Not long after, the master and the disciple came to a stream in the mountains, each holding a magic weapon in their hands. The master shouted: "dig!" So the master and the disciple worked hard to dig a hole. After half an hour, they dug a hole.
A deep pit with appropriate length, width and height.
The disciple took out the hourglass and put it aside carefully. The master stepped forward to inspect it. While looking at it, he said: "This hourglass must be adjusted well, and there must be no slight deviation." After the inspection, he ordered the apprentice to go to the stream to carry water: "Every wood
Ten kilograms of buckets, no more, no less, watch the dripping moment, and pour ten buckets into it in a quarter of an hour, remember?"
The disciple responded: "I understand, Master!"
When everything was ready, the master shouted: "Do it!" Then the master and the apprentice each had a wooden bucket, the apprentice filled the water, and the master took the water, strictly following the time on the dripper.
After struggling for about two hours, seeing that it was getting dark, the apprentice suddenly stopped, hesitated for a moment and said: "Master, I made a mistake, please forgive me."
The master was stunned and asked, "What did you do wrong?"
The disciple looked ashamed: "Master, I can't remember clearly. I forgot which bucket this is..."
The master jumped up suddenly, threw the barrel over, hit the apprentice, and said angrily: "You just don't concentrate, you just don't concentrate. I've told you about this bad habit before! You don't concentrate on practicing, and you don't concentrate on carrying water."
, do you want to piss me off to death?"
After scolding him, his anger subsided a little, and the master said seriously: "Disciple, you must concentrate on your practice. Do you know why Zhao Xingxing asked this question? It's just to test your concentration!"
"Yes, disciple understands...then, master, what should we do now?"
"What else can I do? Drain the water and start over!"
"It's getting late, Master, do you want to come back tomorrow?"
"Disciple, do you know the second meaning of Zhao Xingxing's question? The test is whether you can persevere!"
Not to mention that the two masters and apprentices of the Spirit Snake Sect released the water and re-counted, let's just say that Zhao Ran was making various preparations for the engraving ceremony at Junshan Temple.
In order to be fully prepared, Zhao Ran specially flew the talisman to ask two Master Zhuo about the number of casual cultivators who signed up for the last urn-teaching competition.
The two Zhuo Mastershu have been practicing Taoism for six years, and they have presided over two great competitions for imparting urn. One time, eighty-three casual cultivators participated, and the other one, seventy-eight people.
There are twenty-one and twenty-five monks above the Guan realm.
After getting this number, Zhao Ran felt confident and began to prepare according to the scale of twenty-five people participating in the competition.
Zhao Ran planned to use the back garden of Junshan Temple as an examination room, with twenty-five sets of tables and chairs arranged around the pavilion. The pavilion would serve as a place for several Taoists from the review team to walk around and rest to invigilate the examination. The reference monks would sit at the tables outside the pavilion.
Answer from the pen on the chair.
The competition lasted for two days. There was a written test in the morning and marking in the afternoon. On the second day, there was still an interview in the back garden. After the interview, the results were announced in the afternoon and the entire competition was over.
Each monk can arrange to stay in the guest room of Yunshui Hall of Junshan Temple that night. Zhao Ran clearly stated in the announcement that each person will be charged an examination fee of ten taels of silver, which includes room and board, materials and marking.
Twenty-five people participated in the competition, but there must have been more than that at the reception. Elders and brothers in the sect, parents at home, relatives and friends, etc. are probably accompanied by others. There are also some who have not been to Huangguan Realm, maybe
I will also come to watch and explore ways for myself to participate in the competition in the future.
As a result, Junshan Temple could no longer accommodate so many people. So Zhao Ran summoned Zhong Sanlang and asked him to go to the village and mobilize the surrounding farmers to make simple improvements to their homes and turn them into farmhouses.
Zhao Ran asked them to unify the charging standard. The accommodation fee for each guest per day should not be less than 300 cents. They were not allowed to reduce it by a cent without authorization. Once discovered, the household's qualification to receive the accommodation would be cancelled.
There was still more than a month before the competition, so Zhao Ran was not in a hurry. He just called Wang Simu, a new recruit in the temple, and asked him to go to the Junshan Wood Workshop and order tables and chairs from the workshop.
During the autumn harvest season of the 20th year of Jiajing, Jin Jiu took the Taoist priests and fireworkers from Junshan Temple directly to the fields. Among the spirit demons, Master Wuse and Qingtian layman all went to help. Wuse was familiar with the situation because he had been working for a long time.
He can be called a little expert in agriculture; Qingtian also took the initiative to help in the fields, but it was purely out of personal interest. As soon as he did the farm work, he was like a chicken blood, and he was so excited that he couldn't sleep in a hurry.
With the help of two spirit demons, the harvest work of Junshan farmers went very smoothly. By late October, the entire autumn harvest came to a successful conclusion, with an average yield of six stones per mu.
After a good harvest, as usual, various fasting festivals are held in Junshan Temple to pray for good weather and abundant harvests in the coming year, and to thank God for his blessings and Zhao Ran for taking care of this land and water.
In addition to Junshan local people, people from other places in the Junshan special mission area also spontaneously came to Junshan Temple. Starting from this year, they also joined the ranks of making meritorious contributions to Zhao Ran.
This time of year is also the day when Zhao Ran’s meritorious deeds skyrocket. This year, with the expansion of the Junshan Special Mission Area, the growth phenomenon is particularly prominent. He has received so much meritorious deeds that Zhao Ran has to do more after attending important fasting ceremonies every day.
Spend a quarter of an hour specifically to refine the increased power of merit.
Since this year, Zhao Ran's base of merit power has increased from more than 10,000 people to more than 40,000 people, and his cultivation progress has begun to accelerate significantly.
After the autumn harvest, the people could stop and relax for a while, but Zhao Ran couldn't take any time off. His days were still very busy.
Qingmiaoqian reform, Huiminji Medical Hall and road and water channel renovation projects are the three major projects for the development of people's livelihood in Guyang County planned by Zhao Ran. Currently, they are all promoted by the joint efforts of Liu Zhiguang, the Supervisor of Wuji Hospital, and the County Zun of Yakong County.
Proceeding in an orderly manner.
The preliminary preparations for the Qingmiao Qian reform are almost completed. Liu Zhiguang sent a request for instructions, stating that the entire Guyang County has been divided into five districts. It is expected that a bidding meeting will be held in the county on December 20, with large households in the county bidding.
Regarding Qingmiao Qian’s loan qualifications, he asked Zhao Ran if it was “appropriate”. Zhao Ran circled it and replied “yes”.
After Chen Zhizhong took over the specific affairs of Huiminji Medical Hall, he was very active. He had already negotiated the expansion of Huiminji Medical Hall's territory, and bought two houses next to it at the price of one hundred and twenty taels of silver.
I bought it. The renovation and renovation of the entire hospital is about to begin and will be completed by March next year.
The preliminary route planning for the road and canal renovation project has been completed, and the notice to recruit people in the Junshan area has been issued, and the number of people was full on the same day. So Zhao Ran went to Baishan Jun and asked her to go to Taihua Mountain and tell the people in Taihua Mountain
Help the spirit demon and come to Junshan to report. The volunteer activities are about to begin.
The day after Baishanjun went to Taihua Mountain, Zhao Ran received a flying talisman from Li Tengxin, a Taoist monk at Kuixing Hall in Dufu, asking Zhao Ran if he knew a casual cultivator named Lin Zhibin.