One

The evening sky was bright, but Koyanagi's house was very gloomy. When her lover returned, Koyanagi was washing vegetables. He heard a keychain ringing outside the door, and then the sound of heavy heels came in. For a moment, there was a bang in the living room. He got up to see a cup lying on the ground. Koyanagi didn't ask, walked a few more steps, picked up a hot water bottle, and rumbled next to the cup. The boiling water splashed on the lover's feet, and the lover couldn't breathe. Koyanagi didn't say anything, and still went to the kitchen to wash the handful of cabbage. As soon as he finished washing, he heard the door slam shut and the click of the three safety locks.

He understood that it was his lover who had locked the door behind him.

Xiaoyanagi remained silent, cut the vegetables, fried them, cooked the noodles for another person, and ate them alone. While eating, the door lock rang again.

It was the mother-in-law who came in, and she asked, "Where is your daughter-in-law?" Xiaoyanagi glanced at the key in his mother-in-law's hand: "Didn't I send you the key?" The mother-in-law was asked, so she changed the subject and said, "What's wrong with you two?" Koyanagi said, "It's nothing, she accidentally dropped a cup, I accidentally dropped a hot water bottle." The mother-in-law swallowed something: "What kind of reform did she make in her unit and changed it to an economic entity, so she was in a bad mood!" Koyanagi said, "Yes." I also persuaded her that it was useless to sulk, because the Politburo and the State Council had asked her to do it, and if there were any opinions, they would raise them. As he spoke, he looked at his watch, "Ouch! The news hookup is coming. As he spoke, he went to turn on the TV. Behind her, the mother-in-law turned her head and left. Xiaoliu rushed up and said loudly, "Someone asked me to dance tonight." Mom, you talk to her. If she doesn't go, I'll go alone. The tone of Koyanagi's voice made the old lady walking in front want to stomp her feet.

When his lover rushed home before half past seven, Koyanagi had already gotten into the bed and lay down. The lover moved the three-person sofa, laid a quilt, and slept. In the middle of the night, Koyanagi heard a cry, he rolled over, and still slept soundly. The two of them have been like this for almost half a year, and whoever sleeps first will occupy the bed, and the only one who will sleep on the sofa will be overnight.

When I got up in the morning to go to eat, at the turn of the stairs, Koyanagi ran into my colleague Seagull. The seagull stopped him and said, "Why didn't you go last night?" It hurts me to wait for love and white. Kazucha Koyanagi: "Ouch! How did I forget about this dancing? The seagull said, "Don't pretend! Who doesn't know that you are a model husband, afraid that your wife is the best in the world! Koyanagi immediately said: "I have a word first, as long as I am not divorced, I will not date other girls." The seagull said, "Don't be complacent, who is dating you?" Isn't it just that you want to find a dance partner, let off steam, and have fun! As he spoke, the stairs trembled. Koyanagi's lover carried a vegetable basket and fell from the sky with a gloomy face. The seagull saw it and said, "Sister-in-law went to buy vegetables early this morning?" After a long time, a sentence came from the bottom of the stairs: "Don't think about my hunger strike, I won't do that!" The seagull stuck out his tongue when he heard this: "Why, you guys are quarreling too!" Xiaoyanagi said: "We don't quarrel, we are secretly competing for everything." When the seagull saw that Xiaoliu was about to go downstairs, he said, "My one left in anger just now, you can take two of these four steamed buns." Just stop standing in line. Xiaoyanagi said, "Don't you only need one steamed bun for every meal?" The seagull said, "There is another one." Koyanagi asked, "Who?" The seagull said, "Love red." Koyanagi said, "It's making trouble again?" The seagull nodded: "The two of them, I'm afraid this time it's going to be completely solved!" Xiaoliu sighed: "Her husband, who went to college in vain, is as good as a cow." It's okay to be separated! ”

Xiaoyanagi took two steamed buns, went downstairs, put the bowl in his mailbox, and went straight to work.

He thought about his thoughts while walking: he and Seagull and Aihong were all married on May Day last year, and the wedding was organized by the general branch of the bureau, which was a very lively group wedding. Unexpectedly, in less than a year, it turned against each other. The two of them are noisy, and everyone else knows it. He is secretly troublesome, and outsiders almost don't know about it. The director talked to them several times, and summed up the reasons for the trouble, which was nothing more than that after the former organs were changed into economic entities, everyone was busy and couldn't take care of their family affairs. The director asked them all to bear with it, and when they got used to this rhythm of work, they would be fine. But they found it hard to endure even a minute.

Turning into the gate of the agency, he was confronted by a gray man, clasped his palms at him, and said something very strange and familiar. When Koyanagi saw that this person was a monk, he realized that this sentence was Amitabha. If you change someone else, Koyanagi will be angry. Working in this organization, it is common to lose your temper with people who come to do errands and make them walk. But Xiao Yanagi didn't lose his temper today because of curiosity, and thought to himself, what is this monk doing at the Finance Bureau? But he asked, "Who are you looking for?" The monk said, "I don't know who to turn to." Xiaoyanagi said: "I don't even know who to look for and who not to look for, so what are you going to do?" The monk said, "Say so, comrade! My surname is Shi, I am from Lingshan Temple, because the incense in the temple is not very good recently, this section can only open one meal a day for monks. Master Xianguang asked me to write a report and ask the Finance Bureau to subsidize it. It was the first time that we had asked the government for the first time, and we didn't know what to do with this procedure, so we came early to find a comrade to ask for advice. ”

As soon as Xiao Yanagi heard this, he came to his senses, opened the office, turned on the fluorescent lamp casually, put the remaining half of the steamed bun on the table, picked up the report handed over by the monk, read it word for word, and said: "As long as it is 10,000 yuan, the number is not big." When the monk heard this, he hurriedly said, "Actually, it only costs 5,000." I just heard from the people in the forest farm next door that if you want 5,000, you have to write at least 10,000 to write more. Koyanagi said: "The children of the Buddhist family are also sincere, different from the ordinary. Suddenly, Koyanagi remembered something: "What did you just call me?" Homosexuals? The monk said embarrassedly: "According to the rules of Buddhism, it should be called the donor." But it's too disrespectful to call the government leader so, so I have to call it that, don't be surprised. Koyanagi said, "Where, where!" ”

As he spoke, people from work came one after another.

Everyone took turns looking at the report of the monks asking for money handed by Koyanagi, and those who hadn't read it and those who had seen it looked at the monk swept their eyes over. The monk couldn't stand this gaze, and he was embarrassed. There are more and more people, and even the people in the offices upstairs and downstairs are also surprised. The seagull also came, squeezed in front of the monk in one breath, looked at it a few times and couldn't help but ask: "Master monk, they all say that the Bodhisattva spirit of Lingshan Temple responds to requests, you tell the truth, is it a true spirit or a false spirit?" When the monk saw that it was a woman, he closed his eyes, clasped his palms together, and said, "As the saying goes, sincerity leads to spirituality." The same is true of Buddhism. The seagull asked, "What is sincerity?" ”

At this time, someone in the corridor said loudly: "Are the financial stocks dividing things again, why is it so lively?" Xiao Liu hurriedly greeted him and said, "Director Li, there is a monk from Lingshan Temple, and there is a report, I want some money." It's the first time you've encountered this, and I don't know what to do, so I'm discussing asking you for advice! Director Li came into the house, and Koyanagi retrieved the report from the crowd and handed it over. Director Li waved his hand: "I don't wear glasses, so I can't see clearly." Koyanagi read it aloud.

Director Li couldn't help but smile after hearing this; "This reform has also changed out of ghosts, and even monks know how to ask for money from the treasury. There are so many monks and nuns in the temple, why don't you go out to make a relationship? The monk explained: "Although there are many monks and nuns in the temple, there are not many who can really go out to do things, and most of them are because they are sick and have no money to treat and are old and helpless before they become monks and join Buddhism." In addition, the surrounding places are all engaged in spiritual civilization, and people are not allowed to go up the mountain to make incense, and they cannot collect a few meritorious money. There are also people who are pilgrims for the first time, who only care about kowtowing to the Buddha and don't know how to donate money to accumulate merits, and Master Xianguang does not allow his disciples to open their mouths to remind them, so they have made such a situation where there are more monks and less porridge, so they have to ask the government for help. Director Li said, "You are probably the second-in-command in the temple, right?" The monk said, "It's not clear yet, but I'm in charge of all these miscellaneous things." Director Li said: "The situation in your temple is similar to that of me here, and I tell you the truth, now that the county finance can't even pay the salaries of the county cadres, how can I take care of you monks!" Go back and talk to your leader, the mortal world is reforming, and the fairy world can't move! ”

The monk will not grind hard bubbles, recite a sentence of Amitabha Buddha put away the report and left.

When everyone was gone, the seagull said to Koyanagi, "Tomorrow is Sunday, how about we go to Lingshan Temple to draw lots?" Xiaoyanagi was thinking about how to refuse, and Aihong came in through the door. As soon as the seagull instigated, Aihong said: "I want to go, but I can't ride a bike, it's too far and it's difficult to walk." As he spoke, he looked at Koyanagi. The seagull said, "Just go and he can take you on a bicycle." Aihong said: "People have a lot of things to do on Sundays. Xiao Yanagi hurriedly said, "Go." I've wanted to visit that temple for a long time. ”

Aihong smiled lightly: "Yesterday, I went to the United Front Work Department to play, and I met a monk who was making a small report there, saying that Master Xianguang, who was in charge of the temple, was not managing the law, and accepted some lazy people, which made the temple economically a mess and politically chaotic, and asked the United Front Work Department to send a working group to rectify it." Speaking of this, Aihong lowered her voice: "That taste is very similar to Director Li saying Director Hu in front of the county magistrate." Everyone laughed and was very happy, and there was no sign that they were divorcing their husbands or wives. After laughing, they went back to their office.

After Xiaoliu calmed down, she saw that half of the steamed bun was still sitting there, and just reached out to get it, Aihong hurriedly ran back and called him to her office.

The window of Aihong's printing room was open in an alley, and through the glass, you could see that Director Li was talking to the monk and giving the monk some money. The monk gave him a back. "I must have recited Amitabha, but I couldn't hear it." Koyanagi said again, "Was it this monk who made a small report yesterday?" Aihong said, "It's kind of like." He also said, "I hate people like Director Li the most, one thing in front of me and another thing behind my back." ”

Aihong spoke in front of Xiao Yanagi, becoming less and less thoughtful, Xiao Liu felt that there was something hidden in it, but he never dared to think about it.

Two

On Sunday morning, Koyanagi made an exception and didn't sleep in. He intended to watch a variety show last night, and when he turned off the TV, the bed in the back room was really occupied by his lover, so he slept on the sofa all night as he wished. After dawn, Koyanagi quietly got up, brought back food from the cafeteria, and put it in the rice cooker to keep it warm. After eating his share, he dressed up in a dashing manner and stood at the crossroads of the county seat to wait for someone.

While waiting, I didn't see a single familiar one, only the peasants who went to the city to catch the morning market dangled in their eyes. Xiaoyanagi went to the side of the road to buy electric scones to eat, paid five cents, got a thick piece of paper, and was queuing, when the sun flashed in front of her, a little girl riding a red bicycle, wearing a red coat and red elastic pants, came from the other side of the road. Koyanagi hurriedly shouted: "Seagull! Seagull! The seagull swept the corner of his eye, saw him, hurriedly jumped out of the car, and said, "Buy me two, I haven't had breakfast yet." Koyanagi really took out another amount of money and got two thick pieces of paper.

At this time, the first pot of electric scones was already cooked, and everyone gathered around to grab it. Xiaoyanagi was a little late to crowd in, and only grabbed one. He saw that a person on the opposite side had grabbed two, so he shouted at the man: "Director Wang!" Director Wang reacted quickly and immediately found the right person: "Yo, Chief Liu, do you eat this too?" Koyanagi said, "It's not just me, but also the Seagull accountant who wants to eat it." But I was slow to start, and I only grabbed one. Director Wang hurriedly said: "It's just right, these two will be given to you first, and I'll wait for the next pot." Koyanagi was not polite, so he exchanged the piece of paper in his hand with him. Director Wang whispered with a smile on his face: "When will the working capital applied for by our factory be approved?" Koyanagi said, "Come and see it on Monday." After Director Wang thanked him, he returned to the oven and squeezed others.

The seagull took a bite of the cake and said, "How many cents a few?" I'll give you the money. Xiaoliu said: "Forget it, I took your two steamed buns yesterday, and I didn't give you a meal ticket!" The seagull said, "I forgot." I thought I took advantage of you. Seeing Aihong coming from a distance, Xiaoyanagi couldn't help but say, "I always feel that you are different from Aihong." Aihong is really noisy, you are joking, the little couple is too tired, and there is nothing to do. The seagull said, "I always feel that you are biased towards love red in your heart, and you are just coping with me." ”

Before Xiaoliu could come up with words to answer, Aihong came close and raised her eyebrows beautifully: "What are you two whispering?" The seagull said: "What about you, you haven't been back for three or four days, and I'm afraid that I went back yesterday because I was a newlywed!" Okay, Aihong suddenly turned gloomy and said, "He dares to touch it?" I had a knife under my pillow. Koyanagi felt that these words were like a voice to show that they meant to speak to themselves. The seagull also changed quickly: "What are you angry about early in the morning?" Come, eat an electric scone, Koyanagi bought it especially for you. Aihong took it and took two bites, and her face gradually returned to its original appearance. Koyanagi asked, "Is one enough, do you want to buy another one?" It's tiring to go up the hill to the top of the road. Aihong said, "I brought dry food." ”

After eating the electric scones, Aihong and Seagull both stretched out their handkerchiefs in front of Koyanagi. Koyanagi was stunned for a moment, then wiped his right hand with a seagull's handkerchief and his left hand with Aihong's handkerchief, and said, "It's fair for me to do this, right?" The seagull said, "Seems fair." The left hand can be centrifugal near, and the right hand centrifugal far. Xiaoyanagi said, "You're wrong, I'm a different heart, and my heart grows on the right side." I don't believe you touch it. The seagull said, "Let Aihong touch it." With that, he lifted his legs, got on the car and left.

Koyanagi pushes the bike, but can't ride it, and it's uphill here. After walking for a while, he rode up to the top of the slope, he didn't make a sound, and Aihong sat behind the car very tacitly. The seagulls had pulled them down 200 meters. Tsuyoshi Koyanagi wanted to release the brakes. I heard Aihong say in her ear: "Let her go, don't chase." After a while, Aihong suddenly asked behind her: "Is your heart really on the right side?" Koyanagi said, "It's not like that, Meng Haigull." ”

After descending the steep slope and coming to the flat road, Xiaoyanagi felt two hands quietly fall on his waist, and a warmth accompanied him gently. Seeing that there were more and more people coming and going on the road, Koyanagi was a little scared, and hesitated, but still didn't let go of the hand from his waist. After walking for two miles, Xiaoyanagi suddenly said, "An acquaintance is here." Aihong in the back quickly let go of her hand. As soon as he had done this, a middle-aged man in a straw hat rode a squeaky old permanent car into his head-on direction, with a large bamboo cage tied to the back of the car, which was filled with roosters and hens. Xiao Liu shouted: "Chief Feng! The man didn't react at all and walked away.

Aihong asked in the back: "Which Feng is the chief?" Xiaoliu said: "Before you came, he was the head of our unit, he was very powerful, he was very upright, and his level was not bad, and he was ready to make him the deputy director." In this way, he was jealous of others. Chief Feng had a good woman, so everyone pinched this sore foot and tried to fix him, and finally put him in the Lin Industrial and Commercial Company as the deputy manager, and his situation deteriorated in the future. Aihong said: "I'm afraid you're wrong, the head of the financial stocks, no matter how unlucky he is, he won't be a chicken dealer." Xiao Liu kicked around a few times before replying: "Also, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and after holding the financial power for so many years, there should always be a bit of a strong relationship!" ”

I turned a corner and saw a seagull standing on the side of the road. They got out of the car. The seagull fanned the wind with a handkerchief and said, "Have you met Chief Feng?" It's the chicken dealer. Xiao Liu said: "The chicken dealer did see one, but he couldn't be sure that it was Chief Feng." The seagull said, "I know him when he is burned to ashes." He's still riding the same car from the Finance Bureau! Xiaoliu said: "Seagull, you love to hold grudges, that year he threw you from the bank to the agricultural stock, mainly because you didn't play well in the abacus, and there was no other reason." The seagull said, "Bullshit." Anyway, if you're married, I'm not afraid of you laughing. Once, when he wanted to touch me, I wouldn't let me and spit on him. Aihong said: "Then why didn't you expose it at that time?" The seagull said: "It's my mother who won't let it be public, she said that doing that is equivalent to wiping her own on her face." ”

As they spoke, there was a husband and wife fighting in the ditch beside the road. The crying and roaring can be heard clearly. The man scolded: "Stinky woman, Lao Tzu finally earned a few yuan, kept it to buy cigarettes and smoke, you shrunken turtle ate the leopard gall, and actually stole it to offer to the Bodhisattva." The woman cried: "It's not for you to repay your vows, seventy or eighty years old, they will never die, and they have been sick for many years, and this family has been dragged down." If I don't ask for a bodhisattva, who else can I ask! The man scolded even more fiercely: "You stinky woman, if you don't go to the temple today to get the money back, I will rip you off with a knife." Hearing this, Aihong's face turned red all of a sudden, and he urged him to leave quickly. The seagull was addicted to it, and he had to see what it came about. When Xiaoliu saw that Aihong had to leave, he said to the seagull: "You want to learn two tricks from this woman to deal with men." The seagull did the trick and said, "How dare he do this to me?" His parents haven't given birth to such a hard seed yet. As he spoke, he pushed the cart and after walking a few steps, he moved himself to the stool.

The wheels began to roll on the field path, and the three of them were cautious, not daring to say more. After walking for about half an hour, I arrived at the foot of Ling Mountain, and I had to walk all the way up. They locked the two cars together and left them in front of a farmer's house. As soon as the car rang, a woman came out of the house and said, "The car is here, don't talk to me if it falls." Xiao Liu hurriedly took out a piece of money and handed it over, saying, "Give me the money for the pack of cigarettes, please help me take a look." The woman immediately rejoiced and asked them to move the car into the house. He also taught them that if they go to the temple to ask for a sign, they must first think about what to ask, otherwise the sign will not work. The words of the country woman, they listened to it as if they didn't hear it, and they didn't care at all. Xiaoyanagi put the car away, looked up and saw that there was an award certificate on the wall that read: Award to a dual-civilization household, and he beaked towards Aihong and Seagull Nunu. The two of them took a look, and quickly covered their mouths and went outside the door to laugh. Koyanagi took a closer look and found a string of condoms hanging next to the certificate. The hostess also found out and hurriedly explained: "It must have been sent by the director of the Women's Federation who was no one at home just now." Xiaoyanagi didn't want to talk to her much, so he went out to chase Aihong and the seagull.

Halfway up the mountain, the seagulls got tired and stopped running. Aihong is still running up desperately, not letting Xiaoyanagi catch up. Xiaoliu wanted to chase after her, but the seagull wouldn't let her: "Don't chase it, when she saw that thing, her face was as red as a ripe apple, and she didn't even let me see it." After saying that, he said to himself: "It's strange, I've been married for more than half a year, haven't you seen anything yet?" Which one is red? Koyanagi didn't speak, and walked forward after the seagull in a daze.

Three

Lingshan Temple and Lingshan Forest Farm are next to each other, at first glance, I thought it was a unit: just two houses, one up and one down, arranged in front and back. Koyanagi has a high school classmate who works as a technician at the forest farm, and he goes to the forest farm first and asks if Mattei is there. The man said that the head of the horse farm went down the mountain to ask for money, and went for several days, saying that he would return today, but he did not know whether it was morning or afternoon. When Koyanagi heard that Ma Tai had become the field manager, he asked if he was the main or deputy position. The man said that there was no right, and that he was a deputy field manager. Xiao Yanagi instructed, saying that if Ma Tai returned in the morning, he would tell him that the head of the Finance Bureau, Liu, would have dinner with him at noon, a total of three people. Out of the forest farm, the seagull asked, "If Mattei doesn't come back, where can I get lunch for lunch?" Xiaoliu said: "You have been in the Finance Bureau for a few years, as long as someone from the Finance Bureau comes to the door, which unit dares to ignore the meal!" Aihong doesn't believe it: "Don't think too beautiful!" I carry biscuits, and I'm not afraid of not eating at noon. Xiao Yanagi stretched out his little finger and hooked her and made a bet.

Out of the back door of the forest farm is the Daxiong Hall of Lingshan Temple. There is a chicken coop not far from the temple gate, and Xiaoyanagi bets that the chicken must not be fed by the monks in the temple, but by the staff of the forest farm. Aihong and Seagull don't bet on him. Xiaoliu bet that the outside of this Lingshan Temple looks like an institution, and it must be the first time that the forest farm demolished the old temple, and later implemented the religious policy, and returned the office of the forest farm to the temple. Aihong and Seagull still don't bet with him. Aihong also said: "Do you want me to lose the cookie to you?" ”

In the corridor outside the Daxiong Treasure Hall, several monks are standing in the sun and talking, talking about last year's big flood, and this year's New Year may not be better. Everyone was very unanimous, there was no argument, and what was said was echoed and supplemented. A young monk in his teens writes on a small blackboard with chalk. A middle-aged monk next to him held a note and read it in his mouth: "Notice, after the recitation at dusk today, the plenary meeting will be held to study ******'s speech." After the little monk finished writing, the two of them checked the note again, and when they saw that it was correct, they hung the small blackboard on the wall on the left side of the entrance of the main hall. The middle-aged monk praised the little monk and said, "Huiyin is so smart, or you will be able to surpass Huiming in a few years, and Master Xianguang will definitely choose you as your successor in the future." The little monk said, "Master Liu exalts me too much, and no one can compare to you in terms of knowledge." The middle-aged monk said, "I have not received vows, and it is enough to enjoy the blessings of a bodhisattva for the rest of my life." The little monk said, "Now even the blessings of the Bodhisattva are not easy to enjoy, look at them just eating and not doing things, no wonder Senior Brother Huiming wants the master to drive them away." If they don't leave, I'm afraid the incense in this temple won't be able to last. The monk felt that someone was eavesdropping, so he turned his head suddenly, and saw that it was not a person from the temple, and his face softened.

Xiao Yanagi took the opportunity to lean over and ask, "Excuse me, is there a master surnamed Shi?" The middle-aged monk said, "All the people in the temple are surnamed Shi, what is the name of the Dharma you are looking for?" Xiaoyanagi was stunned: "Law name? I only know that his surname is Shi. The little monk named Huiyin said: "As soon as people in the world enter the Buddha's door, they all follow the surname of Sakyamuni. The seagull hurriedly interjected: "Then why did you call him Master Liu just now?" The middle-aged monk took over the topic and replied: "I am a layman, and I can call me a common surname." Xiao Liu said, "Then I'll call you Master Liu too." After a pause, seeing that Master Liu did not object, he said, "This is the first time we have come to your temple, please take care of Master Liu." Master Liu asked, "Is it to visit or worship the Buddha?" Koyanagi said: "I only visit the two of them to worship the Buddha." Master Liu turned around and said, "Huiyin, you call Master Xia, she should be on duty today." Huiyin said, "I'm afraid she won't listen to me." Master Liu said, "I can't shout, the day before yesterday, when I was doing the twilight class, she dozed off, I pushed her behind, and she has been ignoring me for the past few days." She and Master Xianguang are in the same wall, relying on their momentum! Master Liu sighed as he spoke. Huiyin said, "Then I'll give it a try." The little monk walked down the corridor to the door at the end, knocked twice, and called Master Xia again, and it took a long time for an old nun to open the door and come out, still with a look of displeasure.

The old nun entered the temple in her head, and Xiao Yanagi whispered to Aihong and the seagull behind her, "She is a layman who has come to enjoy the blessings of immortals. Aihong asked, "How do you know?" Xiaoyanagi said, "She didn't have any ideas on her head, and she didn't receive ordination." The old nun blew her nose and threw it on the seagull's shoes. The seagull was very angry, and when he saw that the prayer flags by the door were hanging very low, he quickly bent down, wiped his leather shoes with the prayer flags, and then pretended to look down at the words written on the prayer flags.

Aihong had something to do in her heart, and she had a temporary taste of cramming, so she knelt down when she saw the futon. The old nun suddenly said in a very high tone: "Light incense and kowtow, what are you doing in such a hurry!" Aihong asked, "Where is the incense?" The old nun said, "Incense is here." Gotta give money. Xiao Yanagi then remembered that he should have reminded them first that after entering the hall, they had to put some money in the merit box first. Aihong and Seagull each touched a dollar and asked, "Who is the money for?" The old nun glanced at it out of the corner of her eye, probably thinking that it was too little, and even more unhappy, so she pretended not to hear. Koyanagi hurriedly greeted them and stuffed the money into the merit box. At this time, the old nun spoke again: "If you draw lots, you have to give five yuan." Aihong and Seagull were stunned and looked at each other, but they still stuffed five yuan into the merit box. While the seagulls weren't paying attention, Aihong suddenly asked Xiaoliu: "Why don't you-" Xiaoliu understood what she meant, and said very seriously: "Whether it is the bodhisattva of the big temple or the immortal of the small temple, I respect it very much, but I never kowtow to beg them." Aihong looked at him and said nothing.

The old nun fumbled for a long time before lighting the incense in front of the Bodhisattvas everywhere, and then knocked on the rock one by one, and kept chanting in her mouth. The old nun ordered when she lit the incense and kowtowed when the rock rang. When the rock sounded, Xiaoyanagi urged them to knock quickly. Aihong and Seagull gave in, and finally Aihong knocked first. The seagull thought that the old nun would knock the chime for her again, but after Aihong knocked three times, the old nun put down the hammer and ran to Zhang Luo. The seagull hurriedly asked, "What about mine?" I haven't knocked it yet? The old nun glanced at her half-open and half-closed eyes and said, "There are so many futons on the ground, who told you not to knock just now!" The seagull had no choice but to touch it three times without accompaniment.

The old nun lost three hexagrams in a row, either all yin hexagrams or all yang hexagrams, anyway, the bodhisattva was not allowed to ask such a question. The old nun asked, "What do you want to ask in your heart, why are you always not allowed?" Aihong said, "Do you still want to think about it?" What do you think? The old nun was impatient: "You girl, you don't understand anything. Did you get married? How can you live with a man when you get married? Aihong suddenly made a loud voice and said, "I just asked if there is any hope for the transfer class of Wuhan University this year?" The old nun threw the hexagram, one yin and one yang, and it was accurate. Aihong pulled out a lottery from the lottery holder, which was the thirty-second lot, Zhongping. Seagull learned the lesson of Aihong, and first thought about his future and asked about his future. Only one hexagram is accurate, and a ninth sign is drawn, and it is down.

Koyanagi said, "You two didn't draw the lot!" They didn't understand, so he explained: "Don't you see that in martial arts films, when the hero is in trouble, he always draws a lot!" They didn't believe it and asked the old nun. The old nun asked them to go next door to find Huiyin to write a signature.

Hui Yin is the little monk who has been ordained. When the seagull saw him, as if he wanted to influence someone, he said sweetly: "Little Master Huiyin, how do you see my lottery?" Hui Yin didn't answer, took the sign and looked at it, opened the very thick signature again, and copied four sentences on a piece of yellow paper with a brush: the ninth sign, down, seek hope, don't force it all the time in life, why do you have to work hard day and night, how to see it in the lotus mirror, and you can't end it with all your thoughts. After copying it, he handed it to the seagull, and he didn't speak, and then copied Aihong's four sentences: Fame and fortune have always had a natural opportunity, although the plotters are rare and the winners are scarce, if you don't put your mind to patience, you will inevitably be deceived by others. After copying, no matter how they asked, Huiyin didn't say a word. At this time, the old nun walked in, and when she saw Huiyin collecting the pen and inkstone, she said: "This signing is bad, last month one of my niece's daughter-in-law's silver rings was missing, and I came to draw a lot, and as a result, the silver ring could not be found." Hui Yin didn't answer, lowered her eyebrows and walked into the distance, before she said: "Master Xia, don't try me, if I talk to a woman, the Buddha will definitely hear it." The old nun sighed and said, "This Hui Yin, at a young age, Hui root is deep and long. Never say a word to a woman. The old nun went away as she spoke.

In the side hall, only Xiaoyanagi, Aihong, and Seagull remain. Aihong pointed to the seagull's signature and said: "This is the wrong word for bitterness, it should be bitter sorrow or bitterness." Koyanagi said: "It may be written like this intentionally, from worry to excellence, the difference in meaning is too great, and the person who interprets the document has room for activity." The seagull, who had not spoken, said at this time: "The service quality in this temple is too poor, no wonder the monk will also go to the United Front Work Department to make a small report." ”

When Koyanagi saw something pasted on the wall, he glanced at it, and when no one was around, he tore off the paper and put it in his pocket. Aihong asked what it was. He said he'd show them later. As he was talking, someone outside asked, "Master Liu, have you seen the three comrades from the Finance Bureau?" Master Liu replied, "There are three people, I don't know if they are from the Finance Bureau." ”

Four

Koyanagi and the others were about to leave the house, when there was a sudden quarrel outside. The person who came to Xiaoliu and them to eat was Accountant Wang of the forest farm. As soon as Accountant Wang saw the small blackboard hanging next to the temple gate, he recognized that it was the forest farm that was lost last month. Probably because Accountant Wang had some grudges with these monks, and after a few words of communication, the two sides quarreled. There were many monks, and Accountant Wang couldn't win the quarrel, so he grabbed it. Although there are many monks, they are all old and frail, and the corridor is narrow, so there are too many people to show it, and Accountant Wang has a tie with them.

Xiao Liu wanted to help Accountant Wang, but in a hurry, he shouted: "Master Xianguang is here!" When the monks heard this, they quickly stopped and stood still. Accountant Wang took the opportunity to grab the small blackboard and jumped away from the steps.

The monks understood that they had been deceived, and they all set their eyes on Koyanagi and the three of them. The seagull was a little panicked and complained loudly to Xiaoyanagi: "Other people's business, what kind of smart are you going to play!" There is a meaning in the words to please the monks. Aihong grabbed Xiaoliu's clothes behind her and whispered, "Otherwise, let's go to the house, hold up the door, and wait for Accountant Wang to call the people from the forest farm to rescue us!" Xiaoliu said: "Don't be afraid, they may not dare to open the killing ring and the color ring!" ”

Master Liu took a few monks and walked closer and closer. Suddenly, there was a sound behind him, and the door that had been closed opened, and the little monk Huiyin came out of the house and said, "Don't be rude to pilgrims." If we offend the pilgrims, can we continue to practice here? Master Liu and the others were stunned, and finally softened. Huiyin said to Xiaoyanagi, "You can go." "Xiaoyanagi, Aihong, and the seagull hurried through the cracks and ran to the forest farm.

Accountant Wang has already set up tea and melon seeds in the office. When he saw them coming, he went to the kitchen to urge food.

Koyanagi took out the piece of paper and read:

The miracle that occurred in the air crash in Guangzhou on October 2

Author: An Jing

More than 100 people were killed and injured in the October 2 Guangzhou air crash, including three survivors, and only the epidermis was slightly injured...... The author recently interviewed these three people, and now the secret is written as follows: The basic information of the first and three people: Feng Jinbiao (male) is now Chinese New Year's Eve two years old, lives in Zhongxin Road, Shiwan, Foshan City, and is currently the secretary of the Buddhist Association of Foshan Temple. Huang Changhua (male) is Chinese New Year's Eve, lives in Qianjin Street, Guangzhou City, is an upright person and believes in Buddhism. Lin Wanming (female) is now Chinese New Year's Eve four years old, lives in Jiangnan West Road, Guangzhou, is honest, kind-hearted, and her family believes in Buddhism. All three were employed by a commercial company as salesmen. 2. Visiting the Buddha at Nanputuo Temple: The three of them came to Xiamen on September 28, 1990 to do business, and bought a ticket to return to Guangzhou on October 2. Somehow, there was always a bad omen in their hearts, so they went to Nanputuo Monastery on September 30, and Venerable Dehui of the Prison arranged for them to have a morning class at 4:30 a.m. on October 1. After beating the Buddha, the three of them climbed the Wulao Peak behind the temple, jumped to look at the sea, and the uneasiness buried in their hearts suddenly disappeared.

Aihong, who was watching from the side, said: "This overlook is a jump." Koyanagi continued:

At about 6 o'clock on 2 October, when they were queuing up at the Xiamen airport to receive the sign for the plane seats, a person suddenly came in front of them and gave them more than 10 seat cards, and they were given the sign of three seats A, B, and C in the ninth row...... After the plane was hijacked...... Emergency landing at Guangzhou Baiyun Airport...... The wing hit the head of an airplane parked on the tarmac...... The second half of the plane collided with a Shanghai plane that was about to take off, and with a loud bang, the Xiamen-Guangzhou flight 2510 was immediately broken into two parts, and the broken part was exactly between the 10th and 11th rows, which were the seats taken by the person who cut in line...... A few seconds after the trio ran away, the wreckage exploded...... Later, when the scene was cleaned up, it was found that everything had been reduced to ashes, and only books such as "Vernacular Explanation of the Amitabha Sutra", "Bamboo Window Essays" by Xiao Feng and "Buddha's Light" written by Master Xingyun were presented intact in front of people's eyes......

Accountant Wang had already put the dishes on the table, and only after reading them did he ask them to take their seats, and said while eating: "In this temple, the true monk is only Master Xianguang and his two apprentices Huiming and Huiyin, and the others used to just want to enjoy the blessings of the Communist Party, but now when they see that the Communist Party has changed its constitution, they come to eat in front of the Bodhisattva again." Xiaoyanagi asked, "I heard that the pot in this temple is almost uncovered?" Accountant Wang shook his head and said, "Not necessarily. Master Xianguang's virtue is very high, in the past two years, there are more than 100,000 or 200,000 yuan donated from abroad alone, and he was originally going to tear down the old house and rebuild the temple, but I haven't heard any discussion since last year. ”

Someone coughed outside the door, and Accountant Wang said, "The head of the horse farm is back!" Before he could get up, Mattei came in. Xiaoyanagi shook hands and said a few joking words to him. Mattei sat down and said, "I went up to your house to look for you, and your lover said that he didn't know where you had gone, and there were dark clouds on his face, and I was afraid that I would hear the thunder, so I hurriedly turned around and left." It's no wonder that if you bring such a beautiful female companion out to play, it's not a woman who doesn't lose your temper! "The seagull was not good at all, and also attacked, saying that the master was late and would be fined three glasses of wine. Mattei said: "As long as you can help me get 100,000 yuan of financial working capital, I will also be free to drink three bottles." Xiaoyanagi pressed Mattei: "Don't be reckless, you said that your liver function is not normal when we met last time." Don't drink alcohol, the money will be on me, and you can sell each of us a fir wood at a discounted price." Mattei glanced at Accountant Wang. Accountant Wang said knowingly: "Coincidentally, a batch of rotten fir trees are being processed in the field, and according to the price of firewood, seven cents a catty. If you want, I'll send you a car in a few days. The seagull said, "I am not short of firewood." Xiaoyanagi kicked her from under the table, and she was silent.

Koyanagi asked Mattei to take out the report. He only looked at it once, and then told Mattei to send someone to allocate the funds in a few days.

After three rounds of drinking, Xiaoyanagi asked, "What do you want so much money for?" Mattei said, "I want to set up a pharmaceutical factory." There are many Chinese herbs in this Lingshan Mountain, and after they are made into medicines, their value will increase by a hundred times. This mountain is all forest farms, but most of the people are so poor that they are tinkling. During my tenure, I don't bring them some benefits, and I have a guilty conscience! Xiaoliu said: "You are still so strong-blooded, but I have no edges and corners at all." Mattei said, "Without rounding the edges and corners, can you stand in the trap?" Xiaoliu said: "Let's talk about the money, how about I give you an extra 50,000." Mattei said, "Not good, just 100,000." In these years, 100,000 may do 200,000 things, and if there are really 200,000, it may be used as 100,000. Koyanagi nodded and said, "It would be nice if you came to be the director of the Finance Bureau." Mattei said: "It's hard to say, now even the monks are asking you for money, and this family is very difficult to manage." Koyanagi said, "How do you know?" Mattei said, "I met the monk Huiming in the temple on the road just now, and he said it himself. I went yesterday and I went again today, but I didn't know that you had a Sunday holiday. Koyanagi said, "These monks are really interesting. Mattei said, "It's interesting." At the end of last year, when I was concerned about family planning, I asked people to write a slogan on the temple wall: People in mountainous areas should get rich, have fewer children and plant more trees. The monks were not allowed to write, and if they wanted to write, they could only write about having fewer children and worshipping the Buddha more. After pulling the skin for a long time, Master Xianguang still sent a message, saying that planting trees and worshipping Buddha are different paths, and asked the monks to stop making trouble. When I think about it now, I don't realize how to go the same way. Koyanagi said, "I can't think of it either, we don't have Huigen." ”

At this time, someone came in and said something in Mattei's ear, and Koyanagi heard Mattei say, "Let him wait a little longer." Mattei turned around and continued, "I think Master Xianguang is very much like a person. Koyanagi asked, "Who?" Mattei dipped his finger in some soup and wrote another word on the table, plus one next to his right ear. Koyanagi laughed when he saw it. Aihong and the seagull stretched their necks and smiled when they saw it.

Five

After eating, Mattei told Xiaoyanagi that the monk Huiming in the temple was waiting for him in the next room.

Xiao Yanagi went over and saw that it was indeed the monk who went to the Finance Bureau yesterday to ask for money. Huiming saw Xiao Liu and them coming in, bent down and made a gesture, and then called: "Chief Liu, I'm really sorry, I didn't know that you were coming to the small temple, it was not arranged, please bear with me." Koyanagi said, "I'm just coming to see it, it's nothing." Only suffered two of her, and she came to worship the Buddha with sincerity, but she almost became depressed. Aihong and the seagull said indignantly: "Especially that old nun, it's so unreasonable! Hui Ming was busy compensating: "If you don't care, I will personally give you a Buddha." Xiao Yanagi looked at the sun at the door and said, "I'm afraid it's too late." Huiming said: "It doesn't matter if it's late, just eat a table in the temple and then go back." Ma Tai interjected: "The fasting banquet of Lingshan Temple is famous, and ordinary people can't eat it if they want to!" Hui Ming said, "The head of the horse farm will help me keep the guests again, and I will ask you to accompany me at the banquet." Ma Tai said: "Chief Liu, don't look at the face of the monk and look at the face of the Buddha, eat the fasting feast and then leave." Don't be afraid when it's dark, I'll call the car from the forest farm to take you back. Koyanagi looked at Aihong and found that Aihong was looking at him, as if the meaning in his eyes was to make him promise to stay. Koyanagi nodded in agreement.

Huiming got up and went first, saying that he would prepare and invite them to fight the Buddha later. Huiming walked a few steps, and Xiao Liu called him to stop and handed him a piece of paper: "This is what I took off from the wall of the temple just now, and I will return it to you." Hui Ming said, "No wonder Master Liu refused to hold a fasting banquet for you just now, saying that you stole things from the temple and sued Master Xianguang." Koyanagi said, "Then are you in trouble?" If there is a difficulty, we can go now. Hui Ming hurriedly said: "Where, where! Master Xianguang has insight into everything, and he told Master Liu to listen to my arrangements. ”

About half an hour after Hui Ming left, two little nuns came to invite them over. At first, Xiao Yanagi thought it was two little monks, and Aihong quietly told him. If you look closely, the hand, the neck and the chest are really only available to women. Mattei said, "I'll go too." I'm so close, but I've never seen a true Buddha! Also go to open your eyes. ”

As soon as you enter the temple door, the bell chime and the wooden fish will ring together, the incense smoke is swirling around, and the two rows of monks and nuns are separated, and the Buddhist scriptures are humming, solemn and sacred. Koyanagi, Aihong, Seagull and Mattei, all of them looked like they couldn't help themselves, and they suddenly crawled onto the futon.

Next is the draw. This time it was in a clean room in the apse, and Hui Ming and Hui Yin personally asked for signs. But the four of them went in separately one by one. Huiming said: "This hexagram is actually equivalent to confession in Western religion, except for the former disciples of the Buddha, no one else can be present. The seagull went in first, and came out in just a few minutes, with a happy face, and jumped three times with both hands on Aihong's shoulders, and shouted three times at the same time: "Sign up!" Sign up! Sign up! Aihong asked, "What are you asking?" The seagull said, "Bright future!" "The second one is Aihong, which took about an hour to come out. When he came out, he said sadly, "I'm also on the sign!" The seagull said, "You're asking about marriage—I know!" Aihong almost cried: "They said that we would grow old together!" Seeing Aihong's appearance, Xiao Yanagi didn't give in to Ma Taiqian, and went into the clean room.

Huiming said: "You first think about what to ask, then think about it for a while, and then draw lots." Koyanagi said, "I don't ask anything, I don't want to draw lots." Hui Ming said, "Then I'll show you the face and palm." Koyanagi said, "I don't want to look at the face either." Hui Ming was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Then you can sit quietly for a while, and I will recite to you a piece of the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra!" Seeing that Xiaoyanagi did not make a sound, Huiming motioned to Huiyin, and the two of them recited together: "Guanzi Zai Bodhisattva is deep - Prajnaparamita - when he sees that the five aggregates are empty, and all sufferings are overcome - relics - the color is not different, the emptiness is not different, the color is empty, the color is empty, and the color is the color-" Xiaoyanagi stood up suddenly, said thank you, and opened the door by himself and walked out. The seagull asked eagerly, "What are you asking?" Koyanagi's eyes rolled and said, "I ask when we will be able to achieve spiritual civilization!" His words made Aihong smile at the corner of her mouth.

Mattei was the only one left. Mattei couldn't decide what to sign when he went in and asked. Koyanagi came up with an idea and asked him to ask what the future of the forest farm was. Ma Tailu smiled bitterly: "It's okay, I'm proud of the prosperity, I'm ashamed of the decline, and the future of the forest farm is also my future." With that, he pushed the door open and entered.

It's not a lot of work, Huiyin comes out, please go in and rest. When Ma Tai saw everyone coming in, he smiled and said, "Huiming and Huiyin have calculated that within three days of the forest farm, there will be a windfall. Xiao Liu also smiled: "Now the monk is also fine, and when I see you invite us to dinner at noon, I know that I will get you a sum of money." Mattei said;" That's what I said, but Huiyin said that this money is not wealth, and money that does not need to be repaid is called wealth. I'm a poor unit, who will give money and not let me pay it back? ”

As he spoke, Huiyin brought a stack of Buddhist books, and Huiming asked everyone to pick one and take it as a souvenir. Xiaoliu picked a copy of "Twilight Recitation", and Aihong picked a copy of "Morning Time Recitation". Koyanagi flipped over "Twilight Recitation" and wanted to look at the back cover, and found that the back cover was printed with the words "Morning Time Recitation", and it turned out that they had chosen the same book. Seagull and Mattei also chose one each.

After talking for a while, Xiao Yanagi asked to meet Master Xianguang, and Hui Ming showed a difficult look on his face, and looked at Hui Yin with his eyes. Huiyin pretended not to pay attention, and just buried her head in sorting out the books. Hui Ming had no choice but to explain to Xiao Yanagi: "Master Xianguang is old and in poor health, so no outsiders can see him, and even Hui Yin and I can't easily disturb Master. Mattei also said, "I have been working in the forest farm for seven or eight years, and I have only met Master Xianguang seven or eight times!" Xiao Liu said: "When I was going to set the administrative level for monks and nuns that year, what level did Master Xianguang set? Huiming said: "Blame me for being incompetent, and only fight for the deputy county level for the master!" Aihong and the seagull listened and stuck out their tongues. Hui Ming continued: "Fortunately, this didn't happen, otherwise I would be really ashamed of Master. Xiaoliu remembered a question: "Why don't you let Master Xianguang be the deputy ** of the county CPPCC?" Hui Ming said, "Master is almost 90 years old this year, and he has already exceeded his age. We are not overage, but we are not deep in Taoism, and we have no prestige. Xiaoliu said: "In my opinion, the affairs in the temple are actually your own affairs." Huiming hurriedly said, "I don't have this great ability, I'm listening to Master's orders." Hui Ming looked at Hui Yin nervously.

Hui Yin remained silent, picked up the extra book and walked out, and in a blink of an eye, he also ran back with a nervous expression: "Senior brother, it's not good, someone is making trouble." ”

Six

Walking to the front of the hall, a middle-aged man, dragging a woman, struggled on the steps. The woman cried bitterly, "Bodhisattva of great compassion, save my life!" A few monks and nuns stopped and blocked it to no avail, and the man was as strong as an ox, so he threw it off with one arm and broke into the temple door in three steps and two steps. The man took a breath and roared, "Dead mother-in-law, which bodhisattva did you give the money to?" Show me! ”

Ma Tai behind Xiao Liu shouted at this time: "Gao Daquan, what are you doing here?" The man named Gao Daquan was stunned: "It's you, the head of the horse farm, this dead guest came to the temple to burn incense without me, and gave all the little money I saved to the mud bodhisattva!" Mattei said, "You let her go, you have something to say." Last year, you also stated that you would strive to join the party within three years, can this be done? Gao Daquan said: "That's because I was stunned by your criticism, and I talked nonsense." However, the rules in the field are that it is necessary to be spiritually civilized, and it is forbidden to ask God to worship Buddha and believe in superstition, but I have not violated it. Only this dead mother-in-law, disobedient, always sneaks into the temple. I have scolded and scolded, and I have beaten her, but it is useless, today I have to show her ugliness, ask for the incense money back, and see if she has the face to come back in the future. Mattei said: "I'll ask her for a bail, and if she doesn't commit it again, you let her go, okay?" Gao Daquan said: "This is my own business, and your power as a field leader is invalid!" Mattei said angrily, "Let's see if you will look for me in the future!" With that, he walked away.

When they got to the side, Ma Tai said to Xiaoyanagi and them: "This person is a two-hundred-five, and this rule in the field was secretly ordered, so that the monks and nuns in the temple know, how can they coexist peacefully in the future?" Koyanagi said: "This is not a Politburo document, it can't be kept secret, and the temple will know sooner or later." "Koyanagi told Ma Tai what Huiming said yesterday at the Finance Bureau. Seeing that the monk was not very angry, Ma Tai relieved himself.

Aihong and Seagull remembered at this time that this was the couple who were arguing in the roadside in the morning.

Hui Ming said to the couple, "Quarrel and go outside, don't disturb the bodhisattvas in the temple." Gao Daquan said, "I want to see how the Bodhisattva is compassionate." As he spoke, he kicked the woman. The woman endured the pain and did not cry. He kicked again, but the woman still didn't cry. Gao Daquan's anger also jumped up: "Dead mother-in-law, you really have feelings for the Bodhisattva, I'm afraid of shocking their good dreams - do you cry?" He kicked three times in a row. The woman was kicked over, and when she got up, she kowtowed three times on the futon. Gao Daquan jumped a few feet high, walked up and pressed the woman's head, and hit the ground desperately. Bump it and say, "Are you crying or not?" I have to cry enough in front of the Bodhisattva today! The woman was silent, let the man beat and scold, and as soon as she was free, she hurriedly kowtowed to the Bodhisattva.

Gao Daquan saw that the woman could endure the pain, so he changed his mind and twisted the woman, wanting the woman to kowtow and face the Bodhisattva. The woman is very aware of this, as long as she is in the wrong direction, she does not kneel, and when she can't resist the brute force of the man, she would rather fall straight to the ground. After tossing a few times, but failing to do so, Gao Daquan said at this time: "I am tired, my hands hurt, and I am too lazy to fight again." When everyone heard this, they were about to breathe a sigh of relief, thinking that this matter should be over, Gao Daquan walked to the incense table, pulled out a handful of burning incense, put it to his mouth and blew it, and when the open flame was revealed, he pulled one and pressed it into the woman's hand. A puff of green smoke sizzled out of the old high, and the woman's whole body trembled.

Xiao Yanagi's heart tightened, and at the same time he felt that his hand was grabbed, and when he looked down, he saw that it was Aihong. Aihong's hands turned blue-purple, and many tears were rolling in her eyes. Xiaoliu said softly: "Don't be like this, it will not affect others if they see it." Aihong still didn't let go, and said, "I'm afraid." It was like he was beating me. Tell him to stop. Koyanagi looked up for Mattei, but after a few rounds, he didn't see anyone.

Xiao Liu had no choice but to say to Hui Ming: "How much merit money did this woman donate?" You can return it to her. Hui Ming said, "The merit box is locked by Master Xianguang, and we can't open it. After a while, he whispered, "Why don't you talk to Huiyin and see if he can report to Master." At the end, he added: "Don't say it's my idea." Koyanagi began to look for Huiyin, but he couldn't find it. When I asked Master Liu and Master Xia, they both said that they were still here just now, so why did they say that they would disappear if they didn't see it. When he asked the seagull, he said, "I was still reciting the scriptures here just now!" So many monks and nuns are watching the excitement, and he can still recite the scriptures alone! ”

Koyanagi was about to let Aihong let go of his hand and look elsewhere for himself, when he suddenly heard a voice from behind the hall: "Amitabha!" Although the voice was low, it was very strong, like an echo in an empty mountain, and it penetrated into my heart at once. When the monks and nuns heard this, they immediately lowered their heads, put their palms together, and chanted Amitabha. The woman on the ground, ignoring the burning pain of the incense, climbed onto the futon and kowtowed her head one by one.

A monk came out of the hall, looking no more than fifty or sixty years old, and Hui Yin followed behind him with a focused face.

Xiao Yanagi was guessing who this person was, and the monk walked to the merit box and waved his hand at Hui Yin. Hui Yin immediately used a key in his hand to open the iron lock, revealing a small half box of money. The monk said to Gao Daquan, "Take it all!" Gao Daquan hasn't reacted yet. Master Liu said, "The Bodhisattva is gracious and has shown mercy to you to take your money. Hui Yin said on the side, "Master Liu, you are wrong. Donor, take all this money, if it weren't for the fact that your family was at the end of the mountain, you wouldn't treat your family like this, would you? Gao Daquan hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, Xiaomin Xie Bodhisattva Kaig." Shocked and delighted, he didn't care about his shame, took off his pants, and put the money in the merit box into it.

Those monks and nuns who had not been ordained saw it and were anxious, so they all rushed to the monk and said that there were two bowls of porridge a day in the temple, but so much money was easily given to a person who did not believe in Buddhism, which made everyone feel cold. The monk was silent, gently brushed away the monks, walked up to the woman, put his hand on the top, and said a lot of words in his mouth. Then she said another word, and the woman really stood up, and her face was smooth, not at all like that of someone who had just been beaten. The monk said, "Female Bodhisattva, I have been paying attention to you for a long time, you should not stay among ordinary people, as long as you want, I can recommend you to go to Guiyuan Temple in Hankou to be ordained." The woman refused: "I understand the kindness of the mage, but I really can't give up my three underage children." The monk sighed: "I should be a person in Buddhism but I don't enter Buddhism, and I shouldn't be a person in Buddhism but I rely on Buddhism." With that, he went straight to the apse.

Seeing that the monk was missing, Xiao Yanagi asked Hui Ming, "Is he Master Xianguang?" How can you be so young? Hui Ming didn't answer, but muttered to himself: "As soon as Master Xianguang stood outside, I felt that I was not even as good as grass mustard. ”

The tall man went out of the temple with his front feet, and the woman followed with his back feet. The seagull yelled at her, "Ignore that cow thing, divorce him!" The woman glanced back, but said nothing, still going to pick up the man in front of her.

Aihong said sadly: "The more liberated a woman is, the more bitter her life becomes. ”

Koyanagi pretended not to hear.

Seven

When all the meals and dishes were brought to the table, everyone's mood improved. Ma Tai shouted: "The chef in the temple has such good skills, I really didn't expect it!" Seagull and Love Red muttered quietly; It's not that the monk is a vegetarian, why do you have all chicken, duck and fish? Hui Ming, who was accompanying them, didn't explain, but just insisted that they taste every dish first. When everyone tasted it, they found that all the chicken, duck and fish meat were fake, and they were made with flour mixed with other vegetarian dishes.

Koyanagi was amazed. Hui Ming toasted them again. The seagull thought that the wine was fake, it was boiled water, and he was about to drink it, but he smelled a pungent aroma of wine, so he shouted, "How can I drink wine in the temple?" Hui Ming said, "Taste it!" Try it first! "When you taste it, you know it's not wine. When asked, Huiming smiled but did not answer. Xiaoliu pretended to be angry, saying that he didn't know the truth, so he would stop eating and drinking. Huiming had to explain that this was the water in a kind of bamboo on the back mountain. Mattei asked what kind of bamboo it was, but Hui Ming refused to say anyway.

Halfway through the meal, Xiaoyanagi said, "Actually, with your kind of craft, you can go to the city to set up a restaurant, and you will definitely make a lot of money!" Hui Ming said, "I told Master that Master disagrees—it's not that he doesn't agree, he doesn't say anything. Koyanagi said: "Maybe the economic situation in the temple has not yet reached the point where you have to take that move!" Hui Ming said: "Although the chores in front of and behind the stage are in my charge, only the master and Hui Yin know the real family background in the temple." As far as I know, I'll tell you the truth, the rice is only enough to eat for a few days. When I said a few days, I could only cook porridge, not rice. The seagull asked, "How do you cook this meal?" Hui Ming said, "Master nodded." The master nodded, as long as he didn't break the precepts, the cook could conjure up anything. Mattei asked, "Did that also open a small stove for Master Xianguang?" Hui Ming said, "Not really." Whether you can open the small stove or not, it doesn't matter to the master, he can open the valley, as long as he starts to open the valley, he can continue for ten or twenty days, not eating anything, not drinking anything, and people are still in good spirits. Xiaoliu said, "You don't have financial power in your hands, how can you manage things?" Huiming said: "There is no way, so I have to drive everyone out all day and night, so that the whole temple complains about me." I had no choice, so I listened to the words of the accountant of the forest farm king and went to your finance bureau to ask for money. ”

Hearing this, Xiaoliu hurriedly diverted the topic and asked Huiming's life experience. Ma Tai didn't wait for Huiming to open his mouth and pulled the topic back: "Chief Liu, let's have a classmate, I don't think you will blame me for being straightforward." I have been neighbors with Huiming for not a year and a half, and his virtue is not one in the temple, but really two. You didn't enjoy this kind of treatment today, even a deputy of the provincial CPPCC the year before last. To put it bluntly, Huiming is not the kind of person who tends to be inflammatory, he did it to understand the urgent need. He couldn't bear to see the incense in the temple extinguished in his hands. The amount he asked for was not large, five thousand yuan, which was also a real amount of money. If I help him, I will also help me. The forest farm commissary earns more than 20,000 yuan a year, all relying on pilgrims. Otherwise, on the top of this big mountain, the devil will come to buy things. Mattei said a lot before he stopped. Aihong, who has been silent, also said: "You can help with this favor." Just give him a hand! ”

Seeing that the seagull was about to speak, Xiaoyanagi smiled: "Seagull, don't say it, I know that Huiming helped draw a good lot, so you have to help him speak." Five thousand yuan is not much, the difficulty is to find a suitable reason. That report certainly won't work. Now many units can't even pay salaries, can they still take care of the monks in the temple? As soon as this opening is opened, maybe everyone will flock to the temple to eat ready-made meals! ”

Huiming thought of several reasons, such as repairing temples, statues, roads, receiving leaders of the Provincial Buddhist Association, and organizing a Dharma teaching conference, but they were all denied by Xiaoyanagi. Until the end of the fast, I haven't come up with a suitable reason.

After withdrawing from the table and drinking tea, Xiaoyanagi suddenly asked, "Are there any relics in the temple?" Huiming shook his head and said, "If there are relics, Lingshan Temple will become a holy place!" Koyanagi asked, "Is there a way to get it?" Huiming wanted to speak and stopped, but he couldn't help Xiao Yanagi urging again and again, before he said: "According to Master Xianguang's virtue, after passing away, you can probably get a few relics." Xiao Yanagi patted his thigh: "For this reason, you should immediately write a report, saying that to prevent the loss or loss of relics after Master Xianguang's death, a series of effective measures must be taken, such as building a jade pagoda, a gold plate, special firewood, etc., so you must allocate 5,000 yuan from the treasury and raise 30,000 yuan by yourself." Such a report can be effective. No one else knows, but everyone knows that the relics are rare treasures for thousands of years. Huiming hesitated: "Write like this, Master knows that he will be blamed!" Xiaoliu said, "You find a piece of white paper and stamp it with the seal of the temple, and I will write it for you." However, I have said it first, in the future, when Master Xianguang passes away and refines the relics, the four of us will have to come and see it! Hui Ming said, "That's easy to say." ”

At this time, it was just getting dark, and the temple bell rang. Huiming said it was time to do his homework. Koyanagi said that there was a car to send anyway, so he simply watched the twilight lecture and went back.

Eight

As soon as the bell rang, the monks sang in unison: "The incense of the furnace is □, the Dharma realm is smoked, and the sea of Buddhas will be heard from afar, and auspicious clouds will be formed everywhere." Sincerity Fang Yin, all Buddhas appear all over the body, and there is no incense cloud cover in the south Bodhisattva Maha ......"

Mattei prepares the car and goes. The three of them were left standing in a corner, watching silently, and the front was covered with a large red cloth plaque sent by good men and women. This was specially arranged by Hui Ming, mainly because he was afraid that Master Xianguang would find out when he came out to check. But Aihong still couldn't help but say to Xiaoyanagi: "I've been here all day, and now this temple looks like a temple." As he spoke, there was a small commotion in the corner.

In the dim candlelight, the old nun surnamed Xia was kicked out of the temple by two young monks. The old nun cried in a low voice all the way, and her mouth fell: "The temple doesn't want me, where is my old bone!" After a while, a voice came from outside the hall gate: "Master Xia, Master Xianguang asked you to take this money to settle down well." "Koyanagi, they heard that it was Huiyin's voice.

Under the light, I also saw a person disappearing behind the monks. Xiao Yanagi felt that the man should be Master Xianguang.

Due to the need to learn ****** speech, Zhong Qiling and Muyu had a faster pace than usual, and their homework ended earlier. After reciting the Zhu Jialan, the monks turned upwards and stood up in prostration. The last sound sounded, and the monks all walked out of the hall.

Huiming shouted at this time: "In five minutes, go back to the hall for a meeting to study!" When everyone was gone, he asked Xiaoyanagi and them to come out. Xiao Yanagi couldn't wait to ask, "How did you drive Master Xia away?" Hui Ming said, "When Master Xianguang came, she was still dozing off. This kind of thing has happened in the past, but Master has somehow recently driven anyone out of the mountain gate as long as anyone makes a mistake. Aihong said, "I think your master must be planning some big move in his heart." Koyanagi looked more concerned and asked, "How do you know?" Aihong said: "With a woman's intuition." ”

At this time, Mattei came to say that the car was ready. The seagulls were not less interested, and they had to see how the monks had a meeting. Xiaoyanagi couldn't, so he had to ask Huiming to be accommodating, hold a meeting first, and then learn the documents. Hui Ming said that this is not difficult, because Master Xianguang does not participate in this kind of meeting.

The monks gathered together again, and as soon as Huiming announced the meeting, Master Liu took the lead. The main thing is to give advice to Master Xianguang, and he said a lot: that he doesn't care about the suffering of others; said that he punished people too harshly, and left no way back; said that he would only be able to practice, but would not be a leader......

Seeing that the meeting in the temple was the same as the meeting in the bureau, the seagull was suddenly interested, and said again and again: "Let's go!" Let's go! So Huiming came out to deliver it. Xiao Yanagi asked puzzledly, "What should I do if everyone says bad things about Master Xianguang like this, and it reaches his ears?" Hui Ming said: "Master Xianguang doesn't like people who tell right and wrong the most, no one dares to go to him to make a small report, and he himself never comes to listen to the meeting, so everyone is so presumptuous." Hui Ming said again: "Opinions are just opinions, who can help to get Master Xianguang!" ”

When parting, Xiaoliu instructed Huiming to invite Accountant Wang to allocate funds in a few days.

There is only one old liberation in the forest farm. The cab couldn't fit the three of them. Koyanagi was about to stand in the carriage. The seagull got into the cab, and Aihong went in too. As soon as the car started, Aihong suddenly said that she was afraid of the smell of gasoline and wanted to go to the cabin. Xiaoyanagi couldn't leave Aihong alone in the car, so he had to leave the cab empty.

Aihong leaned on the left side of the carriage, and Koyanagi leaned on the right side of the carriage. On the downhill road, the car was still very fast, although it was with brakes. The March wind was very cool, and Koyanagi felt the wind pouring straight into his neck, and goosebumps were getting on his body layer by layer. was afraid of the cold, the car turned a corner, Koyanagi didn't pay attention, and was thrown to the left side of the car at once, almost throwing himself into Aihong's arms.

The seagull heard the movement, stuck his head out of the cab and asked, "What's wrong?" Be careful not to get into trouble. Koyanagi replied: "It's so dangerous, just a little bit!" When the seagull shrank back, Aihong asked him, "What did you say that it was only a little bit?" Xiao Liu didn't answer, and asked something else after a while: "Why do you say that Master Xianguang wants to make a big move?" Aihong said: "In this situation in the temple, does it not change?" Koyanagi said: "Everywhere is changing, and I don't know what China will be like in a few years!" Aihong said: "It would be nice if the household registration system could be abolished, at that time, I would run far away alone, and I would not have to make a divorce at all." Xiaoyanagi thought for a moment before saying, "At that time, I might also learn from you to run far." ”

Koyanagi felt a hand on the edge of the carriage, moving to his hand little by little, he was a little afraid, and he didn't know what to do, and the car stopped. The seagull shouted to him to go down and carry the bicycle. After the bicycle was loaded into the car, the seagull also climbed into the car, saying as she climbed, "The moon is really poetic tonight!" ”

Nine

At work on Monday, Koyanagi took out the report from the cotton mill from the drawer and changed the 200,000 yuan to 100,000 yuan. Then, the report of the forest farm was written with a line of words, such as "After research, it was decided to allocate 100,000 yuan to the financial working capital", and stamped it with the big seal of the bank's financial shares. After doing this, he began to sweep the corridors as usual. Greet colleagues at work while sweeping. When Aihong went to work, she only glanced at him. He said, "Go to work?" Aihong ignored him. He thought that he must be blaming himself for not being cowardly last night.

was guessing that Director Li came into the building with a black leather bag. Seeing that Director Li's face was very good, Xiao Liu hurriedly took out the report of Lingshan Temple asking for money from his pocket and followed him.

As soon as Director Li sat down, Xiaoyanagi came in. The two smiled at each other, and Xiaoyanagi hurriedly poured tea into Director Li's cup. After making tea, Xiaoyanagi was not in a hurry to get down to business, but said: "Director Li, do you know why a vegetarian monk doesn't eat onions, garlic, leeks and red amaranth?" Director Li said: "That day, after the monk left, I have been thinking about this problem!" Koyanagi said: "I went to Lingshan Temple yesterday specifically for this matter, and finally asked a clear understanding. ”

As soon as Director Li urged, Xiao Liu said: "Once upon a time, there was Emperor Wu of Liang, he didn't want to be an emperor, took off his dragon robe, and became a monk under Master Zhigong. Xigong Niangniang was extremely reluctant, so she wanted to break the Taoism of Emperor Wu of Liang. One day, she sent someone to bring a pair of monk shoes and a monk's hat to Emperor Wu of Liang. When Master Zhigong saw this, he took the monk's hat and threw it on the ground and stepped on it with his feet, but he put the monk's shoes on the incense table. Emperor Wu of Liang didn't understand and asked him why he didn't respect his hat and his shoes. Master Zhigong told him to remove his shoes and hat and take a closer look. When I dismantled it, I found that the monk's hat was made of women's profane clothes, and the monk's shoes were filled with scriptures. After a while, Xigong Niangniang heard that Emperor Wu of Liang wanted the palace chef to make some vegetarian buns and send them, so she thought of another idea and asked people to kill a dog and make it into dog meat buns. When the buns were delivered, Master Zhigong didn't say a word, and ate all the buns by himself. After eating, a yellow dog ran out of his sleeve. Master Zhigong saw that green onions grew where Xigong Niangniang buried the dog's head, garlic grew where the dog's feet were buried, and leeks grew where the dog's skin was buried, and the dog's blood was splashed in the amaranth field, and the amaranth turned red. Therefore, these four things were missing from the monk's vegetarian dishes later. ”

Director Li took a sip of tea, thought about it for a while, and said repeatedly, a bit like.

Koyanagi took the opportunity to hand over the report from the temple. As soon as Director Li heard that it was for the protection of relics, he signed the words "agree to allocate 5,000 yuan". He also repeatedly told Koyanagi to follow up and inspect this matter regularly.

Koyanagi received the report and returned to his office, where the director of the cotton weaving mill Wang had been waiting for a long time. Koyanagi took out their factory report from the drawer and handed it over, saying, "Approved." Take this and make a grant! Director Wang looked at it and said: "It's not 200,000, why is it only 100,000?" Xiaoyanagi said: "It's too little, so let's wait for the next batch!" Director Wang hurriedly said: "I'm just asking, thank you, Chief Liu!" Koyanagi said, "I haven't thanked you for yesterday's electric scones!" Director Wang said, "Fart, I'll treat you to a good meal another day." ”

As soon as Director Wang left, Aihong came in. She threw a packet of wafer biscuits on Xiaoyanagi's table and said, "You don't have time to eat the biscuits that you lost to you yesterday, so if you keep them for today, the taste will change." "Koyanagi knows that Aihong doesn't like sweets, and the wafer biscuits are very sweet, obviously prepared for him. Xiaoyanagi opened the biscuit bag, ate two pieces in one bite, and said a joke: "Good things come in pairs!" Aihong snorted: "Your gall is only as big as a sesame seed!" Xiaoyanagi sighed and said, "Who told us to always doze off and choose the wrong target when we first fell in love!" Aihong said, "Don't you want to choose again?" Koyanagi said, "What if I choose the wrong one again?" Aihong got angry, turned around and left, and only turned around when she walked to the door and said, "Unless you're blind!" Koyanagi knew that he had said the wrong thing, and wanted to explain that Cute Red was gone.

On Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, no one came to the forest farm or Lin San Temple. When I got off work at noon on Friday, Huiming came. Xiaoyanagi said: "If you are not afraid of being unclean, follow me to the cafeteria to eat, and then do things in the afternoon." Huiming said: "I don't want the money temple and the forest farm." Xiaoyanagi was very strange: "Why did you change the hexagram?" Hui Ming said: "Master Xianguang really made a big move, he drove Master Liu and the others away, and among the people who were not ordained, only three smart and willing people remained. Master said that the temple is not a place of leisure and happiness, as long as he is alive for a day, the temple will not be rebuilt, and the monk's porridge will not change, and he also announced that he will lend all the more than 200,000 yuan accumulated over the years to the forest farm to set up a pharmaceutical factory. I'm still in charge of the temple, but I'm mainly talking to the forest farm about how to set up the factory. As soon as the Buddha was done, the master handed it over to Huiyin. Actually, I have long understood in my heart that what Master really likes is Hui Yin. Xiaoliu comforted him: "That's not necessarily, in the future, the factory will be completed, and there will be more dividends in the temple, and the real power is not in your hands again." It's like the key to the merit box. Huiming sighed and said, "I still have to rush back, as soon as Master Liu and the others left, the incense in the temple was booming, and there were not enough people, so I had to do everything myself." In the morning and evening, even the master has to come forward. Xiaoyanagi said: "I'm so busy, let's go down the mountain and make a phone call, isn't it okay?" Huiming said: "The phone can't be used, and if you use it too much, people will become lazy." ”

Hui Ming made a gesture and left. Koyanagi locked the office door, and when he turned around, he saw Aihong standing behind her. Aihong said: "I heard that if we want to build a small government and a big society, the people in the Finance Bureau should be reduced by two-thirds. Koyanagi said, "Minus so much? Aihong said, "Do you say it's good or bad?" Koyanagi said, "It's not good! Aihong said: "Anyway, I'm out of the way!" A seagull came out of the hallway, and she asked, "What are you whispering, so mysterious?" Koyanagi said, "What else is there to say in these years?" Reform! ”

Before Koyanagi opened the door, the electric bell rang for work.

At this time, the seagull was still climbing the stairs.

Aihong doesn't live in the flat, she is standing on the side of the street, waiting for a sprinkler truck to whine past.

He closed his eyes in shame alone, and saw the scenery in the Tiantai Mountain that he had not seen for a long time, especially the curvy smoke in the setting sun and the girl washing vegetables and clothes by the pond. Immediately, Wanfang's eyes were moistened, and the strings of notes flying out of the harmonica seemed to be moisturized in time, and they could also be moved and stretched in the dusk of the city.

- "Music House"

How beautiful is the melody played by a harmonica,

It emanates from between the bottom corners of a narrow staircase,

Echoing over the cold and empty city.

It is a gentle soludy for the frustrated,

But it has never been listened to seriously by the city.

When the young cleaner revels in the harmonica in the worst corners of the city,

What he got was all the happiness that the city had to offer him.

And in real life, when the city tries to run him over,

He felt as if the anesthesia had failed,

The bony pain of forcibly extracting bone marrow.

This novel is centered on the experience of the cleaner Wanfang,

radiates the experience of rural people in the city.

They came to the city in search of their dreams, but they were confronted with

But it is the living space that is squeezed and the living conditions that are discriminated against.

When the last shred of disillusionment with the city is shattered,

Wanfang played the beloved harmonica.

Anyone can despise this music,

But no one can deprive him of that

The first dream and the last perseverance.

Zhao is the same