Chapter 275 Mother-in-law and Auntie
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Deep in the temple.
There is no Buddha.
There is an old woman.
The years have carved many marks on her body.
However, her every move still makes people feel some indescribable beauty.
It is probably what it means that beauty
lies in the bones, not in the skin. For some beauties, beauty radiates from the bones. With beautiful bones, it seems that the skin does not need to be cared about.
Mianmian rarely sees people stringing beads.
There are embroidered ones.
But stringing beads is also normal. Buddhist beads cannot grow on trees. They have to be polished from seeds or fruits into beads, and then strung together with thread. It looks simple, but if someone is good at matching, it will look good if they choose different beads to match.
Mianmian walked up to the old woman and saw her holding a string of Buddhist beads.
After the family conditions improved, her aunt taught her every day and also trained her eyesight a little.
The beads in the hands of the old woman in front of me feel very expensive.
The Buddha beads are soapberries, which are used as Buddha beads probably because the name sounds nice, "no worries", "safe and sound", and they are used as Buddha beads.
In fact, soapberries themselves are also very good, containing rich soap bases. Rub the soapberry shells and you will get bubbles, which makes your hands clean. So wearing soapberries contains rich soap bases, which is equivalent to wearing a string of soap? ?
This string of soapberries is evenly sized, dense and beautiful.
It looks even better with the beads. There is a golden top bead with a coiled dragon on it, and two dragons on a golden bead, the dragon claws are lifelike, and the dragon face is very vivid.
And the dragon was not an ornamental carving that ordinary people could use in this era.
So the old woman in front of me is related to the royal family.
She may be a royal nanny.
Just like my great-aunt.
In addition to the golden dragon-shaped beads, there are also large pearls, a green and flowing peace buckle, a red coral carved into a bat, a large Dongzhu carved with double blessings, and a water drop-shaped pendant like green and flowing water.
When Mianmian came over, she had already put on half of it.
Watching the old woman pick up the beads and put them on very skillfully.
Then she tied the knot, very skilled, and this knot cannot be made without putting on hundreds of strings.
Without beads, the rope is entangled in her hands, and the knot that comes out is very beautiful when it falls in one piece.
Mianmian will pay special attention to people with flexible fingers.
Just like the little hands of my aunt, she is also good at delivering babies.
The hands of the old woman in front of me are as flexible as my aunt.
Sure enough, the old people in ancient times were all treasures, with rich life experience. It is amazing that they can live so long.
Mianmian walked forward and sat quietly watching the old woman threading the beads and tying the knots. The old woman looked up at her.
"Whose child are you from?" the old woman asked.
The old woman's voice was hoarse and not pleasant, as if her vocal cords were injured. Her voice was very rough, but her expression was very gentle.
"I'm from my father's and mother's family." Jiang Mianmian said.
The old woman: ...
"You look a lot like an old friend of mine."
Jiang Mianmian nodded: "Then your old friend must be very beautiful."
The old woman smiled.
Yes, her old friend was very beautiful.
She looked at herself stringing beads for a long time, and asked again: "Do you like this?"
Jiang Mianmian nodded: "Grandma, you string it very beautifully, you have a good eye, and you match it very well."
The old woman was stunned for a long time at the title of grandma.
The smile seemed to be gone.
"At first it was a string of soapberries, but I thought it was too monotonous so I added a gold bead, and then I added an emerald ring, coral, and pearls. Every time I added a new bead, I had to string it all over again."
Jiang Mianmian nodded seriously.
Seeing her nod seriously, the old woman couldn't help but ask, "What did you hear?"
"Grandma, you are very rich, very idle, and very bored."
The old woman: ... broken.
Where did this little brat come from?
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Mianmian wanted to talk a little more.
But then her mother came over and dragged her away.
"Auntie, sorry, we have something else to do, so we're leaving first." Qin Luoxia dragged the child away without saying anything.
She had just been discussing the ritual with the monks in the temple, and they had agreed to perform a ritual for one day, three days, nine days, or forty-nine days.
Although I have money now, it doesn't come easily.
I always feel a little bit embarrassed to give it to these bald monks, and I'm not sure whether the rituals are useful.
But in order to reassure my brother, I still generously chose a nine-day ritual.
Before I die, I will remind my children to do it for one day, oh no, three days will be enough.
Don't spend too much money, it's a waste.
I chose to do a nine-day ritual, and then I chose to light an everlasting lamp.
An everlasting lamp is to light a lamp that is always on, and they will help add incense oil every day. I chose this for one year first, and plan to continue it year after year.
Qin Luoxia thinks that they are fine and the lamp can be lit.
If they are all not fine, there will definitely be no one to renew the lamp.
So let it be.
But the wall of ever-burning lamps is very beautiful, a whole wall of lights, the flames flickering, it seems like there are souls trembling.
Discuss the matters.
Turning around, the kid is gone.
Qin Luoxia asked Congge'er to go with the monk to look at the arrangements for the ritual, worried that the other party would cut corners and prepare inappropriate things. Whether you can understand it or not, you will feel better if you follow along.
It was originally a very sad thing, but Congheng, who was given the task, felt serious and full of fireworks.
Aunt Qin always lives a lively life.
Maybe Mianmian is more like an aunt.
Qin Luoxia went out to look for her daughter.
She walked around the temple for a whole circle, but didn't see Mianmian.
Although Mianmian is playful, she shouldn't run away without saying hello.
Qin Luoxia was a little panicked and looked more carefully.
Suddenly she felt that something was wrong with a place.
At first glance, it seemed like there was no way out.
The layout seemed different, like hide-and-seek. It seemed
ordinary but also like a corner.
It seemed to be a different world.
It felt like a master's jungle.
There was a sense of excitement as if you were hunting in the forest, with prey everywhere.
There was a tiger hiding here, a bear hiding there, and a python hanging on the tree.
Qin Luoxia stepped in and looked around.
After judging the fighting power,
she should be able to defeat them alone.
But it would be difficult to bring Mianmian and Congge'er with her.
And generally, there should be no need for fighting.
Try not to fight if you can.
After all, this is a temple.
It feels like they are not ambushing her on purpose.
The aura is different.
Despite this, facing the unknown situation where she cannot 100% kill the opponent and escape unscathed, Qin Luoxia still feels that she should be more cautious.
When she turned in, she saw her cub.
He was talking to an old woman.
The old woman didn't look very good.
Qin Luoxia saw that the encirclement was circling around the old woman.
She pretended to be indifferent and walked into the encirclement, then grabbed the kid's arm, and greeted him with a big smile on her face: "Auntie, my daughter is ignorant and disturbed you. I'm taking her away now."
In fact, she had already used force.
Mianmian felt that her mother was a little nervous, as if she was going to hit her normally, and she became obedient unconsciously.
She waved goodbye to the old woman: "Goodbye
, mother-in-law." "Auntie, we're leaving. We'll come again next time."
Qin Luoxia smiled and dragged her child away.
Princess Huiyun, who was called mother-in-law and auntie on the left and right, was left with a pale face.
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Normally, although she was in Tai'a Temple, outsiders could not enter.
Here, a master set up a trick, a very advanced trick.
Children are innocent and it's OK for them to come in for no reason.
Because here, there will also be ignorant rabbits or something that come in.
Some children are particularly focused and innocent, so it's possible for them to come in.
But then another middle-aged woman came in.
She took her child away while chatting.
Did the deception outside disappear? What
shocked Princess Huiyun the most was that her, mother-in-law? Auntie?
Ah...
the beads on her hand that she had been stringing for the whole morning were gone.
She just remembered that the person called her auntie, and she was so surprised that the beads fell into the hands of the child.
The child grabbed the beads and said with an embarrassed look: "Thank you, grandma."
Then he took out a piece of wood from his pocket and handed it to her, saying: "You can smell it if you can't sleep, it can calm your mind."
If the jadeite and coral in her hand had not turned into a piece of wood, Princess Huiyun would have thought that everything just now was an illusion.
At this moment, her mind was full of grandma, aunt, aunt, grandma... thinking of Shark Man!!!
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