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“Red Sand Lucky Bag”

Lin Xiaoman always has a faded red cloth lucky bag on her keychain, which contains a few rough red sandstones. This is what her grandmother prayed for at the Guanyin Temple before she died. “Sand can suppress disasters,” the old woman always pinched her face with her rough hands, “our Xiaoman must grow up safely.”

When she was 25 years old, Lin Xiaoman encountered a gangster on her way home from overtime work late at night. During the struggle, the rope of the lucky bag broke, and the red sand was scattered all over the floor. The gangster suddenly screamed – those sand grains looked like red-hot charcoal in the moonlight, scalding him and making him flee.

The next day, Lin Xiaoman picked up the lucky bag at the scene of the incident and found a line of small words embroidered on the lining: “Longevity in exchange for Sun An”. She trembled and opened her grandmother’s relics, and saw on the last page of the diary: “Today I soaked the sand with blood and asked the Bodhisattva to grant my approval.”

From then on, every Qingming Festival, there would always be a few more red sand grains in the lucky bag for no reason, as if someone was always in an invisible place, continuing to accumulate blessings for her.

(The meaning of the red sand lucky bag: watching over each other from another world, and the deep affection of extending one’s life with another)