Winter vacation, Yunyin Town.

Xiaoyi has been back for almost a week, preparing New Year's goods with her mother every day, buying new clothes, writing with her father, and returning to a carefree time.

After the exam, Xiao Yi stayed at Yunfeng's residence for a week, and then returned to Yunyin Town first. Yun Feng is a distinguished professor, although he does not need to wait for the annual meeting, but because of business matters, he will not be able to come back until the end of the year.

Standing on the balcony, Xiao Yi watched her parents in the courtyard drying clothes together. The picture is warm and harmonious. The winter temperature in Q City is also below zero, but because Yunyin Town is in a small mountain nest, the average temperature is above freezing.

"Yiyi, up?" Du's mother looked up and saw Xiao Yi standing on the balcony wearing a thick coat.

"Mom early, dad early."

"You little lazy worm, you don't get up until 10 o'clock." Dad Du looked up at his little daughter and scolded with a smile.

"I woke up a long time ago, and I got up after reading a book in bed." Xiao Yi pouted. The balcony on the second floor is not high from the ground, only less than three meters, and when he was a child, Yun Feng was naughty and jumped off the balcony.

"You're back, you can't be like this in the future, I have to bring it over for you." Dad shook the sheets in his hands.

"Your brother will be back tomorrow, will you go to the mountains with your mother today?"

"Okay, it's time to go see the empty master." Xiaoyi hasn't gone to the mountains for a week since she came back. Tomorrow is the New Year, the old rule of Yunyin Town, the day before the year to go to the mountain to worship God, and it is usually the women in the family who go to ask for peace charms for their relatives.

There are a lot of people going up the mountain today, and they are all neighbors, so the crowd on the mountain road is bustling, after all, it is the place of Buddhism, so everyone is not too loud.

"Oh, Mother Du is also here to incense?" I don't know which neighbor it is, Xiaoyi has been out for four years, and many people are not familiar with the wedding, funeral, and then come back, just like the one in front of me, I don't know whose daughter-in-law it is.

"yes." Du's mother replied with a smile. Xiao Yi is very similar to Du's mother in some aspects, and as a result of her words and deeds, Xiao Yi has been influenced by Du's mother a lot in dealing with people.

"Is this your daughter? Oops, I've heard for a long time, it's a good one, sure enough. The woman in front of her was only in her early 30s, but she seemed to be several generations older than Xiaoyi when she spoke.

"Hello auntie." People are so boastful, it would be rude not to speak again. Xiao Yi nodded with the same smile.

The woman still wanted to pull Du's mother to say something, but she heard a voice of "Amitabha" from behind, and Master Likong came out to solve the siege.

"Master." Xiao Yi and Du's mother hurriedly turned around and saluted.

"Master Du Xiaoshi, don't come unharmed. Mrs. Du sent the things offered in front of the Buddha a few days ago, and the old man has already opened the light. Come with me, Mrs. Du. ”

"Master Lao."

The things offered by Du's mother were placed in a small ancestral hall behind Yunyin Temple, next to Master Kong's meditation room. One is a jade Guanyin originally enshrined in the family, and the other is the jade bracelet given by my grandmother when my grandfather celebrated his birthday. The reason why it is placed there is because the things offered are really valuable, and secondly, because it is convenient for Master Kong to chant for this every morning and evening.

"Take it with you." Du Mu thanked the master, turned around and handed the bracelet to Xiao Yi. "The master has opened the light, keep you safe

, take it with you later. ”

"Hmm." Xiao Yi obediently put on the bracelet. Although this thing is really precious, in Du's mother's values, things are used for use, and it is a real waste to put them away and not use them.

"Then you hold this Guanyin statue, I'll go to the front and put on the pillar incense, and you can talk to the master for a while?"

"Okay," Xiao Yi nodded, and it happened that she also had something to find the master.

He took the statue of Guanyin in his mother's hand, turned around and chatted with Master Kong.

"The little donor is in a good mood when he comes back this time."

"Why did the master say that?" Xiao Yi turned his head sideways and asked Master Kong.

"Haha, when the little donor came back, his eyebrows were sad and his heart was heavy, and now, when he went to the capital, these are gone, he speaks with a smile, and his eyebrows and eyes are stretched, so the old man knows."

Hearing what Master Kong said, Xiao Yi couldn't help but think about it carefully, it seems that it is true, when she comes back this time, her mood seems to be much more relaxed than that time in August, and she will never remember it after walking through the places where she and Wang Yifei walked before.

Since when has he long been unable to influence himself, but now, it is another person who can influence himself. Thinking of this person, Xiao Yi couldn't help but think of another thing to find the master this time. pondered, but didn't know how to open his mouth.

Master Likong lived a handful of years, looking at Xiao Yi's somewhat tangled and shy expression, he knew it in his heart.

"Xiaoyi still has something?" Master Likong changed his name, more like an old man talking to a junior.

"Master," Xiao Yi said, shyly took out a bracelet woven with red rope from his pocket, the bracelet is a little thick, not like it is worn by girls, the fancy is simple, it is a twist pattern woven together with several strands of rope, and the top is simply inlaid with a Kangxi Tongbao copper coin, which is not big, fixed in the center of the bracelet, and the tail is stretched, but it is not long.

"Master, can you help me offer it to the Buddha? I want to help a friend ask for peace. After speaking, Xiao Yi bit her lip.

"Good. However, if it is a very important friend, it is better for you to recite the Heart Sutra for him three times first. ”

Xiao Yi was stunned and nodded, "Okay, I'll come tomorrow morning." ”

"Actually, when people want to open the light, sincerity is the most important thing. If you have this heart, your friend will know. "What Master Empty said is a little meaningful. Xiao Yi listened and couldn't help sighing,

"I didn't think he would know, but his work was a little dangerous, and I just wanted him to be safe."

Master Likong nodded, "Mrs. Du is already fine, you should also go down the mountain, just remember to come up tomorrow." ”

"Thank you, Master." After giving a salute, Xiaoyi turned around and went down the mountain with her mother.

That bracelet was made by Xiaoyi in her free time when she was preparing for the exam a few days ago. I just wanted to make it up and play, but when I made it up, I thought about Gu Wenhao, so I made it into a boy's style, thinking about the size of his hand and judging the thickness of his hand and neck.

This time I went up the mountain, I thought I could open the bracelet, but I didn't think about whether to give it to him. After all, this thing, except for the copper coin, is really worthless. We'll talk about that then.

Yun Feng would not come back until the afternoon of the next day, so Xiao Yi was ready to go up the mountain early in the morning. I don't know why, I just don't want my family to know about it. Especially my brother, Xiao Yi has a hunch that the clouds at this time

Feng wouldn't agree to get too close to one of his friends. It was revealed between the lines of what my brother usually talked to him.

Telling Du's mother that she had made an appointment with Master Kong to go to tea today, Du's mother was a little strange, but she didn't think much about it, so she agreed, and only asked her to come back early in the afternoon.

Because she was going up the mountain to chant, Xiao Yi took a new bath early in the morning and changed into new clothes.

Today is the New Year, so there are more people who go up the mountain to pray to God and worship the Buddha than yesterday, and Master Likong let Xiao Yi go to the small Buddha hall, and the bracelet is still offered in front of the Buddha.

"The old man can't do it, but he has recited the Heart Sutra three times for it last night, and the little donor said that he wants to keep it safe. Today, if you recite it three times, you can take it. ”

Nodding, except for the Buddha Hall, there are too many people coming today, and the master must stay in front.

Xiao Yi knelt alone in the small Buddha hall, Xiao Yi didn't know much about the knowledge of Buddhism, and he was not a devout believer, but for some reason, this time he wanted to ask for a peace charm for Gu Wenhao, but he never thought that after asking, what would people do. Fortunately, "Heart Sutra" is the only scripture that Xiao Yi can memorize.

Kowtowed three heads reverently, clasped his hands together, Xiao Yi didn't know what the real Buddhists should say, so after thinking about it, he only said silently in his heart, "The Buddha of great mercy and compassion, the little girl Du Yunyi came today to ask for peace for Gu Wenhao, just to bless him with good fortune in everything, good health, and no disasters and pains." After speaking, he kowtowed three more times.

"When contemplating the Bodhisattva of Freedom and walking deep Prajnaparamita, he sees that the five aggregates are empty, and all sufferings ...... endured", Xiao Yi's quiet and pious chanting sound came from the small Buddha hall. It seems that if he really recites the Heart Sutra three times, he can really keep him safe in his life.

The Heart Sutra is not long, and it only takes more than an hour for Xiao Yi to recite it three times. On the incense, sitting quietly in the Buddhist hall thinking about things, the sound of people outside is a little loud, and it is rare for the residents of Yunyin Town to get so many people together, only a few times a year.

After waiting for a while, Master Likong knocked on the door and came in, chanted "Nan Wu Amitabha", and then took off the bracelet from the front of the Buddha.

Xiao Yimo held the copper coin, and on it, I don't know if Master Kong noticed it, and he engraved two words slightly: Shanfu.

When I went down the mountain, it was just noon, and Xiao Yi calculated that she could still have lunch when she went home. There are still many people walking up the mountain, most of them are elderly, Xiaoyi carefully avoided, and it felt the same as four years ago, cordial and warm.

Pushing the door into the house, looking at Yun Feng standing in the courtyard, Xiao Yi was a little stunned, Yun Feng had already changed his clothes, it seemed that he had been back for a while, and it took a long time for Xiao Yi to react,

"Brother, why are you back? So early? ”

Yun Feng turned his head, looked at the little sister standing at the door and smiled, "What, aren't you happy when I came back early?" ”

"What's the matter," reacting, Xiao Yi turned around and closed the door and entered the house, touched the box containing the bracelet in his pocket, and calmed down, "You said you would come back in the afternoon, so you were surprised." ”

"Wen Hao asked Ting Kai to help me last night, so I was a little faster, anyway, it's okay, I'll come back early."

Listening to the name that came out of Yun Feng's mouth, Xiao Yi's heart jumped twice "suddenly". Didn't answer.