Kaifeng city this is the first choice of the temple or the Great Xiangguo Temple, the last time Lu Xihua entered the city passing by the Great Xiangguo Temple, it is the polder day of the five times a month, all kinds of buying and selling gather in the inner and outer parts of the Great Xiangguo Temple, while showing the prosperity of Bianjing, on the other hand, it reveals the hollowness of the Great Xiangguo Temple.

Lu Xihua pretended to be a pilgrim and entered the mountain gate, today is not a polder day, there are no miscellaneous people, more are some worshippers and tourists who worship the Buddha on incense. This Daxiangguo Temple covers a vast area, Lu Xihua roughly estimated, about 500 acres, monks' rooms, guest houses, temples and more than 1,000 rooms, come and go are monks and nuns, afraid of no less than 1,000 people, plus tourists almost 10,000 people, think about a university over there is also this scale.

Most of the monks have fat heads and big ears, some of them sell barbecue meat in the alleys outside the mountain gate, some sell some homemade ritual utensils and statues, and some get some birds and fish from nowhere, keep them in cages and feed them in porcelain jars for tourists to buy. Some of the nuns sell some socks, clothes and hats embroidered by themselves, and some have good brushwork, and then sketch the scenery of the characters on the small group fan used by the women's family, and sell them to the female customers who come to offer incense, and they can also accept customization, and the temple is prosperous.

The imperial court won the battle, and there was an endless stream of guests who came to offer incense and make vows, and some handsome novices led the richly dressed guests to play around. Lu Xihua also saw that there was a monk's house called Changsheng Library, which specialized in folk pawn and loan business, and many people borrowed money here. The Changsheng Treasury not only borrowed, but also absorbed savings, and Lu Xihua saw that there were rich people driving ox carts and pulling carts full of copper coins to deposit in the treasury.

Lu Xihua walked around and found a courtyard, there was only a small door to enter and exit, and the door was guarded by two stout warrior monks, and in and out of it turned out to be some fireworks girls with heavy makeup. Lu Xihua stood still at the corner, and found that many monks and these women hugged each other, smiling in and out, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, the temple's rules and precepts have been reduced to this! Anyway, this is your business, and Lao Tzu doesn't bother to care.

The entrance to the mountain gate is the palace of the king of heaven, and then to enter is the release pond. There are a few monks shouting for the release of life, Lu Xihua looked over, it turned out that some good men and women in order to accumulate blessings, donate money here, accumulate to a certain extent, the monk will release some aquatic animals to the release pond, in order to show your good deeds.

Lu Xihua saw an old woman in old clothes trembling and taking out dozens of dollars from her pocket and handing them to the fat-headed and big-eared monk, and then stood aside and waited for others to donate again, silently reciting the scriptures in her mouth, and seemed to be a devout believer.

"Mother, you gave the money to the Bodhisattva, what should I do with my sister's illness?" A little girl with a runny nose, slender and yellow hair, looked malnourished at first glance.

The old woman raised her shriveled hand and touched the little girl's hair and said thinly, "This is to pray for your sister, and I hope that the Buddha will bless her recovery as soon as possible." My mother still has some money here, and we'll go buy medicine for your sister in a while. ”

"But my mother, I'm so hungry. The little girl held her fingers in her mouth, biting her fingers with her thin teeth, and stared at her big cute eyes at the children who were eating in the crowd.

"Good, good, slave endure it again, and eat it again at night. The old woman sighed and swallowed a mouthful of saliva, apparently hungry herself.

"Oh!" the girl grasped her grandmother's hand tightly, but her eyes were still fixed on the food, and her face flushed a little.

When the total number of copper coins was almost the same, the monk showed the aquatic animals in a wooden barrel and poured the animals into the release pond under everyone's gaze. After a while, I saw a few turtles that had been put into the pool in the wooden barrel before, and they climbed up to the stone platform by the release pond again, and nodded to everyone again and again. The monk immediately announced loudly that this was the spirit turtle thanking the people who had donated money just now, and everyone was blessed, and for a time many believers bowed their heads and worshipped, praising the name of the Buddha in their mouths, and their faces were excited. The old woman in shabby clothes even thanked the monk again and again, pulled the little girl and turned around to go out of the temple gate. With the previous publicity, a large number of good men and women came to donate money, most of whom were shabby clothes.

Lu Xihua looked angry, where is this spirit turtle thanksgiving, that is clearly a tortoise! If you put the tortoise in the water, it is not used to it, and it will definitely climb onto the stone platform, the monks of this Daxiangguo Temple are so hateful, they actually use animal habits to defraud the common people of money. The poor people didn't know it, so they took out their own food and life-saving money to give alms, hoping for the blessing of the Buddha, but they didn't know that they were being treated as monkeys by the monks.

Lu Xihua thought about it for a while, walked quickly to the old woman just now, and stretched out his hand to stop him, "This old woman is invited, I see that you are a devout disciple, and you have something to ask for." ”

The old woman bowed down and said, "This son, I don't know what's going on? The old man has no money left, and he can't worship the Buddha anymore, and he hopes to forgive his sins." ”

Lu Xihua sighed in his heart and waved his hand, "No, no." In the next and the two of them, there is a trick to invite the old man and the little lady to take a look, make an evaluation, and nothing else. ”

The little girl also loved to look at it, and when she heard that there was a trick to see, she pulled the old woman's hand with her hand, and her eyes were full of anticipation. "Big mother, big mother. ”

The old woman couldn't bear it, so she grabbed the money bag in her hand, and secretly decided in her heart that this was the money to buy medicine for her granddaughter, and she couldn't give it away.

Lu Xihua led his mother-in-law and grandson to a big tree next to the temple, took out a small fragrant pear from his arms, and handed it to the little girl, "Little lady, please enjoy this pear, and then I need you to return the pear core to me." ”

The little girl looked at the fragrant pear, wanted to take it but didn't dare to take it, and turned her head to look at her eldest mother. The old woman's heart tightened, "Son, this pear, do you want money?"

Lu Xihua shook his head, "I didn't take a penny, I just begged the little lady to eat the pulp and return the nucleus to me." ”

The old woman looked at the little girl who was swallowing her saliva, and said softly, "Slave eat, don't thank the son." ”

The little girl bent over and said a thousand blessings, and then took the fragrant pear in Lu Xihua's hand, the fragrant pear is not big, the little girl has long been hungry in her belly, she ate the fragrant pear in three bites and two bites, and handed the pear core back to Lu Xihua.

Lu Xihua took the pear core with a smile, looking at the pear core that had been gnawed naked and covered with small tooth marks, the little girl's face couldn't help but turn red, she dodged behind the eldest mother, her head was exposed from behind the eldest mother's skirt, her eyes did not blink, and she looked at Lu Xihua carefully.

Lu Xihua looked at the pear water on the little girl's mouth and the snot hanging on her nose, she couldn't bear it, took out a handkerchief from her arms, wet it with a portable kettle, and handed it to the old woman, "I also asked the old lady to wipe her face, I just ate the pear, and some juice is on my face, which is not very comfortable." ”

The old woman hesitated for a while, took the handkerchief from Lu Xihua's hand, and said in a loud voice, "Thank you, Childe!" Then she squatted down to wipe the little girl's face. A delicate little face was exposed under the wiping of the handkerchief, although there were still some unhealthy dishes on the face, but with the yellow hair, it still showed a trace of shyness.

The old woman looked at the dirty handkerchief in her hand, and didn't know what to do, Lu Xihua waved her hand, "You can stay, it's just a handkerchief." ”

The old woman nodded yes again and again, folded the handkerchief carefully, and put it in her arms. The little girl was no longer nervous at the moment, and slipped out from behind the eldest mother, leaning on the eldest mother's lap, looking at Lu Xihua.

Lu Xihua dug a small hole in the ground next to the big tree with his hands, not big, one palm wide and three palms deep, buried the pear core that the little girl had eaten, refilled the soil, and said, "Little lady, pay attention, the trick is about to begin!"