When Guan Hao and Cao Wan entered the small restaurant in the village together, an old man with a dignified face walked over, looking at his age should be more than 70 years old, watching the two young people enter the store, he beckoned and said enthusiastically: "You are the descendants of the Guan family and the Huang family in Suicheng?" ”

"Hello, I'm from the Dongting Guan family, my name is Guan Hao, do you call me a good boy?" Guan Hao replied very politely, and after speaking, he pointed to Cao Wan and said, "She is called Huang Wan from the Huang family in Xiguan, and she just came back from abroad. I took her around during the summer vacation. ”

The old man's surname is Wong, and he is the old village chief of Tai O, who is 76 years old and his body is quite strong and strong.

The old village chief's voice was loud and full of energy, and he was very enthusiastic.

"The two children are also the deceased of my Huang family. I'll make a banquet for you tonight. ”

"This is my granddaughter, Xiaoyue, you are all young people and have a common language, let her accompany you to have a good meal tonight!" The old village chief pointed to a little girl sitting in the escort seat, who was only 15 or 16 years old, and her height was a little lower than Cao Wan's.

"Hello, Xiaoyue, I'm older than you, you can call me a good brother!"

"Good brother, good!"

"Hello, Xiaoyue. How old are you this year? ”

"I'm 15 years old."

"You are younger than me, you can call me Sister Wan'er in the future!"

"Sister Wan'er, good!"

"Good brother, Sister Wan! Let's eat! Welcome to Tai O. ”

"Thank you, old village chief! We're just here to play, and we don't dare to bother your old man! ”

"Haha, don't bother! The two children don't have to be polite. The one who comes is the guest. We in Tai O have been known for hospitality since ancient times, let's take a seat! ”

"The elder can't give up, and if it's disrespectful, then we're welcome!"

"You please!"

A table of dishes made the two who were already hungry couldn't help but open their appetites.

Dongping is rich in shark fin, Guan Hao knew it in his previous life, and the table is full of special dishes, including shark fin soup, stewed taro with yellow mane goose, fried squid with green onions, white-cut chicken, and all kinds of seafood.

Guan Hao saw that there was wine on the table, and he didn't care what kind of wine it was, so he picked up the wine glass in front of him and said to the old man:

"Come, old village chief, I toast you with a glass of wine, thank you for your hospitality!" Guan Hao dried it in one sip, and there were at least two taels of wine in this glass.

"Haha! Readily! I like the bold nature of children, okay, I did it too! ”

The old man was amused by the arrogance of the locked up!

A glass of wine goes down the stomach, and the liquor goes straight down the throat like fire, which is actually a high-grade liquor, not a low-alcohol rice wine that is common in Lingnan.

Guan Hao hurriedly took a bite of the dish and pressed it, and it took a while before he eased up a little.

"Old village chief, you can call us, good boy and Wan'er!"

Guan Hao was really unkind, generously threw off his arms to cook, and gave Cao Wan vegetables from time to time. made Cao Wan eat with a red face and bowed her head like a little daughter-in-law.

"Good brother, I want to eat goose too!"

"Eat, then this piece of goose meat is good!" Guan Hao clipped another piece to Xiaoyue.

Old Man Huang doesn't eat much at night, and more often he watches Guan Hao eat.

After three rounds of drinking, basically closed and ate.

The old village chief asked Guan Hao while smoking a hookah: "Good boy, the camphor tree in front of your Dongting Ferry Ancestral Hall is almost 800 years old, right?" ”

"Old man, the ancient banyan tree in front of our Yanwutang was planted when I first rented and moved from the north to settle in Damiwei, there were originally two of them, and one was split by a natural fire in the late Southern Song Dynasty. This is the treasure of my Dongting Guan family's town! Now there is a special person to manage, and it grows very well! ”

"Oh, people are old, and their memory is not good, and they are wrong to remember! Which branch of the Dongting Guan family are you? ”

"Old man, I am the big house of the Guan family in Dongting, and my grandfather is the patriarch, called Guan Yongzhong."

"Guan Yongzhong? Then we really know each other, 50 years ago I worked with your grandfather and used to drink. ”

The old man was very surprised that Guan Hao was actually Guan Yongzhong's grandson, and hurriedly asked: "Is your grandfather okay?" When we have time, we should walk around and move around. ”

"Yes, thank you for your concern, my grandfather has to fight every day and is in good health."

"That's good, I haven't seen your grandfather in 50 years!"

"Old man, now the transportation is convenient, it is very convenient to go from Daao to the provincial capital in 4 hours, as long as you want to go, we welcome you to be a guest at any time, and you can stay as long as you want."

"Good boy, what a good boy!"

"Good boy, do you know the relationship between our Huang family and your Guan family?"

"I probably know that our two families are married, and when I was in the Republic of China, one of my cousins had a marriage contract with the grandmother of the Huang family, and then I don't know why I didn't get married, and my cousin also disappeared."

Guan Hao naturally knew about Guan Yonglie and Huang Shaofen, but he could only say three points without understanding the specific identity of the other party.

"Hmmm! You know all this, huh? Then rest well tonight! Let Xiao Yu take you around the neighborhood tomorrow, and just after the typhoon in the past few days, you can also go to sea to catch the sea. I was old and a little tired, so I went to sleep! Xiaoyu, you arrange your hello brother and sister's rest room! ”

The old man went to rest, Xiaoyu arranged Guan Hao and Cao Wan's rest room, and everyone washed and rested. Make an appointment to have breakfast early tomorrow morning and go to the Mida Temple near the village to visit the incense.

Guan Hao slept well, got up early to practice for an hour, and as soon as she washed up, Xiaoyue came over and invited her and Wan'er to have breakfast together.

"Good brother, sister Wan'er, let me introduce you to our special breakfast here: this is fried dumplings, oysters, pork intestines, and seafood porridge from the seafood pot that just came ashore in the morning."

"Hmmm! Delicious! Wan'er took a piece of pork intestine and put it in her mouth and tasted it, and was full of praise.

Xiaoyue's carefully arranged breakfast in Tai O was really good, and Guan Hao couldn't stop eating.

After a hearty breakfast, the three of them will go to the "Mida Zen Temple" on the main peak of Tai O Mountain, Jade Dolphin Peak, north of the village.

Tai O Village is named after Tai O Mountain, the whole Tai O Mountain is not high, but it stretches for dozens of kilometers, like a sleeping dragon lying on the coast of the South China Sea.

Tai O Village sits on its back, facing north and south, with mountains and seas on its back.

The main peak of Tai O Mountain: Jade Dolphin Peak, not high altitude is only more than 600 meters, but the forest is lush, the scenery is beautiful, and it faces the sea on three sides.

There is a thousand-year-old temple on the peak: Mida Zen Temple.

Legend has it that there was a monk in the Tang Dynasty who traveled here, sleeping in Tai O Mountain at night, and had a dream of Buddha Mi and him:

There is aura here, dense forests, beautiful mountains, back to the mountains and facing the sea, you can live and realize Zen;

This place is quiet and far-reaching, the scenery is unique, and you can build a room to live in.

It is an excellent place to promote Buddhism and concentrate on practice.

The monk woke up and did not forget the trust of the Buddha, so he built a temple and named it "the temple of the Buddha".