A brief introduction to Xiang's story

The monk in "Xiang" is older, and he is guarding an old temple that has been in disrepair for a long time. Just a few days before the Spring Festival, the monk's shoes were badly damaged, so he took the cloth under the wooden stick to support the Buddha statue and sewed the shoes. The shoes were mended, but the Buddha fell down. The fifteenth day of the first month is coming, and the monk is counting on collecting some incense as the living expenses for the coming year. He rode out for help on a borrowed bicycle and found the religious and cultural relics department in the county government, muttering, "Monks can't live without temples, and temples can't live without Buddha statues." But no one wants to help him. The director of religious department is playing cards with someone. His advice to the monk is to be secular or to find a master elder brother ... The story begins.

A lonely young monk living in a ruined temple described it as obscene. At the end of the year, the Buddha statue where the monk lived collapsed. In order to restore the Buddha statue, he began a long fundraising journey.

The Buddha statue in Nanxiaozhai Temple, a small village in Huairen County, Shanxi Province, collapsed. The only monk in the temple is running around to raise funds for reconstruction. First, he thought of asking the government for money. The head of the religious section prevaricated that he had no money and asked him to go to the cultural relics section next door. When the monk went out, he clearly heard the chief say that he wanted to build a new church. In desperation, I found Xiao An in the cultural relics department. As soon as I explained my purpose, I flatly refused, saying that this kind of thing is not under the control of the cultural relics department. The current task of the cultural relics department is to rehearse cultural programs and recycle old window frames. The monk had to ask his brother for help. My brother advised him to give up the statue plan and become a shareholder in his temple. The monk stubbornly refused. The desperate monk came up with a way to raise money through charity. Monks begged from door to door in a small town, and finally spent 1500, which is only half of the cost of repairing Buddha statues. Unfortunately, at this time, the police station caught the monk and confiscated all his illegal begging income. During his short stay in the police station, the monk met several prostitutes who offered to do good deeds to raise money for the monk, and the monk even called it inappropriate. The released monk was held hostage by a young man in the street in order to make him pretend to tell his fortune and his girlfriend and pay him. The monk was inspired, so he bought a book on numerology at a street stall and became a fortune teller. Unexpectedly, his income was finally robbed by hooligans. The monk was bored and slept in the square all night. On his way home, the monk met a driver driving a tricycle. The driver admired the monk and asked him to treat the neighbor's wife. The monk promised to go home with the driver. The driver's neighbor's wife has been paralyzed for years. The monk took out a small Buddha statue bought by 12 yuan in the street, saying that a master of Wutai Mountain opened the light and cured his wife's illness. Finally, the Buddha statue was sold for 3,000 yuan, which raised enough money for the statue.

The monk happily returned to the temple, finally repaired the Buddha statue, and was holding a grand opening ceremony. It's a pity that some people in the county say that the small temple is on the planned subgrade of "Get Rich Road" and will be demolished soon next year. Looking at the big word "demolition" on the wall, the voice of "Amitabha" came from the loudspeaker, and the monk could only forget the sky without saying anything.