Chapter 61: The First Day of the Lunar New Year
The next morning, Tang Yuyan woke up before the alarm clock rang, and after waking up, she put on the new clothes she had prepared last night.
Tang Yuyan didn't go for a run today, but quietly took out the rice balls and eggs that had been prepared long ago from the refrigerator.
After taking the ingredients, Tang Yuyan went to the kitchen lightly.
Although Tang Yuyan is afraid of oil and does not dare to stir-fry, things like cooking dumplings and dumplings are still very easy.
Tang Yuyan held the vegetable pot, turned on the faucet and added two-thirds of the water to the pot, and began to boil water on the gas stove.
When the water is boiling, pour in the rice balls, turn on medium heat and cook. There was also a pot on the other gas stove with ten eggs boiling in it.
Tang Yuyan pinched the time while looking at the rice balls.
After the glutinous rice balls floated, Tang Yuyan poured some cold water into the pot, and when they floated, she poured some cold water into them, and repeated twice, and the glutinous rice balls were cooked.
After 12 minutes of boiling eggs, Tang Yuyan decisively turned off the heat, and after letting the eggs simmer in the pot for another minute, Tang Yuyan took out the eggs and put them in cold water.
When Tang Yuyan took out the eggs and put them in cold water, the family members got up one after another. After the family finished washing, Tang Yuyan also cooked the rice balls and served them to the table.
"I also said that I got up to cook the dumplings, but I didn't expect that our Yuyan had already cooked them." Mom said after taking a bite of the sweet glutinous rice balls.
"And eggs, two each." Tang Yuyan looked at her mother and said, and then put two eggs on the side of each bowl for the family members seated.
"Mom, where are you going today?" Tang Yuyan asked while peeling eggs.
"As in previous years, I still go to the temple to burn incense and worship the Buddha." Mom said as she took a bite of a freshly peeled egg.
"Then I'll go to the amusement park with my younger siblings." Tang Yuyan took the opportunity to say, and after finishing speaking, she looked at her younger brothers and sisters who were still eating rice balls, and just found that her younger brothers and sisters were looking at her, Tang Yuyan winked at him.
"No, you go to the temple fair with us this year." The mother watched the interaction of several children and vetoed it.
"Do I have to go to the fair?" Tang Yuran asked unrelentingly.
"You have to go, okay, eat the dumplings, let's go after eating." As she spoke, her mother picked up a rice ball with a spoon and ate it.
A few minutes later, the family of five finished eating the rice balls, the mother was responsible for washing the dishes, and Tang Yuyan and the others went back to the room to get their coats and put them on.
After the family sat in the car, Tang Yuyan looked at her father who was driving and said, "Dad, which temple are we going to?" ”
"You ask your mother." Dad didn't hesitate to throw the problem to Mom.
"Mom" Tang Yuyan turned her eyes to look at her mother again.
"It's the Fayuan Temple that you haven't been to, also called the Zhuangyuan Temple, where many parents of students go to make wishes for their children. I heard that a parent made a wish to pray for the Bodhisattva to bless her child with a good score in the college entrance examination, and three years later, her child was really admitted to Mizuki University, and after the child was admitted to the university, they also bought a lot of things to pay a vow to the temple. The mother explained to the children in a clear way why they should go to this champion temple.
"The test is good, the test is not good because of us, this Bodhisattva is still in charge of the test papers!" Tang Yuyan leaned on the seat and said.
"If you think about it, you don't want to be spiritual." Mom sat in the co-pilot and looked back at Tang Yuyan and said.
"Okay, good, mom is right, listen to mom." Tang Yuyan said flatteringly.
"That's pretty much it." Mom glanced at Tang Yuyan and sat up straight again, not looking at them.
After more than an hour, I finally arrived at Fayuan Temple.
"There are too many people coming!" Tang Yuyan looked at the crowd of people, and the Fayuan Temple was stunned, there are so many people in a temple every day, so how much money does it have to make on this day.
"Alright, let's get out of the car." After Dad parked the car, he looked at the family members in the car and said.
After getting out of the car, Tang Yuyan looked at the middle-aged and elderly people selling incense, candles, paper money and firecrackers around her, Tang Yuyan looked at her mother and asked, "Mom, should we buy it too?" ”
"I'll buy it later, but I won't buy it now." Zhang Wenyin said with a smile, then looked at the family members and said, "Let's go, climb the stairs." ”
After the family climbed up to Fayuan Temple out of breath, Tang Yuyan looked at her younger brothers and sisters and said, "I was squeezed up by the crowd, and I felt that my feet were not on the road. ”
"Me too, it's fun." Tang Yuchen continued.
"Sister, there are too many people here!" Tang Yuran looked at the countless people around him and said.
"Believe it or not, there will be more people in the temple after a while." Tang Yuyan said as if betting.
"I believe it." Tang Yuran replied dumbfoundedly.
At this time, Tang Yuyan and the others were about to continue chatting, when their mother beckoned to them over there: "What are you talking about, come here." ”
"Follow your parents for a while, don't get lost, there are a lot of people here, it's hard to find." Tang Yuyan looked at her younger siblings and said, and then led the two to their parents' side together.
"Come, let me introduce you, this is your second aunt, your grandmother's sister." Mom pointed to a neatly dressed and energetic grandmother, and then pointed to Tang Yuyan and said: "They are my children, this is the eldest, this is the second, and that is the third." ”
"Second aunt is good."
"Second aunt is good."
"Second aunt is good."
After Tang Yuyan finished her mother's introduction, she bowed to her second aunt and said hello.
"Okay, okay, are you guys just here?" The second aunt looked at her mother and asked.
"Yes, I just came, the road was too congested, and it was full of cars." Mom said.
"Then you guys go quickly, I won't talk to you anymore, if there is a chance to chat in the future, we will go back first." The second aunt said with a smile.
"You've finished the incense?" Mom looked at the time, it was just past ten o'clock.
"The old woman is useless, my son and daughter-in-law went to burn incense, I am waiting for them here, you see they have returned." The second aunt pointed to two middle-aged couples in their thirties and forties.
"Okay, then I won't delay you, let's go up first." Mom looked at the couple, and then said goodbye to the second aunt.
"Second aunt, goodbye." Tang Yuyan waved her hand at the second aunt, and after saying goodbye, Tang Yuran and Tang Yuchen also followed their eldest sister to say goodbye to the second aunt.
"Okay, goodbye, let's go." The second aunt also waved her hand to a few little ones, and then urged them to hurry to the temple.
After her mother bought the incense paper money, she asked Tang Yuyan to hold three sticks of incense, and then made a wish to the incense and bowed three times, and when it was finished, she inserted the incense on the incense table.
Tang Yuyan and the three of them did it in turn, and after everything was done, her mother took a few children to the Zhuangyuan Temple together.
On the way to the Zhuangyuan Temple, Tang Yuchen asked, "Mom, where did Dad go?" ”
"Your dad is wandering around the temple, it's okay, we'll go to your dad when we finish going to the Zhuangyuan Temple." Mom explained.
"Oh" After Tang Yuchen answered, he looked at the pedestrians coming and going in front of him, and shook his mother's hand tightly.
After arriving at the Zhuangyuan Temple, Tang Yuyan heard several different statements about the Zhuangyuan Temple.
Some people say that there was a show talent who came to the champion temple to burn incense and was admitted to the champion.
There are also people who say that after a student's family came here to make a wish, the student with mediocre grades really got good grades, but the family did not come to make a wish, so it was unlucky.
Others said。。。。。。
In short, the saying about the champion temple is ever-changing, as long as you come to this champion temple, most of them can be admitted to the fame, and if you don't come to the fame, you will definitely be unlucky, and the matter will be over.
The mother took a few children to worship the champion temple, and muttered with words: "After my children get famous, I will definitely bring chickens, ducks and fish to repay their wishes... ”
After the mother finished talking, she took the hands of several children and walked to the back hall.
"Mom, what are we going to do in the backroom?" Tang Yuyan looked at her mother suspiciously and said.
"There's a wishing fountain in the back hall, and mom happened to bring coins, so let's go make a wish too." Mom took out 4 coins from her bag and handed them to each of Tang Yuyan's sisters and brothers.
It is said that it is a wishing pool, which is covered with thick coins, and there are a few soft-shelled turtles resting by the pond in the water.
Tang Yuyan didn't know if it was a soft-shelled turtle or a king, or a turtle, and she had never been able to tell the difference, anyway, it was a four-legged crustacean.
After a few people made a wish on the coin, they tossed the coin into the wishing fountain.
After making a wish, the mother smiled happily after watching the children successfully toss coins onto the small round platform in the center of the wishing fountain.
Subsequently, my mother also threw out the two coins in her hand, one for herself and the other for my father to make a wish.
After seeing that the coin she tossed had also successfully landed on the small round platform, Mom smiled with satisfaction, and then beckoned the three siblings to prepare to go down the mountain to find Dad.
When a few people found their father, his father was watching a group of people line up, and five meters away from Maitreya Buddha began to close his eyes and touch Maitreya Buddha's belly.
"Dad, what are they doing?" Tang Yuyan looked at a group of men, women and children lined up beautifully, and asked suspiciously after closing her eyes to touch Maitreya Buddha's belly.
"I heard them say that if you are unwell, you should touch the belly button of Maitreya Buddha, and if you touch your body, you will be fine." Dad looked at Tang Yuyan, mother and daughter, and explained.
Then, after seeing a man who had successfully touched Maitreya Buddha's navel, Dad said, "Do you want to try it too?" ”
After Tang Yuyan saw that the number of people in the team was not as large as before, she nodded hurriedly, and then took her younger brothers and sisters to line up.
"You go with you, too." Dad looked at Mom and said.
"Okay, I'll try it too." Mom said and handed the handbag in her hand to Dad, turned around and went to line up with her.
Finally waited until Tang Yuyan closed her eyes to touch Maitreya Buddha, Tang Yuyan sadly found that she was still too short to touch Maitreya Buddha's belly at all, and at most she stood on tiptoe to touch Maitreya Buddha's feet.
Not to mention Tang Yuran and Tang Yuchen, who are shorter than Tang Yuyan, they are completely in line for nothing.
Although the three of them didn't touch Maitreya Buddha's belly, they focused on participating, not to mention that there was a mother queuing up behind them.
I saw my mother stretch out her hand and gesture the approximate position of Maitreya Buddha's belly, then walked forward with her eyes closed, and when my mother walked to the Maitreya Buddha statue, her hand also accurately touched Maitreya Buddha's navel.
"Mom, you're amazing." Tang Yuchen screamed and ran over.
Tang Yuyan's family praised her mother's good luck, and those who lined up behind her mother also said, 'It's so lucky.' And 'If only I could touch it.' ’
"Okay, the incense is burned, the Buddha is worshipped, and the Maitreya Buddha has touched it, why should I go home, you think about where to play in the afternoon." Dad looked at the three children who were still discussing the Maitreya Buddha and said.
"Do you still go to the playground?" Mom asked.
"Go, go." Tang Yuchen hurriedly took his mother's hand and said.
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