July has arrived, entering the rainy season, continuous drizzle is reluctant to fall day and night, most of the disciples are reluctant to go far in this month, so Xuanyi and his party only have four people together.

"It's raining again!" muttered Zhende, and stumbled from the front seat of the carriage into the carriage, and the rapid raindrops quickly fell down, and the carriage thumped.

"Hold on a little longer!" Zhen Xi, who was in charge of driving the car, laughed: "After walking for half a day, you will arrive at Zuyun Town, and the brothers can take a hot bath, change into clean clothes, and eat hot meals!" Hearing him say this, everyone was obviously in high spirits, and they faintly looked forward to it.

Xuanyi's body trembled slightly, opened his eyes, and his soul returned to Zhenwu's body, and when the soul returned to his body, he found that his body had reached the boundary of Xifeng City, and Xifeng City, which was originally wantonly carnival with the fragrance of wine and meat, also became solemn at this time. Regardless of whether the people are rich or poor, every household has hung up white lanterns and flags, prepared enough incense, candles, paper money, and wine and meat offerings to Xuanyi, and then remembered that Halloween is coming.

The fifteenth day of July every year is commonly known as the Ghost Festival, the Buddhist Gate is called the Bon Festival, and the Taoist Gate is called the Zhongyuan Festival. Together with Chinese New Year's Eve, Qingming and Chongyang, it is known as the four major festivals of ancestor worship.

Since July, there has been more rain and moisture has been active for several months. Correspondingly, the oni made up of pure yin energy are extremely adapted to and like the season when the water is permeated. Until the beginning of the Halloween Ghost Gate, a group of ghosts came out, for a while, "a group of ghosts scurryed", because the ghosts had just experienced a summer of grave suffering, hunger, some ghosts were inevitably a disaster to the world, so the people in all parts of the Wu Dynasty have through the customs of putting river lanterns, burning paper ingots, sacrificing ancestors, and giving food to hungry ghosts to seek blessings and avoid disasters.

Halloween is still two days away, and going out during this time period doesn't seem to be a good choice, Xuan Yi thought to himself.

After walking for a long time on the muddy mountain road, with the creaking sound of the wheel, the carriage stopped in front of a small town inn, Zhende let out a cheer, took Zhenyin's hand and opened the car door and rushed down, Xuanyi stretched his waist and rubbed his sore neck to look at the same tired Zhenqi and gently patted his shoulder: "Senior brother has worked hard!"

Really honest and honest with a smile, at this time the inn's little two will be the carriage after the arrangement of the courteous lead everyone to the guest room, this trip to promote Buddhism Temple allocated a total of 200 taels of silver, equivalent to 40,000 yuan of travel expenses in the future, the welfare can be described as excellent. So the four of them were very generous and asked for two adjacent upper rooms to live in, Xuanyi and Zhenxi lived in the same room, and Zhende Zhenyin lived in the same room.

King Kong Temple is one of the three top sects of the Wu Dynasty, with more than 10,000 monks and disciples, and naturally often walks in the rivers and lakes. Over time, there is the nickname of "Buddha Sanduo", what is the meaning of Sanduo? That is, there is a lot of money, a lot of people, a lot of words, everywhere you go, you can see the monks of the Vajra Temple, full of Amitabha Buddha to promote the Dharma and read the Buddhist scriptures, and most of these monks are dressed decently and full of red light, far better than the haggard appearance of the monks of the ordinary temple who eats and sleeps in the open.

Such monks seem to be more popular with the public, especially some shops and restaurants regard the monks of Kongo Temple as guests.

Xuan Yi and Zhen Xi were chatting, two sturdy men carried a large bucket of hot water into the room for the two of them to wash, and Xiao Er on the side respectfully asked Zhen Xi when he planned to eat and inform the kitchen to prepare the food carefully. This Laifu Inn has received many batches of monks from King Kong Temple, and they have made sufficient preparations for the needs, especially the sharp-eyed shopkeeper who saw that the four people in Xuanyi were all wearing dark blue monk's robes in the style of true disciples, and even instructed Xiao Er to entertain the four "masters" with good lives.

sent away Xiao Er, and the extremely tired Zhen Si rushed to take a bath first, so Xuanyi walked to the balcony alone to enjoy the surrounding scenery. The two upper rooms are located on the third floor of the inn and have balconies along the street for guests to enjoy. At the beginning of the shower, the pedestrians on the street gradually increased, and Xuanyi leaned on the escalator with a teacup, and chased the woman holding various flower umbrellas, which had a unique taste.

"Wow" footsteps sounded, Zhenyin in the next room finished washing and pushed the door out, he was holding a knife with a strange style and was carefully scraping his scalp, shaving the hair that could grow out, and when he saw Xuanyi, he came over and chatted. After a while, Zhende joined the group of small talkers, three shiny bald heads lying on the escalator and pointing at the street, while someone driving the car was already asleep in the barrel, so the three had to wake him up, and after some tossing, the hungry four went downstairs to eat.

There were already a lot of diners gathered in the lobby on the first floor of the inn, and the arrival of four well-dressed monks still attracted a lot of interested eyes. According to the rules of the temple, except for the lay disciples, all disciples are not allowed to eat meat and fish, and they are not allowed to drink, and the offenders will be severely punished.

The four monks enjoyed the dinner quietly, but the diners around them did not have so many scruples, they talked loudly and laughed loudly, and the aroma of wine and meat always challenged the taste nerves of the four people, and even the delicious food became more and more tasteless the first time they ate.

"Lao Li, will you go to the ghost parade the day after tomorrow!" A diner at the adjacent table asked his companion at the same table with a provocative tone, and the companion did not answer positively for a long time, which immediately caused the other people at the table to burst into laughter.

The man's face was flushed, and he couldn't tell whether he was drunk or angry, so he stood up and pretended to be arrogant and shouted: "Go, go, who's afraid of whom!"

"Okay!" the others cheered and applauded: "Come on, come on, drink this cup for Lao Li!"

"The day after tomorrow, the big guys will go with you!" someone shouted again, and the atmosphere became warm again.

"Senior brother, what is the Ghost Parade?" Zhende is still a child after all, hearing what the person at the next table said, he immediately forgot the temple rules of eating and not saying anything, and asked Zhensi out loud, Zhenxi shook his head and said that he didn't know either.

A person at the next table happened to hear Zhende's words, so he leaned over and asked with a narrow smile: "What's the matter?"

"No, no, no, I didn't! I just asked!" Zhende hurriedly waved his hand and denied it.

"Hahaha!" the surrounding diners erupted in loud laughter.

A diner even picked up a glass of wine and stood up, paced a few steps before drinking slowly, shaking his head and chanting: "In troubled times, the Taoist priest went down the mountain to save the world, and the monk closed the door to avoid disaster." The Taoist priest of the prosperous age returned to the deep mountains, and the monk went out to make a fate. ”

"Good!" the surrounding drinkers cheered one after another, and their voices rose higher and higher.