At the entrance of Guanghong Temple.
"Dad, there are so many people!"
Ye Chen squeezed through the crowd while carrying Mengmeng. The little girl looked around curiously with her eyes wide open. Excitement filled her little face.
Zhang Daniu followed behind Ye Chen while hugging the urn tightly. Excitement filled his face. It must be his first time coming to a temple.
Wu Yan and Luo Qing lagged behind. Their eyes would be filled with mockery and disdain when they looked at Ye Chen and Zhang Daniu from time to time.
Two country bumpkins who had never seen the world.
Luo Qing looked around and realized that Xiao Ya was nowhere to be seen.
He could not help but feel a little disappointed. Subsequently, he walked to Ye Chen quickly and asked, "Brother, where's the beauty sitting next to you?"
He was sure that Xiao Ya was a great beauty. Hence, the more Xiao Ya ignored him along the way, the more his heart itched.
"I don't know."
Ye Chen said coldly. He did not want to talk to him anymore and walked into the temple with Zhang Daniu.
As far as the eye could see, ancient buildings stood in great numbers, and incense smoke lingered in the air. However, the number of people inside had decreased significantly. It seemed that most of the people were just watching from the outside.
Luo Qing quickly followed after Xiao Chen. He pretended to be enthusiastic and said, "Unexpectedly, Brother is a Buddhist as well. If there is a chance, you should go to Zhejiang. I'll bring you to see the Hidden Spirit Temple. That is what I call imposing and dignified."
"Brother, have you been to the Lingyin Temple in the TV series?" Zhang Daniu was shocked before Ye Chen could speak.
Ever since he was young, he had enjoyed watching the Living Buddha, Ji Gong. He was talking about the Hidden Spirit Temple. It would be a lie to say that he did not want to go.
Luo Qing smiled proudly. "That's nothing. I've been to many places. For example, Mount Song's Shaolin Temple, Suzhou's Cold Mountain Temple, and Luoyang's White Horse Temple. There are so many that I can't list them all in half an hour.
The biggest feature of these places is to grab the first incense, and the price of this incense is based on the length of the incense. I once grabbed the first incense that was 1.5 meters long, and it cost me 5,000 yuan. "
Although he said that, Luo Qing had been paying attention to Ye Chen's expression. However, Ye Chen looked normal as if he did not hear anything.
This made his desire to show off suddenly feel uncomfortable, as if he was stuck on a fishbone.
On the other hand, Zhang Daniu looked envious. "Five thousand yuan for one joss stick? That's two months of my salary. "
"I heard that the Hidden Spirit Temple stops spirits during marriages. Is that true?" Wu Yan asked as she walked.
Luo Qing smiled and said, "Of course. The Hidden Spirit Temple has a Three Life Stone. Every year, many couples go to the Hidden Spirit Temple and make a wish under the Three Life Stone."
"If there's a chance, I'd like to go and take a look." Wu Yan was also a little tempted by his words.
"The temple in front of us is also good. The tour guide said that it is very efficacious when it comes to marriage and children." Luo Qing tapped his chin as if he knew a lot.
"Let's go and take a look."
Wu Yan urged everyone to walk quickly to the main hall. There were a few tourists standing at the entrance of the main hall.
As soon as the group arrived at the entrance, an old monk in a yellow robe walked over. He put his palms together and said, "Benefactors, are you here to burn incense or ask for a divination?"
"I want to ask for a fortune stick," Zhang Daniu said arrogantly in a muffled voice.
"All of them, all of them."
Luo Qing waved and subsequently walked in under the old monk's lead. There was a Buddha statue that was over four meters tall standing in the main hall. It was luxuriously decorated.
"Daddy, is this Bodhisattva?"
The little girl in Ye Chen's embrace could not stop chirping like a lark.
"Little girl, this is Buddha, not Bodhisattva." Wu Yan scoffed in disdain.
Luo Qing, on the other hand, took out his money and walked to the old monk with ease. He bought a few sticks of long and big incense sticks. Wu Yan followed his example and bought some as well. Zhang Daniu hesitated for a moment before he took out a stack of crumpled money and bought three sticks.
Meanwhile, the money was called incense money. Even a temple could not avoid such customs.
"Brother, aren't you going to buy it?" Luo Qing could not help but ask when he saw Ye Chen holding the child without moving.
"I don't worship Buddha nor do I worship gods. Moreover, they can't afford it."
Ye Chen glanced at the dazzling statue before him with a calm expression. There was no respect on his face at all.
"What did you say? They can't afford it? Isn't what you said a little too outrageous? "
Wu Yan could not help but scoff. "There are so many people who worship but you can't? Do you think you're the Jade Emperor? "
"Brother, it's not that I want to scold you, but don't you know the rule of greeting people when you enter a door and burning incense when you enter a temple?"
Luo Qing shook his head and said while smiling, "Did you bring no money with you? If that's the case, I'll pay for the incense money for you. "
Seeing that Ye Chen was dressed casually and that he was close to Zhang Daniu, he thought Ye Chen was poor by instinct. He was getting more and more disdainful.
'Just say it if you don't have money. Why are you pretending?
"There's no need for that. I've told you that they can't afford it." Ye Chen shook his head and rejected.
At that moment, the old monk said while suppressing his rage, "Sir, if you don't want to worship, please leave now."
"Are you sure you want me to worship?" Ye Chen frowned.
Wu Yan scoffed. "What? If I ask you to pray to Buddha, would it be a disgrace to your dignity? "
"Sure, I'll do it!"
Ye Chen put Mengmeng down and took three lit incense sticks right away. He then bowed to the statue.
The moment he bent down, everyone heard a cracking sound, as if something had broken.
"What's that sound?"
The people were stunned.
"Look, the Buddha statue is cracking … cracking open!" A female devotee behind them suddenly pointed at the Buddha statue and exclaimed.
The people looked at it immediately and saw many cracks on the Buddha statue. They were so dense that they looked like a spider web.
"How did this happen?"
Everyone took a step back by instinct.
Ye Chen seemed to have not seen it. He held the incense sticks and bent down completely.
Rumble!
The entire hall began to shake intensely. The people staggered and heard a thud just when they were going to say something.
The Buddha statue that was over four meters tall exploded from the middle. It shattered into a few pieces and fell onto the ground.
At that moment, the old monk, Luo Qing, and Wu Yan were dumbstruck. Zhang Daniu's eyes were wide open as he looked at Ye Chen in disbelief.
W-did he just worship and the Buddha statue shattered?
"What exactly is happening?"
"I-Is this an earthquake?"
"Run … Run!"
The sudden and unforeseen event caused everyone to exclaim repeatedly as they pushed and shoved each other in an attempt to walk out.
Rumble!
Another loud thud came. Countless buildings in the temple shook at that moment as if there was a real earthquake. They began to collapse.
The monks in the temple were panicking. They ran out one after another, afraid that they would be crushed by the collapsing buildings.
Ye Chen carried Mengmeng among the crowd. He secretly shook his head when he saw the chaos behind him.
'Worship Buddha, the Buddha will shatter, and the temple will collapse!
I've told you that they can't afford it!
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