"Qingming Festival Prayer Ceremony."

Zhao Zhongxin wrote: "The Qingming Festival is approaching, and at the beginning of late spring, I want to practice evil deeds.

We specially launch this Buddhist practice and salvation ceremony on the Qingming Festival, with the purpose of bringing about luck and wealth for believers, relieving misfortune and balancing yin and yang."

"This kind of Dharma gathering requires a large number of people. Can the two of us be busy?" Zhao Zhongxin said: "Before, my master was able to organize this Dharma gathering, but it was all the big landowners in the surrounding area who provided money and people."

"Yes, shouldn't the gentry and landlords take the initiative to come to our door for such a big matter?" Lin Zhuming asked.

"Now we are all going to Qingliang Temple. Qingliang Temple is huge and has seven Transcendental Rebirth Pagodas! There are fifty or sixty monks there."

"Is there any Dharma gathering at Qingliang Temple this year?" Lin Zhuming stopped writing.

"In previous years, there was a Yuga Flame Mouth Dharma Ceremony."

Setting off flames is a Dharma assembly that is common to both Buddhism and Taoism.

The Taoist ritual of offering food from an iron pot is a very large ceremony, which lasts for seven days. It is usually held jointly by various jungles and can be completed only if they work together.

In Buddhism, the time is shorter and the number of people required is not that large. It starts at dusk and ends at about midnight. Generally, fourteen people can complete the ceremony.

It can only be said that Lin Zhuming wants to organize this ceremony by himself, which is a joke.

"Then we have to think of a way. If we really can't defeat them, then we can join them."

"Senior Brother Lin, you want to become a monk? What should I do?"

Lin Zhuming laughed and said: "Just kidding, your master has been friends with some squires and landlords in the past. Let's go and attract some likes first. By the way, we can also go to Rich Master Zhou's place again."

"But haven't his zombies been eliminated? I'm afraid that with Zhou's character, if he tries to do it with money, it will really cost him his life."

"His shady house is peaceful, but his yang house is not at peace. There is a naughty fox stalking him."

Lin Zhuming said: "It just so happens that we can make a demon-binding rope."

"Vixen? Why didn't I see it? Male or female? Is it beautiful? What's your figure like? Where did you see it?"

Zhao Zhongxin asked directly six times.

Okay, okay! Your master also said that you are loyal and honest. It turns out you are this kind of loyal and honest.

Lin Zhuming's scorching eyes made him shy, but he still asked: "Senior Brother Lin, just tell me!"

"The male fox is quite handsome."

"Ah? Brother Lin, why didn't you kill the demons?" Zhao Zhongxin asked.

Lin Zhuming felt helpless to complain.

So he said: "Go and find me a piece of hemp rope."

"Why are you looking for hemp rope?" Zhao Zhongxin asked: "I heard that the demon-binding ropes in the storybook are all made of dragon tendons, like the belt of Taishang Laojun in the Legend of Shie in Journey to the West."

"You also know that it is a novel, a storybook." Lin Zhuming said: "I need the old hemp rope that has been worn for ten years on the windlass, or the old hemp rope that has been used to pull the cow for more than ten years, or the old hemp rope that is used in the temple.

The straw ropes used to "knot the altar" also need more than two or three years."

Lin Zhuming explained: "When the time comes to practice the magic and recite the mantra, and the flower talismans are illuminated, it will be the rope to bind the demon. Now it is borrowing from its fundamental power."

"Just like the hemp rope on the windlass, it is used for people to draw water from the well. It can be rolled up and uncoiled on its own, which has its own merits."

"Just like the rope used to pull an ox, it has the nature of "tying up". Once the rope is pulled, the ox will understand the owner's intention and pull the plow to plow the fields, which has its own meaning of imprisonment."

"As for the straw ropes in the temple, they are used to surround the pure land. Nowadays, Japanese Shintoism also uses them to protect against evil spirits."

Lin Zhuming said: "If you use these three ropes to make a rope to bind monsters or a whip, you can tie up monsters or break up their behavior."

"So that's it, then we have such a straw rope in our temple, let alone a few years, it has been there for more than ten years!" Zhao Zhongxin led Lin Mingming to a big tree in front of the Wanshou Palace. There was a straw rope beside the tree.

There are loops of straw rope and some scattered incense handles beside it.

"This camphor tree was brought from Yuzhang when the temple was built, and it is many, many years old now," Zhao Zhongxin said.

Lin Zhuming knew about this tree, but when he was picked up by the old Taoist, there was no such tree, only a stake.

But this tree has a spiritual place in the temple, called: Ciyoulingguan.

There is another story here, involving the massacre of the city.

For more than 40 days that year in Nanjing, there was a scene of tragedy and hell on earth. The tree in the Taoist temple had grown to be as wide as several people's arms.

The camphor tree was originally free of insects, but before the massacre of the city that day, the tree became hollow inside overnight. At the same time, the founder received a dream and dreamed of this tree hole.

After the massacre broke out, an elder took 17 children and hid in it and escaped, including the young Taoist priest. The old Taoist priest was born in 1933. This incident happened in 1937.

, that is, four years old.

And that elder is the old Taoist master.

Whenever the old Taoist talks about his master, he will follow Lin Zhuming and say: "Your master has regretted it all his life. Why is he the one who is alive? He should have gone to fight with the Japanese invaders, but at that time everyone thought he should stay.

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Lin Zhuming asked at that time: "How could they stay in the tree hole for so long without being discovered? Do they have anything to eat?"

The old Taoist said: "Meditation, your master taught us to meditate at that time. The tree hole was not big, so we were crowded with people, and we only had a few pieces of naan to eat."

"As soon as we meditate, we won't feel hungry or thirsty."

"There was a lot of rumbling and shelling outside, but they didn't hit us."

"That's it, finally one day, your master said to us: We can go out."

"There is nothing outside, a ruin, all with burnt marks, and corpses whose appearance is unclear. Some are kneeling on the ground, some are hanging from trees, some are not wearing clothes, and they are buried in the soil, with only their heads.

Exposed."

"The worst thing was the ancestral hall at that time. The Japanese locked everyone in it and burned it all with fire. It was full of people. It was all people."

When the old Taoist told Lin Zhuming this matter, he was trembling all over.

When Lin Zhuming listened, he was trembling all over.

Recalling what the old Taoist said back then, I stroked the lines on the tree, as if I felt a vigorous vitality and some suffocating despair.

Tears seemed about to come out.

At this time, the wind blew through the leaves and the birds were tired in the forest. Zhao Zhongxin's voice brought Lin Zhuming back to reality.

"Senior Brother Lin, what's wrong with you? Why do you feel so sentimental when you see this tree?"

Lin Zhuming shook his head: "This tree has received the incense and has become alive. This straw rope is its wall. We can't tear it down casually, let it stay here."

"There are cattle ropes everywhere. We can get a new one and trade it with someone else."
Chapter completed!