From the time travel, I became extraordinary

Chapter 55 Wu Lei Guan

Jiang Yao and others had never been to Wulei Mountain.

However, they still knew the place called Yangyang Town. After all, Jiang Yao's grandmother's home was there.

It takes nearly an hour to take a bus from the county seat to Yangshan Town. The farther Wulei Mountain is probably more than ten or twenty kilometers away from Yangshan Town.

It is definitely not appropriate for several people to ride bicycles to cover such a long distance.

After parking the bicycles at the station, Jiang Yao and his friends asked several bus drivers.

Fortunately, there are several buses passing by the road at the foot of Wulei Mountain.

The people who heard the news were naturally overjoyed and bought tickets and got on the bus directly.

As for Gou Zi who went to Wanshou Bridge to gather information, Jiang Yao and his companions were unable to take care of him for the time being.

After all, they were pressed for time and didn't have much time to waste.

If the Taoist priest in the Wulei Mountain Taoist Temple is really powerful and can solve their problems, they will let Gou Zi come over after he comes back from there.

Anyway, Jiang Yao had already prepared the money needed for these things, and he would temporarily help a few friends to cover the cost.

These days, the roads leading to the towns below the county seat are mostly dirt roads, full of potholes and a bit hard to describe.

When several people got off the car, it was already one or two o'clock in the afternoon.

After walking along the road up the mountain for more than ten minutes, a Taoist temple built halfway up the mountain, which was much larger than Jiang Yao's house, appeared in their sight.

It is said that the incense is very popular, but the few people walked along the way but did not see a single foreign pilgrim.

"Would you like to offer a stick of incense to the Three Pure Ones?"

"how much is it?"

"One stick of incense costs five yuan. For the three of you, one stick of incense each, that's fifteen yuan. It's not expensive!"

……

As soon as they entered the Taoist temple, a middle-aged woman wearing a gray robe, who looked more like a nun than a Taoist priest, took the initiative to sell her products to Jiang Yao and his friends.

"Five dollars for a stick of incense, that's not expensive, you're cheating!" Before Jiang Yao could say anything, the soldier next to him couldn't control himself and started swearing.

"In the incense, paper and candle shop in the county town, I can buy a bunch of incense for five yuan." Tong Gang also looked dissatisfied and muttered.

"The incense here is specially made, it is definitely different from the ones outside."

The middle-aged woman seemed to be accustomed to this situation.

With a smile on her face, she continued to explain, "Praying to the gods and Buddhas requires sincerity. If you have to haggle over how many sticks of incense to burn to the Three Pure Ones, how can you show your sincerity, brothers? Don't you agree?"

With an indignant look on his face, Bingzai seemed to want to say something else, but Jiang Yao pulled him back: "Forget it, fifteen dollars is fifteen dollars, don't bother about such a small matter."

He took out a stack of banknotes from his pocket, counted out fifteen yuan, and handed it to the middle-aged woman. At the same time, Jiang Yao continued, "Since we are here, it is only natural to burn a few incense sticks to the Three Pure Ones. Come, bring three incense sticks for us."

When the middle-aged woman saw the stack of banknotes that Jiang Yao took out of his pocket, her eyes brightened significantly.

She walked a few steps to the old-fashioned wooden cabinet where she was before, counted out nine incense sticks, and walked back again, handing three sticks to each of Jiang Yao and the others: "My dear brothers, the most important thing when offering incense to the ancestors is to be sincere. As long as you are sincere, your wishes will naturally come true."

"In addition, you should also do more good deeds and accumulate virtues on a daily basis. There are gods above your head. Whatever you do on a daily basis, the gods will naturally be able to see it."

"As long as you have enough merits, the gods will bless you and everything you do will go smoothly."

Having said this, the middle-aged woman did not continue speaking, but her eyes were always looking at a certain position below the statues in the Taoist temple.

Following her gaze, Jiang Yao looked over there.

He didn't see anything else, he only saw a square box with the words "merit" on it. If nothing unexpected happened, the middle-aged woman's "doing good deeds and accumulating virtues" should mean that people should put money into the merit box.

Jiang Yao pretended to be confused and ignored her.

After lighting the incense stick in his hand and inserting it into the incense burner, he returned to the place where the cushions were placed in front of the statue, bowed and knelt down with full sincerity.

With him as an example, Tong Gang and Gou Zi followed suit and kowtowed and bowed respectfully.

"Sister, we seem to have provoked something unclean."

"I came here to burn incense to the Three Patriarchs and to ward off disasters and resolve difficulties."

"I don't know..."

The woman in front of him didn't look like she had any real ability. After burning incense, Jiang Yao walked up to her and asked tentatively.

"Our Five Thunder Temple master is a man of great ability. He is good at eliminating disasters, catching ghosts and demons."

"I can tell from the looks on your faces that something is very wrong. It's clearly a symptom of being possessed by evil spirits."

"If you can ask our temple master to take action, this little thing will naturally be nothing to him."

"It's a pity that the temple master is devoted to cultivation. He also made it clear before he went into seclusion that he would not see anyone unless they were destined to be together."

……

Having said this, the middle-aged woman kept the conversation a secret and stopped talking on purpose.

Following her words, Jiang Yao asked casually: "I don't know, for your temple master, what kind of person is considered a destined person?"

"If you have done enough good deeds, you are naturally the destined person." With a warm smile on her face that was as warm as spring breeze, the middle-aged woman answered the question quickly.

While speaking, she pointed at the donation box not far away without any concealment.

Jiang Yao and his companions naturally understood the meaning of the woman's words.

When he heard that he had to pay again, Bingzai's face darkened: "Uncle Yao, this..."

"It's okay, it's just doing good deeds, it's a good thing."

"If the temple master is really capable and can remove the disaster from us, I will accept it even if it costs a lot of money!" Jiang Yao waved his hand to stop the soldier who wanted to curse again.

He walked a few steps to the donation box, took out a ten-dollar bill and stuffed it in.

Then he turned around and looked at the middle-aged woman.

The woman's eyes were slightly closed, and she was mumbling something as if she was chanting scriptures. She did not show any reaction to the ten yuan that Jiang Yao stuffed into the merit box.

To be honest, Jiang Yao had long thought of turning around and leaving, but he thought that since he was already here, he couldn't just go back without even seeing the abbot.

After taking several deep breaths, he temporarily suppressed the extreme unhappiness in his heart.

Ten, twenty, thirty...

Jiang Yao continued to stuff money into the merit box. After he stuffed fifty yuan in, the middle-aged woman, who had been reciting scriptures as if she was dozing off, finally responded.

"They are very sincere and it's obvious that we are destined to be together."

"The temple master already knows of your arrival and asked me to take you to see him."

"please……"

With a smile on her face, the woman made a gesture of invitation and led Jiang Yao and others to a quiet room at the back of the Taoist temple.

(End of this chapter)