Chapter Thirty-Eight: Framed?
"Wukong, after dinner in the evening, would you like to come to the ministry hall?" , Li Chen turned his head and didn't watch those performances, it wasn't interesting, when he first came to the Tang Dynasty, he was fresh, but now it's boring.
"Yes." How?' , Wukong nodded happily, he has always been a cool person, "But you have to say a few more changes." "Blind and repeated, go and go."
The ministry hall is actually a treasury, and Li Chen is not used to calling it a ministry hall. Blind repeatedly, that is, a blind donkey, is a more elegant scolding word in Buddhism, some monks have scolded people like this, a little scolding people say that you don't walk long eyes that feeling.
Wukong smiled and walked away, without asking Li Chen anything. It's just that Li Chen turned his head, his face full of gloom and anger. Of course, not to be angry with Goku, but to that Goku.
When he came to the abbot's meditation room, he was already there, talking to the abbot. Li Chen followed the abbot to pull over the nursery and sit next to Wuming.
"It just so happened that Li Langjun was here, just to talk about it together." , Wu Ming turned his head and nodded to Li Chen, and then continued, "Li Langjun, did you take Fan to the wine shop in the town?"
"Indeed, for a reason... I...', Li Chen was suddenly speechless, not knowing what to say, but this was indeed the case, and he simply admitted it briskly, "Abbot, this is my mistake, and I promise that I will not do it again in the future."
"Not to mention Fan, does Li Langjun often go in and out of that wine shop?" , Li Chen readily admitted, but Wuming did not answer and asked again. Li Chen nodded, a little inexplicable, what happened to him going to the wine shop, you said that it was a bit immoral to take Fan there, but he was not a monk either, so why can't he go.
Wu Ming got the answer, did not dump Li Chen, turned his head to the abbot and said, "Poor Dao believes that the Longevity Temple should conduct an inventory of the ministry hall. Make a calculation about how much money there is in the temple. I think Li Langjun will definitely cooperate."
"What does that mean?" Suspect I'm in deficit? I go in and out of the wine store and use it for my monthly salary.'" Li Chen is very hot, he goes in and out of the wine shop, and he uses it completely for himself.
"Is that so? But Li Langjun has been in and out of the wine shop a lot recently. Thou shalt be sure that the monthly stipend shall be due.'" , Wu Ming said coldly.
Li Chen was stunned, if according to the number of times he has been in and out of the wine shop in the past few months, his little monthly income is really not enough. However, he has a part-time job in the restaurant, although the owner does not give him any monthly salary, but every time he gets wine and food, he gets it for free. It's just that if he says he's working part-time, he doesn't know if he can continue to do this job...
"Abbot, a certain family has a clear conscience, if Zen Master Wuming suspects that there is a problem with the accounts, just come and check it." , Li Chen endured his anger, since he couldn't say it clearly, don't say it, anyway, his accounts are very clear.
"Okay, okay, Wuming, Poor Dao believes that Thirteen Lang is innocent." The abbot, Hui Lone, came out to play a round, "However, Thirteen Lang, it is true that the ministry hall should also be inventoried, just wait for the Obon festival to pass, how about taking stock on a certain day." "Let the abbot arrange it."
Li Chen walked out of the abbot's meditation room sullenly, and his mood was not very happy, until he saw those Obon ceremonies, and his mood was a little better, but he just thought of another thing. He was worried about what that Satoru would do.
He is in charge of the treasury, he knows the accounts himself, he also ordered it when he handed it over, and he himself is not in deficit, so there are unlikely to be any problems.
It's just that, although that Wuming somehow will make an inventory of the treasury, but Li Chen knows that there is absolutely no good thing, he has to take precautions, he decided to find Wukong to help at night, and he counted it first, so that he could count it in his heart.
The soldiers are coming, and the water is flooding, Li Chen thought so. After making arrangements, Li Chen stood up, don't affect his good mood like this, since he was reborn in the Tang Dynasty, he has to take a closer look, maybe one day he will wear it back again, wouldn't it be a pity that he didn't take the opportunity to take a good look.
It's not easy to see such a strong festive atmosphere in modern times, well... It seems that there is, too, but I've never been interested.
Li Chen walked to the crowd from a corner of the temple, still thinking in his heart, in addition to collective worship and burning gold paper in the modern midyear festival, what other activities are there? Well, it seems that I still have to watch horror movies or something, so I just adapt myself to the situation, and next time I go to talk and talk about fasting.
"Uncle, are you my uncle?" Suddenly, Li Chen's trouser leg was pulled, and when he looked down, a little doll, about four years old, was pulling his trouser leg, and his eyes were red, as if he had cried.
"Why, little brother, why are you crying?" Seeing that it was a child, Li Chen squatted down, wiped away his tears a little, and asked in a low voice, "Where are your aunts?" Why are you alone?' "A-Niang...", little boy, I guess so, shake your head.
What does shaking your head mean? I guess it's lost. I don't know if the Changshou Temple has set up a service center for families to find lost children.
"Uncle will take you to find A-Niang." , Li Chen stood up, took the child by the hand, and walked towards the mountain gate. Actually, it should be possible to walk to the main hall, but the ceremony is going on now.
He looked at this child, his family should be considered wealthy, wearing a pair of tiger head shoes and a tiger head hat, white and tender, not like a poor family with children.
Since it is a rich family to have children, then the road of the Longevity Temple is also a bit far, and it should be taken by ox cart. In that case, just bring it to the door and ask someone.
"Does anyone know this child?" At this time, near the parking lot, there are people who have taken the ox cart one after another, and the heads of people are moving.
"Child, my child." As soon as Li Chen shouted, a young woman rushed over and hugged the child tightly, and the child also cried and called A-Niang.
"Next time, be careful, keep an eye on the child." , Li Chen smiled, he recognized it, this young woman was the one who borrowed a lot of money before, and recently began to repay the loan. He didn't want to be known, and now that he saw that the child had found his mother, he was about to leave.
"This Lang Jun, thank you for finding my child." When the wife saw that Li Chen was leaving, she immediately wiped her tears, stood up and thanked her, but as soon as she stood up, she was stunned.
"It's okay, it's okay, it's okay if people are safe." , Li Chen was a little strange, he was stunned, but he didn't care, he thought it was probably a question of the day, he had seen himself, but he didn't expect to be able to meet again.
"The fists are here, it should be right." , That night, Li Chen found Wukong and helped him count it first, but there was no way, he complained again about the economy of the Tang Dynasty, the copper coins were bulky, even more bulky and did not become clothy, and the account also included a large amount of grain, which was too laborious to count.
"Thirteen, you don't have the right amount of money." After counting some of them, Wukong frowned, "Isn't it? How could it be. Look at this.'" , said that the number of coins was wrong, Li Chen frowned, how could it be wrong?
If some time ago, maybe it would be wrong, because he lent it to Fan, and he often went to eat and drink, and the output was a bit big. But recently, because he has a part-time job in a wine shop, he usually doesn't need to receive a monthly salary, and Fan Niang has slowly paid off his debts, and this number has long been made up. So, when Goku said that the number of coins was not right, he couldn't believe it.
"You see, this is bad money, and four coins are one treasure. If you have all this bad money one by one, you will have no problem getting it, but this is bad money." Wukong's words made Li Chen stunned, and he immediately reacted that he had been fooled.
As a modern person, he has not been used**. Of course, he didn't take the initiative to do it himself, when he bought something, the store found it, and he didn't feel it when he received it, and only when he used it and was rejected by some stores, he would find out.
Usually in this case, he can't afford to change the family, and not so many people will pay attention to this, anyway, some change, the left side can't be used, and the right side can still be used.
In the Tang Dynasty, these ** and bad coins were also used by everyone. However, the Tang Dynasty and modern times are also very different. Modern people get the **, forget it if you don't notice it, if you really find it, most of them won't accept it. And** in use, it is also the same as normal.
But in the Tang Dynasty..., "What kind of thing is this, can it be counted as money?" , Li Chen looked at the inferior iron money in his hand, and his face was ugly.
Most of the ancient coins were minted with copper, which was durable and beautiful, and most importantly, copper. And what about iron money? There are relatively few of them, and it is easy to rust in the first place. Second, as it is now, it is easy to imitate.
Li Chen was holding several iron coins in his hand, and this kind of iron money knew that it was ** at a glance. Not to mention the iron casting, it is still very thin. It's not so much an iron coin as an iron piece. Ordinary people collectively call it bad money, and good money is the copper money that Li Chen is accustomed to.
This kind of bad money cannot be used on the same level as good money. One good money is worth four bad money, and it's even worse, it's basically cut from iron pieces.
"I didn't take this money..." , Li Chen knew that he was in big trouble now, and he was completely framed.
The next day, the temple was more lively, why? Because yesterday the monks did not participate. The monks had to do their own thing, and they had to hold the Obon ceremony, but today, the monks can participate.
In fact, these bhikshus are also going to be lively. Being trapped for a few months, not being able to go out casually, and having to study the Dharma, is like when we take a big exam and study hard for a few months before the exam, we will get bored and have problems.
We only take the exam once every three years, and these monks have to take the exam twice a year, can we not be crazy? Therefore, every year on this Obon Festival, which coincides with the end of the summer settlement and the annual criticism meeting, the monks always have a good time.
Also, not all the people come to the temple for the ceremony, and many people just worship at their own homes, so the Obon festival really has to be lively, and this day just starts.