Text: Liu Dechang
Figure: From the network
A few days ago, chatting with a colleague, he said that he had a high school classmate, in the senior year, suddenly disappeared out of thin air, there was no news to the family, because their parents had some personal relations, so he knew about this matter, it is said that on the day after the classmate disappeared, his parents went to his home to ask him, and then also reported the case, the police suspected that they were killed. It had been many years since then, and nothing had come of it, and his parents were slowly accepting that the child might not be there.
Listening to my colleagues talk about the sudden disappearance of my classmates, I also remembered a strange incident in our village, a male teacher who had just retired for more than a year suddenly disappeared at noon on December 9, 1998, without leaving a note.
This retired teacher, surnamed Gao, once taught me two years of junior high school physics, so I remember his affairs very deeply, he is still a very responsible person for teaching, very patient with the students' questions, almost did not see him lose his temper, such a kind and gentle person, why did he inexplicably disappear?
At that time, the story of Teacher Gao was widely spread in the village, some people said that he was in the blessing and did not know the blessing, some people said that he may have eloped with a better woman.
Everyone really can't figure out why he disappeared for no reason because of his good family.
In the countryside, Teacher Gao has a retirement salary, both children have graduated from college, the daughter is assigned to work in the city's foreign trade bureau, the son works in the county's justice bureau, Teacher Gao's wife, although not highly educated, is very business-minded, and the bedding store she opens on the street does not make less money. Later, after Teacher Gao retired, his wife also changed the façade and went home to raise with him.
In the eyes of the villagers, his family is simply happy, and it is the ideal state that many people dream of. Such a strange disappearance, everyone can not understand it in any way, he will run away from home silently.
At noon on the day of Teacher Gao's disappearance, her wife had just returned from playing cards at the neighbor's house, and she shouted loudly for her husband to eat, but she did not see any response, at that time she felt that her husband was either going to the town to catch up with the market, or going out with retired old colleagues, and she did not pay attention to it.
Who knows, at night, there was no trace of Teacher Gao, and these wives panicked and hurriedly called the children and some relatives who were more familiar, but the news they got was desperate.
The next day, Teacher Gao still did not return home, his wife and children were anxious like ants on a hot pot, so they went to the town's police station to report the case, and at the same time launched all their relatives and villagers to search, even a few fish ponds in the village were scattered.
Teacher Gao's wife confessed that the husband and wife were separated before they were forty years old, and in the days before he left home, he did not see anything unusual about him, the two people did not quarrel, the possibility of suicide should be unlikely, would the husband lead other women to elope?
However, the people in the village generally believe that it should be the two of them quarreling, and Teacher Gao ran away from home in anger.
For many years after that, for Teacher Gao's affairs, it has always been the talk of the villagers after tea and dinner, and Teacher Gao's wife, since her husband disappeared, she went to look for her every day like crazy, her life has completely changed, people have become weak, her children want to take her to the city to live, but she insists on staying in the countryside, she has always had the psychology of luck, hoping that her husband will suddenly return one day.
There is no one to be seen in life, and no body is seen in death. Teacher Gao's wife went out every day with hope and returned with disappointment. I've seen her a few times later, and it's heart-wrenching to look at her haggard look.
The rings of the years, crossing one ring after another, unconsciously, sixteen years of time, became a shadow. Since Teacher Gao's unsuccessful search in many ways, his family finally stopped running.
Just when people gradually forgot about this matter, suddenly one day someone found his whereabouts.
In the autumn of 2014, Boss Liu, who set up a factory in our village in the town, took his wife and son to Xinzhou City, Shanxi Province, for a tour, and when he was wandering around the Foguang Temple in Wutai Mountain, he suddenly saw a familiar figure, although he was dressed in a robe and had a bald head, but the look and demeanor were still so familiar.
Therefore, he couldn't help but look at it twice, and when he fixed his eyes on it, he was surprised to find that the person in front of him was almost exactly the same as the missing teacher Gao in the village. Worried about recognizing the wrong person, he did not take the liberty of asking directly forward, but shouted "Gao Xianyi Ang", and did not expect the monk to return his head conditionally. Then the monk hurried into the main hall and could no longer be seen.
Boss Liu didn't find it for half a day, and he thought that he was thinking too much, or if he was looking at the flowers.
After returning home, Boss Liu told Teacher Gao's wife about his experience on Mount Wutai, and upon hearing the news, Teacher Gao's wife immediately took her children and drove to Xinzhou, Shanxi, to search carefully in the Foguang Temple, and finally found her husband who had been missing for many years.
When the wife saw the teacher Gao who had not been seen for many years, she suddenly cried, and the years of grievances made her unable to suppress the grief in her heart, and the wife cried loudly and asked him why he was so desperate and let himself and his children live such a torturous life?
But at this moment, Teacher Gao was full of calm, no matter how they persuaded, he was not moved, he said that he had been a monk for many years, took refuge in Buddhism, only wanted to purify all sentient beings, did not want to be contaminated with the world, and in the end, Teacher Gao's wife and children returned without success. But fortunately, knowing that he is still alive, it is also reassuring.
On the fourth day after the Spring Festival of the previous year, Teacher Gao's mother died, and his family informed him to go home for the funeral, but he did not return. From then on, the people in his family were completely dead to Teacher Gao and never bothered his cultivation again.
After I knew this incident, my heart was particularly uncomfortable, Teacher Gao left home to go to the monastery, it was his own choice, he had decided to go, no one could stop it, but as a retired teacher who taught and educated people, he left silently, such an approach, people can not accept, but also unbelievable.
Pudu sentient beings may be great love, but also the ideal realm that Teacher Gao pursues, but his actions have deeply hurt his parents, wives and children, and I would like to ask, who does not even care about his own relatives, where can his great love begin?