The old street is parallel to Xinjiang, and shops on both sides of the paved road are next to each other. Woodware shops are all front shops and back shops. From Ipoh Street and Bauer Street to the end of Sanbao Street. There is a 30-meter-long street with only half shops, and there are no houses on the edge of Xinjiang. Standing half a street, you can directly see Jiushi Mountain on the other side and Tian Ru Temple, a thousand-year-old temple halfway up the mountain. The activities of pilgrims in the temple can be seen in a panoramic view, and the chanting sound can also float across the river, melodious with the wind. Half-street legend about this strange phenomenon is that Ge Xianweng made a sacred move to save a family boy.
It was in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. At the end of Sanbao Street, there is a shop named "Yuanchang", which deals in Guanshan paper, Shi Lian paper and wool paper, which are the specialties of lead mountain. The owner of this shop is a villager named Yu Chen Fang. Yu Yuanchang was only 15 years old when he came to Hekou with his parents, and his parents took him to help. At the age of 20, I started my own business and started to play around. After nearly 20 years of hard work, Xiao Ben has brought wealth because of his good management, honesty and friendliness. The paper shop has developed from a small shop to a large paper company that manages hundreds of thousands of homemade paper every year. The ancestral earth wall shack was also demolished and a new brick house facing south was built. Named "Yuanchang Paper Firm". On one side of the front hall is a row of counting rooms with high counters, on the other side are several master chairs and coffee tables, and the left warehouse outside the gate stores paper goods. The warehouse faces the river wharf. When business was booming, several sailboats docked at the port of the freight yard to receive goods and ship them. Across the street is Yuanchang Paper. They are all blacksmiths, southern grocery stores, fireworks and tailors.
Dean Yu is a businessman, but he is not mercenary. He is modest and honest, charitable, open-minded and generous, and often does good deeds. Boss Yu will try his best to help people in need, often regardless of money. Over time, people honored him as "Jade" and his wife, Chen Ye, was a devout Buddhist. "Amitabha, Amitabha ..." is often mentioned. Mrs. Yu has a good relationship with her neighbors, and her smile is always on her lips, so she is well received in this street.
One winter morning, it was very cold. Yuan Chang, the boss, came to Bauer Street. Suddenly, he saw a beggar in his 60s, dressed in rags and pale, sitting on the steps of a drugstore in He Jinli. He stretched out his withered left hand, longing for passers-by to beg for alms, and few people paid attention to people walking around. Seeing the sudden compassion, Boss Yu hurried to a bun shop not far away, bought 10 big buns, and said in the beggar's hand, "Don't go, I'll go home and get you some clothes to wear!" He put aside the urgent things to do and hurried home. He said to his wife, "Hurry up and find some good clothes for a poor old man!" " My wife has always been gentle and virtuous, obedient to her husband. She immediately found several sets of semi-old winter clothes, took a pair of washed rubber shoes, made a big package out of an old cloth, and went to Bauer Street with her husband to give the package to a beggar she had never met before. The beggar's eyes suddenly lit up and he looked at the couple for a few minutes. Passers-by in the street gathered around and praised boss Yuanchang's righteous act of helping the poor.
It is said that the three generations of the Yu family passed down to the Yuanchang generation, and it took more than 10 years for the couple to have a baby. The middle-aged son was very happy, so he named him Yu Chuanbao, which means that the Yu family has been handed down from generation to generation. Chuanbao was very healthy after his birth, and there was nothing wrong with him. It was not until he was more than two years old that he gradually discovered that Chuan Baoxue could not speak and stumbled. The couple began to feel abnormal after giving birth, so they panicked. Without delay, Yuanchang's boss began to seek medical advice everywhere and invited the best doctors to see him at home. After a few months, the treatment effect was not good, and Chuanbao's condition became more and more serious. The couple are in a hurry. Mrs. Yu even went to a nearby temple to ask Xiang to worship Buddha and pray for the blessing of Bodhisattva.
Later, neighbors advised him to go to "Gexian Mountain" and ask Gexian Weng to bless him. In order to catch up with the opening of Ge Xianshan on June 2 1 this year, Mr. Yu left only the accountant to look after the store, and left on June 20 with his wife, son, and more than 20 employees and apprentices, in order to grab the first incense after Ge Xianshan opened the door. Dude, the disciples set out from the estuary with more than 10 floats, carrying dozens of pounds of fine tea oil, incense sticks, firecrackers, fine wool paper and many other incense materials. Go along Ganmin Road to the famous temple Gexian Mountain. Mrs Yu is sitting on another float with her son in her arms. Boss Yu came all the way with his son. After a journey of more than 10 hours, they settled in Yangcun at the foot of Gexian Mountain. At three o'clock the next morning, they began to climb the mountain. Finally, I arrived at the mountain gate at six o'clock in the morning to present scented oil candle paper to Ge Xianweng. The couple knelt at Ge Xianweng's feet in Daxiong Hall, bowed down and begged Ge Xianweng to save his son, and made a vow to take his son into the mountains to visit Ge Xianweng every year. Under the guidance of the host monk Lingxiu, Yu Xiansheng and his wife drew lots. After several requests, he got the sign of 10 1. Master Lingxiu said happily that this is the appearance of Ge Xianweng. Initially, there were only 65,438+000 signs. Ge Xianweng added another sign to you, and did as the Bodhisattva instructed. He took the signature drawn from "Gexianshan" and asked the cashier to cancel.
10 1 The sign reads: "The sun rises in Jiang Shuiping, and Buddhist scriptures are heard in the north in the morning and evening. Breaking regrets and venting are pure; Pointing at the sun cloud as before. " Mr. Accountant said to Boss Yu, "This is Ge Xianweng's special sign, because there are only 100 at most in the temple, and the extra sign is Ge Xianweng's special sign. It is said that the red sun rises in Jiang Shuiping. It is said that the river in front of the house rises towards the rising sun and flows slowly. This is Ge Xianweng's comforting words, which means that the child will be fine after illness, so don't be afraid. The second sentence is to listen to the Buddhist scriptures in the north in the morning and evening, and to hear the chanting from the north in the morning and evening. I listened to the voice of chanting Buddhist scriptures, purified my soul, broke my regret, raised righteousness in my heart and purified my soul. This is the third solution. The fourth sentence says: the sun is as sunny as ever, which means that your son will be able to return to his normal life before long. Chang Yuan, the boss, was overjoyed and thanked Ge Xianweng again and again.
Another morning in early winter, Chang Yuan opened the shop door and saw a gray-haired old man sitting at the door of the shop, reaching out and begging. Without saying anything, Yuanchang's boss ordered someone to send breakfast to the old man and told his wife to take good care of him before leaving. When he came home at night, the old man didn't mean to leave. His wife said, "The old man didn't leave after breakfast, so he set an old man's chair for him to sit on and made him lunch and dinner." "Chang Yuan nodded with satisfaction:" If you come, please let the old man in! " But the old man refused.
The next morning, the old man came again. Chang Yuan can see from his clothes that this old man is the one he helped in Bauer Street two years ago. Today, he came to see Chang Yuan's boss wearing the clothes Chang Yuan gave him. He said: "I can help treat your son's illness, and good people will be rewarded!" " "Say he took out a piece of charcoal from his pocket, squatted on the ground and wrote on the slate. A few lines of crooked words don't look like words, and the symbols don't look like symbols for everyone to see-monk Zhang Er is puzzled. When he saw Chang Yuan's puzzled expression, he smiled and said, "If you go to the drugstore and invite others, he will understand! Take it for a month according to the prescription, but the child should listen to the voice of Buddhist chanting at home every morning and evening, and at the same time cooperate with the medicine. After two or three months, your son's condition will definitely improve, and it will be fine in half a year. " Chang Yuan and his wife were overjoyed and thanked the old man! When he left, Chang Yuan took out 20 silver dollars, which was rejected by the old man. As long as the old man took the knife and even said on the history paper that he wanted to draw a Buddha statue, he left.
The excited couple didn't dare to neglect, so they rushed to the drugstore and invited the owner, Boss He. Boss He carefully looked at the words on the slate, nodded and said, "This is a special prescription written during the Three Kingdoms period. I know a little, I can try. " Boss He translated the prescription according to the charcoal font on the ground. * * * There are 10 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines, and He Jinli drugstore. He also told Yuanchang that he needed three kinds of medicine primers: "A heart for an old muscovy duck over five years old, a worm eating empty mung bean shells for a dollar, and a moss on a rock wall in a deep mountain." After the Chinese medicine is bought, the guys in Yuanchang store are responsible for finding three kinds of medicine respectively.
Medicine and medicine primer were ready soon, but the most difficult thing was to let my son listen to the sound of chanting at the temple across the river at home in the morning and evening. Because there is a house across the street, it is difficult to hear the voice of chanting on the other side. Only when the northwest wind blows can you hear the sound of morning bells, drums and chanting from Tian Ru Temple intermittently. Every morning and evening, my family sits at the door with Bao in their arms, and the opposite house blocks the spread of sound, so I can't hear the sound of chanting most of the time. To this end, Chang Yuan and his wife are very anxious and embarrassed to say it. This scene was soon known by several old neighbors across the street. After careful consideration, they put forward a method that surprised and moved the boss of Yuanchang and his family. They volunteered to demolish the house to make room for the daily chanting of the "Tian Ru Temple" believers, and sent it directly to Yuanchang's home.
Blacksmith Zhang is the most active. He said: "My family has received the greatest financial support from Boss Yu. On that hot day, my 90-year-old mother died suddenly, and I worked in other places for some reasons, so I won't be able to come back for a while. It was boss She who funded Shoufang to help with the funeral. Boss Yu is in trouble today. I must help. We moved down to build a new house, which didn't affect business at all. "
Several other neighbors said that Boss Yu was a good man. He was charitable and did many good things, and we all benefited from him. Such a good person, if the family is in trouble and the neighbors don't help him, who else will help us? So, five or six neighborhoods chose another address to rebuild their new houses and reopen them downstream. Boss Yu's whole family was moved and gave each family a large amount of compensation for demolition. Thank the neighbors again and again.
Since then, this section of street has become a half street with no houses in the south and no one in the north, facing Xinjiang and the Millennium "Tian Ru Ancient Temple". Mr. and Mrs. Yuanchang hold their son's baby to the door every morning and evening, listening to the long chanting sound from the "Tian Ru Ancient Temple". From then on, as soon as Chuanbao listened to the chanting, he would immediately calm down, stop fidgeting and gradually calm down. In addition, with the cooperation of taking medicine, Chuanbao's condition is getting better and better. After half a year, Yu Chuanbao finally recovered from his illness and was as lively and lovely as a normal child. Mr. and Mrs. Yuanchang were so happy that all the neighbors were happy for Yuanchang's boss. It was later said that this old man was the incarnation of Ge Xianweng. Help good people wholeheartedly.
At the same time, the business of Yuanchang PaperNo. is becoming more and more prosperous, and it has to receive several customers from inside and outside the province all day long. They are all here for Shi Lian Paper and Guanshan Paper. A large number of paper products are loaded on the Xinjiang River in front of the door. Shanxi merchants from Shanxi said that there was an old painter who painted "Tathagata", which was very kind. Whoever invites the Buddha to his home will surely have a safe and early birth. So there was a crazy scene of "Buddha statue is hard to find" in the local area. The old man told everyone that only the "Shi Lian Paper" painted Buddha statue produced by Dachang Paper Company in Sanbao Street, Hekou Town, Lead Mountain, Jiangxi Province will show its spirit. As a result, there has been a scene of "Luoyang paper is expensive" and "even history is hard to find" in Shanxi. Shanxi businessmen come to lead mountain to purchase goods. At that time, Yuanchang Paper was in full swing, and the sales of Shi Lian Paper and Guanshan Paper doubled. In addition, boss Yu is honest and genuine, with more and more customers and better business. Chang Yuan and his wife are more keen on charity. They have done many good things, such as building bridges and roads, building docks and helping the poor. People praised boss Yu as a bodhisattva.
Since then, a section of Sanbao Street in Hekou Ancient Town has been called "Half Street", which has been passed down from generation to generation and continues to this day.