Chapter 9: Fate

The Temple of Our Lady of Nine Heavens on the top of Yongfeng Mountain, Mizhi County, Yan'an Prefecture, is located north to south, and is a courtyard. It is shorter from north to south and wider from east to west. There is the mountain gate theater in front, the middle is the offering pavilion, and the north is the temple of the Virgin. Two are accompanied by ear halls. The east and west courtyards now have buildings such as the palace of King Li Jing, the three palaces, the palace of Yanjun, the palace of ten marshals, the palace of Guan Gong, the palace of descendants and the dressing building. The temple is scattered, and the shape of the top of the temple is different. The south, north and west sides of the temple are split by hanging walls, the ravines are vertical and horizontal, and the east side is connected with the yard.

The temple is said to have been built in the Yuan Dynasty, although it is not very tall and spacious, but after all, it has a history of several hundred years, the top of the temple is covered with glazed ridge beasts, the tubular plate cloth tile, the glazed trimming, the folding is gentle. Out of the eaves far-reaching, four wings flying. It's quite a bit **.

Entering the temple, Gao Jie was directly taken to the side hall on the left, and in an incense room, he finally met his father in this life - Gao Ting.

Gao Ting, about forty years old, because he hunts in the mountains all the year round, his skin is tanned, his body is strong, he has two beards on his lips, and he looks dignified, it seems that the handsome little guy Gao Jie has inherited his father's good genes.

At this time, Gao Ting was lying on the bed, unconscious, with a cotton cloth wrapped around his chest and arms, and there were black marks on the cotton cloth, which should be oozing blood, and it seemed that the injury was not light.

Gao Jie heard from a middle-aged nun who took care of his father that this afternoon, two nuns from the temple went to the back of the mountain to collect medicine and firewood, and accidentally found Gao Ting who was unconscious due to his injuries.

Gao Ting was wounded in the chest and arms, and there were many wounds that were torn by wild beasts, and it seemed that he had encountered a fierce beast and was injured in the fight. Later, although he escaped danger, he fainted in the back mountain due to excessive bleeding and exhaustion of strength.

After the treatment of a nun in the temple who knows a little about medicine, although the injury is initially stabilized, it is still not completely out of danger. During the healing period, Gao Ting briefly woke up once, and after inquiry, the nuns in the temple knew his name and address, and then there was a scene where the little nun Huijing went to Gao Jie's house to report the news.

Looking at the sleeping Gao Ting, Gao Jie felt inexplicable distress in his heart, fused with Xiao Gaojie's memories, and naturally inherited his feelings. In order to maintain the family's livelihood, his father Gao Ting went to the mountains to hunt almost every day, and suffered many major and minor injuries, but this time is the most serious, and I don't know if I can survive it.

Holding his father's rough hand, Gao Jie thought to himself: "If my father is disabled due to injury, or can no longer hunt, then the family will be more difficult in the future, and it seems that we must start preparing well and take on the burden of running the house." ”

Just when Gao Jie was worried about his father's injury, the door of the incense room was pushed open, and he looked back to see that it was Xu Hongru and the old nun who had come in.

Gao Jie already knew at this time that the old nun was the presiding teacher of the Holy Mother Temple, and the law name was "Clear Sky", so he hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down and kowtowed, and saluted: "Thank you for saving my father, the boy is here to thank you, I am grateful!"

Master Pure Space smiled and helped Gao Jie up, shook his head and said, "This is the duty that my Buddhist disciples should do, and the little donor does not need to be polite." Your father is seriously injured, and there is no one in the temple who is proficient in medical skills, and there is no healing elixir, it is tricky, fortunately, my brother Xu Hongru is here today, let him show it to your father!"

Xu Hongru reached out and patted Gao Jie's shoulder as a sign of comfort, then sat down on the stool next to Gao Ting's bed and began to carefully examine the injury.

Soon, he stood up, looked at Gao Jie's eager eyes, and said with a slight smile: "Although the injury is serious, but his life is fine!"

Then, he pointed to the blanket that Gao Jie was carrying on his back and said, "Can you return the blanket to me first?"

Gao Jie said "ah", then remembered that he had also picked up a blanket, and after listening to Xu Hongru's words, he did not hesitate, and quickly took off the blanket and handed it to Xu Hongru.

Xu Hongru looked at Gao Jie again, nodded and said, "Not greedy, affectionate and righteous, he is a good boy!"

Gao Jie thought to himself: "Obviously, this is in your land, whether this blanket is yours or not, if you want it, can I not give it?"

Xu Hongru didn't know what Gao Jie was thinking, just as he was a good boy who didn't know how to pick up money. I saw him take out a small cloth bag from his blanket and pour out two pills from it, one black and the other green.

He stretched out his hand and handed the two pills to Master Jingkong, and said, "Eldest sister, the black pill is ordered to be fed to this hunter, and the green water is mixed into a thick shape, and it can be applied to the wound!"

Master Jingkong immediately took the pill, turned around and ordered the people to do it.

After dealing with these things, Xu Hongru took Gao Jie's hand and said, "Child, after using my panacea, your father will be able to get up tomorrow, don't worry! Come, go out with me, let's talk!"

When Gao Jie heard this, he was pleasantly surprised, and finally relieved, so he followed Xu Hongru and the empty master out of the incense room and came to the backyard of the temple.

In the backyard, there is a pond with lotus leaves tightly packed and spread on the water. And in the middle of the lotus pond, there is also a small pavilion with cornices. Under the bright moonlight, the whole scenery is picturesque, which reminds Gao Jie of a famous article he learned in later generations - "Moonlight on the Lotus Pond".

Gao Jie followed them to the small pavilion and sat down on the stone pier, and the Void Master asked, "Child, what is your name?"

Gao Jie didn't hide it, and answered honestly, although he didn't understand why Jingkong Shitai and Xu Hongru were so interested in himself, the son of an ordinary Orion, he was sure that these two people should have no malicious intent.

"Gao Jie, good name!" Xu Hongru took over the topic, praised it, and then asked, "Do you know why I was surprised when I saw you?"

Gao Jie shook his head, he really didn't pay attention, let alone think about it.

Xu Hongru stroked his beard with his hand and chuckled: "Actually, at that time, I saw the blanket I hid on your shoulder!"

"Oh!" Gao Jie knew that this thing was indeed someone else's when Xu Hongru took the medicine out of the blanket.

Xu Hongru smiled, and then said in a mysterious tone: "Moreover, I feel that there is a fate between us!"

"Fate?!" Gao Jie asked in surprise, almost fainting, and said in his heart, could it be that this Xu Hongru is a glass?! In the next life, if a man tells Gao Jie that we are fated, he will definitely kick it over, although he has never talked about a girlfriend, but he thinks that his sexual orientation is still normal and has no bad habits.

But now it is obviously not suitable to kick Xu Hongru, safety first, Gao Jie can only endure it.

So, he was very nervous and silently prayed for the blessing of the Buddha and the gods.

Xu Hongru nodded affirmatively and continued: "Hui Jing told me how you got this blanket. You know, when I found out that I was being followed and pursued by the Jinyi guards, in a hurry, I hid my blanket in the depths of this mountain, on the branches of trees. At that time, I didn't know if I could save my life, I just hoped that in case of an accident, I hoped that the things in it could be left to someone who was destined!" Speaking of this, he reached out and gently grabbed Gao Jie's shoulder, with joy in his tone, and said: "It's such a coincidence, not long after, you went up the mountain because of your father's injury, and you easily found and got this blanket!

Hearing this, Gao Jie was relieved, it turned out that this was the case, he was a little blind and worried!

He smiled and said embarrassedly, "I just happened to be a blind cat and ran into a dead mouse." However, don't say it, there is really a bit of fate. “

Xu Hongru laughed, stood up, paced back and forth in the pavilion for more than a dozen steps, and looked at Master Jingkong, as if he had made a lot of determination, turned to face Gao Jie suddenly, and said solemnly: "In this way, in order to determine a matter that is extremely important to us, I will read two lines of poetry, you try it, can you catch it!"

Gao Jie was stunned for a moment, this is to connect the rhythm of the code! Then he began to think in his heart: "I am also an archaeology major, and I am usually very interested in ancient Chinese and famous poems, and I have memorized a lot, in case I match this old man, I don't know if it is a curse or a blessing! Or it is better to be safe, even if I know, it is best to pretend that it is not right, and take my cheap father home safely!"

Gao Jie was thinking about it, and he heard Xu Hongru chant slowly: "The white lotus dripping dew blooms in the morning, and the jade lotus is shy and twilight...... and then, he and the master of the clear space stared at Gao Jie nervously.

As soon as these two lines of poetry reached Gao Jie's ears, his head was like a thunderbolt, and the whole person was immediately stunned: "This ...... Isn't this what the nameless old man in my previous life taught me?! Oh my God, how come this old man Xu also knew in the Ming Dynasty, in this ghost place?!

Looking at Gao Jie, who was stunned, Xu Hongru stretched out his hand and shook it in front of his eyes, shook his shoulders again, and asked repeatedly: "Gao Jie, child, are you okay?!"

Gao Jie quickly came to his senses. At this time, he finally understood why the blanket made him feel a little telepathic at the beginning, no wonder Xu Hongru hid the blanket so secretly, and he could easily find it. It seems that all this has been predestined for a long time.

From the plane that crashed in 2014 to the temple of Our Lady on the top of Yongfeng Mountain in Mizhi County, Yan'an Prefecture, in just one day, Gao Jie's outlook on life in his previous life was completely overturned, and he was no longer a materialist, but began to completely believe in the fate that he thought would never exist.

"Since it is fate, why should you run away from it? It is a blessing or a curse, come at me! Come more violently!"

Gao Jie had no fetters in his heart, and he also stood up, his eyes were firm, he stared at Xu Hongru without fear, and slowly chanted: "The red face teaches people to be sad about the world, and the magic hand rejuvenates the immortal crane!"

As soon as Gao Jie's words fell, Xu Hongru and Jingkong Shitai had red eyes and tears rolling down.