Chapter XXIV. Crazy daughter (Gagen, thank you @Zephyr Janet for the crown)
I think many of you have encountered the following situation. Walking on the street, I suddenly came across a middle-aged and elderly man dressed in a simple or even tattered foreign accent, and some even had a child in their arms. They will first ask you for directions, and then they will look very embarrassed and tell you that his wallet has been lost, and he has been hungry for many days, so please give you a few dollars to buy a cake to eat.
At least I've encountered this before, more than once. Since I myself am a person with rich experience in cheating, I often tell him with my eyes that I have seen through you, why don't you hurry up and run for your life? But what would you think if the person who said these things to you, not a stranger on the road, but your own flesh and blood, suddenly said such things in a foreign accent?
At the end of July 2010, I remember it was the day after Guanyin's birthday. Hu Zongren called me, his voice sounded very reluctant, he said Do you have anything to do in the afternoon? I said no, I'm idle. He said then you should come to your godmother's place.
The godmother in Hu Zongren's mouth is Granny Huang. This guy is in a posture of marrying a chicken and a dog and marrying a dog, and he barked with Fu Yunni. Although I know Granny Huang well, except for the New Year's holidays or when she is not in good health, I call her most of the time to greet and care, and generally come to the door, usually I need help or encounter some troubles that I can't solve. Although I am a person who does not go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, when Hu Zongren asked me to go over in a very unhappy tone, I was inevitably nervous.
Because I'm also worried that Granny Huang is old and diabetic after all, and this old man's matter is uncertain. So I was a little nervous and asked Hu Zongren, what happened, is Granny Huang not in good health? Hu Zongren said, no, this morning Fu Yunni's brother-in-law will pull me to my godmother, saying that my godmother has something to ask for. After I came, I thought that I would just do it myself, but who knew that Lu Dao's godmother had to ask you to come with me and ask the two of us to do it together. I asked Hu Zongren, what is so mysterious about it? Could it be that your Xuanyuan will find Granny Huang? Hu Zongren said no, oops! You come and ask him yourself! Telephone bills are very expensive!
Before I could reply, the guy snapped and hung up the phone. I can tell that he is a little unhappy this time. Because in terms of strength, I may not be able to win Hu Zongren, and compared to him, I may have more theoretical knowledge. Granny Huang insisted that I go with her, as if she inadvertently felt that Hu Zongren was not good. Although Hu Zongren is upright and upright, although he has a lot of problems, he has always been a trustworthy partner. And his weakest point is that it is easy for people to guess his mind, especially me. So after lunch, I took Sister Cai to Granny Huang's house.
In the past, as soon as Sister Cai and Fu Yunni met, the two chatted non-stop, like two sparrows. But that day, Fu Yunni kept her face gloomy and looked very unhappy. I originally wanted to tease Hu Zongren if you didn't hand in your homework or something, but with the elders here, I'm embarrassed to joke. After Granny Huang saw that I was coming, she took Fu Yunni's hand and said to Fu Yunni, goddaughter, you tell everyone the cause and effect of the incident.
Fu Yunni said that yesterday was Guanyin's birthday, so she accompanied Granny Huang to the temple to burn incense and do things. It's like the fifteenth day of every month. There are many people who come to burn incense, and all of them look very religious. But there was a middle-aged man who bought a handful of very thick incense, and then knelt down respectfully, and while silently reciting a wish, his nostrils opened slightly, and he began to cry. Fu Yunni said that at first, the man was just crying, but soon he couldn't care about the eyes of others and cried recklessly.
Hu Zongren was obviously still upset with Granny Huang's insistence on me coming, and he interjected to tell me that he was the kind of crying unrestrained. I gave him a blank look, thinking to myself, you monkey wife, don't interject when you talk to men, don't you know the truth, you are really ignorant. Sure enough, Fu Yunni also glared at him, and then went on to tell me that because the man was crying so loudly, he couldn't contain the feeling that the Bodhisattva was celebrating his birthday, and everyone came to congratulate him, even if he was bitter, he said it silently in his heart, so this man's cry quickly attracted the attention of many people around him. Fu Yunni said that because whenever there was such a dharma, she would stay by Granny Huang's side and help her distribute some of the "divine water" that Granny Huang had made herself to the people who believed in it, and the man's cry naturally attracted the attention of Granny Huang and Fu Yunni.
Fu Yunni said that she is different from Granny Huang, who is old and full of compassion despite her high skills. And I haven't studied Buddhism for many years, and when I first met us, I could catch a ghost from time to time to scare people, so Fu Yunni said to Granny Huang that she went to see what happened. She walked up to the man and first asked him, "Uncle, what are you crying about?" The man saw that she was a young girl and ignored her. Fu Yunni pointed to Granny Huang who was sitting in the temple not far away and said, that is her godmother, and she is also the person who donated the temple, so you can say anything you want.
There were already some ordinary people gathered around because of the men's bitter weeping, and some of them felt that they should not be splashing in front of the Bodhisattva, but more people should just be watching the excitement. When the man heard Fu Yunni say this, he suddenly became energetic. Because the temple donated by Granny Huang is a well-known miracle in that area, but the premise of the miracle is that you must be sincere. So Fu Yunni picked up the man and asked him to finish worshipping and inserting incense first, and then follow him over to tell him what happened.
Fu Yunni said to me that all this is actually what Granny Huang meant. Most of the time when Granny Huang is not in the temple on weekdays also belongs to opening the door to do business and taking money to do things. But all she collected was a small amount of money, and a hundred dollars would be done. But in the temple, which was donated by herself, Granny Huang felt that she had to take care of this matter for the Bodhisattva. Fu Yunni said that when the man walked inside, Granny Huang temporarily closed the small wooden door of the temple to prevent outsiders from hearing it, and asked the man to tell him what had happened.
As I said at the beginning, this time it was this man's daughter who was recruited. Fu Yunni said that the man's daughter is estimated to be about the same age as Fu Yunni, and the man himself is a business and has a little capital. Often, this kind of private enterprise is passed on to the next generation. The man's daughter was a shrewd person, and she got started in business quickly, and at a young age, she became a member of the board of directors of the company.
I was surprised to say that the board? What a big business that has to be! Hu Zongren said, it's quite big, is it not big with an annual output value of hundreds of millions? Fu Yunni went on to say that the man's daughter has been studying abroad since she was a teenager, and has only returned to China in recent years. And this man felt that it was time to slowly hand over the business to his daughter, but the daughter suddenly felt wrong. The man said that his daughter did not have a family, and although she also bought a house by herself, she still lived in her parents' house most of the time. And he himself is busy, sometimes he socializes a lot, and he will come home late. But half a month ago, when I came home, I found that my daughter hadn't slept yet, watching TV in the living room.
Fu Yunni said that it is not entirely true that she is watching TV, because the TV is already the kind of signal sphere without a program. At first, he thought that his daughter was asleep watching TV, so he patted his daughter on the shoulder and said, Weiwei, go into the house to sleep so late. As a result, his daughter did not fall asleep, but watched the TV with her eyes straight together, her feet together, her toes on the ground, and her body sat straight and straight, without even blinking her eyes. When the man saw his daughter like this, he thought it was distracted at first, so he put a little more force on his hand, and before he could say anything, his daughter kicked her legs, waved her hands, and shouted heartbreakingly:
"I don't know you! Don't come here! I want to go home! I want to go home! ”
Fu Yunni went on to say that the man was frightened by his daughter's sudden and strange behavior, and before he could come to his senses, his daughter was like a puddle of mud, slumped on the sofa. When the man's wife heard her daughter's screams, she immediately came out of the room, and when she saw the man coming back, she asked him what had happened, and the man was also confused, so he didn't answer his wife. Instead, he asked his wife, did his daughter go out to drink tonight? Why are you crazy all of a sudden? His wife said no, he had been watching TV with his daughter after dinner, and she was still smiling during the period, she saw that the time was almost up, so she went back to the room to sleep first, and told her daughter not to play too late before going to bed and going to work tomorrow or something.
The man said that his wife was also a senior official in the company, but since her daughter returned to China, she retired early and lived a quiet life at home, saying that her daughter went abroad when she was very young, and she didn't take much care of her in her life. The man went on to say that just as the couple didn't know what to do, his daughter sat up from the couch again, her hair messed up from the previous ranting struggle. She still didn't look back at the couple, but continued to sit on the sofa in front of the TV, even the posture was the same as at the beginning, the only difference was that she sat very upright before, but now, she tilted her neck diagonally, and still looked directly at the TV where there was no program.
The man said that at that time, he gave his wife a look and asked her to try to see if she could get her daughter back to the room to rest. His wife walked up to her daughter lightly, and was about to lift her up in a gentle voice, when her daughter suddenly turned her head to look at her mother, and then said to her mother in that childlike tone, and in a foreign accent:
"Auntie, my family lives on XX Road, can you send me home?"