It’s funny. When I woke up on the first day of the Lunar New Year, there was nothing to eat in Mu Yi’s house. Because the New Year’s Eve dinner was eaten in Datang. I was afraid that if I was late, I would not have a car to go back to the county town, so I had the New Year’s Eve dinner early.

So I rushed back to the county town. Still lacking "life experience", I didn't even bring anything to eat from Datang.

After washing up, I went out.

The streets in the county town are really lively and festive. Every household is decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations, hanging high red lanterns, bright red door-god couplets, and everyone wearing new clothes with happy smiles. The fireworks are set off on New Year's Eve.

Fireworks and firecracker residues, shredded paper and other garbage have been cleaned up by diligent cleaning workers in the early morning...

In addition to various plastic toy guns, balloons, candy paintings and other "stuff" that "cheat children" for money, street stalls are also filled with various "fireworks and firecrackers" stalls, "tiger smashing" stalls, lottery stalls,

There is no "breakfast" stall among the ring stalls. I haven't seen a place where I can eat yet.

All the way to the crossroads, Gu Yujiao hadn't arrived yet. Mu Yi watched others playing "Tiger Smashing" on the roadside. This is a gambling game similar to guessing dice. In a large open folding wooden box, Mu Yi

On the top of the box, a rope is used to barricade three wooden pieces as big as footballs. The six sides of each wooden piece are respectively painted with tigers, elephants, roosters, goats, frogs, and snakes. Then on the

There is a poster on the bottom cover of the wooden box with various combinations of these patterns. Under the various combinations, there are various winning amounts, ranging from five yuan to five hundred yuan. Among the onlookers, there are many who want to

People who try their luck will place their money under the corresponding pattern, and then shout excitedly about the combination they bet. For example, "tiger, tiger", "elephant elephant"...

When everyone has placed their bets, the boss will loosen the rope holding the big wooden dice and let them roll freely into the wooden box. Then everyone will make a decision based on the combinations shown on the three big wooden dice after settling.

It determines "win or lose". It looks like a simple combination of three dice, but the combination of the patterns is actually quite complicated. Not many people can win. But there are still small prizes of five yuan or ten yuan occasionally.

If a bet is placed and the bet is not successful, people will sigh "Alas!". If the bet is successful, people will cheer "Wow!"...

In fact, this is a trick that uses mathematical permutation and combination knowledge to cheat money. There are almost 216 combinations of these dice, but there are only dozens of them drawn below, especially those eye-catching "leopard" combinations.

It strongly stimulates gamblers who "take a gamble" and "try their luck". They naturally lose more and win less. Those who lose either blame themselves for "bad luck" or accuse the boss of "manipulation."

The boss smiled and invited the gamblers to pull and release the rope after placing their bets, so as to verify that the boss did not do anything to make them convinced of their loss.

Zheng Muyi saw through it, but he couldn't wake up these fanatical gamblers. Otherwise, he would be scolded if he cut off the boss's "financial path"! It's the eighth day of the New Year, so it's better not to get into trouble. Besides, it's the eighth day of the new year.

There has always been a saying that "cutting off a person's wealth is like killing his parents". This "smashing a tiger" is like "Zhou Yu hits a yellow cover". One is willing to hit and the other is willing to suffer. What does it have to do with others?

Just as he was thinking about it, someone suddenly tapped Mu Yi on the back. He looked back.

"Wow! So beautiful." Mu Yi's eyes lit up. Gu Yujiao applied a little makeup and was stunned by Mu Yi.

"Wow, what? Have you never seen a beautiful woman?"

"Hey hey hey."

"Let's go quickly. Otherwise, we'll be late and won't be able to squeeze in."

"Huh? Is it that exaggerated?"

Although Mu Yi is from Xigui, he has always lived in the countryside of Datang. Although he has gone to the Tianhuang Temple to play in normal times, he has never been to play on the New Year's Day. I heard everyone said that the Tianhuang Temple is very lively on the New Year's Day.

Very.

The two came to the street near the bus station, grabbed a three-wheeler, and headed towards the Emperor Temple. However, the car stopped driving up when it reached the foot of the Emperor Temple. It actually had to charge two

The fare is 20 yuan per person. This makes Mu Yi itch with hatred. Because although the fare is only 10 yuan per person, it usually only charges 1 yuan. It is a full ten times.

Gu Yujiao paid the fare with a smile and said, "Thank you, master."

"He is simply robbing people."

Gu Yujiao smiled and said to Mu Yi: "Forget it, it's the Chinese New Year. Others are also doing this as a 'Spring Festival', and it's considered 'overtime'."

The two of them walked up the steep slope of the road. At this time, the road was crowded with too many people. The scene was lively and chaotic. The side of the road on the hillside was full of cars with passengers and people coming to burn incense.

Cars for worshiping Buddha. Most of the stalls near the slope are selling fragrant wax paper money and firecrackers. There are also stalls selling various kinds of jelly, cold skin, cold noodles, rolled noodles, ice noodles, and some selling fried rice noodles.

Potatoes, fried stinky tofu, marshmallows, candied haws, small toys...

After walking about fifty or sixty meters, we left the road and walked along a sidewalk on the side of the road. When we looked up, we saw an archway with three simple and vigorous characters "Tianhuang Temple" written on it.

There were really too many people. The crowds were so dense that the two of them were afraid of being squeezed apart, so they grabbed each other's hands tightly and followed them through the archway and moved slowly towards the mountain gate...

I finally squeezed into the mountain gate. Inside the temple, it was really crowded and filled with smoke. This Tianhuang Temple is located in Tianxing Village, Huayang Township, Xigui County. It is built on the top of a mountain with an altitude of more than 1,700 meters, and the view is very wide.

, is a good place to climb up and have a good view. The entire temple is built from north to south along the mountain, covering an area of ​​about 50 acres. It is the most famous Buddhist temple in Xigui County.

If you stand here in normal times, you can have a bird's-eye view of the entire Xigui Bazi. The shimmering Xigui River meanders northward, nourishing the fertile soil on both sides of the bank, irrigating hundreds of thousands of acres of rapeseed flowers; dotted villages are nestled in the lush greenery.

Between the bamboos and the forest, it looks like a painting with thick ink and heavy colors; under the Luoyang Snow Mountain, which is surrounded by steaming clouds and rosy clouds, only the main peak of Huatou, 4791 meters above sea level, is slightly exposed, with its shining silver tip reflecting thousands of golden lights under the rays of the morning sun.

It's just that there are so many people coming to worship now that the two of them have no time to appreciate the beautiful scenery around them. They can only focus on their feet. Don't step on the shoes of the person in front, otherwise they will step on others, causing

unnecessary disputes.

According to historical records, the Tianhuang Temple was first built in the Tang Dynasty, took shape in the Ming Dynasty, and flourished in the Qing Dynasty. The mountain gate faces south. When it was first built, it was called Tianwang Temple. After the Jade Emperor Hall was added, it was renamed Tianhuang Temple. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties,

During the feudal rebellion, the temple was destroyed by war. Later, the Guo family was determined to rebuild the ancient temple, and it was completed in the 42nd year of Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty. In the third year of Tongzhi, the temple was looted and burned again, and it was rebuilt in the fifth year of Tongzhi. Over the past hundreds of years, the temple has been damaged several times.

It was a waste of time, but the people of Xigui have always passed down the tradition of it very well, so it has continued to be popular.

Some people once joked that the "Tianhuang Temple" had something to do with the Japanese people, and even attracted Japanese people to conduct on-site inspections. However, in fact, this has nothing to do with the Japanese people at all, and it is purely a rumor.

The two of them moved slowly along with the pilgrims. Under the guidance of Gu Yujiao, they worshiped Guanyin at the Guanyin Hall, worshiped the Patriarch at the Patriarch Hall, then worshiped at the Heavenly King Hall, and finally came to the Main Hall.

After waiting in line for a long time, I finally squeezed in, knelt down on the futon and worshiped.

After leaving the Main Hall, there was also the Yuantong Hall, but it was locked and not open. The two of them stood on the courtyard bank and watched people burning incense, candles, and paper money...

Gu Yujiao was very happy. She pulled Mu Yi excitedly. "Did you just make a wish?"

"No."

"Why don't you make a wish when you come to worship Buddha?"

"I heard a story. It said that a man went to a temple to worship Guanyin Bodhisattva. As a result, he saw a man who was also worshiping Guanyin Bodhisattva, and this man looked like Guanyin Bodhisattva. He asked: Why do you look like Guanyin Bodhisattva?

Ah? Guanyin Bodhisattva replied to him: I am Guanyin Bodhisattva. He asked again: If others are worshiping you, then you are already a Bodhisattva, why do you still worship yourself? Guanyin Bodhisattva replied to him: It is better to seek for yourself than to seek others!

"

"Huh. Ignore you. It's not fun at all." He made a gesture to leave.

"Then what did you wish for?"

"I will not tell you."

Because it was too hot, the incense was strong, and there were so many worshipers, the air in the temple was not very good. Mu Yi took Gu Yujiao outside the temple.

In fact, there was another reason why he pulled her away, and that was that his stomach was already growling with hunger. But he was too embarrassed to tell Gu Yujiao that he hadn't had breakfast yet.

After leaving the mountain gate, Mu Yi saw that there were so many snacks on the roadside, so he took Gu Yujiao to eat snacks. In this way, the two of them ate a lot of snacks, which also relieved Mu Yi's hunger.

After eating and drinking, they returned to the county town. The two of them played the game of "ringing the ring" again. It costs one yuan to make a plastic ring the size of a bowl. There are many porcelain dolls and toys neatly placed on the ground. People have to stand on them.

The boss uses chalk to draw the boundary line, and then throws the plastic ring in his hand. If it catches the porcelain doll, it is your prize. However, the plastic ring is brittle, and it will fall into pieces as soon as it touches the porcelain doll.

It popped open.

The two of them tried for a while but couldn't catch anyone. Seeing that Gu Yujiao looked a little disappointed, Mu Yi quietly grabbed the boss and made a deal with him. He spent twenty yuan and bought the one Gu Yujiao wanted most.

A lassoed pink porcelain pig.

"for you."

"Wow! It's so beautiful. How did the boss give it to you?"

Mu Yi played a clever trick and deceived Gu Yujiao. "I told the boss, look, we have been cheating for so long and spent so much money. If you don't give us something, it won't make sense for this Chinese New Year. So the boss said

The two of us have been trying to trap each other, but the little piggy that didn't fit in the trap is given to you."

"Hahaha. Thank you boss."

Gu Yujiao's "Thank you boss" made the boss a little confused. However, the boss was also a shrewd person, so he smiled and said: "Happy New Year!"

Gu Yujiao said "Congratulations on getting rich" to him. The two of them left the place. Just as they were preparing to drive to Guanyin Water to play, Gu Yujiao received a call from home, telling her that she had something to do back home.
Chapter completed!