Chapter 15 On the Temple Mountain
In the past few days, the temple fair has long been day and night, even in the dark, there are bright lights to illuminate the entire Gangneung City, and the activities and crowds up and down the temple mountain have not decreased in the slightest.
Fireworks are in full swing throughout the night. After Gu Li and Luo Yi rested, they enjoyed the night scene for a while, went to the night market again, and continued to participate in the activities and toss, having a lot of fun. After midnight, I stayed at an inn in the west of the city to rest.
The next day, the sun was shining.
After breakfast, the two of them took to the street again, and the crowd was bustling with the same as yesterday. On the road on the temple mountain, there are still countless various characters up and down.
"Let's go to the temple mountain today to pay respects, participate in the temple fair, but we can't go to the temple mountain. Luo Yi looked at the small temple mountain standing by the river in the middle of the city not far away, and said to Gu Li. The tone is gentle.
"Hmm. Gu Li nodded, "It's just that there are still too many people on the road, and we can only squeeze up." ”
"That can't be helped, the sacrificial temples pay attention to the first, so that you can get the blessing of the sages earlier, these people naturally want to take the lead, if we go up the mountain on the last day, maybe there will be fewer talents. Luo Yi replied.
"Then it's better to wait for two days? At that time, I am afraid that the temple mountain is too crowded, and I can't see the scenery, and the sense of experience is not good. Gu Li proposed.
"Then what are we doing today?" Luo Yi asked with a smile, he had been playing for a whole day yesterday, but he didn't expect Gu Li to have enough fun. Although she is the same......
"Naturally, I participated in those ceremonies, how could I experience it in one day. Gu Li's eyes flashed and he smiled slyly.
"Let's go!" Luo Yi smiled, and following Gu Li's wishes, the two of them slipped into the crowd quickly.
.........
"Look, the man's handwriting looks good!" Luo Yi held a string of sugar gourds in his hand and pointed to a writing stall on the street, where there was a Confucian scholar in his thirties, dressed in white, selling word panels, and he was writing and selling.
Confucianism has an elegant temperament, there is a majestic aura condensed between the eyebrows, every word under his hand is spring and white snow, the pen walks the dragon and snake, has its own wind and bones, and it is good-looking.
A small red cloth banner was hung at the office booth, on which was written "Fifty dollars per word".
"So expensive?" Gu Li also noticed there, and when he saw the words on the flag, he exclaimed lightly, although the words written by this Confucian were good, but the price was still very expensive for him. If it weren't for Luo Yi giving him a hundred taels of silver before, he would really be penniless.
"Shall we take a look?"
"Actually, it's nothing, if Miss Luo is willing to pay, the words written below are not bad, and she can sell it to you cheaper. Gu Li chuckled and advertised, the girl in front of her was a serious rich woman. If you earn a little more money, it will be convenient in the future.
"Giggles. Luo Yi couldn't help but smile when he heard this, "You say you can cook and write, but you are still an all-round cultivator?"
"That's not it, it's just that I used to live in the mountains, so I learned a little bit of those things. The teacher taught me early that I was not overwhelmed and that I could make a living. Gu Li shrugged.
"So, do you want to make a living here with Miss Ben?" Luo Yi stared at Gu Li with a smile in her eyes, and she suddenly realized that this guy was still quite interesting.
"Hey, hey..."Gu Li.
"Okay, then why don't you go to the Confucian student to borrow some materials and write a copy for this girl, if you write well, you will be rewarded. Luo Yi was angry and rude, and casually bit off a sugar gourd.
"Let's go!"
As Luo Yi said, she didn't expect Gu Li to really find the stall owner to pick up a pair of ink treasures, and write it calmly, and the Confucian student was even more enthusiastic, and directly agreed to Gu Li's request. Of course, that was because Gu Li threw dozens of dollars into his stall.
Luo Yi quietly watched the young man write, Gu Li held the wolf in his hand, and wrote a poem on the white paper in a chic manner, every word is upright with a bit of pride and chic, it is indeed very beautiful.
"There will be times when the wind and waves will be long, and the clouds will sail into the sea. ”
"Little brother, good words!" The Confucian student smiled and praised him, he is a scholar, but he has studied the orthodox Confucian scriptures all the year round, which is regarded as a Confucian cultivation.
Gu Li could also feel the heroic spirit of Confucianism, and sighed secretly in his heart, the Confucian cultivators in the world are full of heroic energy, righteous and awe-inspiring, and follow the law, and the demons and evil retreat, which is true.
Besides, the person in front of him just thought that he was just an ordinary Confucian cultivator, and his cultivation was still far behind. If a real Confucian, a character like Hongru appears, it will really be a matter of words and change.
Luo Yi focused more on the pair of lines and poems, her eyes were slightly surprised and a little appreciative, Gu Li didn't lie to her. The handwriting is really good, and the ambition is not bad.
"Not bad. Luo Yi nodded solemnly, walked over and picked up the pair of words, and smiled at Gu Li: "The girl has accepted this pair of words, Gu Gongzi will make a price." ”
"Fourteen words, how about charging you five hundred yuan?" Gu Li replied with a smile, at this time he really felt that he was a scholar who sold words for a living.
"Giggles, Gu Gongzi is really honest in business. Luo Yi covered his mouth and smiled, Confucian fifty yuan for one word, then fourteen words are seven hundred yuan, Gu Li only charged five hundred yuan, but it was really as he said before, two hundred yuan cheaper for himself.
It's just that Gu Li didn't expect that Luo Yi really only gave himself five hundred yuan, which is not much, not a lot. What about the rich woman who said yes......
"Haha, meeting is fate, I don't know what to call the son and the girl? Confucian greeted the two of them at this time, smiling, it was rare to meet such an interesting young man in Jiangling City, and his handwriting was not bad, and Li Yuan was also amused.
"Xiao Sheng Gu Li. Gu Li hugged his fists and performed a courtesy.
"Luo Yi. Luo Yi's answer was even more direct and concise.
"Two young heroes, I don't know if I want to buy a few couplets below? Li Yuandao.
"......" Gu Li and Luo Yi were speechless, and their feelings were to ask us to buy your text panels.
"I don't need this girl, I just bought it. Luo Yi was the first to reply. Gu Li was embarrassed, looked at the burning gaze cast by Confucius, and secretly said in his heart: "If I buy your words, wouldn't this son lose today?"
Luo Yi smiled and beckoned goodbye to Confucian Sheng and followed. put the couplet of poems written by Gu Li in his hand into the Qiankun bag. Sighing in his heart, it seems that Gu Li is still a person who cherishes money.
In this way, another day passed, and the two experienced a lot of new things, but they still did not go up the mountain.
In the evening, Gu Lipan sat on the bed, cultivated, and felt the vitality of heaven and earth, during this time, he had been in a hurry, playing, but he had slackened his practice, but his inner world was a lot richer, his mind was much broader, and his knowledge had increased a lot.
Gu Li was shocked to find that his cultivation, which he had not improved for more than a year, had actually improved, and even the bottleneck had been loosened! This made him very happy. It seems that what the teacher said is good, going down the mountain to hone is really helpful for the improvement of cultivation.
Thinking of this, Gu Li began to devote himself to comprehending the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi, and his divine thoughts explored the meridians of his body, guiding a large amount of Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi in his body towards the dantian, and began to open up the sea of qi and condense it into true qi. Impacting the realm of the Yellow Court.
As long as he reaches the second realm, he can practice the exercises given to him by the teacher, strengthen his qi and physique, greatly improve his combat power, and then he will not have to be as weak as he was in Wangjiang Tower a few days ago.
Firm in confidence, Gu Li completely integrated into the cultivation, gathered the essence and spirit, and made every effort to condense the true qi and open up the sea of qi.
At the same time as Gu Li was practicing, Luo Yi in the other room was also practicing, unlike Gu Li's dedication to opening up the sea of qi, she was committed to forging the Great Dao Lotus Platform in the sea of qi.
At this time, in the sea of Luo Yi's qi, a golden avenue lotus platform has been condensed into a prototype, and it is constantly blooming flowers and leaves, and when the lotus platform is fully bloomed, it is to completely step into the third realm.
Stepping into the lotus realm and communicating with the three talents of heaven, earth and man, you can easily attract the power of heaven and earth to bless your body, and your practice can be regarded as entering the hall. A monk of the third realm of cultivation can be regarded as a master in a place like Gangneung City.
In the next two days, Gu Li and Luo Yi still didn't find a suitable opportunity to climb the temple mountain, just because the crowd there was still very crowded, and the two of them were not in a hurry, so they continued to wander around Jiangling City, seeing for a long time, and experiencing some mundane things that they had never seen before. In the evening, he continued his practice. It's at ease.
On the fifth day, the number of people on the temple mountain gradually decreased, and most of the people went to the temple mountain to worship four days ago, so going up the mountain at this time was not as crowded as before.
Gu Li and Luo Yi came to the bottom of the temple mountain, glanced at each other, and then began to climb the mountain.
Along a wide mountain road, there are trees on both sides, hanging strips of red cloth, and you can feel the smell of incense in the wind.
As you get closer to the top of the mountain, the smell becomes more and more intense, and here you see many flowering trees, blooming like fire. The aroma is fragrant and beautiful.
Climb the temple mountain, the field of vision also becomes broad, Gu Li can see the Jiangling City below with his head down, the city is majestic and vast, the layout is strictly orderly, a big river runs through the north and south, the whole look, quite has the momentum of a royal city.
"This should be red cotton! Luo Yi stared at the large flaming flowers, quite happy.
"It's beautiful. Gu Li nodded, there were many flowers blooming everywhere in Yunshen before, and he often took care of them, but what impressed him the most was the huge flame sycamore in the yard, and the sycamore flowers bloomed all year round, as if they would never wither, even in the cold winter of the lunar month, it was still as bright as fire, and the temperature released was also very high.
There is also a firebird on it. Gu Li knew that it was not an ordinary sycamore, but the rumored phoenix sycamore, a kind of sacred tree recorded in ancient books. It has survived for an unknown number of years. As for the firebird, no matter how Gu Li looked at it, it didn't look like the legendary divine bird phoenix.
But Zhu is tired of that guy, but he is very afraid of him.
It took Mo Yu an hour, Gu Li and Luo Yi successfully climbed to the top of the temple mountain, which was very open, and the huge mountain seemed to be flattened by a sword, like a huge square.
On the square, there are five magnificent temples, built in different locations and different styles, all of which were preceded by different flowers and trees.
Among them is a plum forest, a bamboo forest, a peach forest, a begonia flower forest, and a lotus pond with lotus flowers blooming in it.
"These five kinds of flowers and trees are the iconic flowers and trees that represent the Three Religions and the Wenwu Temple, and they are planted in front of temples in almost every place. ”
Walking in it, Luo Yi looked at the different flowers and trees in front of the five temples, and said lightly.
Among them, Meilin represents Confucianism, lotus represents Buddhism's holiness and compassion, Taolin represents Taoism's righteousness and endless vitality, bamboo forest represents literati and elegant guests, and Begonia represents the world's martial artists to conquer the four seas and cherish their homeland. ”
It's very apt, and the meaning is profound. Gu Li nodded when he heard this, the temperament of these five flowers and trees was indeed in line with the sect it represented.