One dusk in the middle of summer, the remnant sun was like blood, and the sunset smeared the earth red.

After Lu Xingyu harvested the dried rice, he sat on a bamboo chair under the soaphorn tree in front of his house, and fanned the wind with a rotten sunflower fan while looking at the undulating Longshan Mountain in the distance.

Suddenly, there was a cry of large and small birds overhead, and when I looked up, I saw a mother bird in the tree who had returned late, and she was carrying a small worm in her mouth, and flew back to the nest to feed a few small birds waiting to be fed. When a bird grabbed the food, it chirped and was very excited.

Touching the scene!

Lu Xingyan really couldn't imagine that he had been upright and done many good deeds all his life, but why was it that the sky made people, the wrinkles on his wife's forehead gradually increased and deepened with the passage of time, but she never became pregnant.

"Husband, what's wrong with you?" Lu Xingyu woke up from his contemplation at this time, looked down, and asked his wife Li.

Lu Xingyu shook his head again and again and denied: "No...... Nothing ......."

Li Shi pierced with a word: "Husband, don't deceive me." You have something to worry about, and tears are falling from the corners of your eyes. ”

Lu Xingyan wiped the corners of his eyes with his hand, only to know that there were already tears on them, so he had to sigh: "Alas! ”

Li's tone was full of apologies: "Husband, no heirs, as a man. It's extra upset. I have been married to you for so many years, but I have not given birth to a boy and a girl for you, and every time I think about this, my heart not only feels guilty, but also painful. ”

Lu Xingyan comforted: "Madam, how can you be blamed for this? I have a responsibility, too. ”

Li's teeth bit his lip for a long time before he said, "Husband, I ......"

Lu Xingyu saw that Li wanted to speak and stopped, "What am I?" ”

Lee: "I came up with a solution. ”

When Lu Xingyu heard this, he became interested, stretched his neck, and asked, "What way?"

Li: "You divorce me and marry another, I will never complain about it." ”

Lu Xingyan glanced at her: "Look at you, where did you go." You have made you suffer a lot by marrying me, a criminal minister, and I always feel sorry for you in my heart. Why do you say such a thing?"

Li Shi was so moved that his eyes were full of tears, and his nose was sour: "If you don't give me a vacation, then you can take another concubine." Maybe she'll have a baby for you. ”

Lu Xingyao's face sank: "Madam, stop thinking nonsense. Since you and I have become husband and wife in this life, we must respect each other as guests and grow old together. ”

Seeing that Lu Xingyao was angry, Li didn't dare to say anything more. Lu Xingyao was dismissed by traitorous ministers, and he was relegated to the desolate place of Lingnan to live in seclusion, which is really ashamed, and the more he thinks about it, the more he thinks about it, the more he loses his pockets. He is talented, young and ambitious, and over the years he has wholeheartedly wanted to serve the court, benefit the people, and be a famous figure in history. On the one hand, he hoped that one day his unjust case would be resolved, return to the court, and serve the country; On the one hand, I want to have a son under my knees and enjoy the joy of family.

And the two things that Lu Xingyu looked forward to day and night did not come to fruition. In particular, he asked his classmate Wenlong, who was an official in the court, to inquire about his unjust case, but there was no news, and over time, he turned his hope to the matter of giving birth to a son early. However, looking forward to it day and night, looking forward to it for so many years, I still haven't seen my wife pregnant, can this not be anxious for Lu Xingyao, who is over forty years old? Especially in that era, men regarded the inheritance of the family as their own responsibility, and they all paid attention to "there are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is greater".

As a man, it is very humiliating to not be able to glorify his ancestors and continue to smoke cigarettes. Therefore, Lu Xingyan personally painted a statue of Guanyin to worship at home, and also invited a copy of "Guanyin Bodhisattva Pumen Pin" for his wife to read. Because it is said in the "Pumen Pin", "If there is a woman who desires a man, and worships and makes offerings to Guanyin Bodhisattva, she will give birth to a man of good fortune and wisdom, and if she desires a woman, she will give birth to a woman who is upright and good-looking." Therefore, the couple knelt down every day, read the scriptures devoutly, and pinned Pan'er's urgent hopes on Guanyin Bodhisattva.

Don't say it, now I don't know whether it is Guanyin Bodhisattva's mercy manifestation, or Lu Xing's star is shining, on a summer night, Li had an unusually peculiar dream: in the dream, I saw a colorful auspicious cloud falling from the sky to the courtyard, in the clouds and mist, growing a towering Bodhi tree, red-crowned white crane, flying around the tree, under the tree a hundred flowers blooming, fragrant.

When Li woke up, he felt acid water surging up in his throat, and he lowered his head and spit out the acid water to the ground. Then, she felt something in her stomach stirring, as if she was pregnant, and she had never been like this after so many years of marriage.

When he got up early in the morning, Li told Lu Xingyan about this strange thing.

Lu Xingyan was skeptical, and muttered, "There will be such a miracle in the world?"

Soon, Lee's belly gradually bulged, and she felt that a fetus was kicking her belly from time to time.

When Lu Xingyu saw it, he was very happy, and hurriedly asked an old man from a neighboring village to diagnose his wife's pulse. Lao Langzhong held Li's pulse and carefully judged for a while, then laughed: "Brother Lu, the old man will give you good news first, Mrs. Zun is a sour plum spring, pregnant with Liujia, and the elder brother's family is going to add a noble son!" ”

"What?" Lu Xingyan didn't seem to believe his ears, but he heard Lao Langzhong's words clearly.

Lu Xingyu stood aside with his mouth open, his eyes looked straight at Lao Langzhong, and he was stupid without saying a word.

Although Li is also happy, can he not be happy when he hears that he is pregnant? But she was calmer than her husband, and she was not so happy that she was not stunned. She was happy in her heart, and hurriedly wrapped a red envelope to thank the old man.

After the old man got the silver and left, Lu Xingyu was so happy that he danced with his hands and smiled, like a child.

This Lu Xingyu is happy, how can his wife have the right to decide when he gives birth to a boy and a girl? He also thought that his wife had the final say, and he was so happy that he was incoherent and not clear-headed. One will be grateful to the heavens, another will be grateful to Guanyin Bodhisattva, and another will be grateful to his ancestors, and I don't know who he should be grateful to.

Lu Xingyao was overjoyed and impatient, wandering inside and outside the house, wanting to do things, but couldn't do anything.

When Li Shi looked at it, "Ka Ka" smiled and said, "Husband, you only have a child when you are over forty years old, so you are naturally very happy, but husband, don't forget to take care of your body and control your emotions." A word reminded him, and he barely managed to settle down.

Lu Xingyao pulled Li to the front of the Buddhist hall set up at home, and kowtowed to the statue of Guanyin. He was grateful first and then requested, thanking Guanyin for his mercy, giving them hope, asking Guanyin for mercy and blessing them to have a child.

From then on, the couple burned incense and prayed every day to thank God.

Every night, Lu Xingyao, who had been tired all day, did not feel hard, but asked Li to sit on the edge of the bed, put his ear to her belly, and listen quietly. He clearly heard a beating sound of "fluttering, fluttering", and there was indescribable joy in his heart.

The days passed like flowing water, and Lu Xingyu looked forward to it, counting the days when he should be a father. But Li was ten months pregnant, and there was no sign of childbirth, which made Lu Xingyao, who had always been full of hope, very anxious, and hurriedly invited Aunt Li, the most famous midwife within a radius of ten miles.

After Aunt Li checked for the Li family, the eyebrows that had been locked tightly never let go, and said to Lu Xingyu: "I have been a midwife for 30 years, but I have never seen such a pregnant baby. ”

Lu Xingyan asked with a worried face: "My wife has passed the delivery period, will there be any danger to the child in her womb?"

Aunt Li waved her hand: "No." ”

Lu Xingzhen asked, "Why?"

Aunt Li gave a reason: "If the child in the womb is in danger, the fetal sound in your wife's belly is either chaotic or the sound is fading. But now I could hear the even, powerful rhythm of the fetal sound in her belly, as if someone was singing an ode. ”

Lu Xingyao: "So, what should I do?"

"There's nothing I can do." Aunt Li spread her hands, saw Lu Xingyao's sad appearance, and said, "The fetus that your mother is pregnant with is really strange, maybe your son will be a sage in the future." ”

Lu Xingyao: "This ......"

Aunt Li comforted: "Master Lu, you are also a knowledgeable person, you just wait to be a father, don't be overly anxious, things in the world can only come naturally, and the melons are ripe." Now, you have to wait. ”

Lu Xingyu sighed: "Then I have to wait." ”

Seeing his wife's belly slowly bulging every day, Lu Xingyu was worried every day, afraid that something would happen to her.

The three aunts and six wives in the village talked a lot, and some said that they couldn't give birth after being pregnant for so long, and they must be freaks; Some say it may be a treasure fetus.

But who would have thought that such a wait would take six years.

On the eighth day of the second lunar month in the twelfth year of Tang Zhenguan (638 AD), after dinner, Li felt that the child in his stomach was extraordinarily diligent, his stomach was also extremely painful, and his heart was beating in a panic.

Lu Xingyu asked, "Madam, is the situation different today from the past?"

Li Shi was lying on the bed, his face flushed, and he gasped and replied: "Husband, I feel that today is very different from the past, maybe tonight is the night of childbirth." ”

"Ahh Lu Xingyao was happy and worried, and hurriedly called the midwife Aunt Li.

Aunt Li was feeding the pigs in the backyard, and when she heard the news, she hurriedly threw down the pig food, twisted her fat body, and hurried over.

The midwife, Aunt Li, first checked the pulse, then looked at Li's tongue, then listened to her fetal sound, and after carefully inspecting it, she said: "Master Lu, all kinds of signs show that tonight is indeed the period of your wife's delivery, it seems that you have been waiting for a long time, for six years, you can be a father tonight." ”

Aunt Li told Lu Xingyan her judgment, and then said to Li who was lying on the bed: "You count along with me, and your stomach is suffocating." ”

"Hmm." Lee, who was already sweating profusely, nodded.

"One, two, three, one, two, three......" Aunt Li shouted loudly, Li clenched her fists, gritted her teeth, and held it hard, trying to squeeze the baby in her belly out with her breath.

Lu Xingyao's heart in the outer world also kept beating with the cry.

Aunt Li twisted all the six, and Li tossed and shouted on the bed in the middle, but the baby in the womb refused to come out.

Hearing the lady's shouting, Lu Xingyu wandered around the courtyard, anxious.

At this time, Aunt Li walked out of the back room, wiped the soybean-like sweat from the corners of her forehead with her sleeves, her face was helpless, and her eyes were a little desperate: "Master Lu, it seems that things are not easy to do!"

Lu Xingyao's heart twitched for a while: "What do you mean ......?"

Aunt Li asked, "Are you planning to have a wife or a child?"

Lu Xingyan said resolutely: "Of course I want both as a wife and a child." ”

Aunt Li's face was embarrassed: "As the saying goes, it's hard to have both fish and bear's paws." It seems that you have to choose the same, either save your wife's life or keep only the child. ”

"This ......" Lu Xingyao's brows tightened, his face was bitter, and finally, he sighed and made a painful choice, "If it is true that you can't have both, I hope you will do everything possible to save my wife's life first." As for the children, they can only go with the flow. ”

"Then I'll do my best." Aunt Lu said that she returned to the inner room.

The shouts of the Li family in the room were endless, and Lu Xingyao's heart was tormented as if he was in an oil pot......

And at this time, as described above-

It was the darkest hour before dawn, when the heavens and the earth were in chaos, and the heavy morning fog filled all the space, making people feel heavy, oppressive, and inexplicably disturbed. Outside the courtyard, the black mountain range, like a dead dragon and snake, crawled in the field......

When he arrived, suddenly, Li let out a terrible scream, followed by a loud newborn cry.

Like a thunderbolt that pierced the sunny sky, it shook the night sky of the mountains and fields, and shook the whole world.

Then, a red light flew up from the inner room, through the window lattice, and rushed up to the vast and confused sky, reflecting the nearby red, and then, attracting a thousand Cairui.

Exactly: Lingnan Canglong Cave, like Mani beads; Millions of years of gestation, a thousand rays of light.

With the birth of this new life, there seems to be an ethereal fairy music, slowly descending from the heavens of Gao Miao, like a slender finger full of love, gently caressing the sleeping mountains, rivers and plants. As if in response to the wonderful heavenly sound, a fragrant fragrance, like a dream, slowly emanated from this thatched hut surrounded by mountains, spreading between heaven and earth......

So, the breeze came and the fog dissipated. The earth is fresh as washing, and the moon is in the sky. In the valley, beside the stream, there is a lot of life, willows, wild flowers, and even the mountains that snake like dragons come to life, revealing a towering and upright posture......

This day was the eighth day of the second month of the second month in 638 A.D. On this day, it has been exactly a century since Patriarch Bodhidharma passed on the most incredible wisdom in the universe - Zen to the second ancestor Hui Ke, exactly one century - a full hundred years.

After Lu Xingyi's new year of confusion, his wife finally gave birth to a child.

Aunt Li came out of the room and said hello to Lu Xingyu: "Congratulations to Master Lu, it's a son, mother and son are safe, go in and see your baby son!" ”

Lu Xingyao was overjoyed and hurriedly rushed to the house, but when he arrived at the door, he suddenly remembered something, retreated again, took out a few copper coins from the crockpot on the offering table and handed them to Aunt Li, and bowed deeply, and said in a trembling voice: "Thank you, Aunt Li!" I'm here to go, and I don't know what to do if it weren't for your help. ”

Aunt Li resolutely refused the gratuity and said, "Master Lu, what are you doing here?" See where you go? Since we live together, we are destined for three lives. Distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, who doesn't have a big affair? Besides, your wife is a local of ours, and her surname is Li, and she was the same family as me 500 years ago. I don't help who helps! You're right? Go ahead and see your little darling. ”

Lu Xingyao couldn't help laughing, and then, the corners of his mouth flashed with a faint bitterness, and he sighed softly and said, "Aunt Li, please stop calling me master." Lu is now just an ordinary person like you, and he is no longer a big man. ”

Aunt Li quickly mixed a large basin of hot water in the stove, and said as she walked towards the back room: "Anyway, you have also been a big man, how can you be the same as us grass people." ”

Lu Xingyu followed behind Aunt Li, but he didn't go inside, but stopped in the hall, knelt down facing the north, and muttered: "The ancestors and ancestors who are far away in Fanyang are on top, Xingyu is not filial, he left his hometown, and he lived in Lingnan. Fortunately, the sky has eyes, and a new man has been added today, so that the incense of the Lu family continues to ......"

It is said that the greatest joy in life is "a long drought and a sweet rain, a foreign country meets an old acquaintance, the cave house spends candle night, and the gold list is inscribed".

But Lu Xingyan is a hundred times happier at this moment than when he was named on the big Dengke gold list and the small Dengke cave room was a candle.

Some people say that one joy should be added to it after these four joys, that is, "when the son gives birth".

After kneeling in the hall, Lu Xingyao walked into the back room, looking directly at this precious son who had been looking forward to it for many years.

It's an indescribable laugh, an indescribable joy of the heart.

At this moment, I just feel that any fame, fortune and honor in the world are as precious as having a son, which is really a surprise.

After Lu Xingyan sent Aunt Li away, he looked at his precious son and thought: It is not easy for me Lu Xingyan to have a son in his forties, I have to give my son a good name, so that my son can be famous for eternity in the future.

Ladies and gentlemen, parents all over the world want their sons to become Chan, and Lu Xingyao is particularly urgent at this moment.

Lu Xingyan thought to himself: My son is purely a gift from God, and the compassion of Guanyin Bodhisattva has made my dream come true for many years, and it is simply called a gift from God. It's not good. Called Dream Fulfillment? It's too cheesy again. What should I call it? This name is righteous, and if it is righteous, I have to give my son a good name.

He was still pacing up and down the house, meditating on a good name for his unusual son.

However, until the fifth watch, his precious son's name was not completed.

When he was anxious, he suddenly heard a congratulatory message from outside the door, Lu Xingyu turned his head and couldn't help but be surprised.

It is said that Lu Xingyu had a noble son at night, and he was very surprised, and before dawn, he was busy naming his precious son.

Lu Xingyan racked his brains and tossed until the fifth watch, and his baby son's name was not completed, which made Lu Xingyan so angry that he really wanted to slap himself in the mouth.

He said in his heart: I, Lu Xingyao, am a person with the title of the gold list and quick thinking, where did I run away today? Even if you are usually stupid, now you have to be smart, and your name is given to your parents and elders, which is different from all living beings, who will give it if I don't give it? No, I'm going to have to come up with a good name for my son this time.

Lu Xingyan is still energetic, in fact, the road is simple, and the sound is loud. A really good name always uses the most concise language to express the most profound artistic conception. With a mentality like Lu Xingyu at this time, he would never be able to give such a good name.

Lu Xingyu was thinking hard, suddenly heard a congratulatory sound from outside the door, there were two monks standing at the door, one was over eighty years old, and the other was over half a hundred years old, both of them were kind and kind-eyed, and their manners were extraordinary.

Lu Xingyu stepped out of the gate, only to see the old monk holding a crystal bowl in his hand, and clasped his hands together at Lu Xingyan: "Amitabha, the donor has a noble son at night, it is really a great blessing, the old man came to visit rashly, I want to see Ling Lang, I don't know what to do?" ”

After hearing this, Lu Xingyan thought to himself: Xiao'er was just born last night, how can this old monk know? He was full of doubts, and stepped forward to ask: "Master, I'm sorry, the child has been crying since he was born, I am afraid that it will disturb the master's pure heart, and it is better to ask the master not to see it." ”

The old monk clasped his hands together: "Amitabha, donor, please relax, the poor monk is good at stopping crying, you can bring Ling Lang to see the old man." ”

Lu Xingyu secretly thought: It's really a big world, there are no surprises, and there are people who can treat children crying, so let's take it and let him try.