Chapter 9 Iron Buddha Ancient Temple
I looked at Wang Jinhuai on the bed, maybe he was tired yesterday, and now he is still sleeping soundly, and it is still early in the sky, so I didn't call him.
I went out of the room alone, and they hadn't gotten up yet, except for a few family members who were cleaning the yard, and they didn't see anyone else moving.
I wandered to the backyard, no one in the backyard has been here, last night's burning paper money and the ashes of the paper man have been blown away by the wind, leaving only traces of burning things, and the two ashes altar are quietly placed in front of the incense case. I threw the two small stone tablets that had fallen into the ground into the pond so that others would not see the word Zhao Ji.
After dealing with these, I practiced the Fulong boxing taught by the master on the lawn, after a punch, my body was already drenched in sweat, and I turned around and wanted to take a shower, but I saw a woman standing in the corridor, wearing a light green shirt, one meter six or seven tall, followed by a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, the woman walked straight towards me out of the corridor, and came closely, it turned out to be Miss Wei, a few days ago when I first saw Miss Wei because she was possessed by demons, so she was more haggard, and now the demons have been removed, and the young man is recovering quickly, His face no longer looked haggard. Originally, I didn't look at it carefully, but now I looked carefully, and I saw that he gave birth to two spring mountain willow eyebrows, a pair of autumn dust-free apricot eyes, a lotus face, peach cheeks, and two ruby pendants in his ears.
"Dao Chief, the little woman thanks the Dao Chang for saving her life, I saw that the Dao Chief was busy a few days ago and didn't come to thank you, and today I came to the garden and saw the Dao Chief here, so the little woman did not avoid suspicion, please forgive the Dao Chief." It is precisely because I don't smile or speak, I smile and dimple, and I am a stunning beauty, even I, a person with a firm heart, can't help but feel a wave in my heart.
"Miss is polite, my Taoist is to hoe the strong and help the weak, kill demons and eliminate demons as their own responsibility, this time it is also fate, Xiaodao went to the capital and passed through here, only to encounter this thing."
"The Taoist chief is going to the capital, and my father also said that he will go to the capital to see my cousin for a while, maybe the Taoist and I will meet in the capital, and then ask the Taoist to tell me the story of your Taoism. The little woman went back first, and the Taoist remembered that we will meet in the capital, remember that my name is Wei Zihan. ”
After speaking, Miss Wei turned around and left, I also followed not far behind, walked to the front yard together, and saw a pink handkerchief falling out of Miss Wei's sleeve at the corner, I hurriedly picked it up, just wanted to call Miss Wei, but the person has gone away, it is the place where the female dependents live, and I am inconvenient to follow the past, I opened the handkerchief, only to see four lines of poetry written on the handkerchief: Mo on the plum blossom resentment, plum blossom live up to the year's cold alliance? The spoon wants to ask for the real news, and has promised to be in the long pavilion. I understand the meaning of the poem, but I am a Taoist, and there are conditions for love and love at home.
In fact, many Taoist priests in the past can marry wives and have children, just like the famous Longhu Mountain Zhang Tianshi, which is passed down from generation to generation, if he does not marry or have children, he goes there to preach, when Zhang Daoling became an immortal, he stipulated that the leader of the Heavenly Master Dao They Zhang Jiabao.
Regardless of these, don't be ruthless with the intention of falling flowers, after all, people are everyone's ladies, and I'm just a little Taoist.
Came to the front hall Wei Yuanwai and Wang Jinhuai were there, I roughly talked about last night's incident, and said that it was the joint burial tomb of a general and his wife in Jinguo, and the soul was trapped here by a spell, and we had settled them last night, and there would be nothing in the future, but there were still their ashes to find a place to be reburied, which was also discussed with Wang Jinhuai, I was afraid that he would leak his mouth.
Wei Yuanwai heard that I had everything done, and hurriedly said: "No problem, isn't the Taoist going to the Iron Buddha Temple, there is a piece of land in my family next to it, and no one usually goes to plant it and it has been barren, so let's bury the ashes somewhere." There is also the fact that the Taoist chief used to be a little girl, I once promised a reward, I think the Taoist is a cultivator, and it is not suitable to marry my daughter, so let's do it, I will give the Taoist two hundred taels of silver. After speaking, he waved his hand and asked Wei An to bring over a plate of silver, I knew that Wei Yuanwai was afraid that I would mention the matter of marrying, so he sealed my mouth with silver, a family like theirs is all about the right family, who will marry his daughter to a Taoist priest.
I said, "You're welcome, I'm ashamed, and I'm going to trouble Wei Yuanwai to find someone to accompany us to bury the ashes." ”
Wei Yuanwai said: "That's, Daoist, please rest assured, I've arranged it, they will also send you to the Iron Buddha Temple, and by the way, I will prepare some food for you and Mr. Wang, there are no monks there, it's an empty temple, bring some food and don't be afraid that you won't find anything to eat when you arrive, what else does the Taoist need to say." ”
Now that things have been dealt with, Wei Yuanwai can't wait for us to leave quickly, after all, this is not a good thing, in such a small city, a little thing will spread all over the city. I put the silver on the plate into my backpack, a total of 10 ingots, 20 taels for each ingot, I left 2 ingots and put them on the table in front of Wang Jinhuai, "Mr. Wang has also made a lot of efforts, these silver taels can be regarded as hard work." ”
"I can't ask for it, and I haven't done much." In fact, I know that Wang Jinhuai's family is not very wealthy, and he will have to take the exam next year, all of which require money. I know that people who read have a good face, and they are embarrassed to take it if they want to. Seeing that Wang Jinhuai didn't want it, Wei Yuanwai said: "Dao Chief, I am ready for Mr. Wang's share." Saying that, he asked Wei An to go and get another fifty taels of silver, but Wang Jinhuai was not polite, so he put it away after a while. I'll put up the two minas that are left, and I'll give them to him again when the time comes."
After breakfast, Wei Yuanwai arranged for Wei An to take a few family members, and a carriage, two columbarium altars have been moved to the carriage, and there are a few shovels on the car, Wang Jinhuai and I got into the car, Wei Yuanwai stood outside the gate of the mansion and watched us go away, unfortunately I never saw Miss Wei appear, touched the handkerchief in my arms, and felt a little lost.
The car went out of the city all the way to the west of the city, this is an abandoned official road, although there are still many pedestrians, but there is no official road flat, potholes everywhere, sitting on the car is also uncomfortable, I simply got down and walked.
The fields on both sides of the road are planted with crops such as millet and sorghum, and it just rained yesterday, and there was no one working in the fields.
In less than an hour, we arrived at the vacant land that Wei Yuanwai said, I took a cursory look, it was not bad, so I found a high place for them to dig a grave pit, and after digging the grave in a while, let people put the ash altar in the grave pit, after building the tomb, I burned some paper money, and then packed up my things, and we walked all the way to the Iron Buddha Temple.
It is not far from the Iron Buddha Temple, and you can see the majestic hall from afar.
Passing through a path, after a while we came to the Iron Buddha Temple, but see that the whole temple covers an area of about ten acres, just dilapidated does not look good, the mountain gate is engraved, the Iron Buddha Ancient Temple, the four words can still be seen vaguely, the temple gate is engraved on both sides of a couplet: the upper link is, the Iron Buddha Town Quartet, the square is peaceful, the lower link is, Guanyin blesses the eight places, and the land is healthy. Entered the mountain gate, but saw a large hall in the courtyard, two side halls on the left and right, there is a bell tower in the backyard, the ancient trees in the courtyard are lush and green, but it has been abandoned for a long time, the weeds have been drilled out of the stones paved on the road, the more desolate, Wei An they followed behind, carrying the food prepared for us by Wei Yuanwai, and walked all the way to the door of the main hall, the doors and windows of the main hall have fallen off, the ground is full of pigeon and mouse dung, the dead leaves and dead branches, in the middle of a big Buddha more than 2 zhang high, the big Buddha is full of cobweb dust, but it is still solemn and majestic.
I asked Wei An to clean up a corner and put things down. said: "You go back, thank you for me." "I touched another one or two pieces of broken silver and handed it to Wei An." After all of you have worked hard, go back and get some wine and drink. "Wei An don't want it, I gave it to him hard, and said, "Then thank you Dao Chang, we will go back if there is nothing to do, and the next time Dao Chang passes by Shouguang, he will definitely come to Wei Mansion to play with us." ”
After sending Wei An away, I went out of the main hall with Wang Jinhuai and came to the courtyard, there was no monk in the whole temple, it looked extremely desolate, not to mention finding Elder Ran, that is, finding someone who could speak, it was impossible to ask. We walked through the apse door and came to the backyard, which was as desolate as the backyard, except that there was a bell tower and bell tower, and the door was hidden, in the middle of the backyard, which seemed a little inconsistent with the pattern of the temple, giving people an uncomfortable feeling.
"Mr. Wang, we have to find someone to ask, Elder Ran is buried there, you are a local, see where we go to find someone." Before I heard Wang Jinhuai speak, I saw the door of the bell tower pushed open from the inside.