In big cities, some older retirees will get up in the middle of the night and queue up to get free money if they hear that there are free places.
Now here, these old people are here to receive it, but they have to give themselves a portion of sincerity money to offer to the Buddha here, so they still have to spend money.
This may be the belief of these old people.
However, Xiao Chen knew that people's beliefs in China were often used as a transaction, and they did so because of their needs.
Because I encountered something that I couldn't solve, because my family encountered some troubles, because I encountered many things that didn't happen normally, I asked God and Buddha, etc.
In fact, this is a transaction between ordinary mortals and gods.
But, is it possible?
This is not clear.
Seeing so many old people braving the cold wind here, even if they are not sick now, they may catch a cold due to the cold.
However, Xiao Chen would not say it because he knew that he was not that powerful and it would be useless to talk to these old people.
This fork is the road leading from this town to the streets of the town, so many people usually pass by here.
But this place turned out to be just a very tall tree and an abandoned Taoist temple. Occasionally, people would just burn incense and worship here.
Unexpectedly, there were suddenly so many people now, and the situation seemed very different.
Xiao Chen walked in front, and Widow Wang followed behind.
On the road a few hundred meters away, there were two long queues. These people were just queuing there without talking, and the ground was already covered with all kinds of firecracker paper.
Judging from these firecracker papers, Xiao Chen guessed that a lot of firecrackers must have been burned in this place.
In Xiao Chen's opinion, the people around the town were relatively poor, but he didn't expect that these people would be so willing to spend so much money to burn here.
When Xiao Chen and Widow Wang came to the big tree, they found that the big tree was still there, but a new temple had been built behind the previously abandoned Taoist temple.
Judging from this temple, Xiao Chen found that it was still very new, and it probably only started to be built half a year ago.
However, when Xiao Chen and Widow Wang first arrived there, they saw several big red papers posted outside the temple, with a lot of things written on them.
When Xiao Chen went over to take a look, he found that it was the temple that donated money and announced it.
superior
The person with the highest profile actually donated hundreds of thousands, then tens of thousands, then tens of thousands, then tens of thousands, then to thousands, then to hundreds, and finally to the lowest of two hundred.
It's so densely packed here that the total amount of money amounts to two to three million Chinese yuan.
Xiao Chen really couldn't believe how many people were not on the list.
when?
Are the villagers in our small town so rich?
Why do these villagers believe so much in this place?
Is there really a fairy water, or is it really a response to requests?
Xiao Chen wanted to visit the temple, but the monk guarding the door refused to let him in.
Isn't this a Taoist temple?
Why did it suddenly become a temple?
And there are still monks here?
"Sister Wang, how come there is a monk?" Looking at this fat monk, he is not a real monk, but more like one of those fake monks who are drunk and meaty.
"It's been there for a long time. At first there were three monks, and now there are eight monks. However, the accent sounds like a foreigner."
A monk from out of town?
Can foreign monks recite sutras?
Xiao Chen doesn’t think so.
The more he thought about it, the more he felt there was something wrong.
"Where is the fairy water?"
"It's right inside the temple. I heard the water comes from a well inside."
Widow Wang said softly.
"Then why did it become fairy water?"
"Because many people came here to get water at first, and then they went back and found that their original diseases disappeared. And the monks in the temple found that more and more people wanted the water from the well, so they no longer allowed them to get water for free as before.
, but, let these people line up to pay their earnest money to receive the fairy water."
"Even then, there are still so many people."
Xiao Chen thought of the old man in Xiaojiacun who only received a few dozen yuan of pension every month but would rather spend 50 yuan to receive a bottle of colored fairy water back home. He could imagine how big a problem there was.
"Sister Wang, you wait outside, I will go in quietly."
"Would this be disrespectful to Buddha?" Widow Wang asked worriedly.
Although she no longer asks for fairy water, she is still very affected by this as a native.
"Won't."
Xiao Chen is upright and does good deeds. How could he do something to him?
What about disrespecting the Buddha?
He was afraid that someone would use the Buddha's name to get dirty money. Is this disrespectful to the Buddha?
Except for the big tree that is enclosed on the outside of the hundreds of square meters of this temple, everything inside is surrounded by high walls. Under normal circumstances, ordinary people cannot climb in.
Now you can't go in through the door. One has to pay and the other has to queue up.
Xiao Chen didn't have time to queue up and pay to get in.
While Widow Wang was waiting outside, Xiao Chen came to the back. When he made sure that no one was watching, Xiao Chen entered from outside the high wall.
Upon entering, I felt very empty.
However, the temples here are different from those in big cities or famous mountains. They are not that big in scale, and there are only three Buddhist temples.
Xiao Chen saw a majestic and solemn Buddha statue inside, and also saw many men, women and children lining up to burn incense.
These people were there to burn incense and ask for fortune-telling, and they got everything.
Xiao Chen only heard that people were like this in broad daylight, but he didn't expect that it was like this in the middle of the night. It was really unheard of.
"Why didn't you come here in broad daylight?"
Xiao Chen asked.
"Then why didn't you come in broad daylight?" the man asked.
"I came to take a look."
"There are so many people in broad daylight, how can we squeeze in?"
Is this more crowded than a small town market?
The total number of people in the entire town is tens of thousands, and tens of thousands of people come out to go to the market, and the town is very small, so it is indeed very lively.
But, could it be that all those tens of thousands of people crowded into this temple?
In fact, according to the condition of this temple, it would be difficult for thousands of people to squeeze in.
"We can't get in in broad daylight," the old man said.
"Old sir, if you have sincerity, it's the same as praying outside. Why do you need to go inside?" Xiao Chen asked.
sincerity?
The old man looked at the young man, but this young man was a little different.
"This temple is a wonder, don't you know?"
"A wonder? What wonder? Isn't it meant to receive the magical water that can cure all diseases?"
"This is just one of them. The most amazing thing is not here."