Chapter 383: The Sorrow of the Divine Tree
Song Wen walked into the front yard and saw that his mother and Xiaojun were not around, so he walked towards the back yard.
In the backyard, his mother was weeding the ground with a hoe, while Xiaojun also watered the orchids with a kettle.
He looked at it and hurriedly walked up to take the kettle from Xiaojun's hand and said, "You are pregnant, so don't do such heavy work in the future."
"This is not a heavy job, it's only two months, so it doesn't matter."
"That's not possible." Song Wen said seriously.
“So overbearing.”
Although Xiaojun said this, his heart was sweet. Suddenly he remembered something and said, "The two refrigerated trucks you mentioned came yesterday afternoon. The two drivers were arranged to live in the village. See when will you go see them? Don't let someone wait too long."
"I've seen it."
When he came back, he happened to meet the two drivers driving the refrigerated truck, so he chatted with them for a while and asked them to come over in the afternoon to drive. When he got up, he had quietly put most of the things in the car into the Ruyi fan, leaving only two Komodo dragons down. He would not be able to answer when asked if he was asked what was placed in the refrigerated truck, which would be bad.
After watering the flowers, Song Wen held Xiaojun's hand and was about to walk out when he suddenly saw the big dog Xiaohuo biting a fat rabbit and running over.
Xiaohuo came to Song Wen, put the fat rabbit in his mouth on the ground, and roared at him, as if saying: "Look, I can catch rabbits too!"
Song Wen rolled his eyes and kicked it away with one foot. He seized the rabbit it caught without hesitation and took Xiaojun out. Xiaohuo looked at it, and shouted in dissatisfaction with "hum, hum, hum, um" behind him, but unfortunately it was useless.
At noon, Song Wen cut his thighs and roasted them on the charcoal made from lychee wood. Finally, the roast was golden and crispy, making people feel drooling. He also bit the soup stewed by the fat rabbit with a low heat and a few home-cooked side dishes. His father, mother, little brat Xixi and Xiaojun praised him.
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Taiwan and the Palace of Heaven was originally named Pushu Palace.
In the 21st year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty (1682), Linma, Banyuezhuang, Budai Town, Chiayi County, was believing in Mazu, so she specially invited Mazu (now Kaijima) from the Meizhou Ancestral Temple to go home to worship. When she was walking by Niu Chou River (now Puzi River), she was resting under a thousand-year-old Pu tree. When she was about to set off, she found that Mazu was as heavy as Mount Tai. After asking Mazu, Mazu said that she wanted to stay here forever, so she built a small thatched temple here to worship.
At the beginning of the temple building, Mazu was instructed to saw off the upper half of the thousand-year-old Pure Tree. The lower half was barked and carved into the temple Mazu, which was matched with the Heavenly Palace.
The Mazu of Zhendian is the lower half of the thousand-year-old Pure Tree. To this day, the roots of this thousand-year-old Pure Tree are still marshaled underground, absorbing the spiritual energy of the earth. Therefore, it is also suitable for Tiangong Zhendian Mazu that has become the only Mazu in Taiwan who cannot be invited, and cannot leave the palace to patrol the country.
The temple is built under Pu Shu, so it is called "Pu Shu Palace".
Since the construction of Pushu Palace, the Mazu in the palace was powerful and miracles appeared frequently, which attracted thousands of believers to settle nearby. Over time, it formed a large settlement. It is the famous Park Jae-sou Street, and therefore everyone says that Park Zi City is a small town created by Mazu.
According to legend, in the 54th year of Qianlong (1789), Prince Jiaqing and Li Yong and Wang Fa traveled to Taiwan, passing through Puzi Town. He visited Pushu Palace and prayed for Mazu to bless the safe journey. Later, he really got Mazu to protect him. So after the prince returned to Beijing, he begged his father to issue an imperial edict. The emperor approved what he asked for. The year Jiyou issued an imperial edict. Because the two words "Jiyou" were combined with the character "Pe", Pushu Palace was renamed "Petian Palace" since then.
Behind the main hall of the Pitian Palace, there is a "sacred tree" four-season orchid. This tree was originally brought back to plant when Peitian Palace formed a group to Meizhou Ancestral Temple to pay homage to the ancestors and give incense to the ancestors.
Because it is separated from the main hall by a wall. The roots of the sacred tree are tied together with the roots of the thousand-year-old simple tree of the Tiangong Town Hall Ma, and are connected with spiritual energy and lush branches and leaves. It is believed that if you have any illness, just rub the pain on the trunk of the tree to cure it. In addition, boiling the leaves of the four-season orchids into tea to drink can bless you with peace. Therefore, you can often see long queues of believers just to kiss the "sacred tree".
However, after a hundred years of vicissitudes, the skin of the sacred tree is now mottled, and there are very few green leaves on the tree, especially when the cold air came a few days ago. Affected by it, the last little leaves on the sacred tree fell one after another. If it weren't for the bark being scratched open, the old people in the temple would have thought that the sacred tree was dead.
At this moment, Lin Mingguo, the 80-year-old leader in the temple, touched the mottled torso of the sacred tree, and felt sad.
It is for the sorrow of the sacred tree, whether it is for one's old age, or for the tea without sacred tree at the end of the year for believers to drink, no one knows it.
The wind twitched, the branches swayed, and the last piece of yellowed leaves on the tree finally fell away helplessly.
Lin Mingguo saw it and lamented in his heart, and a feeling that could not be expressed in his heart.
At this time, his nephew Lin Shunli brought Song Chan, who was over 50 years old.
"Uncle, Azun is here."
"Lin Bo."
Lin Mingguo nodded to Song Chan and said, "Achan, I have to thank you for your hard work this time."
"Where is Mr. Lin talking about it? I heard that there has been a lot of changes there this year. I also want to go back and have a look, but it's just a walk."
"Anyway, I'm sorry," Lin Mingguo said, taking out a bank card from his pocket. "This is the card over there. All banks over there can be used. Try to make the best food along the way. Don't be too slow to treat the guests."
"I understand, Lin Bo."
"Please." Lin Mingguo handed the card to Song Chan and said solemnly.
Since the sacred tree began to fall, he has been trying to find someone to treat it, but who knew that he could not find any garden masters in Taiwan in the end, but he was helpless. Until a time ago, an old friend from the Xichan Ancient Temple in Fuzhou asked someone to send a bunch of lychees, which made a turn for the better. He knew that the lychees in the Xichan Ancient Temple were the ancient "Zeba Niang". Because of the years, he became more and more haggard, and he had already shown his intention to die, let alone the result.
Unexpectedly, lychees were produced again. He was curious and asked, and then he found out that it was asked to cure someone.
Originally, when he heard this, he wanted to ask someone to come and help him heal the sacred tree, but later he thought it was too abrupt. After inquiring many ways, he found out that the talented man who managed the tree was from Songjiabao, Nanzhou, and there happened to be a branch of Songjiabao in the county. Every year, people in this branch go back to worship their ancestors, so he specially asked the elders of this branch to come over and ask him to help him come to Songjiabao to invite someone to manage the tree.
Lin Mingguo is highly respected locally, so Song Chan did not dare to be careless. After receiving the old man's instructions, he said goodbye and left, preparing to set off.
Looking at his departure back, Lin Mingguo sighed inwardly, looked up at Zhiya, which was falling on the sacred tree, turned toward Mazu's direction in the palace, put his hands together, and said devoutly: "Bless Mazu!" (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!