"Mother, you really love to toss, don't we have a Buddha statue in our family, don't you have to worship it."

The eldest princess shook her head, "It's not sincere enough to worship your own little Buddha statue, and the Buddha statue with a golden body that is admired by thousands of people in Puning Temple is barely enough." ”

This world also believes in Buddhism, and takes Confucian scriptures and history as the standard for scholars in the world, and there are also Taoists who teach people the principles of nature to cultivate self-cultivation, and the three teachings stand side by side, and they get along very well.

Among them, Buddhism is naturally no longer founded by Shakyamuni, and it is impossible to verify who it is.

Mother has to spend a lot of time, Yan Guizi is quite helpless, there is no way, any petty character is invalid in front of her mother, so she can only let it go.

After washing, he put on a splendid formal suit, looked at the bronze mirror, and found that he was still mediocre, Yan Gui smiled bitterly in his heart: "It is a lie for any traveler to become a beautiful man, and he has not been able to inherit such a strong gene from his father." ”

After Yan Gui cleaned up, he walked outside the house, and his mother was already waiting at the door with a carriage and horses.

When the eldest princess saw her son approaching, she couldn't help but quip: "If I hadn't seen you come out of my mother's womb with my own eyes, this palace really suspected that you were not biological." ”

"What? Do you regret having me? ”

The eldest princess smiled, "I regret it, but you can't go back to the furnace to rebuild, what's the use of regretting?" ”

"Wouldn't it be nice to add me another brother."

The eldest princess was stunned for a moment, then stretched out her hand and stroked Yan Gui's forehead and said, "Mother's love is too little, only enough to spoil you." ”

"Daddy will be jealous if you say that."

The eldest princess glanced at Yan Gui, "How can there be a reason for Lao Tzu and his son to be jealous?" You slippery head, you're talking nonsense again. ”

Yan Gui touched his nose, "Is my father going with us?" ”

"He has something to do, so he won't go with us, it's enough for the two of us to go, okay, it's not too early, let's go."

"Okay!"

About Puning Temple, Yan Gui only knows that it is on the top of Wuxiang Mountain in the east of the city, leaning on the mountain, with a history of more than 500 years, the incense is continuous on weekdays, and it is quite lively.

According to Yan Gui's imagination, the picture should lead to the stone road of Puning Temple, which winds and turns until it reaches the top of the mountain, and there are monks carrying water on the road, and there is an endless stream of pilgrims, who carry baskets, and the baskets are filled with fruits, food and incense...... They kept going on and looked very religious.

When I arrived here an hour later, I found that the "field" had been contracted by my mother, and the host personally received it, except for the people from my own house, there was no pilgrim present.

From a distance, Puning Temple is like a heavenly palace, and the rows of buildings come into direct view.

With the abbot's footsteps up to the top of the mountain, only to feel that the air is fresh, the environment is beautiful, approaching the temple, you can see the granite, as the pedestal of the large stone stele, surrounded by a railing composed of white marble, on both sides of the stone steps, squatting two stone lions more than one foot high.

Stepping into the temple gate, the first thing that catches your eye is a smiling Buddha statue in the front hall: the front placket is exposed, the knees are crossed, the Buddha beads are pinched, and the face is smiling, vivid and interesting.

Looking up at the top of the temple, it is dazzling. The raised faces of the Buddhas are also like countless stars in the summer night sky, and they have different expressions and postures.

Crossing the front hall and entering the temple, the apricot-yellow courtyard wall, the blue-gray temple ridge, and the pale green towering ancient trees are all bathed in the sun, which makes people feel peaceful involuntarily.

Folk temples, most of the put on the lottery holder for people to draw the sign to ask for divination, Puning Temple is no exception, the lottery is the same as the gossip, in order to judge the matter of good luck, a popular way of prediction. The basis for judging the good and evil is the number of signed poems obtained and the allusions or contents of the signed poems.

After offering incense to the Buddha, Yan returned to "follow the customs" and asked for a sign with his mother.

According to the custom, the mother had to concentrate on the purpose and content of her prayer in front of the idol in her heart, and then draw a random lot from the lot, and then throw the "Holy Grail" (called a chalice) on the table to the ground.

It is said that throwing a basket is a way for people to communicate with the gods and Buddhas for instructions. The material of the cup is wood or bamboo, which is cut into the shape of a crescent moon by a craftsman, with a total of two pieces, and a pair of utensils with the outer protrusion and the inner flat on both sides, the protruding surface of the cup is called yang, and the inner plane is called yin.

The eldest princess hit the shot, and the cup basket was exactly one positive and one negative, and then turned over the bamboo stick, on which the number 3 was written.

The abbot of the treasure took the bamboo stick, and said with a smile: "Whoever asks for a sign is mostly for the four words "praying for good fortune and dispelling evil", and the person he asks is nothing more than the following categories: physical health and longevity, marriage and family, the gain and loss of wealth, the passage of official luck, and the promotion and stagnation of studies. ”

The eldest princess thought for a moment and said, "Only when there is a family can there be a country, so this palace will ask our family how the future goes." ”

The abbot nodded, took out the note codenamed three from the bamboo tube representing the marriage and family, and handed it to the eldest princess.

The eldest princess handed the note to Yan Gui again, pursed her lips and said, "You can open it for your mother." ”

Yan Gui took the note and opened it, only to see that there was only a seven-character poem on it, and the content of the poem made his heart skip a beat.

"What was written?"

"Mother see for herself."

The eldest princess frowned, took the note, and reacted similarly to Yan Gui, and was also a little surprised.

After asking for a signature, Yan Gui offered to look around, and the eldest princess saw that there was a little more time, so she agreed to come down and go with her.

Behind the main hall are two other celebrity temples other than the Buddhist temple, which are used to commemorate the ancestors, one is the Situ Temple and the other is the Xizi Temple.

Situ Temple, has a history of more than 300 years, it faces the round pond where the blue waves are slightly rippling and the silver shines, and the back is backed by the towering and tall mountains of the heavy rocks, and there are four ancient cypresses planted by the great Situ Deng Yu of the previous dynasty in the garden.

Ascending the stone steps, you can see that the Xizi Temple is located in a lush forest, and the surrounding trees and flowers add infinite brilliance to this majestic ancestral temple.

According to the abbot, the pond next to the Xizi Temple is called the release pond, and there are many swimming fish in the pond, if you are interested, you can take the fish newly saved from the market by the temple and put one or two.

Yan Gui thought it was interesting, so he took two from the abbot and pulled his mother to release them with great interest.

Seeing that the fish were submerged in the water, Yan Gui wanted to go to the meditation room to rest and wait for the fast, and then leave after eating, but was stopped by his mother, and then took him to meet the two people.

It turned out that my mother came to this Puning Temple to make an appointment, and my mother made an appointment here to be King Liang, the half-brother of the Emperor of Great Qi.

King Liang is his mother's imperial uncle, so Yan Gui has to call him the imperial grandfather.

Thinking about giving the courtesy, he stepped aside and listened to his mother quietly, but King Liang's "little follower" was not happy.

Qi Wan'er's cheeks bulged, and she said angrily: "According to the seniority, the eldest princess called Wan'er's father the imperial uncle and called Wan'er her sister, you Yangui should call Wan'er an aunt, why did you ignore me directly?" ”

"I'll grow you a month."

"It's not about age."

The eldest princess listened to the two of them entangled in this, and said with a smile: "Gui'er, don't be rude, and call an aunt and don't get in the way." ”

The girl younger than herself wanted to call her aunt, Yan Gui only felt helpless, but in the end she gave in.

"I've seen my aunt!"

Qi Wan'er inserted her willow waist, her delicate and pretty little face was full of smiles, and her smart eyes were bent into crescent moons, "Hey, Gui'er is good!" ”

King Liang, who is usually serious, also laughed, "This kid is messing around." ”