The morning mist is like a veil, drifting between the mountains like smoke.

The second aunt and Aunt Hongying, who didn't eat breakfast, took a group of children and walked to Kuzhutan, three miles away, where there is a Guanyin Hall where there is often some incense. The children are so sensible and conscientious, they are all blessed by Guanyin Bodhisattva, and I have to come early today to thank her old man.

Guanyin Bodhisattva is a Buddha, does not drink alcohol, does not eat meat, and the offerings he brings are fruits and vegetarian cakes. Li Jiaming and his three brothers took brooms and cleaned and pulled dry grass in and out of the hall, while several aunts took a few little people who thought it was fun to kneel and worship reverently.

The Guanyin Hall is a front and a back two mud houses, with a small patio in the middle, or the predecessors paved with bluestone slabs. Buddhism is quiet, there are no other small temples so many firecracker residues, mounted paper ashes and the like, but there are a lot of burned incense candles, and there are small bamboo sticks inserted in the cracks of the bluestone slabs, which are the masterpieces of the leather servants and naughty girls who follow the adults to worship the Buddha.

Worshipping the Buddha is actually worshipping a peace of mind, and the form is not important. Li Jiaming quietly cleaned the patio, pulled out the incense sticks from the cracks in the stones, and pulled out the withered yellow weeds, and the half-believing and half-unbelieving Liu Shasha also squatted next to him and pulled them out one by one.

"Jiaming"

"Shhh ”

"Oh", Liu Shasha glanced at the pious aunts and swallowed the question back.

When Li Jiaming and Liu Shasha finished cleaning up the incense candles and bamboo sticks in the small patio, the aunts may have finished their wishes, added sesame oil, and began to drop tea.

Tea is just a saying of the mountain people, in fact, it is to pray for the blessing of the Bodhisattva, and the aunts will bring the tea to worship in front of the shrine of Guanyin Bodhisattva. After kneeling down reverently, he dusted some incense ash from the burning incense and put it into the tea leaves, and wrapped the tea leaves in the incense to smoke them, so that he could receive the blessings of the Bodhisattva and bless the men and women of the faith with good life and good health.

"Jiaming, bring Sasha and Mao Tong and them to worship as well. ”

"Oh"

Li Jiaming took seven or eight children to worship in front of the statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva, and followed the aunts to murmur in front of the Buddha for a while, and then came out of this simple Guanyin Temple. This place is so good, when I am restless, I will have to come and sit down.

Back home, the aunts quickly cooked vermicelli, and today I went to worship Guanyin Bodhisattva, then I can't eat meat, one person has a poached egg fried in tea oil, and I also eat a few small happy ones.

"Brother, I finished my homework yesterday, can I play today?"

"I'm done too!"

"Hmm"

As soon as Li Jiaming agreed, the little sister and the full sister immediately sped up the speed of putting rice noodles in their mouths, the new leather ball has been bought for so long, and it has never been fun, so it must be enjoyable today. The two youngest little guys ate a big bowl of rice noodles as quickly as possible, threw down the dishes and chopsticks and went to sweep the floor, and after sweeping the ground, they took a small notebook to sign and immediately went to play with the ball, and did not forget to urge Jin Mei and Gui Mei.

"Hurry up, Sister Sasha, come and play. ”

Jin Mei, who is a little older, wants to play ball, and she has to wash the dishes with her sister, but it's really hard for her to look at Gui Mei pitifully.

Gui Mei is in the fourth grade, and she has long lost such a heavy playfulness, "Go play, I'll wash it alone." ”

Jin Mei, who still had traces of egg yolk at the corner of her mouth, looked at Li Jiaming pitifully, making him a little crying and laughing, "Go, go, you wash alone at noon." ”

"Hey", Jin Mei also spread her short legs and ran.

After a while, Liu Shasha also finished eating, and ran to the grain field to play with the three little ones for a while, and when she saw Li Jiaming coming out of the kitchen and going home, she hurriedly chased after her. She hadn't asked the question in the morning.

"Jiaming, you lied yesterday!"

"Huh?"

"You don't want Uncle Wang to send it, it's definitely not because he wants to ask for a debt. Besides, the person who owes the debt is gone, and his shop will not run, so Uncle Wang can have someone notify him and come back when the New Year comes. ”

Li Jiaming's footsteps stopped for a moment and joked: "Then why do you say?"

"I don't know, if I knew, why would I ask you?"

This kid is too smart, and the bad thing about being with such a kid is that you can't just talk nonsense.

"I'm telling you, you can't go out and talk nonsense. ”

"Well, I promise!"

Liu Shasha immediately stretched out her little white hand to reassure, and Li Jiaming found another reason funny, "Sasha, Uncle Wang had something to come in yesterday, and we took a ride, so we didn't bother him." If we send him home again, it will delay him to do his business, and second, it will cause him trouble, understand?"

"Oh, you mean, he didn't know that yesterday was Aunt Shimei's birthday, and if you let him send it home, I'm afraid he'll be embarrassed?"

"Yes, when you can not trouble others, try to trouble others as little as possible, not everyone likes trouble. ”

"Well, so my dad taught me to do my own thing. ”

Li Jiaming smiled and joked: "Principal Liu is really well educated!"

"Can you not talk like that? Looks like you're quite old!"

He seemed to be a little old-fashioned, Li Jiaming said twice, and changed the topic: "Sasha, don't you play with them?

"You haven't answered my question yesterday!"

Yesterday, how could you not get rich with that hard work?

This issue needs to be clarified, but it cannot be explained in one or two sentences. Besides, although this child is much smarter than ordinary children, Li Jiaming didn't believe that she understood, so he had to shirk and say, "How do I know? ”

"Forget it, he will only talk to me about the system, saying what kind of 'poor industrial and agricultural scissors' this is, and with the development of society in the future, everything will slowly get better." I see that no one in your family is an official, and they are all peasants, so don't you make so much money in two or three clicks? He also said that this is a special case and does not have universal significance. ”

What? Principal Liu usually talks to children about these things? I am convinced, and he is really a genius who does not follow the usual path.

Li Jiaming was never interested in these things, he believed in a little bit, and it was better to ask for someone than to ask for it. Rather than waiting for the government to change slowly, it is better to find a way to do it yourself, and wait for the officials to change it, and the daylilies will be cold.

"Yes, that's why I think you're pretty good, my mother used to say that it's the weak who make excuses for failure. Everyone has the same environment, why are you poor when people are rich?"

Li Jiaming immediately shut up and stopped talking, yesterday he also said that her uncle and aunt were living a very poor life, and today he told himself that the strong and the weak are ten likely* There is a small fire in the backyard of President Liu. I have seen a lot of this kind of thing, and a while ago, the old father of the former stationmaster of the forestry station also knocked on / the door, saying that the family worked hard for him to study, but he had a chance, and smoked a pack of ten yuan a bag of 'Baisha King' every day, but he didn't even pay for his younger brother's marriage to help.

It is estimated that President Liu usually supports his brothers at home a little more, so that even the TV at home is black and white, not to mention large items such as refrigerators, washing machines, and motorcycles. Mrs. Zhong is not a saint, she has been teaching in the forestry system for so many years, and she has received bonuses and benefits that are not less than her salary, and in the end the family is still in this situation, even if she does not say it in front of her husband's family, she must have said a few words at home and in front of the child, and the child can't figure it out and runs away from himself.

"Hey, aren't you listening?"

"I can't figure it out, so I don't know how to answer. ”(..)