When the old lady got out of the car, the abbot stepped forward with a Buddhist bead in his hand and recited "Amitabha", saying: "It coincides with the millennium of the construction of the temple, and the old lady donated merit to reshape the Buddha's body. ”

After saying that, he bowed to the old lady and thanked him, so panicked that the old lady hurriedly said humbly that she didn't dare to be.

The abbot asked the old lady to rest: "...... Master Huineng of Baoxiang Temple is leading his disciples in the main hall, and also asks the old lady to go to the wing room to rest for a while. ”

The old lady smiled, "It's an honor." ”

Su Mansion is the largest offering of this puja, and the monk has another courtyard for resting.

A rough envoy had already carried the cage in and cleaned it up, and when the old lady and the ladies had freshened up, the abbot had just sent someone to invite them over.

The venue of the festival is located in the square in front of the main hall, and the monk leads the way, out of the courtyard, bypassing the bell and drum tower all the way to the first main hall.

Qiling Temple is outside the city of Fenghua Mountain, the mountain is not high but covers an area of nearly 100 acres, and Huai'an Baoxiang Temple, Jinling Tongtai Temple and called the thousand-year-old temple.

When they came to the first major hall, the square in front of the hall was already crowded with people, and the bronze tripod furnace of the Rui beast in front of the hall was full of sandalwood. There are more than a dozen great monks who are guarding in front of the temple, dissuading the pilgrims from entering the main hall to offer incense.

The monk led the people of Su Mansion into the main hall through the back door.

As soon as he crossed the threshold, Jin Nian was immediately shocked by the scene in the main hall.

The hall was full of monks wearing gray robes and holding wooden fish, Jin Nian couldn't see how many people there were, and looked at a large area neatly in the past, like a matrix, solemn and solemn.

The monk whispered in the middle of the day that there were one hundred and eight great monks in the matrix, taking the righteousness of the eighteen Arhats in the Buddhist scriptures.

There is also the abbot of the Qiling Temple who sits in front of the confession, wearing a gold-crowned Pilu hat and a brocade robe. Behind him sat a dozen or so monks, all wearing bright yellow and red Geyun brocade robes, holding wooden fish and facing the Buddha statue.

Jin Nian guessed that it should be the Miller Buddha statue remodeled at the expense of the house, and at this time he covered his whole body with yellow silk, and tied a circle of red silk at the waist and knotted it.

Hearing only the three bells of "knock, knock ......", the hall suddenly sounded a subdued and frustrated sutra Buddha horn, the abbot recited the Buddhist scriptures and got up to remove the Buddha statue cloth cover. The bright candles around are like day, and the sandalwood is swirling, and you still have to clearly see the bent eyebrows and smiling eyes of Maitreya Buddha, and the big belly can be tolerated.

Please begin the Buddha ceremony.

According to the old lady's instructions, the house took turns to serve incense according to the order of the eldest and youngest, the old lady nodded the incense, Su Yousong second, and then Su Youbai. down to daughters-in-law, grandchildren, granddaughters.

When it was Jinnian's turn, she copied more than a dozen copies of the "Dizo Bodhisattva Wish Sutra" in front of the case, her parents in her previous life were ill-fated, and she hoped that her parents would be safe and smooth in this life.

The people in the house have finished the incense one after another, and the old lady still has to light the ever-bright lamp, and asked the monk with a smile: "The first ever-bright lamp is also ours?" "Before the new Buddha, the lantern will be re-offered, and no one wants to fall on this jackpot.

Zhike smiled apologetically and replied: "It stands to reason that the new Buddha has been molded in the house, and the head incense and the first everlasting lamp should be lit from the house. No, the first everlasting lamp has been put out, so I waited for the people to come. "After the first everlasting lamp in front of the new Buddha is lit, the everlasting lamp lit by others can be placed on the offering table.

The monk motioned to the old lady to look towards the confession, where in addition to a rui beast incense burner, it was a white jade lotus lamp. At this time, the wick had not yet been lit, and the surrounding candlelight was reflected on the edge of the white jade lamp, shining with a faint soft light, warm and sacred.

The old lady asked, "Do you use twenty-four catties of oil a day, or twelve catties?" "The first-class edict uses twenty-four catties of oil a day, and the second-class uses twelve catties. If you can invite a large number of Hui Neng to say something for him, and he is from the capital, he is afraid that there is a decree for him. Search

The monk smiled: "I use seven catties of oil a day." However, it is a hundred years old. ”

Light an ordinary copper-plated lotus lantern in Qiling Temple, and it will cost four hundred taels of silver a year. Like this, the white jade lotus lamp is a new Buddha head, and it is impossible to get eight hundred taels of silver a year.

Wouldn't it cost 80,000 taels of silver in a hundred years?!

Jin Nian was speechless, thinking about the day when she had money in her hand, she would also light an everlasting lamp for her parents and grandparents in this thousand-year-old temple.

With the face of Master Huineng, the old lady is not good to say anything more.

She said to Su Yousong: "Before you go home, remember to come and light the ever-bright lamp, one for each of your four brothers, and don't forget to light a seven-pound lamp for Sister Tong'er." And the money for the sesame oil came out of my body. ”

Qiling Temple has always lit the old lady's everlasting lamp, or when the old lady was alive. The four sons and Su Jintong lit the lantern in the temple for the first time.

When Su Jintong heard this, he went to see Jinnian, and he was very proud. Among the grandchildren, the old lady has always been the first to her.

The monk asked the old lady whether she would go back to the wing room for fasting or go to the side hall to wait: "...... When the ceremony of inviting the Buddha is over, Master Huineng will lead several other masters to give lectures in the small square in front of the hall. ”

The old lady was also the first time to participate in such a grand Buddhist ceremony, and she was still excited in her heart, and she heard that there was also a lecture by Master Huineng, so she hurriedly said: "There is Master Lao, we naturally want to listen to the lecture." ”

When Su Jintong heard this, he stepped forward and shook the old lady's arm, and said with a smile: "Grandmother wants to listen to the scriptures, why bother pulling us juniors who have no Buddha nature?" She avoided the monk and yawned a few times at the old lady.

The old lady laughed, and saw that her eyes were a little blue, and said angrily, "You monkey...... If you want to stay and listen to the scriptures, follow me to the side hall and wait. The rest...... Yuan Tian, you take the girls back to the wing. ”

Quietly said to the Liu family: "There will be people from Baoxiang'an, and everyone else will be put in the wing." ”

Jin Nian happened to be beside Liu's side, and frowned when he heard this. The old lady means to alienate Aunt Rong! She wasn't like that before.

Here, Liu's heart was like a mirror, and she smiled: "Then there are Lao second siblings, third siblings and fourth siblings to take good care of my mother for me." As for Sister Tong, the old lady can rest assured, everything is with me. But I thought in my heart, if Aunt Rong really went to the wing, she would not be able to turn it away, after all, they were biological mothers and daughters.

The monk on the side said: "The female donors must not go to the purple bamboo forest, the pilgrims are often released there, and gradually there are often insects and snakes there, the monks are all equal, but we can't drive away, but if we surprise the donors, it is our sin." ”

When the old lady heard this, she said to Su Jintong: "Did you hear it, don't go to the purple bamboo forest, it's not as good as our house, and we also ordered the realgar." ”

Su Jintong said angrily: "Grandmother, you can go with confidence, I said so, even if I am ten horses pulling a horse, I will not go to the bamboo forest." ”

The old lady stretched out her hand and nodded Su Jintong's forehead, and said, "Who else wants to go with me to listen to the scriptures?" ”

Zhang stepped forward and grabbed the old lady: "Then there must be a tired old lady today, dial me, a layman......"

The Zhang family wanted to stay, and Su Jinxi couldn't go back to the room alone, so he stepped forward to help the old lady and went to the side hall together.

Su Ziang didn't want to follow the female dependents to get involved, and told the Liu family that he would lead a few cousins to take a look around.

Liu Shi responded, and asked them to come back before noon for fasting, and he took Jin Nian and his party of six to the side room.