Chapter 63: Building a Temple

Seeing Mo He kneeling on the ground, the Qingmei Taoist in the sky showed a gratifying smile on his face, and then his body was wrapped in golden light, and he walked towards the bottom of the mountain.

In the distance, Mo He heard the noise coming from the bottom of the mountain, and then heard the voice of Su Bai, the county honor, who was reciting aloud the official documents of the imperial edict.

When his voice fell, in the sky above the entire Zi'an County, a figure wrapped in golden light stood high there, and countless people in Zi'an County knelt down to him one after another, congratulating the Qingmei Taoist on his ascension to the throne.

At the same time, in other places in Qiongzhou, a similar scene was also staged, and there were several gods who had made meritorious contributions to the Taoist priest of Qingmei, who were receiving the edict.

The entire ritual of sealing the gods did not last long, only more than ten minutes, and after more than ten minutes, in the sky, the figure of the Qingmei Dao Chang disappeared, and he had already gone to the underworld.

After the birth of new gods, all of them will go to the underworld, and then it will take a while to go through a process of adaptation to becoming a god, which is not long, after which the gods can enter and leave the underworld and the human world.

As for how long this time is, it varies from person to person, and it generally takes several years.

When the sound of the mountain gradually disappeared, Mo He turned his head to look at the room of the Qingmei Daoist, looked at the body of the Qingmei Daoist in the room, and walked in.

Coming to the corpse of the Qingmei Daoist, Mo He slowly stretched out his hand and touched the body of the Qingmei Daoist on the bed, and the moment he touched the Qingmei Daochang's body, the Qingmei Daochang's body suddenly turned into flying ashes, leaving only a piece of clothing falling off.

Mo He was not surprised by this scene, this situation had long been expected.

Picking up the shirt left by the Qingmei Daoist on the bed, a box appeared in Mo He's hand, and put the Qingmei Daochang's clothes into it, the storage bag in the original clothes had been taken away by the Qingmei Daoist before leaving, and his body had also turned into ashes, so he could only use this dress to build a clothed mound.

When Mohe put away the clothes of the Qingmei Taoist and prepared to be buried on Mount Mochizuki, the place of burial had already been chosen, and it was in the back mountain of Mount Mochizuki, and the relevant things had already been prepared.

Mohe took the box containing the shirt of the head of the Ome Road to the back mountain of Mount Mochizuki, and put the clothes of the head of the Ome Road in the place that had been selected a long time ago.

Because there is only one person in Mohe here now, and the Qingmei Taoist is a god, not a real burial, so everything in Mohe is simple, just a simple establishment of a clothed mound, and then burn incense to make offerings, and everything is over.

Shen Nian swept down the Moon Mountain, and found that the people under the Moon Mountain had now left, returning to the empty Qingmei Temple, Mo He knew that in the future for a period of time, this place was only himself.

Early the next morning, Mo He did not have a morning class, but went directly to Zi'an County and went to the county office.

Today is the first day after the Qingmei Daoist was consecrated as a god, according to the rules, the temple built for the Qingmei Daoist is now time to open, as a disciple of the Qingmei Daoist, no one is more qualified than him to go to this first incense.

When Mo He entered the county office, Su Bai, the county honor, had just gotten up, and after seeing Mo Da, he immediately smiled and said: "Mo River is really early!"

"Master's temple is open, as a disciple, you should come earlier!" Mo He nodded lightly at Su Bai.

After a night, Mo He's heart has lightened a lot because of the sadness of parting, and the Qingmei Daoist has gone away, and he will finally see him again in the future, and he really doesn't need to be too sad.

"Since that's the case, then the official will go with the Dao Chief!" Su Bai also smiled when he heard this, and at the same time had a little more good impression of the Mo Dao Dao in front of him, who was not very old.

According to the etiquette of the imperial dynasty, the construction of temples by gods is the treatment enjoyed by every god, but the scale of the temples that each god can build according to different grades does have a strict limit, and the maximum number of temples that can be owned also has a limit on the number, which also reflects the strict hierarchy of Shinto to a certain extent.

Fortunately, Qingmei Daochang was enshrined as a seven-rank deity, although his temple is not large, but it can also accommodate two people to enter it at the same time, unlike those small temples of nine-grade gods, well, the scale refers to the land temple under the tree at the entrance of the village in the previous life.

After the establishment of the new dynasty in Zi'an County, it is rare for a god to appear, and the Qingmei Taoist also has a lot of fame in Zi'an County, so this early morning, there are also many people gathered outside the temple, waiting for the temple to open.

When Mo He and Su Bai arrived, the people gathered at the door consciously made way for the two.

"Chief Mo River, please!" Su Bai looked around with his eyes, and then made a gesture of invitation to Mo He, signaling Mo He to go in first.

"Thank you, Lord County!" Mo He nodded at Su Bai, then stepped forward, bypassed the incense burner placed at the door, and slowly pushed open the door of the temple under the gaze of everyone.

The temple is not large, which was established by the county government, so in the specification system, it is established in strict accordance with the due scale.

There is a statue of a god standing on the top, dressed as a Taoist, holding a staff in one hand and a small seal on the other, and the shadow of the Taoist of Ome can be seen faintly from the outline.

"This is the master's temple!" Seeing the environment inside clearly, Mo He reached out and took out three incense sticks from the incense case, and his mind moved slightly, and the three incense sticks in his hand were immediately lit, this simple application of spiritual power is not even a spell.

Leaned over and bowed to the idol, inserted the incense in his hand into the incense burner, and then looked at the idol of the Qingmei Daoist, Mo He showed a smile on his face.

When Mo He walked out of the temple, Su Bai entered the temple again and put on a stick of incense, and when he came out, the people around him rushed towards the temple, but because Mo He and Su Bai were both on the scene, they also behaved more restrained and did not make any radical moves.

"Chief Mohe, if you are not in a hurry to go back, why don't you go to the county government with this official?" Su Bai glanced at the crowd that was maintaining restraint, and then invited Mo He beside him.

Not long after he came to Zi'an County, he also heard of the two original Taoist officials in Zi'an County, but the Qingmei Daoist had been preparing to become a god before, and Mo He, who was a disciple of the Qingmei Daoist, had always been by the side of the Qingmei Daoist, so after he came to Zi'an County, he didn't have time to invite Mohe and Qingmei Daochang.

Now in Zi'an County, after the departure of the Qingmei Daoist, only Mohe is the Taoist official, in order to better govern Zi'an County in the future, Su Bai feels that it is necessary for him to have a good relationship with Mohe.

Mo He also understands that Su Bai is different from Wen Siming, he is the real county leader of Zi'an County in the future, not Wen Siming's kind of person who leaves quickly, and in the future, as the Taoist official of Zi'an County, he will inevitably have to deal with the other party, and he should also be familiar with it.

"It just so happens that there are still some questions about building a temple for the master, and I want to ask the county lord for advice, so I bother!" Mo He nodded, and walked towards the county government with Su Bai.

When the two came to the county office, Mo He first asked Su Bai about some matters related to building a temple for Qingmei Daochang, this matter was not an excuse he made because he wanted to get acquainted with Su Bai, but he was really going to do it.

Although there is a limit on the number of temples of the gods, for some gods, the number of their temples has never reached this limit, except for a temple established by the dynasty, other temples need believers to help the gods to build, if no one helps them take care of it, maybe they will really be dissatisfied.

Just like Zi'an's current Qingxi Water God and An Minbo, these two are the gods of the previous dynasty, and now they have almost no temples.

Su Bai explained this aspect to Mo He in detail, and at the same time pointed out some precautions, and finally the two talked to each other again, the topic opened up at once, and soon became a lot more familiar, and when it was getting late, Su Bai personally sent Mo He out of the county office.

"Chief Mo Dao, I had a great conversation with you today, and you and I will work together in the future, I hope that the Taoist can help more. Su Bai looked at Mo He and said with a smile, his behavior was still polite, but his enthusiasm for Mo He was not completely polite now.

After talking with Mo He today, Su Bai found that this young Mo River chief actually has a good knowledge, especially good at arithmetic, and also has his own unique views on political affairs.

"The county lord is polite, I am the Taoist official of Zi'an County, and I am a local disciple of Zi'an County, if it is within the scope of my responsibilities in the future, it is naturally my responsibility. Mo He smiled and said in return, after this day's conversation, Mo He also had a deeper impression of the new county honor.

Born extraordinary, knowledgeable, and also has a lot of ambitions, the other party is the county leader of Zi'an County, maybe he can really make some achievements in the future, so that Zi'an County will become richer.

On the second day after returning from the county government, Mohe began to prepare to build a temple for the Qingmei Daoist, as a seven-grade deity, the Qingmei Daoist can have up to five temples, in addition to one in the county, there are four other temples,

These four temples, Mohe built them in the four towns of Zi'an County, selected the address, and found craftsmen to start building the temple.

As for Mohe himself, it was at the foot of Mochizuki Mountain, and he personally built an ancestral hall for the Qingmei Taoist, saying that it was an ancestral hall, but it was actually similar to the temple, but the name was different.

This was a secret he got after inquiring from Su Bai.

Although the gods built temples, there is a strict number limit, but the descendants in order to commemorate the ancestors, built an ancestral hall, but it can not be counted in it, he opened this ancestral hall to the outside, to a certain extent, it is equivalent to one more temple, this behavior is a default secret, if no one mentions, Mohe can not imagine that it can be like this.