Chapter 58: Wishes

It is said that thousands of people spend the New Year's Eve together, but in fact, there are more than 100 people. Seeing that there were so many people like herself, Yao Yiyue, who was homeless during the Chinese New Year, suddenly felt a lot more comfortable.

However, the event itself was not attractive: "Everyone went to receive a can of drink and a number hand, and after midnight the lottery was drawn, the grand prize was a diamond ring, and the rest of the first, second and third prizes were fairly average." ”

Yao Yiyue whispered to Zhan Shaoang and complained: "Even that grand prize is not attractive to me at all. She pursed her lips with disgust on her face: "The cold diamond is the most unemotional, and this New Year's Eve performance is not good-looking." ”

She dragged Zhan Shaoang back and forth through the crowd to see how many of these people came for diamonds, and a few for performances.

"Hurry up and go, the head pillar incense should be snatched away by someone else." An uncle took the trouble to persuade the aunt next to him, and the aunt looked at the sparkling diamonds on the prize table: "Wait a while, in case you can draw diamonds." You are reluctant to buy it for me, what's wrong with me smoking one. What a lucky New Year's Day. ”

Yao Yiyue's little ears moved, revealing a narrow smile: "Zhan Shaoang, let's go to Songshan Temple." How about the incense on the first day of the Lunar New Year? ”

Zhan Shaoang had no opinion, nodded and responded: "Okay." ”

As soon as they said go, the two of them hurriedly took a taxi and ran to the outskirts of the city in the middle of the night.

"It's amazing today, you two children ran out to make incense. It's usually business people and extremely devout believers who come out so early to offer incense. However, it is easy to say that Songshan Temple is not a big temple. Many people go to Chaoyang Temple, which is farther away, where the incense is the most prosperous. What are you two asking for? Do you want love to be consummated? Hey, Songshan Temple is in the mountains, so it's a long walk at night. ”

Yao Yiyue secretly said in her heart: How can everyone see a man and a woman, no matter how old they are, they should think that they are a couple. This vision is really superficial enough, and he is still seeking love on the first day of the new year, and how dry and tasteless the days are.

"He's my brother, not a couple. My brother is going to take the college entrance examination this year, so we're here to make a wish! Yao Yiyue glanced out the window, looking devoid of interest.

"Oh, that's when I looked away." The driver disagreed, and chatted with a smile: "Then the relationship between the two of you is quite good, and you are not at home in the middle of the night to watch the Spring Festival Gala and run out to make incense." ”

"Whoever wants to see that, it's all their parents' hobbies, okay?" Yao Yiyue rolled her eyes, and said in her heart that if the kitchen is cold and cold, a trace of fragrance can't float out, and the living room is cold, what kind of Spring Festival Gala are you watching, there is no one who complains together.

"That's right! People of our age like to watch the Spring Festival Gala. It's not watching, it's just playing on TV and listening to it. Hey, the women make dumplings for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and the men play cards at the mahjong table. Three or four children were running around the house, and firecrackers were set off outside. This is the flavor of the New Year! ”

The driver himself had red eyes: "Well, I'll go home to eat dumplings after sending you guys." ”

Yao Yiyue listened to the bitterness in her heart, and pouted in her heart and said, "One day, I can also live such a year." There was a lively show on TV, children were playing in the living room, boiling water was bubbling in the kitchen pot, and a handsome man with long legs was making dumplings with him.

Thinking about it, her thoughts drifted out, and she didn't know if she was good at doing this. In the years when you should work hardest, in the years when you are working hard for the college entrance examination every day. She is actually looking forward to finding a good home and striving to marry out as soon as possible at the legal age of marriage.

"It's nice to have a warm little home!" Zhan Shaoang crossed his hands in front of his chest, squinting and dozing off. A sigh fluttered in his ears, and he opened his eyes and missed his head to confirm that it was a hallucination.

found Yao Yiyue lying by the window, staring at the sky in a daze with big eyes. Thinking about the words in his ears just now, he couldn't help but look out as well. It didn't matter, he found that the stars in the sky were dazzling, and the only thing missing was the moon.

"It's really strange to be able to see the stars clearly, why is there no moon!" Zhan Shaoang sat in the car and looked up left and right, making sure that he really didn't see the moon.

"Big brother, are you an idiot? There is no common sense at all! Yao Yiyue's sad thoughts were pulled back, and when she heard the words of the second person behind her, she couldn't help but laugh at him: "The first day of junior high has no moon, and although today is thirty, the moon is almost invisible." ”

"No, the first and fifteenth days of the new year are full moon nights, right?" Zhan Shaoang's face was serious.

"Idiot, can you really get into college like this?" Yao Yiyue couldn't help but doubt: "The first new moon is not visible, only because I am trapped in the middle of the sun and the earth, the seventh and eighth first quarter moons, and the half full moon faces west. The full moon rises in the fifteenth or sixteenth, the earth picks the sun and the moon on one shoulder, the second quarter moon in the twenty-second and third quarters, and the moon faces east in the middle of the night. ”

She recited the catchy ballads of her childhood, and proudly swaggered towards Zhan Shaoang: "Let me tell you, I can recite many such nursery rhymes when I was a child." What are the 24 solar terms nursery rhymes, agricultural proverbs, anyway, there are a lot. ”

When the driver heard this, he couldn't help but ask: "Yo, the little girl knows a lot." Your family is literate at first glance, this is all said by the older generation. ”

"Well, my grandfather liked me the most when I was a child. He has a deep knowledge of Chinese culture, and he knows everything about agricultural proverbs, seasonal astronomy and geography. Chinese painting, calligraphy, Go, everything is amazing. Saying that, Yao Yiyue's face showed a little nostalgia and regret: "It's a pity, my two uncles haven't inherited half of my grandfather's style." My mother and aunt didn't even learn anything, hey, if my grandfather was still alive, my life would probably be much better. ”

Yao Yiyue's grandfather was only six years old when he died, but she remembered a lot about her grandfather.

She tilted her head and said regretfully: "Grandpa liked to carve seals the most when he was alive, I remember when he was a child, he often carved his own seals at home." It's a pity that these things were thrown away by my grandmother when my grandfather died, and the clothes he wore back then and the photos he took were burned. ”

Zhan Shaoang was puzzled: "Why do you want to burn it and keep it as a souvenir?" ”

Yao Yiyue sneered: "I feel ashamed to say the reason, and I want to leave it to my grandfather over there." Should we keep the photos too? It's not that my uncle and aunt feel unlucky, and my grandmother is also a person who has no idea and doesn't leave anything. Cut, don't say about them, tooth. ”

While speaking, the two of them had already arrived at the foot of the mountain of Songshan Temple, and the driver stopped the car next to the stone steps and said, "Are you two afraid?" There is a street lamp on both sides of the stone steps, which is still quite bright. When you go down the hill, you go down this parking lot, and this straight intersection leads to the street where there is a lot of traffic. I remember that when I came out after 12 o'clock, there would be a lot of taxis and private cars. ”

Yao Yiyue waved her hand and smiled sweetly: "Got it, uncle." Thank you and Happy New Year! ”

"Let's go, it's still early. Let's climb a mountain road, and it is estimated that it will be the first day of the Lunar New Year. Yao Yiyue said with a smile, and the two walked all the way to the mountain.

The air in the mountains is very good, and the smell of dampness and earth is refreshing.

Although there is no moonlight, there is a pale yellow street lamp a few hundred meters away to point people to the mountain road. There were stars overhead, and there was not a single cloud.

"This is called the starry sky, look at it, it's so beautiful!" Yao Yiyue raised her head and sighed: "How can you see so many stars in the urban area." ”

She only looked up at the view, but forgot to pay attention to the mountain path under her feet. The rugged and winding mountain road, even if there are man-made and neatly repaired steps, is still a little dangerous.

Zhan Shaoang looked at Yao Yiyue's stumbling figure, and strode forward with long legs and stretched out his hand to hold Yao Yiyue. With him in front of her, Yao Yiyue can rest assured and boldly raise her head to enjoy the dazzling scenery.

Zhan Shaoang had an indescribable sense of familiarity with this situation, and he couldn't help but secretly wonder that this kind of immediacy phenomenon rarely happened to him, why did he feel so clear today?

Looking up and looking through the layers of stone steps, he seemed to see the scene of a hundred years ago: a pair of young boys and girls walked on the winding mountain road to the temple by the breeze and the moonlight. Wade through the overlapping mountains and rivers to walk the long steps, knock on the brass lock on the door knocker, and make a sincere wish。。。。。

There were very few monks in the temple, and they didn't look surprised to see this pair of young children. just clasped his hands together at the two of them and said "Amitabha".

The presiding officer of the temple knelt on the futon in the center of the main hall, with his back to the two of them, knocking on the wooden fish while silently reciting the scriptures.

Yao Yiyue and Zhan Shaoang stood at the door of the main hall, and for the first time they truly felt what it means to be quiet in Buddhism. There was a faint smell of sandalwood wafting through the tip of the nose, and there was no other murmur in the hall except for the percussion of the wooden fish. Such a simple scene has a sense of peace and tranquility.

"I suddenly want to cry!" Yao Yiyue turned her face to look at Zhan Shaoang: "The grievances in my heart poured out all of a sudden, but I felt that it didn't matter as if I had been ironed." ”

She loosened her hand and lifted her foot into the main hall. Kneel on the futon to the right of the presiding master, clasp your hands, bow down, get up, clasp your hands, bow down, get up, close your palms, bow down, get up. This is done three times in one go, and it doesn't need to be guided by others, as clear and familiar as having done it countless times.

"The new year is about to start again." Speaking of this, Yao Yiyue couldn't help choking: "I just hope that this year, my parents can care more about me and pay more attention to me." I don't expect both families to accept me, I just hope, I just hope。。。。。 ”

What to hope for? Yao Yiyue couldn't think of it for a while. Hope the two of them can spoil themselves alone? Wish they could give more trust to themselves? is still like Fan Chenyi said, give yourself a large amount of money as a guarantee for your future life.

It seems that these are not what he expects from the bottom of his heart, Yao Yiyue took a deep breath and raised his eyes to look at the Buddha statue in front of him and said firmly: "I hope this year, my parents can be safe." Well, that's fine. It's good for me that they're alive and well. It's nice to be able to live with my mother, to see my father often, and to have me in their hearts. I don't ask for much, I will try the rest myself, as long as the family is safe, it is enough. ”

Zhan Shaoang, who was kneeling on the left side of the host, heard this, and his heart moved。。。。。