On the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month, people burn incense and worship Buddha. When the Four Olds were broken, some small nunneries and ancestral halls in the countryside were destroyed. At that time, believers also drew a clear line with the Bodhisattva. Even funerals in the countryside were changed to
Hold a memorial service.
But after ten years of catastrophe, these customs have slowly recovered in the countryside, which shows that these old rules and customs still have strong vitality.
When living conditions got a little better and they had more free time, those people who had originally drawn a clear line between themselves and the Bodhisattva began to take refuge in me, the Buddha. They lit incense at home and recited scriptures every day. On the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month, they went out to burn incense.
It is not enough to visit one ancestral hall and one nunnery. We have to visit one by one. There is a strong tendency to visit all the famous temples in the world.
Although the mountain temple is a bit dilapidated, it is still a temple after all. What's more, after Lai Wang lived in this temple for a period of time, he changed his mind, which shows that this mountain temple is still efficacious. Naturally, there are believers who are interested in this broken mountain temple.
They met their eyes. I usually saved some money by borrowing money, and sold some building materials. We dragged them to the mountain temple together and repaired it. Unfortunately, the mountain temple was really damaged, especially the
The idol has almost turned into a lump of mud.
Zhao Shengcai's wife, Hu Xiulan, was a very devout Buddhist. Basically, she developed the incense burners in Yidushui Village. No, a large group of women in the village gathered at Zhao Shengcai's house.
Zhao Shengcai was not very happy.
"I am also a cadre after all, and your superstitious activities will have a bad influence on me." Zhao Shengcai pulled his mother-in-law aside.
"What's wrong? If I hadn't burned incense and prayed to Buddha every day, and the Bodhisattvas had blessed me, would you, Zhao Dazi, be the village party secretary?" Hu Xiulan felt that her contribution was quite considerable.
"But, mother-in-law, can't you take them to another place for the meeting? You can put them in our house. If the leaders of the town listen to what you say, it will have a bad impact on me. It will be terrible for my political life.
It’s a kind of murder,” Zhao Shengcai said.
"You are the only one who is a big-ass village party secretary who still has a political life. If I don't burn incense and pray to Buddha, and don't have the blessing of Bodhisattvas, you won't even have a political life, let alone your dog's life." Hu Xiulan said.
"Then tell me, can you change the meeting to another place?" Zhao Shengcai asked.
"No. What else can you do?" Hu Xiulan said,
"Of course I can't. I'll prepare a meal for you." Seeing Hu Xiulan's expression change, Zhao Shengcai was shocked and immediately made a huge concession.
When Zhao Yulong saw Zhao Shengcai coming out of the hall, he immediately asked, "Dad, how did you discuss it with Mom?"
"It's a discussion. But after thinking about it carefully, I still feel that your mother's religious beliefs should be respected. Although there are two party members in our family, party members must put the opinions of the masses first!" Zhao Shengcai found it with great difficulty.
With such a grand excuse, I even admire myself for being a genius.
"I knew it." Zhao Yulong said disdainfully, and he naturally understood what was going on.
"You brat, you still don't believe what I say?" Zhao Shengcai said with a guilty conscience.
"I believe it! It's weird that I believe it!" Zhao Yulong said.
Zhao Yulong wants to run for village director at the end of the year. If he can succeed, Zhao Shengcai's family will have a branch secretary and a director. If Hu Xiulan doesn't burn incense, she can also be a director of the Women's Federation and work as a part-time secretary. Basically, she can completely control the entire
Once across the water, the political arena is over.
But Zhao Yulong recently got news that some party members in the village are collaborating to prepare for Zhao's wealth and to let Lai Wanglai serve as the village director of Yidu Shui Village. By then, Zhao Yulong's dream will not only not be realized, but will be replaced by Yidu Shui.
The revolutionary wave was directly submerged.
"Dad, I have told you many times that this is a critical period for our family. You must ask mother to make concessions. Because this is not only related to whether I can become the most important member of the Yidushui Village Committee.
There is a problem whether you can keep your position as branch secretary now," Zhao Yulong said.
"You don't understand this. Your mother actually has a purpose. The power of this group of pilgrims cannot be ignored. If they vote for us in the future under the influence of your mother, we will gain a lot of money invisibly.
Have the votes been counted?" Zhao Shengcai said.
"We have called everyone together today to talk about the repair of the mountain temple. The current situation is that almost every village has its own temple, and worship Bodhisattva directly in the village temple on the first and fifteenth day of every month. This has the advantage of
There are many. Firstly, they are relatively close. We can not limit it to the first and fifteenth day of each month. Secondly, if the temple in a place is prosperous, this place will also be blessed by the Bodhisattva. Our mountain temple relies on
The ones from Dashan are very efficacious. Laiwang has only lived in Shanshen Temple for a short time, and his fortune has changed immediately. Now, it seems to you that Wang's luck is unparalleled. But now, the problem at hand is that Shanshen Temple is badly damaged.
The Dharmakaya of the Mountain God Bodhisattva has also been seriously damaged. These must be repaired. Repairs require a lot of money, and we can only rely on our loyal disciples to raise money." Hu Xiulan said.
"Laiwang has gained so much benefit from the mountain temple, so the money should be paid out by Laiwang." said Cao Feiyan, Zhao Sande's mother-in-law.
"I'm afraid this is a bit difficult. Although Lai Wang has lived in the mountain temple, he is not a Buddhist. He may not be willing to spend money to repair the mountain temple." Hu Xiulan said.
"Yes, we can also ask Laiwang to contribute money. Think about it, he just lived in the mountain temple for a period of time and got such blessings. If he is also asked to donate the repair money, then how much blessings will he get?
Isn't it more?" Aunt Guihua said.
After thinking this, everyone immediately gave up the idea of asking Laiwang to contribute money to repair the mountain temple. People who believed in Buddhism were reluctant to buy buckets of instant noodles in the car when they went out to burn incense. But when they arrived at the temple, they donated money.
At the time, it was indeed extremely generous.
"Let's do this. I'll take the lead and my family will donate a thousand yuan." Hu Xiulan said.
"My family also donated two hundred yuan." Cao Feiyan said.
For a time, pledges came one after another. After a while, several thousand dollars were received. It was still not enough. Hu Xiulan frowned a little.
To repair the mountain temple, the most important thing is to re-carve the statues of the mountain temple. This cannot be obtained by spending thousands of dollars.
I don’t know how Hu Xiulan finally solved this big problem. Just when Lai Wang was leading Zhao Wanxing and others to plant crops in the farm, tractors filled with various building materials drove up. They drove directly to the mountain
He stopped on the large terrace in front of the temple.
Lai Wang heard the non-stop sound of tractors outside, and hurriedly went out to take a look, only to see that the people coming were people from Zhaojiatun, where they were unloading construction materials.
Lai Wang walked out and asked Hu Xiulan, who was moving the pictures, "Aunt Xiulan, what are you doing? Are you going to demolish the mountain temple and build a temple?"
"Where can we demolish the temple? We are planning to repair the mountain temple. I heard that your breeding farm is doing well now?" Hu Xiulan said.
"It's okay. Then you are busy. If you need help with anything, just ask. We are busy planting crops now," Lai Wang said.
"That's okay. We don't have much to do here. The main thing is to make repairs. All the pilgrims who come here are Buddhist pilgrims in our village. From now on, everyone's worship on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month can be placed in the mountain temple." Hu Xiulan said
.
"Okay, I can also have some fun here." Lai Wang said.
Money makes it easy to do things. Although the mountain temple was seriously damaged, after some repairs, it didn't take long to become a whole new place. Especially the newly invited Bodhisattva is the highlight of the mountain temple.
On the first day of May, the new temple was consecrated. It is said that an eminent monk was invited from a large temple. The consecration was the new Buddha statue. The completed Buddhist painting was to be placed in the Buddhist hall. When the Buddha hall was established, all eminent monks and great sages must be invited to follow certain instructions.
The traditional Buddhist rituals require holding grand gatherings, opening the eyes of the Buddha, and making clay and wooden Buddha statues or ritual objects possess the "power of Buddha nature" through chanting sutras and praying.
Lai Wang also went over to take a look. The eminent monk was quite tall. Lai Wang couldn't tell where else he was tall.
But I saw the eminent monk holding a pen, stained with ink, climbing up the small elevated platform, and dotting the eyes of the Buddha sculpture.
Then the eminent monk sat at a table on one side and recited scriptures. The pilgrims took turns offering incense to the Bodhisattva.
The strange thing is that the smoke produced by the incense soared straight up, then turned around in the air and flew directly towards the residence of Lai Wang's breeding farm. Fortunately, ordinary people could not see clearly how the smoke produced by the sandalwood flew out of the roof.
, what will happen? The eminent monk did not feel anything was wrong.
Naturally, Laibao would not miss such a lively scene. It liked to stand on the highest point very much. After arriving at the mountain temple, it looked around and found that the top of the Bodhisattva's head was the highest. So it immediately trudged towards it with difficulty.
The Bodhisattva climbed over on top of his head.
People who believe in Buddhism must not be impulsive, they must not eat meat, and they must not kill animals on the day of burning incense.
From the beginning, some people saw the existence of Noble, but no one took action against Noble.
Laifu was walking around in the mountain temple. He didn't understand the meaning of these people worshiping a wooden man.
If Laifu was wandering around the house like this in normal times, he would have been kicked out by others. But on this day, they were all good men and women, and they were actually very polite to Laifu. When Laifu walked out, there were even people
Make a way for it.
Lai Wang was not very interested in these things. After looking at them, he did not imitate others to offer a stick of incense, so he returned to the breeding farm.
There are still only wild boars and elk in the breeding farm, and the numbers have not changed at all. But what is surprising is that these wild boars can actually stay on the barren mountains like the elk. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature,
