In the end, one must be attentive when doing things. Living without taking care of one's heart is called a walking corpse. △

As long as people live with their hearts, there will be what they should have, and what they should belong to you will come sooner or later. Put your hopes on those illusory things, and you can only seek peace of mind, but will not bring any changes to your life, will not affect the outcome of things, and will not change the trajectory of your destiny.

If you don’t take your heart and don’t work hard, you want to enjoy the fruits of victory. Is it possible? You can succeed in this way, and how can those who have worked hard and sweat behave? How can you bear the feelings?

——"Whispers of Ye's Family"? Thoughts about burning incense and worshiping Buddha before the college entrance examination

The first day of the college entrance examination is in full swing.

Su Mu and the others took a detour to return to the beach villa. Although it was not short of money, Ye Xi did not need to buy real estate here. The villa in front of her was also purchased when she said she wanted to come for a vacation. However, this type of villa is the type that has been decorated, has home appliances in place, and has a bag to move in, so there is no need to consider anything else at all.

"The college entrance examination is outside, so let's take a walk along the beach. We will leave tomorrow, and we may not be able to see when we come again." Ye Xi changed into a relaxed and comfortable skirt, held Su Mu's arms and smiled sweetly.

"It's all my fault." Su Mu scraped Ye Xi's nose bridge, and the two of them walked out of the villa with each other leaning against each other.

Wei Mei and the others followed behind.

"Huh, there seem to be a lot of people there, what are they doing?"

On the beach by the sea.

Ye Xi and the others came here for a walk, and found that there were many figures not far away. Curiosity occupied her heart. They pulled Su Mu's hand and walked forward, "I just heard that there is a Wenshu Temple near the villa. Are there any ritual activities today? If there is any, we will go to worship Buddha and pray for peace to my son. Of course, I know that you don't believe in these things, you can just do it, just accompany me."

"It's okay for you, I'm fine." Su Mu nodded.

Over the years, Ye Xi has been conquered by a kind of belief power in her heart. It’s not that she is superstitious, but she does this to make peace. She will not be obsessed with such incense as some people, but since she encounters it, she will worship her, and there will be no bad things anyway.

There is indeed a Wenshu Temple here. Usually, this place is not a place with a lot of incense, and few people come here. After all, it is located outside the city and the area around Shanghai, and it is also remote, but today it is different. The door has long been densely packed with various cars and electric cars.

There are crowds of people at the entrance of the temple. Everyone either holds a blessing bag for prayer or sandalwood in their hands. The names marked on each pack of incense are very different, including the incense of the top scholar, the first incense, the laurel fragrance...the nature is the same.

"Today there are so many people coming to Wenshu Temple to pray. Let's go and leave after worshiping. When the exam is over there, parents will rush over here, and it will be busier here."

"Well, what you said makes sense, burn incense and worship Buddha quickly."

"You must be sincere, and sincerity will make you feel good. No one is allowed to say disrespectful words."

"This is a major Buddhist place. Whoever can talk nonsense? Just keep your mouth in mind."

...

After approaching, from the conversation between everyone around him, Su Mu and Ye Xi realized that it was not a ritual activity, but because of the college entrance examination, it was so popular here. After looking at each other, they couldn't help but smile a helpless smile.

Can you get what you wish by burning incense and praying for a wish? The children are already taking the exam room, and it is a mule or a horse, and you parents are doing this kind of blessing behavior outside. It is not that it is impossible, but it just feels a little funny. Can you say that because of your prayers, you can know what you don’t know, and you can get a good score if you don’t know.

"This is actually not superstition, but a kind of mood sustenance." Ye Xi sighed as he looked at the figure walking back and forth around him.

"Yes, the mood is in custody. Everyone hopes that their children can get good grades. So even if they know that doing this will not help, they will still come over to do it. No one wants their children to complain about this after their grades come out." Su Mu shook his head helplessly, not neglecting this phenomenon.

"There are so many people, are we going in?" Ye Xi couldn't help but ask.

"What do you think? Since you have come, go in and pay homage. Go, I'll wait outside." Su Mu said with a smile, raised his hand, and walked over quickly from not far away. Following this, there were a few bodyguards hiding in the dark.

"Wei Mei, accompany Sister Ye to burn incense."

"Okay, don't worry."

Buddhist temples are religious, and they are free to treat religion in ****, but this freedom does not mean that Su Mu does not need to be scruples at all. After all, he is an official. If he is reported by a person with a heart, he says that officials believe in superstition and burn incense and worship Buddha in the temple, he doesn't want to provoke such troubles. As for Ye Xi's safety, in a major Buddhist place, who else can threaten it?

Just as Su Mu was wandering around, a wave of indignant conversation came into his ears.

"A monk, he is even more shady than a bandit, and he is profitable. How can they do this?"

"That's right, a handful of incense is sold for 500 yuan, which is obviously a robbery of money."

"I said you bought an ordinary incense. If you really have an explanation and pay attention to some quality, such as a burnt incense, it will have to be at least a few thousand. If you don't buy it, then there will naturally be someone who buys it. I just saw that there were a lot of local tyrants who bought dozens of incense, and they would spill out tens of thousands at once."

"There is also a saying of consecration?"

"Of course, okay, okay, don't complain. In this Manshu Temple, you want to go in to burn incense and worship Buddha, and if you want to hang a blessing bag, you can only buy it from their group of people. Their incense has special signs. Manshu Temple only recognizes these pilgrims, and hasn't heard what others say? It's not effective for you to use other incense. For the sake of your children, don't worry, and you really can't afford to provoke others. Can people who can do such things in important places in Buddhism have no background?"

"It makes sense, forget it."

"It's our turn to go in and hang the blessing bags, let's go."

...

All this is OK?

When the two of them walked past, Su Mu frowned slightly, and with a sense of confusion, he began to listen carefully to the conversations of the people around him. As he listened, his mood became more serious and gloomy. In just a short while, he had already heard the whole thing clearly, and it was nothing more than a group of people who controlled the incense and blessing bags of Wenshu Temple.

This group of people has controlled the price very high. If pilgrims want to go in and burn incense and worship Buddha, they can only buy it from them, and they are not allowed to buy it from outside. And if they say, starting from yesterday's transaction, until now, relying on this group of people alone has accumulated at least millions of huge profits. This number can only be conservative, and it can only be more or less.

There is five hundred incense for a handful of fragrance, and everyone buys at least two handfuls, which is one thousand. One person is one thousand, and now Su Mu only sees more than a few hundred heads, and thousands of people have them. Thinking of the meaning behind this number, Su Mu feels a little tired of it.

This is not about making money, it is clearly about robbing money. Is it true that the relevant departments are not clear about this happening? Perhaps it is just like the person just said that this group of people have backgrounds, otherwise they would not dare to do such robbing money in broad daylight.

A major place in Buddhism?

Su Mu's eyes narrowed slightly into a line, sweeping towards the plaque of Wenshu Temple, thinking about something.

There is a market where there is demand. If no one in this group of parents would do such a thing, even if it is free to give in here, will anyone come here? It is precisely because this group of people grasps the parents' minds that they do things so unscrupulously.

If you guess correctly, this Wenshu Temple may be facing the entire city to operate this business. It is not something that anyone dares to think about using the important place of Buddhism as a means of making huge profits.

An incense selling site outside Wenshu Temple.

Huang Gongju sat under the parasol next to her, looking at the crowd in front of her, her cheeks were full of smiles. Come on, the more people come, the more I earn. This kind of money alone is a huge income every year.

Tsk, it’s still Mr. Lan who has the vision to think of such a business. Who would have thought of someone else? Even if he could think of it, who would dare to do this? After today, this craze for burning incense and worshiping Buddha may weaken, but it will never disappear.

There will be a college entrance examination tomorrow. After the college entrance examination is over, aren’t there still applications? In our publicity, if we want to go to our favorite school smoothly, we have to come here to burn incense and worship Buddha. When we get the admission letter, we have to come over to fulfill our wishes. Hehe, when I think of this whole process arrangement, I smiled proudly.

Huang Gongju's fat face smiled like a blooming chrysanthemum.

"Boss, do you want this to be fragrant? No problem, two thousand."

At the sales center, several men in uniform clothes were taking out the incense. When a parent approached to buy it, one of them said casually, and the expression on his face was still indifferent and too lazy to deal with it. It was as if selling the incense to you was giving alms.

"Two thousand? Are you wrong? You said this handful of incense costs 2 thousand? It's impossible. There are at most dozens of dollars outside. Don't bully me if I come from other places, just fool me. Tell you, my son is from the local area." An old man with sparse hair and gold teeth shouted in disbelief.

"Your son is local? So what? If you buy, buy, get out if you don't buy."

"I'm talking to you, old man, I would like to advise you that it's better to buy here. If you want to change the place, don't even step on the steps of Manshu Temple."

"A poor guy, isn't he willing to even get this little blood in order to get into a good university for his child?"

...

A few men who sold the fragrance mocked him disdainfully, no one had any intention of making any mistakes. The attitude was like an old man who would get out of business if he didn't buy it, and if he dared to make trouble here, he would be dissatisfied with his face.

"How do you talk? Do you know where this place is? The Buddhist important place is Wenshu Temple, in front of the Wenshu Temple in our hometown. Not to mention that there are no stalls like you, even if there are no one who makes noise like you. You are simply outrageous, you..."

"Old guy, get out of here. You're kind to you, you'll have a face, right?"

The old man shouted like this, and the young man selling incense closest to him reached out and pushed him.
Chapter completed!