CHAPTER XVI

Buddhist temple

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In Zhang Junbao's eyes, Jiang Heng and Jiang Liuer are two strange people.

Maybe it's because they've known each other for so little time, and every decision they make is often incomprehensible to him.

For example, Jiang Heng, nominally speaking to take the exam, half of the reason is that he came here to meet a woman, a woman who is likely to become his future sister-in-law, but at the moment he insisted on not seeing it.

And what about Jiang Liuer?

He's looking for a temple.

Because he learned from a guest at the inn that there seemed to be a temple in Nanqizhou Prefecture, he put his mind on finding a temple.

For the next few days, he was almost invisible day and night.

Jiang Heng was in the room preparing for the literary examination half a month later, and Zhang Junbao also followed Jiang Heng and began to review his homework silently.

And when there were still ten days before the literary examination, Jiang Liuer came back.

said that he had found the temple, and even said an amazing decision:

"Brother... I want to go to that Buddhist temple. ”

Just go.

Zhang Junbao didn't think it was a big deal.

But Jiang Heng was silent, and Jiang Liu'er was also silent.

and knelt beside Jiang Heng: "From childhood to adulthood, I only have two relatives, one is the master, and the other is you." I never thought of going against your will, but I don't know why when I saw that declining Buddhist temple, I felt like I was being clutched. It was a feeling that forced me to go inside the temple. ”

It has been nearly 300,000 years since the fall of Buddhism.

The reason why the temple can still be preserved is naturally because it is the capital of Nanqi Prefecture, and it has been preserved as an ancient relic.

There was not a single monk in it.

So no one knows what kind of history this once was.

As time passed, even the number of tourists curious about the stone statues in the temple gradually decreased.

After a little longer, the Buddhist temple was resold to the Chamber of Commerce at a low price by the Nanqi Prefecture Government, and the Chamber of Commerce hung it several times, but no one bought it.

The reason for this is not yet known.

After Jiang Heng listened to Jiang Liu'er's heartfelt words, he took off a ring from his hand.

He originally had ten fingers full of Na rings, and when Qingyan Country left, he kept giving away after making friends with him.

Now there are only three left.

took another one and handed it to Jiang Liu'er: "Go!"

His voice tried its best to hide his reluctance.

Even if the Buddha Temple is in this Nanqizhou Mansion, the two can still see each other often.

But why would he be reluctant?

Zhang Junbao felt that Jiang Heng should feel that he had lost Jiang Liu'er.

This kind of loss is not a loss that ordinary people can understand.

It's as if a child grows up and sooner or later has to leave under the wing of his parents.

Jiang Liu'er is not Jiang Heng's child, but he is the eldest brother he taught single-handedly.

Jiang Liu'er also knew that he could have such a cultivation at this moment, all of which was given by Jiang Heng. He should go on according to Jiang Heng's intentions.

But at this moment, he chose to go against Jiang Heng's wishes.

After that brief reluctance disappeared, Jiang Heng said to Jiang Liu'er: "Go! ”

Jiang Liu'er left, taking Jiang Heng's ring and leaving.

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He first came to the Chamber of Commerce and bought the Buddha Temple with the gold and silver stored in the ring given to him by Jiang Heng. After the purchase, the person in charge of the chamber of commerce told Jiang Liu'er: "That Buddhist temple is very evil. ”

It turns out that the reason why no one has bought the temple for so many years is because when someone wants to buy the temple and transform it into something else, they always encounter some strange things.

Like something knocking on the door in the middle of the night, or the door suddenly changing from east to west.

These strange phenomena cannot even be explained by the famous scholars of Nanqi Prefecture.

But Jiang Liu'er still bought him, because he didn't plan to transform the Buddhist temple into something else.

He took the title deed of the Buddhist temple and went to the gate of the Buddhist temple.

Looking at the dusty door, he walked over and pushed it open.

The oncoming antique atmosphere made him silently close his eyes, stand at the gate, and first bow to the Daxiong Treasure Hall facing the gate.

Then he walked towards the Daxiong Treasure Hall step by step.

He looked around the dusty hall and looked at the thick layer of dust.

He found a broom and began to clean all the stains from the hall.

Starting from the main hall, to the inside of the study, to the backyard, every corner, he is carefully cleaning.

There are even Buddha statues as high as the whole house in the main hall, and he carefully climbs up and wipes the Buddha statues clean little by little.

He didn't use any martial arts true qi throughout the whole process, he used the body of a mortal to do all this silently.

Soon, someone outside the temple noticed the movement inside the temple.

I saw this child cleaning the temple.

Under the gaze of everyone, Jiang Liuer is still doing what he needs to do according to his heart.

Wipe down the Buddha statue and sweep the floor.

He did it so seriously that those passers-by saw that this kid was doing such an ordinary thing, but it made people feel at ease after seeing it.

In a flash, night had fallen.

Passers-by realized that it was so late and dispersed.

Jiang Liuer held a few lamps on the main hall and worshipped the incense candles that came again after a long time for the Buddha statue.

Jiang Liu'er sat in front of the Buddha statue, which had already been cleaned and set up on the futon. Immediately silently took out a few scriptures from the ring given by Jiang Heng.

These scriptures were copied by Jiang Heng himself, where were they original?

Jiang Liu'er didn't know, he only knew that he could see from these scriptures that Jiang Heng should have felt that he would leave sooner or later.

So these sutras were prepared a long time ago.

The words were stroked one by one, thinking so neatly and so seriously, for fear that Jiang Liuer would admit that he was wrong.

Under the dim candlelight, Jiang Liuer silently opened a scripture called the Lotus Sutra, faced the Buddha statue, and silently began to read:

"For a time, the Buddha lived in the mountains of the king's house, and there were 12,000 people with the great bhikshus, all of whom were arhats. Its name is as follows: Arā......ṇṣṇṇa�

With the sound of reciting scriptures spread to every corner of the main hall, to every corner of this Buddhist temple—

A distant bell rang suddenly.

The bell began to ring from the side of the temple, and then slowly rippled in a circle.

Until every corner of the Nanqi Prefecture Mansion, the bell can be heard, unknown-

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