Although Hengyang is not richer than Foshan, it is also a famous port in Huguang.

However, compared with Foshan Town, which started with industry and commerce, Hengyang's wealth depends entirely on the pilgrims who come to Hengyang every year to worship the mountains.

Especially on the first day of August, when the Holy Emperor of Nanyue became enlightened, Hengyang became a place where pilgrims from the four provinces of Lake, Guangzhou, Jiangxi and Anhui gathered. The mountain procession wrapped in a red scarf and wearing a green coat can be lined up from Zhurong Peak to the outside of Hengyang City. Not only are the Taoist Buddhist temples full of incense all day long, but the roadside tea sheds and chicken feather shops are placed with the shrines of the Holy Emperor and the Patriarchs and Bodhisattvas from all walks of life, and the passing guests burn incense and worship.

Such a ceremony to the mountain, a day is not stopped in March, the temple fair market up and down Hengshan is more people come and go, endless, during which the benefits are great, and it is not comparable to other places. There is a saying among the people of Hengyang that "if you don't plow the fields at the foot of Nanyue, you will eat for three years in August", which is a portrayal of the prosperity of Nanyue's divine affairs.

It's also a pity that it's the beginning of April, and there are not as many pilgrims as in August, otherwise, Wei Ye's group is not to say that it is difficult to find a place to stay.

Early in the morning, the innkeeper sent the green salt water for gargling, and prepared a dim sum porridge soup, and even the incense table enshrined at the head of the door was temporarily added with a celadon statue of the old gentleman to be offered. When he heard that Wei Ye was going to lead his disciples up the mountain to make incense, he immediately prepared incense, candles, flowers and fruits and other offerings for Wei Ye, which seemed to be extraordinarily diligent.

However, this is also because of Wei Ye's fresh clothes, angry horses, giant bears and high cars, although they are Taoist attire, they have a style that ordinary officials and eunuchs are not as good as, so there is this shopkeeper with doglegs. If you change the clothes and straw sandals, I am afraid that the shopkeeper's face is no better than that of the flower child.

Wei Ye didn't care, and ordered the Taoist soldiers who accompanied him to take a few small silver bills to thank him, and walked straight along Hengyang City Avenue towards Hengshan Temple with his hands behind his back.

Along the way, there are also groups of three or five, seven or eight groups of pilgrims, all wrapped their heads in red cloth, wearing green cloth short coats, by the leader of the head with incense plates, the prime of life people hold high the banner of "towards the mountain and Nanyue", singing the ballad of thanking the gods towards the mountain, and walking towards the main peak of Hengshan step by step.

There are also people who come out of the inn to pay the bill, and sing the song of thanking the shopkeeper for tea and rice, and some draw water from the mountain spring stone well to quench their thirst, and then sing a song to worship the god of the well and the boy of the well.

More pilgrims are walking, while singing incense worship songs with different local accents, singing a sentence and bowing in the direction of Hengshan:

"The Holy Emperor of Nanyue sits on Heng Mountain, I wish Rong Peak to show his might, the golden gourd is towards the Jade Emperor, and the Solitaire Bridge is on the Dragon Bridge to protect the people!"

"Seventy-two peaks face the south of the mountain, Zhu Rong Peak worships the golden body, once the heaven and the earth and the sun and the moon, and the second towards the Yellow River, the water and the earth!"

The tunes of the mountain songs come and go one after another, and the excitement is really lively, but if any scribe walks on this road with the idea of visiting the monuments of the three generations and the wonders of the six dynasties, he is afraid that he will be squeezed into the Javanese border by this wave of pilgrims who are full of poems.

Nanyue Temple is an official temple, there are temple officials, there are altar households, there are Taoist officials and monks who are named in the Daolu Division and the Sangha Lu Division - of course, the Qing Chengming system, except for a few Taoist officials and monks, whether it is the official temple or the private Lanruo, even the Taoist monks who have a degree can not make up a few, but the wild Taoist people and wild monks who wear hairpins and shavings privately are the majority.

As for the cause of becoming a monk, it has nothing to do with "admiring the Jindan Dao" and "seeking the true fruit of Nirvana", etc., but it is all eaten through Taoist robes and robes. Yesterday, Lu Yan came to Nanyue Temple to explore the way, and as soon as he made a move, he gave dozens of taels of filament silver, and those who knew the eight temples in the east and the eight temples in the west of Nanyue Temple all thought that it was a god of wealth.

And he caught up with the Wei Tuo Gate to make merit in the Nanyue Temple, so they all stood in front of the Yue Temple Lingxing Gate, put on the robes and robes, played cymbals, knocked on the wooden fish, and waited for the great donor to come.

This kind of hospitality, not even their trip in vain, after a while, I saw a group of people in the rivers and lakes coming together, among which there were three men dressed in linen and filial piety, but they were accompanied by a group of martial artists, all of whom were senior celebrities with status in Hunan.

However, this group of people was just respectful, leading a young Taoist to come, that Taoist was less than thirty years old, dressed in a dark crane, wearing a boxwood glaive crown, but he was born with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, a long face and a straight nose, and a mustache on his lips.

Behind this person, two more blue feather officers in stone blue victory coats followed closely behind, looking as if they were serving the superiors.

The group of acquaintances, seeing the grandeur of this person, immediately thought that the young man who came to the front station yesterday said that the master was the one in front of him, and suddenly the cymbals sounded, and they sang the Dharma song to greet them, and greeted the three men who wore linen and filial piety, and respectfully invited the young Taoist priest to come in to eat tea.

Before the young Taoist priest could say anything, he saw the Lan Lingzi military attache come forward and shouted: "Where are the temple officials of Nanyue Temple, why don't you come out and serve quickly?

Saying that, he didn't care about those acquaintances, and he was about to kick people. But he glanced at the young Taoist behind him, and with a biased foot, he let a Zhike Taoist priest pass, but kicked the Zhike monk next to him into a rolling gourd.

These acquaintances did not dare to slack off, and bowed down again and again, some of them recited Taiyi to save the suffering Tianzun, and some of them recited Nan Wu Amitabha Buddha, and they all recognized their bad luck and flashed aside, and acted by this group of fierce gods.

After a while, he saw that the temple official was wearing a serious official uniform, and he came out to greet him tremblingly. The military attache of the blue feather saw the quail on the temple official's chest, and sneered: "What a joke, a nine-grade praise ceremony, an official like a sesame mung bean, dare to take it big in front of the masters." Tell you, today is the teachers of the Wei Tuo Sect who want to borrow the Nanyue Temple to make merits, you hurry up and blast out those idle people, don't bump into the nobles!"

The temple official was startled when he saw the Lan Lingzi military attache in front of him and listened to his northern accent. Ordinary people don't know the rules of officialdom, how can he not know. This military attache is clearly the six-rank guard in Beijing, so where should such a big man come from?

At that moment, the temple official only felt sweating like pulp, and bowed again and again: "Please wait for the nobles, we will expel the idlers, and please stay for ......a while."

The young Taoist just smiled slightly, waved his hand and said: "The Holy Emperor of Nanyue blesses one side, and the people of Li admire his grace, even my generation has a lot of glory." What's more, today is not only to make merit for the old heroes of Wei Tuomen, but also to announce a major event to the fellow people in the rivers and lakes, why hide it? I, Murong Parrot, am only afraid that there will not be enough people!"

Hearing this Murong Daoist say this, the Lan Lingzi military attache suddenly said with a smile on his face: "A rough person like me is not as thoughtful as the Murong Gang Master after all, what he said was true, what he said was true. ”

Although everyone here is faintly headed by this Murong Daoist, but the Nanyue Temple has already been greeted by Wei Tuomen, and there are Taoists and monks on both sides of the dojo to line up their own dojos, chant scriptures, and worship the table to bless.

With the three martial artists of the Wei Tuo Gate, the old ones went to the dojos on both sides to pay homage, and the young ones, who were not born in the Wei Tuo Gate, went to the Marshal Hall and the Holy Goddess Hall in the big temple to enjoy the tours.

The temple official was also unlucky, and when he encountered such an unreasonable thing, he had to go to Zhang Rusu Zhai in person to ask these martial arts people to be used.

At this time, Wei Ye happened to lead Lu Yan and Ma Chao into the Nanyue Temple. Among these martial arts people, others only felt that he was dressed in Taoist attire and was different from ordinary Taoism, but he was only a Taoist in the rivers and lakes, Wei Ye was also happy to pretend not to know, but he just held himself with both hands and said to the students: "Hengyue has been stationed in Xi since the Nandun of Zen Buddhism, and he has a good Nanyue Zhuling Cave Heaven and dyed it into the Buddha soil of southern Hunan. However, these bald heads sit and enjoy the offerings from all directions, and occupy many temple tenants, and the diet is rich and clean, and the vegetarian food of this Nanyue Temple is worth tasting. Let's go, even if we take advantage of it!"

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Since the Shunzhi period, the Nanyue Temple has been highly valued by the Qing court, and the hall is not comparable to the ordinary temple view. Yesterday, Nanyue Temple knew that Wei Tuomen was coming, and had already put the vegetarian banquet up, and there were more than 100 tables at the opening of the table, all of which were vegetables and bamboo shoots, melon vegetables, stone fungus, tofu gluten and other vegetarian meat products from Hengshan.

The gluten, tofu made of brown sugar, soy sauce made of vegetarian meat slices, vegetarian lion's head, etc., are just taken to take a similar shape, the cured winter melon smoked by the bacon method is shaped like fatty meat, with a hidden aroma of pickled meat, and the vegetarian grass carp made of eggplant stuffed mushrooms has more fat than ordinary vegetables and vegetables. The most boastful thing is that the fresh bamboo shoots in the mountains are crushed and roasted with red yeast rice.

Although the chefs of Nanyue Temple can be regarded as the national hand of vegetarian food, most of the guests in the hall are people from the rivers and lakes, that is, no matter how good vegetarian Zhai is, there is no wine to drink, and the atmosphere is not warm.

It's just that many famous people who are close to Wei Tuomen at the banquet stopped their chopsticks and didn't move, just made eye contact with each other, and lowered their voices to talk a few words.

"As soon as Wan Hesheng, the head of the family, is gone, and the famous figures of Wei Tuomen's generation can be regarded as withering. ”

"It's a pity that Wan Hesheng has laid a lot of family business for Wei Tuomen, but Hengyang Maple Leaf Village doesn't know which one to belong to?"

"I heard that Wan Hesheng suddenly had a stroke, but a generation of tycoons couldn't lift their pens and couldn't open their mouths, so they just gave up in a daze. But there is no son and half daughter, only these three apprentices are sent to the end......"

"The knife skills of the eldest Sun Fuhu, the boxing skills of the second lieutenant Chi Lian, and the marksmanship of the third Yang Bin are all very famous on the ground in Hunan, and I don't know which one took over the position of the head?"

These people's voices were extremely low, but they couldn't hide it from Wei Ye's ears at all, but they saw that the three men who were dressed in linen and filial piety were sitting with the young Taoist, but they let the Taoist sit in the chief. The military attache of Lan Lingzi beside that person is very familiar, who is not He Sihao of Taijimen?

Seeing that the heroes had all entered the table, and Su Zhai was also on the table, He Sihao stood up and said: "Brother is a six-rank official under the command of Fu Dashuai, and he has always admired the head of Hengyang Weituomen, Wan Lao Hero, this time my brother came to Hengyang, it is to invite Wan Lao Hero to enter Beijing to participate in the world's head conference, so that Wei Tuomen can show his face in front of his fellow martial artists. It's just that I can't imagine that the brothers and the old heroes have a fateful side, and the worship of the mountain has turned into mourning, which is really embarrassing. ”

Among the heroes, there were those who had a slight friendship with Wan Hesheng during his lifetime, and when they heard this, they couldn't help but sigh slightly, and listened to He Sihao continue: "However, although the old man of Wan passed away, the future of Wei Tuomen has to be carefully planned by the three masters of the old man. Since there are so many fellow Taoists here today, the three of you might as well discuss it carefully here, and we can also be a witness for your family. Especially the matter of the head of the sect is the importance of the inheritance of the sect, and it cannot be done cautiously. ”

Among the three brothers, Wei Chilian, who was white-faced, stood up first and said: "If you talk about the affairs of this sect, it is ashamed to say that my Wei Tuo Sect has been established since the end of the Song Dynasty, and after several dynasties, it can be regarded as a number of sects on the rivers and lakes, but now it is very difficult to maintain it in the door. When the ancestor is there, it is best to make friends on the rivers and lakes, and it is famous for fighting righteousness and squandering wealth. However, even though we have some industries in Weituomen, they are not mountains of gold and silver, and after a long time, it is inevitable that we will sit and eat nothing. Now in order to take care of the affairs of the first teacher, it is even more difficult to turn around, and when I think of this matter, I am ashamed and ashamed, I am really sorry for the first teacher, and I am sorry for the ancestors of the Vedic Gate. ”

Qunhao didn't expect that as soon as this lieutenant stood up, he began to cry poorly, and suddenly caused a burst of whispers on all sides.

Unexpectedly, the third Yang Bin also stood up and said: "Now that this sect has fallen to such a point, it is all our junior disciples. But the inheritance of Vedomon cannot be broken in our hands, so the three of us, after thinking about it, only came up with one way. But fortunately, a hero on the rivers and lakes showed us a clear way. ”

When the group of heroes below heard him say this, some fun-loving people shouted: "I don't know which hero it is, what kind of idea has come up?"

The eldest Sun Fuhu said: "It was the former leader of the Qingqi Gang, the iron tower Yang Chengxie! At the beginning, Yang Tieta was just a big man, and the Qingqi Gang was just an ordinary gang, but he led the gang to merge into the Red Flower Society, and from then on, who in the martial arts in the world did not know the eight masters of the Red Flower Society?"

This example is quite nondescript, and the group of people in the audience frowned when they heard it, and He Sihao was even more sensitive to the word "Red Flower Society", but because of the young Taoist sitting next to him, he still forced himself to press down.

Sun Fuhu's temperament was the most rude among the three senior brothers, and he bowed directly to the young Taoist and said: "Our three brothers think about it, or the Murong Gang leader of the Money Gang is the most famous and has a high reputation, so he merged Wei Tuomen into the Qian Gang, just like the Qingqi Gang merged into the Red Flower Society, it can be regarded as the lintel of the light gate for the ancestors of Wei Tuomen!"

When this sentence was spoken, the heroes were in an uproar!

Over the years, the power of the Money Gang has always developed in the four provinces of Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Jiangxi, and it has also taken advantage of the gap for the Red Flower Society to retreat to the Western Regions, and its momentum is not worse than that of the Red Flower Society in the south of the Yangtze River. But he never thought that the hand of the money gang was stretched out so long, and even the Wei Tuo Gate, which was far away in southern Hunan, was drawn in.

However, the difference between the Money Gang and the Red Flower Society is that the Red Flower Society relies on the amazing art of the dozen or so masters. Some well-informed old rivers and lakes couldn't help but show a slight smile on their faces, and secretly said in their hearts: "There are many strange things in the world, and I don't know how much money this money gang spent to buy this Wei Tuomen?"

These old rivers and lakes laughed secretly in their hearts, but there was a strange voice above the banquet that howled violently and said: "Oh God, God! Wei Tuomen has experienced many ups and downs since the Wuxiang Patriarch opened the mountain, and how many heroes and heroes have been produced, and twenty years ago it was still the number one faction in the mighty Sanxiang. Why is it that today, what money gang and silver money gang will sell some silver ticket ingots to sell the family business passed down by the ancestor of Wuxiang? Wow, ah, ten thousand cranes, you really taught three good apprentices, and just stepped on the three words of Wei Tuomen into the mud!"

Everyone followed this crying voice, but saw a thin old man sitting on a side seat in the west, wearing a melon skin hat, wearing a bamboo cloth robe, with a rat tail beard, the small pigtails dragged behind the head were white and sparse, the cheekbones were raised, and his face was full of sickness.

The three senior brothers Sun Fuhu, Wei Chilian, and Yang Bin were originally harboring ghosts because they had sold their sects, and they were crying and fussing by this thin old man, and they suddenly couldn't hold back on their faces, but they just shouted: "This is our Wei Tuomen's family affairs, what do you have to do with this old ghost?"

The old man just cried a handful of snot and tears, and his deeply sunken cheeks were full of tear stains, and he cried and shouted: "The unscrupulous disciples who deceive teachers and destroy ancestors on the rivers and lakes, and the guts and bandits who take advantage of the vagance, the old man has seen a lot in his life, but he has never seen such a shameless goods! Wan Hesheng, Wan Hesheng, now that you are in front of the Wuxiang Patriarch, do you have the face to say, you have picked some good apprentices for our Wei Tuomen?"

He Sihao couldn't hold back, and couldn't help shouting: "Today is the joy of the money gang and the Wei Tuo sect, where did you come from, is there a place for you to speak?"

He roared loudly, but a voice on the east side of the table sounded slowly: "He guard, I'm afraid that you won't recognize this old man." This old gentleman's surname is Liu, the double name is Hezhen, there was a pair of brothers in the Wei Tuo Gate, each with extraordinary skills, and there is a "crane" word in the name, and the people in the rivers and lakes gave a nickname called "Wei Tuo Shuanghe". Now the deceased head of Wan Lao is a junior brother, this old Mr. Liu is a senior brother, if you talk about seniority, it is proper to be the current elder of Wei Tuomen. Even if the three senior brothers of the old man want to sell the sect, they have to ask Mr. Liu if he admits it. ”