Chapter 114 Believers
Some are rich, some are suffering from misfortune, and some are in great confusion. These people urgently need gods to guide them on the way forward.
The temple keeper was the spokesperson for the gods, so they all surrounded Pan Yun.
Looking at Pan Yun, who was only as tall as their chests, they were both suspicious and expectant.
I doubt whether she is really capable at such a young age; I hope that she can become a temple priest at such a young age because she has some supernatural power.
Wang Feiyin saw that she was surrounded and wanted to step forward to rescue her. As he approached, he heard her say, "Everyone come one by one, don't be anxious. The mountain god is here. It would be bad if you make a fuss and upset the mountain god. We will come first and the good man will speak first."
Wang Feiyin stopped.
"Templekeeper, my wife has given birth to four daughters and has never given birth to a son. People in the village all laugh at my family. My parents said that if she can't give birth to a son again, they will separate our family and live separately. Can you help me ask the mountain god if I am destined to be childless?"
Pan Yun was surprised, "If you are destined to be childless, what will you do?"
"What else can I do? I'll split up the family. I don't want my parents to be laughed at along with me. I'll work hard and choose a daughter to marry in the future."
Pan Jun looked at his face carefully. He had a frown on his face and looked miserable.
Pan Yun said: "Let me see your hands."
He immediately held out his hand.
Pan Yun looked at it carefully, frowned, and smiled after a moment: "You are destined to have a child, but you still need to wait another ten years."
His mouth opened wide. "Ten years? Well, can't it be earlier?"
"It's difficult, but you can give it a try. I'll ask my third brother to prescribe you a dose of medicine. You can take it home and don't sleep with him for now. Follow the doctor's orders."
"I take medicine? Isn't it my wife who takes it?"
Pan Yun smiled, "Of course you eat it. Whether you have a son or a daughter depends on your ability. As the saying goes, you reap what you sow. Good people understand this, right?"
The good man successfully understood it, and the believers who were listening curiously nearby also successfully understood it. For a moment, everyone looked at him with unpleasant eyes.
"That's my third senior brother. I'll take you over to see him."
"No, no, no, I, I think my daughter is fine. I won't look at her for now." The villager hurried away, his steps quick, the bitterness on his face dissipated a lot.
Pan Yun smiled with satisfaction, turned to look at the other believers, and smiled gently, "Which kind person is next?"
A slightly fat man said, "I am the temple keeper. I would like to ask the mountain god whether my second brother has passed the imperial examination this time."
Pan Yun: "Isn't the Autumn Examination already over?"
"Yes, but the results haven't come out yet, and my parents are anxiously waiting, so they asked me to come and ask."
Pan Yun looked him up and down.
He puffed out his chest and took out a piece of red paper from his arms, "This is my second brother's birth date and time."
How could Pan Jun calculate one's birth date? She relied on her natural talent in observing the qi and deduced the result. Although one could calculate one's birth date, she had never studied it seriously.
Calculating birth data is not very popular in the 26th century. People still prefer to read faces and look at the qi.
Because in the 26th century where demons and monsters are rampant, things calculated based on the eight characters of birth are always changing, and the eight characters of birth are of great importance, so when people register their household registration, they will report a false birthday, either a few days earlier or a few days later, and some even mix the lunar and lunar calendars to confuse people.
To prevent someone from stealing your birth date.
But Pan Yun did not say that he did not understand. Instead, he opened the red paper and took a look. He pretended to count with his fingers, then returned the red paper to him, continued to look up at his face, and smiled faintly, "I didn't get it right this time."
The fat man's smile froze, "No?"
Pan Yun nodded, "The young man who asked for divination is also a talented person, but his luck has not come yet, so he didn't get it right. If he didn't get it right this time, he will not get it right next time, so let him relax."
The fat man's face turned even darker and he wanted to get angry, but this was a mountain god temple and it was not appropriate to be rude to the temple priest, so he kept a straight face and said nothing.
Pan Yun did not stop, and continued: "Good fortune and bad fortune are interdependent. Passing the exam a few years later may not be a bad thing."
The fat man sneered and asked, "Can the temple keeper predict accurately?"
Pan Yun said, "The autumn exam has already been completed, and the results will be out in a few days. Whether it is accurate or not, won't we know in a few days?"
The fat man thought so too, bowed and was about to leave, but when he turned around, he took out a handful of copper coins and put them on the table, "This is for the mountain god."
Pan Yun returned the greeting by pinching her fingers, "Good people are very kind."
The fat man left.
Pan Yun looked at the remaining believers and smiled slightly, "Next one."
"Temple Master, I am sick and would like to ask the mountain god for a talisman paper to cure my illness."
When Pan Jun looked at her, she could tell that she was sick, and very sick, without even taking her pulse.
"Do you know how expensive a piece of talisman paper is?"
The other party gritted his teeth and said, "No matter how expensive it is, I will buy it, as long as it can cure the disease."
Pan Yun shook his head and said, "Talisman paper can't cure your illness. If you are sick, you need to see a doctor. Since you have money to buy talisman paper, why don't you take medicine?"
"Nonsense, how can the talisman paper be useless? Isn't this a god? The god can make me well with just a wave of his hand. Is it because the temple keeper sees that I have no money that he is unwilling to pray to the god for me?"
Pan Yun: …
She forced a smile and said, "I just asked God in my heart, and He said that His power is limited. The disease in your body is the root of the disease left by the disease demon in ancient times. His power cannot eliminate it. Only the spiritual energy of heaven and earth can cleanse the disease demon."
When the villagers heard this, their eyes lit up and they looked at her eagerly, "How can I let that spiritual energy kill the disease in my body?"
Pan Yun: "Do you know what things in this world are born and raised by nature and contain spiritual energy?"
The villagers shook their heads.
Pan Yun said seriously: "Cao Mu, if you don't believe me, look outside."
The villagers looked outwards in the direction Pan Yun pointed, and saw the lush green trees on the stone mountain. They immediately realized, "Yes, plants can survive without being planted by humans. There are plants everywhere."
Pan Yun: "Are medicines herbs?"
The villagers nodded blankly.
Pan Yun said in a rhythmic tone: "Letting you take medicine is to let you absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth from the herbs. Only the spiritual energy of heaven and earth can cleanse the disease in your body."
The villagers murmured: "I want to take medicine, I want to take medicine..."
Wang Feiyin looked at Pan Yun with admiration. He knew this villager, a villager from Dafu Village. He had been ill for almost a year. At first he took medicine, but later he became addicted to all kinds of folk remedies.
Some of those folk remedies are effective, while some are not. If you just take them randomly, you may not only fail to cure your original illness, but make yourself even sicker.
As her illness had not been cured for a long time, she became obsessed with summoning gods, using talismans, performing rituals, and she tried all kinds of methods.
She also came to Sanqing Temple to invite them.
Wang Feiyin and Tao Jigei refused to draw talismans or perform rituals for her, and wanted to prescribe medicine for her, but she would rather die than take it, even if it was given for free.
Some diseases can be treated or alleviated by drinking talisman water, but some cannot.
But in Wang Feiyin's opinion, most of the diseases in the world are not suitable.
Health talismans are mostly used when the disease is just beginning, which is the method used by traditional Chinese medicine and superior medicine. By the time the disease breaks out and has already penetrated into the bones and blood, talisman paper is no longer applicable.
Many people tried to persuade this villager but failed. Unexpectedly, one day Pan Yun finally persuaded him to stop.
Pan Yun turned his head to meet Wang Feiyin's gaze and smiled. Wang Feiyin also smiled at them, walked up slowly, and said with his fingers: "Blessings and infinite heavenly master, good man, please go to the side room, I will feel your pulse... and find the plant spirit that suits your body."
After hearing this, the villagers immediately followed him. Before leaving, she generously took out five copper coins and placed them on the table.
At the same time, the spirit realm made a ding-dong sound, and Pan Xiaohei announced, "Merit +1." It laughed and said, "You counted the merits of three people to get the merits of one person."
This means that the other two are not grateful to her.
Pan Yun didn't care.
Pan Xiaohei was puzzled, "You can obviously coax them to gain merit points, why don't you coax them?"
Pan Yun's face was solemn. [Because I have a bottom line as a sister. I have some things I should do and some things I shouldn't do. To cheat people for a little bit of merit and ruin the reputation of my Taoist school is unacceptable.]
Pan Xiaohei looked unconvinced and meowed, "Are you afraid of backlash?"
Pan Jun looked at Pan Xiaohei with a sidelong glance, "You already know this, but you're still asking."
The remaining few people followed her gaze and asked in surprise, "Why is there a cat here?"
Pan Yun said seriously, "This is a black cat. Black cats are psychic. It may have become spiritual because it often listens to us chanting sutras at Sanqing Temple."
The believers were amazed. In addition, she had already solved the problems of three people. Regardless of whether the three people who had their problems solved were satisfied or not, the people who listened felt that she was quite reliable.
After all, the knife didn't fall on me, right?
So everyone continued to line up to ask the temple priest to pray to the mountain god on their behalf.
There were all kinds of difficulties, and Pan Yun treated everyone equally, solving their problems. He received nine people and received five merit points.
Although the others did not receive any merit points, they left in high spirits, with the confusion on their faces gone. It was obvious that she had solved their problems, but they were not grateful to her.
It was not until sunset that the mountain temple gradually became empty.
Everyone sat on the doorstep and the steps in front of the temple, with blank expressions on their faces.
Wang Feiyin said, "I haven't been so tired in many years."
Pan Yun: "Big Brother is much more lively today. He exudes a strong vitality. You can tell at a glance that he is an accomplished Taoist priest."
Wang Feiyin: "Don't flatter me. I said I would look after the mountain temple for you, so I will help you look after it."
Pan Jun grinned at him.
Wang Feiyin pondered, "This secular world is also a path for cultivation. I have a feeling about this today."
He looked at Tao Ji and Xuan Miao, "You two should come down here more often to gain experience. Now it seems that this mountain temple is well built. If we make a name for it today, more and more people will come to pray to the gods in the future. You can gain experience here, especially you, Fourth Junior Sister."
"Hey, isn't that Third Brother?"
Wang Feiyin glanced at her and said, "You have misunderstood again, right? Your fourth sister is practicing the art of talismans and qi-reading, which cannot be separated from humans, demons and monsters, so she needs to train in the secular world."
"And your third senior brother practices the art of alchemy. He only cares about refining elixirs, taking elixirs, and using elixirs to achieve enlightenment. He doesn't care about the floods in the world," Wang Feiyin said, "but he is soft-hearted and likes to practice medicine and save people everywhere."
Wang Feiyin shook his head. "He was obviously practicing Taoism, but he became a traveling doctor."
Tao Ji blushed with shame.
Pan Jun whispered, "I think Third Brother is doing a good job."
Wang Feiyin glanced at her and said, "Louder."
Pan Yun: "Big Brother is right. Big Brother, will it be okay for you to go down the mountain frequently in the future?"
"What's the problem? Aren't we standing on Sanqing Mountain now?" Wang Feiyin said word by word: "This is our master's territory!"
Pan Yun clapped his hands, "Well said, this is our Master's territory. Master, did you hear that?"
The statue sat in silence, ignoring these unfilial disciples.
After checking once, the group closed the door and went up the mountain.
Pan Yun gained +6+15+15 merit points today.
She didn’t know if it was because Master’s spirit was seated and watching her, or because she had gained a considerable amount of merit today, but although she was tired, she felt very comfortable.
As soon as she lay down on the bed after taking a shower, she fell asleep immediately.
Everyone in the Taoist temple got up late today, except Wang Feiyin.
Pan Jun was very confused, "Where is the senior brother?"
Wang Cong said, "Father has gone down the mountain."
Pan Yun's eyes lit up, "Go to the mountain temple?"
Wang Cong shook his head. "No, he went to find money and people to run the school. Before he left, he said that three uncles would go to preside over the mountain temple today. Some villagers from other villages didn't come yesterday, but they might come today."
"Ok."
She didn't have much hope that the eldest brother would find money. After all, she couldn't save money, but at least she had good fortune. But the eldest brother didn't even have good fortune.
In fact, running a school can earn a lot of merit points, so Pan Yun calculated how much money he could spare to run a school.
Unexpectedly, Wang Feiyin came back in the afternoon and told them, "The school has been arranged. When you go down the mountain, walk around more often and persuade the villagers to send their children to school."
Pan Yun: "Do you have the money?"
Wang Feiyin nodded: "Yes."
"Where are the textbooks and the teacher?"
Wang Feiyin: “I have them all.”
"It turns out that our Sanqing Temple is really home to hidden dragons and crouching tigers..."
"Stop nagging me. Why did you go up the mountain so early today?"
Pan Yun: "No one came to the temple to burn incense, so I came back. Today I received 38 believers. Unfortunately, they just burned incense and worshipped, but didn't ask me any questions or say a word."
Wang Feiyin sighed, "You are still too young, and hard to trust. I hope you grow up quickly."
Pan Yun: "I also want to grow up quickly. Do you have a growth talisman? A birth-promoting talisman? A growth-promoting talisman?"
Wang Feiyin said, "Starting tomorrow, you will take an additional course, 'Dao Fa Hui Yuan'. What's the point of just learning cultivation techniques and talismans? You have to learn the most basic things first."
His eyes slid over Xuan Miao and Tao Ji, and finally he resigned himself to his fate and said, "I will teach you. You will follow me down the mountain tomorrow, and I will teach you while guarding the mountain temple."
Tao Ji and Xuan Miao both breathed a sigh of relief without showing any emotion.
Pan Yun had already accepted her fate. There was too much missing knowledge in the 26th century. What she should learn now was things she had never learned in her previous life.
The next day, she packed a lot of things, carried the black cat, and followed Wang Feiyin down the mountain.
One-on-one teaching is a little different from small class lessons. The progress is extremely fast, and she was hit on the forehead as soon as she was distracted.
Pan Yun covered his head and said, "Big Brother, although I was distracted, I was listening to you. I can do three things at once. If you don't believe me, I will repeat what you just said."
Without waiting for him to speak, Pan Yun immediately repeated what he had said, and then said, "See, I didn't lie to you. Don't hit me on the head next time. If you hit me a few more times, I'll become stupid and won't be able to do three things at once."
"So doing three things at once is a good thing?" Wang Feiyin asked unhappily, "What were you thinking about when you divided your mind just now?"
Pan Yun: "I just thought about my father."
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