During the New Year, the temple fair has a huge flow of people, not only in the temples in the county, but also in the temples built around the county.

However, the time when each family goes to the temple fair is very different.

Because some people will read through the book and choose a time to go out, while others, such as Huang Shouzhen's family, are fixed every year after the Chinese New Year's Eve and the moment the New Year arrives, that is, at zero o'clock.

Compared with the second half of the night, the number of people who go to the temple to pray at midnight will undoubtedly be much less, which is why their family chooses this time period to participate in the temple fair.

However, Huang Shouzhen does not believe in such things as praying for blessings and safety, asking for a marriage or good luck.

As a person who has read a lot of books, he believes that all cause and effect occur from the influence of his own actions.

Therefore, he would come to the temple fair every year, basically to accompany his parents, rather than really believing in religion.

Of course, whether or not to believe in religion varies from person to person, just like his parents, although they usually attend some large-scale temple fairs, they only have a beautiful vision and prayer for the future time in their hearts, and they are not to the point of being so demonic.

There is a way to be sincere, and everything must first come from one's own heart.

If having faith can truly enrich their spiritual world in a positive and meaningful way, so that they can have a better and healthier attitude to face life, then in Huang Shouzhen's view, it is meaningful for parents to participate in the temple fair, and he does not reject this.

After all, people must have things to believe in in order to have expectations for life.

It's just that some people believe in gods and Buddhas, some people believe in God, and some people are more direct and believe in money and material things, and that's it.

However, what made Huang Shouzhen a little helpless was that every time his parents finished worshipping the gods and Buddhas, they had to go to the old monk next to them to ask for a sign, and they had to ask him to ask for a sign too.

Huang Shouzhen had no choice but to obey their wishes, and also asked for a signature, but unexpectedly, the signing luck was good, and it was a sign.

As for what the content of the slip was, he was not interested, and he couldn't understand it, so if he wanted to get an answer, he could only spend fifty yuan to ask the old monk next to him to help untie the sign.

And this is the way to make money in the other party's profession.

"Master, how is my son's signing, is everything going well for him this year?"

Compared with Huang Shouzhen himself, Ma Xiaoxia undoubtedly attaches more importance to the results of his lottery draw.

The old monk next to him heard her ask this, and knew that she was going to untie the sign, so he glanced at the sign that Huang Shouzhen shook out of the sign, and when he saw that it was signed, a smile immediately appeared on his face.

Since the person who drew the lot drew the lot, how bad can the result be?

So, after the old monk read the sign, he glanced at the face of Huang Shouzhen, the person who drew the lot, and then explained the content of the sign to Ma Xiaoxia with an extremely compassionate and kind smile.

"Ling Lang is a very lucky person, as long as he has a heart, no matter what he does, he can do it naturally, he has success in his studies when he is studying, his career is smooth, and even in terms of marriage, he can also find someone he really likes, you can rest assured. ”

Huang Shouzhen, who was on the side, heard the old monk evaluate himself like this, and a faint smile also appeared on his face, but he didn't care in his heart.

He is not disgusted with such a thing as good words, but he will never believe it.

Anyway, for him, as long as his mother is happy.

Immediately, after his mother finished talking to the old monk, he paid for the fee he had just released, and then went home with his family, and he didn't think about what the old monk had said.

......

When the family of four returned home, it was past one o'clock in the morning.

However, for people like Huang Shouzhen, who sleep relatively lightly, it is undoubtedly difficult to fall asleep tonight.

For no other reason, the sound of firecrackers in the entire county was so loud that it seemed to shake the whole space, and it was not until after dawn that the sound of firecrackers began to calm down.

Therefore, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, it is basically used by people to make up for sleep, and everyone will not choose to visit relatives on this day.

In the second year of junior high school, the New Year's greeting activities began, but because Huang Yuda was relatively old, Huang Shouzhen's relatives, in order of eldest and youngest, would basically go to their house to pay New Year's greetings first, and then their family would go to those relatives' houses to return the gift and visit the door.

Huang Shouzhen is actually not enthusiastic about New Year's greetings, because many times, he needs to be tired of dealing with those relatives and being questioned in various ways.

Of course, he doesn't have any pressure now, after all, he is the first junior in the whole family to be admitted to the second book, which belongs to a positive image, at most he is asked how his college life is, how he did in the final exam, etc.

Unlike in the past, after he graduated from college and worked for a year or two without any improvement, his relatives began to ask him how much he was paid a month, and when he approached the age of 30, they asked him why he was not married and so embarrassing......

To be honest, this kind of problem was not friendly to him when he was young, and it was not like his mother said, it was those relatives who cared about him, but it was more like ridicule from those relatives.

You must know that his life at that time was obviously so difficult, but these people still came to pick up his fig leaf.

But for the sake of decency, he couldn't go back directly at that time, so he could only laugh at it every time.

However, after living again, all the embarrassments that I have experienced should be difficult to encounter again in the future.

And even if he goes through it again, he can now deal with these problems very calmly.

Because of the years and life, it has given him enough bearing and open-mindedness.

The reason why people are embarrassed, inferior, and ashamed of their situation in front of others is simply because they are afraid of being looked down upon by others.

But does it really make sense for people to live a lifetime and care too much about other people's opinions?

......

After the second day of the Lunar New Year, in the next few days, Huang Shouzhen's family basically did not eat at their own house, but had to bring gifts and go to those relatives' houses.

However, what Huang Shouzhen didn't expect was that when he was about to go to those uncles and uncles' houses with his family, he was the first to receive a phone call that surprised him.

The phone was called by Zhou Wentao in person, and the other party's intention was very simple, that is, to invite him to dinner.

"Mom, I can't go to my uncle's house with you for dinner at noon, you can go, I have to go to a friend's house for dinner. ”

When Ma Xiaoxia heard this, her brows furrowed, and she immediately asked, "What friend is more important than going to your uncle's house for dinner, is it your high school classmate Xiao Ye?"

After Huang Shouzhen heard this, he replied with a wry smile: "It's not him, Mom, didn't I save a drowning girl last summer, it was his father who called me to come over for dinner......

When Ma Xiaoxia heard this answer, she couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, but after thinking about it, she finally nodded and said, "Okay, then you can take care of yourself, but don't go empty-handed, it's rude to go empty-handed for this big New Year." ”

Huang Shouzhen nodded and said, "I have a number, Mom, don't worry, I will go to the supermarket to buy the right liquor and bring it over!"