Three or Two Things about Rebirth

Qiu Luming had been to Jile Temple before, and for some reason, she suddenly wanted to go there again after hearing about it. But she did not agree to Aunt Wang immediately, but said, "Then I have to ask my sister-in-law first."

"That's exactly what you should do." Aunt Wang left her daughter's home phone number and asked her to call whether she could go or not.

When Liu Xiaomei mentioned going home, she immediately objected, "Look at you, kid. Your aunt came all the way back. Why are you going to the market? Mom will take a leave in the afternoon to take you to Qiulin Company!"

Dabao pouted.

Qiu Jiashu looked at Qiu Luming and said to Liu Xiaomei, "Sister-in-law, I have already bought the ticket. I have nothing to do this afternoon. I will go with them. It will be safe and we will be back early!"

"Hey, why did you buy a ticket? Why don't you stay a few more days?"

"Mom and Dad are waiting at home. If you are at ease, you can let Dabao go back with us."

"Ah! I want to go back to grandma's house and see my little brother!" Dabao shouted immediately.

Liu Xiaomei glared at him. "Didn't we agree that you can only go back during the winter vacation? You have to learn swimming, English, and piano this summer and you can't give up halfway!"

Dabao looked at his mother accusingly with tears in his eyes.

"Sister-in-law, when we were young, we didn't spend money to learn how to swim. We just spent a summer in the river and learned everything. Youyou can help me with English, and I can also play musical instruments. Just let Dabao go back. Mom and Dad miss their child very much." Qiu Jiashu pulled Dabao over and wiped his face. "A real man sheds blood but not tears. Why are you crying?"

Qiu Luming didn't want to get involved in her sister-in-law's education of the child. She stood up to leave, but Dabao hugged her waist and said, "Aunt, aunt! Please talk to my mom. She is the queen of this family now. My dad and I can't control her!"

Qiu Luming burst out laughing, "Of course your mother is the mistress of the house. Even your father can't control her, so who else can do anything?"

"Humph, Dad only knows how to perform surgery and collect red envelopes every day. He doesn't care about me and Mom!"

Liu Xiaomei covered her son's mouth with her hand and said, "If you keep talking nonsense, I will beat you up!"

Qiu Luming thought, well, now I can’t let Dabao go.

In the afternoon, Qiu Luming took Dabao and Qiu Jiashu, who was carrying a backpack filled with water and food, and met Aunt Wang at the gate of the community as scheduled. The five of them excitedly boarded the No. 104 trolleybus and rushed to Jile Temple.

Outside the gate of Jile Temple, there is a large-scale temple fair every eighth day. Today is the eighth day of the sixth lunar month. Both sides of the road are lined with various stalls selling all kinds of goods.

Aunt Wang wants to buy two pots of flowers and an embroidery frame, Sun Jianing wants to buy a doll, and Dabao doesn't have any goals. It's his first time at the market, so he's curious about everything and wants to see everything.

Finally, the two groups decided to shop separately and meet at the market entrance at 3:30 pm.

Dabao was so excited that he touched this and looked at that. Qiu Jiashu could only follow him closely. Qiu Luming pointed at the Jile Temple and said, "Second brother, I'll go in for a while. See you at the entrance at 3:30."

Qiu Jiashu was a little conflicted.

"Just take good care of Dabao. I won't lose him."

"Okay." Qiu Jiashu nodded helplessly. It was okay if he couldn't see his sister, but if he saw her, he would be very worried.

The Jile Temple in Harbin is one of the four famous temples in Northeast China, along with the Prajna Temple in Changchun, the Ci'en Temple in Shenyang and the Lengyan Temple in Yingkou.

Compared with the crowds outside the temple, there are much fewer people inside the mountain gate.

There were people kneeling and kowtowing in several halls, but Qiu Luming did not go in, but just walked around.

Walking past the Hall of Heavenly Kings, the Main Hall, the Bell Tower and the Drum Tower, she was attracted by a black tower from a distance. To be precise, she was first attracted by the sound of the eaves bells on it. Ding-ling, ding-ling, Qiu Luming could almost hear the trajectory of the sound waves transmitted by the eaves bells. She looked up and stood quietly, her mind blank.

I also gained great peace of mind.

After an unknown amount of time, she came to her senses, looked at her watch, and turned away.

"Amitabha!"

Qiu Luming turned around and saw a monk with half-closed eyes, standing with one hand upright to salute. Qiu Luming put his hands together and said, "Hello."

The great monk nodded slightly, "I see you have been standing here quietly for quite some time, I wonder what is bothering you?"

Qiu Luming shook his head, "It seems to be gone now."

"Amitabha, everything has its destiny, just let everything go with the flow." The monk turned and left.

Qiu Luming also left. She stayed in the temple for more than an hour, without worshipping a single Buddha or burning a single stick of incense, and just walked out like that.

Qiu Jiashu saw her coming out, "Amitabha, you finally came out. This kid usually looks quite honest, why is he so naughty? If I didn't have some tracking skills, I really couldn't keep up with him!"

Qiu Luming held Dabao's hand and said with a smile, "Let's go home!"

Qiu Jiashu was quick to notice that something was different about his sister, but he couldn't tell what it was. He turned back to look at the mountain gate and asked, "Did you go to seek marriage?"

Qiu Luming shook his head and said, "Just quiet down inside."

"How can it be quiet with so many people?"

"If you want to be quiet, you can be quiet naturally."

***

In the evening, Qiu Luming and his second brother said goodbye to his eldest brother's family and boarded the train back home.

Dabao cried for several times, but was not allowed to return to Jiayang. Liu Xiaomei gritted her teeth and said cruelly, studying is the most important thing!

Qiu Jiashu wanted to say a few words on behalf of his nephew, but was stopped by Qiu Luming. He even complained after the train started moving, "You're such a good kid, but you've been raised like a bird in a cage these past few years. The four of us were all raised in the open, and we all did well, except for you, but you've acquired all kinds of skills!"

Qiu Luming rolled his eyes at him and said, "We should not get involved in the sister-in-law's education of her children."

"That's the eldest grandson of our Qiu family!"

"Times have changed. He is now first and foremost my sister-in-law's son." Qiu Luming smiled at Qiu Jiashu, "I'll discipline Kuan Kuan more later. Maybe you won't be happy about it!"

"That's not possible!" Xiang Xiang said, "Neither can your second sister-in-law!"

The voice was loud, but the confidence was not very strong.

There were not many people in the hard sleeper car, but it was noisy. There was a one-year-old child in the next compartment, babbling and refusing to sleep, and screaming from time to time, but this did not affect Qiu Luming. With her second brother by her side, she slept soundly, and when she opened her eyes, it was already bright outside.

He opened the car window, and a cool breeze blew in. The scenery outside became more and more familiar, and Qiu Luming's mood became better and better.

While washing up, Qiu Luming met an acquaintance.

She looked at the new-look Ma Zhenyi and almost didn't recognize him. "Ma Zhenyi! It's really you. I've always wanted to thank you, but I couldn't find you. Later I heard that you went to the south to do business!"

Ma Zhenyi was much more confident. He quickly looked at Qiu Luming and said with a smile, "Why did I think you looked like Su Xiaoyun back then? You two clearly have no similarities at all."

"I haven't changed, it's probably your state of mind that has changed."

"Probably." Ma Zhenyi smiled, "Are you back from studying?"

"Well, what are you learning? It's just to gild yourself."

"You lucky guys are really incomparable!" Ma Zhenyi looked in the direction of the carriage, "Look, I've only said three words to you and your second brother is here again. He's more cautious about me than he is about thieves!"

"You've become more cheerful, which is good." Qiu Luming waved to his second brother and said to Ma Zhenyi, "I'm going to wash my face. We'll talk later."

After washing up and returning home, Qiu Jiashu whispered to Qiu Luming, "Stay away from him. This guy was released and worked in the brick factory for two months, then ran away to the south. I heard that he made some money by doing business, but I haven't seen him since. This time, it seems that he has changed a lot. It seems that money is really a man's courage!"

When they got off the train, Ma Zhenyi came over in advance. In fact, they were in a sleeper car. Ma Zhenyi was still a little reserved in front of Officer Qiu, but he still took the initiative to help them carry their luggage.

When they arrived at the bus station, he climbed onto the roof of the car again and helped them tie up their luggage.

The Qiu siblings still reserved seats one and two, sitting behind the driver. Coincidentally, the driver was still Brother Zhang. He grinned at Qiu Luming, "Oh, the one who studied abroad is back!"

Qiu Luming also laughed, "Why stay here? I'm just going to eat potatoes!"

The driver laughed. "Not bad. After a year, you can still speak Chinese! You came back just in time for the housing allocation!"

Qiu Luming was slightly stunned, and the driver said, "I saw it all, your company's house has been built! A lot of people are jealous, so many companies are also raising funds to build houses!"

Alas, there is no secret at all.

Qiu Jiashu was greeting an acquaintance. Qiu Luming looked in the direction of the voice and saw that it was the policeman in the military coat from five years ago. Why did this man go to Harbin for no reason? Qiu Luming did not have a good impression of him. This man always beat his wife. His wife had passed away a few months ago, and he took his new lover around everywhere, spending all the money saved by his deceased wife on his new lover.

Qiu Luming subconsciously looked towards the man and was slightly startled. It turned out that the person had changed again!

This time she looks younger, with thick foundation on her face but not on her neck, which creates a clear dividing line between her face and neck.

Qiu Luming turned his eyes away as if nothing had happened and sat down.

Ma Zhenyi got into the car and was recognized by the policeman. He cursed and said, "The world has changed, hasn't it? People like you have also become fucking rich!"

Ma Zhenyi was not angry either. He smiled and threw a box of Zhonghua cigarettes into his arms, "Government, smoking! Are you going to buy clothes again?"