Thanks for the invitation: In ancient times, people shared children

"Hmph, if you don't want it, then don't want it. Your kindness is taken for granted!"

The boy shut his mouth angrily.

Pei Xiaohai also looked unhappy.

Jinghui and the two girls were stunned. They stopped and looked around suspiciously and fearfully, but of course they saw nothing.

The sun was bright and warm, but both of them were sweating coldly, even more frightened than the little kid Pei.

The two girls asked her in confusion, "Who are you talking to? ...Where is the ghost?"

Little Pei didn’t know either, she didn’t see it, she just heard it.

So the two girls believed her briefly, but then they didn't believe her anymore. They picked a bunch of mugwort leaves for her, sent her and Master Jinghui to the town entrance, and then went back.

Pei Xiaohai held a handful of green leaves and smelled the strange fragrance of mugwort. His mood also became green, and he felt like the grass was full of vitality.

Although she couldn't describe exactly what that feeling was, the feeling reached its peak when Master Jingneng washed her ears.

No one believes her, she is so lonely!

Little Pei, holding up his chubby face, sat on the steps still warm from the sun. Behind him was the main hall, which housed the only Buddha statue in the mountain temple.

Liaoyuanyinggu is a Buddha who saves suffering and saves lives, and is blessed with wisdom and blessings.

But everyone calls her Yinggu or Yinggu Buddha. It is said that she was a wandering nun who came here to beg for alms. After saving a baby girl who was to be sacrificed to the river god in Shuanglong River, she stayed by the river, used her thatched house as a temple, and regarded saving people as a form of spiritual practice. Over the past forty years, she saved many babies who were to be sacrificed to the river god and also took in many homeless women. She took these women with her, and supported these children by clearing wasteland, begging for alms, and performing rituals, and taught them Buddhism, but did not require these children to become nuns.

So she sent children off to marry as an elder more than once. These married children called her aunt, and others called her Yinggu. After a long time, few people called her by her Buddhist name anymore.

Perhaps because they saved too many baby girls who were used as sacrifices, they angered the river god of Shuanglong River. One year, a flood suddenly occurred. It did not cause any major damage, but the huts, baby girls and many nuns by the river were swept away by the water.

The remaining children and nuns had nowhere to go, so some people built this nunnery on a mountain far away from Shuanglong River, honoring Yinggu as a Buddha, firstly to commemorate her, and secondly to provide shelter for these children and nuns.

At that time, the temple on the mountain was quite large.

Unfortunately, the people inside later died or dispersed, and the house fell into disrepair and a large part of it collapsed. Only the main hall and the side hall in the front were left intact.

Over the years, the only people living in the nunnery were a few bald women with nowhere to go, chanting scriptures that they didn't quite understand, and these scriptures were passed down from generation to generation.

By Jinghui's generation, there were only five nuns in the temple. One of them returned to secular life and got married, and one was very confused and became a wandering nun.

The remaining three, Jinghui, Jingneng and Jingchi, stayed in the nunnery, growing from young nuns to old nuns. They did not have any big ambitions, but just hoped to find someone to inherit the nunnery on the mountain and bury them after their death.

So they adopted Pei Xiaohai.

A child who has no interest in chanting scriptures, is obsessed with eating meat, and may have seen a ghost now.

As it stands, their wish may not be fulfilled, but the good news is that they also think that the child did not really see a ghost, but just a few words, most likely blown by the wind.

Three old nuns were chanting in the main hall, praying for the children and themselves. The young nun, who loved to eat meat, sat on the steps, feeling the loneliness of not being understood: "Alas..."

A plump ghost squatted beside her and asked considerately, "What's wrong with you? Why are you sighing?"

Pei Xiaohai: "..."

"Why are you still here?!"

Pei Xiaohai's dislike was written all over her face. She pointed at the main hall and said,

"Have you seen me, Buddha? If you don't leave now, I, Buddha Infant, will grab you and make you chant sutras. I'll make you chant all the time. If you don't chant well, I won't give you food or sleep!"

Isn’t it scary!

This is what happened to Master Jingchi. Fortunately, Master and Master Jingneng stopped her, otherwise she would have been very sad every day.

Pei Xiaohai planned to use this scary thing to scare away the ghost. Master Jingchi would definitely not be able to catch the ghost, so she changed the job of Master Jingchi to that of Foyinggu.

The master said that Yinggu was very powerful and would protect women. Young and old could seek refuge from her. Although she didn't quite believe it before, since there were ghosts in the world, she decided to believe it after all.

The boy scratched his face, looked at the main hall and then at her:

"What's so scary about clay statues? Your Buddha doesn't have any spirit at all. It can't withstand incense or worship. It's just a dead object. How can you capture its soul? Don't tell me you've been deceived."

I don’t quite understand.

But what this seems to mean is... ghosts are real, but their Buddhas are not.

If it’s not true, then it’s not true. She didn’t think so in the first place.

Pei Xiaohai gave up in disappointment.

The boy continued, "How about you convert to my faith, offer me incense and sacrifices, and I'll protect you? I eat very little, just livestock and no human sacrifices are necessary. A bowl of meat a day is enough for me."

Pei Xiaohai has a strange expression on his face.

Boy: “Why don’t you speak?”

Pei Xiaohai: "Master said it's best not to talk to crazy people."

A bowl of meat every day?

How crazy does one have to be to say something like that?

The gentlemen in the town wouldn't eat like this. With so much meat, couldn't she eat it all by herself?

It’s so enjoyable to eat bowl after bowl.

"What are you talking about?" the boy said. "Don't you believe me? I'm telling you, I'm very useful. I'm not afraid of the sun, and no one can see me. I can go anywhere, and if there are bad people, I can tell you right away."

"Why are you telling me this?" Pei Xiaohai became even more disgusted after hearing this.

The boy said confidently: "I'm telling you, run quickly."

"I can run even if you don't tell me. It's not like I don't have legs." Pei Xiaohai was a little annoyed with him.

The boy was stunned for a moment before he realized: "Is this about the legs?"

If he didn't tell her, how would she know there were bad guys?

"What else?" Little Pei didn't feel anything was wrong at all. He ignored him and got up and walked into the main hall. He moved a cushion, knelt down, put his head under his hands and lay down on the cushion, and fell asleep on the spot.

Sleepy.

The boy was ready to have a fight with her, but this idiot just fell asleep while sleeping!!!

She fell asleep without a pause, it was so infuriating!

The boy stood there with his hands on his hips, angrily pacing.

His eyes turned around and around, and finally fell on the statue of Yinggu on the Sumeru platform.

A bad idea came to my mind.

It's certainly not easy to possess a human, but it's still easy to get rid of such a dead thing!

Just do it if you want to, the boy bumped into it head-on.

"Cough cough!"

The boy clamped his throat and coughed loudly twice, trying to find his state and disguise himself as an old nun.

The chanting paused for a moment.

Master Jingneng closed her eyes and turned her prayer beads. "Amitabha, why is the child making such noises? Did he catch a cold? Why is he coughing so unpleasantly?"

Nun Jingchi opened her eyes and said, "It's alright. I'll just stew some pears for her. Sisters, please continue chanting."

As Master Jingchi was saying this, she was about to take Pei away, but after looking around, she saw someone in front.

His sleeping head was about to be buried in the curtain of the altar.

Jinghui, who was closest to her, said: "...It doesn't sound like a child's voice."

"Who could it be? It sounds like just a child." Jingneng looked around.

The mountain road is difficult to walk on, and children from nearby will not go to the mountain to play.

The boy on the Sumeru throne felt a little guilty and awkward.

It's so different? No way, he saw others doing it this way, forget it, never mind!

"Cough cough!"

"You have been worshipping Buddha all day long. Now that you have seen the real Buddha, why don't you worship him?"

Three old nuns: ...

Jingchi sighed, "Child, come out on your own. Don't force me to come up and catch you. It's okay if you don't believe in Buddhism, but it's rude to pretend to be a Buddha on the cat stand and deceive people."

The three old nuns had bright eyes, as if they were looking through the stone statue at a child who was about to ascend to heaven.

For a moment, the boy was frightened by the tiger and didn't dare to make a sound for a long time. He thought he had met a nun who could catch ghosts.

But when the little old nun saw that he didn't say anything, she rolled up her sleeves and walked behind the statue, muttering, "This child, why doesn't he listen?"

She's going in the wrong direction!

The boy's lost courage suddenly returned: "How dare you! Is this how you worship Buddha?

Especially that child, why was she sleeping in the temple? The Buddha was talking, but she didn't even listen. How rude!

If you sincerely respect me, then quickly catch her and beat her with bamboo sticks to make the sound of firecrackers!"

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Silence. Once the few people fell silent, the hall in the evening seemed especially quiet. Any slight sound was amplified. One could hear the birds singing in the distant woods, as well as one's own rapid heartbeat and breathing.

The three old nuns haven't felt the meaning of life for a long time.

But at this moment, they felt it again——

The meaning of life...

Of course it’s to stay alive!

It was such a simple truth, so simple that the three of them ran away without even thinking. Jinghui even didn't forget to pick up the sleeping Pei kid.

Jingneng screamed as he ran, making a sharp explosion:

"Amitabha, it's haunted.

Help, someone come quickly!!!!!!"

Little Pei was held upside down by his legs, hanging in the air. Every now and then, he would be hit by his master's knee, which made his head buzz and he didn't know what was going on.

We've been making such a fuss for a while now, why are you just thinking of running away?

The dumbfounded boy in the temple said: "This shouldn't be happening? I... I... this doesn't look like a spiritual manifestation of the Buddha statue at all?"

Well...it's not really a question of whether it looks like it or not.

The main thing is, if someone's stone talks, everyone will run away.

When practicing Buddhism or Taoism, it is me who advises me, I who saves me, and I see my true self. Everything is fine. Who would expect Him to really show up? How scary!