Chapter 257: Guanyin in Shoes
I hurriedly asked him not to point out: "Didn't you listen to what the nanny said, how ugly it sounds, unlucky, so you should ignore it, no matter what kind of god it is, it has nothing to do with us, anyway, we don't really want to learn this doctrine of the prophet of salvation." Ma Zhuang laughed hesitantly, saying brother-in-law, you gave way to brainwashing so quickly, I was so angry that I wanted to beat him, Ma Zhuang quickly changed his words and said that it was Brother Tian. I took a picture of the strange Jesus statue with my phone, and I took a nap with Ma Zhuang on this double bed.
I didn't get up until more than two o'clock in the afternoon, out of the living room, Uncle Ren sat on the sofa, made a pot of tea for the two of us, and was just about to speak, when I saw Aunt Ren open the bedroom door and come out, and the sound of singing "Great Compassion Mantra" came from the house, fortunately we just woke up, otherwise we would be sleepy. Aunt Ren also came to the living room to drink water, and when she saw the three of us sitting, Aunt Ren snorted: "If you don't let you drink, you can drink tea, and you will know how to enjoy it all day long!" I just picked up the teacup and had to put it down again. Uncle Ren was very unhappy and said that this is a guest, what do you mean by this.
Aunt Ren said: "Who said that guests can't drink tea, I mean you! Why did you make yourself a cup too?" Uncle Ren hurriedly pushed the cup of tea in front of me and said that it was also made for guests, and it had nothing to do with me. Aunt Ren looked upstairs, and the sound of a vacuum cleaner came from the sixth floor, it seemed that the nanny was cleaning the room for Uncle Ren's granddaughter. She asked Ma Zhuang: "What did the nanny tell you just now?" Ma Zhuang coughed a few times, and said that it was nothing, just to ask if the two of us had nowhere to go, and wanted to introduce.
"Don't talk nonsense here, how is it possible? She must have made you believe in the Prophet's Society, right?" asked Aunt Ren. We both looked at each other and laughed embarrassedly. Aunt Ren said don't lie to me, just guess and know. Don't believe that any prophet of distress will eat only two or two meals a day, can you eat enough? If you don't take medicine or see a doctor, it is tantamount to suicide. Ma Zhuang and I nodded again and again, and I thought to myself that this aunt is still reasonable.
She said, "Come to this house after you two have finished your tea, and I have something to ask you." Before the two of us agreed, Aunt Ren had already entered the house and closed the door. Uncle Ren said don't care, she didn't have anything to do, and took a sip of the teacup after speaking.
said so, but after all, Aunt Ren spoke, and Ma Zhuang and I still felt that we should go and see what was going on. Aunt Ren opened the door and let the two of us into the room and sat down. The house is full of the smell of burning incense, where is the bedroom, if there is no double bed, it is completely a Buddhist hall. Opposite the bed is a very elaborate mahogany shrine, about the same height as the face, half-blocked with a five-color brocade curtain, and there are two statues of gods inside, one is Guanyin and the other is Taishang Laojun. In front of him there is an incense burner and a few pillars of burning coarse incense, and offerings are placed around it. There is a futon in front of the shrine, and on the floor next to it are several scriptures with bright yellow covers. There are rows of yellow paper talismans pasted on the walls on both sides of the shrine, which looks very much like the White Lotus Sect in the late Qing Dynasty, and they are a little panicked.
Aunt Ren knelt in front of the shrine, bowed a few times, and led two disciples to worship, hoping that the two main gods could keep their families safe. Then let me and Ma Zhuang worship separately, and we were very reluctant, but we had to do it. When I stood up after worshipping, I suddenly saw that the two statues were not Guanyin and Taishang Laojun, although the goddess statue also had a plump face, but it did not have a bun, but had long shawl hair. I don't understand Buddhist allusions, maybe there is Guanyin with long hair, for example, in "Journey to the West", hasn't Sun Wukong seen Guanyin who didn't make up after getting up, but even if I don't understand it, when I see this statue with boots on its feet, I am even more confused.
Whether it is a Buddha, a Bodhisattva or any immortal, the basic image is barefoot, and I have never seen Guanyin wearing shoes, which is too nonsense, right? The statue on the right is also very strange, judging from the high white bun, it looks like a Taoist monarch, but what he is holding in his hand is not a dust, nor is it a sword used by Taoist priests to drive away evil spirits, but a knife.
"This is the goddess of blessing and the god of the Daojun, and they are also the two main gods of our Fuzhi Sect. Aunt Ren introduced seriously, "The goddess of Fu is in charge of Fu Lushou, and the Daojun God is in charge of exorcism and peace." ”
Ma Zhuang couldn't help but ask: "Auntie, how can this Dao Junshen have a knife in his hand, I remember that the weapon of Taoism is only a sword, right?" Aunt Ren said that it was not a knife, but a treasure weapon that cut off six roots, and the reason why people have this and that kind of pain and trouble is because there are too many desires, such as eating, drinking, prostituting, gambling, and smoking, so she wants to help her family minimize these desires.
I said, "No wonder Uncle Ren can't smoke." ”
Aunt Ren said: "Of course not, smoking is no different from taking drugs, how many people die from cigarettes." ”
"That's right, why don't you let you eat meat, and you don't give Uncle Ren pocket money, even if you are an old man, you can't spend half a dime, right?"
Aunt Ren snorted: "Eating itself is sinful, this desire cannot be eliminated, if you don't eat, you will starve to death, but you can eat less, and you can live if you are vegetarian. What kind of money do you spend when you are in your sixties? When you go to work, you have to spend money in society, but what do you spend when you retire? Do you go out to find a young old lady? Let your son buy whatever you want, spending money is the biggest sin, you know? If there is no money in this world, there will be no desire, and if I am the president of the country, I will burn all the money and no one will spend it, then China will be strong!"
After listening to her arguments, Ma Zhuang and I didn't dare to say anything. I saw a big uncovered cardboard box in the corner, full of candles, and asked what it was for. Aunt Ren said: "It is used to worship God at night, and you have to worship God on the first day of the new year every month, but unfortunately these two days are not the first day of the new year, otherwise you two will be able to catch up." "I was relieved, thankfully not.
Aunt Ren picked up two yellow scripture books from the ground, and the words on the cover were "Fu Zhi Jing", she said that this was for the two of us, let us go back and take a good look. Ma Zhuang obediently put it into the purse, and when I asked Aunt Ren what she thought of the family members, she snorted: "All of them are chattering, what is the salvation of Jesus, what is the Thai Buddha, what is the Indian spirituality." Especially my son's wife, an ethnic minority, seems to have been to India, learned a lot of messy things, and came back as a treasure every day. As for her fitness room, it was locked during the day, and the lights were not turned on in the middle of the night, so she had to light so many candles, and she sat in a circle in a circle, and sat in a daze alone, which was called meditation. Looking at the Buddha statue in her room, it is taller than a human being, and there is a small head on her head, is that a normal person? If you don't usually eat beef, you can eat other meat? Why can they eat whoever you provoke? That's why they can eat it? That's why I said, this is a typical cult. ”