peasant girl allure

Chapter 41 The Five Temples

The days passed quietly, Shen Chengyao came back for a few days, and brought back bad news. The family moved away three years ago, saying that they were going to seek refuge with distant relatives, and sold all the properties and fields in the family No one in the village knew where they had gone.

Originally, Shen Chengyao only suspected that Yun'er's abduction had something to do with them, but now he felt that it was probably related to them. At the same time, he vaguely gave himself an excuse, and attributed Yun'er's abduction to them for revenge. The food sold in the grocery store poisoned their daughter to death, and it had nothing to do with the Dafang family. He remembered that when he was a child, his elder brother still loved them very much. He would help him if there were children in the village who bullied him. Will give him a share, he thinks such a big brother should not be able to do such a thing.But what he didn't expect was that people's hearts are changeable, and the outside world is so exciting, there are often many people, things, and experiences that change a person, and how many people in the world are unchanging and never forget their original intentions.

When a person is tired, he wants to rest, when he is in trouble, he wants to get help, when he is poor, he wants to make money, after suffering, he is no longer willing to give up the sweetness he has now, in the same way, he is not willing to pay more if he is used to taking shortcuts. much effort.Who can guarantee that everyone in this world will not change?It just depends on whether it gets better or worse.

Xiao'er still asked Shen Chengyao to report to the yamen about the suspicion that the family had taken Yun'er away. After all, the yamen has more ways to do things after they have clues than they have.

The fifteenth day finally came, and Shen Chengyao took his family and his fourth aunt Jing Jie to the Wushen Temple.

Wushen Temple is built on the mountainside of Wushen Peak, the highest mountain in Wushen Mountains. There is an official road leading directly to Wushen Peak. There is a wide and flat place at the foot of the mountain for pilgrims to park their cars and horses. There is a storage place for carriages and horses, which can be kept for a morning for a fee of five Wen.

Legend has it that five gods once lived in the Wushen Mountains, protecting the villagers near the Wushen Mountains. For hundreds of years, the weather has been good. After the Five Gods passed away, the whole county finally ushered in a severe drought and locust disaster. Many people starved to death at that time. Everyone It is said that because of the death of the five gods, there is no guardian god in the county, so the disaster came. Someone thought of building a temple of the five gods on the Wushen Mountain, and asked the five gods to come down and sit on the Wushen Mountain to ensure that the people in one side have good weather. With the approval of many people, the Temple of the Five Gods was built, with funding from the imperial court and people consciously contributing.

The road to Wushen Mountain is paved with rocks. It is very spacious, about 1.5 meters long, and there is a platform after every [-] steps. There are [-] steps in total.Usually every first and fifteenth day of the lunar new year, there are many people on the Baibu Ladder who will sell things on the platform. Those who do not occupy a place on the platform will hang a rectangular tray around their necks to sell. But today is the Wushenshan Centennial Temple. Christmas, there are huge crowds of people, and there are officers and soldiers near the foot of Wushen Mountain to prevent people who want to do business today, fearing that it will hinder pilgrims going up and down the mountain and cause accidents.

Xiao'er originally wanted to bring those silk flowers and puppets to sell, but Mrs. Liu said that there were too many people doing business on the temple festival one year, which hindered many pilgrims from going up the mountain. , the government strictly ordered that every major festival and temple birthday, no business can be done near Wushen Mountain. Anyone who violated the law would have all their goods confiscated and be imprisoned for one year.

When Xiao'er and the others arrived at the foot of the mountain, there were crowds of people at the bottom of the mountain and on the Baibu Ladder. In the past, people went up and down the mountain on the Baibu Ladder, but the incense on Wushen Mountain was really prosperous, and there would be stampede accidents every temple birthday. We also invested in the construction of a special road for going down the mountain. Of course, it is much smaller than the hundred-step ladder, and it can only accommodate two people going down the mountain side by side. This is also designed considering that some children need to be dragged by their parents to walk.

Shen Chengyao was carrying two food boxes, which contained some sacrifices, Xiao'er and the three brothers followed behind him, and Liu Shi carried the little sister and Lu Shi in the back.It is not easy to go up the 25-step ladder. Just imagine, if calculated by [-]-step ladder, the [-]-step ladder is [-] floors. They have rested several times along the way, and some wealthy daughters walked for a while. Xiao Duan was carried up by the servants on a soft bridge, and there were almost no daughters who could persist on it.Of course, there are also some facts that the lady asked for is too important. In order to highlight her piety, she can persist. Human perseverance is actually unimaginable.

Although the children were exhausted, none of them cried and wanted to be hugged like other children. Lu Shi saw that Jing Jie was so exhausted that he hugged him for a while, but he couldn't carry him far away, even if he walked by himself, he was tired.Finally came, even Xiao'er was sweating from exhaustion.

The Wushen Temple has gone through a hundred years, except for the main hall on the mountainside.There are also some small temples built around it, such as the Songzi Niangniang Temple, the God of Wealth Temple, the Wenquxing Temple and so on.But no matter what you mainly come to ask for, you must first worship the five gods of the main hall, and then go to worship the others. This is a tradition that has been passed down for many years, and no one does not follow it.

In front of the main hall, there is a flat open space, half an acre in size, all paved with rocks, with a large incense burner in the middle, and a large tribute table in front of the incense burner. Mrs. Liu handed the younger sister After being hugged by Shen Chengyao, he began to arrange the tributes and tea and wine, and lit the joss sticks. Except for the younger sister, each of them had to burn incense by themselves. The children were not tall enough, and Shen Chengyao carried them to finish. .

After burning the incense, he knelt down and kowtowed his head three times before finishing the work, and then Mrs. Liu led everyone into the hall to add some sesame oil money. Mrs. Liu added 10 taels, Mrs. Lu added one or two, and then they picked up The sign holder asked for another sign.

Mrs. Liu got the lottery, and both Jing Rui and Jing Hao got the lottery. Shen Chengyao didn't ask for it. He said he asked for the same thing as Mrs. Liu and didn't ask for it.

Lu Shi also asked for the top lottery, and Xiaoer won the top lottery, and the whole family was so happy that they smiled like flowers, making those who were dissatisfied next to them feel jealous and resentful, and the people behind them were even more eager to try.

"There is still the best lottery in this lottery tube? Why haven't I heard of it before?" A pilgrim felt strange and asked aloud.

The monk in the temple heard that someone asked for the best lottery, and the rest of the family actually asked for a good lottery, so he couldn't help but look at it a little longer before explaining: "Master Yunfa just came back yesterday, and he specially added the best lottery last night. There is only one, I didn't expect the little benefactor to be so lucky to get it, the little benefactor, Master Yunfa said, whoever asks for this lottery can go to the backyard to find him for orders.

Everyone was blown away when they heard this, and looked at Xiao'er very eagerly, who is this little girl, and how can she be so lucky to get the top lottery.

Master Yunfa, that is the highest mage in the Minze Dynasty, his orders are not inaccurate. In recent years, he has not given orders to others, saying that the secrets of heaven should not be leaked too much.

Xiao'er didn't want to go in her heart, so she signed the signature: Bless the world.She thinks she is not so tall!
Shen Chengyao and Liu Shi were very excited, they felt that they were lucky to come, and they really needed to come to pay back the gods, so they hurriedly urged Xiao'er to go with the little monk.

The little monk saw that Xiao'er hesitated and thought she would not dare to leave her family, so he said, "The little benefactor is still young, who is the father and mother of the little benefactor, one of you should follow."

There are a lot of people here, Shen Chengyao was worried that no man would be there when he went, Mrs. Liu and the others couldn't see the children, so she asked Mrs. Liu to follow her with her younger sister.

What people didn't expect was that when they walked to the backyard, Master Yunfa came out of the meditation room to greet them. He slightly bowed his body forward: "Several benefactors, please come in."

(End of this chapter)