Friday, December 31, 2004
Xiaoyantian Village, Karamay, Xinjiang
The area where Xinglong Supermarket in Xiaoyantian Village is located is the most prosperous area within a radius of dozens of kilometers. A newly built temple is built in the northeast corner of Xinglong Supermarket, with red paint walls and glazed tiles, towering green trees in the courtyard, and bluestone paving. Although the small temple occupies a small area The area is not large, but walking into the courtyard from the streets outside will give people a sense of peace and tranquility. On the shrine in the main hall of the temple is a five-meter-tall fairy with graceful appearance. This fairy wears a lavender robe and holds a jade in her hand. Her legs are slightly bent like flying into the sky. Behind her skirt is a pair of boys and girls. With colorful auspicious clouds under his feet and a sword in his arms, he followed closely. I have to admire the modern industry's improvement in the craftsmanship of statues of gods and Buddhas. As for this fairy in purple, both her body and face are lifelike. Except for being several times larger, she is exactly the same as Li Qingru who is standing right in front of her at the moment. It was as if she had changed into purple clothes, climbed onto the altar, and stood there with a concave posture.
When the villagers saw Li Qingru himself, they all kowtowed to him, and Li Qingru burst into tears due to shame and annoyance, so the village chief ordered the closure of this new tourist attraction called "Ruguan Temple". At this moment, the only people left in the main hall of Ruguan Temple are village head Wei Guanglun, village party secretary Lu Liancai, Karamay City Customs Administration Director Shi Lingyu, Li Qingru’s parents Li Changlin and Zhang Guizhi, and Li Qingru, who seems lonely but always beautiful and elegant.
After being accepted as a direct disciple by Shuanghenmo, Li Qingru called her parents. However, because she needed to break through the small pass on the third level of the Qi Refining Stage within six months, she could not leave the mountain to go home to visit relatives. She had to report after successfully breaking through. Only after enlightenment can you go home to visit your parents.
In those days, even the Wangxue Sect only knew how great the Immortal Sect was through the advice of well-informed villagers. However, after learning that there were also the Mierwala Sect and the Moyi Sect above the Wangxue Sect. , Xihuowang Sect, Zheluo Sect and so many more powerful and mysterious immortal sects, the parents’ understanding has been greatly subverted, and they lament that their daughter is still not good enough. It looks great. However, being accepted as a disciple by the Wangxue Sect and mastering immortal magic to live a long life is something that poor people like them can't even dream of.
But that day, my precious daughter called and said that she had been accepted as a direct disciple by the two heads of the Tianshan Sect, and that she would be practicing at Miaogu She Peak from now on. The couple, who had been in the fruit stall business all their lives, didn't understand what was going on for a while, but after their daughter explained it, they suddenly realized that this "Tianshan Sect" was actually the real one who was superior to the Fire Sect. The abode of the immortals is an existence that ordinary mortals cannot find even if they want to find it, including the head of Wangxue Sect.
As soon as this kind of thing spread in the village, it immediately exploded. Several well-informed old people said to Li Changlin: "The leader of the Tianshan Sect is the mountain god Miao Gushe! She is a member of the Immortal Class. God! She is in charge of all the wind and rain in the Tianshan Mountains! If Ru Yatou had not been led by Immortal Ren Xiuhua before, who would believe that she could be accepted as a disciple by the mountain god!"
When Li Changlin and Zhang Guizhi were still confused, village chief Wei Guanglun and village party secretary Lu Liancai both came to visit. Over the years, because their precious daughter Li Qingru is the only one in the ten-mile-eight villages to practice with the true gods, the village cadres have been quite polite to Li Changlin and his wife. However, this time when they came to visit, they used a car to bring a trunk full of grain, oil, meat and eggs, and brought them to the house. During the lifting, they were determined not to ask for help from the couple, which made the couple feel flattered and at a loss.
Li Changlin invited the two of them to have lunch at home. During the meal, Wei Guanglun finally revealed his purpose. It turned out that after the news about Li Qingru being accepted as a disciple by the head of Tianshan Mountain spread, the leadership team of Xiaoyantian Village had a plan to build a living temple for Li Qingru. A living fairy would naturally attract people from all over the country. If the pilgrims who come to make wishes and offer incense can get Li Changlin and his wife to persuade the girl to perform magical tricks in front of foreign guests, the effect will be ten times better!
Li Changlin and his wife are both villagers who have never seen much of the world. They thought about it privately. It seems that building a shrine for their daughter would be a beautiful thing to honor their ancestors. Moreover, Wei Guanglun said: "After the shrine is built, it will be a beautiful thing." The money for incense is divided between the village and your family 28 cents. The village pays for the temple, so the village takes the big part and your family takes the small part."
Li Changlin nodded repeatedly: "It should, it should."
Thus, there was a scene where Li Qingru stood in the Ruguan Temple and broke down crying.
When she first returned to the village, whenever she saw her, men, women, and children would call her "Ru Guan Niang Niang" while walking on the street, kneel on their knees and pray devoutly, praying for all kinds of weird things. Some asked her to give her property, some asked her to let her children enter a good high school, and some asked her to give birth to a son. Li Qingru had never given birth to a son, so how could she give birth to a son to others? Her pretty face turned as red as a blush. The most embarrassing request came from a widow on Shuangqiao Street. She asked Li Qingru to give her a man, and there was an additional condition: preferably one who could fight every night. Li Qingru, a young girl who was not yet eighteen years old, did not understand the meaning of the additional conditions for a while, while Li's mother, Zhang Guizhi, pulled her daughter away with a stern face.
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Li Qingru looked around, her eyes sweeping over the faces of village chief Wei Guanglun, village party secretary Lu Liancai, Karamay City Customs Administration Bureau director Shi Lingyu and her parents. She stretched out her jade hand to wipe away the tears remaining in the corners of her eyes, and then She did the most rude and disrespectful thing she had ever done - walked away angrily.
Although she has been away from home for many years, her boudoir parents still clean it carefully and keep it as it was when she last left home. Li Qingru rushed home to her cozy cabin, ignoring her parents who were out of breath chasing her, and allowed them to apologize and beg outside the door.
Li Qingru, who was angry with her parents, locked herself in her room for more than ten hours in a row. Her mother was afraid that she would be hungry, so she put the food at the door. However, her daughter did not open the door to get it for more than ten hours. She was so anxious that she went with her husband again. He lay on the door and begged his daughter to open the door.
Li Qingru couldn't bear to torture her parents like this, so she had to open the door.
Li Changlin said: "Qingru, your mother and I didn't expect you to disagree. It's our parents' fault. When Wei Guanglun wanted to build the temple, he should have called you to ask for your opinion."
Zhang Guizhi said: "Yes, Qingru, now the temple has been built, and you have also seen that there are not only 1,000 but also 800 pilgrims every day, and the incense is more prosperous than the mosque in Karamay! You haven't come back in the past few months. , the village gives our family more than 3,000 yuan a month, which is 20% of the incense money. It’s more than 3,000 yuan, and your dad and I can’t make enough money by selling fruit for two months from dawn to dusk.”
Li Qingru had no other choice but to compromise. Ruguan Temple had become a local attraction, and many outsiders came here to see it, so it was impossible to demolish the temple, and it was even more impossible to ask her parents to give up their monthly incense money. It is possible that the so-called "Empress Ruguan" is enshrined in the temple, and as the biological parents of "Empress Ruguan", they are even less likely to abandon them outside.
At this time, there were crowd noises and the sound of a woman crying and knocking on the door. Li Changlin ran out and opened the door. It turned out that Xu Xiaocui, who was making steamed buns in the north of the village, was standing outside the door holding her two-year-old baby. The boy was covered in blood all over his head and body. She was accompanied by more than a dozen men and women from the same village. Li Changlin knew almost all of them, including the village party secretary Lu Liancai.
As soon as Xu Xiaocui entered the door, she knelt on the ground and cried: "Please save my second son, Mrs. Ruguan!"
Li Changlin and his wife hurriedly called out their daughter, but they were really not sure whether there was any way to treat their daughter with such a serious injury.
Xu Xiaocui's husband, Tian Benlong, drives away all year round. While she steams and sells steamed buns, she raises her two children, Tian Dazhuang and Tian Erzhuang, by herself. She didn't pay attention today. Two-year-old Tian Erzhuang and his friends ran to Old Liu Tou's yard next door. There was a well in Old Liu Tou's yard. A group of naughty children climbed up the edge of the stone well. The youngest Tian Er The strong one couldn't hold himself steady and fell headfirst into the well. In the depth of winter, the water at the bottom of the well froze into solid ice. When the men fished Tian Erzhuang out of the well, Tian Erzhuang had almost no breath, and there was a big hole in his head, and blood gushed out. , The body is also limp, and I don’t know how many bones have been injured.
Xu Xiaocui held her baby in her arms and cried loudly in Lao Liutou's yard. She howled so hard that everyone in the yard had no idea. Finally, someone suggested that the village party secretary Lu Liancai use his own car to take Tian Erzhuang to the hospital in Karamay. But some people said that Tian Erzhuang seemed to have run out of energy at this moment, and they didn't know if he could be saved if he was sent to the hospital. Suddenly Lu Liancai thought: "Isn't the living fairy in our village at her home! Why don't we go find her?" So the crowd arrived at Li Changlin's home.
Master Shuanghenmo was very fond of her as a young disciple. He personally collected countless pills from the elixir store in Gonglang Hall and gave them to Li Qingru. Among them, there were two seven-level pills to help Tian, and the rest from one to six levels. countless. Seeing that the child was so seriously injured, Li Qingru felt extremely distressed, and quickly took out a "Fourth Transformation Bone-Building Pill" and stuffed it into Tian Erzhuang's mouth.
The elixir entered Tian Erzhuang's mouth, and the warm current automatically spread to his limbs and bones. The broken muscles and bones quickly restored, and the torn flesh healed quickly. After a while, he opened his eyes and looked at everyone in confusion.
Thunderous cheers and shouts suddenly rang out in Li Qingru's courtyard. Xu Xiaocui cried even more heartbreakingly, and took the lead to kneel on the ground and kowtow crazily. Upon seeing this, everyone hurriedly knelt down and chanted something. The scene was so absurd that Li Qingru had the idea of regretting saving the child.
"Empress Ru Guan showed her magical power and brought a dying child back to life!"
In just a few days, Xiaoyantian Village became a well-known sacred village, and the number of pilgrims coming from outside the village increased dramatically. In order to prevent the door of Li Changlin's house from being razed to the ground by "devout" wish-makers, Li Changlin from the village police station A cordon was set up fifty meters outside Lin's house, and all pilgrims from out of town were directed to go to Ruguan Temple to offer incense and were not allowed to enter the village.
Li Qingru packed up her few clothes and personal belongings with an expressionless face and put them one by one into her Xumi bag.
Mother Zhang Guizhi asked awkwardly: "Qingru, when will you come back next time?"
Li Qingru said coldly: "I don't know, it depends on the situation."
Zhang Guizhi said: "Your father and I are afraid of delaying your cultivation... practice, so we don't dare to call you casually. Remember to call more often when you are not busy." After that, he handed several large lunch boxes that had been packed to Li Qingru. Pushed in front of me.
Li Qingru felt regretful and said, "Mom, after I leave, you will inevitably be pestered by them to ask for this or that. You and my dad will move quickly. We won't live here anymore."
Zhang Guizhi said: "But..."
Li Qingru said: "I know you are reluctant to part with the 20% dividend. You ask my dad to go to Village Chief Wei tomorrow. Don't tell him that he is moving. Sign a permanent contract with him first and tell him the details of the dividend of Ruguan Temple. Write everything down clearly, and attach the bank card number to the contract, and ask him to put the money on the card every month, and you will move quickly after this happens for two or three months."
Zhang Guizhi said in surprise: "Ah! This is a good idea! I'll tell your dad right now!"
Looking at her mother's back as she turned away, she still looked gentle and graceful, but the years had severely damaged her. Didn't her beautiful body just follow her mother? Li Qingru sighed, lowered her head, folded the last long dress neatly, and put it into the Xumi bag.
