The brothers Wu Qi rented donkeys in Chemafang, one person and one donkey, and rode back to Fuyunguan, Shu County.

The donkey is good at walking quickly, but when he runs, he is bumpy, and his footwork is not as good as a horse.

Donkeys in the carriage and horse shop are cheap and expensive. Most ordinary people ride donkeys or ride donkey carriages. The horse rental fee is several times that of donkeys, and the deposit is even more expensive.

A donkey is usually priced from 3,000 to 5,000 yuan, that is, 3 to 5 taels of silver.

There are officials to set the price of horses. Take the ordinary Tang horse as an example. A horse is 25,000 yuan, or 25 taels of silver.

When buying and selling horses, they also need to include saddles, bridles, horseshoes, and horse whip accessories, which usually cost nearly 30 taels of silver, which is nearly 10 times that of a donkey.

Considering that the amount of forage and cereals required for raising horses is large, and horse sheds are needed to build horse sheds and hire grooms, the monthly expenses are quite large.

Most people work for helping and working for a month is around 500 yuan, and ordinary officials such as yamen's documents cost about 1,000 yuan a month. Ordinary people cannot afford this income or raise horses.

Therefore, some poets sighed.

——Riding a donkey for thirteen years, eating in Beijing spring.

Riding a donkey is the ride for ordinary people to travel.

...

Fuyun Temple is located on the east side of Shu County, branched mountain.

There are peach forests growing on the mountains in this area, and the peaches produced have crisp and sweet taste. Every season, the disciples of Fuyunguan also pick peaches and sell fruits to subsidize their daily life.

The Fuyun Temple is not big. The Fuyun Tower in the center is a three-story bamboo building. The top floor is the main place for the temple to practice, the second floor is the library, and the first floor is the meditation and practice hall.

Around the Fuyun Tower, the disciples built scattered thatched huts around and lived in them.

After the brothers Wu Qi came back, they first went to Elder Yan to report on the soul car and Trojan horse that happened in Pu'an a few days ago.

Fuyun Temple has a relaxed jurisdiction over all disciples. Any matters involving demons and ghosts and monsters should be informed of the elders in a timely manner.

Elder Yan is over forty years old and is covered with a pale green Taoist robe that is washed white. He has a round face, a garlic nose, a big belly, and endless sweat on his forehead and neck, which is completely different from the usual Taoist priests who are thin and out of dust.

He wiped his face with a handkerchief and said, "You have done a good job in eliminating demons and protecting the Tao. It is the responsibility of my Taoist sect... But next time I encounter such danger, I should not act rashly and let the monks in the Foundation Establishment Stage take action."

"As the saying goes, safety is the first priority when you go out."

"Yes, elder." Wu Qi and the others replied.

Elder Yan rubbed his hands, his smile a little ambiguous: "There is another thing...you also know that the master of the temple has been in seclusion for two years. In the past, the master of the temple always went down the mountain to find a layman to beg for alms. I think that such a Taoist sect is not easy to operate..."

The five Taoist gates are the Guigu Cave of Longhu Mountain, Wudang Mountain, Changdao Temple of Qingcheng Mountain, Maoshan Yuanfu Palace, and Gezao Mountain Baicao Garden.

The five great Daomen were granted the imperial edict of the Tang Dynasty, and the imperial court allocated funds and subsidies every year. In addition, its profound background and its incense are so prosperous that it is even more expensive.

But under the five great Taoist gates, it is difficult to make a living by sightseeing such as Fuyun Temple.

Taoist priests practiced that there is a saying that wealth is money, and couples are companions, and masters are fellow teachers, and Dharma is Dharma, magic, and the ground refers to Lingshan Cave.

The monks do not consume much in the Qi Refining Period, but once they build the foundation, they need elixirs and spirit stones to support them. Then they go up and have higher requirements for Taoist magic and magic... Every monk who enters the hall is a gold-swalking cave. The greater the monk, the more he is, the more he can only support him.

In addition to the leader of the Fuyun Temple, Wu Daoji, there are two other disciples in the Foundation Establishment Stage. The elixirs they consume in daily life are extremely expensive. In order to break through as soon as possible, they must be loyal to the essence and keep quiet and focus on their practice.

Now the expenses in the temple are mostly on these two people. All the disciples are working hard to make money, set up stalls, sell peaches, weddings and weddings, and housekeeping practices... to support the two senior brothers to break through as soon as possible and enter the elixir stage, so as to feed the Taoist temple.

Even if you are struggling to save money, Fuyunguan is still unable to make ends meet and it is difficult to buy ammunition on credit.

"There is no longer credit owed to Qingcheng Mountain, so that we can settle the debts we had before..." Elder Yan said bitterly: "Can you lend the three taels of silver you have obtained this time be lent to the Taoist temple? I can write an IOU, and I can pay it back when the master of the temple comes out of seclusion."

Wu Qi and Chen Gao looked at each other.

When the economy is difficult, their disciples can't be safe.

The two of them whistled in unison: "In the sect, we have no choice but to do so."

Elder Yan was overjoyed and quickly found the four treasures in the study and wrote the IOU.

"Elder." Wu Qi said, "Can you use the affairs of your disciples to deduct these three taels of silver?"

Since two years ago, the twenty-five Qi Refining disciples in Fuyun Temple have shouldered the heavy responsibility of making money while practicing, and each of them has been left with a task.

Because the future was dim, twenty disciples left the Taoist temple and planned to find him.

Lesbian disciples do not enter the practice of meditation before refining qi, and they are more like enthusiasts who are interested, come and go with the flow and have fewer people.

Now there are only five Qi Refining Stage disciples in Fuyun Temple, two true teachings of the Foundation Establishment Stage, Elder Yan who is in charge of many affairs, and the master Wu Daoji, a total of nine people, which is extremely dismal.

Elder Yan encouraged disciples in Qi Refining to generate income in various ways in their spare time. He himself practiced it himself, setting up stalls to tell fortunes and fortune-telling in Shu County, Luo County, and Longyou County to make up for the silver vacancy. Wu Qi's brothers had met him several times in Shu County, and they were all forced by life, and everyone was not embarrassed.

"...You mean, do you want your brothers to avoid setting up stalls for two months to offset the three taels of silver?" Elder Yan asked him.

Wu Qi said: "Yes."

"OK."

Elder Yan agreed readily: "In the past two months, you brothers will concentrate on your cultivation and strive to build the foundation as soon as possible. Then there will be Guanli elixirs."

...

After coming out of Fuyun Tower, Wu Qi and Chen Gao looked at each other and were both smiling bitterly.

According to the current situation, I don’t know how long it will last.

Wu Qi thought it realistically, and it is difficult to get out of the economic difficulties in the short term. An IOU that is difficult to fulfill is worthless. It is better to exchange it for time so that both himself and Chen Gao have more choices for practice.

"Your idea is good for junior brother."

Chen Gao praised: "At least it can be used to practice... I also took the opportunity to walk around to see if there are other ways to make money."

He took out two talismans from his arms and sent them to Wu Qi.

"Don't hesitate when something is wrong, escape immediately." Chen Gao reminded: "Be careful all the way."

Wu Qi explained it clearly.

A horse talisman or a vajra talisman is not a high-end talisman. The monks of the Floating Cloud Temple can only get one each year, but it is an important saving for a poor Qi Refining Cultivator like Chen Gao.

It was almost evening when Wu Qi arrived at Dong Temple.

There was a remnant incense ash on the ground, as if someone had come, which made him alert.

As the saying goes, it is better to live in a deserted tomb than to stay in an ancient temple.

The criminals fled and did not dare to enter the city. They often chose to live in dilapidated temples when they were sleeping in the open. If they met, they might be killed or robbed.

Furthermore, in the temples, there were immortals and Buddhas, which may suppress demons and monsters, or save the dead souls. Once they were destroyed, all kinds of demons and ghosts might come out to cause trouble.

Wu Qi hopes to meet wanted criminals, and whether they are captured alive or killed, they can go to the yamen to receive a reward. With his thirty years of cultivation, ordinary strong men have very little threat.

He tested that with the blessing of "Zodiac Body Forging Technique", the physical strength is close to that of a stone, and ordinary weapons are difficult to break the body.

Although there was incense ash on the ground, there was no one in sight. The East Temple was both broken and small, so it could not hide people. Most of the people left after burning incense and worshiping the gods.

Even so, Wu Qi remained cautious and prepared to obtain the Three Pure Land statues before returning to the Taoist temple.

——Get one day of cultivation.

The face is a little dark.

Wu Qi shook his head.

I haven't come for a few days, and Sanqing still only gave feedback on that day, and it was invalidated if I didn't come before.

Wu Qi stared at the statue, and there was nothing unusual inside, which disappointed him slightly.

Suddenly, light spots appeared on the mirror of the Hanxiang.

There are three stars in the middle of the mirror back that are lit, indicating that the visitor is the late stage of the demon army or the late stage of the ghost soldiers, which is equivalent to a human cultivator in the late stage of Qi Refining.

Wu Qi has a magic sword in one hand and a mirror in the other hand, so he is alert to all directions.

As a result, the other party did not appear, and the astrological signs on the mirror with elephant did not disappear.

He took pictures and found that the demon was in the wooden box at his feet, with only dogwood stones inside.

At this moment, a faint phantom appeared on the Sanqing statue.

There was a voice that was difficult to distinguish between men and women.
Chapter completed!