Chapter 3 Asking for Spiritual Signs
Wu Jin watched the brother and sister go away, breathed a sigh of relief, rushed to Xuezhai to class, rushed home after class to take care of his father, and went to sell cakes at night.
The pain and high fever tormented Wu's father, making him lose weight into a skinny appearance in a short period of time, and Wu Jin went back and forth in the school, home, and Yuhua Street, and quickly lost weight.
On February 18, Xiongshan Temple brought a letter and asked the Wu family to settle the wages and compensation for the wounded.
The family is not far away, and the younger brother is young, so he can't walk so far, Wu Jin asked for a leave of nineteen, wearing short brown cloth shoes, covering a warm shirt, picking two baskets of oil cakes, going out before dawn, selling cakes out of the state capital along the road, going north along the Yuxi, walking for most of the day, and arriving at Xiongshi Gorge at noon.
Today happens to be Guanyin's birthday, and many pilgrims in Xiongshan Temple have traveled tirelessly to buy out Wu Jin's leftover cakes.
Wu Jin carried the empty basket sideways from the east cliff side path and walked carefully, until the front of the mountain gate of Xiongshan Temple, put down the flat basket, cleaned his face and hands with running water, patted off the dust on his clothes, untied the dusty turban, and before entering the mountain gate, he first heard a burst of movement, followed the reputation, and saw the little girl named "Ah Yu".
Ah Yan took the stone and knocked the red stone on the rock wall, and touched it curiously, but none of the attendants, companions, or brothers were seen.
She wore a gray jacket, tied with two ordinary horned buns with red rope, and a gold collar hidden in the placket, but her eyebrows and eyes were extravagant, very eye-catching.
Wu Jin thought that her brother should be nearby, so she lowered her head slightly and was about to enter the mountain gate, but saw Huang Yapo on Shishi Street rushing up with a bag of dates and stopping in front of Ah Yan.
"The old body is bold, why did the little girl come to worship Guanyin alone? What about your family? Hungry or not? Let's eat a date. ”
Wu Jin saw that Ah Yu really stood on her tiptoes to look at the dates, and she didn't have the slightest defense, so she hurriedly shouted: "Ah Yan! ”
Ah Yan's gaze turned from the dates and fell on Wu Jin, and she smiled with a mouthful of white teeth: "Wu Jin." ”
Wu Jin picked up the empty basket and stepped forward, squeezing between Huang Po and Ah Yan: "Mother-in-law, you also come to worship the Bodhisattva today?" ”
Huang Yapo glared at Wu Jin: "Brother Jin, do you recognize this little sister?" ”
is such a good female, she is a big fortune wherever she sells, but she was mixed up by Wu Jin.
Wu Jin nodded: "I recognize, I was about to send her." ”
Huang Yapo said bitterly: "It is worthy of being a student in the state school, knowing such a rich and noble family, my brother will be sent in the future, don't forget the poor neighbors." ”
She still has a stomach full of mean things to say, but Wu Jin is full of clear and righteous energy, obscenities, foul words are scattered, and it is useless to say anything, so she closed her mouth and went elsewhere.
Wu Jin watched her walk away, turned around and asked Ah Yan, "Where is your brother?" I'll send you there. ”
Ah Yan proudly raised two long eyebrows: "My brother is at home, and I came by myself on a donkey." ”
Wu Jin looked at her eyebrows and said secretly, she was afraid that she had sneaked out, but she still didn't give up, and asked, "What about the girl who came with you?" What about the nurse? ”
He didn't know the girls from big families, only that if the girls were lost, they would never be alone when they went out.
Ah Yan looked up at him: "It's all at home." ”
Wu Jin had no choice, and seeing that it was still early, he said, "You follow me first, and I will send you back after I finish my salary." ”
Ah Yu was also tired of playing, and as he entered the mountain gate, he said as he walked: "My name is Mo Lingfeng, you can't call me Ah Yan." ”
Wu Jin nodded: "I call you Miss Mo." ”
Mo Lingfeng looked at the murals, touched the Arhats, and walked into the Guanyin Hall with Wu Jin, and saw someone shaking the lottery in front of the Guanyin statue, she grabbed the corner of Wu Jin's clothes: "You also smoke one." ”
Wu Jin remembered his father's injury, moved his heart to ask for the root of the spirit lot, and when the person in front of him finished drawing, he stepped forward and kowtowed, and then shook the stick, and silently chanted "Please help the suffering Guanyin Bodhisattva to guide my father through the difficulty", "Da" A crisp sound, a bamboo stick fell from the inside.
He picked up the bamboo stick, but before he could read it, Mo Lingfeng's little head also came over and read the signature with him.
"Playing in the blue wave pool, surrounded by nets on all sides; Thinking about it, he turned over and came out, and his life was bitter and sad in Quanguan. ”
under the sign.
When Wu Jin saw this signing, he didn't have to unsign it, and he didn't know it well, there was both the image of heaven and earth, and there was a catastrophe, and his heart immediately sank, and even his expression darkened.
Suddenly, Mo Lingfeng reached out and took the sign from his hand and threw it back into the holder: "Shake it again." ”
Wu Jin was stunned: "What? ”
Mo Leaf shook the stick holder vigorously, and his tone was incomprehensible: "Shake it again." ”
Wu Jin laughed and laughed, but Mo Lingfeng stared at him very seriously, with a posture that he would not leave if he didn't shake it once, he laughed, and shook it with a "bang" holding the stick.
"Da" again, and a bamboo stick reluctantly fell to the ground.
Mo Lingfeng quickly grabbed the bamboo stick in his hand, and looked at it fixedly, it was a sign, and then stuffed it to Wu Jin.
"No, the pole Tai is close at hand, and the gentleman comes out of the mountain; If you meet the good news of the tiger rabbit, it is not difficult to be busy with things. ”
Several women who came to worship Guanyin on the side couldn't help laughing, and one of them said: "This lottery is not allowed again, and the Bodhisattva will blame you for being insincere." ”
Mo Lingfeng raised his head and asked: "If you want to sign the lot, of course you have to shake it until now, I am so strong, why should the Bodhisattva blame me?" ”
The woman laughed, and another person said, "If you ask for it in this way, it will not be a spiritual sign, and the master will not give it a lot." ”
Mo Lingfeng dragged Wu Jin hard, pulled him up, and walked forward with his head held high: "We are literate, we can solve it ourselves." ”
Wu Jin hurriedly put the spirit sign back into the holder, picked up the burden, and walked to the temple.
There are many pilgrims today, Wu Jin finally found a monk and explained his intentions, and the monk sent the two of them into a meditation room, let them sit and wait here, and he went to call the monk to come.
Wu Jin put the burden in the corner of the wall, sat straight in the chair, his waist was not collapsed, his back was not hunched, his eyes were not chaotic, his eyes were always only on the door, and only the afterglow was to see Mo Lingfeng's movements.
Mo Lingfeng knelt on the chair, stretched out his arm to carry the teapot, poured a cup of tea and drank it, the tea was brewed at some hour, it was cold from his mouth to his heart, and his stomach made a long cry of hunger.
She didn't feel cold when she walked around outside, but as soon as she sat down, she immediately felt like she was cold, so she got out of her chair and began to look around.
Wu Jin has been paying attention to her movements, and seeing that although she can't sit still, she doesn't look around, so she distracts herself from thinking about her homework, thinking and waiting.
An hour passed, the monk had not yet arrived, but the sky changed, the cold air in the house invaded people, and the thick clouds outside the house covered the sun, and in an instant, it was dark.
The wind gradually rose, blowing the stone wall cave and whimpering, Mo Lingfeng walked to the door, the wide sleeves of her coat were full of wind in an instant, and swept back, she sneezed in the wind.
Wu Jin hurriedly stepped forward, pulled her behind her, and was about to close the door, when he saw the monk trotting all the way over.
"The donor has been waiting for a long time." The monk closed the wind out of the door, glanced at Mo Lingfeng, saw her with a pair of red phoenix eyes and was noble and majestic, and said in his heart: "The eyes are the seedlings of the heart, and this little girl's eyes are good." ”