Let's click, let's click, let's click......

After one person finishes praying, the person in the queue behind him will immediately throw copper coins into the merit box, and then pick up the incense candle and go to offer incense, so the sound of the impact in the cash box will be incessant, and the sound will become louder and louder.

"Sure enough, the further back you go, the more money you invest. Hu Lai smiled imperceptibly.

In the beginning, the first few people only invested one penny, but then more and more people put money into the cash box, from two to three, and then to four and five......

This is a method he learned from those temples in his previous life to collect money, but he didn't expect the effect to be surprisingly good.

First of all, in the eyes of many pilgrims, not paying for incense and candles, that is to take advantage of the behavior, after all, everyone is here to worship the Buddha, not to take advantage, naturally there will be no money.

If you don't invest money, so many pairs of eyes look at you, are you embarrassed not to invest?

Secondly, the setting of free money is actually the use of people's psychology of comparison, don't look at the beginning of the investment less, the people behind will naturally want to invest more, so that I am more sincere than you, such a psychology will also be in the hearts of the vast majority of people, so the more to the back, the more money invested.

Even the coin box plays a key role in this.

Because it's called a "merit box"!

As the name suggests, how much money you invest represents how much merit you have accumulated, and no one will think that you have less merit.

The villagers present paid for incense and candles, and then took turns to bow down and bow, and the more money they threw into the back row, the more money they put into the merit box, and finally they were eager to put all the coins on their bodies into the merit box to show that their merits were more than others.

"Hehe, the cost of incense and candles is only one penny, except for the first few people, each person who worships the Buddha will invest at least three copper plates, more than a dozen pieces, a total of about a hundred people, if you add up, I am afraid that it can be five hundred dollars, that is equivalent to five taels of silver, this is not counting the later villagers...... "Hu Lai felt that he was going to get rich.

However, the most gratifying thing was the Buddha statue, he noticed that every time a villager finished paying a visit, the number of merits brought by the Buddha statue would rise by one merit, but in one morning, the number of merits accumulated in the Buddha statue was almost 100.

"This Buddha statue is really a big baby, much faster than me going door-to-door to recite the mantra of the past to earn merit, and if it goes on like this, it is simply a promotion and a salary increase, becoming the general manager, and marrying Bai Fumei. Hu Lai seemed to see a bright future, and couldn't help but look happy.

However, as he observed, he found that not every time the Buddha statue received merit, as long as those slightly unfamiliar faces visited the Buddha statue, then most of the Buddha statues would not receive merit.

"Amitabha, this benefactor, I don't know where you come from?" Hu Lai simply asked a strange face who had just finished worshipping the Buddha statue.

"Oh, I'm from Baishi Village, and I heard that Master Rulai is the reincarnation of the Buddha, so I came to meet him, but I didn't expect Master Rulai to be so young, you should be younger than my son's age, and I thought they were tricking me. The man sneered and said that he had just put a penny into the merit box before offering incense.

When Hu Lai heard this, he immediately understood the reason why the other party's visit to the Buddha statue was not considered merit.

It is said that there is a believe, there is no faith, and the sincerity of the Buddha is the spirit, and most of the people in front of him do not believe in themselves, and worshipping the Buddha statue is naturally not a sincere worship, and this kind of insincere worship is naturally not considered merit.

Now the deeds of making the deceased manifest and go to Elysium are not only known in Poplar Village, but also spread in several villages within a radius of dozens of miles.

At the beginning of this morning, the villagers of Yangshu Village were the majority, but as time went by, the villagers of several nearby villages such as Baishi Village and Qingyang Village also came to Leiyin Temple to pay respects.

It's a pity that he is still too young and not an old monk with a long beard, so many people who meet for the first time question in their hearts, and many people outside Yangshu Village can't accept the matter of worshipping their Buddha statues.

In this regard, Hu Lai did not force it, and when someone from another village asked about visiting his Buddha statue, he explained a few words at most, and he was silent.

He knows very well that a thousand words are not as effective as actual actions, as long as he has seen himself recite the mantra of the past life, he will worship himself, will regard himself as the reincarnation of the Buddha or the great virtue of the holy monk, and will sincerely worship the Buddha statue.

And those who have not seen themselves chanting mantras will naturally not regard themselves as the reincarnation of the Buddha, nor will they regard their young self as a high monk, and they will not bow to their Buddha statues, even if they worship, their hearts are not sincere, it is useless.

Only when these people have seen their own rebirth curse will they worship themselves with joy and sincerity.

It was almost dusk, and the clouds on the horizon were steaming and glowing, brilliant as gold.

There are a lot of people here today, most of the villagers of Yangshu Village have come, they are also the main contributors of merit and money, the rest of the people are from several nearby villages, and a few are still from Baiyun Town, these people have heard the wind, and the merit and money contributed are negligible.

"The merit of the harvest is one hundred and thirty-five. Glancing at the number of merits displayed by the Buddha statue, Hu Lai couldn't help but feel a little heartbeat.

At this moment, there were not many worshippers left in the temple, so he simply went to the Buddha statue and tried to communicate with the Buddha statue in order to collect the merits of the Buddha statue.

At the moment when the palm of his hand touched the Buddha statue, a clear stream flowed out of the Buddha statue, flowed into his body, and then disappeared in an instant.

When Hu Lai summoned the six lottery drawings, he found that the number of merits that had been consumed by the lottery had become one hundred and thirty-five!

Oh, my God!

In just one day's work, I have gained so much merit.

If someone comes to worship the Buddha every day, then wouldn't he be able to draw a lottery once or even several times a day?

"This box has become so heavy, it is estimated that there can be 700 yuan, that is, 27 silver. Hu Lai picked up the heavy merit box and estimated it.

According to the calculation of purchasing power, earning seven taels of silver a day is equivalent to earning 7,000 yuan a day, which Hu Lai couldn't have imagined before.

No wonder those monks in the previous life were fat and big-eared, and the temple was getting bigger and bigger, and it was estimated that there was too much oil and water to support it like that.

Just when Hu Lai decided to close the gate of Leiyin Temple to count the money, a man's high-pitched voice came from outside the door.

"The bald donkey of Leiyin Temple dares to cheat people out of money here, it's disgusting, hurry up and give it to me!"

Xunsheng walked out of the Buddhist hall, Hu Lai found that a strange young man in brocade appeared at the gate of Leiyin Temple, followed by a charming girl in Tsing Yi, needless to say, the person who shouted was the young man in brocade.

"Donor, why are you insulting the little monk in this pure place of Buddhism?" Hu Lai asked the young brother.