Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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“Xie Lingya!”
Xie Lingya was stunned by Shi Changxuan’s words. He didn’t know how to answer for a while. Suddenly, he heard someone calling him. He felt like he was saved. He turned around and saw that it was his graduate student classmate.
“Don’t you have classes today? Why are you here?” The classmate lived in the graduate student dormitory. He knew that Xie Lingya was a day student, so he asked this question.
Xie Lingya pointed at Shi Changxuan and said, “My senior brother is not in good health. I’ve come to pick him up.”
“Oh. Hello, senior brother.” The classmate thought he was referring to his senior brother in school, but it was not wrong. They were indeed in the same school, and Shi Changxuan was a year older.
The classmate and Xie Lingya winked at each other, “By the way, how is your thing? How is it going?”
Xie Lingya was sweating. Yes, it was this classmate. Last time, Xie Lingya discussed with him the confession of a friend of his, and he suggested that he try it.
But at that time, Xie Lingya didn’t mention his gender and specific identity. The classmate probably misunderstood. Shi Changxuan was standing in front of him, and he was still asking about his personal affairs!
Xie Lingya quickly said, “Hey, it’s not that easy to develop a Taoist temple. I have to go to the provincial capital to curry favor in a few days.”
The classmate looked confused, but he was not stupid. He quickly realized that it might not be convenient to say it, and nodded, “Come on, Mr. Xie, I’ll go to your place for tea later.”
“Yeah.” Xie Lingya mumbled a few words and quickly helped Shi Changxuan away. He secretly looked at Shi Changxuan’s expression. Fortunately, Shi Changxuan should not have found any clues.
The classmate was still a little confused, wondering why it was not convenient to say it in front of his senior brother. Could it be that his senior brother and the girl were related, or that his senior brother also liked her? In an instant, he also made up a big drama in his mind.
….
Being interrupted by the classmate saved Xie Lingya’s nervous mood. Sitting on the crowded subway, the topic was temporarily stopped. Xie Lingya breathed a sigh of relief. He didn’t know how he lost his mind. He dared to tease Shi Changxuan like that and was at a loss for what to do with Shi Changxuan’s straight ball.
He really didn’t want to say this but wasn’t Senior Brother Long a bit stuffy… Xie Lingya saw Shi Changxuan’s cold look in the reflection of the subway window and suddenly came back to his senses. Pah, what Senior Brother Long, I’m thinking of Xiao Longnu again.
Because he had promised the provincial capital to attend the World Peace Dharma Assembly they were holding before, he had to go out as the time was approaching.
Before leaving, Xie Lingya drew a whole set of Taishang Zhenzhai[1] Talismans on a peach wood board and buried it. Needless to say, he also drew a bunch of paper talismans and specially called the four ghost kings. Although it cost a lot of food to offer to these guys, there was no other way.
Although his uncle said that the Youdu child was seriously injured after escaping and might need to recuperate, he was still a little worried and didn’t dare to be careless. That was not a human being, and he couldn’t use human thinking to speculate. Just like those ghosts who died abnormally, would be affected by obsessions, such as Pei Xiaoshan who rushed to seek revenge rashly.
Therefore, even if the Dharma Assembly was only going to last two or three days, Xie Lingya still had to pick up everyone and give them some tips, wishing he could design a set of connection codes for them.
After entrusting them with this, Xie Lingya and Shi Changxuan took the high-speed train to the provincial capital.
The Dharma Assembly was held in Changle Temple in the provincial capital. The history of Changle Temple could be traced back to the Song Dynasty. It was not only famous in Queshan Province, but also in the whole of China.
Changle Temple was built on the mountain. This place was already a relatively large scenic spot, and the tickets were quite expensive.
The provincial capital was already large. After exiting the high-speed rail station, to go to Changle Temple at the other end, you had to take a train first, and then another bus. Therefore, although the provincial capital and Zhuyang were not particularly far apart, it took half a day from going out after lunch to getting on the bus.
Because of the existence of Changle Temple, there were homestays, hotels, and villages at the foot of the mountain, and there were many vehicles coming and going.
Xie Lingya bought a ticket at the departure station. As soon as he entered, he heard the ticket seller greet him: “Are you two going to Changle Mountain? Hurry up, the bus is about to leave. You have to wait for fifteen minutes for the next one.”
Fortunately, Shi Changxuan’s injury had improved a lot, so the two of them quickly stepped over and got on the bus.
The driver had already started the bus and turned around to greet the two people. Xie Lingya looked at him and saw that the man’s forehead was black and his eyes were blue.
“Hurry up and sit down, there are two seats in the back.” The driver urged him.
Xie Lingya didn’t have time to look at it anymore, and walked to the empty seat and sat down, and then whispered to Shi Changxuan: “This man has a very weak temper.”
Shi Changxuan also said: “His luck is extremely bad, he will definitely lose every time he gambles and lose money when he goes out.”
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the driver sending a WeChat message to someone, complaining: “I won’t say anymore, I’m driving, I lost so much last night that I might even have to pawn my underwear.”
Xie Lingya glanced at Shi Changxuan and was a little worried. With such a bad luck, this man won’t have any problems driving, right?
No one could say for sure about probability. Xie Lingya thought about it, walked to the front and discussed with the two aunts sitting in the first row whether he could switch with them.
Seeing that Xie Lingya was good-looking, the aunts agreed without saying a word, and asked them if they were carsick.
Xie Lingya responded with a smile, and he and Shi Changxuan moved to the first row, so that it would be easier to keep an eye on the driver while he was driving. He heard the driver say that he had lost a lot last night, probably because he played cards, and there were still blue spots under his eyes, so he chatted with him and asked him if he was tired after driving all day.
“Oh, it’s okay, I was on the afternoon shift, and it just started not long ago.” The driver didn’t realize it and answered casually.
Xie Lingya was relieved a little, “I saw that you have such heavy dark circles under your eyes, and I thought…”
The driver smiled, “This is natural, it’s like this when you don’t get enough sleep.”
But this opened up the conversation. After a few words, Xie Lingya asked him if he usually went to the temple to burn incense.
The driver thought about it and said, “I go there every day, but I haven’t really been there to burn incense. Are you going to worship in the temple?”
Xie Lingya said, “I guess so. Changle Temple is still very famous. Doesn’t the master burn incense for his wife and children?”
The driver laughed, “How do you know I have a wife and children?”
Xie Lingya thought, I can tell from your face. The palace of marriage is smooth and flat, but the palace of children has messy textures. The relationship between husband and wife is good, but the children are not very worry-free. “I just guessed it casually. You should pray for harmony between husband and wife, health of children, and smooth career.”
The driver thought of the child’s crying and making trouble, and the huge losses last night. Although he didn’t usually do these things, he couldn’t help but be tempted, “Let me take a look, take a look…”
Xie Lingya stopped talking and let him concentrate on driving. He still looked at him from time to time.
….
There was a river on the only way from the urban area to Changle Temple. There was an ancient stone bridge on the river. It had a history of a hundred years. It was said that Changle Temple contributed some funds to help build it.
In that era, building a bridge was still a relatively difficult task. There was a saying that building a bridge would kill people. From a normal level, labor and materials were consumed, and the project was also somewhat dangerous. From a non-scientific point of view, in Feng Shui, bridges were locks and rivers were dragons. How difficult it was to lock a dragon.
This bridge was built with the participation of Changle Temple, but no one died there, as Taoist priests worshipped here in the past.
When the driver drove to the bridge, it was already completely dark. One of the street lights on the bridge was broken. The bus lights illuminated the road ahead. His eyes blurred and he suddenly felt that the bridge in front of him seemed to have a double image.
“Huh?” The driver rubbed his eyes and looked over again. There was only one bridge. He thought it was really strange. Could it be that he had to go to the hospital to see an ophthalmologist?
Xie Lingya heard his voice and asked, “Master, what’s wrong?”
“Nothing.” The driver said, “The street light is broken, it’s a little dark, and I almost couldn’t see clearly.”
As he was talking, he saw a red light at the end of the bridge. He didn’t know if it was another vehicle. He got an idea and drove onto the bridge. As soon as he got on the bridge, he found that it was not another vehicle, but someone had hung a red lantern at the end of the bridge.
After crossing the bridge, the driver’s heart skipped a beat and he felt strange.
It was not strange to have vehicles on this road. There were so many buses, private cars, and tourists traveling between the city and Changle Mountain after all. Today was not a holiday, so there were fewer people, but there were vehicles on the road from time to time.
However, it was limited to vehicles. As soon as he crossed the bridge, the driver found that there were suddenly many more pedestrians on the roadside, walking under the dim street lights.
This place was far from the village and the shops. It was more than half an hour’s drive from Changle Temple. Where did all these people come from? They didn’t seem to be together. They came and went. What were they doing? Could it be that some activities that require walking were organized today?
It was so late, what kind of activities could there be? These people were old and young, male and female. They didn’t look like a good match. Such a hodgepodge made it look more like a marketplace.
The night seemed to swallow up the light. The driver wanted to see those people clearly with the dim light, but it was still a little blurry at a certain distance.
Behind him, Xie Lingya almost vomited blood and pulled Shi Changxuan to look out the window. When the driver went up the bridge just now, Liu Lingtong was shouting, wrong, wrong. So he was confused for a while, what was wrong.
He just looked at the driver to see if he wanted to fall asleep or hit something and didn’t notice that the driver’s eyes were blurred and he had drove the bus onto the Yin Bridge!
But modern technology was advanced, and the bus slid across the bridge and completely took the wrong road.
——There is a considerable overlap between the areas where the living and the dead move, which is equivalent to two spaces in one world.
The bridge in the underworld must rely on the bridge in the world of the living. When doing good deeds and accumulating virtue, building bridges and roads was the first good thing. Not only was it difficult to build a bridge to lock the dragon, but also because once the bridge was built, the underworld would also bless it, which was the accumulation of Yin virtue.
Therefore, this bridge and road were divided into Yin and Yang, but if the pedestrians were too unlucky and had low temper, they may see creatures from another world. Even, like the driver, still drive the car onto the Yin Bridge and rush to the Yin Road.
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[1] “Taishang Zhenzhai” refers to a collection of 72 Daoist talismans, known as “Talismans of the Most High Divine Transcendent for Stabilizing the Home,” intended for domestic protection.