My Sisters Excel in Both Literary and Martial Arts - Chapter 1099

[Chapter 1067: Gay in gay]

Jing Zhe followed a group of running scholars and walked a few more miles before he saw Peach Blossom Mountain.

Taohua Mountain is not high, and Taohua Temple is built on the mountain, halfway up the mountain.

Stone steps paved with bluestones extend from the top of the mountain.

The stone steps were not steep, but very long. It took Jing Zhe about a quarter of an hour to walk halfway to the front of Taohua Temple.

Peach Blossom Temple is not an isolated temple. In fact, from the middle of the mountain to the top of the mountain, the entire mountain belongs to the scope of Peach Blossom Mountain Temple, including the surrounding peach blossom forest as far as the eye can see.

Jing Zhe has encountered many temples.

When he was in Jingzhou and Ruzhou, he also saw Zhu Xinning and Zhou Ziqiong going to temples outside the city to offer incense, and every festival was the day when temple fairs were held in temples outside the city.

Every time at this time, believers from all over the world will go to the mountain to worship. Scholars will offer some incense and pray for high school in the coming year. Then the Buddha will be blessed with a golden body. Young ladies hope to find a right husband as soon as possible. Newly married women often go to worship Guanyin…

When I first met Zhang Xiaoyu, it was in the fake “Qingyun Temple” on the outskirts of Jingzhou. It was very sad to think about this.

However, this was the first time Jing Zhe had seen such a poetry gathering held in a temple.

As he walked up the steps, he felt that the air was much fresher, and there was a faint fragrance in the air. Jing Zhe noticed that there were many peach trees planted on both sides of the mountain road. It was the flowering period in the past two days. When it was in full bloom, almost all the ladies had one in hand, and the stone steps were covered with petals. After walking a few steps, Jing Zhe actually saw a scholar picking a peach blossom and putting it in his head, which made everyone around him cheer.

Perhaps in their own eyes, they are quite literati, but Jing Zhe feels that gay is gay and full of effeminacy.

What made Jing Zhe complain even more was that the peach blossoms that were blooming on the mountain were broken into pieces, and they actually regarded them as an elegant thing. Several guys with flowers in their hair and self-proclaimed talents looked at a bare peach. The trees reciting poems and composing poems really ruin the scenery.

The ladies visited the peach blossom forest together, and low voices and smiles came from the peach trees. Some of the readers stood under the trees, while others spread a plain cloth under the peach trees and placed the wine bottles they brought. and snacks, sitting cross-legged, drinking from glasses, reciting poems and lyrics, so happy.

As we get closer to Taohuashan Temple, there are more and more tourists, and the bluestone steps, which were not very spacious, become more and more crowded.

When he came to the entrance of Taohua Temple, it was even more crowded. Jing Zhe saw many monks wearing cassocks outside the temple. They set up a stall outside with many incense candles. Many people who passed by would buy some. , so that you can burn incense and worship Buddha when entering the temple.

The host of this Peach Blossom Temple is considered to have some business acumen. This peach blossom forest in full bloom can attract many talented people and beauties. After admiring the peach blossoms, they will go into the temple to worship the Bodhisattvas and Buddhas, and they will naturally offer incense. , after a poetry meeting, Taohua Temple will probably make a lot of money.

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Jing Zhe stood outside the door, watching people keep coming out from the foot of the mountain or from the peach blossom forest nearby, entering the temple in twos and threes.

It’s just that when entering the door, the monk will bring out some short incense, and the scholars are accustomed to this. They take out dozens of coins and hand it over, then enter the temple with the short incense.

When Jing Zhe saw this, he didn’t stay outside and strode inside.

He came to the incense stall set up by the monks and stopped. There were two monks, one fat and one thin, standing by the stall. The fatter monk habitually handed over a short bouquet of incense. Jing Zhe was about to reach out to take it, but was stopped by the thin one next to him. The monk stopped him.

“What’s wrong?”

Jing Zhe glanced at him and asked confused.

The fat monk still had his hand in the air, looking at his companions with the same curiosity, while the thin monk rummaged under the incense stall and took out a bouquet of long incense half as tall as a man.

Passing the long incense to Jing Zhe, the thin monk squinted his eyes and looked Jing Zhe up and down, and then said with a smile: “Looking at the master’s majestic appearance and extraordinary appearance, I am here to participate in the Peach Blossom Festival held by Taohua Temple today. If I can get a long incense stick, , I’m sure I’ll get a good result! I’m afraid I might

even win the Peach Blossom Poetry Competition!” Jing Zhe glanced at him and said softly: “Thank you, eminent monk, but I just came here to listen to other talented people writing lyrics and poems. , I didn’t want to ask for a ranking, so I just bought a short stick of incense.”

After hearing this, the thin monk sneered: “Young master, what you said is wrong, but when you go to the temple to offer incense, you always have something to ask for. “Young master, if you don’t seek rank, you should seek something else. If you pray to gods and Buddhas, your sincerity will lead to success. How can you show your sincerity by only buying a short stick of incense?”

“Oh?” Incense means being sincere. Does

it mean you are sincere if you buy a stick of incense? “”You are smart!”

The thin monk sneered, “Since you are so sensible, just buy a stick of incense! When it comes to dressing up, you don’t have to worry about money. Buying one stick of long incense is a buy, buying two or three sticks is a buy, why not buy a few more to show that you are more sincere? “

Jing Zhe finally understood, this thin guy! Just by looking at his splendid robes, the monk concluded that he was worth a lot of money, so he wanted to extort more money from him. Moreover, seeing how skilled he was, he was probably not a habitual criminal, as he had extorted many people.

However, he miscalculated by trying to blame Jing Zhe.

“What the eminent monk said is absolutely true, but according to what the eminent monk said, people who buy short incense are not sincere. No matter what they ask for, it will not be effective, right?”

Originally, when Jing Zhe was staying at the door, there were many people passing by. After all, Jing Zhe looked so good-looking, so when Jing Zhe shouted, everyone around him stopped, especially after hearing about “insincere” and “efficacious”, some people started Find out what happened.

The thin monk secretly thought something was wrong. While cursing Jing Zhe in his mind, he also winked at the fat monk. The fat monk understood and immediately took the short incense and shouted: “Everyone, hurry up and buy incense and enter the temple! There will be a little delay.” If there are more, I’m afraid we won’t be able to get a good place by then!”

Sure enough, when he shouted, the crowd who had just come to Jing Zhe to watch immediately rushed to the fat monk’s side, rushing to buy the short incense.

“Give me a stick of short incense!”

“Give me a stick of short incense too!”

“Don’t squeeze, I came first!”

“…”

Basically everyone squeezed in to buy the short incense, but there were also some who liked it. The spectators were still looking at Jing Zhe and the thin monk, wanting to see what they were talking about.

When the thin monk saw this, he took a long incense stick and pulled Jing Zhe aside.

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(End of this chapter)