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After eating the dumplings, the genius is bright, and the sound of firecrackers can still be heard from the village.

Cai Yazhi said to Zhang Taiping: "Shall we go to the temple on the mountain?"

"What are you going to do in the temple today?" Zhang Taiping was a little surprised.

"Fulfill your wish." Cai Yazhi said naturally.

"Oh? Have you ever made a wish in the temple?" Zhang Taiping asked, "What wish did you wish to restore?"

Cai Yazhi pursed her lips and said with a smile: "If you can't say it, it won't work if you say it."

Zhang Taiping didn't ask any more questions, and said: "Then let's go, but you can add another piece of clothing."

Cai Yazhi added another piece of clothing, but Zhang Taiping still felt that it was not enough. The temperature inside the mountain was very low in the morning, so she went into the room and took out her old-fashioned overcoat and wrapped it around her body again. It looked like a A zongzi.

There is a scenic spot on the east side. After walking for a while, there are countless temples, but the entrance is in Fengyukou Village, so you have to go out of Fengyukou Village before you can enter.Zhang Taiping took out his motorcycle and took Cai Yazhi away, no one called, just the two of them, only the lion followed.

After entering the scenic spot, I found that it was not just Cai Yazhi who had the same idea. There were also many people visiting the temple on the first day of the new year, not to mention the hustle and bustle.Many people have already started to go down the mountain. They started up the mountain from their homes just after the beginning of the new year at twelve o'clock, which shows their pious heart.

It was difficult for Cai Yazhi to walk, the two of them walked very slowly, some places where the mountain roads were not good, Zhang Taiping simply hugged her by the waist, and greeted countless eyes from the people who were traveling with her, Cai Yazhi could only push her into Zhang Taiping's chest.Now that he picked her up, Zhang Taiping simply didn't put her down, just carried her up the mountain like this, anyway, this little weight didn't affect him much.

"Let me down." Cai Yazhi said softly, "Uphill."

Zhang Taiping shook his head and said: "It's okay, with your weight, I can walk like flying even if I hold two of you."

"It's embarrassing." Cai Yazhi said in a low voice, "I feel that other people look at me strangely."

Zhang Taiping walked on the mountain road as if walking on flat ground, not letting Cai Yazhi in his arms feel any shock, and said indifferently: "It's a matter of course for a husband to hug his wife, no matter what others think."

Right at the right moment, a middle-aged woman complained to her man: "Look how nice that young man is. He hugs his wife all the way up the mountain. Look at the dead ghost. You don't even want to pull me."

Zhang Taiping smiled and said to Cai Yazhi in his arms: "Did you hear that? They are envious of you."

Cai Yazhi wrapped her arms around his waist, pressed her face against his chest to feel the beating of his heart, and stopped talking.

The temperature inside the mountain is lower than the outside, and it is even colder in the morning. Standing high and looking down, all the trees are covered with a layer of frost. The north lacks fineness, and even the frost flowers all over the mountain give people a feeling of frost. A rough feeling.Frost was also condensed on the grass leaves on the ground, and a few pieces together looked like blooming white lotus flowers, which was really beautiful.

Cai Yazhi stretched out her warm hands to cover Zhang Taiping's cold cheeks, and said, looking at this rare beauty if she didn't wake up early, "It's so beautiful."

Although Zhang Taiping didn't feel the cold, he didn't reject her warmth, nodded and said, "It's really beautiful."

The two chatted and laughed while looking at the scenery, and it was not until Zhang Taiping put Cai Yazhi on the ground in front of the temple gate.

There are many people in the temple, but there is no noisy sound. The incense is extremely prosperous today, and the smell of incense with people's good wishes spreads out and lingers around the real temple.There are rows of people kneeling under the statue, praying for blessings or fulfilling their vows. They kowtow three times and worship nine times with great piety, and they still silently tell their thoughts or wishes.

Cai Yazhi walked up to the statue of the Jade Emperor and knelt down, muttering in her mouth, Zhang Taiping didn't deliberately listen to what she was saying, but just stood by and waited for her to finish prostrating her head and put some incense money in the merit box in front of the statue.

After worshiping the statue, Cai Yazhi stood up and said, "Let's go inside again."

"Is there any statue inside that needs to be visited?" Zhang Taiping asked.

"There's also the Empress Dowager." Cai Yazhi said.In fact, one of the purposes she came today was to fulfill her wish, and the other purpose was to pay homage to the Empress Songzi. As for what she was praying for, she could guess without asking.

Compared with the previous statues, the incense here is much less, because few people in the mountain village say they are infertile or have no children. Every family will have at least two children. Without this demand, few people come to worship. .

Among the gods, the god in charge of giving birth is said to be "Zhusheng Empress", also known as "Songzi Empress".The statue sits peacefully, with a solemn treasure face, holding a baby in its arms.

The woman begging for a son puts incense fruit offerings, holds incense and kneels down to pray, asking the "Zhusheng Empress" to give her a son.Then "struggle for a lottery" to get the "auspicious lottery", which means that the "Zhusheng Empress" is willing to give her a son, that is, she gets up and puts the small clothes prepared in advance on the baby in the arms of the "Zhusheng Empress", and then bye.It is said that everything is effective, but only the prayer knows whether it is effective or not.After having a son, he will come to pay his respects and offer him oily rice, chicken and wine.This is what is commonly referred to as fulfilling a vow.

In some places, Guanyin Bodhisattva is believed to be the goddess who is responsible for the children of the world, so she is also called "Songzi Niangniang". Some women who have been barren for a long time after marriage often burn incense to Guanyin Bodhisattva to ask for children.However, there are different sayings from different places, and sometimes even the appearance and even the gender of the gods worshiped are very different.

Songzi Empress was introduced to China during the Three Kingdoms period, and now we see that most of the Songzi Empresses enshrined are women.But at that time, the Empress Songzi was still a mighty man.In the murals of the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, Gansu Province and the statues from the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Guanyin has a male body, with two beautiful mustaches on his lips.Before the Tang Dynasty in my country, the portraits of the Empress Sending a Child were all masculine, and the Indian Empress Sending a Child was also a male portrait.

But nowadays, most of the concubine empresses that people worship are women, so that they are worthy of the word "empress", right?

The two came empty-handed, naturally there were not so many tedious procedures, but Cai Yazhi knelt on the ground and closed her eyes devoutly to pray, while Zhang Taiping put incense money beside her.

Prayer to God is a psychological comfort. Believe it or not. The most important thing is a mentality problem. As long as you believe and be pious, you don’t care about these tedious processes. of the process.

It took Cai Yazhi a while to stand up and said, "Okay."

Zhang Taiping asked: "Do you want to pay homage to other statues?"

Cai Yazhi shook her head and said, "No more, let's go back."

"Okay!" Zhang Taiping responded and was ready to hug her up again.

Cai Yazhi hurriedly stopped her and said, "Don't stay here, can you hug me outside?"

Zhang Taiping didn't know if hugging his wife inside the temple was a blasphemy to God, but he didn't intend to embarrass Cai Yazhi, so he helped her out of the temple before picking her up again and heading down the mountain.

Halfway up the mountainside, Cai Yazhi suddenly remembered something and said, "Oh, I almost forgot, quickly fold a branch and bring it with me."

"Oh?" Zhang Taiping stopped and put her on the ground and asked, "What's so special about this?"

Cai Yazhi said: "Bring a piece of firewood back home, which means to attract wealth and treasure. You see, everyone who goes down the mountain brings a piece of firewood with them."

Zhang Taiping glanced back and forth, and sure enough, all the people on the mountain road were dragging a branch in their hands, and some even pulled a whole small tree instead of a branch, which shows how strong the desire to attract wealth and wealth is. .

Zhang Taiping smiled and prepared to pick up a branch from the ground.

Cai Yazhi said: "It doesn't work if you pick it up from the ground, you have to break it off the tree yourself."

Zhang Taiping understood the meaning after thinking about it for a while. The ones he picked up from the ground represented ill-gotten gains, while the ones he broke off from the trees represented the wealth earned through hard work. Please feel at ease.Then he broke off a thick and thin branch from a nearby tree.

Passed it to Cai Yazhi and said, "Hold it to you, and you will keep our family's money."

After speaking, he hugged Cai Yazhi and ran down the mountain.