Dad, stop talking. If you want me to divorce Mingfang, I might as well go to Yuantong Temple and become a monk. Xinmin turned his body and did not look at the flowers and wealth, but expressed his attitude when he spoke. I like Mingfang.
Then let’s not talk about it. Huacai took a few more puffs on the cigarette, and then he threw the cigarette butt on the ground, stomping on it with his feet, and rubbed it out, smelling a little angry at the cigarette butt. Huacai had no choice but to accept Jin Mingfang as his daughter-in-law. Although she was unhappy inside, she still had to help with the things she needed to do.
A few days later, he found a few people to weave a dozen bird nests using a mixture of strips and twigs. He showed them to Xing Hexiu and Jin Mingfang. They were praised by his wife and his daughter-in-law didn't say anything, but just smiled. .
After that, he asked Hua Xinmin to take a few people who could weave to the mountains and forests, hang the bird nests on high tree branches, and put millet, sesame and corn in each bird nest. Kind of fine food.
Half a year later, Jin Mingfang's belly became round again, which meant that she was pregnant. After the pregnancy, she gave birth to a white and fat baby boy. The Hua family was very happy, fearing that he would be like the previous two baby boys. Unable to feed him, he named the baby boy Changsheng.
The constant noise and crying every night made her forget about reciting the Buddha's name, let alone repenting to the dead souls of chickens and birds. The same goes for the mother-in-law. The two of them worked around Chang Sheng day and night, sometimes carrying urine and feces, sometimes washing pieces of cloth, sometimes stepping on the cradle, sometimes holding the baby and spinning around.
After the full moon, Chang Sheng died and cried. Their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law also forgot about reciting the Buddha's name. They only occasionally burned some incense and inserted it in the incense burner. Sometimes the incense sticks were not inserted firmly and fell into the incense burner without straightening them up. They just put their thoughts aside. In secular matters.
In particular, Jin Mingfang started to abstain from eating meat for a period of time. When she was in confinement, she took the initiative to eat chicken, pork bladder, crucian carp and other milk-producing foods, so she started eating meat again.
My mother-in-law said, don’t eat this after you are one month old. Master Zhuowu said, you have done bad things and you need to stop eating meat and eat vegetarian food.
But after the full moon, Jin Mingfang felt that there was nothing wrong, so she continued to eat meat. Her mother-in-law reminds her again, should she quit? She said that if I quit eating meat, would I still be able to drink milk if I live forever? If you want me to give up eating meat, just ask Changsheng to give up eating milk!
After that, the mother-in-law never mentioned asking her daughter-in-law to quit eating meat, and the daughter-in-law had no qualms about it. She even started eating eggs. Every time she made noodles or something, she or the mother-in-law would crack one or two eggs into the pot.
Soon, something happened. There was an electric fire at Huacai's house, which burned the doors, windows, and roof to a crisp. The smell was really choking. The damage was not too great, but some furniture worth about two thousand yuan was turned into scrap.
Huacai was a little annoyed. He suddenly remembered that his family worshiped Guanyin Bodhisattva and often burned incense and chanted Buddha's name. Why didn't he bless him at all? So he asked his wife Xing Hexiu to take the statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva back to Yuantong Temple. Xing Hexiu didn't quite understand, so he went to Master Wu to ask what the reason was. Master Huiwu sighed and said, although your family worshiped Guanshiyin Bodhisattva, you were very respectful in chanting Buddha's name and burning incense at first, but then you became slack. Not only was it slack, but it was also very disrespectful to the Bodhisattva.
How disrespectful? Xing Hexiu thought this was a bit unfair.
Of course it's disrespectful. I won't say anything about your daughter-in-law being a vegetarian. Later, you shouldn't do cruel things like killing chickens and ducks almost every day in front of the Bodhisattva. That's what the Bodhisattva is most jealous of. The Bodhisattva is extremely compassionate. , have mercy on all living beings, and save all living beings, but you want to kill all living beings, how can a Bodhisattva take care of your family's affairs? The Bodhisattva only saves sentient beings who are destined to be saved. For those of you who are stubborn and difficult to tame, do not listen to advice, and continue to commit evil, the Bodhisattva cannot save you even if he wants to, so he has to stay away from you.
When Master Wu said this, he clasped his palms and recited Amitabha, and then continued with gestures. The fire in your home is caused by the wires being worn out and perforated for many years, resulting in poor contact. Don't be suspicious. Even if the Bodhisattva does not bless this matter, it will still happen. It has nothing to do with Bodhisattva.
Before Xing Hexiu left, she was still grateful for Master Enlightenment’s guidance. She said that after following Master's instructions, my daughter-in-law gave birth to a baby boy. Master Wu said, don’t thank me, thank you for the merit you have done, and you must keep doing it! Otherwise there will still be problems. Next time if you have a problem, don't come to me. If you come to me, I won't give you any advice. At that time, the poor monk will be unable to recover.
When Xing Hexiu went back that day, she told Jin Mingfang what Master Wu had said and asked her to continue to abstain from eating meat and vegetarian food. However, Jin Mingfang didn't believe it. She said that even a Bodhisattva in her home had an electric fire, which proved that the Bodhisattva could not bless her.
Xing Hexiu couldn't explain clearly to her, and when he used Master Wu's point of view, he always failed to explain it well. He kept talking and talking, but his wife didn't want to listen and wouldn't let her finish what she said. So Jin Mingfang came up with a trick, you If I give up eating meat and live forever without milk, and become skin and bones, can the Bodhisattva protect me from gaining weight? Can't bless you.
Didn't you seek out Master Wu's advice and perform meritorious deeds according to Master Wu's instructions to achieve immortality? The mother-in-law said she could not win over her daughter-in-law, so she used this fact to convince her.
I still don't quite believe it. Even if I hadn't found Master Wu originally, maybe I would still be able to give birth to a fat baby in the past year and a half. Jin Mingfang held her child and spoke proudly.
The mother-in-law felt that her daughter-in-law was like a person who crossed a river and burned a bridge. It was obviously because of Master Wu's guidance that she changed her bad luck of suffering from fetal strangulation and gave birth to an immortal. When she gave birth to longevity, she did not remember the benefits of Master Wu. Instead, she said that this had nothing to do with Wu Wu. It doesn't matter what the mage says, this kind of person is particularly abominable.
But when I saw her raising her grandson to be fat, I couldn't hate her anymore, but I still told her what Master Wu had said: You still have to insist on doing meritorious deeds, otherwise problems will arise. Where can Jin Mingfang listen? Judging from my feelings, there is nothing wrong with the child anyway, I take good care of him. You always say that there is something wrong with me for not doing meritorious deeds. Most of the women in the village gave birth to children without doing meritorious deeds, which is not a good thing. It seems to me that there was no problem in the first place, but you and the monk always brought it up. He never says anything auspicious, annoying.
Seeing that her daughter-in-law was full of complaints, the mother-in-law wanted to scold her: Which woman in the village has ever eaten so many hairy eggs and bird eggs? Which one has as many sins as you? But Xing Hexiu tolerated these words and only said, if you don't listen to this or that, you will suffer.
When Changsheng was almost half a year old, he looked very cute with a tiger-like head and a tiger-like brain. Jin Mingfang was also in a very happy mood, often humming songs. As soon as she started singing, she still had a voice as beautiful as a lark. After the villagers praised her, they said with emotion, "You have a singer's voice, which is really wasted." , if you go through training and further studies in a song and dance troupe, you might become a famous singer.
Hearing this, Jin Mingfang became sentimental. When she was in middle school, the county song and dance troupe once approached her and was about to recruit her to be a singer. However, during the audition, her voice became hoarse, so she naturally failed. After recovery, the number of actors recruited by the county song and dance troupe has been filled.
Jin Mingfang still had a chance to perform. When Jinshan Town held a year-end commendation meeting and arranged a cultural program to conduct a condolence performance, Jin Mingfang was asked as a soloist to face the town and village cadres, model workers and the villagers, open a loud and clear voice, and sing a few revolutionary songs The song was enough to satisfy my singing addiction.
She also won a second prize, and used part of the 500 yuan bonus to buy a white goose mechanical toy for her child, Changsheng, so that the child could play with it and learn to speak when he is more than one year old. When he was a child, he was taught to hum a poem written by the Tang Dynasty poet Luo Binwang when he was seven years old: "Goose, goose, goose, the song is singing to the sky..."
She tried to make up for her failure in learning cultural knowledge by doubling her son's achievements in learning cultural knowledge, so she used her brains to start educating and entertaining her children from now on and put her hope in them.
But she never expected that when she returned home with this white goose mechanical toy, she heard her mother-in-law crying. When she entered the house, she saw Chang Sheng's body lying on his back on a basket. He was dead and his face was black. , eyes fixed, not closed yet. How did Changsheng die?
Jin Mingfang flicked the white goose mechanical toy in her hand, immediately threw herself on her son's body, beat her head and cried bitterly, crying so hard that all the uncles and neighbors present could not help but shed tears along with her.
