Cicada Temple is only a small temple, and the Arhat statues in the Arhat Hall only have the most basic Eighteen Arhats, which is far less than the number of Arhat Buddha statues in the Arhat Halls of those famous overseas temples.
Arhat Hall is located on one side of the Main Hall. Compared with the tall and majestic Main Hall, Arhat Hall is a bit inconspicuous, and there are far fewer tourists worshiping it.
In the minds of most people, Sakyamuni, Maitreya Buddha and the four heavenly kings are all "big figures" in the Buddhist world. They worship to ensure their safety. Arhat is just a minor player in the Buddhist world with limited magic power, so they don't bother to worship.
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Eighteen Arhat statues stand on the Buddhist altars on both sides, sitting or standing, leaning or leaning down. Most of their faces look very majestic, even slightly ferocious. They lower their heads and glare at the Arhats who walk in.
every visitor to the hall.
Wang Dong walked slowly over with his hands behind his back, admiring each Arhat statue.
There is only one monk standing in the innermost part of the Arhat Hall, and tourists are not prohibited from getting close to the Arhat statue. Xue Chen went directly to the nearest Arhat statue. When he looked up, he saw a green Arhat holding a staff in his left hand and a bead in his right hand.
His face was facing downwards, glaring angrily.
Xue Chen raised his arm and placed his palms on the feet of the Arhat statue. He felt the spiritual energy again. Perhaps because there were few people worshiping him, the spiritual energy was far less powerful than that of Sakyamuni Buddha in the Mahavira Hall.
It is similar to the Buddha statues in the Tianwang Hall, but it is also several times thicker than the spiritual energy in the statues of the five gods of wealth at Zhengda International.
"has hope!"
Xue Chen felt that the aura inside the Arhat statue was also very stable, but it was not like the statue of the King of Heaven and the statue of Sakyamuni that had no chance at all.
Wang Dong walked around the Arhat Hall and looked at the Eighteen Arhats one by one, then slowly turned back and walked towards Xue Chen: "Old Xue, let's go..."
Before he finished speaking, he saw Xue Chen, who had put his hand on the foot of an Arhat statue, suddenly shuddered and sat down on the ground. His face was slightly pale and he looked up at the Arhat statue. Almost at the same time,
, the eighteen Arhat statues in the Arhat Hall trembled slightly at the same time and sprinkled fine dust, but no one noticed this.
"Old Xue, what's wrong with you today? If you feel uncomfortable, let's go down the mountain and go to the hospital quickly." Fatty Wang immediately stepped forward, helped Xue Chen up, and asked impatiently.
"Dongzi, I'm fine." Xue Chen's eyes moved from the Arhat statue to Wang Dong's face and said.
"Is everything okay? Don't hold on." Wang Dong said.
"It's okay, I'm fine." Xue Chen smiled and looked at the Eighteen Arhats again, feeling faintly as if all the Eighteen Arhats were glaring at him.
He put his hands together and bowed to the eighteen Arhats, turned around and walked out of the Arhat Hall with Wang Dong. Xue Chen looked at the green old locust trees in the temple and the blue sky. If he hadn't been worried about too many tourists, he almost wanted to look up to the sky.
Yell a few times to express your inner excitement!
"Succeeded, I succeeded, I finally absorbed the spiritual energy, haha!"
He finally got what he wanted and absorbed the spiritual energy from the Arhat Statue, and from less than 70% of the spiritual energy, it directly reached the level of perfection, just like in a dream.
He tried hard again and again, and Gu Yu finally "teared" a hole from the very stable spiritual energy in the Arhat statue, and was able to continuously absorb the spiritual energy, and his efforts were not in vain.
When the spiritual energy in the ancient jade was fully absorbed, a very strange thing happened. It seemed that a mysterious force pushed him hard and pushed him to the ground. At the same moment, he really felt that the whole Arhat
The eighteen Arhat statues in the hall were all looking at him, the "thief", angrily, making him feel uncomfortable all over.
"There is always a way out!"
Xue Chen screamed in his heart. Absorbing spiritual energy from antiques was far from meeting the needs of ancient jade. Fortunately, he now found another way!
Wang Dong felt that something was wrong with Xue Chen after he came to Cicada Temple. When he came out of Luohan Hall and walked towards the outside of the temple, he secretly glanced at Xue Chen with his small eyes. When he saw Xue Chen's mouth slowly turned up,
When I got up, my eyes were still full of joy and I felt very puzzled.
"Could it be that you saw a beautiful girl from somewhere?" Wang Dong followed Xue Chen's line of sight, his eyes widened immediately, and he blurted out: "There really is a beautiful girl, ah, isn't that..."
Xue Chen was immersed in the joy of Gu Yu absorbing full spiritual energy for the fourth time. He didn't notice Wang Dong's actions. Suddenly he heard Wang Dong shouting and turned around: "Dongzi, what is your ghost name?"
"Old Xue, look, look quickly, isn't that woman Luo Bing, your girlfriend from college?" Wang Dong grabbed Xue Chen's shoulders, pointed to the door of Cicada Temple, and said hurriedly.
"Um?"
Xue Chen's eyes changed and he looked along Wang Dong's finger. The moment he saw it, all he could see in his eyes was the girl who was engraved in his heart.
She has black hair tied into a neat ponytail, low-waisted blue jeans and a tight-fitting sleeveless white shirt revealing a slender jade-white waist, delicate facial features, a high nose, and big black eyes.
God, the thin lips are in a rhombus shape, exuding a delicate and graceful look. Standing there with a tall figure is a wonderful sight.
The moment he saw Luo Bing, Xue Chen froze, and all kinds of feelings came to him. Although they had broken up for more than half a year, Luo Bing was his first love, and they had so many beautiful memories.
How could it be forgotten?
"Is that Luo Bing's mother next to her? They seem to be in trouble. Let's go take a look?" Wang Dong asked.
Wang Hongmei was very annoyed. Today she and her daughter visited Cicada Temple and saw a purple clay tea set selling at the entrance of the temple. It looked very beautiful, so she planned to go over and take a closer look. Unexpectedly, she took a purple clay teapot from the stall owner.
At that time, the purple clay pot fell to the ground and broke into pieces, so a quarrel broke out.
"Obviously you dropped it to the ground and broke it before you handed it to me. How can you say I didn't catch it? You still asked for five hundred yuan in compensation. You are deliberately blackmailing me!" Wang Hongmei said.
Pi Fanfei said to the stall owner with an angry look on his face.
The stall owner was a man in his forties. He looked at Wang Hongmei sideways, spat, curled his lips and said: "Don't talk nonsense, it was broken by your slippery hand. You must pay for it. Don't leave until you pay."
The purple clay teapot is made of high-quality purple clay. Five hundred yuan is just the cost price. I didn’t ask you for a thousand yuan, which is enough fun.”
"Believe it or not, I called the police and arrested you!" Wang Hongmei said angrily.
"Hey, just call the police. I'm not afraid even if the mayor comes. Don't talk nonsense. If you don't pay, don't leave." The stall owner said nonchalantly.
There were a lot of tourists coming and going, and many people gathered around to watch the fun, but no one came forward to mediate, and no one wanted to meddle in other people's business.
Luo Bing was thin-skinned and didn't want to be the center of attention in public, so she whispered in embarrassment: "Mom, why don't we give him five hundred yuan and we won't argue with him."
"How can that be done!"
Wang Hongmei immediately rejected it. She didn't want to quarrel with a man in public. After all, she was also an "official wife". However, five hundred yuan was not a small amount. The person in front of her was obviously a blackmailer. What could she, Wang Hongmei, do?
Maybe she couldn't bear to pay for it like this!
"No matter what, you can't leave without paying. At worst, you'll just waste your time here. Even if you call the police, I won't be afraid. Do you think the police station is run by your family and will care about such trivial matters?" The stall owner crossed his arms.
, with a joking look on his face.
"You... are just a scoundrel. I'm leaving. Do you dare to stop me? Xiaobing, let's go." Wang Hongmei turned around and called her daughter to leave together.
Upon seeing this, the stall owner immediately stepped forward to grab Wang Hongmei's arm. Wang Hongmei subconsciously took a step aside, but because she didn't pay attention to her steps, she accidentally tripped on a raised tree root and stumbled to the ground.
"Mom, are you okay? Did you fall?" Luo Bing hurried over to help Wang Hongmei.
Wang Hongmei fell down and hit the ground with her elbow. Although the skin was not broken, it was still very painful. She was even more angry when she heard bursts of chuckles from the crowd watching the excitement.
The stall owner also raised his eyes and groaned: "Everyone has seen it. I didn't touch her. It was because she had bad eyesight and tripped over the roots of the tree. Don't try to accuse me falsely."
Luo Bing helped Wang Hongmei up. Hearing the chuckles of the onlookers and the stall owner's words, he was so angry that he almost cried. He desperately hoped that someone would stand up and help the mother and daughter speak at this time.
At this moment, a voice sounded from behind the crowd.
"Get out of the way, everyone is watching the fun without even coming forward to say a word. Do you have any conscience?"
Wang Hongmei and Luo Bing heard the sound and immediately looked up. When they saw Xue Chen standing in front of them, they were stunned for a moment.
Luo Bing stared at Xue Chen unblinkingly, his dark eyes shining with incredible brilliance. He opened his mouth slightly, as if talking in his sleep, and called softly: "Xue Chen, it's you..."
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"It's me, Xiaobing."
Xue Chen seemed to have used a lot of effort to utter these four words again. The moment he met Luo Bing's eyes, an unspeakable feeling suddenly surged in his heart.
The same is true for Luo Bing. She and Xue Chen got together in college because of Xue Chen's integrity and bravery, who stood up when she was harassed by gangsters.
Looking back, how similar it was to this scene now.
While Luo Bing was thinking, Xue Chen gave Wang Dong a wink, and Wang Dong walked to the stall carelessly, squatted down, held a piece of the broken purple clay pot in his hand, knocked it, and said
After clicking his tongue twice, he stood up and glanced at the stall owner.
"I said to you, brother, how dare you ask for 500 yuan for a purple clay pot of this quality? Brother, I happen to be in this business, so I won't give you the purchase price. You can take this here is 100 yuan.
Even if you make a friend, you can go to the Zhuoyue Antique Shop on Sandao Street to have tea with me when you have time. If you don't want to, it doesn't matter if you want to continue to quarrel, we will just accompany you."
Wang Dong said, took out a hundred yuan and stuffed it into the stall owner's jacket pocket.
The stall owner looked at Wang Dong and then at Xue Chen. He saw that the two of them knew Wang Hongmei, and they didn't look like soft persimmons. He could only give up and said in a low voice: "I'm unlucky today, that's all."
never mind."
After saying that, he carried the remaining purple clay tea set in a cloth bag spread on the ground and walked away. (To be continued)