There is a village not far from the foot of Mt. Shinki. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The village, which is adjacent to Nara Castle, is small but thriving, with about 46 families farming for their livelihoods.

Two years ago, Bai Lian and Ming Lian were taken down the mountain by the Holy Bodhi, and in their memories, this nameless village is a beautiful place, surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the rain is shining in the open air. People live and work in peace and contentment, leaning on trees and planting seedlings, with their backs to the loess and facing the sky, and there are also leisurely people who sit and watch the white clouds and dogs.

White Lotus loves this place, the vibrancy, the kindness, and the generosity. She loves this place, the smiles on people's faces, the simple and loud voices of people, and the way they cherish food.

However, when the two young girls jumped down the last stretch of the mountain road and rushed onto the dirt road into the village, they unconsciously stopped.

Houses, paddy fields, old trees...... Memories overlap with reality, but the beauty of the past is shattered.

The houses are dilapidated and covered with ash, the paddy fields are dry, and there are only dead seedlings, and the surrounding old trees, dead branches and leaves, no longer have life. The chickens and dogs are dying, and the cattle and sheep are even more withered, wandering in the scorching sun, digging through the dry soil, trying in vain to find some fresh green to cope with hunger.

The same is true of the livestock, not to mention the people, and the villagers who were originally strong and capable have all become yellow-skinned and thin, withered like ghosts, lying on their stomachs or sitting, hiding in the shadows of the eaves, and not speaking, only coping with the scorching heat of the summer with silent breathing.

However, after two years of inevitability, this once happy village has become like this, which is really unimaginable.

After all, they were still children, and both Minglian and Bailian were startled by this lifeless village, and the two young girls stood outside the village, hesitating, not daring to enter.

"Sister......" leaned into Bai Lian's ear, and the silence made Ming Lian dare not even speak loudly, "What do you think is wrong?" After hesitating for a moment, Bai Lian plucked up her courage and observed it again, before she said with some uncertainty:

"This ...... It's a drought! ”

"Drought?"

"Well, it's definitely still a big drought!" Nodding firmly, Bai Lian felt that her judgment was right, "This drought has made the villagers have no harvest, which is why they are living such a miserable life." ”

"So, shall we go in then?"

"Of course we have to go in, if we don't make a fate, what will we eat next?" Bai Lian did not hesitate for a moment, and said affirmatively.

"But, sister......"

Bai Lian interrupted what Minglian wanted to say, she took Minglian's little hand and pulled her into the village.

They walked first to the first house on the far right, where a large man with a wrinkled face sat under the eaves, looking at the fields outside the house with some blank eyes, and did not react even when the two young girls approached, and his cloudy eyes were sunken in their sockets, as if they were dead.

Because she felt that such a big man was too terrifying, Minglian hid behind Bai Lian with some fear, and Bai Lian also swallowed her saliva, and then said crisply: "Donor, below is the nun of the temple on the mountain, I came with my junior sister today, just to make some fasting food to fill my stomach, and hope that the donor will be fulfilled." ”

I don't know if I heard Bai Lian's words, the big man's expression did change, but it became full of hatred and hatred, he stared at the two little girls viciously, and said coldly: "Want to beg for food? No! ”

"No, we're not beggars, we're not begging for ......"

Bai Lian wanted to explain, but was interrupted by Dahan.

"How different are you nuns from beggars, who do not produce, but swagger and deceive. Usually forget it, until now, seeing that we poor people can't eat, we have to come to take advantage of the fire to rob, hehe, don't believe in Buddhism, don't do good will be punished? Isn't it retribution for doing good? Is it really your Buddha's ghost? Although I haven't read a book, I'm not so easy to deceive! Get lost! Get lost! Get out! Two little yellow-haired girls, begging for food, dare to beg for Lao Tzu! Be careful, I cut you down and feed them to the pigs! ”

The big man grinned, took out a hoe and slammed it on the ground.

Bai Lian and Ming Lian had seen such a battle, and they were so frightened that they ran away, until they returned to the road and looked back and saw that the big man was not chasing, so they stopped. After some running, Bai Lian was fine, but Ming Lian was already out of breath and coughing again and again.

"Are you alright, Destiny Lotus?"

"Ahem, I, I'm fine, sister, or we give up, they don't seem to be able to eat, how can we turn into fate?"

"Don't worry, Minglian, that guy may just be a person who doesn't believe in Buddhism, this should be just an example, the master can turn into a fate every time, there's no reason why we can't turn it, it's definitely just that we haven't met a kind-hearted person yet."

In the second house, the door was opened by a middle-aged woman.

As soon as she saw the two people who were in the dervishes, the middle-aged woman's face changed, and she answered the request of the life lotus with a sad face. "I really want to turn into a family, but I really don't have any food left at home, if it goes on like this, we will starve to death, may Ni be open, may Ni be open, give us grace once, grace us once."

The third family received a cunning old man, and he said suspiciously: "You two little ones are really greeting the nuns of the Descendants Temple?" What about Arch-Master Santa Bodhi? Why didn't he come? You're liars, aren't you? It's not simple, it's not simple! ”

Fourth household: "Damn the one who wants to eat, get out of here!" ”

Fifth household: "You should know, we have a bad harvest, we can't get food, you have to teach the Buddha to bless us with food first, so that we can do good." ”

Sixth household: "Heart Lake, do you know, Heart Lake, that is, the lake that we usually take water to irrigate, it is completely dry, completely dry, there is no water at all." ”

The seventh household: "If you can find our family, it is better to find the Liuxia family, their family is the grain, they are the landlords, come to us, where do we get the surplus grain!" ”

There are seven families in a row, and every family refuses, although the attitudes are good and bad, but they all wear off the hearts of the life lotus and the white lotus little by little.

"Sister, shall we continue?"

"Ah...... Well...... Try again one last time......" Bai Lian hesitated, "Finally, go to the landlord Liuxia's house to try, if it really doesn't work, then we have to give up." ”

"Okay!" Minglian nodded in agreement, and followed Bai Lian towards Liuxia's house, the only one in the village with walls and courtyards.

The two knocked on the courtyard door of Yanagi's house.

The door was opened by a butler in a blue coarse cloth shirt, who was ruddy and smiling, unlike the people in the village who were yellow and thin-skinned and desperate.

"It's ...... two"

"We are practicing in the temple of the descendants of the Emperor on Xingui Mountain, this time at the order of the Holy Bodhi Master to go down the mountain to turn fate, I hope that well-wishers can do good deeds and turn us into some rice."

Listening to Bai Lian's words, the butler's face became a little ugly, but after hesitating for a moment, he smiled kindly again, sighed, and said:

"Forget it, although the master's family does not have enough surplus food, he can still do a little good deed, come, come in!"

The housekeeper took the two young girls through the courtyard gate and came to a barn, he took out the key and opened the lock in front of the barn, and said to the two young girls, "This is the barn of the master's house, and now it is for the sake of the two nuns to worship the Buddha, so it was opened by exception. ”

With that, the butler opened the barn door.

The light was dim, but Bai Lian and Ming Lian could still see clearly, in the barn, bags of rice were piled up, and the barn was stuffed to the brim, which really didn't look like much.

Recalling the hungry appearance of the villagers before, Bai Lian couldn't help blurting out:

"That's not much? This...... That's too much, isn't it? ”

(Happy Children's Day ~ I also want a Children's Day gift hahahaha!) ）