Chapter 246 Our remaining luck (Part 2)
Faning Temple is actually on a small hill in the urban area of Haixi City, called Fengming Mountain. The location is not remote and is a few kilometers closer to the city center than the East Suburb Campus.
Although it is a holiday, today is neither the first nor the fifteenth day of the lunar month, and this place is not a tourist attraction, so it is quite quiet.
In March, peach blossoms bloom, and romantic luck naturally comes.
Of course, it could also be a romantic disaster.
"Junior sister Yinan, the stairs are a bit slippery, please be careful." Lu Xuechang reluctantly put down his hand that was supporting the girl's back, his heart pounding.
He really didn't expect that when he mentioned the idea of going to Faning Temple on Fengming Mountain to his junior schoolmate from the College of Arts on WeChat last night, this junior schoolmate who had always been rather aloof actually agreed right away.
Fengming Mountain is not high, only about two hundred meters high. Faning Temple is built on the hillside near the top of the mountain. You have to climb less than one kilometer before entering the mountain gate.
Following Fang Yu's instructions, Lu Xuechang did not lead the way in front, but followed behind his junior from the School of Arts. Sure enough, the road was slippery when they were about to enter the mountain gate. Fortunately, he was behind and supported his junior with his hands.
"The moss on the steps is green, which is quite nice." The schoolgirl from the Faculty of Arts straightened her long black hair, with an intellectual and elegant look on her face.
This school girl is called Li Yinnan. At first glance, she looks a bit like Lu Jiayan. Both are cool and beautiful women with long black hair. No wonder Lu Xuechang wants to ask her out.
If you can't get the best, find an alternative.
As soon as he entered the mountain gate, he was greeted by Weituo Bodhisattva with the Four Heavenly Kings on both sides. Li Yinan first bowed to the Bodhisattva, then saw the merit box at the door, hesitated for a moment, and touched the five hundred-yuan bills in his pocket.
I should have changed some coins earlier.
"Junior sister Yinan." Lu Xuechang took out a few coins and handed them to Li Yinan. He also took one and threw it into the merit box in front of the Bodhisattva. Then, he took Li Yinan and threw four coins into the merit box in front of the Four Heavenly Kings.
In fact, Faning Temple is very new and has little history. It is only twenty years old. According to rumors, this area was to be demolished twenty years ago and Fengming Mountain was to be leveled. I don’t know why it was not demolished and a temple was built on it instead. It is a formal Buddhist temple under the management of Taichang Temple, not a tourist attraction under the management of the Tourism Bureau.
Of course, these are just rumors, and no one knows what exactly happened.
The temple is quite large, with the main hall, Guanyin Hall, Ksitigarbha Hall, Maitreya Hall and other facilities. It is estimated to cover at least dozens of acres. Every time he went to a place, Lu Xuechang would take out some change for the schoolgirl, and kneel on the cushion with her to worship sincerely.
After kneeling down in a circle, even though they were both young, the younger sister felt so tired that her legs were almost sore.
But what surprised Lu Xuechang was that the schoolgirl was actually very enthusiastic and not impatient at all.
And it was obvious that her attitude towards him became much closer.
"The wishing well is in front. I have a few coins here. Let's go over and try it." Lu Xuechang tentatively asked according to Fang Yu's instructions.
"Okay, Senior Xuechang, you are really thoughtful." Li Yinan smiled slightly. Although his expression was still a little distant, it was much better than before.
The wishing wells in temples are all similar, a pool of water with an incense burner in the middle. In order to prevent people from not knowing that this is a wishing well, temples generally do not remove all the coins from the pool, but leave a layer on top.
"Oh! So close!" Li Yinan threw fifteen or sixteen pieces, all just a little bit off, and Lu Xuechang also threw seven or eight pieces, and one of them landed right in the incense burner.
"Senior is still lucky." Li Yinan looked a little disappointed.
Lu Xuechang mentally prepared himself for a long time before mustering up the courage to say, "Well, actually, there's a technique to this. Water has refracting properties. The incense burner is actually deeper than it looks, so you have to throw it farther. Look."
Lu Xuechang threw another one, and although it didn't go in, it was very close.
"I'll give you the remaining few. Try again." Lu Xuechang gave the remaining 6 coins to Li Yinan.
Li Yinan tried again, but still missed the shot.
Lu Xuechang licked his lips nervously, reached out and held Li Yinan's hand, "No, it's like this, I'll teach you."
Li Yinan's hand froze. Lu Xuechang thought he was being too aggressive, but unexpectedly, Li Yinan smiled and said, "Okay, I can borrow some of your luck."
Wow! Awesome!
Is this trick so effective?
Lu Xuechang held Li Yinan's hand and raised it, and a coin fell into the pool with a spinning motion.
Not in, but not far away.
Dong, dong, dong, he missed three balls in a row, and when it came to the second to last ball, Lu Xuechang secretly regretted it in his heart, hoping that he would not fail.
But Lao Fang said that it’s okay to flip over. As long as there is physical contact and the other party doesn’t object, we can move on to the next step.
Thinking this in his mind, Lu Xuechang held Li Yinan's hand and pushed him forward.
"I got it! I got it!" Li Yinan jumped up suddenly with a happy smile on his face.
"By the way, senior, I'll return the remaining coin to you." Li Yinan calmly pulled his hand out of Lu Xuechang's hand and took out the remaining coin.
Lu Xuechang breathed a sigh of relief. He had actually prepared quite a few coins, but he didn't expect that it would take so many tries to get just one in.
Lao Fang said that if the other party returns the coin at this time, he will accept it.
Lu Xuechang smiled, took the dollar back and put it in his pocket.
When they arrived at the main hall, they lit two incense sticks. Lu Xuechang went to the religious object exchange area next to it to burn incense, while Li Yinan took pictures with a selfie stick.
When Lu Xuechang passed by the place where Li Yinan was asking for fortune while Li Yinan was not paying attention, he calmly threw a hundred yuan in and then gave a wink to the Buddhist who was interpreting the fortune.
The layman understood and quietly put the money away.
Lu Xuechang felt relieved. Lao Fang was indeed experienced. It turned out that this was all an industrial chain.
After they burned incense and knelt side by side to kowtow to the Buddha, they walked out of the door and saw the fortune-telling stall.
"Let's ask for a fortune stick." Lu Xuechang took out twenty yuan and handed it to Li Yinan. He also took out twenty yuan and handed it to the layman. He asked for a fortune stick, and it was a good one.
Although it is not the best fortune, it is still pretty good.
When it was Li Yinan's turn to draw a fortune, Lu Xuechang said, "I'll go take a look at the side," and slowly walked away.
"Master, interpret the fortune." Li Yinan felt a little confused as soon as he got the fortune stick, and the word "Zhong" on the fortune stick was even more glaring.
The layman took the lot with a confident expression, "Lot 33: A beautiful jade is hidden in the center of a stone. If you know the answer, why look outside? Wait for a master to analyze it, just like a spiritual rain cleansing an ordinary person's heart."
"This signature is not very good."
The layman shook his head and sucked his teeth.
Li Yinan was a little panicked, but also a little cautious. After all, he often heard about people being cheated out of a lot of money and getting out of trouble.
I wanted to leave, but I felt that it was not worth it to come here to ask for a visa and end up feeling so upset.
"What does that mean exactly?" Li Yinan was a little nervous.
"Since you insist on asking, I'll be straight. Number 33 is a middle number, meaning your recent luck isn't very good. Your ambitions are high, but your life is fragile. Nothing is going your way, nothing is going your way."
The layman shook his head and put the stick back into the stick box.
"Then how do we resolve it? How much will it cost?" Li Yinnan bit her lip. She had already made up her mind. As long as the lay Buddhist told her how much money she needed to pay, she would turn around and leave.
It is disgusting enough to just hope for a winning lottery, and it is even more unfortunate to be deceived and pay hundreds of dollars in IQ tax.
This Lu Xuechang is really a jinx. Why does he come to the temple for no reason?
"Spend money? Girl, this is not a matter of spending money." The monk looked calm and was obviously an old actor.
"People have their ups and downs, and there will always be bad luck for a while. Don't take it to heart. Besides, the solution is written in the hexagram. The first sentence is: The stone contains the beautiful jade in the center, so why look outside for it?"
"These two sentences have made it very clear. The person who can make your luck better is right next to you."
"Whomever you think brings you better luck, spend more time with them and use their luck to improve your own. That's what the last two lines mean: 'Wait until a master comes to analyze it, just like spiritual rain cleansing the lap of an ordinary person.' Do you understand?"
Li Yinan was stunned. He didn't expect that the Buddhist who interpreted the fortune actually didn't charge any money.
Whoever brings you luckier luck, you should spend more time with him?
Li Yinan seemed to be lost in thought.
"Yinan, have you finished interpreting the fortune? Do you want to go to the bathroom before going down the mountain?" Lu Xuechang had been secretly observing the situation here. Seeing that the time was almost right, he ran over to offer his courtesy.
Seeing Lu Xuechang, a thought suddenly flashed through Li Yinan's mind. Eh? Just now, when they were tossing coins into the wishing well, he had pretty good luck.
Could it be that he is the lucky person around me?
"I'm not going to the bathroom. If you don't want to go either, let's go down the mountain." Li Yinan unconsciously moved closer to Lu Xuechang.
Lu Xuechang's face lit up with joy, and he didn't dare to look at the Buddhist who interpreted the fortune. He coughed, and this time he walked ahead and went down the mountain with Li Yinan.
Just as he reached the foot of the mountain and was about to book a taxi online, Li Yinan saw a man and a woman walking towards him from the side of the road. The man was about 1.9 meters tall and the woman was nearly 1.7 meters tall. They were chasing and playing as they walked towards the mountain gate.
Those two people are...ah! Fang Yu and Lu Jiayan!
Yesterday, the school announced that Fang Yu, a sophomore from the School of Economics, had published a first-author paper in the top economics journal, Econometrica. This paper could be the biggest breakthrough in econometrics in recent years...
That’s a top SSCI journal.
Li Yinan had been in school for over seven months and was already familiar with the school's most influential figures. Seeing these two people acting so intimately together, he unconsciously asked Lu Xuechang, "Senior, are they..."
As soon as he said this, he saw Lu Xuechang greeting Fang Yu and Lu Jiayan from a distance, and Lu Jiayan even smiled at Lu Xuechang.
Obviously, some of them are familiar with each other.
Isn't Lu Jiayan an icy beauty? Can she smile?
Li Yinnan had seen Lu Jiayan at school, but she always felt a little uncomfortable whenever Lu Jiayan was around.
It's that embarrassing feeling of carrying a fake Chanel bag to a party, only to find that the girl sitting opposite you is carrying the same genuine Chanel bag.
"Senior, do you know Senior Fang Yu and Senior Jia Yan?" After getting in the car, Li Yinan's eyes flashed and he spoke tentatively.
Lu Xuechang said casually: “Oh, Lao Fang is my roommate, Jiayan and…we are friends.”
When Li Yinan heard that Lu Xuechang was Fang Yu's roommate, he unconsciously raised his score for Lu Xuechang a few points.
People are like this. When they hear that someone’s friend is very capable, they will naturally look up to that person in their hearts.
The two of them took an online taxi back to the National University. Lu Xuechang did not invite Li Yinan to lunch: "Yinan, I have an appointment at noon. I'll treat you to lunch another day."
Li Yinan was quite surprised. She originally thought that Lu Xuechang must be the kind of person who would pester her, but they got along well this morning. If he invited her to lunch, she would agree.
But unexpectedly, Lu Xuechang didn't mention it at all.
Lu Xuechang just waved goodbye and suddenly turned back: "I almost forgot, I have a small gift for you."
After saying that, Lu Xuechang took out the remaining coin from his pocket, took Li Yinan's hand, and placed it in her palm.
"This is for you."
?
Li Yinan looked at Lu Xuechang with some confusion.
What do you mean? One dollar?
Lu Xuechang smiled and recited the lines according to last night's practice: "This is the luck we have left today."
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In the dining room, Lu Jiayan looked at the noodles in the bowl with a bitter face: "This is too much, I really can't eat it. Brother, please help me eat it."
Fang Yu sighed, quickly finished the noodles in front of him, took Lu Jiayan's bowl of noodles, and took away two-thirds.
He had made an appointment long ago to bring Lu Jiayan to Faning Temple. After all, "removing the curse" was a ritual spell, and one of the conditions for casting the spell was to set up a magic circle in a recognized "cursed place".
This generally recognized cursed place is not necessarily a real cursed place, but it can be considered a cursed place as long as it meets the concept of a curse.
Fang Yu searched everywhere and found that there were only three places in Haixi that had similar urban legends.
The other two are residential and office buildings, so there is no reason to bring Lu Jiayan there.
Moreover, this ritual spell has to last for an hour, and Lu Jiayan has to be put into a deep sleep during the middle of the spell. It is a bit too scary to fall asleep like in the other two urban legends.
Then the only thing left is Faning Temple.
Therefore, Fang Yu had already made an appointment with Lu Jiayan to visit Faning Temple today.
After walking around for dozens of minutes, Fang Yu made an excuse to let Lu Jiayan take a break. He found a stone bench for Lu Jiayan in a blind spot of the surveillance camera and the two of them sat on it.
"Let me lean on you for a while." Lu Jiayan hugged Fang Yu's arm and rested his head on Fang Yu's deltoid muscle. Fang Yu's eyes flashed and he cast a sleeping spell on Lu Jiayan.
"I'm so sleepy~ah~" Lu Jiayan yawned, but within three to five seconds, he began to breathe heavily.
Seeing that there was no one around, Fang Yu quickly took out the invisibility cloak from the Boundless Messenger and draped it over the two of them. In a blink of an eye, their figures disappeared into thin air.
"Huh? Senior brother? It seemed like something just passed by?" Outside the Sutra Library, a young man shuddered all over. It seemed that something vaguely floated by, but when he looked, there was nothing.
"Don't talk nonsense!" the older one scolded. "There's nothing there!"
"Brother, before..."
"Shut up!"
"I mean, was the window of the Sutra Library open just now?"
"Are you dazzled? Isn't that closed? Who would go over there for no reason? Let's go, let's go to the dining hall to eat."
"This place is really weird. Every time I come here, I always feel..."
"Told you to shut up!"
If you want to seriously pursue a girl and fall in love with her, going to a temple or a Taoist temple really works, you can give it a try.
(End of this chapter)
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