Chapter 1 Conditional Exchange
On the nineteenth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, Canglin Temple once again ushered in a big day when a group of incense was flourishing and pilgrims were like a tide - Guanyin Bodhisattva's ordination day.
On this day, there were more than 50 lay people who came to the temple to help free of charge.
Although the transportation company has opened up a separate bus route for Canglin Temple, most of the people who come by bus to offer incense are old men and old ladies who take free buses with old age certificates, or full-time housewives.
The private cars in the parking lot outside the temple were full, and the security guards in charge of external security were busy with their smiling faces to prevent verbal or physical confrontations with the pilgrims.
Many people feel incomprehensible about the temple security guards, in the perception of ordinary people, the temple is a place where masters gather, and the security guards feel that there is money and no place to spend, or the so-called masters in the temple are bluffing.
After looking at these security guards who maintain order outside the temple, I probably understand why the temple should take out a part of the funds to recruit security guards from the society.
Receiving pilgrims and holding pujas in the temple is enough for the monks to be busy, and if some monks are sent out to maintain order outside, it will only make manpower even more scarce.
Besides, having a bunch of monks standing in the parking lot and being responsible for vehicle dredging doesn't look like that.
Compared with the external security, the internal security guards are relatively relaxed, and the contract does not allow them to talk to pilgrims, so they patrol the perimeter of the major halls to prevent theft or picking quarrels and provoking trouble.
However, most of the people who came were devout Buddhists, no matter how bad they were, once they entered the temple and faced the Buddha and Bodhisattva, that guy all put down their butcher knives one by one and became "great benevolent people".
When he saw the merit box, he hurriedly took out his pocket, as if he would be scolded by the Bodhisattva if he donated less, and stuffed money into the merit box.
Si Huayue has been working at the temple for half a month.
At this moment, when everyone was so busy that their feet didn't touch the ground, she was eating breakfast leisurely by the mountain spring with Li Zicheng and Xiaotian Wolf.
However, it is no longer a stealing monk's meal, but the fritters and buns that Si Huayue bought at the roadside breakfast shop when he went to work in the morning.
After getting along for half a month, Si Huayue and Li Zixiang are two year-old friends, talking about everything, and sharing blessings.
Even the laughing wolf was extremely friendly when he saw Si Huayue, what did Si Huayue let it do, it was never crooked.
He was supposed to leave the temple with his master, Master Kongmi, last month, but for some reason, the temple negotiated with Master Kongmi to stay for another month.
In other words, the two of them will not really leave until next month.
I heard Li Zicheng say that Master Kongjian left the temple this time because he was not worried that he was alone, so he went through the procedures for returning to the world.
The relationship between the master and the apprentice is on the surface, but in fact, it is more intimate than the relationship between the father and the son.
Si Huayue sometimes wonders if this Li Zicheng is the illegitimate child of the space master who did not control it and had a relationship with a Hongchen woman.
Otherwise, how to explain that Li Zicheng would be discarded in the temple toilet?
There are more than 100 monks in the temple, and only Master Kongjian adopted this child, and he raised it for eleven years.
Now for the sake of this child, he is not even a monk, and he wants to be vulgar?
Dear father!Absolutely!Si Huayue thought secretly.
It's been half a month, Si Huayue hasn't been able to see Master Kongjian, and she can't help but be a little anxious because of her lack of patience, and repeatedly urged Li Zicheng to find a way to arrange a chance.
"You always say it's almost over, when will you arrange for me to meet your master?" Si Huayue handed Li Zicheng a tea egg, and picked one up himself and began to peel it.
"My master is on night duty this week, and he either meditates or sleeps during the day, and he doesn't see anyone. Li Zicheng said with some embarrassment.
"Then why don't I also transfer the shift with them and change to the night shift?" Si Huayue said hesitantly.
The temple is far away from the downtown area, and there is no residential area around, so in order to facilitate work, the temple arranged dormitories for these security guards who came to apply for jobs.
Si Huayue is in a special situation, and it is impossible for her to sleep with a large group of men, so she still lives in her rental house under the pretext that she has an elderly mother to take care of at home.
In order to save money, she managed to sharpen a motorcycle driver's license.
Originally, I was thinking of buying a second-hand motorcycle to ride to and from work, but who knows, after Si Wenjun heard about her situation, not only did he not object, but also asked Wu Song to send her a Niemann Heavy Machinery that was produced in limited quantities around the world.
The price of this motorcycle is worth ten Ferraris.
Si Huayue, who was already neutral, rode this cool heavy machine, and the return rate on the road can be described as 200%, one hundred are men, and the other hundred are women.
Only Li Zicheng knew that Si Huayue was a woman, but Si Huayue always felt that it seemed that there was more than that, and the little monk who was in charge of applying for the job at the beginning also seemed to know the secret of her gender.
Because every time he saw that little monk, from his eyes, Si Huayue could always detect a trace of abnormality.
For this, she also asked Li Zicheng to talk, but she got nothing.
"Even if you work the night shift, you may not be able to see my master, he is on the night shift, and he is in the Scripture Pavilion, and you security guards can't get in. Li Zicheng said.
"You take me there, what's so hard about this?"
In the past half a month, Li Zicheng and Si Huayue have almost turned around the entire temple, except for some places where security guards are not allowed to set foot in, such as the bamboo forest, the interior of the kitchen, the columbarium, the presiding officer and the monks' Zen courtyard, and then there is the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion that Li Zicheng just said.
"What? You work the night shift, and I still have to stay up late with you?" Li Zicheng directly refused.
Si Huayue snatched the tea egg in his hand, "Oh, I've been feeding a white-eyed wolf all day long? No, it's two!"
The laughing wolf lying on the ground waiting for the owner to feed him innocently lay down the gun.
"If you don't eat, you won't eat, who is rare, and it's not like you don't care about food in the temple. "Li Zicheng is also stubborn.
"Okay, that's what you said, you little white-eyed wolf, tomorrow I'll bring sweet and sour pork ribs and Coke chicken wings, you don't even want to smell it!" Si Huayue used food to lure.
After all, he was only eleven years old, Li Zicheng smashed his mouth, he hadn't eaten pork ribs for a long time, and chicken wings.
Si Huayue looks like a rich man, but in terms of eating, she is very tight, not all meals are big fish and meat, and she also eats the temple meal with everyone at noon.
Three meals a day, you can see meat, only breakfast, Si Huayue brings it from home, or buys it outside.
It depends on where Si Huayue lived the night before, if she went back to her mother's house to live, Aunt Fan would pack breakfast for her and take it back to the temple before dawn, then the two of them would have a rich breakfast with fish and meat.
"You, stingy ghost!" Li Zicheng pouted, looked at Xiaotian, and thought that if he agreed to Si Huayue's exchange of conditions, not only would he be able to eat pork ribs the next day, but even Xiaotian would be able to gnaw bones.
"My master is on the night shift, and your security guards are divided into the first half of the night and the second half of the night, you say, will you see you in the first half of the night or the second half of the night?"
Si Huayue thought about it, a security guard surnamed Sun, who had a good relationship with her, was on the second half of the night shift this week, and if he proposed to change shifts, he should agree.
The first half of the night shift is from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m., and the second half of the night shift is from 1 a.m. to 8 a.m., each on duty for seven hours.
Si Huayue didn't have a dormitory, and she was on night shift, so she had to find a place to stay in the first half of the night.
It's definitely not good in the temple, why not go down the mountain to find a place to have a meal and then go to an Internet café to surf the Internet.
After the plan was ready, Si Huayue said to Li Zicheng: "Okay, I won't let you help me in vain, and when I come back in the evening, I will bring you and Xiaotian meat skewers." ”
A child is a child, and as soon as he heard that there was a barbecue to eat, he begged Si Huayue and said, "Then you can take me out to eat when you get off work." ”
"I can't take people in my car. Si Huayue directly refused.
"I have a bike, you slow down and ride your motorcycle, and I and Xiaotian follow you behind. Li Zicheng continued to beg without being discouraged.
"Mountain road, big brother, it's either uphill or downhill, it's easy to talk about going out, what about coming back?" Si Huayue was speechless.
This little broken child would rather follow her down the mountain for the sake of stuttering.
"Push it, push it, it's not the first time I've ridden out, which time didn't I come back with a push?" Li Zicheng insisted.
"No, you push the cart away, and I have to accompany you?
Seeing that Li Zicheng still wanted to say, Si Huayue interrupted directly: "No matter how verbose, the barbecue at night is not as good as you and the wolf!"
Li Zicheng glanced at Si Huayue, lowered his head, and secretly pondered, since it is not possible to follow it openly, then follow secretly, if there is a laughing sky, I don't believe that I can lose you!