There is an old road from the Pufu Hall to the old town, along the path outside the courtyard wall, the potholes are uneven, and when you come back, you take the night road, Chi Qiu and Ai Bao'er take the official road, which is smooth, but they have to detour to the west of the city first.

Since he agreed to send money today, Chi Qiu had to find a vendor to exchange some silver coins and copper plates, and tossed it, it was almost ten o'clock.

"Chi Xiaoyou, what are you?"

"The old monk is you." I haven't seen Tongyu Zen Master for a long time, and today I saw Chi Qiu and said with a smile: "Go and send money to the people in the old town." ”

"Amitabha!" Tongyu Zen Master has good thoughts, and he has lived here for a few years, so he naturally knows the situation in the old town.

"Old monk, where are you going?"

"It was rainy a few days ago, so I had to move around." Tong Yu Zen Master said, in fact, Chi Qiu knows that now the Pufu Hall is not a Pufu Temple, in order to reopen the temple, he has to run up and down, which is the so-called promotion of Buddhism.

Now Yanhu, all the powerful are gathering, even if they are coming to the name of Lu Congniang now, it is also a powerful person, Chi Qiu walked on the street and saw a lot of new family crest flags.

Chi Qiu smiled and sorted out the copper coins he had exchanged, and put them into the back basket he found one by one, without piercing him.

"You're going to give alms to Old Town?" The old monk spoke, and his voice seemed to be pointing: "Chi Xiaoyou is kind and charitable, but the villagers in the old town have been lazy for a long time, and there is no Buddhism in their hearts. ”

It is a person who has a class, high and low, young and old, orderly, come and come and go and so on, even if the foolish Zen master has the world in his heart, he also scores a tall ugly person, the old town villagers have no Buddhism in their hearts, in fact, they have no faith, and people without faith can be saved, but it is far less important than the reopening of the Pufu Temple in his heart, promoting Buddhism, and letting the people of Hejian feel the Pudu of Buddhism.

With the foolish Zen master's statement, Chi Qiu understands, according to the secular saying: to save the emergency not to help the poor.

"I'll let these copper coins throw them in today, and there will be countless splashes."

"Oh, interesting." Tongyu Zen Master smiled and asked, "How to lose it?" ”

Chi Qiu grimaced: "The secret of heaven must not be revealed." ”

"Enxu, you can take it. Lao Wei also went to see how Chi Xiaoyou made a splash. ”

Enxu is the black-clothed monk, frowning, and put the basket on his back.

"I'll just carry it." The monk of Enxu is shriveled and shriveled, and his age is not much younger than that of Tongyu, and this copper coin is not light when it is carried in a basket.

Chi Qiu stretched out his hand to block, but he didn't block it, Enxu only flashed, and he was a few feet away, Chi Qiu shook his head: Okay, you monsters, I can justifiably not help the old man in the future.

"Brother Chi, it seems that you have made a mistake, and you have to go out through the gate." Ai Baoer said busily.

Seeing Ai Bao'er's young woman's style, Tongyu Zen Master lowered his eyelids: "There is a small door in this backyard, which is a shortcut to the old town." ”

In this case, Chi Qiu followed with the foolish Zen master, it turned out that the old town was originally the residence of the tenants of the Pufu Temple, and there would naturally be a connection, but the temple was destroyed, the road was covered by wild grass, and the courtyard wall was dilapidated, and some scoundrels in the old town often took advantage of this to enter and steal the food of the monks, and the monks spontaneously rebuilt the courtyard wall.

So everyone went to the north of the general rescue, opened the corner gate, there were many woods on the road, the thick weeds were withered and yellow, it was not dangerous, it was uncomfortable to walk, Ai Bao'er was originally soft on her feet, and the loss of Chi Qiu was carefully held, so she walked for about half a meal, and only then did she finish this section of less than two or three miles long, and looked around, most of the people in the old town gathered there, three or three by two, and even Brother Cai seemed to have arrived.

Seeing the Tongyu Zen Master, Brother Cai was very polite and arched his hand, so he ordered someone to bring a chair, since he could invite the Tongyu Zen Master, Brother Cai couldn't help but look at Chi Qiu again.

The two exchanged pleasantries, and let Chi Qiu preach.

When the lord came, he brought a large basket of copper coins, and the townspeople stepped forward, as if they could reach into the basket and take the money after a few more steps. These people are in tatters, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are beggars.

Chi Qiu didn't move, took out a list he wrote this morning, and said loudly: "If you can write, raise your hand." ”

There are very few, only two. The two raised their hands and wanted to step forward, but Chi Qiu said, "I have an errand here, ten cents, which of you will do it?" ”

"I don't know ......," one of them asked.

"I'll do ......" the other one called Zhang Kuan opened his mouth to agree.

"Okay, you come, you can read this piece of paper."

Wen Crepe's embarrassment caused everyone to laugh shamefully.

Zhang Kuan stepped onto the stage, unfolded the paper, and his face was crumpled.

The one below shouted, "Read it quickly." ”

Zhang Kuan was embarrassed: "I don't know some words. ”

There were some scolding voices in the audience.

In fact, I can't complain about Zhang Kuan, Chi Qiu has a lot of simplified characters, for Zhang Kuan, it is plausible, and it is naturally difficult for a reader to know everything.

"If you don't know a word, you just ask me, read it."

"I know how to keep accounts, twenty wen."

The scholar didn't ask any more questions, and was chosen along with the other two bookkeepers.

Brother Cai had already prepared some pen and paper, and they soon began to keep accounts.

"Raise your hand on the stove."

"I will!" Everyone raised their hands.

"Uh, wait!" Chi Qiu turned around and asked Brother Cai: "I don't know if Brother Cai brought the pot?" ”

Lao Yang looked disgusted, pointed to the corner of the platform and said, "There." ”

"Okay, just put that pot on the stove!"

One rushed to the stage and picked up the pot: "I will, Brother Cai's stove is still built by me, who dares to rob me." ”

Everyone didn't speak, and Chi Qiu said, "You go with Sister Bao, and finish thirty essays in the morning." ”

The man smiled and said, "Can you have more?" ”

"Who else will build a stove?"

The man gritted his teeth: "Don't say it, I did it." ”

Ai Bao'er pointed him to the place, and the man knew that it was Bao'er's courtyard, so he went by himself.

Zhang Kuan continued to chatter: "I will buy pigskin!" Wuwen"

What is this called? Who wouldn't buy pigskin?

There were many people who raised their hands, and Chi Qiu ordered ten women: "One of you goes to buy ten pennies of pigskin and get it back." ”

One of the men said, "This brother, are you playing with us?" Ten dollars are only 100 yuan, and the pigskin is cheap, but I can carry back half a pigskin alone, so you might as well give me all the fifty yuan of the ten women. ”

"If you cut off the eggs, I'll let you go." Chi Qiu's words caused a burst of laughter.

"Erhu, you can't see it, the big shopkeeper is to let us idle people do something, you do it alone, what will others do."

Chi Qiu's ten women each received ten pieces of money and hurried away.

Chi Qiu said to the other party: "I told Brother Tuo Cai, you just have to do it if you send money today, and you can get the money when you do it." ”

"Someone who can chop wood, Wuwen ......"

"Shiwen who can boil oil...... Female"

"...... who will buy caustic soda"

After reading for a while, dozens of people left hulala.

There were still thirty or forty women and children scoundrels, and some veterans with broken hands and feet.

"Willing to clean the streets, Wuwen."

"Wuwen who is willing to boil water for everyone to drink."

Walked a few more one after another.

The rest shouted dissatisfiedly, either saying that they had given less money, or that they were inconvenient, and most of them were a little.

Chi Qiu took out ten copper plates from the frame and threw them in the mud: "Get out!" ”

So the world fell silent.

The same Zen master asked, "Are you giving alms?" ”

"Or else?" Chi Qiu pointed to the back basket: "I spent money, real money." ”

"And what about tomorrow?"

Chi Qiu suddenly thought, picked up a blank piece of paper, wrote on it, name, gender, age, characteristics, ability, attitude, efficiency, integrity, took the paper and said to a few documents: "A few of you, responsible for doing statistics, don't say the first few, if you fill in, such as this feature, it is to cut off your hands and feet, and the attitude is that if he breaks his hand, he will not do as much as others, but if you work hard, you can also give high scores, and you will score them from one to ten according to these......"

Chi Qiu explained before he sat down and spoke to the same foolish Zen master: "Today's things are done, tomorrow will naturally have tomorrow's things." It's really okay, everyone will clean the streets, anyway, the copper money I brought here is enough to clean the streets of the old town for a month. ”

Brother Cai sighed: "Little brother is talented! ”

Tongyu Zen Master also had an epiphany: "It is better to teach a fish than to give it to fish, and it is rare for Chi Xiaoyou to give such alms." ”

"It's not enough to teach them to fish, this person just can't be scattered, if he is scattered, he will be lazy, if he is lazy, he will not be treated, if he wants to be treated, he will have to spend money, and if he spends money, let them work and take it."