Manman gave her best friend a blank look, paid the money, asked the salesperson to wrap the items in cloth, and then returned to the hall. Chuxia followed her, knowing that her trip was sincere and did not dare to joke around anymore.

After venering to Buddha, then venerating Guanyin. This is the rule.

In front of the Guanyin statue, hold the objects of prayer with your hands, and look up at Guanyin with devoutly standing.

The Bodhisattva has a solemn face and a compassionate expression.

Manman knelt for a long time.

Chuxia was standing near her, but she didn't know what she had communicated with the Bodhisattva. The summer in the hall was hot, and the light reflection of the bronze statue seemed to fall on Manman's forehead, with a few crystal beads of sweat condensed on it. The pair of large black-framed glasses on Manman's nose were covered with layers of fog, surrounded by countless sandalwood in the hall, and it was like clouds and fog, as if it was separated by a barrier. Manman's thin lips, perhaps, only the Bodhisattva could hear her silent heart.

In the end, Manman kowtowed three times.

After getting up, I kept receiving the items in my close-fitting clothes.

After leaving the Yonghe Palace Hall, Chuxia spoke with a hint of emotion: "I didn't expect you to be quite sincere to Buddha?"

Manman is a new human being, and has no religious beliefs, but said, "In the past, my father asked for Buddha."

This dad is naturally not Commander Lu, an atheist.

"I don't know that Uncle Wen is actually a Buddhist." Chu Xia let out a slow and surprised exclaim.

"My father is not a Buddhist, but when people have no choice, they can only try to ask for the gods." Manman is quite realistic. Since she is powerless in reality, it is not impossible to rely on the gods to treat dead horses as living horses. Like her father, she had no choice but to hold her sick and ask for Buddha and herbs so that she can live to this day.

Chu Xia thought he was an ordinary person, and he was not superstitious about things like gods but was awe of them, which was similar to Manman's idea. But when he thought of Manman's other family, he said, "Your father Wen believes in things like asking God and worship Buddha, your father Lu, your brother, will definitely criticize you."

Therefore, if Manman asks for the gods, if he gives it to Wen Dad, and if he gives it to the Lu family, he will never tell the way out.

Chuxia was worried about it because Manman was looking for it for him.

"If you don't say it, who knows." Manman squinted at his best friend, threatening and threatening.

"How could I say it?" Chu Xia put on a stinking face, "Who are you and I? I am on the same boat, your business is mine."

When they walked out of the Yonghe Palace gate, the two of them did not rush to stop the car because Du Yu called his wife and said he was worried about his wife, and had something to say to Manman, and now he drove over to pick them up.

On the street outside Yonghe Palace, the most people sell incense and fortune telling. They have already sacrificed incense and are not interested in buying incense, but some are more concerned about fortune telling. Moreover, Chuxia has always had a special liking for fortune telling.

Pulled aside by an old uncle pretending to be a ghost, the pretentious fortune teller began to comment on Chu Xia’s facial features: “You are high, you are wise and wise. You must be a leader in the company, commonly known as a white-collar worker.”

Chuxia used to be a young leader when she was working in the company. If she hadn't come out with her husband, the prospect of promotion would not be a big problem. However, after the fortune teller said that, she asked Manman's makeup mirror and touched her forehead: "Is my forehead high? Don't people say that women with high forehead high look like monkeys, are they ugly?"

Manman almost burst into laughter.

The fortune teller blushed and pretended to be serious and continued to explain: "Who said it? In history, Queen Wu Zetian had a high forehead and was called a beauty."

This is definitely a stunning move for two women who learn Chinese Chinese painting and art.

"Wu Zetian is a beauty, and history calls it beauty. But the queen has a square forehead and wide erection, not a high forehead." The voice of Manman was neither high nor low, but she held an absolute professional prestige. "If you don't understand, you can go to Longmen Grottoes to see it. There is a Buddha statue there that is said to be carved according to Wu Zetian's face."

A few words refuted the fortune teller to disappointment. He knew that he was facing two women with knowledge and culture today, and it was difficult to fool him, so he confiscated a penny and left in shame.

Chuxia felt so boring, and she said: "I originally wanted to be a fool, and I was deceived by someone. Maybe I was in a good mood after being deceived, and good luck came one after another."

"It's just a joke, why take it seriously?" Manman pulled her, found a place where trees could enjoy the shade, and waited for Du Yu.

The two sat down and chatted while drinking water.

Chu Xia said that no one who can tell fortunes himself does selling things himself and asks customers to come to visit him.

Manman shook her head, wondering what kind of demon she had been hit. Maybe before she came, she heard that many people said that Yonghegong was very smart and had a fantasy.

Sitting next to them was an elderly monk with a bald head, half-white bearded eyebrows, a monk's gray robe, and a hat on his feet, which looked decent.

When Manman wanted to take out a tissue to wipe her face, she fell off and turned around to pick it up, and looked at the monk.

The monk, at first glance, caught a glance at her and accidentally exposed half of the fairy peach jade pendant in her underwear when she bent down, and said, "Donor, can you lend me the jade pendant?"

When Chu Xia heard this, she hurriedly grabbed her best friend and whispered: "Be careful to be cheated."

Manman felt it didn't matter, because the jade pendant was not the real one, so he asked the monk: "Master, do you recognize this jade pendant?"

"The old monk seemed to have seen it before."

"Where have you seen it?" Chu Xia interjected, always worried that his best friend would be deceived.

"The old monk comes from Mount Wutai, Manjushri Bodhisattva's temple. In order to pray for the wisdom of his children and grandchildren, some parents will come to Manjushri Bodhisattva to seek consecration of objects." When the old monk smiled, the lines were soft, with all the compassionate power, and it looked like a Buddha's face.

Manman and Chuxia both looked at him with a slightly surprised look.

"Then what are you doing in the capital?" Chu Xia asked.

"According to the Buddha's instructions, go to the capital to beg for alms and recognize those who are destined to be." said the old monk.

"Begging for alms is not near your temple. I came to the capital because the people in the capital are relatively rich." Chu Xia thought that he had seized the other party's handle of lying, so he made a big fuss.

At this time, Manman patted his best friend's hand and apologized to the old monk: "My friend was just deceived by a fortune teller, so he was very angry and misunderstood the master. Please understand."

"It's okay." The old monk was very lenient, "But please understand that fortune telling is not a Buddhist."

"But, aren't people going to the temple to petition the Bodhisattva for a signature?" Chu Xia always held a fierce rebuttal attitude towards the monk's words, feeling that the other party was just quibbling.

"Wrong." The old monk did not argue, and his attitude was still kind. "It is not a Buddhist to ask for a signature, and the words written on the signature are not Buddhist scriptures. There is no doubt about this. However, petitioning depends on what wish is. If it is a selfish behavior that goes against the Buddhist purpose, it is definitely not the scope of Buddhist education. Buddhist disciples seeking Buddha is chanting Buddha, not asking Buddha to do their own things."

Just listening to the old monk's words, I could feel deeply that this person would not be a liar who cheated. Manman took off the jade pendant from his neck and handed it to the other party, saying, "Master, look, is this jade pendant something you have seen?"

The old monk did not take the jade pendant, but just looked at the jade on Manman's palm in his hand under the sun, and finally said, "The style is very similar, but it should not be the same thing."

When Manman heard this, she believed that the old monk must have known about the true immortal peach jade pendant back then, and asked in detail: "Master, I'm not to hide it. I know there is a jade pendant that is exactly the same as this thing. I wonder if the master can tell me what the master encountered back then?"

Hearing this, the old monk looked up and down at Manman and gently said, "It looks a bit like."

"What's a bit like?" Chu Xia was anxious when she was listening, and she saw that her best friend seemed to believe in this "liar".

"The face is a bit like the female donor who came to ask for this thing." said the old monk.

According to what I heard from Sister Yun, this thing was given by Grandma Yao of the Yao family.

Does she look like the grandmother of the Yao family?

Manman was confused and asked in detail: "Does the master remember the origin of the female donor?"

"I remember that because he was a generous donor, he donated a sum of money to build a temple at that time, which was very generous. It was a pity that he didn't want to leave his name." The old monk sighed and recited scriptures and Buddha again, saying, "A good person does good deeds without leaving his name, and he will definitely be summoned by the Buddha and enter the Pure Land after his death."

That is to say, this person is dead?

Du Yu's car drove across the street, and because there was a guardrail in the middle, he had to turn around and drive far away. Chuxia pulled Manman up, and Manman didn't even have time to say thanks to the master, but was rushed away by his best friend.

"Don't be stupid, I've been deceived once, do you still believe what he said? Be careful that he is a trap, put you in, and then cheat you into it." Chu Xia educated Manman all the way.

Manman was pretending to be in her heart and did not argue with her. When she got to the opposite side of the road, before getting in the car, she looked back and saw that the old monk was no longer under the tree where she was enjoying the cool air. Looking around, there was no one in sight.

Chuxia became even more proud: "Look, I just said it was a liar. I couldn't deceive people, so I had to close the stall and run away."

Manman tightly held the jade pendant in her hand and lowered her head to get into the car.

On the way, Chu Xia was impatient to tell her husband about the two of them having sex with each other today. At the end of the day, she mentioned Manman again: "Why do you have to be serious when Manman told me before? I saw that the old monk had all been hooked away. It was obvious that half of the monk's eyebrows were painted with white powder."

Du Yu, who was driving, has always been displeased with his wife's passionate and generous words. He looked at Manman in the back seat from the mirror in front of the car, for fear that his wife would inevitably get angry with Manman if she continued to talk. He bypassed the topic and said, "Manman, do you know who I met in the capital the day before yesterday?"

"Her brother met an acquaintance?" Manman asked.

"That's right, I met your senior brother Wang Xuebin." Du Yu shook out his name.

Wang Xuebin was very impressed by Manman, but he didn't always have an impression. He remembered this person when he talked to Chuxia last time about having an affair. In my memory, this senior brother was good at painting. The painting beauties and Chinese flower peony were exhibited as first-class exhibitions held in the school, which was greatly appreciated by teachers and students. This senior brother was also surprised that in addition to painting, he liked to raise dogs and cats. Perhaps people who like to raise small animals were very compassionate. Wang Xuebin actively participated in volunteer organizations and organized many charity activities such as charity donations. In the school, he was a well-known activist, which was surprising because he was obviously a silent person who didn't like to talk. Later, when Wang Xuebin graduated, he had to take a group of junior brothers and junior sisters to complete the last great task before leaving school, which led to Manman and Chuxia.

Du Yu is already a person with extensive social interactions in school. Wang Xuebin has to have some contacts like this, but he is basically a common friend. In addition, after graduation, Wang Xuebin is not sure where he is going, and it is a mystery in school.

"Senior brother, why did you meet him in the capital?" Manman and Chuxia were both very curious.

It is really a fate to meet an old classmate who has never been in contact with him.

Du Yu looked at this question very easily: "Where is the capital? People are outstanding and outstanding, and everyone has it. It is not surprising to meet friends here. But then again, it is a bit interesting to meet Wang Xuebin."

"What's the meaning?"

"I met him in front of the restaurant we were going to open."

Wang Xuebin knew that they were going to open a restaurant to find them? Isn’t it amazing?

"Of course it's impossible to know in advance that we opened the restaurant." Du Yu said in confusion, "He is looking for a job with his friends. According to his own words, he is a Turtle Sect. Before, after graduation, he has been mingling abroad. M did not tell anyone because he felt that going abroad was not a glamorous thing. He was not studying abroad, but was sent out as an overseas migrant worker. He did design work, and it has a lot to do with the catering industry we were about to start."

"He is a chef in the design?" Chu Xia raised his eyebrows. There are so many painters changing careers these days, and she and Manman are not out of date.

"No." Du Yu smiled, "He doesn't have Manman's cooking skills. But he is also versatile. Besides, the art industry is closely related to other industries. He mainly designs restaurants and expands business. Like me, he started marketing, advertising planning, and event planning. You all know that he is a student union cadre in school. He is resourceful and has leadership skills. He was soon appreciated by a boss and learned the management of restaurants."

"Since you're doing so well, why are you returning to China?" Chu Xia frowned. Why do you feel that everyone is doing better than them?

"You don't know that the developed countries overseas are in a depressed economy, but our domestic situation has been very good for many years, and the country stimulates the economy." Du Yu said, "He said he made a fortune and wanted to come back to find market investment while he was young. Domestic investment is always cheaper than foreign investment capital. In other words, it is much easier to be a nouveau riche in China than abroad, and there are not so many regulations and laws and regulations."

When Manman heard this, she raised her eyebrows slightly: As my senior brother Du Yu said, it is quite interesting to meet Wang Xuebin now. Because the restaurant is going to be on track, I don’t know how much investment it will take in the early investment. If you can attract a reliable person to invest, wouldn’t it be great? I don’t know if Wang Xuebin hasn’t seen him for so many years, so is it still reliable?

"I saw that he had a suit and tie. His conversation was more broad than when he was in school, but his temperament had not changed much. He didn't like to talk, which made me feel that he had not changed in his bones. And according to him, he raised a dog after returning to China. Of course, I didn't rush to tell him about financing, you have to decide for yourself." Du Yu was very happy, fortunately, he knew his position at all times and places, and he would never go off the line. However, it was not an excuse to be afraid of taking responsibility. On the contrary, he always tried his best to make suggestions for others.

Manman always believed in Du Yu's advice for more than 80% of the time. Even if he didn't believe it, he was definitely not that he didn't believe in Du Yu's character, but that he was worried about negligence. Du Yu has always been meticulous in his work and never made suggestions easily. I think before Du Yu said this to her, he mentioned that Wang Xuebin, whom he met the day before yesterday, showed that he had conducted a private investigation on Wang Xuebin in the past two days and only dared to tell her if the situation was confirmed to be true.

"Senior brother, if you think it's OK, I can't get some time in the past two days. You can talk to him on my behalf. After a successful negotiation, Aunt Tan also thinks it's OK and sign a contract."

It is not a big deal for Jun Ye to go abroad, but it is judging by how often Jun Ye goes abroad.

The plane that is expected to take at 3:00 pm will depart at 1:00 noon.

After lunch, the Lu family went back to their rooms to rest for a while. After that, Lu Huan accompanied Mrs. Lu to wash dishes in the kitchen, but Commander Lu did not come back at the unit. As usual, Jun Ye carried a bag of luggage and said to his mother: "Mom, I'm leaving."
To be continued...