My Taoist Temple is trending again

Xu Qingmu and Song Jue found a high place to squat at the gate of Lingxing Temple, but nothing special happened.

In the afternoon, a very eye-catching monk came to the gate of Lingxing Temple. He was carrying a big bag, his monk’s robes were all patched up, holding a clay bowl, chanting scriptures in a low voice while walking, and slowly passing through the crowded crowd .

Although the monks in Lingxing Temple are simple, they don't wear such shabby monk clothes. This person is not a monk from Lingxing Temple, but came here to make an order.

Xu Qingmu took a closer look at the appearance of the traveling monk.He is very young, not more than 30 years old, and his face is dark and tanned after a long period of Feng Shui sun exposure. Although he looks dusty, his eyes are not tired and haggard, but very firm and energetic.Although only from a distance.Xu Qingmu could also feel the faint golden light surrounding the monk's body, which is what Buddhism often says "has the root of wisdom".

It seems that although this monk is very young, he should have profound Buddhist teachings.

Xu Qingmu couldn't help but began to pay attention to him.

When the traveling monk walked to the door, a young monk and nun greeted him. The two saluted each other and started chatting. Xu Qingmu immediately listened.

The traveling monk said: "Senior brother, this little monk is a good guide for the students of Ciyuan Temple. I came here on my way and I want to borrow the expensive temple to practice for a night."

When the little monk and nun heard the name of Ciyuan Temple, they quickly saluted again, and said respectfully: "It turns out that he is a brother from Ciyuan Temple. Then please follow me."

A monk named Shandao followed the little monk and nun, and asked as he walked, "I heard that Master Nengren of your monastery has profound Buddhist teachings. I don't know if I will have the opportunity to meet the master and listen to the master's lectures."

The little monk and nun shook his head and said, "Master has already made an appointment with someone today."

Shandao asked again: "What about tomorrow?"

The little monk and nun said again: "I'm afraid I will disappoint my brother. Master has not seen outsiders for a long time, and the time for the monthly lecture has passed."

Then the two of them walked away, and they couldn't hear what they said anymore.

Xu Qingmu said with a little emotion: "Ah, Ciyuan Temple... is still there."

Song Jue said: "Do you know Ciyuan Temple?"

Xu Qingmu replied: "Ciyuan Temple was established earlier than Lingyun Temple. In my previous life, Ciyuan Temple was very popular. There is no merit box in Ciyuan Temple. All monks hold the precepts of money and the Buddha system. There will be a long time of walking, begging for food on the way, and not accepting money from believers. The monks in Ciyuan Temple practice asceticism."

Song Jue checked it online, and found that Ciyuan Temple is indeed a thousand-year-old temple, and it still maintains these strict precepts from a thousand years ago.Therefore, although it is not very famous among believers, Ciyuan Temple is still very prestigious in Buddhism.

Xu Qingmu said: "I don't know who is making an appointment with Nengren today? Even the monks of Ciyuan Temple can't see Nengren, and they don't understand them. Just because of the golden light on this great monk, I also want to talk to him .”

After staring for a while, the person who had an appointment with Nengren appeared.As soon as he arrived at the door, monks and nuns greeted him and said, "Lady Xia is here. Master has been waiting for you for a long time."

Both Xu Qingmu and Song Jue quickly widened their eyes to see what is so special about people.

This is a young man with a handsome face but no special features. He is wearing a dark cotton shirt, and his short hair is a little messy and slightly curly. No matter how he looks, he looks very ordinary. Even before he talked to the little monk and nun, Xu Qingmu didn't notice him.

This is strange, Nengren was waiting for such an ordinary young man.

After thinking for a while, Xu Qingmu said to Song Jue: "Look, is this a member of your rich man's club, a noble son from some rich family? Otherwise, why would Neng Ren wait for him?"

Song Jue looked at it and said, "I've never seen this person before, and his outfit doesn't look too refined."

But there must be something special about him. Xu Qingmu waited for so long but got nothing, and now he finally regained his energy.They continued to wait, and as the starved ghost screamed "very hungry, hungry, hungry", about an hour later, the young man walked out of the monastery.

Xu Qingmu and Song Jue looked at each other, and followed quietly.

After seeing Master Nengren, Xia Ziming felt much more relaxed. After leaving Lingxing Temple, he got on a bus bound for a more remote city, and got off at a dilapidated and messy urban village.

Then, Xia Ziming walked along the path by the river, in a good mood.

At this time, the sun had completely set and the sky was getting dark. Xia Ziming walked alone for a while, and suddenly stopped.

He vaguely heard someone shouting "Help", and following the sound, he saw a girl with long hair in the middle of the river who was struggling and was about to sink to the bottom of the water.

Xia Ziming was shocked, and hurriedly grabbed the fence by the river and shouted: "Someone fell into the water!"

But there was no one around except him, and he couldn't care less about what Master Nengren told him to "protect yourself and don't put yourself in danger", so he hurriedly took out his mobile phone wallet from his pocket and threw it on the ground , quickly climbed over the guardrail and jumped into the water to swim towards the center of the river.

At this time, Xu Qingmu and Song Jue, who were following in the distance, also saw the young man jumping into the river suddenly, and hurried up to look in shock.

But where is the person in the middle of the river?It was clearly calm.But if you take a closer look, there is a dark whirlpool hidden under the calm water.

Song Jue pointed at it and asked, "Is there a ghost?"

Xu Qingmu quickly replied: "Drinking ghost, this is to find a substitute."

A drowned ghost will be trapped in the river after death, and must find a substitute to escape reincarnation.In order to reincarnate, drowning ghosts will trick people into the water and kill them.

"I'll go and have a look, you wait on the shore." After speaking, Xu Qingmu broke off a branch and flew away.

That is to say, within the time of these two sentences, Xia Ziming had already flung himself into the middle of the dark river.

But at this time, he suddenly realized that something was wrong. The girl who was desperately calling for help just now disappeared in front of his eyes in an instant, and the cries for help lingering in his ears stopped abruptly. Splash caused by water surface.He panicked and was about to turn around immediately, but he felt something cool quickly wrapping around his feet, dragging him out of the water.

Xia Ziming thought it was aquatic plants, but when he looked down, he was almost scared out of his wits.

That's not water plants, but hair floating in the water.

Xia Ziming reflexively wanted to take a deep breath, but he choked on a big mouthful of water in the water, and his mouth was filled with the stench of river water.

Xia Ziming glanced down while struggling, and saw a pale face in the middle of a mass of long black hair. It was already swollen by water, and it looked like a steamed bun. The eye sockets were too big, taking up Half of the steamed bread, but the eyeballs are only a small black dot.

It's a ghost!

Xia Ziming's heart was beating wildly, struggling desperately, trying to grab the Buddha statue hanging on his chest, but the ghost's reaction was faster, another strand of hair floated up with the water, entangled his two hands, so he I couldn't move at all, so I was tied up by the long hair and stuck in the water.

The air in his lungs was getting less and less, Xia Ziming's consciousness gradually became blurred, and a look of ecstasy appeared on his terribly swollen white face.

At this moment, an accident occurred, a stone cut through the water mist suddenly, like a sharp knife with life, quickly brought out a series of moving water splashes in the water, and wounded Xia Ziming fiercely in just a few seconds. His hair was cut off.

Xia Ziming rolled his eyes and looked at the surface of the water. Before he could see anything clearly, he felt a person plunged into the water and swam towards him quickly.

It was none other than Xu Qingmu.

Xu Qingmu immediately grabbed the young man who was about to suffocate and carried him to the surface of the water. In just a moment, the cunning drowning ghost turned around and fled, and plunged into the mud at the bottom of the river. A few stones were thrown into the mud, but none hit the drowned man.

Song Jue also jumped into the water at some point, and had already swam to Xu Qingmu's side, took the semi-conscious young man from Xu Qingmu's hand, and signaled Xu Qingmu to chase after the drowning ghost.

Xu Qingmu looked at Song Jue's face distorted by the water waves, and was a little annoyed that he followed, but now was not the time to quarrel, he quickly pointed to the water surface to signal Song Jue to go quickly, and then plunged deeper , looking for the drowned.

Xu Qingmu lived on the mountain all year round, the water quality is not that good, and the drowning ghost has been in the water for many years, Xu Qingmu failed to subdue it with one move, and chased it for a long distance.

But the drowned ghost couldn't escape Xu Qingmu's control. After 2 minutes, Xu Qingmu discerned the direction of the ghost energy in the mud stirred up by the drowned ghost. He immediately aimed at the drowned ghost with a talisman in his hand. The paper flew out, and the golden light quickly pierced through the mud to illuminate the bottom of the river beach. The spell pierced the drowned ghost's leg like a knife, and the drowned ghost couldn't escape, and immediately let out a scream.

With just these two moves, it knew Xu Qingmu's strength, and immediately begged for mercy: "Sir, please forgive me! I won't run away!"

Although the drowned ghost had bad intentions, he hadn't really killed anyone. It was an attempted crime, and it was not appropriate to disperse the soul directly. Xu Qingmu didn't plan to continue fighting. Suddenly, a string of Buddhist beads was shot out, and it stabbed fiercely on the other leg of the drowned ghost.

The drowned ghost screamed again.

Xu Qingmu looked up in amazement, and in the gradually settling silt, he saw the monk Shandao he saw at Lingxing Temple just now.

Shan Dao also saw Xu Qingmu, and the two stared at each other in amazement.

The drowned ghost was pierced by the golden light of the Buddhist beads and the talisman, screaming again and again, and broke down: "I begged for mercy, why did you hit me twice! It hurts so much!"

Xu Qingmu and Shandao looked at each other, it was not convenient to talk in the water, so they went down together and lifted the drowned ghost out of the water.

The drowning ghost was still screaming in pain after landing, Xu Qingmu was tired of hearing it, stared at it and said, "Stop howling, who made you lucky today, this is buy one get one free, and you get fifty if you buy three hundred."