"Ha Luha, there is salvation in the Taoist temple, there is salvation!" The little urchin in the blue robe rushed over with joy, and the drooping hair on his head swayed around. As soon as he saw the contents of the basket closely, he was instantly stunned again, and his face was bitter: "What! It's all gadgets, third senior brother, where is the gold?"

"Your Dao name is called Gold, just squat in it again. Xie Lingyun slapped the child's round head angrily, and snapped! Seeing the pain of the junior brother holding his head and baring his teeth, he smiled and said: "I drink this stick, do you have any enlightenment, Jinzi?" The child glared at him angrily and said, "No, my Dao number is going to be called rock sugar gourd." ”

Everyone in the courtyard laughed when they heard this, Chaotian Palace has always been such an atmosphere, even if the catastrophe is coming, the audience can still talk and laugh.

This little urchin is named Hengbao, the fourth disciple of the true transmission of the Guanzhong, and the youngest inner disciple of the Guanzhu Nanyangzi, who is only eight years old.

All the disciples of Taoism in the world will be divided into two kinds, one is the ordinary disciples, who chant and learn the Tao on weekdays, and are also responsible for the miscellaneous affairs such as the Jiao ceremony, and the other is the true disciples, who can follow the master to learn the true cultivation of the truth, and relatively pay attention to the qualifications of the mind and body, especially those who are not kind-hearted.

Due to the strict acceptance of people in Chaotian Palace, it is almost nitpicky in the selection of true transmission disciples, so now there are only four true transmissions in the mountain gate, in addition to one hundred food and food students, and fifty food and food students.

Among the true disciples, the senior brother Jiang Hao, who is twenty years old, was born as a peasant child and has been practicing for six or seven years, and is a diligent and thick person; the second senior brother Xuanye is an outcast, who was ruthlessly thrown by his family on the side of the road when he was still an infant and almost froze to death, but he was picked up by the old man in Nanyang and raised and raised, at the age of seventeen, and he also practiced for six or seven years.

The third brother Xie Lingyun, a "guest" with a mysterious origin, is fifteen years old and has not yet started the real Dan Dao practice, to which the master said, "You don't have to worry, a hundred days to build a foundation is enough";

Now, a few days ago, the master took the senior brother down the mountain to visit friends to see if he could borrow some money; the second senior brother went to Lingnan some time ago to travel and wander, and I don't know when the return date will be; so on Yecheng Mountain, Xie Lingyun is already in charge......

"Uncle Boyou, come over and help, and move these treasures out of the city with me. Xie Lingyun summoned an uncle from the outer gate, who was also the Bo Youzi who served as the "chief of the scriptures" in Guanli, and the two carried this heavy basket together, and walked out of the Xishan Taoist Courtyard with everyone to the Sanqing main hall.

A group of people came to the wide courtyard in front of the hall outside the main hall of Sanqing, bypassed the green trees, the manger, only to see the courtyard in the middle of the two stone big Dan furnace in front of the pile, the bluestone slab is full of boxes, baskets of sundries, the corner of the exposed is some "gadgets", many are some shabby clothes, looking at the past, there is no one worth a lot, and the Taoist people are moving these sundries to a few four-wheeled wooden carts.

"Ake. Seeing their figures, seeing the tall young man wearing a scarf and a plain white Confucian shirt, more than a dozen people in the courtyard greeted each other, but they saw Xie Lingyun's basket of "treasures" clearly, just like Hengbao just now, they were all a little disappointed, these are not enough!

Do you really think that I will turn stones into gold? After Xie Lingyun and Uncle Boyou put the basket on a board cart, he turned around and said to everyone: "You can pawn as much as you want, I don't know enough, but do you want to steal and rob it? Most of you have been beaten so much that even the master can't recognize you, and in the end, you will lose bone-setting wine when you come home." Hengbao, what are you laughing at, adults are talking, children go away, let's go! Seriously, now I can only hope that the master can borrow some more. ”

Everyone nodded, this is the only way to do it now, who has any other way to raise money?

In fact, there are two people in Chaotian Palace who are higher in rank than Xie Lingyun, and the two true heirs are uncles, but they are not of much use.

Uncle Naughty Sky has never cared about these things, and he has been crazy all day long, so don't count on it; and the other, Uncle Lead and Mercury, the number one alchemy master of Shanmen, is also in the courtyard at this time, he is about fifty years old, with some gray hair on his forehead, short stature, shorter than fifteen-year-old Xie Lingyun, with a wooden hairpin on his head, wearing a black robe, and a delicate patterned wooden gourd hanging on his waist, and the most strange thing is that there is a fat and white adult Jinhua pig following him.

"Hey!" Uncle Lead and Mercury was walking around a few trucks of goods with a sad face, and suddenly saw that the genuine "Yuan Qi Image" hanging on the wall of the alchemy room was all in the car, and he finally couldn't help but howl bitterly: "Lingyun, Lingyun, you are asking for Uncle Shi's life! Look at this car, you have sold all the things in the view, how can this work!"

He hurriedly took the "Diagram of Yuan Qi" from the car and held it in his arms, and pleaded: "Will you leave this one?"

"Don't stay, uncle, don't worry, I've already copied a new one in advance and hung it in place, whether it's a master's handwriting or not, don't care." Xie Lingyun waved his hand, looked at his waist, his eyes lit up, and blurted out: "That gourd can't be kept, hand it over!" Everyone also noticed, Heng Bao grinned, and decisively pounced to grab it, this gourd is worth more than a sweatshirt!

Uncle Shi naturally refused, and immediately ran around holding the painting with one hand and covering the gourd with the other, dodging the scramble of Hengbao behind him, and was so anxious that he shouted: "These things are treasures, these things are treasures......!

Looking at the noisy chase in front of them, everyone didn't stop it, but a few people were holding back a smile. Xie Lingyun snorted, clasped his fists and arched towards the sky, and said, "Mencius said: 'Kiss and be benevolent to the people, benevolent to the people and love things. 'A gentleman first loves his relatives, then he loves the people, and then he loves all things. Now that the Taoist temple is hitting a catastrophe, does Uncle Shi want to ignore his relatives for the sake of some beloved things?"

"I'm not a gentleman, I'm a real person!!"

Uncle Shi's screams were higher than one another, and Hengbao was also sweating profusely, Xie Lingyun shook his head helplessly, Okay, Uncle Shi, you forced me...... He turned his head to look at the big fat pig lying by the Shidan furnace, waved his finger, and shouted, "Hengbao, go get the rope, tie up Changsheng and pull it away!"

"Purr-" The big fat pig's ears moved, and he raised his head, and a hint of horror flashed in the pig's eyes.

"Never!" Seeing that Heng Bao really turned around and ran to the side of the car, and took a thick rope to Xie Lingyun, Uncle Lead and Mercury seemed to have been hit in the death hole, and he didn't hide anymore, and ran in a hurry: "Don't fight the idea of immortality!" It has a bad fate with me, I owe him some affection, and the Jade Emperor can't touch it before I pay it off!"

"Immortality" is a long pig. The so-called long pigs are some pigs and cattle raised in the monastery, and the monks will raise them until they are old to show the compassion of Buddhism. There was also a long pig in the Bodhi Temple in the capital of the former dynasty, which died after raising it for more than ten years, and the monks cremated it, and actually got more than 100 grains of relics, which was a pig that had become a refined person.

And this pig, it is said that one day two years ago, Uncle Lead and Mercury rarely gave birth to a little bit of Yaxing, so he went down the mountain to visit the market. At that time, there was an old man in the market who was selling a new pig in his pigsty, and Changsheng was among them. Unexpectedly, as soon as it saw Uncle Shi, it stared and roared like crazy, and rushed over to bite him, and seemed to know human language. So Uncle Shi bought it at a high price, and then offered it himself, naming it Changsheng.

Xie Lingyun shook the rope in his hand, his eyes turned in circles, and he said casually: "Uncle Shi, see if you are a kiss or a lover." ”

"Whew!" Changsheng stood up, twisted his pig's mouth and howled, as if he was angry and uneasy.

"Don't be annoyed, don't be annoyed. Uncle Lead and Mercury hurriedly pulled out the stopper of the wooden gourd, poured out a piece of preserved red dates, and fed it to Changsheng. It stretched out its big tongue and rolled it, swallowed the preserved fruit, kicked the pig's leg, and ran away with a puff of smoke. And Uncle Shi immediately changed his hexagram again, and refused to hand over the "Yuan Qi Image" and the gourd came out, and he said weakly: "Ake, the Taoist Temple is indeed in trouble this time, but what if we can't pay the tax pill, can our mountain gate really be demolished? I don't believe it, do you believe it?"

Everyone looked at each other, Hanbao scratched his head, what is the answer?

Here's the thing, originally every year during the autumn harvest, the world's sects have to pay taxes to the imperial court, among which the Daomen have to pay some pill talismans to the Daolu Division or something, Jinling is also like this, there was nothing to do before, I didn't think that this year just collected Qi pills, put them in the warehouse, and before they were transported out, they were all stolen by a giant thief.

It is said that the epidemic situation in the north is still intensifying day by day, so all the Taoist temples in Jinling must rush to produce a batch of pills and hand them over within a month.

One of the most important pills is called "Huitian Dan", as long as the yang life is not over, the dying person can take it to return to the yang and spring, and will not die in vain. However, the materials used in the Huitian Pill are precious, and the heat is difficult to master, even if it is an alchemy master of the Erbium School who specializes in the Outer Dan Technique, it often takes three furnaces of materials to refine one furnace, which is extremely expensive, and it is naturally more difficult for the Danding Sect people who specialize in the Inner Dan Technique.

Now it is necessary to rush to produce the pills that have been prepared for nearly a year within a month, especially the hundred Huitian Pills......

For those rich Taoist temples, it is nothing, just cutting a piece of meat, and for Chaotian Palace, it is moving mountains and reclaiming the sea, the reason is very simple, there is no money.

In fact, Chaotian Palace has also been prominent, the ancestors have a few high roads, until now there is still the reputation of "Jinling Famous View", still occupy one of the two fixed places in Jinling, but in terms of money, the number of people is worse than the middle view, so poor that food, clothing, housing and transportation are all ugly, even the wall of the Taoist temple is broken, there is no money to repair.

It is not because of the lack of anything, it is all caused by the "door rules and regulations", and there are few people because of the strict collection of people; there is no shop business that competes with the people for profit, does not collect incense money, and does not charge remuneration when going down the mountain to fasting and visiting the doctor, but often helps the poor and the poor, so it is poor.

Let's take a look at another big view in the city, "God Optimism", there are nearly 500 people in the mountain gate, there are more than 50 true disciples, and the master Tian Chengzi cultivates to be profound, and is the "Jinling Protector" canonized by the imperial court...... With tens of thousands of acres of farmland, dozens of real estate shops, and an endless stream of incense, all those who fast and cure diseases for others must collect money......

These have created the richest and most prestigious metaphysical view in the city, the first grand view in Jinling! The common people have such a mentality, the more powerful they are, and the more optimistic people secretly slander them, Chaotian Palace's benevolence and benevolence have become incapable of winning people's hearts.

Chaotian Palace people like to be quiet, do not want to get involved in some senseless entanglement, have always rarely taken care of the optimistic spirit, in the past relying on the ancestral master handed down dozens of acres of land, can also maintain a peaceful and happy life, now it is really a penny to stumble the hero, there is no money to buy materials to alchemy? And because the supply exceeds demand, the price of medicinal materials in the Jinling area has been rising every day recently.

Failure to pay taxes is not only a loss of reputation and face, but also a kind of dereliction of duty, which will be demoted from a grand view to a middle view; at worst, even the mountain gate that has been erected for hundreds of years will be demolished by the imperial court and punished as a wild temple! Even if there is a reason for the incident. Who called you a grand view?

According to the preliminary budget, Chaotian Palace had to come up with at least two hundred taels of gold to drive out this batch of pills, that is, more than two thousand taels of silver! However, the money in Quanguan was less than one hundred taels of silver...... Even if you sell all the dozens of acres of land, you won't be able to raise five hundred taels of silver, and what will you do to live in the future?

This is why today's entire Chaotian Palace is turning up and down.

"At most, it is just to punish us to degrade to Madhyamaka, and Madhyamaka is Madhyamaka, and no one can die. Uncle Lead and Mercury still held on to the scroll, and while scanning everyone, he sighed helplessly: "We should have expected this day a long time ago, and we have become a meso, and the days are easy." ”

The Taoist temples in the world are divided into large, medium and small levels, and there is also an "ancestral court" on the opposite side, that is, the original mountain gate of the sect and the birthplace of a sect, usually the ancestral court is the strongest among all the mountain gates of the faction, and also enjoys the highest status of the imperial court canonization.

For example, the ancestral court of the southern sect of the Danding faction is the "Tongbai Sect" on Tiantai Mountain in Taizhou, and some sects will have a number of ancestral courts because of historical origins, such as the ancestral court of the northern sect of the Danding faction has three families: "Chongyang Palace", "Yongle Palace" and "Taiji Palace".

The level of the mountain gate is different, the status of the court, the number of Taoism, the etiquette specifications, the severity of taxes, etc., will also be different, and Jinling only has two grand views: Chaotian Palace, God is optimistic.

"How can you say that......" Everyone felt that it was inappropriate when they heard it, they couldn't keep the foundation of their ancestors, it was definitely a lifelong shame, they got goosebumps when they thought about it, and things were really that simple?

"Hand it over!" Xie Lingyun spread out his palms, his expression became more and more cold, Uncle Shi, Uncle Shi, of course you can't say that!

Putting aside the reputation and shame, this is really a life-and-death juncture, how many Taoist temples in Jinling are looking forward to day and night, just waiting for the day when Chaotian Palace is unlucky...... Only when Chaotian Palace fell, did they have a chance to be promoted to the Great Pavilion. God is optimistic? On the contrary, they have accumulated deep grievances for hundreds of years, and they can't go down the road at all, and God is optimistic that those people can't wait to set foot on Yecheng Mountain today!

This time, if they can't pay the tax pills, and the gap in numbers is too far, wouldn't it give them the best excuse to do so? God's optimistic momentum is too great, and once the believers are mobilized to surround the mountain, and under the surging emotions of the masses, they don't need the approval of the imperial court at all, and in order to "calm the people's anger," they can tear down the mountain gate of Chaotian Palace with a single cut and then a prelude! Because everyone knows that the strength of Chaotian Palace is really too weak......

When the time comes, it will be even more difficult to clean up, otherwise how could a person who is so indifferent to fame and fortune as a master have the cheekiness to run around asking people to borrow money?

Thinking of this, Xie Lingyun couldn't help but feel sad about this, and he was in no mood to joke, he shouted: "Uncle Shi, the baby is gone, you can go to the pawnshop to redeem it;

Yes, the mountain gate must not be downgraded, let alone fall! Everyone clenched their fists, and suddenly Uncle Boyou, who had been silent all the way, shouted: "Ake, I remember that there is a mahogany bookcase in my room, I'll go get it!"

"I ......" Uncle Lead and Mercury hugged the baby, looked at him speechlessly for a long time, and was also a little guilty by the nephew's stick, and it seemed that he was demoted to the intermediate level...... He finally let go of his hand and slowly handed over the scroll and gourd.

Everyone also breathed a sigh of relief, Xie Lingyun smiled, stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder: "Uncle Shi, you are really a gentleman." Uncle Shi gave him a blank look, he couldn't bear to see them being put in the car, he turned his head, and said angrily: "I choose to kiss, I am a pig, and you are also pigs." ”

Heng Bao next to him heard this, but he poured the preserved fruit in the gourd and ate it disappreciatively, and said with a smile while eating: "Uncle Shi, even if you are a long pig, I am also an old cow." ”

Ignoring Uncle Shi anymore, Xie Lingyun commanded everyone to continue to move a basket of things, and when all of them were moved, Uncle Boyou also came back breathlessly with an old mahogany bookcase, Xie Lingyun shouted, "Go, go down the mountain." A large group of people pulled five carts and took all the property owned by the Guanmen people down the mountain to pawn.

And on this side of the courtyard in front of the hall, looking at Xie Lingyun's back, Uncle Lead and Mercury was depressed, and kept sighing, this Ake, this Ake!

The senior brother always said that among several apprentices, Xie Ke'er won his heart the most, and he was also the one with the best physical qualifications, the most intelligent heart, and the highest fortune...... But now, this guy wants to sell the entire Taoist temple completely!

"Hmph!" muttered Uncle Mercury cursed, "all the pawnshops in the best city are out of business......