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Chapter 230 Lighting the Lights

"Let's go and burn incense.●⌒,"

Ye Rongyao smiled and led the three girls to the temple above.

"Remember not to hit the threshold, be sure to take big strides."

When he walked to the entrance of the temple, Ye Rongyao solemnly explained that you can't step into the threshold to burn incense when you go to the temple, otherwise it will be unlucky.

You have to strode over it, which is what people call "crossing the threshold", which means you have crossed a threshold in life.

Once you step on the threshold or touch it, it means that there will be another threshold in your life, which is very unlucky.

"Brother Rong, we are not children, we know this principle." Ma Lin said. After all, you cannot touch the threshold when going to a temple, and modern young people still know this principle.

After all, young people often travel with travel groups and places where they visit in China cannot do without temples. The tour guide will explain the truth that you cannot touch the threshold when entering the temple gate.

After entering the temple, there were many people inside. In the small temple, there were at least hundreds of people in a hurry. Ye Rongyao led his three daughters to the place where he bought incense sticks.

The business of buying incense sticks in the big temples is the best every year. There is no big problem to earn about 100,000 yuan in one night.

There are two types of incense sticks bought in Yanshan Village, one is fifty yuan, the other is thirty yuan, and there are six red candles, ten incense sticks, and one talisman. The difference between fifty yuan and thirty yuan incense sticks is that the red candles with fifty yuan incense sticks is larger, while the others are exactly the same.

If it is priced at the cost, it will not exceed ten yuan, but tonight, no one will bargain in the temple, and no one will think it is expensive.

After all, today we are burning incense for Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. Everyone is sincere. Who would dare to think that this incense stick is too expensive? Wouldn’t that mean that they are not sincere enough?

You can’t say “buy” when buying incense sticks in a temple, but you have to say “please”.

"You guys are here to wait a moment, I'll go in and invite Xiangzhu."

When Ye Rongyao saw that the place where the incense stick was crowded, he explained to Liu Qingqing's three girls. After all, the three girls are so beautiful and so many people are crowded around, it is easy for some people who are interested to take advantage of it.

Anyone who burns incense must pay for it himself, and it is generally not allowed to pay for it. Ye Rongyao had already explained to the three girls before entering the temple, so Ye Shuting and the three girls had already paid for the incense to Ye Rongyao for the money they bought incense.

So it doesn’t matter if Ye Rongyao pays on his behalf, it doesn’t matter.

"Give me four sets of incense sticks that cost thirty yuan."

Ye Rongyao handed over two hundred yuan and told the incense sticks that these incense sticks are related to some things, otherwise they would not be their turn to sell incense sticks. However, no matter how much income is, half of them will be given to the temple, and the others are divided by individuals and Yanshan Village Committee. As for how to divide, Ye Rongyao is not clear.

Soon, Ye Rongyao took four boxes of incense sticks, each box with six red candles, ten incense sticks, and a talisman. This was made by someone, and it would not be missing. Of course, after taking it, everyone would check it out. After all, it would be bad if there were fewer ones.

"Okay, one box for each person."

Ye Rongyao said to the three girls standing behind him with a smile.

"Husband, how do you do this?"

Liu Qingqing asked. But Liu Qingqing had never had any incense in the New Year. She saw that there were red candles, incense, and talismans in the box. She didn't know how to do it.

"This is very simple. You follow me and what I do, you can do it." Ye Rongyao said.

Ye Rongyao started at the age of 18. Every New Year, he would go to the temple with his father to make wishes and burn incense. This process is quite familiar.

"Um."

The three women nodded and replied, after all, it was Ye Shuting's first time in the temple to burn incense during the New Year, and I don't know how to do it.

"Let's cleanse your hands first." Ye Rongyao said to the three girls.

"What is 'cleaning hands'?" Liu Qingqing asked curiously.

"It means washing your hands."

Ye Rongyao explained that washing hands before burning incense is mainly to express one's sincerity and to cleanse one's heart in the world.

"oh."

Liu Qingqing replied. Liu Qingqing knew that he had to wash his hands when he went to the temple to burn incense. But he didn't know that this hand washing was also a professional term called "cleaning hands".

On a table next to the temple, there is a basin with a basin of water. Everyone washes their hands here before burning incense, and it is not considered washing their hands. Just soak their hands in water, indicating that they have washed away the dust.

After Ye Rongyao washed his hands into the basin, he picked up the towel on the side to wipe his hands dry. Liu Qingqing and the three girls also did it as Ye Rongyao's movements.

"Brother Glory, what should I do later?" Ma Lin asked.

"Light this talisman, and before this talisman is burned, circle around the whole body, just like I did."

Ye Rongyao took out the talisman from the box, lit it with the flame of the candle on the table, quickly circled his body with his left hand, and let it burn naturally.

"Brother Honor, what's the use for?" Ma Lin asked curiously.

"This talisman is used to burn all the unclean and ominous things on your body." Ye Rongyao explained to the three girls.

"This way, you can burn all the unclean and ominous things on your body?" Ma Lin asked in disbelief.

"In the words of Buddhist scriptures, those who believe have, and those who don't believe have no. You should do it as I did just now." Ye Rongyao said with a smile.

After the three girls ignited the talisman around their bodies as they were just now, Ye Rongyao took the three girls out of the house. There were three lamp holders in front of the temple, which were specially for good men and women to light the lamps.

The lamp stand is divided into five layers. The bottom layer has the largest diameter. The more needle tips you can insert candles, the smaller the diameter is, the fewer needle tips you can insert candles.

Buddhism attaches great importance to "providing". Lighting lamps is a kind of offering, which belongs to "lamp offering", and is one of the ten offerings in Buddhism. The Buddhist scriptures say that lighting lamps can get a lot of good rewards, so lighting lamps has become a Buddhist custom.

In Buddhism, "lamp" is a symbol of light and wisdom. It burns lamps to offer to Buddha, which means that the Buddha's wisdom and magic power are boundless.

Ye Rongyao brought the three girls to the left lamp stand. At this time, there were many people lighting the lamps, and the needle tips on the lamp stand were definitely not enough, so people arranged in the temple to turn off the lamps, which means that as soon as your lamp was put on, someone immediately turned off your lamp with a small hammer and took it off.

This completely lost the meaning of lighting the lamp. It is logical that we have to wait for it to go out naturally. However, tonight, so many people in the temple will light the lamps, so they will not immediately turn off the lit lamps, and there is no place for people behind to insert candles and light the lamps.

"Follow me to do it, on this lamp stand, let's light two lamps."

Ye Rongyao told the three girls, then took out a candle and lit it with the lit candle on the lamp holder. After the candle fired, he found an empty needle to insert the candle.

The second candle was also inserted in the same way as the first candle, but when Ye Rongyao's second candle was inserted, the first candle was extinguished and was still on the ground.

But now everyone is like this, so they can only shake their heads helplessly. Anyway, the person who does this kind of person who turns off other people's lamps is the people in the temple.
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