Dashan Makes a Living 1984

Just after the new year, everything has not yet recovered, anyway, Wang Tianxiao took his wife and two children to the temple fair.

The road from the flat ground to the bottom of the ditch is a passage several meters wide, and on one side is a hollowed-out brick wall. Through the gap in the wall, you can see the pavilions and temples in the misty mist below.

On the other side is the cliff of the mountain peak. There are many wild jujube trees growing on the cliff. Most of the wild jujube trees on the trees have been picked clean by naughty children. There are sporadic spots that are out of reach, hanging red on the branches, like red little star.

Wang Tianxiao has not returned to his hometown for many years, and he has never eaten jujube. He put Wang Fang on the ground, broke off a branch from the side, jumped a few times with enough reach, and finally knocked a jujube off the top, which fell into the dust.

He picked it up, blew the dirt on it, and was about to eat it. Seeing Wang Fang looking at him pitifully, he tore the soybean-sized wild jujube in half, fed half to his daughter, and ate half for himself.

In fact, in winter, there is only a thin layer of skin left when the jujube is dried. It is not so much to eat the size, but to eat a skin and lick the taste.

Sour, with a touch of sweetness, just gone in an instant.

He still feels a little nostalgic, which is pretty good.

But Wang Fang vomited it out quickly, panting heavily, as if she had been fed poison.

He frowned and pouted.

Wang Tianxiao couldn't stop laughing.

Going down the ramp, people are getting more and more crowded, gradually becoming a sea of ​​people, shoulder to shoulder.

Wang Tianxiao was holding his daughter's hand while walking, but found that the crowd was too crowded, so he simply hugged the girl up, if the crowd scattered, it would be over.

There are various things happening in temple fairs almost every year.

Sometimes the child is lost, and sometimes it is because the crowd is too crowded and the child is pushed off the hillside and off the cliff.

There are small vendors on both sides of the ramp.

This kind of vendor mainly sells two categories of things, one is all kinds of snacks and vegetables and fruits, and the other is incense and yellow paper.

Wang Tianxiao sold yellow paper in his previous life due to the pressure of life.

Among the small vendors, he saw an old man and his granddaughter selling them. There was a small cardboard box pitifully in front of him. On the cardboard box were three stacks of runes made of yellow paper.

In fact, this thing can't be sold for much. Don't look at such a pile, if you buy it all at once, it's a matter of three to five yuan.

Excluding the cost of buying yellow paper, there is really not much money to be made.

He walked up to the two of them and bought all the yellow paper at one time, which cost more than four yuan. He watched the old man tremble and took out a handkerchief from his pocket, which was tied with a small piece of cloth. , Putting the handkerchief very close to the eyes, it took a long time to untie the knot.

Li Yali lightly poked Wang Tianxiao's back.

Wang Tianxiao understood, and said to the grandfather: "Forget it, old man, there is no need for change."

"What, what are you talking about?" The old man's ears are fine.

"I mean, you don't have to give me change."

"How can that be?"

"It's okay, I will leave the extra money to buy some delicious food for the baby."

As Wang Tianxiao said, he gently touched the little girl's head.

She was probably a little older than Wang Fang, with dark eyes and ragged clothes. She stood timidly beside Grandpa because her clothes were thin, and there were two lines of clear snot hanging from her nose.

"How about that?"

The old man continued to decline, but Wang Tianxiao had already left with his wife and children.

This is a small kindness.

Burning incense and worshiping Buddhas in temples is actually buying peace of mind and accumulating merit. This kind of kindness done casually is also accumulating good deeds.

Going down from the slope, there is a big stage in front of you. It is still early, and the opera will start after twelve o'clock at noon.

The plays here are mainly Qin Opera and Long Opera.

Although Qingcheng is located in Long Province, it is very close to the land of Sanqin, so not only are the people's speaking habits similar to those in Qin Province, but they are also closer to Qin Province in terms of cultural habits.

Almost every adult here can understand Qin opera, and they all like to hum a few lines.

Wang Tianxiao bought three bunches of candied haws, one for Wang Fang and one for himself. When he gave it to his wife, he found that she couldn't eat it while holding the baby, so he helped her hold it and asked her to just move her mouth.

"Shopkeeper, let's pay homage to Confucius." Li Yali suggested.

"OK."

Laodongxian Mountain was dug in the valley against the mountain, a bit like the grottoes of Mogao Grottoes.

There are four floors in total.

The bottom layer is some "no-name army".

For example, Zhong Kui, Earth Temple, Mountain God Temple, Medicine King Temple, Guan Gong Temple, Saint Temple and so on.

Generally, people will worship according to the gods and Buddhas they want to worship, but there are also rich people who will visit all the temples.

Wang Tianxiao didn't like this kind of behavior.

He believes that although these gods and Buddhas are now placed in one place, they belong to different camps after all.

If you insist on worshiping Taoist gods and Western Tathagata Buddhas together, it just shows that your heart is not sincere enough, and your heart is not sincere enough, so what is the question of whether the gods are spiritless or not?

The two brought their two children to the hall of Confucius.

There were a lot of people here, and it took a long time to get in line. Wang Tianxiao found that the two children seemed to have no interest in Confucius, but the fact is that they will study well in the future.

I laughed secretly in my heart, these gods are not very clever.

Coming out of the Confucian Temple and passing through the Guan Gong Temple, there are still crowds of people.

Most of the parents here are holding their newborn babies. On the steps in front of the temple stands a fully armed Guan Gong, dressed in a green robe, with a red face, bright Danfeng eyes, and a majestic expression.

This Guan Gong was already tall, about the same as Wang Tianxiao, estimated to be around 1.8 meters, and standing on the steps, he looked even more mighty and domineering.

He held a Qinglong Yanyue Knife more than one meter long in his hand. Whenever the parents put money into the merit box inside, he would use the handle of the knife to lightly imprint a red seal on the child's forehead.

Guan Gong here has the function of suppressing evil spirits and exorcising evil spirits.

Naturally, Wang Tianxiao also imprinted one on Wang Peng's forehead.

Wang Peng's head is big and round, and the fortune-teller said earlier that he would be an official when he grows up. When Guan Gong stamped him, he was slightly taken aback when he saw his face, then looked at Wang Tianxiao, and finally stamped it with a smile on top.

The two continued to stroll around with their children, and Li Yali went to make a wish after passing the door of Guanyin.

I heard that the Songzi Guanyin here is very spiritual.

Many people from all over the world ran here to steal dolls.

The sculpture of Songzi Guanyin is very interesting. It is built on a large lotus pedestal. Under the lotus pedestal, there are countless small dolls, each about four or five centimeters long.

Li Yali would steal dolls every time before she became pregnant. It was reasonable to say that when she was pregnant with Wang Fang for the first time, she was too embarrassed to steal. She quickly touched a little doll, and when she went back, she was thin and small. It was a female doll, and she couldn’t help it Look, it's just a little doll randomly made out of the leftover scraps when people make dolls.

As a result, Wang Fang weighed only three catties when she was born prematurely. She was really thin and small. Even when she grew up later, she was very short and weighed no more than eighty catties.

When she was pregnant with Wang Peng for the second time, Li Yali gained experience and found the right opportunity to touch a fat boy. The Wang Peng she gave birth to was really fat and round.

Therefore, Li Yali is very grateful to Guanyin for sending her son. This time, she focused on worshiping and invested five yuan in it.

It is not a small expense.

In Wang Tianxiao's previous life, he never paid much attention to the matters of gods, gods and ghosts. He believed that those things were superstitions and were firmly untrustworthy.

But after rebirth, it is difficult for him to fully adhere to materialism.

So when his wife does these things, he also has a bit of piety in his heart. He sincerely hopes that if there is a true god in this world, he will bless kind people like them.

Before I knew it, it was already past eleven o'clock, and seeing that the opera was about to be performed at twelve o'clock, the stomachs of several people were also hungry.

Simply find a stall to eat something.

Wang Tianxiao and his wife ordered bowls of noodles, Wang Fang ate steamed stuffed buns, and little Wang Peng opened his black eyes and pouted his mouth when he watched the adults eat, but was ruthlessly ignored by the adults.

After eating, Wang Tianxiao asked his wife to occupy the seat in the theater, and he went to look around.

As a result, he came to the second floor from the steps in the corner, and suddenly saw a familiar figure of a woman in the crowd.

He couldn't remember whose back it was for a while, but he felt that it was very familiar. He stood there thinking for a long time, and suddenly opened his eyes wide in surprise.

Isn't this the second younger sister Wang Xiaolan?

The reason why she didn't recognize her at the first time was because Wang Xiaolan passed away early in her previous life. Because she was working in other places, she later met a local rich man. At first, she thought that the other party was treating her sincerely, but she didn't expect to know in the end that the other party He simply used her as a toy. There are many women like her.

Moreover, that man would often beat her with his hands, causing her to go crazy and died before she was fifty years old.

The relationship between Wang Tianxiao and this second younger sister can only be regarded as mediocre. Since the two separated in their previous lives, they never saw each other once a year. After a long time, there was no relationship.

It wasn't until Wang Xiaolan was seriously ill for more than half a year that she returned to her hometown, and the relationship got better again, but at that time Wang Xiaolan was already terminally ill, haggard and out of shape.

Therefore, Wang Tianxiao's image of Wang Xiaolan has always been a vague concept.

When he saw the figure of the woman in front of him just now, he subconsciously felt that her face was very familiar, but he couldn't remember it. This was the reason.

Just as he was thinking, the figure that looked like Wang Xiaolan had already gone up to the third floor.

Wang Tianxiao hesitated, but still chased after him.

Although he felt that it was almost impossible to meet the second sister here, she should still be in the south at this time with her husband in name but scum in reality.

How could it be possible to appear in such a place just after Chinese New Year?

Besides, if she did come back, why didn't she go home and see her mother and family?

However, curiosity is hard to suppress.

He just wanted to see what kind of person he was, his back and walking posture were so similar to his sister.

After a few quick steps, passing through the bustling crowd, he also ran towards the steps from the second floor to the third floor.

Suddenly, a person bumped into him.

"Feel sorry."

He subconsciously said sorry, and was about to get out of the way and continue chasing, but he was grabbed just after running half a meter away.

"Wait, where are you going?"

Wang Tianxiao had no choice but to stop.

The person in front of him was fat, fair and clean, less than 1.7 meters tall, with a round face, round head, small eyes, beard, and glasses with small round lenses with gold wire rims.

He wears a pink shirt inside, which imitates the large lapels in Hong Kong movies of this era. He wears a green leather jacket on the outside. He wears white pants under his round belly. The pointed leather shoes on his feet may have been polished to a shine. It was shiny, but because there is too much dust here, it has now become a dusty dirt shoe.

Holding a handful of broken incense in his hand, he scolded Wang Tianxiao angrily: "You are in a hurry to eat shit, didn't you see the incense in my hand, I broke it now."

Wang Tianxiao looked at the steps leading to the third floor. He didn't want to continue to chat with this person. Judging from his accent, he should be a small boss who has done business in the south or is doing business. It is this kind of half-earth and half-foreign style, and it is defiant when it speaks and does things.

People at this time are more afraid of this kind of rich man, so he can show off his might.

"I'm sorry, I'm in a hurry. I broke your incense, and I'll just pay you. How much is the incense?"

"Xiaoyuan" looked at Wang Tianxiao with a sarcastic smile in his small eyes, "Oh, at least you can accompany me, this incense is the incense I specially asked for from Mount Putuo, and it was opened by the immortals of Mount Putuo to pray for blessings." Yes, tell me, how much do you want to pay?"

Wang Tianxiao was stunned.

He didn't expect that he was in a hurry, but he ran into a rascal.

It made him laugh.

What the hell is he talking about the immortal of Mount Putuo, if he hadn't just been to Mount Putuo many times, he would have really believed in this guy's evil.

This kind of person bullies the fellow villagers here who have never seen the world.

Crap.

But when I met myself today, I was on the brink of a gun.

At this point, he can only think about solving the matter here.

"Then what do you say, I can't let me go to Putuo Mountain and ask for a stick of incense for you." Wang Tianxiao smiled, "Also, the two of us were walking towards each other and bumped into each other at the same time. Say, you can't just discuss my responsibility, I can also say that you deliberately poked incense on me."

"Isn't this a joke?"

Xiaoyuan shouted exaggeratedly: "Look at me, I'm the kind of person who blackmails people, can I still depend on you?"

"It doesn't matter if you are right or not, then what do you do after all, a stick of incense is one yuan, how much do you think the blessings of Putuo's... immortals are worth?"

Xiaoyuan didn't expect to meet such a "sharp-mouthed" person like Wang Tianxiao, so he thought about extorting some money and forgetting about it.

After all, the people here are all poor ghosts in his eyes.

"One hundred dollars."

"Why don't you die." Wang Tianxiao said with a smile.

"Ah... what are you talking about?"

"I said, why don't you take your incense to die, it just so happens that the immortals of Mount Putuo can bless you to reincarnate early and turn into a fat pig in the next life."

"You...I fucking..."

Xiaoyuan got angry, raised her fist and hit Wang Tianxiao in the stomach.

Even though he is round and fat, his movements are quite nimble. If Wang Tianxiao hadn't been prepared for a long time, and he is not an ordinary person, he might really be hit in the stomach by his fist.

As soon as he grabbed Xiaoyuan's fist, he swung it to the side, throwing him directly against the wall.

Stepping forward, he directly said condescendingly and coldly: "You know who I am, and if you fight with me, don't you know how to die?"

Every time Wang Tianxiao threatens people, his triangular eyes are exposed.

This kind of eyes, when angry, looks very fierce, even can be said to be sinister, if you are not familiar with people, you will be startled first.

Moreover, Wang Tianxiao was born tall and big, which gave people a great sense of oppression.

Madoka was startled immediately.

Although he was rich, he was unfamiliar with the place after all, and he didn't know that he would meet someone like Wang Tianxiao.

Knowing that he is a rich man, she dared to offend him.

In fact, this is his ignorance.

To put it mildly, people from the Northwest have always had a tough folk style, but to put it more seriously, they have a tough folk style.

Everyone is envious of the rich, but if the rich seem to shit and pee on everyone's head, it will definitely make the other party fly.

"You... what do you want to do? You still want to hit me under the eyes of everyone, don't you?"

Looking at Wang Tianxiao's huge fist, Xiaoyuan lost all courage.

Subconsciously showing weakness, he also wanted to limit Wang Tianxiao with the many people around him.

He didn't understand for a while, just now Wang Tianxiao was still apologizing to him, why suddenly he became fierce and fierce in an instant, and became a glaring King Kong.

"It's nothing, I'm just asking, how much do you need to pay for this stick of incense that was blessed by an immortal? Do you really need a hundred yuan? If you need it, I'll give it to you."

Xiaoyuan looked at Wang Tianxiao helplessly, thinking that I just said that you didn't mean to give me money.

He is a businessman, and when he saw that he couldn't gain the upper hand, he immediately looked very polite, and hurriedly said with a smile: "Misunderstanding, it's all a misunderstanding. I was really just a moment ago, brother, don't take it to heart, everyone Meeting by chance, today is another auspicious day, there is no need to be unhappy, right?"

Wang Tianxiao stared at Xiaoyuan for a while, then slowly let go, and smiled faintly: "Then you should have said earlier, I thought you were trying to blackmail me."

As he said, he took out one yuan from his pocket and stuffed it into Xiaoyuan's palm, "This is incense money for you. You don't know it yet, and I'm not an ordinary person. The money I've blessed you with is nothing compared to the fairy money in Putuo. People are poor."

"That's that."

Xiaoyuan had no choice but to accept the money, but he didn't dare to say no.

"Is it really okay?"

"No, there's nothing wrong with that at all."

"That's fine."

Wang Tianxiao patted the dust in his hand, then turned and left without looking at Xiaoyuan again.

And Xiaoyuan spat fiercely at Wang Tianxiao's back, slandered in her heart for a long time, and had already greeted Wang Tianxiao's family all over the place.

After solving this episode, Wang Tianxiao continued to chase forward.

Squeezing through the crowd, he came to the third floor. He glanced over, but he didn't see the figure in the yellow suit.

With his height, he could see almost everyone, if he didn't see it, then he definitely didn't.

He didn't know whether the figure who looked like his younger sister went to the fourth floor or entered a certain cave after being tossed by Xiaoyuan just now, so he quickly went in and walked around in each cave.

But because the caves are all lit with kerosene lamps or candles, it is very dim, and it is often difficult to see people at a glance, and it is often difficult to identify people only after walking inside.

But if you go in, you go in, you can't come out empty-handed.

Even if he really wanted to come out, he was embarrassed by the disdainful eyes of those old ladies standing in the cave, so he had to put some money in each merit box, and ordered a yellow paper by the way.

But after such a toss, when he ran through all the caves on the third and fourth floors, he couldn't find the figure that looked exactly like his sister.