Du Zihan, who has graduated from the second year of junior high school, was walking with his parents. He was playing games on his father's Pingguo 4S.
"Du Zihan, can you please stop playing with your phone while walking? Can't you just have a good chat with your parents?"
"I know, I know."
"You will take the high school entrance exam next year. Please talk to the Bodhisattva and ask him to bless you to get into No. 1 Middle School. If you work hard, you can help your parents save tens of thousands of dollars."
"Um."
Du Zihan's father Du Yingjun was furious: "Hey kid, you don't have ears when I talk to you, right? Do you believe me if I smash your phone?"
"Throw it down, it's yours anyway." Du Zihan turned a deaf ear to him.
"You're a rebellious son!"
Du Yingjun was just about to slap Du Zihan when a voice suddenly rang out from behind him:
"Hello, Uncle Du!"
"… "
Du Yingjun looked at the handsome boy in front of him and suddenly asked, "Are you... Du Zihan's classmate?"
Du Zihan looked up at the other person and was also a little surprised. "Are you Messi?"
"Ha, what Messi..." Mei Fang suddenly laughed, "I am Mei Fang."
"Oh, no, that's right. I haven't talked to you for a long time and my words slipped. Mei Fang, Mei Fang!" Du Zihan quickly changed his words.
Mei Fang reminded Du Yingjun, "Du Zihan and I were classmates in kindergarten. When I was a child, you, my uncle, held me in your arms. Don't you remember?"
Du Yingjun thought for a long time, and finally remembered Mei Fang's identity. He immediately smiled in a flattering manner and said, "You are Director Mei's son, right?"
"Director Mei? Which Director Mei..."
Du Yingjun whispered to his wife:
"Oh, that's Mei Lijun from our unit. He used to compete with me for the position of office director. Now he is in Baizhou City—"
Du Yingjun's wife was of course delighted when she heard about Mei Fang's family background. "I never thought that he would grow up from such a small kid to a handsome boy now. Your parents are so lucky."
"Hey... No where."
Mei Fang touched his head and smiled, "Auntie and uncle are here to pay their respects today as well?"
"Yeah... By the way, you guys have finished your high school entrance exam, right? How did you do? I heard from your dad that your grades were pretty good, you should have passed the first middle school line..."
"Hmm... seems to have passed? I'm not sure."
Mei Fang forgot what the admission score of No. 1 Middle School was this year.
"Hmm... But your family is not short of money, so it shouldn't be difficult for you to get into No. 1 Middle School. Unlike our Du Zihan, he had to take the exam himself."
"Du Zihan won't take the high school entrance exam until next year, right? Then you have to work hard."
"Forehead… "
Du Zihan touched his nose and was stunned for a moment, then pointed at Mei Fang and said, "No, you didn't even take the entrance exam to No. 1 Middle School. I saw it on the gold list poster a while ago. You went directly to study at the No. 1 Affiliated Normal School in Jiangcheng."
"Jiangcheng Normal School No. 1? Is this kid so awesome..."
Du Yingjun and his wife looked at each other for a while, thinking, why bother worshipping Buddha? They should just worship the great god in front of them!
"Well, since you are familiar with each other, you can go to worship together. Mei Fang, are you going alone too? Your parents didn't come with you?"
Mei Fang shook his head and pointed to the group of men and women waiting for him behind him, "I'm here to play with my friends."
"Then, Du Zihan, come too! You young people will have more fun playing together. Take your phone and call your parents when the time comes."
"Why would I go? I'm not familiar with them."
"Oh, you are so old but still shy... Go ahead! Have a good exchange of ideas with these seniors."
"Sure, but we haven't bought the tickets yet. We have to wait a while."
Du Yingjun immediately patted Mei Fang on the shoulder and said with a smile, "Uncle is here today, how could I let you spend money! Uncle Du will pay for your tickets today!"
"Okay, thank you Uncle Du!"
So Mei Fang brought the little fat boy Du Zihan over. Xia Yuan expressed her disgust for him. After all, Du Zihan always scolded girls when he was a child, and she never had a good impression of Du Zihan.
"Ah Fang, why are you always causing trouble..."
"It's fate that we can meet Du Zihan here."
Mei Fang gently tapped Du Zihan's sleeping head and said, "How long have we not seen each other, Du Zihan?"
"Not long. I see your faces every day, always on the honor roll..."
As Du Zihan spoke, his voice became weak and tiny. He no longer seemed as flamboyant as he had been in elementary school. He really felt like Runtu meeting Brother Xun.
Oh, that's so boring.
"Is this your friend?" Yue Xinyi asked curiously.
"Uh, yes, he was a kindergarten classmate of me, Afang, and Youxi, and the most mischievous one." Xia Yuan couldn't help but complain.
"But now he seems quite introverted," Yue Xinyi was a little curious and patted Du Zihan's head, "How was he naughty before?"
"Hey... don't greet me like that."
Du Zihan said seriously, "Although I am a grade younger than you, I was held back a grade, so we should be the same age."
"You're a little short, you see. The boys here should be as tall as them."
Yue Xinyi pointed at Mei Fang and Zhang Ming. Zhang Ming was slightly shorter than Mei Fang, only 167 cm tall. However, he was much more mature than Du Zihan, who looked less than 1.6 meters tall.
“… I don’t know.”
Du Zihan hardly dared to look up and speak.
"Okay, okay, stop bullying Du Zihan."
Peng Xue clapped her hands and then patted Du Zihan on the shoulder, "Hey, do you still recognize me? I met you at the skating rink two years ago."
"… "
Du Zihan blushed before she could even talk to Peng Xue. She turned her head away and said, "Remember, remember."
Peng Xue saw that his ears were red, and knew that he finally had the idea of sex, so she immediately wanted to tease him:
"Then what's my name? If you can't answer it, you have to give me a hundred dollars."
"Wow, you really remember it!"
Peng Xue was quite happy, and she pulled Mei Fang's arm to ask for praise, "Look, Mei Fang, I think I am still quite attractive!"
"What does this have to do with whether you are attractive or not... Take your hands away and stop trying to get close to me."
"Xiaoxue!" Xia Yuan jumped up and down in anger.
"Ahaha, okay, okay." Peng Xue let go of Mei Fang's arm.
At this time, Guo Yun saw that Lin Youxi was a little unsteady, so she also said:
"It's not good to stand here all the time. Let's go in and worship first, shall we?"
So, under the leadership of Xia Yuan, the group burned incense at the temple gate, and then entered one by one with their tickets.
Du Zihan was quite fat, and he squeezed out of the gate with difficulty and caught up with Mei Fang and his group.
Because they had nothing in common, Du Zihan kept his head down playing with his mobile phone on the way, and only Peng Xue would talk to him from time to time.
Du Zihan didn't dare to look up at Peng Xue when she was talking to him, but when Peng Xue walked forward, he would look up slightly at her back.
The group walked through Tianyi Gate, crossed Feihong Bridge, and visited the four major halls, namely the Hall of Heavenly Kings, the Main Hall, the Hall of Vairocana, and the Hall of True Body, to pay their respects.
"Ah Fang, who is this Buddha statue in the True Body Hall? It looks a bit weird."
"This is not a traditional Buddha statue. This is a seated statue of the Fifth Patriarch Hongren, placed here for worship."
After Xia Yuan finished paying homage, he looked at the statue in front of him eagerly, and suddenly a bad thought came to his mind: "I say, this statue, could it be made of his body?"
"It seems so..."
"Shouldn't monks be cremated into relics after they pass away? Don't lie to me, I'm not uneducated!"
Xia Yuan hit Mei Fang's shoulder.
"That's generally the case, but Master Hongren is one of the few special cases. His body has not decayed for a thousand years, so it is also called a whole body relic. Maybe the body inside this seated statue is really Master Hongren's body, right?"
"Forehead… "
Xia Yuan was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat. He put his hands together and made a gesture of worship, "Master, I'm sorry, Master, I'm sorry..."
Then she pulled Mei Fang's clothes and asked him to leave quickly.
The rumors about the Fifth Patriarch's true body are true, but in fact his body was burned during the chaotic years of the 16th year of the Republic of China, and eventually turned into relics. This is something that even Mei Fang did not know.
Although the college entrance examination scores have not yet come out, we can see that in several large halls, Manjushri Bodhisattva, who symbolizes the Buddha of Wisdom, is worshipped by many students and parents, with incense burning in an endless stream.
At Mei Fang's reminder, Du Zihan went to worship Manjushri Bodhisattva, praying for good luck in the high school entrance examination.
After leaving the fourth hall, everyone walked around the seven side halls, worshipped some unfamiliar Buddhas, looked at a few Yama Kings of the underworld, and then stopped worshipping.
We arrived at the wash basin and saw many people throwing coins into the bowl in the middle of the basin to pray, and some were clamoring to throw coins together.
"Afang, try throwing it first!"
Mei Fang looked at Xia Yuan, "Do you want me to help you make a wish?"
Xia Yuan shook his head, put his hands behind his back and laughed: "You can do it yourself."
So Mei Fang took a coin and threw it, and it worked at once. Everyone applauded excitedly.
"Ah Fang, what wish did you make? It will come true in just one go."
"Well... I won't tell you. It won't work if I tell you."
"Yeah... that's right."
Xia Yuan took the coin, prayed silently in his heart, and threw it over, and it also succeeded in one try.
"Ah Fang, did you see that? I'm awesome too!"
"I know, I know..." Mei Fang touched Xia Yuan's head to encourage her, then looked at Lin Youxi, "Youxi, are you coming?"
Lin Youxi shook her head. "I don't need it... I'm not in a good mood today."
"Well... it doesn't matter if you don't lose it." Mei Fang smiled slightly, "Because I also brought it with me in my wish just now."
"Then I'm Afang." Xia Yuan raised his head.
"Of course you have it too, why are you worried... But I can't say it anymore, it won't work if I say it again."
"well!"
Mei Fang pinched Xia Yuan's nose, and Yue Xinyi and Peng Xue beside her made clicking sounds at the same time.
While everyone was distracted, Du Zihan touched his pocket, held the coin and prayed silently in his heart.
His mind was now filled with Peng Xue's cute and lovely appearance. The gentle expression she had when she spoke to him just now made Du Zihan, who had never felt the kindness of a beautiful girl, unforgettable.
Why was I so stupid in elementary school... why did I like to bully Peng Xue and go against her so much
Du Zihan regrets it now, very much.
But now we have met so many times, there must be a special fate...
Du Zihan's face turned red because of some vague thoughts that popped up in his mind.
He threw the coin in his hand with all his might.
Pop.
The coin fell into the pool.
Du Zihan was not angry.
Anyway... I have plenty of coins in my pocket.
Du Zihan threw all his coins but still couldn't get any into the bowl.
Du Zihan was crying.
Although the hints are obvious, I still want to say this in advance to avoid arguments. Du Zihan will not be with Peng Xue, so don't worry! I updated on time today, invincible!
(End of this chapter)