Part-Time Taoist Priest

Everything welcomes spring, and the year ends.On New Year's Eve in Fuyang, the streets and alleys were extremely deserted, most of the shops were closed, and everyone went back for a reunion.

But turning to Liming Square and walking towards Jingui Pedestrian Street is another scene.Between the commercial buildings, the eaves are green, and there are layers of palace buildings hidden here. People come in and out at the gate, which is very lively.

Over the past few years, the biggest change in the business district of Liming Square is Baoyang Temple, a new scenic spot in Shuyang. Yang view.

The original Taoist temple with two entrances now covers an area of ​​[-] to [-] mu. The layout is centered on the original temple. Yangguan" three characters.Along the central axis, there are Shanmen Hall, Sanqing Hall, Yuhuang Hall, Lingzu Hall, Sazu Hall, etc. On both sides, there are Wenchang Emperor Hall, Taiyi Tianzun Hall and other supporting halls, as well as teahouses, guest halls, Zhaitang, housing , meeting rooms, etc., the interior decoration paintings are mostly cranes, gossip, etc., yellow tiles and red scorpions, quiet amidst the noise.

Today’s Baoyang Temple will hold a New Year’s Eve Dharma Assembly. Local believers will gather together, and believers from other places will come from afar to participate. Those who cannot make it can also pray online through Baoyang Temple’s official website.

On weekdays, in addition to various ritual ceremonies, Baoyang Temple also holds temple fairs, flower fairs and other activities to attract tourists from all over the world.Due to its growing reputation in recent years, it has also generated a lot of income for the tourism industry in Fuyang City.

In addition, the tea house in Baoyang Temple is also very famous because there is an ancient well in the temple, and the spring water is sweet. Last year, an organization took water and tested it, which proved that the water quality is good and contains many kinds of trace elements that are beneficial to the human body.Because of the simple and unsophisticated landscaping and strong ancient style, many citizens and tourists also love to come here for a cup of tea.

As soon as some foreign tourists walked into the mountain gate, they saw a few people carrying big incense.

In recent years, it is popular to offer incense and high incense, especially the first stick of incense in the new year, and the first incense stick of Baoyang Temple has to be grabbed.However, the incense carried by these few people is really exaggerated-it can be seen from the need to "carry".The length can be about 1.4 meters five, which is about half the height of a human being. It is so thick that you need to hold it with both palms together, which makes people click their tongues again and again.

Tourists from other places couldn't help asking: "Is this your incense?"

The man who carried the incense shook his head, "Why, it belongs to our boss."

And they're not the same boss.

Tourists from other places repeatedly shouted: "rich people just know how to play, and this incense is getting thicker and thicker every year."

A local citizen nearby kowtowed melon seeds and said, "Uh, the new temple master took office last month. It doesn't mean that the incense will be completely canceled from next year. No matter whether it is high incense or small incense, all of them will be cancelled. Except for some pujas, all worships will be done. Change it to a handful of heart incense."

"Eh?? We don't know!"

"Dizzy, dizzy, can it be counted from the Spring Festival?"

"What if we don't let you use our incense..."

"New Guanzhu?" Out-of-town tourists actually don't know much about this. They just come to burn incense at the relatives' home to celebrate the New Year. But they only vaguely know that Baoyang Temple doesn't seem to have a Guanzhu.

"That's right, it's Daoist Wu Liang. He seems to have just received his Taoist certificate and went through the inauguration procedures. I heard that after the death of the previous temple master, the temple master's position has been vacant, and the temple master's nephew will take care of the chores. Now it is officially passed on. Give it to Daoist Wu."

The tourist was confused, "Just obtained the Taoist certificate... so you can be the temple owner? The competition in Baoyang Temple is not so fierce?"

"Hey, that's not the way to say it. It mainly depends on ability. Daoist Wu is young and promising."

"Now that I said it, I remembered that the old monk's nephew also appeared on the news. What is he doing now?"

"This... is probably retreating behind the scenes?"

……

The former person in charge of Baoyang Temple who was talked about by everyone was lying in bed at this time, until Shi Changxuan lifted the quilt, "Sleeping in late on New Year's Eve?"

"Ah—" Xie Lingya screamed, "Brother, I finally retired, I have nothing to do today, let me spend the holiday normally!"

Shi Changxuan picked him up from the bed, "There will be blessings in half an hour, are you really not going to get up?"

Xie Lingya lay on Shi Changxuan's shoulders, and kissed the root of his ear in aggrieved manner.

Shi Changxuan's ears turned red, he put the boneless Xie Lingya on the table, and put a cotton coat on him.This padded coat is made by Shi Changxuan, but it is actually a winter style Taoist robe, with dark blue slanted front and quilting, which makes it a little more cute after wearing it.

Xie Lingya had just finished washing, and walked out slowly, when he saw an old lady leading two crying little boys over, with a white and tender little girl with a round face not far behind.

Xie Lingya felt something was wrong when he saw it, and sure enough, the next moment the old lady said, "Xiao Xie, your sister made our grandson cry again! Although you can't beat children during the Chinese New Year, you have to discipline them, right?"

Xie Lingya: "..."

Sisi, who is only five years old this year, walked up slowly and said clearly, "I'm playing with my brothers."

Seeing her take a few steps to the side, the old lady said with lingering fear: "It's not that I said, you really have to take care of this child. My grandson said that she picked up a snake from somewhere to play with, and used it to scare people."

snake?

Only then did Xie Lingya come to his senses, and turned over his hands and body, all empty.

As soon as Sisi raised her hand, a snake's head popped out of her sleeve, spitting out a snake letter in her palm, "Is it this one?"

"Oh my god!" The old lady turned and walked away holding the child who cried louder, without looking back, "Xiao Xie, take a look! Take a look! I'll come again next time!"

Xie Lingya: "..."

There was a strange silence at the scene for three seconds, Sisi had a grim look on her face, she didn't dare to call him elder brother, and said flatteringly at Shi Changxuan: "Brother Changxuan..."

Shi Changxuan frowned and said: "Xie Lingsi, you put the obedient dragon down."

"Whatever you put it down, I think it's just a beating!" Xie Lingya didn't care about children's scientific education methods, so he picked up a token, which was just the right length for playing with a palm.

Sisi turned her head and ran, saying as she ran, "I want to tell Dad that you hit me!"

Xie Lingya: "Go outside and ask about it! There are still rumors in the hospital that I beat our father!"

Sisi: "..."

Shi Changxuan: "..."

In recent years, because of Xie Lingya's coming out of the closet and the birth of Sisi, his relationship with his family has improved a lot, so during the Chinese New Year he will meet here, and Xie's family will also come to the Taoist temple to celebrate the New Year together.My younger sister will come to live during the winter and summer vacations, and when she goes to school, she probably has to come to the city for the quality of teaching.

Xie Lingya likes this younger sister very much, but although Sisi is a girl, she is as naughty as he was when he was a child, as long as she doesn't keep an eye on her, she can go to heaven.

Seeing that Sisi was running and pounced forward, planning to pass through the gap in the railing, Xie Lingya rushed forward and quickly grabbed her by the braid.

"Oh, oh, it hurts, it hurts!"

Xie Lingya picked up Sisi and confiscated Guailong, "Stretch out your hand!"

Sisi put her hands behind her back, "Just to play with them, why blame me if I can't afford it, they first asked me if I was afraid of the bugs."

Only then did Xie Lingya know that there was another occurrence. He looked at her twice and knew that his sister was not lying, so he let her go. You two are scared... No, you are not allowed to play around with bugs!"

Xie Lingya held Sisi to teach for a long time, pulled off the dragon and hung it around his neck, "I have to pray, you are only allowed to play in the yard, do you understand?"

Sisi answered honestly and followed him back.

……

Entering the auditorium of the Method Meeting, many people greeted Xie Lingya when they saw him.

Because of the expansion of Baoyang Temple, the clinic of Haiguanchao moved out a few years ago, but it is not far away, just two streets away, and it is getting bigger and bigger.Xie Lingya's current job is to be the accountant for his clinic and pharmacy, which is quite easy. He usually lives in Baoyang Temple, and occasionally goes out to catch ghosts.

After graduating, Shi Changxuan's main job is still religious studies. He and Xie Lingya usually teach them to recruit new disciples for Wang Yu. Because Baoyang Temple is famous, many people come every time they recruit new students. They choose the best among them I collected some good bones and worshiped under Wang Yuji's door.

As for Fang Zhe, he still followed the sea to watch the tide, but he was able to do it alone in his spare time. He went to show people the feng shui of the house, broke the evil spirits and so on.

And Guo Xing also officially took over the mantle of Lu Shanfa. He is a junior from Xie Lingya's school. After graduation, he first worked in the company of Mr. Zhu's daughter. Because he was not used to it, he came to Baoyang Temple.The Baoyang Temple is now so big that some lay people come to do their daily work. His family only thinks that they are working in the Taoist Temple.

Not to mention Xiaoliang and Zhang Daoting, who were directly promoted to the management team. Xiaoliang officially entered Taoism from a Taoist boy.

Praying for blessings lasts for one day, and at night, we have to start preparing for the New Year's Eve party.

Although Xie Lingya didn't have to preside over it, since it was Wu Liang's first time presiding over such a large-scale ceremony, he also watched from the sidelines.On the way, I went to the bathroom and asked the Taoist priest Sisi, who knew the customers outside, where she was. The Taoist priest was ordered by Xie Lingya to keep a close eye on Sisi, and now he said with confidence: "She is looking at the flowers in the flower bed over there."

Xie Lingya saw that there was indeed a small figure looming behind the flower bed, so he went to the toilet with confidence. Today is Chinese New Year, so there is no need to let the child go to bed so early.

Xie Lingya was just doing something, when he suddenly felt something strange, when he lowered his head, it turned out to be a toilet ghost who came in quietly at some point, squatting at his feet and looking up obsessively...

"..." Xie Lingya had a chill, pulled up his pants, and said in a nasty voice, "What are you doing!"

The toilet ghost lowered his head and said weakly: "Mr. Xie, I was entrusted by the ghost, and I want to come here to ask for mercy."

Xie Lingya washed his hands and said absent-mindedly: "I beg you, who is hungry after the Chinese New Year?"

The toilet ghost shook his head and said: "No, there are a few little ghosts from the East Street who came to look for food and frightened Lingmei blindly for a while. Their eldest brother wanted to say that he was guilty. I hope Teacher Xie will be merciful and let the ghost go."

Xie Lingya was stunned for a moment, "Damn, are you scaring my sister?"

The toilet ghost also sweated profusely, "You don't know about this??"

"I didn't catch anything!" Xie Lingya thought wrong and rushed out of the toilet.

When he ran to the edge of the flower bed to watch, Sisi was burying a slender male ghost, using a small toy shovel to shovel soil on the male ghost's head, and muttering: "Catch the big ghost, take the little ghost, dig out a fool." Ghosts see Hades..."

Xie Lingya: "..."

Xie Lingya grabbed Sisi's clothes by the back and lifted her up, "Miss, can you learn from other children and just play with mud?"

Sisi fluttered in the air, "He was the one who wanted to scare me first!"

The male ghost hurriedly said: "I was wrong, I was wrong, I was really wrong, please let me go, I will never scare women and children again!"

"You owe it too," Xie Lingya said as he looked at the ghost, "Scary people only pick on women and children, what kind of male ghost are you!"

The male ghost lowered his head in shame.

Xie Lingya assigned the male ghost to patrol with Ding Aima and reformed himself, and continued to speak earnestly to Sisi: "The talisman I gave you is for your self-defense, not for you to use the ghost as a toy after you have defended yourself."

"What's wrong?" Shi Changxuan asked as he saw the two talking in the corner.

Xie Lingya told him what happened just now, and then said worriedly: "Why is this kid so courageous..."

Shi Chang hesitated to speak: "..."

……

Half an hour before the start of the New Year's Eve ceremony, Ning Wanlai brought his cousin's family here.

Ning Wanlai's cousin is Liu Haixin. After getting married, because her husband was studying for a doctorate abroad, she went to accompany him for two years and only recently came back.As soon as Xie Lingya heard about it, he asked Ning Wanlai to invite his cousin to the New Year's Eve ceremony on his behalf.

Ning Wanlai was a little surprised that Mr. Xie seemed to have always cared about his cousin, but he didn't think it was a bad thing, so he asked his cousin and his wife to come together.

More than a year after Liu Haixin gave birth to her eldest son, she became pregnant with her second child, which would be half a year away. Her husband held her eldest son in her arms, and the couple entered Baoyang Temple together with their cousin.

Someone who knew Ning Wanlai in the temple greeted them, and also his cousin's family by the way.

The child recognized the birth and burst into tears.

"Okay, okay, Dabao won't cry." Liu Haixin took the baby from her husband to coax him, but Dabao couldn't stop crying, and the couple were devastated.

Liu Haixin has always felt that Dabao may be affected by his own constitution, and he is prone to see dirty things, so he is usually more sensitive, and he agreed to come to participate in the puja, not without worshiping God.Fortunately, this year Baoyang Temple canceled burning incense, there is no fireworks, and it will not choke children.

Just at this time, a little girl ran over, raised her face and said, "Auntie, brother, why are you crying? Quickly play "Little Leaping Frog" for him!"

Liu Haixin: "Huh?"

The little girl said: "When I was a child, my brother set me little jumping frogs."

When Ning Wanlai saw the child, he sweated, "Sisi. Haixin, this is Teacher Xie's younger sister, Sisi."

When Liu Haixin heard that she was Teacher Xie's younger sister, she respected her in awe, "Then this method might be useful, what's the matter, little jumping frog, right? Husband, check it out on your phone."

Liu Haixin's husband is checking, Xie Lingya and Shi Changxuan have already come out.

"Cousin." As soon as Xie Lingya saw Liu Haixin, he warmly greeted them and shook hands with the couple.

When Liu Haixin thought that Xie Lingya's sister still called her aunt just now, she felt dizzy.

Ning Wanlai joked: "Mr. Xie, our Dabao is crying non-stop. Just now Sisi gave an idea, saying that when she was young, you played "Little Leaping Frog" to coax her. We are going to try it out. Are you good at parenting? So authoritative."

Xie Lingya stretched out his hand and gave Liu Haixin a questioning look.

Seeing this, Liu Haixin couldn't help sending Dabao out, subconsciously trusting Xie Lingya.

As soon as Dabao came into Xie Lingya's hands, he immediately stopped crying, and even laughed out of tears!

Ning Wanlai and Liu Haixin were stunned, they hadn't had time to find "Little Leaping Frog" yet!

"Wow!" Sisi tugged at him, "Why isn't little brother crying?"

Xie Lingya proudly said: "Because your brother and I are smarter than "Little Leaping Frog"!"

Ning Wanlai's eyes were filled with awe for a moment. Unexpectedly, Teacher Xie is so versatile, and he is good at taking care of children...

Xie Lingya gave Shi Changxuan a look, and Shi Changxuan immediately went back to the room and took out a wooden box.After opening it, there was a small wooden figure lying inside, wearing Liu Haixin's very familiar clothes.

After Shang Lushen and Liu Lingtong reincarnated, their original bodies became empty shells, which were properly preserved by them.

"Give this to Dabao." Xie Lingya smiled.

Shi Changxuan put the wooden figure on Dabao's body, and Dabao held the wooden figure in his arms, and slowly fell asleep peacefully.

Liu Haixin remembered seeing this doll on them a few years ago, and the belongings seemed to be treasured later, and she even gave it to her family as a treasure, "What a shame, you guys like this wooden figurine very much, right?"

"It's okay, we like your eldest treasure too." Xie Lingya said.

Seeing Dabao hugging the wooden man tightly, Liu Haixin couldn't refuse, so she said, "Then thank you."

Ning Wanlai looked at this scene, but something flashed in his mind, and he looked at Xie Lingya in surprise, "Could it be..."

"Hush." ​​Xie Lingya blinked at him, "Everyone, go into the palace, New Year's Eve is a good day for reunion."

Liu Haixin's husband joked with a smile: "Is this a reunion?"

Ning Wanlai had come to his senses, and said meaningfully: "Forget it, relatives and friends, heaven, earth, people and gods, how do you know if everyone was a family 500 years ago? If you are destined to be together, you will be reunited."