Winter goes to spring, the ice and snow melt, and everything recovers. It is a good time to seek marriage.
There is an endless stream of men and women in front of the Guanyin Temple.
Gu She and Tao Mo shuttled through the crowd, and were quickly overwhelmed.
"Xianzhi?" Tao Mo was not tall, and was squeezed to the front without paying attention. There are stone steps under his feet, and he has to care for his feet and find someone. He stumbles and finally walks to an open space. He looks back at the people who are walking up, but he only sees moving heads. Where are they? Gu She is there
He was a little anxious and couldn't help standing on tiptoe to look.
"Master Tao?"
A familiar voice came from behind.
Tao Mo turned his head unwillingly, forced a smile and said hello, "Young Master Lu."
What kind of person is Lu Zhenxue? At a glance, he can see that he doesn't want to talk to him in his heart, and his original good mood has inexplicably turned into a bad mood. A beautiful woman favors you. Do you still need to go to the Guanyin Temple to seek marriage?"
Tao Mo said: "I am unlucky when I come and go."
"Go unlucky?" Lu Zhenxue thought he disliked Miss Xu, and frowned slightly, "Isn't Master Tao serious?"
Tao Mo scratched his head and said, "I also think it's too serious. But Hao Guozi said that there has been a lot of bad luck recently, so it's better to get rid of the bad luck."
Lu Zhenxue suddenly said: "So it's this bad luck."
Tao Mo said, "Master Lu is here to seek marriage?"
Lu Zhenxue's expression froze, and he said calmly, "I'm here with my friends."
"Oh." Tao Mo agreed, his eyes couldn't help searching around.
"Master Tao lost his servant?" Lu Zhenxue helped to find them together. He has met Hao Guozi and Lao Tao before, and he still remembers their appearance.
Tao Mo shook his head and said, "It's not a servant."
Lu Zhenxue said in surprise: "Could it be...Miss Xu?"
"Ah, of course not." Tao Mo said.
Lu Zhenxue saw that he just denied it but didn't give an answer, thinking that he didn't want to say it, so he didn't ask any further. "At this time, there are the most people going up the mountain. Master Tao, why don't you go to the temple with me. Maybe the other party can't find you, so he will go into the temple to have a look."
Tao Mo hesitated for a while, but still shook his head and said, "I'll wait for him here."
Lu Zhenxue laughed and said, "Could it be possible that he is a child? Your Excellency is so worried?" His words were somewhat tentative. Tao Mo came to Tanyang County not long ago, but those few people came and went. He really couldn't think of anyone worthy of his attention.
Tao Mo said: "Anyway, it's all waiting inside and outside, I'm waiting for him here, and I can see clearly."
A name suddenly flashed in Lu Zhenxue's mind, "Could it be Brother Gu?"
Tao Mo nodded and said, "It's Xian Zhi."
"Xianzhi?" Lu Zhenxue was taken aback for a moment, then startled, and asked, "Which string is which?"
Tao Mo looked at him awkwardly.
It was only then that Lu Zhenxue remembered that he was illiterate, and said with a dry smile, "I just thought of one person, and I lost my composure."
Tao Mo suddenly looked in one direction, his eyes almost sparkling.
"Brother Lu, who did you think would lose his composure?" Gu She's voice sounded leisurely from that direction.
Lu Zhenxue turned his head, and saw Gu She walking gracefully from the crowd with a candied haws. It's strange to say, it's obvious that wherever other people go, it's crowded, but when they come to Gu She's side, everyone consciously moves away from him, for fear of accidentally rubbing against him.
Gu She walked up to Tao Mo and handed him the candied haws.
Tao Mo opened his eyes wide in surprise, "For me?"
Gu She said: "Take it."
It turned out that he was asked to help. Tao Mo accepted it obediently.
Gu She said: "Eat."
Tao Mo pointed to his nose with the candied haws.
Gu She nodded.
Tao Mo grinned and happily took a bite.
Lu Zhenxue stood by, suddenly felt that he was superfluous, like an intruder, walked into a room that did not belong to him.
"Brother Lu came to seek marriage?" Gu She asked.
Lu Zhenxue regained his composure and said, "Ah, it's what my mother meant."
Tao Mo said in astonishment, "Didn't you say you came with your friends?"
After all, Lu Zhenxue was Lin Zhengyong's favorite student, so he found an excuse and said, "My mother told me to come with a friend."
Gu She said: "In that case, brother Lu, please do what you want." He said, stretched out his hand to pick up Tao Mo, and walked towards the temple.
Being pulled by him, Tao Mo was so stiff that he could hardly even bend his knees. When he crossed the threshold, he lifted his feet twice before passing.
When I got to the main hall, I saw people kneeling on the futon.
The sound of lottery cones kept coming and going.
Gu She let go of Tao Mo's hand, "Didn't it mean to get rid of bad luck?"
Tao Mo was startled and said, "How?"
Gu She said: "Make a wish to the Bodhisattva." He took the candied haws from his hand.
Tao Mo went there blankly, kneeling on the futon in the corner of the last row.
Gu She looked at him bowing respectfully, without looking back, and said, "Brother Lu, what advice do you have?"
Lu Zhenxue stepped forward with a smile and said, "I didn't expect Brother Gu and Master Tao to have such a deep relationship."
Gu She said: "There are always a few things in this world that are unexpected."
Lu Zhenxue said: "It seems that brother Gu wanted to invite a lawyer to go to the neighboring county to file a lawsuit, it should be for Master Tao?"
Gu She said: "Brother Lu, are you interested?"
Lu Zhenxue said: "No. I'm just asking casually."
Gu She said: "Brother Lu, didn't you come with your friends?"
Lu Zhenxue said, "Brother Gu is chasing me?"
Gu She turned her head, looked at him, and said with a half-smile, "Who said no?"
Lu Zhenxue said: "There is one thing I don't know whether to ask or not."
Gu She didn't answer. He turned his head and still looked at Tao Mo's back.
"I heard Mr. Tao call Brother Gu...Xianzhi." Lu Zhenxue said, "Brother Gu's name is Xianzhi?"
Gu Sheman responded.
"Gu Xianzhi?" Lu Zhenxue recited every word with great emphasis, as if he was confirming something.
Gu She simply walked towards Tao Mo.
Tao Mo just stood up. Gu She said, "What did you ask for?"
Tao Mo said: "Safe. Please, Lao Tao, Hao Guozi, Gu Xiaojia, and everyone in Tanyang County are safe and well."
Gu She said: "What about you?"
Tao Mo was stunned.
Gu She laughed.
Tao Mo hastily knelt back and made up for what he hadn't asked for just now.
It took him a while before he stood up again.
Gu She said: "You alone have been asking for it longer than all of us."
Tao Mo said: "I begged again. I have said it too many times, maybe the Bodhisattva can remember it better."
Gu She said: "In that case, I'll go find the abbot." He returned the candied haws to him.
"Ah? Why?" Tao Mo followed behind him.
Gu She said: "He is here every day, so he can talk about it every day."
Tao Mo noticed that Lu Zhenxue also followed, and asked suspiciously, "Brother Lu, aren't you looking for friends?"
Lu Zhenxue said: "I got separated from them, and they probably went back first." He paused, looked at Gu She and Tao Mo, and said with deep meaning, "Not all friends will stay where they are and wait for each other to come back. .”
Tao Mo took a bite of the candied haws, and felt warm in his heart, as if there was a hot spring, steaming hot.
The Guanyin Temple is not big, there is a courtyard behind the main hall, there are several fortune-telling stalls there, and there are many shy teenagers standing in front of it.
Lu Zhenxue said: "Brother Gu and Master Tao are not in the same trigram?"
Tao Mo was a little moved, but it was a pity that what he wanted to settle could not be revealed in broad daylight.
Gu Shedao: "If a person can't even grasp the fate of marriage, what else can he grasp?"
Lu Zhenxue's face tightened. In fact, he said before that accompanying his friend was an excuse. He did come here to seek marriage, but he didn't come here voluntarily, but was driven over by his mother repeatedly.
"Brother Gu is really an open-minded person. Don't tell me your parents never asked?" Lu Zhenxue asked tentatively.
Gu She asked back: "Did your father intervene?"
Lu Zhenxue pursed his lips and said with a smile: "It's a matter of life, parents' orders, and caring is a matter of course."
The three of them walked to the side hall while they were talking, and there happened to be a little novice looking around with the merit box in his arms, seeing Gu She and the others' eyes lit up, he uttered the Buddha's name, and came over and said, "The benefactor is asking for a marriage? "
Gu She said: "No, it's for peace. Is the abbot of your temple here?"
The little novice said: "The abbot is discussing scriptures with wandering monks."
Gu She said: "Since that's the case, then I will ask you."
The little novice said: "Please tell me, benefactor."
Gu She said: "I would like to ask you to pray for one person's peace every day." He took out a bank note and put it in the merit box.
Tao Mo and Lu Zhenxue were both taken aback.
The moment the bank notes were put into the box, the little novice saw the number and was taken aback, then said: "Please tell me, benefactor."
"His name is Tao Mo."