Chapter 68. In front of the relief group
In fact, I only thought of this by chance, and it was all thanks to Master Tie Songzi mentioning the exquisite relief of the Huguang Guild Hall. Sure enough, after I said this, Master Tie Songzi understood what I meant, if the connection between us and the Huguang Guild Hall was a little reluctant, then this Tibetan poem obviously added weight to our speculation. At this moment, Master Tie Songzi and I firmly believe that there must be something we want in this Huguang Guild Hall.
Hu Zongren still looked at the two of us stupidly, not knowing what we were happy about. So I briefly talked about it and told him that this was a Tibetan poem, which meant that it was twenty-four filial piety. Although these are twenty-four legends or true stories that reflect filial piety, the twenty-four filial piety closest to us at this moment is in the Huguang Guild Hall. We've always believed in coincidences, let alone such coincidental coincidences right now. So Hu Zongren was also very happy, so he said to us, what are we still doing in a daze, let's go up and have a look.
So Master Tie Songzi put the red cloth bag and the card back in his arms, and walked with us up the slope with his hands behind his back. Walking near the hall, I found a noodle restaurant to eat noodles, and the most important thing in Chongqing is all kinds of noodle restaurants, because the city's love for noodles is already known all over the world. After eating noodles, we bought tickets and we entered the Huguang Guild Hall, Master Tie Songzi is a monk, and I don't know what he used to shake it in front of the ticket seller, and they let him in, for which he directly saved 5 yuan of huge money.
Unfortunately, when we went, it happened that part of the Huguang Hall was being protected and repaired, including a relief group with 24 stories of filial piety. But on second thought, it was because no one was looking at the things that were being repaired that we were able to avoid people's eyes, so we decided to go and see them. At this moment, Master Tie Songzi's dress played a role again, he told the staff in the museum, saying that it was a member of the Minzong Association, and also showed his ID and the like, and then said that the three of us were his subordinate staff members, and we needed to investigate the allusion history of the relief group of the Huguang Guild Hall, and said that he would report to the leaders of the city, at first the staff still refused, insisting that if you want to see the relief, you can see some photos on their website, and Master Tie Songzi scared him and said, this is not a good deal. Because we are from the Religious Association, we have to participate in the discussion of many big and small things in the city, and there is no basis for investigation without investigation, and practice is the only criterion for testing the truth.
The tone of Master Tie Songzi's speech, many people will be a little awkward and unaccustomed when they first hear it, at least Hu Zongren and I are like this. So when Master Tie Songzi said it so deliberately and lightly to the staff, it made him feel very uneasy, he seemed to be in charge, so he thought about it for a while and said, Okay, I'll go with you.
I looked at Master Tie Songzi, because in my opinion, if this guy follows along, we will definitely not dare to make any big moves, and if we make a mistake in the cultural relics protection unit, it will not be easy to clean up. Who knew that Master Lu Dao Tie Songzi replied happily, Okay, you can also explain to us by the way.
Walking to the area of the relief group, a scaffold is not very high for fixing, and the outside of the scaffold is covered with a colored tarpaulin. After walking inside, the staff member said that this tarp blocked a lot of light, so please make do with it. Master Tie Songzi said that there is nothing wrong, so please explain to us the content of these reliefs.
The staff member looked at all of us in wonder, because I was afraid that it would be difficult for him to believe that an old Taoist priest who looked like a fairy wind and a Taoist bone still needed to explain these folk classics. However, he still told us one by one, first the list of gods, the story of the West Chamber, and then the twenty-four filial pieties. He was a little embarrassed to say that there are twenty-four stories of filial piety, and it takes too much time to tell them one by one, so why don't a few teachers go back and check them on the Internet by themselves? Master Tie Songzi nodded, because we all still know most of the so-called twenty-four filial piety stories, and we are really not interested in listening to this staff member repeat it again. So at this time, Master Tie Songzi began to cut to the topic, and he asked the staff directly, do you have more Taoist monks here on weekdays?
The staff member said that monks are not very common, but there are still a few Taoist priests who come occasionally. Master Tie Songzi asked, "Have any of my fellow Daoists visited you these days?" The staff member said, yes, four or five people came, like you, and said they wanted to see the reliefs here, and I explained to them that they were repairing and repairing, but they insisted on coming to see them, and another colleague of mine took them to see it, and the explanation was also done by my colleague.
Master Tie Songzi then asked, the few Taoist friends who came to see this relief at that time must be relatively young, about the same age as the few behind me, otherwise how could they not even know these classics. The staff shook his head and said no, it looks like they are all in their thirties and forties, they call the eldest one Uncle Shi, in short, those Taoist priests look very kind.
I snorted coldly in my heart, face good? If it's really good, it won't turn us around. Although we are young, we are not like gangsters, with my and Hu Zongren's skills have been played around, it can be seen that these people are several people working together to deal with us, but the reason is just that Hu Zongren and them have a little private grudge, such a narrow-minded person, how can he talk about goodness? But of course I won't say that. Master Tie Songzi then asked, "Didn't they leave anything behind when they left?" Or which of the 24 stories of filial piety asks more questions? The staff said that he didn't know about this, but his colleague at that time had come out and poured a glass of water for several Taoist leaders.
I glanced at Hu Zongren, and Hu Zongren also nodded at me, we all know that no matter how thirsty these Taoist priests are, they will never be able to hold on to this little time. So they broke away from the staff who explained it, and they must have taken advantage of this gap to put something here. And this cultural relics protection unit, the outside of the relief is surrounded by a railing, and if you hide something in the relief, it is definitely unrealistic, because of the color of the stone, you can almost see at a glance where there is an extra thing, even in such a poor lighting environment.
Master Tie Songzi thought for a while, then suddenly clapped his hands happily, and said to the staff, I know the Tao, those Taoist friends must be the Taoist priests of Laojun Cave. I was nervous, and I was about to remind Master Tie Songzi not to talk nonsense, because Laojun Cave has many Taoist priests and laymen I am familiar with, and it is the most well-known Taoist temple in Chongqing of the Quanzhen Longmen School, and I can't afford to offend it. But before I could speak, the staff member actually smiled and said, no, they said that they were from Sichuan, and they seemed to be some kind of shrewd.
Hu Zongren couldn't help but snort, saying that it was the Pure Ming Sect, right? The staff member hurriedly said yes, yes, yes, anyway, it sounded similar, so he remembered it wrong.
The Jingming faction, compared to the Yaoshan faction, can be regarded as a big faction, and there are many branches of Taoism, generally speaking, it is mainly divided into Quanzhen and Zhengyi. In addition, there are individual independent branches that are not subject to the jurisdiction of these two branches, such as Fu Yunni's father's Yunmengshan Zonghengdao, which is a hybrid of the ideas of the Zongheng School and the techniques of the Taoist School. And the Pure Ming faction is also a faction that also belongs to the Zhengyi branch. There are many factions in Quanzhen, but the spell technique has not been developed in a key way, and Old Man Situ can be regarded as an alternative to Quanzhen, thanks to his own learning from many predecessors. And Zhengyi is not quite the same, known for fighting ghosts and spells, especially the three sects under it can be said to be famous, the Heavenly Master Dao, the Lingbao School, and the famous Maoshan School. These three sects are collectively known as the "Three Sects of Fu Gong", the Zhengyi Urn of the Heavenly Master Dao of Longhu Mountain, the Lingbao Urn of the Lingbao Sect of Gesoap Mountain, and the Shangqing Urn of Maoshan Mountain. And this Pure Ming School, deeply influenced by Maoshan Shangqing, although it is its own faction, but the art of spelling ghosts is among the best among the Taoist factions.
It's just that I didn't think for a moment that within the scope of my understanding, there was a Taoist temple that was of the Pure Ming School. So I turned my head and asked Hu Zongren softly, do you know who among the people you offended is from the Pure Ming Sect? He said that he knew that many people in the Xuanyuan Society were from the Pure Ming Sect, but most of them he didn't know. Since I personally know the power of the Dao Pure Enlightenment School, I can't help but feel a little nervous when I hear this name. Master Tie Songzi is still deceiving the staff without a word, his trick is the most commonly used by our line, that is, when you ask a thing directly, people may hide something from you, but if you deliberately say a wrong thing, and let the other party feel that you think he doesn't know as much as you, in most cases, many unguarded people will tell you the correct answer, which is a basic psychology of people who like to correct mistakes. Tie Songzi deliberately assumed two ridiculous statements, so as to grasp the basic information of several Xuanyuan Taoist priests who came before from the mouth of this staff member.
At this time, my mobile phone rang, it was Li Jia calling, and I realized that I had completely forgotten about this person. So much so that for several days I didn't even think about him, let alone call him along. So I was a little embarrassed when I answered the phone, and was about to imitate the voice of the automatic voice to tell him that the owner was inconvenient to answer the phone now, Li Jia suddenly said, you and Brother Hu are now in the Huguang Hall, right?
I was stunned and asked him how did you know the Tao? He snorted and said, "Not only do I know that you are there, but I also know that you are looking for something in the relief group in the guild hall." I was even more surprised, because when we arrived at Dongshuimen today, we didn't even think that we would enter the Huguang Hall today, how did Li Jia know about Lu Dao?
Li Jia said a little angrily, you really left me to play by myself, in that case, I don't need to tell you where the things are. With that, he hung up the phone.