Chapter 718: Old Dao Warning
A few days later, Yang Congyi and Gu Qingchen decided to donate a temple on the ruins of Wulongguan, and Zhang Liu conveyed it to his abbot brother Sun Daochang.
A few days later, Zhang Liu spread the word that Sun Daochang basically agreed to their donation, and at the same time put forward a request, the donation can be built, and the monks in Guanli must participate in the construction.
Yang Congyi and Gu Qingchen's original intention was just to donate incense money, and they didn't want cash, so they had to donate to build a temple.
But now Wulongguan incense is not prosperous, the network resources are very limited, to rebuild the temple in the inconvenient mountain, money alone is not enough, but also to find people, buy materials to achieve, these tasks are naturally Yang Congyi's.
Although he has resigned from the government and has no power in his hands, the official position and title are still there, and the local officials who are far away from Bianjing still have to give him face, because although he is not in Bianjing, the relationship in the officialdom is still there.
The commander of the Praetorian Guard took Yang Congyi's letter down the mountain, first to Junzhou Yamen, and then to Wudang County.
As long as someone pays for the local officials not to bleed, and even allows them to get some benefits from it, they are still willing to do more, after all, the temple is repaired, and their name may remain on the temple forever.
The donation to build the Five Dragons Temple began at the end of October of the fourth year of Beiding and lasted until April of the fifth year of Beiding.
After the construction really started, Yang Congyi rarely participated in the questioning, and even handed over things such as taking money to pay for it to Meng Yunniang, who couldn't sit still, and he and Gu Qingchen seemed to really integrate into the mountains and started their Qingxiu life.
They meditate, meditate, practice every day, study Taoist texts, transcend things, and enjoy it.
At the same time, what happened in Bianjing, Yang Congyi didn't know, and he didn't want to care about it at this time, anyway, if there was something important, the emperor would send someone to inform him, and if he didn't tell him, it would mean that no major event had happened.
In the month of Layue, heavy snow closed the mountain, the mountain road was difficult to pass, and the reconstruction of Wulongguan was suspended for a month.
In the more than a month of heavy snow closing the mountain, Yang Congyi, Gu Qingchen, Meng Yunniang and his wife finally had the opportunity to visit the magnificent scenery of the snow-capped mountain together.
For many years, there are not many opportunities for the three of them to travel and play together, and it can even be said that there are few, let alone half a month or a few months.
Before, it was Tiannan and Haibei, each with one side, and then Yang Congyi was in a high position, and he couldn't leave Bianjing at all, Meng Yunniang went to sea with the fleet, and she and her father have been to many places since she was a child.
So this trip of thousands of miles is actually Meng Yunniang's will, of course, there is also Yang Congyi's meaning, and Gu Qingchen also agrees.
It's just that Meng Yunniang didn't expect that the mountains were beautiful in her imagination, and if she was in them for too long, she felt bored.
But fortunately, they are all in the mountains, and from time to time her husband can still swim with her, which also makes her find a lot of fun.
However, seeing more children from peasant families in the mountains, and seeing other people's families enjoying themselves, Meng Yunniang's heart of wanting children sprouted again.
They have been married for more than ten years, and they have not been able to conceive a child, she can't blame her husband, she can only blame herself for not being angry, her father has also told her many times, no son will suffer in the future, she herself has seen a lot of Langzhong, eaten a lot of home remedies, but it didn't work, and then she gave up.
She is already in her thirties, if she can't have children in the past few years, I'm afraid she won't be able to have children in the future, after all, the age is here, after thirty, the older she gets, the more difficult and dangerous it is to have children, she knows this fact very well.
Therefore, after Meng Yunniang implicitly proposed to Yang Congyi the idea of wanting a child, Yang Congyi of course had to cooperate with her heart, because she was a righteous lady, and no child was indeed disgraceful.
But even though Yang Congyi worked hard to sow seeds, a month, two months, and three months passed, and Meng Yunniang's body still didn't react.
Naturally, the problem will not lie with Yang Congyi, and their family has a consensus.
Fortunately, the Yang family already has a son and a daughter, otherwise Meng Yunniang would really have to worry about Yang Congyi divulging his wife and marrying another wife.
In March of the fifth year of Beiding, the spring on the Wulong Peak is full of joy.
The fame of the Five Dragons Temple in the past is still there.
As the news of the rebuilding of the Five Dragons Temple spread more and more widely, pilgrims within a radius of several hundred miles rushed to offer incense and make sacrifices, worship God and make wishes.
Since the first lunar month, there are dozens of pilgrims who go up the mountain every day, and in March, when the weather is better, there are more pilgrims.
The mountain became lively, and the Wulongguan seemed to have regained its former vitality, so Meng Yunniang, who couldn't stay idle, mixed in with the pilgrims on the mountain, and walked with the female pilgrims, chatting, talking, and having some fun.
One day, after she went up the mountain with a female pilgrim who looked about her age, she happened to ask her what she wanted to make when she went up the mountain, but she was told that she had come to make a vow this time.
After careful questioning, Meng Yunniang knew that the female pilgrim had already come last month, and she had come to make a wish for a child, and this time she actually came to repay her wish!
Meng Yunniang doesn't believe it, she can't take medicine, just ask God and worship God? It's simply impossible!
But then the words of the female pilgrim made Meng Yunniang a little moved.
The pilgrim told her that when she made a wish for a child, an old Taoist chief was moved by her piety, so he gave her a pulse, and pricked her with a silver needle on several acupuncture points.
Meng Yunniang has also seen a lot of Langzhong, and even asked the imperial doctor of Tai Hospital to see it, but it is all useless, is the Taoist doctor really useful?
Sister Gu has been cultivating since she was a child, and I don't know if she knows it.
If she knew, why didn't she help her all these years?
There was a crack in Meng Yunniang's heart, and she began to suspect that Gu Qingchen had been guarding her since they first met.
Leaving Wulongguan, Meng Yunniang went directly back to her husband and told him about the female pilgrim she met on the way, wanting to hear her opinion.
The Taoist doctor is powerful, Yang Congyi naturally knows, otherwise he would not have found so many Taoist captains to accompany him when he returned to the Yi fleet for the first time, and as for whether he could solve the problem of infertility, he really didn't know.
So Yang Congyi could only tell her that this problem was a problem no matter where it was, otherwise it would not have to be solved by praying to God and worshipping God, the Taoist doctor couldn't say this kind of thing, the imperial doctors of the Tai Hospital couldn't do anything, they were also choked enough, maybe the female pilgrim was lucky to be pregnant with a child.
However, Meng Yunniang, who was eager to ask for a child, didn't want to give up this possible opportunity, so she asked Yang Congyi to ask Zhang Daochang in person to see if there was such an old Taoist in Wulongguan.
In the face of Meng Yunniang's soft grinding and hard bubbles, Yang Congyi couldn't refuse.
A few days later, Daoist Zhang Liu came to visit, and Yang Congyi asked the pilgrims about worshipping God and asking for a son and repaying their vows.
Zhang Liu thought about it again and again, and told him that there was indeed such an old Taoist master who was proficient in medical skills in Wulongguan, but he lived in the back mountain all the year round, and he rarely came to the temple, so it was difficult to find him or ask him to go down the mountain.
The relationship between Yang Congyi and Daoist Zhang Liu is not ordinary, how difficult can it be to invite the old Taoist to go down the mountain?
The other party is an old acquaintance, and he has an extraordinary relationship with Qingmu Daochang, and this time he donated a palace, Yang Congyi's request, Zhang Liu could not refuse.
However, he told Yang Congyi that he was willing to ask the old Taoist chief for help, but he couldn't guarantee whether he could be invited, because whether it would succeed or not depended on chance.
When Meng Yunniang learned the news, she waited expectantly for half a month, but she didn't wait for the news she wanted.
Later, one day, Zhang Liu suddenly came to Yang Congyi and said that the old Taoist asked him to go up the mountain to meet him, and he didn't know what was going on.
Seeing how big a matter an old Taoist can be, Yang Congyi did not hesitate.
After Meng Yunniang learned about it, she thought that her request for a child finally had an eyebrow, and the old Taoist chief was willing to make a move, so she told her husband that no matter what requirements, conditions, and how many palace houses the old Taoist had to donate, she would agree to it, as long as she could get a son as she wished.
Looking at Yang Congyi's response, Meng Yunniang was very happy and smiled brightly, like the bright sunshine in March.
Along the road that was not a road, it took most of the day for Yang Congyi to follow Daoist Zhang Liu to a cliff stone room in the back mountain.
After waiting outside the stone room for a while, Yang Congyi saw Zhang Liu, who had gone in to report, come out and left directly.
"Lord Yang, please come in." A clear voice came from the stone room, without the slightest hint of old age.
Yang Congyi walked into the stone room as he said, and saw a Taoist chief with gray hair and a ruddy complexion, sitting cross-legged on a futon made of unknown grass, meditating with his eyes closed.
"The kid has seen the Taoist!" Yang Congyi raised his hand and bowed.
"Yang Shi is in a high position, and he can't afford it. Have a seat. The old Taoist still didn't open his eyes.
Yang Congyi turned his eyes and saw that there was only one futon on the ground, and there were no chairs and stools, so he sat down cross-legged on the futon next to the old Taoist chief as he said.
didn't wait for Yang Congyi to speak, only to listen to the old Taoist say: "Twenty years ago, Senior Brother Qingmu met with the donor in Taihu County, Huaixi, and what the junior brother said to the donor, I'm afraid the donor has long forgotten." ”
Hearing this, Yang Congyi thought about it carefully, and he had almost forgotten what they had said in prison.
"What the junior brother said to the donor before, how much does the donor remember, and Poor Dao doesn't want to ask anymore. Call the donor today, there is also a sentence to tell the donor, how much merit there is, how many dead souls, when the time comes, it will be difficult to reach the dead souls to ask for their lives! ”
When the old Taoist spoke, Yang Congyi suddenly felt a tremor in his heart, and he was suddenly flustered.
"But don't worry too much, Senior Brother Qingmu saved your life back then, and Poor Dao will not let the donor die for no reason. After the accomplishment, come to the mountains and become a monk! Remember the phrase "poor road" to ensure that the donor is worry-free! Otherwise, the gods will not be saved! ”
Yang Congyi was still in confusion, only to hear that the Taoist chief had already issued an order to expel the guest: "Three days later, let Master Meng Shi wait in the watch, and the poor Dao will treat her." Go ahead. ”
"Thank you, Chief!"
Yang Congyi got up, raised his hand and saluted, and hurriedly left the stone room where the old Taoist was practicing.
As soon as I got out of the stone room, I raised my eyes and saw the rolling sea of clouds and the boundless scenery, and I suddenly felt relaxed and happy, and the restlessness in my heart was swept away in an instant.