Chapter 204: Hanyang Taoist Temple
Liu Yu followed everyone in line, and took a meal from the kitchen windowsill in turn, and put it on a tray in a simple style, a bowl of white rice, a plate of vegetables, a small plate of tofu, and a coarse tea.
Everyone's fasting and eating are the same, including the Guan Lord Li Yuanfang, the four deacons of the sect, are also four simple things, no more, no less, no discrimination.
Liu Yu followed the crowd forward, came to a long table and sat down, and the meal was placed on the wooden table. Picked up the bamboo chopsticks and took a bite of white rice, the color is crystal clear, soft and glutinous, suitable for all ages, very good.
Liu Yu picked up a small piece of white tofu, the color is tender, put it in the mouth, the taste is smooth, slightly astringent. I picked up another piece of cabbage, which was fresh and refreshing, sweet and sour. A bowl of white rice was quickly picked up in his mouth, and a meal of fasting was eaten as a delicious meal for Liu Yu.
The brothers and sisters who went to "Beiluan City" next to Liu Yu may have been hungry for two days, or gnawed on pancakes for two days, but they all ate with relish. After the group had eaten the fast, they were taken to the Hall of Ten Thousand Houses and arranged a room to rest.
Liu Yu sat quietly in the room for an hour, changed into a blue Duan Jin robe, pushed open the door, and came to the backyard dojo.
I saw thousands of young city citizens in the dojo, including men and women, dressed differently, rich and poor, but all kneeling reverently in front of the huge fairy statue, a solemn middle-aged Taoist, standing in front of the Dharma platform, was holding some kind of ceremony.
At this time, the solemn middle-aged Taoist inserted three burning incense sticks into the incense burner of the Dharma platform, and read aloud in his mouth: "Jianyue True Immortal is above, all beings sincerely pray, praying for the eternal elimination of natural disasters, ** is not prosperous, the family is clear, the disease is healthy, may the immortals bless." ”
The middle-aged Taoist body floated upward, and did not stop until the immortal statue was halfway through, dancing lightly in the dust, and a gossip circle appeared in the air, and rotated at high speed, emitting a dazzling light.
After a few breaths, it flew into the immortal statue, and the immortal statue burst out with an extremely strong spiritual power, and the surrounding body began to glow with a strong luminous light, as if awakening and descending, exuding boundless holiness and majesty.
The thousands of citizens in the dojo couldn't help but bow their heads again and again, and even Liu Yu, who was watching from a distance, also had a pious urge to pray in his heart.
Liu Yu hurriedly drove the spiritual power, held his breath and concentrated, guarded the spiritual platform, and quickly came to his senses, and couldn't help but sigh secretly: "It's amazing!"
The luminous light emitted by this immortal statue makes people's minds confused, and their minds fall into confusion, and they have a heart of worship and worship to the immortal statue, which is very weird, Liu Yu guessed that this immortal statue must not be a mortal thing, and planned carefully.
At this time, a piece of fast spirit pendant floated above the heads of everyone kneeling in the dojo, and thousands of spirit pendants emitted a faint light, which was very spectacular. Soon, Ling Pei separated a ray of white light and slowly floated towards the immortal statue. Thousands of wisps of white light slowly converged into a ray of light, and finally flew in from the center of the immortal statue's eyebrows and merged into the immortal statue.
The middle-aged Taoist fell from the sky and spoke to the kneeling crowd for a while, and the ceremony ended, and thousands of pilgrims withdrew from the dojo one after another.
Liu Yu has nothing to do, wandering around in the Hanyang Taoist Temple, the Hanyang Taoist Temple covers a huge area, the houses and palaces are lined up, the blue bricks and red tiles are spotless, and there are often special people to clean them at all times.
The backyard is quite quiet, and there are many banyan trees. Among them, there are several huge old banyan trees, the roots of which are like dragons, and the skin is like cracked rock, like an old man with ravines and long beards. The branches are luxuriant, verdant, covering the sky and the sun, and I am afraid that there are thousands of years old.
The front yard of Hanyang Taoist Temple, mostly gorgeous palaces, Liu Yu came to the front of the Hanyang Palace, and there are three majestic and dignified statues of gods enshrined in the hall, which are Taiqing Daozu, Antarctic Immortal Emperor, and Arctic Ziwei Emperor. Three gilded statues of gods several feet high are lifelike and spectacular.
There is a large courtyard in front of the Hanyang main hall, and there are two amphora unicorn incense burners the size of a hill in the courtyard, one on the left and one on the right, like two door gods guarding the Taoist temple.
The incense burner is full of high incense, the high incense is different in size and height, divided into purple, red, table three colors, densely packed, and the incense burner is surrounded by pilgrims on both sides, mostly ordinary people dressed plainly, holding high two feet of green incense, rubbing shoulders to squeeze to the incense burner.
The two Guanzhong Taoists carried a zhang high purple incense, separated the crowd, came to the incense burner, followed by a young couple, from the separated humanity, unhurriedly walked to the incense burner, the young couple was gorgeously dressed, the bearing was extraordinary, and the surrounding civilian pilgrims also consciously let go of a small field.
The young couple lifted the purple incense together and threw it into the unicorn incense burner, and the purple incense floated to the middle of the incense burner like a living thing, erected and inserted it into the incense burner, and at the same time the incense head lit a fire, and bursts of purple smoke came out.
The young couple immediately folded their hands together, bent down to the furnace and bowed with great reverence, and after bowing nine times in a row, they left the crowd satisfied.
The huge gate of the Hanyang Taoist Temple, pilgrims are constantly hurrying in, and the Hanyang Hall is overcrowded and bustling, which makes people a little breathless. Liu Yu was swayed and swayed by the crowd, and unconsciously walked out of the gate of the Hanyang Taoist Temple.
Outside the gate of Hanyang Taoist Temple is a square, gathered a large number of carriages, sedan chair drivers, Liu Yu went out, wanted to go to the street to stroll, from time to time there were sedan chair drivers come up to talk, it was annoying, Liu Yu simply got on a simple carriage, the coachman was a seventy-year-old man, looked very honest.
"This Langjun, where are you going!" the old man asked with a smile when he received the job.
"Old man, do you know where in this Hanyang City you can buy high-quality tea?" asked Liu Yu politely.
The "Green Spring Tea" that Liu Yu brought back from Yannan City was left to Tang Hao, and Hanyang City, as the imperial capital of the Yue Kingdom, should be able to find good tea, so he took advantage of his free time to go to the street to see if he could find a suitable good tea.
"Lang Jun, aren't you from this city?" asked the old man suspiciously.
"Yes, I just arrived in Hanyang City. Liu Yu said casually.
"Lang Jun, if you want to find good tea, let's go to Yexiang Street, there are tea shops on both sides of the street, and you can buy good tea from all over the country. The old man drove the carriage and talked eloquently.
"Then go to Changxiang Street!" Liu Yu sat sideways next to the old man, quite chic, and did not sit in the back compartment.
"Drive!" The old man skillfully controlled the direction of the two old horses, driving the carriage on the crowded road, moving forward steadily, and the pedestrians on the road and the carriage were endless.
"It's so lively!" Liu Yu couldn't help but sigh,
"Huh~~" The old man grabbed the reins and stopped the carriage, several carriages on the road in front blocked the way, and the road was full of pedestrians.
"How can there be so many people, on weekdays?" Liu Yu couldn't help asking. Loud shouts on both sides, one after another, told the people in front to get out of the way.
"That's not it, it's not so congested on weekdays, and there are a lot of people today. The old man said helplessly, and the carriage slowly moved forward with the flow of people.
"Why, is it a holiday today?" asked Liu Yu casually.
"Lang Jun, didn't you come to the Taoist Temple to offer incense today, just to take a closer look at the immortal boat?" the old man asked.
"Immortal boat?" Liu Yu didn't react for a moment.
"Hey, such a big immortal ship, parked above the Taoist temple, don't you see?" the old man asked with a sideways look.
"Oh, yes, you're right, I'm here to see the fairy ship. Liu Yu was woken up and hurriedly replied.
"Huoyunfeng" has been parked in the sky above the Hanyang Taoist Temple, and Shangguan Ming has not put it away, I don't know if it is intentional or unintentional.
Many idlers in the city have run to the Hanyang Taoist Temple, one to worship the fairy, and the other to pay a good look at the demeanor of the fairy spirit boat, so that the road in front of the Hanyang Temple is impassable, and people come and go.