Scud shook his head: "Actually, it's all legend. Haven't you heard of it, the temple of the Jade Emperor is still sponsored by the 'street callers', 'face-slashers', and 'toy-buying and begging for food'! ”

"Oh? What's going on? Tell us about it. Li Hong was surprised.

Jiaona was even more curious, and wrapped her scuds around her, so she had to tell him immediately.

Qi Xiaoting pricked up her ears and was ready to listen to the story. If you collect it, the black soil of the space can stretch out half a foot outward!

So, Scud had no choice but to talk as he went, telling the following legendary story:

Legend has it that when Liu Bowen chose the capital here, the Jade Emperor also chose the temple site here. After Liu Bowen left, the Jade Emperor covered the dragon veins with divine light, and then entrusted the dream to the then Governor of Jianjin Prefecture, and ordered the county to build a Jade Emperor Temple in Guocun.

And he instructed that the money for the repair of the temple should be demanded from "those who call the streets"; Wood asks for "spicy face"; The pattern asks "the person who sells toys for food".

Zhixian woke up and felt that the dream was strange. What's more, it is a good thing to build a temple and build a temple, so I respected what the Jade Emperor said in my dream, and immediately went out on the list and recruited famous teachers and craftsmen to build the Jade Emperor Temple.

To build a civil project, it is necessary to have silver. The money in the county treasury is also useful, and the magistrate ordered the supervisor Zhang to lead the officials to the market to ask for silver from the "street caller" according to the instructions of the Jade Emperor in the dream.

This "street caller" was originally a beggar, but this kind of beggar did not reach out to beg for it, but the wild shouts of "grandparents", hoarse and exhausted, and captured people's nerves. The merchants were afraid that his shouting would affect the trade, so they had to give some alms and send them away.

Supervisor Zhang led the officials to the bazaar, and happened to meet a "street caller" who was shouting along the street. So they dragged him to a secluded place and demanded money from him.

The "street caller" said with a sad face, "If I want to have money, I won't come out to call the street." ”

Seeing that he couldn't get the money and couldn't pay the errand when he went back, Supervisor Zhang ordered the officials to beat the "street caller".

When the "street caller" could not be beaten, he pointed to the ground under him and said, "There is silver in this ground, so dig it up." ”

The officials took a pickaxe and planed it, and really dug out two large urns of silver.

Seeing that the dream was true, the magistrate was very happy, so he ordered Supervisor Zhang to lead the officials to ask for wood from the "face-slasher".

This "face-slasher" is also a beggar. Such beggars are armed with a sharp blade and shout at the merchants. If the merchant did not pay for it, he would stab himself in the face, and his face was covered with blood, which was unbearable.

This kind of thing happened in front of his stall, and the merchant also felt disgraced, so he had to give some alms early and send it away.

Supervisor Zhang took the servants to the bazaar again, pulled a "face-cutter" to a well, and asked him for wood.

The "cheeky" eyes widened in anger and turned to them for something to fill their stomachs.

Supervisor Zhang ordered the officials to buy him food. The "cheeky" man ate and drank to his heart's content, and thought to himself: "They ask for wood from a man who asks for food, which is really the greatest funny in the world, why don't I just use it for funny." ”

So, he pointed to the well beside him and said, "There is wood in this well, go out and fish it out, and when you have enough, you can say something." ”

Who knows, as soon as the words fell, a white mist rose from the well, and the water splashed, and the beams and purlins floated up from the well one after another. The officials carried and carried, and in a short time they fished a lot like a small mountain.

A servant was so tired that he couldn't support it, so he said to Supervisor Zhang: "There are a lot, and you can't use it anymore." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the log that had floated up from the well disappeared at once. was so angry that Supervisor Zhang slapped the mouthy official twice.

With the silver and wood, the magistrate ordered Supervisor Zhang to ask for drawings from the "toy sellers".

This "toy seller and begging for food" is also a beggar. This kind of beggar just takes some small toys and sells them for a small amount of money while exchanging the toys for food.

Supervisor Zhang took the servants and walked to 9981 Township, drove 7749 sets, and arrested 8864 "toy sellers and begging for food", and did not ask for a pattern.

The magistrate was very angry, and said to Supervisor Zhang: "There are so many craftsmen now, just waiting for the pattern." If you are given three more days, and you will not be found by then, I will not spare you. ”

Supervisor Zhang was so frightened that he was drenched in a cold sweat, so he had to lead the officials to go out to find it for the second time. Seeing the sunset, the three-day deadline has arrived, and the pattern is still missing. Supervisor Zhang was in a hurry, and the tears rolled down one after another like rolling soybean grains.

At this moment, an old man in very tattered clothes held a rice bowl in his hand, carrying a green bamboo pole on his shoulder, and a string of gnatwood cages tied to the green bamboo pole, and walked towards this side in a shuffled manner. As he walked, he muttered: "Grasshopper cage, good style, spend more money, don't be fooled." ”

Supervisor Zhang looked at it with tears in his eyes, and the grub cage was very exquisitely arranged, especially the largest one on the top, which was a four-pillar heavy building style. The four corners of the cornice, the middle round gourd soars to the sky.

I thought: Anyway, the deadline has arrived, and I will buy back this biggest one and resist it for a while. So, he called out to the man who sold the grub cage. To buy the biggest one.

The old man who sold the grub cage looked at him and said, "My gnather cage is a complete set, if you want to buy it, you can buy a set, and don't sell it individually." With that, he continued to walk forward.

Supervisor Zhang couldn't do it, so he hurriedly caught up and said, "One set is just one set, and the old man will make a price." ”

The old man looked back at him, and said with a smile: "My gnats cage is idle to make up for fun, if you really like it, I will give it to you, what money, price!" After speaking, he gave the bamboo pole to Supervisor Zhang, and left without looking back.

Supervisor Zhang took the gnat's cage in his hand and thought to himself: "This old man, if you buy one and don't sell it, you don't charge for it all, it's really a weird person." ”

When I look back, where is the shadow of the old man? I know that I have met a god. Hurriedly returned to the county government and reported the matter to the magistrate.

The magistrate called the chief engineer to see the cage. The project is at the mercy of the general manager, the hall, the attic, the temple, the pavilion...... A total of 7749 seats. The whole pattern, magnificent and magnificent, is rare in this area.

The magistrate was very satisfied, so he ordered the construction to start, and built the Jade Emperor Temple in the style of the gnat's cage, and cast the statue of the Jade Emperor with copper refining water.

The Jade Emperor Hall is a two-story building, more than ten zhang high. The bottom floor is only cast to the shoulder of the Jade Emperor, and the head on the second floor can't be cast.

In a hurry, an old man selling toys came over with a colorful hat in his hand and repeatedly asked the people who built the temple to buy his hat.

Supervisor Zhang said angrily: "The head is still not safe, which hat do you want to buy?" ”

The old man who sold hats laughed and said: "After this village, there is no such shop, if you don't buy it today, it will be too late to regret it later." ”

Supervisor Zhang was obedient when he heard this, looked up and took a closer look, and saw that some of the hat sellers were similar to the ones who sold the gnatwood cages.

Look at the hat again, hanging back and forth, resembling a crown, it is perfect for the Jade Emperor to wear. He changed his smiling face and said to the old man respectfully:

"Hats we buy pull-downs. Your old man is well-informed, please help us, what method can we use to cast our heads? ”

The old man who sold the hat said, "I am buried up to the neck, what can I do for you?" After saying that, he put down his hat, confiscated the money and left.

"Soil buried up to the neck...... Soil buried up to the neck...... Buried ......"

Supervisor Zhang repeated it a few times, and immediately realized, and hurriedly asked people to pile up soil around the statue of the Jade Emperor, piling it up to his neck.

The craftsmen then put molds on the mound and turned copper water into the head.

According to the hat sample left by the old man who sold hats, he added the crown of the Jade Emperor to the front and back.

The Jade Emperor Temple was finally built. The temple fair is held on May 15 every year. There are hundreds of thousands of merchants and tourists.

Therefore, the temple is the money given by the "street caller", the wood given by the "face-slashing", and the pattern provided by the "toy seller" for food.

Therefore, there are always hundreds of beggars at the temple fair every year, among which there are no less than 100 "street callers", "face-scrapers", and "toy sellers begging for food".

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After the story was told, the group also came to the gate of the Jade Emperor Temple.

The Jade Emperor Temple really lives up to its name:

The whole temple is wide and majestic, and magnificent. It is divided into the front hall, the back hall, the east, west and north three pavilions.

The North Pavilion is the most majestic, a quadrangular prismatic heavy building. The corridor is extended, with pillars standing in a forest, with a gold brick glazed tile roof, and a symmetrical top ridge. The gourd in the middle is soaring to the sky, the four corners of the cornice, the copper bell under the eaves is drooping, and the spine beast is lifelike.

The seated bronze statue of the Jade Emperor is cast here. The ground floor is only cast to the shoulder of the Jade Emperor, and on the second floor is the head of the Jade Emperor. If an adult steps on the shoulder of the Jade Emperor and reaches up, he can only touch his eyebrows.

The Jade Emperor wears a crown on his head, the crown hangs back and forth, wearing a round-necked robe, his legs are bent, his knees are drooping, and his hands are clasped together, his expression is radiant and majestic.

Qi Xiaoting paid her respects, bought a handful of incense from the incense and candle sellers in the temple, lit it, inserted it in the incense burner in front of the statue of the Jade Emperor, kowtowed three times on the futon, and then prayed:

"Jade Emperor, the little woman is pitied by you, and she promises to marry the dragon dragon, and takes on the heavy responsibility of returning to the Eight Dragons Altar and returning to the tomb.

"We have lived up to your trust and have already traveled one out of three. It was only because of the cold weather that the mountains of the Western Regions could not walk. In order not to waste our time, we traveled through time and space and came to Jianjin Prefecture to collect the folk legends of the gods of Tianting Jianjin Prefecture.

"I didn't want to meet the snake princess on the god planet, in order to avenge the snake king who was thrown into the eighteenth layer of hell on the god planet, and vented her personal anger for being sold into the furnace ding building of the fairy city, she went down to Jianjin Prefecture to be a concubine, waiting for the opportunity to interfere with the return of the Eight Dragons Altar to the tomb.

In order to achieve her goal, she went around to find out the whereabouts of Long Yi. When they learned that we were coming, they fought at us in an attempt to destroy us.

"We've had two fights with her, and she's run away. I hope that the Jade Emperor will not forget his original intention, and secretly instruct us to eliminate her, return a clear sky to Jianjin Prefecture, and return the people to a happy and peaceful life! ”

After saying that, he kowtowed three more times before he stood up.