Chapter 70 The girl's marriage falls on the word Jiang
In fact, today's Hanshan Temple is no longer just a place for pilgrims to burn incense and worship Buddha. It has become more of a scenic spot for the world to visit. Every day, Hanshan Temple is full of pedestrians and tourists.
In order to make the lives of the people around the temple easier, the abbot of Hanshan Temple set aside a place in the temple for them to sell incense, candles, money, paper and other items.
After Chen Xici took her two dogs into Hanshan Temple, she saw a large number of small vendors in the surrounding square. After many years of development and growth, stalls selling tea and vegetarian food have appeared in the square.
At noon, every house's business is booming.
Finding an incense and candle shop that seemed less crowded, Xi Ci picked up a handful of incense and a pack of candles. Judging from her appearance, she probably came here to burn incense frequently.
"Xici, since you live with your grandfather, where are your father and your mother?"
Speaking of this, the little girl's eyes turned into crescent moons when she smiled.
"You mean my father and my mother! They are busy traveling around the world right now! They have no time to care about me. In fact, speaking of this, my birth is more like an accident."
"Looking at how happy you are, is there any story behind this?"
Xici's words aroused Ergou's interest.
"of course!"
The little girl raised her head high and looked at Jiang Ergou, as if it was a matter of course.
"Back then, my grandfather wanted my father to study hard and become a scholar like him, but my father was obsessed with martial arts and didn't like reading. That's okay. Grandpa is not an extreme person about this.
It's just a bit regretful at most! But later, my grandfather asked my father to marry his friend's daughter, saying that he had arranged to marry him when he was young, but my father had never even seen that woman's face, and
How is it possible to marry her? So..."
"So what?"
Chen Xici deliberately paused at this place and gave it a try.
"So, my father had a big fight with my grandfather, and then he ran away from home for five years."
"Then your grandfather wasn't angry? Or did your father come back obediently and marry the woman he had arranged to marry, and then he had you?"
"Not at all!"
The little girl immediately pouted her mouth, and with the little baby fat on her face, she was very cute.
"My mother is a knight-errant, whom I met during the five years when my father ran away from home. When my father returned home after traveling for five years, he was holding a four-year-old me in his arms! Standing next to me
The one who is alive is my mother!"
"whee…"
Speaking of this, Chen Xici couldn't help but cover her mouth and smile.
"I will always remember my grandfather's expression when he saw me for the first time. He was angry and helpless. I guess he wanted to beat my father to death. But in the end, he still reached out and took me from my father's hand.
It’s over.”
"If that's the case, then why didn't I see them in the yard?"
At the mention of this, the little girl's expression changed from happy to sad and even a little angry.
"It usually takes me several years to see them once. They don't like to stay at home, but they never take me with them every time they go out! My dad always tells me not to disturb him and my mother.
The world, hum, it’s like I have to follow them.”
By the end, the little girl's sadness turned into anger, as if her annoying parents had appeared in front of her.
"Hahaha, if you put it this way, you should call parents true love and children an accident!"
Ergou stretched out his hand and pinched Chen Xici's little face. He never thought that such a cute little girl would one day be disliked.
"Let's go, let's go! Let them go farther away, lest I have to cook for four people when they come back."
After knocking off Ergou's stupid hand, Chen Xici waved her hand to the sky grandly, as if she wanted to wave away all the thoughts in her heart.
But since missing such a thing is deep in your heart, even if you say no with your words and actions, it will still linger around you and never go away.
"Brother Ergou, I have never heard Uncle Wang mention your family. What about your parents?"
"Me! I've been living with that sloppy old man since I can remember. He never mentioned anything about me, and I didn't ask, but it's fine like this. Anyway, I'm used to living with that old man.
Now, I can tolerate his little problems, so it’s not a big deal.”
Like the little girl, Ergou pretended not to care and said such words, but how could he really be completely relieved by such a thing!
"Brother Ergou, I'm sorry!"
Chen Xici's heart was filled with guilt, and she looked so aggrieved that she almost shed tears.
"It's nothing, it's really nothing. Although sometimes I feel a little uncomfortable when I think about it, but after so many years, I have let it go even if I haven't let it go."
There was a rare look of loneliness in Ergou's eyes, which made Chen Xici, who was already very fragile, feel even more guilty, and tears were already rolling in her eyes.
"Okay, okay, it's okay. Didn't you say that the master in this temple is very accurate in fortune telling? Let's go and give it a try! If we're late, we won't have time."
Ergou, who had recovered from his lonely thoughts, quickly changed the subject, because compared to the old man's nagging, there was another thing that scared him more.
That is, there are girls crying in front of him because he really can't think of any way to coax them.
The trick of changing the subject really worked. Just after she finished speaking, Xi Ci had stopped sobbing, and her trembling shoulders had calmed down. It seemed that her mood had almost stabilized.
We walked all the way towards the inner courtyard of Hanshan Temple. The scenery in this temple is really good. I guess the ornamental value was taken into consideration when it was built.
There is a lotus pond in front of the most majestic Mahavira Hall, but unfortunately the season has passed and it is a pity that we could not see the pond full of swaying lotus flowers.
The reason why Hanshan Temple built a huge lotus pond here was because of a sentence in the Buddhist scriptures.
It is said in the Buddhist scriptures that the lotus in the world does not have dozens of petals, the lotus in the sky does not have hundreds of petals, and the lotus in the pure land has more than a thousand petals.
The lotus, datura, epiphyllum and mountain magnolia are known as the four sacred flowers of Buddhism. The reason why the lotus was chosen as one of the sacred flowers is because the character and characteristics of the lotus are consistent with Buddhist teachings.
Buddhist teachings focus on seeking to relieve the suffering of life and save all sentient beings. They regard life as a sea of suffering and hope that people in the world can escape from the sea of suffering.
And the path to liberation is: the sea of suffering—cultivation—the other shore (that is, the Pure Land).
It is a process from the earthly world to the pure land, from all evil to perfection, from the mundane to the attainment of Buddhahood.
And these are the same as the lotus that grows in filthy, muddy water and becomes otherworldly, uncontaminated by the outside world, and finally blooms into extremely beautiful flowers.
After walking through the lotus pond and entering the Main Hall, Xi Ci took out the prepared incense candles one by one, lit them and put them all into the incense burner.
After reciting the Buddha's name and seeing the rituals... After struggling for a long time, Ergou finally met the master of fortune-telling who was very accurate in Xici's words.
This master probably shouldn't be called the master, because he looks a bit young, only in his twenties at most. Compared with those masters with gray hair, sixty-year-olds, and seventy-year-old masters, he is indeed
There is no advantage. I guess even if he goes out to swindle money, no one will be willing to pay when they see his young face.
Ergou didn't really believe that he had any real abilities, because in his eyes, practicing martial arts, studying and other things could not be achieved overnight, so the study of Buddhism was no exception. At such a young age, no matter how talented he was,
Yes, it is impossible to reach the so-called master state.
The little master was not in a hurry to tell the fortunes of the two of them, but took them to the door of a Zen room. He also said that the hexagrams were heavenly secrets and could not be known to too many people, so they could only tell the fortunes one by one.
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In order to inspect the environment in the Zen room first, Ergou walked into the Zen room first. The room was quite bright, and there was a window on the roof that brought in a ray of sunlight from outside.
"I wonder what the young master wants to settle?"
I don't really care about it
The young monk's second dog said casually.
"I didn't think about what to calculate when I came here, so I'll ask Master to help me calculate the good and bad fortunes in the days to come!"
Not paying attention to Ergou's doubtful eyes, the little monk just closed his eyes.
The rosary beads in his hand passed through his fingers one by one. After turning them around three times, he suddenly opened his eyes.
"Master Mo Nanxing!"
"Hey! Little monk, you are really quite capable. How did you know that I planned to go south? And why can't you go south?"
The young monk, who was already called a master at a young age, shook his head gently.
"One sentence is the limit for revealing the secret. If I force myself to say more, it may not lead to thunder punishment."
"Thunder punishment? But how could there be sudden thunder in this clear sky? You little monk are not lying, are you?"
The little master shook his head again.
"Amitabha, this poor monk is just responsible for speaking. The right to believe or not is entirely in the hands of the donor. As for the issue of heavenly punishment, I wonder if the donor has ever heard the saying: thunder on the ground!"
Ergou saw that the young monk was unwilling to say more and had no intention of asking further. He turned around and walked out of the meditation room.
The little monk looked at the two dogs' backs from behind, clasped his hands together, and murmured in a voice that only he could hear.
"Master Mo goes to the south, otherwise he may have relatives die."
In fact, he has already calculated some endings, but among the endings he has calculated, the young master's southward journey is something that he or the people around him must go to. This was done dozens of hundreds of years ago.
What you sow will bear fruit in this life...
As soon as Ergou stepped out of the Zen room, the little girl got into the room from under his arm. Looking at Chen Xici who walked in, the little monk sat quietly and waited, without getting up.
"What did the girl want to do here today?"
"I want to calculate my fate..."
After Chen Xici finished speaking, her face turned red with embarrassment, like a ripe red apple in this season.
As before, the little monk closed his eyes and turned the rosary beads in his hand. After three turns, he woke up.
"A girl's marriage will most likely fall on the character ginger."
"But the river from Sanshui Gong!"
Xi Ci jumped up happily, but the little monk frowned and shook his head. He pinched the rosary beads again with his fingers, as if he was wondering if he had made a mistake in his calculations.
"It's this ginger!"
He dipped some tea from the cup with his fingers and wrote the word "ginger" on the table.
The girl who was originally cheering fell silent instantly, looking at the word 'ginger' in front of her with some disbelief.
"How could it be this ginger?"
The disappointment suddenly appeared in her eyes, much more than when she mentioned her irresponsible parents who only cared about traveling.
Seeing the disappointed look of the girl in front of him, the young monk hesitated for a while and finally spoke uncertainly.
"Girl, don't be anxious. In fact, the little monk's calculations are not very good. Maybe the little monk made a wrong calculation. Besides, although fate is determined by fate, you can take the matter of marriage into your own hands. Girl, you can't do that.
Don’t be too disheartened.”
In fact, in the entire Hanshan Temple, the young monk's calculations are already very good, and few people can surpass him. Otherwise, the temple would not be able to let him come out to receive pilgrims.
He did indeed see the word "ginger" on the girl's marriage line, but he really couldn't bear to see the woman in front of him get too sad, so he told a little lie in front of the Buddha.
At this moment, he was very nervous and kept repeating: Don't blame the Buddha, don't blame the Buddha...
After hearing what the young monk said, Chen Xici also broke free from the disappointment.
"Hmph! I make my own decision about my marriage. No one can force me. At worst, I will run away from home just like my father!"
They really are a father and daughter. Chen Xici looks soft and frail on the outside, but she has inherited her father's crazy character in her bones.