Chapter 20: Practice
This room is small enough to fit a bamboo bed, a small square table, and two bamboo stools. There's barely enough room left.
Being driven to such a place, Bao Yan's heart was full of grievances, she put the burden on the bed, and her eyes rubbed tears and followed.
"Girl, how should you live in the future?"
The palm beads took a look, although they were smaller, they were still clean, there were no big holes in the roof and walls, no wind would not be filled, no rain would leak, and there was a place to sleep. She was already satisfied.
Zhangzhu sat silently on the bamboo bench, and then said four words: "Be safe with the encounter." "This is just a place for her to stay temporarily, and she doesn't want anything else, just a quiet place. At least to be able to avoid Zhang's calculations, it is enough to have a place to stay for the time being.
Girl, she really doesn't care? Bao Yan blinked her eyes and looked at Zhangzhu, but saw Zhangzhu looking at the pear tree outside with a little blank eyes. Obviously, she has been with the eldest girl of the Fu family for almost two years, why is she more and more unable to understand the person in front of her? This made Bao Yan feel very puzzled.
This is the path chosen by Zhangzhu herself, she did not complain, nor did she feel wronged.
After settling down, Zhangzhu went out and went to the front main hall to worship the Buddha.
The fresh melons and fruits have not yet come out in this season, and the only offerings to the Bodhisattva are some dumplings and steamed buns made in their own kitchens. However, some of the bastards have grown green spots or a dense layer of white hair. I don't know how long this food has been here, and no one has come to replace it. However, in the jade net bottle in the hand of Guanyin, there are fresh willow branches, and the vase in front of the three sages of the West is also enshrined in the pear blossom branches.
In the end, the incense is not vigorous, the whole hall looks dilapidated, the paint on the exterior wall has fallen off a lot, and there is no money to repair it, the Bodhisattva is full of dust and no one has come to clean it, and the colored paint on it has also fallen off. There is a dilapidated scene everywhere, and I don't know how long this nunnery will last.
Palm beads sincerely bow down to these Buddha statues. When she was still Xie Ruoyi, she originally didn't believe in Buddhism or gods, but when she became Fu Zhangzhu, she had an incomparable awe of the gods.
The water purifier is holding a feather duster and carefully sweeping the dust from the body of the Bodhisattva. She saw the eldest girl of the Fu family kneeling so devoutly, staring at the Bodhisattva's eyes so dignified, but she was a devout believer.
The first time Zhangzhu saw the owner of the nunnery was at the beginning of the evening class, and unlike the thin and short master of Shuijing, and also different from the tall and sturdy master of Shuiyue, the owner of Jingci Nunnery was white and fat, and his face was like a swollen steamed bun.
The owner of the nunnery was indifferent after seeing Fu Zhangzhu, and he didn't even want to say a superfluous word, these chores in the nunnery were in charge of Master Shuiyue, and she didn't have to pay attention to it at all.
What Zhangzhu is asking for now is to be quiet and not disturb each other, which is just the right thing for her.
There is a nunnery master in the whole Jingci Nunnery, and the following three masters of the water character generation, in addition to the water moon who is in charge of the general affairs, and the water purification who can practice medicine, there is also a water bloom in charge of the stove, and there are two apprentices of the Fazi generation. Fa Lian is under the name of Shui Yue, and there is also a law Qing who does rough work, who is Shui Hua's apprentice. Na Faqing was in her thirties, two years older than her master, and she was a healthy woman, born very strong and powerful. Carrying water, chopping firewood, and carrying it, she alone took care of all the rough work in the nunnery.
These people in the nunnery do their own duties, and they are very quiet.
Zhangzhu has been in the nunnery for three or four days, and there is nothing to be picky about except for poor food.
It's just that her injuries haven't healed yet, and her body is still relatively weak, so she only reads scriptures and books in the room every day to recuperate, and usually doesn't even go out of the door.
After a few more days, the day of not seeing the meat made Bao Yan very uncomfortable, and she quietly discussed with Zhangzhu: "I'll go down the mountain and secretly buy some meat and cook it, I'm afraid I'll faint if I'm a vegetarian like this." No matter how much the girl's body hasn't recovered, how can you do it if you don't eat something good. ”
Zhangzhu did not agree to Bao Yan's request: "Buddhism is pure, don't you commit other people's taboos by doing this?" ”
"Let's go find a small stove and cook secretly in this room, without their stove, okay?"
"This room is so small, and there's a stove? You're not afraid of sparks jumping out and lighting up bedding or something. Bao Yan, I don't care, it doesn't matter if you have coarse tea and light rice, just endure it and pass. ”
But Baoyan couldn't bear it anymore, she even dreamed of eating meat, and if she continued like this, she felt that she would go crazy.
It was another day when I didn't see oily meat, and Bao Yan whispered in the middle of the night: "Chicken, good fragrant chicken, I want the fattest chicken leg." Zhangzhu happened to hear it, and secretly thought that this little girl was really gluttonous.
On the second day, she said to Bao Yan: "You go to the next mountain today, and by the way, help me buy two medicines." ”
When Bao Yan heard that she was going to run errands, she nodded happily and said, "Okay, okay, girl, just say what you want to buy, and the maid will definitely do it for you." Zhangzhu asked for a pen and paper to write down the name of the medicine, and gave Baoyan a string of money.
Na Baoyan thanked happily after receiving the money, and said again: "It's far into the city, you go and inquire to see if there is a car going down the mountain." ”
Bao Yan nodded again and again and went out.
Bao Yan was taken away, and the ears of the palm beads finally calmed down, and she flipped through the scriptures in the room for a while. After reading a book of scriptures, my eyes were a little astringent, and I didn't have a good daylight and lay in bed. Zhangzhu went out of the room. The courtyard was quiet, and everyone was busy.
The flowers on the pear tree had long since withered, and only the green leaves of the branches were left, and among the green leaves were many small green fruits, the largest of which were not the size of a finger. She looked at the green leaves and branches in front of her, and couldn't help but think of the tree in the yard of the eldest uncle, but she was afraid that the tree had not suffered yet, and it was still guarding the four seasons of the general's mansion like this, but the people in the mansion were no longer there. may really respond to the sentence that Ruolan often hangs on her lips.
"The flowers are similar every year, but the people are different every year."
There is a sudden sadness in my heart for no reason, and thinking about the past is not only sad but also a little stinging. Zhangzhu understood that such emotions were not conducive to healing, and she shook her head, trying to get rid of this annoying emotion.
At this time, Zhangzhu saw a wooden stick lying quietly under the pear tree, and I don't know who threw it there. Anyway, there was no one else in the yard, and no one would see it, so she didn't hesitate to go over and pick up the stick.
I have to say that this stick is very satisfying, and Zhangzhu couldn't help but wave it with this stick. The words that Seventh Brother taught her back then seem to be still lingering in her ears.
"Third sister, you have to have power to punch, your hands must be straight, you have to stand firm in the next game, you have to move fast, every punch you have to have strength, and you have to be able to bring the wind to threaten the other party. Remember, being fast, ruthless, and accurate is the basic point of martial arts. Whether you practice boxing, swordsmanship, or stick skills, you have to follow these three points......" Brother Qi's distant voice sounded in her ears, and she had never forgotten it all these years.