Chapter 109 Wangou Village Mud Bodhisattva Becomes Living Bodhisattva
After more than 2 hours of travel, the three of them finally arrived at a small county town, Liang Yifu looked depressed after getting out of the car, and muttered: "Ouch, it's a county again...". Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info Qin Ide said with a smile: "Do you remember the time you went to Shandong?" Liang Yifu bit the banana, nodded at the same time, and then looked at the scenery outside the window with a depressed expression.
Wen Jiabao pushed his glasses after getting out of the car, looked at the people around him, and said, "It's strange, why is there so much traffic in the county here in my hometown?" ”。 Qin Ed asked, "Will it?" I think there are a lot less people than in the city."
Wen Jiabao turned to look at Liang Yifu and Qin Aide and said, "It's a bit much, and there aren't so many people during the New Year, so let's find a tricycle to pull us into the village first." After speaking, Wen Jiabao once again left the small passenger station with Liang Yifu and Qin Aide, and then walked towards an intersection with their brothers and sisters.
These small counties are basically mixed with people and vehicles, and the lines on the motorway have long faded seriously, which is the kind of state that can't see the color of the original line. And there are a lot of motorcycles, tricycles, and electric bicycles, which makes Qin Aide have a delusion, suspecting that he has come to the capital of a country he saw on TV, a country connected to Yunnan Province in China, 'Panan', but the mixed traffic of people and vehicles he saw on the TV news is several times more exaggerated than the street he is on now.
Wen Jiabao took the two of them to the intersection, a tricycle could not be stopped, in desperation they continued to the next intersection, a tricycle gathering place, walked for about 3 minutes, looked at the tricycle on both sides of the road to come and go, the empty car just came back, there were some uncles, aunts, uncles, aunts, rushed to get on the car, and then left 'suddenly'.
Liang Yifu threw away the banana peel casually, and said at the same time: "Lao Wen, is your hometown a tourist attraction?" There are so many people, can we grab a car? ”。 Wen Jiabao frowned and said: "No, what kind of tourist attractions can there be in this poor and remote area of my hometown, I guess these people are here to worship that living Bodhisattva."
At this moment, Qin Ide turned around and looked around, just to find an empty tricycle coming from the opposite road, Qin Ide hurriedly said, "There is a car over there!" Stop him! ”。 As soon as the words fell, the three of them looked at the direction where the car came and turned around and were about to run towards the position where the tricycle was expected to stop.
With a depressed expression, Qin Ide got up from the ground and looked back at the ground! It's a banana peel!
Liang Yifu was very embarrassed and said, "Senior brother, are you okay?" Qin Ide looked at Liang Yifu with a dark face and said, "Senior brother, if you throw banana peels again, I won't help you buy bananas in the future."
When the two were talking, Wen Jiabao ignored the two of them, rushed over and stopped the tricycle, and after getting into the car smoothly, he asked the driver to drive the car to Liang Yifu's side, and then said, "Get in the car." Liang Yifu helped Qin Ide to get into the car, it seemed that Qin Ide had fallen and hurt just now, and he kept rubbing his knees after getting into the car.
Liang Yifu looked at Qin Ide with an apologetic face and said, "Senior brother, I promise not to throw banana peels in the future, don't help me run errands." Qin Ed snorted, and then said, "Old Wen, how did you stop the car?" ”。 Wen Jiabao said: "Run over to stop it, I'll stop the car first, and then come to pick you up, just now I was almost robbed by an aunt."
At this moment, the master who drove the tricycle said in Mandarin with a dialect accent: "Recently, our business has been booming, and we have to go to Wangou Village more than 30 times a day, do you also go to worship the living Bodhisattva?" ”。
Wen Jiabao asked: "No, it's just that I will visit relatives and friends in my hometown during the holidays, and now how many people go to the village?" ”。 The master said: "Yes, I don't know why there is a living Bodhisattva in the village, some people have not met today, and they will come early tomorrow morning, and there is a guest I have met with him for three consecutive days, hehe." Liang Yifu and Qin Ide told the truth, and they really didn't understand what he said, but fortunately, Wen Jiabao understood and acted as an interpreter for them.
Wen Jiabao's hometown, Wangou Village, is not because the local villagers are surnamed Wan, but because their village was formed by a group of ordinary people who fled the war. There are several surnames of the villagers, and there are basically many people with surnames such as Wen, Feng, Chen, Zhao, Qian, and Long. As for why this village is called Wangou Village, I heard that the older generation of people in this village used to divert water from the nearby river to irrigate the farmland in order to facilitate farming, so they dug many small ditches, and from the hillside, it looks like dense earthworms.
At that time, the village chief saw this scene and discussed with the villagers to give the village a nice name, and changed the temporary village name of 'refugee village', which had been used for more than ten years, but it was too disgusting to call it earthworm village.
There is a distance from the county seat to Wangou Village, and the horsepower of this tricycle is not large, including the master who drove the car, pulling the four adult men is undoubtedly a big load, so the car is not fast. Qin Ide asked Wen Jiabao when the temple where the living Bodhisattva was located was there and for what reason it was abandoned.
Fortunately, Wen Jiabao likes to inquire about the affairs of the village with the elders of the family on weekdays, and happens to know about the broken temple.
The ruined temple in Wangou Village is also hundreds of years old. The temple is not big, after entering the gate is the main hall where the Bodhisattva statue of about 3 meters high is placed, and there is an independent house behind the main hall, which should be the living place of the temple in those years.
This Bodhisattva temple heard from the older generation of people that there was a very serious drought in Wangou Village, and the farmland did not harvest for 2 years, and when it entered the third year, the name of the village at that time used the soil that was about to dry out to build the Bodhisattva statue, and changed the ancestral hall at that time into a place to worship the Bodhisattva; I don't know if it's really Guanyin Bodhisattva appeared, on the third night of the Buddha statue, the world was full of heavy rain, and the rain fell for 5 consecutive days.
Because of the arrival of the rain and the intermittent rainfall that followed, the river became a galaxy again, and the farmland was harvested, and the Bodhisattva Temple became a statue that the local villagers worship every New Year's Day.
Another interesting thing happened during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, I heard that there was a group of Japanese soldiers passing through Wangou Village to burn and loot, but when the team of more than ten Japanese soldiers came to the vicinity of the village, they didn't know why they encountered a landslide and were crushed to death by the mudslide, and the remaining few half-dead were also killed by the villagers.
The scout found the vicinity of Wangou Village according to the marks left by the Japanese squad, and it suddenly rained heavily in the sky, and the scout sent by the Japanese Imperial Army to find someone found a big tree to hide from the rain. At that time, a villager passed by and was hurrying home to hide from the rain, when he saw a Japanese soldier standing under a tree to hide from the rain, he was a little panicked, thinking that this disaster was coming. But he didn't expect a bolt of lightning to fall from the sky, and it struck the Japanese scout, and electrocuted him to charcoal, and the tree behind him did nothing.
When such a thing happened, the villagers of Wangou Village worshiped this mud bodhisattva more honestly, and later painted the statue of this bodhisattva with gold paint and renovated the temple. It is a pity that no matter how strong the people's faith is, it will not be able to defeat the changes of the times, and the 'materialism' that it is destined to be an era in opposition to 'idealism'.
Later, ten years of cultural turmoil broke out, that is, the decade when the 'Nine Ghosts', a ghost woman who used human resentment as food for survival, ran out to make trouble. Wangou Village could not escape this turmoil, the selfish side of the people's hearts was exposed, a group of 'angry youth' in the year on the grounds of fighting feudal superstition, smashed the temple dedicated to the mud Bodhisattva, even the Bodhisattva statue was pushed to, broken into two halves, and later set fire to the temple.
The fire ignited, and I don't know why there was a strong gust of wind, and the fire spread to the hill behind the temple, burning all the trees around the temple.
After the temple was burned, no one dared to rebuild the temple, and after the failure of the farmland, many villagers were forced to go to the city to find another livelihood. The temple was abandoned for decades.
Until four years ago, an uncle surnamed Long in the village, that is, Wen Jiabao's father's elementary school classmate, after making a lot of money in the city, returned to the village to build a cement road and repair the temple at the same time. In this way, after the temple was built, it became a dispensable place in the village.
When Wen Jiabao's grandfather was still alive, he and some other elders of the same generation would occasionally go over to clean the new temple as a sign of respect. This is probably the case about the temple, when Wen Jiabao spoke, he was a little depressed, because the driver always interjected to ask questions, and Wen Jiabao had to be distracted to answer his questions.
After listening to Wen Jiabao's 15-minute story about the past and present life of the Mud Bodhisattva Temple, Qin Ed said: "'Radish Head' was crushed to death by a landslide, most likely because there was heavy rain before, and the larger stones in the hillside lost their mechanical balance, and they just fell and stoned them to death at that time."
Then Liang Yifu said: "Well, as for the 'radish head' scout, he must have brought a weapon when he went out, you must know that the Japanese army had a bayonet installed in front of the rifle, and the bayonet was metal, which was easy to conduct electricity, so at that time the thunder and lightning would hit him obliquely, not a tree taller than him."
Wen Jiabao nodded and said: "Yes, I also guessed so, it is impossible to have so many gods and Buddhas manifesting things, especially the Buddhist family, the Buddha has compassion and all living beings are equal to educate the world, how can a Bodhisattva kill people?" And ...". Before Wen Jiabao finished speaking, the driver braked suddenly, stopped the car and said, "Go to Dilak." Wen Jiabao was stunned for a moment, and when he looked outside the car, he really arrived, why was it so unfortunate. The three of them got out of the car, Wen Jiabao paid for the journey, and the road fare was 20 yuan, Qin Ide thought to himself, during this time, the income of these tricycle masters has caught up with the professional beggars in the city.
After the three of them got out of the car, someone immediately came over to take a ride back to the county seat. The tricycle pulled up the guest, the 'tutu tu' engine sounded again, turned around and walked back, and left.
Wen Jiabao was very puzzled after getting out of the car, and said: "Do you say that uncle doesn't agree with me, and always interrupts me to speak, heh...".
Qin Ide said: "Because it shouldn't be possible, by the way, should I go to your house first or go to that temple to have a look?" ”。 Wen Jiabao said, "Let's go to my house first." After speaking, Wen Jiabao walked in front and led them to the entrance of his village.
The topography of Wangou Village is a bit like a basin, which is somewhat similar to the Geshan Village that Liang Yifu visited before, that is, the farmland in the village there is almost invisible, because the fields are behind the village of Geshan Village, while the farmland here in Wangou Village is on the road on both sides of the entrance of the village, which is vast and spectacular at first glance.
Walking on this single cement road, walking towards the entrance of the village, when they approached the stone tablet engraved with the three characters of Wangou Village, they saw that there were many people around the entrance of the village, as if they were chatting, and when they got closer, they found that this person turned out to be a believer who came to worship the living Bodhisattva, and the queue was photographed at the entrance of the village.
Wen Jiabao took Qin Ide and Liang Yifu to bypass these believers and walked towards the cement road on the left, the buildings in this village are basically the same, anyway, they are the architectural characteristics and styles that can be seen all over the street, there is nothing new.
Along the way, Wen Jiabao found that many villagers had set up food stalls outside their homes to buy drinks and food. Liang Yifu said: ", old Wen, your hometown has really become a tourist attraction now, you see that people have started to sell food and drink."
Wen Jiabao habitually pushed his glasses and said: "It would be good if it could really become a tourist attraction, but this thing is too weird, the day before yesterday I talked to my father on the phone, and he said that someone had a fight because of the queue, and then my father and a few old men in the village ran to mediate."
While speaking, the three of them walked up a slightly inclined slope, and then continued to walk up, standing on a high place and looking at the long queue, which was really an exaggeration! When Liang Yifu and Qin Aide walked into the village, they thought that the queue was only a few meters long, Nima, this is like the queue of people that can only be seen in tourist holy places during the National Day holiday. Liang Yifu looked at the team and said, "Ouch, I'll go, this team is conservatively estimated to be twenty or thirty meters."
Wen Jiabao turned his head to look at the queue below, and said with a smile: "The Bodhisattva temple was built under the hillside over there, and the team has reached the entrance of the village, not only twenty or thirty meters, I remember that it was seventy or eighty meters from the entrance of the village." When Qin Ed heard this, he shouted with a surprised face: "What? It's so long, wouldn't there be more than a hundred people here."
The three of them walked uphill for about 20 meters, then turned left and continued for a while, at a small intersection to the door of a three-story tiled house, which was Wen Jiabao's hometown. Wen Jiabao rang the doorbell.
Liang Yifu asked, "Lao Wen, don't you have a key?" ”。 Wen Jiabao said: "I forgot to take it, it's okay, my dad is at home." After waiting for a while, the door opened, Wen Jiabao's father saw his son coming, and hurriedly said: "You are here, I just wanted to call you, there was an accident in our store, I have to rush back to see, this is the key to the door, and the car key, I parked the car in the open space below."
Wen Jiabao's father was tall and thin, with a mustache, a shirt and trousers, and very mismatched leather sandals on his feet.
Wen Jiabao looked at his father's appearance and said, "Dad, you left the car for me to use, so how can you go back?" ”。 Wen Jiabao's father turned to look at Wen Jiabao and said, "Huh? I'll go back with you in your 'Uncle Cat' car, you play for a few more days, there are fish in the stream on the other side of the field, it's quite big, you catch one in the morning, you are hungry at noon and you slaughter it yourself." After that, his father was about to leave.
Wen Jiabao asked, "Dad, what are you anxious about, what's going on in the store?" ”。 Wen Jiabao's father said as he walked: "The truck carrying the vegetables from our store crashed on the highway, and now the vegetables have not been delivered to the retail past, and your mother has arranged for another vegetable to be delivered, I have to go over to the highway now to see what the situation is."
Wen Jiabao's father should be in a hurry, and he was still moving his steps in a small area when he spoke. Wen Jiabao turned his head to look at Qin Ide and Liang Yifu and said, "You guys go inside first, I'll go over and talk to my dad and come back after a few words."
Wen Jiabao put down the environmental protection bag in his hand, which contained his change of clothes, Liang Yifu twisted the bag and entered Wen Jiabao's hometown. At this moment, they heard Wen Jiabao say, "Dad! Your pants are not zipped! ”。 Although the voice was not loud, it came in through the pager of the house, Liang Yifu and Qin Ide burst into laughter, what are you laughing at, Wen Jiabao and his father replied: "You dead child, why are you shouting so loudly!?" ”。
After about 2 minutes, Wen Jiabao came back, with a smirk on his face, he looked at Qin Ed and Liang Yifu and said, "My dad is like this, he is quite reckless when he is in a hurry." Liang Yifu said with a smile: "I said that you don't have to shout if your dad didn't pull the trouser chain, save some face for your dad."
Wen Jiabao came to the living room, sat on the wooden chair, and said with a smile: "I don't want to, I'm a few meters away from him, and he asked me 'what?' I raised my voice and said it." Wen Jiabao said this, took out his cigarette case, lit a cigarette, and continued: "After I walked over, I was almost killed by him, he told me that his trouser chain was broken, and he planned to repair it after getting in the car, so he kept using the bag as the crotch of his pants." As soon as these words came out, Liang Yifu and Qin Aide laughed backwards and forwards.
At more than 12 o'clock at noon, the three big men cooked at home, fortunately, this place is very modern, there is gas available, no need to burn wood for cooking, unlike some areas, said that the whole people are well-off, how can I think that there are still some areas, Nima, not to mention the natural gas pipeline, even the liquid gas tank is not used, his uncle's.
It's easy to cook, but the most difficult thing to deal with is this fish, none of the three of them have slaughtered a fish, so it's a bit tricky. Liang Yifu volunteered to slaughter the fish, grabbed the fish in his hand, and then pressed it on the board, and chopped the fish head with a knife, but he didn't expect the fish head to be broken, and the fish body actually bounced up, and gradually he had a bloody face, Liang Yifu walked out of the kitchen with a bloody face, and ran to wash his face and change clothes.
Then change Wen Jiabao to deal with the fish body, he picked up the fish body from the ground, rinsed it with water, picked up the kitchen knife and began to cut the belly of the fish, at this time, Qin Ide said: "You should dispose of the fish scales first." Wen Jiabao replied: "It makes sense, but what to do with this fish scale." This question stumped them...
In the end, their lunch fish was not edible, so they turned into pickles and sent white rice with a stack of green vegetables, but fortunately there was a box of expired canned meat in the kitchen, fortunately, the expired canned meat did not spoil, otherwise they really wanted to buy instant noodles from the neighbor who opened the door to do business.
After lunch, Wen Jiabao took Qin Ide and them from the road behind the village towards the temple, Wen Jiabao said on the road: "You can't go directly to the temple gate here, but you can see the temple condescendingly from the side of the hillside, from a distance of about 3 meters", walking on the road, Wen Jiabao also said that when he was a child, he liked to go back to his hometown and go here with his cousin to catch grasshoppers.
After walking for about 2 minutes, I came to the place that Wen Jiabao said, which is a small slope with many trees, Liang Yifu and Qin Aide each held a big tree and looked at the temple below, through the dense foliage, it can be seen that the structure of this temple is the same as Wen Jiabao described, but the outside is very new, and it has indeed been renovated. At the entrance of the temple, there was a girl in a robe to keep the line going, and another little brother in a robe led people into the temple, which was the room behind the main hall, and Wen Jiabao said that he was taking the believers in to see the living Bodhisattva.
"Hehe... Can such a heavy yin qi be a bodhisattva? Qin Ed said after snorting. Liang Yifu continued: "There must be an article in this temple." Wen Jiabao hurriedly said, "Are you going to go in now?" ”。 Qin Ide let go of the big tree, walked to Wen Jiabao's side and said: "There are too many people now, wait until nightfall, my senior brother and I will sneak in and take a look, I didn't expect Uncle He's divination arithmetic to be so powerful, and even the scene I wanted to be there was calculated." (To be continued.) )