The two walked through the yard, entered the Buddhist hall, walked straight past the three statues in front, and stopped in front of the last one with the red cloth on its shoulders.
"This is Yuelao." Lu Rong said softly.
Shen Jize nodded: "Yes."
At this moment, in the eyes of the two of them, the lump of mud embryo wrapped in red cloth is no longer so ridiculous, and the rough facial features are not perfunctory, and it makes people awe-inspiring just looking at it.
There was only one futon on the ground, and Shen Jize dragged another one to the side. They looked at each other and knelt down on the futon following the steps of worshiping God with the rich man last time.
The Buddhist hall was very quiet, Lu Rong clasped his hands together and peeked beside him, just as Shen Jize was looking at him in the same posture.
"What are you going to do next?" Lu Rong asked softly.
Shen Jize looked at him blankly, and began to recall the steps in the TV series. As I was trying to remember, Master Hong's voice came from the door: "You have to be incensed."
The two turned their heads and saw Master Hong leaning against the door frame, holding a bowl in his left hand and chopsticks in his right, with a small bundle of red things under his arm.
He walked in, put the bowl on the altar, and took out the things under his armpits: "A pair of red candles, nine sticks of incense, implying a long time."
Shen Jize remembered, burning incense and lighting candles to worship gods on TV is a necessary procedure.
Master Hong waved the bundle of incense candles in front of his eyes: "Would you like it?"
"Yes." Shen Jize replied decisively.
After Shen Jize took the incense candle, Master Hong took out a lighter from his pocket: "Do you want it?"
"want."
How can it be ignited without a lighter? For sure.
Master Hong smiled in satisfaction, and as if juggling, he brought out a small basket from behind: "A stack of gold ingots, two red strings, thirty-six red flowers, and a piece of red silk, do you want it?"
"Here, are these all what Baiyue Lao needs?" Shen Jize looked at the basket and asked.
"Of course, sincerity is all you need. Yuelao was incensed by the two of you, and bought a bottle of Moutai with gold ingots, served with half a catty of stewed pork, and drank a little wine. Do you think he is not happy?"
Lu Rong imagined the scene and said affirmatively, "Happy."
"That's right, when the old man was happy, he tied the little red strings for the two of you and didn't tie a tight knot? That's because he couldn't break it even if he wanted to." Master Hong said.
Shen Jize turned his head to look at Lu Rong, saw his eyes brightened, and said, "Then I want everything in this basket."
"It's thirty-five in total, thirty-five yuan for you, plus this basket." Master Hong readily stuffed the bamboo basket to Shen Jize, and spread his hands again.
Shen Jize took out the money in his trouser pocket, took out one and handed it to him.
Lu Rong didn't expect to ask for money, and didn't care if Yuelao had drunk or not, so he stretched out his hand to block it distressedly, but Master Hong quickly took it into his hand.
Master Hong held up the money to the light, and after seeing the watermark inside, he stuffed it into the pocket of his white coat with satisfaction, and said, "You two little benefactors, wait a moment, I'll get ready and come."
The two of them changed from children to little benefactors.
Master Hong turned around and left the Buddhist hall. Shen Jize put the basket on the ground and began to rummage through the contents, while Lu Rong squatted beside him to watch.
Shen Jize was amazed at the ingots and red flowers made of gold paper, Lu Rong was immersed in the thought that these things cost thirty yuan, and his expression was a little dazed.
How much sugar is that, it was taken away by Yuelao just like that...
A few minutes later, Master Hong came back, this time wearing a monk's robe over his white coat, which looked decent.
He handed Shen Jize the seventy yuan he had changed, walked to the two of them with a serious face, dragged a futon to sit down, and began to knock on the wooden fish in his hand.
As soon as the muttering of scriptures and the sound of wooden fish sounded, the atmosphere of this Buddhist hall suddenly became solemn, and the dilapidated became antique.
"Can we start?" Shen Jize asked.
Master Hong lowered his eyes and nodded slightly.
Shen Jize lit the red candles and incense, and wanted to order those ingots and red flowers. Master Hong suddenly opened his eyes, threw away the wooden fish and snatched the basket away.
"Don't move these. I only charged for the incense candles. These are rented to you. You only need to extract the Buddha's breath inside. You don't need to burn them. Go and light the red candles and incense."
According to his instructions, Shen Jize put the red candles on the candlesticks on both sides of the statue, put the incense in the incense burner, and then knelt down again.
Master Hong closed his eyes and continued to knock on the wooden fish. The two children looked at each other and smiled with their mouths pursed, both excited and nervous.
"What should we do next?" Lu Rong mouthed Shen Jize.
Shen Jize looked to Master Hong for help, saw that he was concentrating on reciting scriptures, and thought to himself that this should be the same as the paper figurines he met that night, and he still remembered what the paper figurines said when they knelt down.
"Pray to heaven and earth." Shen Jize prostrated himself on the ground while saying.
Lu Rong also got down on the ground and said, "Bow to heaven and earth."
Master Hong's wooden fish chanting suddenly disappeared, and he slightly raised his eyelids to look at the two children lying on the ground, the corners of his eyes twitched, and he continued as if nothing had happened.
"Second obeisance to the high hall." Shen Jize continued to kowtow to the statue, and Lu Rong followed suit.
"Husband and wife pay their respects."
As soon as Shen Jize said these words, he felt that something was wrong, so he stood up and stared at Lu Rong in a daze.
Lu Rong didn't care so much, he called the husband and wife to worship each other, and kowtowed to the statue again with a solemn face.
Master Shen Jize saw that Hong was still knocking on the wooden fish, and did not raise any objections to this statement. It seemed that there was nothing wrong with this procedure. Besides, Lu Rong beside him had already finished praying and was looking at him eagerly, so although he was puzzled, he had no choice but to kowtow.
"Okay, okay, it's over, you can get up." Master Hong quickly got up, his eyes drifting away from the two of them.
"Master Hong, will my brother and I never be separated?" Lu Rong asked.
Master Hong rubbed his nose and hummed.
"Then I will love my brother forever?" Lu Rong asked worriedly.
"Ah... yes, you are... ah... never separate, just like other people's husbands and wives."
Lu Rong happily jumped on the spot and cheered, "Okay, my brother and I will never be separated."
Master Hong took out the gold ingots and red flowers from the basket, wrapped it around the hem of his monk's robe, and handed the empty basket to Lu Rong.
"The Buddha's breath of these gold ingots and red flowers has been absorbed, I will stay and continue to pour in the Buddha's breath, and you two take the basket away." He said.
Lu Rong took the basket with a smile all over his face, and he was very happy with the saying that they will never be separated.
Shen Jize knelt on the futon in a daze. He thought about the sentence that was the same as husband and wife, and then recalled the couple's salute that he blurted out. He felt that this procedure seemed a little different from what he thought.
Holding the hem of his monk's robe, Master Hong bowed three times to the old moon statue, muttering softly.
Lu Rong was close to him, and vaguely heard something strange, but he didn't take it seriously.
"Let's go, the ritual is done, you can go out." Master Hong took off the monk's robe containing the ingot and put it on the altar, picked up the rice bowl next to him, and continued to dig into his mouth: "...It's still hot."
Shen Jize and Lu Rong got up and followed him out.
When passing by a statue in front of him, Master Hong looked up while chewing his rice: "This bastard chicken has taken its eyeballs away again."
Shen Jize heard the words and looked, only to see the statue with black beans embedded as eyes, the black beans in the eyes were gone, only a small hole remained.
Master Hong picked and picked from his rice bowl, picked out a peanut, climbed onto the altar, and placed it in the small pit.
He jumped off the altar and clapped his hands, saying with satisfaction: "It's not bad."
Turning around and seeing Shen Jize and Lu Rong staring at him, he explained: "Tomorrow, I will invite a black gemstone from Mount Wu to make eyes for the statue."
"Is there anything else you want to worship?" Master Hong sent the two of them out.
Shen Jize had come to his senses at this time, and asked, "What else can I pray for?"
"There is also a freshly made God of Wealth in the yard. If you want to worship, I can put it in the Buddhist hall."
Shen Jize was not interested in getting rich, so he refused.
"You can ask for other things, and there is one... He Heshen has just painted and is drying on the roof. You can ask him to bless you with a hundred marks in the exam, you can fight and fight, you can catch fish and catch birds once you catch one Surely, the eggs you dig out are bigger than other people's eggs." Master Hong said.
Shen Jize: ... Hey, I seem to be a little moved.
Lu Rong hurriedly stood between the two of them, covering Shen Jize's trouser pocket where money was stored, and frantically shook his head, "No goodbye, no goodbye."
"Okay, I want to pray and come again, I will give you a 30% discount on behalf of the Bodhisattvas and gods." Master Hong said regretfully.
After leaving the temple gate, Lu Rong turned around after walking a few steps, and snatched the empty bamboo basket that Master Hong was carrying.
This is given money, it belongs to them, don't forget it.
Seeing the backs of the two leaving, Master Hong leaned against the door frame and said loudly: "You two, walk slowly, be careful on the way down the mountain, don't fall."
Shen Jize was leading Lu Rong down the stone steps when he heard that his body froze and he turned his head slowly.
Master Hong raised his leg to block a hen who wanted to sneak out at the gate of the courtyard, and said with a smile: "You two just paid homage, so you are just a couple. Do you know what worship is? It's marriage, it's marriage."
"Jie, get married?" Shen Jize opened his mouth in astonishment, his face full of disbelief.
"That's right, that's why you are a couple." Master Hong said happily, "Officer Groom, you have to treat your wife well."
After finishing speaking, regardless of the reaction of the two children, he retreated while laughing, and closed the courtyard door with a bang.
Lu Rong looked at the closed courtyard door, then looked up at Shen Jize: "Brother, is what Master Hong said true?"
Shen Jize was still in shock at this moment, his eyes were sluggishly looking straight ahead, and his mind was overwhelmed.
Lu Rong didn't wait for an answer, and said in a daze, "But I'm only eight years old, did I get married before I reached senior year? None of my classmates seem to be married."
Shen Jize was still struck by lightning, without any response, Lu Rong began to ponder again.
Marriage should be the two closest people. If you marry your brother, then they will be very close.
It seems... this marriage is also very good
Thinking of this, Lu Rong gradually showed joy on his face, and stretched out his hand to tug on Shen Jize's sleeve: "Brother, so we are married."
Shen Jize's empty brain caught the word "marriage", he came back to his senses instantly, and said anxiously: "Don't listen to him, we are not married."
"No?" Lu Rong asked suspiciously.
"Do you think we look like a bride and groom? Have you ever seen a child get married?"
Shen Jize's voice and expression were a little harsh, and at the same time he pulled Lu Rong forward.
Lu Rong was staggered by being pulled, and pursed his lips in displeasure.
"Let me tell you, don't believe that nonsense, we are not married, and the ones we worshiped just now don't count." Shen Jize said with a sullen face.
"Not counting?" Lu Rong asked in amazement, his eyes widened.
"right."
"Then you said—"
"Don't count, don't count everything." Shen Jize interrupted in embarrassment and annoyance.
Lu Rong stared at him, his eyes gradually turned red, and there was a layer of moisture in his eyes.
Shen Jize turned his head, meaning that there was no need to discuss this matter.
"If you don't count, you don't count, who cares?" Lu Rong suddenly yelled.
His voice was crying. After shouting, his mouth shrunk twice, but he held back not to cry. Shaking off Shen Jize's hand with a slap, he walked down the stone steps, his steps were fast, but his small body was straight.
The little dog had had enough of playing crazy, and he came out of the woods to keep up, with leaves all over his head.
Lu Rong choked up and said, "Let's go back and never get along with him again."
The puppy wagged its tail and gave a naive bark.
Shen Jize was also on fire.
How can you say that you get married when you get married? Xiao Yong still not laughing at him? Students don't laugh at him? Before the teacher called him to the teaching and research room, the eyes behind the glasses stared at him: "Say, are you married? You had a good summer vacation, you didn't do much homework, but you got married! On Monday morning, the whole school Review at the conference."
It's scary to think about it.
Besides, will Mom and Dad allow him to get married now
That master Hong watched them get married, why didn't he stop it
Shen Jize kicked the tree next to him so hard that his toes hurt, and he turned around twice on the spot with his teeth bared.
But this made him calm down, and he was no longer so angry, especially when he thought of Lu Rong who was about to cry, he left angrily, and the anger in his heart dissipated even more.
Shen Jize chased down the stone steps, and soon saw Lu Rong's back. He speeded up, stopped when he rushed behind Lu Rong, and followed down.
Lu Rong ignored him, Shen Jize coughed twice, Lu Rong still looked straight ahead, as if he didn't hear him.
Shen Jize wanted to see if someone was crying, so he trotted to Lu Rong's side, and turned his head slightly to peek.
Sensing his movement, Lu Rong turned her head to look aside, not to show him her face.
Shen Jize could only say: "Some people cry when they are slightly dissatisfied, and they are not strong at all."
Perhaps because he thought the stone steps were difficult to walk, or because he didn't want to be with Shen Jize, Lu Rong left the steps and slid down the dirt slope on the right.
Shen Jize was embarrassed to follow to the slope, so he had to quicken his pace and lined up with Lu Rong in a horizontal line.
He kept turning his head, and when he finally saw Lu Rong's face clearly and found that there were no tears on it, he reassured and said, "That's right, a man has to be strong, how can he just cry when something happens?"
Lu Rong suddenly grabbed a small tree next to him to stop his feet, and threw the empty bamboo basket in his hand at Shen Jize: "Your bamboo basket is returned to you."
"Oh." Shen Jize was caught off guard by the blow, and quickly reached out to block the bamboo basket, but was caught by the puppy flying out of the air, and happily ran to Lu Rong's side.
Shen Jize was also a little angry at this time, the two of them stopped talking, and walked down the mountain in silence, only hearing the dog's panting and the sound of the wind blowing the leaves.
Lu Rong wanted to shake him off and began to trot.
Shen Jize ran along the stone steps.
The two of them ran faster and faster as if they were angry. Because Lu Rong was on the slope, he couldn't control the speed in the end, and sat down and slid down the slope.
While running, Shen Jize noticed with sharp eyes that there was a cliff a few meters high in front of him, and his heart tightened.
He didn't care about getting angry at this time, he yelled and rushed towards the slope, half slippery and half running towards Lu Rong, grabbing him.
After sliding for half a meter together, the two narrowly stopped on the edge of the cliff.
Lu Rong poked his head and looked down, his little face turned pale, and he stopped being stubborn, and obediently let Shen Jize pull him to the stone steps.
There were two scratches on his calf and it was covered with mud. Shen Jize squatted down to look at that place with a sullen face, gently stroked off the mud spots with his fingers, and frowned his pretty eyebrows very carefully.
Lu Rong silently watched Shen Jize's movements, and when he stood up, he stepped forward to wrap his arms around his waist, and then pressed his face to his chest.
Although nothing was said, this was the meaning of reconciliation. After a while, he felt a finger touching his head, which was Shen Jize's response.
"Brother..." Lu Rong called aggrievedly, looked up to peek at the person's face, and asked softly, "Brother, didn't we count what we said last night?"
After speaking, he kissed Shen Jize on the chest like he usually acted like a spoiled child to the rich man.
His hair is soft and thin in the sun, and his ears are so white that they are almost transparent. Shen Jize watched him touch him carefully, his face was full of flattery, and his heart suddenly softened into a puddle of water.
How cute and cute my brother is, I shouldn't be cruel to my brother.
He remembered those conversations about the trash can last night, and a surge of heat surged in his heart: "If you count, why don't you count?"
"Then you just said that it doesn't count." Lu Rong made a whining sound.
Shen Jize said: "Just now, I didn't just talk about what happened last night."
"Then what did you say?"
Shen Jize said, "I'm talking about marriage."
"Does marriage count?" Lu Rong put his arms around his waist and shook.
Shen Jize hesitated and remained silent.
"Just count, count, I want to be with you, brother~" Lu Rong wriggled in his arms coquettishly, knowing how to impress Shen Jize.
Sure enough, Shen Jize became more soft-hearted. After Lu Rong begged a dozen times, he gritted his teeth and said indifferently: "Do the math."
Lu Rong got the answer he wanted, and immediately closed his eyes with a smile.
Shen Jize regretted it when he blurted it out, but when he saw Lu Rong smiling so sweetly, dimpled and big eyes curled up, he was a happy kid, those regrets vanished in an instant.
Why don't you just get married
nothing.
Don’t tell your classmates, don’t tell Xiao Yong, and tell them later? And it's the same with mom and dad, let's keep it secret for now.
When you grow up enough to speak, tell them in a calm tone: Well, let me announce something, that is, I am already married...
It's kind of cool to think about everyone's reaction at that time.
After Shen Jize figured this out, his heart suddenly disappeared like the wind blowing away, and all hesitation and troubles were gone. And instantly reversed the mentality, gradually began to get excited.
what! I am married
Ha ha! I am married!
Looking at the boy in front of him again, he suddenly felt a little different.
Furry is mine... ah... I'm a little embarrassed... ah... is it my wife? Fluffy will become my wife
At this time, Lu Rong raised his head and smiled at him again, tilting his head, with a layer of soft down on his face, dazzlingly beautiful.
Yes, Furry is my wife.
Shen Jize made up his mind immediately.
But I don't have the ability to take him out now, I can't afford to support him...
I can only come to Longtan Mountain every holiday, at worst, run faster, and when I grow up and earn money, I will take over people.
By the way, I can no longer spend money recklessly, I have to save my pocket money to support my wife...
Shen Jize quickly accepted his status as a married person, he felt a sense of responsibility in his heart, and began to seriously plan the future life of the two of them in his heart.