Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Xie Lingya was joking, but Liu Yunyun had a dream the next night about her grandfather Zhu Chengmei.
Zhu Chengmei was wearing the new clothes Liu Yunyun burned for him last night, smiling lovingly, and saying: “I didn’t want to give you dreams before. You didn’t like them in the first place, and I was afraid of scaring you.”
Liu Yunyun in the dream cried again.
Zhu Chengmei said: “It’s okay, but I’ve been hungry for a few years. But I was very full last night. You burned a lot of things.”
Liu Yunyun cried: “Grandpa, how are you doing down there?”
“I’m waiting in line to be reincarnated. I asked around. It’s very possible to be reincarnated as a human being.” Zhu Chengmei shook his head and said, “Grandpa will try to be reincarnated as soon as possible. Maybe we can meet again in the human world.”
Liu Yunyun burst into tears and smiled, “Really?”
Zhu Chengmei smiled and said: “Really, I don’t want the boy from Wang Yuji’s family to do a ritual for me, and then extradite me to heaven after doing a ritual. I just want to re-enter the human world.”
“I can’t talk for too long, Yunyun. You found a booklet in the box where I packed my old things. It was my notes on studying the Lushan method during my lifetime. Give this to Xie Lingya,” Zhu Chengmei said, “Tell him I have been looking for one all my life and couldn’t find a successor, so I have been keeping it there, now I will give it to him as a reward.”
Liu Yunyun nodded and took the time to say a few words to Zhu Chengmei. After waking up, she found her face full of tears.
Liu Yunyun thought of her grandfather’s words in her dream and went back to her old house to search. Sure enough, she saw the booklet at the bottom in a box, along with some magic weapons.
So, Liu Yunyun and Huang Bin moved the things to Baoyang Temple together, handed them to Xie Lingya, and told her grandfather’s words.
Xie Lingya took Zhu Chengmei’s booklet for learning the Lushan method and felt a lot of pressure. He said: “The elder gave it to me, so I dare not refuse. Although Mr. Zhu said it was a gift to me, I only do this part-time, but in the future, I will find the right person to whom I can pass on the Lushan method and prevent his hard work from going to waste.”
He admired Zhu Chengmei’s virtue, especially seeing the shadow of his uncle in Zhu Chengmei.
“Thank you.” Liu Yunyun was so moved that her grandfather had already given up, but Xie Lingya took the initiative and promised that although he was working part-time, he would pass it on to others in the future.
“I will also set up a memorial tablet in the temple so that the old man can enjoy incense with the previous ancestors every day.” Xie Lingya said.
Liu Yunyun was now very concerned about these posthumous matters and asked: “Teacher Xie, do you think that if some of my ancestors were as meritorious as my grandfather and had already been reincarnated, then the sacrifices I would burn…?”
She decided that from now on, she would burn sacrifices for her ancestors every new year and burn some offerings to those Yin soldiers, but because she didn’t understand them well, she couldn’t help but have some questions.
“Because many people don’t know where their ancestors are, they all assume that they have not yet reincarnated. If they are still alive, they can live a better life. And for us, it is also a way to express our grief.”
Xie Lingya thought about it and said: “There was once a person who felt food in his mouth while sleeping, and when he woke up, the lingering fragrance was still there. After asking the mage, he found out that it was his relatives in the previous life who were still offering sacrifices to him. Because their belief was too strong, he still felt it. Although he already had no memory of his previous life, he couldn’t help but feel deeply moved. After so many years of worship, he found the person in his previous life and gave him a gift. This was to renew the relationship.”
Liu Yunyun thought of her grandfather’s joking words, saying that maybe he could get reincarnated early and could see her again. At this time, Xie Lingya’s words seemed to be confirming this, and she felt a little excited, “Thank you, I know.”
Xie Lingya offered Zhu Chengmei’s tablet and called him master. Although the two of them had no relationship as master and disciple, and had never even met, Zhu Chengmei gave Xie Lingya Lushan Dharma, so it was not an exaggeration to call him his master.
The Lushan method had great research on all kinds of fairies and ghosts. They recruited soldiers from the three realms and five battalions, that was, they could recruit soldiers from heaven, ghosts, and monsters. There were many rituals related to this area.
After reading it, Xie Lingya said: “Well, in this way, the relationship between Ding Aima and I is also very similar. It is just a verbal agreement, not an oath. You see, I will give him incense, and he usually helps me patrol…”
Zhang Daoting asked him, “That Ding Aima, maybe he is willing to be a Yin soldier forever.”
“Yeah.” Xie Lingya said, he had inquired about it. When it was over, there was no pain, just washing away your sins.
And if the Master’s mana was sufficient, you could even enter the heavens and enjoy the joys of the East Palace.
This was another good place besides reincarnation, but unfortunately not everyone could succeed.
Even if you go to the Six Paths of Reincarnation, not every dead soul could be reincarnated into a human body after death. If you have no merit, you will probably be a dog or an ant in the next life. That’s it. He didn’t know how much more to do for Ding Aima.
Ding Aima shook his head after hearing this, “Teacher Xie, I heard you talk about rituals. At this time of salvation, the souls of the dead must finally be preached and enlightened, and then the souls of the dead will go to live in some Taoist palace. That is to abide by the rituals, the commandments of Taoism, and there is no entertainment in the world.”
Xie Lingya: “…Why, haven’t you seen enough free movies?”
Ding Aima actually admitted: “I can watch it for a while. For a while.”
Xie Lingya could do nothing with him. Ghosts had their own ambitions. Like Qin Limin, he just wanted to be reincarnated and eat more delicious food in the next life.
Ding Aima said: “Well, Teacher Xie, if you have a granddaughter in the future, I will not care about you. I will help you protect her…”
Xie Lingya said bluntly: “F**k you, f**k you, f**k you!”
….
At the fifteenth of the first month, Baoyang Temple was not so lively. Many people had resumed work on the eighth day. At this point, the students were also about to start school.
Xie Lingya prepared some statistics and found that in their blessing activity, thousands of blessing words were sent out every day, which added up to a very impressive number.
He was doing the accounting that day, when he saw a family of three entering the Taoist temple and asking, “Is there a Taoist priest here?”
The other Taoist priests were receiving believers, and the volunteer layman also had something to do. Xie Lingya looked at them and replied: “They are busy. You guys can wait or come later.”
“Oh, then…” the family asked, “Can we still register for tonight’s lamp offering ceremony?”
“The registration deadline has been closed.” He said, for this Shangyuan Dharma Assembly, it was necessary to prepare in advance the documents, butter lamps and other things for registered believers.
This couple was very young. They were leading a little girl of seven or eight years old. The mother had a bracelet on her hand, with a rope like a telephone line in the middle, and the other end was connected to the little girl’s hand. He wondered if they were afraid of the crowds during the Spring Festival and getting parted. However, the little girl kept her head down and followed her mother step by step, and it didn’t look like she could run around.
The father said, “Can you please be accommodating? We just heard that Baoyang Temple’s Dharma Conference is very effective, and money is not an issue.”
“It’s nothing, two hundred yuan per person, the same price, there should be some extra lamps.” Xie Lingya said. In fact, he organized the preparations. Later, he would add a lamp and write some words.
The couple breathed a sigh of relief and asked again: “Two hundred yuan? Isn’t there something more expensive?”
Xie Lingya said funnily: “How expensive do you want it?”
The husband said sarcastically: “I saw other Taoist temples before, and there were 18,100 worth of lamps…”
“Is it inlaid with gold?” Xie Lingya asked without hesitation, “We don’t have any here.”
The two of them looked at each other, “Okay, brother, please give us a supplementary report.”
“Well, come here at eight o’clock tonight.” The mother’s name was Meng Siyu, and her daughter’s name was Qi Xiaomei.
Xie Lingya glanced at their daughter a few more times as he spoke. He always felt that Qi Xiaomei child was a bit dull and not as lively as other children of this age.
“By the way, little brother, where can I buy a talisman? We want to get another talisman.” Qi Liang and his wife said.
“The amulets are sold out.” During the Chinese New Year, the supply of spiritual amulets exceeded the demand. Neither he nor Fang Zhe could draw them, especially Fang Zhe who could not draw the spiritual ancestor amulet.
“No more?” They were disappointed.
“Wait a minute, I’ll go find the Taoist priest and have him draw one.” Xie Lingya always felt that their daughter looked wrong, and he wasn’t sure yet for a moment. After saying that, he put down the account book, went to the backyard, drew a talisman with a pen, and then took it and came out.
The couple took a look and saw that the cinnabar mark was not even dried yet, it was really freshly painted! Meng Siyu, however, was straightforward and asked, “Aren’t the Taoist Masters busy?”
The man paid the money again, dried the talisman, folded it, and asked his daughter to take it.
Xie Lingya was just thinking about how to ask, because he just vaguely felt something was wrong, but couldn’t identify it. It would be better if Shi Changxuan was here. But at this time, Xie Lingya saw the daughter’s hand stretch out from the thick cotton coat as she wiped her nose.
There he saw a few blue and purple bruises on the white and tender hands.
Xie Lingya stared at the bruises, “What’s going on?”
Qi Liang and Meng Siyu looked unnatural, as if they were hesitant to speak.
At this time, Zhang Daoting finally finished his work. He came to the front and saw them, “What’s wrong? Hey, what happened to the little girl’s hand? Did she fall?”
“Taoist Master.” When they looked at Zhang Daoting, they were willing to say, “My daughter has encountered some strange things recently.”
Xie Lingya sat aside and listened to them with a straight face.
Qi Liang glanced at him and saw that the Taoist Master didn’t say anything, so he said: “First one night, my daughter’s toy slipped under the sofa, and she reached out to get it. Then she felt a hand grabbing her and not letting go. At that time, my daughter was crying and screaming. My wife and I came over and pulled her out together. We also used a mop stick to poke her down, but nothing was poked. It took a lot of effort to pull her out – my hand was almost dislocated.”
It had also left bruises on his hands.
Zhang Daoting’s scalp felt like it was about to explode. It was hard to explain. Zhang Daoting felt that he was about to leave a shadow. Who hadn’t had the experience of dropping things under the sofa? When he thought of groping for his hands under the dark furniture in a place where his eyes could not see, then suddenly feeling a hand holding his hand and exerting force. Pull!
——Zhang Daoting could almost feel the tense atmosphere, and he very much hoped that Xie Lingya would stand up and say something to ruin the atmosphere.
But at this time, when the originally dumb little girl heard her father’s words and fear immediately appeared on her face.
Meng Siyu quickly went to hold the little girl’s wrist, but the little girl immediately shook it off as if she was electrocuted.
Her mother’s hands were a bit cold, which reminded her of that night when she put her hand under the dark sofa and was grabbed tightly by an invisible, cold hand, which refused to let go…
Qi Liang immediately woke up and felt regretful. He mentioned it in front of his daughter and asked Meng Siyu to take Qi Xiaomei out.
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