Foen Temple is a temple that suddenly exploded recently, not because it is the most magnificent, nor is it the oldest history, but because it is said that no matter how long you are single, as long as you sincerely go to the temple to ask for a marriage lottery, you will eventually find true love. I don't know if it's true or not, but the more it spreads, the more people will come.
It was early spring at this time, and there was an endless stream of people going up the mountain to Fo'en Temple to seek marriage, and their voices rose and fell.
"My sister, as you all know, is 30 after Chinese New Year, and failed 20 blind dates. I came here last month to ask for a marriage lottery. Guess what? In less than half a month, the manager who was newly transferred to their department said yes to her. She confessed that now both of them are ready to get married."
"Is it really that powerful?"
"What did I lie to you, if you don't believe me, I'll show you the invitation when I go back."
A few girls in their early twenties walked up the mountain talking and laughing, their voices were not deliberately lowered. When they passed by, Ji Xi knew that something was going to happen. Sure enough, before she could think about it, Mother Ji, who was beside her, started talking.
"Xiaoxi, you heard what those little girls said just now. She is thirty years old, and she has been on blind date twenty times, and she can do it in one worship. I won't do anything to trick you."
Yes yes yes, I won't cheat her, but I can't help but always want her to find someone to take home. Ji Xi cursed in his heart.
Sometimes Ji Xi has no idea what his mother is thinking. She has a successful career, outstanding looks, not many suitors but also many, but because of various reasons, her mother was single for 23 years, but her mother is lucky and has already started to worry about her future marriage. Worrying that no one wanted her, she even arranged seventeen blind dates for her, causing her to find all kinds of excuses to escape every time.
Seventeen matches, during the six months and a year after graduation, there were an average of two blind dates a month. Thinking of this, she suddenly realized that no blind date had been arranged at the end of this month, and her mother seemed to have forgotten about the blind date.
Next to her, Ji's mother was still chattering about how many handsome boyfriends the little girl next door had found, how considerate she was to the little girl, and so on. She didn't mean to stop at all.
Ji Xiquan pretended he didn't hear it, and occasionally responded with two random "hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh'." When she got to her car at the foot of the mountain, she interrupted her mother: "Mom, I have an appointment, you ask the driver to take you home first."
"It's a rare weekend, don't you go home to accompany your mother?" Ji's mother's expression changed, and she looked at Ji Xi pitifully.
Ji's mother is in her early forties, but she takes good care of her skin. Her skin is smooth and firm. She looks like she is in her thirties, and she also has a mature/feminine charm. At this time, he put on a begging and pitiful posture, if Ji's father was there, he would have pulled him into his arms and coaxed him long ago.
It's a pity that Ji Xi is not Ji's father, and he has long been accustomed to his mother's drama personality, so he firmly refused: "It's a rare weekend, and my daughter occasionally wants to relax with friends. Mom is so beautiful, generous, intelligent and considerate, she should agree, yes no?"
Ji's mother stared at Ji Xi, and three seconds later stretched out her hand to pinch Ji Xi's face: "Don't say such coquettish things with a blank face." As she spoke, she whispered, "Be as virtuous as your father."
Ji Xi: ... who acted like a baby
"Okay, okay, your beautiful, generous, intelligent and considerate mother has granted your request." Mother Ji waved her hand, "It's just that you have to take good care of the potted plants that the master gave you."
"I know." Ji Xi looked down at the potted plant in his hand, and nodded cautiously.
Mother Ji took her to ask for a marriage lottery, but a young monk brought her a potted plant, saying that the abbot told her to water it every day, so that she would be able to reap a happy marriage when the time came. Of course she didn't believe it, but it's a pity that Ji's mother believed it. After all, it was said by the abbot of the temple.
The potted plants are filled with soil, and Ji Xi doesn't think they can grow anything. If it's so magical, where are there so many single dogs
"The master said that this is related to your future marriage, and you can't kill it." The knowing daughter Mo Ruomu, Ji's mother was a little worried, and warned, "Don't lose it, drop it, or spill it on purpose. "
Ji Xi was thinking about whether he should die to avoid trouble, when he heard this, he paused: "Got it."
Seeing that my mother wanted to say, she opened the door, stuffed people in, and closed the door. The action was done in one go, obviously doing this kind of thing a lot.
The car window was quickly rolled down, and Ji's mother went to the window and said, "Also, take a picture of me every day, I always feel that you are going to throw it away."
Ji Xi's head was full of black lines, but Ji's mother could only nod as she waited for the answer.
Mother Ji nodded, then remembered something, "By the way, do you want the driver to take you there?"
"No need." In order to prevent mother Ji from tossing about, Ji Xi asked the driver to drive.
"Remember, water—" the car drove away, and Mother Ji's words disappeared in the wind.
It just so happened that the phone rang at this time, Ji Xi glanced at the note, and connected the phone: "I'm going over now, you guys..."
The breeze blew, and the tail sound dissipated in the wind.
"If you die, you have to love or not to be incisive and joyful"
As soon as the door was opened, a sharp and piercing singing sound came into his ears, and Ji Xi's hand trembled, almost dropping the potted plant in his hand.
Ji Xi frowned and closed the door, turned around and walked inside.
In the huge private room, two people with similar looks are lazily leaning on the sofa and playing with their mobile phones, and another person is singing loudly with a microphone.
Ji Xi looked at the singer and said, "Wanwan, can you change the song?" He was already tone deaf, and he still liked to sing high-pitched songs, which was really frustrating.
"No." Guan Wanwan raised her chin slightly, "Singing difficult songs is challenging."
"People who can sing two tigers out of tune, I don't know where you have the confidence." The two on the sofa put down their phones, and the person on the left complained.
The two are twin sisters who look exactly alike. The elder sister is called Li Yuanyuan, and now she has an extra mole, and the younger sister is called Li Qingqing, and it is her elder sister Li Yuanyuan who complained about Guan Wanwan.
Guan Wanwan rolled her eyes: "It's as if you're not out of tune." Coincidentally, Li Yuanyuan is also tone deaf, but Li Qingqing has a good sense of pitch.
"But I am very self-conscious, unlike someone who is not a little self-conscious. Every time I sing, I dominate the microphone, and I also specialize in high-pitched songs, and the result is howling."
"You're the one crying like hell!"
The two started to fight each other, and Ji Xi was used to it, so he looked around, planning to find a safe place to put potted plants. Looking around, Ji Xi finally took a fancy to the partition above the karaoke machine, and Ji Xi went over with a potted plant.
After she finished placing the potted plant and sat on the sofa, the two had already finished arguing. Guan Wanwan saw it, and approached the potted plant and asked Ji Xi what it was.
"Potted plants." Ji Xi said, "My mother took me to Fo'en Temple in the morning, then—"
"Wait a minute," Guan Wanwan raised her hand to interrupt Ji Xi's words, "Fo'en Temple? Is it the temple where it is said that you can get rid of being single if you pray?"
Hearing Guan Wanwan's words, Li Yuanyuan and the two sisters were also curious, and got up to look at the potted plants.
Ji Xi nodded, and saw the sympathetic gazes of the three of them in the next second, paused, and continued: "When I was asking for a lottery, the temple host asked the little monk to give me this thing, saying that it can grow something, then I can grow it." Find your true love."
The three of them observed carefully, but they didn't see anything unusual, it was exactly the same as ordinary potted plants.
"It's just dirt, have you planted the seeds?" Li Qingqing asked curiously.
"Scattered." The temple host said that if something can be grown, then there should be seeds. Anyway, Ji Xi understood it that way.
Li Qingqing asked again, "How do I plant it? Do I need to fertilize it?"
"Just water it."
"Wouldn't it be nutritious to just water? My mother will sprinkle all kinds of things when planting flowers."
"No way."
Guan Wanwan: "What will be grown? Vegetables or fruits? If you can eat it then share some with me and see if the taste is extraordinary."
Ji Xi: "I don't know."
Li Yuanyuan next to her rubbed her chin and guessed, "Could it be Miss Pea? No, you are a woman, so this should be Mr. Pea. This is probably a seed planted in spring and a lover harvested in autumn?"
As soon as these words came out, both Li Qingqing and Guan Wanwan couldn't help laughing. Ji Xi was helpless, but he couldn't refute it, after all, it was indeed a bit strange. It is a normal process for others to ask for a marriage lottery, but when it comes to her, it becomes a potted plant.
In order to prevent everyone from laughing, Ji Xi changed the topic with a straight face, and the other people accepted it as soon as they saw it, and continued along the topic.
In the following days, Ji Xi would water the potted plants every day, once in the morning, at noon and in the evening, which was more punctual than the three meals a day. She couldn't help it either, who made her mother stare at her all the time, she was more diligent than her, she had to look at the photos when she got up in the morning, she also had to look at the photos after eating, and she had to look at the photos before going to bed.
This situation lasted for a month, and finally a small green bud appeared in the middle of the soil. Ji Xi almost thought that this potted plant could not grow anything, or that it was watered too much to raise it to death, but unexpectedly, something actually grew.
When Ji Xi took the photo, Mother Ji was even more excited. After all, the master said that as long as this potted plant matures, Ji Xi's marriage will slowly appear. At this time, there is hope, and Ji's mother is always watching Ji Xi to take care of the potted plants.
Just as Ji's mother was excited and Ji Xi didn't know what mood he was in, the time gradually approached September. At this time, the plants in the potted plants have gradually formed, but this is a bit strange. It looks like grass, but there is only one, and it is a full forty to fifty centimeters long.
Ji Xi consulted all kinds of information and got professional testing, but he couldn't determine the species of this plant, but it was detected that the vitality of this grass was stronger than ordinary grass.
Mother stares at it all the time, no matter how strange Ji Xi is, she can only resign herself to raising it, and she is also curious about what can be planted in the end.
It was the Mid-Autumn Festival, Ji Xi went back to Ji's house for a reunion dinner, left potted plants in the apartment, and watered them before going out.
It is said that the moon on the fifteenth day is sixteen round, but this year is a bit strange. On the night of the fifteenth day, the moon hanging high in the sky is very round and unusually bright.
"Wow woof woof—"
"Meow-"
The community where Ji Xi lived allowed pets. As soon as the moon came out, the pets from all the households barked irritably, and even broke free from the ropes and ran to knock on the door.
"Isn't there going to be an earthquake?"
"It's possible, don't you say that animals will give an early warning before an earthquake?"
"But City T has never experienced an earthquake."
"There is a first time for everything."
Everyone panicked, packed up some valuable things and ran outside. The animals ran the fastest and stopped only when they got out of the house, but they were still roaring. Everyone was wondering what happened when a meteor passed by at a very fast speed and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.
After half an hour, the animals calmed down one after another, returning to their usual docile appearances and begging their owners to pet them.
Everyone was making a fuss, and it was definitely not the earthquake that caused them to go back to their respective homes. It's much better to make a big oolong than a real earthquake, but I don't know what the animal riots are all about.
The animal riots became a hot topic of news that day, and various experts commented and analyzed it one after another. Some people speculated that it might be human-made mischief, and some speculated that the animals were frightened by something in the apartment. Anyway, everyone has their own reasons, and there is no real answer. After another two days, the matter gradually faded away.
Ji Xi stayed at home for two days before coming back. When watering, he found that the potted grass had turned greener, but he didn't worry about it.