Long Duoyun glanced at the doctor, held the silver hairpin tightly in one hand, held the child in the other, walked there, and stood behind the row of people. It took a while before it was her turn to register. She was a bit impatient, so she put the silver hairpin into the window and knocked on the window edge. Inside the window was a woman on duty, asking: "What are you doing with the hairpin?" Registration only requires money, no hairpin required.
Long Duoyun couldn't speak and kept making gestures. The woman understood: I don't understand mute. Anyway, registration requires money. If you don't have money, just walk away and don't affect the people behind you to register.
Long Duoyun refused to go away, still shaking the hairpin in front of the registration window. The woman was anxious and said to the people behind her: Come here if you register.
In this way, the person behind was polite and put money into the window from the side, paid the money, received the prescription, and left; but was rude and yelled at the mute blocking the window: "Go away if you don't register." , If people don’t want your hairpin, why are you relying on it?
When Long Duoyun saw that the woman in the window ignored her, he was very angry and beat the registration window loudly. The woman ran out of the duty room and shouted at her: Get out of here, who wants your smelly hairpin?
Seeing the long line of people standing in line grinning and scolding her, Long Duoyun became even more angry. She raised her neck, opened her mouth, threw in the hairpin, and swallowed it down.
Someone looked at her helplessly, and after a long time they shouted: The mute committed suicide, the mute committed suicide. Long Duoyun led the child out of the hospital gate. Some people followed a few steps to watch the excitement and then returned, but no one proposed to provide medical rescue to this mute who was risking his life.
Four days later, people found the body of a woman outside the Lotus Temple on the outskirts of the city. When He Hao came to claim it, he burst into tears and howled because it was his mute wife who died. His mute child has been rescued by monks in the temple. As he was mourning, the mute child was receiving an intravenous drip in a hospital, and a kind-hearted monk was accompanying him.
The faithful men and women who had come out from the Lotus Temple to burn incense and worship Buddha came to watch. The corpse of the woman was in a very miserable state, with a black face and swollen skin. It was really sad. A mute man was crying loudly. The people present were heartbroken and accompanied him. Weeping.
A woman of the same age as the deceased was a compassionate lay practitioner. She kept chanting Amitabha, hoping that the deceased would be saved, while most others were whispering about the cause of the woman's death. Was it homicide? Or commit suicide? Outsiders have no idea. The same is true for lay people. Since people cannot be resurrected after death, it is better to allow the deceased to be transcended and let the soul of the deceased rest in peace.
But she thought that she did not have the ability to save the dead, so she thought of the abbot in the temple who was wearing cassocks. So, he returned to the temple and very piously found the abbot to explain his purpose. The abbot asked the layman to melt paper and burn incense in front of the incense burner. He worshiped Amitabha Buddha and other Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in the Main Hall, then sat cross-legged, slightly closed his eyelids with the thought of saving the deceased woman outside the temple, and quietly fell into meditation in the joy of Zen.
Suddenly he saw the city god approaching and said to him: "Monk, that woman cannot be saved. Her spirit body has been taken away by envoys. She has passed the Yin and Yang Realm. She may have been escorted to the city to die."
The abbot said: My Buddha is compassionate, why did Goushi take that poor woman away so quickly?
What the monk didn't know was that this woman had a male body in her previous life. Due to her many sins, she transformed into a female body in this life and was mute. After her past life, her spirit body was taken to the prison cell of a City God's Temple, and she had an encounter with the spirit body of a man named Du Xiong. What a good name for this man in this life. He was the husband of the mute deceased woman, and he was also He is a mute who has not yet completed his life in the human world. Today, he is the one crying outside the temple for the death of his wife. Monk, I advise you not to waste your time. The woman was angry at the doctor for not treating her son who had no money to pay for the medicine, so she committed suicide by wearing her hairpin as a sign of resistance. Such a self-inflicted crime has no chance of salvation.
The abbot opened his eyes and looked around, recalling what the City God said, as if in a dream.
The layman who was waiting quietly cupped his hands and said: Thank you, elder, for saving the soul of that poor woman.
Amitabha, the poor monk was very ashamed that the poor woman's spirit could not be saved. The abbot stood up and explained the cause and effect. The layman listened attentively and sighed to himself.
After all, He Hao was mute and was unable to bury his deceased wife, so the villagers arranged for his deceased wife's funeral arrangements together. I saw him alone and helpless again, staying at home and always staring blankly at the urn of his deceased wife. Where did his early vitality go? A dull and embarrassed look. And it made the room dirty and smelled bad.
After his wife left, it felt like the sky was falling. He had no ideas anymore. He didn’t even provide for three meals a day. If he was hungry, he would run to the village house in the south and stop eating whenever he saw someone. Make gestures until the other person understands what he means and gives him a meal. Otherwise, he would stand in front of other people's homes, as if to put pressure on them.
A mute's demands for just a little food were not high, and most people in the village satisfied him. But he's not like other beggars who just hand over an empty bowl and fill it with rice or something. He is different, always empty-handed, and you must prepare a bowl for him. Some people think he is dirty, so you can give him food, but you are reluctant to give him a bowl. When you smell his smell, you frown, and He no longer intends to take back the bowl he has eaten from. It is said that this family has begged for food and also begged for a bowl. After eating, the bowl should still be there. After eating, he will go to another family to beg for food. There is no need. If someone has prepared a bowl, all you have to do is pass the empty bowl in your hand. But he had already thrown away the empty bowl he had eaten in, and when it was time to eat, he stood in front of someone else's door empty-handed.
As time passed, the villagers came to hate him, and after some discussion, he was sent to the town welfare home. The welfare home refused to take him at first, saying that most of the homes in the welfare home were orphans and disabled elderly people, with few young and middle-aged people, let alone lazy people. Although He Hao is mute, he can definitely do things to support himself.
Another reason why the orphanage refused to accept him was that he was notoriously dirty. After repeated efforts by town and village cadres, the welfare home finally reluctantly accepted him. Before sending him away, the villagers caught him and put him in a large water tank and gave him a clean bath like a pig. The water in the tank turned black.
He Hao put on a set of clothes that were not old but new. This was a very suitable set chosen from the donated clothes received by the orphanage. The director of the welfare home, Guan Xinmin, came to him specifically for a discussion. This was a routine, and every person who came in had to have a discussion. As for He Hao, he was mute. Guan Xinmin didn't understand mute language, so he hired a mute language teacher from the city's deaf-mute school. He could accurately introduce ordinary people's words to deaf-mute people through mute language, and he could also teach deaf-mute people Human sign language is accurately introduced to ordinary people, and the teacher who teaches mute language becomes a medium or translator for mutual communication between deaf-mute people and ordinary people.
