Chapter 7 Chapter Seven Misfortune Comes

Abing lost his beloved sister Qin, and A Bing was very anxious. "Qin sister, where are you?" A Bing wanted to find sister Qin, but Master's illness was getting worse day by day, so A Bing stayed by the bedside day and night. Misfortune befell... That night, Hua Qinghe felt flustered and lay down.He told the little Taoist priest: "You go and inform, just say that the town is in chaos right now, please close the doors and windows." The little Taoist responded, and he lay down.Howled and fell asleep. Hua Qinghe was awakened by the shouting. He hurriedly put on his clothes and went out to have a look. To his surprise, some rebel soldiers rushed into the temple. They held guns and torches and shouted: "Give up your money, Spare your lives, or your ruined temple will be burned down."

Hua Qinghe shouted: "What are you doing? You robbers." "What are you doing! I want you to donate money and food, how can I fight without food!" Hua Qinghe rushed over and said, "This is a temple, you are not allowed to mess around!" "Stop talking nonsense and hand over the money quickly, or we will burn it." "Why are you so unreasonable? If you dare, I will report to the government." "Government? Haha, I'm the government. It seems that you don't want to hand in. Brothers, search!" Hua Qing and the leader of the group were knocked down by the butt of his gun. The rebels shouted and rushed in...

A Bing and the Taoist priests from Chong'an Temple went to Yangzhou to perform the Zhaijiao performance. As soon as they arrived at the gate of the temple, A Bing and the others were stunned... The Sanqing Palace was ransacked by the rebels, and the entire palace was burned, and the fire was still burning. "Ah, the Sanqing Palace is on fire, go in and put out the fire." Ah Bing rushed in and saw Master lying on the ground of the hall, bleeding from his body. "Master! Master!" Ah Bing cried as he shook the unconscious Hua Qinghe. Hua Qinghe slowly opened his eyes.

"Master, what happened? Who hurt you?" "It's...it's the warlord's rebellious army..." "Go, I'll carry you out, the fire is coming in." A Bing carried Hua Qinghe back out. He looked back and saw that the fire in Sanqing Temple was still burning. The other Taoists snatched something out of the fire and looked at the burning temple. Everyone stood together in great grief and indignation. Where are you going?The temple burned... Hua Qinghe said: "The only way is to go to Lei Zun Hall." A Taoist said: "Lei Zun Hall is a ruined hall, and there is nothing in it."

Hua Qinghe said: "No, we have to find a way by ourselves. If we don't reach Lei Zun Palace, then we won't even have a place to live." The Taoist priests had to move to the dilapidated Lei Zun Hall. A Bing went to school to look for Yang Qin and found out that Yang Pingli had been arrested, and Yang Yin and Yang Qin's siblings had disappeared. "Sister Qin, where are you?!" A Bing raised his head and shouted towards the sky. There was no response...only the fallen leaves swept by the autumn wind fell on A Bing's face one by one. A Bing said to Hua Qinghe: "Master, I'm going to find Yang Qin and the others."

Hua Qinghe said: "Where can we find it? Now that we have not yet settled down in Lei Zun Temple, you should go to build a temple with everyone. Can you leave?" A Bing sighed, sat down, and sulked. Hua Qinghe sighed: "Oh, these rebels really killed people!" A Bing had to go with a few Taoist priests to bulldoze, build walls, and tidy up Lei Zun Hall. A Bing climbed to the Vajra Terrace to clean the statues of Lei Gong and Dian Mu, and engraved the name of the temple "Sanqing Palace" on the outside of the courtyard wall. Zhang Daohua thought Lei Zundian was too simple, so he left without saying goodbye, and went to other Taoist temples.A Taoist priest came to Hua Qinghe and said, "Master Daoist, Zhang Daohua said that he went to another temple."

After hearing this, Hua Qinghe said calmly: "If he wants to leave, let him go. Taoism never forces people to stay." One day, A Bing and two Taoist priests were building a wall. Hua Qinghe walked out with a stick. A Bing asked, "Master, your wound is not healed yet. Where are you going?" "I'm going to use some fate to make a statue of Sanqing." Hua Qinghe went out with a limp. A Bing looked at the master's back and was very moved. The master went out to beg for alms for the survival of the Taoist temple. What reason does he have to leave everyone? A Bing decided not to look for Yang Qin for the time being, and decided to build Lei Zun Palace together with Master.

This morning, after finishing the morning recitation, Hua Qinghe said to everyone: "We must reshape the statues of the Sanqing, at least to make the Lei Zun Hall have the divine power of a temple. During this period of time, I have gone through many ways to ask for a little money. In addition, I donate all my savings, and I must build the statues of the Sanqing gods, so that we can start to do rituals and sacrifices." There were a total of seven or eight Taoist priests, and they were all moved by what they heard, and they all decided to build statues of the Sanqing gods in Lei Zun Hall.

Hua Qinghe was busy dragging his injured leg. The statue of the Sanqing God has finally been sculpted. Although it is far less magnificent than the one in the Sanqing Palace, it is very solemn. It condenses the sweat of Huaqing and everyone. Lei Zun Temple held the unveiling ceremony of the Sanqing God Statue. On this day, Taoist priests from far and near came.At the beginning of the ceremony, the huqin played by A Bing was played. When Hua Qinghe led everyone to salute the three gods, he suddenly fainted to the ground.Everyone hurriedly helped him into the back room, Hua Qinghe vomited blood, so frightened that A Bing went to call for a doctor, Hua Qinghe stopped him weakly: "A Bing, there is no need to go, we have no money to pay for the medical expenses, let me be quiet Lie on the ground for a while, you go to the abbot to finish the ceremony!"

A Bing went out with tears in his eyes and said, "Keep playing the music." After the ceremony, A Bing and the Taoist priests all went to the back room to see Hua Qinghe, and saw him pale, panting and lying on a thin wooden bed.A Bing had a sore nose and asked, "Master, how are you doing?" "It's okay, it'll be fine." Everyone waited anxiously by the wooden couch, a priest said: "Master, I know a doctor in the country, I will ask him to come and show you." Hua Qinghe nodded. A Bing originally wanted to look for Yang Qin after Lei Zun Temple was repaired. This was his biggest concern, but Master's illness was getting worse day by day, so A Bing had to postpone it again. He waited by the bed day and night.

A doctor from the countryside was invited, he felt Hua Qinghe's pulse, and said: "The Taoist priest is overworked, you should take a good rest." He left the prescription and left. A Bing grabbed the medicine, fried it, brought it, and fed it spoon by spoon to Hua Qinghe's mouth. Hua Qinghe stared at A Bing, hesitating to speak. A Bing said: "Master, don't worry about it, just close your eyes and take the medicine, and you will be fine." After a while, a Taoist priest brought a bowl of rice porridge for Hua Qinghe to drink. A Bing waited for Master day and night. One day, A Bing sat on Huaqinghe's bed and played the erhu. The bewildered Huaqinghe listened to it and said: "Abing, the highest state of Taoist music is that the sound is loud and the sound is invisible." A Bing couldn't understand, so he asked, "What do you mean by a great sound and a rare sound, and that an elephant has no form?" Hua Qinghe replied: "It is the loudest sound, but it sounds silent; the biggest image is invisible." "I still do not get it." Hua Qinghe said gently: "Didn't the old Taoist priest tell you that 'Tao follows nature' when he was alive? The music played with your heart is the most natural music." "Oh, I see, it's what Mr. Yang Pingli said in class that the best music is without embellishment, right?" "I don't understand these fashionable principles, but I know that if you want to be able to play music and play the huqin with your heart..." "...only the highest level of music can be reached, isn't it? Master, this is what Teacher Yang said." A Bing said. "Just understand it with your heart!" "Thank you, Master, for teaching. Ah Bing must play the piano with all his heart." Hearing A Bing call his master, Hua Qinghe looked at A Bing in pain and hesitated to speak. One day, A Bing came back from shopping in the market. When he was about to reach the gate of the temple, he suddenly heard the shout of "help me". Shouting and running over. A Bing stopped quickly, waiting for the little girl to come running over. "Big brother, save me, the wicked are going to betray me..." the little girl cried. "Sell you?" "Ok." A Bing threw the branch off her head, quickly pushed her into the temple, and then closed the door. After a while, he heard violent knocking on the door and ferocious shouting. "Open the door!" "Hand over the little girl!" "If we don't open it, we will smash the door." A Bing hurriedly hid the little girl in the pile of firewood in the woodshed, covered her with firewood, and then opened the door.Seeing two men standing fiercely, they said, "What are you calling, this is a temple." "Let's find someone to hand over that little girl!" "What little girl? Our place is a Taoist temple, a monastery." "It was you who hid the little girl." "No! I didn't see any little girl. We only have Taoist priests here. If you don't believe me, come in and search." "Go, go in and search!" The two villains searched room by room, and they found Hua Qinghe. In the house, Taoist Hua lying on the bed said sharply: "Beast! This is a holy temple, how can you do evil here? I'm going!" The Taoist priests also gathered around, glaring at each other, and the two villains left. Qing He said: "Bring the little girl." A Bing pulled the little girl out of the pile of firewood and brought her to the long house of Dao Hua.The little girl knelt down to Hua Qinghe with a plop, and cried, "Old Taoist priest, save me, the wicked want to betray me." Hua Qinghe tried to help her up on the couch, and A Bing hurriedly pulled the little girl up. Taoist Hua asked: "What's your name? Where do you come from? Who are they?" "My name is A Zhen. I came from Jiangyin. My father passed away long ago, and my mother died of illness. I was kidnapped and sold here by two villains..." The little girl was sobbing. "Don't cry, child, if you are homeless, stay in the temple." "Thank you so much for the old Taoist priest. Although I am young, I can boil water, wash vegetables, and wash rice..." "Okay, you are too young, so you can help in the kitchen, and live with the old lady of Li Daoshi who is the gatekeeper at night!" "Thank you, old Taoist priest." Little Ah Zhen knelt down again, and was lifted up by Ah Bing. From then on, there was a clever little helper in Lei Zun Hall.