Chapter 19: Temple Turmoil
Yunhai City, Thousand Buddha Mountain.
There is a Thousand Buddha Temple on Thousand Buddha Mountain.
In recent years, Yunhai City has developed local tourism, and Thousand Buddha Mountain has been developed into a scenic spot.
Qianfoshan is only a few dozen kilometers away from the city, the air on the mountain is fresh, the scenery is beautiful, and there is a temple that is very effective by word of mouth, so that tourists and pilgrims here are endless.
The Thousand Buddha Temple is very large, accounting for almost half of the Thousand Buddha Mountain.
The front yard of the Thousand Buddha Temple is a place to burn incense and worship the Buddha, with a large incense burner and thousands of Buddha statues of different sizes.
There are many wings in the backyard, which are also guest rooms.
In the economic era, the temple also kept pace with the times, adding more items that could add more money to the temple.
The guest rooms in the backyard are for pilgrims.
Some pilgrims want to stay at the temple for various reasons, and they can stay in a backyard room with a simple registration.
It can be as short as a day or two, and some can even live for a year and a half.
The temple prepares vegetarian meals for pilgrims and changes the bedding regularly, making it an open inn if it is not for the temple garb.
Many tourists come here to burn incense and pray for blessings, and some tourists also come here for the famous vegetarian food of the Thousand Buddha Temple.
On weekends and holidays, there are also tourists who stay for a day or two.
There are several permanent pilgrims in the backyard rooms of the Thousand Buddha Temple, and one of them, a woman named Zhu Qianqian, has lived here for nearly half a year.
Zhu Qianqian, 36 years old, lives in the suburbs of Yunhai City, had a stomach surgery a few years ago, and her health has been poor for the rest of her life.
Zhu Qianqian believes in Buddhism, and feels that she must have done something bad in her previous life, so she came to the world to suffer in this life, and after discussing with her family, she insisted on living in the guest room in the backyard of the Thousand Buddha Temple, and this stay is half a year.
Like Zhu Qianqian, she is a long-term resident pilgrim of the Thousand Buddha Temple, and there are 4 other people.
Mrs. Wang and Granny Zhang in the female guest room.
Mrs. Wang is a wealthy old lady, and her son makes a lot of money in business.
Last year, after Mrs. Wang's wife died, she moved to the Thousand Buddha Temple.
Claiming to be here to recuperate, in fact, he misses his wife too much, and follows a group of monks to chant the scriptures in the morning and evening, wanting his wife to wait in front of the Nai He Bridge, and then reincarnate together in the future.
Granny Zhang, in her 70s, is a retired dancer whose family also lives in Yunhai City.
Granny Zhang never married, and came to live here for a long time after sending her parents to the end of her life a few years ago.
The reason for staying for a long time is very simple, purely because I feel that the air here is good and the environment is quiet.
The permanent residents of the male guest room are Uncle Li in his 60s and a young man in his 20s.
Uncle Li, whose real name is Li Kaiyuan, died of his wife and children in a car accident a few years ago, and after retirement, he wanted to find a nursing home to stay, but he was not satisfied with the conditions of the nursing homes everywhere, and finally chose the Thousand Buddha Temple with a good environment and lived here.
The young man who lives here is named Gao Xiaopeng, 25 years old, and is an unemployed college student.
After graduating from college, he found a job and hit a wall one after another, broke up with his girlfriend, suffered a mental blow, collapsed, insomnia every night, went to many hospitals, took a lot of medicine and did not get better, and then his parents couldn't take him to the Thousand Buddha Temple to ask for Buddha to burn incense, and the symptoms were alleviated.
Gao Xiaopeng's mother felt that the atmosphere of the temple could purify the demons, so she let him live in the Thousand Buddha Temple, which has been more than 5 months.
After living for a long time, everyone is familiar with each other and occasionally chats.
Around the Mid-Autumn Festival is the time when the pilgrims of the Thousand Buddha Temple are the most.
Most pilgrims not only travel, but also come to ask for a safe reunion with their families.
There are more pilgrims and more people to stay, and the backyard rooms become tight.
The guest room, which usually has one person per room, has been temporarily replaced with a simple bed, and it has become a room for two people, or even three people.
The people who stayed in these extra rooms were temporary pilgrims, and a few of the people who lived here were still guarding their rooms, but they still felt inconvenienced.
Because of the increase in the flow of visitors, the dining room of the temple is even more busy, and mistakes are often made in the busyness, and the supply of fasting meals is delayed and the supply is underserved.
Saturday evening.
The number of pilgrims staying overnight in the backyard of the temple has broken the record again.
At dinnertime, the hall was overcrowded.
Usually the pilgrims who are resident have someone to bring the meal to the room, but now the temple is not manpowered, so they can only come to the hall to eat, but now there is no place in the hall.
Seeing the people in Wuyangyang, the usually quiet environment was broken.
To make matters worse, some of the temporary pilgrims brought their own food, some of which had a pungent smell, and some even brought meat dishes such as roast chicken and roast duck, and ate them in the dining hall.
Zhu Qianqian, who has always been kind on weekdays, suddenly burst into a rage, ran to the pilgrim who was eating meat, grabbed the roast chicken and threw it into the trash can next to her, and scolded: "Buddhism is pure, you dare to eat meat?, you can't live here!"
Eating roast chicken was a middle-aged man in his 40s, with several of his friends sitting next to him.
The middle-aged man was also furious and scolded back: "Where did the crazy woman come from? Why do you care about me? Which monk here is the real monk? Who doesn't know who works here during the day and goes home at night to eat wine and drink meat on the hot kang with his wife and children?"
"Nonsense! Roll on......" Zhu Qianqian's voice was hoarse and emotional.
"I'm talking nonsense, I think you're a crazy woman, are you a nun, or are you a monk's friend? Speak for them? Whatever it is, you have to pay me the roast chicken today, or you won't let you go like this." ”
"Smack!"
A resounding slap in the face.
Zhu Qianqian actually slapped the middle-aged man.
The noisy hall was suddenly silent.
Everyone's eyes were on the middle-aged man and Zhu Qianqian.
The middle-aged man lost food and face, and he was angry, so he wanted to beat people, "I Wu Li usually don't beat women, today you are not a woman, I will beat you to death......"
The middle-aged man Wu Li punched Zhu Qianqian on the bridge of her nose.
Her nostrils were bleeding instantly.
Zhu Qianqian did not show weakness, although she trembled all over, she didn't know whether she was angry or beaten, but she still threw herself up and bit Wu Li's arm with her mouth.
A man and a woman, fighting in public, are no less exciting than the martial arts plot of the TV series.
If this stance continues, if you don't die, you will be seriously injured.
The people around them desperately grabbed and separated the two people.
Mrs. Wang persuaded: "Qianqian, let's not worry about them, and those who don't have a Buddha in their hearts won't be blessed by the Buddha." ”
Zhu Qianqian's nose was still bleeding, her clothes were stained with blood everywhere on her face, and her hair was also torn, which was very embarrassing.
She was trembling all over, and it seemed that she had been beaten in anger.
Gao Xiaopeng, a resident pilgrim, also came up to help, "Sister Qianqian, do you want to call the police and arrest them?"
Eating meat in the temple is at most a violation of the rules of the temple, and the police can't do anything to him, but now Wu Li has injured Zhu Qianqian, and the injury is not light, maybe he will be detained, and he may have to go to prison.
Hearing that he was going to call the police, Wu Li was scared, after all, he was in the wrong.
And when they were fighting just now, Zhu Qianqian just slapped him and bit his arm, but other times he used his strength to hit the other party.
Seeing that Zhu Qianqian's face was covered with blood, there must be external injuries, and she was hit in the chest and stomach a few times just now, maybe she could also inflict internal injuries.