Chapter 64: Worship the Guanyin Temple
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Lin Yang couldn't understand the truth between good and evil for a moment, but the changes he had made this night were real. Looking at the real world, where is there anyone who is his opponent? He has become a true "monster"!
Lin Yang packed up the broken TV. Then he turned off the computer, pressed his watch and returned to his hometown house. He took off his coat, lay down on the kang, breathed a sigh of relief, and closed his eyes.
At six o'clock in the morning, Lin Yang suddenly sat up. His mother's familiar feeling came into Lin Yang's mind. "Mother got up early again and was busy with breakfast for the family." Lin Yang sat on the kang and thought secretly.
After the beast sensed his mother's signs, Lin Yang's killing heart seemed to calm down a lot. He pushed open the wooden window on the kang and wanted to look out the window. His mother's vicissitudes of back was carrying a bundle of firewood to the fire.
It was very late in winter. It was just six o'clock now, and there were still vague stars in the sky. The cold wind in the morning was still so cold. Lin Yang remembered that when he was a child, his mother was so hard every day when he was studying. She always prepared breakfast and called her nickname.
My mother hopes that she will have a little more sleep!
Seeing that his mother was still struggling to carry firewood, Lin Yang stood up and got out of bed, put on the black coat, opened the door, walked out of the house, and came to the yard.
"Mom! Let me do it." Lin Yang said as he hugged the firewood and put it on the fire gang in a few seconds. Then he squatted down and started to make a fire.
"Hutou, you're sleeping for a while. Look at you, don't get dirty. These are all done by the village woman." The mother hurried to Lin Yang and muttered.
"Mom!" Lin Yang stood up, looked at his mother's thin body, and his nose was sore. He frowned and said, "I'll make breakfast today. You go to the house to rest for a while. What kind of village woman? You are the most amazing person in Hutou's heart."
Hearing his son say this, the mother was stunned. She looked up at Lin Yang and murmured: "Hutou, what's wrong with you? What..."
"It's okay..." Lin Yang interrupted his mother, "I'll make breakfast today."
Seeing Lin Yang's insistence and her mother was not saying anything, she smiled and nodded, saying, "Okay, by the way, you wear more clothes, it's cold outside."
"Haha, it's okay, I'm hard." Lin Yang said with a smile, then turned around and started to make a fire.
"By the way, Hutou, today I accompanied my mother to worship the Guanyin Temple. The Chinese New Year is coming, so it's time for us to burn incense for Guanyin Bodhisattva." said my mother.
"Okay, after breakfast, I will accompany you." Lin Yang said with a smile.
"Okay." After saying that, my mother went back to the house...
On the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, there are two days left to the first day of the New Year. Lin Yang's family has almost prepared the New Year's goods. The New Year atmosphere in the village is very strong. In today's society, the rural area is far more important than in the city! Now every household in the hidden village has pasted Spring Festival couplets and bought firecrackers. Children are looking forward to changing into new clothes on New Year's Eve and getting New Year's money on the first day of the New Year. Every family slaughtered pigs and sheep, and prepared rich and delicious food. People who have been busy for a year can feel a hint of warmth and relaxation as long as they are at this time.
The young and middle-aged people who went out to work in the hidden village have returned to their hometowns, preparing for the arrival of New Year's Eve.
That day, after breakfast, my mother Li Guifang took Lin Yang to the Guanyin Temple at the entrance of the village and knelt down to worship Guanyin Bodhisattva, hoping that the Bodhisattva could bless their whole family in the new year.
In fact, not only Lin Yang's family, but many people in the village came here to kneel down and seemed very pious.
The ancient Guanyin Temple in Hidden Village is said to have a history of hundreds of years. It has been repaired several times in the middle, but it still cannot withstand the erosion of time and wind and rain. It is now very dilapidated. Guanyin seems to be made of soil, and the gold powder on it has almost fallen, revealing yellow adobe.
But even so, it cannot stop the pious footsteps of the elderly in the village. Even village cadres come here to worship every year, which is said to be a custom in the hidden village.
The one who waited for the Guanyin Temple was an elderly man with a bare head, no hair, and a white beard that was about one foot long. There are many sayings about the origin of this old man, but the most reliable thing is that the old man was once a monk and a hidden villager. Later, he returned to the customs and waited for the dilapidated Guanyin Temple after returning to his hometown. Everyone used to call him Gu Ye, who had no offspring and lived on a little bit of incense money every year.
Perhaps it was because the old man had seen through the world that he had stayed here day after day, year after year, and there was no discomfort, but rather optimistic. Moreover, his small amount of incense money was used in the daily consumption of the ruined temple, besides eating and dressing.
Frankly speaking, if it weren't for Gu Ye's careful care, this dilapidated temple would have been even more depressed!
This time, when the old man heard that Lin Yang's family was going to pay a lot of money to repair the place, he was naturally very happy. Therefore, when Lin Yang and his mother went there, he was particularly enthusiastic.
"Hutou, this time you paid for the restoration of the temple is to do good deeds and accumulate virtues. The Bodhisattvas in heaven will definitely bless your whole family." The old man naturally knew Lin Yang.
When my mother heard Gu Master say this, she snatched Lin Yang's words and said, "It should be true that our tiger head is today due to the blessing of the Bodhisattva. Now that we are doing well, how can we forget the Bodhisattva?"
"Haha." Lin Yang nodded repeatedly when he heard his mother say this. He said to Mr. Gu: "Grandpa, this is what Lin Yang should do, without asking for any reward. Just as my mother said, if we can ask for the blessing of the Bodhisattva, our family will be satisfied."
"Good, good. Both of them are great kind people, please come in." Gu Master sighed, then waved his hand to ask Lin Yang and his son to go in and burn incense.
As he said that, his mother pulled Lin Yang into the temple. Although the temple was dilapidated, it was very clean. It seemed that Gu Ye was cleaning every day.
There was nothing else in the temple, only a statue of Guanyin. This statue was built vividly. The Bodhisattva opened his eyes slightly and looked into the distance, as if he could see through everything in the world.
My mother pulled Lin Yang and knelt on the cushion in front of the earth statue very piously, and kowtowed to Guanyin a few times. The same was true for Lin Yang. Then my mother took the incense handed over by Master Gu and solemnly inserted it into the incense burner in front of her.
She came back and knelt in front of Guanyin, folded her hands together, murmured: "The compassionate Guanyin Bodhisattva, Li Guifang, brings my son Lin Yang, to kneel down and worship you. May you bless our whole family in the new year..."
Lin Yang knelt aside, folded his hands together, closed his eyes, and silently recited. "Lin Yang knew that there were gods three feet above the desk, Guanyin Bodhisattva, since you are also a god in heaven, do you recognize my master? Over the past few months, for me, there has been too much change. If one day I can practice Mahayana, I will definitely go to heaven to find you to see what your true body is, so that you can teach me."
At this moment, a cold wind suddenly blew in the temple... The wind seemed to rise out of thin air, waving the clothes of several people and waving the incense upwards...
Mother Lin Yang and Gu were stunned. What's going on? Then Gu probably had never seen such a strange wind. He couldn't help but fold his hands together, closed his eyes, and muttered: Amitabha!
The mother hurriedly leaned over again and kowtowed to Guanyin Bodhisattva.
Lin Yang straightened his body, looked up at Guan Shiyin's Buddha statue, and said in his heart: "Did you hear it? Are you angry? Lin Yang has never disrespected you. Don't mind what you said just now. If you don't like it, I won't look at your true body..."
It’s strange that the wind stopped violently and everything returned to its original state!
At this time, the mother and Lin Yang stood up, saluted Mr. Gu, and then prepared to turn around and leave.
"Tiger head, please stay. Master Gu has a few words to say to you." Master Gu stopped Lin Yang.
Lin Yang stopped with a smile. He probably said to him that Gu Ye wanted to talk to him about the renovation of the temple. He said to his mother: "Mom, you can wait here."
"Tiger Head, let me talk." Mr. Gu said as he brought Lin Yang to the side door of the temple. He calmed down and said with a smile: "Tiger Head, thank you for helping to repair the temple this time."
Sure enough, Lin Yang guessed well, and he replied: "Don't be so polite, grandpa, this temple has been in our Hidden Village for hundreds of years. It is appropriate to have the conditions to repair this place."
"Haha, Tiger Head is really grown up. I see that you are now in a strong body and extraordinary spirit. Have you had any adventures these days?" Gu Master Gu suddenly said this.
This surprised Lin Yang. He couldn't answer the words at once, frowned and didn't know how to answer. He couldn't tell Gu Ye's secret.
"Oh," said Hutou, who didn't say anything, Gu Master smiled and continued, "I think you are a good person, and good people will be rewarded."
"Haha, as grandpa said, if there is an adventure, I will win this grand prize." Lin Yang took over.
"Haha, yes. I said that good people will be rewarded. This unexpected fortune is what you deserve." Mr. Gu said.
Lin Yang looked outside the temple, thought for a while, and suddenly asked, "Grandpa, you have been in this temple for many years, and I guess you are a devout Buddha. Can Hutou ask you a question?"
"Okay, please speak."
"Do you think there is any specific difference between good people and evil people in this world? What I mean is that good people will do evil, and evil people may do good." Lin Yang said.
After hearing this, Gu Master lowered his head and thought for a while, and then said, "You are right. Good and evil are not on the face of man, but in the hearts of man, man is doing, God is watching, cause and effect cycle, and retribution is unhappy. If you do more good deeds, the gods in heaven will know it."
After hearing this, Lin Yang nodded silently and said, "Thank you for your teachings."
"Haha, Hutou, I am a temple guard, and I have no teachings to talk about. If you have the heart, you can read some books of Buddhism, which may be of some use to calm your mind." Gu said slowly.
Lin Yang nodded, then said goodbye to Mr. Gu, and pulled his mother away from the temple.
After Lin Yang left, Gu Master said to himself: "Tiger head is definitely not something in the pond in the future."
Chapter completed!