(Happy Yuanxiao Festival to everyone!) ）

June 19th, according to legend, is the day of the enlightenment of Guanyin Bodhisattva, in order to commemorate the Bodhisattva, there are many government release activities organized by various states and counties in the world.

Since the waterhole under the golden light was determined to be the official release pond of Taipingzhai, this is the first large-scale organized release activity. As soon as the morning dawns, the surrounding people gather at the Golden Summit, which is as lively as the New Year.

After all, Taipingzhai is a new town, and there are a lot of entertainment activities, but in fact they are chaotic and vulgar, revealing the fake and flashy of the dock, and there are very few programs that are truly pleasing to the eye and entertaining the body and mind. For many honest new immigrants from the mountainous areas of Fujian, it is more or less uncomfortable. Such a day evokes their fond memories of the past, and they work tirelessly to squeeze to the edge of the release pond to have a look, think about the past, cherish the present, and respect the Bodhisattva.

The sun showed half of its red face on the mountain, clothed in ten thousand rays of light, and woke up the whole world with excitement and enthusiasm.

Lin Apeng dried his hands, carefully locked the brand-new wooden door, and went out in the early morning glow.

Her husband, Forestry was tidying up his burden not far from the door, and the buckets on both sides were filled with all kinds of fish, turtles, shrimps, and crabs he had caught a few days ago. Not far away, his son Iron Hammer was wearing new clothes, hunched over with the Qiao Niang of his neighbor Li Erlang's family, looking at the small fish in the bucket in front of him. The fish was caught by two children together, and they were all pond horn fish in the rice field that no one wanted, although they were not valuable, they always had a little heart for the Bodhisattva.

Next door, Li Er's sister-in-law stood at the door, chattering endlessly about Li Erlang in the door. This couple has been together for thousands of miles, but they still can't change their previous temperament, and they have to be noisy and noisy every day, which is just the opposite of Lin Apeng's quiet temperament.

Life is getting better, Li Erlang's gambling mistake has been committed again, and he secretly goes out to play two games from time to time. No matter how strict Xu Ping quits gambling in Taiping Village, there is always something to ignore, and gamblers can't catch it. Later, I remembered the methods of my previous life, organized the women who had become a family, and gambled with the officials, so that this crooked trend was suppressed.

Li Erniang has been fighting with her husband for more than ten years, and she is the most enthusiastic about gambling, and with the prestige of the government, she completely overwhelmed her husband in terms of momentum at home. Although the two were constantly arguing, they also avoided big trouble.

Lin Apeng shook her head and stepped forward to sort out the burden with her husband. The water was freshly changed, revealing the unique coolness of the mountains, and the fish and shrimp swam around in the bucket, fighting with each other, and the sound of water in the bucket was non-stop. These fish and shrimp are to be released to worship the Bodhisattva, but they dare not have a dead person to blaspheme the gods in it.

After tidying up for a while, Li Erlang and his wife were still arguing endlessly, and they didn't mean to stop.

Lin Apeng looked at the sun, he was about to completely climb to the top of the mountain, and couldn't help shouting to Li's second sister-in-law: "Second sister-in-law, the sun is on the top of the mountain, let's leave quickly!" It's not good to grind at home on these days! ”

Second sister-in-law Li stopped at this time, turned around and said, "Okay, okay, let's go!" ”

turned around and scolded Li Erlang again, only to see Li Erlang come out of the door, and also picked a bucket, still indignant, obviously Li Er's sister-in-law did not scold him.

Li's second sister-in-law locked the door, called the two children, and came to the door of the Lin family with her husband.

Probe to look at the burden of the Lin family, the fish, turtles, shrimps and crabs in it were lively, and Li's second sister-in-law couldn't help but look back to her husband again: "Look at Brother Lin, how many things are in the bucket, there is also excitement, and the heart has arrived, which one is like you!" ”

Li Erlang stiffened his neck and said, "What does my mother-in-law know!" You didn't look at the release of big families, and those rich people were all golden carp weighing a few catties, and hundred-year-old turtles were poured into it bucket by bucket! What scene has the Bodhisattva never seen, and he can fool around by catching some fish in the river? ”

After speaking, he turned the bucket he was carrying and showed it to the forestry couple: "I have two pairs of carp here, both of which are up to one catty, and I didn't catch enough by myself, so I bought them with the fisherman." What a scene! ”

Lin Apeng couldn't help but smile and said: "What the second brother said is also reasonable, she is sincere to the Bodhisattva, how can she be a god who can pick and choose, we just have our hearts." It's not early, let's hit the road. ”

The sun on the horizon had passed the top of the mountain, the golden light dissipated, and the heat rose, and the two families did not dare to delay, the man took the burden and walked in front, and the two women followed behind to watch the child.

Iron Hammer and Qiao Niang carried their little bucket with one hand, and walked in the middle of it. Although they released a small pond fish, the Bodhisattva did not account for these.

The closer you get to the Golden Summit, the denser the flow of people becomes, shoulder to shoulder, and all of them come to their own hearts, and their pious or unpious hearts to commemorate Avalokiteshvara.

Xiuxiu sat on the ox cart, constantly looking left and right, and Liu Xiaomei and Duan Yunjie, who were sitting next to her, commented on the various aquarium they saw, and enjoyed it all the way.

When the sun reached mid-air, it was only at the edge of the release pond under the golden light.

At this time, the pool was already crowded, and the newcomers could only stand outside, unable to squeeze in at all.

Compared with the boiling crowd of people, Master Zhiyun and the little novice beside him seemed a little thin, if they hadn't occupied a good position early and set up a high platform, I was afraid that they wouldn't even be able to see their figures.

The platform is not far away, and the incense table has already been placed, and there is a row of chairs next to it, sitting local figures. Xu Ping was sitting precariously, his eyes narrowed slightly, he didn't pay attention to the crowd around him, he was just thinking about his own thoughts.

Gao Daquan doubled the price of road repair according to the instructions, but he didn't expect that several financiers led by Huang Wei not only did not raise objections, but also added some wages, so that Gao Daquan could speed up the progress and try to repair it as soon as possible. The reason on the surface was that the mountain road was steep, and Master Zhiyun was old and inconvenient to go up and down, but Xu Ping was a little unconvinced. The great monk who came to preach the Dharma is not young, but he cannot be theorized by ordinary people. Master Zhiyun has been traveling for many years, how can he compare with a pampered person, and his skills are also very agile, and that little mountain road is not a problem at all.

This thing is always weird, but Xu Ping can't figure out what the problem is.

Next to Xu Ping, the deputy director of the cane sugar business, promoted Han Zong. After he arrived in Yongzhou, he has been busy in Ruhe County and the newly opened sugarcane fields, and only returned to the lifting division after the sugar extraction season, which is a bit free.

The same promotion sounds similar to the promotion, but in fact it is the deputy of the Eight Classics, and it cannot be compared with the situation of the two chiefs like Tongju and Zhizhou, and it is Xu Ping's subordinates who are completely subordinate. It can also be seen from the official ranks of the two that although Xu Ping is only a Jinshi one year earlier than Han Zong, he has been promoted every year, and the two have already opened a big distance in terms of official rank. Moreover, Han Zong is the nephew of Wang Su in the same year as Xu Ping, this person is also cautious, he has always been respectful to Xu Ping, and he regards himself as a subordinate everywhere in public affairs, and he considers himself a junior when he gets along with Xu Ping in private. After a few months of contact, the two got along very well, and Xu Ping was much more relaxed.

Sitting next to him is Tao Bingzhong, a military minister whose official position is a small envoy, who has little real power, and his relationship with Xu Ping is not as close as others, and he is usually relatively low-key.

Beside Tao Bingzhong, sat Huang Tianbiao, the county lieutenant of Ruhe County, whose position was lower, but today he was high-spirited, full of red light, and his smug expression between the left and right was not concealed.

Xiuxiu walked around the crowd, but couldn't squeeze in, and returned to the ox cart and said to Duan Yunjie: "The officials only care about themselves, and they go inside early to sit, but they don't care about us, we can only go around outside!" ”

Duan Yunjie smiled: "What day is today?" He is a magistrate, how much do you have to do, where is the time to take care of us? The left and right are not bad for this time, just wait slowly. ”

"I'm angry, so when we get to the release pond, the excitement has already passed, and no one will come to see us when we release those fish, how boring is it?"

Duan Yunjie shook her head: "Want to see the excitement?" Don't you see it when you stand on the ox cart! ”

Xiuxiu was impatient, so she had to climb into the ox cart again, and pulled Liu Xiaomei to stand up high together and look inside the crowd.

"Alas, that's not Huang Tianbiao? Why is he so proud? Xiuxiu only glanced at it, and couldn't help but scream. This Huang Tianbiao has not seen him for a few days, and he is getting richer and richer, and he looks like a rich family member from a distance, where is the gag with them before?

Liu Xiaomei pulled Xiuxiu, pointed to the edge of the release pond and said: "Look, there are three big cars there, all of which have flags with the word 'yellow' on them, but I'm afraid that it is the aquarium released by Huang Tianbiao." With such a scale, it is not worse than the release of the official family, no wonder he is so proud! ”

Xiuxiu looked at it, and sure enough, the Huang family's three cars were all big barrels, and they didn't know what strange fish were in them. This Huang Tianbiao is really becoming more and more disagreeable, and he dares to compete with his family for the limelight.

At this time, Xiao Shami said loudly: "The auspicious time has come, the master has already recited the scriptures and blessed the Bodhisattva, it is the time to release the life!" ”

After speaking, he sat down behind Monk Zhiyun and recited the scriptures in a low voice.

When Tan Hu heard this, he hurriedly stepped forward to light incense, burned paper, and asked Xu Ping to come forward to worship.

Xu Ping took several officials from Taipingzhai to worship in front of the incense case, Tan Hu handed over the scroll, Xu Ping took it, unfolded the scroll, and read the blessing respectfully.

This blessing was written by Xu Ping, and it took him a lot of thought. He studied before, and he worked hard towards the entrance examination, but he was really not proficient in these common styles, so he had to copy the blessings made by his predecessors, and asked Duan Yunjie to polish them, so as not to make people feel ugly.

After wishing Wen Nian, it was another ritual of burning incense and burning paper, and then the entourage army came to the pond with a large bucket, and Xu Ping held the bucket to pour the first batch of fish into the release pond.

This bucket is all golden carp more than a foot long, uniform in size, gorgeous in appearance, and it is not easy to put together the whole bucket. The fish poured into the pool, the crowd of onlookers cheered together, and the people standing on the edge of the pool also released the fish in their hands in the pool, which was very lively for a while.

The rest of the fish didn't need Xu Ping's hands, Tan Hu took his buckets and poured them into the pool, and the buckets of hundred-year-old turtles were held high one by one for the people around them to see clearly.

Xu Ping sat on a chair and watched the fish of all colors come back to life in the pool, and there was a kind of joy in his heart. If it is said that in the past days, he ate a lot of these water tribes, in his previous life, many of them were endangered, or even extinct, and he couldn't eat them if he wanted to. has the education of his previous life, and he doesn't believe in any saying about releasing his life and praying for blessings, but because he has to participate in this kind of activity because of his identity, he can't lose the face of the official family. But at this time, infected by the surrounding atmosphere, all kinds of aquarium creatures were put into the pool, and their joy was reflected in Xu Ping's heart.

Tan Hu released the fish prepared by the lifting division, and other people with status stood up one after another and took their families to release the fish they had prepared.

Huang Tianbiao got up slowly, looked left and right, beckoned, and said in a loud voice: "Erlang, push our car over and show your heart to the Bodhisattva!" ”

His men were still the servants of the tribesmen, who had been waiting impatiently, and when he heard the command, he pushed the cart to the edge of the pool, climbed onto the cart, lifted a large bucket, and shouted, "Ten pairs of golden carp weighing five catties!" ”

After shouting, he poured five buckets of fish into the release pond one after another. It turned out that the fish was so big that only one pair could be placed in a bucket, and half a cart was loaded.

Li Erlang was stunned by the pool, and when the people of the Huang family were finished, he turned his head to his wife and the forestry family next to him and said, "Look, look!" What do I say, the release of foreign animals is like this, and the golden carp weighing a few catties is magnificent! ”

After speaking, he picked up the bucket beside him, poured the fish inside into the pool, and said loudly: "Li Erlang, two pairs of golden carp, worship the Bodhisattva!" ”

(Today's holiday, what I owe yesterday has to be made up tomorrow, forgive me-)