Flight of the Bumblebee

Xing Yan asked him: "Can we go to the stage?"

He Qi was parking his car in the square, he took the time to reply: "No."

Xing Yan said why, not to mention lying to you, but there is something interesting there, a broken stage, and there are quilts hanging from nearby people to dry on it.

"But there is a pond there!" Xing Yan said excitedly.

He Qi corrected him: "That's a lotus pond." On the surface, he didn't think so, but in his heart he was very happy, wishing that Xing Yan would be happier seeing this scenery, so that he could be more proud: Yes!My hometown is so beautiful!Rebuttal not accepted!

Xing Yan suggested with a smile: "Can we go up and take a look?" He Qi pretended to be troubled, but seeing Xing Yan's high-spirited face, he "reluctantly" agreed.

Once on stage, He Qi's words began to increase.They leaned on the wooden railing of the stage, and he told Xing Yan that although he was unwilling to demolish his family's house from the bottom of his heart, it was a good thing for the whole village to build roads, so that the tourism industry could be developed.Many guests who come to their farm do not know that there is such a beautiful lotus pond here, and there is no attractive place nearby. Even if they knew, they would not come here specially for it.

Xing Yan disagreed with him, pointing to a temple in front of them and said, "Isn't that the attraction?"

He Qi smiled and said, "That's not a place of interest. Who would come to visit a temple whose name has never been heard? What's more, usually only local people would go in and burn incense."

Xing Yan said to him: "I'm quite interested."

He Qi laughed at him and said, "That's because you have lived abroad since you were young, and everything you see is new. Our village can have two such temples, and other villages also have them. It's not uncommon in this area."

Xing Yan asked: "Can I go in?"

He Qi said: "Of course you can, you can enter as you like, it's free, and you don't need money."

Xing Yan smiled: "I thought there would be some taboos for foreigners."

He Qi said: "It's not a cult. To gods and spirits, everyone is human. How can one get in and the other can't get in?"

When they walked down from the stage, crossed the square in front of the temple, and walked up the steps, Xing Yan asked worriedly: "Are there any prohibited things? For example, you must take off your shoes when entering, or you cannot look at the statues." or something like that. Say it, and I'll obey it."

He Qi stood there and thought about it. There was really nothing to pay attention to. He said to Xing Yan: "Why are you nervous? When I was young, I was fine fighting inside with my bare butt. There are so many rules to follow."

Xing Yan laughed when he heard this, and said, "Are you still fighting inside with your bare butt?"

He Qi blushed, and he said: "It's all about when you were a child. When you were a child, you didn't just run around with your butt naked? I don't believe it."

"I really didn't run around naked when I was young," Xing Yan said to him with a smile, "If you don't believe me, you can ask my brother."

They crossed the threshold at the same time and entered the front hall.There are a group of old people sitting around, chatting or watching TV, and a few people are playing long cards around.Xing Yan looked curiously at the black strips of paper they were holding in their hands, and asked He Qi what they were playing.How can I say that I don’t understand either, it’s an old man’s game, just think of it as Chinese poker.The children were laughing and playing outside the hall, running around, almost bumping into them several times.Xing Yan said that this place does not look like a religious place at all, He Qi said with a smile that you think everyone in temples all over the world will have a drooping face when entering?

From the front hall, you will come to the yard with a patio. The whole temple is built according to the specifications of the four-level system of ancient Chinese architecture. There are ear chambers on the left and right sides, which are cultural rooms and storage rooms.Right in front is the largest main hall, where several statues of gods are enshrined.Even in the countryside, there is a sense of solemnity and solemnity.

Xing Yan followed He Qi's footsteps into the main hall. The light inside was very dark. If the lights were not turned on during the day, he would not be able to see anything.When he saw the statue placed in the middle of the shrine, he said in surprise: "I thought Chinese temples were dedicated to Buddha statues like Tathagata and Avalokitesvara." He Qi rolled his eyes sarcastically and said, "Who said You see you are ignorant. As long as it is a famous person, the Chinese can confess him. Who do you think we are worshiping?"

"Then who is this?" Xing Yan asked, pointing to the statue above, and He Qi lightly slapped him on the hand, and shouted in a low voice: "Don't point and point, it's disrespectful. On the top is Emperor Huaguang, and next to him is clairvoyance and wind ear."

"Where's that one over there? Is it the priest?" He gestured with his eyes, and He Qi followed his gaze. It was an old man sitting at the table next to the altar, with his back against the window, wearing a heavy coat Presbyopic glasses, looking down at the book, the wall on the right hand side is covered with neatly arranged papers filled with words, which are blown by the wind.

"That's called Miao Zhu." He Qi replied.

Xing Yan couldn't help but glanced at the corner, and asked He Qi in a low voice: "What does Miaozhu do?" He Qi said: "Unlocking lottery and managing incense. Why do you have so many questions? Are you a hundred thousand why?"

At this time, the silver-haired old man noticed the movement, and raised his cloudy eyes from the reading glasses to look at them. The two immediately shut up and pretended to look around.But He Qi was still recognized. Although the old man couldn't pronounce his name, he knew that he was a child nearby. He greeted him and asked him to bring friends to visit. He Qi hurriedly nodded and said yes, bring him. Worship God here.The old man's eyes shifted to Xing Yan. Xing Yan didn't know what they said at all, and thought that he had done something wrong, so he immediately put on a respectful demeanor when facing the old man.Lao Miaozhu just looked at him twice, and went back to his own business.

Xing Yan wiped his sweat and asked He Qi: "What happened just now? What did you say?"

He Qi suppressed a smile and said no, people were angry when they saw that you did not worship gods when you entered the temple.

Xing Yan said, then goodbye, you teach me.

He Qi was just joking with him, but this man took it seriously again.It can be seen that jokes cannot be made indiscriminately. He hasn't come in for several years, since he left here for college.Besides, in a family, the housewife is usually responsible for burning incense and offering sacrifices. He has no mother for a long time, so who cares whether he is protected by gods or Buddhas.

When they came in, a woman in her 40s and her daughter knelt on the mat and sincerely begged for a lottery.The daughter is a senior high school student, and her mother brought her here to ask the gods to succeed in her studies.

When He Qi stood behind them watching this scene silently, Xing Yan asked him beside him: "What are they doing?"

He Qi said: "I am asking the gods for instructions."

"Instructions for what?"

"future."

"Can the gods foresee this?"

"probably."

"Will he tell you all the good and bad? How did he do it?" Xing Yan asked curiously.

"You shake out a lottery from the lottery tube, give it to the temple priest over there, find the corresponding spiritual lottery, and ask him to solve it for you."

"Can you really tell me what the future is like?" Xing Yan was dubious.

He Qi said flatly: "Probably, they say it's quite accurate, and I don't know if it works or not."

"Then let's try it." Xing Yan pulled him and said, just as the mother and daughter left the mat with the fallen stick.He Qi was reluctantly pushed and pulled by Xing Yan to kneel on the mat, and when he raised his head, the majestic Emperor Huaguang seemed to be glaring at them. He Qi wanted to stand up from the mat for a moment, he felt that he shouldn't be there Begging for protection from the gods.

But Xing Yan had already picked up the bamboo tube full of sticks, imitating the woman kneeling here just now and shaking it up and down, and turned his head excitedly to ask He Qi if this was the case.

A gaze from behind was looking at them, He Qi felt like a light on his back.The quasi-senior student did not listen to the temple blessings with her mother. She probably thought worshiping the gods was quite boring, so she focused all her attention on the two of them.

He Qi suppressed the disharmony in his heart, and told Xing Yan: "You have to tell the god what you are asking for, or what you want to know, before he can answer you."

Xing Yan asked: "Speak with your mouth?"

"Just say it in your heart."

He heard a faint chuckle from the girl behind him.

Xing Yan took the stick and closed his eyes, he had no idea what he was asking for.

"Is this okay?" Xing Yan asked him when he opened his eyes.

He Qi said, "You still have to kowtow to the gods."

"How to knock, you teach me."

He Qi asked him to put down the stick first, and followed him to kowtow three times in front of Emperor Huaguang. The girl sighed lightly from behind: "It seems to be worshiping the hall."

Hearing this sentence, He Qi was so sad that he wanted to cry, as if a basin of cold water had poured him from head to toe, with countless pairs of eyes watching him, he and Xing Yan had nowhere to hide.He could only pretend that he didn't hear this sentence, and taught Xing Yan how to pray to the gods with a stick.He looked very happy. The bamboo tube was like a toy in his hand. When the stick fell out, He Qi picked it up for him. Xing Yan leaned over and happily asked, "What's written on it?"

It's signed, not bad.

"The writing should be good." He Qi said, "Look, it's signed." He took it to Xing Yan and showed him the words on it.

Xing Yan was happier than him: "Is this the best one?"

"No, but it's better than anything else. Asking for the lottery for the first time should satisfy you."

When they got the signature, even He Qi knew what the verse on it meant: "The mountain is poor and the river is full of doubts, and there is no way out, and the willows are dark and the flowers are bright, and there is another village."Lao Miaozhu asked them if they needed the solution, so he said no, he thought that the two of them should have read the book, and he could understand it, so he didn't insist on it, and devoted himself to studying the book in his hand.

After the two came out of the temple, He Qi seemed very happy, put the signature into Xing Yan's hand, and said to him: "Keep it well." Xing Yan was puzzled: "What does this mean? Can you tell me Tell me?" He Qi asked him slyly: "Did you ask the gods about us?"

Xing Yan stood still for a moment, and asked him, "How do you know?"

He Qi deliberately smiled and said, "Guess."

"I can't guess."

He Qi smiled and said to him: "Anyway, the above is a good thing." He said in broken English: "Everything gets better! That's what it means."

Xing Yan was very happy to hear that: "Really? God really said so!"

"Of course, Emperor Huaguang will never lie." Now even he vowed.

Xing Yan laughed at him and said, "You just said clearly that you don't know if it works or not."

"Now I know," He Qi looked at him and said, "everything is slowly getting better, including us."

Xing Yan carefully put the piece of paper in the inner pocket of his wallet. He said that he would keep this good luck forever and keep it on his body for the rest of his life.

He Qi teased him and said, "You know how to use a wallet?" He stretched out his head and took a look inside. There were actually a lot of coins, most of which were in RMB, and there were also a lot of Euros. It seemed quite substantial.

Xing Yan looked at He Qi shyly and said, "Well, he looks like a rich man."

He Qi burst out laughing: "Like like, very similar." He pretended to be a Northeast accent and said to Xing Yan: "Holding a wallet in your hand is so special! Really!"

Xing Yan understood his ridicule and laughed too.He Qi said again: "What, rich man, will you go home with me?"

That tone sounded a bit teasing and molesting, he was determined to eat Xing Yan's tofu verbally, anyway, he couldn't take advantage of it at other times.Xing Yan nodded cooperatively and said, "Okay, take me there, wherever you want."

"Wow! That's true!" He Qi exaggeratedly said: "I feel like I hooked up with a lady on the side of the road, you are so casual." He deliberately glanced at Xing Yan with reproachful eyes.

Xing Yan faithfully performed the role given by He Qi - "casual roadside lady", and said to him frivolously: "Do as you please, Monsieur~"

He Qi smiled and said to him: "God, Xing Yan, your expression! I laughed so hard... I was a little tempted when I said it, hahahaha..."

Xing Yan said again: "I did it on purpose. What are you waiting for?"

If it wasn't for walking on the road, there might be a vehicle passing by at any time, and He Qi had already pulled him to the corner and kissed him forcefully.

He was so happy that it was unbelievable, he almost forgot how gloomy he was when he heard yesterday that the old house was about to be demolished.

All the worries seemed to disappear at this moment, and Xing Yan's presence by his side was the greatest comfort. Without him, why would he not know what kind of expression he would face the next thing.