Chapter 12: Chandeliers
In the past, every time I had a class reunion, this was the part I hated the most, because I was so bad at mixing that I couldn't open my mouth to say that I was working in a mobile phone store. But now it's different, and I can pretend to be an understatement when I sold amulets and other offerings before I traveled back and forth between Thailand and China. Some of my classmates didn't understand much, but they also cast surprised and envious glances at me.
During the chat, I paid attention to the observation and found that the students can be roughly divided into these three categories: cheerful and active, taciturn, and indifferent. For class reunions, being active and lively are two completely different concepts, being lively is a happy personality, and being active is because of a good mix. Silence and indifference are also different, silence is introverted, commonly known as a flat shoulder can't make a fart. Apathy is not necessarily a lack of words, but he shows no special interest in anything, and rarely laughs, and some also sneer and sneer. It is said that nature is difficult to change, but I don't think it is necessarily. Many students have a big gap between their personalities when they were in junior high school and now, perhaps because they have been changed by life. Among them, there is a female classmate named Zhang Na, who felt okay at school, but now she has changed, she doesn't participate in any topics very much, when everyone laughs, she never laughs, and a certain sentence that is not ridiculous can make her laugh a few times.
It was Zhang Na's turn to introduce herself, she only casually said that she was working in the administrative office hall of Tanglin District, and it was over, without much of an introduction. Some classmates who know her added that Zhang Na is a unit establishment and has worked for several years, and she is still quite good. Everyone praised her, but she seemed to have nothing to do with herself, and she only barely managed to squeeze out a smile.
"Say a few more words, whether you are married or not, whether the husband and wife are affectionate or not, and whether they are beautiful?" Everyone coaxed yes, but Zhang Na didn't say anything, just drank tea slowly. Mr. Ma felt a little embarrassed, and was about to say something more, when the mobile phone rang, he walked out to the hotel lobby to pick it up. The door of the private room was not closed, and a few minutes later, I heard someone arguing outside, as if it was the voice of classmate Ma.
"What's the matter, it seems that Lao Ma is arguing with someone?" asked Dong.
After listening to the two sentences, everyone felt that it was right, and the head nurse said, "What's the situation, go out and have a look." As soon as she finished speaking, she heard a loud sound of glass breaking from the direction of the lobby, and someone immediately stood up and said "Damn, why do you still move." The students left the table and walked out of the private room quickly, and when they saw Ma and others standing in the lobby, they all looked at the big chandelier on the ground, which had been smashed to pieces.
Lao Meng asked, "What's wrong?"
Mr. Ma's face was full of mishe: "No, I don't know." The hotel waiter and the boss hurriedly came to clean up the mess, and after careful inquiry, they found out that Ma was standing in the middle of the lobby just now to make a call, and someone came in from outside the door and walked in a hurry, accidentally bumped into Ma's shoulder, and continued to walk without care. Ma was very unhappy and shouted a few words in the back. The man was also a stunned father, his tone was more horizontal than him, classmate Ma stepped forward angrily to theorize, and as soon as he walked out less than ten steps, the chandelier fell down, and it happened to hit the position where he was standing just now, which was not bad at all.
The hotel owner sweated down, and when he saw that no one was hurt, he breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly comforted everyone that they were fine. Several classmates did not relent, saying that if they hadn't taken a few steps, they would have been hit. But after all, no one was hit, and the court could not be sentenced to a fright, in order to show sincerity, the hotel owner had to discount the meal accounts of all the guests in the lobby tonight.
Back in the private room, Ma was so shocked that he drank a few glasses of wine before he recovered. The chandelier is the size of the Eight Immortals' tabletop, if it is smashed on the head, it will be seriously injured if it does not die, and the head nurse comforted and said: "Old Ma, don't go to your heart, this is called a great calamity, and there will be a blessing after death, isn't it?"
My mind spun quickly, so I asked, "Where is your amulet, do you wear it?"
Everyone asked what the Buddha card was, but Ma didn't speak, and silently pulled out the Chongdi Buddha card from his collar. Everyone hurriedly asked what was going on, and Mr. Ma said that he had asked for a card in my hand a few days ago. Everyone was stunned at this moment, and Dong said after a while: "This ...... It's just a coincidence, isn't it?"
Before I could speak, Mr. Ma slammed his fist on the table: "What are you called a coincidence? Where are there so many coincidences? There are so many places in the lobby, you said that I was standing under the chandelier in the center when I was calling." But a fluged green rushed in and hit me, and he didn't apologize. If he says he's sorry, I can't even move the place, and because that guy is rude, I went over to scold him, and the lights went off?"
As soon as he said this, the students looked at each other even more. I vaguely felt in my heart that this was the opportunity given by God, and I would never come again, so I asked Mr. Ma: "Do you know what this is called? From wearing the Buddha card to now, have you done good deeds, think about it?"
Everyone stared at Mr. Ma, and he said to me: "Didn't you tell me that day that I had to do more good deeds with a Buddha card, a few days ago I was driving to work, it was raining, and I saw the old lady of the neighbor on the fourth floor waiting for the bus with an umbrella on the side of the road. The old lady had rheumatism and had to go to Liaoning TCM every week to change her dressing, so I let her get in the car and took her to the hospital along the way, and she thanked me every time she saw me in the past few days. ”
"That's right," I climbed along the pole, "Your good deeds have increased the degree to which the Buddha card works, that's why it's like this." ”
This time, the students began to marvel and talk to each other. Dong thought for a long time and asked: "I said Lao Tian, let me make an analogy, is there such a possibility, that is, the matter of Lao Ma just now is a coincidence, and it has nothing to do with the Buddha card?"
Classmate Ma glared at him angrily, and was about to say something, I hurriedly gestured and said with a smile: "Theoretically speaking, it is possible, and I am not a fairy monk, whether it is the effect of the Buddha card, who can tell?" The more I say that, the more people believe it.
During the meal, someone asked me what the video in QQ Space meant, and I explained that it was a Thai monk blessing the Buddha card. A male classmate said, "It seems that there is an iron rod with roast sheep on it, but you don't need to roast sheep to bless the Buddha card, right?" I didn't dare to tell the truth, for fear that these students would spit it out, and it would be bad. I had to smile mysteriously and say that you better not ask, so as not to be frightened. But people are like that, the more you don't tell them, the more curious they become. I didn't dare to tell the truth at all, so I had to pretend to be mysterious to the end, secretly complaining, thinking to myself, can you not ask? In order to interrupt, I proposed to take turns to toast Ma classmate, and everyone agreed, and I finally breathed a sigh of relief.