Chapter Eighty-Nine: Ten Aunt Temple
Liang Wenfu sat motionless in his yard, rolled up his left sleeve, put his left arm on the table, and then stared with wide eyes, and after a while, a mosquito fell on it. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 When the mosquito stood firm and was about to suck blood, Liang Wenfu's right hand quickly slapped it down, slapped the mosquito to death with a snap, and then gently pinched it and sent it to Xiaohua's mouth to feed him.
Xizi saw that the young master was catching mosquitoes there, so she also sat there in the same way, but unfortunately she was bitten by a few bags and didn't hit a single one.
Xiaohua lay listlessly on the table, waited for Liang Wenfu to hand the mosquito to his mouth, then cheered up and swallowed it, and then licked Liang Wenfu's hand as a thank you.
Liang Wenfu looked at Xiaohua distressedly, it should be that Lu Tongzhi's Demon Formation affected it that day, it has been a few days since he came back from Fucheng, it has always been weak, Liang Wenfu wants to help it and doesn't know what to do, so he has to catch some mosquitoes and feed it when he is fine. Fortunately, it can now be seen that Xiaohua is slowly recovering, albeit very slowly.
Liang's mother was talking to her son in the courtyard, but her attention was all outside the courtyard, and she stood at the gate from time to time to look into the distance. When she was tired of standing, she sat back on the chaise longue under the eaves and rested, but as soon as there was a sound of footsteps outside the door, she immediately looked at the door expectantly, and when the figure walked by, she sighed in disappointment.
Liang Wenfu knew that his mother was looking forward to Yun Cuixian, so he had to persuade her not to be anxious, in fact, why didn't he always look forward to the return of his mother? He originally planned to wait for the lady to come back, and then go out to practice, but today is the twelfth day after she left, and she has not yet returned.
Suddenly, the sound of wheels stopped outside the gate of Liang's house, followed by a sound of footsteps walking directly into the courtyard, Liang's mother hurriedly looked at the door, but saw that it was a scholar about thirty years old. Liang Wenfu also looked over at this time, and after seeing the person who came, he immediately greeted him happily: "Brother Jiusi, this is the first time you have come to the door!"
Yu Jiusi smiled and said, "Alas! Wen Fu said this to the foolish brother, so ashamed!"
Liang Wenfu laughed and pulled Yu Jiusi to his mother, and introduced to his mother: "Mother, this is what I often talk about, Yu Jiusi who was my guarantor at the beginning, and now he is the Xie Yuan of Jinke!"
Yu Jiusi hurriedly said to Liang's mother with a respectful face: "Little nephew Yu Jiusi, I should have come to ask my aunt for peace a long time ago, but because I was entangled in mundane affairs, I had to make the trip today, please ask my aunt to forgive me!"
Liang's mother hurriedly helped him up: "Virtuous nephew doesn't have to be polite, you usually focus on your studies, how can you have time to come?
In the hall, Yu Jiusi lost the slightest appearance of being trained by his mother when he was at home, and he spoke exquisitely, and his witty words made Liang's mother laugh, and praised Yu Jiusi, and asked his son to learn from Yu Jiusi to deal with people and interact with others.
After lunch, Liang's mother went back to the house to rest, leaving her son to talk to Yu Jiusi.
Yu Jiusi took a sip of tea and said to Liang Wenfu: "Brother Fool has just found a position as a county leader in Tangyin County, and he will go to take office in a few days, and he is here today to say goodbye to his virtuous brother!"
Liang Wenfu asked strangely: "Brother Jiusi doesn't want to seriously study knowledge, in order to make a big career in the field in two years, why do you suddenly want to be this petty official?"
Yu Jiusi sighed: "Of course, knowledge is important, but officials should pay more attention to the actual government and people's livelihood! Now there are many princes in the court, but what are the Hanlin Academy? Foolish brother doesn't want to be a misguided official who can only gain power and cannot understand practice in the future!"
Liang Wenfu expressed his understanding that Hanlin was selected by the top few scholars in each subject, and all the work of Hanlin every day was to compose poems, paint, and wait for seniority to enter the cabinet. It seems to be leisurely, but due to the large number of Hanlin and the limited space in the court, if you want to seize the opportunity, you must try to squeeze out the Hanlin Academy with seniority older than you.
As a result, those who can finally enter the cabinet from the Hanlin Academy are all masters of internal struggle, but because they have spent their whole lives intriguing and intriguing, most of them don't know anything about actual politics, so how can national politics not be chaotic?
After sighing with each other for a while, Yu Jiusi got up and said: "Brother Fool will enter the famous field in the future, and I don't know what year and month it will take to meet again. ”
Liang Wenfu understood, it turned out that he was here to go out to play with him, and he happened to be idle at home, so he went to the inner courtyard to talk to his mother, and went out to get into Yu Jiusi's carriage.
More than an hour later, Yu Gui parked the carriage at the foot of Aobei Mountain, this Aobei Mountain rises steeply on three sides, the top of the mountain is slightly raised, and it looks like Aobei Mountain in the distance, so it is named Aobei Mountain, and it is also said that this mountain is the body of the god Ao who sacrificed his limbs to Nuwa to hold up the sky in ancient times.
All in all, this Aobei Mountain is majestic, the mountain road is steep, and it is extremely inconvenient to climb, Liang Wenfu and Yu Jiusi stepped on the fallen leaves all over the ground, and it took a lot of effort to overcome thorns and thorns, and finally came to the top of the mountain.
Standing on the grassland on the top of the mountain, looking at the towering peaks and huge rocks at your feet, you really feel magnificent. But now in mid-October, in addition to the pines and cypresses, the mountains are full of bare trees with dead leaves, and the eyes are full of depression, and after watching for a while, Liang Wenfu feels bored.
Yu Jiusi sat on the ground and panted, picked up a persimmon picked on the road and was about to eat, when suddenly a macaque rushed over, snatched the persimmon in his hand and quickly got into the woods below, so angry that Yu Jiusi jumped to his feet.
Liang Wenfu was not angry and asked Jiusi: "This is the place you chose to play? Why do you go up the mountain this season?
Yu Jiusi smiled embarrassedly: "Alas, foolish brother is stupid to read, forgetting the season, the last time I came was spring, when the eyes were full of greenery, and the wildflowers on the top of the mountain were like a blanket...... I don't want the mountains to be so depressed this winter!"
Liang Wenfu laughed when he heard it, and he really didn't know what to say about him.
Yu Jiusi said helplessly: "Yes, wait for me to lie down and rest for a while, and when we are rested, we will go down the mountain." ”
More than half an hour later, the two returned to the bottom of the mountain, but although there was a fuss, Yu Jiusi was not exhausted, and suddenly pulled Liang Wenfu and said: "I heard that there is a temple of ten aunts behind this mountain, and it is very effective to ask for marriage?
Liang Wenfu nodded in agreement, and smiled at Jiusi: "Haha! Brother Jiusi should also start a family, you haven't married a wife in recent years, but you are really a maverick!"
"Brother Fool originally wanted to be the old man who died in the flowers, but after what happened last time, now he finally repents! Speaking of which, I have to thank you for Wen Fu. Yu Jiusi said with shame.
As they spoke, the two walked directly down a path to the back of the mountain, and on the way, Liang Wenfu couldn't help but ask: "With Brother Jiusi's family background, it's not easy to find a good match?
Yu Jiusi shook his head and said: "Brother Fool used to look for women only to see beauty, but now it seems that the so-called beauty is just a well-depicted painting skin, and the most important thing to find a wife is to look at the heart and temperament! But how can such a good woman be so easy to find?"
Liang Wenfu said with a smile: "I didn't expect Brother Jiusi to feel so much about that painted skin monster, so it seems that you have to thank it well!"
After walking a short distance, the two of them walked onto a wide and smooth stone road, and there were many pedestrians on this road, most of them were young men and women, each carrying baskets in their hands, which were full of incense, candles, offerings, and the like, and it seemed that they were all pilgrims who had come to ask for marriage. Yu Jiusi didn't come to worship the gods, so he didn't prepare incense, but he could buy it from the goddess in the temple later, and there would be these things for sale in the temple, although it was a little expensive.
Most of the girls on the road have their parents by their side, so that they can save the prodigal son from coming to provoke, while most of the young men come by themselves, and they stay in groups along the way, stopping and whispering to the women around them from time to time, but no one dares to be too out of line.
Liang Wenfu and Yu Jiusi walked forward with the flow of people, they were not as boring as those young men, but the two of them were handsome and elegant, and they were quite eye-catching along the way. The one who can come to the Ten Aunt Temple to offer incense is a Huaichun girl who came to ask for marriage, and after seeing the two, many women took the initiative to give them autumn waves with blushing faces.
Liang Wenfu had never been watched by so many girls, and in the face of the eyes around him that contained love threads, he only felt that the mangs were piercing his back, and he hurriedly accelerated his pace and walked forward.
The incense of the ten aunt temples is prosperous, and the temple is naturally built with extraordinary momentum, not as dilapidated as the ordinary small temple, Liang Wenfu can see the carved beams and paintings from a long distance, as high as five or six zhang of the temple. When I got closer, I saw two carriages parked at the entrance of the temple, and it seemed that there were people who came here from afar to ask for marriage, which also showed that the temple of the ten aunts was very effective.
Liang Wenfu knew about this temple, but it was the first time he came, standing in front of the magnificent temple gate, Liang Wenfu felt very awkward in his heart - just because of the four words on the big plaque at the temple gate: Du Shijiao Temple.
Yu Jiusi saw that Liang Wenfu suddenly stood still, with a strange look on his face, so he asked strangely: "Wenfu, is there anything wrong?"
Liang Wenfu thought that maybe he was thinking too much, so he shook his head and said that it was okay, and followed Yu Jiusi into the temple.
After entering the temple, you will see a life-size statue of the god standing on the shrine, this statue is a young beauty, different from the exaggerated clay sculpture in the general temple, this statue of the ten aunts is carved very realistically, so small that every hair is clearly recognizable, it is really lifelike, as if a real person is standing there.
After paying homage to the statue, Yu Jiusi planned to go to the goddess to buy incense, but Liang Wenfu grabbed him and asked the goddess about the origin of this Aunt Du.
The goddess talked endlessly for a long time, which probably meant that this Aunt Du Shi was the tenth maid beside Nuwa Niangniang, and was ordered to protect the body of Shen Ao here.
All in all, this Aunt Du Shi was blown by the goddess, but Liang Wenfu was noncommittal to her words, directly saluted her, and pulled Yu Jiusi around the courtyard in the temple.
Yu Jiusi thought that Liang Wenfu wanted to visit first, so he accompanied him, but he didn't want Liang Wenfu to drill into the corner, as if he was looking for something, and didn't say anything when he asked.
After a long while, Liang Wenfu suddenly squatted on the ground, holding a stone slab and observing it carefully. This slate is a bench under the shade of the tree for pilgrims to rest, Yu Jiusi didn't understand what he was observing, and when he saw the strange eyes of the people around him, he felt embarrassed on his face.
Liang Wenfu looked at the slate for a long time, the expression on his face became more and more strange, and he suddenly pointed to the slate and laughed at Jiusihaha: "Brother Jiusi, look, what are these words?"
Yu Jiusi squatted down and took a closer look, only to see that there were indeed words on the stone slab, and it seemed that this was actually a stone stele! It was only because of the age that the words on it could no longer be seen clearly, and it took a long time to observe it before he vaguely recognized the words "Shaoling", "Ministry of Industry", "Legacy" and so on.
Yu Jiusi muttered these words in his mouth, and suddenly thought of something, and his face was uncertain: "This is ...... Isn't it?"
Liang Wenfu laughed even louder, sat on the stone tablet, and asked Jiusi: "What kind of official did Du Fu, the poet saint of the former Tang Dynasty, be, and what do future generations call him?"
Yu Jiusi couldn't help laughing, and replied: "Du Shaoling was an official and a member of the Ministry of Works, so he was called Du Shizhi and Du Gongbu, ......."
"Hahaha!" Liang Wenfu laughed so hard that his stomach hurt, and pulled Yu Jiusi to sit down, "Brother Jiusi, do you want me to tell you a few jokes?"
Yu Jiusi glared at him and didn't say a word. Many pilgrims around saw that the two scholars here were laughing exaggeratedly, and they heard that they were going to tell jokes, so they gathered around together, and they all wanted to hear what kind of joke was so coke.
Liang Wenfu said with a smile: "After the death of the poet saint Du Fu, many temples were built in the world to commemorate it, and most of the plaques were written 'Du Shi Relic Temple'. I don't know how many years of false rumors, 'Du Shiyi' has long become 'Du Shi Aunt', and she has been attached to all kinds of strange legends and given various responsibilities. In later generations, when some villagers rebuilt the temple, according to the legend, they molded the poet into a woman 'Du Shi Aunt'!"
There were a few children around who had read books, and after listening to Liang Wenfu's words, they suddenly reacted and exclaimed: "Could it be that this temple was originally dedicated to poetry and saints? So, isn't the fairy inside fake?"
Liang Wenfu nodded: "There are many people who make this kind of mistake, I heard that there is a temple of ten aunts in Duqu Town, Xi'an, and there are ten goddesses in it, which are called 'Aunt Du', 'Second Aunt Du'...... 'Aunt Du'." The ten goddesses have their own division of labor, among which Aunt Du Shi is in charge of delivery, which is said to be very effective!
But the funniest person is Wenzhou Du Shi Aunt: it is said that the temple is surnamed Du and ranks tenth, so it is called Du Shi Aunt; there is also a five-pinch beard temple in the city, and it is said that it is called so because the god in the temple has five handfuls of beards on his face. The people of Wenzhou pity Aunt Du Shi for having no husband and five handfuls of mustaches without wives, so they match the two as husbands and wives and worship them in the temple!
I thought these were strange stories, but I didn't want to see a 'Du Shi Aunt' here!
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