Chapter 174: Breaking the Vows
Dad, don't talk about it. If you want me to take a leave of absence, I might as well go to Yuantong Temple to become a monk. Xinmin turned his body away, didn't look at the flowers, but showed his attitude when he spoke, I like Mingfang.
Then let's not talk about it. Hua Cai took a few more puffs of the cigarette, and then there was a small half of the cigarette butt, so he threw it on the ground, and stepped on it, rubbing it out, and there was a little anger at the cigarette butt. Huacai had no choice but to recognize Jin Mingfang, the daughter-in-law, although she was unhappy, she still had to help with the things she should help.
A few days later, he found a few people, mixed silk and thin branches to weave more than a dozen bird holes, and asked Xing Hexiu and Jin Mingfang to come to see it, and was praised by his wife, but his daughter-in-law did not speak, but only smiled.
After that, he asked Hua Xinmin to take a few people who could weave to the mountains and forests, and hung these bird holes on high tree branches, and put small foods such as millet, sesame seeds, and corn in each bird hole.
Half a year later, Jin Mingfang's belly bulged again, which showed that she was pregnant, and after the pregnancy expired, she gave birth to a white and chubby baby boy, and the Hua family was very happy, afraid that he would not be able to support him like the previous two baby boys, so he named the baby boy Changsheng.
Eternal life quarrels with the dead, crying every night, so that she can't care about chanting Buddha, let alone confessing to the spirits of those chickens and birds. The mother-in-law is the same, the two of them are busy around Changsheng day and night, sometimes carrying feces and urine, sometimes washing cloths; Sometimes stepping on the nest, sometimes holding the baby around.
After the full moon, Changsheng didn't cry much, and their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law also forgot about chanting the Buddha, and only occasionally burned some incense and inserted it in the incense burner.
Especially Jin Mingfang began to ban meat for a period of time, and after confinement, she took the initiative to eat chicken, pig's shoulder, crucian carp and other milk-making foods, so she opened meat again.
My mother-in-law said that you should not eat this after the full moon, and the Venerable Master said that you have had evil deeds and need to quit meat and eat vegetarian.
But after the full moon, Jin Mingfang felt that it was okay, so she ate meat as usual. The mother-in-law reminded her again that she was going to quit? She said that I quit meat, do I still have milk to eat in Changsheng? If you want me to quit meat, let's call it Changsheng and quit milk!
After that, the mother-in-law did not mention the matter of letting the daughter-in-law quit meat, and the daughter-in-law had no scruples as a matter of course, and even ate the eggs.
Soon, something happened. Huacai's house was burned to a burnt yellow by an electric fire, and the smell was really choking, and the loss was not too great, but there were also furniture worth more than 2,000 yuan that became waste.
Huacai was a little annoyed, he suddenly remembered that he had offered Guanyin Bodhisattva at home, and often burned incense to chant Buddha, why didn't he bless him at all, so he asked his wife Xing Hexiu to always send the Guanyin Bodhisattva statue back to Yuantong Temple. Xing Hexiu didn't quite understand either, so he specifically found Master Wu and asked what the reason was. Master Wuwu sighed and said, "Of course, your family has offered Guanyin Bodhisattva, and at the beginning they were very respectful in chanting Buddha and burning incense, but then they slacked off, not only slack, but also disrespected the Bodhisattva.
How disrespectful? Xing Hexiu thinks this is a bit wrongful.
Of course it's disrespectful, I won't talk about your daughter-in-law's meat, and later, you shouldn't do some cruel things like killing chickens and ducks in front of the Bodhisattva almost every day, that is the most taboo thing for the Bodhisattva, the Bodhisattva is merciful, merciful to all sentient beings, and purifying all sentient beings, but you want to kill sentient beings, how can the Bodhisattva manage the affairs of your family? Bodhisattvas only save sentient beings, and for people like you who are strong and difficult to subdue, and do not listen to advice, and continue to create evil, the Bodhisattva can't save it, so he has to stay away.
When Master Wuwu said this, he put his palms together and recited Amitabha Buddha, and then gestured to continue, "The fire in your house is caused by the aging and perforation of wires for many years, and the poor contact, don't be suspicious, even if the Bodhisattva does not bless it, it has nothing to do with the Bodhisattva.
When Xing Hexiu was leaving, he was still grateful to Master Wu for his guidance. She said, "According to Master's instructions, my daughter-in-law gave birth to a baby boy. The enlightened master said, "Don't thank me, thank you for your own merits, and keep doing them!" Otherwise, there will be problems. Don't come to me next time you have a problem, and you won't tell me if you do. At that time, the poor monk will have no power to return to heaven.
When Xing Hexiu went back that day, she told Jin Mingfang what Master Wu had said and asked her to continue to quit meat and vegetarianism, but Jin Mingfang didn't believe it, she said that a Bodhisattva at home still sent an electric fire, proving that the Bodhisattva could not bless her.
Xing Hexiu couldn't explain it to her clearly, and she used the point of view of Master Wu to speak, but she always couldn't speak properly, talking, talking, and her daughter-in-law didn't want to listen, and didn't let her finish speaking, Jin Mingfang came to a set, you let me quit meat, Changsheng has no milk to eat, and he is skinny, can the Bodhisattva bless him to gain weight? I can't bless it.
Didn't you give birth to immortality when you asked for guidance from the enlightened master and did merit according to what the enlightened master said? The mother-in-law said that she would not win the daughter-in-law, so she persuaded her with this fact.
I still don't believe that even if I hadn't found an enlightened master, maybe in the next year and a half, I would still be able to give birth to a fat doll. Jin Mingfang hugged the child and said conceitedly.
The mother-in-law felt that her daughter-in-law was like a person who crossed the river and demolished the bridge, and it was obviously because of the guidance of the Enlightened Master that she changed the bad luck of strangling the fetus and gave birth to an immortal life.
But when I saw that she raised her grandson with a fat tuk, I couldn't hate her, but I still told her what Master Wu said, you still have to keep making merits, otherwise there will be problems. Where does Jin Mingfang listen? By feeling, there is no problem with the child anyway, I take care of him so well. You always say that there is a problem with me not making merits, and most of the women in the village have not made merits, so they are not good. I think there was no problem, but you always told the monk about the problem. Don't say auspicious words, annoying.
When the mother-in-law saw that her daughter-in-law was full of complaints, she also wanted to say to her: Which of the women in the village has eaten so many hairy eggs and bird eggs? Which one has so many sins as you? But Xing Hexiu endured this, and only said, you don't listen to this, you don't listen to that, you will suffer.
When Changsheng was almost half a year old, he was very cute. Jin Mingfang is also in a very comfortable mood, often humming songs, because she opened her mouth to sing, it is still a lark-like good voice, after the village people praised her, they said with emotion, you have a singer's voice, it is really wasted, if you are trained and further studied in a song and dance troupe, you may become a singer and celebrity.
Hearing this, Jin Mingfang became sentimental, when she was in middle school, the county song and dance troupe once looked for her and was about to recruit her to be a singing actress, but when she auditioned, her voice was hoarse, so naturally she didn't pass the test, and then her voice recovered, and the number of actors recruited by the county song and dance troupe was full.
Jin Mingfang still has a chance to perform, that time Jinshan Town held a year-end commendation meeting, arranged literary and artistic programs to carry out condolence performances, and let Jin Mingfang as a soloist face the town and village cadres, model workers and villagers, open a loud and crisp voice, sing a few revolutionary songs, and pass a singing addiction.
She also won a second prize, from the 500 yuan bonus to buy a white goose mechanical toy for the child Changsheng, ready to let the child play, play, play big, grow up to more than a year old, teach him to hum the Tang Dynasty poet Luo Bingwang when he was seven years old to write a poem "goose goose goose, song to the sky......
Trying to make up for her frustration in learning cultural knowledge through her son's interest in learning cultural knowledge, she used her brains to start cultivating and pinning hopes on her children from now on.
But she never expected that when she came home with this white goose mechanical toy, she heard her mother-in-law's cry, and when she entered the house, she saw that Changsheng's body was lying on his back on a basket and plate, already dead, his face was dark, his eyes were fixed, and he was not closed. How did Changsheng die?
Jin Mingfang shook the white goose mechanical toy in his hand, and immediately threw himself on his son's corpse and cried bitterly, crying so much that all the uncles and neighbors present couldn't help but shed tears.