Chapter 65: Opening the View (Part II)
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"Boss, I'm sorry! Originally, I came here by myself, but when the people in the village heard about the opening of your Taoist temple, they had to come together, so it wouldn't cause you any trouble, right? When the crowd came to the mountain gate, Shi Qingfan crossed the crowd and came to Li Xiao, and said with some embarrassment.
"It's okay, everyone who comes is a guest, thank you for coming to this view." Li Xiao bowed slightly to the people in Xiaoshi Village.
The monks behind him, seeing the Lord of the Temple, also followed Li Xiao to give a salute to the people in Xiaoshi Village.
"Oops! What is this doing! We can't afford it, you have brought us money in addition to the female ghosts in my village, we are here to thank you! Old man Shi, who was supported by Shi Feng, saw Li Xiao saluting him, and hurriedly said something.
"Viewer, look, this is a congratulatory gift from our village, not a rare thing, that is, an old wood carving, please don't dislike it!"
As the old man Shi spoke, he stretched out his hand to remove the red silk, only to see a wood carving more than half a meter high in front of Li Xiao.
Like a reclining Taoist, the wood is cracked in many places, at a glance, it is an object that has been washed over the years, but this shape is a bit peculiar, I can't say which statue of a great god.
"...... this?" Li Xiao looked at the wooden statue and wondered.
"We don't know who this is, I've been worshipping in the ancestral hall in the village for a long time, no, there are no good things in the village to get my hands on, so I sent this to the viewer, the viewer won't be shabby, right?" Old man Shi said with some embarrassment.
This wood carving has indeed been placed in the ancestral hall of the Shi family for a long time, but it is not a rare thing, and I don't know which ancestor of the Shi family became a Taoist priest, and it is useless to send back such a wooden statue.
A few years ago, when the village was repairing the ancestral hall, the people in the village wanted to move it out of the ancestral hall, and some people said that it was an old object, maybe it could be worth a few dollars, and proposed to sell it. But at that time, the old man felt that although this wood carving was useless, it was left by an ancestor after all, and it must not be sold.
Therefore, this wood carving stayed in the ancestral hall of Xiaoshi Village for a few years, just in time for Li Xiao's Taoist temple to open, everyone together, felt that it was better to give this wood carving to Li Xiao, and sent it to the Taoist temple for offering, thinking that the ancestors who sent back this wood carving would not be blamed if there was a spirit in the sky.
"This is the ancestor's object, how can I accept it!" When Li Xiao heard this, he wanted to refuse.
"Huh! I don't know what the viewer knows, in fact, this object is also a rotten life in the village, and you can't still get some incense when you send it here! So don't shiver. Old man Shi said with an embarrassed smile.
If this object hadn't been left by some unknown ancestor, it would have been thrown away a long time ago, how could it have been left until now.
"This ......!" Just when Li Xiao wanted to say something, the peach blossom old dao in his left hand pulled his robe.
Li Xiao looked back at the old Tao of Peach Blossom with some confusion, his eyes were inquiring.
"Lord, if you have any thoughts, just accept it! It would be a loss of face to resign. Peach Blossom said and squeezed his eyes at Li Xiao.
Frowning and thinking about it, Li Xiao didn't figure out why Peach Blossom Lao Dao let him accept it, but he also felt that what he said made sense.
"I have accepted this gift, please come to the temple to rest!" Li Xiao turned back to Old Man Shi and said goodbye, then turned his head to the six male monks standing behind Peach Blossom Old Dao and said, "Tao Yi, the six of you take all the guests to the temple to rest for a while, remember not to slack off." ”
"Yes, Lord!" Tao Mu answered, and then went out with the other unknown monks, and led the old man Shi and everyone to the inner line of the temple.
These twelve mortal-level monks, when the Dao Lotus was ripe, were just six men and six women, and Li Xiao already had two Dao children, Qingfeng Mingyue, so he divided them into the names of Peach Blossom Old Dao and Baihua.
The six male monks who followed the Tao Blossom Old Road were called: Tao Yi, Tao Er, Tao San, Tao Shi, Tao Wu, and Tao Lu.
As for the six female cultivators who followed the Hundred Flowers, they were also similar names, but they only started with flowers.
And these names are also given by Li Xiao, which can only say that Li Xiao really doesn't pay attention to the names at all, and he will be one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
When everyone from Xiaoshi Village entered the temple, Li Xiao turned his head and asked, "Why are you suddenly interested in that wood carving?" ”
"Huh! It's nothing, it's just that there is a bit of incense in the wood carving, and the space can be absorbed to transform Dao coins. Peach Blossom said with a smile.
"So, if there are a lot of people from our Taoist temple, we can also accumulate incense and fire qi to transform Dao coins?" Li Xiao asked with some uncertainty.
"It can be, but it's time ~ hehe!" Peach Blossom said halfway, hehe smiled, and then stopped talking.
Li Xiao didn't ask again, Lao Dao's words have been made very clear, that is, this incense gas must be accumulated over time, and it is not something that can be obtained in a short period of time at all, although it cannot solve the problems he is facing now, but it is also a long-term source of Dao coins.
As time passed, when the sun was shining and it was approaching noon, Fulongqiu welcomed three guests again.
There were two women who came first, one was Zhuo Yue, when she called to inform her, Li Xiao was also thinking about whether to inform her, and later felt that people had helped her, so she invited someone to have a meal at that time, so she notified Zhuo Yue.
It's just that what Li Xiao didn't expect was that Zhuo Yue actually took Fang Lin to Fulong Hill.
However, Li Xiao didn't say anything, and directly asked them to take them into the Taoist temple.
Immediately afterwards, Du Sheng arrived alone, but Li Xiao was a little strange, why did Du Sheng still wear sunglasses today?
"Du Lao, are you pretending to be cool?" Li Xiao asked jokingly.
"Ehehe~! I came in a hurry, and I didn't prepare any congratulatory gifts, so I will make up for it another day. Du Sheng smiled awkwardly and then said.
"Congratulatory gifts or anything are secondary, since I didn't bring them, then ...... Then cash out! Li Xiao said half-jokingly.
"You're short on money?" Du Sheng asked a little strangely.
"It's a bit of a financial crisis! Laughing, laughing! Li Xiao said with a snort.
"Has the old man arrived?" After a moment of silence, Du Sheng suddenly asked.
"Well, this is it!" Li Xiao turned around and pointed to the old peach blossom road behind him, and said to Du Sheng.
Just when Du Sheng opened his mouth to say something, he saw that the old Tao of Peach Blossom nodded lightly to him, but did not speak to him, but turned to Li Xiao and said, "Lord, the auspicious time has come." ”
At this time, everyone in the tube was also notified and came to the mountain gate.
"Okay, let's uncover the red silk!" Li Xiao looked up at the sky, thinking that no one would come, so he said directly.
The peach blossom old road behind him handed Li Xiao a bamboo pole tied with a red thread, which had been prepared a long time ago to unveil the red silk.
Li Xiao took the bamboo pole and turned around and walked to the bottom of the mountain gate, and everyone also turned around, waiting for him to uncover the silk.
"Li Xiao! How can you not wait for me to open the view? Just as Li Xiao stretched out the bamboo pole to pick up the red silk, a voice suddenly sounded from behind.
Li Xiao was stunned for a moment, and he knew who was coming when he heard the voice, but he didn't stop the movements in his hand, and still picked off the red silk, revealing a plaque made of peach wood, with the three big characters of 'Lotus View' written on it.
Li Xiao turned to the crowd and said, "Thank you for coming, please come and sit down in the temple, and if there is a little ceremony, you will start the banquet directly." ”
In a congratulatory voice, everyone entered the Taoist temple one after another.
At this time, Li Xiao thought that he had just found Wang Qian, who was standing on the stone steps, and was looking like an iron-blue face, so he hurriedly stepped forward and said with a smile: "Oops! Brother Qian, why are you here? Don't tell me in advance. ”
"Hehe, it's nothing, it's just that I suddenly heard that your Taoist temple is going to open, so I want to come and join in the fun." Wang Qian quickly put on a smiling face, and as he spoke, he raised his hand at the root behind him.
I saw that the attendant took out a wad of money from his pocket and handed it directly to Wang Gan.
"This is a little bit of my brother's heart, don't be too little!" Wang Qian said, and stuffed the money to Li Xiao.
"How so! Come to Brother Gan, please. Casually put the banknote that looked like about 10,000 yuan into his arms, Li Xiao would not be polite to this person.
Wang Gan saw that Li Xiao put away the money neatly, his expression was stunned, and he saw that Li Xiao had turned around and walked towards the temple, the gloomy color on his face flashed, and then he followed Li Xiao into the Taoist temple.
Before coming to the main hall, Li Xiao stood in the first place, followed by the Peach Blossom Old Dao and the Hundred Flowers, and then behind the Qingfeng Mingyue, Shen Yi and the twelve mortal-level monks.
Li Xiao straightened his robe, looked solemn, and took the lead into the main hall with a solemn face.
The main hall is the lotus hall, there is no furnishings, not even the statue of the god, only in the wall facing the temple door, there is a desk, there is an incense burner on it, and many incense candles, and the wall is painted with a blooming snow-white lotus.
This lotus flower is what Li Xiaolai warned himself, and it is also his goal.
In his heart, the reason why Dao Lian is blood-red is completely due to the influence of the realm spirit, and Li Xiao's goal is to get rid of the realm spirit, control the heavenly Dao space by himself, wash away the blood mist on the Dao lotus, and make it become the white lotus in his mind.
Peach Blossom Lao Dao stepped forward, lit the incense candles, and then distributed the sandalwood to everyone's hands, and returned to Li Xiao.
Li Xiao held three sticks of incense in his hand, slowly bowed to the white lotus on the wall and bowed three times, and then walked to the front of the desk.
"When you enter my door, don't worship Sanqing, don't worship heaven and earth, only worship the holy lotus in my heart!" Li Xiao said calmly, and then inserted the incense in his hand into the incense burner.
The monks in the other Taoist temples also bowed three times one after another, and stepped forward in an orderly manner to insert incense into the incense burner.
Then, everyone walked out of the main hall and walked towards the side hall on the right.
Speaking of which, the things of the Hundred Flowers and the Peach Blossom Old Man are not the same as Li Xiaobai, this is more like the merger of the three sects, and naturally the same simple ritual will also be carried out in the Hundred Flowers Hall and the Peach Blossom Palace.
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