Early spring in the world [farming]

The sky is gray and bright, and the Fuqiu Temple surrounded by mountains is full of people.In the main hall, Su Beigu's figure swayed slightly, and the people beside her stretched out their hands to support her before she barely regained her footing.

The female Taoist next to him asked, "What's wrong with Bei Gu, but he's not feeling well?"

Su Bei said, "Master, I'm fine."

"Your body is already weak and you have been cultivating for the past few days. Today, you will follow me to offer incense and praise, and proclaim the imperial edict until now. You have been tired for the past four hours. Go and rest first!"

Su Beigu was indeed very tired, and he practiced selflessly these few days, forgetting that his body was different from his previous life, so he couldn't stand her torment.For the sake of his own life, he didn't try to be brave, and planned to go back to Kundao's courtyard to rest.

When passing Yuanchen Hall, Su Beigu saw three or two figures inside, kneeling piously on the futon, worshiping Doumu Yuanjun in the middle and the sixty Yuanchen gods surrounding him, and offering incense.

Many people know about the Lantern Festival, and Fuqiu Temple has a ritual ceremony, so they rushed over last night. Those with power and wealth find a room to rest in the back yard. Those without money and power spend the night at the foot of the mountain or wait outside for a long time. When you arrive at the house, grab the first stick of incense.

Some people will go to the Taoist temple to offer incense before dawn if they fail to catch up with the Rituals of the Ritual.The scientific ceremony is not over yet, so the main hall is the most crowded place. The Yuanchen Hall is located in the northwest corner of Fuqiu Temple. Also normal.

During the time Su Beigu stopped for a while, a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl in the hall turned her head after burning incense, and met her face to face.The first thing she saw was the pair of Qiushui cut eyes filled with tears, but before she could see clearly, the other party hurried away like a frightened rabbit.

Su Beigu didn't care, but she didn't expect that when she woke up after resting for an hour, she would see this girl again under the wishing tree outside the watch.

At this time, the sky was bright, and the Taoist temple was full of stalls. Many vendors took advantage of the crowds of the Taoist temple during the Lantern Festival, and started business here. Some sold incense, some sold wishing wooden signs, and some sold paper kites.

The group of pilgrims who went up the mountain earlier had already gone down the mountain, but after dawn, many pilgrims came to offer incense one after another. Without exception, they all went straight to the temple, and there were only a few people staying outside the Taoist temple.

Su Bei looked at the big banyan tree that didn't undertake the work of fulfilling wishes. It was covered with various wishing cards. Red and green ribbons fluttered in the wind, entangled with the aerial roots, and decorated it.

At this time, from the corner of Su Bei's eyes, he caught a glimpse of a girl who had been trying to throw the wishing card onto the banyan tree, but failed several times, and the wishing card mercilessly passed through the branches and fell to the ground.

She turned her head and saw that the girl was not discouraged, she stubbornly picked up the wishing card, and insisted on throwing it at the branch closest to her.

Su Bei looked at it for a while, and although he didn't want to be nosy, he still couldn't help reminding: "The lower the branch, the longer it extends outward, and the fewer branches and leaves are near the trunk, which means it can be hooked to prevent it from falling. Fewer obstacles to fall. You either throw it up, or hang out."

The girl glanced at her and said: "This tree will be cleaned once a month, and part of the wishing cards on it will be taken off, so as not to break the branches. If I throw it too high, won't it be difficult for others to clean it?"

Su Beigu felt strange: "The reason why other people put up wishing cards here is to hope that their wishes can reach heaven and be fulfilled. If they are taken down, their wishes may not come true, so no one wants their wishing cards to be cleaned up. .You want to make a wish, but you don't care whether the wish can be fulfilled. Isn't this a contradiction?"

"How can this be considered a contradiction? My wish has already been made. Whether it can be fulfilled depends on God. If God fulfilled my wish, it would have been fulfilled long ago. I won't wait a month later. Besides, the wish belongs to the wish, It’s common sense not to cause trouble for others, you are a Taoist priest here, why don’t you even understand this?”

Su Beigu was speechless, she never thought that she would be taught to be a man by a little girl.

At this moment, she forgot that she was just a little girl of thirteen or fourteen years old.

Tan Ruyi was questioned by a little Taoist priest who looked younger than herself, was also weak, and looked like he was going to see Lord Hades at any time. She felt a little unhappy, but she still spoke out her thoughts truthfully.

I thought that the little Taoist priest would wave his sleeves and leave angrily, just like those children in the village who got angry at her, scolded her, made faces, and then walked away without looking back, but no. Thinking of the little Taoist priest who was slightly dazed, not only did he not put on a face and leave, but instead showed her a gentle smile.

"You're right." The little Taoist nodded, and then asked her again, "May I take the liberty to ask, what is your wish?"

Tan Ruyi thought to herself, this little Taoist priest has a really good temper.It's just that I have bad luck on my body, this sickly little Taoist priest has been with me for a long time, I don't know if he will die because of this bad luck.

Tan Ruyi didn't want to stay for a long time, so she didn't know that the little Taoist stretched out his hand to her: "It's okay if you don't want to say it, I'll throw it for you, I'm sure you can hang it up."

Tan Ruyi didn't quite believe her, but perhaps no peer of her age had ever been so kind to her, she lost her sense of control for a moment, and handed over the wishing card in a daze.

The little Taoist said: "No matter what wish you wish, I hope your wish will come true!"

After finishing speaking, she tossed it lightly on the branch.The wishing card was thrown into the air, fell down immediately, and hung on the thick branch without any mistakes. The branch originally had several branches, one of which was obviously broken due to hanging too many wishing cards. A small piece remains.The little Taoist threw it like this, and the wishing card just hung on that small section. Unless it was taken off by people, it is unlikely to fall down even in the wind and rain.

Tan Ruyi pursed her lips, not knowing what to say.

This little Taoist is very lucky, right? !

The little Taoist also seemed very satisfied with her masterpiece, she smiled slightly, and said, "You should have come here very early? I saw you in Yuanchen Hall at the beginning of Mao Shi."

Tan Ruyi thought the little Taoist priest looked familiar at first, but she didn't remember it for a while. After the little Taoist priest mentioned it, she remembered that the figure who had a quick glimpse in Yuanchen Hall before dawn was this little Taoist priest!

"I came here last night." Tan Ruyi said.

She didn't intend to talk too much to the little Taoist priest, after all, in the village, no one of her age could talk to her more than three sentences.

She is also used to being alone, and suddenly someone had talked to her for so long and even hung up the wishing card with her. While she was uncomfortable, she also longed for the time to pass more slowly.

"Aren't you sleepy?" the little Taoist asked.

"Sleepy." Tan Ruyi replied subconsciously, then thought of something and shook her head quickly, "Not sleepy."

The little Taoist said: "There is a vacant room in the backyard, you can go and have a rest."

No one has expressed kindness to himself like the little Taoist. Tan Ruyi took a small step back at a loss and said, "No, father and mother are still praying for Ah Weng inside, I can't rest alone."

The little Taoist suddenly realized: "So the wish you made here is also related to you, Aunt."

Tan Ruyi's rationality told her that she shouldn't talk so much to this little Taoist priest, but emotionally she was extremely reluctant to let go of this little Taoist priest who was willing to talk so much to herself.

Without worrying too much, she blurted out: "I, Aunt, had a stroke. He couldn't get up on the bed, and he couldn't speak clearly. The doctor said that his left hand might be useless in the future... Our family is a coffin maker and carpenter. Ah Weng was the head of the family, and after his hands could no longer do carpentry, the burden fell on my father."

She didn't dare to tell the truth, fearing that after knowing that her family was making coffins, the little Taoist priest would not want to stay with her any longer.

The little Taoist murmured: "Stroke, it's okay in the initial stage, but it's hard to move, I'm afraid it won't be cured."

I don't know what he thought of, the little Taoist sighed again, looked at his hands, and said in a daze, "Even if it can be cured, what can I do with my crippled body now?"

When Tan Ruyi heard her first sentence, her eyes lit up, but when she heard the second half, the light in her eyes instantly went out:

That's right, with the young Taoist's appearance of dying young, it's really hard to say who can live longer, she or Ah Weng, so how can I place my hopes on her?

The little Taoist's eyes suddenly fell on her hands, and said: "Don't be too sad, as long as you, Aunt, are determined and keep exercising, the apoplexy will not be irreversible. Also, your hands must be often used as carpenters Yes, since you Aunt can't share the pressure for your father, you can do it!"

Tan Ruyi didn't expect the little Taoist to say that, she was startled, and said: "But I'm a girl, and girls can't inherit all the family skills."

The little Taoist frowned, and didn't talk about "women can also do carpentry", but asked: "Then what kind of crafts have you learned?"

"Painting the coffin..." Tan Ruyi said, almost biting her own tongue. When she realized what she said, it was too late to take it back.

Tan Ruyi felt that her heart was about to stop beating because of nervousness. She held her breath and looked at the little Taoist nervously.Unexpectedly, the little Taoist didn't care at all, but instead asked with great interest: "Painting the coffin is painting on the coffin?"

Tan Ruyi nodded hesitantly: "Sometimes I would carve patterns on it."

The little Taoist said: "That must require a deep artistic foundation to do it, you are very good!"

Tan Ruyi's eyes were fixed on the little Taoist priest, trying to see the flaws of her lying on her face, but the little Taoist priest was still pale and bloodless, but his face was full of spring breeze, warm and radiant. The smile was reflected in Tan Ruyi's heart.

The surface of Gujing's waveless pool is like a dragonfly passing by, evoking a circle of shallow microwaves.

"But, but I'm painting on the coffin. Our family has been making coffins for generations." Tan Ruyi emphasized.

The little Taoist said optimistically: "Coffins are the same as houses, they are for people to live in, so there is no difference between making a coffin and building a house, isn't it?"

Tan Ruyi was shocked, but she couldn't help muttering: "There is still a difference, the house is for the living, and the coffin is for the dead."

The little Taoist laughed out loud, his voice was crisp and sweet, but it also made her temperament more relaxed and cheerful, indifferent and free and easy.

"You are right. The living want to live comfortably, and the dead also want to lie down decently. Therefore, whether it is a craftsman who builds a house for the living or a carpenter who builds a coffin for the dead, there is actually no difference in essence, and there is no distinction between high and low. In the same way, if a man can pick up a hammer to do carpentry, a woman can also pick up a Dinglan scale to measure the size. It is the survival of the fittest, so why stick to those rules?"

These words were spoken lightly, but they were deafeningly deafening. Tan Ruyi couldn't recover for a long time, and after a while, she whispered: "But dealing with dead people is easy to get bad luck, and I am a woman, and it is easier Are you not afraid of being stained with unclean things?"

This kind of thinking is the mainstream, and the little Taoist priest didn't bother to correct them one by one. He just said: "I am a Taoist priest, and there is nothing I am afraid of in this world—" Her words stopped abruptly, and after a while, she added, "Ahem, there is nothing. I am afraid of evil spirits."

Tan Ruyi only felt that a few fish had jumped into the "water pool" that was swept by the dragonfly just now, and were swimming in it.

She said: "You are a Taoist priest and you are not afraid of me, but others are afraid of you."

"That's their ignorance, why should you punish yourself for their ignorance?"

Tan Ruyi didn't say a word, the little Taoist probably knew that what she said was unfounded, she looked around, and suddenly saw something, her eyes lit up, she walked up to a small vendor in three steps at a time, and said: "This Ding Lan How do you sell the ruler?"

"This is a magic weapon—" the small vendor just looked up and saw a little Taoist priest standing in front of his stall. He was dressed as a Taoist priest with a high status, and immediately swallowed back the set of words to deceive pilgrims, and said with a smile, "This is the Ding Lan ruler, and the scales on it are very accurate..."

The little Taoist smiled: "Your dinglan ruler is made of new wood, it is easy to deform, and it costs twenty coins."

The peddler opened his mouth, but he didn't have the courage to open his mouth, and said: "Since the Taoist priest wants it, then I will give the Taoist priest a face and sell it for twenty yuan!"

The little Taoist bought the Dinglan ruler, and read a sentence to it that no one else could understand, which seemed to be a spell.Her fingertips slid across it, and the small vendor who was close seemed to see a light flashing along with her fingertips, but for a moment, he didn't see it clearly, and when he blinked, there was no light ? !

"Here." The little Taoist gave the Ding Lan ruler to Tan Ruyi, "I cast a spell, and with it to accompany you, you don't have to be afraid of bad luck."

The little Taoist's complexion was much worse than before, but Tan Ruyi was so focused on the Ding Lan ruler that she didn't notice it.

Of course, she felt that the "casting of spells" was all done by the little Taoist priest to coax her, but the other party was willing to coax her just to make her feel at ease. How could she live up to this intention?

"thanks……"

The little Taoist left.

Tan Ruyi was still standing under the banyan tree blankly. There are too many people and things in her heart today, she needs to sort out and digest them slowly, even...

Suddenly, a small vendor popped up nearby: "Little lady, is this Dinglan ruler for sale?"

Tan Ruyi said vigilantly, "Not for sale."

"The Taoist priest just bought it from me for twenty coins. I will buy it from you for fifty coins. You will definitely not lose money!"

Tan Ruyi is not stupid: "I won't sell a hundred coins."

The small vendor persevered and raised the price to [-] Wen, Tan Ruyi was determined and refused to let go, even afraid that he would come to snatch it, so she ran away holding Ding Lanrui.

Seeing this, the peddler next to him smiled and said, "I have a Dinglan ruler here, do you want it? I'll sell it to you for two hundred coins."

The peddler gave him a bad mouthful: "The Ding Lan ruler just now is a magic weapon that has been casted and consecrated by a real person. Why is your ordinary Ding Lan ruler worth that price!"

Tan Ruyi, who hadn't run far, was taken aback for a moment, she turned her head to look at the small vendor who was still arguing with others, and then chased in the direction the little Taoist priest left, but the little Taoist priest had long since disappeared from the Taoist temple.

She stopped a passing female Taoist priest to inquire, and the female Taoist priest took a deep look at her, her eyes fell on the Ding Lan ruler, and then said: "She gave you the magic weapon without leaving a name, which means that she just wants to accumulate merit. You don't need to thank her, and you don't need to worry about it, she still has to practice, please don't disturb her."

There were people coming and going in Fuqiu Temple, and cigarettes were curling up. Tan Ruyi stood in it, looking around in a daze.

A woman in scattered Taoist uniform hurried past behind Tan Ruyi, she muttered as she walked, "Why is little uncle sick, didn't he feel well the past two days?"

"Maybe I'm tired today, don't worry, she gets sick every now and then, and she'll be fine after a period of meditation."

Tan Ruyi turned her head to look, and before she could see the appearance of the scattered Taoist priest passing by, her parents appeared in front of her.Zhong asked her, "Ruyi, where have you been all this morning?"

Tan Guan saw the Ding Lan ruler in her hand and said, "Did you bring Ding Lan ruler out?"

Tan Ruyi subconsciously put Ding Lanchi behind her back and said, "This is a gift from someone else."

Tan Guan and Zhong Shi were not interested in the things others gave her, and said, "It's time to go home."

Tan Ruyi wanted to say something, but seeing her parents' exhausted expressions, she swallowed all the words back.

The author has something to say:

Well, here are the perspectives of three people.

The first half is from Daoist Su's perspective, the middle is from Sister Qin's perspective, and the last two sections are from Qingmei's perspective.

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