Master Enguang, the abbot of Daxiangguoji Temple, has just returned with 99 small novices, and this newly formed "novice group" has brought a lot of income to Daxiangguoji.

Master Yuanguang's success in controlling Daxiangguo Temple is not because of how profound his Buddhism is, but because his way of management is excellent. Yuanguang Yuanzhi's master, that is, the abbot of the previous generation, was deficient in the way of commerce, which led to the fame of the West Puhua Temple in Bianjing City and several large temples outside Bianjing City, which posed a great threat to the status of the Great Xiangguo Temple.

After the death of Yuanguang's master Yuanzhi a few years ago, the old monks of the various institutes who held the real power helped Yuanguang to the abbot's throne and threw aside the will of Yuanguang master. Master Yuanzhi, who is profound in Buddhism, does not covet the position of the abbot, but it is contrary to his Buddhism when he walks the Daxiangguo Temple in Chaliang, so he wanders in the Great Zhou to spread the Dharma and embark on the road of ascetics.

After Master Yuanguang ascended to the position of abbot, the first big move was to "get close to the people", and since then, many areas of the Great Xiangguo Temple have been open to the people of Bianjing, not limited to high-ranking officials and nobles. Then the phenomenon of eating and taking indiscriminately in the temple was rectified, and with the adjustment of the "Ten Thousand Surnames Trading Conference" became popular again, the Great Xiangguo Temple finally stopped the decline slightly.

However, the "Buddhism rivers and lakes" are so wonderful, and the way of operation of the Great Xiangguo Temple is lacking, and other temples rush to grab food. Now that Daxiangguo Temple is making money again, other temples are about to suppress "knowledge" and launch a wheel war, who made you so arrogant...... Ahem, anyway, if you can't make money, let's make money, and you're starting to make money again? Don't be busy, let's talk about Buddhism first, Amitabha.

The monks of Daxiangguo Temple who are profound in Buddhism passed away, and the old decay was decrepit, and the only remaining monks could not bear the consumption of wheel warfare, and they were infected one after another. Master Yuanguang was just about to start smashing people with money, when he received a message from his junior brother Yuanzhi, and he was overjoyed that Yuanguang went to the city gate to greet his senior brother who had been absent for many years, so there was a fight between him and Master Yuanzhi on the city wall.

But Yuanguang Yuanzhi's personal relationship has always been very good, and the love of enduring hardships and ordination together is there, not to mention that the two have different morals and are destined to have no fundamental conflict. Yuanguang knew that Yuanzhi didn't care about the position of the abbot, and Yuanzhi also knew that although Yuanguang was greedy for money, he was very sensible. Yuanguang took over the hundreds of boys and girls brought by Jiang Zhi, and Yuanzhi also promised to be a "thug" and debate Buddhism with the senior monks of several temples.

There are still ten days to go before the winter solstice, and the abbot of Yuanguang is wrapped like a ball, staying in his room, eating a big bowl of braised pork and rice. Hearing a knock on the door, Yuanguang's voice was a little funny while eating, and invited the man to come in.

The superintendent of the Daxiangguo Temple Discipline Institute is also a junior brother of Yuanguang Yuanzhi, and when he arrived at the Yuanguang door, he smelled a very strong smell, and when he opened the door, he saw his abbot brother snoring and eating roast meat, and it was not more refreshing to match the food of Daxiangguo Temple.

"Amitabha, sins and sins." The superintendent of the precept house is very thoughtful, especially the thick and dark eyebrows, which give people a sense of seriousness.

Yuanguang ate to himself, "Yes, I've been a prison supervisor for two years, and I know that I'm pretending to be in front of my senior brother." Still guilty? Little Jiang Lan ran to your meditation room the most, and you ate a lot more braised pork than my abbot. ”

In front of the monks, the Zen master of the Vinaya Academy, who had always been unsmiling and unsympathetic, had a flushed face, touched his hands and rubbed his head very embarrassed, and stammered and explained: "Ahem, senior brother, you can't blame me for this...... It's all a little Jiang Lan, she doesn't learn well at a young age, a little nun actually helps outsiders pour braised pork into the temple, and the junior brother is not easy to see a group of little girls find a job, support one or two......"

Yuanguang was angry with this guy's shamelessness, coughed and put down the dishes and chopsticks, and a little novice came in through the back door to take away the small dining table, and thoughtfully took a wet towel to clean up the hands and faces of the abbot. The Zen master of the prison was dumbfounded, and his feelings were all lunch ordered from Pujing Nunnery, and the treatment was actually different?

Yuanguang drank two sips of fragrant tea, and the fatigue of running around all morning finally dissipated a lot, "My Buddha is compassionate." Senior brother, you know that we have so many senior brothers in the Yuanzi generation, why do I insist on putting you on the throne of the Prison of the Discipline Academy? ”

"I don't know...... But, cough cough, maybe the junior brother is conscientious, unemotional, and suitable for taking charge of the precepts? ”

Yuanguang's fat face showed sly and sarcastic, "You're talking again, it's not good." Senior brother just values your spirit of being a bitch and setting up a memorial arch, pick up the bowl to eat meat, put down the bowl to punish the monks who do not abide by the precepts, how can the senior brother rest assured without this ability? ”

"Senior brother, you ...... I...... All living beings are suffering and abused, and they don't know the source of the Qingyuan......" The thick-eyebrow prison lord was sarcastically incoherent by the abbot of Yuanguang, and after a long breath and found that he could not refute it, he began to chant the scriptures in a mess.

Serious matter, Yuanguang didn't stimulate this interesting junior brother anymore, looked at the file handed over by the other party and asked: "This year's last Wan surname trading conference has changed a lot compared to the past, have they all been arranged?" Don't make any mistakes, this is the most important source of money for this temple. ”

Although the prison has a lot of slots in its private life, it is quite reliable to do business, otherwise it will not be able to sit in the position of the prison unstable," Senior Brother Abbot can rest assured, although there are many changes, the arrangement is more organized than in the past. Dare to ask the abbot, which benefactor contributed this change plan? Can you attract a meeting, there are still many things that the junior brother does not understand......"

Of course, the change plan of the Wan surname trading conference was planned by Li Xiang, Li Xiang contacted Yuanguang through Xiao Jianglan and Jiang Zhi and others, and Yuanguang was attracted by Li Xiang's new plan and agreed to meet Li Xiang in secret. In the end, Li Xiang, who wanted to make a fortune quietly, used a series of cooperation plans to impress Master Yuanguang, who wanted to get rid of the decline completely, and the two began to work together secretly......

Yuanguang is very trustworthy as the abbot, which is also an important reason why the Great Xiangguo Temple has stood for hundreds of years, and he did not agree to meet Li Xiang in the prison. He asked the prison to write down the doubts and put them in his meditation room every day, and naturally someone took them and handed them to Li Xiang.

Before leaving, the prison suddenly said, "Senior Brother Abbot, could it be that the charcoal stove that the mysterious benefactor wants to promote has been installed in Senior Brother Abbot's room?" Otherwise, why is it so warm and smellless? Why did the abbot put himself in danger, in case this charcoal furnace is unreliable......"

Yuanguang smiled bitterly a few times, "Can you not be in danger?" If you don't need it, brother, or myself, how can you make the nobles and people present believe it? Our Daxiangguo Temple looks bright now, but it can't hold on to it inside, and now it's just barely maintaining, and it hasn't gotten rid of the decline. The master of his old man's Buddhism is profound, and he has indeed not fallen into the prestige of this temple, but the Buddhism of the Great Zhou Dynasty is not as good as that of previous dynasties, and he cannot occupy the land extensively, and whether the wealth is sufficient is related to the life and death of a large temple. ”

"The appetite of those people in the royal family must be fed, Gonggong Li of Ouchi must also be pleased, and the gentry of Bianjing must also be maneuvered. The master has been in charge of the Great Xiangguo Temple for decades, and many industries in the temple have been swallowed up by whales and there is only a little scum left, and I was pushed to this position by my uncle and uncle, so I naturally want to maintain the temple, but this requires a lot of money. ”

"For the sake of this temple, Senior Brother Yuanzhi can travel for many years to spread the scriptures, and break the conspiracy of several big temples to dismember my Great Xiangguo Temple, why are you senior brother and I afraid of the stigma of being a silver monk? In the most difficult two years, in order to supplement the meat for the warrior monks in the temple, and afraid of the wind discussion launched by the Puhua Temple, he had to go to Nanxunmen to kill pigs and sell meat as a cover, but he was hopeless for the rest of his life...... And you, as a prison officer, have also run a lot of rituals, and your throat is finally ruined. ”

Speaking of which, Yuanguang was already slightly choked, and he also wanted to indulge in Buddhism, but the reality did not allow it, so a "sleek and tricky and good fortune" of the new abbot of the Great Xiangguo Temple made a comical appearance, which once became the laughing stock of the two schools of Buddhism and Taoism in Bianjing. Buddhism and Taoism have their own rivers and lakes, and when the Great Xiangguo Temple was decadent, it was attacked for eating meat, but who doesn't know the situation of those famous temples? How many warrior monks and monks running around for rituals are short of meat?

The prison hospital's eyes were moist, and he sang a Buddha name loudly, "They all say that we are monks, but how can we sometimes tell the difference between monks and entering the world?" I just hope that I am equal to the struggle in this red dust, and in the end it can be regarded as a kind of cultivation. ”

Abbot Yuanguang also clasped his palms together, "If this Ten Thousand Surnames Trading Conference goes well, this temple will be able to withdraw from many mundane things, after all, intensive study of Buddhism is the right way." ”

Xiao Shami, who had just cleaned the table for Abbot Yuanguang, was also one of the boys who fled south with Jiang Zhi from the north, and after he put away the dishes, he trotted all the way to the northeast corner, and finally knocked on a small door a few times, and a small window was opened on the door.

Xiao Shami smiled and handed the lunch box to the other party, then took a few copper coins, sang a Buddha name and left. Xiao Ni in the door took the lunch box and walked into the house, and a few little girls in the house began to clean it.

A big house in the middle of Pujing Nunnery is Jiang Zhi and Jiang Lan's room, at this time Jiang Zhi is wearing a moon-white middle coat leaning on the bed, holding a pharmaceutical book in her hand to read and read, she can read and write, of course, it is taught by Master Yuanzhi. Because of the charcoal stove, Jiang Zhi's room has the window open at noon, and it is not cold when the winter solstice is approaching, but the consumption of charcoal is higher, but she always feels that sunlight is more precious.

The sunlight shone obliquely on Jiang Zhi's face through the window, and the little white and red face seemed to be coated with a layer of brilliance. Every few dozen breaths, the pages are turned, the quiet dust swirls and flies, and the light is disrupted. Jiang Zhi's fingers swiped over, and he was about to finish turning the page, when the sound of "squeak~~~" broke the quiet atmosphere again.

Jiang Zhi closed the book and turned her face helplessly, and sure enough, it was little Jiang Lan standing on the other side, picking her fingers and smirking "hum". Jiang Zhi beckoned to the little one, and the little Jiang Lan quickly threw away her shoes, pushed a small iron box back under the bed, and then climbed onto the bed.

Braised pork soon became a popular food in Daxiangguo Temple, of course, the kind that is not visible. After the low-key opening of the Ma family's braised pork, the braised pork at night needs to be sent from Tianshuijing Street to Daxiangguo Temple, along with the baked cakes and soup and rice vegetarian dishes. But the monks of Daxiangguo Temple with a little status can eat the difference in taste, Li Xiang brought the dishes made by the chef in Bianjing from Mingyuezhuang in a small pot, where is the big pot rice made by hundreds of catties at a time can be compared?

So a few people found Pu Jing'an, the clever little Jiang Lan found the back house of the Ma family, and Li Xiang had no choice but to promise to continue to provide a small amount of braised pork to the opposite Daxiangguo Temple. Li Xiang took this opportunity to have a secret conversation with the abbot of Yuanguang several times, and pulled the Daxiangguo Temple to his chariot, so there was a series of cooperation agreements mentioned earlier.

With the help of Liu Susu, Ma Rulan and others, Xiao Jianglan successfully took over the "agency". Xiao Jiang Lan first used the insulated food box to carry the food from the back house of the Ma family, and then handed the food box to the little novice in the temple from the newly opened small window on the back door of Pujing Nunnery, and the little novice took the food box to the monk's meditation room, and got paid after returning.

Li Xiang couldn't stand Liu Susu's coquettishness, and sorted out the transaction process for Xiao Jiang Lan, so Xiao Jiang Lan embarked on the bright road of becoming a "rich woman", and the average daily income is not a huge amount of money for Xiao Jiang Lan? Xiao Jiang Lan, who made money to go crazy, actually knocked on the door of the monk one by one in broad daylight, and finally Master Yuanzhi, who couldn't bear it, came forward to suppress this little witch in person.

Li Xiang laughed so much that his belly cramped after hearing about Xiao Jiang Lan's crazy behavior, and Jiang Zhi, who was his sister, was also speechless, so Jiang Zhi wiped the sweat of Jiang Lan in his arms, and then pinched his little ears, "Little money fan, why do you want so much copper money?" ”

Little Jiang Lan is right, "Jiang Zhu and Jiang Shu's brother said that their father and mother threw Jiang Lan away because they had no money to buy food...... Jiang Lan can make money, Jiang Lan wants to make more money, so that Jiang Lan and her sisters are not afraid that no one will ......"

Jiang Zhi couldn't control the blockade anymore, and hugged little Jiang Lan tightly with trembling, Xiao Jiang Lan patted Jiang Zhi on the back like a little adult, and muttered: "Sister, don't worry, you are half Jiang Lan and half Jianglan, we are rich people......"

Jiang Zhi put the sleeping little Jiang Lan in the quilt, turned his head to stare at the north, a strange smile appeared on his face, and then his mood was low again. The world has always been a battlefield for men, even if those demons go south, where will there be room for her Jiang Zhi to play? Unless, I followed a figure like Fang La early, or is even stronger than Fang La?!

Little Jiang Lan, who giggled from time to time in her sleep, never knew that the Liaojin War made her family a homeless, and the ensuing Jurchen robbery caused her parents who had just abandoned her to die. If Jiang Lan's parents hadn't thrown her into an orphan shed, she would have ...... long ago