Chapter 6: The Wedding Dress
For two years, I was able to recite Buddhist sutras such as the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra, the Myoho-renge-kyo Sutra, the Amitayus Sutra, the Jizo Sutra, and so on. For example, Taoist classics such as "Tao Te Ching", "Nanhua Sutra", "Chongxu Sutra", "Taiping Sutra", "Huang Ting Sutra", "Leaking Heavenly Machine" and other Taoist classics do not know how many times they have been written silently. Although I don't understand the meaning, the article remembers that the melon is ripe. Similar to some spell talismans, I don't know how many, compared to those scriptures, grandma said that these are practical. It's practical, but I haven't used it once. One is that I haven't encountered any demons and monsters, and the other is that my grandmother doesn't allow me to show these things casually. My grandmother's warning to me is that I can't use it until I have to, and I can't help myself after using it. I didn't understand what it meant, but I was obedient, and I didn't know what it was for. I guess it will be used for me to brag about the monks in the world in the future? After all, in the cash society, monks and Taoists may not be able to memorize the scriptures in their entirety.
It is worth mentioning that when my grandmother taught me these things, there were no real books, they were all passed on by word of mouth. At that time, I thought that my grandmother was omnipotent, and my grandmother didn't know much to read, so how did he memorize so many scriptures. Every time my grandmother taught me this, she would sit on the bed and cover her with a mosquito net, and once I asked her who she had learned these things from. Grandma said that it was not her who taught me this, it was the medicine king. Whether it is true or false cannot be verified.
When I was eight years old, on my birthday, my grandmother cleaned up at home for the first time, and gave me a day off to stay at home and go out by myself. I'm looking forward to it, probably going to buy me a cake, I haven't eaten a birthday cake since I came to Shandong. Every time I celebrate my birthday, I ask my grandma for a cake, and my grandma says, what are you doing with those foreign things, we all boil eggs for our birthdays, so I have two birthdays with two eggs every year.
This year, grandma has made such a big fanfare, and I am also happy in my heart. At noon, my grandmother came back, bringing back five-colored paper, incense, candles, and flowers, and a lot of delicious food. Lamb chops, chicken legs, roast duck, yellow croaker, just no cake. When I think about it, my grandmother is conservative in her heart, and I still think that the cake thing is not suitable for me. Although I was not satisfied, I didn't say it, after all, so many delicious foods are not bad, better than eggs.
Grandma was busy chattering at noon, and the dishes were served one after another. There were a few times when I wanted to taste it secretly, and my grandmother's eyes glared at me and told me to wait. Finally, at noon, the dishes were all ready, and the lettuce was delicately padded on each plate, and the finished delicious food was served on the lettuce, and it was also decorated with carrot carved flowers, not to mention the emotion in my heart.
Grandma's next move left me speechless, and she asked me to lift the table to the offering table together. After moving the table, I asked my grandmother, "What are you doing here, eating in front of the table?" ”
Grandma glanced at me and said what to eat, this is for the mother. I was speechless for a moment, and asked her why she was making such a big offering to her mother. Grandma's answer was that my life was unstable since I was a child, and I was originally a child. (The life of a child is also an early death, the children of this number of lives are 8-12 years old and die early, and folklore has it that he was caught as a boy by the gods in the sky.) And I should have been eight years old, and today I have my eighth birthday, and I will be able to support it from now on. also said that I was able to survive because of the blessing of the medicine king, but I can't give the medicine Wang Niangniang to make a big offering.
I was stunned by my grandmother and asked her, "What about me?" "It's a happy thing for me anyway, shouldn't I celebrate with my mother?
Grandma took out two boiled eggs dyed red from her arms, and told me that they had been prepared for me a long time ago, the grievance in my heart, I swear, the first jealous object in my life is my family's medicine king.
I was in a mood with my grandma all day long, and I ignored her when my grandma talked, but my grandma didn't seem to think so, and she looked beautiful, I don't know what she was beautiful. The subtext in my heart at the time was, when I grow up, you won't be able to move when you're old·······
At about nine o'clock in the evening, I had just fallen asleep when the old old-fashioned telephone rang at home, and I sat up. At this time, it must be my parents and my parents, who usually get off work at this point when they work in the hotel, and today is my birthday, so I guess they miss their son.
It was my grandmother who answered the phone, and after she picked up the phone and said "Hey", she stood on the spot, her expression was like making people stupid. I vaguely heard my mother's voice on the other end of the phone, very concise, as if it were just a sentence.
And after my grandma listened to it, until the phone hung up, she was still stunned and stunned, and her face was blue and white for a while. I also saw that something was wrong, so I hurriedly got off the ground, shook my grandmother's arm and asked her what was wrong.
After a while, my grandmother came to her senses, with a look of remorse, and muttered to herself as if she had suffered a great calamity: "Evil, evil, thousands of calculations, why didn't you get to this point!" ”
It turned out that my mother told my grandmother: Godci his brother had an accident, and he came back quickly with God's gift.
Grandma hurriedly began to pack up things, saying that it was to pack things, which was nothing more than bringing me a change of clothes, and then brought money, and even the door was not locked, so she took me to Jinan by taxi from the county seat, and then caught the train at one o'clock in the middle of the night and embarked on the road back to the northeast.
At that time, the train was still green and iron, and it took three days and two nights from Shandong to Heilongjiang. I was in a hurry and bought two non-seat tickets. After getting in the car, I began to have a high fever, and my grandmother even went out in slippers because she was flustered. There was no place to stand on the train, and my grandmother had no choice but to sit on the ground against the wall where I was smoking at the train connection. It was my birthday at the end of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, and it was already the ninth cold day. Although it was on the train, it was close to the door, and when the train started, the wind blew like a steel needle. At that time, there were two PLA soldiers with big-brimmed hats on the same train, and when they saw that we were sitting here with an old man and a young man, it was really pitiful, so one of them took out a military coat from his luggage and covered it for me, and the other took his military ID card to the conductor and asked for a sleeper for us.
In those days, the military was undoubtedly simple and respectable, and I have always had a special affection for the military for many years. Just like in today's society, many times it may not be useful for you to find a police officer on the side of the road, but if you find someone who wears a military uniform, you may become an angel in your life.
When the soldier came with the train conductor, it was already more than three o'clock in the second half of the night, and I was already burning in my grandmother's arms, and my mouth was talking in my sleep. Accompanied by two soldiers, the conductor took us to the crewhouse, where there were really no bunks on the train, so he arranged us here. With my grandmother's great gratitude, I sent off the conductor and the two soldiers, and the conductor didn't ask for the 200 yuan that my grandmother handed me.
After taking the medicine, my already dazed feeling became even stronger, and my grandmother forced out a smiling face, rubbed my face, and asked me to sleep for a while, but the moment I lost consciousness, I clearly saw the tears in her eyes.
After falling asleep, I had a dream that has awakened me countless times since then.
In my dream, I came to a mountain peak, and as far as the eye could see, the mountains in the distance were one after the other, winding and undulating like waves. It was gray, and the whole world was unusually quiet, and the silence scared me a little. I wanted to find my grandmother, but there was no one around, and just as I was about to cry, a voice came from behind me, soothing my fear like a breeze, "What else is there to see?" Let's go. The voice sounded like a comfort, a urge. I turned my head to look, and for the first time in my life, I had a definition of beauty.
There is a woman standing in front of her, she is wearing a red ancient wedding dress, the clothes are embroidered with the pattern of the phoenix, the slender waist is like a tight belt, the head is wearing a phoenix crown, the feet are against the red lotus, the red clothes are plain hands, the only slender palm that leaks out is like transparent, white and not stained with a little dust. I tried hard to see a face, but I found that there was a layer of mist on her face, and the more I looked at it, the more I fell into it, and I felt like I was about to fall asleep. When the woman in red saw me like this, she didn't see it and asked shyly: "After watching it for many years, haven't you gotten tired of it?" "I was stunned, what did this sister say, I have been watching her for many years.
The sound is so good, like every sentence scratches my heart, it makes me feel extremely familiar and absolutely strange. It made me even more curious about what she looked like, in fact, my consciousness told me that it was a dream, but I just stubbornly wanted to see her face, as if I could know who she was when I saw her.
When the woman saw me like this, she smiled and was about to speak. I felt a tremor of the ground under my feet, followed by the sound of messy horses' hooves from far and near, and in the blink of an eye a group of troops dressed in white and dressed in linen and filial piety rushed over, this team of men and horses was very strange, each with a pale face, and his cheeks were smeared red, just like a stand-in for burning paper during the New Year.
The army rushed to the mountain bag in front of him and stopped neatly, and a middle-aged military general rode out in the middle, this person wore a beard, gold helmet, silver armor, and heavy filial piety, after he appeared, the team began to divide into two teams, eight people in the middle of the team carried a large coffin, and those stand-ins behind them began to scatter the guide money to the sky, and someone blew the funeral number. When I saw this scene, I panicked, although I knew that it was a dream, but it was too special and infiltrating. The middle-aged military general jumped off the horse with a saddle and said to me with a playful look in his eyes: "Come back with us." ”
I was stunned by this sentence, who are you, go back, where are you going? Go back to Daqing, sir, I don't have a train ticket, can I go with you. Before I could speak, the woman in red behind me stepped forward to block me behind, and her tone was calm, changing the soft voice she had just spoken to me: "Go back?" Can you still take him back? Hehe, I don't think I can go back! ”
The middle-aged military general ignored the red-clothed sister, looked me in the eye and said word by word: "Are you a desperate rebel?" "I really can't help this little temper, with whom are the two, this is in my dream, you poke me and try it, as soon as I wake up you will finish the calf, so I shouted at him: "Sentenced? I'm still squatting, and my mom won't let me go with people I don't know. ”
The middle-aged military general listened to my words with a look of disdain, did not speak, raised the horsewhip in his right hand, and then slowly swiped down. Just like that, those stand-ins who wore linen and filial piety lit a ghostly fire in their eyes, and they were about to do it. I was so scared that I instinctively hid behind my sister in red, why do you still say that you are in a hurry.
The woman in red took off the phoenix crown on her head and threw it behind her, the wind lifted her long black hair, and for a moment it seemed as if time stood still, and the cold hair brushed my cheeks······