Chapter 344 Communication

Pan Yun couldn't figure it out, and Miao Zhen couldn't figure it out either, but she said, "But the tortoise shell shows that it's not a bad thing. Why did Junior Master suddenly mention Shuangyang Village and Huaihua Village?"

Because she suddenly received a large amount of merit from them.

Pan Yun has summed up his experience. When you do good deeds, you will either receive merit points on the spot or after a period of time.

This will happen after a while, basically within half a month, and you will usually only receive it once.

Very few people would give her merit points twice for the same thing.

Seriously speaking, the children taken care of by Grandma Yu are also exceptions.

They had to express gratitude every day after eating, and she received merit points every time she expressed gratitude.

But in fact, she had also delivered food to others, but apart from receiving +1+2 merit points at the beginning, she never received any more merit points afterwards, and even when she sent another batch, she got nothing.

Pan Yun was a utilitarian person. Since he couldn't get any benefits, he gradually stopped giving gifts.

There are only a group of children taken care of by Grandma Yu. Even if she is not at home, she still has to give money to ask someone to send food to them.

It can be said that during the days when she was imprisoned in the Longhushan Academy, all the merit points she gained were given by them.

Shuangyang Village and Huaihua Village, she received a large amount of merit points after they left the village. She carefully looked at the statistical information displayed in the spiritual realm, and found that everyone had merit points.

Later, she received the second batch of merit points from several people one after another, and then she calmed down.

The rest was the merit points from strangers after the Quanzhou bandit-killing incident spread. Logically, Shuangyang Village and Huaihua Village shouldn't have given her so many merit points at the same time.

It made her a little worried that something might have happened to them.

Since Miaozhen said it didn't seem like anything bad, Pan Yun took out a piece of white paper and wrote a letter while there were not many people around. "I'll write and ask and I'll know."

Miaozhen suddenly looked up at the sky outside. The golden morning sun was shining down, and the sky was blue with only a few faint white clouds floating in the air.

She said, “Today is a good day.”

Pan Yun replied casually, "Of course. This is the day I calculated after kneeling in front of Master's statue and praying devoutly for half an hour. It can be said to be the best day in the whole winter."

Miaozhen: "It's such a good day. Should the monuments of Shuangyang Village and Huaihua Village also be placed today?"

Pan Yun paused and pondered, "Counting the days, we have been back for almost a month, and the stele is indeed about to fall to the ground. It can't be such a coincidence that they chose today, right?"

It was such a coincidence that Chen Xiucai calculated with the almanac for a long time and finally chose today.

At this time, at the junction of Shuangyang Village and Huaihua Village, a huge stone tablet was erected. On it was an article written by Chen Xiucai himself, which was carved word by word by craftsmen.

Ever since Mr. Chen bought and sold all the land in the village, no one from the county government or the orphanage came anymore.

However, there were more matchmakers coming to the village, and several landlords' stewards came to him privately, wanting to buy land from him.

They were all rejected by Chen Xiucai.

He said, "I will not get married until the Japanese pirates are destroyed. If I break this oath, I will be punished by heaven and earth." The matchmaker no longer came to him.

Only the housekeepers and the people from the pawnbroker were left running back and forth.

Although Chen Xiucai was annoyed, he knew that if Shuangyang Village and Huaihua Village wanted to survive, they could not refuse forcefully and offend everyone.

So, while he pretended to be nice to others, he took his men to search the county, and slowly selected some refugees who were good at farming and honest, and let them go to the village to work as long-term laborers or tenant farmers.

He did not dare to recruit those refugees who were related to him and came from the same village; nor did he dare to recruit too many farmhands who had no family and were alone.

He would rather leave the village land idle than take the risk of recruiting too many people.

Thanks to his efforts, the two villages recovered and began to stabilize in less than a month.

The stone tablet he had custom-made was also delivered.

He was the only one who had to record things that were not reported by the county government or even recorded in the county annals.

"Write it on the stone tablet. As long as the tablet is not broken, the deeds will not be forgotten. Future generations, especially the descendants of our two villages, will definitely remember this hatred and this kindness. As long as the tablet is there, the kindness and hatred will never be forgotten."

Chen Xiucai stood beside the stone tablet, pointed at the words on it, and taught them to read them word by word, "On October 12, the eighth year of Zhengtong, Japanese pirates went ashore around the city and attacked Shuangyang Village and Huaihua Village..."

Everyone looked up. Not many of them could read, but they opened their eyes wide and followed Chen Xiucai as he read the name of their parents, brothers and sisters, and many other friends...

Chen Xiucai carved the names of the villagers he killed on a stone tablet one by one. The first half described the cruelty of the Japanese pirates and the misery of the two villages.
The second half describes Pan Sanzhu's deeds of killing bandits in Quanzhou, and then describes Pan Yun's visit to the village with Pan Sanzhu's goodwill, and the destination and rules of the donations set by Pan Yun for them...

Time can heal the wounds in people's hearts, but it can also wear away their fighting spirit and make them forget hatred.

However, Chen Xiucai would not allow them to forget, so he erected this monument so that future generations would remember this vengeance and also remember the agreement they made with Pan Yun.

Under the stone tablet, the survivors from the two villages looked up at the names written on it and remembered Pan Sanzhu, Pan Yun, Miaozhen, Miaohe, Xuanmiao and Tao Ji.

Except for Chen Xiucai who had some suspicions, no one knew that Pan Sanzhu and Pan Yun were the same person.

Ambition and gratitude surged in their hearts. They remembered the hatred of the Japanese pirates and the kindness of Pan Yun and others. Because the names of Pan Sanzhu and Pan Yun were ranked first, the children remembered them most clearly, especially the name Pan Sanzhu.

Sanzhu Sanzhu, very easy to remember, and they have heard a lot of stories about this heroine killing bandits during this period. She has surpassed Pan Jun to become their number one idol.

Therefore, Pan Yun’s merit value continued to rise.

Of course, she didn't know at the moment that the stone tablet had been erected, and would become a place of worship and prayer for several nearby villages in the future, allowing her to always receive merit points at a specific time.

At this moment, she was handing the letter to Xiao Qi and gave her a handful of copper coins, "Give it to the Post Office, they know how to send it."

Xiao Qi put the letter into his arms and pressed it, nodding seriously, "I will definitely deliver it!"

Pan Yun rubbed her hair and said with a smile, "Go ahead."

They received their lucky bags and returned to the county town with large and small bags.

As soon as Xiao Qi entered the city, he handed all the things in his hands to his companions, covered his chest and said, "I'm going to the People's Credit Bureau, you go back first."

Grandma Yu was not worried about her. She just asked her to go home after sending the letter and said, "We will cook Fumi tonight."

They believe that the lucky rice in the lucky bag comes from the scriptures they heard in the temple and contains blessings. Once they get it, they must eat it as soon as possible to gain more blessings.

The people who lined up in front of the mountain temple to get the lucky bags all thought and said, "I'll cook it tonight when I get home."

"I just picked it up and it's really heavy. It must be a full pound, six pounds and six ounces. You can't eat a whole bag in one night, right?"

"Then eat it over three nights."

"Three people from our family came and received three lucky bags, which is enough for nine days of food."

After winter, there is less work to do in the fields. In order to save food, everyone not only reduces their meals, but also reduces the amount of food they eat at each meal, just enough to stay barely hungry.

It's a rare opportunity to cook thick porridge or rice.

Every household opens the lucky bags given by the mountain temple and cooks them after taking them back. In order to absorb better blessings, they try to cook as much as possible.

I ate well for several days in a row, my stomach felt warm, and my body was full of strength.

Therefore, most people who don’t think deeply about it think that the lucky bags given by the mountain temple really contain blessings, and their health really improved after eating them.

"It really got better. I was feeling dizzy, but after taking Fumi, I felt better."

"I used to have a lot of hair falling out and my face was sallow, but after taking this medicine, I feel much better."

"I felt weak all over, as if I had caught a cold. After taking the medicine packs given by the mountain temple and eating Fumi, I got better."

As a result, people who came here believed in the mountain temple more and more and thought it was very effective.

So during festivals or when they were in trouble, they would go to the mountain temple to worship the gods.

When encountering some small things in daily life, I would bow in the direction of the mountain temple and silently pray to the Sanqing Mountain God in my heart.

These little things are like a child crying, falling down when going out, and seeming to hear ghosts crying...

Not to mention, after kneeling down and worshipping the mountain god from afar, most of these problems were solved, and even those that were not solved were alleviated.

As a result, the people of Yushan County and Lin County believed in the mountain god even more.

Through them, the reputation of the Sanqing Mountain God began to spread to several nearby counties. More and more people came to worship the mountain temple on a daily basis, including many wealthy people.

The temple fair lasted for three days. After three days, the believers dispersed and the mountain temple returned to peace.

Pan Yun thought that this kind of calm would last until the New Year, but he did not expect that in less than half a month, the number of daily believers in the mountain temple increased.

After sending away another group of believers who came to donate money for merit, Pan Yun took advantage of the fact that no one was around, lit three incense sticks for her master and whispered, "Master, if your magic power increases, please flash on your statue."

Pan Yun raised his head and stared at the statue.

Then a light flashed in the eyes of the statue.

Pan Yun pounded his fist hard on his palm and said excitedly: "I knew that Chinese legends did not deceive people. Gods rely on incense and faith to exist."

"Master, if one day you receive a lot of incense, will you be able to ascend to become a more powerful god?" Pan Yun shook his head and said, "As the saying goes, if one person achieves enlightenment, all his family members will ascend to enlightenment. If a god achieves enlightenment, your disciple should also be able to benefit from it, right?"

Pan Yun let his thoughts wander and fancied, "For example, you can bring your beloved disciples, me and Senior Brother, to ascend as well?"

A consciousness suddenly appeared in her mind.

There was no sound, no words, but Pan Yun understood it immediately.

Her smile fell. "With my practice, I can fly faster than you? Are you still atonement? Master, what sins did you commit in the past? You have so many merit points, but you are still in the stage of paying off your debts!"

That consciousness ignored her.

(End of this chapter)