101 Buddha Beads

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Wang Taiyi is a famous calligraphy and painter in the country. He was good at painting horses and lived to the age of 85.

On this day, a courier brother knocked on the door and asked Wang Taiyi to sign for a courier. It was a large envelope. Wang Taiyi weighed it and carefully cut it open with scissors.

It was a pale yellow bead as big as a pink nail. Wang Taiyi put the bead in the palm of his hand and turned it around, but he couldn't see anything. He picked up the envelope, which had only the crooked address and name of the recipient, and he didn't even know who sent it.

The next morning, the courier sent another package. Wang Taiyi saw that it was the same envelope as yesterday, and there was still only a light yellow Buddha bead in it. Who knew it was not over yet, for the next week, Wang Taiyi could receive a Buddha bead every day.

If someone sent the first Buddha bead by mistake, or was joking, then seven days in a row was definitely not a joke! Thinking of this, Wang Taiyi called a friend from the antique world to show him what this Buddha bead was.

The friend came to the door soon. He picked up a Buddha bead and touched it with his hand, then took out a small flashlight to shine again and again, and then told Wang Taiyi that if he read it correctly, it should be seven ordinary plastic Buddha beads, which have no value at all.

After sending his friend away, Wang Taiyi fell into deep thought: Who is sending this plastic Buddha bead to himself? What does he want?

I can't think of a clue, but the beads are still being sent every day. On this day, the courier brother sent the envelope and was about to leave. Wang Taiyi grabbed him and said, "Brother, do you know who sent this courier?"

The courier brother smiled: "How do I know? I am a part-time worker and only responsible for delivery. I can't take care of other things that much, and I don't have time to take care of it!"

"Then can you help me check the sender of this courier?" Saying that, Wang Taiyi took out a hundred yuan bill and gave it to the courier, "This is a tip for you!"

The courier pushed the money: "I'm not that kind of person, but I'll try my best to inquire."

After a few days, the courier brother said that he asked the people in the courier company to pay attention to the letter, but they did not find any clues.

For three months, a Buddha bead was sent every day without interruption. Wang Taiyi was exhausted, let alone creating calligraphy and painting, so he had to call his son for help.

Wang Taiyi's son, Wang Wenhui, worked far away in the United States and was usually very busy with work. He hired a nanny for Wang Taiyi and only called to greet him in his spare time.

Hearing this strange matter, Wang Wenhui couldn't help but pay attention to it, and immediately bought a plane ticket to fly back to China. At this time, Wang Taiyi had received the 101st Buddha Bead, and the courier brother saw that his hand trembled when he signed, so he asked him to take a seal and stamp it.

As soon as the courier left, Wang Wenhui entered the door with his back foot. He opened the strange courier with his father, and there was still only a small Buddha bead in it. Wang Taiyi put all the Buddha beads in a glass bottle, and rubbed the bottle thoughtfully: "I guess I should be able to receive 7 Buddha beads!"

Wang Wenhui asked, "Why is that?"

Wang Taiyi said: "The bead bracelet is usually 108 pieces, which means to eliminate 108 kinds of troubles. Since 101 pieces have been sent, there are still 7 pieces left to form a complete string of beads!"

Wang Wenhui took the envelope and looked at it again and again, and decided to go to the courier company to check it out. The courier company staff took a thick stack of envelopes to check, and after a while, they came over and said to Wang Wenhui, "Sir, I'm sorry According to these order numbers, I can't find the information of the deliveryman."

"How can I not find it?" Wang Wenhui questioned.

It is said that the order number of each of our couriers is entered into the system, but it is not found in these systems.

This is strange, so where do these couriers come from? Wang Wenhui's heart moved and asked the brother who delivered the courier to his father. The staff said, "He just quit his job yesterday, saying that the elderly at home are sick and need to be taken care of."

The next day, the father and son waited at home for a day, but no courier came to the door. Wang Wenhui's doubts about the courier brother deepened, but there were still many mysteries: was the courier brother doing it himself, or was someone instructing him? 108 Buddha beads, why did the file break when there were 7 beads? If it wasn't a prank to send Buddha beads so continuously, what was the purpose…

Wang Wenhui picked up a Buddha bead and looked at it carefully, and couldn't help but be surprised: Is there a toxin on this Buddha bead?

It was not unreasonable for him to think so. His father, Wang Taiyi, was a famous calligrapher and painter. Everyone knew that once the calligrapher and painter passed away, the price of the surviving calligraphy and painting would skyrocket!

Wang Wenhui immediately contacted a friend who worked in a testing agency and asked him to test it. A few days later, the results came out. These 101 Buddha beads are ordinary plastic beads and have no toxicity.

Wang Wenhui stayed with his father for another week, and no more couriers came to the door, and the matter seemed to have subsided. Since the bead was not poisoned, the father and son had to treat it as a harmless joke. Wang Wenhui was busy with work and couldn't stay long, so he bought a plane ticket and prepared to go back to the United States.

Hearing that his son was leaving, Wang Taiyi was so excited that he was sent to the hospital with a heart attack, but he was too old to be rescued.

Wang Wenhui didn't expect that this return would be the last time he saw his father! It had been too long to handle his father's funeral, and Wang Wenhui flew back to the United States quickly.

A few months later, the Chinese painting and calligraphy market successfully auctioned a work by Wang Taiyi. It was a peculiar picture of a horse, which was composed of 100 signatures of Wang Taiyi. This special calligraphy and painting caused an uproar in the calligraphy and painting industry. Industry insiders suspected that it was deliberately forged, but after expert identification, the 100 names on it were indeed written by Wang Taiyi himself in his later years, and his seal was added later. Finally, this unique special calligraphy and painting sold for a high price of 800,000. It is said that the owner of this calligraphy and painting used to be a courier brother...

Wang Taiyi never thought that every time the courier brother asked him to sign the document, it was the same folded rice paper. The courier brother understood the value of Wang Taiyi's calligraphy and painting, and when he delivered the courier, he found that the old man's eyes were not good and the signature was careless, so he got excited. He studied Wang Taiyi's horse map, and after careful design, he successfully used Wang Taiyi's 100 signatures to make a horse map, and on the 101st time, he took the seal...