Taoist temple in the mountains

Chapter 623, Indra Heaven
"It's raining again, eh, why do you say again?"

Fang Qing wiped her sleepy eyes, washed up and went to the meeting point, and stretched while watching the drizzle outside the window.

After waking up, Wang Weigong also looked at the drizzle outside the window and smiled sincerely.

"The villagers should be very happy, it's raining again."

Sure enough, when the students were watching, they saw the villagers hurriedly took out the containers to catch the poor drizzle. Anyway, the rain was a little bit bigger than yesterday - at least it can hold a cup and a half, which is better than yesterday More than half a cup.

"Master Daoist! You got up so early." Niu Zhiwei waved to Li Yun over there, and the toothpaste spittle from the corner of his mouth hadn't been spit out yet.

"You're pretty early, too."

Li Yun smiled lightly and walked over. Feeling the drizzle at the same time, his heart was not as relaxed as it appeared on his face, but a little dignified.

Calling the wind and calling the rain, one of the strongest Taoist techniques that I can use, coupled with the blessing of the platinum star, the strength is so high that it can even call for a torrential rain in other places.

But now let alone the torrential rain, it is not even counted as light rain. The drizzle is so pitiful that it is almost the same as yesterday.

Li Yun narrowed his eyes.

"It seems that the rain yesterday should have been heavy rain, but it turned into light rain due to some unknown external force. Today, my spell also turned into light rain."

After everyone washed up, they went to the village to have breakfast, and found that the villagers were kneeling down to thank the gods for the rain.

"It's so lucky. It has rained for two consecutive days. You guys must have brought us good luck. Come on, come on, breakfast is already prepared for you, delicious white flour steamed buns." The old village chief said enthusiastically Receiving the students in front of me, organizing and mobilizing the students to have breakfast.

Today's breakfast is not so monotonous. It's not like yesterday's flatbread with silt, but white flour steamed buns. This white flour steamed bun is the supreme delicacy for the dry villages that lack water.

Students also like to eat this fluffy white flour steamed bun. The biggest difference from the baked pancake is that this white flour steamed bun has no sand on the mouth.

The villagers were not idle either. When the students were eating breakfast, they gathered together and prepared incense and paper money in a decent manner. At the same time, there were some messy utensils, copper utensils, and Wooden fish and prayer beads.

"Teacher, what are they doing?" Xie Yan asked curiously.

Niu Zhiwei couldn't tell why, so he could only hem and haw, feeling ashamed that he couldn't answer: "Should it be burning incense or dripping it?"

At this time, Li Yun on the side smiled and said: "This is a tool for worshiping gods. I'm afraid it is also supported by faith here. From the point of view of the tool, it should not be our Taoism."

Only then did the students understand that there is nothing unexpected about the Han Village having their own collective beliefs. After all, this land does not give face, and if you stay here without any spiritual sustenance, you may go crazy the next day. thing.

"I haven't encountered such a thing before." Niu Zhiwei nodded as if suddenly realized.

"That's because they haven't encountered two consecutive rains before. This time, they think it's a gift from God. They want to fulfill their wishes. There are many places. Our Guangdong is not here to worship the ancestors. Well, this is also a traditional belief." Bai Chen said lazily, they definitely didn't know that the second rain was not caused by the one they believed in.

The students next to them all felt that their postures were raised, and they knew what was going on when they heard about the belief in worshiping ancestors.

Not much to say, Niu Zhiwei watched the students gather after breakfast and said, "This is a good opportunity. We can understand the local belief structure and analyze the people's livelihood. Note that this question does not need to be Exams count as extracurricular knowledge.”

Because of the two rains, the people in the village began to make arrangements to worship the gods, preparing the tools for the sacrifice bustlingly. people gathered here.

People big and small, including young and middle-aged children, there are only a few dozen people in total, and their clothes are very old and look extremely simple. altar.

The students were very curious, and had never seen other religious ritual scenes except burning incense at home.

"I guess it should be worshiping Buddha." Among them, Wang Zejing said: "Buddhism is easier to take root in such poor and backward areas. On the contrary, Taoism's system of seeking life is not conducive to germination in this environment."

"Oh, little girl, you understand quite well." Bai Chen said unexpectedly, without refuting. Generally speaking, Buddhism is more conducive to spreading under such circumstances. It's not that teaching is inferior to Buddhism, but that in this situation The only thing that can put the soul on is Buddhism.

Wang Zejing was a little afraid of Bai Chen. Until now, she still remembered the scene of being slapped in the mouth by Dabing. That feeling. That feeling. Wang Zejing felt that something in her heart was about to awaken.

"Compared to monks, I still prefer Taoist priests. What kind of afterlife are you asking for? I don't know if there is an afterlife. As the saying goes, don't ask for an afterlife, only this life. , are you still the one who gets happiness? What I want is Xie Yan's happiness, not Xie Yan's happiness in the next life, that's someone else."

Xie Yan said it as a matter of course, even Bai Chen was surprised by this speech, and he can comprehend these things at a young age.
"This is the top student. Maybe it's not because of the high IQ, but the ability to think, or the angle of thinking is always advanced." Li Yun smiled and said to Bai Chen with his heart.

Bai Chen just wanted to say that the ideological enlightenment of this world is much higher than imagined, originally only a few people were qualified to think about the truth, but an ordinary teenager here can figure it out.

For this, Li Yun can only say that he is full of warm thoughts [beep], people are full of food and drink, and they always think more and deeper than others.
During the chat, the people in this dry village have been completely assembled to enshrine the statue in the ancestral hall.

"Let's go and have a look." Niu Zhiwei brought the students to the ancestral hall, but after arriving at the ancestral hall, he was completely confused. The Taoist system and Buddhist system he had guessed were not the same.

I don't recognize this statue in front of me.
"Teacher, what is this?" asked the most curious glasses guy.

"This, this, this is." Niu Zhiwei hesitated.

Li Yun stared at the stone statue of Indra in front of him and said.

"Indra, also known as Indra, one of the guardian gods of Buddhism, originated from the legend of Brahman, and was later integrated and absorbed by Buddhism. One of the 33 days, the guardian of Sakyamuni"

"I only know Di Shitian in Fengyun Xiongtiantian." Xie Yan complained: "I used to think that Buddhism only has bald human men. It turns out that there are such wild men with hair."

The stone statue of Di Shitian is very old, and the copper skin on it is about to fall off. He has a solemn expression, riding a copper bull, holding a Vajra Subduing Demon Pestle. Judging from the movements, it looks like he is about to stab the Demon Subduing Pestle into the ground. Before the stabbing was finished, the body turned into a stone statue.

"Buddhism still has angry-eyed Asura, but you still don't know enough, kid." Bai Chen said.

Li Yun was also quite surprised that there actually was a worshiper of Emperor Shitian here. This can be said to be an unpopular among the unpopular in the local area. Compared with the orthodox Buddhist gods, the legend of Emperor Shitian is too secular.
"Before Indra was the guardian god of Buddhism, in the original Brahmanism, he was the god who was in charge of thunder and lightning. One of the Buddhist Dharma protectors."

While talking, these villagers have already started to worship the statue, chanting words in the local dialect.

During the sacrifice, someone finally couldn't help but asked a young man next to him, "When did you start the custom of worshiping Emperor Shitian?"

"Ah, so this is called Emperor Shitian." The young man said in a daze.

I am most afraid that the air will suddenly be quiet, Niu Zhiwei's mouth twitches, and you don't even know who you are praying to, is this really okay?
"We really don't know what gods we are worshiping. This is a belief passed down from our ancestors. It is said that when we prayed for rain and water in the village, this stone statue suddenly appeared here and gave us a storm. , the whole village was overjoyed, and enshrined the stone statue. It’s just that after worshiping the stone statue, it won’t rain anymore, and now we only pray to the god when it rains continuously.”

After speaking, it was the young man's turn to burn incense. He put the incense in the incense burner, put his palms together, and his face was full of piety.

I don’t really believe what I say, but there is no lack of piety on my face. I pray for the village, hoping that it will bring a heavy rain like before.

From the perspective of Celestial Eye, the vows of these villagers surrounded the stone statue of Di Shitian, of course it was just a circle, and no luck entered the stone statue.

"No matter what kind of stone statue it is, as long as it has its shape and its name, it can gather power and luck. Regardless of whether it has established a connection with the deity, the statue is equivalent to their incarnation. Now there is no power to gather and entangle. This is problematic." The system said.

Li Yun expressed his understanding. Whether it is the stone statue left by him or the god statue made by the villagers of Xiangtou Mountain, he can feel that he is listening, and the power of vows is entangled. The stone statue of Emperor Shitian has been enshrined for so long. force winding.

Even the cut down sycamore tree is entwined with vigorous wish power. It is impossible that Di Shitian, one of the 33 gods, has less connection with the statue than a big tree.

The statue's expression was solemn, and there was a great compassion in it, regretting that it hadn't inserted the demon pestle into the ground.

Li Yun looked at the statue and said silently.

"Blessed Immeasurable Heavenly Venerate."

Use your own spirit sea Dharma image as a medium to communicate with the stone statue of Di Shitian.

While Li Yun was communicating with the god statue, the village head who presided over the prayer suddenly reacted and wiped his eyes.

"Strange. Why did I seem to see His eyes move just now. It's probably a hallucination due to lack of water."

The stone statue of Di Shitian still maintains the gesture of raising both hands high and piercing the ground with the magic pestle, with a solemn expression without any change.

At least in the eyes of the people around, the stone statue has not changed in any way.
At the end of the sacrifice, a cup of precious pure water is sprinkled as the end. The unique prayer ceremony of Han Village ends with the most precious water.

The adults didn’t respond much, but the children felt distressed. Some Pippi’s children wanted to lick the spilled water, but they were stopped by their parents in the end. It’s one thing to give the precious water to the children, but to lick the water used for sacrifices. The water is another matter.

Now everyone discussed to get some water back.

"If they want to get water from outside, what means of transportation do they use?" One of the students said, "Could it be that they use a bullock cart?"

As soon as these words came out, the students present all imagined that in the middle of the mountain, a bullock cart dragged the hope of the whole village, pulled buckets of water back from the outside, and pulled the hope of the village from the outside. Back, in the eyes of everyone looking forward to, a person came back with a bullock cart, like a hero.

However.
beep-

There was a burst of sound, and when I turned around, it was the sound of a standard diesel engine. Walking tractors of different colors and soil were coming out of the doors of each house.

"What are you thinking, modern technology is so advanced and you still use bullock carts to pull water, this walk-behind tractor is much more stable than bullock carts." Niu Zhiwei looked at the students strangely. .

It's embarrassing for the students. Obviously, such a situation in the film and television works should be a bullock cart and a person in line with the style of painting. The sudden appearance of a walking tractor is simply impossible to guard against.

"The sudden show made my waist jump." Xie Yan said from the bottom of his heart. He never imagined that such a poor and backward village would have such sophisticated technology. He can only feel that technology has changed the world.
"But even if you have a walking tractor, it's not easy to get water back. You have to go to a town [-] kilometers away to buy water, or go to a rugged mountain to fetch water. Generally speaking, you go to fetch water. The villagers simply cannot afford to buy water," Niu Zhiwei said.

Under the roar of diesel engines, walking tractors drove out of the village to bring back the source of life of the village.

Fang Qing on the side hesitated for a moment, raised her hand and said.

"I want to. I want to go together"

"I'll go too," Xie Yan said suddenly.

"I want to go together too." Wang Zejing also raised her hand and said.

Niu Zhiwei was a little surprised to see these three students. Don't these three students dislike this village?Why did he suddenly become enthusiastic?

Li Yun looked at the three students in front of him, his celestial eyes began to flicker, turned around and said a few words into Wang Weigong's ear.

Soon, Wang Weigong also raised his hand and said.

"Teacher, I will go too!"

(End of this chapter)