Chapter 81: The Trouble Caused by the Soup Kitchen (Part 5)

On the day of Laba, Mrs. Xue freshened up early, changed into a plain carved silk silver mouse jacket, wore a plain satin warm hat, and hung Buddhist beads on her wrists, and took Chen to the carriage to Mingguang Temple. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Mingguang Temple is also the most lively on this day, it is surrounded by people who rush to beg for porridge for several miles, and you can see from a distance that the tall porridge shed is already crowded with people, all of them are holding bowls and bowls to wait for the soup kitchen.

Old Madam Xue got out of the carriage and looked at the porridge shed, but she frowned: "Why did it take so long, how much silver does it cost!" "Since all the money sent to Yinzi is gone, there is no news to send it back, and Yao's distant uncle is nowhere to be found. She can't break a copper coin into two petals now, and it is naturally a porridge shed that the Chen family let people build is not pleasing to the eye.

Chen sighed helplessly, and helped her to the porridge shed: "Those ladies are all attentive and have received the money, it is really not good for them to look shabby, and there is no way to do it." ”

Old Madam Xue snorted and stopped, and after walking a short distance, she saw the great monk Huikong, the presiding officer of Mingguang Temple, personally greeted her, and saw her clasping her hands together to salute: "Old lady Guangping Hou, Mrs. Shizi." ”

Old Madam Xue seemed to have changed her face at this time, her face was full of smiles, and she hurriedly returned a salute to Huikong: "Master Huikong." ”

"The old lady is really compassionate, she donated rice and silver, and built a porridge shed to relieve the poor, which is really a great merit." Huikong said and recited another word of Buddha, and accompanied Mrs. Xue to the porridge shed with a smile. In the past, Mingguang Temple would also set up a porridge shed to give porridge, but this time Mrs. Xue volunteered to give porridge, and Mingguang Temple also agreed, just to help build a shed to give alms.

When they arrived at the porridge shed, the people who came to beg for porridge were already crowded and couldn't get out of the way, and they couldn't get out of the way for Old Madam Xue to enter, or Huikong asked the little novices to help open the way, so that Old Madam Xue could take Chen into the porridge shack.

Seeing these many people, Mrs. Xue smiled very kindly, while twisting the Buddha beads, she announced the Buddha name, and said to those many people: "Take your time, you will be soup porridge in a while, don't worry." ”

The people crowded outside the porridge shed all looked at Mrs. Xue and the Chen family curiously, looked at them and discussed: "Who are these two ladies and why are they here?" ”

Someone on the side replied: "This is the old lady and the wife of the prince of the Guangping Marquis Mansion, this porridge shed was built by them, and they also raised rice and silver everywhere, just for the soup kitchen." ”

"I can't imagine that there are such kind-hearted people in these noble mansions, and the Bodhisattva will definitely bless them." An old woman with a trembling cane and a broken bowl said, full of gratitude.

"No, there are really few good people like this in your mansion." A woman with a child in her arms should respond.

When Old Madam Xue heard these words, she became even more proud, and she shouted to order someone to bring the cooked hot porridge up, and she wanted to give the first bowl of porridge with her own hands, so that her good name could spread more and farther.

The mother-in-law quickly brought a large wooden bucket of hot porridge up, and the girl brought up a large wooden spoon, and Mrs. Xue took it, scooped up a large spoonful of porridge and poured it into the bowl held by Chen, and handed it to the old woman who was watching.

The old woman was dressed in tatters, and the coarse cloth dress on her body was patched after patch, and her white head was only tied with coarse cloth, and she took the bowl of hot porridge and thanked her gratefully: "Thank you, madam, thank you, my little grandson is still waiting." Holding the bowl of hot porridge and not willing to eat it, as if holding some treasure, he squeezed out of the crowd and walked quickly.

Old Madam Xue turned her face away with some disgust, and handed the wooden spoon to the girl: "Let people send it to them quickly, send them away, the longer the delay, the more people there are, how can there be so much rice for them to eat!" ”

The mother-in-law came up to give porridge, people were even more anxious to squeeze into the porridge shed, a neatly dressed mother-in-law squeezed out of the porridge shed, she held a small bowl in her hand, the small bowl was the porridge just now, but when she looked down, the porridge in the bowl was too scarce, but it was a thin layer of rice soup, and there were some rice flowers in it, not even porridge soup.

She pursed her lips and was about to pour the porridge in the bowl, but suddenly found that the rice grains in the rice soup in the bowl were all slightly yellow, and some of them had some blue-green mildew, which surprised her very much.

Could it be that these rice grains for soup kitchens are ...... She looked at the porridge shed in disbelief for a while, where Old Madam Xue and the Chen family were all brightly dressed and looked arrogant, and they couldn't see anything.

The mother-in-law remembered her mother's explanation, rolled her eyes, quietly turned around, and walked to the other side of the porridge shed, where Mingguang Temple specially prepared a place for them to cook porridge, and all the rice and grain were stacked there.

In order to save some rice grain, Mrs. Xue asked Chen to prepare only three stones of rice, Rao was like this, she stood in the porridge shed for a while, and was very impatient to take Chen to follow Huikong to Mingguang Temple to sit in the hall.

"I don't know where these many people came from, they all came here for such a bowl of porridge, and it really gave me a headache." Seeing that there was no one in the hall, Mrs. Xue asked Chen to rub her temples for her and complained.

Chen said softly: "I think it will be done in another hour." ”

Old Madam Xue said angrily: "If it weren't for the Shen family's blackmailing of that lot of silver, I wouldn't have paid attention to this soup kitchen, and I would have spent money to build a porridge shed, and I would have to waste this lot of rice grain!" ”

Chen lowered his head and was silent, but he understood in his heart that if it weren't for the soup porridge to get the silver from those mansions, I am afraid that the Hou Mansion would not even be able to open the pot, most of the silver has been lost, and the rest is in the shop, and it will not be able to get it back for a while.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were waiting for the porridge to return to the house, and the great monk Huikong outside the hall hurriedly rushed over and said to Mrs. Xue: "The old lady is not good, there is an accident outside, and many people who have received the porridge say that they have been poisoned, and it is almost impossible to vomit and pull people!" ”

Babao bean paste bun said

Finally sent the fifth more up.,Five changes in four consecutive days.,The manuscript of the bun has gone down a lot.,There are two more today.,After being put on the shelves, there will be five consecutive changes.,Thank you.,Please continue to support.。 I recommend two books, "The Lady of the Concubine" and "The Fu of the Lady", which are also very beautiful ancient sayings.