Chapter 7 The Lone Star
In this way, Dingnian and I talked softly in the eyes of the hot springs barefoot in this deep valley that had escaped from the world. Sometimes I listened quietly to her experience, sometimes she listened to my story curiously, time passed quietly like flowing water, and in the end, we all quieted down, as if we were each immersed in a new understanding of our own lives, and unconsciously, when a wave of sleepiness came to my head, I looked at my watch, and it was already five o'clock in the morning.
It was this night that I realized that there is still such a monastic in this world. If everyone's life is a book, then the life of fixed thoughts, from the moment she was born, seemed thrilling.
Soon after Dingnian was born, she was called the reincarnation of the broomstick star by the old goddess in the village, and suggested that her family throw away Dingnian and not raise it, saying that Dingnian would be too bad to kill her parents, relatives, and friends, and would kill the people around her one by one.
When she was young, she had a good way of doing things, and her prestige in the village was so high that almost every child born would ask her to take a look. Over the past few decades, the fate of all the children who have been seen by the goddess has been roughly the same as that the goddess said, so many old people in the village have also been advised to abandon the family and have another one.
The culture of the people in the countryside is not popular, and the thinking is relatively ignorant, so the Dingnian family gradually gave birth to the idea of abandoning the child under the gossip of the surrounding villagers, especially Dingnian is a girl, and the idea of preference for sons over daughters in the countryside was still very serious at that time, and many villagers who gave birth to girls abandoned the baby girl in the wilderness to fend for themselves.
In this way, the full moon of Dingnian ushered in the catastrophe again and again, and it was also her life that she should not have died, and finally survived.
For the first time, her family threw such a baby girl in swaddling clothes in the barren mountains at the village. Who would have thought that those who were thrown out in the evening would be picked up by the big yellow dog at night. In the middle of the night, the crying of babies and the barking of dogs suddenly came from the yard, which startled her family.
The second time, the grandmother pressed a large pebble on the baby while everyone was going to do farm work. How can a baby stand this, and after a while, he can't breathe, and his face turns purple. In this way, the mind was pressed for several hours, and his eyes turned black and he lost his breath. In the afternoon, the people who worked in the fields and Grandma Dingnian came home one after another, and when the grandmother was about to ask the family to find a place to bury the child, Xiao Dingnian woke up and cried loudly, and stood on end her grandmother's frightened hairs.
The third time, her family still felt that Dingnian had to die, and the means should be more ruthless, so they took advantage of the dark night to throw Dingnian from the bridge into the river at the edge of the village. One night passed, and it was winter again, and Dingnian's family felt that the child had not drowned, and the cold had frozen her to death. Who knew that it was a coincidence, there happened to be a family fishing at night downstream, but the fish was not caught but a child was caught. The fisherman saw that the child was cute, so he went to the village upstream on the second day to inquire from house to house, and returned his thoughts.
In this way, after Dingnian was born, her family used many means to torture her. If you want to say that you may still not be ruthless, after all, it is a little baby, and a few times later, seeing the child coquettish in her arms, she will not be able to do it even more if you miss your family.
In the end, perhaps it was because they believed that the child was protected by heaven, and Dingnian's family finally couldn't harden their hearts to poison the child, which made Dingnian live to this day.
It's a pity that the goddess in the village is not wrong. When she was one year old, her grandfather and grandmother passed away one after another. As her thoughts grew up, some people in her family continued to die: first her uncle and uncle died in an accident, and then her brother and sister died of illness. When he was eight years old, Dingnian's mother also died of a lung disease.
Slowly, word spread in the village that the idea was indeed the reincarnation of the broom star, and that it would kill everyone around him. Therefore, the people in the village will stay away when they see the idea, and the children will bully and chase her like a monster with stones and sticks.
Later, even the other elders, adults, and siblings in her family rejected her, refused to cook for her, and even refused to let her enter the house again.
A girl who is less than ten years old, what can you let her do, in the face of such an unfortunate encounter, poor Dingnian had to live like a wild dog in the village, until one day she was called to her home by the goddess.
Speaking of which, the misfortune of the mind can be said to be caused by the goddess, but the goddess herself is very unlucky. It is said that revealing the secret of heaven will invite sin, and the goddess was very miserable in her later years, first accidentally fell down the ravine and broke her leg, and then she was sick and blind, because there was no one under her knees, and her eyes were blind, making life very difficult. In addition, with the development of society, there are fewer and fewer people looking for her fortune telling, and the old woman can only live on the relief of the villagers.
The young Dingnian already knew that his current situation had something to do with the old blind woman, because the villagers often told her that the goddess said that she was a broom star. So, Xiao Dingnian was reluctant to see her at first, but it was the old woman who asked the neighbors to help coax Xiao Dingnian to the bed.
When there were only two people left in the house, the old woman took out the snacks bought by the troublesome neighbors and gave them to Ding Nian to eat. Seeing that Dingnian didn't take snacks, the old goddess said pitifully: "Baby, it's all my fault, baby, Grandma knows it's wrong, let's eat a snack for the doll, Grandma is also sad." As he spoke, tears flowed from his blind eyes.
A child, how can he have so many minds, although he hates the old blind woman very much, but now an old man is crying at herself, and she can't help but soften, and she can't help but soften her heart, plus she hasn't eaten much for a few days, and she can't help but salivate when she sees the dim sum.
In this way, Xiao Dingnian still took the dim sum and ate it. In fact, for a long time, it was the first time that someone could treat her so kindly, and all the entanglements in the past seemed to be completely resolved because of these few pieces of snacks. At least in the child's mind, it will be as simple as that.
Seeing that Dingnian was finally willing to take the dim sum and eat it, the old woman seemed to let go of a concern. For her, this child has long become a piece of her heart, because even if everything is fate, the child itself is not wrong, and in this sense, she is sorry for this child.
"Son, I'm dying. Seeing that Dingnian was almost full, the goddess said to her as she handed her water.
I didn't know what the goddess meant by saying this to her, so I just heard the goddess continue: "Child, I hope you can forgive Grandma, I can only blame Grandma for knowing too much and saying too many things that shouldn't be said. You may not understand it now, but you may understand it in the future....... ”
On that day, the goddess seemed to regard Dingnian as an adult, and said to her for a long time. Dingnian was just listening, and remembering the words of the goddess, maybe she didn't understand many things at the time, for example, the goddess said, Dingnian was a brave warrior who followed the steppe hero Genghis Khan in his previous life!
"Child, when you were born, your family asked me to look at your eight characters and bones, so that I could calculate your fate in this life. You may not know that before I entered your house, I saw a sinister aura in the house, faintly red light, this is the standard bloody aura, I was thinking at the time, this is not good, your family may have given birth to a bad star.
When I entered the house and saw that this bloody aura really came out of a little baby like you, I was a little hesitant to tell the truth to your family, because if you tell it, you may be abandoned by them, but if you don't tell it, you will be your parents, brothers and sisters.
I hesitated, but I decided to speak out, which may not be fair to you, but it is an explanation for your family. At that time, I thought that you had just been born and didn't understand human affairs, and even if you died, you could be reincarnated again as soon as possible, and the adults in your family were all familiar with me, and I couldn't bear to see them lose their lives. That's how I told them about the evil I saw.
You may not understand why you have such a bad anger to kill your family, and speaking of which, it has to do with your past and present lives. This is because the slaughter you made in your previous life was too heavy, and although you made great achievements in your previous life, you only saw your hands full of blood and murder in the king of the underworld.
This monstrous murderous aura was not eliminated after your death in your previous life, and after reincarnation and brought to your present life, it formed a bloody aura. This bloody aura is extremely harmful to the people around them, and will cause them to die early. Moreover, if this bloody aura is not eliminated in this life, it may be carried over to your next life.
I have been in the village for so many years to show others the root bones, eight characters, yin and yang feng shui, you are the first child I have seen with such a bloody aura. In order to find out what kind of sacred your previous life was, I asked my senior sister in the underworld to help me inquire about your past life through the "Ask Mi" technique (a kind of spiritual transmission technique that can connect the Yin and Yang worlds).
Senior Sister is a Yin official in the underworld, and she can consult the 'Book of Life and Death' and the 'Three Worlds Sutra'. After reading the records of your previous life, I found out that you were a famous general under Genghis Khan, who had helped Genghis Khan fight all over the world and made countless military exploits, and was a great hero in Mongolia at that time.
Although you were called the god of war by the Mongols in your previous life, you were born with divine power and were invincible, and the steppe iron rider even fought on the European continent under your command, composing immortal feats for the establishment of the Yuan Empire. However, you are naturally murderous and fierce, and you have died at the hands of countless enemies and people, so you have also committed great sins.
When you were taken to the underworld to be judged by the king of Hades after you died, you were thrown into the eighteenth layer of hell to reform and kill your murderous spirit because the killing was too heavy, and you will not be reincarnated for a thousand years.
Later, because of the continuous worship and transcendence of future generations, and the Mongolian king Genghis Khan took part of the blame for you, after 750 years, you were finally reincarnated again. However, the sins you committed in your previous life have not been washed away, so you have brought this evil spirit to this life, and you are destined to die without a companion in this life. The old goddess told me.
"At that time, I just listened, and I didn't quite understand what the goddess said, and it wasn't until later that I slowly understood the meaning of the old goddess's words. Ding Nian recalled and continued to me, "The old goddess said that she was dying, because her senior sister said not long ago that the ghost mission was coming to her. The goddess came to me, on the one hand, because she thought about it but felt guilty about me, and on the other hand, she also pointed me out a way out.
It turned out that before the old woman's sister died, she knew a monk from Jiuhua Mountain, saying that this monk has profound Buddhism and compassion, and can help me use Buddhism to dispel evil qi and practice Buddhism.
According to the words of the old god's mother-in-law, if I continue to live in this society with my life, I will not only be miserable, lonely and depressed all my life, but also continue to kill the people around me.
The goddess thinks that the best way is for me to go to the monastery to practice, because in the goddess's view, only practice in this world is the broad road to self-liberation and jumping out of the six realms of reincarnation, otherwise as long as you are within the six realms of reincarnation, everything is an illusion.
In the end, the goddess told me that she had half a month to live, and if I thought about it for half a month, I would go to her, and she would help me find the monk. ”
At that time, I could no longer live in the village, not only did I have no food, but I was chased everywhere I went, no one would pay attention to me, and I couldn't even go back to my own home.
At that time, I felt very lonely and hopeless, and I couldn't stand it anymore. So I almost didn't think much about it and said to the old goddess that I was willing to become a monk and practice, as long as I didn't go hungry. The goddess smiled and said to me, I must not be hungry, since you are willing to go, then she wants to beg her senior sister. ”
Hearing Dingnian say this, I asked with some curiosity, how did you end up in Jiuhua Mountain?