Medicine Girl Jingjing

Chapter 586 Touring the Mountain and Meeting a Little Evil Monk (4)
Li Yunxiao shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, the Empress can't bear to marry Jue Niang at such a young age."

The siblings waited for He Jingyan to arrive, and rode out of the house together to visit Wuquan Mountain.

There are two famous mountains in Jincheng - Baita and Wuquan.

Baita Mountain is next to the Yellow River, and its geographical location is worse than Wuquan Mountain, but the scenery in the mountain is not as good as Wuquan Mountain.

Wuquan Mountain is located at the northern foot of Gaolan Mountain on the south side of Jincheng. It is a famous mountain with a history of more than a thousand years and is very famous in Longdi.

As the name suggests, Wuquan Mountain has five springs in the mountain, namely Hui, Ganlu, Juyue, Mozi and Mengquan.

Meng, Huidong and Xierquan, on both sides of Wuquan Mountain, have water flowing out from the crevice, forming a waterfall, commonly known as the East and West "Longkou", which is a must-see place when you come to Jincheng. (Excerpt from Baidu)

Buddhism established a temple in Wuquan Mountain more than 1000 years ago, which echoes Baita Temple across the Yellow River.

At the beginning of the dynasty, when the Xiongnu attacked the Northland, the imperial court arrested many boys in Longdi to fight, even eight or nine-year-old children, causing riots among the people. The officials in Jincheng ordered the killing of the people, and then hid in the Wuquan Temple was destroyed, but the temple was implicated and burned to ashes by the people.

After the establishment of the Ding Dynasty, Taoism became the state religion, and with He Dong's will, the Wuquan Temple was established on the land of the former Wuquan Temple.

Buddhism got angry when it was a step too late, and built Wuquan Temple on the top of Wuquan Mountain. There is less flat land on the top of the mountain, and the scale of the building is naturally not comparable to Wuquan Temple, let alone the original Wuquan Temple.

In recent years, in order to compete for pilgrims at Wuquan Temple and Wuquan Temple, martial arts priests in the temple and monks in the temple would fight in groups almost every month, and eventually the incense on both sides was not strong.

After He Jingyan arrived in Jincheng, the first thing he dealt with was that when two monks from Wuquan Temple were fighting with the Taoist priest of Wuquan Temple, they accidentally killed three commoners who were watching the excitement.

He executed the monk, then fined Wuquan Temple 9000 taels of silver to compensate the families of the three common people, and closed Wuquan Temple for three months, and of course also fined Wuquan Temple for one month.

The incense at Wuquan Temple and Wuquan Temple was not very popular in the first place, and no one came now.

In contrast, Wuquan Temple is at the foot of the mountain, and it is better to close it for a month because of its large scale.

Wuquan Temple is small on the top of the mountain, closed for one season, and there are no pilgrims at all.

He Jingyan, Li Jingjing, and Li Yunxiao arrived at Wuquan Mountain and climbed along the mountain road. They saw no more than 20 pilgrims going to Wuquan Temple.

The three of them took a rest in the pavilion halfway up the mountain with their entourage.

At this time, several men and women came down from the mountain, their faces were full of anger, and one of them was a middle-aged fat man in a satin gown who seemed to be a businessman with some family background. Outside the pavilion, he asked loudly: "Are you going to Wuquan Temple?"

He Jingyan nodded.

Several companions of the middle-aged fat man rushed to say: "You must not go!"

"In front is Mengquan. The monks of Wuquan Temple have occupied the spring. Anyone who has drunk the spring water will be charged money."

"A few of us were asked to pay 20 taels of silver. You are dressed so well, and you look like rich people. At least 20 taels of silver will be charged to each of you."

"We were going to Wuquan Temple to make a wish, but when we walked to Mengquan, we were extorted 20 taels of silver by the monks of Wuquan Temple. How dare we go to the temple again."

Li Jingjing snorted coldly, and said: "These monks are really looking for money, and even bully Mengquan to collect money. This matter must be taken care of!"

Li Yunxiao said in a low voice: "Brother-in-law, the whole of Longbei is your fiefdom, and Wuquan Mountain is also in it. The monks of Wuquan Temple dare to do this, I will teach their abbot a lesson!"

He Jingyan waved to those people and said: "Don't be angry, just wait here in this pavilion, and I will ask the abbot of Wuquan Temple to return the money to you later."

A few people didn't believe it at first, then the middle-aged fat man looked at He Jingyan's followers and found that all of them were martial arts masters, so he cupped his hands and said gratefully: "Then please trouble your lord."

He Jingyan, Li Yunxiao, and Li Jingjing left the pavilion to go to Mengquan. On the way, they encountered two waves of tourists who were also exasperated by the monks of Wuquan Temple asking for silver money to eat spring water, so they all went to wait in the pavilion.

After a while, I arrived at the crystal clear Mengquan. As Sanbo people said just now, standing beside the spring was a young monk who looked very honest and dressed in clean and tidy monk clothes.

The young monk was about five or six years old, with an immature voice, and said loudly: "The spring water of Mengquan gathers the essence of heaven and earth, and it has been consecrated by the eminent monks of this temple chanting scriptures. Those who drink it will be wise and long-lived."

He Jingyan and Li Yunxiao looked at each other, and they called their followers to go forward and take a few sips of spring water.

The little monk rolled his eyes, looked at Li Jingjing, and asked, "Why doesn't this noble man drink from the spring?"

Li Jingjing said: "I'm afraid that if I drink the spring water, I won't be able to pay the money, and I will be beaten by your brother."

The little monk smirked a few times, pointed at He Jingyan and the others, and asked, "So you already know, why didn't you stop them?"

Li Jingjing smiled secretly.

Seeing that Li Jingjing ignored him, the little monk was a little disappointed, and shouted: "The spring water belongs to our Wuquan Temple. If you eat the spring water, even if you eat away the Buddhist spirit of the temple, you have to make up for it with incense and money."

Li Yunxiao asked: "How to make up for it?"

The little monk glanced at Li Jingjing, and seeing that she didn't look at him anymore, he said loudly: "Each of you drank at least three sips of spring water, one sip is worth ten taels of silver, 30 taels per person, you can give 600 taels."

He Jingyan thought in his heart: "My boy, you paid 600 taels of silver as soon as you opened your mouth, which is more than my king's monthly salary."

Li Yunxiao said: "You let us drink spring water just now."

The little monk was not afraid at all, and said loudly: "The little monk just said that the spring water is good, how did he say that you are allowed to drink the spring water?"

All the attendants shouted: "This is Longbei, the fiefdom of King Yan, not Buddhist, let alone Wuquan Temple, why do you accept money?"

"Just now a tourist said that the monks of Wuquan Temple occupy the springs to collect money, we still don't believe it, it seems to be true!"

"You don't want to eat the toast and fine wine. Just wait and see!" The little monk took a few steps back, took out a whistle from his arms, blew it on his hips, and then howled heart-piercingly, shouting: "Brother, they eat I won’t be given money for drinking the water from Mengquan Spring, and I will be beaten, my junior brother.”

Thirty or so ferocious monks ran out from behind the Mengquan boulder, each with sticks in their hands, and surrounded He Jingyan and others.

"Even five-year-old children are not spared, you villains are really deceiving!"

"Little brother, we're here to save you!"

"Arrest all those who bullied my junior brother, and bring them to the main hall for interrogation!"

Li Yunxiao argued: "We didn't beat the little monk at all!" Then he shouted: "Little monk, you are confusing right and wrong!"

(End of this chapter)