They came to a neighborhood in the old town, which was now a little quieter, less lively, and less pedestrianized.

"It should be in there." Shellise looked at the street signs around her and found the place.

Chen Xi observed the terrain of the intersection and said to Shellis: "If they also come from this road, this is a good sniper spot, I hope they come together, in that case, they can be wiped out!" ”

The car drove into the street, slowing down and driving slowly, and the two looked at each side, looking for the abyss.

"Chen, what do you think that place will be?"

Chen Xi shook his head, "It's hard for me to guess, but there will be an answer soon." His eyes kept scanning in both directions.

"Parking! Rewind a little bit. ”

When the car was about to reach the middle of the street, Chen Xi stopped Cheris. A little back from the car, Chen Xi saw a Chinese-style building sandwiched between the buildings.

"This is it!"

Taking a closer look at the building, Chen Xi lowered his body and shouted. He had already seen what this place was from a plaque on the door, and he knew why it was a pass. This is a traditional Chinese style Taoist temple, the name is "Yiyuan Temple", just now I will always think that it is a yuanguan, because of the pronunciation of foreigners.

"It turned out to be a Taoist temple." Chen Xi and Shellis got out of the car and stood at the gate of Yiyuanguan.

"Taoism? What's that? Shellise took two steps forward and looked at the strange building, which she had never seen before.

"The Taoist temple is a place where some practitioners of Taoism in China gather, similar to Catholic and Christian churches." Chen Xi wanted to explain it briefly, but found that it was difficult to explain the different cultures and languages at once, so he simply compared her to a Taoist church, believing that it would be easier to understand.

"In China, traditional Taoist temples are generally built on famous mountains and rivers with extraordinary aura, but now the times are different, and Taoist temples can also be seen in the city, but usually in the suburbs. I didn't expect that there would be Taoist priests who opened Taoist temples to New York! Chen Xi was a little excited, he only knew that there were Western churches in China, but he didn't expect that Chinese Taoist temples also exist in the United States. Ordinary Chinese are mixed with Catholicism and Christianity, which is relatively difficult to distinguish, and is generally referred to as Christianity. I wonder what kind of misunderstanding Westerners have about Taoism in China?

"Should we go in and tell them?" Shellise walked to the door. "You're going to say the same thing to them, right?"

"Of course." Chen Xi walked over with confidence, and found that both Buddhism and Taoism in China had opened their own dojos in New York, and he had nothing to doubt, so it was no wonder that the Catholic Church was nervous. Although he didn't have much strength, Chen Xi decided to find a way to help them continue to survive in New York, and it was best to let Americans accept Chinese ideas and beliefs everywhere.

Of course, primitive Buddhism is not a Chinese thought, but Buddhism is now in decline in India, and for more than a thousand years, China has been the center of gravity of Buddhism. Buddhism has also been integrated with Chinese thought, and Chinese thought is inseparable from the concepts of Buddha, Taoism and Confucianism.

Shiris knocked the wooden door and found that it was made of wood, so she couldn't help but whisper to Chen Xi, "Why do they use wood?" Aren't you afraid that people will go in casually? ”

Chen Xi laughed in a low voice: "Taoist monks are also called monks, just like Buddhist monks. They don't care about their possessions at all, and they often survive on the alms of ordinary people. ”

Shellis felt a little incredible, "It's really unimaginable! If I take their money, they won't say? ”

Chen Xi thought for a moment, "If it's a true cultivator, you shouldn't say it, right?" Hehe, I don't have any experience either, but I know that there is usually nothing of value in it. ”

At this time, the lights inside were already bright, and the wide wooden door opened a slit more than a foot wide, and a person inside poked his head out and looked outside.

"Hello, Miss, is there something wrong?" The man saw Shellis and asked in English.

Shellis was a little embarrassed and didn't know what to say, so she could only say hesitantly: "Hello, it's not me...... It's him, my friend Chen, who came to you......"

Chen Xi said in Chinese next to him: "...... Well, hello, I'm Chinese, you can speak Chinese, right? He originally thought that the people in the Taoist temple should be Taoist priests, and the Taoist priest in his impression was wearing a wide robe and combing his hair in a bun, but the person who opened the door was an ordinary person, so he had to retract the sentence "Taoist chief" on his lips.

"Is there something wrong?" The man inside looked at Chen Xi suspiciously, it was already ten o'clock in the evening, and a young man with a blonde beauty inevitably made him suspicious.

"That's right, I have something very important to discuss with you, can I talk to the Taoist leader of your council?" Chen Xi saw that he should be a worker guarding the door, so he didn't mean to talk to him in detail.

"It's so late...... Let's talk about it tomorrow! The man excused himself and was about to close the door.

Chen Xi stretched out his hand and pressed the door, he was tall, and with the strength of his arm, the man couldn't close the door.

"I'm sorry, it's a very important thing. Do you think I've got nothing to do and come here to have fun? Chen Xi said solemnly.

The man looked at him, thought for six seconds, and then motioned for Chen Xi to let go of his hand, and he opened the door.

Chen Xi suddenly remembered something, and asked in a low voice: "You don't let us in, could it be that you don't allow female guests to enter?" He used to read novels, and some books used to say that some temples and Taoist temples in ancient times did not allow female guests to enter, but now he asked in Chinese, and he was not afraid that Shellis would be unhappy when he heard it.

"Where," the man smiled as he ushered them in, then closed the door. "There's no such thing, I'm just late in the day, I don't know what you're going to do."

Entering the One Yuan Temple, the lights inside were bright, and Chen Xi and Xue Lisi couldn't help but take a closer look at the decorations inside. I saw a huge Taiji diagram "Yin Yang Fish" on the ground, surrounded by Bagua symbols.

Shellis said excitedly: "Chen, I've seen this, that's the flag of South Korea!" How can your church paint the Korean flag? ”

Chen Xi was embarrassed for a while, and didn't know what to say. After the "May Fourth", China has been learning from the West, and has repeatedly launched the destruction of traditional culture, and now it has been reformed and opened up for many years, and the ideology has been active, but the country still does not preach enough about the essence of traditional culture.

After a while, Chen Xicai said curtly: "It's not that our Taoist temple paints their national flag, but that their Korean national flag uses a cultural symbol of our country. ”

Shellis didn't seem to understand, but she didn't really care, and she kept looking happily at the things around her that were very new to her.

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