The next day, Shen Lan took the Xu family out again, this time the master and servant were going to the natural temple outside the city, this temple is the largest temple in Jinzhou City, and the incense is also very vigorous, it is a place highly recommended by the shopkeeper, Shen Lan is worried that he can't find a chance to deal with the matter of space, so he responded.

Shen Lan came to this world for the first time to enter the temple, not because she was taboo about anything, but because she was an atheist and never believed in these, so naturally she had no intention of setting foot in it.

Because I want to go outside the city, it is naturally not good for the master and servant to go out, and I asked the shopkeeper to help hire a coachman, so that Shen Lan and Xu can make a carriage to go to the natural mountain, but the carriage can only go to the foot of the natural mountain, and the reason why this mountain is called the natural mountain also has a background, there is a group of caryophyllum forests on this mountain, and I don't know what the reason is, there is a group of broken bamboos and bamboo shoots formed by stones on the back mountain of the natural temple, these stones are naturally formed, so this mountain is named natural mountain.

Later, a monk built a temple here, so the name of the temple also followed this mountain, it was called the natural temple, many people said that this temple was very effective, so gradually the incense became prosperous, and it became the first temple in Jinzhou Mansion, every first day and fifteenth day of the new year, there are temple fairs to catch, Shen Lan happened to catch up with the temple fair of the fifteenth this time.

Riding a carriage to the foot of the mountain, there were people who came to participate in the temple fair and vendors who were selling, and naturally there were people who came to the temple to burn incense and worship Buddha in a carriage like Shen Lan, and these people also parked the carriage at the foot of the mountain. Then walk up the mountain to burn incense and worship the Buddha.

"Ma'am, shall we go down too?" When he arrived at the ground, Xu asked in a low voice.

Shen Lan nodded, Xu pushed the car door and helped Shen Lan get out of the carriage, and then the master and servant followed the flow of people towards the way up the mountain, and were stopped by someone before they took two steps.

"Does my wife go up the mountain to worship the Buddha? Buy some incense and candles, the Bodhisattva will surely bless his wife's wishes when he receives incense. A woman carrying a basket to sell incense and candles stopped Shen Lan's way and strongly recommended her own incense candles.

Xu Shi on the side was ashamed when he saw it and said, "Mrs., they are all old slaves who are not stable in their work. Forget to buy incense candles. ”

Shen Lan looked around. Seeing that those people who went up the mountain did bring incense and candles to offer incense, they didn't say anything and motioned to Xu to buy some incense and candles to go up the mountain to worship, and then Xu looked at the woman who sold incense and candles: "I don't know how you sell this incense and candle?" ”

The woman used to sell incense and candles here, and she was very good at looking at people's faces. Although I didn't see Shen Lan's master and servant getting off the carriage. But it looks like one comes and one goes less. The old ones were dressed simply and wore no jewelry, and the few were not necessarily very beautiful, and there were only a few silver hairpins on their heads. But I don't see how much respect the old one has, I think it must not be a mother-in-law or a mother and daughter, and the old one just now also called the young one his wife, so these two must be master and servant, how can the one who can call the servant woman be a poor family?

Thinking about it like this, he immediately said with a smile on his face: "The incense candles I have here are divided into many types, such as this kind of fortune incense, burn a fortune incense and naturally get promoted to become rich, if you want to come to your wife's house to be rich, it is better to buy a note." ”

As he spoke, he took out three thick and tall incense sticks from the basket, Xu nodded, his own family is indeed in business, and the old man is an official outside, this incense can be burned, so he turned around to look at Shen Lan, Shen Lan looked at the woman selling incense with a smile on the corner of her mouth.

"How do you sell this incense?" Seeing Xu Shi looking at him, Shen Lan asked.

"Madam, it's not expensive, this stick of incense with yellow paper is only fifteen yuan." When the woman saw that the master asked, she immediately opened her mouth happily, and intuitively felt that the business was done, and she couldn't help but be greedy for a while and said: "Madam, it's not the best to just get rich, it's better to buy another stick of peace incense, this is to ensure the safety of Mrs.'s family, and there is also a perfect incense ......."

crackled a bunch of introductions, and the names were even more varied, and the Xu family who listened to it felt unreliable, but seeing his wife looking at it with a light smile and not opening her mouth, Xu didn't know what it meant.

In fact, Xu misunderstood Shen Lan, Shen Lan looked at this hawker at the moment and remembered that when he went to travel in the past, if there is a temple in the scenic spot, there will definitely be such a hawker selling incense and candles, obviously it is just a stick of incense but he has made all kinds of names to fool people, at the beginning Shen Lan was ignorant, and he really bought the so-called high incense, and spent a lot of money, and later found that in the general incense and candle shop, these incense are not worth much money at all, and he was deceived by someone.

I remember going to Jiuhua once, Shen Lan lit a lotus lamp and spent more than 3,000 yuan, that time was Shen Lan went to Jiuhua at the end of the college entrance examination to relax, and blamed her for being careless at that time, she didn't ask the price to order, and when she knew the price and wanted to regret it, Shen's mother who followed her was very fond of Buddhism, but said that since the words were said in front of the Buddha, she should keep her promise, and finally she could only point hard, after that time, Shen Lan was very disgusted with Buddhism and temples, and it can be regarded as eating a trench and growing a wisdom, since then Shen Lan has been an atheist, The monks of the Buddhist temple will deceive people, so what else can be believed?

Because of recalling this past, Shen Lan was a little distracted, and the vendor thought that he had persuaded Shen Lan, and looked at Shen Lan expectantly, hoping that she could buy all the Buddha incense she said so much, as long as she completed this single business, she could afford to run to the temple fair many times, don't seem to have many people burning incense here, but there are not many people who buy incense.

Generally, ordinary poor people who burn incense either bring it at home, or buy some loose incense, and they can't make any money at all, and large families will have servant women who specialize in taking care of incense and candles, and those incense are naturally only made of fine spices.

"Mother Xu, just take a handful of yellow paper and a bag of loose incense with her." The lessons of the previous life are still vivid, how could Shen Lan be encouraged by someone casually, so after coming back to her senses, she directly ordered the Xu family.

The original flattering smile on the face of the incense seller froze suddenly, and she said this for a long time. This girl actually only needed a handful of yellow paper and a bag of loose incense, but she said that her mouth was dry, but she was blind, although she was disappointed, but she didn't dare to show it, after all, although the ants are small, they are also meat, so she reluctantly smiled and said: "Okay, I'll bring incense to my wife." ”

Xu didn't expect that his wife would only need a handful of yellow paper and a bag of loose incense, and at this moment, the vendor was also sympathetic, but fortunately, she only sympathized in her heart. But he didn't say it. However, there are still some complaints about his wife's casual incense behavior, after all, most people in this era believe in gods and Buddhas.

"How much do you have to pay for these incense papers?" Taking the incense and paper handed over by the other party, Xu asked.

"It's two pennies in total." After speaking, he looked at Shen Lan again, and said with some reluctance: "Mrs. really doesn't think about burning peace incense?" Bless the whole family safely. I also bless my wife's family with peace and prosperity. Or please beg for incense. Bless my wife to give birth to a big fat boy......"

"Sincerity is spirituality, and there is no need for these external means." Shen Lan interrupted with a smile, also insincere. It is also in vain to burn the most incense, she herself does not believe it, why waste all those money, it is this handful of paper money and a bag of loose incense, Shen Lan feels that it is a waste, if she doesn't follow the customs, she is too lazy to buy it.

"Oh." When Shen Lan said this, the peddler didn't know what to do for a while, but seeing that the big fat sheep was about to run away, he was still very unwilling in his heart, so he continued to entangle: "It's good to be sincere, isn't this more incense also icing on the cake?" ”

Shen Lan just smiled when she heard this, and said to the Xu family: "Let's go, let's go up." ”

Xu hurriedly took out the money and handed it to the vendor, took the incense and paper money from the other party, and didn't say anything about his wife's behavior, just helped Shen Lan to walk away and walked towards the way up the mountain, the natural mountain is not high, and the stairs have been repaired, so it is not dangerous, and it will not be too difficult for Shen Lan who is pregnant.

The master and servant entered the gate of the temple and walked into the courtyard, the courtyard was empty, but there were a lot of pilgrims at this time, the incense smoke was swirling in the copper furnace where the incense was burned in the courtyard, and many people were still adding incense and paper money to the incense burner.

Compared with Shen Lan's dislike, Xu was much more sincere, religiously lit the incense, and then handed a stick of incense to Shen Lan who was standing far away from the incense burner, and then held the incense to worship in all directions, and then stood aside with the incense and waited for Shen Lan to worship, Shen Lan bowed in front of him and handed the incense to Xu, Xu took two sticks of incense and walked to the incense burner, and inserted the incense with the incense ash in the incense burner, and then burned paper money in the incense burner.

After doing this, Xu Shi lit two more incense sticks, the bag of loose incense has a total of fifteen incense, so when the time comes, they will continue to enter the incense, light a new incense Xu Shi walked in front of Shen Lan to lead the way, led Shen Lan into the main hall, and worshiped Pusi in the hall, and did not forget to take out the copper plate and throw it into the merit box, after doing this, he turned back and asked Shen Lan: "Madam, do you want to add some sesame oil money?" ”

Naturally, the merit money that the Xu family invested before was her own money, and when she asked Shen Lan at this time, she wanted to see how much Shen Lan wanted to donate, Shen Lan shook her head, she didn't believe it, and why did she donate sesame oil money if she didn't ask for anything? Besides, if you really want to make merit, it is not useful to donate a few money, if you donate to the monks in the temple, it is better to buy some steamed bread and vegetarian food to give to the beggars outside the temple.

Seeing this, Xu didn't say anything, anyway, it was her merit that his wife was willing to donate sesame oil money, and it was also her own sin if she didn't want to, she was afraid and couldn't persuade her, after all, she knew that her master didn't revere the gods and Buddhas when she bought incense before, but she couldn't figure it out, since she didn't believe in the gods and Buddhas, it was really strange to come to this temple.

After worshipping the Bodhisattva in the main hall, the Xu family did not boredly encourage Shen Lan to draw lots, and Shen Lan did not take the initiative to draw, but asked the Xu family to inquire about the way to the back mountain, and Shen Lan was still more interested in the stalagmites on the natural mountain.

Xu walked up to the master who had unsigned the sign, and bowed to the master reverently before he spoke: "Master, excuse me, I don't know how to go to the back mountain?" ”

The master who unsigned also returned the salute, and said in a calm tone: "Donor, but you want to go to the back mountain to see the caryophyllus?" ”

"Yes, please show me the way." Xu spoke reverently.

"The donor can go out from the apse and walk through the meditation room at the back." The monk spoke.

"Thank you, master." After Xu finished thanking him, he bowed to the master again, and then returned to Shen Lan and said, "Madam, let's walk out of the apse and go to the back mountain through the meditation room." ”

"Oh, then let's go to the back mountain." Shen Landao.

Xu immediately took Shen Lan in the direction pointed by the monk, and sure enough, he passed through the apse and then through the meditation room to the back mountain, there was no one in the back mountain, but it was quiet and ruthless, and a lot of bamboo was planted, and there were stone tables and stone piers outside the bamboo forest for people to rest, Shen Lan was curious about what those caryophyllus looked like after all, so he didn't sit down to rest, but walked along the path to the outside.

Out of the bamboo forest, I really saw the bamboo and bamboo shoots formed by the stones, because they were integrated with the bamboo forest, so they looked more and more similar, the bamboo knots of each section were particularly obvious, and the bamboo shoots were also very realistic.

"Madam, this is really like, it's exactly like real bamboo." Xu on the side was also amazed, and admired everything in front of him.

"Yes, this caryophyllus is indeed very similar to stalagmites." Shen Lan also had to agree.

"Mrs., no wonder people say that the Bodhisattva of the natural temple has a miracle, and I have to believe it when I see these stone bamboos, and people can say that the patriarch of the natural temple did not have these stone bamboos when he came here to open a mountain and build a temple, and they were all Buddha manifestations." Xu Shi opened his mouth and said, these are naturally the legends she heard from the shopkeeper.

Shen Lan just smiled when she heard it, but she didn't think it was a wonder produced by man-made action, it was just the handiwork of nature, the information in the previous life was developed, and this kind of similar landscape was casually searched on the Internet, I don't know how many I can find, so although Shen Lan feels that the creator is magical, she will not really feel shocked.

"Mother Xu, I'm a little thirsty, can you go and ask me for a cup of tea?" Shen Lan said suddenly.

Xu Shi nodded, and told uneasily: "Then Mrs. be careful, there is a lot of grass here, maybe there are snakes and insects, don't come in and run around, I'll be back in a while." ”

"Got it, Mother Xu, just rest assured, I'll wait for you here." Shen Lan should admit.

Xu looked at Shen Lan, and then walked quickly in the direction of the temple, Shen Lan saw Xu enter the back door of the temple, turned around and walked towards the bamboo forest, raised his hand and looked at the beads in his hand, it was a coincidence that the beads were black, so it was night in the space, so Shen Lan sensed it, and felt that the people in the space were indeed asleep, so he waved his hand and put all the people in the bamboo forest, turned around and ran towards the bamboo forest.

Just out of the bamboo forest to calm down the breath, Shen Lan hurriedly towards the temple door, just walked to the back door and met Xu, Xu held a bowl with water in his hand, saw Shen Lan coming over and immediately said: "Madam, I asked the master for a bowl of water, you drink it quickly, I will send it back." ”

Hearing this, Shen Lan took the bowl, drank the water in a big gulp, and then handed the bowl back, and said, "You can send this bowl back, there is nothing interesting in this temple, let's go to the foot of the mountain to have a look." ”

After all, there are a lot of vendors at the foot of the mountain because of the temple fair, but you can take a stroll, Xu immediately responded, and the master and servant went to the front yard together, as for everything behind him, Shen Lan didn't have the heart to care about it at all. (To be continued......)