Chapter 1957 Gifts from fellow villagers
After eating a bowl of mutton soup with rice, everyone calmed down and the shop became lively and full of joy again.
The children even started to act as judges themselves, choosing beauty among their friends. Zhou Zhi hurried over to guide them, saying that to judge whether a person is beautiful or not, you should not just look at the appearance, but also look at the soul, such as Personality, knowledge, cultivation, etc...
But Ziqi Aguo is not convinced. Although brother Zhuzi said so, why are you surrounded by beautiful sisters?
The Zhou family’s education style is to do to others what you don’t want others to do to you. Of course, you can’t ask your children what you can’t do. Although Zhou Zhi does believe that the soul is more important than appearance, he The women around him really made it impossible for him to provide evidence to prove this point, so he had to come back in despair with a bowl in hand.
The older girls here were already laughing so hard that Ziqi Aguo made everyone happy by saying, "Brother Elbow is surrounded by beautiful sisters."
How could a child lie?
Wu Renzhong also laughed and scolded: "That's right! It tastes so bad to call you daddy!"
Zhou Zhi looked at several girls, and then looked at the one who was selected as the champion, feeling proud. Ziqi Aguo: "Forget it, I'll follow you Those with vested interests like us have nothing to say!”
It was already eight or nine o’clock in the evening when we returned to the grain station. Fortunately, the children were familiar with the way back to their homes, and they were not afraid of any bad guys when they arrived here. Let them go. He went home.
However, there were some arrangements and instructions, and it was only when Zhou Zhi returned to the grain station that he realized the importance of the Yi people's New Year's Eve rituals.
On this day of absence, many villagers came to give gifts. The gifts for Zhou Zhi were piled outside Zhou Zhi's big study room. Similarly, there was a pile outside Wu Renzhong's room.
The gifts include dried noodles, white sugar, brown sugar, and eggs. I guess they know that the grain station has its own small winery. Zhou Zhi and Wu Renzhong are also the targets of ridicule in the countryside for their drinking capacity, so there are not many people who come with bags of rice wine.
When many villagers saw that Zhou Zhi had paid to collect dried bracken, dried bamboo shoots, and dried mushrooms from everyone, they thought he liked them, so many people sent them as gifts. Those highlights made Zhou Zhi have mixed feelings for a while.
The Yi people value friendship. They used to be too poor to afford it. This year, the situation has improved a little. There are so many old people piled up in front of their house.
Seeing Zhou Zhi's moved face, Gillette Abi smiled and patted him on the shoulder: "There are a lot of chickens and ducks behind the house, all raised by the villagers. I have written down the gift list for you and Renzhong."
“The folks are so thoughtful. I really didn’t expect that we would have a share.” Zhou Zhi said.
Chi Xueli, however, was very happy: "Are you going to repay the gift? I heard Xiaomiao said that she encountered many interesting things when she went to visit your home with you. I will go with you then!"
< br>"When the time comes, you can return the gift and take me with you!" Wu Renzhong looked at the pile of brown sugar and white sugar and felt a little numb. He definitely couldn't eat so much by himself.
Zhou Zhi’s family often gives gifts during festivals and festivals. The general method is to stagger the return gifts. Except for the most important friendships between relatives, the gifts from Family A are basically sent to Family B. The gifts from Family B are also sent to Family B. Go to A's house instead.
However, it would not be appropriate to deal with the things sent by the villagers in this way. Zhou Zhi felt that it was appropriate to accept these things completely and then replace them with external practical items such as washbasins and hot water bottles and return them to the villagers.
Wu Renzhong cannot count on these things. For example, if you ask him whether his fellow villagers need a thermos bottle or an aluminum kettle, Wu Renzhong may feel that there is no difference.
Actually, there is a big difference. Villagers all have fire pits in their homes, and water and firewood don’t cost money, so thermos bottles are useless. Nowadays, the glass inner tank is broken when touched, so it is useless. .
An aluminum kettle that can make a pot of water and put it on the fire pit to boil at any time is durable and is what the villagers urgently need. So he said: "I will handle it. You can just go with us when the time comes. We will divide the accounts when you come back."
"What should we do with so many things?" Wu Renzhong rolled his eyes and tried to discuss with Zhou Zhi: "How about I transfer them all to you to offset the debt?"
After saying this, he gave Shama Ricong the credit. The top of the spine.
"Leave it to the kids." Zhou Zhi said: "These schools can all use it."
"Ah, yes!" Wu Renzhong breathed a sigh of relief with some embarrassment: "You can give it to them. The children stayed to drink sweet soy milk, make buckwheat cakes and omelette noodles!”
The next day, taking advantage of the bustle of the New Year, Zhou Zhi took everyone to Lingshan Temple.
The largest temple in Liangshan Prefecture is naturally the Guangfu Temple located on Lushan Mountain on the outskirts of Qionghai. However, although Guangfu Temple is large, it is not as important as the Lingshan Temple in Mianning in the minds of the people of Liangshan Prefecture.
Lingshan Temple is located in the deep mountains and old forests at the west foot of Xiaoxiang Ridge in the east of Mianning County. It is named after the towering mountain directly behind it called Lingshan.
Because Lingshan Temple once produced a great eminent monk, Patriarch Yang, the physical Buddha, the photo that all taxi drivers in Liangshan Prefecture now hang on the rearview mirror shelf is the portrait of this eminent monk.
The common name of Patriarch Yang is Yang Xuexin, his Dharma name is Wuzhen, and his Buddha name is Pudu. He is a native of Longyang County, Changde Prefecture, HUN Province. In the forty-seventh year of Emperor Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty, he traveled to Mianning and heard that Dengtai Mountain was the place where the ancient Buddha Deng Deng practiced. "So I used my staff to look around and reached the top of the peak. Sure enough, the scenic spot still exists and the old site is visible."
Patriarch Yang lived in Qinglongtan under a thatched roof, continuing his practice and preparing to build a temple. At that time, there were about a hundred Mianning disciples under his disciples. Lingshan Temple was built around the 59th year of Qianlong's reign. Xin Dacheng, the magistrate of the county, named the temple "Xiling", and the people called it "Lingshan Temple".
In the 22nd year of Mianning, Patriarch Yang practiced in Lingshan Temple for nine years after it was built. In February of the ninth year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty, he sat upright and became silent.
In folklore, Patriarch Yang disappeared in the middle of the night after giving instructions one night. Later, his disciples searched everywhere and found him at the top of Lingshan Mountain, but he stood upright and silent on the edge of the cliff.
No matter how quiet it was, the disciple followed his instructions and moved the remains into the niche. After seven days, his disciple opened the niche and looked at it, but his face was full of red light, as if he were alive.
Master Yang said before his death that if his body does not decay for seven days, he can move his body to a Buddhist temple and worship it for a long time, so that it can be completely dried and no longer decay.
The consequences were really like this, and after the incident came out, Lingshan Temple became famous, and Patriarch Yang was revered as the "Buddha in the flesh". For a time, the incense was extremely prosperous, and countless believers came from thousands of miles away just to ask for help. Prostrate yourself before the Buddha and receive blessings.
"The physical Buddha statue of Patriarch Yang was kept safely in the niche until liberation. Several times a year during the Dharma Assembly, the monks in the temple would open the door of the niche for believers to pay their respects." Zhou Zhi introduced this miraculous event to everyone: "Later, during special periods The temple was in decline. Two thieves thought they could steal the temple treasures and sell them for money, so they stole the body of Patriarch Yang. He was caught at the foot of the mountain."
"Everyone thought that Patriarch Yang's physical body was a problem, so he was cremated and buried in a pagoda."
"But this has not affected Lingshan Temple until now. They are all one of the most important temples in Liangshan Prefecture”