Strange Tales: The Yin-Yang Celestial Master

Soon they arrived at the scene of the car accident. It was the largest road in the city. It crossed the entire city and connected to the highway outside the city. There were residential areas on both sides of the road, so it was also the road with the highest accident rate.

The middle-aged ghost floated to an intersection, "This is it. I was sitting in the back seat. I wanted to open the car door and jump out, but I didn't have time. I just threw the Bodhisattva statue out, and then lost consciousness."

Qi Buyang looked at the location he pointed out, "Could it be thrown into the green belt next to you?"

"I thought so too, but I didn't see all of them."

"Maybe you misremembered the location, maybe you fell into the green belt in front or behind."

"I've searched for it all." The middle-aged ghost drooped his shoulders in frustration, "I've searched the entire green belt along this road, but I still can't find it."

"This is difficult..." Qi Buyang rubbed his nose and looked around. There were no shops nearby, and he couldn't find anyone to ask about the situation at that time. There were neighborhoods facing the street, so why should he knock on the door one by one to ask? ?

"I knew it must have been picked up by someone!" The middle-aged ghost was anxious and angry, "Even if we asked, they would definitely not admit it, but if you picked up such a good thing, would you return it? "

"Yes." Qi Buyang replied naturally.

"……why?"

"What is why?" Qi Buyang said calmly: "Of course you have to return something that is picked up by someone else, let alone it is so valuable."

"..." The ghost was stunned for a long time with his mouth open, and then sighed angrily: "If only everyone was like you..."

Qi Buyang ignored him, and was only thinking about how to find him. Just when they were at a loss and almost made up their minds to knock on the door of the next neighborhood, two old people carrying vegetable baskets and preparing to go back walked across the sidewalk while talking——

"In a few days on the first day of the new year, I plan to take the bus to that temple in the city to burn incense sticks. Are you going?"

"I'll forget it, I don't know how to take that bus, I always take a stop."

"What are you afraid of, I will lead you there!"

"If you don't want to go, if you want to burn incense, I can burn it at home."

"How can burning it at home be effective in a temple?"

"Why doesn't it work? I picked up a big Guanyin a few days ago and kept it at home as an offering. Look, the sprained foot yesterday doesn't hurt anymore."

"Really?"

"of course it's true……"

As they talked, they walked farther and farther away. Qi Buyang immediately cheered up when he heard the "Great Guanyin", and was about to catch up, but was stopped by Luo Lang, "Don't call her, follow first."

"But……"

"If you say that the Buddha statue is yours and she doesn't want to return it, you don't even know where her home is."

After thinking about it, Qi Buyang agreed, called the middle-aged ghost, and followed the two old men carefully with Luo Lang.Seeing them enter the community, they separated, one walked straight ahead, the other turned and walked to the right, and they quickly followed the one who picked up Guanyin.

After following in front of a small villa, the old man took out his key and opened the door. Qi Buyang and the others waited for a while before knocking on the door.

"Who? I told you not to buy insurance anymore. When my son comes back, you can talk to him!" The old man opened the door muttering. Although he had silver hair, he looked very energetic. When he saw Qi Buyang and Luo Lang outside the door, his voice It stopped abruptly, and after thinking for a while, I asked again: "Are you selling newspapers or health care products?"

Qi Buyang quickly waved his hands: "No, no, we are not selling those things."

The old man looked at Qi Buyang from head to toe, and suddenly realized: "Did your school ask you to distribute leaflets? How many are there? Give it to me! Students should sit in the school and study, come out and run around What to do when you're tired."

"..."

"What are you doing there in a daze? Hurry up and bring the leaflet!" At this moment, she seemed to notice Luo Lang, "That one behind is your classmate, right? The students are really mature now... No, it doesn't look like it, is it?" Not your brother?"

"...Grandma, we're not here to distribute leaflets."

The old man was surprised, "Then what are you here for?"

"I...Actually, we are looking for something, a bronze Guanyin statue. I accidentally dropped it in the green belt a few days ago. I heard you mention the Guanyin statue just now. I wonder if you picked it up, so I came to ask. .”

"Bronze Guanyin?" The old man was very shrewd, neither admitted nor denied, just asked him: "How do I know that thing is really yours?"

"I can tell what it looks like!" Qi Buyang said hastily. In fact, he had never seen the statue before, so he could only try to recall the description of the middle-aged ghost in his mind, while stretching out his hand and gesticulating: "It is a sitting Guanyin. There are mounts and bases, um...the carvings are exquisite..." Seeing that he could not continue, the middle-aged ghost at the side hurriedly reminded him, and Qi Buyang repeated what he said.

"From what you said, it looks a bit like it." The old man didn't seem to believe it yet.

Qi Buyang looked at the middle-aged ghost in embarrassment, and the latter gave him a pitiful look, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and lie: "Grandma, that Guanyin is my grandfather's favorite thing, and I accidentally lost it." , he will be sad."

The old man thought for a while, "Okay, but I can't give it to you now, you can come back tomorrow."

Qi Buyang had no choice but to agree.

The next day, they came to the small villa again and knocked on the old woman's door.

"Are you coming? It's so early!" The old man welcomed them in empty-handed. Qi Buyang stood at the entrance and looked around the room, but he didn't see the figure of the Buddha statue.

"Grandma, where is the Guanyin statue?"

"Oh, that~" the old woman said with a smile, "I can give it to you, but there are conditions."

"What conditions?"

"Just stay here with me for a day and help me with something. It's not convenient for me to be an old man." After the old man finished speaking, he looked at Luo Lang again, "Forget it, it doesn't matter if he doesn't stay."

Luo Lang still smiled kindly, as if he didn't hear her words, he nodded shamelessly and said, "Since you invited me so warmly, then stay here."

"..."

The old woman asked Qi Buyang to help her clean the house, clean the glass and window sills, and re-hang the curtains that had fallen down for a long time. The time on the electronic clock on the wall was lost after a power outage. .Qi Buyang hardly ever did these housework, but he did it very seriously. Under the instructions of his mother-in-law, he meticulously cleaned the windows brightly, which made the old woman very happy and praised him as a good boy.Seeing the fruits of his labor, Qi Buyang wiped off his sweat, feeling a little embarrassed. This was the first time he was recognized for something other than studying with a celestial master, and he was secretly happy.

Luo Lang sat on the sofa watching the whole process, so leisurely that he almost drank a bowl of tea.The old lady passed by the sofa several times, and finally couldn't help but stop and asked him, "Aren't you going to help?"

"Why do you want to go?" Luo Lang smiled innocently, "It's fine to have Qi Buyang represent me."

The mother-in-law shook her head and muttered in a low voice: "He's such a big man, he's not as good as a child..." She didn't care about him anymore.

After finishing all the work, the old lady brought hot water, twisted a towel for Qi Buyang to wipe his hands and face, then brought out a plate of fried rice cakes and camellia water made by herself, and invited them to eat in the yard.

There is a tall persimmon tree planted in the yard, which is in the fruiting season, and the branches are covered with small orange-red round persimmons.The old man looked at the persimmon tree and sighed regretfully: "These persimmons were originally intended to be left for my grandson to eat when he came back, but he never came back, and the persimmons are almost ripe, and they won't be edible after a few days gone."

"Grandma, pick them off and eat them now." Qi Buyang suggested.

The old man turned his head to look at him, and laughed, "It's okay, just pick it off and eat it now. But there's no bamboo poles here, any of you who know how to climb a tree can just pick some for your enjoyment."

Qi Buyang raised his head and looked at the persimmons hanging high on the treetops. He couldn't climb trees, but... he glanced at Luo Lang, who didn't make any sign, so he could only roll up his trouser legs and sleeves, and climbed up the tree cautiously.If grandpa saw himself like this, he didn't know how angry he would be, he thought to himself while crawling.

The old woman was very worried and kept reminding him to be careful. Qi Buyang gathered his mind and approached the few fruits closest to him. He actually picked one or two of them and threw them into the basket carried by his mother under the tree.But such a little is not enough, the mother-in-law must hope to leave more for her grandson to eat.As he was thinking this way, he suddenly saw several hanging on the long branch on the upper right, so he stood up and supported the trunk next to him, stretched out his hand carefully, picked several in a row, and when the outermost one remained, Qi Buyang was enough When he couldn't catch it, he stood on tiptoe and leaned his body forward as much as possible - he was just about to touch it, but at this moment his foot slipped, he lost his balance immediately, and he fell down as soon as he tilted his body.

The mother-in-law let out an exclamation, but the expected tragedy did not happen.Qi Buyang opened his eyes, and Luo Lang caught him again.

There was an imperceptible anger hidden in Master Luo's dark eyes, "You just want to get back that Buddha statue, and you can just deal with her perfunctorily. Why are you so serious?"

Qi Buyang turned his face away, and said softly: "Because my life is very limited, I don't want to leave any regrets before I die."

These words reminded Luo Lang of Qi Buyang's 17th birthday three months later, and his purpose of returning to Qi's house.

At this time, the mother-in-law had already rushed over anxiously, pulling Qi Buyang from head to toe, fearing that he might be injured somewhere, and knowing that he was fine, she patted his chest in shock and asked him to rest on the stone bench.Luo Lang also followed with a gloomy face, and sat down beside Qi Buyang swaggeringly.

As for the persimmons that Qi Buyang worked so hard to pick just now, the mother-in-law stuffed them into his hands and urged: "Eat it quickly, you picked it, eat more."

Qi Buyang picked it up and took a bite, the mother-in-law looked at him eagerly, "Is it delicious?"

"Delicious." He nodded vigorously, not sure if it was because of the fruits of his labor, he always felt that it tasted extraordinarily sweet.

"That's good! Eat more and eat more." The mother-in-law happily pushed all the rest to Qi Buyang, and didn't give any to Luo Lang, nor kept it for herself.

Qi Buyang quickly pushed back, "Grandma, you can eat too."

"You can just eat it, my mother-in-law has diabetes, so she can't eat these sweet and greasy things." The old man smiled kindly, and gave him the persimmon again.

This time Qi Buyang didn't refuse any more, and quietly looked at Luo Lang who seemed to be angry, picked out the best one and put it in his palm, and said in a low voice: "Mr. Luo, you should try it too."

Luo Lang was not interested in this kind of thing at first, but when he thought that it was picked by Qi Buyang, he couldn't help biting it.Seeing him eating, Qi Buyang became happy, and quickly asked, "Is it delicious?"

His eyes were shining as he waited for an answer, Luo Lang's heart moved, and he asked him: "Do you like this?"

Qi Buyang nodded.

"Then take them all back." Luo Lang quickly stuffed all the persimmons left on the table into Qi Buyang's pocket, and when he was done, he smiled with satisfaction and cast a provocative look at the old woman.Qi Buyang didn't know whether to laugh or cry because of that kind of robber temperament with peace of mind, so he quickly apologized to the old man.

The mother-in-law smiled, and looked at Luo Lang with a little kindness, "It's okay, it's okay, I wanted you to take them all back, and I was worried that you wouldn't want them."

"What about your grandson? Don't leave it to him?"

"He..." The old man shook his head, "The kid is preparing for an exam, and he lives in school every day, and he doesn't know when he will come over. It would be a pity if he let it go bad." After a pause, he continued: " Their exams are very hard, I don’t dare to disturb him, and I can’t do anything here. In fact, I picked up the Guanyin and came back, just want to burn incense every day, pray for the child, so that he can pass the exam, so that he doesn’t have to So tired, his parents can be happier."

She looked at Qi Buyang, and showed that kind smile again, as if she was looking at another person through him, "The first time I saw you, I thought you looked like my grandson. He is also a grandson just like you." Good boy." The old man sat in the courtyard with the fragrance of persimmons, and chattered about her grandson: "That child was very close to me when I was young, and apart from me, even his mother wouldn't allow me to hug her. Cry. His parents are busy with work, so they put him on my side, and I took him to live in the countryside. He was a brown candy since he was a child, and he always ran behind my ass. Later, when he was in school, his father Mom came to pick him up and go back to the city to study, but he didn't want to leave, crying and rolling on the muddy floor, and was finally taken back.

Since going to school, my son studied too hard and didn't have much time to come back to see me. Later they bought a house, and my son took me from the countryside to live there.I didn't want to come here at first, I'm not used to living in the city, but because I missed my grandson very much, I came here to cook for him so that he can eat better.Although my grandson is busy with school, he always misses me. You see, he and his classmates went on a trip and brought me special souvenirs. The old man happily rolled up his sleeves and showed Qi Buyang the braided bracelet on her wrist. The material is relatively cheap, but it can be seen that the old man treasures it.

The look of the old man proudly boasting about his grandson reminded Qi Buyang of his grandfather, the one who was always strict and stubborn. His greatest wish was that his grandfather would be proud of himself one day, but it seems that this wish may not be realized now... …

Thinking of this, he felt a sense of loss.

"Brother Tianshi, brother Tianshi!" The middle-aged ghost, who had been ignored for a long time, couldn't hold back any longer. He pushed him and reminded, "Avalokitesvara! We are here to get the Buddha statue!"

Qi Buyang came back to his senses, and just about to mention the Buddha statue to the old man, his mother-in-law said: "That Guanyin, can you let me...stay for a few more days?" It seemed that his request was too much, and the old man was a little embarrassed , quickly explained: "In a few days, it will be the first day of this month. The Guanyin is beautiful, and you can tell that the aura is high at a glance. I want to burn incense sticks for my grandson. He will have an exam soon... Once the incense is burned, I will Return you, okay?"

Qi Buyang agreed without much consideration, and the middle-aged ghost beside him had no choice but to call him a ghost, even if he objected, he would not hear him.

Leaving the old man's house, it took Qi Buyang a little time to comfort him, vowing again and again that he would bring the Buddha statue back next time, and the middle-aged ghost was relieved a little.