Chapter 45: The Ice Melts
The April sun hangs high, and the sun is very big, but for those who haven't taken off their heavy winter clothes, it's just a little warm. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć The thick snow on Info Mountain has been spread layer after layer in the winter for several months, and now it has condensed into ice, and when the sun shines, the ice and snow melt, and when you walk on the road, you have to slip if you don't pay attention, and the whole temple is mobilized and begins the cleaning operation. In front of the gate of Hansong Courtyard, two little nuns were struggling to loosen the ice and snow on the road with shovels, and then sweep them to both sides of the road.
This snow sweeping looks easy, but it is not easy, it is a physical work, the two of them complained while working, Chu Yan stood up and twisted his somewhat sore waist, and said to Chu Jing, who was still hunched and shoveling snow: "Senior Sister Chu Jing, there is so much snow in this Hansong Courtyard, why did Senior Sister Wise only order the two of us to come, and the rest of the place is three or four." ā
Chu Jing also stood up and touched the sweat on his cheeks and said: "You don't know, now that the snow has melted, there are more pilgrims who come up the mountain to burn incense and worship the Buddha, and the wise senior sister must first clear the front hall of the temple and the road up the mountain, otherwise how can people come up the mountain to worship the Buddha!" Okay, don't complain, let's do it, who told us two sisters to be sent to guard the door of this Hansong Courtyard from the beginning! The little nun flattened her mouth, and reluctantly picked up the fork-headed broom made by tying up the small bamboo branches, and swept up the ice and snow that had been shoveled.
At this moment, Ying Fang passed by, and when she saw Chu Yan Chu Jing clearing the snow, she went up and said a few words, and helped the two of them as she spoke. This time, two people cleared the snow, and it became three people to clear the snow, and the speed was much faster, and it didn't take long to clean the roads around Hansong Courtyard.
(Author: Ying Fang, you didn't listen to Lord Ben's greeting, I asked you to ask the two little nuns Aunt Qian's information, but you went to volunteer for half a day, and you didn't get any useful information.) It seems that you are not a qualified intelligence officer.
Ying Fang: Author, you are too idiot, such an attempt is so obvious, I am called moisturizing things silently, look at it, Aunt Qian, she will soon be able to get to know me. Hehe!
Author: Glazed eyes. ļ¼
After cleaning, in this slightly cold weather, the three of them actually had a thin body of fine sweat, probably because of the sweating, which made people feel particularly dry, but fortunately, Qingyuan Shitai's little apprentice Mengxing little girl came to ask the three of them to go to the yard to drink tea and rest for a while, saying that it was ordered by her master.
The three of them went to the courtyard and sat down on the stone bench, and the little girl Mengxing brought out a pot of hot tea with a tray, filled a cup with one of them, and giggled: "Senior Sister Chujing, look at you, your face is full of mud, and so is Senior Sister Chuyan." ā
Chu Yan Chujing, you look at me, I look at you, sure enough, the two of them swept the snow all morning, and even their hands and faces were stained with some mud, and the two saw each other's embarrassed appearance in their eyes, and they couldn't help laughing. In this laughter, the atmosphere suddenly became better, Chu Jing raised his hand and patted Mengxing's little face and said, "Little girl, you are poor." ā
Mengxing didn't dodge, hehe smiled and took it: "Two senior sisters, let's go to the house to wash, Miss Qian has already prepared hot water, saying that the two of you have worked hard to clear the snow, and it is good to burn your hands." Chu Yan Chu Jing was accustomed to it, stood up with a smile and answered again and again, and went to the West House.
Chu Yan Chujing forgot to call Ying Fang, and Ying Fang didn't follow, she asked Mengxing with a smile: "Little master, is your master Miss Qian?" ā
Mengxing's eyes widened: "It's not!" My master is my master, and Miss Qian is Miss Qian. She nodded affirmatively after answering, thinking to herself, how could Miss Qian be my master, why did she ask such a stupid question?
Ying Fang opened her mouth, "Oh! He said, "Then do you think it's better for your master or Miss Qian?" ā
The little girl Mengxing thought for a moment and replied affirmatively, "My master is good." After a pause, he snorted, and said, "Miss Qian is also very good, kind and gentle, and she gave me sesame cakes to eat." As she spoke, she swallowed, as if remembering the sweet taste of sesame cake.
Ying Fang nodded, and said with a smile in her eyes: "I also like to eat sesame cakes, but I prefer to eat mung bean cakes, mung bean cakes are even more delicious than sesame cakes, but they are sweet." ā
Mengxing's eyes widened: "Really? But I haven't eaten it. Her little tongue quickly slid around her lips, and she said with a chagrined look.
Ying Fang pointed in the direction of the kitchen and said to Mengxing: "Really, how could my sister lie to you, I am working in the kitchen, and you will be able to eat it when you come to the kitchen tomorrow." ā
Mengxing frowned and hesitated: "But Master said that if you don't have merit, you can't eat other people's things indiscriminately." The expression was quite struggling. Obviously, the temptation of good food and Master's teachings were fighting in my head.
Ying Fang drank the tea in front of her and said, "How do you call it indiscriminate eating, you see, you give me tea to drink, I will give you mung bean cake to eat, it's all right, we have become good friends, and we will come and go often in the future, isn't it good!" ā
Mengxing heard the words "Chang Lai Chang Chang Yi", she once heard Aunt Qian and her master Mrs. Qingyuan say, she thought it was true, and said like a little adult: "Tao is the same, then there is Senior Sister Lao." She saw Ying Fang wearing a monk's robe, and she was older than herself, so she called her senior sister.
After a while, the two nuns came out with their heads, faces, necks, hands and feet cleaned, holding a plate of cakes in their hands, saying that they were given by Aunt Qian, and the four of them gathered around the stone table to eat. After eating the cake, Ying Fang said that there was still something to do in the kitchen, so she went back, and Chuyan Chujing continued to drink tea with Mengxing.