Chapter 016: The Ageless Xuanyi?
The Taoist priest still kept smiling, and he bowed to us again, saying that if we wanted to enter, he would not be in a rut, but the Taoist immortals would not sit idly by, and said that if something happened to us, Sansong Guan would not be responsible. Although this Taoist priest is kind on the surface, there is a kind of ugly saying in his tone.
Luo Feng's two subordinates couldn't tolerate others talking to them like this, and grabbed the Taoist priest's collar and wanted to hit someone, but before they could do anything, many people yelled at us and pointed at us. Luo Feng's men were even more annoyed, and they were about to get angry, but I stopped them.
They had to let the Taoist priest go. I looked this Taoist priest up and down, he was very handsome, and he looked like he was only about thirty years old. He was still unfazed, standing straight in front of us, and there were more and more people around us, and I asked the Taoist priest why he thought we had a fierce face.
The Taoist priest smiled: "The face is not murderous for no reason, and the murderous appearance comes from the heart. ”
Chen Fan was also a little annoyed, just entering a Taoist temple, others can enter, but we were blocked for a long time, and he also scolded: "Others are not fierce, we are fierce like this?" Don't fucking bullshit. "However, as soon as Chen Fan finished scolding, someone around me threw things at us, I turned around a few times and dodged away, Chen Fan was not so lucky, his face was smashed with black ashes.
In the end, it was the Taoist priest who stopped everyone, he told everyone not to do evil deeds, and said that there are some things that the immortals in the Taoist temple will naturally do. I didn't get angry, I came here just to investigate, not to fight, I learned the tone of a Taoist priest and asked him how he saw the fierceness in our hearts.
Originally, I thought that this Taoist priest would pretend to say that he had the ability to have heavenly eyes, but as soon as he opened his mouth, I found that this Taoist temple was different from ordinary pretending Taoist temples. He said, "Those who go up to the mountain seek the Tao, but when we go up the mountain, we do not seek the Tao, but come with anger and blood."
I continued to ask the Taoist priest why we came, and the Taoist priest waved his hand, pointed to the road down the mountain, and said that if we wanted to find out something, we should go down the mountain, not go up the mountain. In the mountains, there are only immortals and gods, and there are no worldly fights and killings. I don't dare to underestimate this Taoist priest, he actually knows that we have come up the mountain to investigate the case.
However, when he said this, instead of making me want to turn around and go down the mountain, I wanted to go in and check this not simple Taoist temple.
When we came up the mountain, we only wanted to come secretly to investigate, so we didn't ask the Minato police for any search warrants. However, looking at the current situation, the Hong Kong police may not arbitrarily issue a search warrant to us, and if it is not for special circumstances and direct evidence, the Hong Kong police will still respect religious beliefs and religious sites when investigating.
In particular, religious sites with a particularly large number of believers. These people on the mountain have obviously regarded us as enemies, and this is only because of a few words from this Taoist priest. Just when we didn't know what to do, someone called out to this Taoist priest in front of me, it was an old Taoist priest with his hair tied up and no hat on.
His hair was gray, and his white beard was long. The old Taoist priest called this young Taoist priest Xuanyi. Xuanyi's title to the old Taoist priest is senior brother, which is very respectful, their age difference is very large, but I didn't expect them to be peers. Xuanyi was very respectful to the old Taoist priest and immediately stepped aside.
The old Taoist priest glanced at us a few times, looked kind, and said that the visitor was a guest, so let us take care of ourselves. I found that when the old Taoist priest opened his mouth, no one objected to us entering. Everyone quickly dispersed, and Xuanyi's face was not unusual, he just smiled at us, said a word of invitation, and turned to leave.
We finally walked into the Taoist temple, and as soon as we entered the Taoist temple, the strong smell of burning came to our noses. The Taoist temple is very large, and people come and go inside, most of them are burning incense and worshipping the gods, and at the same time, we feel a lot of hostile gazes. I asked Chen Fan and Luo Feng's two subordinates to be more patient, so that they could avoid a lot of trouble.
They looked reluctant, and restrained the ruffian appearance on their faces. There is a large hall in the Taoist temple, several small halls, all of which are open to all believers, and the main hall has the largest number of people, and there are many Taoist priests in it, and when I passed by them, I heard the conversation between these Taoist priests and the residents.
Most of these residents have encountered difficulties at home, so they have come to solve their doubts. The Taoist priests are speaking unfathomable words, which are difficult for people to understand. Those people were also in a fog when they heard it, shaking their heads for a while, nodding their heads for a while, the attitude of this group of Taoist priests was very good, and they would not be impatient.
After going around the Taoist temple, we didn't find anything suspicious, but there was one place where we couldn't enter. At the back of the main hall, there is a small inconspicuous door with the inscription: Do not enter the idlers. Outside the door, there was also a little Taoist priest guarding us, and as soon as we approached, he drove us away.
Chen Fan asked me what I should do, if I wanted to return empty-handed, I shook my head, found a believer who went up the mountain, and asked. This big man was not outside the Taoist temple before, so he didn't know who we were, and he didn't know that we almost had a conflict with the Taoist priest of Sansong Temple.
When he saw us talking to him, he thought it was our first time going up the mountain, so he was happy to answer us.
Dahan told us that people who often go up the mountain know that the gate is the stop gate of the Sansong Temple, and not only the believers who go up the mountain cannot enter, but even the Taoist priests of the Sansong Temple cannot enter. Before, some residents asked the Taoist priest in the Sansong Temple because of their doubts, and the Taoist priest said that in the entire Sansong Temple, only the old Taoist can enter, and even the Xuanyi Chief can't enter.
I noticed that this big man called Xuanyi and that old Taoist priest a little specially. He told me that in the Taoist temple, there are only these two Taoist priests with the most seniority, and no one knows what the old Taoist priest's Taoist name and Dharma name are, because he is old, so everyone calls him the old Taoist leader.
And Xuan Yi is long, naturally referring to the young Taoist priest who stopped us before.
Chen Fan was a little surprised, and he asked, "No one knows what the old Daoist's name is?" The people in the Taoist temple don't know either? ”
The big man shook his head: "I don't know." ”
Chen Fan muttered, saying how could this Taoist be like a thief, not letting others know his law name. Chen Fan's muttering attracted the dissatisfaction of the big man, and he angrily reprimanded Chen Fan and asked him not to say disrespectful words. In order to continue asking, Chen Fan had to pretend to apologize.
Asked how old Xuan Yi was, Dahan said that no one had ever asked Xuan Yi how old he was, but many people said that Xuan Yi's age may not be much less than that of the old Taoist. He said that Xuanyi is a very kind person, and he usually refutes the last two sentences euphemistically in the face of rumors.
Only the statement that he was very old, Xuanyi did not refute it.
Therefore, everyone thinks that Xuan Yi is not much different from the old Taoist elder in age, otherwise, the age difference of so many years will generally be the generation of master and apprentice, not the generation of senior brothers. As he spoke, Dahan also looked around, and saw that no one had secretly told us: "I have a friend who is very old, and he saw Xuanyi grow twenty years ago, but twenty years later, Xuanyi's growth has not changed at all." ”
I was slightly stunned and asked him what his friend said. This big man also talks a lot, and he talks endlessly. He told us that the Sansong Temple was indeed built in recent years, and it was originally a small Taoist temple in the southernmost part of the Minato area, and it was also famous in the southern part of the Minato area, but the fame at that time was too different from now.
His friend, before Sansongguan was relocated and rebuilt, often went to Sansongguan to worship God, and he had seen Xuanyi.
Moreover, not only his friends said that among the believers who found that this big man had gone up the mountain, there were also many people who said that they had seen Xuanyi a long time ago, but Xuanyi had not grown old. So everyone said that Xuan Yi would not get old, and said that his Taoism may have surpassed that of the old Taoist.
I thought about it for a while, and then asked Dahan if he knew Yunqing. Dahan's face changed immediately, and he asked us not to mention Yunqing in Sansongguan, because everyone hated Yunqing, and the fire at the beginning was considered to have desecrated the holy land in everyone's hearts. When asked about the fire, Dahan pointed us to a place.
That direction is the direction of the stop gate.
Dahan said that the fire at the beginning was burned in the stop gate, that is to say, Yun Qing not only set fire to Sansong Temple, but also secretly entered the stop gate. Chen Fan asked: "Isn't it that everyone can't enter the stop door, and if there is such a big fire, don't everyone go in to put out the fire?" ”
Dahan nodded, saying that after the fire broke out, the entire Taoist temple was alarmed, and some people said that they wanted to go in to put out the fire, but the old Taoist chief stopped him, he pushed the door in alone and closed the small wooden door. At first, everyone was worried, but unexpectedly, it didn't take long for the fire inside to really slowly go out.
The old Taoist put out the fire alone, and everyone was full of praise for the old Taoist's Taoism and mana.
When Dahan spoke, the hall suddenly quieted down, Xuanyi was sitting in the center of the hall, Dahan said that Xuanyi should be going to preach to everyone, and as he spoke, Dahan stopped paying attention to us and ran over.
After the big man walked away, Chen Fan said how he listened more and more.
I didn't pay attention to Xuanyi's age before, but now when I listen to Xuanyi's sermon, I realize that Xuanyi's voice is a little hoarse, very old, if you don't look at his appearance, just listen to the voice, it does look like a person who is already seventy or eighty years old.
"This Xuanyi, is it really not old?" Chen Fan asked.
I sneered: "How can there be an ageless person." It's interesting, after I go back, check Xuanyi's identity and see if I can find out anything. ”
Chen Fan was stunned for a moment and asked us if we were going back.
I shook my head and said one word: wait.