Chapter 423: Buddha Zidun Marriage Tree (II)
Ah Qin put his mouth next to Ah Can's ear and whispered, "Ah Can, just do as you say." But we won't come to worship until the uncle and aunt have finished praying and leaving. ”
Ah Can: "Ah Qin, you are always so shy, okay, I will obey you this time, and we will come back after the uncle and aunt leave after they finish worshipping." ”
So, after the young man and woman Ah Can and Ah Qin left after Xie Daohua and his wife finished worshipping, they also knelt down to the big stone and prayed and made a wish.
It is a coincidence, and the boulder has a spirit. After Xie Daohua worshiped the Buddha, his mood was no longer so irritable, and the couple lived more and more harmoniously, and went to take medicine and drink soup according to Lang Zhong's instructions.
Soon, his wife Ah Fang was pregnant with Liujia, and after she became pregnant in October, she gave birth to a pair of twin boys.
Xie Daohua said that the Maitreya laughing Buddha on Tianlu Mountain was really effective, and he went to ask for a son and got what he wanted. Later, he took his pair of twin boys to the small hill mound, offered fruits in front of the big stone, burned incense and lit candles, knelt down and worshipped, and promised to repay their vows.
After the young man and woman Ah Chan and Ah Qin got married, they soon had a noble son.
The owner of Ding Zhai, who has always been kind, after his son Ding Yujia recovered from a serious illness, became fierce and fierce, and he was as sick as two people before, and the matchmakers from all over the country who came to ask for marriage to the Lord of Ding Zhai came one after another, stepping on the threshold. Later, Ding Yujia chose the beautiful and virtuous woman surnamed Liang in Luodong to marry, and both went to the marriage tree to burn incense and pray to Maitreya Laughing Buddha Stone. I don't know if it's a chance or a match made in heaven. Soon after Ding Yujia got married, his wife gave birth to a pair of white and chubby twin sons, and he laughed so much that Ding Zhai couldn't see his teeth.
People in the countryside are kind and simple, and they are also the most practical, and when they saw that Ding Yujia and others got their wish, they spread the word about this matter in ten or ten hundred ways.
There is a loving couple, regardless of the distance of the mountains and rivers, admiring the visit. Speaking of this couple, there is also a deep story in it:
There is a farmer's mother and daughter in Bai Village, Kaiping County, a neighboring county in New China, the mother is Chen, and the daughter Liang is Xiuxiang and is 17 years old. His father died of a stubborn illness in the prime of life. The mother and daughter make a living by farming, and in their spare time, they go up the mountain to collect firewood and cut grass and sell them in Dashawei to make money.
The mother and daughter are open-minded, helpful, admired and loved by the villagers, and have excellent popularity. Since Xiuxiang was 8 years old, her father taught her to read and write, memorize poems, and then studied in private school for a few years, and she is a knowledgeable and wise girl.
One day in late autumn and early winter, the mother and daughter finished selling firewood in Dashawei and returned home with daily necessities such as oil, salt, salted fish, etc., and it was already dark.
As soon as I opened the door and entered the house, two strangers suddenly knocked on the door and asked questions. It turned out to be a scholar and a scholar.
The scholar's name is Li Zhongguang, 20 years old, a native of Hainan, and he took the scholar Li Erwang to Beijing to gain fame. When I went to Bai Village, Kaiping County, I saw that it was getting late, so I had to go into the village to seek accommodation.
Xiuxiang's house is a big mud brick house with a blue brick façade, two bedrooms, two kitchens and a living room, and the entrance gate is a patio, and the house is big enough. The mother and daughter saw that Li Zhongguang was polite and seemed to be a kind person, and agreed to their request for a stay.
Xiuxiang made the beds for the guests, and Chen's made a fire to cook, warmly entertaining the two distant guests.
During the banquet, Li Zhongguang saw Xiuxiang wearing long braids, a pair of bright big eyes shining with wisdom, long eyelashes fluttering, white and red healthy skin, slender figure, generous and decent manners, heartbeat, pretending to eat, but frequently peeking at Xiuxiang.
Xiuxiang saw that Li Zhongguang was white and pure, polite and modest, and his behavior was full of bookishness, and he secretly liked it in his heart.
When eating, Xiuxiang frequently picks vegetables for Zhongguang, for fear of starving him, and Zhongguang also picks vegetables for Xiuxiang from time to time, like a loving little couple.
Chen saw that the scholar and his daughter had mutual affection, and his heart blossomed, and he decided to marry his daughter to Zhongguang.
Chen asked her daughter's opinion, and Xiuxiang blushed, and her shy expression couldn't hide her joy.
Xiuxiang said to her mother: "Li Gongzi is a scholar, I am just a rural woman, how can I be worthy of him." ”
"My daughter is knowledgeable, virtuous and reasonable, and not as wise as a man, and whoever marries is blessed." Chen paused for a moment, suddenly thought about it, and said to his daughter: "Why don't you make a couplet for your daughter, ask Li Gongzi to deal with it, let him see your talent, and then explore his meaning for his mother, okay?" ”
"It's just my mother's idea." Xiuxiang lowered her head and said shyly.
So, Xiuxiang wrote a couplet "White Chicken Cries in Baicun" and handed it to the scholar to give to Zhongguang, asking him to make the next couplet.
The scholar Zhongguang has seen Xiuxiang's couplets and admires the rural girls for such good literary talents. Although he studied hard for ten years and learned five cars, he couldn't immediately make the next couplet, and kept muttering to himself "Baicun White Chicken Cries Day", pacing out of the door from the house, and walking into the house from the door, meditating hard, but not getting a good sentence.
When he was distressed, he saw a hunter with a big yellow dog walking past the door. Zhongguang stepped forward and asked, "Where did the brother come from, it's getting late, where are you going?" ”
The hunter returned the salute: "The younger brother's family lives in Huangcun, not far from here, and he will hunt at night on the mountain by moonlight." ”
When the yellow dog saw that his master was not leaving, he barked "Wangwang". The scholar had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and immediately said goodbye to the hunter, returned to the room and wrote the next couplet "Huangcun Yellow Dog Barking Dusk", and asked the scholar to hand over the next couplet to Xiuxiang.
Xiuxiang deeply admired after seeing it: "It's good, it's wonderful, it's appropriate." "I am even more happy with scholars.
Chen came to Zhongguang's room and asked him directly: "What do you think of my daughter?" Is it good to be married to you? ”
Seeing Chen's matchmaker for his daughter, Zhongguang was in the middle of it, he liked and admired Xiuxiang very much, and was worried about how to open his mouth to please Xiuxiang, so he immediately looked at Chen deeply: "Thank you mother-in-law for making it happen!" He will form a good relationship with Xiuxiang one day, and I will definitely respect Xiuxiang as a guest and honor my mother-in-law. ”
Then he made an oath in front of Chen and Xiuxiang: "Regardless of whether you are famous or not, you will have a good relationship with Xiuxiang for a hundred years, and ask heaven and earth to prove it." ”
That night, Xiuxiang accompanied Zhongguang to read at night, and the strong affection was all in the words. At dawn, Zhongguang continued to rush to Beijing. Chen's mother and daughter sent them to the entrance of the village, and a pair of young men and women were reluctant to give up and cherish each other.
With the encouragement of his fiancée, Li Zhongguang took the exam in high spirits, won the top prize in high school, and became a senior official in the capital.
Many high-ranking officials and ladies in the capital, Miss Shangjia saw that Zhongguang was young and promising, and she looked like a talent, so she proposed to Zhongguang one after another.
Zhongguang always remembered the oath with Xiuxiang, and was unmoved in the face of power and money, and politely declined one by one. According to the promise, he solemnly married Xiuxiang, and took his mother-in-law Chen to live together in the capital.
After marriage, the husband and wife are in love. But a few years have passed, Xiuxiang just can't get pregnant, and asking for medicine everywhere is to no avail.
Later, Zhongguang heard about the miraculous thing of the marriage tree of the Buddha in Tianlu Mountain, his hometown, and his wife made a special trip to the marriage tree of the Buddha in Tianlu Mountain, and offered sacrifices such as fruits in front of the big stone, burned incense and lit candles, knelt three times and knocked nine times, and promised to repay the vow.
Soon, after Li Zhongguang and Xiuxiang, a loving couple, returned to Beijing, they soon branched out, and Xiuxiang gave birth to three boys and two girls for Li Zhongguang, which made Li Zhongguang's colleagues envious, and it was a beautiful conversation in Beijing for a while.
Over time, the people around Tianlu Mountain called the big stone shaped like a Buddha on the small hill mound as the Maitreya Laughing Buddha Stone for sending the child, and called the small hill mound "Buddha Zidun".
The years are long, and the vicissitudes of life.
Many things in the world are no longer things and people. It is also strange to say that after some baptism over the years, there are two big banyan trees growing in the aura of the Buddha. The two big banyan trees are about three feet apart, and their branches are vigorous and rainbow, and the dense leaves are green and dripping. The thick horizontal branches of the two trees stretch out to each other, intersecting and connecting to form a hug, and the crossed trunks of the two trees form a "heart" shape in the sky, which makes people sigh that the heavens have created things, which is incredible.
People are accustomed to call these two big banyan trees that are connected to each other as marriage trees.
The banyan tree has a different characteristic from other trees, its aerial roots extend down into the soil of the ground, gradually growing larger and thicker, and becoming a new trunk. There are such spectacles everywhere.
On the left and right sides of the magical marriage tree of Tianlu Mountain, there are two thick trunks generated by aerial roots, which have become two small trees. Locals say that these are the two young trees born from the marriage tree.
If you look closely at the growth of these two young trees, they resemble a pair of twin trees.
What is amazing is that the tree, which is called "Dazai", grows in the south, and the long thick roots stretch downward, and the fibrous roots are upside down near the ground, and there is an upside-down golden hook, and a large stone is tightly wrapped, as if a juggler is playing with the big stone, and the peculiar posture makes people laugh. People call it "naughty boy".
And the "fine boy" tree grows on the north side, the trunk grows straight and upright, and honestly uses his body to support the thick trunk that falls, like a man shouldering a heavy burden, standing up to the sky, without regrets. People respectfully call it "Honest Boy".
Seeing the strong contrast between the different shapes of these two young trees, and hearing the stories of the locals, it really makes people hold their stomachs and laugh.
There is a moving legend about the marriage tree. The story of the marriage tree of the Buddha Mound of Tianlu Mountain and the Maitreya Buddha stone sending children is widely spread, and there is an endless stream of believers who come to pray for a good marriage and heirs.