Lingyun opened his eyes and said to Wei Qian, "Your mother is looking for you, you go and invite her, and I will help her take the pulse." ”

Wei Qian whispered yes, and went to invite Jia Mei with Hongchun.

After the two left, a woman beside Lingyun said, "Master, I see that she is pious, why don't you accept her as a beginner?" ”

"I have my own rules for Xuanling Dao, and there are five that I don't accept. If both parents are present, they will not be accepted; The princely and rich will not be accepted, and those who have not yet reached the end of the dust will not be accepted; Those who are physically and mentally incomplete will not be accepted; Those who have evil thoughts in their hearts will not accept it. ”

"Our cultivation is originally a matter against the heavens, but those who cultivate the way of heaven can only reach humanity first. Her parents are here, and after she is a powerful person, Hongchen has continuous cause and effect, and now she has just made a marriage, where is it suitable to enter my pure gate to cultivate immortals and ask? Lingyun's ears and eyes are clear, and what happened in the Doumu Temple is clear, and he listens to Wei Qian's prayers in his ears from afar.

The old woman said, also with a look of regret on her face. In her eyes, Wei Qian's roots and bones are good, and her heart is good, if she enters the Immortal Dao, she may be able to expand the Xuanling lineage.

"But my divination deduction, this marriage seems to have some twists and turns." Looking at Wei Qian's face, this marriage is difficult to force, and I am afraid that there is really some possibility of entering the Tao in the future.

Lingyun secretly thought: I only accept Kun Dao in my Doumu Temple, in which the woman is nothing more than her husband's family has no support, her mother's family has no support, she has no children under her knees, and she has entered the Tao. Although there are one or two materials that can be made, the fate is very pitiful. How can we deliberately allow a cultivator to go through difficulties for the sake of his or her talents, this is not our compassionate heart. Wei Qian's marriage is still a little twists and turns, it is better to persuade more, it can be regarded as not in vain for her hard work in the past two years. Lingyun likes Wei Qian, a little girl, and doesn't want her to have a bumpy fate, and finally enter the Tao alone. So I have the heart to help and persuade Jia Mei.

Let's say that Wei Qian and Hongchun went to look for Jia Mei, only to see Jia Mei talking about the blessing lamp with a Kun Dao.

"When I was in Chang'an, I often heard people say that lighting a blessing lamp in front of the throne of the god can protect the peace of the family. Dare to ask how the master will be placed? What about the money? ”

The female cultivator of the Kun Dao, Xuanyu, who has been following the Lingyun cultivation for decades, said with a smile: "Although the statement of the blessed lamp is somewhat credible, how can a serious temple make a promise?" Probably those people make money for incense, so that the pilgrims can ask for peace of mind. ”

Wei Qian came over and hurriedly asked, "Mother wants to set up a blessing lamp for the little brother?" ”

Jia Mei shook her head: "I want to set up one for both of you." In addition to the safety of the child in her womb, her eldest daughter's marriage also worries her. If she dies then, she also hopes that her daughter will live well.

Pulling Wei Qian to her side, Jia Mei asked Xuanyu again: "Master, you said that this lucky lamp is not easy to do?" ”

"The ordinary blessing lamp is nothing more than a few catties of sesame oil, looking for someone to take care of it. It's extinguished in the night, you know? Xuanyu is also an honest person, seeing that Jia Mei's mother and daughter are frequent visitors to the Doumu Temple, he described some of the things in the temple: "But if you want the blessing lamp to be extinguished for a long time, the skills in this are high." After the Later Han Dynasty, the Changming lantern technique has long been lost among the people, but Taoism has left this technique between the Taoist temples when it preserved the Taoist book, which is the origin of the blessed lamp. In addition, those who have Taoist skills can also protect the lights from being extinguished. But this kind of light, first, is not supported by divine light, second, it has never inspired the number of fate, and third, it cannot pray for blessings and avoid disasters, so it is useless. If you really want to keep your family safe, you need to really have a good practice. In my Dou Mu Temple, there is only one master. ”

Lingyun's Xuanling Dao is more inclined to Taoism, although these Kun Daoists have learned some fur, but there are only three or five people who really enter the Tao, and only Lingyun has the profound mana to refine the ever-bright lamp in front of the Dou Mu Seat. This blessed lamp is refined, that is, in front of the Dou Grandma Niangniang, when the time comes, there will be the protection of gods and Buddhas.

"I was in Chang'an back then, but I saw that there were many blessing lights in those temples, could it be that they were all fake?" Before Jia Mei got married, she saw a lot of nobles who spent a lot of money in Chang'an. There are many blessing lamps in the Taoist Buddhist temple over there, among which there are many gold and silver carvings, and the colored glass and colorful things. And the powerful of the family compare, and the blessing lamps are luxurious and dazzling.

"There are true and false, Chang'an is the land of Longxing, and there are many people who are profound, maybe they can light the blessing lamp and pray for disasters." After thinking about it, Xuanyu said: "Several masters of the Temple of Mercy and Grace have some magical powers, and there are also a few masters in the Clear Void Temple. ”

When Jia Mei heard the clear void, her heart moved. Most powerful families have the custom of substitution. Because it is difficult for children to feed, they have to go to the gods and Buddhas for a few years.

Some people say that this is because children have not lost their inspiration and can see ghosts and gods, so they are loved by the gods, so they should go to live with the gods and Buddhas for a period of time before the age of seven to bless their future health. But where can the children of powerful families withstand penance? Therefore, there is a saying of substitution, looking for an orphan to become a monk and take a substitute for life, which can be regarded as helping one's own children, but cause and effect.

Of course, there is also a subtle meaning to this. If the gods and Buddhas like children, then take this orphan away and don't look for our children.

Of course, time has passed, and not many people still use this custom today. Most of them were weak when they were young, so they used the alternative method.

Jia Mei has been to Qingxu Temple several times, and one of those people in that view is a stand-in for her father Jia Daishan, who is also said to be a person of great virtue.

Jia Mei thought about it: "If you ask Master Lingyun to do it, I don't know how much sesame oil money will be needed?" ”

When he heard the mention of mundane money, Master Xuanyu frowned: "Since you are a god and Buddha, how can you care about mundane money?" ”

When Wei Qian heard this, she said suddenly: "Senior sister, I remember that there is an allusion in the Buddhist scriptures, when the Dragon Maiden Bodhisattva did not become enlightened in the past, she exchanged a jewel worth three thousand worlds for the opportunity to become a Buddha. It can be seen that the gods and Buddhas also have a request. ”

"What the Buddha asks for is nothing more than karma. In the past, the good and wise boy worshiped the Dingguang Buddha with five blue lotus flowers, and the karma was achieved after thousands of eons, and the Lord Buddha was called Shakyamuni Buddha. If you really want to ask Master to help light the blessing lamp, as long as the opportunity comes. ”

If the opportunity is not reached, it is difficult for the daughter to exchange it once. And if the opportunity comes, it is to worship a lotus flower at will, and she will come forward if she can't say it.

Jia Mei's mother and daughter listened thoughtfully.

"By the way, Mother, Master Lingyun said that he wanted to give you a pulse." Wei Qian remembered to get down to business at this time.

Lingyuan has a good relationship with Jia Mei's mother and daughter, she is proficient in medical skills, so she simply helped when Jia Mei came to incense. After going back and forth, the relationship between the two parties has further improved.