a)

After the reunion lunch of the Wen family, the afternoon activity is to go to the grave to worship the ancestors.

Mrs. Lou rinsed her mouth after eating lunch and was about to go to bed and lie down, she was unable to sit for a long time, just now the old man was relying on a pillow to support her back to accompany everyone to eat this New Year's reunion dinner; Zhou Jiahong naturally had to stay at home to clean up the mess and take care of his mother-in-law. So, Wen Wuwei picked up a basket containing sacrifices, and led nearly 20 people to march to the hill near his home.

The snow on the side of the road was so thick that it almost submerged the dead grass roots, and the road surface was covered with ice, making it easy to walk and slip. The warmth of the sick sun on the earth was no match for the biting ice, snow and cold wind, and the hot air that people had come out of was eroded by the cold in a few strokes......

Wen Jing was surrounded by Lou Guanfeng and Lou Furong brothers and sisters, jumping and jumping all the way, and unconsciously threw the adults out of the boss; Zhu Yuliang followed Wen Yuanqing and Lou Cuiying slowly according to the normal rhythm, and chatted with the ladies about family life; Wen Yuanfang chatted with his eldest brother, nephew and nephew Lou with great interest......

Although she had just had lunch, Wen Jing still remembered the big bag of bean cakes that Lou Guanfeng handed her before going out, and regretted that she didn't open a few pieces and take them out to taste just now.

"Fengfeng! Do you still have sesame seeds and peanuts in your bean cake this year? Wen Jing couldn't help but ask curiously.

"Of course! Mom said that the bean cake for my aunt must have sesame seeds and peanuts, and we only eat sesame seeds but no peanuts! Lou Guanfeng replied with a smile on his face.

"I want to eat a few more pieces of peanut and bean cake, my mother won't give it, it's so stingy!" Lou Furong pursed her lips and grumbled.

"Because there are fewer peanuts and bean cakes!" Lou Guanfeng explained to his sister.

After Wen Jing said "oh", her heart was immediately surrounded by something called "moving". She really wanted to wait for Sister Cuiying to come up and give her a fragrant kiss, but she didn't plan to do that: first, because she was embarrassed, and second, because she didn't want her mother to feel uncomfortable when she saw this situation.

So, Wen Jing started to do her homework in her inner small universe again: "Fengfeng is right, the best bean cake every year is given to me by Sister Cuiying, which contains sesame seeds, peanuts and minced ginger. I thought that her family was very particular about making bean cakes, and it turned out that this sesame peanut bean cake was made specifically for me. Well! When I grow up and earn my first salary, what should I buy for my eldest sister?

I think only my father, mother, eldest sister Cuiying and Brother Lei are good to me purely for my own sake, and my grandparents, uncles and aunts are more or less good for my mother's sake, Uncle Liu's good for me is undoubtedly for the sake of the second aunt, and my grandmother and uncle's family and two aunts are good for me for my father's sake, of course, Uncle Cai, Aunt Chen, Uncle Li, Aunt Liu and Sister Tingting are all good to me for my parents' sake...... However, this Aunt Chen Meijuan doesn't seem to be so good to me because of her parents, is she really happy with me? Alas—I miss her a little! Why do I always think she's a pathetic person? ”

When Wen Jing was taking stock of all the love she had received from this world, Lou Cuiying's loud voice from behind interrupted her thoughts: "Feng Yi - you hold the hands of the little aunt and Rong Nan, don't let them fall!" ”

Within a few minutes, the three children had climbed effortlessly to the top of the hill, leaving the adults far down the hill.

(b)

As soon as Wen Jing took the top of the post, she began to have ringing in her ears and her head was buzzing, and then she saw several "people" emerging from the Wen family's graves to greet them. These "people" are dressed in different ways, but they all look hungry and cold, like the poor people living in black and white movies, looking at the three children with expectant eyes.

"You're Jingnan, aren't you? I'm your grandfather. I spoke to you last year when your dad brought you to see us on a hot day, but you didn't pay much attention to me at the time. Do you remember me? An old man who looked to be in his sixties, thinly dressed and shivering from the cold, spoke first.

"Oh, Grandpa! I couldn't see you very clearly last year, and I only vaguely heard someone talking to me, so I didn't dare to say anything. I'm really sorry Grandpa! Wen Jing replied respectfully.

Then, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy with a handsome face and a look that looked quite like Wen Yuan walked up to Wen Jing and said, "Hehe! Jing Nan, I am your second uncle, Wen Yuantao. I just want to tell you one thing: Your father always thought that I had died after drinking the fragrant ash soup that my mother begged for, so he hated my mother very much for asking God to worship the Buddha, so he often slandered the Buddha and created a lot of karma. If he grows and fights in the future, he will be planted in the oral karma, and I am very worried about him! ”

"Huh? You are my second uncle! I often heard my dad talk about you, that you were the best-looking and best-read, of their brothers. What is slandering the Buddha...... What is the ostomy industry? Then what is the reason for you to ......" Wen Jing looked at the white-faced young man in surprise and became a strong curiosity.

Wen Yuantao replied with a guilty face: "You have to promise to keep it secret for the second uncle!" Actually, I didn't die because I drank the fragrant ash soup. I'm because ...... Peeking at the forbidden book "Jin **", I had evil thoughts, which led to too much sperm and a deficit in my body before I contracted dysentery, and finally died of heavy accumulation. Now that I think about it, 'a knife on the head of the color word, a mass grave under the pomegranate skirt' is really not false at all! I can't regret it now, but I will only wait for you to grow up and be reincarnated after I am reborn, so that I can study Buddhism and practice again! ”

"Why do you get dysentery after watching Jin and Mei? What color word on the head of a knife...... Why do you need to wait until I grow up before I can be reincarnated and practice the Dharma? I was begged to surpass him. Do I have any special skills? Wen Jing suspiciously let out a series of question marks.

Wen Yuantao patiently explained: "That's the case: ghosts and gods are all psychic, and they know a little bit about the things in the heavens, the world, and the earth, of course, the more high-level the ghosts and gods know.

As far as I know, you have the deepest Buddha roots in our family, and you came to this world with the power of desire to transform sentient beings. So, when you grow up, once the opportunity is ripe, as long as you are a little bit superior, you will immediately practice the Dharma, and you will be able to get out of the six realms of samsara and attain the Buddhahood in this life, because the results of practicing the Dharma in your lifetime are ripe. ”

"Why didn't I know who I was and what I was doing in this world?"

"Huh! Because you're still young, you'll know when you grow up. Just like a small sapling, you don't know what kind of tree it is or what it can grow into in the future when it grows to a certain point. Don't you know your mission now? ”

"So what should I do now? How can I transform sentient beings? ”

"Think about it, if you don't have knowledge or if you grow very slowly, how can you be someone else's husband? When you become a gentleman, there will naturally be a lot of students who will come to you to ask you for teaching. Isn't that the truth? Therefore, you yourself must first practice the Dharma well, and when you become a Buddha out of the sea of suffering in the future, many people will naturally come to you to help them get out of the sea of suffering! ”

"Who can I help out of suffering?"

"Whoa! My grandfather, grandma, daddy and me, as well as you, uncles and aunts who died young, there are your little grandfather and grandmother and the little heads of their family who died early, and there are many ancestors of the Wen family who are still suffering in the ghost path...... We're all waiting for you to come and spend it!

In short, all sentient beings who ask you to transcend are destined for you, otherwise you will not meet them or you will not know each other. And the Buddha has a fate, but he can't save a person who is not. Therefore, sentient beings in the sea of suffering can only save one one, and in the future, whether it is a good fate or a bad fate, when you encounter it, you must have compassion to cherish this fate, and don't miss any good opportunity to save sentient beings! ”

Wen Jing seemed to have an understanding after listening to the second uncle's teachings...... At this time, she heard Lou Guanfeng's brother and sister desperately dragging her and shaking her and asking her what was wrong, Lou Furong even cried: "Little aunt, who are you talking to?" Don't scare me! Wow - Mom - come on! The little aunt is talking to herself like a crazy woman! ”

Wen Jing didn't care about responding to the call of the brother and sister, and she still had a series of questions to be answered in her heart. So he continued to consult the second uncle: "Just now you said that I can only practice Buddhism when I grow up and meet a master, why can't I practice Buddhism now?" Also, why is it that only the Dharma can save sentient beings? ”

"Oh, I can't talk to you too much now, you see Feng Yu and Rong Nan are calling you! The people down the hill are coming up soon. Shall we have a chance to talk again? You must remember the four words of the second uncle: wait patiently! ”

Wen Jing heard what the second uncle said, so she had to stop for the time being, and then turned back to deal with the Lou Guanfeng brothers and sisters.

Only then did she realize that the little siblings were standing far away from her, looking at her with the eyes of a visitor from outside the world.

Wen Jing looked around and found that the mountains were full of "people"—they were hiding in the grass, perched on tree branches, or leaning against tombstones...... They all watched the living people's every move with sad expressions......

(c)

At this time, the current affairs group with Wen Yuanfang as the core was still enthusiastically discussing the current situation and China's cultural ecology issues as they walked. Because Lou Zhong and Wen Yuanfang have the same views, they usually talk very speculatively.

Wen Yuanfang: "I have always advocated a hundred flowers blooming and a hundred schools of thought contending, and opposing the exclusive respect of Confucianism in feudal society, because the 'self-denial and revenge' advocated by the feudal ruling class itself is very deceptive - the emperor can do whatever he wants, and everyone else must be self-denial. ”

Lou Zhong: "Yes! Confucianism is ultimately about maintaining the feudal order, and the promotion of inherently unequal between men and women is one of its theoretical cornerstones...... Such a culture is contrary to the laws of nature at the source, and it is also immoral. ”

Wen Yuanshao: "Alas, there is no one who is most poisoned by feudal etiquette than Chinese women, and there are several achievements in my family!" I am very much in favor of the idea that 'women can hold up half the sky' advocated by New China. ”

Wen Wuwei: "Indeed, to say that the ancients did not have a preference for sons is to talk nonsense with their eyes closed...... What 'a woman is virtuous if she is not talented', even if she is talented, she must hide it deeply. Ha ha! Doesn't asking women to hide their talents amount to depriving women of all their social rights? Doesn't it mean that women are clearly positioned as inferior human beings who can only teach each other husband and children? Of course, this is unreasonable and unfair! ”

Wen Yuanfang: "Hmph! Heaven is honored, and earth is humbled; Men are respected, women are inferior. Men and women obviously need to crawl on the earth to earn a living, and men and women obviously need to complement each other to survive and reproduce on the earth, how can men become heaven and run to the earth? How can such a fallacy, which goes against common sense, persist for thousands of years, but not thoroughly expose and criticize it? ”

Lou Zhong: "It is a good metaphor to compare women to Mother Earth, but do men in feudal society worship Mother Earth? It is this kind of theory of male superiority and inferiority that leads to which woman in ancient times was not a fertility machine all her life, a nanny and a mother all her life, and a submissive little daughter-in-law all her life? No one would say that women are bound to protect women, right? The Ming Dynasty is not far from us, go and see "Jin**", you will know how ancient men treated Mother Earth? They have been ungrateful for their wanton plundering and devastation...... Finally, Mother Earth was given a name: Slut. ”

Wen Yuanshao: "When I was studying in Hangzhou, I read Mr. Hu Shi's "Compassion and Care in the Barbaric Age: Hu Shi on Feminism". Mr. Hu can be regarded as a 'good person' recognized in the cultural circles at that time, but when it comes to the issue of Chinese women, such a gentle-toned gentleman can't help but scold angrily and cry out bitterly.

I still remember a passage in the book, to the effect that Chinese women don't read, so they don't know anything; Since he has no knowledge, he naturally has to rely on men for everything, and he cannot stand on his own at all. Because of this, although we have 40,000 people in China, 20,000 of them are useless women...... How can we in China not be so poor? Those women, since they don't have the ability, if they still read some books, they can teach their children at home. Unexpectedly, they listened to the fart that 'a woman is virtuous if she is not talented', and they didn't read any books. As a result, we Chinese women have really become a bunch of waste.

And Mr. Liang Shiqiu simply said bluntly: The real reason why China is backward and beaten is that women have never been regarded as human beings in Han culture for thousands of years......"

Wen Wuwei: "Women can't go to school to be officials, can't show their heads, can't show their talents, and can only revolve around the stove bed in the nest all their lives, and they can't enter the door without leaving the second door...... Such mental restraint is not enough, and women are forced to bind their feet and self-harm to limit their freedom of movement. Think about it, how can such a group of mothers with long hair and short knowledge cultivate a large number of people with lofty ideals who set their hearts for heaven and earth and make lives for the people? As a result, Chinese society is like a small-footed woman...... It's no wonder if you don't fall behind and get beaten! ”

Wen Yuanfang: "Since I have rejected the traditional cultural system dominated by Confucianism, of course I hope that China can replace it with a more advanced and more moral 'new cultural system', so as to basically unify the current ideological values of all sectors of Chinese society, so as to achieve the goal of social stability and unity, and the prosperity and strength of the country." This was also the main motivation for me to actively study Marxism-Leninism-Mao and devote myself to the spiritual reform movement without hesitation.

However, practice has proved that this ideal state of ideological unity can only be realized slowly through propaganda, guidance, and indoctrination, and cannot be rushed through ruthless blows through brutal struggle...... Potential, unnecessary, heart-wrenching, literal prison, and ...... What is the difference between this and the brutal autocracy and unity of feudal society?

I'm a little tired of the endless movement, and I don't want to be the leader of the leading group of the commercial bureau's spiritual reform. ”

(iv)

As soon as Wen Yuanfang's voice fell, he heard Lou Cuiying running up and talking to him: "Little uncle! I have a good team, I have a little trouble before the Chinese New Year, I want you to help, can I talk to you later? ”

"What's the matter? Can't you say it here? Wen Yuanfang was a little puzzled.

Lou Zhong winked at his wife next to him, signaling her not to talk to her uncle today, because the "topic" was out of place. But Lou Cuiying still stubbornly said: "Oh, this matter involves the privacy of my team, so it's inconvenient to talk about it here!" ”

"Alright! After the sacrifice to the ancestors, we will talk about it separately. ”

……

When everyone arrived at the hill, they took out a bowl of thousands of braised pork, a bowl of braised hooves, a bowl of steamed hairtail, a bowl of water chestnut bean sprouts and pickles, a plate of Beijing dates, a plate of persimmons, a plate of bean cakes, and a number of candles, incense and paper ingots and other sacrifices that were placed in the basket, and then worshiped in turn according to the seniority......

Wen Jing saw that those "people" saw that their relatives had laid out the sacrifices one by one, so they impatiently gathered around and rushed to suck the smell of these foods; Then, they chased after the paper ingots burned to them by their relatives, and the paper ashes that flew high in the wind, and they still tried their best to leap and grab them......

Wen Jing suddenly burst into tears, she felt that her ancestors were so pitiful!

And Lou Furong was sobbing over there, she had obviously reported to her mother the abnormal behavior of the little aunt just now, which made Lou Cuiying stare at Wen Jing for a long time, and her expression was clearly surprised, anxious and dignified.

At this time, Wen Jing's heart was full of sadness, and she had no time to take care of Lou Furong's rap and Lou Cuiying's anxiety.

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