Chapter 20: Gifts

A few days passed quickly, and during this time, Yang Fan went to the city library several times. In addition, he often ran the antique street, got three or four antiques, and earned hundreds of thousands.

He didn't expect that Hu Wei's guy was even more desperate than him, and every time he went to the antique street, he could almost see him.

According to him, when he went back to look for other ancient bricks that day, he really asked him to recover two pieces, but they were still incomplete and a little depressed. As soon as he was depressed, it was a foul language.

On this day, Yang Fan changed into a decent set of clothes, left Dengfeng City, and headed for Chaoyang City next door.

Today is his little sister's birthday, and he deliberately squeezed out a day. And, of course, take a look at the antique market here. Under the influence of Dengfeng City, antiques are also flourishing here.

It happened to be Saturday, and Zhang Qian was also free. Her classmates booked a place for her and celebrated her birthday at a restaurant. Speaking of which, Zhang Qian is also the flower of their class, and her enthusiasm is even higher.

"Master, please go to the old classmates restaurant on the downwind road. Yang Fan said to the driver's eldest brother.

Brother nodded, that restaurant is a little famous, and students from nearby colleges and universities like to eat there, which is affordable, very popular, and business is booming.

"Brother, you came just in time, it's time to eat!" As soon as I walked into the restaurant, I saw my little sister Zhang Qian coming over and naturally took his hand.

Yang Fan glanced at it, there are dozens of people here, there should be more than one class, right? A class, usually forty or fifty people, here are almost eighty people.

"No way, it's a bit far. Yang Fan smiled bitterly.

Some male college students were slightly jealous when they saw that Zhang Qian was so dependent on this man. They also have a good impression of this beauty, although they know that this is her eldest brother, but it is not their own!

However, the boys who wanted to pursue Zhang Qian jumped out to introduce themselves and have a good impression.

On a table, there are a lot of gifts, there are fluffy dolls, there are also flowers, all of which are not very precious, very in line with the identity of students, and there is a big cake next to it.

"Brother, do you have a gift?" Zhang Qian did not say politely to her eldest brother.

In the past, there were gifts every year, although they were not very valuable. The gift she gave to her when she went to college was the most valuable, a notebook, more than four thousand. Of course, she didn't know that Yang Fan hadn't eaten well for two or three months in order to squeeze out the more than 4,000.

"Yes. Yang Fan took out a box from his pocket.

The box is very small, and everyone guesses that it is a fine jewelry!

In fact, the people who knew these two brothers and sisters at the scene admired Yang Fan a little, and they were also very envious of Zhang Qian for having such a good brother with a different surname, especially a girl, it was a dream!

Usually, the living expenses are sent by this eldest brother, and almost everything you need can be met. The only drawback is that they rarely show up, and there are few opportunities to visit the school, and today is the first time they have seen this legendary good big brother.

"What did you come from?" Zhang Qian didn't open it on the spot, and asked first.

She was afraid that her brother would not come up with good things and make others look down on her.

"It's nothing, just a piece of jade. Yang Fan did not say specifically.

The other girls instigated Zhang Qian to open it and take a look. Especially a few of her girlfriends, no matter what it is, they won't look down on Yang Fan.

"Open it and let us see it!" Some boys felt that Yang Fan had stolen the limelight, so they took the opportunity to take a small revenge and brush up on their sense of existence.

Seeing that this girl was a little embarrassed, Yang Fan smiled and said indifferently: "It's okay, you just take a look first, it's just gadgets, it's about the same every year." ”

Zhang Qian was right to think about it, but for some boys, she was tired of it and felt disgusting. The one who spoke just now was a member of a community, whose family was relatively wealthy and often showed off.

The box opened, and inside was a piece of jade Buddha, a little larger than a thumb.

This is the Potbelly Buddha, also called Maitreya Buddha, a very common Jade Buddha.

Maitreya Buddha is a Buddha in Chinese history, it is a person in the five dynasties period, a person from the south of the Yangtze River, formerly known as this deed, called Chang Tingzi, and became a monk in Feng. Huayuelin Temple.

He was obese, often with a cloth bag on his shoulders, he cherished the grain very much, and when he saw the grains falling to the ground, he picked up the cloth bag with his hands and used it to give alms to the poor, known as the "cloth bag monk".

Because the pot-bellied Maitreya Buddha is kind and kind-eyed, and his smile is always open, it visually represents the purpose of Buddhism's magnanimity and compassion. Therefore, it is loved by the public. When men, women and children all saw him, inspiring a light-hearted mood.

In the temples of Dengfeng City, you can often see his sculptures. In some monasteries, there are such couplets accompanied by Maitreya Buddha: "The big belly can tolerate, tolerate the intolerable things in the world, and laugh at the ridiculous people in the world." ”

"This Jade Buddha is quite suitable, don't people say: Men wear Guanyin and women wear Buddhas?" said one of Zhang Qian's roommates.

However, although she knew such a sentence, she couldn't understand the reason.

Yang Fan smiled, he had also thought about this. "Men wear Guanyin and women wear Buddha" is actually a kind of folk prayer and a folk custom.

"Men wear Guanyin", mainly because in the past, those who were in business, rushed to take exams, etc., were men, who went out all the year round, and men often had a more irritable personality, while the Guanyin Bodhisattvas of Han Buddhism were all women, which was a symbol of compassion and softness, and "men wore Guanyin" in the hope that men could be soft.

The "Buddha" of "Female Dai Buddha" does not refer to the Buddha Shakyamuni, but to Maitreya Bodhisattva, and it is the image of Maitreya Bodhisattva. Because the ancients believed that women were more cautious, and the shape of the big-bellied Maitreya Bodhisattva was like a smiling face and a big belly, which meant that happiness was measured.

In fact, Guanyin and Buddha are both gods for male and female believers to pray for auspicious happiness and avoid disasters, and some men who do not believe in gods also like to smile at the big-bellied Buddha, because he "laughs at life and tolerates the big belly", and wears the Buddha to deal with all kinds of situations calmly!

Yang Fan believes that that statement is just a custom and has no basis.

"Looks okay, that boutique bought?" said the guy again.

This time, everyone realized that something was wrong, this guy was too uninteresting. What do people say, it's also Zhang Qian's eldest brother, what is it that you are so sarcastic, isn't it hatred?

Everyone has a little impression of this Gu Dehui, he is a senior brother, from the art club, and his family should be quite rich, and he is often seen driving a Hyundai around the campus.

Sure enough, Zhang Qian looked at Gu Dehui very tiredly. The most intolerable thing for her is that someone says bad things about her eldest brother, looking down on them for being poor and having no father or mother.

"My brother gave it to me, even if it's a stall, I like it. You are not welcome here, please leave. Zhang Qian was unwelcome.

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