Part-Time Taoist Priest

On this day, Xie Lingya cooked lunch as usual.In Baoyang Temple, because Zhang Daoting was supporting the scene in the front yard every day, Xie Lingya did a lot of other work by himself.

Seeing that Xie Lingya wasn't dressed as casually as he usually does when he doesn't go out, Hai Guanchao asked him casually, "Where are you going?"

"Taihe Temple is engaged in folk cultural activities...the temple fair, and there is also a lecture on Taoism, go and have a look." Xie Lingya said.In fact, besides him, the Temple of Supreme Harmony originally invited Shi Changxuan on the phone, but Shi Changxuan was not interested in this kind of activity.

"Taoism lectures, do they know your virtue?" Hai Guanchao said with emotion.

Xie Lingya: "Brother, you can't mock me just because your seniority has not risen."

Hai Guanchao: "...I compliment you, you are too sensitive."

He thought to himself, everyone said that absorbing knowledge should be like a sponge, but this Xie Lingya is like a sponge becoming a spirit, which is too much.

As a local tourist attraction, Taihe Temple is very normal to hold activities. They even invited a song and dance troupe to hold this temple fair.

When Xie Lingya arrived at the scene, he saw that the scene was already very lively. Even if many citizens were not believers, they would bring their families to have fun.

Xie Lingya walked through the crowd to the conference hall where the lecture was held. Because it was a part of the temple fair, this lecture was not what Hai Guanchao thought. It was actually a relatively popular Taoist cultural science popularization, and it was open to the public.However, the members of the Taoist Association will communicate in private after the meeting.

As soon as Xie Lingya left, he greeted the familiar Taoist priest Mao Zhengqing, and everyone sat together.

"Thank you, Layman," Mao Zhengqing said with a smile, "I heard that Baoyang Monastery has gained many believers recently, congratulations."

Baoyang Temple became more and more famous, and even Mao Zhengqing knew about their recent movements.

Xie Lingya said a few words modestly.

Mao Zhengqing said: "Director Chen also said that you are here today, so you must introduce him and have a chat."

"Guanzhu Chen is in good health?" Xie Lingya asked. Chen Sansheng, the master of the Temple of Supreme Harmony, has been recuperating since he failed in the fight with others a few months ago, and has not participated in any activities during this time.

Mao Zhengqing nodded and said: "Actually, he is still relatively weak, but there are some affairs that must be dealt with, or receiving important guests, so there is no way."

After a while, Mao Zhengqing looked at his phone, and took Xie Lingya to leave early to meet Chen Sansheng.

Xie Lingya had never seen Chen Sansheng before, but there was a photo of Chen Sansheng in the Temple of Supreme Harmony. Compared with the previous photos, he looked a lot older. He had just finished his meeting and was sitting on a chair drinking tea slowly.

After seeing Xie Lingya, Chen Sansheng smiled and said, "It's Xiao Xie, you really have some charm of your uncle."

He let both of Xie Lingya take their seats, and said: "Back in the day, I even introduced someone. Someone wanted to invite your uncle to be the master of a large temple. Your uncle was concerned about Baoyang Temple, so he declined. You are better than blue." , I heard Daoist Mao talk about your ability to form a talisman in a short time, you are really talented, no wonder you are so congenial with Daoist Shi."

It is said that it is a moment of success, but in fact, everyone knows in their hearts that when Mao Zhengqing described it, his movements may be placed on Xie Lingya's posture...

Xie Lingya didn't know that Chen Sansheng had this past with his uncle, so he was quite sad, his uncle is stubborn.

Chen Sansheng was really hurt before, when he came out of seclusion these days, he immediately received many invitations to do things. In fact, he had accumulated a lot when he was recuperating, so he had to reply personally and decline them all.Given his physical condition, he really couldn't bear the long-term energy consumption.

Xie Lingya was so envious, people came like a cloud, and people lined up to invite them to practice. How many orders did they take in a few months.

But this is also the accumulation of the reputation of Taihe Temple and Chen Guanzhu over the years, there is no comparison.

Because he was not in good health, Chen Sansheng saw off the guests after chatting for a few words, but Xie Lingya felt that he treated him very well, and he also knew his uncle, so he had a good impression.

When walking out together with Mao Zhengqing, an old lady walked towards him, and when she saw Mao Zhengqing, she walked a few steps and called him: "Master Mao, I have found you."

"Dong Jushi, what's the matter?" Mao Zhengqing was puzzled.

The old woman said: "I invited the Sanqing statue back here last week, do you remember?"

Mao Zhengqing: "Uh...it seems to be the case."

The scale of Taihe Temple is much larger than that of Baoyang Temple. They also have two large facades, which are used as distribution centers for devout men and women to ask for statues, talismans and the like to go back.

The old woman said again: "Last week I went to stay at my daughter's house in another city for a few days, and I told my daughter-in-law to change the offerings for me every day. After I came back, I heard that she had had diarrhea for several days."

Upon hearing this, Mao Zhengqing quickly said, "Our god statues are all standard, and they were consecrated and sensed by the Taoist priest."

He was afraid that the old lady wanted to say that their idols were wrong and belonged to evil gods, which would affect the owner's family.

"I know," the old woman said immediately, "Of course there is nothing wrong with the statue. It's my daughter-in-law. I told her so much, but she just didn't care. I asked her to put apples, but she was lazy, and put plums in the first two days..."

Speaking of this, Xie Lingya, who was standing beside Mao Zhengqing in a daze, couldn't help looking over.

Putting fragrant flower offerings to the idols is also a bit particular.For example, fragrant flowers such as plums and orchids should be used for flowers, apples should be placed for fruits, and eaten things should not be placed, and plums must not be used for Sanqing statues.Because Laojun's surname is Li, he committed a taboo.

The old lady continued: "It got worse in the next few days, and she put the durians that she couldn't finish."

Mao Zhengqing: "...??"

Mao Zhengqing and Xie Lingya were speechless for a while, what is the operation of putting durians, you may not like to eat Sanqing if you like it, and you will smoke them again!

"Didn't I have diarrhea after offering durian, and said that I must have gastroenteritis, so why take medicine is not good." The old woman complained, "Master Mao, what do you think should be done?"

Mao Zhengqing sweated and said: "The offerings have been changed, take your daughter-in-law to the Sanqing Hall to offer incense to make amends, and please bring back a safety talisman, don't do this again in the future." He said very darkly, "Durian... ..."

The old woman nodded quickly, "Yes, yes, I told her well."

After the old woman left, Mao Zhengqing and Xie Lingya looked at each other helplessly. Anything can happen. Plums and durians were offered to San Qing, thanks to that person who could figure it out.

……

Xie Lingya communicated with other Taoist priests and deepened their friendship before leaving.

There were a lot of people at the temple fair, Xie Lingya seemed to hear someone calling his name in the crowd, and after looking back for a long time in the vast crowd, he saw a familiar face.

"Mushan?" Xie Lingya greeted the girl who called him, this is his college classmate.

Mu Shan came with her parents, Xie Lingya went over to call her uncle and aunt, Mu Shan's parents thought about it for a moment.

"I haven't seen you for a long time. Is it so busy doing finance in the Taoist temple? You don't even come out at class reunions." Mu Shan said with a smile, "I just made an appointment with Le Tong and Xiao Bai this afternoon, let's come together."

Many of Xie Lingya's classmates thought that he was doing financial work in his uncle's Taoist temple, but he didn't explain it so clearly. Anyway, he was not a Taoist priest. As for whether he was the boss or the financial manager, it was the same. Anyway, he was also doing the financial work.

Because there are few people in Baoyang Temple, Xie Lingya did give up a lot of activities. Now that he was caught by his old classmates, he could only say: "All right."

Mu Shan just took the opportunity to say goodbye to her parents, and dragged Xie Lingya away, "Wow, my parents are trying to persuade me to go on a blind date again. Fortunately, I saw you."

Xie Lingya glanced back, "I guess your parents will have to ask you and me if they have a chance when they go back."

"If there is a chance, do I have to wait until I graduate from college?" Mu Shan took Xie Lingya to take the bus and then transfer to the subway. According to her, today I will meet up with a few classmates who played better in college to play board games.

It was already five o'clock at this time, and the other students had already arrived at the board game bar. Mu Shan was a few minutes late, and opened the door to go in. Everyone looked at the surprise behind her.

"Damn, Xie Lingya is here too?"

"You boy finally came out!"

Xie Lingya greeted her in a circle, saw a girl sitting beside her with her head bowed, and after distinguishing between them, she called out: "Le Tong?"

Le Tong raised his head, his face was pale and bluish, his complexion was very bad, and his eyes were a little loose.

"What's the matter with Le Tong?" Mu Shan sat down and said in surprise, "It's been a while since I saw you, you look so ugly, are you sick?"

Le Tong showed a wooden smile, "It's okay."

Mu Shan and the others looked at each other, seeing that the students who came first also looked at a loss, but everyone didn't think it seemed to be all right, so she said cautiously: "Le Tong, what's wrong with you?"

Le Tong shook his head: "It's really fine."

"...Okay." Mu Shan suddenly thought that she might have lost her love, so she didn't ask any more in front of everyone, "Then eat something, you look so pale."

You can also order food here. Everyone eats and plays while they eat, and by the way, dinner is settled.

Le Tong casually ordered food, while Xie Lingya, who had been dragged and criticized since she came in, looked at her a few times, but always felt that something was wrong. Le Tong was usually very cheerful, but today he seemed to be a different person.

Is it sick, or in a bad mood?

At this moment, Le Tong raised his eyes suddenly, and met Xie Lingya's eyes, she stared at Xie Lingya directly.

Xie Lingya suddenly felt a chill, and when he was about to distinguish, he saw Le Tong stuffing food into his mouth, as if nothing had happened.

Xie Lingya was full of doubts, and was dragged by his classmates to ask him about his welfare in the Taoist temple.

"Okay, let's play the game first." Mu Shan said, "It's billed by the hour, let's play Werewolf."

When I was in college, many people in the class had played the werewolf killing game together, and now they all nodded in their seats.Because they were not enough in number, they even recruited a few strangers.

Werewolf Killing is a speech game similar to police and gangster games. Players determine their identities by drawing cards and are divided into two camps: good guys and werewolves.Then fight each other, the werewolves need to kill the good guy, and the good guy needs to find all the werewolves and vote out.

Because they are not newbies, Mu Shan and the staff asked about it and decided to play a more complicated template, "Let's play a board with a third-party faction... How about this "Ghost Bride"?"

It means adding an identity card. The person who gets the Ghost Bride card can choose two players, one to be his groom and one to be a witness. The three will win by killing all the good guys and werewolves together. .

Everyone else is discussing whether to play this, and one more faction will definitely increase the difficulty of the game.In particular, the identity of the ghost bride is superimposed. She can choose a werewolf as the groom, or a good man as the groom, which is equivalent to the possibility of traitors in other camps.

Xie Lingya couldn't help but look at Le Tong who was sitting opposite him.

Like him, Le Tong did not participate in the discussion, but looked around the enthusiastic crowd, seemed to notice his eyes, squinted at him, and even parted his lips for a smile, but the smile didn't enter his eyes at all, instead he seemed Very stiff.

Xie Lingya's heart turned cold, no, this is absolutely wrong.

Before Xie Lingya could think of anything, Mu Shan shouted: "Come on, come on, let's start with this."

The players sat down, and the judge who presided over the game also took his seat, distributed cards, and announced the start of the game, "Please close your eyes when it gets dark."

In the virtual night of the game, it is when other people close their eyes and the function cards open their eyes to exercise their abilities, such as werewolves killing people, or ghost brides appointing their groom and witnesses.

Before nightfall, Xie Lingya looked at it. His card was an ordinary villager, belonging to a good person, but it didn't have any functions. He could only speak and vote during the day, and closed his eyes all the time at night.

Unless of course... he was chosen by the Ghost Bride.

"Ghost bride, please open your eyes."

After the judge finished speaking, Xie Lingya felt a cold gaze patrolling the room, as if picking his own prey, he resisted the strong urge to take off the blindfold to get out of the darkness, and could not hold back.

"Ghost bride please choose your groom."

After the judge circled around, Xie Lingya felt that she came behind him and patted himself, which meant that the ghost bride had chosen him as the groom.

Xie Lingya took off the blindfold and got used to the light. Everyone else wore blindfolds, but Le Tong looked over with wide eyes.She is the Ghost Bride.

coincidence.

Xie Lingya stared at her, but the judge had already woken up the witness. The witness was a strange player. He gestured to show that he was a werewolf, and compared the ID numbers of his werewolf teammates. Wanting to know Xie Lingya's identity, the three of them discussed together Let's talk about tactics.

Xie Lingya stared at Le Tong, and Le Tong also stared at him blankly, neither of them paid any attention to the witnesses.

Witness: "???"

The player can't talk at night, otherwise his identity will be exposed if other people hear it. He was so anxious that he scolded the two people for being crazy and disrespecting the game.

In the end, the witnesses didn't get any information. They only knew who their teammates were, and the communication time was over.

Xie Lingya has always been concerned about Le Tong's performance. In the "daytime", the players spoke one by one. He was absent-minded and didn't care about the game situation at all. He kept staring at Le Tong, and his identity was quickly detected.

Mu Shan leaned on her chin and said, "Xie Lingya's performance...is like an identity card, and he is still staring at Le Tong. I said you two can't be a couple, right? Since I don't know who to vote for this round, I suggest People who appear to be lovers. After all, the game can be lost, but the lovers must die."

Everyone: "..."

Everyone thought to themselves, alas, you are the one who wants to play the third party camp, and you are the one who wants to make a couple. What is your appeal?

After several players spoke, they all agreed that the two of them were not in the right state, and it would be fine to choose one of them.In the end, because of Ms. Caring, Xie Lingya ticket was eliminated first.

"I'm the bridegroom." Xie Lingya delivered his "last words", and he admitted his identity blankly, "Le Tong married me, she is a ghost bride, I begged Brother Werewolf to cut her off and let her accompany me You can observe, which werewolf does not agree to cut Letong, he is our witness."

The witness who was suddenly betrayed: "..."

In an instant, he really wanted to yell, you two are playing ball!

……

Xie Lingya was out of the game and stood aside to watch the battle. At this time, the game entered the night again, and everyone closed their eyes.

Le Tong also put on the blindfold in a daze, and sat upright.

The werewolves opened their eyes, discussed killing, and really proposed to kill Le Tong. The werewolf who was chosen as the witness was furious, but he could only agree to kill Le Tong.

At dawn, the news of death is announced, and Le Tong is out.She took off the blindfold, and she didn't feel any emotional ups and downs about her being out.He even stood up, smiled at Xie Lingya, and said softly, "I'm going to get some air, husband, are you coming?"

Xie Lingya stood where he was, looking at her coldly.

Everyone laughed, because it was the Entertainment Bureau, and they didn't care that she was out of the game and reported her identity, "Le Tong, you are really a ghost bride, that's okay, let your 'husband' accompany you."

In the game just now, Le Tong and Xie Lingya were husband and wife cards, so it's okay for Le Tong to make this joke, everyone followed her.

"Yes, I am the ghost bride." Le Tong said lightly.

At this time, Le Tong had already walked to Xie Lingya's side, and stretched out his hand to tightly wrap around Xie Lingya's arm, almost leaning against him.

Xie Lingya's face changed, Le Tong's hand was like cast iron, it hurt his arm from being strangled.

Originally wanted to say something, but Xie Lingya reckoned that the people here would not just watch him beat a woman, so he half dragged and half voluntarily walked forward.

Le Tong's classmates, especially Mu Shan, also felt very strange.It seemed like a joke just now, I didn't hear that the relationship between these two people has improved by leaps and bounds, and doesn't Le Tong have a boyfriend?

But the two have already gone out together.

As soon as the two of them went out, someone couldn't help but said: "What's the matter, Xie Lingya and Le Tong are on good terms, right?"

……

Xie Lingya followed Le Tong into the bathroom, she didn't go out, but came to the most filthy toilet.Le Tong put the bag in front of the mirror, took out the comb and tidied her hair.

There was no one else in the toilet, Xie Lingya asked: "You are not Le Tong, why are you pestering her?"

"Le Tong" looked at Xie Lingya from the mirror, showing a weird smile, and said faintly: "Honey, am I not your bride..."

"Elder Sister, be more self-respecting! Don't take advantage of me!" Xie Lingya went out to visit the temple fair without bringing any magical artifacts or talismans, so he suddenly got into trouble and reached out to press Le Tong's mountain source.

"Le Tong" turned his head very quickly and passed by, his fingers stretched out and grabbed Xie Lingya's neck.

She has great strength, her arms are thin but like steel, Xie Lingya, a big man, can't break them apart, so he can only continue to reach out and try to pinch "Le Tong"'s nose down the mountain.

This is when a waiter came in, and was startled when he saw this scene, "What's the matter, you still beat women."

As he spoke, he immediately came up to try to persuade Xie Lingya to fight, pulling Xie Lingya's hand.

Xie Lingya rolled his eyes and hit the woman. Didn't you see that I was being strangled by her? ?

He didn't do anything immediately in the room because he was afraid of such a situation. Who would believe that he was going to "exorcise the ghosts" of Le Tong, but "Le Tong" obviously didn't have as many scruples as he did.

"Husband, husband, come and accompany me." "Le Tong" was still muttering, his pupils shrunk, and the whites of his eyes took up most of the eyeballs.

"Beauty, beauty, you should also relax, your husband seems to be out of breath, let's talk!" The waiter saw that Xie Lingya's face was flushed, and patted "Le Tong".

"Le Tong" raised his head, stared coldly at the waiter with extremely white eyes, the waiter screamed in fright, took a few steps back, fell to the ground, hit his head on the sink, and passed out.

Xie Lingya broke "Le Tong"'s hand hard with one hand to get some fresh air for himself, and bit his middle finger with the other hand to press "Le Tong" on the seal.

"Le Tong" bounced away quickly, the speed was incomprehensible.

"Ahem!" Xie Lingya exhaled a few breaths, and quickly drew the eyes of the spirit official on the center of his brows. This time, when he looked over, there was an extra phantom on "Le Tong", overlapping with her body.

Xie Lingya directly closed and locked the door, and then rushed to the bathroom to chase "Le Tong", strangled her neck, and painted a bloody amulet on her face with his middle finger.

"Le Tong" is now extremely powerful, Xie Lingya managed to strangle her, even so, he is always on the verge of being broken free.

"It hurts..." The waiter came to his senses, rubbed his head, stood up together, and saw Xie Lingya holding Le Tong, Le Tong's face was covered with blood, his eyes turned white, Xie Lingya seemed to be picking people with his fingers A brutal scene.

Xie Lingya: "Hey..."

Where did the waiter listen to him, he was so frightened that he almost couldn't catch his breath, "Ah—he killed someone!!"

Regardless of her dizziness, she rolled to her feet, quickly opened the door and rushed out.

"...Close the door for me!" Xie Lingya had no choice, "Le Tong" kept twisting, and couldn't draw the talisman well. He was afraid that someone would run away, so he simply jumped up and wrapped his feet around "Le Tong"'s waist, and continued Trying to squeeze out the blood of the middle finger and try to draw a complete symbol on her face.

……

……

Zhang Daoting rushed to the backyard with his mobile phone: "It's not good, Daoist Shi, the boss has entered the police station."

Shi Changxuan looked up, "?"

Zhang Daoting also felt a little puzzled: "A classmate of his helped to use his mobile phone to call to inform him. What is emotional entanglement with a woman, and he did it. No, Daoist Shi, the boss has a girlfriend?"

Shi Changxuan blurted out: "Impossible."

"I think so too, Daoist Shi, you really trust the boss' character!" Zhang Daoting boasted.

"..." Shi Changxuan was speechless, stood up and thought for a while, "I'll take my things and go to the police station."

He went back to the room and took out Shang Lushen. This thing was too noisy. He endured it for several days, and then simply stuffed it in the drawer while reading, and it was a little cleaner.

As soon as Shang Lushen was picked up, he secretly said triumphantly, "Look at you—"

Shi Changxuan: "..."