[Republic of China] The paradise of rebirth

Today is the rest day in the garden. Every year at the end of August, the owner of the garden will disappear for a day. There will be no performances in the garden that day. No one knows where the owner of the garden has gone that day.

I used to be curious and wanted to follow the owner secretly, but I was always discovered halfway. Although the owner didn't scold me, he still had a cold face and asked me not to run around with a blank expression.

When the owner is not in the garden, Old Xu will watch over us instead of the owner. Old Xu is the owner's domestic slave. As long as I can remember, there has been a person like Old Xu. Usually, Old Xu is responsible for teaching apprentices boxing kung fu. , he punched well.

I went to Lao Xu early in the morning and told him that I wanted to go for a walk in the street. At first, Lao Xu frowned, as if the owner of the garden had told him not to let me go out, but he couldn’t stand my pleading, and Lao Xu finally decided to go out. He let go, and only asked me not to stay outside too late.

I quickly agreed, and took Xiaodongzi to go out quickly. Xiaodongzi was afraid that my injury was not healed, and wanted to hire a sedan chair, but I stopped him. Although my legs and feet were injured, it was not so serious that I couldn't walk around. Besides, I was lying on the bed After so long, the injury has almost healed.

I walked slowly, looking at the familiar street scene in front of me, and walking among the bustling crowd, I still had the illusion of being in a dream. Could it be that one day, when I woke up, I would still be in the distant city of Nanjing, with the Japanese army in front of me? ugly face.

"Qingyi, where do you want to go?" Seeing that my expression was not right, Xiaodongzi hurriedly supported me.

"I want to take a walk in Huguo Temple." I slightly pushed Xiaodongzi away. I was just emotionally excited just now, and I was not weak enough to need support.

How could Xiaodongzi understand my mood?Since I woke up, I have been staying in the garden. Although I know that I have returned to 30 years ago, there is always an unreal feeling. It is not until today, when I walk on the streets of Beijing, that I really feel it── I'm back.

Xiaodongzi saw that I persisted, so he gave up trying to support me, but he was careful, and turned to protect my surroundings so that I would not be pushed. We walked slowly towards Huguo Temple like this .

Huguo Temple is located in the north of Xisi Pailou. It takes about half an hour to walk from Hanjiatan Hutong. It's not too close, but it's not too far. Because I just recovered from my injury, I took a break from time to time along the way. , When we reached the Huguo Temple, it took nearly an hour.

Xiaodongzi yelled at the side, I must hire a sedan chair when I go back, otherwise my legs and feet will be just fine, and the injury will worsen. He worried that my legs and feet would be useless, but I laughed at him for worrying. If it is sound, how can it be easily abolished?

I left Xiao Dongzi and entered the Vajra Hall. The hall was solemn and solemn, and the incense candles burning on the table were filled with light smoke. I went to the Buddha and knelt down, clasped my hands, and thanked silently in my heart. I don’t know why I was reborn, how could I have Such luck.

But I am grateful to all gods and gods. No matter who gave me this opportunity, I am sincerely grateful. Since I woke up, I have been thinking about going to Huguo Temple. Today I finally got my wish. Finally, I He kowtowed three more times.

When I got up, I took a bunch of incense from Xiaodongzi, and I offered the incense reverently, and then asked Xiaodongzi to add some sesame oil money. Finally, I had a wish. What I wanted before was nothing more than glory and wealth, or being famous.

This time, I only want my body to be safe and healthy, so that the people I care about can live a long life, and I also want the theater troupe to be able to turn bad luck into good luck and spend these seven years in peace. Compared with these, nothing else is important, and Doesn't move me anymore.

I turned around and left the hall, and when I passed the lottery booth, Xiao Dongzi asked me if I wanted to ask for a lottery?I shook my head, I already knew my future path, and I lived it all over again, so why would I need someone to guide me?In this life, fate is in my own hands.

But Xiaodongzi ran to ask for a lottery excitedly. I waited at the same place and saw the long queue of people at the lottery asking place. I planned to walk around, so I made an appointment with Xiaodongzi to meet at the gate of the main hall in an hour.

Out of the Vajra Hall, I turned to the apse of the Huguo Temple. I remembered that a lot of flowers and plants were planted in the open space next to the apse. I didn’t know if there were osmanthus. Please stop, little boy."

little boy?I was taken aback, at first I wasn't quite sure who the other party was calling, but then I remembered, yes, at my current age, am I just a young man?I turned to the sound, and saw an unkempt old man in ragged clothes, holding a broken bowl and looking at me.

I feel a little pity in my heart. When I left Beijing city, wandering and living a difficult life, I used to look like this. So I took out some money to buy some food or clothes for the old man, but I didn’t think I hadn’t put it in the bowl yet. In the middle of the day, the old man threw the bowl angrily.

"You kid is so rude, I stopped you, I didn't want to beg with you!" The old man jumped in anger and yelled.

Although I was a little puzzled in my heart, I said in a good voice: "I'm sorry, grandpa, I was rude. I don't know why you stopped me?"

"Hmph, if I didn't see you having an adventure, which caught my eye, I wouldn't bother to stop you." The old man shook his head, with a high-spirited look, as if I had received a great gift .

I resisted being funny, and followed his words: "Thank you, grandpa, for looking up to me."

"You are sensible, tsk tsk tsk, a little doll with an old man living in it, strange! How strange!" Unexpectedly, the old man circled around me, and then uttered a shocking statement.

I was terrified in my heart, but I didn't show it on my face. I didn't know why the old man said that, so I kept silent. The old man saw that I didn't speak, and just looked at me with a smile. For a while, both of us were silent.

"Don't be nervous, kid. It's not a big deal if I stop you, but I just want to give you something." After a while, the old man saw that I still had no intention of speaking, so he spoke again.

baby?I don't get rewarded for nothing, and I don't have to be courteous. These two sentences flashed through my mind, so I became vigilant. I said that I would give me a baby for no reason. It doesn't matter if people doubt it. Ragged clothes, what's the baby?

The old man didn't care about my vigilance, he was still smiling, he took out a wooden box from his arms, which surprised me, at least I didn't see how he hid such a big wooden box in the dilapidated In the front placket.

The old man handed the wooden box to me. The wooden box was about the size of two palms, about one finger wide and high. The surface was plain without any patterns. I frowned and stared at the wooden box. I open the wooden box.

The moment the wooden box was opened, my pupils shrank, and what was lying in the wooden box was actually the jade pendant that had accompanied me for half my life in the previous life. I stretched out trembling fingers in amazement, and slowly picked up the jade pendant, the hand was still so cool , the touch is still so smooth and unchanged.

"Grandpa, why do you have this jade pendant?" I cleared my throat and said harshly.

"This is my family heirloom, why, boy, have you seen it?" the old man said with a smile.

Family heirloom?How could it be, the jade pendant in the previous life was the first "silver package" given to me by the owner of the garden when I first appeared on the stage. Since then, the jade pendant has been with me until I left Beijing and lived in poverty. In exchange for some silver taels.

"Boy, take it quickly. This jade pendant is given to you by the old man. Remember, don't lose it again." The old man suddenly looked serious and asked me carefully. nod.

"Go, I hope you don't live in vain this time." The old man waved his hand and drove me away, muttering something I couldn't understand.

I was holding the jade pendant in my arms, and my heart was full of surprise and joy. This jade pendant is of great significance to me. When the owner of the garden gave it to me, he just said lightly: "Take it well, don't lose it." .”

I didn't know until later that it was entrusted by my own parents. The owner of the garden was afraid that I would ask more questions, so he only rewarded me as a bag of silver. Later, when I was leaving Beijing, he told me earnestly that it was my father. Mother's legacy.

If it wasn't for my helplessness later on, I wouldn't have pawned that piece of jade pendant. I thought that there would always be a chance to redeem it in the future, but when the Japanese army invaded Nanjing City, I closed my eyes and opened them again, and returned to the old jade pendant. Time passed, but the jade pendant was lost.

When I woke up a few days ago, the jade pendant was nowhere to be seen, and my heart skipped a beat. I was afraid that my rebirth had changed the past, but it was not easy to ask the owner of the garden for it. I never thought I could get the jade pendant back today.

But in the previous life, the owner of the garden clearly said that it was a relic of my parents, why this time, the old man said it was his family heirloom?I was very puzzled, I walked a few steps and wanted to turn around to ask for clarification, but when I turned around, there was no trace of the old man behind me.

The King Kong Hall was still bustling with people. I stood on the path next to the hall, looking at the other side where there was no one there, and I felt very uneasy. What is the origin of that old man?Why have you seen through my soul and are still so elusive?