41. Songfeng Temple on Songfeng Mountain
After dinner, the three of them took a bath and changed their clothes, and followed their mother to join the incense team, and the crowd along the way, there was a torch at a distance, which felt very fresh.
After all, Mingyue is a year younger and honestly follows her mother, while Sangou and Mingcheng are like little mice, walking around the crowd, laughing and playing with other children of the same age.
Soon they were all called by their respective mothers to pull them away, first, it was a night road, for fear that the child would fall into the pit and ditch on the side of the road, and secondly, this kind of incense worship behavior is very solemn, not loud on the road, and it is even more disrespectful.
After walking seven or eight miles, I began to climb the mountain, this Songfeng Mountain, I feel that it is the same as growing on several mountains below, first I have to climb the mountain below, and climbing the mountain with torches at night is another feeling, and a large group of people solemnly climb the mountain at night, it is another feeling.
After all, the child is a child, walking for a few hours at night, climbing the mountain for a while, and not being able to reach the top for a long time, he feels bored to get up, plus sleepiness hits, the young Mingyue is so sleepy that his upper and lower eyelids fight, his eyes can't be opened, he mixes garlic under his feet, and he falls on his heels while walking.
Mingyue's mother couldn't carry her, but fortunately, there were kind-hearted male pilgrims to help, some of them carried baskets, and there were incense paper money in the baskets.
A male pilgrim in this village moved the incense paper money into a basket and vacated a basket to put Mingyue, so that Mingyue slept in the rickety basket very sweetly.
After climbing a section of the mountain road, the pilgrim carrying the basket changed his shoulders and changed the basket at Mingyue's end to his back, but he accidentally didn't catch the rope on the basket, and when he slipped it, the whole basket slipped down, and the basket containing Mingyue rolled down the mountain with a twist and turn, and almost scared Mingyue's mother to faint, shouting for help, help.
Fortunately, this mountain road is zigzag, the basket did not roll far to the next mountain road, this mountain road is also full of people, heard the sound of help above, and everyone shouted to the basket and basket, and several people on the road pulled the basket together.
Mingyue's mother ran down with a roll, grabbed the basket and reached in to touch the person, great, the person is still inside, and then carefully touch it, it's very good, the hands and feet are still there, but why doesn't this person say anything?
In a hurry, he hugged Mingyue out, and under the light of the torch, Mingyue was still snoring slightly, and she was sleeping sweetly; Mingyue's mother sat on the ground with her arms in her arms, and burst into laughter.
After that, although Mingyue was still in the basket for people to pick, Mingyue's mother was extremely uneasy, and grabbed the basket rope with one hand along the way until the top of the mountain.
Sangou's mother helped take care of Sangou and Mingcheng, who were already top-heavy, carried the package containing incense on her shoulder, pulled the two children one by one with both hands, and stumbled all the way to the top of the mountain.
When I reached the top of the mountain, I suddenly opened up, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse, and the mountain breeze was blowing, and the two children woke up all at once, and looked back at the mountains under their feet, and couldn't help but be relatively dumbfounded.
Looking up at the sky again, the sky is so low, I feel that as soon as I stretch out my hand, I can pluck the stars, but I still don't dare to speak loudly, for fear of frightening the people in the sky.
The temple was built on the leeward side of the mountain, and the helpers (volunteers) in the temple picked up a lot of mats and quilts from the bottom of the mountain a few days earlier, and spread them in the main hall in a row, so that everyone could lie down and rest when they were sleepy, after all, it was still the middle of the night.
At first, the three dogs thought that this was in June, and they needed to cover the quilt when they slept, but after a while, they found that it was so cold, and the mountain wind blew so cold, so they quickly got into the quilt, regardless of the footsteps and talking in their ears, they fell asleep after a while.
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Early the next morning, the sky was still bright, and now it was the turn of the three dogs' mothers to panic and be abnormal, it turned out that the three dogs were gone, and the temple and the top of the mountain were touched, but no, and acquaintances were mobilized to look for people everywhere, but they still couldn't find it.
The mother of the three dogs was so anxious that she was about to cry, what should she do, shouting the name of the three dogs to a well in the courtyard of the temple, and ran outside, surrounded by cliffs, I really can't imagine it.
At last, the crowd was about to stir, and I heard a man on the floor shouting, "Is this child?" Isn't it this kid? ”。
The mother of the three dogs rushed over, and saw the three dogs at a glance, like a puppy, curled up, and they were about to get into people's crotches.
When the mother of the three dogs was looking for the child, the person had not woken up yet, and then woke up to everyone, only to find that there was something under the crotch, and when she opened the quilt, it turned out to be a child, sleeping soundly......
The three dogs mother put a heart in her stomach, pulled up a few children with Mingyue's mother, went to the well to fetch water, carried out a simple wash, and then pulled them together to kneel in front of the Buddha and kowtowed several times together.
Along the way, it was really blessed by the Buddha, and the children were safe and unscathed.
Sangou was sleeping soundly, but he was pulled up by his mother, and he reluctantly followed to wash his face, but he didn't expect that the well water was really cold, and he was so verbose that he was so excited.
It's so strange, on such a high mountaintop, even the temple is built on a big stone, how did a well come out, and what is even more puzzling is that in this downward stone hole, there is still cold water that keeps gushing up, and it is no problem to supply so many pilgrims to wash and eat, it is really incomprehensible.
Later, I heard an old man talk about this well, and said miraculously, this well is connected with Poyang Lake hundreds of miles away, saying that a long time ago, there was a monk in the temple to draw water, and accidentally the water scoop fell into the well, and after half a month, the scoop surfaced in Poyang Lake.
I see, but later on the way home, Sangou kept thinking, the name of the temple must have been written on the water scoop, otherwise, people picked it up in Poyang Lake, how do they not know where this scoop came from?
Also, this place is so far away from Poyang Lake, that monk should not have searched all the way to find a scoop, walked for many days to Poyang Lake, and chased the scoop back.
It must have been someone who picked up this scoop with the name of the temple in Poyang Lake, and asked someone to bring it back.
This kind of legend, adults just listen to it, children are different, they will believe it very much, and they have been thinking about it, and they will not stop until they understand it.