A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 654 Buddha Statue
Soon, the temple door opened, and several great monks led some monks out to greet them. At this time, the side door of the temple also opened, and some people left through the side door of the temple.

Seeing the people leaving, Wang Xuanjing said directly: "Go and bring those people over."

When Hongzhen saw that Wang Xuanjing didn't pay attention to them, but went to call the people over, his face suddenly turned ugly, but he couldn't get angry, so he had to wait aside.

Soon, the soldiers brought a group of people over. These people were trembling under the escort of the soldiers.

"Shangguan, we are just here to pray to the Buddha, and we have not committed any crime!" One of the men in gorgeous clothes said loudly as soon as he arrived.

Wang Xuanjing looked at this man in gorgeous clothes. This man's family should be quite wealthy. He was either a local powerhouse or a wealthy family. They were also the big customers of the monks. As for other lower-class people, even if they donated all their wealth, How much money can you have?
Those monks won't give them a second glance. The only use of these low-level people is to promote their temples and are exploited by the temples.

"Invite a Buddha? What kind of Buddha? How much does it cost?" Wang Xuanjing asked. He also wanted to know how much it cost to invite a Buddha, so that he could estimate the family background of these monks.

"It didn't cost any money," the man said.

"Hahaha, the sun rises in the west, there are people who can pray to Buddha for free!" Fu Yi next to him couldn't help laughing.

Then the man explained why he asked the Buddha, and Wang Xuanjing understood the reason.

However, we had to find a geomantic treasure land to move the tomb, and there happened to be a piece of land under the temple. This land was far away from water sources and difficult to irrigate. There were many sand and gravel in it, making it a barren land.

Recently, he met an expert who told him that his family had the image of being very wealthy and noble, and they wanted to produce a person who could prosper the family. However, if he wanted to be truly wealthy, he needed to move his grave.

The mother of this wealthy family is also a believer in Buddhism. Since the Buddha grew out of the ground, this piece of land must be a feng shui treasure. Therefore, she asked her son to move the grave as soon as possible and move the ancestral grave there to bless their family with great wealth.

It is a beautifully carved Buddha statue.

That's right, a Buddha statue 'grew' out of the ground. At first, the Buddha statue only leaked a little, but it grew a minute a day, and in just seven or eight days, it actually grew to a foot tall, with the entire Buddha's head exposed.

The news about the Buddha statue growing in this land spread like wildfire, and soon the surrounding villages knew about it. Everyone said that this land was a geomantic treasure, and the Buddha from the nearby temple appeared and grew out of the ground.

But the night before he was about to buy it, a Buddha statue suddenly grew out of the ground.

At this time, the monks in the temple said that they would use these three acres of land in exchange for 200 acres of paddy fields for Zhang Dahu's family, and they would perform a ritual ceremony for Zhang Dahu's relocation of the ancestral tombs, and the ancestral tablets of Zhang Dahu's family could also be placed in the temple. Under the protection of Buddha, the Zhang family will be rich and prosperous in the future.

It's just that this land was originally under the name of Zending Temple. It was originally just three acres of barren land. It cost only seven or eight dollars to buy it. But now that the Buddha has grown from the ground, this land has also grown from the barren land. , suddenly became a geomantic treasure.

If you want to buy it again, you will need more than seven or eight dollars.

This wealthy man is a landowner in a nearby county. He owns 300 acres of fertile land, two water mills, and a paper mill. He is also a famous figure in Lantian County.

Zhang Dahu looked at it and felt that the expert was right, so he thought about buying this land. The land was already barren and there was not much food to grow, so the price was cheap.

No matter how Zhang Dahu looked at this piece of land, it didn't look like a geomantic treasure land, but the expert said that this is a place where winds are stored and energy is gathered. It receives the divine light of the sun and moon above and blessed soil below. It is three feet higher than the surrounding area. It is an image of stars gathering together.

Wang Xuanjing smiled when he heard this and said, "Do you believe that the Buddha statue will really grow out of the ground?"

Zhang Dahu didn't believe it at first, and felt even more painful.

You have to know that two hundred acres of paddy field is two-thirds of their family's farmland, not to mention it is still paddy field. There is almost no need to carry water. It can be irrigated by opening the sluice gate. In this way, one acre of field is comparable to five acres of dry land. What's more, the fields are barren.

But the news got bigger and bigger, making him hesitant. Finally, in order to verify the authenticity, he personally led people to stay in the field for one night. As a result, he saw with his own eyes that the Buddha statue grew out of the ground little by little. It was half an inch taller than yesterday. How could it be true after seeing it with his own eyes? Fake?

He immediately expressed his willingness to change. Two hundred acres of land would be worth it to make his family's descendants rich and prosperous.

"This must be man-made!" Fu Yi sneered: "The ground can only grow crops, grass and plants, how can rocks grow!"

"This is also the first time I have heard that Buddha statues can grow in the ground. I want to see this rare thing with my own eyes. If such auspiciousness is true, I can repay it to Your Majesty. If it is false, "Wang Xuanjing glanced at the group of monks.

"Monk, who of you is the abbot?" Wang Xuanjing asked.

"Amitabha." Monk Hongzhen stepped forward and said, "The poor monk is the abbot!"

"Poor monk?" Wang Xuanjing chuckled and said, "You are not poor monks. In comparison, I am poor."

"My official, Wang Xuanjing, is trusted by His Majesty. I am the official secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. I am responsible for conducting an inventory of the monks in the fields of Buddhist and Taoist temples. You should know this."

"I heard about it two days ago, and an official came to deliver the order."

"In that case, I would like to ask you, how many acres of land does the temple have?"

"You need to ask Hongguang about this matter. I don't care about the secular affairs in the temple."

"Hongguang, how many acres of land are donated by good men and women in the temple?"

"Back to the abbot, there are 5,739 acres."

Hearing this, Fu Yi next to him wanted to say something, but he still held back.

"How many monks are there in the temple?"

"One thousand and sixty-four people."

"Write it down first and send someone to verify it later. Let's go see that Feng Shui treasure land first!" Wang Xuanjing didn't say anything and directly asked people to take him to see the Buddha statue.

Soon a group of people came to the land. The land was indeed barren, the food grown did not grow well, and the harvest would not be high.

But the strange thing is that in the center of this land, it was surrounded. When everyone walked in, they found that there was a stone Buddha statue half buried on the ground. The head of the Buddha statue was completely exposed, and the chest was still there. In the soil.

It looks like it grew out of the ground.

"Does Abbot know that a Buddha statue grew out of this soil?"

"Amitabha, I don't know!" Hongzhen shook his head.

"As the abbot, you actually came here and didn't even know about the miracles. It shows that you, the abbot, are not sincere!"

Wang Xuanjing then asked other people, who all said they knew. Wang Xuanjing immediately looked at the abbot and said, "Abbott, you really don't know?"

(End of this chapter)