Chapter 69

"open"

With a long breath full of breath, the red brocade fell to the ground. Thousands of people immediately burst into cheers that shot into the sky.

This is a statue of a golden prince. Holding a sword in one hand and holding a flower in the other, it means "to have the power to destroy the world without losing the heart to cherish flowers". The statue has a soft and beautiful face, long eyebrows, beautiful lip lines, slightly raised corners of the mouth, and a smile that is not a smile. Amorous but not frivolous, ruthless but not indifferent, is a compassionate and beautiful face.

This is the eight thousandth Prince's Hall in the land of Xianle.

After three years of ascension, 8,000 temples were erected on the ground. Such an unprecedented and unparalleled enthusiastic pursuit is absolutely unprecedented, and no one has come since, and it is the only one.

But this eight thousandth hall is not the most luxurious statue of the prince. On Tai Cang Mountain, the mountain where His Royal Highness the Prince lived during his youth cultivation has now been named "Prince Peak". It was there that the first Xianle Palace was built. After the first statue of the prince was cast, it was also there, unveiled by His Majesty the King himself. The statue of the prince is five feet high, and the craftsmanship is even more expressive. The whole body is made of pure gold, which is a genuine "golden body".

Inside the Xianle Palace, there was an endless stream of pilgrims who stepped over the threshold. The incense tripod in front of the temple is full of lengths and shorts, and the merit box is taller and sturdier than the merit box in the general temple, because if it is not made larger, it is often full of offerings in less than a day. Can't get in. As soon as entered the view, there was a clear water pond, which was also full of coins, and the shimmering blue light shimmered. Several old turtles in the pond were beaten by the coins of the pilgrims on the stone bridge every day and shrank in their shells. If you dare to stick your head out, it is useless how the Taoists discourage tourists. The high and wide red walls of the palace are full of plum blossoms, and countless bright red prayer belts are tied on the branches.

In the main hall, Xie Lian was sitting under his statue, overlooking the crowd. No one can see him, but he can sit and watch the pilgrims below discussing:

"Why is there no futon for kneeling in this Prince's Palace?"

"Yeah, the spectator also said that you can't kneel. It's all open. What's the matter with you not being able to kneel?"

One person said: "You are the first time to come back to Xianle Palace. Xianle Palace is like this. After I heard that His Royal Highness the Prince had ascended, he had given dreams to many temple blessings and spectators, saying that those who believed in others did not have to kneel. Therefore, the Prince's Palace is full of There is no place to bow down."

Although no one else could see him, Xie Lian nodded. Who knows, the other people laughed and said, "What's the point of this? Isn't the immortal just here to kneel? It's a false rumor."

Thanks for the pity. I heard someone echoing: "Yes, you must kneel when you kneel. Only when you kneel can you show your sincerity!"

"It doesn't matter if there is no futon, let's kneel on the ground."

So, one of them knelt first, and immediately, a large area around them knelt down on the ground. Hundreds of thousands of people crowded inside and outside the temple, facing the statue, kowtow and worshipped, one after another, chanting words, secretly making wishes and prayers. Xie Lian hid away silently, thinking: "Forget it, take your time."

The next moment, like a huge wave of countless noisy voices, they were calling at him from all directions.

"I want high school! High school! This year, I must go to high school! If I get in, I wish!"

"Safe travel!"

"The girls I like all like my senior brother, please make him a little uglier, please."

"Fuck, I can't believe I can't give birth to a big fat boy!!!"

... I have everything I want, Xie Lian heard the head as big as a fight, and quickly compared a formula to isolate all the voices. Here, his ears just quieted down when he heard a loud cry. A man in black ran out from the back of the hall with his hands over his ears, roaring, "What the hell is this!!!"

The pilgrims were unaware of this person's appearance and continued to worship. Xie Lian sighed, patted his shoulder, and smiled: "Fengxin, it's hard for you."

The incense of Xianle Palace is so strong, thank you for hearing more than a thousand prayers every day. At the beginning, he rushed with a novelty, and he did everything by himself. Later, there were too many people praying for blessings, so he took a part and threw it to Fengxin and Mu Qing. Which ones are within the scope of his responsibilities and which ones can be ignored. After the two of them go through it, they will screen out the ones that need attention and hand them over to him.

After the admiration was over, it was reported to him, and he never complained, but Fengxin always couldn't understand, why some people liked to beg, and even went to Xianle Palace to ask for harmony. Xie Lian is the god of war, how can he manage this kind of thing? In the long run, other priests have also been quite opinionated, implying that they occupy the pit and do not shit, and they have nothing to say if they can't control the believers. Fengxin's hand covering his ears can't be put down for a long time, although covering his ears is actually useless. He said, "Your Highness, why do you have so many female believers!"

Thanks for the pity, sitting in the shrouded incense cloud, smiling: "How bad is the female believer? The beauty is like a cloud, and it is pleasing to the eye."

Fengxin was horrified: "It's not good at all. Female believers seem to have no other wishes all day long except for a good-looking marriage, a good marriage, and a son. There is no serious one. I see them and my brain hurts!"

Xie Lian smiled and was about to answer when suddenly, there was a commotion in the crowd. The two looked out of the hall, only to hear someone pressing their voices: "King Xiaojing is here, hurry up, hurry up! King Xiaojing is here!"

As soon as they heard the words "Little Mirror King", everyone seemed to have heard the "Great Demon King", and they were all shocked and scattered. In an instant, it was like a tornado passing by, and all the pilgrims who had been visiting the statues escaped. In a moment, a brocade-robed youth in a cape with a luxurious appearance, holding a glazed treasure lantern in both hands, stepped over the threshold and swaggered in. Don't look at those eyes, this young man's appearance is similar to Xie Lian's three or four points, but looking at those eyes, I feel that he is too flamboyant, who is it if it is not Qi Rong?

Now, Qi Rong is also seventeen or eighteen years old, with a long face, calm, and a bit of a nobleman's demeanor. He entered the door, but did not allow his entourage to come in. Holding the lamp in both hands, he stepped into the hall, lifted his cloak, knelt on the clean ground, raised the lamp above his head, and bowed solemnly for a few times. The two people on the platform above looked at each other, Fengxin smashed his mouth, and Xie Lian understood the impatience in his eyes.

Three years ago, when Xie Lian left the imperial city to travel around, Qi Rong was still in confinement. After returning, he didn't have time to see this cousin. He was in his sleep that night and flew with a rumble. In the past three years, Xie Lian entrusted a lot of dreams to his parents, national teachers and others, and also entrusted Qi Rong once, admonishing him to be kind to others from now on, restrain his temper, and not to mess around. Therefore, Qi Rong actively participated in the construction of palaces and temples everywhere, donated merits, and offered lamps.

Although he worked hard and was devout, he still caused some trouble from time to time, and Feng Xin was so tired that he had to go down to clean up the mess, so Xie Lian could also understand why Feng Xin was impatient.

Over there, Qi Rong finished his worship, and complained a little: "Cousin prince, this is the 500th lamp I gave you. The younger brother is so loyal to you, when will you come to see me? Give it to me again. It's okay to have a dream. Uncles and aunts are thinking of you too, and you ignore us. It's really high and cold. "

He didn't find Fengxin at all and stood next to him to remind Xie Lian: "You must not pay attention to him. The emperor told you that it is not a major incident. The priest must not show his spirit in front of mortals privately. The relatives should especially avoid it."

Thanks for the pity: "Relax, I naturally know."

Qi Rong stood up holding the lamp, took a pen, lowered his head and wrote on the lamp. Xie Lian and Fengxin had a psychological shadow on him, and couldn't help but lean over to see what he wrote. Seeing that it is normal for Guotai and Min'an to go smoothly, instead of praying that the whole family of a certain person will be beheaded at the entrance of the vegetable market, they both breathed a sigh of relief. Looking at Qi Rong, who was writing in a regular manner, Xie Lian couldn't help but think of another thing.

When Qi Rong just went home with her mother, once, a group of princes and nobles went to Taicang Mountain to pray for blessings. Qi Rong's mother fled with the untouchables and fled back. She didn't dare to come out to see people, but she also wanted to pray for her son, so that he could gain insight and not stay with her all day and become a frog at the bottom of the well, so she asked the queen to take it with her. Qi Rong.

Although it has been kept as low-key as possible, the scandals of the nobles have always spread faster than the arrows in the wings. Who in the imperial city still does not know what happened to his mother and son? Therefore, the noble children on the road consciously excluded Qi Rong Outside, do not talk and play with him. Xie Lian saw the swing running up to play, and all the children of the same age played with him, taking turns to help His Royal Highness push the swing, and were proud of it. When Xie Lian reached the highest point, when he lowered his head inadvertently, he saw Qi Rong hiding behind the shadow of his mother, stuck out a head, and looked up at him enviously.

When they arrived at the Shenwu Temple, after the adults offered the lamps, they first asked the national teachers to sign, unsubscribe, and have a dialogue, leaving a group of children in the Shenwu Temple for the small lamps to play with. When Qi Rong saw the queen for the first time, she didn't know that the queen had already offered a lamp for his mother and son. Seeing that the lamps were exquisite and beautiful, she also wanted to offer them to pray for blessings. He was young and didn't know much, and he asked people everywhere how to write prayers for his mother. Several children of the same family as Qi Rong usually hate him at home. Influenced by their elders, they feel that their mother and son have embarrassed themselves, so they deliberately tricked him. Xie Lian finished writing his lamp, put down the pen, heard someone laughing and laughing behind his back, and smiled very wrongly. When he looked back, he saw that Qi Rong was dipped in ink, holding a lamp like a baby, smiling all over his face. The ground is preparing to be offered. And on that lamp, the nine words "May I return to Heaven with my mother soon" are written crookedly.

Xie Lian threw the lamp on the spot and was furious.

He wasn't very old at that time, but he scared all the noble youths to the ground, not daring to speak. After the fire, Xie Lian personally re-wrote a lamp to Qi Rong, and no one dared to break it again. Later, when going down the mountain, he went to play on the swing again. This time, Qi Rong ran out from behind the queen and took the initiative to push him on the swing behind him. He is shorter than Xie Lian, but pushes very hard, and still looks up at him below, but his eyes have changed from envy to worship. Later, it became the tail of pity, and swayed behind the "cousin of the prince" all day long.

It must be admitted that the former Qi Rong is still a relatively normal person, and don't know what happened, the longer it is, the more crooked it is. However, in the past three years, Xie Lian has too many people and things to pay attention to, and he has no time to pay attention to his old friends, and don't know if he has grown.

Thinking of this, Qi Rong has finished offering the lamp and is ready to leave the hall. Who knows, backing away, he bumped into someone behind him. Qi Rong staggered, turned around abruptly, and scolded without even looking at it: "What is it? Are you blind or standing dead and don't know how to get out of the way?"

With this mouth, Xie Lian and Fengxin both covered their foreheads and said, "It hasn't changed. It's still the same!"

Maybe it was because he lived with his father before he was five years old, and he was inevitably infected with the market spirit and his father's irritable temperament. Even if the queen taught Qi Rong patiently later, he was excited, in the words of the national teacher Still "revelation". What stood in the way of Qi Rong was a young man in ragged clothes, twenty-four or five, carrying a roll of simple luggage, and a pair of straw sandals that were almost worn out. However, although the young man's face was haggard, his lips were dry, and his cheekbones were slightly sunken, his facial features were very well-rounded, and he was thin but not weak. His eyes were bright, and he asked, "What is this place?"

Qi Rong said: "This is the Xianle Palace, the Prince's Palace!"

The man murmured, "Prince Prince's Palace? Prince? Is this really the Imperial Palace?" He saw the statue in the palace, and his complexion turned blond when reflected by the clear gold, and asked, "Is this gold?"

He actually saw that the palace was too gorgeous, and regarded the temple as a palace. An attendant stepped forward to drive him away and said, "Of course it's gold. The Prince's Palace is the Prince's Palace, not the Prince's Palace of the Imperial Palace! You don't even know where this is, where did the savages come from?"

The man said, "Where is the palace?"

Qi Rong narrowed his eyes and said, "Why are you asking this?"

The other party said seriously: "I'm going to the palace to see the king. I have something to tell him."

Qi Rong and a few attendants laughed, with contempt on their faces, and said, "Where are you from, what are you going to do in the palace? You still see the lord, if you want to see it, let you see it? When you come to the palace, you I'm afraid I can't even get in the door."

The man was not moved by the ridicule at all, and said, "I will try. Maybe it will work."

Qi Rong laughed and said, "Then you can try it." He raised his hand and pointed him in the opposite direction. The man said: "Thank you." He packed his bags, turned and walked towards the outside. When I walked to the stone bridge, I suddenly stopped and looked down. Through the clear pool water, you can see layers of coins sinking at the bottom of the pool.

The young man seemed to think for a moment, and the next moment, he jumped over the bridge and jumped into the pool.

He was very athletic. After jumping into the pool, he bent down and picked up the coins from the bottom of the pool one by one, stuffing them into his arms and luggage. Because I have never seen anyone who dares to rob even God's money, Xie Lian and Fengxin are all dumbfounded. Qi Rong was also stunned for a moment, then burst into anger, rushed over to pat the column and shouted: "I'm fucked! What are you doing?! Quickly pull him up!!! I'm really fucking!!!"

Several attendants also jumped into the water to pull the man. Who knows, this young man is very skilled, punching and kicking, but no one can get him. Qi Rong looked at it like thunder, and a group of Taoists were helpless. The young man fished out a heavy suit of coins and was about to climb ashore with his luggage on his back. Who knew he stepped on the moss, slipped his feet, and fell on his back in the water. The attendants took the opportunity to capture him and turned him ashore. Qi Rong raised his leg and scolded: "You dare to steal this money!"

When Qi Rong raised his leg, Feng Xin stood beside him, optimistic about the opportunity, and blocked it smoothly, so this foot Qi Rong came out fiercely, but it was not heavy when it actually fell on the other side. Although Qi Rong couldn't see him playing tricks next to him, he always felt that something was wrong, as if he was pressed by a ghost and kicked seven or eight feet. The young man didn't know if he choked on the water, coughed a few times, and said, "This money is also stored in the pool, why can't you give it to me to save people?"

Qi Rong kicked unhappily, and finally got annoyed, and said, "Who are you saving? Who are you? Where did you come from?"

He asked this question because he wanted to put a crime on the young man and put him in jail, but the young man had a solid heart and replied: "My name is Lang Ying, I live in Yong'an, where there is a drought, there is no water, and the crops cannot grow, everyone. There is no food, no money. There is water, food, and money here. Make a statue of gold and throw the money in the water. Why can't you give us some?"

Yong'an is a big city in Xianle Kingdom. Xie Lian stood up and looked solemn, and said: "Fengxin, there has been a drought in Yong'an recently? Why didn't I hear about it?"

Fengxin turned back and said: "I don't know, I haven't heard of it, I'll ask Mu Qing later?"