When I came back in the evening, there were no green onions and garlic in the dishes at home, and Li Yongheng ate them, and there was no taste. He didn't know that this was Dong Xianying's preparation in advance to worship the Buddha.

"Li Yongheng, tomorrow I plan to go to the temple to burn incense and worship the Buddha, will you go?" Dong Xianying asked Li Yongheng.

She didn't really ask Li Yongheng to burn incense and worship the Buddha with him, just asking a verbal question.

"You go by yourself, I'll watch the child, don't take the child to that place." Li Yongheng didn't want to go to the temple, he felt that burning incense and worshiping the Buddha was a superstitious act, using the excuse of watching the children at home, and at the same time, it also prevented Dong Xianying from taking his son Li Xiaopeng to the temple.

"That'll do fine." Dong Xianying did not advocate letting her children and her husband go with her, she considered that although it was a matter for the whole family, it was because she wanted to go, so she did not insist.

The next day, Dong Xianying got up very early, and originally wanted to rush to the temple in the morning to burn incense and worship the Buddha, but a colleague came to her house and asked her to accompany her to fortune telling, and she was not easy to shirk, so she had to go to the fortune teller's studio with her colleagues.

When Dong Xianying came to the temple, it was almost noon, she entered from the Tianwang Palace, and when she went to the Daxiong Treasure Palace, she first saw the couplets of the Daxiong Treasure Hall.

Uplink: Freedom and self-contemplation, self-view, and self-ease,

Downlink: If you come to see it, you can see it if you come to it.

Dong Xianying looked at it, feeling very profound, and thought about it for a moment, but did not understand the meaning.

Entering the Daxiong Treasure Hall, the inside is spacious and bright, the Buddha sits cross-legged, the face is charitable, the law is solemn, people look respectful, want to come forward to bow and worship.

She also doesn't know the rules of the temple, she sees what others do, she does it, and worships the Buddha with sincere fear.

When I came to the back of the Daxiong Treasure Hall, I saw Guanyin Bodhisattva sitting upside down, and there are also couplets here.

Shanglian: Why did Guanyin sit upside down?

Downlink: Hate sentient beings and refuse to turn back.

When Dong Xianying saw this couplet, she thought about it again, but she still didn't understand the special meaning of it.

She worshiped the Guanyin Temple, the Fuxian Palace, the Manjushri Palace, and the Jizo Temple, and then she was going home.

"This benefactor, seeing that the dining hall is about to open, the poor monk sees that you are still in the monastery, so let's leave after eating." A monk saw Dong Xianying worshipping the Buddha very devoutly, and threw a hundred yuan into the merit box, so he invited her to eat in the dining hall, which is also an immeasurable merit.

"Master, I won't bother, I'll go back and eat by myself." Dong Xianying was embarrassed to stay here to eat, she wanted to go back to eat at home, and it was not too far from home.

"Eating a little fasting is also a meritorious thing." In order to leave Dong Xianying to eat fasting, the monk said that this was a matter of accumulating merit, he knew that ordinary people eat at home with big fish and meat, and created a lot of killing karma, and what they eat in the monastery is vegetarian food, which is also a matter of accumulating merit.

When Dong Xianying heard this, the master said that eating a little fasting is also a matter of accumulating merit, and he also wants to eat a fasting meal in the temple, mainly because he wants to accumulate merit, because the fortune teller said that he must have the heart of generosity and the heart of accumulating merit to worship the Buddha.

The monks of the monastery saw that Dong Xianying was a little hesitant, so they continued to persuade: "Donor, don't hesitate, when it's time to eat, go to the dining hall to eat, and accumulate a lot of merits." The monks spoke in the direction of the hall.

"Master, then I might as well be respectful." After Dong Xianying finished speaking, she went to the dining hall according to the direction pointed out by the monks, her main purpose was to accumulate merit and stabilize her family.

There are a lot of people here who worship the Buddha in the hall and put a lot of coins into the merit box.

Dong Xianying also did the same, and also worshiped the big-bellied Maitreya Buddha in the hall, and also put 10 yuan in the merit box, which can be regarded as accumulating merit.

There are rituals for people to eat in the monastery, the monks recite mantras, and there is a monk in front of the Maitreya Buddha, with a knife and fork in the rice bowl of the offering table, get some rice, go to the door of the hall, I don't know what to do.

After all these ceremonies are done, the food is served to everyone, first to the master who gave the house to serve the food, and then to the lay people at home and the people who burn incense and worship the Buddha.

The monks ate without making a sound, and the whole hall was silent.

Dong Xianying picked up the rice in the dining hall, took a few bites of the vegetables, and felt that it was much better than the food at home, he felt that eating food here was a kind of enjoyment, and he quickly finished the meal, his stomach felt full, and his heart also felt warm.

After the meal, Dong Xianying took the initiative to go to the sink to brush the dishes.

"Donor, when you wash the dishes, try not to make a sound, there are beings in the hungry ghost world here, they are hungry, the kind of hungry ghosts who can't eat anything, they hear the sound of the dishes and chopsticks beating, they will breathe fire out of their mouths, it is very painful. For the sake of compassion, try not to make noise in the hall. "A monk master, when he saw Dong Xianying, there was some noise when he was washing the dishes, so he reminded.

Dong Xianying didn't know that she was even particular about brushing the dishes, so she finished brushing the dishes and chopsticks lightly, and then rushed back satisfied.

When Dong Xianying came back home, Li Yongheng and Li Xiaopeng had not eaten, they were waiting for her to come back and eat together.

"Why did you come back so late? Are there many people who burn incense and worship Buddha? Li Yongheng saw Dong Xianying and came back so late, so he asked.

At this time, Li Yongheng had already cooked the meal, and originally wanted Dong Xianying to eat a ready-made meal, but he didn't expect people to eat fast in the temple.

"There are not many people, not a lot, but I ate in the dining hall of the temple, and many people ate in the dining hall." Dong Xianying looked at the big fish and meat on the dinner table, feeling a little uncomfortable.

"We're still waiting for you to come back for dinner, Li Xiaopeng, we've eaten, your mother has eaten in the temple, and it's the first time I've heard that burning incense and worshiping the Buddha is also in charge of food." Li Yongheng called his son to eat. In his heart, he was very disappointed that Dong Xianying didn't eat the food he cooked for her.

"It's also the first time I've eaten in a monastery." Dong Xianying said to Li Yongheng.

"Is the food in the temple delicious? They are all vegetarians, and there is certainly no big fish and meat. Li Yongheng asked, he could imagine that the food there was not meaty, and it must be difficult to swallow.

"You're right, the food in the temple is vegetarian, but it's delicious, I'll take you to the temple one day to taste it, and accumulate merit." Dong Xianying replied, and wanted to take their father and son to the temple to accumulate merits.

"I'm not interested." Lee Yongheng was not interested.

"Mom, I want to try it." Li Xiaopeng was very curious.

"It's almost time to eat, go wash your hands first, kids, taste everything." Li Yongheng urged Li Xiaopeng to wash his hands and eat, and at the same time wanted to divert this topic.

Dong Xianying understood what Li Yongheng meant, so she didn't promise Li Xiaopeng to burn incense and worship the Buddha, and to taste the food in the temple, she wanted to say, next week my mother will take you there, but when the words came to her mouth, she swallowed it back.

Looking at Li Yongheng and Li Xiaopeng, after the two of them finished eating, watching them eat big fish and meat, Dong Xianying had an unbearable feeling for the first time.