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Chapter 3 Seeking the Spiritual Sign

Wu Jin watched the two brothers and sisters go away, breathed a sigh of relief, and rushed to the school to go to class. After class, he rushed home to take care of his father, and then went to sell cakes at night.

Injury and high fever tortured Wu's father, causing him to lose weight in a short period of time. Wu Jin wandered back and forth in school, home, and Yuhua Street, and quickly lost weight.

On February 18th, a letter came from Xiongshan Temple, asking the Wu family to pay wages and financial aid.

There was no one at home, and his younger brother was too young to walk such a long distance, so Wu Jin took nineteen days off, wore short brown cloth shoes and a warm shirt, picked up two baskets of pancakes, and went out before dawn.

Selling cakes along the road out of the prefecture, followed the Yuxi River northward, walked for most of a day, and finally arrived at Xiongshi Gorge at noon.

Today happened to be the birthday of Guanyin, and many pilgrims from Xiongshan Temple took the trouble to come and bought up all the cakes left by Wu Jin.

Wu Jin carried the empty basket and walked carefully along the path along the east cliff until he reached the gate of Xiongshan Temple. He put down the basket on his pole, washed his face and hands with running water, patted the dust off his clothes, and took off his dusty turban.

Entering the mountain gate, you first heard a burst of noise, followed the sound, and saw the little girl whose nickname was "Ah Gu".

Grandma took the stone and knocked the red stone on the rock wall, and then touched it out of curiosity. None of his followers, companions, and brother were found.

She was wearing a gray jacket, with two ordinary corner buns tied with red ropes, and a gold necklace hidden in the lapel. However, the noble look on her face was very eye-catching.

Wu Jin thought that her brother should be nearby, so she lowered her head slightly and was about to enter the mountain gate, but she saw Huang Yapo from Shishi Street rushing up with a bag of dates and stopping her in front of Grandma.

"I'm so bold. Why do you, little girl, come here alone to worship Guanyin? Where are your family members? Are you hungry? Come and eat some dates."

Wu Jin saw that Ah Gu was really standing on tiptoes to look at the dates, and without any precaution, he quickly shouted: "Ah Gu!"

Ah Wan's eyes turned from Zao Zi to Wu Jin, and he smiled with white teeth: "Wu Jin."

Wu Jin picked up the empty basket and came forward, squeezing in between Huang Po and A Guo: "Grandma, are you coming to worship the Bodhisattva today?"

Huang Yapo glared at Wu Jin: "Brother Jin, do you recognize this young lady?"

Such a good female would make a fortune wherever she sold it, but Wu Jin messed it up.

Wu Jin nodded: "I recognize it, I was about to give it to her."

Huang Yapo said bitterly: "As expected of a student studying in a state school. I know such a wealthy family. If I become rich in the future, don't forget about my poor neighbors."

She still had a lot of mean things to say, but Wu Jin was so clear and upright that he started to speak obscenities and scattered them. It was useless to say anything, so he shut his mouth and went elsewhere.

Wu Jin saw her walking away, turned around and asked Ah Gu: "Where is your brother? I'll take you there."

Grandma raised her long eyebrows proudly: "Brother is at home, I came here on a donkey myself."

Wu Jin looked at her beaming little face and thought to herself that she might have sneaked out, but she still didn't give up and asked: "Where is the girl who came with you? Where is the nanny?"

He didn't know girls from wealthy families. He only knew that girls would never go out alone unless they got lost.

Ah Gu looked up at him: "They are all at home."

Wu Jin had no choice but to see that it was still early, so he said, "Follow me first. I'll send you back after I pay you."

Ah Gu was also tired of playing, so she followed him into the mountain gate and said as he walked: "My name is Mo Lingfeng, you can't call me Ah Gu."

Wu Jin nodded: "I call you Miss Mo."

Mo Lingfeng looked at the murals, touched the Arhat, and walked into the Guanyin Hall with Wu Jin. When she saw someone shaking a lottery tube in front of the Guanyin statue, she grabbed the corner of Wu Jin's clothes and said, "You want to take one too."

Wu Jin thought of her father's injury and asked for the spiritual lottery. After the people in front of her finished drawing, they kowtowed before shaking the lottery tube and silently reciting, "Please save the suffering Guanshiyin Bodhisattva and guide my father through this difficult time." There was a crisp "click" sound.

, a bamboo stick fell from inside.

He picked up the bamboo stick, but before he could read it, Mo Lingfeng's little head came over and read the signature with him.

"While I was playing in the Blue Wave Pond, I was secretly surrounded by a snare. I couldn't think of a way out, and I ended up in Quanguan, where I was miserable."

Sign below.

When Wu Jin saw the sign, he didn't need to interpret it, and he knew it was not good. It looked like a dragnet and a catastrophe. His heart immediately sank, and his expression also darkened.

Suddenly, Mo Lingfeng reached out and took away the lottery from his hand and threw it back into the tube: "Shake again."

Wu Jin was stunned: "What?"

Mo Lingfeng shook the lotus tube vigorously and said in a tone that was unarguable: "Shake it again."

Wu Jin couldn't laugh or cry, but Mo Lingfeng stared at him seriously, as if he wouldn't leave without shaking it once. He chuckled, and started shaking the lottery tube with "clang bang".

There was another "click" sound, and a bamboo stick reluctantly fell to the ground.

Mo Lingfeng quickly grabbed the bamboo stick in his hand, took a closer look, and saw that it was a high-end bamboo stick, and then handed it to Wu Jin.

"If good times come soon, a gentleman will go out from the mountains with courage; if he encounters good news about tigers and rabbits, it will not be difficult to resolve and accomplish things while he is busy."

Several women who came to worship Guanyin couldn't help but laugh. One of them said: "The lot drawn again will not be accurate. The Bodhisattva will blame you for being insincere."

Mo Lingfeng raised his head and asked: "If you want to win the lottery, of course you have to shake it as far as you can. I am so determined, why would the Bodhisattva blame me?"

The woman laughed, and another person said: "What you ask for like this is not a spiritual sign, and the master will not interpret it."

Mo Lingfeng gave Wu Jin a hard tug, pulled him up, and walked forward with his head held high: "We are literate and we can interpret it ourselves."

Wu Jin quickly put the spiritual lottery back into the tube, picked up the load, and walked to the temple.

There were many pilgrims today, so Wu Jin finally found a monk and explained his purpose of coming. The monk sent the two of them into a meditation room and asked them to sit and wait here while he went to call the monk who knew the guest.

Wu Jin placed the burden in the corner and sat upright in the chair, without slumping or hunching his back. His eyes did not wander around. His eyes only fell on the door, and he could only see Mo Lingfeng's movement out of the corner of his eye.

Mo Lingfeng knelt on the chair, stretched his arms to carry the teapot, poured a cup of tea and drank it. He didn't know when the tea was brewed. It was cold from his mouth to his heart, and his stomach let out a long growl of hunger.

She didn't feel cold even though she was walking around outside. As soon as she sat down, she immediately felt like she was going to catch a cold from the cold, so she got down from the chair and started looking around.

Wu Jin kept paying attention to her movements. Seeing that although she couldn't sit still, she didn't look around, so she was distracted to think about her homework, thinking and waiting at the same time.

An hour passed, and before the visiting monk arrived, the sky suddenly changed. The cold air invaded the house, and thick clouds covered the sun outside. In an instant, it became dark.

The wind gradually picked up, making the stone wall of the cave whimper. Mo Lingfeng walked to the door, her wide sleeves suddenly filled with wind, and swept back. She sneezed hugely into the wind.

Wu Jin quickly stepped forward and pulled her behind him. Just as he was about to close the door, he saw Zhi Ke Monk trotting over.

"Almsgiver has been waiting for a long time." Zhike Monk closed the door and took a look at Mo Lingfeng. Seeing her noble and majestic red and phoenix eyes, he thought to himself: "The eyes are the seedlings of the heart. This little girl has good eyes."


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