Liaozhai Great Sage

Where incense is at its peak, there must be ghosts and gods entrenched.

Since there are ghosts and gods, they must be familiar with local affairs.

Because Li Xiuyuan rode a dragon horse through Hua County several times in the evening, he knew some local conditions. After having a little breakfast with the guards on the street, he came to the Guanyin Temple.

Hua County is not big, and it is not as prosperous as Guobei County, but the strange thing is that the front of the Guanyin Temple is particularly prosperous, and there are already an endless stream of pilgrims coming in and out in the early morning.

In addition, there are many vendors selling incense, lamp oil, candle paper, and gold and silver ingots in front of the Guanyin Temple.

All kinds of sacrificial items are available here.

"There are so many people." Li Xiuyuan thought to himself.

But after paying attention immediately, he frowned slightly: "The people here are living in poverty, and their faces are so disheveled. Why is the incense in front of the Guanyin Temple so prosperous?"

In his opinion, only when the people are rich will they ask God.

If you can't even eat enough, how can you go to worship God.

But the situation here is the opposite. He saw a woman who took out dozens of pennies from her clothes in great pain, bought some incense and candles, and entered the Guanyin Temple.

I also saw a thin black man, dressed in tattered clothes, but he took out a dime of broken silver from nowhere, bought a lot of sacrifices, and hurried into the temple, preparing to worship the gods.

"Young master, there are more and more people this early in the morning. Let's go in quickly. I'm afraid it's too late, and the inside is full of people." Two guards protected the left and right, blocking the passing crowd.

Li Xiuyuan looked around, thoughtful in his heart: "This temple is a bit weird, it's not as simple as an ordinary temple."

After thinking for a while, he didn't waste any time and walked into the Guanyin Temple with his guards.

As soon as he entered the temple, he smelled a strong smell of incense.

The smell of incense here is several times stronger than that of Guo Beicheng's Town God's Temple.

"With such a strong smell of incense, could it be that Guanyin often appears to save sentient beings?" Li Xiuyuan thought in his heart.

Only when the temple is efficacious, can there be a scene of incense and incense. If it is not efficacious, no matter how magnificent the temple is, there will not be many people coming to worship.

People pray to God to ask God to do things, not simply to offer incense.

I looked around and found that there were no other god statues enshrined in the temple, and there was only one god statue enshrined in the spacious and tall hall.

A statue of Guanyin.

The Avalokitesvara lowered her brows and lowered her eyes, with a natural ecology, dressed as a woman, holding a baby in her hand, and it was a statue of Avalokitesvara delivering a child.

However, what caught Li Xiuyuan's attention was that the statue was three feet high, and the whole body was golden and bright. Judging from his years of experience in contact with gold and silver at home, the three-foot-high statue should be made of three kinds of metals, gold, silver and copper.

The inside is copper, the middle is silver, and the outside is gold.

Only in this way can the statue of Songzi Guanyin be built in such a grand, majestic and rich manner.

Chapter 191

Li Xiuyuan looked at this statue of Guanyin who gave away his son, and felt something was wrong in his heart.

The people in Hua County are living in such a difficult situation, yet this statue is built so luxuriously, it seems that the entire county's financial resources are used to support this statue.

It doesn't matter if it was built by a wealthy businessman in the county. Others have money and how they want to spend it is other people's business. Others have no right to interfere. There are huge merit boxes one after another, each of which is more than half the height of a person.

Moreover, the pilgrims who worship Guanyin will put money into the merit box every time after worshiping the god statue.

There are even a little wealthier pilgrims who don't even want to throw all their money bags in, and don't keep a cent.

The pilgrims who invested money were chanting again, praying for something.

"This worship seems a little too pious." Li Xiuyuan frowned slightly.

All the money was put into the merit box, which was better than the temple, but it was hard for me. No wonder the Songzi Guanyin Temple Fair was built in such a luxurious style.

Without the dedication of these pilgrims, how could such a luxurious statue be built in this year and the world.

Li Xiuyuan pondered for a while, and followed the crowd to the altar, ready to eavesdrop on what these pilgrims were asking for.

He saw a woman in her late thirties kneeling in front of the futon, burning incense and worshiping, kowtowing to the statue of Guanyin, and muttering something in her mouth; For my family to carry on the family line, so that there will be no descendants, I beg the merciful and merciful Guanyin Bodhisattva..."

The woman chanted it several times. After burning incense and praying, she took out dozens of coins from her bosom and put them into the merit box. .

And when the next pilgrim came forward, it was also a woman.

This woman has a big belly and seems to have been pregnant for several months. She also burns incense and prays like the previous woman, throws money into the merit box, and repeats in her mouth that she is also begging the Bodhisattva to give her a child.

After the second woman left, the third pilgrim, the fourth pilgrim.

Without exception, they all knelt in front of the statue of Guanyin who sent the child, kowtowed, burned incense, and prayed. The things they asked for were similar, and most of them were for the child.

But if you ask for a child, you can understand.

After all, this is the statue of Avalokitesvara, and it is not dedicated to other gods, so it is only natural to come to pray for a child.

However, after watching it for a while, Li Xiuyuan felt something was wrong.

"Why do so many women come to burn incense and beg for a child so early in the morning? The population of Huaxian County is so large. The begging for a child is a little too enthusiastic, and even begging for a child does not need to be so extravagant. It is enough to burn a few sticks of incense for such real gold and silver offerings."

He was puzzled and thoughtful at the same time.

Before he stopped for a long time, a nun in plain clothes approached a nearby statue with a smile; The Guanyin in this Guanyin temple is extremely effective, as long as the son is sincere, the Guanyin master will respond to every request."

Li Xiuyuan suddenly came back to his senses, and then said: "I didn't come to worship the gods, I just passed by occasionally and saw the bustling here, so I came here out of curiosity, and there is no other reason, if the master doesn't mind , can you allow me to turn around and wait and see?"

The nun gave a salute and said: "Idlers are not allowed to wander around in the Guanyin Temple, but this young master is extraordinary, so he should not be a random idler. If this young master doesn't dislike him, the old nun is willing to take the young master with him." Let's take a walk around the temple."

"Oh, if that's the case, I'll have to thank my teacher." Li Xiuyuan bowed back.

The middle-aged nun smiled and said: "It's a matter of little effort, the young master is serious, please come to the young master."

After finishing speaking, he gestured, showing great enthusiasm.

Li Xiuyuan nodded, and prepared to follow the nun to the Guanyin Temple.

How can I find the god hidden in the Guanyin Temple if I don't take a stroll around, and how can I ask about Miss Qiao unless I find the god.

"Young master, this nun doesn't look like a monk. If she were a nun, she would definitely call the young master a benefactor, but she has always called the young master a son. If she has been a monk for a long time, it is impossible not to change her name, and the young master, just wait and see her shoes."

The guard's footsteps were quickened, and he whispered beside Li Xiuyuan's ear.

Li Xiuyuan's eyes moved, and he looked at the nun's feet.

But I saw that the feet under the wide plain clothes were wearing a pair of embroidered shoes, not the cloth shoes of monks and nuns.