The next day was Saturday. Early in the morning, Lu Chuan was waiting downstairs at Forensic Shen's house.
After a while, facing the morning glow, Shen Yan, wearing a woolen coat, walked out of the unit door.
“My wife is so beautiful!”
“Come on, one of us!”
Without a case, I feel light.
The civet cat-for-prince case has been solved. The criminal investigation detachment has nothing else to do these two days. Lu Chuan and Forensic Doctor Shen can enjoy another wonderful weekend.
Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and two people in the institute plan to visit the Great Buddha Temple.
One is that there is a temple fair there today, go shopping, it is lively, and the other is that two people plan to burn incense at the Big Buddha Temple.
Of course, as police officers, both Lu Chuan and Shen Yan are pure materialists and do not believe in feudal superstition.
But as Lao Liu and Wang Changjiang said, there is no harm in going to say goodbye.
In fact, many people in the forensic and field investigation community quite believe this.
Lao Liu has several friends who spend paper money, drink white wine, and eat red eggs after every inspection and touching of corpses.
He even knew that there were two old friends who would use their mahogany swords to swing around them after they came back from the scene.
It is said to be able to drive away ghosts and evil spirits.
Lao Liu didn't quite believe this, but the things about Lu Chuan and Shen Yan made him somewhat convinced.
How could someone encounter a murder the moment they go out on a date?
It’s okay to say it once or twice, it’s just a coincidence, it doesn’t matter.
But when Lu Chuan and Shen Yan went on a date, how many murders did they encounter?
I have it four or five times.
1/3 of the murder cases solved by the Criminal Investigation Detachment in the past six months may have been discovered by them.
The two of them discussed it on the way home last night. Anyway, there is nothing to do this weekend. Neither of us has been to the temple fair yet. I heard it is quite interesting and it would be good to worship Buddha by the way.
The Dongshan Buddhist Temple in Haizhou City was built more than ten years ago. It is the tallest Buddhist building within hundreds of miles and is very popular.
On the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month, there are grand temple fairs here at the Grand Buddha Temple.
The first day of the lunar month is a small temple fair, and the fifteenth day of the lunar month is a big temple fair.
The so-called small temple fair means that on the first day of the Lunar New Year, many vendors will gather in the market near the Big Buddha Temple.
Because most of the people who visit Buddhist temples are older, this group has not yet formed the habit of using online shopping.
It is their living habit to buy daily necessities in the market.
There are also some elderly people who will come with their children.
It feels like a rural market more than ten years ago.
Of course, the stalls in today's markets are very standardized and have special stalls.
The nearby government has specially designated areas for these vendors, classifying them into categories, which looks quite orderly.
The so-called big temple fairs sell similar things to small temple fairs, and they all set up stalls.
But there are Buddhist activities here at the Great Buddha Temple, and the temple abbot will come out to give lectures.
It is said that the abbot of the Great Buddha Temple is an eminent monk from Mount Wutai in the south.
But actually...
They were seconded to support the show.
Today’s temples are not like temples in the past, where anyone can do anything and be the host.
The abbot of a temple needs to be appointed, and becoming a monk is not something you can just do if you want to.
Lu Chuan had a high school classmate who went to a Buddhist academy after the college entrance examination.
Eating fast and chanting Buddha's name every day is my profession as a monk.
Yes, monkhood has now become a profession.
Don’t talk about Buddhism, don’t talk about Buddhist connections, only talk about academic qualifications.
At the end of the year, the other party met with Lu Chuan and the others after he came back.
That kid was tall and thin when he was in high school, but when he came back, he had a fat head, big ears, and a rosy face. My classmates joked at that time, are you a vegetarian monk?
They are simply richer than these people who are living in the world of mortals.
As a result, people said that he was a professional monk, not a monk.
The old classmates gave Lu Chuan and the others a good lesson on what it means to be a professional monk.
There are salary and bonuses, performance, you can start a family, you can marry a wife, you can have children.
“My classmate also said that professional monks are actually just like us policemen, they also have their own establishment.”
Actually, it’s right to think about it.
These days, there are indeed not as many people eating fast and believing in Buddhism as before, and temples cannot survive on farming and charity from pilgrims.
Whether Shaolin Temple is awesome or not, doesn’t it still have to do business?
Nowadays, small temples in some places have no financial source of their own and rely on government financial allocations to survive.
After all, even if some wealthy people donate, it can only solve the problem temporarily, not forever.
The monks in the temple eat only with money allocated by the government, so the two of them came to worship Buddha just to get their own psychological comfort. There is no way to say blessing.
But to be honest, even if you don’t come to worship Buddha, it is quite interesting to go to the temple fair.
"Lu Chuan! Tanghulu!"
The two of them did not expect that this temple fair would be like the market they visited when they were young more than ten or twenty years ago.
Candied haws, popcorn, roasted sweet potatoes.
Beer, liquor, wine.
There was a lot of people and it was so lively.
Although it didn’t reach the point of being too busy to walk, it was still crowded and lively.
Lu Chuan held a marshmallow in his hand, and Shen Yan held a bunch of candied haws in her hand.
You take a bite, I take a bite, and slowly follow the crowd towards the direction of the Big Buddha Temple.
The shouts of the surrounding children and the shouts of the vendors were intertwined, making people feel extremely relaxed.
For Lu Chuan and Shenyang's profession, they are very nervous most of the time.
The work pressure is also very high.
Especially when handling a case, facing the requirement that the murder must be solved, everyone in the criminal investigation detachment was very nervous after the murder.
Although the two of them have been out many times in the past, this is indeed the first time they are so relaxed like today.
Shen Yan was jumping up and down like a little girl. She liked this and liked that.
After a while, the two entered the temple.
Compared with the outside of the temple, the inside of the temple is much quieter.
Pilgrims who burn incense and worship Buddha include those who kneel down devoutly and some who buy consecrated products from the monks in the shop.
The same glass pendant costs ten yuan in takeout from Monk Temple, but it costs one hundred yuan here.
In the words of the monks, the things are the same, but the ones in the temple have been consecrated by eminent monks and can be used as amulets.
Just turn it on and you can sell it for 90 yuan more.
Forensic Doctor Shen curled his lips and secretly thought it was really expensive.
But if two people don’t buy it, it doesn’t mean that others won’t buy it.
The business in the store is very good.
After the two left, they went to the... store next door.
Yes, after entering the temple gate, there are shops on the left and right.
This one sells incense.
Pilgrims who want to go in and offer incense must buy incense here. As for the incense from outside...
Sorry, the Buddha in our temple does not accept incense from outside.
Shen Yan looked at the prices of the perfumes on the wall, and An An clicked her tongue.
"This incense... ten thousand?" (End of Chapter)