Lucky Star Gao Zhao

Chapter 77

There is a Guanyin Temple in the county. According to legend, the birthday of Guanyin Bodhisattva is February [-], the day of enlightenment is June [-], and the day of becoming a monk is September [-]. There are temple fairs on these three dates every year. Lively, people around rushed to the county seat.

Temple fairs originated around temples, so they are called "temples". Small merchants set up various stalls outside temples to make money when they saw many people burning incense and worshiping Buddha. This gradually became a regular activity, so children like to participate in temple fairs the most. , there are all kinds of juggling, all kinds of food, very lively.

Before dawn, those who burn incense and make wishes will come. Those who cannot enter the temple will kneel at the temple gate and roadside to pray or make wishes to Goddess Guanyin, bowing three times and knocking down nine times to show their sincerity.There are those who come to fulfill their vows, there are good men and women who come to pray for protection with their hearts in mind, and there are also young women who are begging for a child.

When we arrived at the temple fair, there was an endless stream of people coming to participate in the temple fair. Adults and children were all smiling, and it was very lively.

Gao Zhao and Jiang Hupo come here every year, nothing unusual, Jia Xibei looks around with excitement, Wu Yingchun and Qian Yulan are generous, these people are close to each other, and the maids behind are also closely following I'm afraid that too many people will get separated.

Every year at the temple fair, the Wu family will take the initiative to let all their children come to the temple fair to maintain order. The county captain Qian County also arranges manpower for every temple fair, and the Wu family volunteers to help, so there are almost no children abducted at the temple fair in Wucheng County. , so the Wu family has a good reputation among the neighbors in the village. This time, Auntie Wu brought Wu Yingchun back for this purpose. The Wu family went to Beijing this year. It is not good for the whole family to come back. Wu Yingchun wanted to come and play, so he came back.

This year, Wan's family occupied a large piece of land, built a big shed, and invited a juggling troupe from other places to perform. It was Mrs. Wan who paid for it. The pregnant maid in her family will give birth in September, and today's stick of incense is also Wan's. The mother-in-law burned it early in the morning, and this time she is considered a big hand. In previous years, the first stick of incense was almost made by the county magistrate Zhang. For this reason, the mother-in-law Wan specially visited the county magistrate Zhang, and gave a gift and said that she wanted to burn it this year. Daoxiang, County Magistrate Zhang knew that she was eager to embrace her grandson, so he let her go. In the future, all Wan families in the county will not back down.

There were a lot of people around the shed, and they couldn't squeeze out at all, only hearing the cheers.The adults held on tight to those naughty self-made sons, and some put their children on their shoulders to watch the performance.

There are also various small food stalls and various small commodities. The women in the surrounding villages sell their homemade needlework for sale, and the shopkeepers also carry burdens to join in the fun. There are so many beautiful things in sight, which attracts many little ladies from the village who came to watch the temple fair to exclaim incessantly. .

Because they were not hungry yet, Gao Zhao and the others went to the stalls one by one.

These things are all good for Jiang Amber's country lady, but they are novelties for Jia Xibei. She picked up the ones that were fun, and picked a silk flower for Jiang Amber to plug in. She just paid in silver, without asking the price, and the nearby merchants stretched out their hands to beckon her to have a look.

Gao Zhao is stealing music, what a big fat sheep, easy to slaughter!
As far as Gao Zhao is concerned, she just likes to go shopping. She has nothing to buy. Compared with modern small commodities, this is nothing. Instead, she lingers on the food stalls, and today she is here to watch slowly.

At the temple fair, young men gathered at the sideshow, young ladies looked around at the stalls selling things, and adults followed their children, so Gao Cui said that the temple fair was a children's festival.

Jia Xibei went shopping with Jiang Amber, Gao Zhao was wearing men's clothes, Jia Xibei was not good at gesturing on her head, and she was not familiar with Qian Yulan and Wu Yingchun, Jiang Amber looked like a baby-faced little sister , and it was Cousin Gao Zhao again, so she pulled Jiang Amber to make gestures all the way, and Xiaocai paid all the way.

Gao Zhao looked around as they went, she looked around wherever they stopped, and when she saw Wu Yingchun looking back, she also looked back, it was an old woman and a child begging for money.

Seeing Wu Yingchun staring at him, Gao Zhao also paid attention. The child was about four or five years old, sitting on the ground, with his calf exposed, and the wound on his leg was pus-filled. The child's face was sallow. No more, leaving behind a grandson who went up the mountain to cut firewood and fell down and injured his leg. He has no money for medical treatment.

Those who passed by saw the pity and gave copper coins, and some gave loose silver.

Gao Zhao remembered that some stolen children were injured and deliberately begged for money. Seeing that Gao Zhao was also looking at the grandparents, Wu Yingchun whispered, "Sister Zhao, this grandma is weird. I saw it in Beijing last month. I returned the silver, it has been a month, why is my grandson's leg still not healed, but it's getting worse?"

At this time, the old woman got up and walked outside after saying something to the stall vendor next to her. Gao Zhao noticed a man squatting near the child.

Gao Zhao pulled Wu Yingchun down, and then said to Jia Xibei and the others: "Sister Jia, you just hang around here, don't go far away, I'll ask Sister Wu to accompany me for convenience."

Then asked Qian Yulan to follow them, don't let them run around, Xianglan wanted to follow the master, but Gao Zhao refused, saying that she would not be afraid of Sister Wu.

Gao Zhao and Wu Yingchun followed the old woman, and saw that the old woman came to a food stall, ordered a bowl of wontons, and after a while, a man sat next to her, said something to the old woman and left.

Wu Yingchun and Gao Zhao looked at each other, and they knew in their hearts that they were in the same group, and that child was definitely not her grandson.

The two of them didn't need to communicate, they just followed the man. Wu Yingchun saw a child from the Wu family, called him to explain in a low voice, and the child followed the woman.

The man walked cautiously and looked behind, Wu Yingchun held Gao Zhao's hand and looked around with a smile, like a pair of siblings coming out to play, Gao Zhao also saw that the windmill seller bought one and played with it in his hand .

The two of them followed the man out of the temple fair, turned around and arrived at a private house, not far from the temple fair, and the number of people gradually decreased. Seeing the man turn around, Gao Zhao squatted down with his stomach in his arms and said, "Sister, my stomach hurts." , want to shit."

The man entered the house without paying attention.Wu Yingchun and Gao Zhao hid on the side of the room, squatting and pretending to defecate. Sometimes the child couldn't help but find a corner for convenience, and the family members would clean up after convenience. There was a small old wooden shovel, he picked it up and walked back to the squatting Gao Zhao, holding his nose and waiting.

Not long after, I saw two people coming out of the house, one carrying the other on their backs, and seeing Gao Zhao and the others, the empty-handed man pinched his nose, but Gao Zhao thought it wasn't true, there was no smell at all, why pinch his nose?
When the people walked away, Gao Zhao got up quickly, Wu Yingchun put the wooden shovel at the door of the house, and the two hurriedly followed. Those people did not go to the temple fair, but went in from an alley instead.

(End of this chapter)