The shopkeeper held the two strings of ancient coins and ran back to the Yuehua Hotel in despair. He was a little fat, and he was so tired from running all the way that he was out of breath. When he got to the store, he put the ancient coins on the counter. As soon as I put it on, the two loose strings of money immediately fell apart, and the rope threading the money broke into countless small sections.
The waiter picked up the ancient coins and looked at them carefully: "Shopkeeper, did you go to the temple to get these ancient coins back? Tsk tsk, these are quite old and even the ropes are rotten!"
"Bring me a bowl of water quickly." The shopkeeper took the tea handed by the waiter, took a sip of the cow drink, and said after a long pause: "The Arhat has appeared, the Arhat has appeared!"
The shopkeeper's shout instantly attracted the attention of everyone in the store. The shopkeeper shouted loudly: "You just saw with your own eyes that monk with long eyebrows came into our store to ask for alms and broke the vases in our store!"
"Yes, yes..." There was a chorus of agreement in the store.
"I just chased the long-browed monk to Yuetai Temple, but I didn't expect that the monk was an Arhat in the temple." The shopkeeper yelled, annoyed. He had offended the real Buddha today.
"What's going on? Shopkeeper, please explain it more clearly. We don't understand." Brother Zhao started to take the lead again. Upon hearing this, everyone became lively again and immediately gathered around.
The shopkeeper then explained the whole story in detail. Everyone was very excited when they heard what the shopkeeper said. No one believed it. Everyone laughed at the shopkeeper because he was too tired to run around and his eyes were blurred.
"Look, these are the copper coins on the Arhat. Who still has these ancient coins from the Tang Dynasty now? If you don't believe it, let me go to Yuetai Temple with you to see if it's the long-browed monk who just came to our store. !" The shopkeeper couldn't bear to be accused of telling lies, so he was so angry that he went to Yuetai Temple to confront him.
Everyone was well fed and had nothing to do. Zhaodi fanned the flames from time to time and said, "Okay, let's go to Yuetai Temple to see the Arhat appear!"
Master Hongyi was pulling weeds in the yard, when suddenly a large group of people rushed into the temple, which shocked Hongyi. They ignored Hongyi, and the shopkeeper led the group of people and rushed straight into the main hall. , pointing to the Arhat statue for everyone to see.
The guests in the restaurant all stared at the Arhat carefully with their eyes widened. After a while, someone shouted loudly: "Yes, it's the monk just now, his eyebrows and face are exactly the same!" Brother Zhao was mixed in the crowd and took the lead to say in surprise. After everyone heard what he said, they looked up and saw that they had preconceived ideas. The more I look at it, the more they look like each other.
Everyone saw that there was no difference. They looked at the Arhat statue again and reached out to touch the dust on the Arhat statue. It had accumulated for countless years. It was definitely an Arhat statue with a lot of history.
When everyone saw that the Arhat had appeared, they all started talking about it. Zhaodi saw that it was almost done, so he knelt down first, kowtowed and shouted that the Arhat had appeared. When the people next to him saw someone kneeling down, driven by the herd mentality, Others also knelt down. Don't dare not kneel down at this time. That would be a great disrespect to the Buddha and Arhat. No one can predict the affairs of gods and ghosts. If you offend the Buddha, you will receive retribution.
I don't know when a merit box appeared in the main hall. Zhaodi cleverly said: "There is a merit box here." Then he walked over, took out a handful of copper coins from his pocket, and threw it in In the merit box, he clasped his hands together and chanted in front of the Arhat statue, looking like a pious prayer.
The others were still completely immersed in the shock of this Buddhist miracle, and their minds could not turn around to think about the causes and consequences of all this. Little did they know that all this was a trap carefully designed by Liang Chuan. First let the sketch pretend to be a monk and lure people to Yuetai Temple to see the Arhat statue, and then recruit a younger brother to mingle with the crowd and cooperate with others, fanning the flames and leading people to preconceptions. The whole process was completed in one go. If it weren't for the craftsmen who made the Arhat statue, who would be able to get out of this trap in a short while?
Other diners, including the owner of the restaurant, were smart enough to take out the money from their pockets and throw it into the merit box. It would be unacceptable if they didn't throw it away. Others also threw it away. If you don't throw it away yourself, that would be disrespectful to the Buddha. , Throwing more and throwing less is one thing, but it’s not as good as not throwing it away. After a while, the money in the merit box was almost full.
The group returned to Yuehua Restaurant. There were many new diners in the restaurant. These diners who had just visited Yuetai Temple and the shopkeeper told everyone about the magical story of the Arhat's appearance. Suddenly, Yuetai Temple was Stories about Arhat appearing as spirits began to spread in Qingyuan County.
This thing is too mysterious, and not only one person was seen, but there were many diners eating and drinking at the time. They also went to Yuetai Temple to watch with their own eyes. The Arhat statue is still in the temple. Yuehua Restaurant is the best restaurant in the county, with a lot of people coming and going. This story spreads faster than anything else.
Many people heard about this strange thing and rushed to Yuetai Temple to watch it. It turned out that there were a lot of weeds growing in the corridors of Yuetai Temple. The grass was trampled by the people in the city who came to watch the saint. draw. Monk Hongyi also didn't expect that in just half a day, the threshold of Yuetai Temple would be broken through, and the flow of people was even greater than at any time in his childhood memory.
Pilgrims came to the temple to burn incense and pray for blessings, bringing with them fruits, gold foil paper money, incense, candles and lamp oil. At this time, people still had no scientific concept at all. They just wanted to believe what they saw with their eyes and heard with their ears. Nowadays, rumors are spreading so miraculously that if one person says that some Arhat has appeared, it still needs to be verified, but half of the city People are talking about it, so will it still be fake? If one person is easy to deceive, is half the city so easy to deceive?
Monk Hongyi burst into tears when he saw this. He had been worried that in a hundred years this dilapidated temple would have no successors. The incense now dazzled him. He had already cleaned out the money and items in the merit box several times today. His first priority right now is to use the money to repair the temple. With such a great reputation, if hospitality remains in tatters, people will soon lose confidence again.
What surprised him was that on the day when Arhat appeared as a saint, two young people wanted to worship Buddha. Monk Hongyi was more prepared to see people. The two young people had huge earlobes and clear eyes. At first glance, they were Hui Zhilan. Good disciples of the heart, they had made up their mind. It happened that the temple was also short of people, so the great monk Hongyi received them under the door wall.
Yuetai Temple, which was originally dead, regained its former vitality due to Liang Chuan's "conspiracies". Coupled with the several legends that originally existed in the temple, Yuetai Temple's reputation in Qingyuan County has been reduced. The son is more prominent.
Zhaodi and Xiaopin don't go out to hang out much these days. It would be bad if someone recognized them. Their home is separated from Yuetai Temple by a wall, and others would know that they wear the same clothes without asking. of pants.
As for Bi Zhaosheng, Liang Chuan has strictly ordered them to keep silent. Not to mention, since the number of tourists in Yuetai Temple has increased, the crowds in Chengtian Lane, which used to be silent, have also begun to increase, and there are stalls selling food. There are also more vendors playing. Some people moved their houses from far away places to Chengtian Alley in order to enjoy the glory. For a time, this small place of Chengtian Alley became the most lively place after East and West Street.
When there are more people, business will naturally come. Although the aroma of wine is not afraid of the depth of the alley, the aroma of wine cannot come out if the alley is too deep. Since there are more people, Bi Zhaosheng's printing shop has a lot more people, all coming to see them. Skills, want them to undertake printing tasks. It turned out to be a matter of helping the great monk, but he didn't expect that he would benefit in the end. Bi Zhaosheng said with emotion, good people are rewarded.
Bi Zhaosheng naturally knew that all this was due to Liang Chuan, who came to rent his Yikan store and became his new neighbor. If this little trick is a deception that cannot be put on the table, then the three couplets in his store are simply It is unprecedented and unparalleled. Since he was exposed to wood carving since he was a child, his first priority was to be familiar with the content to be carved, so he read as many or even more books than ordinary students and scholars.
At least in the books he read, the knowledge given to him could not allow him to deal with the three teams in Liangchuan's store. There were definitely very few people who could handle the first line, let alone the second line. It's easy to admire someone, just conquer him with your strength. Now Bi Zhaosheng has been completely conquered by Liang Chuan. In his opinion, Liang Chuan was by no means as simple as he looked. He even seemed to have well-developed limbs and a simple mind. Under that rough body, there must be an extremely smart and delicate soul.
There is also a school near Chengtian Lane, which is the Qingyuan School in the east of the city. The students here are either rich or noble, and most of them are the children of local wealthy businessmen. They are sent to the school to learn etiquette and justice, and they can also have their own lives. The social circle and getting to know the rich second generation of Qingyuan will be very helpful in the future whether in business or official career.
The students of Qingyuan Academy recently heard that an Arhat appeared in the nearby Yuetai Temple, and they came to pray for blessings. Of course, they did not completely believe this, because Confucius said it beforehand, and Confucius did not talk about the power of ghosts and gods. As a result, they discovered something even more interesting, that is, in the Liangchuan Wanda branch, there were three paintings of absolutes that were rare in the world!
