Chapter Eighty-Seven: Lime Groans in the Stone View
The ancestral home of Master Hongzhi of the stone temple is Henan, her real name is Suzhi, as for her original surname, even she herself has forgotten, when she was five or six years old, when she first remembered, her hometown suffered a once-in-a-century famine, when New China was not established, he fled with his family all the way to the north, and on the way to escape the famine, because he was a girl, he was sold by his biological parents for food, and as a result, he could not remember how many "parents" he sold in exchange for this sale Huaiyuan's father originally had a three-year-old son, bought Suzhi, and the original idea was to be a child daughter-in-law to raise, so he didn't call a person, and at the age of seven or eight, he began to burden labor for Huaiyuan's "family".
After the founding of New China, the working people were given a new life, but Suzhi's life remained unchanged, making cattle and horses for Huaiyuan's family, waiting for the sixteenth and seventeenth century, the government broke the four old and erected a new style, and the parents who adopted themselves did not dare to carry the name of "feudalism" vice, and married Suzhi, a "child daughter-in-law", to a man from another village, Suzhi thought that she had a new life, but she didn't expect to just jump from a puddle into another fire pit. His own man is addicted to alcohol, and after drinking, it is domestic violence, often a small violence in three days, a big violence in five days, and other people's women have a maiden family in charge, but Su Zhi has nowhere to complain, so she has been suffering for more than ten years. A man from his own house was drunk again at night, and fell asleep soundly after a domestic violence, Su Zhi couldn't bear it, thinking about raising a hoe to smash his own man, but in the end he didn't swing the hoe, just escaped from the village with a little luggage in the dark of night, and he didn't know where to go, so he left Huaiyuan on two legs and fled to Yunshan. Afraid that his own man could find it, so he drilled into the mountains, and finally met the master of the two monks who lived in the temple at that time in the stone temple of the stone mountain, told the master about his misfortune, and asked for refuge in the three treasures.
Hongzhi warmly received Zhang Yuanyuan's visit, Jiang Er is a second house, the Dharma is also a little understanding, and Master Hongzhi discussed some Buddhism, and then a few people around the stone temple turned up, observed the current situation of the old temple, the old temple has a history of more than 100 years, the scale is very small, the founding of the country has not been repaired until now, now there is no complete courtyard wall, there are remnants everywhere, the stone temple has only three main halls, the middle main hall is for the three Buddhas, the Buddha statue has no golden body, can only be wrapped in red silk cloth, revealing the majestic and solemn head of the Buddha, the left side of the hall is for the King of the Bodhisattva, there is only the statue of the King of the Bodhisattva, on the wall, you can vaguely distinguish the murals of the ten great Yan monarchs and the scenes of hell. The right side of the hall is dedicated to Guanyin Bodhisattva, and the three halls seem to be only this Guanyin Hall is still neat, and it seems that Master Hongzhi often cleans up here. A small room next to the Guanyin Hall is the residence of Master Hongzhi.
Jiang Er observed the terrain while asking Zhang Yuanyuan how much he was going to invest, whether to renovate or expand on the basis of the stone temple, Zhang Yuanyuan said that he could only take out 100,000 yuan to renovate, rebuild or expand, and he did not have the ability. 100,000 is already a lot of money, Jia Bangguo calculated the labor expenses and transportation costs, and said to Zhang Yuanyuan after thinking for a while: "Mr. Zhang, I think that it will be more convenient to build a temple by spending some explosives money first and opening a mountain road." But it is estimated that you will have to add 50,000 yuan, if you can take an additional 50,000 yuan, the wall of this temple and the aunt and grandmother hall you talked about are all ready, maybe you can expand it. β
Zhang Yuanyuan thought about it carefully, thinking about his working capital, in fact, it was okay to take an extra 100,000 yuanyuan, but he didn't see any shadow at the moment, so he took out more than 100,000 yuan, and felt unreliable in his heart, so he said to Jia Bangguo: "Lao Jia, look at this, Ne first take out 100,000 yuan, you give me the whole thing, let's go to the one that needs additional money, field trip, think it is appropriate, don't worry, don't say 50,000, 100,000 will also be added." As long as you do a good job, brother, you can do it well. β
Jia Bangguo nodded and said: "Mr. Zhang is relieved, this thing must be done beautifully, go back to Ne to make a rendering, brother, you are satisfied with the construction and then start construction." The two of them muttered for a while, and then the matter of the investment fee was finalized, and only then did Zhang Yuanyuan appoint Jiang Er to talk to Master Hongzhi about the idea of building an aunt's and grandmother's hall.
Master Hongzhi has been following Zhang Yuanyuan and a few people, and he can hear what he said just now, and he was about to ask what was going on in the aunt's hall, Jiang Er opened his mouth first and said to Master Hongzhi: "Master, you see that there is such a thing, I have to tell you." β
Master Hongzhi nodded when he heard this, and motioned to Jiang Er to say, Jiang Er continued: "Mr. Zhang is going to expand our stone temple, preparing two halls in the east and west, an aunt and grandmother hall, and a fortune hall, you also know that Mr. Zhang is doing business, and the picture is to attract wealth and enter the treasure, and the future generations will be prosperous, what do you think, Master?"
Master Hongzhi heard that he was going to expand, he was naturally moved, he took refuge in the Three Treasures, after so many years of suffering, he had no interest in this gold leaf, but before he passed away, he was naturally happy to see that the stone temple where he had stayed for most of his life had a new look, but this aunt hall and the palace of fortune had never heard of anything by himself, and continued to ask Jiang Er: "What kind of bodhisattva is this grandmother hall and the palace of fortune?"
Jiang Er was a little embarrassed, but he had to explain: "The Fortune Hall is for the God of Wealth of the Five Roads, and the Grandma Hall is the seven Niangniang above Lingxiao, but it just needs to be at the end of the seven Niangniang, and Mr. Zhang wants to add a tablet of Ma's." β
Master Hongzhi listened, and asked a little puzzled: "This five-way God of Wealth understands, but the Niangniang Palace is the Niangniang Palace, why do you still need to call it a Grandma Palace, what kind of sacredness is this Ma Clan?"
Jiang Er is really not easy to explain, thinking about making up a panic to the past, and I feel that it is inappropriate, but since ancient times, there has not been a temple of Ma's grandmother, my own innovation is indeed a bit outrageous, I can only tell the truth, and told Master Hongzhi about Zhang Yuanyuan's experience, and then called Bai Ying over and introduced it to Master Hongzhi, Bai Ying then told her profession as a great immortal, and Zhang Yuanyuan's offense against the god from the beginning, of course, as a party Zhang Yuanyuan also cried on the side.
Master Hongzhi took refuge in the Three Treasures, and he was also a person who believed in his life, listening to Zhang Yuanyuan's complaints, thinking that Zhang Yuanyuan had implicated himself in such a big sin for the sake of building the temple, and he was really unhappy in his heart, not only did he not object to Jiang Er Zhang Yuanyuan's construction of his aunt's and grandmother's palace, but also gave Zhang Yuanyuan a guarantee ticket, saying that after the aunt's and grandmother's palace was built, he would definitely give Ma's tablet three incense sticks in the morning and evening, and bless Mr. Zhang's future.
Everyone was overjoyed at this time, and the reconstruction of the stone temple was finalized, just waiting for Jiang Er to see the days. Seeing that it was still early, Jiang Er proposed to go to the stone in the back mountain to take a look, Master Hongzhi told a few of them to walk slowly, the road in the back mountain is not easy to walk, and he prepared a noon meal for a few people.
Jiang Er and the others temporarily bid farewell to Master Hongzhi, went out of the back door of the stone temple without a door, and went down the ravine along a path, the path that only allowed one person to walk was really inconvenient, and there was no step, and several people supported them to finally go down the ditch, because it was cold, so they saw that there was a thin stream forming an ice bed. Along this silver-white ice bed, walked about 100 meters into the ditch, and sure enough, I saw a clear spring, Jiang Er and a few people stepped on the stones exposed on the ice, and held the spring water with their hands to taste it, in the cold weather, although the hands were frozen, but the spring water was still sweet, Jia Bangguo deliberately found a stone, knocked down a few pieces of ice, and several people took it in their mouths and tasted it. After a short rest, there is no ice bed in it, you can already see the buildings on the halfway side of the back mountain, look carefully, where is the building in the middle of the mountainside, some are just ruins and broken walls, a few people climb up the trail, and so on to the stone view, here is even more miserable, the stone temple is dilapidated, there is always Master Hongzhi to take care of it, the stone view can only vaguely distinguish a few caves of stone kilns, Jiang Er and the others looked at the stone kilns one by one along a few caves, searching for the plot in Zhang Yuanyuan's story, and did not see the mud tires that wrapped the little devils, and did not find the statue of Laojun who was a sloppy Taoist in Tibet, so that Jiang Er couldn't help but think, Zhang Yuanyuan's mouth about the truth of the story of the sloppy Taoistγ After all, the story of the sloppy Taoist has not been verified, and there is no documentary record, it is all a story passed down by mouth under the mountain, but Jiang Er is willing to believe that the story is true, because this society needs people with integrity like the sloppy Taoist. A few people stayed for about ten minutes, followed the trail down the ravine, and when they got down the ravine, Zhang Yuanyuan looked back at the stone and asked Jia Bangguo: "Brother, pay for it, can you build a gate for the stone temple and erect a monument?"
Jia Bangguo looked at the stone view halfway up the mountain, and said in a firm tone: "Yes, what words are written on the stele?"
Zhang Yuanyuan thought about it for a long time, and only thought about erecting a monument for the sloppy Taoist, but he really didn't know what to write specifically?
Jiang Er actually understood Zhang Yuanyuan's thoughts, and opened his mouth to say:
"A thousand hammers have been carved out of the mountains,
The fire burns as if it were idle.
I'm not afraid of broken bones,
Leave innocence in the world. β
Zhang Yuanyuan heard this, and hurriedly said, "Okay, good, good, that's what this poem is called." Bai Ying was beside her, although she didn't understand poetry, but she could hear a rough idea, and Jiang Er's words were really amazing, full of admiration.
Jiang Er smiled and said: ""Lime Yin" Yu Qian wrote to those who have integrity. β
Zhang Yuanyuan said with satisfaction: "The lime in the stone view is also a perfect match, Master Jiang is amazing." β
Several people agreed on the matter of erecting a monument for the sloppy Taoist, and they were in a good mood, looking at the smoke rising from the chimney of the stone temple in front of them, looking at the time, it was already noon, thinking that Master Hongzhi's meal must have been almost done, and hurriedly walked back.