Part-Time Taoist Priest

Drought hit Fuyang City and its surrounding areas, and the people in the urban areas couldn't stand it, let alone the people living in remote mountainous areas. There were rumors everywhere in the society for a while, but fortunately, the water price was forcibly suppressed.

On this day, Xie Lingya received a letter from the Municipal Taoist Association, which contained an invitation card, and the invitee filled in the unit: Baoyang Temple.

Once opened, there are several rows of artistic fonts on the left:

Yuyang City Rain Prayer Ceremony and Drought Fundraising Ceremony

United efforts

Drought together

Xie Lingya: "..."

Xie Lingya didn't know much about what should be called the "mainstream religious circle", so he felt a little strange when he saw the theme of the event, and said with emotion: "It seems that when the government is actively providing disaster relief, the religious circles are not idle. ..."

No, I have used my own method to help, whether it can be effective or not is up to... let's talk about it, anyway, there is still a fundraising link.

Although Baoyang Temple is small, it has been built for so long, so it is also a member of the Taoist Association of Fuyang City. It is just that Wang Yuji didn't participate in many activities before, and he didn't have much friendship with his colleagues.

Looking at the other side of the invitation, it was signed by the office of the Taoist Association of Fuyang City, and it also stated that with the strong support of the Taoist Association of the Province, the Rain Prayer Ceremony organized by the Taoist Association of Fuyang City will be held at Taihe Temple the day after tomorrow.

Gao Gong of the Fahui is Chen Sansheng, the head of the City Taoist Association and the master of Taihe Temple, and invited more than ten Taoist priests from various Taoist temples in the province to participate, and invited all member units to come to watch the ceremony. There will also be donations for the affected people Activity.

Gao Gong was originally just a person with profound knowledge. In Taoism, he is called a mage who presides over large and small religious affairs. It can also be understood as the highest Taoist merit.As the president of the city's Taoist Association, Chen Sansheng naturally did his part.

For this kind of event, Wang Yuji, the only Taoist priest in Baoyang Temple, would skip it as soon as he could, and they just sent invitations as a matter of routine.Now that there are no Taoist priests in the temple, Xie Lingya wanted to go after receiving the invitation.

It's not that he is keen on grouping, Xie Lingya just wants to know about the industry situation, and see if he can find the shadow of his uncle's future apprentice.

The conference will take three days, and Xie Lingya only plans to go there for one day. On this day, he has to greet people first, and ask Sun Fuyang's wife to help look at the front yard. As for the main hall, it is directly locked.

On the day of the rain praying ceremony, Xie Lingya went there wearing a T-shirt and jeans.

In addition to Taoist priests, there were also many believers onlookers at the scene, so Xie Lingya's attire was not obtrusive, but when he presented the invitation letter, the Taoist priests who checked the admission qualifications at the door were a little bit embarrassed.Either no one will come to this Yangyang Temple, or there will be... a lay disciple (?) as a representative.

The Taihe Temple occupies a larger area than the Baoyang Temple, and it has only been repaired a few years ago. It has a brand new look and is very grand.

Xie Lingya has been flipping through Baoyang's notebooks these days, constantly looking at the faces and figures of the Taoist priests he sees on the road, using his still very new skill of looking at people to observe their talents.

From ancient times to the present, Taoist priests can flow between temples, but this flow is usually between the same schools.In modern times, it is not new. Many temples invite famous Taoist priests to be the masters of the temple. This is all professionalized.

For a place with real ability like Baoyang Temple, it is more cautious to recruit successors.

Although for Baoyang Temple, the most urgent thing is that there is not even an ordinary Taoist priest who can explain to the believers, but after all, they can be recruited if they have money, but it is not the case for the successor and the master of the temple.

……

Because Xie Lingya was holding an invitation card from a member unit, unlike ordinary believers, he could stand closer and watch the ceremony. He mixed among a group of Taoist priests to watch the ceremony.

The outside of the hall is full of believers, and the inside of the hall is full of altars, candlesticks, incense burners, vases, and embroidered gold banners. There are bells and drums accompaniment next to it, which is very formal.

Look at the Temple of Supreme Harmony, and then think about the situation of Baoyang Temple...they don't even have believers, let alone a dojo.Xie Lingya remembers that when he was a child, his uncle also did a Taoist temple, but he did it alone. In the home of the Qiji people, in fact, this kind of practice is not called a temple, it can only be called a sad event.

But obviously my uncle has real abilities and is also very pious.Xie Lingya thought sourly, work hard, in the future they will be able to afford a dojo with more than seven people!

After the ceremony began, a red-clothed Taoist priest came out with a yellow paper in his hand.He is very young, maybe only in his 20s, especially with a handsome face and a red Taoist robe, but he doesn't look vulgar at all, like an exile.

He didn't have long hair, but he was wearing a lun scarf. At this moment, his cold phoenix eyes looked down at the yellow paper in his hand, his expression as calm as water.

It stands to reason that Gao Gong, who presided over the show, would wear a red Taoist robe embroidered with cranes, while the others would wear yellow.

Xie Lingya chatted with a Taoist next to him in surprise: "... Guanzhu Chen is so young?"

The Taoist had a look of "Are you sick?", but when he turned around and saw that Xie Lingya was pretty good-looking, his temper was gone, "Chen Guanzhu has something to do temporarily, and Daoist Shi Changxuan from the provincial capital will take the place of Ren Gaogong."

Baoyang Temple is so marginal in the association, Xie Lingya naturally didn't know about the news of the substitution on the spot.

Xie Lingya cheekily asked: "Is he famous? Which Taoist temple?"

The man looked at Xie Lingya in disbelief, "Did you sneak in?"

Xie Lingya: "..."

So is it really famous?

The Taoist seemed to have heard Xie Lingya's heart, and said: "You should know if he doesn't grow hair. He is a Taoist Huoju who is an upright Taoist. He doesn't live in Taoist temples! Daoist Shi's masters are all inherited from his family!"

Xie Lingya: "..."

If you want to die, you don't have enough common sense.

At this time, Shi Changxuan had already unfolded the yellow paper and began to chant. His voice was clear, his enunciation was clear, and he had a wonderful sense of rhythm. The scene quickly quieted down.

"Since May, the rains have been scarce, the fields have dried up, and the people have been in panic. I would like to set up an altar today to pray for the rain, pray for the gods to show mercy to the people, and rain down on the people..."

This document records the sponsor, place, time, content, etc. of the ritual. After it is finished, it will be incinerated and sent to the gods.

Behind, there are other Taoist priests holding eight flags, crossing them according to the five elements, and inserting the flags into the bottle after three times.Because all the people present were Taoist priests or believers, most of them watched carefully.

Xie Lingya didn't pay much attention to the ceremony, he was staring at Shi Changxuan, the more he looked at it, the more he felt that his face was pretty good, he couldn't touch the bones on his body, but this person was young enough to take on high-level skills, and he knew that his homework was very good, The root bone is estimated to be not bad.

As soon as he heard that this person was a Huoju Taoist priest, and that the orthodoxy belonged to his family, he was a little ready to move. He felt that this person could be included in the investigation target!

——In addition to the masters brought in, Taoist priests can also learn knowledge from their teachers. The more teachers you worship, the more eager you are to learn.However, due to the sect's opinion and self-preservation, etc., there are fewer and fewer people who can gather the strengths of each school.

The concept of the past masters of Baoyang Temple is that they are willing to learn more knowledge and don't mind how many disciples there are. Unfortunately, there are only a few people like them.

But if it is a family heirloom, it is more likely to worship Mr.

Although Taoist Huoju couldn't be the Taoist leader, Xie Lingya didn't mind adding a few more excellent apprentices to his uncle. His uncle was so unlucky that he didn't have any apprentices. In the future, it would be good for one more person to burn incense.Of course, the premise is that the apprentice must have a good character, a good character, otherwise it would be of no use.

It's a pity that after staying at the Fa conference for a day and eating two fast meals, that Shi Changxuan either practiced or was surrounded by people all the time, Xie Lingya didn't even have a chance to chat or hook up, so he could only go back with a little regret up.

I don't know if it was a coincidence, but on the third day after the Rain Praying Ceremony, the rain fell from the sky, and the people in the arid area cheered for joy.

Although the water supply has gradually returned to normal after the rain, the wells in Baoyang Temple have already become famous.

These days, the old water well is really doing well. So many people have been drawing water, and it has never been cut off. It is worthy of measuring the location.

After the water supply is fully restored, not only some nearby residents continue to come here to enjoy the cool and chat, but there are also a handful of people who continue to fetch water.

After asking, most of them are tea lovers.

They have eaten the water here these days, and they usually like to taste tea, so they are also particular about the details of water use. They taste it relatively carefully, and they all think that the water is rare and good water, so even if the water supply is restored, they are willing to fetch water.

The remaining ones basically feel that the well water is delicious.They all call the well by the name of Baoyang Temple, and call it Baoyang Well.Every day, the farthest people even come from another area to carry water back to drink.

Of course Xie Lingya would not stop people from fetching water just because the drought is over.

As a result, the residents are happy, but Xie Lingya is not very happy.

After this period of familiarization, he also got used to the simple affairs in Baoyang Temple, that is, for some reason, he couldn't sleep well these days, and he still had dreams.

It's nothing more than a dream, but I dreamed that Wang Lingguan was slapping me in front of me, like this every day.

Xie Lingya has always been big-hearted, and now he had to think more, "My God, is this a dream? But what do you want to tell me? You just pointed your middle finger and didn't say anything. How do I know that you want to tell me? What are you doing?"

Xie Lingya checked his notebooks to see if there was any similar situation, and even searched the Internet to find out what happened to Wang Lingguan in his dream, but there seemed to be nothing like him.

After thinking about it for a long time, Xie Lingya made a helpless decision to ask the Taoist priests at the Temple of Supreme Harmony.

--Have no idea!He didn't learn how to interpret dreams, so he really couldn't figure out the meaning of this dream!

I don't know if people from the Temple of Supreme Harmony can give him a discount. Although he is not a Taoist priest, he is still a member of the Temple of Embracing the Sun, and everyone belongs to the Taoist Association.And go there, maybe you can see Shi Changxuan again!

Xie Lingya was packing up his things and was about to go to the Temple of Supreme Harmony when He Zun came.

He Zun: "Mr. Xie, where are you going?"

Of course, Xie Lingya couldn't say that he was ashamed to go to other Taoist temples to interpret dreams, so he looked behind him.

He Zun: "Don't look, I'm here alone today."

What about bringing your roommates to share incense?Xie Lingya asked: "What's the matter with you, you won't see a ghost again."

He Zun smirked and said, "Then how unlucky I am!"

Xie Lingya: "So what are you doing here?"

He Zun: "My uncle's house is haunted!"

Xie Lingya: "..."

He Zun: "I'm an uncle who lives in Fuyang. Recently, the whole family has nightmares every day. He didn't believe it at first, but he went to do a physical examination and check the surrounding environment. There was no problem. I suggested him Please come to the door to fix it and solve it completely."

Fiddle?What are you doing, Xie Lingya is still troubled here, how can he have time to care about others, he wants to say otherwise we will go to Taihe Temple together.

He Zun was in high spirits, seeing that Xie Lingya was thinking about it, he said, "Mr. Xie, let me offer incense to the Patriarch first."

Of course Xie Lingya couldn't refuse to offer incense, so he took him to the side hall and smoked three sticks of incense.

He Zun lit the incense, held it in his hand, and bent down to worship, but got up and saw that the three sticks of incense were broken in the middle.

He Zun's scalp exploded, "Mr. Xie, what's going on!"

Although he doesn't understand these things, this situation is not a good thing at first sight!I'm afraid it's an ominous sign!

Xie Lingya also hurriedly said: "I'll get you three more, and I won't charge you more incense money. Hey, I didn't intentionally sell fake and inferior products."

He Zun: "..."

Xie Lingya brought out three more incense sticks, this time he lit them himself, and then extinguished the fire with a fan. After fanning twice, the incense sticks were all broken!

This time even Xie Lingya felt something was wrong, his face was a little ugly, he thought of his own dream.

He Zun was still afraid and said, "Did I offend the Patriarch somewhere, Teacher Xie?"

"It's none of your business." Xie Lingya let go of the incense, put his hands together and said to the statue, "Patriarch, what instructions do you have, can you make it clear?"

"Mr. Xie." He Zun suddenly said weakly, "Look, is there something on Patriarch..."

Xie Lingya saw that what He Zun was pointing at was somewhere on the side of the statue, and a piece had peeled off.He turned to look at the back, only to find that the mottled back was even worse.

Baoyang Temple has been in disrepair for a long time, and it is already a little dilapidated. The tiles on the main hall are broken, and it might have leaked if it hadn't been covered with a waterproof cloth.Now that even the golden body of the god statue has peeled off, can Xie Lingya not dream wildly.

——Master Patriarch sent out a mission! !

Xie Lingya suddenly understood, lit three more incense sticks, and said: "Master, I will fix the statue for you." He glanced at the incense sticks, gritted his teeth and said, "Within two months."

This time, until he carefully inserted the incense into the incense burner, the three sticks of incense were unscathed.

In an instant, both Xie Lingya and He Zun felt chills, Xie Lingya was fine, he was brave enough, He Zun almost trembled, and became even more awed.Xie Lingya felt fortunate that he didn't tell him that he had been dreaming about the Lingguan Great God for the past few days.

Although Xie Lingya boasted a lot, he had no clue where to get the money.His plan to broaden his financial resources has just begun the first step. At present, Baoyang Temple's total monthly income is deducted from expenses, and there is not much left. He still has to save money to recruit Taoist priests.

I don’t know about the money for repairing the statue, but the income is definitely not enough. This statue of a spiritual official is more than two meters high.

At this time, He Zun also lit three sticks of incense tremblingly, but this time it did not break.

Xie Lingya looked at He Zun thoughtfully, and suddenly asked, "What's going on with your cousin, do you have money?"

He Zun was taken aback for a moment, and then said, "Of course! My cousin said that as long as it can be solved, I will give it at the market price."

"Okay." Xie Lingya seemed to be very proficient, then turned his head and thought in his heart, shit, I don't know what the market price is!

However, this matter can indeed be tried. If it is like the case of He Zun, he didn't know the source at the beginning, so there may be nothing he can do.

But this time, knowing that the incident happened in the new house, and that the situation was similar to what happened in Xie Lingya's high school classmate's home, he still feels somewhat confident.

What's more, just now when He Zun burnt the incense, Xie Lingya always felt that this was a hint, he bowed to the statue of the Lingguan again, and said silently: Great God, you encouraged me to go, then if you don't bless me to do it Live, it's not kind...

When He Zun saw Mr. Xie's devout look, he became awed without realizing it.

……

Now that he knew where the dream came from, Xie Lingya didn't have to go to the Temple of Supreme Harmony to interpret the dream, and made an appointment with He Zun to go to his cousin's house the next day.

The next day, He Zun took a taxi to pick up Xie Lingya, Xie Lingya brought the things he had prepared, and the two went to a villa area of ​​a new building in Fuyang City, where He Zun's cousin's house was.

After Xie Lingya got out of the car, he observed the surrounding Feng Shui first, then lowered his head to fiddle with the phone.

When He Zun saw it, hey, this is a confident posture.

In fact, Xie Lingya was opening the Baoyang notes that he had entered before, and turned to Fengshui, desperately looking for the corresponding terrain...

"Mr. Xie, my uncle and aunt were both atheists before, and they have seen many liars. If what they say offends, can you forgive me?" He Zun said shyly, "They asked me before, Why are you not a Taoist priest living in a Taoist temple, do you have a license, and you still talk about acting without a license."

There is a certificate for everything these days, and Taoist priests are no exception. If you have a Taoist certificate, you can check it online.

But He Zun still felt speechless!You have already found Taoist priests, so why are you pursuing ghost hunting without a license?

"I have a certificate." Xie Lingya chuckled, took out a blue certificate from his pocket, and glanced at He Zun.

The speed was too fast. He Zun didn't see it clearly. He stayed for a while and said, "Damn it, Mr. Xie, aren't you a monk? How do you have a certificate?"

Xie Lingya smiled and said nothing.

He Zun: "... Teacher Xie, did you apply for a false certificate?"

"No, really." Xie Lingya glanced at him and pulled out the evidence.

He Zun hurriedly bent over and looked over, only to see three black characters printed on Mr. Xie's ID card on a blue background: student ID card.

He Zun: "..."

The author has something to say:

Xie Lingya: Yaoshou, the patriarch has issued a mission!

He Zun: Fuck, Mr. Xie is a student!